Wang Xiding, Ziyu Village, was born in 1891 and is a native of Qingxian County, Hebei Province. Born in the army, he was the deputy commander of the 38th Division at the time of the Lugou Bridge Incident. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as the director of the wounded soldiers management office of the 1st Group Army, the sub-supervisor of the 33rd Group Army Station, and the sub-supervisor of the 11th Army Station. He died on December 5, 1948 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu.
Only so much official information has been collected about Wang Xicho, and there is no information about the general on the Anti-Japanese War website. However, from the biographies of other people and some recollections provided by his descendants, a few points can be added.
A man named Wang Xiying, who claimed to be Wang Xiding's cousin, wrote about the general and such a thing:
The 29th Army fought against the Japanese invaders in the area of Xifengkou, and the people in the rear donated a large number of materials to show condolences. For these items, Wang Xiding's subordinates distributed them to the front-line officers and soldiers in a timely manner. The officers and men were moved to tears by the condolences from the masses of the people, and they strengthened their determination to resist Japan and save the country.
He stood on the side of the road with tears in his eyes and personally handed over the ocean to the wounded on the stretcher, with five yuan for each officer and three yuan for each soldier. New quilts were also placed on the bodies of the seriously wounded. While distributing condolences and encouraging the wounded, many of the wounded were moved to tears, and they all said that they would return to the front line to protect the country and defend the land after the injuries were healed.
After the war, Zhang Zizhong said to Wang Xiding: "This time to fight against the Japanese invaders, Yucun has made a great contribution!" "This record should be credible.
In addition, there is such a record in the records about the deployment of the defensive battle of Beiping and General Dong Shengtang. At that time, Wang Xiding, who was the deputy commander of the 38th Division, was designated by Song Zheyuan as the commander-in-chief of the defensive position on the right side of Nanyuan, commanding the troops of the 38th Division stationed in Beiping, some of the cadet soldiers, the troops directly under the military department, and the cavalry. Before returning to Tianjin, General Zhang Zizhong left the brigade commander Dong Shengtang with Wang Xiding to help him command the operation, because Wang Xiding, as the deputy division commander in charge of logistics, did not directly command the operation. In this battle, Wang was wounded and retreated to the city of Beiping ahead of schedule. Later, Dong led his troops to break through.
Another thing is that on May 5, 2006, Zhang Zizhong's descendants and the descendants of the former 33rd Group Army gathered in Yichang to commemorate the report of the deceased. He said some of Wang Xiding's achievements, mainly in charge of the food, ammunition, medicine, materials and wounded transportation of the five armies under the 33rd Group Army, and said that the logistics under his administration was a transportation line that was constantly bombed and could not be destroyed. During the assembly of a transport convoy, after being injured by enemy aircraft, he still insisted on commanding, fell into a coma several times, and did not get out of the line of fire. It should be the history of faith. History