The soldiers of the Red Army, who have a tenacious spirit in their bones, have never flinched in the face of difficulties. However, in the course of the Long March, they suffered a series of blows, the most tragic of which was the Battle of Xiangjiang, but in the Battle of Ganxi before the Battle of Xiangjiang, they were also severely damaged. More than half of the army suffered more than half of the casualties, and the original nine thousand troops remained less than four thousand. And the general of the Nationalist army who caused such a great loss to our army was Liao Lei, a fierce general under Bai Chongxi.
Liao Lei graduated from the Baoding Military Academy, joined the Xiang Army, and has been following Tang Shengzhi, and later after Tang Shengzhi went to the wilderness, he defected to Bai Chongxi. He had a very good relationship with Bai Chongxi, and when the GuiZhou War broke out, Liao Lei saved Bai Chongxi's life. Liao Lei fought bravely on the battlefield, his skills are recognized by everyone, it can be said that for the Red Army, Liao Lei is a big problem.
At that time, Liao Lei served as the commander of the Seventh Army of the Gui Army, which was also the ace army of the Gui Army. Because of the failure of the anti-encirclement and suppression, the Red Army was forced to start the Long March, and in order to explore the way, the troops led by Xiao Ke arrived in Ganxi, Guizhou, after more than a month of marching. As a result, a large number of enemy troops gathered at Ganxi to intercept the Red Army, and it was Liao Lei who served as the commander. Our army fought with the enemy for more than half a month, and under the trend of the enemy being strong and weak, it suffered a heavy blow, with more than half of the casualties. After the Battle of Ganxi, Liao Lei inflicted losses on the Red Third Regiment at the Battle of xiangjiang. It is reasonable to say that Liao Lei has caused such a great loss to our army, mentioning that this person should hate him to the bone, but what Liao Lei did after that made people feel respected.
In 1937, the Battle of Songhu broke out, and Liao Lei, who had just been promoted to commander of the 21st Group Army, took the initiative to invite Miao to the Songhu front, and he could have enjoyed the glory and wealth in the rear, and led his troops to immediately join the battle and defeated two elite divisions of the Japanese army. In the later Battle of Xuzhou, Liao Leidi's subordinate Zhou Yuan held Mengcheng with only 2,000 troops, and in the face of the fierce attack of the Japanese army, Zhou Yuan could only ask Liao Lei for help, but at that time, Liao Lei could not take care of himself, and could only let Zhou Yuan die, and finally only 21 people broke through, and Zhou Yuan also sacrificed. At the Battle of Wuhan, Liao Lei, suffering heavy losses, took the initiative to request the formation of a guerrilla force at Dabie Mountain in the rear of the Japanese army. He made full use of the power of the masses to recover a large number of lost land occupied by the Japanese army.
Unfortunately, in 1939, Liao Lei died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Before his death, his only concern was the country, and he hoped that his subordinates would work hard to resist the war and absolutely could not let the Japanese army step into the Dabie Mountain.
Although Liao Lei once caused great harm to the Red Army, after all, the camps were different, each of them was its own master, and his contribution to the War of Resistance Against Japan was outstanding, so our army did not pay much attention to his previous actions, on the contrary, at the time of his death, important figures of our army: Zhu Laozong, Ye Ting, Xiang Ying, etc. were sent to Bang lian to express their respect for this famous anti-Japanese general.