The Southern Anhui Incident was an incident launched by Chiang Kai-shek during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in order to eliminate the New Fourth Army in the south, and this incident was carried out by Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang of the Third Theater. Coincidentally, Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang were classmates with Ye Ting, the commander of the New Fourth Army at that time, and it was this Shangguan Yunxiang who was willing to act as a vanguard to launch the Anhui Incident in order to get Chiang Kai-shek's reuse.
Shangguan Yunxiang is a native of Jinan, Shandong Province. Graduated from the Sixth Infantry Section of the Baoding Army Officer School, he was classmates with Gu Zhutong, Ye Ting, Hao Mengling, Yu Hanmou, Wu Qiwei, Zhou Hunyuan and others, among whom Yu Hanmou later became Shangguan Yunxiang's brother-in-law.
After graduation, Shangguan Yunxiang was a platoon leader under the Beiyang warlord Sun Chuanfang, so he did not follow Chiang Kai-shek at the beginning. Later, Chiang Kai-shek led the Northern Expeditionary Army and defeated Sun Chuanfang, commander-in-chief of the combined forces of the five southeastern provinces. At this time, Shangguan Yun saw that Sun Chuanfang's general trend had gone, so he abandoned the dark and cast a vote for Chiang Kai-shek.
After Chiang Kai-shek reached formal reunification, he began to encircle and suppress the Red Army, and Shangguan Yunxiang, who naturally became a monk halfway through, was sure to behave well; in the five encirclement and suppression campaigns launched by Chiang Kai-shek, he was very desperate. Seeing that he was so desperate, Jiang made him the commander-in-chief of the First Route Army of the Headquarters of the "Suppression of Bandits" in the Xiang'echuan Border Region, and was later promoted to lieutenant general for his military achievements.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Shangguan Yunxiang successively participated in the Battle of Songhu to defend Shanghai, and in 1938 he became the commander-in-chief of the Thirty-second Group Army of the Third Theater. He and his old classmate Gu Zhutong became a superior-subordinate relationship, and Gu Zhutong was the commander of the Third Theater at that time.
In 1940, especially after the Hundred Regiments War, Chiang Kai-shek said that the Eighth Route Army was developing too fast, and because of the decision to move against the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, he nominally let the New Fourth Army go north to the Yellow River to resist Japan, and at the same time let Gu Zhutong secretly mobilize troops to surround and annihilate the New Fourth Army. This time, the commander-in-chief of the front line was Shangguan Yunxiang.
In order to deal with the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, Shangguan Yunxiang and Gu Zhutong can be said to be racking their brains. He said to Ye Ting that as long as the New Fourth Army withdraws according to the prescribed time route, I guarantee the safety of the brothers of the New Fourth Army with a personality guarantee, and say that we are all classmates can we deceive you? In this way, Ye Ting believed it to be true.
In fact, at this time, Shangguan Yunxiang had already laid out a pocket array in the area south of Yunling, and as soon as the New Fourth Army was pulled out, it would be heavily encircled by the enemy army.
However, at this time, Ye Ting did not know, so when the whole army of the New Fourth Army went north, when it went to the Jing County area in Anhui, it was suddenly besieged by more than 80,000 enemy troops. Faced with a large number of casualties of the New Fourth Army, which had more than a few companions, Ye Ting, who was angry, scolded Shangguan Yunxiang and Gu Zhutong at that time.
At this time, because Shangguan Yunxiang encouraged the soldiers, he read out Chiang Kai-shek's warrant: 100,000 yuan for capturing the army elder alive, and 50,000 yuan for capturing others alive. This is the enemy's view of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, and that is not soldiers is money. As soon as the commanders of the New Fourth Army were issued, they were quickly scattered, and finally the commander was detained. Several others also died.
Afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek made a special commendation to Shangguan Yunxiang, rewarding the headquarters of the Thirty-second Group Army with 50,000 yuan in French dollars, and even several subordinate divisions were promoted to the positions of commander and deputy commander.
During the Liberation War, Shangguan Yunxiang served as deputy commander-in-chief of the headquarters of the "suppression of bandits" in North China, but he never commanded at the front until 1949, when he and Chiang Kai-shek went to Taiwan. It may be that Chiang Kai-shek remembered his merits in the Anhui Southern Incident and was promoted from lieutenant general to general after he arrived in Taiwan, but he did not hold any real position.
In 1950, he resigned his official position and became a monk, and gave himself a legal title, Gumu Monk. By August 8, 1969, Shangguan Yunxiang died of illness in Taipei. In Shangguan Yunxiang's military career, he made the greatest contribution to Chiang Kai-shek than the "Anhui Southern Incident."