Everyone knows that the famous anti-Japanese general Xuezhong was in the Northeast Army, but before that, he was not under the command of Zhang Zuolin of the Northeast Army, but a famous general under the warlord Wu Peifu of the Beiyang Direct Lineage.
Yu Xuezhong was born into a military family, his father Yu Wenfu, who served as a battalion deputy under song Qing in the Huai Army, Yu Xuezhong was a child who grew up in the head of the army. At the age of 18, he was admitted to the Tongzhou Accelerated Training Camp Infantry Section, and after graduation, he was a platoon leader and company commander in the Yi Army. Later, he was transferred to the artillery battalion commander of the 18th Mixed Brigade of the Army of Wu Peifu's direct line, and during his tenure as battalion commander, he was appreciated by Wu Peifu.
In the summer of 1920, the Zhiwan War broke out, and Yu Xuezhong, along with the brigade commander Zhao Ronghua, participated in the operation against Wu Guangxin, the commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province. In the autumn of 1921, Xiong Kewu and Liu Xiang of the Sichuan Army, claiming to be aiding Hubei, launched a large-scale attack on Hubei, and the Zhi army was beaten to the ground. At that time, Lu Jinshan and Zhao Ronghua were ready to abandon Yichang, but Yu Xuezhong suggested that they should stick to it. On that day, Wu Peifu came to Yichang by ship to inspect the front line and found that only one of Yu Xuezhong's battalions was still confronting the Sichuan army. When Zhao Ronghua heard that Marshal Wu had come to the front line, he hurriedly packed up the defeated troops and returned to the front line, turning the situation around and finally repelling the Sichuan army.
After this battle, Marshal Wu said to Brigadier Zhao Ronghua, "I will take this yu battalion commander with me and give it to me as a regimental commander." "Brigadier Zhao must have been released there, and he reported to the marshal that I also have a regimental commander here, so let me be the regimental commander here." As a result, Brigadier Zhao dismissed the former commander of the Second Infantry Regiment and appointed Yu Xuezhong as the regimental commander.
Yu Xuezhong was appreciated by Marshal Wu, and was soon promoted to brigade commander of the 18th Mixed Brigade, commander of the 26th Division of the 14th Provincial Coalition Army, commander of the 9th Army, and commander-in-chief of the border defense of the Jingxiang Garrison Area.
In 1927, after Wu Peifu failed to fight against the revolutionary army in the south, Chiang Kai-shek took a fancy to Yu Xuezhong. Jiang sent people to contact Yu Xuezhong, hoping that he would lead his troops to the Fu Revolutionary Army, and also brought him a letter of appointment to appoint him as the commander-in-chief of the border regions of Sichuan, Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi. Yu Xuezhong saw the situation and said angrily, "He appointed me?" I still want to appoint him!" I don't wear his Kuomintang hat on this head! And tore the letter of appointment to pieces, not giving old Jiang any face."
But Old Jiang still gave him face, and after he defected to the Northeast Army, he participated in the Xi'an Incident, but Old Jiang still did not pursue his responsibility. It is said that old Chiang had a habit of writing comments about his generals in a small notebook he carried with him. To Zhang Xueliang, Jiang's comment was "big things are confused, small things are shrewd." The evaluation of Xuezhong is: "Two eyes are shining, loyal to people, is a general." It shows that Old Jiang is very appreciative of Xuezhong.
Although Yu Xuezhong said that "he will not wear the hat of the Kuomintang in this life", he still showed loyalty to the country and the nation when the country was unified and defended against foreign enemies.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yu Xuezhong, then commander-in-chief of the 3rd Group, led his troops to participate in the Battle of huaihe in January 1938, personally leading 25,000 people from 2 divisions to defend Bengbu and withstanding the crazy attack of 40,000 people from 3 japanese divisions and regiments at Linhuai Pass. In the defense for 8 consecutive days, the 51st Army suffered 7,000 casualties, and the Japanese suffered more than 9,000 casualties. He later led his troops to participate in the Battle of Taierzhuang and the Defense of Wuhan.
In February 1939, Yu Xuezhong took the initiative to ask Chiang Kai-shek for help, led three armies to fight guerrilla warfare in Shandong, behind the enemy, and commanded the 51st and 57th armies to march from the Eyu-Anhui area of dabie Mountain to The Longhai and Jinpu Road behind the enemy, and to resist the Eighth Route Army side by side with the Eighth Route Army at the junction of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. By the end of September 1943, during the 5 years of the Lunan War of Resistance, the army suffered heavy casualties, but the number of enemy killed more than 10,000 people, and the puppet army was no less than thousands, which contained the strength of the 4 divisions of the Japanese army in the Lunan area and dispersed the strength of the enemy's frontal attack.
As a result, he became a famous anti-Japanese general in China.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yu Xuezhong faded out of the military circles and was reappointed to a vacant post such as vice president of the Military Senate. Old Jiang retreated to Taiwan in defeat and urged him to go to Taiwan, but he lived in seclusion in the countryside of Sichuan.
When he was in the Northeast Army, he knew that there were members of our party in his ranks, and he turned a blind eye; during his time in Shandong, he lived in harmony with our Eighth Route Army, because he had only one purpose in mind: "Only resist Japan and not fight a civil war." The chairman once commented on him as "sincerely patriotic," a "friend of the Communist Party," and a "personal friend."
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yu Xuezhong successively served as a member of the People's Government of Hebei Province, a member of the National Defense Commission, and the director of the Sports Commission of Hebei Province, and died on September 22, 1964, at the age of 74. As a famous anti-Japanese patriotic general, Yu Xuezhong's ashes were buried in the Babaoshan Martyrs Cemetery.
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