During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xue Yue served as the commander of the Ninth Theater, and at that time all the battles in the Ninth Theater were fought around changsha city, and friends who know history know that Hunan was the main battlefield in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, especially the victory in the Three Battles of Changsha, which defeated the enemy's vigor and improved the morale of our soldiers and civilians.
However, in the three battles of Changsha, there was a general who had always served as the main force, and he was also Xue Yue's most important general, which could be said to be used every time he stood, and this was Li Yutang.
Li Yutang, a native of Guangrao County, Shandong Province, graduated from the Huangpu Phase I, and was called "Shandong Sanli" with Li Yannian and Li Xianzhou in the Nationalist Army, and they were all fierce generals, although he graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy, he was not an old Jiang Concubine.
However, on the battlefield, Li Yutang was promoted by military merit, from the initial small soldier to the commander of the Tenth Army in the War of Resistance. In fact, at the beginning, Li Yutang was the commander of the Eighth Army, and at that time there were the 3rd Division, the 2nd Division, and the Reserve 11th Division, and the commander of the Second Division was Chen Mingren, who later became famous.
He was made the commander of the Tenth Army after the First Battle of Changsha, when the commander of the theater decided to merge the Eighth Army and the Tenth Army into a reorganization, or Li Yutang was the commander of the Tenth Army, and from then on, an ace army like Mount Tai was born.
In September 1941, the Second Battle of Changsha broke out, when Xue Yue let the Tenth Army defend Changsha, but due to the rapid changes in the battlefield, Xue Yue asked the Tenth Army to go to Gaoqiao, Jinjing, and Fulinpu to build fortifications and block the enemy.
In order to occupy Changsha, the Japanese army used the main force of the 3rd Division, the 6th Division and the 40th Division to attack Li Yutang's troops, and it should be known that the Sixth Division can be called an iron army in the Japanese army, which shows the strength of combat effectiveness.
In the face of the enemy's attack, the Tenth Army suffered heavy losses, and Lai Chuanxiang, the commander of the 109th Deputy Division, was martyred in this battle, so Li Yutang asked the Tenth Army to withdraw to the Dongshan, Liuyang River, and Laodao River on the outskirts of Changsha to build fortifications to block the Japanese army for four days and nights, it can be seen that the Tenth Army is a very defensive army, and the reinforcements came to the Tenth Army and the brother troops to counterattack the enemy army and repulse it, successfully crushing the Japanese dream of occupying Changsha for the second time.
However, after the war, Li Yutang was dismissed from his post because of the loss of Jinjing, but he found the opposition of all the officers and men of the Tenth Army, believing that in this battle, the Tenth Army had no merit and hard work, and it was enough not to reward it, so how could we still remove our commander from our post, so that the morale of all the officers and men of the Tenth Army would be low.
Moreover, in December, the Japanese army gathered heavy troops to launch the Third Battle of Changsha, this time Xue Yue decided to fight a big victory, and it was Li Yutang's Tenth Army to take on the heavy responsibility of defending Changsha.
The Third Battle of Changsha was also the most brilliant and highest peak of Li Yutang's military career, in the face of the attack of the enemy's three divisions, Li Yutang's troops successfully resisted the enemy's first attack, but under the coordinated operation of aircraft and tanks, the Japanese army entered Changsha City, but Li Yutang let the troops break into pieces and launched a street battle with the enemy army, until he insisted that the large troops rushed to Changsha to annihilate this Japanese army, which was also General Xue Yue's heavenly furnace tactics, and Changsha City was the furnace, and the defender of the furnace was Li Yutang.
In this battle, the 10th Army won the honorary title of "Taishan Army", and Li Yutang was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 27th Group Army, while the Tenth Army was commanded by Fang Xianjue, and in 1944, the Tenth Army Created Glory in Hengyang City, although defeated, but also brilliant.
However, it was such a famous general of the War of Resistance, why did he finally die! This had a lot to do with his wife, when Li Yutang and Chiang Kai-shek came to Taiwan, they suspected that his wife was suspected of being a communist, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was indiscriminate, laid down a black hand on this hero of the War of Resistance, but unfortunately Li Yutang, who had made meritorious contributions to the war, died at the hands of old Chiang Kai-shek.