In the ancient legends of our country, the immortals are immortal, so the word "immortal" represents longevity. However, in the national army a few decades ago, there were two names with the word "immortal", and they also lived to a very high age. One of them, Li Xianzhou, lived to the age of 94, and he was pardoned after becoming a war criminal, and lived happily in his later years; the other, Li Pinxian, died at the age of 98 and fled to Taiwan after the rout of the Nationalist army. Both of these people have immortal characters in their names, and both lived to the age of nearly 100 years old.
Li Xianzhou was a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek, and he did not commit any crimes, on the contrary, his thinking was very advanced, and he fought for China, which is why he was later pardoned. However, Li Pinxian, on the other hand, was different, and after the defeat of the army, he could only flee to Taiwan for refuge.
Li Pinxian was a native of Cangwu, Guangxi, who entered the Baoding Military Academy as a young man. Originally, it was reasonable to say that the gilded talents of the Baoding Military Academy would be valued, but after he returned to Guangxi, he was severely attacked by reality, and his two years of work experience was still not reusable. After all, in the old days, the warlords of Guangxi attached importance to nepotism and did not care at all about such people from the city, and Li Pinxian was also suppressed everywhere. Later, in a fit of rage, Li Pinxian defected to his old classmate, tang Shengzhi, the general of the Xiang Army.
Under the care of Tang Shengzhi, Li Pinxian stepped onto a high position step by step. However, due to the fact that Tang Shengzhi began to oppose Chiang Kai-shek in the later period, Li Pinxian was also implicated, and he had no choice but to flee to Hong Kong for refuge and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback. After Li Zongren heard about Li Pinxian as a person, he attached great importance to him, and Li Pinxian also joined the Xingui clan at his invitation and became an important general under him.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Pinxian had as many as 100,000 soldiers, and from this figure, we can also imagine how spirited and powerful he was at that time. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also made a lot of contributions, but there were also hidden dangers, such as the contradiction between Li Pinxian and his superior Bai Chongxi, which also laid the groundwork for his future failures.
Sure enough, later, for some reasons, Li Zongren transferred Li Pinxian's troops, at this time Li Pinxian's troops were only one army left, and after the defeat of the Nationalist army in the later Liberation War, Li Pinxian saw that the situation was not right and ran to Taiwan to take refuge, once to escape the fate of liquidation.
However, after arriving in Taiwan, he was stripped of all his powers and retired in 1952. What is even more funny is that at that time, the neighborhood elected the neighbor chief, and Li Pinxian was actually elected, which was a huge irony. So in his old age, he once laughed at his current situation, after all, from the general in charge of 100,000 troops to the neighbor commander in the streets and alleys, this was not an ordinary mental blow to him.