Wu Keren, a famous anti-Japanese general in the northeast

Wu Keren

Wu Keren (1894--1937.11.9) was a native of Sandaowan, Ning'an County, Jilin Province (present-day Ning'an, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province). Commander of the 67th Army of the National Revolutionary Army.

On September 1, 2014, it was included in the first batch of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

In the fierce Battle of Songjiang, Wu Keren led the 67th Army to hold out for three days, and only 2 platoons were left in the end

In 1915, he was admitted to the Artillery Section of the Baoding Army Officer School. After graduation, he joined the Anhui Border Defense Army, and later transferred to the Feng Army, and his merits were transferred from platoon commander to battalion commander. In 1925, he went to Japan to study artillery. After returning to China, he served as the head of the artillery research class of the Northeast Army's Daowutang and the colonel of the artillery teaching team. Later, he became the commander of the 18th Regiment of the Northeast Artillery Corps.

After the outbreak of the "918" incident in 1931, he retired to Guannei and was then the deputy commander of the 117th Division of the 67th Army. In 1933, the Japanese army invaded Rehe, followed the Invasion of the Great Wall, and led his troops to participate in the Great Wall War of Resistance, initially fighting with the enemy at Gubeikou, and then transferred to Luandong to organize defense. The following year, he was promoted to commander of the 117th Division.

In April 1936, he was promoted to deputy commander of the Sixty-seventh Army, accompanied by the commander Wang Yizhe stationed in Yan'an, implementing the agreement on cooperation against Japan, delivering ammunition and materials to the Red Army, and soon after, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the Sixty-seventh Army, stationed in northern Anhui and eastern Henan. In 1937, the National War of Resistance broke out, and immediately sent a telegram to invite Miao to participate in the war. The order was given to assemble the whole army along the Jinpu Road north to Cangzhou to receive the Twenty-ninth Route Army that had retreated to the area around Machang. The command post department stubbornly resisted, repeatedly attacked, killed many enemies, destroyed 5 Japanese motorboats, and captured 3 mountain guns. In October, he was ordered to transfer to the first theater of operations on the Pinghan Line and defend Linmingguan (present-day Yongnian). Zeng's troops fought against the enemy, and Di Shi counterattacked, and his troops suffered heavy casualties. Soon, he was ordered to leave the northern battlefield and drive to Songhu to fight and garrison the Qingpu area. In November, he was ordered to lead his troops to Songjiang and block the Japanese Gu Shoufu Division on the north bank of the Huangpu River. Personally on the front line to supervise the battle, repeatedly repelled the Japanese attack. The Japanese army mobilized reinforcements to capture the eastern, southern and western sides of Songjiang City in an attempt to encircle the Sixty-seventh Army, and the 67th Army retreated to cover the songhu battlefield. The 67th Army, which had completed the blockade mission, had suffered more than half of the casualties. Wu Keren led the remnants to break through the north gate and retreat west. When a pontoon bridge was erected on the Suzhou Creek, he was unfortunately shot and martyred.