Xu Tingyao, Hsu Ting-Yao, (徐庭瑤), (1892 – 1975) was a Chinese KMT general from Anhui. Anhui (in Chinese: 安徽 Ānhuī) is a province of the People's Republic of China.
General Xu, commanded 17th Army during the Defense of the Great Wall in 1933, taking temporary command of the 8th Army Group when its commander was relieved. The Defense of the Great Wall ( (January 1 1933 &ndash May 31 1933 was a campaign between the armies of Republic of China and Empire of Japan, which In July of the same year his army took control of the Beijing - Suiyuan Railroad to blockade the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army. The Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army consisted mostly of former Northwestern Army units under Feng Yuxiang, troops from Fang Zhenwu 's Resisting Japan and Saving
From 1934 to 1935 he was the head of a Chinese military delegation to Europe and the United States. In October 1935 he took charge of the training schools for China's developing mechanized forces in the next few years.
Commanded the 38th Army Group in the campaign in Guangxi from December 1939 to April 1940. The Battle of South Guangxi ( was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second His forces including the mechanized troops of the 5th Corps and 200th Division defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Kunlun Pass. The 200th Division ( was the first mechanised division in the National Revolutionary Army. The Battle of Kunlun Pass ( was series of battles between the Japanese and the Chinese in contention for Kunlun Pass.
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- China's Anti-Japanese War combat operations
- Author : Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
- Press : Jiangsu People's Publishing House
- Date published : 2005-7-1
- ISBN:7214030349
- Also on line: http://www.wehoo.net/book/wlwh/a30012/A0170.htm
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