Ling Pressi, born in 1891, a native of Rong County, Guangxi, graduated from Guangxi Daowutang.
Rong County, Guangxi is a general county, and during the Great Era, there were Huang Shaohu, Huang Xuchu, He Zhuguo, and Gan Lichu.
Here to talk about digressions, the soldiers in Guangxi are very good, with the saying of "wolf soldiers in the world".
American General Stilwell once said that the Guangxi soldier is the best soldier in the world, and this Stilwell is a Chinese passer.
Marshal Peng Dehuai once described the Gui Army as fierce as a tiger and as vicious as a wolf. At that time, the Red Army was on the Long March Road, trying to avoid fighting with the Gui Army.
In 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Ling Pressi served as the deputy commander of the 176th Division of the Forty-eighth Army, and then went north to resist the Japanese and led his troops to participate in the Battle of Songhu.
In November 1937, the 176th Division of the 48th Army of the Gui Army retreated from Shanghai to Xiaofeng, Zhejiang, and the original plan was to take a short rest and then drive to western Zhejiang to assemble.
Xiaofeng is located in the northern foothills of Tianmu Mountain, the city is not large, but the products are abundant, the supply is convenient, there are Barriers of Tianmu Mountain on the southeast side, enemy aircraft rarely invade here, and it is very suitable for troops to rest after the war.
At this time, the Japanese army pressed towards Xiaofeng, with the purpose of cutting off the rear road of the Nationalist army in the Hangzhou area, and the southeastern region of Zhejiang was also about to be occupied by the Japanese army.
The 176th Division received orders from its superiors to be responsible for the rear of the palace and cover the transfer of the main force.
The 176th Division administered the 526th Regiment, the 527th Regiment, and the 528th Regiment, with division commander Ou Shounian and deputy division commander Ling Pressixi.
Division Commander Ou Shounian gave the task to the 527th Regiment, and deputy division commander Ling Pressi was in charge of command.
When the headquarters of the 48th Army began to move, the Japanese troops in Changxing, Si'an and other places attacked Xiaofeng with about a brigade.
Around mid-December, the Japanese army was approaching Xiaofeng and began to make contact with the Gui army.
The task of the 176th Division was to cover the transfer of the main force, and there was no need for a fierce battle with the enemy, but it was necessary to cross the Tianmu Mountain at an altitude of 1500 meters, the mountain road was rugged and narrow, the army was very slow, and the rear guard troops could only start the transfer after covering the main force to safely pass through tianmu Mountain.
Therefore, it was necessary to turn the rear guard battle into a position war, starting from Xiaofeng, building fortification positions, and in order to complete the task, it had to fight and retreat.
The Japanese army destroyed the position of the Gui army with artillery fire and directly entered the long army.
The Gui army was also very tenacious, continued to use alleys, houses and other buildings as a cover, insisted on taking steps as a battalion, resisted step by step, and fought fiercely for two days and one night, so that the Japanese army could not endanger the main force of the Gui army.
When the 176th Division retreated in a state of anxiety with the Japanese, the Japanese did not give up and continued to follow in pursuit.
The 176th Division was again forced to fight and retreat, blocking the enemy's advance all the way.
When retreating to the mouth of the valley in the northern foothills of Tianmu Mountain, only small roads could be used for single people in the valley, and the rest were cliffs, and the Gui army could not advance rapidly, nor could it advance in a column.
Until dark, the retreat was not completed, and at this time there was a feeling that there was a pursuit of soldiers and no way forward.
The Gui army did not stop at nothing, turned back, attacked with defense, and strongly counterattacked, forcing the Japanese army to retreat.
The Gui army crossed the valley and came to The Ridge, and the Japanese army followed, and the 176th Division knew that it could not get rid of the Japanese army's desperate pursuit.
Ling Pressi knew that from Xiaofeng to Yuqian, he must cross Tianmu Mountain, and the Mountain was a must-pass place, and once the Japanese army crossed Tianmu Mountain, it could go straight down to Qian, Tonglu, Jinhua and other places.
Therefore, the Gui army chose to block the Japanese army at The Ridge, where the terrain is complex, which is conducive to the operation of the Gui Army, and since then the Battle of the Ridge has been on the verge of breaking out.
On December 21, the Battle of Guling began, and the Japanese bombarded the positions of the 176th Division with mortars and machine guns.
In order to block the Japanese attack, Ling Pressi personally commanded on the front line, fighting fiercely with the Japanese army on the one hand, and strengthening the repair fortifications on the other hand to ensure that the mountain was firmly held.
It was winter, the mountain area was snowy, the climate was harsh, the troops were short of clothes, the conditions were harsh, and many soldiers guarding The Shangfeng Mountain had many frostbite and frostbite.
On 22 December, the Japanese continued to reinforce, suppressing the gui fire with heavy machine guns and rushing to the positions of the 176th Division.
The 176th Division suffered heavy casualties until it was evacuated at dawn.
In the Battle of Zhiling, the Gui army played the spirit of Chinese soldiers, fearing life and death, and fighting desperately.
In modern history, tianmu mountain has taken place three more famous battles, the first of which was a contest between the Gui army and the Japanese army.
The second was a contest between the Nationalist 28th Army and the Japanese army, which was originally the Xiang Army, and later stationed in the Zhejiang gan area, recruiting many Zhejiang people.
The Third Battle of Tianmushan was a battle between the People's Liberation Army and the Nationalist Army commanded by Su Yu, and it is not described here.