From the July 7 Incident in 1937 to August 1945, the Nationalist government launched 22 large-scale battles, 1,117 important battles and 28,931 small battles in the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. 3211419 national army killed, wounded, and missing. The Air Force lost 4,321 killed and destroyed 2,468 aircraft. Naval ships were largely depleted.
In the war against Japan, there were also countless generals of the Nationalist army who died, among them, hao Mengling, Tong Linge, Zhao Dengyu, Li Jiayu, Rao Guohua, Zhang Zizhong, and so on, who are familiar to us. Among them, there were the generals of the former 29th Army, the Central Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, the Cantonese Army, and the Xiang Army.
The general we are talking about today is from the Xiang Army, and his name is Li Jue. Li Jue graduated from the 9th term of the Baoding Military Academy, and when the War of Resistance Broke out, he was the commander of the 19th Division of the 70th Army of the Kuomintang, and he fought in the Battle of Songhu on August 13, and successively participated in the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Shanggao, and the Battle of Zhejiang, and fought until the Battle of Western Hunan and never went down to the line of fire.
One of his famous battles was the Battle of Jinguanqiao in the Battle of Wanjialing, when he was facing the main force of the 113th Regiment of the Japanese 106th Division and a chariot brigade under his command, this battle contributed greatly to the final victory of the Nationalist army in Wanjialing, and 1 Japanese soldier who participated in the battle recorded such a passage in his diary: The Imperial Army was met with strong resistance from the 19th Division, an elite unit of the "Indochina" Army, an unprecedented fierce battle, many squadron leaders and squad leaders died, the battle was still arduous, and the hope of reunion with their families was slim. "
In the "National Martyrdom" written by the famous writer Zhang Hongtao, Li Jue is also mentioned, calling him an eight-year anti-Japanese war, not in the line of fire, fighting with the Japanese army, and repeatedly frustrated and resigned. But it is such a famous general, but it is little known.