The Songhu War of Resistance took place on January 28, 1931, and the main force participating in this battle against the Japanese army was the 19th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. The predecessor of the 19th Route Army was the First Division of the Guangdong Army, which was later reorganized into the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army (the famous Tie Fourth Army), and during the Nanchang Uprising led by the Communist Party, one of the Tie4 Army also participated in the Nanchang Uprising. In 1930, it was reorganized into the 19th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with the commander-in-chief Jiang Guangnai, the commander of the army Cai Tingkai, and the chief of staff Huang Qiang. After the "918 Incident", the army was transferred to defend Shanghai.
The 19th Route Army had three divisions, the 60th, 61st and 78th Divisions, each with two brigades. Next, let's take a look at who are the division commanders of these three divisions? What happened after that?
The commander of the 60th Division was Shen Guanghan.
Shen Guanghan is a native of Luoding, Guangdong, born in 1887, graduated from the Guangdong Army's Lecture Hall, and since 1925 he has successively served as the deputy captain battalion of the third battalion of the second regiment of the first brigade of the first division of the Guangdong Army, the deputy brigade commander of the independent second brigade of the Guangdong Formation District and the commander of the first regiment, the brigade commander of the 119th brigade of the 60th Division, and the commander of the 60th Division. In 1931, Shen Guanghan led his 60th Division to garrison Suzhou and Changzhou. In 1932, he led his troops to participate in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, and fought against the Japanese army in Zhabei, Hongkou and Baziqiao. After the Fujian Incident in 1933, he was the commander of the First Army of the First Front of the Fujian People's Revolutionary Army, went to Hong Kong after defeat, left the military, and died of illness in Hong Kong on November 29, 1972, at the age of eighty-five.
The commander of the 61st Division was Mao Weishou.
Born in 1892 in Xiajiang, Jiangxi, Mao Weishou participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition and other wars, and served as the commander of the second battalion of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Division of the 4th Army of the Guangdong Army, the commander of the 18th Regiment of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 8th Route Army, the commander of the 8th Brigade of the 61st Division of the Army, and the commander of the 61st Division of the Army. During the Songhu War of Resistance, he led his troops to defend Jiangwan and Dachang, fighting more than a hundred times in a row, fighting alone to repel the crazy attack of the Japanese army. Holding out for a hundred days, forcing the Commander of the Japanese Army to lose more than 10,000 soldiers and fight the military might. After the Fujian Incident, he served as the commander of the Second Army, surrendered to the Central Army after the defeat, and was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Route Army of the Eastern Route Army of the Gansu- Guangdong-Fujian-Xiang'e Bandit Army. He died of illness in 1937 at the age of 45.
The commander of the 78th Division was Ou Shounian.
Born in 1902, Ou Shounian graduated from the Yangjiang Military Training Institute of the Guangdong Army, and successively served as the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the commander of the 70th Regiment of the 24th Division of the 11th Army, the brigade commander of the 120th Brigade of the 60th Division, and the commander of the 78th Division, and participated in the Northern Expedition, the Guangdong-Guangdong War and the Central Plains War. After the 1.28 Incident, Shou Nian led the 78th Division of the 19th Army to rise up to meet the resistance, thus becoming a well-known anti-Japanese army. After the Fujian Incident in 1933, he served as the commander of the 3rd Army of the 1st Front of the People's Revolutionary Army, and after the defeat he first lived in Hong Kong and soon after went to Germany to study military affairs. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the 176th Division of the 8th Army and participated in the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the deputy commander of the 6th Appeasement District and the commander of the 7th Corps, was captured by our army in the Battle of Eastern Henan in 1948, was released in 1950, and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and died in 1957 at the age of 55.
The Songhu War of Resistance began on the night of January 28, 1932, and lasted for 33 days. The Japanese army said that it could be taken in four hours before the war, but it changed commanders three times, increased troops four times, and the Nationalist army also sent Zhang Zhizhong's Fifth Army to fight together, although the final event ended with the withdrawal of the Nationalist army from Shanghai, but the significance of this war was that "it made many young people in China believe that if the whole country united in patriotic struggle, China would be invincible" (the famous American writer Edgar Snow's "Journey to the Beginning").