The Whampoa Military Academy is the most famous military academy in modern China, it was born in the first period of Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, and has trained a large number of military talents for our army, such as Chen Geng, Xu Xiangqian, Guo Tianmin, Xu Guangda and other founding generals, all from this school.
During the Great Revolution, the Whampoa Military Academy produced a total of six terms of cadets, of which the fourth phase began in October 1925 and completed in October 1926, and among the fourth batch of cadets, one of whom later became the vice president of the Supreme People's Court of New China, was Wu Shuzhi.
Wu Shuzhi was born on March 19, 1898, in the suburban village of Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. Before becoming vice president of the Supreme People's Court of our country, Wu Yuzhi mainly served in the army; he participated in the Northern Expedition and also served as the director of the Organization Department of the General Political Department of the Central Military Commission.
Wu Was born in Pingjiang to a small family of owners whose ancestors were poor. In childhood, the Wu family was lonely, but in order to let his children go to school, Wu's father still dragged various relationships to let Wu Shu study privately.
When he was a teenager, Wu Shuzhi studied very hard, he not only studied various subsets of scriptures, but also delved into new styles of learning, during his study at the Pingjiang Peiyuan School, Wu Shuzhi met the revolutionary Mr. Li Liuru, at that time, Li Liuru was participating in the struggle against the Hunan warlord Zhao Hengti, and Wu Shuzhi also began to embark on the revolutionary road under the influence of Li Liuru.
The struggle in the academy was only the first step in Wu's revolutionary practice, and after graduating from the Pingjiang Peiyuan School, Wu Soon joined our Party. Because of the help of his mentor Li Liuru, Wu Yuzhi made rapid progress, first joining the Chinese Socialist Youth League, and then serving as the organization director of the Pingjiang County Committee of the Communist Youth League. In 1925, the information of the fourth enrollment of the Whampoa Military Academy reached Pingjiang, and Wu Yuzhi was officially admitted to the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy for study at the behest of the organization.
During the period when Wu Shuzhi entered the Whampoa Military Academy to study, it was at the time when the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army was brewing, so in addition to training, Wu Shuzhi also took time to participate in the construction of the party committee of the military academy. In May 1926, at the age of 28, Wu Shuzhi was officially sent to the Second Division of the National Revolutionary Army as a propagandist, after which Wu Shuzhi remained in the army for a long time.
In April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 Incident in Shanghai, and at that time, Wu Shuzhi, who was leading the workers' movement in Shanghai, was arrested because he was too late to transfer. In prison, Wu Washuzhi was severely tortured by the reactionary military police, but his loyalty was indomitable, and in May of the same year, after organizing rescue, Wu Shuzhi was successfully released on bail and sent to the Guard Battalion of the 20th Army of He Laozong as a platoon leader.
The tragic experience in prison did not crush Wu Shuzhi's revolutionary will, and after serving as a platoon leader, Wu Shuzhi successively participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Pingjiang Uprising, and became a backbone member of our army.
Wu Yuzhi returned to Pingjiang in July 1928 to participate in the uprising, at that time, Mr. Peng was already preparing for the uprising in the Pingjiang area, so Wu Yuzhi had just returned to Pingjiang and was appointed by Mr. Peng as the party representative of the Pingjiang Guerrilla Corps. Because he was from Huangpu, Mr. Peng trusted Wu Shuzhi very much, and after the success of the uprising, Wu Shuzhi became the column commander of the 3rd Column of the Fifth Red Army, and after that, under the leadership of Mr. Peng and Huang Gongluo, he went down the Pingjiang River twice, advanced into southeast Hubei, and successfully created the Xiang'egan Revolutionary Base Area.
During the Red Army period, Wu Shuzhi mainly served in the Red Third Army, who not only served as the director of the political department of the Red Third Army, but also was responsible for the logistics of the Red Army, and at the most difficult moment of the Red Army's Long March, Wu Yuzhi ate and slept with his comrades-in-arms, so that the soldiers could eat and eat, Wu Shuzhi even personally ran tens of miles to collect grain, so he also won the trust of the whole army of the Red Third Army. In October 1935, when the Red Army's Long March reached northern Shaanxi, Wu Was appointed as the head of the Organization Department of the General Political Department of the Central Military Commission, and was specifically responsible for political work.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Yuzhi became the director of the Work Department directly under the Eighth Route Army. At that time, in the rear of northern Shaanxi, the enemy's special operations were very rampant, and in order to eliminate these enemy and puppet elements, in 1938, Wu Yuzhi was changed from the director of the Work Department to the director of the Political Department' Hoe rape department.
Wu Yuzhi was mainly responsible for political defense work throughout the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and in order to defend the Party Central Committee, Wu Yuzhi, Fang Qiang, Hu Yaobang, and others even set up multiple intelligence networks. In November 1945, Wu Waszhi was sent to the northeast by the central government, and after that, he successively served as the political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and the deputy political commissar of the Northeast Military and Political University.
Wu Yuzhi's political achievements in the northeast were remarkable, especially in the pacification of the enemy and special forces, and his meritorious achievements were outstanding. When he was the secretary of the Tonghua Provincial CPC Committee, there was a serious second- and third-degree counter-revolutionary rebellion in the northeast, when Sun Gengyao, the local Kuomintang bandit leader in Tonghua, planned to sabotage the headquarters of the Tonghua Provincial CPC Committee, and Wu Yuzhi, in order to eliminate this group of enemy elements, quickly mobilized our army in Tonghua to pacify it. With the help of the Tonghua Korean Volunteer Army and the Workers' Self-Defense Force, it took only two hours for our army to capture Sun Gengyao and other bandits and successfully quell the rebellion.
After the founding of New China, this meritorious general began to change careers to serve as vice president of the Supreme People's Court of Our Country, and he and Shen Junru, Zhang Zhirang, Feng Wenbin and others started from scratch and made outstanding contributions to the construction of the rule of law in our country.
Whether it is military, political, security, or legal, organizational, propaganda, Wu Shuzhi can be competent in every job, his work is conscientious, he is strict with himself at home, and he is worthy of the title of revolutionary. In July 1968, Wu Died of Illness in Beijing at the age of 70.