Liu Xiang of the Sichuan Army was an anti-Japanese hero. On October 15, 1937, Liu Xiang was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Theater and concurrently as the commander-in-chief of the group army. He led the Sichuan Army to the anti-Japanese front line even though he was ill.

He vomited blood on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War and died in Hankou on January 20, 1938. Before his death, he left a will: "We will fight to the end and remain unswerving, that is, the enemy will not retreat to China for a day, and the Sichuan army will never return home!"

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In 1937, the Japanese army further expanded its invasion of China, which inspired Liu Xiang's patriotic tradition. On the second day of the "Marco Bridge Incident", Liu Xiang sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek: "Please volunteer to fight against Japan", and "at the same time, he sent a telegram to the whole country to call for unified resistance against Japan." On August 7, Liu Xiang flew to Nanjing to attend a national defense conference convened by the Central Committee. He spoke at the conference and pointed out: "To fight the war with all its strength, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply tens of millions of strong men and tens of thousands of loads of food."

After the August 13th Incident, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government decided to use the Sichuan Army as the Second Reserve Army, with jurisdiction over two columns, and appointed Liu Xiang as the commander-in-chief of the Second Reserve Army, serving as the commander of the Ping-Han Railway. combat mission. Under Liu Xiang's active promotion and supervision, the leading troops of the Anti-Japanese War in Sichuan were divided into two northeastern routes on September 1 and marched to the anti-Japanese front line in a mighty manner.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Xiang (Chairman of Sichuan Province and Army General during the Republic of China)