Wen Yucheng was born in 1915, a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi, and joined the Red Army at the age of 15. He was not too tall, had a general's eyebrows, and played Peking Opera Martial Arts without makeup. Teenagers and old people, doing things quite steadily, everything has advantages and disadvantages, a person is too stable, will lose a lot of opportunities, but what? His parents gave him a good name, but he also won many opportunities.
Wen Yucheng was brave and resourceful in combat, flexible and decisive in command, and served as the political commissar of the regiment at the age of nineteen and the political commissar of the division during the Long March. It has the reputation of "military and political excellence", and most of the time in the army is still dominated by military commanders. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the brigade commander of the 18th Brigade of the 6th Division of the New Fourth Army and the commander of the Soviet Central Military Sub-district. He commanded his subordinate units to fight against the Japanese and the Kosovars, effectively dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army, and consolidated and expanded the anti-Japanese base areas.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wen Yucheng took over several local security teams in the northeast and formed them into the Independent Second Division of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and Wen Yucheng commanded an independent Second Division with only more than 3,000 people, and annihilated an enemy reinforcement battalion when he first participated in the battle in Panshicheng. The enemy's Twenty-first Division withdrew to Jilin, and after Wen Yucheng heard the news, he quietly traveled a hundred miles at night, taking advantage of his lack of preparation for a sudden onslaught, annihilating most of the enemy. A local unit annihilates an enemy division in its first battle. Wen Yucheng is known as an iron foot chasing the wind.
When Dehui attacked the fort, in the face of the enemy's 7,000-strong American ordnance troops, the two battalions still rushed into the city, although in the end they had to retreat due to the exhaustion of artillery fire, but the heroic performance of the Independent Second Division impressed the big brother troops, and even the enemy army thought that it was Lin Biao's main force. After the war, the Independent Second Division was commended by the "Eastern Commandery" for its outstanding military achievements in breaking through Dehui first. Then Wen Yucheng used his iron foot advantage to move to Tieling, ran ahead of the enemy army, fought fiercely for a day, and captured more than 4,000 people under the enemy major general Peng Dingyi.
He also intercepted the enemy 27th Division fleeing from Shenyang without stopping, forcing the enemy to surrender. The Independent Second Division has developed into the elite of the three columns. The Third Column is a well-known team, the 3 Columns are called the Whirlwind Unit, which is composed of the Old Eighth Road of the Luzhong Military Region and the Jireliao Military Region, and the commander is Han Xianchu, the famous Battle of Sibao Linjiang, which mainly relies on the 3rd Column. In the Battle of Liaoshen, they were the ones who captured Liao Yaoxiang, the commander of lieutenant generals of the 9th Corps of the Kuomintang Army.
After the reorganization of the whole army, the 3rd Column was reorganized into the 40th Army of the Fourth Field Army. Wen Yucheng served as the commander of the 40th Army, and the first battle of the Volunteer Army was the annihilation of a reinforced battalion of South Korea by the 40th Army. When Mao Zedong heard this, he designated October 25, 1950, as the anniversary of the volunteer army's departure abroad. The 40th Army participated in the entire process of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the 40th Army under the leadership of Wen Yucheng became an invincible and invincible iron division. In the three years of operation, more than 43,300 enemy prisoners were killed or wounded, and the 40th Army itself suffered more than 20,000 casualties.
Here we would like to talk about how well the name Wen Yucheng came about, when the central chiefs and the chiefs of the field divisions held a meeting of division commanders and military commanders, they often decided on a strategy, and most of them would say, "Success, just do it." There are exceptions, Marshal Chen Yi generally said: "If you want it, just do it." Wen Yucheng's perennial military life had long developed an extremely fast reaction. Often the chiefs have just spoken a "cheng" and the next sentence has not yet come out. Wen Yucheng had already snapped and quickly stood up.
Wen Yucheng thought it was called out to him, while the chiefs thought that Wen Yucheng was grabbing the task, and often the good things were shared with him. Even if I didn't give him a task, I was impressed by him and unforgettable. This tiger will be recommended by Marshal Lin Biao and Marshal Ye Jianying at the same time, and in 1967 he was appointed deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
For reference, in 1955, the first six army commanders to enter the Korean war, Liang Xingchu, Wu Xinquan, Wen Yucheng, Wu Ruilin, Zeng Zesheng, and Xiao Xinhuai, were all awarded the rank of lieutenant general. Zhong Wei, who had been the commander of the Siye 49th Army, was awarded the rank of major general, while Wen Yucheng was the commander of the 145th Division of the 49th Army. Zhong Wei's subordinate Wen Yucheng at that time actually became a superior. Of course, the level of military rank is mainly based on battle achievements.
Not only were the two marshals impressed by him, but Chairman Mao also had a strong liking for him, and in 1968, after the Central Cultural Revolution Group issued the revocation of yang Chengwu, Yu Lijin, and Fu Chongbi from all their posts, Chairman Mao directly appointed Wen Yucheng as the commander of the Beijing garrison. Taking charge of the Beijing Division and guarding the safety of the central leaders is already quite trusted.
If the "Ten Tiger Generals" of the Volunteer Army and the "Ten Ace Commanders" of the People's Liberation Army are selected, then there must be a quota of Wen Yucheng. In his later years, Wen Yucheng settled in Nanjing, and in 1989, he died of illness at the age of 74.