In June 1947 in Siping, Jilin Province, the newly formed Northeast Democratic United Army was engaged in a fierce battle with the Siping defenders under the command of Du Yuming. When the then commander-in-chief Lin Biao was directing the soldiers to rush to attack the city wall, suddenly the telegrapher sent a message to Lin Biao that Du Yuming, commander of the Kuomintang Northeast Security Army, was hyping up the fact that he had killed the commander of the Independent Division in southern Liaoning.
Lin Biao waved his hand to indicate that Du Yuming was talking nonsense, but in fact, the division headquarters of the Liaoning Independent Division did lose contact with the General Headquarters of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army during the battle.
Wu Ruilin
No one knows what the situation is now.
So did Du Yuming really kill a division commander of our army? Who is he? Why was he killed by Du Yuming's claim?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > the first person to enter Sichuan Shandong "Wu Lame"</h1>
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the CPC Central Committee integrated the northeast people's self-defense army and the troops that were later stationed in the northeast to form the "Northeast People's Autonomous Army", and later on the eve of the Siping Operation, it was reorganized into the "Northeast Democratic United Army".
The protagonist of today's story is Wu Ruilin, the commander of the Liaoning Independent Division of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army.
Wu Ruilin is a Sichuan resident, born in 1915, his hometown is in Bazhong County, Sichuan Province, and his family is a poor peasant. When he was working as an apprentice in the brick and tile factory in Langzhong County, he met an underground party member, because the foreman of the brick and tile factory treated Wu Ruilin and these young apprentices too poorly, so this party member led the workers to carry out two strikes, and Wu Ruilin joined the Communist Youth League shortly after the strike under the introduction of the underground party members in the factory.
In the winter of 1928, not long after joining the Communist Youth League, Wu Ruilin was given the task of a secret traffic officer by the organization, and several cities and counties in northern Sichuan ran to the regiment, repeatedly completed the task of sending letters entrusted to him by the organization, and also reported the situation of the Kuomintang garrisons along the way to his superiors.
When the Red Army entered Sichuan in 1932, the Bazhong County Party Committee received a notice from its superiors to welcome the Red Army into Sichuan at the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi, because the bandits were plagued by problems, and the party members could not make the trip, so they could only send Wu Ruilin, who was still young, to meet the Red Army from the mountain road alone. At the Yanxi Field on the tongjiang river, Wu Ruilin, who received the vanguard of the Red Army, was suspected of becoming a Kuomintang agent, because the Kuomintang disguised as a traffic officer had previously led the Way to the Red Army, causing the Red Army to suffer losses.
Wu Ruilin was tied up by the Red Army and locked up for the night with the captured landlords. Unconvinced, Wu Ruilin made trouble with the headquarters of the 12th Division of the Red Fourth Front, and the division commander Kuang Jixun asked him to lead the way and attack Tongjiang County, and in this way, Wu Ruilin became the first person to welcome the Red Army into Sichuan.
Old land of the Red Fourth Front
Later, after the misunderstanding was lifted, Xu Qianqian's commander-in-chief and political commissar Chen Changhao met with Wu Ruilin, and under their introduction and auspices, Wu Ruilin's period of joining the party was set for the day he received the Red Army at YanxiChang, and Wu Ruilin, who became a party member, began to work in the Youth League Committee of the General Political Department of the Red Fourth Front.
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in May 1938, Wu Ruilin, who studied culture at the Anti-Japanese Red Army University in northern Shaanxi, obeyed the organizational arrangements and went to Qilu to organize anti-Japanese work. He successively served as the political commissar of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Regiment, the commander of the First Military Subdistrict of the Luzhong Military Region, and the commander of the Second Sub-Region.
Wu Ruilin led the people of luzhong to continuously sabotage the two railways of the Japanese army, Jiaoji and Jinpu, which seriously threatened the safety of military transportation of the Japanese invaders in north China.
In 1939, Wu Ruilin was besieged by the Japanese and puppets at Lotus Mountain, and in the cellar of the command post, only he and the guards and military horse breeders were three people, who fought bravely in the face of hundreds of enemies and killed 50 Japanese puppet troops. The enraged Japanese invaders threw several poison gas bombs into the cellar, and then extended the muzzle of the machine gun into the desperate continuous strafing, Wu Ruilin's lower abdomen, right leg, and instep were all hit by the enemy, and after being smoked to the ground by the poison gas bomb, the support troops arrived in time to save Wu Ruilin's three men.
Wu Ruilin (back row, second from left) and base fighters
Although after the operation of Dr. Wang Zixiu of Qilu University Hospital, Wu Ruilin was out of danger of life, but the nerve that was broken in his right leg could not be connected, and he was disabled.
Wu Ruilin, who was wounded in his right leg, was not defeated, and in 1940 he returned to the front line on crutches, and at the end of the year successfully smashed the Japanese puppet army's sweep of Yang Jiaheng (present-day southeast of Laiwu, Shandong), Wu Ruilin's limping figure on the position was deeply engraved in the enemy's mind, and the Japanese puppet army called him "Wu Lame" with hatred and fear.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > defeat in the Siping Offensive The Liaonan Independent Division was besieged</h1>
In September 1945, Wu Ruilin obeyed the orders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and came to the northeast with his old partner Xiao Hua to serve as the chief of staff of the Liaodong Military Region, and was the commander of the Andong Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, the commander of the Liaoning Military Region and the commander of the independent division, which du Yuming claimed to have killed.
In the summer of 1947, floods broke out in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, and Wu Ruilin's independent division was stationed here to help the people fight floods and provide disaster relief. In the midst of the four battles and four peaces, the third battle of Siping was in full swing, and Wu Ruilin suddenly received an order from his superiors to go to Anshan within forty-eight hours to attack the reinforcements of The Siping and relieve the crisis of the Siping siege troops.
In order to protect Siping, the Changchun barrier, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized five divisions to Siping for reinforcements, and the order received by the Independent Division of Southern Liaoning was indeed 100,000 urgent.
But 48 hours from Yingkou to Anshan was easy, and on a hundred kilometers Wu Ruilin had to cross five rivers that had swelled because of the flood water line, and because of the combination of wind and rain and the power of the radio, it took four or five hours to communicate support orders to his superiors.
Wu Ruilin and the People's Liberation Army
There were only forty hours left for the Liaoning Independent Division, and Wu Ruilin gritted his teeth and transferred the independent division, which had not yet been fully formed with only two regiments of troops, to Dashiqiao, where it attacked the fully formed Kuomintang Independent Third Division, which could also play a role in containing the enemy's reinforcements.
Knowing that dashiqiao was attacked, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that the Plaster in southern Liaoning would be united, threatened the hinterland of Liaoning, and urgently transferred three divisions reinforcing Siping to Dashiqiao, but by the time the enemy braved the rain to get rid of the blockade of the PLA, he had already found that the independent Third Division stationed at Dashiqiao had been completely annihilated by Wu Ruilin's two regiments!
Unwillingly, Du Yuming and Chiang Kai-shek secretly mobilized an army of 100,000 to prepare to remove the trouble of the Liaoning Independent Division. At this time, the Siping Offensive battle was also frustrated because of the lack of experience in attacking the strongholds of our army, so that Du Yuming could free up his hands to concentrate on attacking Wu Ruilin.
Wu Ruilin, who received the order from his superiors, initially held his position, but in the face of a full set of US armaments and equipment, the Kuomintang New First Army, the New Sixth Army, and the 52nd Army of Du Yuming's family who returned from India's reorganization, the scope of activity of the independent division with only one division was constantly reduced, and finally reached a critical juncture.
Chiang Kai-shek and Du Yuming
100,000 to 15,000, Wu Ruilin repeatedly called the provincial party committee to report the situation, but the last time he called the provincial party committee to request orders, the telephone line was blown up by heavy artillery of the Kuomintang. Before losing contact, Wu Ruilin vaguely heard the word transfer through the bombardment of guns and cannons, but the order given at the beginning was to stick to it, and Wu Ruilin once again entered a dilemma.
The offensive of the Kuomintang army became more and more fierce, and more and more enemies rushed in from the positions, wu Ruilin got rid of hesitation, and immediately ordered the troops to form three echelons to break through in batches, in order to confuse the enemy to cover the main force, also organized a counter-assault, and arranged two companies to resist the attack of the new first army.
The Liaoning Independent Division, which successfully broke through under the command of Wu Ruilin, suffered losses, but still retained its structure, and later expanded and developed into the Forty-second Army of the Northeast Field Army. Du Yuming, who had won the encirclement victory, was physically unsupported and transferred out of the northeast not long after the battle in July 1947.
Du Yuming, who had been transferred from the northeast, had always firmly believed that he had annihilated the Liaonan Independent Division and killed Wu Ruilin in the battle, because he had deciphered Wu Ruilin's radio before the battle, knew that Wu Ruilin had been stubborn when he received orders, did not expect that Wu Ruilin would organize a breakthrough of troops, and Du Yuming never met With Wu Ruilin again, and this misunderstanding had not been solved, and it lasted for sixteen years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="57" > the Korean battlefield called "butcher operation" a coward</h1>
The Liaonan Independent Division, which was expanded into the 42nd Army, participated in the Liaoshen Campaign under the leadership of Wu Ruilin, blocked the Liao Yaoxiang Corps reinforcing Jinzhou at Zhangwu and Xiushui Hezi, and always entangled Liao Yaoxiang so that it could not escape, and finally together with the brother troops, completely annihilated the Liao Yaoxiang Corps in Montenegro.
Wu Ruilin's conducting style has always been known for being bold and fast and good at interspersing.
After the Beginning of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1950, Wu Ruilin was one of the first four military commanders to enter the DPRK. However, because the 42nd Army formed the Northeast Field Army relatively late, it was not noticeable at first. Marshal Peng Dehuai, who commanded the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, deployed the 42nd Army on the eastern front and fought an obstruction war together with the Korean People's Army.
Volunteer soldiers
However, before the large troops entered Korea, Wu Ruilin himself crossed the border line with a staff officer and a guard to reconnoiter the territory of Korea, and after accepting the orders of Marshal Peng Dehuai, Wu Ruilin led the officers and men of the 42nd Army to forcibly march at a speed of 60 kilometers overnight, seize the strategic points of Huangcao Ridge and go to Zhanling to set up positions, and block the US Ace First Marine Division and the ROK First Ace Capital Division.
From October 26 to November 7, during the 13-day blockade battle, the 42nd Army, under the command of Wu Ruilin, repelled countless enemy attacks, and at the cost of nearly 1,400 casualties, in exchange for more than 2,100 enemy casualties, including about 1,000 American troops, and successfully completed the blockade task.
In the campaign, one of the things that best reflects Wu Ruilin's command style is that on October 23, before the whole army had entered the territory of Korea, Wu Ruilin personally led about 300 people directly under the army's cavalry brigade, like the surprise attack generals in ancient China, entered the Korean territory in advance and rushed straight into Guli, took the head at the US and South Korean advance troops, and quickly withdrew.
The US and ROK troops who were suddenly hit were at a loss, the enemy did not know where to come from or where to go, and they thought that there was a Korean people's army that launched an ambush and stopped the pace of the northward advance. Wu Ruilin also urgently telegraphed the commander of the 124th Division with two battalions of troops to set up an ambush at Huangcaoling in the night, and on October 24, as soon as the ambush position was set up, the Southern Dynasty Capital Division marched into the foot of the position, and there was another blindfolded and chaotic beating, and the enemy ground troops did not dare to make further moves for six hours at the foot of Huangcaoling Mountain.
Volunteer artillery
After this battle, Wu Ruilin's 42nd Army became famous, Marshal Peng Dehuai personally sent a telegram commending Wu Ruilin and the 42nd Army, and Chairman Mao, who was far away in Beijing, also noticed this bold and careful unit.
From February 11 to 12, 1951, during the famous "Hengcheng Counterattack Operation", Wu Ruilin led the 42nd Army to intercept and severely damage the US Second Division in the northwest and southwest of Hengcheng, causing it to retreat twenty-six kilometers, playing an important role in the battle.
After the Battle of Hengcheng, he launched the "Butcher Operation" in an attempt to annihilate the 42nd Army and the brother troops that were insufficient in his view, but as a result, Wu Ruilin implemented a tired and delaying tactic and fought a tug-of-war.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="58" > North Korea returned to Zhenhaijiang</h1>
Wu Ruilin, who returned from the Korean battlefield in 1953, entered the school again, and in the autumn of 1957, he entered the basic department of the Higher Military Academy, graduating two years early, at which time the CPC Central Committee entrusted him with the position of commander of the South China Sea Fleet.
In 1960, President Zhu De, who was recuperating in Guangzhou, told Wu Ruilin, who had worked in the army for most of his life, that after the Defeat of the Americans on the Korean Battlefield, they turned their focus to the south, and since the Beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the invasion of China's land began with the sea, and without coastal defense, there would have been no national defense, and Wu Ruilin had won many victories in the Korean battlefield against the Americans, so Chairman Mao and Marshal Peng Dehuai unanimously agreed that Wu Ruilin would guard the southern gate of the motherland.
Wu Ruilin and the officers and men of the South China Sea Fleet
After obeying the order, Wu Ruilin came to the South China Sea Fleet, stepped on the ship, learned from the vast number of grass-roots sailors, and went to sea to train with the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army Navy, proud of putting wooden platoons on the Jialing River as a porter in his youth.
Two-thirds of the time of the year, Wu Ruilin trains with naval officers, from Fujian and Guangdong in the east, down to the Beibu Gulf of Guangxi in the west, and in the far south, he patrols the Xisha and Nansha Islands. At the same time, in addition to ensuring fleet training, Wu Ruilin also vigorously developed surface ships under the industrial conditions at that time, and during his tenure as commander-in-chief of the South China Sea Fleet, the total tonnage of the South China Sea Fleet increased from 20,000 tons to 70,000 tons, which has been greatly developed.
Subject to the industrial level, although they were all small boats and torpedo boats, Wu Ruilin and the officers and men of the South China Sea Fleet bravely returned fire on the enemy from the sea.
On August 6, 1965, the Kuomintang regime that had defeated Taiwan sent a large submarine hunting ship "Jianmen" and a small submarine hunting ship "Zhangjiang" in an attempt to send a group of armed agents to the mainland to sabotage, which was discovered by the South China Sea Fleet, Wu Ruilin and the soldiers were not intimidated by the gap in weapons and equipment, and violently attacked the two enemy ships and successfully sank them.
Wu Ruilin reported to Premier Zhou
The "August 6" naval battle caused great repercussions in the world, and the next day the New York Times published a special article to report on the incident, and the military and civilians throughout the country also received great encouragement.
In fact, before the "August 6" naval battle, Wu Ruilin met a deceased person. This old man was Du Yuming, who had sent 100,000 troops to surround and suppress him, and always thought that he had been killed.
In 1963, Du Yuming, who had long been pardoned, under the meticulous arrangements of Premier Zhou Enlai, began to visit various parts of the motherland with other pardoned war criminals and their families, and when he arrived in Hainan, he met Wu Ruilin.
The two were naturally very surprised to see Du Yuming, and the two talked for a while before they understood the events of that year, and the fact that Du Yuming reported to Chiang Kai-shek for merit and reward that day turned out to be a big oolong.
Later, du Yuming returned to Beijing after visiting the rivers and mountains of the motherland in 1964 and was invited to become a member of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and he wrote a special letter to Premier Zhou to express his love for new China and his determination to fight for the people.
General Wu Ruilin, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a member of the Ninth Central Committee, took thirteen war wounds on his body on April 32, 1995, and left the land for which he had spilled his blood and loved deeply.