<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Centennial General 37: Wu Zhong</h1>
Author: Forget about the jianghu
Who was the youngest founding general in 1955?
Major General Wu Zhong from Cangxi, Sichuan, was born in 1921 at the age of 34. There was a major general, Margov Ishakov, two years younger than Wu Zhong, who was a Tatar of Nilke County, but ran to the Soviet Union in 1962 and later settled in Turkey.
Therefore, the "youngest founding general" belongs to Wu Zhong, and the chairman once said: Wu Zhong, there is loyalty!
General Wu Zhong during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Margov Iskhakov
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >, young Red Army</h1>
Wu Zhong, formerly known as Wu Guangzhu, his father was a teacher, but Wu Zhong's father died at a very young age, and his mother hoped that Wu Zhong would grow up to inherit his father's business, and at the age of 7, he sent Wu Zhong to a private school. However, the day did not go according to people's wishes, and the government colluded with bandits to rob the Wu family and fined 1,000 oceans.
Wu Zhong, 9, gave the landlord some food to herd sheep and had enough of being oppressed.
In 1933, the Red Fourth Front moved from Eyuwan to the Sichuan-Shaanxi region, passing through Cangxi, Sichuan. Wu Zhong, 12, wants to be a Red Army, but he is not as tall as a rifle. The stubborn Wu Zhong was not dead hearted, begging his cousin and the recruiters to finally accept him.
Don't look at Wu Zhongren as a small person, but he is an "intellectual" and was assigned to the 268th Regiment of the 90th Division of the Red 30th Army as a propagandist.
In June 1933, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang gathered an army of 200,000 and besieged the Sichuan-Shaanxi Su region on the Sixth Route. Commander-in-Chief Xu xiangxiang lured the enemy deeper and concentrated his forces in the area from Wanyuan to Tongjiang. Wu Zhong, a small squad leader in the Wanyuan Defense Campaign, was soon promoted to platoon leader, and was later transferred back to the regimental political department with an injury to his left leg. In 1935, he was introduced by Wu Meng and others to join the organization. In 1936, Wu Zhong arrived in northern Shaanxi with the Long March of the Red Army University.
After his initial recovery from serious injuries in 1946, Wu Zhong took a group photo with his comrades-in-arms
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > second, anti-Japanese baby</h1>
In the winter of 1939, at the age of 16, Wu Zhong was transferred to the 115th Division's Jinxi Independent Detachment As a squadron leader. The detachment, led by the political commissar Li Jue, arrived at Xiaoyi in Jinzhong, and before wang yizhuang could set up a radio station, a battalion of the Yan army surrounded it. Wu Zhong, who heard the gunshots, took the initiative to rush over with the squadron, asking Li Jue to send a report and hand it over to him outside. After the telegram was sent, a squadron of Wu Zhong had already overwhelmed the Yan army.
Li Jue said to Wu Zhong: "Dude, fighting bravely is an advantage, but don't always take the lead in the charge, don't let your daughter-in-law die early without marrying." Wu Zhong replied with a big grin, "Rest assured, the gun recognizes me." I'm going to point fingers in the back, and who's going to listen to me? "
Soon, Wu Zhong became a company commander and encountered Shi Yousan's regiment south of Puyang. The bullet did not know him, and he was wounded in the foot, but he was determined not to go to the battlefield, and whoever carried him would hit people with machine guns. Li Jue, a battalion instructor, ordered someone to forcibly carry him on a stretcher and take him to the rear hospital.
Li Jue suggested that the regimental commander He Yixiang promote Wu Zhong to deputy battalion commander and transfer him away from the front line to prevent him from leading the charge.
In September 1942, Ji Luyu entered the most difficult period. Li Jue recommended wang bingzhang, commander of the third brigade, and Zeng Siyu, political commissar, and Wu Zhong, a regimental combat staff officer, to be the commander of the Kunshan and Zhangqiu detachments. Wu Zhong lived up to expectations and soon changed the appearance of the "model security area".
In 1945, the 24-year-old Wu Zhong married Tian Tao, an 18-year-old girl from Liangshan in Shandong Province.
Wu Zhong and his wife Tian Tao
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >3, the chapter sewing set of 180 warriors</h1>
In the second half of 1946, the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army Won Three Battles and Three Victories, Longhai, Tongpu, and Dingtao, ushering in the most difficult and fierce enemies, and was praised by the chairman as "cunning as a fox and fierce as a tiger" Hu Chain reorganized 11th Division, with more than 20,000 people in uniform American equipment, followed by the 5th Army.
This was the strongest unit of Chiang Kai-shek's army, and there was no stronger unit than this. This force we can defeat, the other troops are not invincible. It was Liu Bocheng, the "contemporary Sun Wu", who said this, and the "strongest unit" was the reorganized 11th Division.
To deal with two of the five main forces, Liu Bocheng mobilized 60,000 men in the 2nd Column (owed to the 4th Brigade), the 3rd Column, the 6th Column, the 7th Column, and the Jiluyu Independent Brigade, and blocked the 5th Army with 5,000 men of the 2nd Column, 5,000 Brigades, and the main force surrounded and annihilated the 11th Brigade of the 11th Division.
The garrison was the 32nd Regiment of Zhang Muxian of the 11th Brigade of Yang Botao of the entire 11th Division, and the regimental commander Zhang Muxian was the 8th Phase of Huangpu, making full use of the wall and the moat river to build fortifications. The main assault regiments were The 58th Regiment of Wu Zhong and the 59th Regiment of Jin Shilin of the 20th Brigade of Yang Yong's 7th Column Kuangbin Brigade. The 59th Regiment took the lead in opening the breakthrough, and Wu Zhong led 3 battalions to attack the village and grasped the two courtyards, but the brother troops were repulsed.
Wu Zhong personally operated a heavy machine gun to guard the courtyard, was wounded and unconscious after being shot in the neck, and continued to command the battle after waking up, and finally only 180 people were left in the 3rd Battalion of the 58th Regiment and the 59th Regiment. They persisted until the next day's general offensive, the enemy 32 regiments of more than 3,000 people only more than 200 people escaped, our army also suffered a lot of casualties, regimental commander Wu Zhong, Jin Shilin and others were wounded, 19 brigade commander Wu Daming unfortunately killed in the artillery.
Liu Bocheng promptly ended the war of attrition of the "cattle arriving at the horn", the "Wu Zhong Regiment" became famous in the first world war, and Wu Zhong was promoted to brigade commander of the 20th Brigade.
[Group photo of some cadres of the 58th Regiment of the 20th Brigade of the 7th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army in April 1946, Shi Luo, Wu Zhong, And Xi Jinwu in the back row, Guan Xuesi, Song Cizhong, Yin Fatang in the front row]
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Fourth, Liu Deng reported criticism of Bao Xinji's fiasco</h1>
In December 1947, Liu Bocheng withdrew from Dabie Mountain and moved to Huaibei.
At Beixiangdian in Guangshan County, Henan, Liu Bocheng met with Hu Chain's reorganized 11th Division on the narrow road, but thanks to Dai Runsheng's 2nd Brigade, it persisted until dark with one enemy and three enemies. Bai Chongxi and Hu Chain, who did not catch Liu Bocheng, were lost and once again followed like a dog skin plaster.
Hu chain
In January 1948, Yang Yong decided that Wu Zhong's 20th Brigade would march south into Baoxinji and Zhaoji at the junction of Yuwan and Anhui to attract Hu Chain, and the main force of the first column would go north to Xiangcheng, Henan, to rest, and Wu Zhong, who had just won consecutive victories in Runan, Minggang, replenished the morale of more than 2,200 people, and had the intention of winning another battle.
However, the local soil was as cunning as a loach, and the entire 11th Division and the entire 10th Division were also pressed down from the Luohe River to Bao Xinji. Yang Yong instructed the 20th Brigade to move westward with a column cavalry regiment. However, Liu Zhenguo, the political commissar of the 20th Brigade, advocated going east, and Wu Zhong compromised the column cavalry regiment to attract the enemy to the west, and the 20th brigade moved east to the column. On 10 January, the 20th Brigade was caught up by the entire 11th Division at Xiaohuizhuang.
At dusk, the 20th Brigade took advantage of the night to move westward, but the 1st Battalion of the 59th Regiment was ambushed by the enemy during the retreat, and the deputy instructor Li Yingzheng led the guards out of the siege, the battalion headquarters and the third company suffered heavy losses, the battalion commander Zhi Futian and most of the first and second companies were killed, and Zhi Futian was seriously wounded and captured.
The 1st Battalion of the 59th Regiment lost more than 400 people, Zhi Futian was righteous at Luohe, and Bai Chongxi Hu Chain hyped up the "Baoxin Ji Victory".
After the war, at a meeting of cadres at and above the 20th brigade and battalion level, Yang Yong and Su Zhenhua announced: Wu Zhong, Liu Zhenguo, and Li Jue gave a serious warning, Dong Zhenghong, commander of the 59th Regiment, was dismissed from his post, political commissar Yin Fa Tang ji was greatly overstepped, and Li Yingzheng, deputy instructor of the 1st Battalion of the 59th Regiment, fled the battle and was sentenced to death.
On January 31, 1948, Liu, Deng, Li Da, and Zhang Jichun jointly issued a sternly worded circular, which seriously criticized the lack of courage and fighting spirit of cadres. Subsequently, Liu Bocheng wrote letters to Wu Zhong and Liu Zhenguo about the relationship between "fighting spirit and fighting methods".
This letter, wu Zhong copied twice between battles, and gave it to the honor room of the old troops 40 years later.
Wu Zhong (first from left) took a group photo with political commissar Liu Zhenhua while serving as commander of the 40th Army
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >5, annihilated 5737 enemy casualties and 114 people</h1>
Bao Xinji's defeat taught Wu Zhong how to grow into a good general.
In January 1950, the chairman of the visit in the Soviet Union wrote a letter to the Southwest Bureau, saying that it was better to march into Tibet sooner rather than later. Don't dream too much at night. Liu Denghe entrusted the task of entering Tibet to Zhang Guohua's 18th Army. In May 1950, Wu Zhong led the advance team of the 52nd Division to Ganzi to reconnoiter the enemy situation and prepare for the Battle of Qamdo.
On August 18, the chairman, who had been uneasy, sent a telegram to Deng and Liu: "Is it enough for one division to attack Qamdo?" The Tibetan army seems to have quite strong combat effectiveness and must be prepared to fight several hard battles. Do Wu Zhong have enough estimates in this regard? "
Liu Denghe had confidence in Zhang Guohua, and Zhang Guohua, commander of the 18th Army, Li Jue, political commissar, and Liu Zhenguo, director of the Political Department, had more confidence in Wu Zhong. The only thing Zhang Guohua was uneasy about was the logistics, and when The Yulong leader Xia Ge Daodeng promised to mobilize 30,000 yaks, Zhang Guohua decided to start fighting.
On September 15, Zhang Guohua made a combination of frontal attack and major detours:
The North Group was commanded by Wu Zhong of the 52nd Division and the artillery, reconnaissance, engineer, and Qinghai Cavalry Detachment, and the troops were divided into three roads, the 154th Regiment on the right road and the Qinghai Cavalry Detachment fought in a roundabout manner, and the Southern Group was coordinated by the 157th Regiment of the 53rd Division and the 3 battalions of the 42nd Division to cooperate with the North Group. The whole army was 20,000 people.
The Tibetan army has 7 generations (about 500 people) and 3 generations of about 8,000 people.
On October 7, 1950, the Battle of Qamdo began, and by the end of the 24th, 5737 Tibetan troops were annihilated, and 114 people were killed by the People's Liberation Army, of which more than 30 people in the Battle of ZuoluGangtuo of the North Group overturned and drowned. At this point, the last battle of the liberation war on the mainland came to a perfect end.
In the Battle of Qamdo in 1950, Wu Zhong commanded troops through the rapids
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >6, deputy commander of the military region before the war, a veteran at the beginning of the war</h1>
In 1952, Wu Zhong graduated from the Nanjing Military Academy and served as the commander of the 31st Division of the 12th Army to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In 1955, he became the commander of the First Mechanized Division, becoming the best major general in the division. In 1962, the 149th Division led by Wu Zhong participated in the counterattack against the Indian army, and the "Wu Zhong Regiment" wrote another heavy stroke in the history of warfare.
In September 1977, Wu Zhong went to guangzhou military region as deputy commander and made Xu Shiyou's deputy.
In 1979, General Wu Zhong was on the front line of the counterattack against Vietnam
In January 1979, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam began, and the 58-year-old deputy commander Wu Zhong commanded the 40th Army, the 42nd Army, and the 54th Army, with the cooperation of two tank regiments, launched a campaign assault on GaoPing. The troops of the jiushu battle front were blocked by the river, and Wu Zhong rushed to the scene and ordered the tank troops crossing the river to rush to Gaoping without waiting for the follow-up. He took up a submachine gun and demonstrated, ordering the infantry to get out of the car and chase the tanks on foot.
Xu Shiyou received an order from his superiors to transfer Wu Zhong to examine "historical issues," and Wu Zhong decided to accept organizational review after the battle. On March 16, all troops withdrew to Guangxi, and Wu Zhong commanded his troops to pull out six cities and annihilate nearly 10,000 Vietnamese troops.
In June 1987, after eight years of rigorous scrutiny, the organization announced that Wu Zhong had no problem as commander of the Beijing garrison.
On February 26, 1990, General Wu Zhong, who had participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the War of Self-Defense against Vietnam, died in a car accident on Hainan Island at the age of 69. But the spirit of Wu Zhong and the "Wu Zhong Tuan" will always be with the soul of the army.
In the 1979 counterattack against Vietnam, Wu Zhong (first from the right), deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, commanded the operation on the front line
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