During the Great War of the Central Plains, Lao Jiang once redeemed him from Sun Dianying with 600,000 yuan, who was he? And later?
His name is Zhang Xiao.
No one knows about him now, but before the War of Resistance, he was a well-known figure. He was the chairman of Henan Province, the commander-in-chief of the Twentieth Army, and a general in the army, and he and Chiang Kai-shek were still classmates in the artillery section of the Baoding Army's Accelerated School, and the relationship between the two of them before the War of Resistance was quite iron.
Speaking of this zhang, he is a native of Xin'an, Henan. He was very naughty when he was young, and once he scolded the gentleman who taught him as "rotten wood cannot be carved." He poured well, a sentence to the top of the past almost put the gentleman on the back of the air, he said, carved rotten wood, mediocre craftsman also.
Later, this Zhang was admitted to the Shaanxi Army Primary School, and later into the Artillery Department of the Baoding Army Accelerated School, where he became a classmate of Chiang Kai-shek and joined the League. After graduating from the military academy, Zhang Xiao actively participated in anti-Qing activities and became the main leader of the revolutionaries in the new army.
After the news of the Wuchang Uprising reached Shaanxi on October 10, 1911, Zhang Xiao and others launched the Xi'an Uprising on October 22, 1911, when the Shaanxi Revolutionary Party launched the Wuchang Uprising. After the uprising, Zhang Xiao served as the governor of The Eastern Road of the Qin Longfu Han Army, and fought a fierce battle with the Qing army at Tongguan, tongguan lost three and won three gains, and finally saved the eastern gate of Shaanxi under the leadership of Zhang Xiao, and Zhang Xiao became famous in this battle and became a famous general during the Xinhai Revolution in Shaanxi.
After the establishment of the Republic of China, Zhang Xiao served as the commander of the second town of the Shaanxi Army, which was later renamed the commander of the Second Division. When Yuan Shikai was in power, he was imprisoned for opposing Yuan Yuan and was not released until Yuan Shikai collapsed; later, when Zhang Xun was restored, he served as the commander of the first detachment of the rebel army, but unfortunately he was soon suppressed and had to leave Shaanxi.
After the Northern Expedition began, he firmly sided with Sun Yat-sen and assisted in the Northern Expedition; coupled with the fact that he had another layer of classmate relations with Chiang Kai-shek, he was appointed by the Nanjing government as the director of the Henan Provincial Construction Department and other positions.
In May 1930, Feng Yuxiang in the northwest, Yan Xishan in Shanxi, and Li Zongren in Guangxi, dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's policy of reorganizing the armed forces of local warlords, united to oppose the central government by force, and the Central Plains War broke out.
Zhang Xiao was a veteran of the Xinhai Revolution in Shaanxi Province, and had a high prestige and connections within the warlord system in the northwest, so he was entrusted by his old classmate Chiang Kai-shek to represent the central authorities in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Twentieth Route Army to Go to Feng Yuxiang's Department to carry out counter-planning work.
After Zhang Xiao accepted lao Jiang's commission, he first took Han Fuyu, and then ran to Sun Dianying's department to bribe Sun. Unexpectedly, this news was learned by Feng Yuxiang, and Feng immediately sent a telegram ordering Sun Dianying to detain Zhang Xuan, and when Old Jiang learned of it, he also immediately sent a telegram to Sun Dianying, saying that this side was willing to give 100,000 yuan to the current ocean, but it was necessary to ensure the safety of General Zhang.
Who is Sun Dianying? He is a man who sees money and has milk as a wife. After Feng Yuxiang knew about it, he said that I gave 200,000 yuan to the ocean, and you immediately slaughtered Zhang Zhen for me. Then the two sides shouted prices at each other, and within a few days, Old Jiang shouted the price to 600,000 yuan, which saved Zhang Xiao's life and took down Sun Dianying.
Old Jiang redeemed 600,000 Zhang Xiao, who was now redeemed from Sun Dianying's hands, and later even opened his hands and feet to bribe the generals of the Northwest Army, and he put Ji Hongchang, Wan Xuancai, Liu Zhenhua and other 100,000 people under old Jiang's account, and Feng Yuxiang was naturally defeated.
Zhang's Twenty Route Army once grew to 8 divisions. Because Zhang Xuan's collection of these teams was a mixture of fish and dragons, turtles and robbers and thieves, lai beavers, everyone had them, so they were also called bandits, so Zhang Xiao also got an indecent name: "The Old Thief Head of the Central Plains".
After 1935, Zhang Xiao began to slowly lose his position in the mind of the old Chiang Kai-shek, and had no usable value, so the old Chiang gave him the title of an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, and then lost his military power.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, on the recommendation of Gu Zhutong, Lao Jiang appointed him to the post of commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, but there were no soldiers under him, so he went to Henan to recruit soldiers from the 10th Division, but after several months of recruiting and buying horses, the upper, lower, left, and right were all resistance, and in the end he was still a light rod commander.
Only then did Zhang Zhuo understand that it was the old Chiang Kai-shek's state government that did not want him, so he became discouraged and began to smoke big cigarettes, visit kilns, drink big wine, and concentrate on being a waste of the party-state. However, on the scene, old Chiang Kai-shek still wanted to appease him, appointed him as vice president of the Military Senate, an adviser to the state government, and also awarded him an army general, which could not make other old things sad.
In December 1949, Zhang Xiao, who had already been disheartened by the Kuomintang, revolted with the 20th Corps of the Kuomintang in Pi County, Sichuan Province, and later served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of the Central Museum of Culture and History, and member of the Central Unity Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and died on May 25, 1966 at the age of 80.
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