On the evening of September 18, 1948, after three days of fighting in the Battle of Jinan, Wu Huawen, commander of the Kuomintang 96th Army, who had planned to revolt before the war, began to waver.
This made Xu Shiyou very angry, and he said to Tan Zhenlin:
"Wu Huawen has hindered our army's siege operations. No hit, no deal. Hit and knock him, and he'll be honest. ”
Tan Zhenlin also agreed with this, and the two resolutely ordered an attack.
Wu Huawen was born in 1904 in Lijia Village, Ye County, Shandong Province
Shao Zhou. He joined the army in 1920 and served under Feng Yuxiang and Han Fuyu. Feng Yuxiang was sent to the Army University, and in 1930, he was appointed commander of the pistol brigade of the Kuomintang Third Route Army and the commander of the Jinan garrison. In January 1938, his unit was reorganized into the Independent Twenty-eighth Brigade, and after serving as the brigade commander, it was reorganized into the New Fourth Division, serving as the commander of the division and the commander of the First Division of Shandong Security.
Fought against the Japanese army at the beginning of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and was in 1939
Linqu fought with the enemy for many days, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army, and was praised by the Eighth Route Army. Later, under the influence of the Kuomintang policy, friction with the Eighth Route Army continued, and the communists and anti-Japanese families were wantonly slaughtered.
In 1943, he defected to Wang Jingwei and met Okamura Ningji
He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Japanese and puppet Third Front, began to attack the Eighth Route Army, and fled to Anhui after being severely damaged.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, he took office
Commander of the Fifth Route Army
Jinpu Railway
In July 1946, the commander of the southern section, after being defeated by the People's Liberation Army, contacted Zhou Enlai again in July 1946 and expressed his willingness to stand on the side of the people. In 1947, he followed Chiang Kai-shek as commander of the 84th Division of the Kuomintang Reorganization Division. In April 1948, he was ordered to lead his troops into Jinan, under the command of Wang Yaowu, commander of the Second Appeasement District of the Kuomintang. In July of the same year, he was sponsored by Wang Yaowu as the commander of the reorganized 96th Army and defended the western front of Jinan.
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At the beginning of the siege of Weixian County, Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin arranged for Zhang Kaifan, who had come to report to the Shandong Corps, to arrange a task: "You have come just in time, and you will write a letter to Wang Yaowu and Wu Huawen on our behalf to persuade them to revolt." ”
On September 2, Tan Zhenlin and
Wang Jian'an, Zhang Kaifan, and others listened carefully to Jiang Fangyu, deputy secretary of the Jinan Municipal CPC Committee, on the work of winning over Wu Huawen, and gave 4 instructions on his origin. Finally, he stressed: "At present, the requirements for Wu Huawen cannot be too high. When our soldiers approached the city, he gave way to a road, which was also a great achievement! ”
In 1947, Jiaodong
The West Haiti Committee of the Eastern District Party Committee sent Li Changyan, a cousin of Wu Huawen's wife Lin Shiying, to Jinan. After receiving Tan Zhenlin's instructions, Li Changyan tried every means to persuade and enlighten Wu Huawen, but it never worked. It was not until the large army pressed the border and the siege campaign began that Wu Huawen had some actions.
On the 16th, a message was sent to the attacking forces on the Western Front, saying:
"Please start attacking inward on the 16th and solve the problem on the 17th."
On the 17th, it was provided again
The important information that Yan Zifeng, commander of the Kuomintang Reorganized 2nd Division, led two brigades and 7 more companies to reinforce, enabling our army to eliminate one of the enemy reinforcements in a timely manner. On the same day, he also revealed the intention of the uprising to Yang Youbai, commander of the 155th Brigade, and Zhao Guangxing, commander of the 161st Brigade, and secretly discussed the preparations for the uprising.
However, on the afternoon of this day, he received a telegram from a relative in Nanjing, and he learned of it
"The Ministry of National Defense has decided to send troops to help" news.
This again made him think carefully, aroused a little illusion about Chiang Kai-shek, and began to waver and take action again
Negative procrastination, waiting for development.
His swaying made Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin very dissatisfied.
By the 17th, the vanguard of our siege had approached Wu Huawen's forward position. In order to reduce misunderstandings and avoid conflicts, Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin immediately
The telegram ordered Wu Bu to "quickly retreat and assemble."
After Receiving the telegram, Wu Huawen called back vaguely:
"On the one hand, our army assembled, and on the other hand, on the 19th, it gathered officers and men to clarify the purpose of the uprising and hold an uprising."
This telegram was the same as previously promised
The promise of "solving the problem on the 17th of the night" contradicts and avoids the substantive issue of Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin causing his troops to retreat.
In order to urge Wu Huawen to fulfill his promise, Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin instructed to attack the city on the evening of the 17th
Song Wheel of Time
He sent a traffic officer to convey to Wu Huawen again the order of the siege command to "quickly retreat and assemble" his troops.
Although after two urgings, Wu Huawen still insisted on not withdrawing from the position, but only agreed
Give way to a road on the north flank of the position from Yumazhuang and Kuangshan to the airfield. His real intention was to occupy favorable terrain in order to sit in the well and look at the sky and preserve his strength.
Wu Huawen's plan was met with
The resolute opposition of Comrades within our Party, such as Li Changyan, has still not achieved results after repeated struggles. On the 18th, Wu Huawen also went to Wang Yaowu's meeting and took the opportunity to inquire about reinforcements in Nanjing.
Wu Huawen did not hear useful news at the meeting and began to play tricks again. On the one hand, people were sent to the headquarters with maps to negotiate, and on the other hand, they sent troops to the attacking area
The siege troops sent a telegram, pretending to be sincere:
"Our army is assembled in the same place, please turn to the commercial port to attack, in the meantime, people have been sent to contact your army on the spot."
Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin were very unhappy after seeing it, and immediately asked the traffic officers to return, and asked the telegram Wu Huawen to assemble at the designated position.
But by 10 p.m., Wu Huawen still ignored the cable.
Wu Huawen lost faith in our army at the crucial moment of the war between the enemy and us and refused to withdraw from the position, which has seriously hindered Huaye's operations and affected the course of the campaign. Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin believe that for Wu Huawen, who was born from the old warlord, it would be difficult to push him to the revolutionary road without exerting some military pressure on him.
Therefore, it was decided to carry out a limited military strike on Wuhua's Ministry of Culture.
At 11 p.m. on the 18th,
The 23rd Regiment of the 8th Division of the 3rd Column began to attack Wu Huawen's forces at Tuji Mountain.
Wu Huawen did not expect that the People's Liberation Army would launch an attack on him, and after hearing the news, he was greatly annoyed.
Roared, "Fight! Only by fighting can there be food to eat. ”
Some of his subordinates suggested that all the underground party members within them be killed. But the underground staff said to Wu Huawen:
"If the commander retreats as planned, there will be no misunderstanding. If it really tore through the skin, the PLA would concentrate its firepower on attacking. Ask the commander to consider and make a quick plan. ”
Wu Huawen, who came from an old warlord background, regarded the troops as his own private property, hoping to preserve his strength, and learned
After the Tujishan troops were wiped out, they were afraid that the PLA would attack other positions, so they asked the PLA to stop the attack and go to meet with the chief of the PLA side.
The head of the siege force instructed the 3rd Column
Sun Jixian: "Quickly set up a telephone call between Wu Huawen and convey our demands on Wu Huawen: First, we can no longer hesitate, our army is about to launch a general offensive; second, wu is limited to revolting at 20 o'clock on the 19th and withdrawing from the position." ”
After receiving the telegram, Wu Huawen had to accept the conditions of the uprising.
On the morning of the 19th, Wu Huawen dispatched the chief of staff
Li Zhang, carrying a radio station, went to the headquarters of the siege group on the western front to hand over the defensive land, and at the same time sent a telegram: "After 8 o'clock tonight, please ask your army to advance one by one, take over the headquarters of the defensive land, and the main force will advance along the railway road and the Renjia Pass to Jinan, and enter the commercial port from Xinzhuang and Dahuashu two roads." The two junctions were carved under the control of the headquarters in order to cover the entry of your army. After 8 o'clock, the headquarters began to assemble at the two barracks of Zhangzhuang and Kongzhuang. Passwords and symbols are still executed according to the original command, so as not to be misunderstood. ”
At 8 p.m. that night, the 10th and 3rd columns successfully took over Wu Huawen's position.
The uprising under Wu Huawen dealt a heavy blow to Chiang Kai-shek's reactionaries militarily. It seriously shook the enemy's confidence in holding Jinan. Wang Yaowu also tried to flee, but was besieged in Jinan by tuantuan and could not get out, so he had to retreat back into the city.
After Wu Huawen's uprising, Mao Zedong sent congratulations.
Commander Wu, Brigadier Yang, Brigadier Zhao, and Brigadier He and all the officers and men were transferred to Junjian:
Your commander and others led the uprising, issued a telegram, and resolved to participate in the cause of people's liberation, which was extremely gratifying. Standing on the stand of the people, the Communist Party of China extends a warm welcome to any officers and men of the Kuomintang army, regardless of their past behavior, as long as they can suddenly realize themselves at the critical juncture of the people's liberation war, break away from the reactionary leadership of the Kuomintang government, join the camp of the People's Liberation Army, and resolutely oppose US imperialism and its lackeys, the Kuomintang reactionaries. Your military commander and others have acted in line with the hopes of the people and are deeply congratulated. It is still hoped that the whole army will unite, strive for progress, improve the relations between officers and soldiers, between the military and the people, and strive for the victory of the revolutionary war in the whole country.
Mao Zedong
October 22, 1948
After the liberation of Jinan, his unit was reorganized into the 35th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, under the jurisdiction of the 103.104.105th Division, He Kexi
as Political Commissar,
Yang Youbai
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Zhao Guangxing
He Zhibin was appointed as the division commander. After the reorganization of the 35th Army, it carried out more than a month of reorganization training, entered the area west of Xuzhou, and participated in the third phase of the Huaihai Campaign.
In February 1949, it was merged with the Luzhong South Column, and the 35th Army was still maintained, and it was newly reorganized
Of the three divisions of the 103rd, 104th, and 105th divisions, two of the three regiments in each division were basically the troops of the former Lu Zhongnan Column, and only one regiment was the former unit of Wu Huawen.
On April 20, 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched the Battle of the Crossing River.
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Chief of the Reconnaissance Section of the 103rd Division
Shen Hongyi
According to the memoirs, at 8 p.m. that night, the 35th Army launched the Battle of Miura, and the 103rd Division launched an attack on the enemy in Jiangpu. In the early morning of the 21st, a million troops of the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River in three ways: east, west and middle.
The 130th Division took the lead in entering Nanjing, and by the 24th, the 312th Regiment Special Agent Company of the 104th Division occupied Chiang Kai-shek's so-called "Presidential Palace", and the 315th Regiment of the 105th Division
After a battalion entered and occupied the "Presidential Palace," the red flag of the People's Liberation Army was raised in the gatehouse.
Wu Huawen's rebel forces
He actually became the "gravedigger" of Chiang Kai-shek's regime on the mainland.
Although most of them were the warriors of the Luzhong South Column!
After that, Wu Huawen led the 35th Army to continue south, liberating Hangzhou, Zhejiang on May 3, and was appointed commander of the Hangzhou garrison. Later, he was awarded the Order of Liberation of the People's Republic of China of the First Class, and after transferring to the local area, he served as the People's Government of Zhejiang Province
He is a member of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government and the director of the Department of Communications of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, and has been the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since 1959. He died in 1962 at the age of 58.
In 1949, while Wu Huawen was recuperating in Shanghai, the Shandong masses went to Shanghai to petition and demand that Wu Huawen be killed to punish him for the crimes he had maimed the people of Shandong in the past, but Chen Yi stopped him.