"You ask me who I admire, among these soldiers, I admire Xu Yongchang the most, similar to my temper." After losing the battle, he told me what he did, he didn't have any hobbies, he didn't play mahjong, he didn't drink alcohol, he liked to talk to women, he liked women the most. When he was in Zhengzhou, he had already been defeated, when the Nationalist army came, he took the Shanxi army and Feng Yuxiang's army to fight on the front line, the army retreated, his old man was still with the woman in a pile, the woman cried, reluctant. ”
This is a passage in "Zhang Xueliang's Oral History", Zhang Xueliang's mouth this "old gentleman" who likes women and even admires him is called Xu Yongchang.
General Xu Yongchang, a first-class general of the Nationalist Army, stepped into the scene of the ceremony of the surrender of the Missouri
Xu Yongchang, a native of Chengxian County (now Yuanping City) in Shanxi Province, although his family was poor, his father was rough of literature and ink, and under the influence of his father's education, he was also a reader with talent. At the age of 13, he joined the army alone, but this scholar fought a war and did not die, and when he first participated in the battle at the age of 20, his unit wiped out a band of bandits of sixty or seventy people and captured more than ten people.
Later, Xu Yongchang and Feng Yuxiang's commander of the Nationalist Third Army, Sun Yue, became friends with Mo Rebellion, so they served in the Nationalist Army for many years, but because they were reluctant to lead the army to attack Shanxi, his sangzi land, they eventually led the Nationalist Third Army to enter Shanxi as a guest army, and then Xu Yongchang became an important general of the Jin Sui Army, and Zhao Daiwen was known as Yan Xishan's right and left hand.
After that, he fought under Yan Xishan in the southern expedition to the north, fought with Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang's father and son, fought with Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, and once pulled a team to Heilongjiang to go to military reclamation.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was appointed minister of military command, and together with He Yingqin, minister of military affairs, Bai Chongxi, minister of military training, and Chen Cheng, minister of political affairs, he was known as the four giants of the Central Military Commission.
On September 2, 1945, the general surrender ceremony of the Allies in Tokyo Bay was held on the deck of the US warship "Missouri", and as the four victorious powers of the United States, China, Britain, and the Soviet Union, the Chinese representative signed the second appearance. On the same day, the Japanese government surrendered to the foreign minister Shigemitsu Aoi and the chief of staff of the base camp, Umezu Yoshijiro. At 9 a.m. (Tokyo time), the signing ceremony was held and was presided over by MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers. The surrender letter is one foot and five inches long and one foot wide, for a total of two copies.
After the Japanese surrender representatives Aoi Shigemitsu and Ymezu Mijiro signed. After macArthur, as supreme commander of the Allied forces, in the order of the victorious powers, the first appearance was general Nimitz of the United States, the second appearance was General Xu Yongchang, the head of the Chinese military command, the third appearance was the British representative General Flasse, and the fourth appearance was the Soviet representative Lieutenant General Direfyanko. After the signatures of the four victorious allies, senior generals from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand and other countries signed in turn.
The representative of the Chinese government was Xu Yongchang, the head of the Military Command, and General xu Yongchang, who solemnly signed his name on the surrender of Japan and left a heartfelt testimonial: "Today is a day for everyone to reflect!" Every country represented here today can also recall the past, and if his conscience had told him that he had made a mistake, he should have the courage to admit his mistake and repent. ”
After the outbreak of the civil war, in June 1946, Xu Yongchang retired as the president of the Army University due to illness, but with the unfavorable war situation in the Nationalist Army, he went out of the mountain to ask the Minister of National Defense.
In 1949, Xu Yongchang led the teachers and students of the Army University to move to Taiwan with the Nationalist government. After arriving in Taiwan, he served as a senior official in the Presidential Office of the Taiwan authorities, and was later promoted to the rank of general of the army.
On July 13, 1959, General Xu Yongchang died in his apartment in Taipei City at the age of seventy-two.
Xu Yongchang, like Chiang Kai-shek, had the habit of writing a diary, and in the "Diary of Xu Yongchang" that was later published, he recorded in detail all the major activities he participated in during the 8-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and recorded in detail the whole process of the 22 anti-Japanese battles of the Nationalist Army. At the same time, there is also his evaluation of the kuomintang key members, warlords and even Chiang Kai-shek, which is of great historical research value.