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Mr. Liang was born in 1896 in Hsinhsin district, Kwangtung, China.
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Tso-hsun Liang
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Tso-hsun Liang joined the 19th Route Army first as a non-commissioned officer and was soon promoted to the command of a regiment. Upon the outbreak of the Shanghai War, he was commander of the 5th Regiment of 60th Division of 19th Route Army and was stationed at Soochow. After extension of the hostilities, his regiment was rushed to Shanghai to defend the North Station which he successfully held against the Japanese attacks for more than three weeks when the Army finally retired en bloc to Soochow.
During the fighting in Chapei, he was responsible for the recapture of the Oriental Library of the Commercial Press , the wellknown Chinese machine-gunner "Charlie Chang" belonged to his regiment.
After the close of the Shanghai War, he was transferred to Fukien to suppress the Communists in that province, resigned from his post after the collapse of the Independence Movement of the 19th Route Army in Fukien in 1934.
