Qi Xueqi was born in 1903 and from Ningxiang County, Hunan Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1923. After graduation, he went to study in the United States. He graduated from Norwich Military Academy in the United States in 1929. After returning to China, he served as the head of the Sixth Military Police Regiment, responsible for Nanjing's public security, also known as the Public Security Corps.

In 1931, the Public Security Corps was reorganized into the Second Regiment of the Security Corps, stationed in Shanghai City Center, and Qi Xueqi was appointed as the leader of the Second Regiment.

In 1938, Qi Xueqi was transferred to the position of Chief of Staff of the General Tax Police Corps.

In the spring of 1942, the Tax Police Corps was reorganized into the New 38th Division, with the division commander Sun Liren, and Qi Xueqi was transferred to the deputy commander and director of the political department of the New 38th Division, and was ordered to participate in the Expeditionary Force to cooperate with the British and Burmese army in the war against Japan.

On April 16, 1942, the First Division and the Chariot Battalion of the British and Burmese Army were besieged by the Japanese army in Ren'anqiang area in northern Myanmar. When the ammunition and food were exhausted, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly asked for help from the First Division of the British and Burmese Army, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the expeditionary army to rescue him. This task fell on the New 38th Division. The division commander Sun Liren, Qi Xueqi, led the 113th Regiment to help him, first cleared the Japanese invaders outside the river bank, and then broke through the Japanese riverbank defense line (that is, the battle started on the river bank mentioned by Xiongqi in the novel.), and rescued the First Division and Chariot Battalion of the British army from the Japanese encirclement. At that time, those who were rescued were more than 7,000 British and Burmese troops, and more than 500 international journalists and missionaries (Dong Limao, who was fabricated in Xiongqi's novel, led more than 100 spies to help journalists and missionaries break through.).

After the Battle of Ren'anqiang, Qi Xueqi was ordered by Du Yuming, then deputy commander of the Myanmar Expeditionary Force and commander of the Fifth Army, to go to the Fifth Army headquarters for liaison (actually to attend a high-level military meeting). On the 19th, more than a dozen soldiers led by Qi Xueqi collected some of the wounded and medical staff in Mengkan, and arrived at the Wuyou River (a tributary in the upper reaches of Geng's Wan River). Qi Xueqi ordered the soldiers to cut down the bamboo along the river bank and make bamboo rafts, so that the wounded and medical staff could go down the river.

On the 23rd, Qi Xueqi and more than a dozen soldiers encountered Japanese soldiers. He said to the soldiers: "The past success was successful, today's success, and now it is time to be successful. The bullets were exhausted, and each was decisive." This expressed his determination not to be a prisoner of the enemy. (This part is also the story part that Xiong Qi will tell in detail in the novel. Although the spy company led by the protagonist Dong Limao in the novel failed to find General Qi Xueqi, they rescued the wounded and medical personnel who were captured by the Japanese army on bamboo rafts.)

General Qi Xueqi led a dozen soldiers to fight fiercely with the Japanese army. In the end, more than a dozen soldiers were outnumbered. General Qi was also unconscious due to shooting in the head and chest. When the Japanese army found that a senior general was injured, they immediately gave him treatment, hoping to use him to achieve certain political goals.

When Qi Xueqi woke up and found that he was trapped in the enemy camp, he immediately rebuked the enemy and refused to change the medicine and eat, in order to die quickly. The Japanese army had no choice but to transport Qi Xueqi to the Homerin Brigade Head. Qi Xueqi was still righteous and sternly scolded the Japanese military brigade commander and said: "Chinese soldiers can be killed but not humiliated. Slaughter them quickly, and do not say too much." He grabbed the knife forward and wanted to stab himself.

He also said, "Why do you complain if you seek to benevolent after death?" Seeing this, the enemy chief hurriedly stepped forward to seize the sword. The Japanese brigade commander was also shocked. He never expected that the senior Chinese generals were so tenacious and looked at death as if they were home. So he quickly expressed respect for Qi Xueqi, and spoke cleverly and tempted him from many parties, but they were all rebuked by Qi Xueqi. The Japanese army had to send him to Yangon prisoners of war concentration camp for hard labor.

The Yangon prisoner-of-war concentration camp imprisoned many Allied prisoners of war, including Chinese, American, British, Indian, Dutch, Myanmar and other countries. After Qi Xueqi came, he often used his spare time to preach the stories of loyal and brave men in Chinese and foreign history in Chinese and foreign languages, as well as the truth that China will win and Japan will lose, and encouraged them to overcome difficulties and firmly believe in victory. The Allied prisoners of war were deeply moved by Qi Xueqi's mighty spirit, and at the same time he was respected by his reputation.

The news that Qi Xueqi was captured soon reached the Wang Puppet Government in Nanjing. In May 1944, the Nanjing Puppet Government sent 12 people, including the Minister of Army Ye Peng, and others to Myanmar to persuade them to surrender. Ye Peng and others were angrily scolded by Qi Xueqi, but Ye Peng and others were not willing to give up. Then they used a large number of valuable items to lure Qi Xueqi, which was also strictly rejected by him. After two months of repeated bribery by high-ranking officials, they were useless. Ye Peng and others were too wise and skilled, so they provoked Chinese prisoners of war to vent their grievances against Qi Xueqi. Ye Peng said to the Chinese prisoners of war: "The reason why you cannot go to Nanjing to enjoy high-ranking officials and generous salaries is because Deputy Commander Qi refused to cooperate with us." He led the finger directly to Qi.

Xueqi. Among the Chinese prisoners of war, there were a few scum, such as Cai Zongfu, Zhang Jixiang, Wang Qinghua and others. They believed the rumors of Ye Peng and others, and used Qi Xueqi to be brave and unyielding, which affected them to achieve the goal of seeking honor. Therefore, they held a grudge against Qi Xueqi and were in trouble with Qi Xueqi everywhere. At first, they did not listen to discipline, but later they would openly resist and insult them. Qi Xueqi knew the righteousness and patiently enlightened them not to believe other people's rumors, but tolerated them again and again for insulting behavior, and tolerated the wages obtained from labor with Cai Zongfu and others. However, Cai Zongfu and others not only did not listen to Qi Xueqi's good words to enlighten them, but instead became more and more aggressive, instigating other Chinese prisoners of war to jointly oppose Qi Xueqi.

In April 1945, the Japanese invaders retreated in northern Myanmar, and the rule of the Japanese invaders began to shake. Cai Zongfu and his gang knew that the Allied forces were about to liberate the entire Myanmar, and were afraid that their gang would not escape the law. So they jointly planned a conspiracy to murder Qi Xueqi. At first, they tried to use poison to assassinate Qi Xueqi, but they were unsuccessful. After that, they had evil thoughts and changed to assassination. On the night of May 9, with the help of Cai, Zhang Jixiang took advantage of Qi Xueqi's opportunity to go to the toilet, held a sharp knife in his hand, and stabbed the knife into Qi Xueqi's abdomen, and fell to the ground in response.

After Qi Xueqi was assassinated, the British military colonel in the same prison took the initiative to ask the concentration camp, hoping to perform surgery on Qi to save his life, but was rejected by the Japanese invaders, Qi Xueqi's injuries continued to worsen. The prisoners of war in the entire concentration camp were sad about Qi Xueqi's stabbing and could not treat him. They had to get up in the morning and kneel down to pray for Qi Xueqi's life. At 10:30 pm on May 13, General Qi Xueqi passed away in agony at the age of 42. After General Qi's death, prisoners of war in all countries in the prison all reported to the rise with tears and asked for his relics as a souvenir.

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang government issued an order to praise his heroic and unyielding deeds and posthumously awarded him as Lieutenant General of the Army.

General Qi Xueqi's loyal bones were airlifted from Zhanyi, Yunnan to Changsha, and were buried in Yuelu Mountain. The murderer who murdered General Qi was also severely punished.

General Feng Yuxiang once praised General Qi in his poem, "...the commander Qi Xueqi would rather die than surrender to the world and amazed... The heroic spirit is called the soul of China, and it will be glorious for thousands of years."
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