1. Compared with other Beiyang bigwigs, Feng Yuxiang rose the latest.
The Beiyang government was successively led by Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui of the Anhui clan, Wu Peifu, and Zhang Zuolin, who was directly in line, and compared with these Beiyang tycoons, Feng Yuxiang was the last to rise.
Feng Yuxiang's seniority is similar to that of Wu Peifu, but Wu Peifu is particularly heavily valued by Cao Kun and is a soul figure of his direct lineage. In 1920, the direct family defeated the Anhui family in the Zhi-Anhui War, and Cao Kun and Wu Peifu became the heads of the Beiyang government. Feng Yuxiang's Bole and patron Lu Jianzhang lost power very early and could not further promote Feng Yuxiang. In 1918, after Lu Jianzhang was killed by Xu Shuzheng, Feng Yuxiang lost his patron and was in an even more difficult situation. Not to mention getting a promotion, even self-protection is a problem.
Fortunately, Feng Yuxiang was a good soldier in training, his army had strong combat effectiveness, often winning battles, Cao Kun also intended to win Feng Yuxiang to balance Wu Peifu, and Feng Yuxiang's army was retained.
Before 1924, although Feng Yuxiang had been promoted to the commander of the Eleventh Division, and had also served as the inspector of Shaanxi, the overseer of Henan, and the army, he never had a fixed territory, and could only be regarded as a professional officer, not a warlord.
In 1924, the Second Zhifeng War broke out, and Feng Yuxiang launched a coup d'état in Beijing, imprisoned Cao Kun, and controlled the capital, feng Yuxiang's first life peak. The coup d'état in Beijing announced the official rise of Feng Yuxiang.
But soon Zhang Zuolin took control of the Beiyang government, and Feng Yuxiang was soon squeezed out of the center of power. In 1925, in order to make Feng Yuxiang and Zhang Zuolin restrain each other, Duan Qirui made Feng Yuxiang the northwest border defense inspector and ruled the five northwestern provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Suiyuan, Chahar, and Qinghai.
At this point, Feng Yuxiang really rose to the top and became a feudal official and warlord. However, the places that Feng got were all poor provinces, and they couldn't raise too many troops at all.
In 1930, during the Central Plains War, Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army fell apart, and Feng Yuxiang became a warlord for six years, and then became the commander of the light pole.
2. Patriotism.
After Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang and others lost power, they refused to be co-opted by the Japanese, and many people said that they were patriotic. In fact, these people just kept the bottom line and did not lose their last conscience.
Compared with them, Feng Yuxiang was different, and had practical actions.
In 1933, in order to resist the Japanese invasion, Feng Yuxiang gathered the old department and organized the Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Army, numbering as many as 100,000 people, and recovered some of the lost land occupied by the Japanese. If it were not for Lao Jiang forcibly disbanding this team, Feng would have been able to recover more land.
In 1937, after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Feng Yuxiang actively led the War of Resistance, participated in anti-Japanese propaganda and fundraising, and made his own contribution to the anti-Japanese resistance.
3. Love the people and benefit the locality.
Feng Yuxiang once stationed troops in Shaanxi, Changde, Henan, and other places, ranging from a few months to two years; every time he went to a place, Feng Yuxiang had to suppress bandits, plant trees, ban opium, close brothels and tobacco houses, set up education, prohibit harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, maintain social order, relieve the poor, build water conservancy projects, and officers and men also go to the streets to clean up garbage.
In addition to the Red Army, the only thing that could do this during the Republic of China period was Feng Yuxiang's army.
4. Always on the side of the progressive forces.
The Luanzhou Uprising of 1912 was an important part of the Xinhai Revolution, and as one of the leaders of the Luanzhou Uprising, Feng Yuxiang sided with the revolutionary party led by Sun Yat-sen.
When Cai Yi launched the Patriotic War and Sun Yat-sen launched the Protector war, Feng Yuxiang supported it with practical actions.
During the Northern Expedition, Feng Yuxiang chose to support the Northern Expeditionary Army and became the greatest contributor to the Northern Expedition.
During the Liberation War, Feng Yuxiang denounced old Chiang in the United States.
5. Feng Yuxiang has been simple and simple like a farmer all his life.
Feng Yuxiang always ate and dressed the same as ordinary soldiers. Many people who don't understand say he's pretending. His subordinates said that if a person could pretend for a lifetime, it was true.
You can also say your own opinion.