Revolutionary Hero ▏ Wang Shusheng: Heroic and good at war, outstanding in battle

Wang Shusheng was a senior general in the people's liberation army of the Chinese and an outstanding military figure. Born in 1905, a native of Macheng, Hubei Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1926, participated in the creation of the first peasant armed forces in Macheng County, and in 1927 participated in leading the Macheng Rebellion and the Jute Uprising. After 1928, he successively served as the commander of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, deputy division commander and regimental commander, division commander, deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front and commander of the 31st Army, deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army and commander of the 9th Army. He was brave and good at fighting, and his outstanding military achievements were outstanding, and he established immortal merits for the creation of the revolutionary base areas of Eyuwan, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the Red Fourth Front. After the defeat of the Western Route Army in March 1937, he was in danger, unswerving, devoted himself to the party, begged all the way, endured hardships, and returned to Yan'an, successively entering the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the Marxist-Leninist College.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as deputy commander and acting commander of the Jinji-Hebei Yu border guerrilla command. In June 1940, the Jinji-Hebei Yu Military Region was divided into two, forming the Taihang and Taiyue Military Regions respectively, and he was reappointed as the full-time deputy commander of the Taihang Military Region and the director of the Mobilization Department of the People's Armed Forces. Proceeding from the fundamental interests of the revolution, he did not care about personal fame and fortune, and happily obeyed the distribution of the organization. He said: "The size of the post is to serve the people, and I only have the obligation to serve the people, and I have no right to compete for honor and status." While leading the Taihang army and people to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and participate in the anti-"mopping-up" and the Hundred Regiments War, great efforts were made to grasp the building of local armed forces and militias, so that the ratio of local armed forces to regular troops increased from 77:100 in 1941 to 200:100 in 1942, thus sending a large number of soldiers to the main forces. In the autumn of 1942, he entered the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and participated in the rectification movement. In October 1944, he was appointed commander of the Henan Military Region, led his troops deep into the enemy lines in Henan, and after more than half a year's efforts, established the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Henan (Western Henan) with a population of more than 3 million, and together with the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army, opened up the connection between North China and Central China in the Central Plains.

During the Liberation War, he successively served as deputy commander and commander of the 1st Column of the Central Plains Military Region, commander and political commissar of the Northwest Hubei Military Region, and commander of the Eyu Military Region, making important contributions to the creation and consolidation of the Central Plains Liberated Areas. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as commander of the Hubei Military Region, deputy commander of the Central and Southern Military Region, vice minister of national defense, director of the General Ordnance Department of the People's Liberation Army, vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences, and second political commissar, and made contributions to strengthening the modernization and regularization of the armed forces, especially the construction of weapons and equipment and military scientific research. He was awarded the rank of Grand General in 1955. He died in Beijing on January 7, 1974.

Source: Xinhua News Agency