Resisting Japan and fighting devils, he shouldered heavy burdens, and the troops were wiped out; in the civil war, he did not do it, resigned and went home!
Su Zuxin, whose ancestral home is Guangdong, but was born in Rong County, Guangxi, was a classmate of Huang Shaohu and Bai Chongxi, and was also a famous general in the Kuomintang army, especially in the War of Resistance Against Japan, who was famous for undertaking the most arduous combat tasks without dropping the chain.
In October 1937, Su Zuxin served as the commander of the 135th Division of the 31st Army, under the jurisdiction of two brigades and four regiments, a total of 9900 people, and went to East China to fight against Japan.
(Su Zuxin)
In January 1938, Su Zuxin led his troops to fight the Japanese army in Mingguang.
On the 12th, 500 or 600 Japanese troops attacked the Mingguang Security Brigade and took Mingguang lightly. On the second day, the Northeast Army counterattacked and recaptured Mingguang. On the third day, the Japanese army increased its counter-attack, and Mingguang was lost. On the fourth day, Su Zuxin led the 809th Regiment to counterattack, severely defeating the Japanese army and recapturing Mingguang again. After that, the Japanese army increased in large numbers, from 800, 1000, 2000, 3000, 5000, and finally reached 7000 people, tanks, artillery, Su Zuxin led the fierce battle until the evening of January 30, only to withdraw and move.
In the Battle of Mingguang, the Japanese suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and the 135th Division suffered casualties and missing a total of 1,182 people.
(Gui Army)
In early February, the 135th Division retreated from Fengyang, Liufu, and Liankewudian, Kaocheng, and Shangyao. The fierce battle on the Huai River made the Japanese army pay a huge price and crushed its strategy of attacking from the north to the south.
In early April, the Fifth Theater achieved an unprecedented victory in Taierzhuang in annihilating more than 10,000 enemy troops. Because of his resolute execution of orders and heavy damage to the strong enemy, Su Zuxin was credited with a great merit.
When the army was withdrawn at Taierzhuang, he led his troops to cover the retreat of the commander's department and marched at night for three consecutive days. On May 30, the elite 13th Division of the Japanese Army stormed Zhengyang Pass. Su Zuxin was ordered to hold and cover the retreat of the 48th Army and the Huaibei Corps. He fought fiercely with the Japanese army for five days, ensuring the transfer of the main force, and the whole division suffered more than 1200 casualties.
(135th Division)
In July, in order to suck the Japanese army to the Susong Taihu area to annihilate, Su Zuxin was ordered to turn to the Erlang River. The whole division fought fiercely with a brigade of the Japanese army in Zhujiaqiao, Fenghuangling, Huayiting and other places. After a month of fierce fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties. When the 135th Division finally withdrew, it was less than two battalions in strength.
Subsequently, the 31st Army incorporated the 131st Division into the 135th Division.
Then, Su Zuxin was responsible for holding Pingjing Pass and delaying the Japanese invasion of Wuhan and covering the retreat of friendly troops. He led the tired division to hold Pingjing Pass, stop the strong enemy, and fought a bloody battle for seven days and nights, annihilating more than 1,200 enemy people, and inflicting more than 1,500 casualties and disappearing himself.
(Guangxi Troops)
In October, Wuhan fell, and in less than a year, the 135th Division was almost destroyed and ordered to return to Guilin for supplementary training. Su Zuxin rebuilt the 135th Division, with only three regiments and a total of 5,000 soldiers, nearly half less than when the War of Resistance against Gui.
A year later, the Japanese attacked Guangxi. Bai Chongxi urgently sent a car to send the 135th Division to Nanning for defense. Because there were not enough cars, many officers and soldiers followed on foot. Su Zuxin led his troops to participate in the Nanning Defense War and the Kunlun Pass Operation. For his meritorious service, in July 1940 he was appointed acting commander of the 48th Army.
At this time, he received a series of telegrams from his family, and he knew that his father was critically ill. When he returned home due to the delays of the war, his father had died of illness. He hurriedly took care of the funeral, bid farewell to his wife, returned to command the Battle of Longzhou, Kefu Longzhou, the Japanese army fled to Vietnam, and Guinan once again became the rear of the Anti-Japanese War.
In March 1942, Su Zuxin was officially appointed commander of the 48th Army, stationed in Anhui. On the morning of the same day, several enemy planes flew over the 48th Army Camp for reconnaissance. Suddenly, an enemy plane flew from the direction of Nanjing, with a particularly loud sound and a low flight. Because the fog was particularly large and it was not clear to see, officers and men carried more than a dozen machine guns and hit the plane indiscriminately, and after a few minutes of fighting, a fire ball fell from the fog.
It turned out that the enemy plane had fallen. After inspection, it was a post aircraft of the 3rd Division of the Japanese 13th Army, and all 11 people on board were burned to death, including the commander of the Japanese 11th Army, General Atsuta, and the senior coal Fujiwara Takedasa.
Su Zuxin also created a record: in the War of Resistance, he killed the highest-ranking general of the Japanese army, and killed the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, general Zhentian.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Su Zuxin made great achievements in battle. In August 1945, he was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the Twenty-first Army and commander of the 48th Army. After Japan announced its surrender, he served as a demotionary officer in Anqing.
(Su Zuxin in the front row)
However, shortly after the surrender, the commander-in-chief Li Pinxian formulated a specific plan to launch a civil war and prepared to "suppress the communists" in northern Jiangsu. Su Zuxin hated the civil war and wanted the country to become rich and strong, expressed indifference to his plans, and resolutely submitted his resignation.
In the autumn of 1946, Su Zuxin returned to her hometown in Guangxi and became the only deputy commander-in-chief of the group army in the Kuomintang who resigned and did not fight a civil war. The civil war became more and more fierce, and later some diehards accused him of being a "deserter", and Su Zuxin replied: "I have fulfilled my responsibilities to the country, and I am not ashamed in my heart." ”
In the summer of 1949, Su Zuxin moved to Hong Kong to settle down, and some old people advised him to go to Taiwan, but he did not go, and died of illness in Hong Kong in May 1963.