On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, which was the beginning of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Wang Yaowu, who was then the 51st Division of the Kuomintang, received an order to lead his troops to Shanghai to participate in the Battle of Songhu.
Wang Yaowu fought with the Japanese army in Shanghai, eliminated a lot of enemies, after the fall of Shanghai, Wang Yaowu led his troops to Nanjing non-stop, to participate in the defense of Nanjing, before the fall of Nanjing, Wang Yaowu led the 51st Division to break out, only more than 8,000 people remained.
Later, Wang Yaowu led his troops to participate in the Battle of Lanfeng, the Battle of Wanjialing, etc., and in 1939, he was promoted to the commander of the 74th Army of the Kuomintang.
After 1941, under the leadership of Wang Yaowu, the 74th Army successively participated in the Battle of Shanggao, the Second Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Changde, the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain, etc., in the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 74th Army participated in almost all the major battles on the frontal battlefield, and in each battle, there were more conspicuous performances, so the 74th Army was known as the "Anti-Japanese Iron Army", Wang Yaowu naturally became a famous "Anti-Japanese Famous General".
After 1946, Wang Yaowu successively served as the commander of the Second Appeasement Zone, the director of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Party, Government and Military Unified Command, and the chairman of Shandong Province.
This is Chiang Kai-shek's respect and trust in Wang Yaowu.
But such a person, after all, did not stand with the people, after the Battle of Jinan in 1948, he was captured by our army, and then placed in Beijing Gongdelin Prison for reform, at that time, *** sent a message to him: "* said, your merit is meritorious, and you have passed." Your anti-Japanese merits will always be remembered by us communists, and as long as you reform with peace of mind, you will soon return to the people. ”
Wang Yaowu's knot was opened, he threw himself into reform, and in 1959, because of his good behavior, he became one of the first Kuomintang war criminals to be pardoned.
After Wang Yaowu was pardoned, someone asked him who he wanted to see the most, and after thinking for a while, Wang Yaowu said the name of the founding general Su Yu.
What is the relationship between Su Yu and Wang Yaowu?
The feud between the two was in 1934, when Su Yu was the chief of staff of the Red Tenth Army, and in December 1934, the Red Tenth Army and the enemy engaged fire in the Tanjiaqiao area at the eastern foot of Huangshan Mountain.
After deliberation among the leaders of the Red Tenth Army Corps, the Red Army decided to take advantage of the favorable terrain on both sides of the road from Wuniguan to Tanjiaqiao to fight an ambush for the enemy.
The team that the Red Army was preparing for the ambush was the first supplementary brigade led by Wang Yaowu at that time, and he was the brigade commander at that time.
On December 23, Wang Yaowu led his troops into the ambush circle, Xun Huaizhou, who was the commander of the 19th Division of the Red Tenth Army, immediately led his troops to attack, Wang Yaowu did not panic at all, he commanded the troops to take a detour, occupied a favorable position, the Red Army team due to improper command, this ambush battle, it was a encounter, and in the end, the Red Army retreated in defeat.
Wang Yaowu was victorious, and because of this battle, after that, he was favored by Chiang Kai-shek.
At the beginning of 1935, the Red Tenth Army was surrounded in the Huaiyushan area, and almost all the troops were annihilated, with only more than 700 people led by Su Yu, highlighting the encirclement.
This battle had a great impact on Su Yu, and later after Su Yu died, he also told him to sprinkle part of his ashes in the Tanjiaqiao area.
After this battle, the two have never met, and when the two meet again, it is already the Laiwu Battle in 1947, during the Laiwu Campaign, Su Yu also became a very good military strategist of our army, under his command, Wang Yaowu was defeated, Li Xianzhou Group was annihilated, this battle, Su Yu won.
In 1948, after the Battle of Eastern Henan, the battle situation of Huaye troops in East China changed greatly, Wang Yaowu held on to Jinan, and when Yanzhou between Jinan and Xuzhou was conquered by our army, Wang Yaowu understood that Jinan had become an empty city.
At this time, the Kuomintang troops entrenched in Jinan had already lost to the PLA in morale.
After the official outbreak of the Battle of Jinan, Wang Yaowu was defeated, in fact, it was a matter of time, and later, Jinan was conquered, regrettably, Wang Yaowu fled in makeup.
In order to arrest Wang Yaowu, the Shouguang County Public Security Bureau, according to the order of the superiors, built a large wooden bridge in the northwest corner of Tuntian Village, which is the bridge that the Cangwei Highway must pass, and the Public Security Bureau sent people to set up sentry posts here to check pedestrians, and pay special attention to people going to Weixian and Qingdao.
On 28 September, while Liu Jinguang and Liu Yumin of the Public Security Bureau's political guard team were on duty, two rubber-wheeled carriages were suddenly heading toward Damuqiao, with two women and five men on board, who claimed to be from Jinan and were now going to Qingdao.
The personnel of the public security bureau sensitively believed that the identities of these five people were not simple, so they decided to escort them back to the public security bureau, and after arriving at the public security bureau, they began to interrogate several people separately.
Wang Yaowu's disguised person, at this time said that he wanted to go to the toilet, and the person next to him handed him a handful of snow-white foreign hand paper, in today's world, this foreign hand paper, there is nothing unusual, but in China at that time, it was too rare to wipe the butt with straw paper, or white soft straw paper.
The staff immediately judged that this person was an official, and the official was not low.
After his interrogation, Wang Yaowu couldn't hold it anymore, he said: "I've reached this point, just tell the truth!" I'll tell you the truth, I'm Wang Yaowu! Those people are my guards, and I'm going to talk to the county magistrate. ”
On September 30, Wang Yaowu was sent to the East China Military Region, and in October, the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China, the East China Military Region, and the people of Shandong Province issued a commendation order to commend the meritorious personnel and units that captured Wang Yaowu.
After Wang Yaowu was arrested, he has been trembling, and later he conveyed the meaning of *** to him, saying that he would treat him, Wang Yaowu was also relieved, and he was later under the arrangement of our party's enemy work department, in the form of broadcasting, calling on the former colleagues who were resisting and the vast number of Jiang officers and soldiers to put down ** and join the camp of light.
Chiang Kai-shek was in Nanjing at that time when he heard Wang Yaowu's radio content, and immediately smashed the radio, and was furious: "Wang Yaowu is my student, and I treat him well." Now he is against me in a difficult time, and he wants those below him to oppose me. ”
In 1959, after Wang Yaowu was pardoned, the prime minister was very concerned about his life and arranged him as the commissioner of culture and history of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and in 1966, under the care of Wang Yaowu, he also had a new marriage.
In 1968, Wang Yaowu died of illness at the age of 64.