Chapter 41 40. Wu Yunduo - China Paul, a military soldier

Wu Yunduo (1917-1991), a native of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, a member of the Communist Party of China.For many years, he has been hailed as "China's Paul Korchagin". "Dedicating Everything to the Party" is a popular autobiographical novel in the 1950s. It tells a touching story of an ordinary worker growing into a proletarian fighter.Since it came out, it has been printed more than 10 million copies. It has not only been reprinted many times in my country, and has influenced several generations of education, but also has been translated into many languages ​​and spread widely all over the world.The protagonist and author of this book is Wu Yunduo, a pioneer of the ordnance industry in the revolutionary base areas during the Anti-Japanese War and the first generation of worker writers in New China.

Wu Yunduo, born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province in 1917, worked as a worker in Anyuan Coal Mine and Yuanhua Coal Mine in Daye, Hubei Province in his early years.After the outbreak of the National Anti-Japanese War, he rushed to Yunling in southern Anhui, joined the New Fourth Army in 1938, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1939.During the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, he successively served as the director of the workshop of the New Fourth Army Headquarters, the director of the bullet factory in Huainan Anti-Japanese Base, the deputy director of the Ministry of Military Industry, the director of the artillery shell factory of the Central China Military Industry Department, the director of the Fuze Factory of Dalian United Ordnance Enterprise, and the Zhuzhou Arsenal. factory manager.

After the Southern Anhui Incident in 1941, he was ordered to transfer to the Huainan Anti-Japanese Base Area.Under extremely difficult and dangerous conditions, he led the workers to overcome unimaginable difficulties and manufacture urgently needed guns and ammunition for the front troops.Whenever the Japanese and puppet troops attacked the base area, he led everyone to carry the machine to fight guerrillas, insisted on production as long as he was free, and completed the tasks assigned by his superiors on time every time.Once, when repairing the urgently needed shells ahead, the detonator exploded. Four fingers on his left hand were blown off, the knee on his left leg was blown off, and the crystal in his left eye was blown out, making him almost blind.However, he knew that ammunition was urgently needed ahead, and he returned to the arsenal without waiting for his injury to heal.During the Anti-Japanese War, he led the workers to research and improve weapons and equipment, presided over the successful development of grenades with a range of more than 540 meters, flat-fire guns for attacking bunkers, and various landmines such as timing and stepping fire, which made important contributions to improving the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In 1947, Wu Yunduo was ordered to establish a fuze factory in Dalian and served as the factory director.An accident happened while testing the explosive power of ammunition, and he was injured all over his body.During the several months of treatment, he read Soviet novels and got encouragement and encouragement from them; in order to work better after he recovered from his injury, he worked hard to learn Japanese; Turn the ward into a laboratory and develop a high-efficiency explosive. During the war years, he was injured many times, lost his left eye, left hand, and right leg and was disabled. After more than 20 operations, he still has dozens of shrapnel on his body.He overcame the disability with tenacious perseverance, insisting on fighting in the front line of production and scientific research.He said: "As long as I live, I will work for the party and the people."

After the founding of New China, in the winter of 1949, the party organization sent him to the Soviet Union for treatment.In Moscow, the author Ostrovsky's wife heard about his deeds and went to the hospital to visit him.Soviet doctors loved and respected this "Paul of China".After careful treatment, his left eye saw light again. In October 1951, the Central People's Government Administration Council and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions awarded him the title of National Model Worker, and invited him to Beijing to attend the National Day ceremony. On October 5, "People's Daily" published a special report "This is how steel is tempered - introducing China's Paul Korchagin military hero Wu Yunduo".Since then, the name of "China's Paul-Wu Yunduo" has spread throughout the motherland.

After the liberation of the whole country, Wu Yunduo successively served as the deputy director of the former Central South Ordnance Industry Bureau, the director of the First Research Institute of the Second Ministry of Machinery, and the vice president and chief engineer of the Ordnance Science Research Institute. From 1952 to 1954, he studied and practiced in the former Soviet Far East Arsenal.After returning to China, he served as the chief engineer of the 447 factory (new artillery factory).Since then he has been engaged in artillery technology research. From 1954 to 1965, he presided over the research on many major subjects such as recoilless guns, anti-aircraft guns, mortars and light weapons, and achieved great results. Military equipment contributed.

Wu Yunduo works hard, lives frugally, and always maintains the true qualities of the working class.He adheres to the principle of putting practice first, and often goes deep into the factory workshop and test field, and works with technicians and workers to study product improvement, so that technical achievements can be quickly transformed into reliable products, and the development cycle of military products is greatly shortened. .Even when his health was deteriorating, he was still thinking about the improvement of weapons, and kept drawing sketches of plans. After retiring, he was invited to serve as the honorary principal of many working-study schools in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, an out-of-school counselor for many primary and secondary schools, and a consultant for some publications and mass organizations, educating the masses with communist ideals and noble moral sentiments.Due to the disability and chronic illness left over from the Revolutionary War, on May 2, 1991, due to the recurrence of pulmonary heart disease, the rescue failed, and he stopped breathing.A legendary ordnance star has since fallen.