After the September 18 incident, although Zhang Xueliang issued an order not to resist, many northeast boys still threw their heads and spilled their blood and fought in the front line of the White Mountains and Black Water. In the case of the enemy, they cleverly applied various tactics to make the Japanese feel very nervous.
Tang Juwu was such a patriotic general. After the outbreak of the 9/18 Incident, Zhang Xueliang was still in Beiping and knew nothing about the situation outside Guanwai. Knowing that his old superiors did not even know the most basic situation of the Japanese, Tang Juwu then confessed his hostility and resolutely demanded that the War of Resistance be fought to the end.
However, Zhang Xueliang also has his own small calculations, and he is now more concerned about the Pingjin situation in Guannei than in the northeast. Therefore, he only gave Tang Juwu the position of commander of the empty shell regiment and let him organize the team to resist the war.
Tang Juwu touched a nose of ash and thought that without your support from Zhang Xueliang, I still have the support of the people. Therefore, he raised the banner of the War of Resistance in Liaoning and organized the Liaoning Self-Defense Army. In just four months, all kinds of heroes responded one after another, and all of them raised the banner of Tang Juwu's Liaoning Self-Defense Army.
Many of the former soldiers of the Northeast Army who remained in Liaoning also returned to the ranks, and for a time, the Liaoning Self-Defense Army actually grew to more than 200,000 people, recovering the fourteen counties occupied by the Japanese army.
However, in 1933, the Kwantung Army intensified its encirclement and suppression of the Self-Defense Forces. The Self-Defense Forces were not strong enough to organize themselves, and after several counter-sweeps, the ranks were dispersed. Tang Juwu had no choice but to withdraw to Guannei for repairs. Subsequently, due to the Kuomintang's suppression of the Northeast Army, the entire Liaoning Self-Defense Army was repeatedly drawn down, and General Tang resigned from his military post in anger and was idle at home.
Soon, the all-out War of Resistance broke out. At that time, not only was the Eighth Route Army engaged in guerrilla warfare, but Chiang Kai-shek also wanted to fight guerrilla warfare in the Hebei region. At this time, he remembered Tang Juwu, who had stirred up the Japanese chickens and dogs in Liaoning. Therefore, Tang Juwu ignored the previous suspicions and once again put on the battlefield.
Tang Juwu organized six guerrilla columns in northern Hebei in one go, contacted the Eighth Route Army, and fought several victorious battles in one go. He was also ready to contact his old headquarters in Liaoning and prepare to fight back to the northeast at any time. Unfortunately, Tang Juwu was betrayed by traitors, and the Japanese sneaked into his headquarters. At the last moment, he had only about two hundred soldiers by his side, while the Japanese army had thousands. Tang Juwu roared and prayed three times in the direction of his hometown, and finally fought to the death and martyred the country.