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Author: Yi Pin Wen team a constant single step, no authorization to ban the transfer!
Liu Ruming, because of his transition to the north and south of the anti-Japanese battlefield, whether it was to fight for aid or to attack the stronghold, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and with his military achievements, he was awarded the rank of general by the Military and Political Committee of the Nationalist Government in 1944.
[General Liu Ruming]
It is said that Liu Ruming's participation in the army is purely related to the story he heard. It was in January 1912, Liu Ruming heard that there were troops recruiting new soldiers in Jingxian County, ninety miles away, and had always wanted to see what the outside world was like by eating grain as a soldier, Liu Ruming was so confused about signing up, and when he entered the barracks and went down to the company, his boss was also a platoon leader. In the early years of the Republic of China, there were very few people who read books and went to become soldiers, and they were quite precious. However, the platoon leader still does not believe that poor places still have money to study? Therefore, I personally examined Liu Ruming's knowledge, such as the "Four Books and Five Classics", and really answered like a stream, which made the platoon leader very happy, then you should not go to training, and do a good job in the statistical work required by the superiors when writing and writing materials. Don't work so hard to train as an errand boy, but Liu Ruming is unwilling, he said that he came to serve as a soldier to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious achievements, you let me do such a thing, then when can I get ahead. The platoon leader really didn't understand what Liu Ruming thought, whether he had read a book for several years and read his brain badly.
Well, then I'll appoint you as the squad leader. The recruit egg who just became a soldier directly became the squad leader, which made those recruits who came with him very dissatisfied, why did he care about us as soon as he came, Liu Ruming saw that the whole class was ten thousand disobedient to himself. There is no way, only if you are better than them, people can look up to you and obey you. So he worked hard to learn and practice hard, often practicing alone until late at night, and then teaching new recruits during the day. Teaching by example is better than words, Liu Ruming's standard military posture really makes people speechless, and the position of squad leader is stable. In just ten years, an unknown squad leader had become Feng Yuxiang's confidant, and because many of the battles in which he led his troops ended in victory, he won Chiang Kai-shek's trust and attention, and by 1933 Liu Ruming had been promoted to a senior leading cadre such as the commander of the Provisional Second Division of the Twenty-ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
At 2:00 a.m. on March 18 of that year, the Japanese army was not willing to accept the defeat at Luo Wenyu on the Great Wall, and mobilized two companies, two cavalry regiments, more than 10 armored vehicles, and 20 aircraft from the direction of Chengde. At the same time, two brigades of the puppet army, with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops, were also mobilized to launch a fierce attack on Luo Wenyu, where Liu Ruming, commander of the Provisional Second Division, was stationed under the cover of fierce artillery fire.
In the face of the tidal wave of enemies, Liu Ruming personally supervised the battle and set up the command post close to the front, so that he could see the attack and defense of the enemy and us with a broad field of view and facilitate command, and even more because he was the commander-in-chief of the battle, so that the officers and men in the battle felt that they were determined not to fear death with the same enemy, so as to maximize the morale of the officers and men. The rampant Japanese Kou thought that the attack was launched at 2 a.m., and the Second Division would never be able to wait in a strict position, thinking that many officers and men were either killed by artillery fire or had just crawled out of the nest in disheveled clothes to find clothes. Who knows, they were greatly disappointed, when the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese army was with the mentality of cleaning up the battlefield, and came to the position of the Provisional Second Division, without the slightest defense. Who knows, what they did not expect to greet them was a dense number of grenades, along with the surging light and heavy machine gun bullets, accompanied by the explosion of grenades and the sound of gunfire, and the Japanese puppet army that rushed to the front fell down like a row of sticks, which surprised and surprised the Japanese army, and they could not understand how the opponent knew that they would launch a sneak attack in the early morning.
The Japanese army, which failed in the sneak attack plan, attacked liu Ruming's position at Luo Wenyu with heavy artillery fire at dawn. The officers and men of the Provisional Second Division became more and more courageous in the war, and by noon, the Japanese army had still not been able to break through the position of the Provisional Second Division. At noon, the angry Japanese army sent more than 30 planes to circle and bomb the positions held by the Provisional Second Division, and many officers and men of the Provisional Second Division fell in a pool of blood, and the trenches were full of flesh and blood blurred corpses, facing such a tragic battle situation. Liu Ruming called on the brothers to fight to the last person and never retreat, and to die on the battlefield. The various units of the 29th Army, which participated in the battle, witnessed the scene of the bloody battle of the Provisional Second Division led by Liu Ruming, and were deeply moved, and they were determined to kill the enemy as bravely as the brother troops. After 5 hours of bloody hand-to-hand combat, the units of the 29th Army repelled more than 30 crazy attacks of the enemy. At 10 o'clock that night, the desperate Japanese army once again launched a fierce attack on the position of Luo Wenyu of the Provisional Second Division led by Liu Ruming with all its strength. Liu Ruming felt that the time for a decisive battle had arrived, he personally went to the position and took up a gun to shoot at the Japanese army, while shouting loudly that the time had come to be loyal to the country, Liu Ruming, who put his life and death aside, and the guards around him painstakingly dissuaded and resolutely did not take the position to stubbornly attack the invading enemy. During the fierce battle, Liu Ruming found that the enemy machine gun position was a great threat to the position of the Provisional Second Division. Immediately asked to divide a force with a large knife, take advantage of the night to go around 7 hills, and launch a sneak attack behind the Japanese machine gun position. The Japanese machine gun positions did not expect that there would be an enemy attack behind them, and their bodies were cut in half. Dudding the machine gun position, which was the best signal to launch a charge, Liu Ruming saw the situation and ordered an all-round counterattack, and the Second Division, including the 29th Army, directly attacked the panicked Japanese army like a descending tiger, and drove the Japanese puppet army out of all the offensive positions in Luo Wenyu in one breath.
In the Battle of Luo Wenyu, more than 3,000 Japanese invaders were killed and wounded, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Japanese puppet army, and the Japanese army had no offensive ability in the direction of Luo Wenyu and had to retreat in defeat. The Provisional Second Division led by Liu Ruming played the prestige of the 29th Army, established the bloodiness of Chinese soldiers, and won the affirmation and recognition of the people of the whole country, and a large number of congratulatory telegrams flew like snowflakes. Since then, Liu Ruming of the Northwest Army has truly entered Chiang Kai-shek's field of vision.
In May 1938, China's highest military authorities ordered the Fifth Theater to concentrate its forces near Xuzhou, riding on the east wind of the newly victorious Taierzhuang Victory, and preparing to once again gather and annihilate the japanese army's living forces to deal a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army. After the Japanese army learned of the original intention of the Nationalist army, with a powerful mobile corps, more of an equipment advantage, formulated greater ambitions. That is, with some troops to contain the nationalist army on the front, the main force detoured to the west, trying to encircle Xuzhou from the flank and rear to annihilate the main force of the Fifth Theater. As a result of the instructions of the chinese highest military authorities to annihilate the effective forces of the Japanese army, various theaters throughout the country successively gathered 50 elite divisions in the Fifth Theater, which can be called the main force of the Chinese anti-Japanese battlefield at that time. After Chiang Kai-shek learned of this sinister plan of the Japanese army, as the supreme commander of the War of Resistance, he thought that if these 50 elite divisions were surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army in Xuzhou, then China's War of Resistance would be impossible to talk about. Chiang Kai-shek, aware of the seriousness of the situation, sent a telegram to Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations: "Order your troops to avoid a decisive battle, evacuate Xuzhou, and break through quickly, and order Liu Ruming's 68th Army to be the rear guard of the whole army and cover the transfer of the main force." ”
At this time, Liu Ruming was already the commander of the Sixty-eighth Army, and after receiving the order from the Commander's Headquarters of the Fifth Theater, he had only one word, promising to complete the task and resolutely cover the transfer of the main force of the Fifth Theater. Liu Ruming took on the heavy responsibility of defending Xuzhou, and instead of passively holding the city of Xuzhou and waiting for the Japanese army to attack, he adopted the principle that the enemy's advance and our active attack was the best defense, and set up a position in the area of Xiao County, Anhui, the gateway to Xuzhou, to delay the speed of the Japanese attack and buy time for the transfer of the 50 elite divisions of the main force of the Nationalist army.
The Japanese 9th Division, which came to attack, was unable to move under the stubborn resistance of Liu Ruming's Sixty-eighth Army, fell into it, and caused a large number of casualties. After a few days of fighting, the Japanese reconnaissance from the air, as well as the intelligence sent by the secret agents and traitors, showed that the main force of the Chinese army had quietly retreated to a safe area. This made the attacking Japanese 9th Division and 13th Division angry, intending to completely annihilate the Sixty-eighth Army led by Liu Ruming outside Xuzhou. Liu Ruming, who was also completely retreated to a safe area by the main force of the Nationalist army, also deliberately posed a battle with the Japanese army to fight to the death, once again attracting the Japanese army to the bait. When Liu Ruming, who was about to fight a bluff with the Japanese army, received another call from Chiang Kai-shek ordering Liu Ruming to abandon the city of Xuzhou. This made Liu Ruming feel a little helpless and broke his plan. With Liu Ruming's order, the officers and men of the Sixty-eighth Army, who already knew the retreat route, were orderly and extremely covert to jump out of the heavy encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, realizing a safe transfer, and also making the Japanese army pay the price of more than 10,000 casualties. Not only that, liu Ruming's most important thing was to preserve 50 elite nationalist army divisions, and made great contributions to China's insistence on the War of Resistance without any international assistance at that time, relying only on the blood of Chinese.
In the matter of anti-Japanese resistance, Liu Ruming not only always walked in the front himself, but also let his son actively participate in the torrent of anti-Japanese resistance. His two sons were both taken to the army by him as soldiers, really tiger fathers and no dogs, in the face of the Japanese air superiority on the battlefield, the two sons had no fear, and used anti-aircraft machine guns on the battlefield to shoot at the indiscriminate Japanese aircraft, not worrying at all that they would spill blood on the battlefield.
Since Liu Ruming led his troops to participate in the War of Resistance in 1933, every battle has faced the dilemma of being chased and beaten by Japanese aircraft, which has made him have the original intention of making his son a pilot from then on. Especially when the Chinese Air Force was in a difficult situation in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the air war against Japan was almost a cruel reality of no return. Liu Ruming was even more determined to make his son an air force, and when he expressed his thoughts to his eldest son, Liu Tieshan, he got a categorical answer and obeyed his father's wish to become an air force. At that time, among the senior officers of the Nationalist Army, only Liu Ruming was the only one who sent his son to join the Air Force, which showed Liu Ruming's feelings of home and country. When his son returned from studying in the United States and spilled blood in the blue sky during the air battle with the Japanese army, He Yingqin, minister of military affairs of the Nationalist government, was very touched when he learned that the martyred pilot Liu Tieshan was the son of Liu Ruming, commander of the Sixty-eighth Army, and not only personally called for comfort, but also praised Liu Ruming's great move, which truly showed a truly commendable Chinese soldier who put the interests of the country above the family.
Reference: Memoirs of Liu Ruming
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