We all know that the Xi'an Incident launched by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng on December 12, 1936, was a direct change in the attitude of old Chiang Kai-shek toward Japan. In fact, before that, in Guangdong and Guangxi, there was also an incident with the purpose of resisting Japan, which was the two Guangdong incidents.
In June 1936, Chen Jitang of Guangdong and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of Guangxi stood together, and they formed the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army and declared their active anti-Japanese resistance.
This incident completely disrupted the layout of Lao Jiang, because Chen Jitang was the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, and in the blink of an eye, he entered Hunan, and if Lao Jiang fought back, then sorry, a civil war would break out.
As a result, we all know that the two Guangdong incidents were suppressed by old Chiang Kai-shek. Because many of Guangdong's old troops defected to the Nanjing government, the army in Guangdong was not worried. As for Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi in Guangxi, Old Jiang couldn't get them, and they couldn't get Old Jiang, so they fooled each other with sloppy eyes.
However, it can be said that this incident still played a great role in Old Chiang Kai-shek's later plans to resist Japan. If the two Guangdong incidents occurred at the same time as the Xi'an incident, it would be enough for old Jiang to drink a pot. Bai Chongxi's role in it was quite huge, because he was the god of war of the Guangxi Army, known as Xiao Zhuge Ge!
After Lao Jiang announced the War of Resistance, he actually became the supreme leader of the Eight Classics, because Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who had always worked against him before, also began to support Lao Jiang.
At this time, old Jiang threw an olive branch to Bai Chongxi, hoping that he could go to the Nanjing front to discuss the anti-Japanese plan. But Bai Chongxi's men objected, why? Because Bai Chongxi once forced old Jiang to go into the wilderness, he had a deep grudge with old Jiang. If this trip arrives at Lao Jiang's territory, it will not become a lamb to be slaughtered?
However, Bai Chongxi felt that after shouting the slogan of resisting Japan for so many years, and now that he was not risking his life, was he not punching himself in the face? Therefore, he resolutely chose to go to Nanjing.
In the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese side sent 700,000 troops, the Japanese side sent 300,000 troops, a total of 1 million troops began to fight in the Shanghai area. Bai Chongxi was personally responsible for supervising the war on the front line of the war.
This war lasted for three months, completely breaking Japan's plan to destroy China in three months. In fact, at that time, both sides were competing, and the Japanese side was constantly reinforcing, just to achieve the bull they blew out.
Han Fuyu used to be Feng Yuxiang's subordinate, and later after becoming bigger and stronger, he established his own territory in the Shandong region. This brother has done a good job in Shandong, at least developed local education, and made a certain contribution.
However, during the anti-Japanese war, Han Fuyu's performance was a bit unsatisfactory. After the fall of Nanjing, the Japanese army successively marched north to the border of Shandong, which was the territory of Han Fuyu.
Supposedly, he should be proactive in the battle, but he actually ran away in order to save his strength! This is terrible, Jingpu Road completely opened the door to the Japanese army, which is too harmful to the anti-Japanese cause.
Therefore, all the senior generals, including Lao Jiang and Bai Chongxi, wanted to destroy Han Fuyu. But Han Fuyu had heavy troops in his hands! The slightest carelessness may lead to a mutiny.
At this time, Bai Chongxi's time to perform came, and he suggested that Old Jiang find a reason for Han Fuyu to come to the military conference and arrest this old boy at the meeting!
This suggestion was very good, Han Fuyu had no defense at all, and was arrested by Old Jiang. After that, Han Fuyu paid a terrible price for his escape, and was clicked by Old Jiang.
This incident highlighted Bai Chongxi's cleverness and wit, and also made those anti-Japanese generals who feared the enemy like a tiger play a twelve-point spirit and vowed to fight the Japanese army to the end.
If the Japanese army wanted to capture Xuzhou, it had to take Taierzhuang. Therefore, the two sides launched a great war at Taierzhuang. Among them, the Chinese side invested 290,000 troops, while the Japanese side invested 50,000 troops.
It seems that there is a huge disparity in strength, but in fact, there is a huge disparity in strength. At that time, the commander in charge of the Fifth Theater was Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi's relationship with old Li was not to mention how good, so this time Bai Chongxi still came to help Li Zongren. Bai Chongxi thought that the Japanese army was already quite proud at this time, and he certainly looked down on the current miscellaneous army.
Therefore, the battle plan formulated by Bai Chongxi was: to lure the enemy deep and break through each one.
The first battle is to defend Linyi. At that time, Pang Bingxun, who was guarding Linyi, was a Hanzi, and in the face of the powerful attack of the Banyuan Division, he held Linyi and waited until Zhang Zizhong's troops came, and the two sides surrounded and defeated the Banyuan Division.
The second battle was the defense of Teng County. The Sichuan army held here for 3 days and nights, but unfortunately Tang Enbo's men and horses did not arrive in time, so TengXian was captured by the Japanese army, and the commander of the Sichuan army Wang Mingzhang and all his subordinates all died for the country.
The third battle is the defense of Taierzhuang. Bai Chongxi asked Sun Lianzhong's troops to hold the hinterland of Taierzhuang, and let Tang Enbo's troops wander between Hanzhuang and Taierzhuang, attack the Japanese troops in Zaozhuang from the flank, and take care of each other with Sun Lianzhong.
This battle was quite fierce, the shells were exhausted, the bullets were loaded, and when the bullets were exhausted, it was a bayonet fight, in short, the spirit of the Chinese army not to retreat from the battle also shocked the opponent.
Just when the war was in a state of stalemate, Bai Chongxi asked Zhang Yi's men and horses to sneak across the canal and sneak into the rear of the Japanese army. The unsuspecting Japanese army suffered heavy losses from the belly and back, and the Isoya Division had to flee to Yi County.
As a result of the Taierzhuang War, the Chinese side lost more than 20,000 people, while the Japanese side lost more than 10,000 people. However, the Chinese side completely defeated the Japanese army in the frontal battlefield, which is a memorable event. As the commander of the Battle of Taierzhuang, Bai Chongxi could indeed blow for a lifetime.
After the Japanese army occupied Xuzhou, it marched south with the intention of capturing Wuhan in the nine provinces. This place is the heart of China, and it is very convenient to go anywhere, so it is of great significance to take this place.
This time, the Japanese army invested 250,000 troops, and the Chinese side paid special attention to this big war, and lao Jiang personally took command and invested 750,000 troops. Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater on the north bank of the Yangtze River, suddenly had a toothache and had to put Bai Chongxi in charge of the command of the whole region.
Bai Chongxi's wit was once again reflected, and he used his troops to engage in tug-of-war with the Japanese army, constantly depleting and containing the Japanese army, so that the main forces of other roads had the flexibility to deal with the Japanese army.
In this war, the Chinese annihilated more than 50,000 Japanese troops. This is a considerable amount, and it fully reaches the target value at the beginning of the war. Moreover, in this war, the Chinese side used a combination of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare, and finally dealt a serious blow to the Japanese army.
Bai Chongxi is known as Xiao Zhuge Ge, and this name is actually not vain at all, because he is really good at fighting. Although he has long served as Li Zongren's deputy, Bai Chongxi's genius command art can be seen in every battle he commands.
Especially in the later stages of the Battle of Wuhan, Bai Chongxi not only needed to be responsible for the combat work of the third, fourth, seventh, and ninth theaters, but also served as the commander of the fourth theater, holding half of the country and reaching the peak of his life.
There are many kinds of his war art, such as the clear field of the solid wall, the scorched earth resistance war, the guerrilla war, the accumulation of small victories into big victories, the exchange of space for time, etc., in the War of Resistance Against Japan, they have achieved relatively good results.