Among the Kuomintang generals, two people in Guixi, Jiangxi, were famous, one was Huang Wei, commander of the 12th Corps who was captured in the Battle of Huaihai, and the other was Gui Yongqing, commander of the Kuomintang Navy.
The two have several things in common, one is that they can read, but they both abandon literature and martial arts; the second is that they are stubborn and difficult to enlighten their thinking; the third is that they are all cadres of Chen Cheng's civil engineering department; and the fourth is that they have been dismissed many times, and their official fortunes are still prosperous.
Among them, the most prosperous official fortune is Gui Yongqing.
Gui Yongqing has been removed from his post four times, but it has become a new starting point for the next promotion.
Gui Yongqing was first removed from his post during the First Crusade, when he acted as a company commander and privately sent the booty home, and was almost shot after being discovered, but fortunately He Yingqin loved Cai and saved his life. As a result, he fell in love with He Yingqin, but was soon promoted to battalion commander, promoted to major after the Battle of Longtan in 1927, and was soon awarded the rank of major general.
His third removal was in 1940.
In May 1938, Gui Yongqing led the newly formed 28th Army to the lanfeng and kaocheng lines in Henan to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward. Chiang Kai-shek called: Limit the 28th Army to conquer Lanfeng City in two days, otherwise the military law will be engaged. As a result, Gui Yongqing suffered more than 5,000 casualties and still failed to conquer. Chiang Kai-shek was furious and dismissed Gui Yongqing from his post as military commander and became the chief of education in the wartime cadre training corps.
In 1940, when the Zhan Gan Regiment was in Hunan, the students organized a loyal troupe, which was deeply appreciated by Gui Yongqing. After arriving in Qijiang, the troupe rehearsed the historical drama "The Death of Li Xiucheng," which Gui Yongqing believed was borrowed from ancient times and suspected of having a Communist Party, secretly killing more than 300 trainees, resulting in the famous Qijiang Massacre, which aroused strong condemnation from public opinion at home and abroad. As a result, in June, Gui Yongqing was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Germany as a military attaché at the embassy in Germany.
Gui Yongqing resigned for the fourth time.
On February 25, 1949, the Chongqing, the largest cruiser of the Kuomintang Army, revolted and joined the People's Liberation Army. This aroused great anger from Chiang Kai-shek, who wanted to "put Gui Yongqing on military justice." After arriving in Taiwan, Gui Yongqing, knowing that he was guilty and did not dare to see Chiang Kai-shek, submitted his resignation to Chen Cheng, and later obtained Chiang Kai-shek's approval, after which he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the second-rank general of the "Presidential Palace."
In March 1954, Gui Yongqing became Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff and was promoted to general of the army. Unexpectedly, on August 12, Gui Yongqing died of illness in Taipei at the age of 54. It is said that Gui Yongqing died so early because he was dismissed from his post many times and was out of breath, this time because of the sudden onset of his illness, so he lost his breath one day and one night.
In 1975, after Huang Wei was pardoned, he learned that Gui Yongqing was dead, and said with emotion: "This Gui Yongqing is really a nerd, like a prisoner of my CCP!" Following the CCP is the bright road, and only then can we feel comfortable! ”