The Whampoa Military Academy, in The history of China, has a glorious course, but this glorious course has a period of time, that is, the school began to enroll students in June 1924, until April 1927, why do you say so? Because, in 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek seized real power, he began to "clean up the party" and rebuilt the "Central Military and Political School" in Nanjing, and called the "Central Military and Political School" the authentic "Whampoa Military Academy", plus the huangpu military academy branch schools that blossomed all over the country.
The sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy is in this period. The sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, enrolled from July to October 1926, graduated in February 1929, a total of 718 students, step by step, artillery, engineering. This period of students is relatively unlucky, because when they entered the school, Lao Jiang and others had already gone to the front line, and they did not have the opportunity to meet with them, let alone climb the relationship. Therefore, in the sixth phase of Huangpu, there are not too many top talents, and the most famous ones are General Luo Ruiqing, General Chen Bojun, and Comrade Cheng Zihua in the side of our army. There were only two people in the nationalist side, but these two people were both well-known, one was Dai Kasa and the other was Liao Yaoxiang.
Today's talk is Liao Yaoxiang. After Liao Yaoxiang graduated, he did not go to the military, but chose to study in France. In the process of going, a strange thing happened. At that time, when the quota was finalized, he was brushed off on the grounds that he was short and not very good-looking. Liao Yaoxiang was not convinced by this, and went directly to find Old Jiang, and when he went, Old Jiang was taking a nap, and the guards blocked him, so he quarreled with the guards and still did not let him in, so he simply sat on the steps and waited for Old Jiang to come out. His trouble made Old Jiang like him and specially approved him to study in France.
In October 1936, Liao Yaoxiang returned to China after completing his studies, and although he was a highly qualified student who had studied at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy and the Mechanized Cavalry School in France, he returned and only became a major company commander. By February 1938, however, he had become chief of staff of the Major General. At that time, the Nationalist government established the first mechanized division, the 200th Division, and Liao Yaoxiang, who had studied mechanized warfare in France, was put to use. Later, he fought in Burma twice, and after the outbreak of the Liberation War, he was promoted to commander of the Ninth Corps.
The Ninth Corps has five corps under its command: the newly organized 1st Army, the newly organized 3rd Army, the newly organized 6th Army, the 49th Army, and the 71st Army; Pan Yukun, commander of the newly organized 1st Army, is a huangpu fourth-term student, Long Tianwu, commander of the newly organized 3rd Army, is a huangpu fifth-term student, Zheng Tingji, commander of the 49th Army, is a huangpu fifth-term student, and Xiang Fengwu, commander of the 71st Army, is a huangpu fourth-term student. From this point of view, Liao Yaoxiang, as a huangpu sixth-term student, was promoted very quickly, but in the end, he still became a prisoner of our army.