The founding of New China could not be won by the efforts of one person or some people alone, and in the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, patriotic fighters were not lacking. In the face of national crisis, they stepped forward and led New China to victory.
During that period, there were very famous anti-Japanese generals, who made great efforts to drive out the invaders when the Japanese army invaded China, and Cai Tingkai was the famous anti-Japanese general we know. During the Battle of Songhu, he led the 19th Route Army to fight the Japanese army for 33 days, forcing the Japanese army to be unable to capture Shanghai. This battle made him famous and became an anti-Japanese hero.
Tailors joined the army
Cai Tingkai was also the child of a poor family, born in Guangdong in 1892. When he was 9 years old, his mother died, and in desperation, Cai Tingkai had to drop out of school and go home. When he was busy farming, he helped his father with farm work in the fields. His father was a tailor, and when he was fine, he would teach his son to learn how to make clothes, and wanted him to inherit his career and have a skill.
With the passage of time, Cai Tingkai is no longer satisfied with such a life. In his eyes, he saw foreign bullying against China, and the young man was very indignant about such a thing, and he wanted to join the army and contribute to the motherland. But this idea of his was refuted by his father, who helped him find a wife and let them get married, wanting to keep his son in this way, but marriage did not change Cai Tingkai's thinking, and in 1910, he joined the army on the pretext of going out to make clothes for others.
The Battle of Songhu defended the family and the country
In 1931, Cai Tingkai's 19th Route Army was ordered to defend the security of the Beijing-Shanghai line. In 1932, when the Japanese army wanted to invade Shanghai, the agreement between the Japanese army and Lao Jiang was to let the garrison of the Nineteenth Army retreat, and Lao Jiang agreed and sent someone to convey this order to Cai Tingkai.
Cai Tingkai frowned after receiving such an order, and then he decided to disobey Lao Jiang's order. He believed that Shanghai was China's territory, and they were China's army, and the Nineteenth Route Army had an obligation to protect China's territory from invasion. In this way, Cai Tingkai did not obey the orders of lao Jiang, and when the Japanese army launched an attack, Cai Tingkai led the Nineteenth Route Army to rise up to meet the enemy.
At that time, the situation was that the enemy was outnumbered, and the weapons of the Nineteenth Army were all light weapons, unlike the Japanese aircraft and tanks. Under such circumstances, Cai Tingkai led the Nineteenth Route Army in a bloody battle with the Japanese army for 33 days. At Cai Tingkai's insistence, the Japanese army's idea of occupying Shanghai was shattered. It was also because of Cai Tingkai's bravery that the generals of the Japanese army changed several times.
Cai Tingkai became famous in World War I, and after this battle, Cai Tingkai's actions were praised by the people of the whole country and overseas Chinese, and he was praised as a "national hero of the anti-Japanese war".
The Nanchang Uprising led 5,000 people to defect from the revolution
We all know that Cai Tingkai was a famous anti-Japanese general, and few people know that when he was in the Nanchang Uprising, he led more than 5,000 rebel troops to defect from the revolution. At the time of the Nanchang Uprising, Cai Tingkai was very reluctant to participate in the uprising, when he was the commander of the Tenth Division, and he led the troops to set out first, which was undoubtedly a good escape opportunity.
Therefore, after Cai Tingkai expelled the Communists in the ranks, he led his troops out of the rebel army and defected to Lao Jiang. This act of his had serious consequences, not only weakening the strength of the Nanchang rebel army, but also adversely affecting the development of the revolutionary ranks. The most important time was for the rebel army to lose in the Battle of Jieyang Fenshui.
After the founding of New China, Cai Tingkai still sided with the Communist Party, and in 1949, Cai Tingkai served as the vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, after which he made great contributions to the construction of New China. In 1968, Cai Tingkai died of illness at the age of 76.