Portrait of General Samurai Min
Majestic and mighty, gushing river. How many years of suffering have been experienced, and how many heroic achievements have been remembered. After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Communist Party led the Eighth Route Army to the anti-Japanese front in Shanxi, fought shoulder to shoulder with the Kuomintang troops, and won major victories such as the great victory of Pingxingguan, the night attack on Yangmingbao, and the ambush at Yanmen Pass, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese aggressors. After the defeat at the Battle of Taiyuan, the Eighth Route Army relied on the Taihang Mountains to launch guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and achieved major victories again and again. At that time, it was not only the Eighth Route Army that resisted the Japanese aggressors in Shanxi, but also the vast number of patriotic officers and men of the Kuomintang, who made tremendous sacrifices for the country and the nation, and also dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders and achieved brilliant results. This article introduces the heroic deeds of General Wu Shimin, commander of the Kuomintang 98 Army.
Letter of appointment of General Samurai Min
Born in 1892 in Chaigoubao Town, Huai'an County, Hebei Province, Wu Shimin joined the Chinese League as a student, joined the bourgeois revolutionary movement, and participated in the Patriotic Movement against Yuan Shikai. At the time of the Xi'an Incident, he accepted the Communist Party of China's proposal to stop the civil war and unanimously resist Japan, resolutely supported zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's righteous deeds, and made important contributions to the realization of the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation.
In 1937, after the Outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Samurai Min led his troops to the front line of Niangziguan in Shanxi to engage in a fierce battle with the Japanese Kou and deal a heavy blow to the enemy. Since then, Wu Shimin and the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army have cooperated for a long time, helping each other and supporting each other. Sending officers to the 129th Division to study the political and ideological work of the Eighth Route Army, the work of the democracy movement, and guerrilla tactics was rare at that time, and it also played an important role in achieving excellent results in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Wu Shimin and Yang Hucheng and others took a group photo
In 1939, the All-out War of Resistance entered its third year. Wu Shimin, then commander of the 169th Division of the 98th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, led all the officers and men of the division to fight in Gaoping, Changzi, Yangcheng, Qinshui, Yuanqu and other places, and launched an arduous struggle against the Japanese army. In the summer of the same year, the Japanese army launched a second attack on the anti-Japanese base area in southeastern Jin, and Samurai Min led his troops to guard the Hongkou, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy. Subsequently, Samurai Min set up an ambush at Tenjin Mountain and dealt a devastating blow to the Japanese 109th Division, causing the enemy to lose his nerve and talk about the discoloration of the martial arts. Later, Samurai Min was promoted to commander of the 98th Army.
In May 1941, the Japanese army concentrated 60,000 troops to attack Tiaoshan in multiple ways, and more than 200,000 Kuomintang troops were defeated. More than 20,000 surrendered, more than 10,000 were killed, 45,000 were captured, and the remaining troops all withdrew from Zhongtiao Mountain, which was the biggest defeat suffered by the Kuomintang army since the War of Resistance. The reasons for the failure of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain were manifold, including the fact that wei Lihuang, the commander of the army, was not in a command position, did not form a unified command, and was in disarray in the army, as well as the reasons for the complex factions of the troops participating in the battle, the avoidance of the enemy, and the preservation of strength. In such a difficult and dangerous situation, Wu Shimin led the 98th Army to insist on turning to the enemy's rear and cooperated closely with the Eighth Route Army to carry out a hard battle with the enemy.
Statue of General Samurai Min
In September 1941, the Japanese army concentrated 30,000 troops to attack the Yuenan Anti-Japanese Base Area (including Nine Counties such as Linfen, Qinshui, Anze, Changzi, and Fushan) jointly created by the Eighth Route Army and the 98th Army, with the intention of eliminating the Eighth Route Army west of the Qin River in one fell swoop and deterring the 98th Army. To this end, the Japanese army launched a political abduction and military threat against the 98th Army. Unmoved, Samurai Min actively cooperated with the Eighth Route Army, expressing his willingness to fight side by side with the Eighth Route Army and fight the Japanese to the end.
On September 28, more than 30,000 Japanese troops surrounded the 98th Army in 14 routes, encircling the 98th Army within a narrow area of eight kilometers from the villages of Dongyu and Xiyu in Qinshui. Wu Shimin commanded thousands of soldiers of the 98th Army to engage in a fierce battle with the Japanese army, and the soldiers repeatedly rushed to kill, fought bloodily, fought for a whole day, and finally failed to break the blockade and break through the siege because the enemy was outnumbered. On the 29th, the Japanese launched a more fierce attack on the encircled 98th Army, and the Matoushan position held by the 98th Army was scorched by Japanese artillery fire. However, all the officers and men of the 98th Army were determined to coexist and die with the land, and they carried out a final battle with the enemy with the belief that they would die. On the battlefield, the sound of killing was tremendous, and the sacrifices were heavy. When Samurai Min led the troops to break through, he was shot in the head by a bullet, bleeding profusely, and died on the spot. A generation of celebrities sacrificed their lives for the country at the age of 49. On the same day, the 98th Army was completely destroyed.
The tomb of General Samurai Min in the Nagaji Taihang Taiyue Martyrs' Cemetery
After the death of General Wu Shimin, the government of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region held a grand gathering to mourn General Wu Shimin. It was decided to rename the area around Dongyu, Xiyu, and Duanshi where the general died to Shimin County to commemorate the general. General Zuo Quan, deputy chief of the general staff of the Eighth Route Army, tearfully wrote a handwritten letter to The First Pair: Loyalty to the nation-state strives for unity and progress. Persisting in the war of resistance behind enemy lines and being heroic to the point of killing himself will be a little bit of a confidant.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Wu Shimin led his troops to ride through the Taihang, Taiyue, and Zhongtiao Mountains, fighting bloody battles more than a dozen times, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese Kou and becoming a famous anti-Japanese general at home and abroad. In 2014, General Wu Shimin was included in the first list of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes.
General Samurai Min is immortal!