Wang Shangrong was the head of the operations department of the General Staff Headquarters, and in September 1966, because of the influence of the Great Movement, he no longer reflected on himself.
He was quickly quarantined and cut off from his family. He was imprisoned in a barracks in the garrison in the western suburbs of Beijing and accused of seizing power from the General Staff Department. He found that there were still many old revolutionaries who were locked up together, such as Huang Kecheng, Peng Zhen, Li Jingquan and others.
In the first half of 1967, a special case group of the Party Committee of the War Department came to interrogate him and asked him to explain some problems. The members of these task forces have exhausted all kinds of means to rectify the people, and they are even more cruel than the Kuomintang prisons. During his interrogation, he was subjected to numerous insults and tortures.
His ears were swollen and he was dragged for a month, his buttocks were also beaten, he couldn't change his clothes and sleep for a long time, and sometimes his arms and legs were injured and he couldn't lie down or sit down. His interrogators said he was hard-hearted.
Not only did he have to explain the problem, but he also had to be accompanied, his legs were lifted in the air, the pain was terrible, and once when he went to the toilet, he did not stand still and fell into the dung pit. Only the Sentinels sympathized with him a little, often encouraging him to hold on and not let them wronged him.
It was only after more than five years that his situation changed a little, and he was finally able to get in touch with his family. His son was sad to see him, and he held back his grief and asked how his wife and the rest of his relatives were doing, and he knew that they were all sent down.
His wife Huang Ke was in Wuqi Cadre School, she was sick, but no one dared to care about her, she could only write a letter to her original unit for help. However, the original unit could not do anything. Her illness was getting worse and worse, and she thought of *** She wrote to ask to go back to Beijing to see her husband, ** herself and her children's illness.
After receiving the letter, the leader was very unbearable, and he said: I know Wang Shangrong, he is an honest man who has made meritorious contributions to the revolution, and his wife and children are now like this, which is too undeserved. With the approval of the prime minister, Huang Ke returned to Beijing with her children to see a doctor and see her husband.
In December, she and her four children went to see Wang Shangrong, who had been separated for six years. Wang Shangrong felt very sorry for his wife, he said: I came out, even if I pull a tricycle, I have to support you.
His wife was heartbroken when she saw the scars on his body, and tears flowed down her eyes. Since then, Huang Ke has been running around for her husband's affairs, and finally in the spring of 1973, Wang Shangrong was hospitalized.
On July 29, 1974, he was invited to a reception for Army Day, which meant that he could resume his work. Soon after, he was appointed deputy general and after more than 8 years, he returned to his position.