The old warlords were overthrown, new warlords emerged, and as the Kuomintang came to power, the powerful factions of the warlords everywhere began to fight for power and territory. On June 1, 1936, Guangdong and Guizhou joined forces to launch a campaign, and Chen Jitang, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and other powerful factions issued a telegram to the outside world, scolding chiang kai-shek's government for only knowing about the civil war and not knowing the negative policy of resisting the enemy, and announcing that Guangxi and Guangdong provinces would jointly send troops to the north to resist Japan, and the two Guangdong incidents broke out.
The Liangguang Incident was the last blatant military campaign of local warlords against the central authorities before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and although it ended in the fiasco of the Gui and Guangdong clans, it can be seen from this that the political situation of the Republic of China has always been in chaos.
The Gui and Guangdong systems have always been the object of Chiang Kai-shek's attention, always thinking of getting rid of them quickly. Needless to say, the Li and Bai duo have been in love with old Jiang for many years, and when the Northern Expedition fought against the world, they were once close comrades-in-arms, and at that time, everyone had the strength to make a difference, and soon beat the Beiyang warlords to the ground.
After the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek's prestige was as great as the sun, but he found that the strength of the Gui clan seriously affected the unification of the country, and more than 200,000 Gui troops controlled a number of provinces in addition to Guangxi, the farthest reaching Hebei Province in the North China Plain. Guangxi soldiers are well-known for their ability to fight in the Chinese army, or people call Guangxi soldiers wolf soldiers, which shows that their combat effectiveness is quite strong. The Gui army can fight, and the territory is large, which is very headache for old Jiang.
Back to talk about the Guangdong family, it was Li Jishen who laid the ground and dominated Guangdong, and then Chen Jitang successfully ascended to the throne by betraying his eldest brother Li Jishen, and in 1928 he won the power of Guangdong and became the King of the South. Objectively speaking, Chen Jitang cannot fight wars, but he still has a set of political practices, and if he were in peacetime, he would definitely be a talent for governing the country. Chen Jitang has been running Guangdong for many years, often doing more practical things and talking less empty words, but still making certain contributions to the development of Guangdong.
Since the Great War in the Central Plains, warlords everywhere have been following the orders of the central authorities, so why did liangguang turn their faces at this time? Speaking of which, the main reason is that the Red Army in the south failed to resist encirclement and suppression and was forced to leave the base area to carry out the Long March. The old Chiang Annei's policy achieved a stage victory, and the next step was to clean up the disobedient local faction.
The Gui clan with soldiers and the rich Guangdong clan felt that the danger was very serious, and they decided to huddle together for warmth and make it stronger first. Because before, lao Jiang, in the name of suppressing bandits, successively got rid of the Hunan warlord He Jian, submitted to the Guizhou warlord Wang Jialie, and later controlled Sichuan in his hands. At this time, in the whole of southern China, only three local forces in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan were left. Yunnan Longyun's strength is weak, and old Jiang can't look at it now, so he will free up his hands to deal with it in minutes in the future, and Guangxi and Guangdong are the most dangerous and are the priority targets to deal with.
Under such circumstances, the Gui and Guangdong clans decided to preemptively take advantage of the favorable opportunity for the main force of the old Chiang Kai-shek's central army to go north to deal with the Red Army, and hold a military demonstration in the south, so that the two sides of the old Chiang Kai-shek could not be bothered, sober and sober, and perhaps the old Chiang kai-shek would meet their divided position under the balance. Politics has always been full of unknowns, and on June 1, the two Guangdong began to act, and Chen Jitang of Guangdong and Li Zongren of Guangxi formed the National Revolutionary Anti-Japanese Salvation Army, openly opposing Chiang Kai-shek.
Eight days later, under the cover of the Guangdong Air Force, the Guangdong-Guangdong coalition army invaded Shonan and occupied Chenzhou and Yongzhou. A month later, the military operations in Liangguang have been smooth, Chen Jitang was promoted again, and he became the commander-in-chief of the Southwest United Army of the National Anti-Japanese Salvation Army of the Republic of China, and Li Zongren was appointed deputy commander-in-chief. Under the banner of resisting Japan, they were fighting their own people to expand their territory, and the officers and men of the Guangdong Army were very disgusted by this kind of civil war behavior.
Although it is now going smoothly for a while, the clear-eyed people know at a glance that the strength of the Central Army is strong, and the two Guangdong forces are not opponents, and sooner or later they will lose the battle. The reason why the Central Army did not have a showdown with the two Cantons was mainly the outbreak of September 18, the three eastern provinces were occupied by the Japanese, in order not to turn north China into a second Manchukuo, lao Chiang has been guarding the troops on the front line of the Great Wall.
Today, the Central Army is fighting against Japan on the front line, while the Cantonese army is stabbing a knife in the back, which is too unpatriotic. Therefore, there are many opinions within the Guangdong army, and the call for not fighting a civil war is getting louder and louder. What made the officers and men even more chilled was that the two guangdong actually looked at the Japanese army for the sake of selfish interests.
As early as February, The Japanese General Ishigen visited Chen Jitang and presented a large number of guns and ammunition to the Guangdong side, making it clear that Guangdong would confront Nanjing. After the outbreak of the Liangguang Incident, the Japanese army sent more than 100 officers to Guangzhou to assist the Cantonese army in countering the Central Army.
Under such circumstances, Chen Jitang joined hands with the Japanese army under the banner of anti-Japanese resistance, and many officers and men of the Cantonese army indignantly said that if there is a reason in the world for the Japanese to command us to resist Japan, it is really blind and blind.
Internal instability laid the foundation for the failure of the Liangguang Incident, and coupled with the resistance of the Xiang Army and the addition of the Central Army, there was a split within the Guangdong Army. Taking the lead anyway was the Guangdong Air Force pilot, Huang Zhigang led 7 fighters to break away from Chen Jitang and throw himself into the arms of Old Chiang Kai-shek. On July 2, another 27 pilots flew to Nanchang and announced their surrender to the central government. Two days later, another 48 fighter planes landed in Nanchang, swearing allegiance to the Nationalist government.
The successive surrenders made Chiang Kai-shek ecstatic, and he summoned all the pilots at Lushan to offer a heavy reward. On behalf of everyone, Huang Guangrui refused to take the bounty, saying that the investment was not for the sake of the bonus but for the sake of national reunification, and to unanimously deal with the Japanese invaders. Chiang Kai-shek was deeply moved and decided to pay an extra 2 months' salary as a formal reward.
The surrender of the Air Force had a chain reaction, for the sake of the future, the senior officers of the Guangdong Army began to mutiny, on July 14, the confidant Yu Hanmou issued an ultimatum, asking Chen Jitang to leave Guangdong within 24 hours, Chen Jitang wanted to send troops to suppress, even if he wanted his subordinates to see the situation clearly, they all did not move in order to carry out the order.
Under the circumstances of the rebellion, Chen Jitang could only retreat to the second place, hastily arranged military affairs, and fled to Hong Kong with a few of his cronies. As soon as Chen Jitang left, the Yue army then fell to Lao Jiang, leaving only the Gui army struggling to support.
At this time, Li Zongren was alone, although after expanding the army, there were 60,000 regular troops and more than 100,000 militia regiments under his command, but in front of hundreds of thousands of central troops, it seemed too weak.
Li Zongren was subdued and actively contacted Chiang Kai-shek, and at this time the old Chiang Kai-shek was doing his best to suppress the Red Army in the northwest, not wanting to force the Gui clan to be anxious, and both sides had their own needs to call off the army and make peace. After consultation, Chiang Kai-shek promised not to blame the past and to maintain the semi-independent status of the Gui clan, but the Gui clan must obey the anti-Japanese order to send troops to participate in the war.
In the end, the Liangguang Incident was resolved at a bloodless cost, and in more than 3 months, Lao Jiang dispatched 200,000 men and horses against the 400,000 Liangguang troops, and finally did not fire a single shot, ending in a comprehensive victory. The Japanese conspiracy to provoke the Chinese civil war failed again, they did not expect not to join, but once they joined, but the change was quickly resolved, it was really a loss-making transaction.