He was a famous general in the Cantonese Army, played the only bright spot in the defense of Nanjing, and lived on the help of the old Chiang Kai-shek in his later years
As we all know, the defense of Nanjing was fought very badly, the supreme commander Tang Shengzhi failed to live up to his oath of breaking the ship, and his sudden retreat order caused the nationalist generals who were still in the bloody battles in the trenches into chaos in an instant, resulting in 100,000 soldiers becoming lambs to be slaughtered in the hands of the Japanese army, and only 30% of the people who could escape the city of Nanjing alive in the end were only 30% of the people who went to the battle.
Of the 30,000 people who escaped, the vast majority of them were in a terrible state, and only Deng Longguang and Ye Zhao's troops could be called successful in breaking through, striking out the majesty of the Chinese army and becoming one of the few bright spots in the defense of Nanjing.
Deng Longguang, who was already very active during the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, once captured Liu Dechun under Wu Peifu in Wuhan Snake Mountain and made great military achievements. During the Anti-Japanese War, his official position reached the highest level as the commander-in-chief of the 35th Group Army, and he was known as one of the four famous generals of the Anti-Japanese Resistance in Guangdong.
When the order to retreat was received during the defense of Nanjing, the city of Nanjing had been surrounded by Japanese troops into iron barrels, and it was very difficult to break through. Many of the defeated soldiers and civilians were crowded by the river waiting to cross the river, and finally they were surrounded and killed by the enemy, and the blood stained the river red. Deng Longguang, unlike the panicked Nationalist troops, quickly contacted Ye Zhao, merging his 83rd Army and Ye Zhao's 66th Army into one army, with Ye Zhao's charge and opening the way, while he undertook more dangerous tasks behind the palace. Taking advantage of the attention of the Japanese army to be attracted by the battle on the riverside, the breakthrough army instantly came out of the trench, shouting Cantonese slogans, caught the Japanese off guard, pulled out a huge gap at once, and successfully broke out of the Guanghua Gate.
In the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan, Deng Longguang's performance also far exceeded that of other Kuomintang generals. In the Battle of Guinan in 1939, the Kuomintang army was difficult to withstand the enemy's attack, and after the war, many Kuomintang bigwigs, including Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng, made a review, and only Deng Longguang was praised by the Kuomintang for not only not losing his position, but also inflicting heavy damage on the Japanese army. In the Battle of Yuxianggui, the Japanese occupied the initiative in the war, but Deng Longguang, who was responsible for defending Liuzhou, resisted desperately in the context of the great rout, successfully delaying the normal march plan of the Japanese army.
Because he had made positive contributions to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Deng Longguang did not get chiang kai-shek's heavy use in the war of liberation, and after he fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, like the vast majority of old ministers who were hot in the mainland period, Deng Longguang also slowly faded out of Taiwan's political stage, and his life in Taiwan also became extremely difficult, and he had to accept the 100,000 New Taiwan dollars donated by Chiang Kai-shek and barely spent the rest of his life in Taiwan.