In 1923, a group of outstanding students graduated from the Guizhou Jiangwutang, the most outstanding of which was undoubtedly Wu Shaozhou. Wu Shaozhou rose to prominence with his outstanding performance, and was promoted to battalion commander of the National Revolutionary Army in just three years. Over time, his military prowess and leadership skills were in the spotlight.
In 1927, Wu Shaozhou attracted the attention of Chiang Zhongzheng, who took a fancy to this young officer who was good at military training and forcibly included him in the establishment of the National Revolutionary Army.
Wu Shaozhou has always taken it as his duty to defend his family and country, and has no interest in civil war, but in the torrent of history, he was forced to make a series of decisions against his will. Despite his participation in the Civil War, Wu Shaozhou showed outstanding talent in the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japan. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized Wu Shaozhou's army into the 85th Division and issued a secret order asking Wu Shaozhou to prepare for the coming civil war.
As the Liberation War entered the end of the war and fell into a desperate situation, Wu Shaozhou knew that the defeat of ** was decided. His troops were besieged in the area of Shuangduiji, and in the face of the powerful offensive of our army, Wu Shaozhou and his boss Huang Wei became victims of this battle, and both were captured by our army.
Subsequently, Wu Shaozhou was detained in the Gongdelin Management Center. With the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wu Shaozhou's heart fluctuated again. Even as a prisoner of war and educated, he always maintained an interest in national affairs. After learning about the situation of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wu Shaozhou made up his mind to do a great thing -- by writing an article analyzing the operational characteristics of the US military, he hoped to provide some meager help to the volunteers.
During the four months of intense work, Wu Shaozhou seized the most critical moment of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He summoned his former subordinate Yang Botao to work together to complete this arduous task.
After four months of hard work, the two compiled a document of more than 60,000 words. To sum up, Wu Shaozhou put forward three main suggestions for the volunteers.
First of all, Wu Shaozhou suggested that the following tactics should be adopted in combat: Combining the characteristics of the US army and our army, our army should pay more attention to close combat and night combat. In view of the fact that the US military has advanced equipment and is accustomed to conducting air strikes by aircraft, in order to offset the US military's firepower and air attack superiority to the greatest extent, we should reduce our exposure during the day and fight at night instead, so as to reduce the damage caused by US artillery fire to our side.
The second suggestion is to give full play to the superiority of our party's army in previous wars and focus on mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare. Since the mountainous terrain of Korea is similar to that of China, Wu Shaozhou believes that our army should be able to find a sense of familiarity in such terrain and give full play to our army's advantages in the War of Resistance Against Japan. In order to avoid a head-on clash with the US military, he suggested trying to avoid a long stalemate, so as not to adversely affect our army.
The last suggestion was that Wu Shaozhou got inspiration from the Shuangduiji Campaign, and believed that our army should draw on experience, send engineering experts to the front line, and strengthen the construction of fortifications, especially trench digging and other projects, so as to reduce the damage caused by the heavy firepower of the US army to our army. He recalled that the ** front had been breached by the PLA using earthworks. Generally speaking, Wu Shaozhou believed that our army could adopt the methods of movement warfare and guerrilla warfare, but long-term dependence was not the solution to the problem, and it was necessary to rely on the support of military engineering in order to achieve final victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Due to Wu Shaozhou's positive thoughts, this material was forwarded to **, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu carefully read it. For this letter from ** prisoner of war, ** spoke highly of it, and Wu Shaozhou's suggestion was highly consistent with the combat policy in ***'s heart.
In view of this, ** said: Wu Shaozhou's ideological transformation is very profound, and this person can be pardoned in advance. So, in 1952, Wu Shaozhou was released from Gongdelin, seven years earlier than the first batch of ** generals who received amnesty. After his release, Wu Shaozhou chose to settle in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1959, and Yang Botao, who had helped Wu Shaozhou organize materials, was pardoned in the same year.
Although the two were Kuomintang officers, they cared about the motherland and used their own strength to contribute to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.