This article introduces you to a founding general: Wan Yi. Born in 1907 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, Wan Yi is a Manchu, and at the age of 8 he moved to Jinzhou County with his parents and attended a private school for 3 years. In 1929, Wan Yi was admitted to the Northeast Army Non-Commissioned Officer Teaching Corps to study, took the exam after graduation, and was hired as a second lieutenant and adjutant of Zhang Xueliang's Adjutant Office.
Wan Yi
Soon, Wan Yi was admitted to the Ninth Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall and achieved the first place in the examination of 2,000 students, for which Zhang Xueliang also specially rewarded him with a pocket watch and a command knife. Later, during the reform of the military system in the northeast, the reward was offered to recruit a "standard company commander" program, and Wan Yi's collection article won the first place, so he was deeply appreciated by Zhang Xueliang, and he was rewarded with a new-style parker pen.
In 1930, after graduation, Wan Yi was assigned to the 20th Brigade of the Northeast Army as a second lieutenant deputy regiment. Soon, the Northeast Army changed its banner, and Wan Yi was appointed as the battalion commander of Major Zhang Xueliang's Guards. After the September 18 Incident, the Northeast Army retreated again and again, retreating to the interior to fight the Red Army. In the course of the battle against the Red Army, Wan Yi performed very well and was transferred to his headquarters by Zhang Xueliang. In 1936, at the age of 29, Wan Yi was promoted to the commander of the 627th Regiment, the youngest regimental commander in the Northeast Army.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest, and Wan Yi was unfortunately detained until after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1938, Wan Yi was reappointed as the commander of the 667th Regiment of the 334th Brigade of the 57th Army of the Northeast Army, and began his anti-Japanese career.
At the Battle of Xuzhou, Wan Yi led his troops to attack the Sacred Palace Mountain, severely damaging the Japanese army and capturing many. After the fall of Xuzhou, the Japanese army landed at Lianyungang, and Wan Yi led his troops to hold on to the beachhead of Sunjiashan mountain and recover the position at the tip of the great mast, and then led his troops to attack the Hefei airport at night, destroying 4 enemy planes, and then returning to northern Jiangsu, attacking Suqian, fighting Gui renji, and defending Luo weizhai; in just a few years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wan Yi destroyed a large number of enemies and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army. In the Japanese puppet army, there is a saying: "Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of eleven (Wan Yi)"
After the Japanese army invaded and occupied the northeast, the northeast army left the country and backed the land. What is even more desperate is that Miao Zhengliu, commander of the 57th Army, actually confessed to being a thief and prepared to collude with the Japanese army to become a traitor. When Wan Yi heard the news, he immediately sent a telegram to the Kuomintang government that Miao Zhengliu wanted to be a traitor, and Old Chiang was furious about this, ordering the cancellation of the 57th Army's number and the removal of Miao Zhengliu from his post, and at the same time assigning the 111th and 112th Divisions under the former 57th Army to the command of the Sulu Theater.
In February 1941, Sun Huancai, commander of the 331st Brigade of the 111th Division, and others accused Wan Yi of being a dispatcher of the "Communist Party" and imprisoned him in the Lusu Theater Prison. In fact, Sun Huancai's accusation is not wrong, and Wan Yi is indeed a "communist-proletarian-party-member." As early as 1935, Wan Yi met the secretary of Huang Xiansheng, deputy commander of the 57th Army: Liu Lanbo. Liu Lanbo was one of the founders of the northeast underground party of the CPC, and Wan Yi joined the party and embarked on the revolutionary road by his enlightenment.
One day during his detention, Wan Yi escaped from the enemy's clutches by climbing over the wall and escaping from the enemy's clutches under the pretext of not being guarded, and arrived at the garrison of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the Shandong Column, where he met Luo Rong-Huan, Chen-Guang, and others. In July 1944, Wan Yi, who returned to the party, became the commander of the coastal detachment of the Eighth Route Army and continued to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In August 1945, the Japanese army announced its surrender. Wan Yi served as the commander of the Northeast Advancing Column, the first deputy commander of the Jilin Military Region, the commander of the 7th Column of the Northeast Democratic United Army, and the commander of the 1st Column of the Northeast Democratic United Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wan Yi served as the first deputy commander of the artillery of the People's Liberation Army. He was later awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, the highest rank among Manchu generals!