At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three-legged figure stood tall; Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Sima Yi, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and many other historical celebrities emerged. The Three Kingdoms period can be called the most prosperous history of China's outstanding generals; but the Three Kingdoms are too far away from the current world, and both the international situation and the combat background are very different.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty in the last century and during the Republic of China, China once again ushered in the peak of the emergence of talents. Zhang Fakui is one of the many talents, although he is a talent in the Kuomintang army, his excellence and contributions should also be seen and remembered.
Zhang Fakui not only went into battle to kill the enemy himself, but also after the Northern Expedition, he also had many of the main generals of our party under his command. Among them, eight of the founding marshals, including Zhu Shuai, were once under his command, and among the founding generals, seven of them, including General Su Yu, were once his subordinates; this shows that this is a very good officer and soldier and general.
Zhang Fakui, a native of Guangdong, was born in 1896, and although his family was not rich, he was also sent to a private school at the age of enrollment; he later entered the academy to continue his studies. In 1911, he and his classmates went out to play and swim; but the classmate drowned.
At that time, Zhang Fakui was only fifteen years old, and he was afraid that he would be implicated because of this matter, so he could only flee overnight and leave Guangzhou. When he first left home, his life was not good, and he worked everywhere to support others to maintain a basic life; later, when he heard that there were recruits everywhere, he also joined the military camp.
The following year, the Qing Dynasty officially collapsed and the Republic of China was established, and he was admitted to the Army School and joined the League. This time his study trip seemed to be quite smooth, and because of his outstanding performance, he used to work around Dr. Sun Yat-sen. After starting in 1920, he officially began his journey around the world.
Zhang Fakui was a fearless and courageous soldier on the battlefield; he dared to rush to the battlefield with only a stick, but he was able to grab the enemy's new rifle with his bare hands, and because of this, he was made a captain's lieutenant. Because he was able to complete the task well in every battle, his official position was also promoted again and again, and he was promoted to battalion commander in just one year.
Chen Jiongming rebelled, Zhang Fakui was responsible for the suppression, at this time Zhang Fakui had been promoted to become the regimental commander; in 1925, he again led his troops to defeat the enemy army several times, and he was also promoted to the brigade commander to the acting division commander of the Twelfth Division. At the beginning of the Northern Expedition the following year, he officially became the commander of the division.
The period of the Northern Expedition can be said to be Zhang Fakui's highlight period; he led the Twelfth Division to fight bloody battles against Wu Peifu's legions. In particular, the famous Battle of Tingsi Bridge, which suffered heavy casualties, because the terrain of Tingsi Bridge was steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack; and Zhang Fakui's troops happened to be the attacking side.
Although the battle was very difficult, Zhang Fakui was always on the front line of the war. Launching attacks on Tingsi Bridge again and again, he led the Twelfth Division to the forefront, and his pioneers also played a good role in encouraging and motivating the soldiers of the Twelfth Division. Later, under his perseverance, the Tingsi Bridge was captured, and Wu Peifu was also defeated.
Zhang Fakui led the 12th Division to attack Wu Peifu, which had a great impact on the outcome of the entire Northern Expedition. Then he led his troops into Wuchang, and when the Jiangxi battlefield needed to help him, he immediately rushed to the past to support. With his support, Sun Chuanfang's forces in Jiangxi were also annihilated. After the baptism of the Northern Expedition, he was promoted again and became the commander of the Fourth Army, and at this time he was only thirty years old.
Zhang Fakui is different from many soldiers, he is only a soldier when he is a soldier; he is only suitable for fighting on the battlefield, but he does not understand the undercurrents in the political arena. Zhang Fakui stood firmly on the side of Wang Jingwei from beginning to end, and even repeatedly attacked Chiang Kai-shek, taking the Ninghan split in 1927 as an example.
But Zhang Fakui had not yet officially opened the road to curry favor with Chiang Kai-shek, and Ning Andhan had merged again; but this time their cooperation was not a good thing for our party. Because Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 coup, many revolutionaries in our party died in this coup, and many previous constructions, such as the intelligence network, were in vain.
Zhang Fakui was not very interested in Chiang Kai-shek's anti-communist Qing Communists; and he had many Communists under his command at that time. The most famous are the eight founding marshals and seven founding generals of New China; Commander-in-Chief Zhu, General Ye Jianying, Marshal Liu Bocheng, Marshal He Long, General Su Yu, and so on were all working under Zhang Fakui at that time.
In fact, Zhang Fakui's political insensitivity just contributed to the outbreak of our party's Nanchang uprising. Fortunately, Zhang Fakui was not interested in cannibalism, and did not exterminate them all who later became the founding marshals of China; otherwise the founding of New China might have been more tortuous.
Zhang Fakui is a living Yama king on the battlefield, and he also has his own unique methods in army training and talent training. But he would not choose the right team, and when he faced the temptation of Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei and the Communist Party, he still resolutely chose Wang Jingwei.
This choice doomed him to the final defeat, although he himself had little interest in anti-communism and cannibalism. But after the confluence of Ning and Han, this was the task of his superiors, and he chose Wang Jingwei and had to obey the order. So after the Guangzhou uprising broke out, he received orders to suppress it; but when he arrived in Guangzhou, he plotted against Chiang Kai-shek, but unfortunately failed in the end.
Although the Northern Expedition has long been over, the fighting between the warlords continues. In order to strengthen his rule, Chiang Kai-shek constantly suppressed the living space of other warlords. After Chiang Kai-shek's battle with the Gui warlords, Zhang Fakui knew that he might also be more fierce and less fortunate, so he once again launched a rebellion; he united with the remnants of the Gui clan.
Although the military strength was very different, although Zhang Fakui was still as brave as usual, it was difficult to resist the fierce attack of the Cantonese army. In the end, this rebellion ended in failure, and at this time the Fourth Army had suffered from the wear and tear of the war, and its personnel had been greatly reduced, and it could only be reduced to the Fourth Division. Even worse was the Great Battle of the Central Plains the following year, in which the Fourth Division was beaten with only two regiments of troops.
Zhang Fakui was bent on driving away the Japanese enemy for The sake of China in the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan; but at this time, Zhang Fakui had long been unpopular with Chiang Kai-shek, and he was not used seriously. During the Liberation War, although he went out again, Chiang Kai-shek gave him positions that looked like high-ranking officials but had no real power.
Finally, such a Kuomintang officer, who became a military commander at the age of thirty, chose to resign all his official posts and spend his old age in Hong Kong because he was not accustomed to the corrupt style of the Nationalist army. Looking back at Zhang Fakui's deeds in history from the current perspective, whether his choice is correct or not, his own military ability and leadership ability are commendable.