The Guangxi soldiers are the most capable of fighting, the fiercest, and the most fierce army in China, and they have been known as "wolf soldiers" since the Ming Dynasty.
Deng Xixian was a native of Sichuan, but when someone asked him during the Long March where the soldiers fought the most fiercely, he spoke in his hometown dialect: "Soldiers from Guangxi, don't be killed when you start a war." ''
How did the great man evaluate the Guangxi soldiers: The southern provinces that can fight wars, Guangxi, are the first, Guangdong is second, Hunan is third, and Jiangxi is fourth. (Memoirs of Wang Dongxing)
Zeng Guofan, who had dealt with the Taiping Army for more than ten years, also said: "The combat effectiveness of 300,000 yuan in the middle and late period of the Long Mao (Taiping Army) is far inferior to the 30,000 in Guangxi. ''
Why are guangxi soldiers so powerful? I have analyzed this in many articles, and I am still willing to discuss it here.
A careful study of Chinese history reveals that since the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains of China have always been beaten by ethnic minorities in the north, and at the beginning it was the border people who were harassed and their property looted. The ethnic minorities in the era of cold weapons were not afraid of the Han army at all, and once we passed the move, we rarely won, and sometimes the short peace was bought by bribes of money and money. The reason why some dynasties did not lose land on a large scale was because the nomadic people did not have that overall plan, they were free and accustomed, and they did not want to bother to live a settled life and occupy and rule a strange agricultural area.
When they gradually developed and changed their minds in the later period, and were willing to attack the city strategically, under the hard-hitting situation, the Han army was definitely not an opponent of others. Only in the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing, a semi-fishing, hunting, and half-farming nation that was more ruthless and more means than the nomads, was able to deal with the situation in the north.
However, the Qing army under Manchu rule later also became a paper tiger, and was almost repeatedly defeated in foreign wars.
Why?
Mainly after successive rulers attacked the world, they were afraid of the people's rebellion and carried out education for the ignorant and weak people. If they are to be obedient and carry out high-handed rule, they only need to obey, they are not allowed to question, they only need to study well, cultivate the fields well, and be good gentlemen, and they are not allowed to have a little fighting spirit.
During the Song Dynasty, the people were not allowed to strengthen their bodies, and they were even more afraid of the people's practice of martial arts and soldiers, and even collected and burned the books of soldiers.
After many years of slavery education, the Chinese nation has long lost the will to resist in its genes, and the foreign rulers have also lost the wolf nature of nomadic and fishing and hunting peoples, and the people see the people in the official government fighting on two legs, and the officers and soldiers do not know what to do when they see the invaders.
Kangxi also used this trick when he leveled the Mongols, it turned out that the Mongols were fierce and brave, Kangxi built many lama temples in Mongolia, let Mongolian men become monks to the Buddha, after decades of chanting education, the number of those bloody and brave Mongolian Hanzi is also getting smaller and smaller.
In a word, in order to stabilize the regime, they need to change the people from wild to captive, and once the country is in trouble, the emperor can only be slaughtered.
Guangxi is an exception, why do you say so?
Guangxi was a foreign land in that year, the Emperor of Heaven was far away, and the influence of the rulers passed through thousands of rivers and mountains, and guangxi has been greatly diluted and weakened. In addition, Guangxi has a large number of ethnic minorities, which is a barbaric land, and successive rulers have been too lazy to manage, and their autonomy is very large, and there is no way to carry out political and ideological education smoothly.
Even during the Republic of China period, when Chiang Kai-shek was under autocracy, the warlords in Guangxi only nominally obeyed the central authorities, but in fact they did not bird chiang at all. When the Red Army was active in Xianggan and Fujian, the Guangxi warlords neither allowed the Red Army to enter their territory, nor resolutely allowed the Kuomintang Central Army to enter Guangxi, nor did they cooperate with Lao Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the plot. The Guangxi troops also surrounded and disarmed the Central Army, which had followed the Red Army and entered Guangxi, and only after receiving Chiang Kai-shek's promise not to enter Guangxi did they return the troops with guns.
Therefore, Guangxi, which has failed in brainwashing the most, has become the most capable army in China, and the combat effectiveness of the army that can fight is naturally not ambiguous. And Guangxi, the de facto independent kingdom, can let go of the purchase of advanced weapons and conscript troops when there is no obstacle from Chiang Kai-shek, and the strength of the army is naturally unmatched.
In the Sino-Japanese Battle of Songhu, the Kuomintang Central Army came up and filled in all the cases, and all local warlords were recruited to use their lives, and the Performance of the Guangxi Gui army was more eye-catching and impressive.
While the other Kuomintang troops were defeated and retreated, Zhuge Bai Chongxi let the trumpeters blow the charge trumpet, and 60,000 Guangxi disciples marched like wolves and tigers braving the japanese artillery fire. The Toyo soldiers who were burying their heads in pursuit were confused and panicked.
Although the Battle of Songhu ended in the overall defeat of the Nationalist army, the eye-catching performance of the Gui clan on the battlefield made the Guangxi wolf soldiers famous, the morale of the Chinese army was boosted, and the arrogance of the Japanese army was hit.
The Japanese generals even lamented that if they wanted to conquer China, they must first defeat the Xiang Army.
During the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Zongren took the initiative to ask for help, and the Guangxi army went to the anti-Japanese front in East China and Central China and participated in several major battles, such as the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Huaihe, the Battle of Wuhan, and the Battle of Suizao. In Guangxi, he participated in the Battle of Guinan and the Battle of Guiliu, and repeatedly resisted the invading Japanese army.
In the 8 years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Guangxi recruited more than 940,000 troops, and although the total number was less than that of Sichuan, according to the proportion of population, the number of troops sent ranked first in the country.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, according to the statistics of the National Government, if you add the logistics of Guangxi people, a total of more than two million people in Guangxi directly and indirectly participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and more than 300,000 people sacrificed their lives for the country.
The ratio of population to many provinces is 30:1, and even some coastal provinces are 80:1, Sichuan, which has the most troops, is 16:1, while Guangxi is 12:1, ranking first in the country.
General Peng Da also said with emotion that the Yunnan Army qianjun has two sheep, and the Xiang army is a wolf. Fierce as a tiger and as vicious as a wolf!