He participated in the Battle of Wanyuan and the Battle of Jialing River, and served as a platoon leader of the 268th Regiment of the 90th Division of the Red 30th Army during the Red Army, and then went through the Long March and graduated from the Kang University;
He fought in the anti-Japanese base area of Jiluyu, carried out guerrilla warfare deep behind enemy lines, successively organized the Battle of Yanggu, and swore to resist to the death in the face of the Japanese army's three-way encirclement and suppression of the base area;
He launched the Qamdo Campaign, breaking through the Tibetan army's Jinsha River defense line in one fell swoop, opening the door to Tibet, and forcing the Dalai lama's government to renounce resistance and accept the terms of peace talks.
He was the founding major general, General Wu Zhong, the recipient of the First Class Red Star Meritorious Service Medal.
He joined the Red Army at the age of eleven and grew up in the flames of war
Born in 1921 in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, Wu Zhong joined the Red Army at the age of eleven, and has since gone through the agrarian revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation with the troops.
In January 1950, Wu Zhong served as the commander of the Fifty-second Division and was ordered to go south from Meishan to Yibin. At the farewell party, General Yang Yong, commander of the corps, gave his beloved radio to Wu Zhong.
You must know that this was in 1950, the country had just experienced the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the economy was backward, a radio was equivalent to a small car now, or there was a priceless kind in the city.
Of course, Wu Zhong was very happy about this, but what he didn't know was that this visit to Yibin was not a simple garrison, and behind it was a bitter battle waiting for him.
At that time, the War of Liberation had ended, the haze of the war had faded, and the soldiers were dissatisfied with the yearning for a better life, and many soldiers of the Fifty-second Division fantasized about settling down in Yibin, marrying wives and having children, and living a carefree life.
A telegram of January 7, 1950 shattered the soldiers' beautiful illusion that war was coming. The military headquarters issued an order to "stop advancing and stand by the spot", and then Wu Zhong telephoned General Zhang Guohua, the commander of the Eighteenth Army at the time, to learn that the troops were advancing to the Leshan area, and asked Liu Zhenguo, the political commissar of the division, to come to Chongqing to discuss the movement of the troops.
If you have read the map of the small friends should know that since the ancient Leshan area is the only way to Tibet, waiting in Leshan is undoubtedly the central government at that time to liberate Tibet.
Sure enough, liu Zhenguo, the political commissar of the division, returned from Chongqing with the news that the Fifty-second Division would be the main force and follow the Eighteenth Army into Tibet.
Second, the Battle of Qamdo was launched, and the Jinsha River defense line was broken through in one fell swoop
The long-term war has made the troops emotional, from the battle of crossing the river to the preparation for the liberation of Tibet, from Hubei to southern Sichuan, watching the friendly troops have already lived a happy life, and only their own troops are still fighting, a breath of gas is blocked in the hearts of the soldiers.
But Wu Zhong knew very well that this was just a small temper tantrum in the troops, and afterwards General Wu Zhong recalled: The soldiers complained, which can not be blamed on the soldiers' low consciousness, the bend turned too quickly, and everyone was not mentally prepared.
The journey into Tibet was relatively smooth, and the troops along the way strictly observed discipline, but Wu Zhong became angry when he was stationed in Ganzi; first, the governor of Qamdo of the Dalai Lama government at that time spoke ill of Wu Zhong, and second, the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon were brutally killed by the enemy with their stomachs open.
For this reason, Chiefs of Staff Liu, Deng and Li Da specially sent a telegram to criticize: Any undue loss caused by negligence and carelessness has failed the people and is a sin.
In the battle of Bao Xinji, because the 20th Brigade did not obey the combat order, the soldiers of one battalion of the 59th Regiment were surrounded, and finally more than 400 soldiers died heroically, and only more than 80 soldiers in the whole battalion lived.
Although this was not directly wrong by Wu Zhong, it still made him angry. All the anger turned into endless power at this time, and in October 1950 the Battle of Qamdo began, and the 52nd Division crossed the Jinsha River in the early morning of October 6, and marched towards the Batang Grassland, encircling the enemy in a roundabout way.
The main force crossed the river on the 7th, defeated the enemy army head-on, marched towardSamdo, and overcame altitude sickness, hunger, fatigue and other conditions to eliminate the Tibetan army in the Qamdo area in one fell swoop.
Finally, after nineteen days, the main force of the Tibetan army of Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme stationed in the Qamdo area was annihilated, and since then the Tibetan region has basically fallen into the hands of the People's Liberation Army.
Third, shoot at the sky and vent your reluctance
At that time, after the End of the Qamdo Campaign, Wu Zhong's wife Tian Tao fostered her six-month-old daughter in the home of a Tibetan compatriot, and she and more than 30 female soldiers formed a tibet aid team to prepare to take root in Tibet with her husband Wu Zhong. But another telegram changed this idea, when the Southwest Military Region ordered Wu Zhong to give up the work at hand and prepare to go to Nanjing for further training in the military advanced crash course.
Wu Zhong, who has been making a revolution since he was a child, and has not read a book, naturally does not understand the deep meaning behind this, at that time he only thought that his wife was going to leave when he first came, is this not a trick?
So Wu Zhong immediately found the commander of the army, General Zhang Guohua, and expressed his dissatisfaction, of course, as an old comrade, he also had his own ideological consciousness. General Zhang Guohua immediately said that he would obey the organizational decision and prepare to hand over the work and go to Nanjing.
On December 6, 1950, Wu Zhong left Qamdo, but what he did not expect was that the local people came to see him off, and at this moment he felt his own value.
Holding back tears, he ran more than ten kilometers, and when the people who sent him off disappeared from his field of vision, he shot into the air. When the bullets of a cartridge were finished, Wu Zhong began to cry with his head and sing. The guards who rushed to the scene also thought that Wu Zhong was crazy and quickly went up to stop him.
What he saw was only the appearance, and when he listened carefully to the song, he found that Wu Zhong was reluctant to this land and the troops he had worked so hard to lead.
Unfortunately, Wu Zhong never had the opportunity to return to Tibet and returned to the Fifty-second Division, and after his studies, he went to the northeast to serve as the commander of the first mechanized division in New China.
On February 26, 1990, a car accident took the life of the founding general at the age of sixty-nine.
It is a pity that this general who made remarkable achievements in the southern conquest and the northern war did not die in the battlefield where the war was raging, but died in a car accident on the side of the road, when we look at the past of this general's life, it is not difficult for us to find that although General Wu Zhong had a bumpy life, he did not bow to fate and returned this life of suffering with loyalty.