We all know that Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Huang Shaozhen are also called the three ministers of the Gui clan, in fact, there is another important general in the Gui clan, known as the fourth person of the Gui clan, this is Li Pinxian, who started with the Hunan warlord Tang Shengzhi, and then relied on Bai Chongxi to promote his rank, and finally became a second-class general of the Kuomintang army.
Li Pinxian was born in a rich family, familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics from childhood, the writing skills are very natural and thick, he originally wanted to have a career in literature, because of carelessness, missed a page of examination papers. Led to the name of the Fall sun mountain. Li Pinxian, who was destroyed in the literary world, switched to the military service, so he was admitted to Cai Yi's establishment of the Guangxi Army Primary School in Guilin, and thus began his career of abandoning literature and learning martial arts.
Because of his rich writing skills, in the military school theory and practical courses, Li Pinxian belonged to the top students, and he really went to the Baoding Military Academy to study at the first phase of the Baoding Military Academy under the sponsorship of the school, where he met Tang Shengzhi, and Li Pinxian officially started with Tang Shengzhi and began to lay a foundation in his career.
After graduating from the military academy, Li Pinxian went to Guangxi to take up a post, but everything did not go well, and there was a feeling that his ambition was not rewarded, so he went to Hunan to vote for Tang Shengzhi and officially participated in the War of Defending the French, the War of Xiangzhi, and the War of Protecting the Constitution under the leadership of Tang, and Li Pinxian also made many military achievements. With the promotion of Tang Shengzhi, Li Pinxian also rose, and in just a few years, he became the brigade commander of the Xiang Army, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Pinxian started with Tang Shengzhi.
In the subsequent Northern Expedition, Li Pinxian fought against his direct descendant Sun Chuanfangbu, and also made many military achievements, and then was promoted to the commander of the Eighth Army. Later, when the Jiang-Tang War broke out, Tang Shengzhi was forced to go to the wilderness, and all his troops were also absorbed by the Gui clan, so Li Pinxian became a Gui general again.
Li Pinxian, who first joined the Gui clan, was not reused by Bai Chongxi, and it was not smooth sailing on the road to Gui, and Li Pinxian, who originally joined the Gui clan, was appointed by Bai Chongxi as the commander of a local security regiment, and this was done for three years. It was not until the summer of 1935, when Ye Qi, chief of staff of the Gui Army headquarters, fell off his horse and died, that Li Pinxian was remembered and asked him to take over as chief of staff.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it was also on the recommendation of Which Bai Chongxi that he served as the commander-in-chief of the Eleventh Group Army, under the jurisdiction of the three armies of the Seventh, Thirty-first, and Forty-eighth Armies, and marched to the front line of the War of Resistance.
In the anti-Japanese battlefield, Li Pinxian participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang, and under his command annihilated more than 10,000 of the main forces of the Japanese army in North China, Alum Valley and Banyuan, making a major contribution to the victory of Taierzhuang.
It is worth saying that Li Pinxian not only made great achievements in the military, but also had his own set of methods in training the troops, such as the 188 and 189 divisions he personally trained, which were called model divisions in the War of Resistance.
On October 23, 1939, Liao Lei, a general of the Gui clan, died of cerebral hemorrhage, and on the recommendation of Bai Chongxi, Li Pinxian attacked Anhui, became a major member of the party, concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army, and was promoted to the second rank of general of the army.
Under the management of Li Pinxian, the Japanese army tried to occupy it many times but failed to succeed, so An Wei failed to let the Japanese army occupy Li Pinxian to a great credit. Li Pinxian can fight but has a poor reputation, in the War of Resistance he stole the tomb of King Huai of Chu, and then let Song Meiling know about it, let Dai Kasa investigate the matter, although in the end it was not resolved, but Li Pinxian also left a name for thousands of years.