On January 28, 1932, the Songhu War of Resistance broke out. Due to the heroic performance of the officers of our 19th Route Army in the Songhu battlefield, the Japanese did not get a lot of advantages, so the Japanese army continued to increase its troops in Shanghai in order to realize its plot.
After Jiang Guangnai, commander-in-chief of the 19th Route Army, learned of the information on the continuous increase of japanese troops, he immediately telegraphed He Yingqin of the Military and Political Department: "Although I want peace, the Japanese are not sincere. For the survival of the nation, the country is decent, only one heart and one mind, please order the aircraft to overcome all difficulties, quickly come to the front line to participate in the battle, and try to transfer reinforcements to the first and second divisions in the near future. On the 14th, the Ministry of Military Affairs issued an order under chiang kai-shek's order: the 87th Division and the 88th Division on the Beijing-Hangzhou front were reorganized into the 5th Army, and Zhang Zhizhong was appointed as the commander of the army, and he joined the battle sequence of the 19th Army and was under his command.
Last time, I introduced to you some of the commanders of the three divisions of the 19th Route Army that participated in the Songhu War of Resistance. What happened after that?
The commander of the 87th Division was Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the 5th Army.
Zhang Zhizhong, a native of Chaohu, Anhui Province, participated in the anti-Qing uprising during the Xinhai Revolution, graduated from the Baoding Army Officer School, and served as a staff officer of the Guangdong-Guizhou Army Headquarters, a chief of staff of the division, and chief of staff of the Guijun Military Academy. After the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, he served as the head of the officer corps and the chief of staff of the Second Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and the chief of staff of the Guangzhou Garrison District Headquarters. After the Northern Expedition, he served as deputy commander of the General Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army, chief of education of the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, director of the training department of the Central Army Officer School, chief of education and commander of the Second Division. Shortly after the songhu war began, he served as commander of the 5th Army and commander of the 87th Division. After that, he participated in the Battle of Songhu, and later served as chairman of Hunan Province, director of the Political Department of the Military Commission, director of the Northwest Camp of the Kuomintang government, and chairman of Xinjiang Province. He was the only general of the Nationalist army who had not fought with the CCP in the War of Liberation, and after the founding of New China, he served as vice chairman of the National People's Congress. He died on 6 April 1969 at the age of 79.
The deputy commander of the 87th Division was Wang Jingjiu.
Wang Jingjiu, a native of Feng County, Jiangsu Province, was born in 1902, graduated from the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, participated in two Eastern And Northern Expeditions, as well as the Jiang-Gui War and the Central Plains War, and successively served as the platoon leader of the Teaching Regiment of the Huangpu Military Academy, the company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander and brigade commander of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the deputy commander of the First Division of the Central Guard Army of the National Government, the deputy commander of the 87th Division of the 5th Army during the Songhu War of Resistance, and later promoted to division commander. Later, he participated in the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Battle of Changde. He fled to Taiwan with Chiang in 1949 and died on June 20, 1964, at the age of 62.
The commander of the 88th Division was Yu Jishi.
Yu Jishi, a native of Fenghua, Zhejiang, was born in 1904, graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy, and after graduation, he stayed with Chiang Kai-shek as a bodyguard, successively serving as a platoon commander and company commander of the guard brigade, a battalion commander and regiment commander of the guard regiment, the commander of the first guard brigade and the commander of the Nanjing garrison, and the commander of the first guard division. After the outbreak of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, he served as the commander of the 88th Division in the central part of Zhangzhi, and after the outbreak of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, he took the initiative to ask for reinforcements to Shanghai, during which he was seriously injured and his intestines were perforated. After that, he served as the chief of security in Zhejiang Province, the commander of the Thirty-sixth Army, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Twentieth Army, and the chief of Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards. He fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and died in 1990 at the age of 86.
After the reinforcements of the 5th Army arrived in Nanxiang and other places in Shanghai, they were ordered to serve as the defense of Hujiazhuang along the northern bank of Yunzaobang via Caojiaqiao to the western end of Wusong, and reinforced the 19th Route Army. The Japanese Ninth Division repeatedly attacked the Wusong and Miaoxing areas, and the divisions of the 5th Army, with the cooperation of the 19th Route Army, annihilated most of the enemy and thwarted the enemy's attack. After the Shanghai Armistice, the 5th Army was transferred back to Nanjing and Hankou to garrison.
Further reading:
Who were the commanders of the three divisions of the 19th Route Army who participated in the Songhu War of Resistance? What happened after that?
He was the commander-in-chief of the Songhu War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, opposed Chiang Kai-shek many times, and later served as the first Minister of Textile Industry in New China