After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the performance of the Sichuan Army was particularly dazzling, among them, Fan Shaozeng, who was known as the "stupid division commander", was even more refreshing, and many people thought that Fan Shaozeng was a "humble man".
Fan Shaozeng is a native of Dazhu County, Sichuan, born in 1894, when he was young, he was called "Fan Haer", he looked thick, in fact, very shrewd, when fighting, he was also quite wise, so he repeatedly won battles, at the age of 20, Fan Shaozeng officially joined the army.
In 1923, the warlord Yang Sen returned to Sichuan, Fan Shaozeng accepted his reorganization, was appointed as the commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Fourth Division, and later Fan Shaozeng was put into the banner of Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the National Revolutionary Army, in early 1937, in order to weaken the local strength, Chiang Kai-shek sent He Yingqin to Sichuan to reorganize the army, Fan Shaozeng was promoted to deputy commander, dismissed from the post of division commander, seemingly promoted, but actually seized his military power, Fan Shaozeng was very angry about this.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fan Shaozeng asked Him to go to war, chiang Kai-shek appreciated this, and appointed him as the commander of the Eighty-eighth Army, although he was a commander, but Chiang Kai-shek did not increase Fan Shao's strength, and Fan Shaozeng formed his own army, but also by his own recruitment, don't look at Fan Shaozeng looks humble, but he is very level in fighting, in 1939, Fan Shaozeng officially went out of Sichuan to resist Japan, in Jiangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places heroically against the enemy.
In 1942, Fan Shaozeng commanded the army to kill the Japanese Lieutenant General Naoji Sakai, the commander of the 15th Division, and the results of this battle shocked China and Japan, because in the history of the Japanese Army, no division commander had been killed on the battlefield.
Fan Shaozeng fought a victorious battle on the front line, but Chiang Kai-shek was not happy, and he transferred Fan Shaozeng to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Tenth Army, which had no real power.
Fan Shaozeng is famous, in addition to fighting bravely, he married more than 40 wives and concubines in this life, but also quite interesting, although his diploma is not high, but the habit of loving beauty is very thorough, among them, the nationally famous swimming athlete Yang Xiuqiong, is his 18th aunt wife, so many aunts, Fan Shaozeng in order to place them, but also specially built a "Fan Zhuang" in Chongqing
Unable to fight, Fan Shaozeng lived his own small life in the mansion, which can be described as very comfortable, in 1949, Fan Shaozeng revolted, after the founding of New China, he was appointed deputy director of the Henan Provincial Sports Committee, after the promulgation of the new marriage law, Fan Shaozeng also evacuated all his aunts and wives, and only lived with Ye Shaofang.
In 1977, Fan Shaozeng died of illness at the age of 83, looking at Fan Shaozeng's life, it can be said that he has made meritorious contributions to the anti-Japanese resistance and has no regrets in life!