Wei Lihuang was a man who made outstanding contributions to the revolution and construction of the country. At the age of 17, Wei Lihuang threw himself into the revolutionary cause and followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the southern conquest of the northern war, seeking the road to save the country. In the Course of the Northern Expedition, he suppressed the army of Sun Chuanfang, the leader of the Great Warlords, and in the Course of the National War, he cooperated with the Communist Party and actively resisted Japan, winning victory in the National War.
The two parties were once again plunged into civil war, and Wei Lihuang saw the situation clearly and was unwilling to confront the Communists anymore, so he became a "war criminal" as a result. In order to take care of his mother, he sent a telegram to Mr. Zhu asking for kindness to his mother, and the great man understood his intentions and sent an army to protect him.
First, Wei Lihuang threw himself into the revolution
Wei Lihuang was born in 1897 in Hefei, Anhui Province. When he was young, he had heard of Sun Yat-sen's idea of national salvation, admired this great figure, and hoped that one day he would join mr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ranks and contribute to the country. In the autumn of 1914, 17-year-old Wei Lihuang came to Wuhan alone, trying to find a job to survive.
At that time, the Hunan army was recruiting troops in Wuhan, wei Lihuang seized the opportunity, immediately signed up, and successfully passed, so he entered the study barracks. Wei Lihuang spent a year in the wuhan student camp, during which he systematically learned the basic knowledge of the military and carried out strict military training, which greatly improved his theoretical and practical ability.
In 1916, Wei Lihuang followed his cousin into Guangzhou to work, entered the Grand Marshal's Palace, and served as a guard, Wei Lihuang was loyal to his duties and sincere, and was soon appreciated by Sun Yat-sen. Because of his outstanding performance, Sun Yat-sen transferred Wei Lihuang as the deputy head of the guard regiment.
Around 1918, Sun Yat-sen launched a dharma protection campaign to save the democratic republican system, but it soon failed, and he led a large army to leave Guangzhou for Shanghai, and also disbanded the Grand Marshal's Office. Wei Lihuang worked as a platoon leader under Xu Chongzhi and later promoted to battalion commander, when he was only 22 years old.
Wei Lihuang worked under Sun Yat-sen for more than ten years, and the two men formed a deep revolutionary friendship. In 1925, when Wei Lihuang learned the news of Sun Yat-sen's death, he was devastated. Immediately after that, Wei Lihuang's troops were incorporated into the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and he assumed the position of colonel.
In order to eliminate the chaotic warlords and foreign imperialist forces occupying China, the Kuomintang cooperated for the first time with the Communist Party and decided to launch the Northern Expedition. In November 1926, the National Revolutionary Army officially sent troops to start the Northern Expedition, and Wei Lihuang belonged to the Eastern Route Army. Wei Lihuang had excellent command and combat skills, and he was brave and good at war, and soon defeated the team of the great warlord Sun Chuanfang.
After suppressing Sun Chuanfang's troops, Wei Lihuang was promoted to the post of deputy commander of the 14th Division, and together with the Northern Expeditionary Army in the northwest of Jiangsu, he liquidated the remnants of Sun Chuanfang's forces in Jiangnan. After the end of the Northern Expedition, the Kuomintang tore up the treaty and launched a civil war, and a long struggle began between the two parties.
At this time, Wei Lihuang, as a senior general of the Kuomintang, naturally also joined the struggle with the Communists. Slowly, Wei Lihuang became aware that his concept of warfare was at odds with that of his immediate superior, Chiang Kai-shek.
After Mr. Sun's death, Wei Lihuang became a subordinate of Chiang Kai-shek, a man who, although ostensibly to save China and join the revolution, actually had his own set of ideas and wanted to be dictatorial.
For example, when the two parties fell into a civil war, Japanese imperialism took the opportunity to launch an incident, conquered the northeast, and was about to open fire on north China. At this time, the Communist Party had sought opportunities to cooperate with the Kuomintang and unify the spearhead of the struggle to the outside world, but Chiang Kai-shek ignored it and blindly wanted to seize power, and then dictatorship.
Wei Lihuang felt more and more that Chiang Kai-shek's approach was abnormal, and at this time Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang jointly launched an incident in Xi'an, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war between the two parties and establish an anti-Japanese national united front with the Communist Party to resist the invading Japanese imperialism. This move by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng brought a great shock to Wei Lihuang.
After realizing the seriousness of the problem, Wei Lihuang immediately threw himself into his work. He held peace talks with other generals to arouse everyone's enthusiasm for resisting Japan. Thanks to his continuous efforts, the Kuomintang and the Communists finally held anti-Japanese peace talks in Yueyang County, and Chiang Kai-shek issued an agreement to carry out the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation.
2. Actively resist Japan
In order to successfully accomplish the task of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the two parties held peace talks, and the two sides reached an agreement that the Kuomintang would be responsible for the frontal battlefield and the Communist Party would be responsible for the battlefield behind the enemy lines, and would actively open up the anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas. Both sides performed their respective duties, mobilized national enthusiasm, and expelled Japanese imperialism from China.
In the early stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang's enthusiasm for resisting Japan was still very high, and they opened up frontal battlefields, shattered the illusion of Japanese imperialism invading and occupying China in a short period of time, and made great contributions to the final victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, in the middle and late period, many Kuomintang generals began to passively resist Japan, which put the War of Resistance into an unfavorable situation.
As a general of the Kuomintang 14th Army, Wei Lihuang actively participated in the anti-Japanese work from beginning to end, and in the process of the War of Resistance, he actively cooperated with the Communists and maintained friendly relations between the two.
Third, entrust Mr. Zhu to take care of it
After 14 years of hard work, the national war was finally won, and peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were held and a peace agreement was signed. However, Chiang Kai-shek unilaterally tore up the Entente for the sake of autocracy, and the two parties entered a stage of civil war.
The Kuomintang army itself was a patchwork of many warlords, the cohesion between the ranks was not strong, and Chiang Kai-shek's purpose was not pure, Wei Lihuang knew that the Kuomintang could not win, so he was unwilling to obey Chiang Kai-shek's orders to oppose the Communists. Old Chiang sent him to the northeast to suppress bandits and made him commander-in-chief.
Although Wei Lihuang came to Shenyang, he did not obey Chiang Kai-shek's offensive orders and refused to send troops. Old Jiang was very annoyed and made up his mind to punish this "war criminal." Therefore, after the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the arrest of Wei Lihuang and labeled him a war criminal.
After wei Lihuang learned the news, he immediately fled to Hong Kong with his wife, but due to the tight time, he did not have time to return to his hometown in Anhui to pick up his mother. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wei Lihuang had cooperated with President Zhu, and he knew that Commander Zhu was kind and kind, and he also knew that the Communist Party always put the people first.
After careful consideration, he sent a telegram to Mr. Zhu, hoping that he would be kind to his mother and would definitely repay him in the future. Commander-in-Chief Zhu Lao immediately handed the telegram to the great man, and after reading the telegram, the great man understood Wei Lihuang's intentions, and he was sending a signal of cooperation, and one day he would certainly be able to submit to the party. So he sent a team to Hefei, Anhui Province, to protect his mother.
4. Summary
In his youth, Wei Lihuang joined the revolutionary cause in order to save China, which was deeply in the water and fire, and he followed Sun Yat-sen in the Eastern Expedition to the West and made great contributions to the revolutionary cause. In middle age, he realized that Chiang Kai-shek's operational philosophy could not save China, so he resolutely withdrew from this team and resisted Chiang Kai-shek's orders.
Although he became a "war criminal", he reached an agreement with the Communist Party, and the great man also sent people to protect his mother. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wei Lihuang threw himself into the construction of New China, and he was also a person who made important contributions to the rise of the Chinese nation.