In 1882, Wan Chunpu was born into a landlord family in Shangda furnace village in Cangshan County, Shandong Province. Since childhood, he did not like to read, and liked to ride horses and play with guns. As an adult, he is a man of integrity, has a chivalrous style, is good friends, serves righteousness and neglects wealth, helps the poor and helps the crisis, and is respected by the townspeople as "Wan Sanye".
One day, Wan Chunpu rode on his jujube red horse and went to the town to meet and inquire about the livestock market. When he saw a very courageous man in a robe and a horse coat coming up to him, he asked the people around him, "Who is this man?" Someone asked him, "You don't know Mayor Chen yet?" It turned out that Chen Yushan, the district chief of the seventh district of Linyi County of the Kuomintang, also came to xiang town to meet on this day, and laoyuan saw Wan Chunpu's dazzling jujube red horse, mistakenly believing that it was a horse seller, so he came over to inquire about the price of the horse.
Wan Chunpu had long wanted to get to know Chen Yushan, and smiled and said, "What, do you have a crush on this horse?" "Good, good." Chen Yushan even claimed praise. "Well, you're going to take it." "So how?" "A horse is a human being, they are all old relatives and neighbors, can they still ask for money?" Chen Yushan carefully looked at Wan Chunpu, he really didn't know, and when he asked for his name, he only hated to know him too late. Since then, Wan Chunpu has become a guest in Chen Yushan's home.
Through Chen Yushan's introduction, Wan Chunpu successively became acquainted with some gentry and celebrities: Liu Zicai of Xiangcheng, Zhao Jiannan after the city, Li Ziying of Lanling, Wang Gongchen of Wancun and others, and befriended their brothers, often discussing and talking together.
The remote and desolate mountainous area of Baoligu, with scattered villages and towns, was a place where bandits roamed in the era of warlords. Bandits occupy the mountains as kings, rob houses, kidnap tickets and extort money, and make the local area unrestful. Once, Wan Chunpu was drinking in Chen Yushan's living room when someone from home reported that his parents had been abducted by bandits. Wan Chunpu was furious when he heard this, and vowed to fight with the bandits, and Chen Yushan advised him: "The bandits are kidnapping tickets, but they are just thinking about money. Now you can't play hard, you have to try to save the two old people first. ”
After Wan Chunpu paid money to rescue the second elder, he decided to confront the bandits. With the help of Chen Yushan and others, Wan Chunpu organized a family protection group. At first, it was limited to guarding the fence, and then it was constantly fighting with bandits.
After the "Lincheng carjacking case" occurred in 1923, Sun Meiyao, the leader of the bandits in the Baoligu Mountains, was recruited by the Kuomintang, and it was difficult for small groups of bandits to exist, some abandoned the bandits to return to the peasants, and some defected to the vigilante groups in Wanchunpu. In the year of the defeat of the Feng army, a group of defeated soldiers got lost in the Baoligu Mountains, and the militia of WanChunpu took the opportunity to capture twenty-nine Hanyang-made and Czech-style troops, and their power was further strengthened. After that, Wan Chunpu became the head of the landlord's armed federation, and with a single order, he could mobilize a team of several hundred people and become the "king of the mountains" who dominated the side.
Around 1930, the Baoligu Mountains were relatively stable. At the initiative of Wan Chunpu, a primary school was established in Shangda furnace village. In 1931, after the "918" incident, two teachers came to the school, one named Nie Liren and the other named Nie Yiren, who were brothers. After they came to Shangda Furnace Village, they all visited Wan Chunpu and talked about major state affairs, and they were very speculative with each other. Wan Chunpu was already dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's fall of the three northeastern provinces, and the Nie brothers told him the news stipulated by the Kuomintang that "patriotism is guilty" and "those who talk extravagantly about resisting Japan will be killed without forgiveness," thus making Wan Chunpu hate Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary policies even more.
Both nie brothers were members of the Communist Party. When the underground party organization led the Cangshan Rebellion in 1933, the party organization in the Baoligu Mountains had no time to act and failed. After the failure of the uprising, the Kuomintang reactionaries carried out mass arrests and massacres, and all those suspected of being members of the Communist Party were blacklisted. Wan Chunpu was the chief of the federation in the Baoligu Mountains, and of course the military and political authorities would not suspect him, so they entrusted him with the task of arresting the Nie brothers. The more Wan Chunpu thought about it, the more he couldn't understand it, and he felt that the Kuomintang's approach was wrong, so he quietly sent a message to the Nie family brothers and let them escape. Afterwards, Wan Chunpu reported to the upper side: "When I went to arrest, the Nie brothers were not at home. "Just prevaricate.
In the winter of 1934, the special committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China's Sulu Yuwan Border Region, working in the Zaozhuang mining area, decided to open up the work of the Baoligu MountainOus Area and sent Li Shaojiu and Guo Zhiyuan to this area under the cover of practicing medicine. At that time, the situation in Lunan was that bureaucratic landlords were running rampant in the townships, the toiling masses were hungry and cold, and the white terror of suppressing the Cangshan rebellion still hung over the local area. To take root here, it is untenable without the cover of powerful local figures. Therefore, before Li Shaojiu went to the Baoligu MountainOus Area, Guo Zihua, secretary of the Special Committee, repeatedly explained that if he wanted to open up the work in this area of the mountainous area, he must win the support of Wan Chunpu.
After Li Shaojiu and Guo Zhiyuan arrived in the Baoligu Mountains, they opened a medicine shop in Gaoqiao, and often traveled between Gaoqiao and Dahe in the name of practicing medicine to relieve the suffering of the disease for the people. Wan Chunpu's family was sick, and they often sent people to drive donkeys to invite Li Shaojiu to see a doctor. After a long time, Li Shaojiu and they became familiar with Wan Chunpu. In 1935, Li Shaojiu and Guo Zhiyuan successively introduced Liu Qingru, Xiao Yunqing, Yang Zhiqing, Wan Guohua and others to the party, and Wan Guohua was the eldest son of Wan Chunpu.
In January 1935, Guo Zihua was arrested in Zaozhuang on political suspicions, and before being escorted to Xuzhou, he was rescued by Li Shaojiu and other comrades in the name of the "Zaozhuang Pharmaceutical Association". After that, the organs of the Special Committee of the Border Region were transferred to Gaoqiao, Fei County, and still opened a pharmacy called "GuangdeTang" under the cover of practicing medicine. Guo Zihua, alias Zhou Dewei, became a Chinese medicine doctor in a pharmacy, and was introduced by Li Shaojiu to wan chunpu.
With the development of WanChunpu's power in the local area, Zheng Xiangsan, a large landlord in Manxi Village, and others had long been red-eyed. They chased the wind and shadows and accused Wan Chunpu of being a common bandit. The Linyi County government listened to Zheng Xiangsan's accusations and decided to arrest Wan Chunpu and Wan Guohua's father and son. Fortunately, Wan Chunpu made many friends, some people breathed through the wind, and the father and son of the Wan family fled when they heard the news, which saved the disaster.
After the "July 7" incident, Wan Chunpu's father and son returned to Shangda furnace village from other places to organize anti-Japanese armed forces. Comrade Guo Zihua held an enlarged meeting of the special committee in Gaoqiao, conveyed the party's instructions, and made a resolution to take Wan Chunpu as the target of the united front and open up the work in the Baoligu MountainOus Area. After the meeting, Guo Zihua was warmly received by Wan Chunpu. During the banquet, Guo Zihua praised his patriotic action of organizing armed forces and preparing for the War of Resistance, and analyzed the situation at that time, publicized the significance of uniting the War of Resistance, and pointed out the future of the victory of the War of Resistance. Wan ChunPu was inspired by education. From his many contacts with Guo Zihua and others, he speculated that Guo Zihua and others might be the Communist Party, and deeply felt that the Communist Party was some people with foresight and ability. Therefore, he clearly said to Guo Zihua: "I am a friend of Wan Mou, what will be used for me in the future, despite the command, I will definitely do my best!" ”
In the winter of 1937, the Japanese crossed the Yellow River and occupied Linyi and Zaozhuang the following year. Lunan and Northern Jiangsu are in jeopardy. At a time when this people were panicked, a large number of progressive young students and Communist Party members responded to the party's call for "the rise and fall of the country, and everyone has the responsibility" and "take off their robes and go to the guerrillas" and threw themselves into the struggle to resist Japan and save the country. They went deep into the countryside, publicized the masses, and organized the masses, and the whole Baoligu Mountainous Area began to boil. At this time, in accordance with the instructions of the party, Wan Chunpu openly put up the banner of "defending the territory and resisting the war, and resolutely not being a slave to the country." He also sacrificed his own grain, guns, pigs and sheep, held a concerted meeting, drank wine with a heart, and firmly stated: "Resist Japan and save the country without fear of sacrifice, and fight devils will never be filled with seeds." From then on, the collective food and accommodation were held, and an armed uprising was held.
With the continuous development and growth of this team, Wan Chunpu's own family's grain had almost eaten, and he asked Chen Yushan for help. Chen Yushan was also very supportive of the confrontation against Japan, transporting 50,000 catties of wheat at one time, the troops had food to eat, guns and bullets, and the anti-Japanese sentiment was even higher, and they were ready to fight the devils every day. But at that time, the devils were eager to attack the hinterland of the mainland and never entered the mountain. After the Battle of Taierzhuang, Wan Chunpu was really impatient to wait, so he proposed to go outside the mountain to see! His proposal was agreed to by all members.
At that time, on both sides of the Taiwei Highway, after the Sino-Japanese war, many villages had broken their walls and collapsed, and most of the people fled. From Xiangcheng to Lanling and Taierzhuang, the dead bodies and weapons discarded by the Chinese and Japanese sides were not collected at all. When Wan Chunpu led the team to clean up the battlefield, he actually collected eight barrels of gasoline, a mortar, four machine guns, more than fifty Czechs, and made more than a hundred boxes of bullets and grenades. They transported these weapons and materiel back to the mountains and equipped their troops.
Under the party's education and influence, Wan Chunpu's consciousness has been greatly enhanced, and the struggle against the enemy has become more resolute. In February 1939, when Song Zicheng, secretary of the Lunan Special Committee, convened a meeting of the secretaries of the county party committees in Lunan County, more than 10,000 people from the Japanese Kou and Han traitors "swept up" the mountainous areas in five ways. The special commissar immediately led the participants to avoid the enemy's main force, detoured into the mountain, and reached the village of Shangda furnace. Unexpectedly, the next day, the enemy soldiers surrounded them in two ways. In a situation of extreme danger, Wan Chunpu took the initiative to undertake the task of blocking the attack and covering the transfer of the leading organs. During the mission, his 19-year-old second son Wan Guoying was shot and killed, and the soldiers were very sad. Wan Chunpu rushed to the front of the line and shouted loudly: "Guoying died for the liberation of the country and the nation, what sorrow is there about his glorious death?" To fight the devils, we must be prepared for sacrifice, and in this regard, Guoying has set an example for us. This steely language, the sentences shook people's hearts, and the warriors turned grief into strength, concentrated all kinds of hatred on the muzzle of the gun, and successfully completed the task of covering the transfer of the leading organs. After this test, the party had more trust in Wan Chunpu and decided to set up the special committee organ in Wan Chunpu's home.
In early August 1939, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army led by Comrade Luo Ronghuan advanced into Lunan. After Song Zicheng, secretary of the special committee, reported to Luo Ronghuan on Lunan's work and the situation in WanChunpu, Lin Yueqin, the lover of Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan, lived in Wanchunpu's home, and Luo Ronghuan himself sometimes lived in Wanjia. Wan Chunpu was enthusiastic and loyal, straightforward and generous, sincerely supported our party's anti-war proposal, and was deeply appreciated by Comrade Luo Ronghuan. Chen Guang, acting commander of the 115th Division, also gave his war horse to Wan Chunpu, which made him feel the warmth of the party and trust in him. In order to solve the difficulties in the supply of troops, Wan Chunpu did not hesitate to open his own granary, cut down his own pine forest, and mobilized his brothers Chen Yushan, Sheng Qingyi, Liu Zicai, Wang Gongchen and others to donate grain and donate money to support the troops. Chen Yushan alone sacrificed tens of thousands of catties of wheat and three hundred yuan to the ocean.
After the 115th Division entered Lunan, it successively eliminated the Japanese Kou at Mount Eshan pass and Yanwang Nose Mountain, and successively destroyed Du Ruotang and Sun Heling, stubborn leaders who often hunted down and killed anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians and undermined the anti-Japanese resistance, opening up the situation in Lunan. In the winter of 1939, the peasant anti-Japanese self-defense regiment led by Wan Chunpu, with the support of the 115th Division, ambushed and eliminated the Bandit Wang Xueli of Lunan and attacked Li Changsheng, the county magistrate of Fei County, who killed the anti-Japanese people in Fei County. As the situation of the struggle became better and better, at the suggestion of Luo Ronghuan and on the basis of the Peasants' Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Regiment, a border detachment was established in the spring of 1940, with Wan Chunpu as the leader of the detachment.
In 1943, the detachment led by Wan Chunpu merged with the Sulu detachment and formed into the Fifth Regiment of the Lunan Military Region, and he was appointed deputy commander of the Lunan Military Region. In February 1946, Wan Chunpu joined the Communist Party of China. At that time, Luo Ronghuan commented: "A person who has come out of the old camp and insisted on standing on the side of the revolutionary people is a fundamental change. This transformation is indeed invaluable. ”
After the founding of New China, Wan Chunpu served as vice chairman of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.