On the evening of April 20, 1949, the People's Liberation Army's Erye, Sanye, and Shiye 1 million troops under the command of Liu Bocheng (Erye Commander), Deng Xiaoping (Erye Political Commissar), Chen Yi (Sanye Commander), Su Yu (Sanye Deputy Commander), and Tan Zhenlin (Sanye Deputy Political Commissar) launched the Battle of Crossing the River under the command of the General Front Committee composed of Liu Bocheng (Erye Commander), Deng Xiaoping (Erye Political Commissar), Su Yu (Sanye Deputy Commander), and Tan Zhenlin (Sanye Deputy Political Commissar). The Kuomintang's Tang Enbo Group (450,000 people in 75 divisions) and Bai Chongxi Group of guishi (250,000 people in 40 divisions) and 700,000 troops of 115 divisions deployed by the Kuomintang on the Yangtze River defense line of more than 1,800 kilometers between Yichang and Shanghai were destroyed and destroyed, kicking off the prelude to the liberation of the jiangnan land.
On April 23, the 35th Army of the Third Field Army, under the command of its commander Wu Huawen, took the lead in capturing the Nanjing Presidential Palace, the center of Kuomintang rule, marking the complete collapse of the Chiang dynasty that had ruled China for 22 years.
Wu Huawen, zi Shaozhou, born in 1904, his ancestral home is Ye County, Shandong, and moved to Mengcheng County, Anhui Province with his parents at the age of 8; during the chaotic and dark Republic of China period, he changed his master four times in his life, successively following the warlords Feng Yuxiang and Han Fuyu, the traitor Wang Jingwei, and the ruler of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek.
From 1920, when he defected to Feng Yuxiang and joined the army, to August 1948, when the battlefield uprising of the Jinan Campaign, he successively served as the chief of staff of Feng Yuxiang's division, the commander of the pistol brigade of Han Fuyu's Third Route Army and the commander of the Jinan garrison, the commander of the Third Front Army of the Wang puppet government, the commander of Chiang Kai-shek's newly organized Fifth Route Army, the commander of the reorganized 84th Division, and the commander of the reorganized 96th Army.
In the Battle of Jinan in August 1948, he led the 96th Army in a battlefield uprising, giving a fatal blow to Wang Yaowu, the chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Province who defended Jinan City, and accelerating the process of General Xu Shiyou's liberation of Jinan City, after which his 96th Army was reorganized into the 35th Army of the People's Liberation Army, and the Luzhongnan Column was incorporated into it, with Wu Huawen as the commander of the 35th Army.
After that, he led the 35th Army to participate in the Battle of Crossing the River, liberating Nanjing, Hangzhou, Pukou, Puzhen, Jiangpu and other large cities heavily defended by the Kuomintang; he made outstanding contributions to the liberation of New China, especially the 3rd Battalion of the 315th Regiment of the 104th Division of the 35th Army led by him was the first to invade the Nanjing Presidential Palace, and the red flag was planted on the top of the Presidential Palace, which became a highlight of his life history.
After the founding of New China, the 35th Army was abolished, and Wu Huawen was also transferred from the commander of the Hangzhou Garrison to the local government, successively serving as a member of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, the director of the Transportation Department of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; he died of illness in 1962 at the age of 58.
However, what is less known is that although Wu Huawen, as an uprising general, made outstanding contributions to the bloody battlefield of national independence and the liberation of new China, made outstanding military achievements, and held many important positions after the founding of the People's Republic of China;
But he encountered the embarrassing situation of several petitions from the masses of the people demanding his execution; today we will take a look at what "historical debt" he has caused the people to hate him so much.
All this must start from the fact that after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of strategic stalemate in 1939, Chiang Kai-shek once again set off a wave of counter-offensive.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Wu Huawen followed Han Fuyu in several bloody battles with the Japanese army in Shandong, and after Han Fuyu was executed by Chiang Kai-shek in January 1938, Wu Huawen's pistol brigade was also reorganized into the independent 28th Brigade by Chiang Kai-shek, and later expanded into the newly organized 4th Division.
But after that, he completely went the opposite way, becoming a "united front saboteur", "friction expert", and an out-and-out "reactionary" and "traitor".
In 1939, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered a stage of strategic stalemate, and Wu Huawen obeyed the instructions of Shen Honglie, who was then the chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Province.
Actively carrying out Chiang Kai-shek's policy of "preventing communism, restricting communism, opposing communism, and suppressing communism," and on the battlefield of anti-Japanese aggression behind enemy lines in Shandong, he carried out a frenzied massacre of CPC members, anti-Japanese masses close to the Eighth Route Army, and their families, as well as those ordinary people who could not afford to pay military food, and also wantonly slaughtered, resulting in a tragic situation in which the people were not happy to live.
In 1943, after the secret order of Dai Kasa, the boss of the military command, defected to Wang Jingwei, and was appointed by the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army invading China, Okamura Ningji, as the commander-in-chief of the Third Front Army.
On many occasions, they invaded the Anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines of the Eighth Route Army and joined hands with the Japanese army to burn and plunder, creating a cruel and inhumane "no-man's land," and the people deeply resented it.
Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, although Wu Huawen has awakened and changed from evil to righteousness, the people's memory is profound, and the harm caused to them by Wu Huawen is still deeply imprinted in their bones, so they have become the masters of the country and have petitioned several times to request that Wu Huawen be executed.
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