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Liu Xiang, a first-class general in the Kuomintang Army, after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, Liu Xiang was appointed by the Military and Political Committee of the Nationalist Government as the commander of the Seventh Theater and the commander-in-chief of the 23rd Group Army. On November 22, 1937, liu Xiang personally led the sichuan army unit, which was led by Liu Xiang himself, arrived in Nanjing and began to issue combat tasks, with special emphasis on the Sichuan army troops stationed in Jinshan, Zhejiang Province, waiting in strict formation and preparing to block the Japanese troops landing here. What is stifling is that due to many days of hard work, Liu Xiang, who was weak and sick, suddenly suffered from stomach disease and vomited blood, although he improved slightly after rescue, he still died a few months later due to serious illness.
[Liu Xiang, a first-class general of the Kuomintang army]
At the time of his death, Liu Xiang did not forget to exhort the deployment of "the War of Resistance to the End, unswervingly, that is, the enemy army will not withdraw from the border for a day, and the Sichuan army will not return to its hometown for a day!" The news of Liu Xiang's unfortunate death made the people of the country very sad, and Liu Xiang practiced with his own actions that the soldier died on the battlefield to protect the country and made posterity admire.
Liu Xiang's patriotic pride is by no means a whim, needless to say that he has witnessed the country being bullied and humiliated by outsiders for many years, out of a national integrity of an instinctive reaction. Although Liu Xiang's generations of living in the country of Tianfu should be said to belong to the inland area, but with the feelings of the world in mind, Liu Xiang had a premonition that Japanese imperialism would launch a war of annihilation against our country long before the Lugou Bridge Incident occurred.
To this end, he threw himself into the anti-Japanese resistance with his own practical actions very early. On August 24, 1936, an anti-Japanese riot broke out in Chengdu, and the people involved in the anti-Japanese riot killed Watanabe Andaburo and Fukagawa Keiji and two Japanese out of anger, and injured two others. On August 26, Liu Xiang, then chairman of the Sichuan provincial government, received a telegram from the Executive Yuan of the Nationalist Government, asking the person in charge of the Investigation and Handling of the Chengdu Incident and an explanation to the Japanese.
[Sichuan people bid farewell to the Sichuan army out of Sichuan]
Liu Xiang deeply felt that the situation was indeed very serious, especially in the face of Japanese imperialism exerting pressure on our country at every turn, bingfeng was already approaching north China, and if it was not handled well, unpredictable events would occur. However, Liu Xiang felt even more that the country was in such a dangerous situation, and if he blindly tolerated and met all the conditions of the other side's arbitrariness imposed by Japanese imperialism, it would also seriously hurt the determination and confidence of the Chinese people to resist Japan. On September 1, Liu Xiang, who had an idea in his heart, met in Chengdu with Doki Matsumura, the secretary of the Japanese Embassy in China, the chongqing consul Ryoji, the army's Sado Zuojin, and the navy's Nakasaka Moriki, and in the face of the arrogance of the other side, stressed the need to catch the murderer and bring justice on the spot, as well as the unreasonable demand to compensate for losses and ensure that similar incidents would not happen again. Liu Xiang and Wei Snake only said that the incident happened suddenly, unable to hunt down the real culprit, and let the other party tell how, Liu Xiang laughed but did not answer, so that the evil plan originally conceived by the other party did not succeed, Liu Xiang protected the patriotic masses from it, and won the praise of all walks of life in Sichuan.
【Lugou Bridge Incident】
The day after the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident" in 1937, the wolf ambitions of the Japanese army to invade China in an all-round way were thoroughly exposed, and after learning of this news, Liu Xiang immediately telephoned the highest authorities of the Nationalist Government at that time to take the initiative to "ask for resistance against Japan" and "at the same time sent a telegram to the whole country to appeal for unanimous resistance to Japan.", because the country had reached a critical moment of life and death, and it was not possible to talk about it, but to truly achieve a bloody battle face to face with the real swords and guns of Japanese imperialism.
When Liu Xiang flew to Nanjing on August 7 to attend the national defense conference held by the Kuomintang government, in the face of the local powerful factions from all over the country who were doing what he was doing, he generously declared that how can a country as large as China let a small Japanese bully be bullied, and everyone should no longer worry about the gold and silver treasures at home that they are reluctant to take out, the northeast is lost, and the north China will not be guaranteed, and we can only protect our homeland by fighting a bloody war with Japanese imperialism to the end. He not only said, but also immediately said at the meeting site: "Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million Zhuang Ding and several 10,000 quintals of grain."
Although Sichuan is known as the country of Heaven, since entering the Beiyang warlords, warlords of all sizes have regarded Sichuan as a piece of fat, which can be described as a series of conquests, military disasters and bandits are indecisive, and it is not honorable for a province to have such an ability to support the country and help the country to tide over difficulties. Liu Xiang's speech at the military conference this time was not only highly affirmed by the highest kuomintang authorities and local powerful factions, but even Zhou Enlai, who attended the meeting, praised Liu Xiang's behavior on behalf of the CPC.
Condensing the indomitable "death" banner of the Chinese nation
The meeting also decided on the agenda for the Sichuan army to go out of Sichuan to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and Liu Xiang resolutely obeyed, returned to Sichuan, and immediately formed the Twenty-second Group Army and the Twenty-third Group Army in accordance with the requirements of the National Government. Deng Xihou was appointed commander-in-chief of the Twenty-second Group Army, and Liu Xiang personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Twenty-third Group Army, and the two units representing the Sichuan people's anti-Japanese resistance immediately set out to fight against Japan.
The 26th Division of the 43rd Army of the Twenty-third Army performed remarkably well in the Battle of Weihu, and this division was ordered to take over the position of Dachang Town defended by the 36th Division led by Song Xilian. The weapons and equipment of the whole division are extremely poor, specific to the platoon only has a light machine gun, many soldiers' rifles even belong to the old sleeves of weapons in the 19th century, and the whole division does not have a cannon, because it is an expedition from Guizhou to Shanghai, and it lacks basic logistical supplies and support. It was such a Sichuan army with very backward weapons and equipment that it should have resisted the crazy attack of the Japanese army for 7 days with its enthusiasm and tenacious will to fight, and the whole division went from approaching 10,000 people when it first entered the position to only 700 people left when it received the order to withdraw from the position, which showed the spirit of sacrifice of the Sichuan army for the country and the nation. When Liu Xiang learned of this battle situation, he could not stop tears in his eyes, and he was even more proud of the sacrifice of the Sichuan people for the country, which was really a lesson from heaven and earth, and the sun and the moon were the same.
At the same time that the Sichuan army was divided into the east road and the west road and rushed to the anti-Japanese battlefield respectively, the Military Committee of the National Government also decided to take into account the factors that Sichuan was far away from the main anti-Japanese battlefield at that time, and the difficulty of Shu Dao and the inconvenience caused by the traffic inconvenience caused by shangqingtian, and decided to use the Sichuan army as the second road reserve army and organize it into two columns. He also appointed Liu Xiang as the commander of the Second Road Reserve Army, specifically serving as the combat task of the Pinghan Railway. After receiving the task, Liu Xiang on the one hand coordinated the matter of the troops leaving Sichuan, and on the other hand, began to set up the Sichuan military defense zone in the next stage. The work was complicated, so that Liu Xiang worked late every day, and the physical discomfort became more and more obvious, but he gritted his teeth and insisted.
A general of the Sichuan Army at the Battle of Songhu
With the development of the war situation, in October 1937, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government changed Liu Xiang to the commander of the Seventh Theater. At this time, Liu Xiang's health was deteriorating, and his subordinates could not bear to watch the old commander being tortured by illness, and suggested to him that you should receive treatment in Wuhan and command the front to fight, and in the face of the kindness of his subordinates, Liu Xiang refused, saying that although I was unwell, "I have always shouted anti-Japanese resistance, and now that the curtain of the war is opened, I will not retreat and not advance, and I will not ridicule the future generations."
On November 22, 1937, Liu Xiang took a boat to Nanjing to formally assume the command of the Seventh Theater, that is, he ordered all his armies and divisions to block the Japanese army that landed at Jinshan, Zhejiang And was invading Zhejiang, focusing on maintaining the safety of Guangde and Si'an. Who knows, Liu Xiang, who was planning at the headquarters, suddenly relapsed from stomach disease, vomited blood, and was sent to the rear hospital for treatment in a coma. After rescuing and waking up, the Nationalist government took into account the actual condition of Liu Xiang's health and only made Liu Xiang the commander of the Seventh Theater, but he still paid attention to the situation of the anti-Japanese battlefield throughout the country and hated that he could no longer go to the front line to serve the country.
Due to overwork, Liu Xiang died in Hankou on January 20, 1938. Before his death, he left a will, not a single mention of his family, all words of encouragement to the generals of the Sichuan Army: "Resisting the War to the end, it has always been unswerving, that is, the enemy army will not withdraw from the country for a day, and the Sichuan army will not return to its hometown for a day!" Liu Xiang's will was like the oath of Zheng Zheng of the Sichuan Army, inspiring the generals of the Sichuan Army to fight in Taierzhuang in blood until the last person and the commander of the 122nd Division of the 41st Army of the Sichuan Army, Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army, who died in battle and did not retreat from battle; Li Jiayu, commander of the 36th Group Army, who died in battle, and so on. The Sichuan Army made great contributions to the Anti-Japanese Resistance, and during the entire Period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang Army suffered 3.26 million casualties, of which 640,000 were Sichuan Army soldiers. It was the Sichuan army that took the last words of the old commander Liu Xiang as an oath, that is, the enemy army would not withdraw from the country for a day, and the Sichuan army would not return to its hometown for a day! They did it, with their blood and their lives.
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