After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Yan Daogang, then counselor of the Counselor's Office of the Central and Southern Administrative Committee and member of the Central Unity Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, poured out his life savings to donate to the state to support the purchase of fighter jets to support the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
So, why did Uncle Long mention Yan Daogang? Because this Yan Daogang was a relatively special figure, before the outbreak of the War of Resistance, he was a close confidant of Lao Jiang, who had been sent by Lao Jiang to Xi'an to monitor Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng's Seventeenth Route Army, but ten years later, why did he join the anti-Chiang camp?
Today, I will talk to you about Yan Daogang this person.
Yan Daogang, a native of Hanchuan, Hubei Province, was born in 1889, Guangxu studied at the Third Middle School of the Wuchang Army for thirty-three years, officially enlisted as a soldier before the Xinhai Revolution, and also participated in the Wuchang Uprising. After that, he successively entered the first artillery section of the Baoding Army Officer School and the fifth phase of the Army University, and after graduation, he served as a staff officer of the Hubei Governor's Office, a staff officer of the Two Lakes Patrol Envoy, and the chief of the staff office of the Second Division of the Army.
During the Northern Expedition, Yan Daogang became the backbone of the old Chiang camp. To be fair, in the Northern Expedition War, Old Jiang was still very good at employing people, Yan Daogang was able to become old Chiang's confidant and beloved general, first, Yan Daogang was indeed talented, and second, Old Jiang did not care about his previous suspicions, although Yan had participated in Tang Shengzhi's "Downgrade General" activity when he was the director of the office of the Wuhan Branch of the Huangpu Military Academy and the chief of the 8th 1st General Corps, in 1931 he still gave Yan Daogang a heavy use, making him the deputy director of the 1st Hall of the Nanchang Camp, and by 1933, he also let him serve as the director of his own attendant office.
As a close confidant of Old Chiang, Old Chiang naturally had to entrust him with heavy responsibilities.
In the autumn of 1935, Lao Jiang moved the "Eyu-Anhui Bandit Suppression Headquarters" to Xi'an and renamed it the "Northwest Bandit Suppression Headquarters", with Lao Jiang as commander-in-chief and Zhang Xueliang as deputy commander-in-chief and acting commander-in-chief.
In February 1936, Yan Daogang came to Xi'an as the "Minister of Chincha" of the old Chiang Kai-shek, and later in contact with Zhang Xueliang, he found that Zhang had a relatively serious anti-Japanese tendency, and he was unable to encircle and suppress the Red Army. However, in order to establish good relations with Zhang Xueliang and others, Yan Daogang was not disgusted with this tendency of the soldiers of the Northeast Army, but sympathized with it, so when he was chief of staff, he advised Zhang to accept Old Chiang's intentions on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also advised Old Jiang not to suppress Zhang too much, so he ignored the surveillance of the Northeast Army and Zhang Xueliang.
This is of course a very bad thing. Therefore, when Lao Jiang flew to Xi'an in December 1936, Yan Daogang still said their good things in front of Lao Jiang, but what he did not expect was that on December 12, something happened that made his career plummet, that is, the "Xi'an Incident". Yan Daogang, as the old Minister of Jiang Qinchai, knew nothing about the occurrence of this incident.
The Xi'an incident not only humiliated the old Chiang himself, but also caused the whole country to enter a brief period of chaos and shocked the world. After the peaceful settlement, Lao Jiang was embarrassed and angry about this, and he split the Northeast Army, canceled the Seventeenth Route Army, detained Zhang Xueliang, and Yang Hucheng went down.
As for Yan Daogang, Old Jiang naturally could not spare him, so he was detained for dereliction of duty and ordered that he would never be hired, an incident that directly turned him from a red man around Old Jiang into a sinner who had fallen into the abyss.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yan Daogang, who had been imprisoned for 8 months under bail by He Yingqin, started from scratch and successively served as director of the Wuhan Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs, adviser to the National Participation in politics, member of the Chongqing Anti-Japanese Battlefield Party and Government Committee and head of the military affairs group.
After that, Yan Dao began to move toward the anti-Chiang kai-shek camp, first contacting the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee and serving as the commissioner of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee in Wuhan; later he accepted the leadership of the City Work Department of the Jianghan Second Prefectural Committee of our party and participated in many of the work of welcoming the liberation of Wuhan; and then he successively served as a member of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and a counselor of the Provincial Counselor's Office, and died in 1973 at the age of 84.
More Exciting Articles:
Who does the "Flying General" in the Chairman's poem "Flying General Self-Respect" refer to?
She worked as a child bride at the age of 13, joined the Red Army at the age of 18, and became one of the 13 founding female colonels 20 years later