In September 1948, after a period of preparation, the Chinese People's Liberation Army officially launched the Battle of Jinan, and with the order to attack, the troops of Huaye's siege launched a fierce attack on the outer positions of Jinan from all directions at the same time.
After the unremitting efforts and bloody struggle of the People's Liberation Army, the outer positions of Jinan City were soon occupied by our army, and the main force of the Kuomintang reactionary defenders all retreated to the city, waiting for the support of the Kuomintang.
The battle between the Kuomintang and the Communists in Jinan was quite fierce, and just when Jinan was about to be destroyed, Wang Yaowu, who was in charge of the military and political power in Shandong, suddenly made two orders that surprised everyone, and it was these two decisions.
He later became one of the first amnesty war criminals in New China and was buried in Babaoshan after his death.
Soldiers are under the city
Wang Yaowu was born in Tai'an City, Shandong Province, a graduate of the huangpu third term, in addition to his unique military insights, he also knows how to do a good job in interpersonal relations, so his popularity in the Kuomintang has always been good, so his career is also very smooth.
In the Battle of Tanjiaqiao in 1934, Wang Yaowu led his troops to defeat the Anti-Japanese Advance Team of the Red Army, resulting in the capture of Fang Zhimin and others, the leader of the Advance Team of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and the death of a large number of Officers and Men of the Red Army. Chiang Kai-shek was very satisfied with this incident, and after the war, Wang Yaowu was promoted to commander of the 51st Division of the Nationalist Army.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Yaowu entered Shandong and became the military and political leader in Shandong; unlike other straw bale generals in the Kuomintang, Wang Yaowu was also a good hand in governing the region, and Shandong's economy and military were steadily improving under Wang Yaowu's policy, but Wang Yaowu encountered Su Yu, who was known as the "God of War" in our army.
Long before the battle in Jinan began, Wang Yaowu made an analysis of the war situation in China, and he believed that it was impossible to stop the advance of the People's Liberation Army by relying only on his own strength, and it was very difficult to hold Jinan. Today's Communists have liberated most of the counties and cities except Jinan, blending in with the Liberated Areas of North China, so before the Jinan Campaign was launched, Jinan had become an isolated city.
Wang Yaowu's decision
Although Wang Yaowu had more than 100,000 officers and men under his command, he was not the main force of the Central Army, many of whom were composed of miscellaneous troops or township militia groups, with uneven weapons and equipment, and their combat effectiveness was quite unbearable.
To this end, Wang Yaowu had to personally fly to Nanjing and tell Chiang Kai-shek about the drawbacks of guarding Jinan. But Chiang Kai-shek was very conceited, and he could not listen to Wang Yaowu's advice at all, and he also scolded Wang Yaowu fiercely, mocking him as timid as a rat.
In desperation, Wang Yaowu had no choice but to return to Jinan and carry out Chairman Jiang's orders.
Led the defenders to jinan.
Three days after the Battle of Jinan on September 19, 1948, Wu Huawen, commander of the garrison area on the Western Front, commander of the reorganized 96th Army and commander of the 84th Division, decided to throw himself into the light, conform to the trend of history, lead his subordinates to resolutely revolt, and withdraw from the battlefield, handing over the western defensive line to the People's Liberation Army.
Wu Huawen's uprising gave Wang Yaowu a blow, and the previous military deployment was completely disrupted, so he had to tear down the eastern wall to make up for the western wall, trying to contain the gap that suddenly appeared on the western front.
On the other hand, Wang Yaowu immediately called Chiang Kai-shek, believing that Jinan could not be defended at all, hoping to allow him to lead his troops to break through to the north and preserve the strength of the Nationalist army, but Chiang Kai-shek immediately denied it and still asked him to hold out.
At this time, Wang Yaowu felt very desperate, thinking that Jinan might be his burial place, and after conveying Chiang Kai-shek's orders to his subordinates, Wang Yaowu made two confusing decisions.
First, in order not to let the war affect the people, Wang Yaowu ordered all the old, weak women and children in the city to be evacuated from the city; second, he informed the military justice department in the city and asked them to release all the prisoners in the prison, including the communist soldiers who had been captured before.
Not only that, Wang Yaowu also issued gold coupons to the captives as travel expenses, and under Wang Yaowu's arrangement, all the captured officers and soldiers were safely sent out of the city.
Throughout China's modern history, knowing that he was about to be defeated, all the captives in custody were released, Wang Yaowu should be the first person, and moreover, under the pressure of the army at that time, he could make this rational decision, rather than executing them all, which was worthy of being a wise man, and this also left a retreat for Wang Yaowu.
The redemption of the descending generals
As the Platon's offensive became stronger and stronger, the Kuomintang defenders in Jinan were not vulnerable at all, and Wang Yaowu did not let his soldiers do some senseless beast fights, but let everyone find their own way to survive, which was the implication that they could surrender to the PLA.
On September 24, 1948, after more than two months of fierce fighting, our army eliminated more than 100,000 Kuomintang soldiers, and the city of Jinan smoothly returned to the embrace of the people.
Wang Yaowu felt that something was wrong when the city was about to be destroyed, so he arranged the escape route early and prepared to go to Qingdao and take the sea route south.
But on the way to escape, he was stopped by soldiers from the People's Liberation Army. Wang Yaowu lied that he owned the hotel, but the PLA soldiers were still uneasy and decided to send Wang Yaowu and a group of people to the headquarters to verify their identity.
When Wang Yaowu saw that the general situation had gone, he had no hope of escaping, and had to admit that he was the defender of Jinan City.
After being captured, Wang Yaowu, as an important war criminal, was sent to the Beijing Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, and through the education of the party and government organs, Wang Yaowu's thinking underwent great changes, and it was precisely because he actively cooperated with the reform
In December 1959, Wang Yaowu became one of the first amnesty war criminals in the Republic and regained his freedom.
After receiving the amnesty, Wang Yaowu fully realized the evil things he had done before, decided to use the time in the future to serve the people wholeheartedly, and was then appointed as a national commissioner of literature and history, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and died of illness in Beijing in 1968 at the age of 64.
The Party Central Committee remembers its contribution to national liberation during the War of Resistance Against Japan,
Decided to bury him in Babaoshan Cemetery,
At the same time, Wang Yaowu was also one of the few Kuomintang generals who could die well.
brief summary:
As a Chinese soldier, Wang Yaowu contributed his strength on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, but after all, his position was different, and during the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War, he fought the People's Liberation Army on the battlefield as a Kuomintang general. And Wang Yaowu can be able to die well, inseparable from his benevolent heart.