Wu Junsheng

Wu Junsheng

Wu Junsheng (October 11, 1863 - June 4, 1928) was named Xiufeng, later Xingquan and Ziqin. He was nicknamed Wu Datou. He was born in Changtu, Fengtian and was a warlord. At the age of 17, he entered the Liaoyuan robber camp.

In 1912, the Mongolian princes colluded with the Japanese to instigate "Manchu Mongolian independence", and Wu Junsheng led the Ministry to deal a heavy blow to them. In 1921, he served as governor and governor of Heilongjiang Province. In 1924, during the second Zhifeng war, Wu Jun was promoted to commander of the 5th army. In 1925, Guo Songling rebelled against Feng, and Wu Jun was promoted to commander in chief of the rebel army and commander of the left army, defeating Guo Songling's troops. After Zhang zuolin's defeat in the northern expedition in 1928, he decided to stop fighting and retreat outside Shanhaiguan. Wu Junsheng went to Shanhaiguan to welcome Zhang zuolin back. On June 4 of that year, Zhang zuolin and Zhang zuolin were killed by the Japanese at the same time in huanggutun, Shenyang. He died at the age of 65.

Life of the characters

To join the army and get promoted

Wu Junsheng, born in Licheng County, Jinan, Shandong Province, has been farming for generations. In the last years of Xianfeng, Shandong was in a bad year. Forced to make a living, he moved to the northeast to make a living. Later, he settled in Xinglonggou village, Changtu Prefecture, Fengtian province (now Changtu County, Liaoning Province). He was born on August 29 of the lunar calendar in the second year of Tongzhi reign in the Qing Dynasty (October 11, 1863). Wu Junsheng has eight brothers and sisters. He is the eldest among the men and has two younger brothers. At the age of seven or eight, he was a shepherd. At the age of 13, he went to Qingfeng pawnshop on Siping Street to work as a pawnshop. Because of his bad temper, he caused trouble and was soon dismissed. Later, he sold horses with his father.

In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), Wu Junsheng, 17, joined the Liaoyuan bandit camp and worked as a cook and a coachman. Three years later, he was incorporated into the cavalry. Because he was good at treating horse diseases, he was favored by cavalry battalion officers, and was promoted to Shi Chang and sentry officer successively. In the army, he fought bravely. He was promoted many times to suppress bandits in Mongolia, such as Chaganhua and Prince Zhaosu. Up to 1908, he was the commander of Fengtian rear patrol Battalion (now Liaoning Province) and alternate chief. He was known as the four major military figures of Fengtian with Zhang zuolin, Feng Delin and Ma Longtan.

After the outbreak of the revolution of 1911, Wu Junsheng was ordered by Zhao Erxun, governor of the three eastern provinces, and Zhang zuolin and others to jointly call Yuan Shikai, Prime Minister of the cabinet, asking him to be loyal to the Qing government.

Rise and rule Heilongjiang

In August of the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Wu Junsheng repelled the attack of the Mongolian army in the three eastern provinces. In February of the next year, he was promoted to commander of the second cavalry brigade of Fengtian. In November, he was stationed in Linxi to suppress the clan party rebellion. In February 1914, he was granted the title of general of the army; in March, he also served as the garrison envoy of taoliao (today's Taonan city).

In December 1915, Yuan Shikai became emperor, and Wu Junsheng was named the second-class Baron because he and Zhang zuolin jointly published the petition for the change of national style. During the campaign, he and Zhang zuolin jointly expelled Duan Zhigui, the general of Fengtian who was close to yuan. In October 1916, Wu Junsheng defeated the Mongolian army in the battle of Linxi. In the same year, his troops clashed with the Japanese army, resulting in the Zhengjiatun incident. The Beijing government ordered him to apologize to the Japanese side and promise compensation.

In 1917, Feng Delin, commander of the 28th division, fought against Zhang zuolin. Wu Junsheng supported Zhang zuolin and defeated him. Because of this merit, Zhang zuolin appointed him the commander of the 29th division. In the same year, the Beiyang Government awarded him the first-class Jiahe medal. In 1919, Wu Junsheng was appointed commander-in-chief of the north road when he attacked Meng Enyuan, the governor of Jilin Province. In March 1921, Wu Junsheng was appointed governor and governor of Heilongjiang, and Jin was awarded the rank of general of the army.

After that, Wu Junsheng ruled Heilongjiang Province for seven years. He is clumsy in internal affairs, and he is selfish and greedy. Zhang Zuoxiang, who was also a Fengxi general, later ruled Jilin Province for several years and made outstanding achievements in internal affairs. Wu Junsheng's rule in Heilongjiang is in sharp contrast to his rule.

Defeat Guo Songling in Zhifeng battle

In 1922, the first Zhifeng war broke out, and Wu Junsheng was appointed as Fengjun rear guard. After the defeat of the Fengtian army, the Beijing government obeyed the attempt of the lineage to split the Fengtian army, and appointed Wu Jun as the Mukden governor. Wu Junsheng was loyal to Zhang zuolin and refused to accept orders. On June 12 of the same year, Zhang zuolin and Wu Junsheng declared the independence of the three eastern provinces in luanzhou and implemented inter provincial autonomy. Zhang zuolin was elected as the commander in chief of the security of the three eastern provinces, and Wu Junsheng was appointed as the deputy commander in chief of security and commander in chief of Heilongjiang security. As the supervisor of the military training department of Heilongjiang, Wu Junsheng participated in the military reform of Fengxi.

In 1924, the second Zhifeng war broke out. Wu Junsheng was appointed commander of the fifth Fengjun army to cooperate with the second Fengjun army in fighting in Rehe. After the war, he was appointed to supervise the rehabilitation of Heilongjiang military affairs.

In 1925, Wu Jun was promoted to a member of the aftercare Committee. Soon after, he was also the commander of the 18th division of the Northeast Army. In November of the same year, General Guo Songling of the Fengjun army launched a mutiny in luanzhou, successively conquering Jinzhou and Xinmin, and approaching Fengtian (today's Shenyang City). Wu Junsheng was recalled to Fengtian for discussion, and said to Zhang zuolin that he would not stand up to Guo Guizi. Zhang zuolin appointed Wu Junsheng as commander in chief of the rebellion.

When Wu Junsheng held a pre military meeting in Juliu River, he said: "I'm a coarser. I don't know how to draw a red and blue pencil on the map, but I know that when two people fight, whoever I pull will lie down." After the operational deployment was completed, he gave a final lecture, saying that we should work together to form a rope, otherwise no one could exist. Before he left, he decided to let brigadier Liang Zhongjia take his place. Then he personally led his cavalry to the white flag fort, the headquarters of Guo army. After arriving, he burned Guo army's ordnance, ammunition and granary, making Guo Songling weak and defeated. At that time, Wu Junsheng and Yang Yuting advocated killing the Fengjun officers and soldiers who participated in the rebellion, while Zhang Zuoxiang and Han Linchun demanded lenient treatment for these officers and soldiers. Finally, Zhang zuolin listened to the latter's advice.

Lost to Fengtian, lost to huanggutun

Zhang zuolin held a meeting after the event and proposed that he should step down and give up his talents, leaving politics to Wang Yongjiang and military affairs to Wu Junsheng. And the main military and political backbone of Fengxi asked Zhang to continue to preside over the overall situation of Northeast China. However, Zhang showed a firm attitude, because it was related to the situation in Northeast China, the meeting was tense. In the discussion, Wu Junsheng shook his head and waved his hand and said, "I can't do it for a day. If you don't do it, we'll leave it together." And he said, "who is the hero? I think we are all bears, only the marshal is a hero. " It made the participants laugh.

In 1926, in response to the northern expedition of the national government of Guangzhou, Wu Junsheng and Zhang Zuoxiang advocated to protect the territory and the people. Zhang zuolin and Zhang Zongchang held strong views. In December of the same year, Zhang zuolin was elected commander-in-chief of an Guojun by Zhang Zongchang and sun Chuanfang. In June 1927, Zhang zuolin was appointed Grand Marshal of the army and Navy, and Wu Junsheng was promoted to head of the seventh corps of the Angou army. In October, Wu Junsheng was appointed commander in chief of border defense and security of the three eastern provinces. He was promoted to General of the army and was awarded "general Xingwei" in the general's office. At that time, there were frequent riots against the Beiyang government and against Japan in the three eastern provinces. Wu Junsheng used force to suppress it. As a result, the prestige of Fengxi was greatly damaged.

In May 1928, the Fengjun army was defeated by the Northern Expedition army. Zhang zuolin decided to withdraw his troops and go out of the pass. On June 3, Zhang zuolin left Beijing in a special bus, and Wu Junsheng welcomed him to Shanhaiguan. They returned in the same carriage. In the early morning of the 4th, when he arrived near huanggutun, it triggered the Japanese Kwantung Army to embed explosives. The carriage was destroyed, and Wu Junsheng was stabbed into his brain by a railway spike. He died at the age of 65. Zhang zuolin was seriously injured and died that night.

After Wu Junsheng died, his body was first sent to fengtiancuo and buried in wulonggang, Xinglonggou, Changtu County in August 1929.

Wu Junsheng's granddaughter is Vera Wang, a famous Chinese American designer and known as the "Queen of wedding dresses". She was born in Manhattan, New York in 1949. It has many personal brands, such as medium price clothes and perfume brands, and used to be figure skaters.

Character evaluation

Wu Junsheng is short and rude. When he was young, his mouth was frostbitten, so that he couldn't speak clearly. He often made a lot of mistakes, such as "Wu big tongue". He seems naive, but he is cunning. When he became the backbone of the Ministry and mastered the military power, he gave a great deal of means of "following the Chang of the people and the death of the people who are against me". When he was the governor of Heilongjiang Province, he planted cronies everywhere, such as "the second brother of the Shi family, the third father and son of the Dong family, the five tigers of the Zhao family, and the nephew of the Liu family". Wu could give them instructions. He also felt that he was unable to take charge of the provincial government, that is to say, the government affairs would be transferred to Yu Sixing, director of the Department of education, to act as governor. In the Zhifeng war, in order to pay a huge amount of military expenses, he used most of the financial resources of Heilongjiang Province regardless of the harm to the interests of the people, and ordered Guangxin company of Heilongjiang Province to issue more banknotes, which caused the devaluation of the local currency and greatly affected the local economy.

In order to maintain the rule of the Fengxi warlords in Northeast China, Wu Junsheng carried out bloody suppression of the people's resistance struggles in all parts of the country and stifled all the incidents that affected the situation. In the winter of 1922, the soldiers of the two companies of the second brigade infantry regiment stationed in Hailaer left the army with weapons because they were dissatisfied with the officer's deduction of military pay. They claimed that they would rather be vagabonds than soldiers Hearing this, Wu Junsheng immediately went to Hailar to recall those who left the team. He advised them with good words, and promised to pay them back and punish the people concerned. "It's very hard to garrison the border, so we should change our defense immediately and go back to the provincial capital to rest," he added After hearing this, the soldiers went back with him happily. Five blessings

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