Wei Lihuang was a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, and a senior general of the Republic of China
He is a "tiger general" in Chiang Kai-shek's "Five Tiger Generals" and is known as "General Changsheng". He defeated Shi Yousan in the Battle of the Central Plains, lifted the siege of Nanjing, and won victories in a series of battles, such as the "encirclement and suppression" of Eyu and Anhui, the suppression of the "Fujian Revolution" and the main merit, the defeat of Okamura Ningci to regain Zhengzhou, and the counter-offensive campaign of northern Burma and western Yunnan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, member of the Standing Committee of the Second and Third National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and deputy to the Second National People's Congress.
Today, Xiaobian will take you to understand a small story that happened to Wei Lihuang during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In 1938, the main force of the 20th Division of the Japanese army attacked from Fenyang south and hit this place in Puxian County. After a series of battles, more than 1,000 Japanese troops were completely wiped out by our army, and they suffered heavy losses, about dozens of cars, hundreds of horses were killed, and rifles, machine guns, mountain guns and other weapons and equipment were also destroyed in large quantities. In order to avenge this battle, the Japanese army sent thousands of soldiers to retaliate.
Unexpectedly, when the Japanese army was preparing to counterattack, it met with the troops led by Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the 2nd Theater of operations of the Nationalist Army near Daning, and the enemies met each other, and they were extremely red-eyed, not to mention that they saw the Japanese invaders, and the Nationalists immediately engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the Japanese troops. But the number of his troops under his hands is not much, only the strength of one brigade, the Japanese army seems to have killed the red eye at this time, crazy attack, the national army team began to lose physical strength, had to plan to retreat to a safe area first, but it is not very easy to retreat safely, after all, the bullets are not long,The Japanese army team actually found that he was the commander of the national army, so the fight was more intense.
The fierce attack of the Japanese army for a while made Wei Lihuang, who was already physically weak, chaotic, and there were fewer and fewer brothers around him, and if he continued to fight, he would be alone, and seeing that the situation was very critical, he quickly called his friendly neighbors to come to reinforcements, but no one paid attention to him, and at this critical juncture of 100,000 fires, our army sent someone to tell him that the 115th Division was near here, and he could go to the 115th Division first. He was a little hesitant at first, but he really had nowhere to go, so he followed our army's troops to the 115th Division with his personal retinue. After the acting division commander Chen Guang asked the reason, he immediately sent Yang Yong, the commander of the 686th Regiment, to lead the soldiers to attack the Japanese army, and then covered the evacuation of the Wei team.
However, Wei was not at ease, after all, he had brought a brigade of troops, and if this was destroyed by the enemy army, he would not be able to explain it to Old Chiang, so he immediately proposed to go to the front line to observe the battle situation between the two armies. Therefore, he and Yang Yong, the acting division commander, came to the front-line command post together and carefully observed the combat situation of the two armies with binoculars. After he saw it, he was shocked, it turned out that it was because he saw the soldiers of our army fighting heroically and invinciblely, and although the Japanese army team had advanced weapons and equipment and had an advantage in firepower, it had always been beaten to a halt by the soldiers of our army, so he asked Yang Yong, the acting division commander, curiously, how many regiments did you take out to help us? Yang Yong nodded, smiled and said, "A company." "How is this possible?" He cried out in surprise. Yang Yong looked at his expression of disbelief and said, General Wei, after this battle is over, can you see how many people have been evacuated? After our army successfully completed its mission and retreated safely, General Wei was actually waiting to count the numbers. At the end of the inventory, he was completely shocked, even if the number of casualties and the other cover for the retreat of his troops were only more than 200 people.
It can be seen that our army trained very hard in peacetime, and the results of this battle are the best proof that the officers and men of our army are not only heroic and invincible on the battlefield, but also have no moral character to say, for the generals of the national army's guards to rescue each other, reckless of consequences, it is really a good team with strong combat effectiveness and excellent work style, and it is really a fortunate thing for the Chinese nation to have such a group of troops to defend the mountains and rivers!