But it was said that Li Jiansheng Xiaoshui had another great victory, and then took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield. However, this victory is also the largest battle loss since Li Jiansheng's troops fought several wars. All the troops participating in the battle, including the Red 16th Division, the Red 19th Division, and the reserve special service regiment and guard regiment that later participated in the battle, suffered a total of 941 casualties, 322 seriously wounded, and 1,087 lightly wounded. This is nothing for other troops, or for a battle that has achieved such a record, but for Li Jiansheng's department, it is the first major loss.

While retreating and moving in, while listening to Zeng Zhongsheng's report, Li Jiansheng sighed: This Li Jue's department is known as the first in the Hunan army, and it really doesn't blow it! In this case, it is especially powerful to inflict such battle damage on your own troops! As for the Gui Army, which later participated in the war, the battle has always been strong, and it is half a catty and eight taels to fight against its own special service regiment and guard regiment, but there are many of them, two divisions, and they only have two regiments, and it is not easy to withstand it for an hour. As for himself, it's not bad to fight like this with these two forces.

While sighing, he turned in, and found a good place, dug a pit, and buried the dead soldiers. This is the rule of Li Jiansheng's department, and when his troops retreated, they also brought down the remains of the sacrificed soldiers. After safely withdrawing from the position, Li Jiansheng buried the soldiers in a centralized manner. A solemn funeral was held for an hour, after which the ministries continued northward.

At that time, the two divisions of Yuntian's division, namely the Red 17th and Red 18th Divisions, were fighting hard with Zhou Hunyuan's division. Since the separation from Li Jiansheng, on the first day, they were purely for monitoring and did not engage the enemy, but on the afternoon of the second day, they did receive the enemy, because they also adopted the method of ambush, and won a great victory in the afternoon of the same day, completely annihilating a brigade of the 3rd Division of Zhou Hunyuan's 36th Army. When Zhou Hunyuan's main force arrived, Yuntian's headquarters had already gone away, and he took the opportunity to wrap dumplings with a brigade of the 5th Division, which was at the end.

This time, it really made Zhou Hunyuan angry. You must know that the 36th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which he now commands, has a total of 4 divisions, namely the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Divisions. Of course, this time there were only three divisions rushing to the pass, namely the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th divisions, and the other 1st division Liao Lei was pursuing the Red Fifth Army. Among the three divisions, the 5th Division is the most important to Zhou Hunyuan. You must know that when Zhou Hunyuan was in Jiangxi in the past, he served as the commander of the 14th Brigade, and he had many dealings with Li Jiansheng, and even this brigade was completely annihilated by Li Jiansheng three times, but he came back to life every time. Later, the 14th Brigade was expanded into the 5th Division, and Zhou Hunyuan served as the division commander. Later, the 5th Division was merged into the 36th Army, and Zhou Hunyuan served as the commander and concurrently served as the commander of the 5th Division. And right now, Yuntian's department has annihilated a brigade of the 5th Division, what is it doing if this is not touching the tiger's buttocks?

On the third and fourth days, Zhou Hunyuan's department and Yuntian's department started a guerrilla attack in this mountain. It's a pity, the three divisions of the 36th Army of the National Revolutionary Army were dragged back and forth by Yuntian's headquarters in this mountain three times, but they didn't touch their skin. As a result, they dragged their strong and dragged to death. When he received the telegram from Chief Jiang and needed to go south to save the 19th Division of the 28th Army, he was blocked and chased by these red bandits. As a result, this entanglement lasted more than 6 hours, and after paying two brigades, the red bandits finally suffered great losses. That night, I had to rest on the spot. Fortunately, because of the timely assistance of the Gui army, the 19th Division was rescued. Zhou Hunyuan can finally rest assured to fight these red bandits like maggots this time. It's just that when I got up the next day and wanted to look for these red bandits, I found that these red bandits had long since disappeared.

Zhou Hunyuan's department had no choice but to search and advance. The 3rd Division advanced in the direction of Xinchang, the 2nd Division advanced to Boyang, and the 5th Division advanced to Yatunbao. At that time, the 3rd Division had two brigades, and as the leading force of Zhou Hunyuan's department, it was destroyed by Yuntian and Ji Zhentong with two divisions unprecedentedly, and now only one brigade remains. The 5th Division originally had three brigades, because Zhou Hunyuan's troops were in a hurry to catch up with Yuntian and Ji Zhentong, and this 5th Division became the rearguard, but Yuntian and Ji Zhentong took advantage of the familiarity of the terrain to cut off the connection between the 13th Brigade of the 5th Division and the 14th Brigade and the 15th Brigade with the 17th Division, and then ambushed the 13th Brigade with another division to solve the battle in an hour. As a result, there are only two brigades left in this Zhou Hunyuan's starting unit.

However, it was said that the 3rd Division is currently headed by Li Yutang. Zhou Weiyin, the former division commander, was transferred to the Senate Office of the Nationalist Government as a lieutenant general and deputy director due to his opposition to Chiang.

Zhou Weiyin was a native of Yiyang, Hunan, and in 1929, because he led his troops to oppose Chiang, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the 12th Army and acting commander, and later took the initiative to study at the Army University. After his return, he served as the director of the Military Department of the Military Senate of the Nationalist Government. In 1949, when he took the initiative to get in touch with the People's Liberation Army and actively defected to the arms of the people, he was treated unjustly, was recognized as a reactionary by the local revolutionary masses, and was disheartened, and committed suicide with his wife in their own home, ending his tragic life.

And Zhou Weiyin's successor, Li Yutang, is also a celebrity. He, Li Yannian, and Li Xianzhou later became senior generals in the National Revolutionary Army, and were praised by their classmates as the "Three Lis of Shandong" and became famous throughout the army. Li Yutang is a famous anti-Japanese general, and he has been in the firing line during the ten-year Anti-Japanese War. The story of his deepest impression on the world of resistance against Japan is the legend in the Third Battle of Changsha.

In the second Battle of Changsha, the main force of the Japanese 3rd Division, the 6th Division and the 40th Division each fiercely attacked Li Yutang's 10th Army, after two days and nights of fierce fighting, the 10th Army's Fulinpu and Jinjing positions were broken through successively, the 3rd Division suffered heavy losses, and the deputy commander of the 190th Division, Lai Chuanxiang, was martyred. Li Yutang was forced to abandon his position and lead his troops to retreat to Langli City, south of the Laodao River, to contain and rectify. Subsequently, the 10th Army was deployed on the line of Dongshan, Liuyang River, and Laodao River on the periphery of Changsha, and used its geographical advantage to block the Japanese army for four days and nights, and finally held out until reinforcements arrived to repel the Japanese army. After the war, the Theater Commander's Department held accountable for the loss of Kanai, and Li Yutang was dismissed from his post and transferred to the Theater Commander's Department to serve. When the Third Battle of Changsha came, the theater commander Xue Yue asked him to come back, but Li Yutang did not buy the face of the theater commander and remained unmoved. It was not until Jiang Zhongzheng personally called Li Yutang that he regained the burden of commanding the 10th Army to defend Changsha.

And the most interesting thing is the dialogue between the two. According to Jiang Hongxi, who once served in the 10th Army, the content of the phone call was as follows:

Jiang Zhongzheng asked: Are you Li Yutang, commander of the Tenth Army?

Li Yutang replied: Yes!

Jiang Zhongzheng asked again: Are you a student of the first phase of Whampoa?

Li Yutang replied: Report to the principal, yes.

Jiang Zhongzheng said: Okay, then Changsha will be handed over to you.

Then, Jiang Zhongzheng hung up the phone. Jiang Zhongzheng's simple words, including the lifting of the punishment and the trust of the principal, immediately strengthened Li Yutang's determination to defend the city, and also achieved the highest peak of his life's career as a horseman. On December 30, 1941, Li Yutang returned to the military headquarters to supervise affairs, and formulated a battle plan to defend Changsha, and held a press conference to publicly express his willingness to live and die with Changsha City. On January 1 of the following year, the Japanese 3rd Division concentrated its superior forces and stormed Changsha, which was bravely resisted by the officers and men of the 10th. For example, Zhou Qingxiang, commander of the 3rd Division, was at Tianxin Pavilion, Zhu Yue, commander of the 190th Division, and Fang Xianjue, commander of the 10th Reserve Division, supervised the battle at the South Gate. On January 3, the commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Anan Yuki, sent the 6th Division to attack the area from the North Gate to the East Gate, while the 3rd Division reduced the front line and mainly attacked the area from the East Gate to the South Gate. As the Nationalist forces on the outer front were engaged in the counteroffensive phase one after another, Anan Weiki was forced to order a retreat on the night of January 4. The Japanese army attacking Changsha was forced to retreat, and along the way was blocked by various national armies and pursued by the 10th Army, many senior Japanese officers were wounded, and the Chinese army achieved the third Changsha victory in the history of the Anti-Japanese War. After the battle, the Military Commission awarded the honorary title of "Taishan Army" to the 10th Army, and its three divisions also awarded the "Honor" flag. On January 24, Li Yutang was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 27th Army and commander of the 10th Army, and was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun by the Nationalist Government, becoming the 95th recipient of the medal. In March of the same year, Li Yutang resigned as a part-time commander of the 10th Army and became the deputy commander-in-chief of the 27th Group Army.

Speaking of Li Yutang's life legend, it does not only refer to his excellent performance during the anti-Japanese period. What happened to him on the eve of liberation is also thought-provoking. At that time, Li Yutang, who held many positions in Hainan, was an important figure worthy of rebellion against the People's Liberation Army that was about to liberate Hainan. So, under the contact of Li Yutang's wife Chen Bolan and brother-in-law Chen Shiqing, the People's Liberation Army got in touch with Li Yutang. In April 1950, Li Yutang's contact with the People's Liberation Army was interrupted with the beginning of the Hainan Campaign. Since he had never made up his mind to launch an uprising, he could only command the 32nd Army to resist stubbornly. On April 19, Li Yutang dispatched his 252nd Division to reinforce the Chengmai friendly defense area, but was surrounded and annihilated by three divisions of the People's Liberation Army. The rest of the 32nd Army was heavily damaged at Wanning on 25 April, and its remnants were withdrawn to Taiwan on the 28th. In 1950, after Li Yutang led the remnants to Hsinchu, Taiwan, he was removed from his military post again. Because Li Gang, the retinue adjutant who was engaged in plotting against him, was exposed, arrested, and punished, he confessed that Li Yutang's wife and brother-in-law Chen Shiqing went from Hong Kong to Hainan to plot against Li Yutang. After Li Yutang learned of Li Gang's arrest, he immediately wrote to Chen Shiqing, who was working in Kaohsiung, asking him to flee for his life as soon as possible. The letter was intercepted by agents of the Secrecy Bureau, and Li Yutang was arrested and later executed by Chiang Zhongzheng's own order.

It's just that this leads to another public case.

In 1983, the Shandong Provincial People's Government believed that in 1949, when Li Yutang was the deputy commander-in-chief of Hainan Defense, the CCP plotted against Li Yutang through relations, and Li accepted the CCP's conditions to hold an uprising. Due to the interruption of transportation, Li Yutang did not receive instructions from the CCP about the uprising in time, that is, he withdrew to Taiwan with the Kuomintang army. Later, because he was betrayed by a traitor, on February 5, 1951, Li Yutang was killed by the Kuomintang authorities in Bitan, Taipei.

I have to admit that this decision of the Shandong Provincial People's Government made Li Yutang a revolutionary martyr. However, more than 20 years later, shortly after the Spring Festival in 2004, the Taiwan government publicly issued a notice nominating "General Li Yutang and his wife Chen Bolan have been wronged and awarded a certificate of restoration of honor." This made the legend of Li Yutang, which was already very clear, confusing, and has become a topic of conversation for some people. Of course, that's all for later, so I won't say much about it for the time being.