Li Rusong, his father, had two acres of paddy fields, and was married to two concubines. Li Jiayu for the father's concubine Xiong's birth, his early childhood in the field of Li Xiangshan, Huang Hui five place to read private school, thirteen years old admitted to Pujiang Higher Primary School. In order to change the family, he was determined to put pen to paper and enrolled in the Sichuan Army Primary School and in the fourth phase of the school.
In 1913, the "Second Revolution", Li Jiayu went to Nanjing to participate in the Park Wenwei general regiment against Yuan (Shikai), against the imperial system; went to Shanghai to take part in the attack on the Manufacturing Bureau of the campaign, the combat courageous and emerging. 1915, Li Jiayu in the Sichuan Army Officers' School graduated from the third phase of the Sichuan Army as a trainee officer, then in the third division commander of the Sichuan Army, Deng Xizhi, the first division commander.
In 1915, after graduating from the third class of the Sichuan Army Officers' School, Li Jiayu served as a trainee officer in the Sichuan Army, and then served as a regimental commander and brigade commander under the commander of the third class of the Sichuan Army, Deng Xihou, who was the commander of the first class of the Sichuan Army in 1924.
The Lugou Bridge Incident of July 7, 1937, the Japanese invaded the country and the country was in danger. Li Jiayu from the national indignation, telegraphic invitation to kill the enemy. Chiang Chung-cheng forced by the National Revolutionary Army and the anti-Japanese momentum, while achieving his exclusion, weakening the purpose of dissent, in August of the same year secretly ordered Li Jiayu and other parts of the Sichuan army out of the war. Li Jiayu received the telegraphic order in early September at the rate of forty-seventh army 104, 178 divisions of about 18,000 people from Xichang, the troops single clothes and straw sandals, traveled more than 1,500 kilometers in December began to arrive at the anti-Japanese front line in Southeast Jin Dynasty, defense in the Taihang Mountains of Changzhi, Changzi, Licheng, Lucheng area. Li Jiayu in the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance, by the national unity and salvation climax and **** the Communist Party of China's anti-Japanese united front policy of inspiration and encouragement, the past actively engaged in the civil war crime of repentance, streamlined and committed to the national **** cooperation, kill the enemy to achieve results. Li Jiayu department stationed in Changzhi, and the Eighth Route Army artillery unit joint defense of the city, the two sides have a cordial relationship. Eighth Route Army 129th Division, Liu Bocheng division commander on official business by Changzhi, Li Jiayu had urged him to 47th Army battalion officers and above to teach anti-Japanese guerrilla tactics. Li Jiayu and has sent several battalion commanders, to the Eighth Route Army headquarters to learn anti-Japanese guerrilla tactics training course.
In the spring of 1938, Li Jiayu, under the unified command of Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, the general and deputy commanders of the "East Road Army of the Second War Area", led the troops in the area of Dongyangguan and Changzhi to fight with the well-equipped invading force of Japanese invasion force of 108 Division 104 Brigade Shimohara Xiongya's department (10,000 troops) in two fierce battles. Changzhi defense battle, Li Jiayu army 104 division 312 brigade 624 regiment according to the city defended for two days and nights, in the Japanese invaders aircraft, artillery rounds of bombardment, the north gate fell, officers and men bravely on the enemy to start physical fighting alleyway, killed and wounded more than a thousand enemy. This battle Li Jiayu battalion commander Yang Yue Min, company commander Yang Xianmu, Xia Futao, Chen Shaoyu, Huang Gao wing and other martyrdom, deputy regimental commander Du Changsong was seriously wounded. Battle of Dongyang Pass, battalion commander Zhou Cexun martyrdom (the above casualties in addition to Yang Yue Min, Xia Futao two people, all Pujiang County). Li Jiayu Department of the Japanese invaders, although the initial battle to thwart the enemy's ferocity, but the casualties of officers and men also more than a thousand people. After the Licheng County government in Dongyangguan built the "Sichuan Army Memorial to the dead" to comfort the loyal souls. From March to May of the same year, Li Jiayu was ordered to lead the Forty-seventh Army, in the Eighth Route Army and anti-Japanese guerrillas with the successive attacks and recaptured by the Japanese invaders in Jinnan Pinglu, Ruicheng, Anyi and other counties and the former Eighth Route Army strongholds in a number of places, the battlefield is outstanding.
In the winter of 1939, Li Jiayu was promoted to thirty-six group army commander-in-chief, under the jurisdiction of fourteen, seventeen, forty-seven and other three armies, seven divisions of troops. 1940 spring, Li Jiayu learned that the Eighth Route Army, Commander-in-chief Zhu De, from the Wuxiang to Luoyang meeting through his residence, had sent a company of soldiers to meet and hosted a banquet. That night, Zhu De on the unity of insults, anti-Japanese and democracy issues, with Li Jiayu knee-to-knee discussion until late at night. The next morning, Zhu De and his entourage across the Jin (City) Bo (Ai) highway blockade of the Japanese, Li Jiayu for security, sent a reinforcement of the company, cover Zhu De smooth transit.
In April 1940, Li Jiayu commanded the Forty-seventh Army and three anti-Japanese guerrillas, in the south of Jincheng Tianjingguan line, to the advancing Japanese and pseudo-japanese troops to a major killing and wounding of more than 1,000 people. The 104th Division once recaptured Lincheon County.
In the spring of 1940 to 1944, Li Jiayu's division was responsible for the defense of the Yellow River in the areas of Shanxian, Mianchi, Lingbao and Wengxiang in Henan Province. "Fourteen words, to show that the country for the will of the heart. The Japanese invaders have lost the initiative of the war, in order to cooperate with its Southeast Asian battlefield operations, the implementation of the "open up the continental lines of communication" strategy, was in early 1941 in the battlefield of Jin-Yu set set of four divisions (including a tank division), four independent brigades, a cavalry regiment *** *** fourteen million people of heavy forces, launched on me! "Battle of the Central Plains". This hostile situation, although our early detection, but as the front enemy commander-in-chief of the first station district governor Jiang Dingwen, as late as the middle of March, only in Luoyang opened a meaningless essentials and deployment of the military conference. At the beginning of the Japanese invasion, Jiang Dingwen was the first to abandon Luoyang to hide. Originally assembled in the vicinity of Luoyang standby battle Li Jiayu, Gao Shuxun, Sun Weiru and other seven group army zero three army up to 400,000 people of troops lost command, had to retreat to the west of Henan, the Japanese invaders are taking advantage of the situation to pursue. In Xin'an, Jiaochi evacuation of the various generals meeting, Li Jiayu said that the overall situation, voluntarily for the rear of the ministries, to bear the sacrifice. in May, Li Jiayu led the troops to cover the retreat of friendly forces to 104 Division Wu Changlin regiment of a group of troops in the Yunmeng Mountain launched a blocking battle, hit the Japanese invaders, and then the time for the evacuation of the troops to win. Wu's regiment was attacking the mountain, and the battle was so fierce that more than 900 soldiers and officers were killed or wounded. Li Jiayu withdrew to the south of Xin'an, has been surrounded by enemies, Li Jiayu will send 178 Division 532 regiment commander Peng Shifu (Pujiang people) led his troops to open up the Tiemen around the access road, cover the friendly neighboring forces Sun Weiru Fourth Group Army safe retreat. Peng Shifu was killed in a fierce battle with the Japanese in Heshanggou during the mission.
The powerful "Battle of Yuzhong", 400,000 in the National Revolutionary Army in front of 100,000 Japanese invaders at the touch of a collapse, the Republic of China's government of the direct line of troops and miscellaneous troops to the western part of the Yu emergency evacuation. the morning of May 21, 1944, the morning of May 21, 1944, Shaanxian East Yao Yuan of the mountains, the thirty-sixth group of armies Headquarters was marching. At this time, Li Jiayu was in a state of mind in the midst of the chaotic and hasty westward evacuation. He led the army out of Sichuan in September 1937, and from the winter of 1939 was ordered to garrison the Yellow River line west of Mengjin, north of Xin'an, and east of Mianchi in Henan. After four years of stationing in Henan and fighting with Japanese invaders, he had long been familiar with the hilly terrain of western Henan with its ravines and gullies, and was afraid that he was already somewhat unfamiliar with the richness and fatness of the land of Heaven. The war in Henan began a month ago, the commander-in-chief of the army group in the chest should be a knot difficult to release.
April 18, 1944 dawn, the Japanese Twelfth Army Thirty-seventh Division in Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, located in the area of the Yellow River in the middle of the Mou, to here in the National Revolutionary Army launched a fierce attack, the Japanese invaders known as the "Battle of Henan," China known as the "Battle of Henan" spring fighting. "In 1944, with the defeat in the Pacific Theater, the Japanese had already lost their strength in the whole war. However, four hundred thousand troops of eight group armies commanded by Jiang Dingwen, commander of the first war zone, and Tang Enbo, deputy commander, were rapidly routed down in the Yuzhong Battle, and by the fall of Luoyang on May 25, the CNA lost thirty-eight cities in thirty-seven days, which can be described as losing a city in a day.
The beginning of the battle, the National Revolutionary Army has detected that the enemy will launch an offensive, in March of the Luoyang military conference, Li Jiayu that is suggested to Jiang Dingwen, "rather than wait for the enemy to attack, it would be better to pre-emptive, the use of airplanes to bombard Mangshan Mountain head (the Japanese invaders in the Yellow River, the southern end of the Iron Bridge position), and then follow a feint to cross to hold back! ". But this suggestion was not adopted by the Commander-in-Chief. After crossing the river, the Japanese occupied Zhengzhou on April 20 in only two days. Li Jiayu was obviously worried about the future of the war, and when he conveyed the meeting to his officers, he said, "After this war is launched, Luoyang is in great danger. Though our troops are strong, they are not focused in their equipment. And all deployments must be decided before we dare to act. By deploying remotely in this way, we lose flexibility, and in the future, we will inevitably be in danger of gluing pillars." However, what worries him more is that the Luoyang meeting "not only did not decide how to deal with the enemy, but also did not make the slightest change or enhancement to the deployment, and only talked about transferring the officers' families and bulky baggage and important documents to the rear".
In fact, Li Jiayu's indignation was well founded. As early as 1942, Chen Tie, commander of the 14th Army, once told Li Jiayu that Chiang's direct line like Tang Enbo and Hu Zongnan had money and weapons, while there were few ways for troops like us. Thereafter, Li Jiayu often told this to his subordinates, recognizing that he was a motley crew and had to be a supporting actor in the drama. However, the supporting cast soon found themselves having to sing the big show, as the main characters, Jiang Dingwen and Tang Enbo, had fled westward. Lost the commander-in-chief of the various armies have also withdrawn to the west. May 17, Li Jiayu, Liu Counterinsurgency, Zhang Jipeng, Hu Bohan successively arrived in the mountains of the small market town of Zhai Ya. In the daytime to participate in a temporary meeting, the generals agreed that large groups of people scrambling to grab the road to go is not the way, such as the Japanese attack, will suffer heavy losses, and pushed Li Jiayu as commander-in-chief. Li Jiayu said with emotion: "If tomorrow continue westward, steal willing to the rear, so as not to crowded together, each other are not good".
Thirty-sixth Army Group headquarters team marched to the Shaanxi County Zhangjiahe, which is a valley bottom, the day will be noon. Since the morning of May 18, the various armies parted ways, all westward, Li Jiayu's troops took on the task of covering the retreat of friendly forces. In the following three days, intelligence received indicated that the Japanese were getting closer and closer. Before arriving at Zhangjiahe, due to enemy shelling, Li Jiayu changed the marching route to Zhaojiaotou - Xipo - Shuangmiao to the South Temple this road. This change, so that Li Jiayu and the 36th Army Group headquarters to the brink of death. 21 May, the Chief of Staff Zhang Zhonglei found that the march route is not good, they said to Li Jiayu: "Commander-in-chief, we look at it and then go". Li Jiayu's reply was unexpected: "No need to look, follow orders." Zhang found the Commander-in-Chief's tone huffy. As he spoke, rifle fire sounded behind him, and soon the dense sound of machine guns also came from the southwest hillside in front of him. Zhang Zhonglei intended to send two platoons of soldiers to occupy the top of the slope, and then the headquarters personnel to go up, but Li Jiayu said "do not don't", and then said: "send a squad of infantry to go up, if you encountered the enemy, only allowed to shoot rifles, not allowed to shoot pistols, if you shoot pistols, the enemy will know that I'm the High Command! ". In this way, came to the bottom of the valley Zhangjiahe.
Li Jiayu and the group army headquarters in Zhangjiahe rest for a moment, during which Li Jiayu also found the locals to ask about the road, and then the troops began to climb the hill in front of them, Flagstaff Ridge. The forward spies soon ran back and reported to Li Jiayu: "The hill is full of Japanese, with wheat stuck in their heads, well camouflaged. Please Commander, Chief of Staff on a slippery pole and go quickly". Li Jiayu turned around at the report and walked back, Zhang Zhonglei also walked back. However, the Japanese invaders on the hill have already charged down, scattered on the slope headquarters special services company a and headquarters of some officers and soldiers could not resist, each fled. The Japanese invaders rushed down and separated Li Jiayu and Zhang Zhonglei.
The raiders were a part of the Sixty-ninth Division of the Japanese First Army, who had pursued Gao Shuxun's troops, and had not expected a successful ambush at Flagstaff Ridge. Later, they thought for a while that the senior general they killed was an army commander of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, not to mention that the dead man was the commander-in-chief of a group army.
Li Jiayu, dressed in a yellow tweed uniform and wearing long boots, naturally could not escape the Japanese gunfire. A soldier who was wounded at the same time later recalled that he ran after the commander-in-chief and saw Li take two enemy shots and a grenade fragment. Li Jiayu also struggled to run a few steps and finally collapsed on Flagstaff Ridge. After the headquarters of the Forty-seventh Army 104th Division arrived at the news, offering a reward for five soldiers who dared to die, rushed to Flagstaff Ridge, in a dead end to snatch back the remains of Li Jiayu. Li's body was immediately transported back to Sichuan. Before the retreat, in order to encourage morale, Li Jiayu had given a poem to his subordinates: men want to repay the country's graciousness, death to the frontier is a good end. Unexpectedly, a few days later, there was the death of Flagstaff Ridge.