There are indeed many tough generals in the Republic of China, and the original search for Shijun has talked about Hu Zongnan, Huang Jie, Sun Liren, etc. Today, this is Tang Enbo, who is known as "General Drifting", Tang Enbo is an extremely controversial person, as long as Tang Enbo is mentioned during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese people will have a very headache, he once fought against the Japanese army at Nankou, and the troops led by tens of thousands of Japanese troops were Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops.
Tang Enbo was originally named Keqin, from a young age determined to be a great general, in 1920 Tang Keqin entered the Guangzhou Minzhe Military Martial Arts Lecture Hall to study, in 1922 was admitted to The Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan At that time, Tang Enbo can be said to have been a "high-achieving student", but Tang Enbo was determined to join the army and wanted to enter the "Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School", but at that time, according to the Japanese regulations, only the domestic military recommendation could attend the "Japanese Army Officer School", so Tang Enbo returned to China to request Sun Chuanfang, Xia Sun's recommendation, but they were all rejected one by one. However, he did not give up that he found Chen Yi, the commander of the First Division of the Zhejiang Army, and asked Chen Yi to recommend himself, so he successfully entered the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School to study, and successfully graduated from the Eighteenth Infantry Section of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
So Shijun believes that Chen Yi is Tang Enbo's nobleman, without Chen Yi's recommendation Tang Enbo may not have a day in his life, it is precisely because of Chen Yi's recommendation that he can enter the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School to study, and later enter the Northern Expeditionary Army step by step to realize his dream.
Why does Today's search for Shijun say that Tang Enbo is a "tough general"? Then read on.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Tang Enbo fought in Nankou and World War II in Taierzhuang, these two battles made him a famous anti-Japanese general, his drifting tactics, so he also became the object of attention of the Japanese army, in the late stage of the War of Resistance He occupied the Central Plains, became one of Chiang Kai-shek's three major military groups, and won the title of "King of the Central Plains".
The equipment of the Thirteenth Army led by Tang Enbo was purely German-style equipment, and the strength of the Japanese army continued to expand after the July 7 Incident, when the Japanese army was preparing for a state of all-out war. It was decided to increase troops from within Japan to North China, launch the Battle of North China, further expand the front line to the Cangzhou front in Shijiazhuang, and quickly strike at the Chinese army. The operational plan formulated by the Japanese North China Garrison was to place the main battlefield along the Pinghan Line in the north of Hebei Province, and after the arrival of domestic reinforcements, it would fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army on the front line of Baoding and Cangzhou.
Chiang Kai-shek also thought that the Japanese army would come to this step, and to ensure that the Chinese army could attack the Japanese army from the shanxi flank, it was necessary to ensure that the Pingsui Road was in his own hands, and the Pingsui Road could directly decide whether the south pass could be defended or not.
Chiang Kai-shek gave Tang Enbo an order to defend the South Pass, with ten days as the limit.
Tang Enbo is the elite of the Thirteenth Army is Chiang Kai-shek, sending Tang Enbo up makes many people feel that this time is to start serious, Tang Enbo's Thirteenth Army stationed in Nankou and the Japanese elite unit of the Fifth Division, the division commander is Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro, when the Battle of Nankou officially began, the Japanese army's equipment was much better than Tang Enbo's troops, and the Japanese launched attacks again and again again under the cover of aircraft artillery and tanks.
At that time, the strength of the Japanese army was much stronger than Yube, that is, in this case, it was insisted on for eighteen days, although it was not saved, it was also a heavy blow to the Japanese army, and the strength of Tang Enbo was also seen after this war.
In January 1938, the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army's Itagaki Seishiro landed again from Qingdao, and the Yanjiaoji Line marched westward, approaching Linyi and Isoya Lianjie's division, wanting to meet Taierzhuang, Jiang immediately sent Tang Enbochi, who was training in Henan, to aid Taierzhuang, and later Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, recalled: "As long as Yubu can quickly go south and encircle the enemy army from behind, it can be annihilated in one fell swoop." "Therefore, whether Taierzhuang can be defended depends on whether Tang Enbo can appear in the rear of the enemy army in time and destroy the enemy after encircling it." The Battle of Taierzhuang was fought very hard, and if Tang Enbo came back a little later, it would be difficult to predict the consequences.
Tang Enbo appeared behind the enemy in time, bringing great threat to the Japanese army, the rat trap did not dare to attack Taierzhuang with all its might, and finally won the victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and more than thirty tanks were damaged, but later many people credited the credit to Sun Lianzhong, and few people mentioned Tang Enbo's contribution to aid.
Tang Enbo can be said to have made the Japanese army very jealous when he fought against Japan, but when he fought against our army after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was really very bad What do you think of this "tough general of the Republic of China"?