In November 1948, during the Battle of Huaihai, the People's Liberation Army captured a Kuomintang lieutenant general, who committed many evil deeds and committed many things that poisoned the people. After he was arrested and imprisoned, he was punished by death according to law. But at this time, Sichuan Chairman Wang Miaoxu stood up to protect the lieutenant general, and he published an open letter to Chairman Mao in the "New News" asking for forgiveness for the lieutenant general. Logically, this lieutenant general did not have any place worthy of others interceding for him, so why did Wang Miaoxu want to save him? Because this lieutenant general is his son. The son is going to be put to death, how can Lao Tzu not be saved?
However, the final result can be said to be: "Saved, but not completely saved."
Wang Miaoxu
The power of the royal family
The lieutenant general of the Nationalist army was named
Wang Zejun
。 He was able to do no evil and live an absurd and decadent life, all thanks to his father
of forces.
At that time, the Warlords of Sichuan were divided and the situation was chaotic.
Originally a small man with little strength, he gave it to one of the warlords of the time
Janssen
Effectiveness, with excellent performances, became Janssen's right hand. But the ambitious Wang Miaoxu was not satisfied with this, and he hoped that he would hold real power.
In 1925, during the Sichuan Warlord Civil War, Yang Sen and the warlord forces led by Liu Xiang fought. Wang Miaoxu saw the timing, rebelled against Yang Sen, and defected to Liu Xiang, bringing a fatal blow to Yang Sen. In the end, Yang Sen was defeated, and Wang Yixu gained real power from it, replacing Yang Sen's position and becoming a famous warlord in Sichuan.
Sichuan warlord Yang Sen
From this point, it is not difficult to see that Wang Yixu is an unkind and unjust betrayer for his own selfish interests.
Then, in order to further consolidate his power, Wang Miaoxu defected to the Kuomintang. With Chiang Kai-shek's support, he defeated Liu Xiang, who was fighting against him, and eventually seized absolute power in Sichuan.
Wang Zejun was born in such a family background. Since birth, Wang Zejun has had a life of fine clothes and a good educational environment. Wang Zejun was talented and intelligent, and at the same time had a strong interest in the military and war, which was very similar to Wang Miaoxu. Therefore, Wang Miaoxu was very fond of this second son and intended to cultivate him as his successor.
When Wang Zejun was a teenager, Wang Miaoxu sent him to the Central Military Academy to study, hoping that he would be able to make great achievements in the future. Wang Zejun did not live up to his father's expectations, and his military talent became increasingly prominent, and he finally graduated from the Central Military Academy with excellent results. Under Wang Miaoxu's arrangement, Wang Zejun entered the Kuomintang army and began his military career.
Military achievements
After Wang Zejun joined the Kuomintang army, he started as a platoon leader. At that time, the relationship between factions within the Nationalist army was intricate, and countless forces were entangled with each other, mutually restrained, and an interest group was freed. Wang Zejun was a mercenary man, good at drilling camps, coupled with the help of his father, and soon became popular in the army, and his ranks rose higher and higher.
Wang Zejun's power developed so quickly, although it had the role of family nepotism, it also relied on his military talent and military achievements. Especially during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Zejun was one of the few qualified military generals in the Kuomintang.
In 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, he immediately called his superiors and asked to go to the front to fight the Japanese army.
At the Battle of Zaoyi, he led his troops to block the Japanese and finally successfully completed the mission with few casualties. In the Battle of Changheng, he commanded three divisions and fought with the Japanese army for more than a year, eventually annihilating a large number of Japanese puppet troops and achieving major victories.
He also led the remnants of the army to complete the task of pursuing the Japanese army in the case of heavy casualties of his own, and finally successfully defended the Suichuan Air Base.
It can be said that Wang Zejun made many contributions to the cause of China's all-round War of Resistance.
The evil deeds committed
Although Wang Zejun made contributions to the national righteousness of the War of Resistance Against Japan,
But this also cannot hide his usual violent, cruel, and oppressive evil deeds.
Because his family is rich and powerful, he can be described as overbearing in his jurisdiction, and he does not do evil. He repeatedly used various excuses to increase all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and squeezed the blood and sweat money of the common people, and this means of accumulating wealth made his home full of inexhaustible wealth.
He was also sexually promiscuous, and once abducted women in broad daylight for rape, and beat up the grieving women's families, completely ignoring the lives of the people.
To the people around him, Wang Zejun's cruel and vicious habits have not changed in the slightest. Once, when a servant of their family who was cleaning in the morning accidentally moved a little more while he was working, and woke him up, he ordered someone to drag the servant down and beat him to death, without taking his life seriously. The violence of his personality can be seen.
His staff or subordinates, if they did not go along with his wishes, he shot and killed. Not to mention that when red army officers and soldiers, CCP cadres, or starving people fall into his hands, they will only be treated more viciously. Countless people died at his hands. The people living on the earth under his rule were miserable.
Therefore, in the end, Wang Zejun was arrested and sentenced to death, which was completely deserved!
The wicked end up in prison
After the outbreak of the War of Liberation in 1946, the PLA troops that won the hearts and minds of the people were overwhelmed, resisting the repeated attacks of the Kuomintang troops commanded by Chiang Kai-shek, and gradually formed a counter-offensive trend. By the time of the decisive battle of the three major battles, the Kuomintang army was in a general situation, but it was stubbornly resisting.
In November 1948, the Battle of Huaihai broke out, when Wang Zejun was the commander of the 44th Army of Huang Baitao's corps, and his Nationalist troops were trapped in the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army at Nianzhuang. After trying to resist, his men were annihilated by the Platon Army, and he himself was captured.
At that time, our army's policy toward prisoners was always lenient, and in addition, during the war, we did not dispose of Wang Zejun at the first time, but put him in prison. As a result, Wang Zejun was imprisoned and reformed in Yidu, Suzhou, and Beijing.
Later, based on the evil deeds he committed, Wang Zejun was sentenced to death after trial and suspended execution for two years. At this point, being executed should be the final outcome of Wang Zejun.
However, he also has a powerful father, which makes his ending more variable.
The king's father saved his son
For Wang Miaoxu, Wang Zejun is the successor he has devoted his heart and soul to cultivating for many years, and he cannot fail to save. So Wang Miaoxu wrote a letter to my party top brass, earnestly worded, asking not to kill Wang Zejun. It is reasonable to say that Wang Zejun has carried countless human lives on his back, and the heinous crimes he committed are unforgivable. But at that time, Wang Miaoxu still had heavy troops,
If he kills his son directly regardless of his disregard, then according to the degree of madness of the wang family's father and son, it is very likely that he will do something unfavorable to our party and the people.
In order to stabilize Wang Miaoxu and protect the people of Sichuan, our party temporarily withdrew the sentence of death sentence imposed on Wang Zejun and put him in a war criminal detention center.
By 1949, most of the country had been liberated from north to south, and the People's Liberation Army was speeding up the process of preparing to attack Sichuan, which had not yet been liberated.
Because of the gradual rout of the Kuomintang army and the fact that Chiang Kai-shek himself had fled, many people in the Sichuan army did not want to serve the Kuomintang anymore and had the idea of revolting Chiang Kai-shek. However, some of the generals of the Sichuan Army, who were loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, continued to recruit troops and horses, and launched a counterattack against our army in the posture of trapped beasts.
While Wang Yixu hesitated to make a choice, he received a letter from Commander-in-Chief Zhu De advising him to abandon the secret and surrender to the light.
His beloved son was still in prison, and there were many people around him who advised him to give up resistance, and he soon realized that he had already hit the pebble with a pebble in the struggle with the People's Liberation Army, and now the Kuomintang army could no longer follow in the footsteps of the People's Liberation Army. Wang, who was extremely competent in judging the situation, soon decided to sentence Chiang Kai-shek.
He immediately sent a letter to the leaders of our army, requesting that Wang Zejun's death sentence be pardoned.
The promise will help our army to liberate Sichuan peacefully.
After receiving Wang's letter, our party weighed it up again and again and finally agreed to Wang's request. If we can peacefully liberate Sichuan without spending troops and without bloodshed, it will be a great thing for the soldiers of our army and the people of Sichuan.
Although Wang Zejun's sin was unforgivable, it was quite worthwhile to save so many people from disaster with his own life.
After the two sides agreed, on December 22, 1949, Wang Miaoxu led 40,000 troops in Chengdu to declare an uprising. He himself dismissed all Kuomintang offices,
The Chengdu General Headquarters of Public Security was established and he served as its commander.
On the 27th, Wang Miaoxu helped our army take over Chengdu, and after that, Sichuan was peacefully liberated.
Chengdu was liberated
After the founding of New China, our party, remembering the merits of Wang's uprising in helping to peacefully liberate Sichuan, decided to pardon Wang Zejun to death and change it to life imprisonment. And Wang Miaoxu was also accepted as a member of the new China.
The final outcome of the Wang family's father and son
After the matter calmed down, Wang Washuxu was appointed to the post of Southwest Military Commission. With the evil deeds committed by the father and son of the Wang family, our party can forgive to this extent and it is already the utmost benevolence and righteousness. However, Wang Miaoxu not only did not know gratitude, but also repeatedly violated the bottom line of our party, which is really hopeless.
In the decadent rule of the Kuomintang, Wang Miaoxu was accustomed to pursuing wealth and power, and he was dismissive and incomprehensible to the demands of our party for honesty in handling affairs and selflessness. In 1957, he openly opposed our Party's purge. His "good friends" have all been branded as rightists. Such a reality made Wang Miaoxu intolerable.
So he borrowed the name of Chongqing to treat his teeth and joined forces with the old department to try to smuggle himself into Hong Kong, but he was eventually arrested by the border guards of our army and imprisoned.
In 1960, Wang died in prison. How could he, who has done many evil deeds, understand the selfless spirit of our Party members in serving the people? His son Wang Zejun spent his old age safely in prison and died in Beijing's Qincheng Prison in 1974. All the merits and deeds of this disgraced father and son will be remembered by history.