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In 1937, the "Battle of Songhu" broke out, and Liao Lei, then commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army, was ordered to lead the 7th and 48th armies from Guangxi, day and night, eating and sleeping, and spent nearly 2 months crossing thousands of rivers and mountains, which rushed to the Songhu battlefield.
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Admiral Liao Lei
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When the 21st Group Army arrived at the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu, it can be said that there were gunshots everywhere, explosions everywhere, and it seemed that everywhere was fighting. Liao Lei took the initiative to ask to go to the place where the battle was most intense and the Japanese offensive was the most fierce to fight the Japanese army. Jiang Zhongzheng, the supreme commander of the Battle of Songhu at the time, was very happy to hear Liao Lei say this, and he immediately handed over the defense of the first-line positions such as Chen Jiaxing, Yunzaobang, and Dachang, which were the most fierce areas of the battle and also the key areas of defense, to Liao Lei and the 21st Group Army led by him.
Although Chiang Kai-shek knew that the 21st Army led by Liao Lei had not yet engaged the Japanese army, the combat effectiveness of the Gui troops was not inferior to that of the Central Army in the Chinese army at that time, and it was undoubtedly in the front position among the local miscellaneous armies. Because long before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek had learned the strong combat effectiveness of the Gui army.
Faced with the intense battle on the front line, Liao Lei knew that reaching the position earlier could effectively block the Japanese attack. Although it was soon time for lunch, Liao Lei, who was worried about the situation on the front line, ordered all the officers and men of the 21st Army to run forward and quickly enter the position to eat lunch. Because he knew that the friendly troops who had been holding the front-line positions such as Chen Jiaxing, Yunzaobang, and Dachang for several months suffered very serious casualties, if they did not change their defenses in time, not only would the exhausted friendly forces be unable to continue to resist the japanese attack, but even the positions would be broken by the Japanese army, and the consequences would undoubtedly be very dangerous. The officers and men of the 21st Army better understood that their commander had issued such an order at this time, and it was by no means a spontaneous act, he had done so for the sake of the whole war situation. The officers and men were in high spirits, trotting all the way into the position, quickly finding their own combat positions, waiting for the Japanese troops who were about to attack to aim and fire.
Officers and men shooting at the Japanese army
Since the 21st Group Army entered the front-line positions such as Chen Jiaxing, Yunzaobang, and Dachang, it was worthy of the pride of the Guangxi people and the Gui clan, and they quickly let the Japanese army taste the hardships when they went to the battlefield. Although the officers and men were still fighting under the bombardment and heavy artillery of the Japanese army, they faced the test of life and death at every moment. However, the 21st Army not only succeeded in containing the frenzied offensive momentum of the Japanese army. Under the meticulous arrangement and command of Liao Lei, the 21st Group Army discovered the flaws of the Japanese army, and even seized the rare opportunity many times to take the initiative to jump out of the trench to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army. The unexpected Japanese army did not take into account that the Chinese army would seize on their temporary exposure defects and give them a fierce blow, which made the Japanese troops attacking the 21st Army have to restrain the crazy attack mode and expose the true face of the external strength and middle cadre. Although the 21st Group Army did not last long since the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu, they not only firmly defended the front-line positions of Chen Jiaxing, Yunzaobang, and Dachang, but also repelled countless crazy attacks by the Japanese army. At the same time, it took the initiative to attack the Japanese army, launched an attack on the Japanese army with great courage, and successively recovered the forward areas of the first-line positions such as Chen Jiaxing, Yunzaobang, and Dachang, which were defended by the 21st Group Army, and even recovered more than 70 villages of various sizes adjacent to these areas, causing heavy losses to the Japanese troops attacking this area. The 21st Group Army led by Liao Lei can be said to be one of the few units in the Battle of Songhu that fought against the Japanese army by offensive defense, and at the same time, it was also the group army that recovered the most lost territory during the Battle of Songhu, under the overall situation that the superior firepower and individual combat quality of the Japanese army were higher than those of the Chinese army.
At that time, during the Battle of Songhu, the 8th Army was invested. 9th Army, 10th Army, 15th Army? , the 19th Army and other units. The 21st Group Army led by Liao Lei only had more than 60,000 people, but during the entire Battle of Songhu, the More than 700,000 Chinese Troops and less than one-tenth of the Japanese troops in combat were less than one-tenth, but they achieved such an impressive record of annihilating more than 6,000 Japanese troops and recovering more than 70 villages. If the Chinese army at that time could have achieved such excellent results like the 21st Group Army led by Liao Lei, then the outcome of the Battle of Songhu would not have been so unsatisfactory, and it would have to withdraw from the Songhu battlefield with a complete rout. Unfortunately, history has not shown us that the outcome, and the hypothesis is simply untenable.
After the great victory in Taierzhuang, the momentum of the Japanese offensive was once frustrated, but the Japanese army always looked for the Chinese army, especially the regular troops of the Kuomintang army, to fight a decisive battle. The victory of the great victory of Taierzhuang made many heavyweights in the military commissars of the Nationalist government at that time produce such a full of optimism in the Japanese army, and this extremely optimistic mood directly led to the military commissars of the Nationalist government gathering heavy troops on the front line of Xuzhou, hoping to take Xuzhou as the center and fight another victory similar to the great victory of Taierzhuang, eliminate the main force of the Japanese army invading China, and thus achieve the ultimate goal of driving the Japanese army out of China.
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At this time, the Japanese base camp accepted the lessons of the Battle of Taierzhuang and surrounded Xuzhou in a way that several armored divisions started and advanced in a way that tried in a vain attempt to eliminate the 500,000 Chinese elites gathered in Xuzhou in one fell swoop. After the Military Commission of the National Government learned of the Japanese army's plot, it listened to Li Zongren's suggestion in a timely manner, Bai Chongxi, resolutely avoided a decisive battle with the main force of the Japanese army, and withdrew the main force of 500,000 nationalist troops to Henan and Hubei provinces to preserve the main force and hope of China's anti-Japanese resistance. The heavy responsibility for the rear of the palace was entrusted to the headquarters of Liao Lei's 21st Group Army, which was already stationed in northern Anhui, and after receiving the order, Liao Lei expressed his full strength to cover the main forces of the Nationalist army to move to Henan and Hubei provinces to break through, and did everything to stop the Japanese attack.
In order to cut off the retreat of the main force of the Nationalist army, the cunning Japanese army adopted a jumping style of play in an attempt to occupy the city of Mengcheng in one fell swoop to cut off the important passage for the retreat of the Nationalist army. Liao Lei received a report from his subordinates and immediately ordered the first unit of the 172nd Division to wait in a strict position and resolutely block the attack. The officers and men of the 172nd Division, under the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft and the heavy artillery fire on the ground, although the city was bombed by Japanese bombs and heavy artillery fire, causing a large-scale collapse. The officers and men of the 172nd Division set up machine guns at the collapse site, sealed the gaps to death, and fought tenaciously with the Japanese army for 3 days and nights, and finally they were outnumbered and all martyred.
It was the first unit of the 172nd Division that held out for 72 hours, retreating in an orderly manner for the main forces of the Nationalist army, and no longer occurring during the Defense of Nanjing, the government orders were inconsistent and chaotic, which caused the troops to fall into the tragedy of being leaderless and being captured by the Japanese army in a large area.
In order to ensure that the main forces of the Nationalist army could retreat in an orderly manner, such an incident occurred in Liao Lei. At that time, Liao Lei had a subordinate led by a unit besieged by the Japanese army in a small city, and this subordinate was also pulled up by Liao Lei, which can be said to be Liao Lei's love general. In the face of his subordinates ai will be besieged by the Japanese army to death, Liao Lei did not want to send troops to rescue him after receiving the telegram. Liao Lei's heart was thinking of saving a thousand people facing his subordinates, and he must not divide the troops, fight a good battle of resistance and rescue hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and make a choice between this, Liao Lei chose the latter very difficultly, he only said to this subordinate in an extremely calm tone, we must stick to the city and stick to the end. His subordinates heard the old commander's order, tearfully said yes, and turned to fight, and in the end, his beloved general, including most of the officers and men of this unit, was killed on the battlefield against the Japanese army, and only more than 20 people survived.
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