Why are Guangxi soldiers so strong?

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Guangxi has always given everyone the impression that it is an unknown place, but do you know the other side of Guangxi people’s character? Did you know that Qin Shihuang only put 300,000 troops on the Great Wall to fight against the Huns, but put 500,000 troops on Guangxi to fight against Xiou (ancestor of the Zhuang people)? Did you know that the Han Dynasty used 200,000 troops to defend the Great Wall, but left 300,000 troops in West Vietnam (Guangxi)? Did you know that the wolf soldiers used by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty to fight against the bandits came from Guangxi? Do you know that Yuan Chonghuan fought more than 10,000 Guangxi soldiers against 200,000 Manchu Baqi in Ningyuan? Do you know that Feng Zicai of the Qing Dynasty defeated the French in Vietnam? Do you know that Liu Yongfu repeatedly defeated the French and Japanese in Vietnam and Taiwan? Did you know that almost all of Sun Yat-sen's uprisings against the Qing Dynasty were in Guangxi? Do you know the most difficult battles on the Long March of the Communist Party’s Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army? Do you know the most intense classic battles between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War? Do you know that 80% of the generals and officers of the Guangxi Corps died in the battle in Shanghai in 1937? Do you know the 800 warriors? Do you know Dai Anlan and the Guangxi soldiers who died in the first military expedition to Southeast Asia? This is not to promote the Guangxi people, but the Guangxi people have been ignored too much by history. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Allied China Theater Chief of Staff, American General Stilwell, said: Guangxi soldiers are the best soldiers in the world. More than 2,000 years ago, the king of Xiou led the Song Dynasty to lead 50,000 Lingnan indigenous soldiers, and ordered the Qin army to lay down hundreds of thousands of corpses. The Guangxi soldiers have always been a symbol of the strong combat effectiveness of the Guangxi army. The bravery of Guangxi's indigenous soldiers amazed all their Chinese and foreign opponents! The tradition of sending elite soldiers from one place has lasted for thousands of years and has not become a reality unique to China!

Guangxi people in the eyes of an outsider (reposted)

I often study history, have also been to Guangxi, and have met many Guangxi friends. I feel that the character and personality of Guangxi people are We Hunanese are very similar. Didn’t Marshal Zhu De once say: Hunanese are the most domineering, while Guangxiese are the most arrogant. I personally feel that it is said that "Guangdong and Guangxi are one family", but in fact due to the huge differences in environment and economy, the personalities of Guangxi and Cantonese people are simply worlds apart. Cantonese people are relatively indifferent to others, and there is another point that may sound ugly. There is a lack of bloodiness; while most Guangxi people are very generous and hospitable, and have strong personalities. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began, the Taiping Army only had 30,000 people at the beginning. These 30,000 people were all Guangxi soldiers. They fought all the way from Guangxi to Nanjing. How powerful. After the Northern Expedition, the Taiping Army soldiers were mainly from Anhui and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The combat effectiveness of the people in these places could not be compared with the previous Guangxi soldiers. Zeng Guofan once said: "The combat effectiveness of the 300,000 in the middle and late stages of the Changmao (Taiping Army)" , far inferior to the 30,000 just out of Guangxi." Guangxi soldiers received such a high evaluation from him.

In addition, Liu Yongfu’s Black Flag Army fought against the French in Vietnam and the Japanese in Taiwan, and Feng Zicai’s Cui Army created the great victory at Zhennanguan. These were all fought by Guangxi soldiers, so many people It is said that in the war against foreigners in the late Qing Dynasty, almost everyone in the country lost the battle, and only the people of Guangxi won. During the Republic of China, Li Zongren's Guangxi troops were very powerful in combat, especially the Gui Army's Seventh Army, which was known as the "Steel Army". The Seventh Army was almost never used during the National Government's Northern Expedition and warlords' melee. Suffered defeat. During the Gui-Tang War, hundreds of thousands of Hunan troops, known for their sturdiness, were defeated by tens of thousands of Gui troops and were incorporated. At the beginning of the Central Plains War, the 100,000 Hunan Army suffered another complete defeat when facing less than 30,000 Gui Army. After the Great War in the Central Plains, the Gui Army retreated back to Guangxi. The Hunan Army, the Yunnan Army, and the Guangdong Army assembled nearly 120,000 troops in an effort to defeat the Gui Army and occupy Guangxi. However, more than 20,000 Gui Army troops were divided into two groups. More than 10,000 people first defeated the Yunnan Army of more than 30,000 people, and then defeated nearly 30,000 Guangdong Army, driving the Yunnan Army and Guangdong Army out of Guangxi; on the other hand, 10,000 people defeated nearly 60,000 Hunan Army in the Guilin area. . During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese also spoke highly of the Gui Army and the Guangxi Militia. The performance of the Gui Army was also considered by domestic historians as "the trump card among the miscellaneous armies" and its combat effectiveness could be compared with the most elite troops of the Central Army. "etc.

During the civil war, Marshal XX Liu Bocheng once formulated the order of annihilating the enemy in the Dabie Mountains: "attack the weakest security forces first, then the stronger Central Army, and finally the strongest Gui Army. "Su Yu and many other PLA generals had this to say about the Kuomintang army during the War of Liberation: "To distinguish which of the Kuomintang's troops are elite troops, first, look at the equipment, those with American equipment must be elite troops; second, look at the accent. The troops with Guangxi accents must also be elite troops. If they have both American equipment and Guangxi accents, they will definitely be the most elite troops in the Kuomintang army." (This is recorded in the memoirs of General Su Yu, and also said in the memoirs of many other PLA generals).

In the 1979 war against Vietnam, Guangxi had the largest number of soldiers. Now many Sichuan people say that Sichuan sent the most troops. This is wrong. It is found in the "History of the XX Party" and the cultural and historical archives. According to the introduction, Guangxi sent the most troops, not Sichuan. At least the first batch of hundreds of thousands of people were mostly Guangxi soldiers. So I think when talking about the personality characteristics of people in various provinces in China, Guangxi should not be missed. This is a hot land for bleeding men. Mr. Qian Zhongshu said: There are three and a half people in China, one is from Hunan, one is from Guangdong and Guangxi, one is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and half is from Shandong.

But later many people corrected this sentence and said: There are four people in China. People from Hunan are counted as one and a half, people from Guangxi are also counted as one and a half, people from Shandong are counted as half, people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are counted as one quarter, and people from Guangdong are also counted as four. One part. In the Ming Dynasty, there was once the title of "Guangxi wolf soldiers are the most powerful in the world". The Guangxi army was one of the most elite troops in the Ming army. When the Ming Dynasty was about to fall, it defeated the then invincible Qing army in the Ningyuan Battle. The fighting effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army and Guangxi soldiers is evident. Marshal Peng Dehuai also said during the Red Army period: The Guizhou Army and the Yunnan Army are two sheep, and the Hunan Army is a wolf; the Guangxi monkey is the Gui Army, as fierce as a tiger and as evil as a wolf!

The old painter’s chat thread mentioned the problem of Guangxi’s soldiers being able to fight. Why can Guangxi people fight? Remember a few key words: 1. Race. Guangxi people are immigrants, with northern genes and local genes. Therefore, most Guangxi people have good bodies, neither tall nor short, but very flexible. They are a combination of northerners and local indigenous people. 2 Folk customs, "People's hearts are strong" and "Folk customs are sturdy". Guangxi has always had a tradition of attaching importance to justice over life and death. 3. Belief, race, clan, until the unanimous belief of the entire nation. 4 Influence: Guangxi was a place of exile for felons from ten provinces until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Literati and criminals were forced to exile here. The impact on the local people's habits and ideas is inestimable. Most of the Han people in Guangxi are the descendants of the 500,000 soldiers of the Qin army, as well as the descendants of the Han people who migrated south in various dynasties. Without perseverance, how could they come to Guangxi and survive and develop in a land full of hundreds of thousands of people; Zhuang people If other ethnic groups cannot fight bravely in front of the Han people in Guangxi, how can they develop and grow now? The Han people, Zhuang people and other ethnic groups in Guangxi have learned from each other and struggled with each other in the historical development, creating a wise, brave and strong national character!

There was a saying in the Ming Dynasty: The world's wolf soldiers came out of Guangxi. Japanese military war review: The 7th Guangxi Steel Army is the only army in the Chinese army that has the spirit of Bushido. The Japanese know that "if they want to destroy China, they must first conquer Hunan. If they want to conquer China, they must first destroy Guangxi." During the Anti-Japanese War, Guangxi mobilized 1 million soldiers, ranking first in the country in terms of population ratio. The Gui army often fights to the last man until death. The Chinese army, in which Guangxi soldiers accounted for the majority, fought the Kunlun Pass Battle and the Guiliu Defense Battle. Su Yu was in Suzhong and Chen Yi was in Si County. They besieged the Seventh Guangxi Army with their overwhelming superiority. The Lunan 8th Division, the main force in Huaye, suffered heavy losses. 22 The regiment (the famous railway guerrilla group) suffered more than half of its casualties. The documentary of Deng Xiaoping's tour of the Li River in Guilin includes a conversation between Deng Xiaoping and his daughter, asking: Is it okay for Guizhou soldiers to fight? Deng Xiaoping said no. He also asked: Is it okay for Hunan soldiers to fight? Deng Xiaoping said it was not very good. Finally, I asked: Is it okay for Guangxi soldiers to fight? Deng Xiaoping stretched out his thumb and said: Awesome! Comrade Xiaoping even lamented: After fighting, Guangxi soldiers can still fight!

To be honest, the Guangxi soldiers are hard-working and fierce in fighting. They are indeed the most powerful. The Hand-Beheading Party, Head-Knocking Party and Speeding Car Party in Guangzhou and Shenzhen are mostly small groups from Guangxi. The troops adopted tactics such as sparrow warfare, harassment warfare, and dispatching small groups. They came and went like the wind, and they left as soon as they succeeded. They forced the entire Guangdong Province to overwhelm the entire Guangdong Province. As soon as they heard that the new Guangxi faction was coming, they changed their minds and fled at the wind; Guangxi Guangxi A typical representative example of the individual combat effectiveness of the troops is Ma Jiajue, a Gui soldier studying at Yunnan University! In the small space of a university dormitory, he used static braking tactics to catch the enemy by surprise, attack them unprepared, and kill people invisible. With only a small hammer made during his metalworking internship, he successfully defeated one against five. In the end, he was able to escape unscathed and live in exile! Although this Guangxi soldier was betrayed by a Hainan coachman and eventually arrested, the individual combat capabilities of the Guangxi soldiers still made those who came after him sigh! In addition, after the founding of New China, when Mao Zedong recalled the Long March, he also believed that among the southern provinces, Guangxi soldiers were the best at fighting.