本文论述了原杨虎城创建和领导的第17路军(抗日战争时期改编为第4集团军),在抗日战争中,继承和发扬以往的革命传统和西安事变的爱国、团结、抗日精神,冲破国民党蒋介石集团制造的种种障碍和重重困难,为抗战事业作出重大贡献。抗战初期,第17路军的健儿们,驰骋华北疆场,先后参加了娘子关、忻口战役、晋东南游击战、西阳河大战和永济、风陵渡保卫战,打出了威风。1938年9月至1940年10月,坚守中条山西部,曾10余次粉碎日军对中条山的进攻,荣获了“中条山的铁柱子”称号。1940年10月至1945年8月,英勇保卫豫西黄河河防和积极参加河南战役,重创了日军,获得了毛泽东的高度评价。1946年5月反对国民党打内战,举行战场起义,回到人民怀抱,为解放战争做出重大贡献。 In the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the 17th Route Army, which was founded and led by Yang Hucheng, was originally inherited and carried forward the patriotic, united and anti-Japanese spirit of the past revolutionary traditions and the Xi’an Incident, and broke through Chiang Kai-shek The obstacles and difficulties created by the Group made a significant contribution to the cause of the war of resistance. In the early days of the war of resistance against Japan, the athletes of the 17th Route Army drove northward into the battlefields of northern China and successively participated in the Niangziguan and Xinkou campaigns, the guerrilla warfare in southeastern Shanxi, the war against Xiyanghe River and Yongji and Fenglingdu in war, and played an influential role. From September 1938 to October 1940, he persevered in the western part of the Central Plains. He once smashed off the Japanese attack on Zhongtiaoshan more than 10 times and won the title of “Iron Pillar in Zhongtiaoshan”. From October 1940 to August 1945, the heroic defense of the Yellow River defense in western Henan and the active participation in the Henan Campaign had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army and won the high praise of Mao Zedong. In May 1946, he opposed the Kuomintang playing the civil war, held the battlefield uprising, returned to the people’s embrace and made a significant contribution to the war of liberation.