In 1937, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japan occupied Beiping and launched a full-scale invasion of China. Newly betrothed, and with the sterling qualities of a typical northern lad, Wang enlisted in the army. For three months he marched with an expeditionary force to the malaria-infested jungles of Burma, and then on to India, before making a safe return.
民國二十六年，蘆溝橋事變，北平為日本人所佔領，才訂了親的王壯為，秉著燕趙男兒的英勇豪氣決定投筆從戎，爾後加入羅卓英將軍的十九軍團，跟著遠征軍到蠻荒瘴癘的緬甸行軍三個月，西走印度才得以安全歸來。