Hu Zongnan was the first protégé of Tianzi, and here Tianzi refers to Chiang Kai-shek. When Chiang Kai-shek left the field, Hu Zongnan was still loyal and followed him, and Chiang Kai-shek was deeply moved, began to reuse him, and promoted him to deputy division commander.
After Chiang Kai-shek resumed his official position, the division commander turned regular, and then went all the way to fight back against life.
After Hu Zongnan became famous, he sat in the northwest and guarded the tranquility of the northwest. At that time, he had 600,000 troops, and about 400,000 people could be directly dispatched, and he had become the leading warlord in the northwest and a well-known nationwide, so he was called the king of the northwest.
Hu Zongnan had a brilliant life, but in his later years he was neglected and relatively depressed.
I. Hu Zongnan's youth
Hu Zongnan was not a young man, he was 28 years old when he joined the Whampoa Military Academy, and then his official position rose all the way, which can be said to be a late success.
Hu Zongnan's family was very wealthy, and his father was a cultural man who took the imperial examination in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. His father taught Hu Zongnan to study hard, and knowledge changed his destiny.
Therefore, Hu Zongnan entered the library from an early age to study, and was familiar with ancient texts such as the "Three Character Classic". After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the war continued, and Hu Zongnan became a teacher with a belly of ink.
Hu Zongnan had great ambitions, and a simple teacher was never his lifelong pursuit, so after he was a teacher for several years, he joined the army.
Before that, his parents arranged a family affair for him, this woman is not Hu Zongnan's love, forced by family pressure, he still married this woman.
However, the good times did not last long, and the original wife died of illness soon after.
Around 1924, Hu Zongnan participated in the school's principal competition, and was very unhappy after losing the election.
Later, his friend brought news that Guangdong was preparing to organize a military academy and was secretly enrolling students in Shanghai. Encouraged by his peers, he decided to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy.
After Hu Zongnan joined the army, his life began to counterattack.
Originally, he did not pass when he went to participate in the Whampoa Military Academy's school election, because his size was only one meter and six, and he was relatively thin, far from meeting the Whampoa Military Academy's student selection standards.
However, Hu Zongnan's ideological consciousness was very high, and after a series of examinations, the examiner Liao Zhongkai discovered his strengths and praised him for having a very high ideological consciousness, so he gave up his power to admit him.
Second, sitting in the northwest
During Hu Zongnan's time in school, because he was older than the students of the same level, and he was full of poetry and books, he had a wide range of knowledge, so the students in the school liked to call him big brother.
He worked even harder in school, and he showed great tenacity in both cultural and military classes.
He was one of the first students of the Whampoa Military Academy, and his talent was gradually seen by Chiang Kai-shek. When Hu Zongnan graduated, he became a platoon leader for the instructor.
Later, during his participation in the Crusades, he was particularly prominent and won the unanimous praise of the soldiers in the army.
Because of his great merits, he was also promoted to deputy company commander of the machine gun company.
This was Hu Zongnan's first relatively large achievement after graduation, and in the following military career, his performance was as wonderful as ever, so he rode the wind and waves in the military rank and rose all the way.
During the Northern Expedition, the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated, and together the two parties eliminated the Beiyang warlords, basically eradicating this power's entrenchment in China.
What is worrying, however, is that although the Nationalist government has ostensibly achieved the reunification of all of China, it has in fact once again fallen into a situation of warlord division.
The strength of the direct and feng clans within the Nationalist government developed rapidly, and their morale was also rising higher and higher, and even the momentum of meritorious service and high-ranking lordship, Chiang Kai-shek at that time was also aware of this situation, so he made preparations in advance, he firmly grasped the army of the Whampoa Military Academy, even after he went to the field, he could make a comeback.
So in 1927, after he went to the field, he still took the military power into his own hands.
Hu Dongnan has been following Chiang Kai-shek since he fell, and his loyalty and determination are also seen by Chiang Kai-shek, plus the two people are fellow countrymen, so Chiang Kai-shek is very relieved about Hu Zongnan, and he is bent on cultivating him and becoming his right hand.
As a result, Hu Zongnan's position was promoted to the position of deputy division commander, and when Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated, he officially became the commander of the 22nd Division of the First Army.
Later, in order to maintain his dominance, Chiang Kai-shek was bent on destroying the revolutionary base areas of the Red Army, and he sent Hu Zongnan out to encircle and suppress the Red Army.
The first place Hu Zongnan arrived was Tianshui in Gansu, and Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army had not been stationed in the northwest at that time, so Hu Zongnan was the first person of the Nationalist government to march into the northwest.
After settling down, Hu Zongnan changed his army according to the current situation, and then wantonly destroyed the Red Army.
After the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was placed under house arrest by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, the Nationalist government at that time was in crisis, many people wanted to become a power seeker, Hu Zongnan was bent on saving Chiang Kai-shek, so he chose the method of peaceful negotiations.
Later, the Xi'an Incident did not erupt into armed conflict, and the two sides resolved it peacefully.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek sincerely admired Hu Zongnan, and hu Zongnan was still able to save his own life when his subordinates wanted to seize power, so his trust in Hu Zongnan reached the extreme.
Later, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, the two parties cooperated again, and Hu Zongnan also joined the battle and achieved very fruitful results.
At this time, his army was constantly expanding, and the entire Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan and Shanxi were in the hands of Hu Zongnan.
However, Hu Zongnan was stationed in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and began to blockade it, and did not participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan from beginning to end.
Later, Hu Zongnan officially became the supreme head of the Nationalist government in the northwest region, and at this time his military strength also reached its peak.
He was able to dispatch 600,000 troops, and he could dispatch more than 400,000 at will, truly becoming the king of the northwest.
4. Summary
In the War of Liberation, the Communists relied on their superior military strength and flexible tactics to defeat Hu Zongnan's army, so Hu Zongnan also lost 600,000 troops.
He had no choice but to follow Chiang Kai-shek and flee to Taiwan.
After he lost so much military strength, Chiang Kai-shek's attitude toward him also changed, so Hu Zongnan's old age was not very good.
When he was seriously ill, Chiang Kai-shek went to see him and moved him to tears.
Hu Zongnan was the first protégé of Chiang Kai-shek, and at the age of 28, he chose to embark on a different path, riding the wind and waves all the way, and at his brilliant time, he also achieved a lot of achievements.
This mighty northwest king, who once grasped 600,000 heavy troops, finally sank in the tide of the times.