The strongest fighting force in Chiang Kai-shek's army is the five main forces, but in fact, there is an army whose combat effectiveness is above the five main forces, that is, the Steel Seventh Army, the fortune-making force of the Gui clan tycoons Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, so the successive commanders of the Seventh Steel Army are all unusual roles, and the last commander of the Seventh Army is Li Benyi. It was under his command that the Steel Seventh Army was annihilated by the four fields, and there was no longer such a name as the Steel Seventh Army in the world.
Li Benyi was born into poverty, after tasting the cold and warmth of the world, he decided to join the army to eat a mouthful of food, because he was not afraid of death on the battlefield, he was appreciated by Bai Chongxi, believing that Li Benyi would become a great instrument in the future, at that time Li Benyi lacked military theoretical knowledge, so Bai Chongxi paid for him to study at the Nanning Military Academy, and after returning from his studies, he became a general.
After the Battle of Songhu, Li Benyi was already the commander of the regiment, and by the time he arrived on the battlefield, the Kuomintang army had decided to retreat completely, because Li Benyi's regimental structure was intact, so he was given the task of covering the main force's retreat. In Li Benyi's defensive area, the Japanese army attacked with all its might, and Li Benyi also fought to the end with the determination to die, and finally the troops fought until only 200 people were left, and only then did they get the retreat order issued by their superiors, at which time Li Benyi was able to escape with the few remaining soldiers.
After that, he led the Gui army to fight a guerrilla war with the Japanese in the Dabie Mountains, and his troops were flexible and mobile, moving freely through the woods like monkeys, which made the Japanese suffer a lot.
However, Li Benyi did not concentrate on resisting Japan, he assisted Chiang Kai-shek in launching the Anhui Southern Incident, giving the New Fourth Army a fatal blow, and then the New Fourth Army was rebuilt, and Li Benyi often had friction with the New Fourth Army.
But Bai Chongxi is very serious about Li Benyi, even if he has many other behaviors and habits that are criticized. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Benyi led his troops into Nanjing, disregarded Chiang Kai-shek's face and boasted that he was the boss, amassed wealth at will in the city, and made a wish for the traitorous officials, and let many Huangpu generals jointly write a letter to Chiang Kai-shek.
Zhang Lingfu killed Meng Lianggu, precisely because of the infighting in the Seventh Army, did not wholeheartedly save the reorganized 74th Division, and afterwards all the relevant generals were punished, Li Benyi was no exception, sentenced to three years in prison, and it was Bai Chongxi who rescued Li Benyi, changing his punishment from three years to three months, and after his release from prison, he took over as the commander of the Seventh Army.
At the end of the Liberation War, the Seventh Steel Army was annihilated by Siye, and Li Ben fled to Guangxi for refuge, but he was liberated before he could move To Guangxi, and he was captured by the People's Liberation Army in Pingnan. Because Li Benyi killed innocents indiscriminately during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and committed a deep crime, he was sentenced to death, and he became the only military commander to be shot in the Liberation War.