Li Jiayu

Li Jiayu

Li Jiayu (April 25, 1892 - May 21, 1944) is a native of Daxing County, Pujiang County, Sichuan Province. In his early years, he was subordinate to Deng xihou's Department of Sichuan army and was the leader of the smallest faction among the warlords in Sichuan, namely, the officer faction.

He once served as commander in chief of Sichuan frontier defense army and commander in chief of the 47th army of the national revolutionary army. During the Anti Japanese War, he successively served as deputy commander in chief of the fourth group army and commander in chief of the thirty sixth group army. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he led the two divisions out of Sichuan with the 22nd group army to fight against Japan and moved to Shanxi and Henan Anti Japanese front lines.

In 1944, when he was the commander of the 36th group army, he was attacked by the Japanese plainclothes team on the way to retreat after the defeat of the central Henan battle. He died in qinjiapo, Shaanxi county, Henan Province. This was the second commander of the regiment army who was killed in the first line of the Anti Japanese war after Zhang Zizhong's 14 years of supervision. After his death, he was awarded as a second-class army general by the Kuomintang government and was admitted to the martyrs' Shrine A state funeral was held.

In 1984, with the approval of Sichuan Provincial People's government, General Li Jiayu was recognized as a revolutionary martyr. In 2014, General Li Jiayu was announced by the Ministry of civil affairs as one of the first batch of famous Anti Japanese heroes who fought tenaciously and died for their country in the Anti Japanese war.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Born in Chuangziba village, Daxing Township, Pujiang County, Sichuan Province, on April 25, 1892 (March 29 of the lunar calendar), he was a rich peasant family. His father, Li Rusong, had two acres of paddy field. He took indigo as his career and married two concubines. Li Jiayu was born to his concubine Xiong. As a child, he studied in private schools at Li Xiangshan and Huang Hui. At the age of 13, he was admitted to Pujiang primary school. In order to change his family, he decided to join the army, and was admitted to the Sichuan Army primary school.

In the spring of 1913, he and many progressive classmates opposed Hu Jingyi, the governor of Sichuan Province, who was dependent on the northern warlords, and was forced to leave school. In the summer of the same year, he entered the Nanjing Army Reserve school. In the "second revolution", Li Jiayu went to Nanjing to participate in Bai Wenwei's regiment to fight against yuan and against the monarchy; in the battle of attacking the manufacturing Bureau in Shanghai, he bravely came to the fore.

In 1914, Li Jiayu returned to Sichuan and took part in the third phase of the Sichuan military academy to continue his studies. He was intelligent, studious and diligent, which won the praise of his teachers.

In 1915, after graduating from the third phase of Sichuan military academy, Li Jiayu was assigned to serve in Liu Cunhou's department and Deng xihou's Department of the fourth division of Sichuan army. Li Jiayu was brave in fighting, with clear rewards and punishments. He took the lead in every battle and won the admiration of his subordinates.

Princes of Sichuan Army

In 1915, Yuan Shikai restored the monarchy, and Li Jiayu joined the national defense army with Liu Cunhou and Deng xihou. After that, he was brave and good at fighting with the Northern Warlords Cao Kun and Zhang Jingyao, and made outstanding achievements. He was promoted to battalion commander by his achievements. Later, he was promoted to commander of the 12th regiment and brigade commander of Deng xihou Department of the third division of Sichuan army.

In 1924, he served as division commander of the first division of Sichuan army and commander in chief of Sichuan border defense army.

In 1925, Yang Sen launched the "war of reunification", and Li Jiayu followed Deng xihou to take part in Liu Xiang's overthrow of Yang. He successively conquered Rongchang, Neijiang, Renshou and other counties, and occupied Chengdu General Administration of tobacco and wine and the mint. He made unqualified half round silver coins and two hundred copper coins and forced them to circulate, collecting people's wealth from them. In the same year, Li Jiayu quickly developed into six mixed brigades (18 infantry regiments) and occupied Suining, Anyue, Lezhi, Tongnan and other counties. Li Jiayu appointed officials in his defense area, apportioned taxes and assessed the price of salt. He is known as the "king of Suining" for making guns and bullets, training officers and assistants, and supporting soldiers with self-respect. Under the leadership of Deng xihou, it has formed a trend of being too big to lose.

In 1927, Lai Xinhui, the former commander-in-chief of Sichuan frontier forces, was detained by Liu Wenhui and others in collusion, and was forced to leave the field by electricity. In order to win over Li Jiayu, Deng xihou offered him the post of commander-in-chief of Sichuan frontier forces. Li Jiayu was 35 years old. He and Luo Zezhou became the principal and deputy leaders of the "officer Department" centered on the classmate relationship of the Sichuan army officer academy. It is as famous as Liu Wenhui's, Deng xihou's, Tian Songyao's, Liu Xiang's, Yang Sen's, and Liu Cunhou's armed forces. However, in the battle of xiachuandong and shangchuandong, this weak group was attacked by Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui at the expense of his troops. Li Jiayu had to ask Deng xihou for help to avoid the end of the whole army.

In November 1930, Luo Zezhou division of the 28th army mutinied and Luo Zezhou was detained. Because of Luo's arrogance, Deng xihou wanted to go to Luo, so he promoted Chen Hongwen to be the division commander and took over the division in Shunqing.

In February 1931, Luo Zezhou fled to Li Jiayu's department. Li and Luo united with Yang Sen to attack Shunqing. They tried to force Chen Hongwen to hand over the division by force, provoking the battle of Beidao. As a result, Chen Hongwen retreated to Chengdu.

In March, Deng xihou led troops to attack Li and Luo, and Liu Wenhui and Tian Songyao also sent troops to assist. Li Jiayu was defeated and asked Liu Xiang for help. So Liu Xiang sent troops to help Li.

In May, around Shunqing City, warlords of all sizes gathered in Sichuan, forming a situation of mutual confrontation and containment. They were forced to strike war and make peace. In the battle of Beidao, Li Jiayu retreated from Yingshan and Pengan counties, and actually attached himself to Liu Xiang. Deng xihou lost his two troops and their defensive areas, and his power was very weak.

From 1932 to 1933, the "battle between Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui" happened because of the conflict between Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui. Li Jiayu led more than 10000 people to attack Liu Wenhui's defense area. After Liu Wenhui's defense line of the Minjiang River was broken through, Li Jiayu seized Liu Wenhui's division commander Chen Guangzao and brigade commander Shi Zhaowu. Shi Zhaowu was a bandit. After being recruited by Liu Wenhui, he was accepted as his son. When he was stationed in Chengdu, he committed all kinds of crimes. Li Jiayu executed Shi Zhaowu and transported him to Chengdu for three days.

Encircle and suppress the Red Army

In 1933, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army entered northern Sichuan and established the Sichuan Shaanxi revolutionary base.

In October, Liu Xiang appointed Li Jiayu as the commander-in-chief of the third way to suppress bandits in Sichuan. Li Jiayu, together with Luo Zezhou, formed more than 30000 troops to attack the Sichuan Shaanxi Soviet area.

In January 1934, Li Jiayu and Luo Zezhou arrived in Yilong. In wulidun and Dingshan, they were severely damaged by the 27th division of the ninth Red Army, and more than 800 people were annihilated. In July of the same year, Li Jiayu, together with Yang Sen's and pan Wenhua's troops, attacked the positions of the northern Red Army in Tongjiang County in turn under the cover of aircraft. One of his battalions was completely annihilated by the Red Army, and Li Jiayu's troops fled across the liangyonghe river.

On the 13th, the red 30th army defeated Li Jiayu's army at youyakou, east of Bazhong. After annihilating four regiments, it recovered Bazhong and drove the encircled Sichuan army out of the Soviet area.

At the end of 1934, Li Jiayu ordered the two regiments of the Ministry and the two companies of engineers to build a 45 km long simple highway from Pujiang to Xinjin, which is the original Subgrade of Puxin section of Pujiang Chengdu Highway. At the same time, Li Jiayu also appointed Qian Wenxuan, director of Qiongjiang and Pujiang highways, to build Pujiang and Qiongjiang highways, and to complete more than 20 kilometers of subgrade paving from Pujiang north gate to Xilai Banqiao.

In February 1935, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army assembled 12 main regiments to go north to southern Shaanxi. Li Jiayu and Luo Zezhou took the opportunity to go north to seize the territory. But soon the red army went south again. Luo Zezhou was the first to bear the brunt of the attack and was annihilated by more than 5000 people. From then on, he never recovered. He was afraid of being attacked by the Red Army and ordered his troops to defend their positions and fight steadily. After abandoning the base and crossing the Jialing River, the Fourth Front Red Army arrived at Tumen, Damao county. Li Jiayu was ordered to transfer to Guanxian County for interception. When the headquarters entered banqiaogou on Wenchuan and Weizhou roads, they were broken through by the ninth Red Army. Geng Boping, the commander of Li Jiayu's battalion, jumped into the Minjiang River and drowned. The whole battalion was destroyed. The Ninth Army of Xuanhong raided the second mixed brigade of Li Jiayu's department and the fourth regiment of Li Jiayu's department. Gong bin, the leader of the Ninth Army of Xuanhong, was defeated and fled alone. After the war, Li Jiayu was severely reprimanded by Chiang Kai Shek. In order to vent his anger, Li Jiayu shot Gong bin.

In October, Jiang Zhongzheng downsized the Sichuan army and appointed Li as the commander of the 104 division of the army and the commander of the first appeasement area in Sichuan, commanding him to garrison Xichang.

On November 13, the Red Army marched into Mingshan and Ya'an. Li Jiayu was ordered to lead four brigades to the front line of Baizhang to catch fire with the Red Army. Li Jiayu's troops were killed and more than 800 people were captured.

In February 1936, the Red Army successfully completed the task of anti interception and rear end collision, and sent its troops northward. Sichuan army departments failed to chase and block, Li Jiayu had to lead the Department to prevent Xichang. Afterwards, the Sichuan army reorganized again. Li Jiayu served as the commander of the 47th army, with jurisdiction over 104 divisions and 178 divisions.

Shanxi Anti Japanese War

In 1937, the July 7th Lugouqiao Incident broke out, and the Japanese army invaded the country on a large scale. On the same day, Li Jiayu was promoted to commander of the 47th army, and his headquarters was expanded to two divisions (104th and 178th divisions).

Li Jiayu, out of national indignation, sent a telegram to kill the enemy. He also wrote a poem: "if a man comes out of Sichuan with his sword, he will not fight the Japanese pirates; if he buries his bones, there is no need for the land of mulberry trees. The world is full of green mountains." In August of the same year, Chiang Kai Shek ordered Li Jiayu and other troops from Sichuan to fight against Japan. At the beginning of September, Li Jiayu led the 47th Army (the original 104th division, and then expanded to 178th Division) to set out from Xichang. The troops covered a distance of more than 4000 kilometers in straw sandals. In December, they arrived at the Anti Japanese front line in Southeast Shanxi, and deployed in the areas of Changzhi, eldest son, Licheng and Lucheng in Taihang Mountains. In the front line of Anti Japanese War, Li Jiayu was deeply inspired and inspired by the climax of national unity and national salvation and the Communist Party's Anti Japanese united front policy. He repented of his past sins of actively engaging in civil war, and devoted himself to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, killing the enemy and achieving results.

In the spring of 1938, under the unified command of Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, the commander-in-chief and Deputy commanders of the "East Road army of the second world war zone" organized by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Li Jiayu led his troops to fight fiercely with the 104 Brigade (more than 10000 troops) of the 108 division of Xiayuan xiongmi, a well-equipped Japanese invading force, in the area of Dongyangguan and Changzhi

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