In October 1962, Du Yuming, who received the amnesty, was invited to watch the National Day ceremony on Tiananmen . During
, Wu Ruilin, who had become the commander of the navy, walked up to Du Yuming and said hello: Hello, Mr. Du, do you still remember me?
Du Yuming looked at this person's face and was very familiar with him, but he just couldn't remember it, so he shook his head and said: Who are you?
Wu Ruilin replied: I am Wu Ruilin who spent 300 taels of gold to seize the reward 16 years ago.
Du Yuming heard him say this, in his memories, scenes of the past came to his mind, and suddenly his eyes widened and exclaimed: Aren’t you dead?
So, what happened to Wu Ruilin and Du Yuming 16 years ago? Why is Wu Ruilin dead in Du Yuming's memory?
1. The famous general of the Anti-Japanese War "Wu Ruilin"
1932, Xu Xiangqian, commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led the army into North Sichuan .
Wu Ruilin, who was an underground traffic officer of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee at that time, was appointed as the guide of the Red Army by the organization because he was familiar with the Bazhong area.
Before attacking Bazhong, Wu Ruilin received an order from his superiors and dressed up as a refugee with the Red Army scouts. After reconnaissing the enemy situation, he led the Red Army to capture Tongjiang , making great contributions in the war of liberating Bazhong.
Just like that, Wu Ruilin, who was only 18 years old, was elected as the political commissar of the Young Communist International Pioneer Regiment of the Red Fourth Front Army because of his outstanding performance in combat.
In an era of turbulent mountains and rivers and wars, Wu Ruilin, as the political commissar of the Pioneer Corps, was destined to be unable to live a stable life.
In February 1933, Wu Ruilin obeyed the orders of his superiors and led a delegation to resist more than 60,000 people led by the Kuomintang Sichuan warlords Tian Songyao .
In this famous Kongshan Dam battle , Wu Ruilin fought bravely, commanded flexibly, and led his army to repel more than 20 enemy attacks.
However, the enemy's combat strength should not be underestimated. Under the continuous fierce artillery attack, Wu Ruilin was accidentally bombed by a bomb.
The soil scattered around buried Wu Ruilin directly. His head was hit violently and he was in a coma for more than 20 days.
This is the first time Wu Ruilin has suffered such serious injuries since he participated in the war, and he almost killed half of his life.
At that time, Commander-in-Chief Xu Xiangqian took time out of his busy schedule and came to visit Wu Ruilin.
The commander stood in front of the bed and was silent for a long time. When he saw Wu Ruilin being rescued, Xu Xiangqian said happily: " survived ."
Xu Xiangqian also asked Wu Ruilin about the situation at his family. When he learned that Wu Ruilin's mother, brothers and sisters were alive, he handed a jade bracelet seized by the local tyrant before to Wu Ruilin, saying that he hoped he could go home and recuperate.
Although Wu Ruilin strictly abides by the orders of his superiors, he is a care for his motherland. In just three days after returning home, he mobilized thousands of working children from his hometown to join the Red Army and contribute to national peace.
Just like that, Wu Ruilin returned to the army to participate in the battle after only three days of recuperation.
Later, due to changes in the situation, Wu Ruilin began to enter the Long March with the Red Army. In a battle, his leg was hit by a bullet.
Because there were not enough doctors and medicines, in order not to worsen the wound and delay the march, the soldiers used the large opium they found as anesthetic to relieve pain, burned the razor with fire and disinfected it for surgery.
The bullet embedded in Wu Ruilin's leg was cut out in a simple environment, and then the wound was disinfected with salt water. Wu Ruilin survived through the whole process without saying a word. After
, Wu Ruilin dragged his injured leg and followed the large army of his followers over the snow-capped mountains twice, walked across the grassland three times, and never fell off the team. Finally, he insisted on moving towards the revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi.
1939, while Wu Ruilin was carrying out guerrilla war in Shandong, he encountered an enemy attack at the command post of Lianhua Mountain.
While leading the team to fight, Wu Ruilin was besieged by the enemy in the cellar of a peasant's home. He insisted on fighting and vowed not to surrender. He fired with guns in his hands, and with his superb shooting skills, he killed and injured more than 20 enemies in a row.
After several hours of fighting, the enemy lost to the team led by Wu Ruilin. More than 50 people came to attack the enemy, and more than half of the casualties were killed or injured.
Although Wu Ruilin is brave in combat, he is also a physical body. During the gun battle, his lower abdomen, right leg, and instep were shot, but he still insisted on fighting.
Until later, the enemy saw that it could not be captured for a long time, so they viciously released poison gas, which caused Wu Ruilin to fall into a coma due to excessive inhalation of poison gas. Fortunately, our army's reinforcements rushed to support him at this time and sent Wu Ruilin, who was in a pool of blood, to seek medical treatment. After emergency rescue, Wu Ruilin saved his life.
But this time Wu Ruilin was not so lucky. After his right leg was shot, a nerve was interrupted and could not be connected. He lost too much blood and suffered a lifelong disability.
Wu Ruilin, who is as strong as steel, did not become decadent because of his disability in his right leg. Instead, this made him more determined to drive Japanese imperialism out of China.
Two years later, Wu Ruilin, who was unable to move and had to rely on crutches, once again led the Eighth Route Army to the front line of the battlefield.
In order to praise Wu Ruilin's combat achievements, the superiors also assigned him a red war horse seized from the Japanese invaders. However, he rarely rode horses and did not like to use crutches. He often limped and led the army to march and fight.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek tore up " Double Ten Agreement " and launched civil war .
This made Wu Ruilin have no time to rest, and he followed the orders of his superiors to lead his army into the northeast to , Liaoning and southern .
2. "Shooted" Wu Ruilin
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek sent Du Yuming, the general who won the battle of Kunlun Pass , to lead a large army to attack the Northeast. After
entered the Northeast, Du Yuming took advantage of the unstable foundation of our army in the Northeast and led the army to win all the way until he captured Songhua River .
However, Du Yuming was overworked and eventually fell ill and was hospitalized.
During this period, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army turned defeat into victory, which made Du Yuming, who was lying on the hospital bed, anxious and did not care about recuperating his injuries. He hurried back to Northeast China to take charge of the overall situation.
In the summer of 1947, in order to compete for the strategic location of Siping, which had changed hands twice, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army once again launched the Siping attack. The Liaonan Military Region received a combat order to support Northeast Democratic Alliance Army .
Wu Ruilin, as commander of the Liaonan Military Region and commander of the Independent Division, immediately assembled the army and set off.
And the reinforcements of the Kuomintang army were also rushing to Siping . In order to seize the combat time, Wu Ruilin could only lead the troops to rush in the rain while confirming the support plan for this combat.
Even though the time was too urgent, after five hours of walking, the troops led by Wu Ruilin were still more than 300 kilometers away from Anshan . After analyzing the situation, Wu Ruilin believed that the support mission could not be completed within 48 hours, so he decided to change the combat plan.
Then Wu Ruilin led the Liaonan Independent Division to rush to Dashiqiao with the goal of restraining the reinforcements of the Kuomintang to support Siping. After he reported the combat plan, the military region rejected it and asked him to act according to the original order.
As the front-line commander who was present on the battlefield, Wu Ruilin had a thorough understanding of the battlefield situation. After the Independent Division Command agreed, he immediately led his troops to Dashi Bridge stationed by the Kuomintang's Independent Third Division.
During the march, Wu Ruilin took into account the bombing power of the Kuomintang aircraft and did not stop and rest the army, so he directly raided the enemy and caught the enemy off guard.After the battle of
started, the three divisions that went to Siping to support received a call for help and immediately rushed to Dashiqiao for support.
In this way, Wu Ruilin, who is good at using troops, set up suspicious formations and restrained the enemy reinforcements all night.
After dawn, the enemy saw the situation clearly and realized that they had fallen into a trap. The Liaonan Independent Division led by Wu Ruilin had eliminated the reinforcements of the national army and left.
The enemy was so angry that they began to chase Wu Ruilin's army, but in the end they gave up without catching up.
After this battle of winning more and winning less reached Du Yuming's ears, Du Yuming was very angry. He did not expect that someone would take risks and break his military deployment, so he led the army to retaliate against the Liaonan Independent Division.
Du Yuming first assembled the 100,000 national troops that had just won at Siping, and gradually compressed the Liaonan Independent Division with only 15,000 people.
Under the fierce offensive of the elite troops led by Du Yuming, the troops led by Wu Ruilin were trapped in the encirclement and were subjected to fierce bombing.
At the same time, the radio stations that our army contacted to the outside world were controlled, and the contact password was also cracked. The command and combat plan that Wu Ruilin communicated with his superiors was known to Du Yuming.
The superior ordered Wu Ruilin to defend his position to the death, but he used 15,000 troops to fight against 100,000 troops, and the chances of winning can be imagined.
Wu Ruilin frequently contacted his superiors by phone until the last call was blown off during the last call. In a trance, Wu Ruilin seemed to hear the word "transfer".
Perhaps in the dark, these two words gave Wu Ruilin's army a glimmer of vitality. He immediately issued an order to divide Independent Division into three parts, responsible for opening gaps, transferring important information and files, and cutting off the back. After
, in order to seize time and confuse the enemy, Wu Ruilin also commanded two companies to launch a counter-charge. Such a majestic momentum once made Du Yuming think that Wu Ruilin was preparing to fight to the death with the National Army.
In the early days of the war, Du Yuming heard about Wu Ruilin's heroic deeds in fighting. In order to boost morale, he also specially sent planes to distribute leaflets for rewards to Wu Ruilin.
In this way, when the National Army used advanced weapons and equipment to bomb continuously, Wu Ruilin's position and command were transferred to the level ground.
In the midst of the war, some corpses were blown out of recognition and were incomplete. Du Yuming did not see Wu Ruilin, thinking that he was killed on the battlefield.
So, Du Yuming excitedly promoted the news in the northeast that Wu Ruilin was beaten to death and the Liaonan Independent Division was completely annihilated.
3. After 16 years, the old enemy met again on National Day
In fact, Du Yuming underestimated the opponent Wu Ruilin too much. Wu Ruilin is not a stubborn person. It can be seen from his experience of marching and escaping from death over the years.
Although Wu Ruilin "disobeyed" military orders, he transferred his troops in time and preserved the main force of the Liaonan Independent Division.
Later, when the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was in full swing, the number of troops led by Wu Ruilin expanded and became the 42nd Army of the Northeast Field Army .
, and Du Yuming was not so lucky. The national army he led was defeated by the Northeast Alliance Army, and showed a downward momentum.
The long-term war made Du Yuming exhausted and became ill, so he had to leave the Northeast and go to Shanghai for treatment.
Just like that, Du Yuming and Wu Ruilin, the two mortal enemies, never met again, which made Du Yuming firmly believe that he had killed Wu Ruilin. After
, Du Yuming was sent to Xuzhou by Chiang Kai-shek and served as the deputy commander of the "Suppression Chief". In Huaihai Battle , due to the lack of actual military command, Du Yuming felt that the Kuomintang would be defeated in Chiang Kai-shek's chaotic command.
However, because Du Yuming's family was under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek in disguise, he could only resist to death according to Chiang Kai-shek's orders.
However, the failure of the Kuomintang army was doomed. In January 1949, Du Yuming was captured in Anhui and since then he entered the War Criminal Management Institute and started his own transformation career.
is like this. For ten years thereafter, Du Yuming received transformation in the war criminal management office. Wu Ruilin received an order from his superiors to lead his troops into North Korea to defend his country. During the period of
, Wu Ruilin also relied on his flexible tactics to show his power on the Korean battlefield and became a legendary general who caused the enemy's headache.
At that time, the army led by Wu Ruilin was not entrusted with important tasks at the beginning. It was only after the battle that it annihilated 3,200 enemy troops within 13 days, which immediately attracted Peng Shuai's attention and became an important force to repel the US military.
Later, Wu Ruilin used the "fight and run" tactic to trap the enemy in place for six hours, winning the combat advantage for other troops. Even Chairman Mao, who was far away in Beijing, praised him very much after hearing this.
After returning from the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, Wu Ruilin was also received by Chairman Mao alone, and Chairman Mao talked about his combat methods.
Wu Ruilin, who was appreciated by superiors, was also appointed as the commander of the Hainan Military Region of the People's Liberation Army of China. From the army to the navy, from the familiar battlefield to the naval battlefield that needs to be built and improved, it can be seen that the central government attaches importance and trust for Wu Ruilin.
1962 National Day Ceremony, Du Yuming, as the first batch of amnesty war criminals, was invited to the Tiananmen Observatory, and Wu Ruilin, as a founding lieutenant general, was also invited to the Tiananmen Observatory.
4. Reunion again, I feel sad.
At that time, Wu Ruilin saw Du Yuming first and asked for instructions on Chen Yi , then came straight to Du Yuming and said hello: Hello, Mr. Du, do you still remember me?
16 years have changed, and both of them have entered their twilight years. Du Yuming looked at the person's face and was very familiar with him. He just couldn't remember it, so he shook his head and said: Who are you?
Wu Ruilin replied: I am Wu Ruilin who spent 300 taels of gold to seize the reward 16 years ago.
Du Yuming immediately remembered him and exclaimed: Aren’t you dead? I also made the news of your death public in the newspaper, but I didn't expect you to be alive...
Wu Ruilin smiled and told Du Yuming about the situation at that time. Du Yuming was a little embarrassed. He thought he had won the battle, but it turned out to be just a misunderstanding.
The old memories reappeared again. Du Yuming not only felt that time flies, but told Wu Ruilin that he also intercepted the telegram from the independent teacher at that time, but he did not expect that Wu Ruilin was better.
In fact, Wu Ruilin is still a little scared when he thinks of the scene at that time. When he hesitated for a while, he could not see the prosperous scene in China now.
Wu Ruilin and Du Yuming are both generous people. Now they meet again in a peaceful scene, which is also a wonderful fate. All the grievances of the past have passed with time.
Later, Wu Ruilin and Du Yuming worked hard to build the motherland in different positions until their deaths.
