Dai Anlan: A famous anti-Japanese general who wrote a eulogy for him at the same time by the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party

Compared with the first phase of the qualifications and the fourth phase of the stars, the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy seems to be somewhat lonely. However, there are still many famous generals who have been shaken for a while. For example, General Dai Anlan.

Dai Anlan is a native of Fenghe Village, Wuwei County, Anhui Province. He once studied at Nanjing Anhui Public School, where he was deeply influenced by Mr. Tao Xingzhi. In early 1924, Dai Anlan responded to the call of his distant uncle Dai Duanfu, who was then the commander of the Fourth Division of the Guangdong Cantonese Army, and applied for the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, but was ruthlessly eliminated because of his thin stature. Dai Anlan could only retreat to the second place, first joining the National Revolutionary Army and becoming a second-class soldier. In the army, Dai Anlan exercised diligently, and his physical condition quickly improved.

In 1925, Dai Anlan applied for the examination again, and finally entered the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and was assigned to study in the infantry team.

What really made Dai Anlan "famous" was during the War of Resistance Against Japan, leading the Chinese Expeditionary Force to conquer Burma in the south.

In 1942, the War of Resistance Against Japan entered the most difficult and protracted war stage, and the vast number of Chinese soldiers and civilians were making the most tragic sacrifices for the anti-Japanese resistance. In February of that year, the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on Burma in order to cut off the Burma Highway, an important transportation route for anti-war materials to aid China. At the request of the British government, the Chinese Nationalist government sent about 100,000 people from three armies of the Expeditionary Force to Burma to participate in the war. Among them, the 200th Division led by Dai Anlan of the Fifth Army performed the most prominently.

In March 1942, Dai Anlan led the 200th Division to participate in the Defense of Donggua and engaged the Japanese 55th Division in a head-on fire exchange. In the harsh environment of the enemy being outnumbered and losing air support, we fought hard with the Japanese army for 12 days, annihilating more than 5,000 enemy troops and covering the safe retreat of the British army. On 24 April, he led his troops to regain Tangji, giving hope for the turning of the war situation on the Eastern Front into safety. On May 18, he was seriously wounded in the command of the breakout battle in the Langke area, and was martyred at 5:40 p.m. on the 26th in the village of Maobang in northern Myanmar.

After Dai Anlan was martyred, the leaders of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party personally wrote elegy. Chiang Kai-shek's elegy reads: "The tiger's head eats flesh and bears a majestic posture, looks at the Long March, and is not at odds with the enemy; Ma Ge is wrapped in corpses and has great ambitions, but he regrets that the great victory has not been gathered, how can it hurt to give false expectations?" Mao Zedong's elegy is "The Seagull General For Eternity": "Foreign insults need people to be imperial, and the general gives Cewei." The division is called mechanization, and it is brave to conquer the tiger. Bloody East Gua Shou, drive Out Tang Ji Gui. The battlefield was martyred, and the ambition was not violated. ”

In 1956, Dai Anlan was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Central People's Government.

In 2009, Dai was named one of the "100 Heroic Models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China" — probably the only Kuomintang general among them.