During the years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang and the Communists established a cooperative united front, and the two sides also had a honeymoon period, and the military and civilians cooperated in resisting Japan. For example, Wei Lihuang, who sent a large number of arms to the Eighth Route Army in 1938, replenished the strength of our army. Of course, Wei Lihuang was ambushed by thousands of Japanese troops during a march, and the bloody battle was already defeated in three hours, and he wanted to break through the Japanese army but followed him to death, which made Wei Lihuang very difficult to do, and in desperation, he immediately asked for help from the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and then Yang Yong led the 686 regiment to successfully help him break the siege.
It was this cooperation that made Wei Lihuang greatly admire the Eighth Route Army, allowing him to promote a large group of peaceful uprisings of the Nationalist army during the Liberation War, and he himself became a deputy state-level official after the new China. The general I want to talk about today was originally a "Weng Hu" general who fought with the New Fourth Army to resist Japan, but he made people temporarily defect, and as a result, he was defeated and killed, this person is Weng Da, born in 1898 in Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, his family lived in poverty, and he came to the factory to work at a young age. To say why he went on the road to the military, one has to mention the story of his being wanted by warlords.
In May 1925, in a Japanese spinning mill in Shanghai, a worker, Gu Zhenghong, was killed by capitalists for asking for more benefits. Demonstrations broke out in Shanghai to condemn the atrocities of the Japanese, and Onda naturally joined the struggle, carrying out anti-imperialist work in the Ningbo area and later leading the masses in the patriotic movement. However, he did not expect this move of his, but the warlord Sun Chuanfang was very dissatisfied with this, and he ordered a wanted arrest. An enraged Weng Da went to Guangzhou to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, became a fourth-term student, and because of his outstanding performance, he served as a platoon leader of the 36th Regiment of the 42nd Division after graduation.
During the Northern Expedition, he hated the warlords, and showed extraordinary bravery, and he would be the first to charge in every battle, and it was precisely because of his courage to kill the enemy and his military ranks were also being promoted, and he was promoted to battalion commander after the Battle of Cai Dong. In 1927, Xu Ke, then the commander of the 35th Regiment, launched a counter-revolutionary campaign on May 21, he was questioned, for safety, he fled to Nanchang, and then disguised as a civilian, walked to his hometown of Hubei, along the way he had little mixed feelings, and questioned the revolution, and since then he has been idle, refusing to be received by outsiders. But as time went on, his heart became boring.
In the spring of 1926, Xu Hongtao invited him to serve as a major section member of the 26th Army, and in the summer he was appointed as the chief of the propaganda section, in the military and political positions, he has always been very attentive, so the military position is also being promoted, in 1930 he served as a lieutenant colonel staff officer of the 52nd Division, in 1935 he was appointed as the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Special Service Regiment, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was transferred to Anxi as a battalion commander. In February 1938, he was assigned to the position of regimental commander of the 198th Regiment of the 99th Brigade of the 33rd Division of the Army, and also served as a city defense.
He hated the Japanese army very much, and he had always been very repulsive to the co-optation of the Japanese and pseudo-Traitors, and the Japanese army had been stubbornly resisting the enemy, and recovered Hai'an, Rugao and other areas, and went to fight in the eastern Anhui region, and for a time he also became an anti-Japanese tiger general, which made the Japanese and puppets very troubled by this. When the battle of Taierzhuang began, he was already the regimental commander, and he came to the Lianyungang area with his own troops, where he stopped the landing of the Japanese army, and insisted on not withdrawing until the last moment, and the loss of his troops was very large, but he was not afraid at all. Because of this, he was also promoted to the position of chief of staff of the 99th Brigade of the 33rd Division. In September, friendly forces met the enemy in the Suqian area, and he led his troops to support him, allowing him to successfully break through, but also made a battle achievement.
In July 1939, he was promoted to brigade commander of the 99th Brigade, and in the Battle of Lianshui, he led the soldiers and the devils to fight fiercely for two days and two nights, and successfully recovered the county seat. After that, he had a strong way to recover Dongtai, Siyang and other places, and his combat deeds made Han Deloitte very appreciative and received him.
In the winter of 1939, he was promoted to brigadier general of the 6th Independent Brigade, and this unit was the only all-American ordnance unit in the Nationalist Army, with a strength of 7,000 people, and the officers above the company commander were all of the Whampoa clan, which was also the "Royal Forest Army" of the Nationalist Army, controlled by Lao Jiang himself, which showed how much Weng Da was used. After that, he led his army to the canal, and after going to Tianchang County, he met with Luo Binghui of the New Fourth Army, and the two armies also carried out joint operations after that, and from time to time they held joint parties. At that time, Luo Bu and the 89th Army of the Nationalist Army clashed, and after he knew about it, he personally came to the 89th Army to let it understand the great cause of anti-Japanese reunification and resolved the dispute between the two armies.
After the Japanese army swept through northern Jiangsu, he led his troops back to reinforcements, and met the enemy at the mouth of the Old River, a big battle broke out, he also calmly greeted the enemy for this purpose, and repelled the enemy army, which made Lao Jiang excited, calling him "Weng Hu"!
However, in the Battle of Huangqiao in 1940, he betrayed the revolution and turned his gun on the New Fourth Army, in which Chen Yi and Su Yu decided to annihilate the Independent 6th Brigade first, and cleverly designed an ambush to directly kill Onda, which has to be said to be too tragic.
Reference: "The Battle of Huangqiao, the First Battle of the New Fourth Army, Won a Complete Victory in Chess"