As we all know, during the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, many patriotic generals appeared in our country, not only in our army, but also in the Kuomintang army, and although they had different positions, they all had the same belief. Although he is not a general of our army, his merits in the War of Resistance Against Japan are enormous; he once commanded 99 regiments to fight, and after returning to China in his later years, six marshals of our country took the wind and dust for him, and he was Wei Lihuang.
Later generations have said that General Wei Lihuang was a well-deserved tiger general, and in his military career, he always put the interests of the country in the first place. In 1937, when the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on Shanxi, General Wei Lihuang led a mixed force composed of the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army, the Sichuan Army and the Eighth Route Army, and quickly reinforced the Yanxishan Department in Shanxi. And in the battle against the Japanese army in Shanxi, he successively invested more than 99 regiments and nearly 10,000 people to participate in the battle, firmly involving the main force of the Japanese army in Shanxi, and could not advance half a step.
In formulating operational strategies, Zhu De often discussed with Wei Lihuang until late at night, and the leaders of our army also presented Wei Lihuang with a copy of "On Protracted War." Because Wei Lihuang always stood on the stand of concentrating on resisting Japan and refused to withhold the strategic resources of our army in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's orders, coupled with his high position, for a while, he became the target of criticism and struggle of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and even directly deprived him of his military power.
Later, because of the strategic differences between Wei Lihuang and Chiang Kai-shek, which led to the defeat of the Kuomintang army, Wei Lihuang was dismissed from his post and investigated, and he was also condemned as a Kuomintang war criminal. After he heard about the establishment of our country, under the arrangements of the relevant organizations, he secretly returned to the motherland from Hong Kong. On the day of his return, the six marshals of our country personally accompanied him and washed the dust for him.