Since ancient times, the attitude of Chinese to the distinction between Huayi and Yi has been very clear, as long as the Chinese culture is recognized, it is Chinese, and blood is not the decisive factor. He Shili is such a mixed-race child who always prides himself on being a Chinese, and he was promoted to general of the Nationalist Army during the War of Resistance after the famous people of Hong Kong.
Ho Sai Lee's father, Ho Tung, was a well-known wealthy businessman in Hong Kong, who was charitable and charitable, and was knighted by the Emperor. To this day, this family still has great influence in Hong Kong and Macao. The grandson of one of Ho Tung's younger brothers is named Ho Hung Sun, a Macau gambling king. Brother He Dong has a grandson named Bruce Lee, an international movie star. He Shili was their uncle and elder.
He Shili loved the motherland very much, and the governor Mai Shili once asked him if he was proud of the British people, and the nine-year-old He Shili replied to him, I am a Chinese child, and I am proud of it. When he became an adult, his father, He Dong, wanted him to become a British citizen. He Shili insisted on refusing, and even appealed to the court, ruling that he could continue to have Chinese origin.
Although China was in poverty and darkness at that time, He Shili did not think anything of it, what he wanted to do was to serve the motherland and resist foreign aggression. He Shili took joining the army as a way to realize his ideals, and he first applied for the domestic military academy.
Because he accompanied his mother back to Nanjing to worship the Buddha, He Shili's first military school was the Army Officer School in Nanjing. However, before they could learn much, the warlords of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces fought, and the funds for the military academy were diverted to fight and could not be done. Ho had to return to Hong Kong.
He Shili was the son of a Hong Kong jazzman and was easily admitted to the British and French military academies to study artillery. Although He Shili was born into a rich family, he studied hard, ranked among the best in all achievements, and was also praised by Marshal Foch of the French Army.
After returning from military school, He Shili found that the war on the motherland was fierce, and it was the soldiers who used force on the ground. But he did not enter the war, because it was the Central Plains War, and several factions of warlords fought a civil war for territory. The Kuomintang said that it could arrange for He Shili to go to the navy or luda, but He Shili had no interest in this, and he wanted to go to the front line of resistance against the Japanese invaders.
In the end, He Shili chose the Northeast Army as the first stop of his military career. Zhang Xueliang was very satisfied with his knowledge and insight, and wanted to grant him the rank of colonel and make him a staff officer in the security headquarters, but He Shili refused, insisting on starting from the grassroots level.
He Shili served as a squadron leader, a brigade leader, and a regimental commander in the artillery unit. He Shili believed that the Japanese military was eyeing the Northeast Tiger and would launch a war sooner or later, so he suggested that Zhang Xueliang quickly withdraw strategic assets such as aircraft and arsenals into Guannei to avoid losses. Zhang Xueliang was reluctant to make up his mind in his hometown in the northeast.
During the "918" incident, the policy of not resisting allowed the Northeast Army to collapse without a fight, and He Shili's troops also abandoned all the new artillery and fled all the way back to Guannei. Until the Great Wall Resistance, He Shili finally had a place to play, pouring a large number of revenge shells on the Japanese army.
In 1934, Zhang Xueliang sent He Shili to the U.S. Military Academy to continue his studies. After returning to China, he is preparing to change to a colonel in the communications unit. At this time, Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident, and as soon as He Shili returned from Hong Kong Province, he was dismissed from his military post and monitored.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, He Shili was transferred by Xue Yue to the artillery regiment directly under the Third Theater. This regiment was the only heavy artillery regiment in China at that time, but it had already lost all its heavy artillery in the Battle of Songhu. He Shili used his personal connections to add equipment to the artillery regiment, and also transferred a batch of artillery and shells from Song Ziwen.
Subsequently, He Shili participated in the Battle of Lanfeng and the Battle of Wuhan, commanded the artillery to attack the Japanese Kou, and won the Military Merit Medal many times. After the War of Resistance entered a stalemate, he joined the expeditionary force that counter-attacked Burma, and also used Hong Kong connections to gather intelligence on the Japanese army for the Nationalist government.
After the large-scale assistance of the US military to China, because He Shili and Lieutenant General Wei Demai of the US military were classmates, Chiang Kai-shek made He Shili the logistics director to facilitate contact with the Americans on the matter of aiding China. At this time, He Shili was already a lieutenant general in the national army.
He Shili did not actually receive real attention in the factional national army, and never led troops on the front line as a military commander. Although he was promoted to a second-level general, only one level lower than Chiang, he mostly held logistical and envoy positions. The Kuomintang used him more as a signboard.
When his father, He Dong, died, he designated his third son, He Shili, to inherit the family business. He Shili, who had never been in business, was recognized by the rich man's father, which can also be regarded as trust in him. He Shili took this opportunity to resign from his military post in Taiwan and concentrate on returning home to run a business.
In his later years, He Shili visited Zhang Xueliang twice. He supported "one country, two systems" and hoped that the motherland would be reunified and prosperous at an early date. On July 26, 1998, He Shili died peacefully in Hong Kong, this old hero born in Hong Kong, committed to Chinese, and made countless contributions to the country, will be engraved forever on the glory monument of the Chinese nation.