Speaking of famous anti-Japanese generals, the first characters that emerge in everyone's mind must be Wang Yaowu, Xue Yue, Sun Liren, Liao Yaoxiang, Du Yuming, Zhang Zizhong and others. Mainly because of his poor reputation, he was regarded as a harm by the common people, and some even called him a bandit.
Although his reputation is poor, he also performed well in the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and was one of the most feared generals of the Japanese army, regarding him as the number one enemy. And this is also a famous anti-Japanese general, and a national army general who is called a harm by the common people, that is, "Tang Enbo".
Tang Enbo, a native of Jinhua, Zhejiang, was born into an ordinary family, and probably no one at that time thought that this child would become the king of the Central Plains who would shock the whole country in the future. Tang Enbo did not like to learn since he was a child, but he loved to get a gun without a knife, so when he grew up, he became a soldier. Coincidentally, he was assigned to the first division of the Zhejiang Army, Chen Yi, who was a nobleman of Tang Enbo, and it was his recommendation that Tang Enbo was sent to the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School to study. What a great opportunity, since then, Tombaugh's fate has also changed. You must know how important it is to have a noble person pull a hand on the road of life.
After crossing a layer of gold from abroad, Tang Enbo, who returned to China, still served under Chen Yi's troops, but at this time, Tang Enbo was already the chief of staff of the major, and compared with the previous big head soldiers, he was suddenly promoted several levels.
In 1928, through Chen Yi's introduction, Tang Enbo became acquainted with Chiang Kai-shek, and after a period of time together, Chiang Kai-shek admired him very much, saying that he was very capable of military ability. Later, he was also allowed to teach at the Whampoa Military Academy, and since then, Tang Enbo has changed his position step by step.
Especially in the Red Army's anti-encirclement and suppression war, he was also very hard, leading his troops to defeat the Red Army successively, capturing Tai County, Jian'an County, Shicheng County, and was also the first to attack Ruijin in the Soviet Zone, but at this time, the main force of the Red Army had long been shifted, otherwise it would not be so easy to break through.
In fact, in 1935, Tang Enbo fought with the Japanese army in Suiyuan and resisted the Japanese army together with Fu Zuoyi.
However, after the official outbreak of the War of Resistance, Tang Enbo commanded the Battle of Nankou, in which he fought with the Japanese army to the death, played a military temperament, although he was finally defeated, but Tang Enbo also annihilated more than 10,000 enemies in this battle, allowing him to win the title of Iron Man.
Also because of the merits of the Battle of Nankou, Tang Enbo was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 20th Group Army, under the command of three armies, and participated in the Battle of Niangziguan in the Second Theater of Operations, and then led his troops to aid the Battle of Taiyuan. After the Battle of Taierzhuang broke out again, this was Tang Enbo who was ordered to rush from Taiyuan to the Shandong border to reinforce Taierzhuang's nationalist army, and Tang also won the Qingtian White Sun Medal, which also affirmed his contribution to the war.
Not only that, but then he transferred from Shandong to Wuhan, participated in the famous Battle of Wuhan, and gave the Japanese army a annihilating blow with the jujube, which annihilated more than 13,000 enemy troops. Even Ninji Okamura, the commander of the Japanese 11th Army at the time, said that Tang Enbo was the bravest and most warlike general under Chiang Kai-shek.
Including the subsequent winter offensive, the Battle of Zaoyi, the Battle of Henan, and the outstanding performance of Tang Enbo's army, it fully reflected a real anti-Japanese famous general. And why is his reputation so bad?
Mainly, when he was in charge of Henan, he did not take good care of his soldiers, which led to them bringing a catastrophic blow to Henan, plus there was a natural disaster in Henan at that time, and the people were not happy, so Tang Enbo was also regarded by Henan as the four pests, water, drought, locusts, and soup.
Although his reputation was poor, during the eight-year War of Resistance, the troops he commanded moved to the whole country, from the north to the south, and also made important contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance.