Gui soldiers are notoriously brave and fierce, fighting like wolves, so they are also called wolf soldiers, which even Our army commander-in-chief Peng Laozong is convinced, saying that "the Gui army fights like a tiger and as evil as a wolf."
Therefore, in the history of the Gui Army's wars, there are often examples of victories with less, and today we will look at the story of Wei Yunsong, a veteran general of the Gui clan, who guarded Nanning. At that time, Wang Longyun of Yunnan gathered 30,000 Dian troops to prepare to attack Nanning, because the main force of the Gui clan was not in Guangxi at that time, and the Gui soldiers were notoriously bloody, you must know that none of them surrendered to the Japanese ghosts during the anti-Japanese period, so this time facing Long Yun's 30,000 Dian army, the Gui clan also decided to fight to the end, the only problem was that Wei Yunsong only had 3,000 men at that time.
Wei Yunsong became a soldier at the age of 17, and after many years of groping and fighting in the military circles of Guangxi, he finally mixed with the position of battalion commander, and his superior was the famous Bai Chongxi, who was further promoted with the promotion of Bai Chongxi and the accumulation of Wei Yunsong's own military achievements.
When Long Yun's army attacked, during the Great Battle of the Central Plains, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi took the main force of the Gui clan to fight Chiang Kai-shek. After learning of Long Yun's movements, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi urgently telegraphed wei Yunsong that they must hold Nanning, otherwise the Gui clan would be homeless, to which Wei Yunsong only replied with eight words: People are in the city, and people are destroyed.
After the horn of the Dian army's attack sounded, it immediately launched a fierce attack, which made Wei Yunsong suffer a lot of losses, and long Yun thought that he could completely capture Nanning in a week. As a result, the subsequent attack became more and more unsuccessful, and at the same time, Wei Yunsong also sent a small group of Gui troops to destroy the heavy weapons of the Dian army's siege at night, and the advantage of the Dian army was getting smaller and smaller.
At the same time, Wei Yunsong personally came to the front line and told the soldiers that behind them were their fathers and fellow villagers, if they could not stop the Dian army, the Dian army would go into the city to slaughter after victory, which greatly stimulated the fighting spirit of the Gui soldiers, so the Gui soldiers broke out into a strong fighting force.
The longer the battle dragged on, the weaker and weaker the morale of the generals of the Dian Army became, and at this time Long Yun could not come up with a practical solution, and could only watch as the morale of the soldiers gradually declined, and finally there was no fighting spirit, and at this time, it was impossible to attack Nanning.
So Long Yun returned to Yunnan with the remaining 20,000 or so Dian troops. The battle lasted three months and ended in the victory of the Gui army, and Wei Yunsong also became one of Li Zongren's most important generals with this great merit, and was promoted to commander after the war.