preface:
After the collapse of the Qing government, a large number of warlords sprung up everywhere. During this period, the Japanese army also ruthlessly invaded our great rivers and mountains, and burned the war in all directions. The choices of these warlords also varied, and in the case of foreign invasions, some chose to commit themselves to the Japanese army and cooperate with them in exchange for greater benefits. But more people of insight chose to rise up against it, the most famous of which was the Sichuan warlord. Their "Sichuan Army" became the elite force of the anti-Japanese resistance and wrote a series of touching and profound anti-Japanese deeds.
Today we will introduce a Sichuan warlord, who has a nickname plus "Commander Har", has a prominent personality, and has become a representative of the Sichuan Army. In evaluating this person, it is necessary to look at it with a dialectical eye. This person is full of contradictions, good and bad, and needs to be rationally understood.
01
Fan Shaozeng was born in 1894 to a family of squires in Sichuan. In such a family, Fan Shaozeng had no worries about food and clothing, and lived the life of a great young master. But he was not motivated, and no matter how much his parents advised him to study, he did not pay attention to it. He was obsessed with living a stupid life, fighting cocks and dogs every day, going up the mountain to hunt, going down the river to touch fish, and doing everything except going to school. The academy was also disturbed by him a little restless, but the gentleman had no choice. Old Master Fan looked at the grandson who was not a weapon, and his anger came from his heart, and once he directly ordered someone to tie up Fan Shaozeng and bury him alive, cutting off the life of this unworthy descendant. Later, in the intercession of everyone, Fan Shaozeng retrieved a life. But he was afraid, thinking that he could not stay at home, afraid that the old man would have to deal with himself one day.
He simply ran away from home and went out for a run. Don't look at his reading is not smart, but the mixed rivers and lakes are a good hand. As soon as he went out, he recognized many brothers, added a jianghu gang, and mixed into the position of the second contact. After the death of the elder brother of the Brotherhood, he should have become a leader, and his subordinates managed the livelihood of thousands of younger brothers. At this time, these hooligans really had a chance to ascend to the throne. Because he had a gun in his hand, Fan Shaozeng directly led his men and horses to Yang Sen. This was undoubtedly a very wise decision, this group of small directly upgraded to officers and soldiers, and Fan Shaozeng also changed from gang boss to general.
02
Fan Shaozeng was quite talented in fighting, he had not read a few books on the battlefield, but his grasp of the battlefield situation was very accurate, and under his leadership, Yang Sen's army achieved many victories. He also rose straight up and rose all the way to the division commander. Later, Yang Sen defected to Chiang Kai-shek, and Fan Shaozeng became a member of the National Revolutionary Army as a close confidant. Under Janssen's arrangement, he became the commander of the 7th Division of the 20th Army, and had considerable prestige in the army. For this reason, Yang Sen vaguely felt his threat, so he began to exclude dissidents and wanted to get rid of him quickly. After Fan Shaozeng knew all this, he immediately looked for another mountain and joined Liu Xiang's team.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fan Shaozeng's patriotic feelings were ignited. He took the initiative to ask for resistance against Japan, but although Chiang Kai-shek agreed to his request, he only gave him the title of commander of the 88th Army, and all the soldiers, horses, grain, and grass were not in place, and he was completely a bare-dry commander. Fan Shaozeng did not care, he mobilized all his connections to recruit soldiers and horses, and forced together a team of more than 10,000 people. With this team, he went east and west, and the Japanese army was very popular. He was so capable of fighting that he once killed two Japanese generals in two days, which became a myth in the army.
03
In the Sichuan army, Fan Shaozeng was quite famous, and the great warlords all wanted to recruit him as a general and wanted to include him under his command. He himself is happy to enjoy life, while the left and right Fengyuan, while running himself, recruiting soldiers, buying horses, enriching strength. At the same time, he did not delay his own backyard. After having money, he continued to marry his aunts and wives, and interpreted lustfulness to the fullest, according to incomplete statistics, he had at least 40 aunts and wives, all of whom were the best beauties, who were raised by him in the mansions of Chongqing. Although there were many people, they were quite harmonious, and for a while it was changed to beautiful talk.
With the deepening of the anti-Japanese resistance, Fan Shaozeng realized that Chiang Kai-shek had no intention of resisting Japan at all, and his thinking slowly changed, and in 1949 he joined the camp of our army and completely abandoned the dark and cast the light. In turbulent times, he still went his own way and was not afraid of anyone. When the younger son was criticized by the Red Guards, he directly took the gun to break the younger son, scaring the other Red Guards into fleeing.
epilogue:
Fan Shaozeng's life was lively and lively, just like the "Hal" he was called when he was a child, a fool has a stupid fortune. Driven by patriotism, he made the right choice.