Wu SHIMENG

Wu SHIMENG

Wu SHIMENG (1899-1942.8), male, was born in Gaolian village, Longmen Township, Pingjiang County, Hunan Province in 1899. In August 1942, he died of a long illness in Xuyi county, Jiangsu Province. At that time, he was the director of the Military Industry Department of the second division of the New Fourth Army. The Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the first batch of famous Anti Japanese heroes.

Life of the characters

In his early years, he opened a dry tobacco shop, but later went bankrupt due to poor management. During the great revolution, he actively participated in the peasant movement and joined the Communist Party of China in the winter of 1927. In the spring of 1928, he joined the pingxiangyue guerrilla corps and served as the monitor. In the summer of the same year, he was incorporated into the second column of the fifth Red Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army as platoon leader and took part in the struggle to open up the revolutionary base areas of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi. In August 1930, Wu SHIMENG was transferred to work in the newly established red 16 army. He successively served as the chief of the accounting section and the director of the management department of the army. He is fair, honest and united with comrades. He has made the financial accounting and material management of the whole army in good order, and has been praised by the higher authorities for many times. In 1941, when the New Fourth Army was rebuilt, he served as the director of the Military Industry Department of the second division of the New Fourth Army. He led the famous technical expert Wu Yunduo to build a large-scale Arsenal in the second division and made outstanding contributions to the Anti Japanese war. He died in zhaizhuang, Xuyi county, in August 1942 because of chronic fatigue.

Main story

In his early years, he opened a dry tobacco shop, but later went bankrupt due to poor management. During the great revolution, he actively participated in the peasant movement and joined the Communist Party of China in the winter of 1927. In the spring of 1928, he joined the pingxiangyue guerrilla corps and served as the monitor. In the summer of the same year, he was incorporated into the second column of the fifth Red Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army as platoon leader and took part in the struggle to open up the revolutionary base areas of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi. In August 1930, Wu SHIMENG was transferred to work in the newly established red 16 army. He successively served as the chief of the accounting section and the director of the management department of the army. He is fair, honest and united with comrades. He has made the financial accounting and material management of the whole army in good order, and has been praised by the higher authorities for many times. In April 1933, the 16th army of the Red Army was besieged by heavy enemy forces at zhumuqiao, Wanzai, Jiangxi Province. During the breakout, Wu SHIMENG was injured and captured to cover the transfer of supplies. He was tortured by the enemy. He only admitted that he was a farmer delivering grain for the Red Army. He lived in Changshou street in Pingjiang. The enemy couldn't find out his true identity for a moment, so he had to be sent to Changshou Street police station and imprisoned. Soon, Wu's family released him on bail for 80 silver dollars. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to resist Japan, and the Red Army guerrillas in the Hunan Hubei Jiangxi border region led by Fu Qiutao were reorganized into the first regiment of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army in Jiayi, Pingjiang. Wu SHIMENG, who had not been in touch with the army for a long time, was very happy to learn the news. He decided to join the army again and join the Anti Japanese war. In January 1938, Wu SHIMENG joined the New Fourth Army, and soon went to the Anti Japanese front line with the Ministry. In the spring of 1939, he was appointed as the Quartermaster director of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army. He was responsible for running six Quartermaster training courses and training a number of Quartermaster talents for the New Fourth Army. In January 1941, the Kuomintang diehards created the southern Anhui Incident. Wu SHIMENG followed Fu Qiutao and others to reach the Jiangbei Anti Japanese base area and served as the director of the supply department of the second division of the New Fourth Army. Later, he was appointed Minister of military industry. Under extremely difficult conditions, Wu SHIMENG led the military industry department from Yanfu area to Huainan, and started from scratch in Pingan Township, Jingou District, Gaoyou county (now Jinhu County, Jiangsu Province). Without raw materials, he would take everyone from village to village to purchase charcoal, scrap copper and iron, soil nitrate, etc.; without technology, he would go to his skilled teacher Fu's home to ask for advice. It did not take long for Wu Shi Meng to lead the comrades of the Ministry of military industry to build an arms factory with more than 150 workers and a daily output of 2500 bullets, 600 grenades and 66 mortars. For this reason, he was awarded by the headquarters of the New Fourth Army. However, due to overwork, Wu Shi Meng got a serious lung disease, often hemoptysis. In August 1942, Wu SHIMENG died in Xuyi county of Jiangsu Province at the age of 43.

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