Among all 449 graduates, we are more familiar with Qiu Qingquan, Zheng Jiemin, Zhong Song and others, but as far as the status of the military circles is concerned, the second phase of students in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are certainly relatively senior generals, such as Zhou Yiqun and Lu Deming, the early generals of our army. In the second phase of huangpu life, one of the generals who died was, of course, Li Shouwei, the commander of the 89th Army, and the backbone of Gu Zhutong's system.
Li Shouwei is a native of Suqian, Jiangsu (a hometown of Dongqiang brother?). In 1925, he was admitted to the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and after graduation, he served as a second lieutenant platoon leader in He Yingqin's military academy teaching regiment, and he can also be regarded as an officer of the Whampoa department. During the Northern Expedition, he had been promoted to the post of deputy battalion commander and battalion commander of the 3rd Division of the First Army, and his immediate superior was a senior general who influenced his fate: the division commander was Gu Zhutong, one of the eight great kongs of the Chiang kai-shek lineage, and the chief of staff of the division was Gu's classmate and fellow villager Han Deqin.
Since then, Li Shouwei has become the concubine of these two Baoding students in Chiang Kai-shek's army, and his military position has also been promoted all the way, Han Deloitte was already the deputy commander of the 52nd Division; during Han Deloitte's tenure as chairman of Jiangsu Province, he became the commander of the 1st Regiment of Jiangsu Security Regiment, and was soon promoted to deputy director and director of the Jiangsu Security Department; after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Han Deloitte was promoted to deputy commander of the 89th Army, and by 1940 he was officially appointed as the commander of the 89th Army and the head of the Central Military Academy in northern Jiangsu.
Li Shouwei was a hardcore follower of Lao Jiang and Gu Zhutong, and since 1934 he was the head of the secret organization "Fuxing Society" in Jiangsu, which shows his political outlook and loyalty to Lao Jiang, and he must be regarded as a member of the core circle of the Huangpu family. It is precisely because of this status that although the ability to fight wars is not good, the promotion of ranks has never been delayed, before the 52nd Division had participated in the third encirclement and suppression of the Jiangxi Soviet Area, the result was completely annihilated by the Red Army at Fangshiling, and more than 5,000 people below the division commander Han Deloitte were captured, and the final escape in the captive group included Li Shouwei, deputy commander of the Supplementary Regiment.
In July 1940, the New Fourth Army led by Chen Yi and Su Yu advanced into northern Jiangsu, and Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater of Operations, and Han Deqin, chairman of Jiangsu Province, regarded them as a thorn in their side and wanted to expel northern Jiangsu and then quickly, so they disregarded the overall situation of the joint anti-Japanese resistance and clashed with the troops of the New Fourth Army on many occasions. By the end of September, when the New Fourth Army was stationed in Huangqiao Town, Han Deloitte gathered more than 30,000 people and horses to attack the Jiangbei troops of the New Fourth Army in three ways, so the famous "Yellow Bridge Decisive Battle" broke out.
The troops dispatched by Han Deqin's recalcitrant army were divided into three groups, namely Li Shouwei's 89th Army, Onda's independent 6th Brigade, and the miscellaneous units of the local armed "Erli", of which Li Shouwei's troops were both regular troops and the largest force, and of course, the main force attacking Huangqiao. In fact, the 89th Army was originally upgraded and reorganized by the Jiangsu Security Regiment and the Police Force after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the two divisions under its jurisdiction, the 33rd and 117th Divisions, had less than 13,000 people, and their combat effectiveness was not strong, but they were full of confidence.
The "Jiangnan Command" of the New Fourth Army only had three columns of more than 7,000 troops crossing the river to the north, but Han Deqin and Li Shouwei collided with Su Yu, the god of war, who was then the deputy commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan Command, which was also li Shouwei's bad luck. In the decisive battle of Huangqiao, Chen Su first used the united front work to persuade the "Second Li" to stand still, block the attack of Li Shouwei's 89th Army with a column, and then concentrate the main two columns to use ambush warfare to first completely annihilate Onda's Independent 6th Brigade, and then turn around and attack the 89th Army with all its might.
Li Shouwei's troops also really could not help fighting, first the nearly 13,000 troops could not attack the town of Huangqiao, which was defended by the 2,000 New Fourth Army, and after the total army of the Weng Brigade was destroyed, it was completely counter-encircled by more than 7,000 New Fourth Army, and under the roundabout and fierce attack of the New Fourth Army, by the night of October 5, 1940, the 89th Army had collapsed in its entirety, and officers and soldiers had fled in all directions. In the end, of the more than 15,000 people sent by Han Deloitte, Chen Su eliminated more than 11,000 people in 12 regiments, basically even if the whole army was destroyed, and the front-line commander Li Shouwei also died in the rebellion, which was a fiasco.
So how did Lieutenant General Li Shouwei die? It turned out that when the 89th Army was defeated, Commander Li was fleeing for his life, and when he passed a small river called "Digging Ruler Ditch" (the name of the eight-foot ditch on a certain degree was wrong), he encountered a group of defeated soldiers, including his relatives of the same ethnic group (the department was originally the foundation of the local troops in Jiangsu).
When they saw the commander-in-chief riding a horse, they begged to take them along for a run, but Li Shouwei did not allow it, so the gang dragged the reins of the horse and did not let go, and the horse was startled during the dispute. The war horse rushed down the river, and Li Shouwei was dragged into the river and drowned, in fact, the river was only more than a meter deep, obviously the horse was too late to break free, so Li Shouwei not only fought the battle, but also died enough.
There are follow-up tidbits, Li Shouwei's wife Ma Shi is beautiful and charming, before going to Jiangbei, he entrusted his classmate Leng Xin to take care of it, and as a result, Li Shouwei's bones were not cold, and Leng Classmate took his widow. When the scandal came out, there was an uproar in the military circles, and Lao Jiang personally ordered Leng Xin to be removed from his post on the spot, which became another strange incident.