History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
In the War of Resistance, the Kuomintang army sacrificed 9 senior generals above the rank of commander, Wang Jia was one of them, and he was the only one who died with the Japanese bayonet.
General Wang Jiaben, tall and mighty, was a typical soldier, and he was a mighty soldier who raised his hands and feet, and at first glance he was an expert in leading soldiers to fight.
(Wang Jiaben)
In fact, he was an authentic teacher training graduate, who abandoned congrong because of major changes in his family. Originally, he would have become a teacher rather than a professional soldier.
After Wang Jiaben was also a general, his father Wang Guodong graduated from the Yunnan Daowu Hall, and was a classmate of Zhu De, Fan Shisheng, Yang Ruxuan, and others, especially with Zhu De, who had a deep friendship, and partnered with Zhu De to suppress bandits in southern Yunnan and served as a deputy town guard in southern Yunnan. However, he died of illness in 1917. Then his wife died. In this way, the young Wang Jiaben was forced to abandon Wen Congwu, and with the financial support of his uncle Wang Huairen, he was also admitted to the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall the following year, and became a soldier from then on.
After Wang Jiaben graduated from the Yunnan Daowutang, he first followed Gu Pinzhen to Sichuan and Yunnan, and then followed his righteous father Fan Shisheng to Guangdong and Guizhou, attacking Chen Jiongming and Shen Hongying.
(Yunnan Daowutang)
In October 1927, after the Defeat of the Nanchang Rebel Army in Chaoshan Province, Zhu De and Chen Yi led the remaining troops of less than a thousand people, who were in a difficult situation and turned to the Area of Gannan Zixin. At this time, Fan Shisheng was stationed in Chenzhou. Wang Jiaben, as the son of a close confidant and a close friend of Zhu De and Fan Shisheng, accompanied Fan Shisheng to meet with Zhu De in Rucheng. After that, top-secret matters such as the cooperation between Zhu and Fan's two armies were all approached by Wang Jiaben. In January 1928, Chiang Kai-shek learned of Zhu De's information that the pseudonym Wang Kai was hidden in FanBu, and ordered Fan Shisheng to arrest Zhu De immediately. After Fan Shisheng received the telegram, he immediately sent Wang Jiaben to send a secret letter to Zhu De. After hearing the news, Zhu De immediately led his troops to move to Shonan and got out of danger. As a result, Wang Jiaben had a "pro-communist plot".
The contradiction between Fan Shisheng's army stationed in Guangdong and the Yue army with the head snake has a long history, and in order to compete for territory and grain and pay taxes, the two sides have quarreled fiercely, and the situation is the same as water and fire. In 1929, when Chiang Kai-shek was in the army formation, Yu Hanmou, then chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Government, personally went to Shaoguan to reorganize Fan Shisheng's 16th Army into the 51st Division, and then disarmed the 51st Division. Wang Jiaben was the brigade commander of the 151st Brigade of the 51st Division, and led a regiment of loyal subordinates to defect to Chiang Kai-shek's beloved general Chen Cheng.
(Fan Shisheng)
Chen Cheng's selection of cadres has one condition: "He is not greedy for money, is not afraid of death, can lead soldiers, can fight wars, and has no bad habits." Wang Jiaben was honest and upright, just and upright, strict in governing the army and able to fight well, and soon gained Chen Cheng's trust and love. In 1935, Chen Cheng sent Wang Jiaben to Nanjing Army University to study, and later entered the army university general officer class for further study. After graduation, Wang Jiaben was appointed by Chen Cheng as the deputy commander of the 98th Division and became a member of the Civil Engineering Department.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Wang Jiaben led the 98th Division to participate in the famous Battle of Songhu and was the main force of the Central Army. Every time when mobilizing for battle, Wang Jiaben had to shout loudly to the officers and men: "The War of Resistance Against Japan is a national war, a war that has a bearing on the life and death of our country and nation, we should not be slaves to the country, the war of resistance to the end, the final victory must belong to us..." The 98th Division besieged Guangfu and stubbornly defended Baoshan. In the Battle of Luodian, the unit killed the commander of the 6th Wing of the Japanese 3rd Division, Kuranaga Tatsuji Daisa, which made the Japanese Kou terrified. In the city of Baoshan County, the Yao Ziqing battalion of the whole battalion was the 3rd Battalion of the 583rd Regiment of the 98th Division under Wang Jiaben.
After the defeat of Songhu, Wang Jiaben led his troops to continue to fight in Anhui.
In the spring of 1938, he met his compatriot Luo Binghui, a famous general of the New Fourth Army, in Ninggu, Anhui. Both were of great stature, brave and good at war, had never met before, only heard their names. After meeting, the two joined hands to resist the enemy, fight against the Japanese army, and successively retake Xuancheng, Honglin Bridge, Shuidong and other places. After the war, Wang Jiaben ordered the Ordnance Department to supply Luo Binghui's troops with 200,000 rounds of ammunition.
200,000 rounds of ammunition is not a small amount, enough to equip a brigade. Especially for the New Fourth Army, which lacks guns and ammunition, it is a charcoal in the snow.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Jiaben was known for his good at fighting hard battles and vicious battles, and he participated in four battles of Changsha and achieved great military merit. In the First Battle of Changsha, he led a counter-offensive to retake Tongcheng, fighting for 11 consecutive days, covering Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, and achieving the result of annihilating more than 2,000 Japanese troops. In the 3rd Battle of Changsha, he served as the commander-in-chief of the periphery, which annihilated more than 56,000 enemy troops, and Wang Jiaben was praised as a "hard war general" at the theater commendation meeting, and was included in the military conference manual. After October 1941, Wang Jiaben succeeded Xia Chuzhong and was promoted to lieutenant general of the 79th Army and commander of the 98th Division, at the age of 40.
In May 1944, the Japanese army launched the Battle of Yuxianggui, trying to open up the Guangdong-Han and Xianggui railway lines in one fell swoop. However, Chiang Kai-shek's judgment of the Japanese army's strategic intentions and the main direction of attack was unclear, and the handling was unprepared, and the Nationalist army could only resist step by step and fortify everywhere, but it could not stop the Japanese army's fierce offensive. Wang Jiaben's 79th Army was ordered to move south and garrison the enemy in the area of Changde and Xiangtan. He led his troops to fight with the enemy and stubbornly resisted. After paying a relatively large sacrifice, the results of annihilating more than 10,000 enemy people were achieved in half a month, which caused a great shock on the frontal battlefield. It was precisely because wang Jiaben stabilized the war situation in Xianggui and slowed down the great rout of the frontal battlefield.
In September, the Japanese army launched a pincer offensive along both sides of the Xianggui Railway, and Wang Jiaben led the 79th Army to attack 150 kilometers south from the outskirts of Hengyang, reaching the line of Dong'an, Lengshuitan and Honglu Temple in Shonan, preparing to block the Japanese army. On the morning of September 7, when Wang Jiaben led the pistol platoon to Yamaguchipu, the 292nd Regiment of the Xiang Minsi 98th Division, which had agreed to come to meet him, did not appear as scheduled. Unexpectedly, the Japanese troops of the brigade met Wang Jiaben's small detachment in a narrow road, and Wang Jiaben decisively fought with the Japanese army with bayonets and engaged in hand-to-hand combat, but unfortunately, he was stabbed by the Japanese army and died at the side of the Yuji Pavilion. The accompanying aide-de-camp Wu Zhenke was also killed.
When Fu Yuanchi, commander of a certain machine gun company of the follow-up unit, arrived with his troops, General Wang Jiaben was still angry and full-eyed, his god was mighty, his body stood against the corners of the pavilion pillar and the pavilion railing, the flesh and blood blurred double palm knives were scarred, the chest and abdomen were stabbed open by bayonets, the blood flowed, both shoulders and neck were slashed by the battle knife, and the wound was several inches deep. They desperately snatched the body of the commander.
Wang Jiaben was the only commander in the War of Resistance who died fighting with the enemy's bayonet.
After the bad news of Wang Jiaben's martyrdom spread, Zhu De, who was then the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, was so sad that he sent someone to mourn and present Himen:
"Dong'an County's Sadness Day Yuji Pavilion Side Mixed Heaven"
Horizontal batch: National hero of the anti-Japanese resistance
Wang Jiaben