Who is the commander of our armored corps? This can be said that no one knows, no one knows, and Xu Guangda, the tenth founding general of the country, is also. So, who was the commander of the armored corps of the Kuomintang? I don't know. It seems to be Du Yuming. He served as the commander of the first armored corps of the Kuomintang.
Non also. The commander of the armored corps of the Kuomintang, also known as the father of the armored corps of the Kuomintang, was Xu Tingyao, who was a man of no one in Anhui. Xu Tingyao is Du Yuming's Bole and superior, how to say this? When Xu Tingyao was the commander of the division, the brigade commanders under him, such as Tang Enbo, were not very obedient and did not pay attention to him as a division commander at all, but the regimental commander Du Yuming respected him very much.
(Du Yuming and Xu Tingyao)
Xu Tingyao passed the brigade commander and cultivated Du Yuming with his heart. After that, Du Yuming followed Xu Tingyao and began to gradually emerge. Xu Tingyao was ordered to form an armored corps, with Du Yuming as its leader. Xu Tingyao was promoted to military commander, and Du Yuming was the commander of his division.
Xu Tingyao was promoted to commander-in-chief of the group army, and Du Yuming took over his post as commander. You see, is Du Yuming pulled up by Xu Tingyao? I just didn't expect that Du Yuming was famous all over the world, but Xu Tingyao was little known. In the future, Du Yuming commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, but Xu Tingyao had no soldiers to use.
It's a shame. What's going on? First of all, Xu Tingyao is not from the Huangpu Department, he graduated from the Baoding Military Academy. Although Chiang Kai-shek also valued him, he was still not the same as Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu concubines.
Moreover, Xu Tingyao liked to read, he was a theoretician, he had many military works, and later he was fascinated by the research and education of armored troops. Chiang Kai-shek asked him to go abroad to inspect the armored troops, and when he returned, Xu Tingyao actually wrote a 600,000-word report and presented it to Chiang Kai-shek.
Xiao Bian directly doubted whether Chiang Kai-shek, who was in a good position to do so, had read this report and whether he had read it. Later, Xu Tingyao went to run military education. The Kuomintang opened the School of Heavy Soldiers and Traffic Soldiers, and Chiang Kai-shek concurrently served as the principal, but in fact, the specific work was done by Xu Tingyao.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xu Tingyao served as the chief of education of the Kuomintang mechanized school, the mechanical supervisor of the Military Training Department, and so on. During the Liberation War, he served as a full-time member of the Kuomintang National Defense Science and Technology Commission, and later as commander of the armored corps.
(The six people in this photo are all famous generals of the National Army, and the highest position at that time was Xu Tingyao in the center of the front row))
The position seems to be very high, but there is no soldier. The Kuomintang is losing ground one after another, and where else can it take care of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission? Even the armored troops were actually in power by Chief of Staff Chiang Ching-kuo, and there was nothing xu Tingyao at all.
Therefore, during the Liberation War, Du Yuming was so tired that he cut off his left kidney, while Xu Tingyao was very idle and no one cared. However, this is also in line with Xu Tingyao's disposition, he likes to read and do learning by nature, and he is happy to be at ease.
Because he only collected books in his life and did not accumulate family property, Xu Tingyao's life after going to Taiwan was relatively poor, and he often relied on students to help him. In addition to reading, Xu Tingyao likes to raise chickens, which is a pastime in her later life. Xu Tingyao died of illness in 1974 at the age of 82.