The Most Tragic Battle on the Long March of the Red Army is recognized as the Battle of xiangjiang, but in fact, before the Battle of Xiangjiang, there was another battle in which the Red Army was also severely damaged, and this battle was the Battle of Ganxi. At that time, the vanguard of the Red Army, the Red Sixth Army, suffered such a heavy blow that the founding generals who later participated in the battle said that the battle was no less tragic than the Battle of the XiangJiang River. The general of the Nationalist army who caused this tragedy was Liao Lei, a fierce general of the Gui clan.
Liao Lei was a student of the second phase of the Baoding Military Academy, and although his status was not as high as Bai Chongxi's, he was actually Bai Chongxi's senior, because Bai Chongxi was a student of the third term in Baoding.
Liao Lei first started in the Xiang Army after graduation, until Tang Shengzhi went to the wilderness, he turned to Bai Chongxi, the two had a personal relationship, and when the Jiang Gui War broke out, Liao Lei also saved Bai Chongxi's life.
What really made Liao Lei stand out in the Gui Army was his ability to fight, he participated in almost every battle fought by the Gui Army, especially in the Battle of the Central Plains, Liao Lei's performance was very eye-catching, so he also won the trust of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.
It is worth mentioning that the ace unit of the Gui Army is the Seventh Army, because this unit is the unit started by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, and Liao Lei once served as the commander of the Seventh Army, which also proves that Liao Lei's ability can be of great use.
When the Red Army was preparing to start the Long March, the Red Sixth Army led by Ren Bishi and Xiao Ke set out first, and after a month of marching, arrived at Ganxi, Guizhou. At that time, the Kuomintang gathered 24 regiments of troops to intercept the Red Sixth Army, and the highest commander of them was Liao Lei.
Because our army received limited information, in the end it was unable to evade Liao Lei's interception in the Ganxi area, and our army and Liao Lei's troops fought fiercely for more than half a month, and finally lost because the enemy was outnumbered, and the strength of the Red Sixth Army at that time was sharply reduced from 9,000 to less than 4,000.
After the Battle of Ganxi, Liao Lei took part in the Battle of Xiangjiang, and inflicted great losses on the Red Third Army led by Mr. Peng in Longsheng County. Therefore, when Liao Lei was mentioned, at that time, our army hated this person to the point of gritting its teeth, but what happened during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had to make people respect Liao Lei.
In the Battle of Songhu, Liao Lei took the initiative to ask for help, and rushed to the battlefield for two months, at that time, although Liao Lei had 60,000 troops, they were all Guangxi straw shoe soldiers with limited combat effectiveness, and the enemy he faced was two elite divisions of the Japanese army, but Liao Lei still dared to take the initiative to attack, causing heavy damage to the Japanese army.
After the Battle of Songhu, Liao Lei immediately participated in the Battle of Xuzhou. It is worth mentioning that in the Battle of Xuzhou, Liao Lei's subordinate Zhou Yuan was besieged by the Japanese army in Mengcheng, and had to ask Liao Lei for help when he ran out of ammunition and food, but Liao Lei let him "coexist and die with the city", and finally Zhou Yuan and his subordinates were martyred together.
During the Battle of Wuhan, Liao Lei formed a guerrilla group at Dabie Mountain in the rear of the Japanese army and recovered 19 counties in Anhui in just one year. But just when the base area created by Liao Lei was booming, Liao Lei died of sudden cerebral congestion at the age of 49.
Liao Lei's anti-Japanese exploits cannot be indelible, so our army did not care about the previous suspicions, and Zhu Laozong, Peng Laozong, Ye Ting, Xiang Ying, Chen Laozong, and others all sent a bang lian to express their respect for this famous anti-Japanese general.