In 1944, the Japanese army lost its overwhelming combat effectiveness in the Pacific Battle, the sea transport line was cut off by the US army, in order to ensure the supply of the army, the Japanese army decided to open a land transport line, where the Japanese army gathered 300,000 nearby troops and launched a war around Guilin, but the Guilin Defense War was the core level of the war in the war.
At that time, although the Japanese army was already a dying army, it still had a very strong combat effectiveness, and Chiang Kai-shek faced this severe challenge, but he had other ideas in his heart. Guangxi was the domain of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the Gui clan, and Chiang Kai-shek, in order to preserve his strength, deliberately watched Bai Chongxi's main army and the Japanese army fight a decisive battle in Guilin, but Bai Chongxi saw through Chiang Kai-shek's ideas and also wanted to save himself.
So Bai Chongxi put the combat effective 188th Division and the 175th Division outside, leaving only Kan Weiyong's 131st Division and a recruit 170th Division, with a total number of less than 20,000 people.
The Japanese army attacked Guilin, 7 elite divisions with a total of 100,000 people, and the defenders of 20,000 miscellaneous troops against 100,000 Japanese elites, which were completely mantis arms. Not to mention, even with 20,000 people divided into 2 parts to defend, it is impossible to protect the castle. Chiang Kai-shek asked the city to be defended for 3 months, so the soldiers suggested that they prepare to retreat as soon as possible, but Kan Weiyong only accepted the orders obeyed by the soldiers to stay in Guilin.
A native of Liuzhou, Guangxi, born in a scholarly family, his mother died early, and it was very hard for his father to raise him alone. At the age of 7, Kan Weiyong began to study and worshiped patriotic heroes such as Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang. He secretly vowed to be loyal to the country when he grew up. During the May Fourth Movement, when Kan Weiyong was recruiting troops in Guangxi by Li Zongren, Kan Weiyong did not hesitate to join the Gui forces and entered a military career.
Back in the battlefield of Guilin, although the Japanese army attacked fiercely, Kan Weiyong fought with his own combat concept, repeatedly repelled the attacks of the Japanese army, causing huge casualties to the Japanese army, and then, the inhumane Japanese army killed a position of the defenders through poison gas bombs. On November 9 of the same year, 10 days and 10 nights of fierce fighting, Guilin ran out of ammunition and food!
The day before the fall, he arranged for the remaining soldiers to break through the siege in an orderly manner. The generals advised him to hurry up, but he did not agree. After he had made all the arrangements, he entered the bedroom alone, took out his pistol and committed suicide, and he fulfilled his vow of life and death with Guilin City. Before his death, he wrote out in a desperate pen: "Ten million heads are united in one heart, and they are willing to spare all this body; people die and leave leopards and skins, and severed heads do not become generals." Such a majestic verse, without such hellish suffering, cannot be written.
After the Japanese occupied the city of Guilin, they greatly admired the heroic and hard-working spirit of General Kan Weiyong, buried Kan Weiyong's body thickly, and erected a stone monument for the Japanese army for Kan Weiyong, who was not only the pride of the Chinese, but also the opponent worshipped by the Japanese, otherwise after the First World War, how could the Japanese army erect a monument to a useless person?