Wei Lihuang was born in 1897 in An ordinary peasant family in Weiyang Village, Hefei, Anhui Province, and was particularly interested in military training from an early age. Wei Lihuang, who was not yet an adult during the 1912 War against Yuan, joined the struggle with his eldest brother, and in 1916, Wei Lihuang went south to Guangzhou and entered the Cantonese Army. Later, because of his outstanding performance in the battle against local warlords in Guangdong, he was promoted to battalion commander at the age of 22.
In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wei Lihuang was still the superior of the Eighth Route Army, because when the Eighth Route Army belonged to Wei Lihuang's Fourteenth Army. After Lihuang was also the deputy commander-in-chief and the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, over time he had the best relationship with the senior generals of our army, and Wei Lihuang once gave 1 million bullets and 250,000 grenades to the Eighth Route Army. Banquets are also often held to entertain the senior generals of our army.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to avoid civil war, Wei Lihuang and his wife Han Quanhua went to the United States to investigate the military, and successively went to Britain, France, and other countries to visit and investigate. It was not until 1947 that he returned to China at the urging of his superiors in the Nationalist army to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Bandits, but because he refused to send troops, he was dismissed from his post and investigated. Later, after our army achieved a series of victories, our army published a list of 43 number one war criminals of the Nationalist army, and Wei Lihuang's name was ranked 13th.
However, due to Wei Lihuang's merits during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when he returned to the mainland later, the six marshals personally received the wind for him. After Wei Lihuang returned to China, he was also invited to attend state banquets many times. At the same time, the motherland provided favorable conditions for Wei Lihuang's life: at the beginning of Wei Lihuang's return to the mainland, the people's government allocated 500 yuan a month and also equipped him with a guard cook. On January 17, 1960, Wei Lihuang's old illness worsened and died at the age of 63 after being rescued by many parties. After his death, his ashes were buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.