He Yingqin, Zi Jingzhi, Guizhou Xingyiren, a general of the Kuomintang first class. He was the second most important person in the Huangpu clan after Chiang Kai-shek, and from the Xinhai Revolution he experienced two Eastern Expeditions, the Northern Expedition, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. He Yingqin, because he followed Chiang Kai-shek's active anti-communism, successively served as the chief instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy and the head of the first regiment of teaching regiments, the commander of the First Division of the First Army, the commander of the First Army and the chief of education of the Whampoa Military Academy, the chief of staff of the Kuomintang Navy, Land and Air Command, the chief of staff of the Kuomintang Navy, Land and Air Command, the chief of staff of the Military Commission, and the chief of administration of the Kuomintang government.
In 1924, He Yingqin met Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai, who was about to go to the Soviet Union to investigate politics and prepare for the formation of a new type of revolutionary army, and learned that Sun Yat-sen was about to establish the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou. Subsequently, Sun Yat-sen appointed Chiang Kai-shek to formally organize the Whampoa Military Academy, and Chiang urgently needed to gather a group of like-minded Japanese non-commissioned officers to carry out military academy training.
Chiang Kai-shek had long heard that He Yingqin had presided over the Wushu School in Guizhou, and with considerable success, coupled with the strong recommendation of his Japanese non-commissioned officer school classmate Wang Bailing, Chiang Kai-shek invited He Yingqin to go south to assist in the preparations for the establishment of the school. Subsequently, the Whampoa Military Academy was founded, and Chiang Kai-shek appointed He Yingqin as the general's chief instructor. This was the beginning of He Yingqin's life in the service of the Chiang family dynasty, and his fate was intertwined with Chiang Kai-shek from then on.
At this time, He Yingqin had experienced nearly ten years of military career and slowly matured. The frustrated He Yingqin was very grateful to Chiang Kai-shek for his kindness, and he was strict with himself, diligent and diligent, and gradually won Chiang's appreciation. At that time, Wang Bailing, director of the professorial department of the military academy, did not do his job all day, indulged in wine, and always disappeared when things happened. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek often entrusted some important affairs to He Yingqin to handle, and he also had more trust and importance for He Yingqin, who was loyal to his duties. He Yingqin, who knew en tu bao, led Liu Zhi and Gu Zhu and a group of military instructors to do a good job, so his position in Chiang Kai-shek's heart was also consolidated.
In his dealings with Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin slowly realized the art of maintaining the master-servant relationship and seeking the balance between fame and fortune, which impressed the people in the Kuomintang officialdom. During the period of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek showed skillful political skill in factional struggle, while He Yingqin, although he participated in the political struggle, pretended to be stable and stable, appeared "dull," and cooperated with Chiang Kai-shek tacitly and complemented each other perfectly. Chiang Kai-shek was good at using flowery rhetoric to express his thoughts and theories and sensationalism, while He Yingqin set an example by example, was diligent and dedicated, and was reticent, forming a distinct complementary image with Chiang Kai-shek.
For He Yingqin, these are both lubricants for Jiang and He relations, and at the same time, they are also a talisman to avoid becoming the target of public criticism in the struggle for power. He Yingqin's pragmatic and hard-working, courteous and humble work in the official arena complemented his inner work and scheming, sophistication and sleekness, and this kind of magnanimity and sincerity in dealing with the world and his down-to-earth and dedicated work style seemed to make up for Chiang Kai-shek's shortcomings as the head of a school.
In the long military career that followed, He Yingqin was like a great steward of the Kuomintang army. Although the housekeeper has real power, he must be good at observing the color of words, grasping the measure, and cannot make a fuss or act alone. It was precisely by virtue of this that He Yingqin was attached to Chiang Kai-shek and favored Chiang Kai-shek, thus becoming the second most important person in the Kuomintang army after Chiang Kai-shek.
In November 1924, Chen Jiongming, who was active in Chaozhou and Shantou, with the assistance of Duan Qirui and British imperialism, gathered about 100,000 people to attack Guangzhou in an attempt to destroy the revolutionary regime in Guangzhou. In order to remove Chen's threat to Guangzhou, the Guangzhou revolutionary government set up a crusade to attack Chen Jiongming. At that time, He Yingqin led the whole regiment to join the ranks of the Crusade as the leader of the First Regiment.
In the Battle of Tamsui, the rebels deployed a tight defense on the strong city wall, and in the situation that it was difficult for the Eastern Crusaders to break the gap even if they adopted a dense and strong attack, He Yingqin proposed to Chiang Kai-shek to organize a vanguard to go straight into the city wall under the cover of all firepower, and then use the ladder to climb the city. The 1st and 2nd Regiments of the Huangpu Army adopted He Yingqin's plan and eventually conquered Tamsui, annihilated a brigade of the rebel army, and captured a large number of guns. The Battle of Tamsui opened the prelude to the victory of the Eastern Crusade, and was the first hard battle in which He Yingqin really participated in command after he joined the army, and his decisiveness and tact in the battlefield were also recognized and appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek.
After the victory at the Battle of Tamsui, the Huangpu Army, with the cooperation of other Eastern Expeditionary Forces, penetrated deep into Chaozhou and Shantou. In order to save the mess, Chen Jiongming took advantage of the fact that the Huangpu army's troops were scattered and the situation in Shantou was weak, and tried to go south to cut off the rear road of the Huangpu army and surround and annihilate it in one fell swoop, so he staged the decisive battle in the Eastern Crusade- the Battle of Mianhu.
Mianhu is a small town in Chaozhou, located in the midst of lofty mountains, where Chen Jiongming's three generals, famous for their bravery and good fighting, led more than 10,000 people to gather here. He Yingqin led the first regiment to attack the Mianhu Mountains, but the progress was slow, and the rear road was cut off by Chen Jiongming. In the face of a critical situation in which the enemy army was dozens of times larger than himself and could only advance and could not retreat, He Yingqin took the lead and commanded the members of the first regiment to engage in a deadly hand-to-hand combat with the enemy army. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was very anxious in the command post, and issued an order to He Yingqin: "You must try to hold on and save the situation, otherwise everything will be finished!" Therefore, objectively speaking, the Battle of Mianhu Lake was indispensable for He Yingqin.
Naturally, He Yingqin did not live up to Chiang's high hopes, led the first regiment to fight bravely, showed the spirit of seeing death as a homecoming, and finally successfully thwarted the enemy's offensive, and Chen Jiongming's troops fled in a daze. The Battle of Mianhu Lake can be described as a classic case of less to more, and he Yingqin's military spirit in this battle is really commendable, and he is also "famous in the world in the First World War". Chiang Kai-shek once commented that the Battle of Mianhu was to teach the First Regiment to resist more than 10,000 fierce enemy troops with more than a thousand people, the situation was very grim, and in case of a fiasco, not only would the party army founded by Premier Sun Yat-sen himself be annihilated, but the Guangzhou base area would be difficult to preserve.
It can be seen that the significance of this battle in the overall situation, and for individuals, once they fail, Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin will be discredited and will lose the capital and opportunity to move upwards. Therefore, the intimate union of Chiang Kai-shek and He began with the Eastern Crusade, of which the Battle of Mianhu was the battle in which He Yingqin was the most pleasing to Chiang Kai-shek, and they therefore took the date of the Battle of Mianhu as their anniversary, so as to commemorate their common life and death on the battlefield.