The predecessor of the Nationalist 76th Army was the 76th Division.
The commander of the 76th Division was Xu Bao, who was killed in the Battle of Xifu in April 1948. After Xu Bao's death, Hu Zongnan re-replenished his troops in Jaw (Hu) County during June and formed a new 76th Division, which was later reorganized into a army, and Li Riji was appointed as the commander of the army, with the new 1st Division and 24th Division under his command.
Born in 1906, Commander Li Riji was born in 1906 after graduating from the Fifth Infantry Section of the Huangpu Huangpu Military Academy, and successively served as the commander of the 468th Regiment of the 78th Division of the 1st Army, the deputy commander of the newly organized 24th Division of the 9th Army, the commander of the Major General Division of the 46th Division of the 27th Army, and the major general of the Deputy Commander of the 1st Theater. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the brigade commander of the 165th Brigade of the reorganized 36th Division.
Due to the urgency of the war, the newly appointed commander Li Riji was ordered by Hu Zongnan to lead a 76th Army that was not fully staffed into the town of Yongfeng in Shaanxi.
Yongfeng Town, on the west bank of the Luo River. 25 kilometers west of Pucheng and 15 kilometers south of Dali, it seems that the strategic location is important. However, As a military commander, Li Riji was very dissatisfied with this arrangement, and he believed that the main force of the communist army must be in the area west of the Luo River and north of yongfeng Town, trying to annihilate the 76th Army. If the 76th Army advanced westward, the communist army would be concealed by the west bank of the Luo River using the mountains parallel to the 76th Army's route of travel, and it would be destroyed by attacking from its right; if the 76th Army did not move in Yongfeng, the communist army could take advantage of its unstable foothold and annihilate it in one fell swoop. In short, stationing in Yongfeng is stationing in a dead place. Therefore, Li Riji did not agree, but Shangfeng said that this was an order from the Xi'an Sui Bureau and must be carried out.
Facts have proved that Lee Ri-ki's judgment is correct.
In November 1948, our Northwest Field Army launched the Yongfeng Campaign, and Li Riji, who had entered the land of death, cursed Lao Hu and was useless, and they were already surrounded by our Northwest Field Army.
On November 28, Lee Ri-ki watched our army swarming into his military headquarters, and he tried to deceive him, but he was recognized by the soldiers of our army who had served as soldiers under him, so he had to admit his identity and follow our army to eat millet.
Later, when the Kuomintang was reviewing the reasons for the failure of the Yongfeng 76th Army, it was a staff officer of the Xi'an Appeasement Office who had misread the contour line in Yongfeng Town and regarded the lowlands as high ground, so they placed the Seventy-sixth Army in Yongfeng Town. The contingency of the war seemed to have made a joke to Hu Zongnan. A minor mistake by a staff officer ruined one of his troops, resulting in the capture of the commander.
In this campaign, the Northwest Field Army annihilated 1 military headquarters, 3 division headquarters, 9 regiments and 7 battalions of the Kuomintang Army, totaling more than 25,000 people. More than 7,600 officers and men under Major General Wang Zuodong of the 17th Division were killed and wounded; 17,000 officers and men including Lieutenant General Li Riji of the 76th Army, Gao Xiangang, chief of staff of major generals, Wu Yonglie, commander of the 20th Division, Yu Houzhi, commander of the 24th Division, and Zhang Hengying, deputy commander of the 17th Division, were captured.
Lee Ri-ki is also destined to do so.
After Li Zhiji was captured, our army still affirmed his command ability and received preferential treatment. He later served as a senior staff member of the 18th Corps of our army and the leader of the training class for the generals of the Chengdu Uprising. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a counselor in the Counselor's Office of Henan Province and a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative He died in 1982 at the age of 76.