Perhaps, friends who know Chiang Kai-shek know that he started the Whampoa Military Academy, and it was after he became the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy that he began to cultivate his own forces in the school. It should be known that Chiang Kai-shek paid special attention to the education and students of the Whampoa Military Academy, and its main purpose was to see if there were any talents that could be created and could be incorporated into his command and used by him. Of course, in terms of talent, Chiang Kai-shek paid more attention to military talent. Like chen cheng, who later became famous, Gu Zhu and other senior generals of the Nationalist army were all talents found by Chiang Kai-shek at the Whampoa Military Academy. In addition, the students who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, as long as they were valued by Chiang Kai-shek, basically later became high-ranking officials and became the most relied generals of Chiang Kai-shek's military clique.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, who has always attached importance to military talent, has a great deficiency in looking at people. Hu Zongnan, a Whampoa student he focused on, was an unqualified soldier, including some students he believed would have a career in the future, but was very mediocre. However, Chiang Kai-shek believed that some students would become top military talents in the future. So let's take a look at how Chiang Kai-shek, who has always paid attention to military talent, missed three truly powerful Huangpu students.
Chen Geng
The first is Chen Geng, who is considered to be Chiang Kai-shek's most relied student, and is also known as one of the Three Masters of Huangpu, and is very much valued by Chiang Kai-shek in school. It should be known that in the subsequent Campaign of the Eastern Crusade, Chiang Kai-shek suffered heavy losses due to his ineffective command and mistakenly hit the enemy's trap. At this time, Chen Jiongming sent troops to pursue and suppress, and Chiang Kai-shek led the Whampoa Army to flee, and in the process of fleeing, the old Chiang Kai-shek was unfortunately shot. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek said to the students, "Let's go, leave me alone." Whampoa students saw that the principal was shot, no matter whether it was appropriate or not, if they wanted to take care of it, I am afraid that it would be difficult for everyone to escape. Just when everyone didn't know what to do, Chen Geng stood up and rushed out of the encirclement with Chiang Kai-shek on his back.
Logically, Chiang Kai-shek is very attached great importance to Chen Geng, and Chen Geng's military ability is also the best in the Whampoa Military Academy; otherwise, he would not have been praised as one of the Three Masters of Huangpu. But later we all know that Chen Geng joined the Red Army, became a well-known general of our Party, and was the founding general of New China.
Chiang Kai-shek also knew that Chen Geng could fight and was of outstanding military talent, but in the end he missed Chen Geng. This time, we cannot blame Chiang Kai-shek's vision, but that after Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution, Chen Geng left Chiang Kai-shek, joined our party, and finally became a generation of famous generals.
If we say that Chen Geng is different from Chiang Kai-shek's beliefs, Chiang Kai-shek missed this real military talent. Then, the second real military talent that Chiang Kai-shek lost was Marshal Xu Qianqian.
Xu Shuai was also a student of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and perhaps at that time, Xu Shuai was not as famous as Chen Geng, and even performed very ordinary during the Whampoa Military Academy, not a top student of the first term. But Xu Shuai was a man who was very capable of fighting wars, and his military command ability belonged to the best in our party, and in the years of revolutionary war, he commanded many classic battles in which less won more. Then, as Xu Shuai with outstanding military talent, how did Chiang Kai-shek miss him?
In fact, during his studies at the Whampoa Military Academy, it should be said that when he was about to graduate, Chiang Kai-shek called every student to his office for questioning, and the purpose was obvious, which was equivalent to an interview. However, when Xu Shuai entered Chiang Kai-shek's office, because of his mediocre appearance, he was still a little shy, and the language expression was not very fluent, so he did not enter Chiang Kai-shek's eyes. In this way, Chiang Kai-shek missed Xu Shuai, a god of war-level figure who really possessed military talent.
Xu Xiangqian
The third is Lin Zong, speaking of Lin Zong, I believe everyone is very familiar with him, he was the commander of the Northeast Field Army during the Liberation War, a famous general of our party who can recruit good battles, and a marshal with the title of god of war, but he also belongs to the Whampoa Military Academy, which is the fourth period.
The fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy can be said to be a large number of famous generals, such as Zhang Lingfu, Hu Lian, Li Mi, Liu Yuzhang and other generals who belong to the huangpu fourth phase. Perhaps these people were all reused by Chiang Kai-shek, but Lin Zong, who was born in the fourth phase of Huangpu, failed to enter Chiang Kai-shek's legal eyes. Friends who may know history know that Lin Zong is very capable of fighting wars and is a figure with real military talent. However, during his studies, his grades at the Whampoa Military Academy were very ordinary, belonging to the middle class, so he did not enter Chiang Kai-shek's eyes at all, and perhaps Chiang Kai-shek did not know his name.
Chen Geng left Chiang Kai-shek because of his different beliefs, Xu Shuai left him because he was not favored by Chiang Kai-shek, and Lin Zong's grades in school were very ordinary, and he did not enter Chiang Kai-shek's eyes at all, so he also missed it. It seems that Chiang Kai-shek, who has always attached importance to military talent, also had a time to look away. Later, we all knew that all three of them became the most outstanding commanders of our army (one general and two marshals).