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Li Jiayu was born on April 25, 1892 (March 29, 1892) to a peasant family in Pujiang County, Sichuan Province. In his youth, Li Jiayu coincided with the abolition of the imperial examination and the establishment of a new type of education in the Qing court, of which military education planning was the most perfect and the treatment was also the most generous. Under the influence of the idea of saving the country from Rong, Li Jiayu was admitted to the 4th phase of the Sichuan Army Primary School, and when he graduated, just when the Baolu Movement and the Wuchang Uprising broke out one after another, he participated in the Xinhai Revolution as a student army.
After the establishment of the Republic of China, Li Jiayu entered the first phase of the Sichuan Army Officer Academy to continue his studies, and later ran away from Nanjing because of his opposition to Hu Jingyi, the governor of Sichuan, and transferred to the Nanjing Army Preparatory School, and because he participated in the second revolution, he could not continue to enter the Baoding Military Academy. Li Jiayu and a group of Sichuan classmates returned to Sichuan, and after expressing their "remorse" to The Governor Hu Jingyi, they were transferred to the 3rd Infantry Section of the Sichuan Army Officer School to continue their studies. After graduating in 1915, Li Jiayu entered the service of the 4th Division (Division Commander Liu Cunhou) of the Sichuan Army, and he was gradually promoted from an apprentice to the brigade commander and division commander of the 6th Brigade of the 3rd Division. During the Northern Expedition, Deng Xihou's unit was reorganized into the 28th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Li Jiayu served as the commander of the 1st Division of the Army, and later the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Border Defense Army, which had six mixed brigades under its jurisdiction, controlled several counties and districts centered on Suining, and became a unique prince.
Li Jiayu formed an alliance with Yang Sen and Luo Zezhou to protect each other, and was regarded by Liu Wenhui, the leader of the Sichuan warlords of the Baoding clan, as the root cause of the disaster in Sichuan. Liu Wenhui, together with Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao, attacked Li Jiayu's defense area, and finally provoked a war with another warlord leader, Liu Xiang, which became the last warlord melee in Sichuan Province. After that, Li Jiayu sided with Liu Xiang and participated in the war to "encircle and suppress" the 4th Front of the Red Army. However, Li Jiayu's troops suffered repeated defeats and heavy losses in the "encirclement and suppression" campaign, and were finally reduced to the 104th Division of two brigades and four regiments, with himself as the division commander and retired to the Xichang and Liangshan areas for replenishment. It was not until November 1936 that Li Jiayu was reappointed commander of the 47th Army and awarded the Order of the Cloud of the Third Class.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in July 1937, Li Jiayu actively asked to go out of Sichuan to participate in the War of Resistance. Subsequently, he led the 47th Army into the 22nd Group Army to Shanxi, successively fighting the Japanese army in Changzhi, Pinglu, Jincheng and other places, and organized the reconquest of Anyi and Xia County. In February 1939, Li Jiayu was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 4th Army Group, and still served as the commander of the 47th Army. In October, he was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the 36th Army, commanding the 14th and 47th Armies. In the summer of 1940, Li Jiayu led his troops to cross the Yellow River south and was transferred to the command of the Commander of the 1st Theater of Operations, after which his troops undertook the task of river defense along the south bank of the Yellow River in the northern part of Henan.
In 1944, in order to open up the mainland communication line, the Japanese army launched the First Battle, and first invaded the central Henan region. During the period when the Japanese army was preparing to attack, Li Jiayu advocated preemptively attacking the bridgehead occupied by the Japanese army at the southern end of the Yellow River Iron Bridge at the Luoyang Military Conference, but it was not adopted. In late April, the Japanese crossed the Yellow River southward, occupied Xuchang, and defeated the forces of Tang Enbo, deputy commander of the 1st Theater of Operations, before attacking Luoyang. The 36th Group Army was originally ordered to fight the Japanese army in the Luoyang area, but because the Japanese 1st Army, 12th Army and other units quickly broke through the Chinese army's defense line, they had formed an encirclement of Luoyang, and the troops were forced to retreat to the mountainous area of southern Henan. During this period, the 36th Army was ordered by Jiang Dingwen, commander of the 1st Theater, to serve as a rear guard. At this time, the 14th Army had been transferred to the command of Liu Jie, deputy commander-in-chief of the 14th Group Army, and only two regiments of the 104th Division and the 178th Division of the 47th Army were accompanied by Li Jiayu.
Under the pursuit of the Japanese army, the troops of the 1st Theater of Operations in the Luoyang area retreated to the mountainous area of western Henan. On May 17, Li Jiayu, Liu Jie, deputy commander-in-chief of the 14th Army, Zhang Jipeng, commander of the 14th Army, Xie Fusan, commander of the Provisional 4th Army, and Hu Bohan, commander of the New 8th Army, held a meeting in Zhai Yan, Luoning County, and decided to retreat separately to avoid crowding and chaos. After discussion, Li Jiayu was elected commander and led the 47th Army as a rear guard, retreating to Lu by Qianhe, Gongqian and Yanling Pass.
The retreat route of the headquarters of the 36th Army Was located between the Japanese 110th Division (division commander Hayashi Yoshitaro) and the Tenbu Regiment (commander Takujiro Miura, composed of the 69th Division regiment) swept the westward route, and the sound of friendly troops receiving the enemy was often heard during the march. In the early morning of May 21, the headquarters of the 36th Group Army received information from the Japanese army pursuing the headquarters of the 39th Group Army on the northwest side of the Dongyaoyuan in Luoning County, and immediately decided to leave early, but because it was shelled by the Japanese army, Li Jiayu decided to march from the west to the south. When the troops went up qinjiapo from the Zhangjia River, the nearby people came to inform them that there were Japanese troops on the slope, and Li Jiayu decided to lead his troops to continue uphill without waiting for Xiao Xiaoze, the chief of staff who had gone to inquire about the situation.
Due to the complex mountainous terrain in the mountainous areas of western Henan, only the headquarters personnel and the 2nd Company of the Special Agent Battalion were following Li Jiayu at this time. When Li Jiayu led his troops along the mountain plain to the south temple, the Japanese pursuit team was already waiting for work at the front of the hill, and launched a surprise attack when it found Li Jiayu's headquarters approaching. After Li Jiayu, who was walking behind the sharp platoon, discovered the enemy situation, he hurriedly turned back to beckon the troops to disperse to meet the attack. At this time, the Japanese army was already approaching step by step, and Li Jiayu was injured by a grenade in the ribs when organizing the counterattack, but still sat on the wheat ground to command the troops to meet the attack, and then the head was shot again and fell off the wheat cliff. At the time of his death, Li Jiayu tried to leave a last word, but he had just pulled out his pen and died unconscious, at the age of fifty-three.
Killed along with Li Jiayu were Xiao Xiaoze, chief of the Staff Office of the General Headquarters of the 36th Group Army, Huang Bochun, colonel colonel, Shangguan Zheng, lieutenant colonel, song Hongxun, major staff officer, Chen Shaotang, commander of the infantry of the 104th Division, Zhou Weixun (i.e., Zhou Dingming), colonel of the 47th Army, Peng Shifu, colonel of the 532nd Regiment of the 178th Division, Yuan Minggang, commander of the 47th Army Special Service Battalion, and Zhang Zhonglei, chief of staff of the 36th Army, and Chen Zhaopeng, chief of the colonel's section. Colonel Luo Jinan, the director of the confidential room, and others were wounded and captured (Chen and Luo were later killed by the Japanese army).
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