Of the eight King Kongs in the nationalist army, seven fled to Taiwan and one remained on the mainland
During the years of the Republic of China, a number of influential figures were given nicknames, such as the three giants of the Gui clan and the four giants of the Sichuan Army, and Chiang Kai-shek's men had an "Eight King Kongs". Let's talk about it today.
He Yingqin
He Yingqin made great contributions to the Jiang family in his early years, and successively served as the chief instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy, the commander-in-chief of the army, the minister of military affairs, the minister of national defense, and the chief executive. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was again the representative of the surrender of the Chinese theater, and for a time the scenery was indistinguishable. However, the gap between him and Chiang Kai-shek was also very large, and he had two different intentions, one was that Lian Gui let Chiang Kai-shek in the afternoon, and the other was the Xi'an Incident and the armed crusade. Supposedly, Chiang Kai-shek should have purged dissidents, but he did not, because He Yingqin had a certain strength in the Kuomintang, and he had to be jealous. However, after arriving in Taiwan, He Yingqin was immediately snubbed until his death in 1987 at the age of 98, a long-lived general.
Temporary
Chen Cheng can be regarded as a prominent figure in the history of the Republic of China, and his life experience is rich and complex, full of legend. After the Kuomintang withdrew to Taiwan, he became Chiang Kai-shek's irreplaceable deputy and the "number two person" who held real power, which was completely different from other Kuomintang generals who only held false titles. In March 1965, Chen Cheng died of liver cancer in Taipei at the age of 67, and Jiang held a grand funeral for him.
Gu Zhutong
This person is similar to He Yingqin, except for the soldiers during the Northern Expedition, all the others are working in the camp headquarters, during the Xi'an Incident, he was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to dismantle the Zhang and Yang troops, and presided over the Third Theater during the War of Resistance.
In the list of 43 Kuomintang first-class war criminals published on December 25, 1948, Gu Zhutong was listed as the No. 5 war criminal after Chiang Kai-shek, Song Ziwen, Chen Cheng, and He Yingqin, and was closely related to his consistent anti-communism. On March 20, 1950, Gu Zhutong and Chiang Ching-kuo would have been prisoners of our party in 10 minutes if they had not fled quickly by plane in Xichang. After going to Taiwan, Gu Zhutong served as acting minister of the "Ministry of National Defense" and strategic adviser to the "Presidential Office." He died in Taipei in January 1987 at the age of 94.
Liu Zhi
Liu Zhi (Chinese: 刘峙; pinyin: Ríng Zhāng Zhāngzhīng), courtesy name Ji'an, was born on June 30, 1892, to a peasant family in Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province. His father was beaten to death by a bully in a neighboring village, and his mother Hu shi was forced to remarry, and he accompanied his mother to the fence to prepare for human hardships, thus cultivating his cautious, cowering and patient character.
In 1914, Liu Zhi entered the second phase of the Baoding Officer School, and in May 1924, he was introduced by He Yingqin to the Whampoa Military Academy as a tactical instructor, and later transferred to the General Staff Office of the Headquarters as a section chief. Chiang Kai-shek was more serious about Liu Zhi, and often talked to him alone and exerted grace and power. Liu's ability was mediocre, and his boldness was hesitant to patrol, but he only relied on loyalty to Serve Jiang and made steady progress.
During the Northern Expedition, he was also a tiger general, known as "Fu General", a "tough general" in the Central Plains War, a "fleeing general" in the early stage of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and a "defeated general" in the Liberation War; some people called Liu Zhi a "long-legged general" who ran the fastest when retreating. In 1948, Liu Zhi was appointed commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou Suppression Communists and was defeated by the People's Liberation Army. He went to Indonesia in 1950, to Taiwan in 1954, and died in 1971.
Jiang Dingwen
Jiang Dingwen and Chiang Kai-shek have the same surname and hometown, and are from Zhuji, Zhejiang. After graduating from the Zhejiang Daowu Academy, he became a staff officer at the age of 27 and served as a staff officer in the Office of Grand Marshal Sun Yat-sen. After the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, he gave up the colonel's improper staff and defected to Chiang Kai-shek at the expense of assuming the position of lieutenant and district captain.
He went right in this move, and later he was favored by Chiang Kai-shek, and he also worked hard, and in the Battle of Cotton Lake in the East, he was shot in the left lung, and he still commanded the battle, and it was the service soldiers who carried him back from the pile of dead people. In the "Zhongshan Ship Incident", Jiang Dingwen led the 5th Regiment to act as a thug first, disarmed the communist-led ironclad convoy, and surrounded the residence of the Soviet adviser in Dongshan. "Encircling and suppressing" the Red Army, almost no battle was lost.
The fiasco in the Central Plains was the biggest setback in the 40 years since Jiang Ding's military entered politics. Defeated and out of favor, he was placed in an idle post, and was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as a senator of the Kuomintang Military Senate, basically breaking away from the military circles. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Jiang Dingwen lived in Shanghai with his family and abandoned his official position to do business. In March 1949, Jiang Dingwen fled to Taiwan, took the title of strategic adviser to the "Presidential Office", and died in Taiwan on January 2, 1974, at the age of 79.
Tombaugh
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Henan once circulated such a song and ballad: "Henan Four Wastes, Water Drought Locust Soup", of which "soup" refers to Tang Enbo. The masses referred to Tombaugh as the "four pests" along with floods, droughts, and locusts, which shows how good his character is. On the other hand, he also made great contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was known as the "Anti-Japanese Iron Man" because of the Battle of Nankou and the Battle of Taierzhuang. After the Liberation War, Tang Enbo retired to Taiwan and served as a strategic adviser to the Presidential Office in Taipei. In 1953, he was appointed head of the military delegation to Japan, but was dismissed a few months later, and with the assistance of friends, moved to Tokyo, Japan, and died in Japan in June 1954. His life has been meritorious and let the world comment.
Chen inherited
Chen Inheritor, a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang Army, studied at the Baoding Military Academy in his early years, participated in two crusades, and later transferred to the Fourth Regiment of the Whampoa Military Academy Teaching Regiment as the regimental commander, and began his military and political career. This man is good at education, having served as the chief education officer of the Central Army Officer School for 5 years, and many senior Kuomintang generals and officers at all levels were his students. After the defeat of the Kuomintang, he lived in Hong Kong for a year, then went to Taiwan to serve as a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Presidential Office, and died of illness in December 1971.
Qian Dajun
Qian Dajun, born in Huangpu, had outstanding performance in his early years, and was both literate and martial, and was deeply favored by Chiang Kai-shek, so he was promoted very quickly, and once served as the director of the attendant office and participated in the central decision-making, which can be described as a high-powered and popular moment. However, because of a small mistake in the Xi'an Incident, he was jealous of Chiang Kai-shek, and because he regarded wealth as his life to privately divide military expenses, he was dismissed from his post and investigated, although he was soon reactivated, but he was already discouraged, and after arriving in Taiwan, he only held a fictitious position, and died of liver cancer in Taipei in July 1982 at the age of 89. Throughout his life, although he was prominent for a while, he never achieved anything.
Zhang Zhizhong
In the "Eight Great Kongs", Zhang Zhizhong was the only general who remained on the mainland. Since he followed Chiang Kai-shek in 1924, he gradually became Chiang Kai-shek's confidant, especially he served as the director of the attendant office for many years, and he has been doing his best to solve problems, but he often can't change his good looks, and everyone at the time ridiculed him as a under the stove, but in fact, Zhang Zhizhong was one of the few people in front of Chiang Kai-shek who was willing to speak and dared to speak, and he was not unprincipled. In his later years, Zhang Zhizhong fought for peace until his death in Beijing in 1969.