Of the five ace divisions of the Kuomintang, three were commanded by Shaanxi generals—Zhang Lingfu of the 74th Army, Hu Lian of the 18th Army, and Du Yuming of the 5th Army.
Zhang Lingfu, a native of Chang'an, Shaanxi, was named Zhong Lin (钟麟), and the character Lingfu (灵甫). He successively served as platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, regimental commander, brigade commander, deputy division commander and division commander of the Nationalist Army. He participated in three battles in the Battle of Changsha and the Frontal Defense Of Changde, and was awarded the Order of the Cloud of the Fourth Class by the Nationalist Government.
Hu Lian, a native of Hua County, Shaanxi Province, is a chinese poet. He successively served as the commander of the 119th Infantry Brigade of the 67th Division of the Nationalist Army, the commander of the 11th Division, and the commander of the Reorganized Eighteenth Army. He participated in the battle of Songhu War of Resistance and the Battle of Zaoyi.
Du Yuming, Shaanxi Mizhiren, Ziguangting. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the commander of the 200th Division of the Nationalist Army, the commander of the Fifth Army, the acting commander of the Chinese Indian Expeditionary Force to Burma, and the commander of the Fifth Army. He participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance, the Songhu War of Resistance, and the Anti-Japanese Resistance in Burma.
In addition to them, there were many Shaanxi generals who commanded the army and fought against the Japanese outside Shaanxi.
In Xi'an, The Pucheng people Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident, which led to the joint resistance of the Kuomintang and the Communists. In Songhu, Du Yuming, a mizhi man, and Hu Lian, a native of Huaxian, thwarted the Japanese army's ambition to quickly annihilate China; in Taierzhuang, Guan Linzheng of Huxian County, Zhang Yaoming, a native of Lintong, and others broke the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army; in Zhongtiao Mountain, Liang Xixian of Tongchuan, Zhao Shoushan of Huxian County, and Zhao Weiru of Chang'an, who were dead set on guarding the gateway to Shaanxi, did not let the Japanese Kou cross the thunder pond one step, and Liang Xixian martyred the country with his body...
"Men, women, old and young, and the land, north, south, west, and east, all have the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war." Even though they were behind enemy lines, the sons and daughters of the Three Qins did not forget the superiority of the country, threw themselves into the flames of the War of Resistance, and composed a series of songs and tears of anti-Japanese blood.
