In 1948, the People's Liberation Army captured Jinan, and Wang Yaowu was captured as a city defender. ** When he went to check his property, he was surprised to find that he had no valuables except for two tractors.
When asked about the intention of hiding the tractor, Wang Yaowu's answer made ** cry and laugh. Wang Yaowu was born in 1904 into an ordinary peasant family in Tai'an, Shandong. Although his family is moderate, he is still able to make ends meet.
However, he soon lost his father and eldest brother, and his mother brought him up with great pain, and he was educated in a private school in the village.
With his mother's support, he was able to survive a decade-long school until he was 19 years old, when his family's poverty forced him to abandon his studies and leave his hometown to earn a living.
He went to Tianjin alone to join distant relatives and worked hard in a tobacco company, but life was still difficult. So, he left Tianjin for Shanghai, where he found a job in a candy company, and his life gradually became stable.
However, the opportunity to change his fate came from the news of the enrollment of the Whampoa Military Academy. After learning the news that Guangzhou was recruiting students, he did not hesitate to sign up for the exam.
After a long wait, he was finally accepted and became a student in the third cohort of the school, which was also a turning point in his life. After graduating, he was assigned to the National Revolutionary Army as a second lieutenant platoon commander.
With his outstanding combat courage and strategy, he was quickly appreciated by his superiors and quickly promoted to company commander.
Subsequently, he participated in the Second Eastern Crusade and the Second Northern Expedition, in which he was brave and fearless, achieved many victories, and accumulated many military exploits. His outstanding performance attracted the attention of Chiang Kai-shek and was reused.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he actively participated in it and made great contributions to the anti-Japanese process. However, he also led his troops to encircle and suppress the Red Army and became a strong enemy on the way of our army's advance.
In 1948, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) won many battles on various battlefields, especially the East China Field Army.
*, Su Yu and Liu Deng's army joined forces to capture one town after another in Henan, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to retreat to the Xuzhou and Jinan lines.
Although Chiang Kai-shek occupied important cities in East China, the full support of the headquarters allowed the PLA to gather forces, cut off the lines of communication, and block Chiang Kai-shek's reinforcements.
Xu Shiyou, commander of the Shandong Military Region, led a team to capture Jinan Airport, which put the ** guards in Jinan into a desperate situation. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) commanded rigorously, displayed extremely high wisdom and courage, and finally won victory in the complex war situation.
In 1948, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) won many battles on various battlefields, especially the East China Field Army.
*, Su Yu and Liu Deng's army joined forces to capture one town after another in Henan, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to retreat to the Xuzhou and Jinan lines.
Although Chiang Kai-shek occupied important cities in East China, the full support of the headquarters allowed the PLA to gather forces, cut off the lines of communication, and block Chiang Kai-shek's reinforcements.
Xu Shiyou, commander of the Shandong Military Region, led a team to capture Jinan Airport, which put the ** guards in Jinan into a desperate situation. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) commanded rigorously, displayed extremely high wisdom and courage, and finally won victory in the complex war situation.
Wang Yaowu showed extreme anger during the Battle of Jinan, announcing that he would stop harming his compatriots and demanding the immediate release of the enemy forces and the withdrawal of the city. On September 16, the troops led by Xu Shiyou began to besiege Jinan, and the battle was fierce.
Despite this, the morale of the PLA was firm, while most of the soldiers in the Kuomintang army had lost the will to fight and surrendered at the first sight of the enemy. Subsequently, the People's Liberation Army and the army led by Wang Yaowu engaged in fierce street battles in the city.
In the face of the deteriorating situation, Wang Yaowu changed his image on the evening of the 24th, and fled from Jinan after shaving his hair and changing his clothes, frightened. However, even with caution, Wang Yaowu's toilet paper Xi still revealed his identity.
The PLA relied on this clue to quickly track him down and capture him. After being captured, Wang Yaowu's heart was full of emotion. He lamented that Chiang's army had lost the hearts of the people, believing that defeat was only a matter of time.
He knew very well that even if he fled to Nanjing, he would eventually face the fate of being dismissed and investigated. The inability to defend Jinan made it impossible for him to plead. Now a captive, his fate is entirely in the hands of the people.
Before the Battle of Jinan, Wang Yaowu had already foreseen the war situation: in the War of Resistance Against Japan, it didn't matter if he sacrificed everything, but now it was compatriots killing each other, and it was not an inevitable choice to defend to the death.
In September, he repeatedly allowed the people of the city to flee in order to reduce the number of innocent people.
After becoming a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army, because he knew nothing about our policies, Wang Yaowu was full of doubts at first, and he cooperated on the outside, but he was full of confusion on the inside.
During the inventory of Wang Yaowu's property, the leading personnel were surprised to find that Wang Yaowu, as a high-ranking general of the Kuomintang, had no additional wealth.
Even more surprising was the fact that his family life was very poor, in stark contrast to the lavish lives of other Kuomintang generals. The only valuable items in Mr. Wang's home are two polished tractors from the U.S. in the backyard.
* Seeing these two tractors, he was very puzzled, so he asked Wang Yaowu: "Why do you keep these two tractors?"
Wang Yaowu was a little embarrassed when he heard the question, and he reluctantly replied: "These two tractors were given by a friend, and I plan to use them to go home to farm after the war is over."
* After listening to Wang Yaowu's answer, I couldn't cry or laugh. It is unbelievable that this man, a high-ranking Kuomintang general, planned to return home to work as a farmer after the war.
In 1959, Wang Yaowu became one of the first batch of war criminals to be pardoned, regained his freedom, and was assigned to work in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. However, in his later years, he missed his family even more.
When the prime minister learned that his daughter was on Hong Kong Island, he arranged for a special person to inquire about her and escorted her to Beijing to reunite with Wang Yaowu. The father and daughter were reunited after more than a decade of separation, fulfilling their long-cherished wish.
Since Wang Yaowu was alone, the prime minister introduced Wu Bolun to marry him, so that the old man had a partner. In his later life, Wang Yaowu died of illness in Beijing in 1968, ending his magnificent life.