In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek staged a horrific coup d'état, and for the next ten years, he continued to launch the struggle to encircle and suppress the revolution, and countless revolutionary martyrs paid the price with their lives.
Even if the Japanese invaders were rampant and domineering in the three northeastern provinces, the people still adhered to the so-called "foreign must first be at home", which also made people of insight in the Kuomintang and the Communist Party very angry, and finally promoted the birth of the "Xi'an Incident" and the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
The generals of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party put aside their prejudices against each other and joined hands to fight against the Japanese invaders, and national heroes with fearless sacrifice have emerged no matter which faction they are.
It's a pity that these generals didn't see the truth of the revolution clearly, and were finally defeated and captured in the War of Liberation, and some of them were imprisoned in Beijing Gongdelin to serve their sentences, and those who performed well had the opportunity to receive amnesty from the state. As one of the prisoners of war in Gongdelin, the Kuomintang general Wu Shaozhou was pardoned within a few years, so what major contributions did he make?
Wu Shaozhou was born in a poor peasant family in Tianzhu County, Guizhou, and his ancestors were ordinary farmers, but by the time his parents' generation began to do some small businesses, the family life became more and more prosperous. However, at the age of 8, Wu Shaozhou's mother unfortunately passed away, but fortunately, his stepmother treated people gently and helped Wu Shaozhou enter the school to receive enlightenment education.
Wu Shaozhou cherishes this opportunity to study, in addition to being busy with farm work every day, he studies hard, and he can get the first place in all his homework. In 1917, Wu Shaozhou graduated with the first grade in the school and successfully entered the county middle school.
When he was in middle school, coinciding with the rise of the "May Fourth Movement", Wu Shaozhou and other young students were deeply influenced by it, and they were born with the lofty ambition of joining the army and serving the country. Wu Shaozhou decisively gave up his studies, took the enlistment examination the following year, and he successfully entered the Guizhou barracks to study military theory, and worked hard to build himself into a qualified soldier.
Wu Shaozhou worked extremely hard and excelled during the training, and as soon as he graduated, he was assigned to the Guizhou Army as a trainee, and was promoted to platoon commander in less than a year, and became a company commander the following year. Later, the Kuomintang army carried out a large-scale reorganization, and Wu Shaozhou was recommended to serve as a deputy battalion commander in the National Revolutionary Army, and followed the large army all the way to the Northern Expedition, making countless meritorious contributions.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Shaozhou led his troops to the front line to fight, and the most elite Japanese Sakagaki Division launched a fierce exchange of fire, under the command of Wu Shaozhou, successfully blocked the enemy's offensive, and his superiors greatly appreciated his military exploits and promoted him to brigade commander.
In 1938, Wu Shaozhou participated in extremely tragic battles such as Zaozhuang and Taierzhuang, and he even rushed into the enemy formation with his soldiers to fight, and smashed the enemy's offensive many times. Later, Wu Shaozhou was transferred to Henan to fight, and he successively guarded Xinye, Luohe, Zhengzhou and other areas, making it impossible for the Japanese army to cross the Yellow River for several months, and at the same time he also vigorously developed local transportation and economy to ensure that the front-line troops could be adequately supplied.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Shaozhou received a secret telegram from Chiang Kai-shek and immediately led his troops to fight in Shandong. Wu Shaozhou's military talents were certainly strong, but he was still no match for the resourceful PLA generals, and in 1948 his troops were surrounded and annihilated by the PLA at Shuangduiji, and even the commander of the corps, Huang Wei, was captured.
Wu Shaozhou and others thought that they were about to usher in a capital crime, but they did not expect that these high-ranking Kuomintang generals were sent to a temple in Beijing full of Buddhist atmosphere, which is the prison where war criminals were held in history - Gongdelin, in which these generals should reflect and reform, and strive to become a useful talent for the country after being released from prison.
Many generals had negative thoughts after entering the Gongdelin, thinking that they would not see the light of day again in the rest of their lives, but Wu Shaozhou was extremely calm and calm. Wu Shaozhou repeatedly pondered the reasons for the previous defeat in the meritorious forest, deeply reflected on his own shortcomings, and absorbed the wisdom of our party's generals.
It was not until after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began that those generals with negative ideas desperately hoped that the US military could thwart the spirit of the volunteers, and Wu Shaozhou took the initiative to contribute his knowledge to the party organization. It turned out that the troops led by Wu Shaozhou were basically equipped with American-style equipment, and he was well versed in the firearms and combat style of the US military, which also attracted the attention of the great man.
Wu Shaozhou knew that he was no longer a Kuomintang general, but a Chinese citizen, and he had the obligation to dedicate himself when the motherland was in danger.
Therefore, he wrote an extremely detailed military research report, in which he put forward three suggestions: First, the volunteer army should avoid head-on combat with the US army as much as possible, and choose surprise attack tactics such as encirclement and detour, because the US military has the most powerful sea, land, and air combat system in the world;Second, it is better for the volunteers to fight at night, so that the US planes cannot distinguish the soldiers on both sides;Third, the Volunteer Army should build a large number of fortifications and use strong positions to consume the strength of the American army.
Epilogue. These three suggestions were adopted and shined in actual combat, and Wu Shaozhou was commended for this, and was pardoned in 1952. After he was released from prison, he was arranged to live and work in Changsha, and has been living an incognito life. In 1966, Wu Shaozhou died of illness in Changsha at the age of 64.