"From 1937 to 1938, this was the initial stage of the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance, and it was the two years when the stars fell the most, accounting for about half of the generals who died during the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, of which only 6 generals (most of them were posthumously awarded) who died on the anti-Japanese front."
At the end of 1938, following the xuzhou breakthrough, the Xiangyang area became a place to contain the collapsed troops, one day, the Japanese aircraft suddenly flew to Xiangyang and carried out a fierce air raid on it, for a time, the area around Zhaomingtai and Dongmen Street was blown into a rubble, in the chaos, a senior general was calmly commanding the troops to build fortifications, suddenly a Japanese bomb exploded next to it, causing the general to be martyred on the spot, and his name was Feng Anbang.
His father was a Wupin official of the Qing court, and then because of the family's middle path, he had to come to the county town to carry sacks to live at a young age, until he changed his life by worshiping a "strange" Taoist monk, and it was precisely because of this master-apprentice fate that he eventually created a generation of talents. ”
In 1884, Feng Anbang was born in Wudi County, Shandong Province, his ancestors were very prestigious in the countryside, and his father Feng Weidian even served as a Wupin official of the Qing government, but later because of the family road, in order to live, Feng Anbang, who was only a teenager at the time, came to the county town alone to carry sacks for others. During a day of rest, Feng Anbang saw a "strange" Taoist monk, only to see him dressed sloppily, a rake tied to his hair, and was dragging the rake forward with difficulty, after seeing the crowd of people who were sheltering from the summer, this Daoist monk suddenly shouted loudly: "The poor Dao pulled a rake today, not for anything else, just to rebuild the Arctic Temple, and this transformation, for the sake of worshiping the gods and also for self-cultivation, I hope that you have money to pay, strong contribution, as long as you do your best, never force it." After saying that, the Daoist priest still pulled the rake forward, and Feng Anbang was touched by his spirit after hearing these words, and after seeing that the Daoist priest's hair had fallen a lot, and his scalp had been dripping blood, he lifted the iron rake and followed him step by step. At first, the Daoist priest thought that it was because his scalp had fallen off, so he felt brisk, but when he turned around, he found that it was actually a teenage child who picked up the rake and followed him all the way, and he also dissuaded Feng Anbang from returning home, but Feng Anbang insisted on worshipping him as a teacher, and finally the Daoist priest was touched by his spirit, so he accepted him.
After the two masters and apprentices returned to the Arctic Temple, Feng Anbang under the supervision of the master smelled the chickens in the morning and danced and inked in the evening, in addition, the master also taught him a lot of principles of being a man, and it was under the sincere teaching of this "strange" Taoist that Feng Anbang finally transformed from a "sack-carrying worker" into a general who was both literate and martial, loyal and patriotic. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Feng Anbang first joined the Qing army, and then joined Feng Yuxiang's team after the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, and successively followed General Feng to participate in the campaign against Warlords such as Zhang Xun and Chen Shufan. In 1927, Feng Anbang was first assigned to Gansu to eliminate rebellious bandits, and then responsible for ensuring the supply of manpower and materials for the Northern Expeditionary Army, and after the war, he was successfully promoted to commander of the 22nd Division and acting chairman of the Ningxia Provincial Government.
After the End of the Central Plains War, Feng Yuxiang was forced into exile overseas, and Feng Anbang had no choice but to follow Sun Lianzhong to the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and was later transferred by Chiang Kai-shek to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Feng Anbang, after receiving the task of fighting against Japan in the north, passionately delivered a speech to his soldiers: "Kill the enemy and serve the country, just at this moment!" Soldiers who are greedy for life and afraid of death and who preserve their strength are the scum of the National Revolution and are not considered to be the descendants of Yan Huang. Subsequently, Feng Anbang led his troops on a glorious journey to resist the Japanese Kou.
"The anti-Japanese battlefield defeated the strong enemy, successively moved to various theaters, blocked Sakamoto in the middle of the Taierzhuang Campaign, blocked the Se Valley in the north, played a national and military prestige, severely damaged the elite Japanese troops, and established immortal merits for the great victory of Taierzhuang."
In late July 1937, Feng Anbang's troops arrived in Beiping and were responsible for garrisoning the Liulihe line, but the speed of the Japanese attack was too fast, and soon Peiping was captured, and then went south along the Pinghan Road and began to attack Feng Anbang's 27th Division, but the Japanese 20th Division, as the attacker, could not bite this hard bone, and launched many rounds of attacks were repelled by Feng Anbang, until September 18 of the same year, the 27th Division was ordered to withdraw from Liulihe, and the Japanese finally captured the position. After the fall of the enemy in the north, Feng Anbang's troops were dispatched to the Second Theater to assist Yan Xishan's Jin army to jointly defend Shanxi, and successively participated in the Battle of Niangziguan and the Battle of Taiyuan, especially in the Battle of Niangziguan, Feng Anbang personally led his troops to brave the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft and artillery to brave the battle, held their positions for nearly a month, effectively cooperated with the operations on the battlefield of Xinkou in Shanxi, defended the eastern gate of Shanxi, and also took the initiative to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army to attack and annihilate the infantry 77th and 78th regiments of the Japanese 39th Brigade. It achieved the brilliant record of killing more than a thousand Japanese troops.
Beginning in March 1938, Sun Lianzhong's Second Army was placed under the command of the Fifth Theater, and the 42nd Army under feng Anbang was also in its battle sequence, and general Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth Theater at this time, also began to plan a beautiful battle in Xuzhou. On March 14, 1938, the Battle of Taierzhuang began, and the Japanese Isoya Division became more arrogant after capturing Tengxian County, and directly killed Taierzhuang, and it was Sun Lianzhong's Second Army stationed here. On the battlefield, Feng Anbang's 27th Division and Sakamoto's detachment engaged in an unprecedented fierce position battle east of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army sent an interpreter to persuade him to surrender, but no one responded, the officers and men all regarded death as a homecoming, and dealt a heavy blow to the enemy, and later Sakamoto detachment and Shugu detachment met, Feng Anbang urgently sent an independent 44th brigade to the north to resist the Japanese Kou, and successfully withstood the last onslaught of the Japanese army. In April 1938, the main forces of the Fifth Theater gathered near Taierzhuang and began a full-scale counteroffensive against the encircled enemy, and the Japanese Kou panicked for a while and began to retreat, and Feng Anbang personally led the 42nd Army to participate in the pursuit, beating the Japanese army head-on.
"He was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun for his merits, covered the breakthrough of the main force of the Fifth Theater from Xuzhou, was hit by a Japanese bomb, and then buried in Xiangyang City, some of his remains were transported back to his homeland, and there was no money for burial at home.
After the battle of Taierzhuang, because of Feng Anbang's meritorious command of the battle, the Nationalist government specially awarded him the Order of qingtian and white sun as a gift of encouragement, and later the Japanese army sent troops to attack Xuzhou in a large scale, and the Fifth Theater of Operations, in accordance with the orders of the Military Commission, chose to jump out of the encirclement and retreat into the rear, leaving only an empty city for the Japanese army. After the Xuzhou retreat began, the two generals Feng Anbang and Zhang Zizhong were responsible for covering the breakthrough of the main force, and it was precisely under the mutual cooperation of the two that the main force of the Fifth Theater successfully withdrew from the battlefield, leaving a valuable living force for the subsequent War of Resistance. In November of the same year, Feng Anbang and his troops arrived in the Xiangyang area, and stopped here to receive the troops who had just withdrawn from Xuzhou, but the Japanese planes also chased after them, and in the chaos, General Feng Anbang was injured in the abdomen by the bombs of the Japanese aircraft, and was martyred on the spot at the age of 54. At the end of 1938, part of the general's body was transported back to his hometown for burial, but the family could not come up with burial expenses, the reason is that General Feng Anbang has always kept in mind the master's teachings to him, his life is honest and honest, enthusiastic to alleviate poverty, most of his own Lu lu is also donated to the cause of education, so the family has no private property at all, and later this news was greatly moved by Chiang Kai-shek, so he specially ordered the National Government to pay 10,000 yuan for funeral expenses, and gave his relatives according to the pension of the general's death.
On September 25, 1940, the Nationalist government issued a commendation order commending General Feng Anbang for his anti-Japanese exploits of "fighting hard and being a pioneer in battle", and posthumously awarded him the rank of general of the army.