introduction
During the Liberation War, due to the popular sentiment of the people in the later stages of the war, many Kuomintang generals chose to revolt and chose to throw themselves into the embrace of the Communist Party. Among them, there is the founding lieutenant general Wan Yi.
Wan Yi
Wan Yi was born in the background
Wan Yi was born in 1907 in Jinxian County, Liaoning Province. With the fall of Liaoning to the hands of the Japanese, the young Wan Yi carved the spirit of anti-Japanese blood in his heart. He was very angry as he watched the tens of thousands of people fall into misery, and when he was a little older, he couldn't wait to join Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army.
Thanks to his childhood reading experience, wan Yi was assigned to the Lecture Hall for training and study as soon as he entered the Northeast Army. Wan Yi cherished this hard-won opportunity, and he studied hard to graduate with excellent results ranked first among more than 2,000 graduates. This achievement also made him appreciate by Zhang Xueliang, who also gave him a pocket watch and a saber as a graduation gift.
Chang
Follow Zhang Xueliang
After the change of banner in the northeast, Zhang Xueliang was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the navy, army and air force, and Wan Yi, who accompanied Him to Nanjing, successively served as deputy major regimental deputy, major battalion commander, and lieutenant colonel regiment deputy. In 1935, Wan Yi moved with the army to the Shaanxi-Gansu region, serving as the acting commander of the 7th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the Northeast Army, and later appointed as a liaison staff officer. During this period, Wan Yi became acquainted with Liu Lanbo and others who went to the Northeast Army to carry out united front work, and began to understand the principles of the workers' and peasants' revolution.
"9/18 Incident"
In 1936, Wan Yi, then the commander of the 627th Regiment of the 109th Division of the Northeast Army, joined the Anti-Japanese Comrades Association and began to support and cover the CCP members in the regiment to secretly carry out anti-Japanese rescue work. After the "918 Incident", Wan Yi led his troops to conduct an armed parade in Weinan and criticized Chiang Kai-shek's policies in the streets.
A vendetta against Chiang Kai-shek
The spies who were in the crowd wanted to report the matter to Chiang Kai-shek, but were discovered by Wan Yi's men and directly tore up the spy's report. Later, the matter still reached the ears of Chiang Kai-shek, who was furious about it and has since formed a bond with Wan Yi. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wan Yi led his troops to resist courageously. In the defense of Nanjing, he fought a suicide battle at the expense of the entire regiment, and finally won the victory.
The Battle of Nanking
But at this time, Wan Yi also became the commander of the light pole, and he wiped out all his revolutionary capital in order to persist in the war of resistance. In 1937, Wan Yi secretly joined the Communist Party of China and was recruited as a special member of the Communist Party of China. The Northeast Army he led also joined the Communist Party under his influence. Later, this army repelled the Japanese attack twice in the defense of Lianyungang, giving the Japanese a great blow and successfully encircling Lianyungang. This battle also made Wan Yi famous in the first battle.
Defense of Lianyungang
Sentenced to death, desperately escaped
But this battle also made Chiang Kai-shek even more annoyed with Wan Yi. He arbitrarily found three crimes, sent Wan Yi to a military court, and after refusing Wan Yi's defense, directly sentenced him to death. On the eve of being executed by secret order, the strong Wan Yi escaped from imprisonment and entered the coastal anti-Japanese democratic base area, officially throwing himself into the embrace of the Communist Party. After the founding of New China, Wan Yi was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class.