◎ Wu Fengxiang joined the Communist Party of China in November 1938 through the introduction of Wang Yongquan. In July of the following year, Wu Fengxiang took 16 young students from Huangchuan and Guangshan to Yan'an, and when he passed through Baofeng, he heard that his mother was seriously ill, so he wanted to go home to visit, but was arrested by the Kuomintang government. In March 1940, Wang Yongquan visited the prison, instructed Wu Fengxiang to riot and escape from prison, and said to him: "At this time, there is only one word - dry!" Living is Chinese, and death is a Chinese ghost. ”
◎ It is understood that Wu Fengxiang's daughter Wu Jinzhi later heard her father say that at that time, Wang Yongquan bought the guards, unpacked the gun into parts and brought it into the cell, and sent it to Wu Fengxiang with iron files and other tools, Wu Fengxiang reinstalled it into a gun, and on March 10, he led the prisoners to riot and successfully escaped from prison.
◎ In 1939, The Nephew of the Emperor of Japan, Major General Sadasa Yoshikawa, was inaugurated as the head of the headquarters of the secret service agencies of the five provinces of North China of the Japanese Army, and he chose the KaifengShan Shaanxi-Gansu Guild Hall as the headquarters station.
The main task is to collect military, political, economic, and cultural intelligence from all over North China and assassinate underground CCP members and patriots.
◎ As soon as Yoshikawa arrived in Kaifeng, he wantonly arrested underground CCP workers. For a time, the CCP's underground work in Kaifeng was in an extremely unfavorable situation.
◎ The Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided to send a comrade with both wisdom and courage to enter Kaifeng to carry out the task of collecting intelligence and assassinating Yoshikawa Sadasa. After consultation and recommendation, Wu Fengxiang became the best person to take on this arduous task. In March 1940, Wu Fengxiang, who had just successfully escaped from prison, accepted this task.
Wu Jinzhi said that when her father was alive, she had heard from his father how he carried out the assassination mission and withdrew.
◎ At that time, Wu Fengxiang met Cheng Kai, the translator of Yoshikawa Sadasa, through various relationships, and then got close to Quan Shenzhai, the captain of the Kaifeng Gendarmerie. Under the introduction of Cheng Kai, Quan Shenzhai and others, Wu Fengxiang met with Yoshikawa Sadasa, and wittily passed Yoshikawa Sadasa's swab, gradually gaining Yoshikawa Sadasa's trust.
◎ Wu Fengxiang has been in and out of the Shanshan Guild Hall several times, and he knows the layout of the guild hall very well. He also secretly met with Wang Yongquan, Xu Jingwu, Li Yangzhai, Liu Shengwu and other underground workers many times to plan assassination operations.
◎ Subsequently, Wu Fengxiang obtained two special passes from Cheng Kai to enter and exit the Shanshan Guild Hall, and learned about the information that the senior japanese generals stationed in Beiping were about to inspect Kaifeng. After consulting with several comrades, he decided that he would take his assistant Wang Baoyi to carry out the assassination operation, Liu Shengwu was responsible for organizing personnel to create chaos near the guild hall, and after receiving the assassination of the two men, he left the scene, and Xu Jingwu and Li Yangzhai were responsible for organizing personnel and vehicles to escort the two out of the city.
◎ After several deliberations, Wang Yongquan reported the action plan to his superiors, and the superiors agreed to the plan.
◎ On the evening of June 22, 1940, Wu Fengxiang and his assistant Wang Baoyi came to the gate of the Shanshan Guild Hall, showed a special pass, and entered the gate generously. The two men crossed the courtyard and came to the backyard, where only one guard was wandering around. At Wu Fengxiang's suggestion, Wang Baoyi handed the guards a "foreign cigarette" and lit a fire for the guards. Wu Fengxiang stepped into Yoshikawa's office and saw Yoshikawa Sadasa talking with 3 people in the house.
◎ Wu Fengxiang's pistol was ready when it came, the left side of the waist was a revolver, and the right side was a twenty-shot box gun. Seeing this, he drew his pistol and opened his bow left and right, and before the 4 people could react, they fell to the ground one after another.
◎ The guards in the courtyard heard the gunshots and rushed to the house, but before they could cross the threshold, they were killed by Wang Baoyi. After that, Wu and Wang packed up the important documents of the secret service and the record book of Yoshikawa Sadasa, and quickly withdrew from the scene.
◎ Due to the deep courtyard and the sound of gunfire did not alarm the guards, the two successfully withdrew from the headquarters, then met with comrades outside and left Kaifeng overnight.
On June 25, 1940, the Henan Minbao first disclosed this shocking news at home and abroad, and subsequently, domestic and foreign newspapers reported the assassination of Yoshikawa Sadasa and others in a prominent position. According to the report, in this operation, a total of 5 Japanese were killed, in addition to Yoshikawa Sadasa, there were also Yamamoto, chief of staff of the Japanese garrison in Kaifeng, Mizuda, head of the Japanese army in Peiping to inspect the regiment in Kaifeng, Osamu Teni, captain of the Japanese Kaifeng gendarmerie, and a guard. Wu Fengxiang was therefore known as a "fearless national hero".
◎ After the successful assassination of Yoshikawa Sadasa, Wu Fengxiang successively organized troops in Fugou County, Kaifeng Zhuxian Town, and other places to guerrillaize the anti-Japanese resistance. In April 1944, Wu Fengxiang was surrounded by Japanese troops, captured and imprisoned in the water prison of the Japanese puppet army in Kaifeng. On September 6 of the same year, he persuaded the guards Liang Shangrong to escape.
◎ After returning to their hometown, Wu Fengxiang, Wang Yongquan, Dong Yongzhi, and others gathered together the local guerrilla forces and joined forces with Wang Wencheng and Chen Tianxiang to gather more than 1,000 people to form the "Anti-Japanese Bandit Army in Western Henan" to attack the Japanese puppet army in western Yuxian County and northeastern Linru.
◎ On January 21, 1945, Wu Fengxiang returned to Wucun with 18 bodyguards to visit his home, and when he heard that he had only taken a dozen people back to Wucun, the commander of the Japanese army stationed in Xuedian, Sugimoto, and the head of the puppet army, Li Changyouxing, and others immediately organized more than 1,000 people to surround Wucun. Wu Fengxiang calmly faced the battle, divided the 18 people into several combat groups, and relied on the advantages of familiar terrain to use the wall and the turret to stubbornly resist. By 4 p.m., Wubu reinforcements arrived, and the Japanese puppet army retreated in a hurry. After a day of fierce fighting, more than a hundred Japanese puppet troops were killed.
◎ On August 1, 1945, Wu Fengxiang personally inscribed a plaque in the Wu Ancestral Hall that reads "Wu Bingyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-Japanese Bandit Army in Western Henan". Today, this plaque still hangs in the main hall of the Wu Ancestral Hall, shining brightly.
◎ After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Fengxiang's troops were absorbed by the Kuomintang Gao Shuxun's department, and then Wu Fengxiang and others planned the "Shanbiao Town Uprising", and later urged Gao Shuxun's troops to defect and defect to the Eighth Route Army.
◎ In September 1946, Wu Fengxiang went to Yan'an to visit and study, and was cordially received by Mao Zedong and Zhu De. In 1947, he rejoined the Communist Party of China. In 1949, he participated in the founding ceremony. Unfortunately, due to the complexity of its history, he was imprisoned twice in 1958 and 1965 for "counter-revolutionary crimes". Until 1977, Wu was released on medical parole due to high blood pressure that led to hemiplegia. In 1980, the court of first instance made a decision to "revoke the original judgment and acquit him", and Wu Fengxiang was able to rehabilitate Zhaoxue. In 1982, the Party Committee of the Hebei Military Region decided to restore Wu Fengxiang's party membership and handle the formalities for his retirement. In 1983, Wu Fengxiang died of illness at the age of 70.