How did one of the strongest warlords in the Republic of China, the "King of Yunnan", who sat on an army of 100,000, come under house arrest?
In the middle of the War of Resistance and the War of Liberation, the foundation of the Nationalist army was the most stable. The combat effectiveness of the Guangxi Army and the Yunnan Army is the strongest of them. Long Yun was a very powerful person in four or five years, known as the King of Yunnan, and he also had more than 100,000 sons of the Dian Army. The Central Department has always penetrated all fields in Yunnan, but it has never been able to talk about Long Yun's status change, and it is not so easy to take him down. In October of 1945, the Kuomintang Central Committee designed to hold Long Yun hostage and put him under house arrest in Chongqing for three years. The Dian army was also slowly disintegrated, what was the reason for this?
It was very difficult for the top brass of the Nationalist army to elevate Long Yun and harm him that year. After all, the War of Resistance had just ended, the people wanted to live a stable life, and the southwest was also a focal point at that time; on the other hand, because the combat effectiveness of the Dian Army was still very strong, it would not be easy to confront it. Long Yun also took precautions in advance, and he has been expanding his army for several years, just to play a role at a critical moment. But even though his precautions had been done well, he was still caught by the Central Department and detained.
In September of 1945, the government requested that two armies of the Dian Army be sent to Vietnam, knowing that the two armies alone already numbered about 100,000 people. If he only asked for such a request, Long Yun could clearly see the careful thinking of the state government. Only this time, there is a perfect reason, because there are more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers in Vietnam, plus they have first-class weapons, so there must be hundreds of thousands or even 200,000 soldiers to compete with them. Moreover, geographically, Yunnan is closer to Vietnam, so it is very reasonable to send Longyun's army. Moreover, the government also promised Long Yun that after the Surrender of the Japanese Army, their weapons would be given to the Dian Army, thus improving their equipment, and this temptation was indeed very big!
In order to dispel all the doubts in his mind, the nationalist top brass also allowed him to keep the guard strength in Kunming city up to one division, and half of the 100,000 troops would remain on the border in western Yunnan, and there was no need to go to Vietnam, so that the safety of all parties could be guaranteed. These conditions made Long Yun unsuspecting, and he also asked his cousin to go to the front and told him that if there was any change in Kunming, he would immediately take the army back. Then his troops were left in Kunming.
After the top brass of the Nationalist army saw Long Yunzhong's plan, they immediately sent someone to surround his mansion. On September 30, he fled to Mount Wuhua under the protection of his own soldiers, but the difference between the two sides was too great, and their line of communication was cut off, so there was no way to report the news. Long Yun could only deeply sigh at the insidious schemes of the Nationalist army, and he had no choice but to choose to save his life first, and then he was imprisoned for three years.