As one of Chiang Kai-shek's close associates, Yu Jishi held the highest rank of lieutenant general in the army, and he worked as a bodyguard at Chiang Kai-shek's side for a long time, up to the military affairs bureau chief of the Military Affairs Department of the Nationalist Government. After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in Taiwan, he also served as the director of the third bureau of the "Presidential Palace." In his later years, after the death of his wife, Yu Jishi even began to live with Mao Renfeng's widow Xiang Yingxin.
Yu Jishi (front row, third from left)
Yu Jishi was born in 1902 in Fenghua County, Jiang Province, and was a fellow villager with Chiang Kai-shek, and his father served as a tax collector and field clerk in the county town of "Shunzhuang" at the end of the Qing Dynasty. His parents had more than ten children, and because they were poor and unable to raise them, they sent some children to others to raise.
Yu Jishi was of medium stature and was born with a lack of upper lip bands in his mouth, which was later surgically healed. He likes to shave his head, never keep his hair, the high face of the heavenly court glows, and two thick eyebrows. When he was eighteen years old, he was an apprentice in a "Yongfeng" rice shop in Fenghua City, and once, he was carrying vegetables and rice, and he accidentally fell down when he walked, afraid of being beaten by the boss, and did not dare to return to the store, so he left home and threw himself into the Guangdong uncle Yu Feipeng.
At this time, Yu Feipeng served as the quartermaster of the Whampoa Military Academy and sponsored Yu Jishi to be admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. During his training, he studied assiduously, and Yu Feipeng frequently said things before Chiang Kai-shek, which was quite favored by Chiang Kai-shek. During the two eastern expeditions, Chiang Kai-shek took him with him as a bodyguard.
After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Yu Jishi followed Chiang Kai-shek. In 1926, he served as a platoon leader and company commander in Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguard brigade. In 1927, the Guard Brigade was expanded into the Guard Regiment, and he was first appointed battalion commander and later promoted to regimental commander. In 1928, the Guard Regiment was expanded into the 1st Guard Brigade, and he was appointed brigade commander and commander of the Nationalist garrison in Nanjing. In 1930, the 1st Guard Brigade was expanded to the 1st Division, and he was promoted to division commander.
In early 1932, Yu Jishi was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the 88th Division of the Fifth Army, when Zhang Zhizhong was the commander of the army. As soon as he took office. On participating in the Shanghai "One? 28 "Anti-Japanese Campaign." The 88th Division served as the defense from the northern end of Jiangwan via Miaoxing Town, Zhouxiang to the line of Yunzaobang, and the division headquarters was located at Dingjiaqiao.
The front row is Chiang Kai-shek, and the rear left is Yu Jishi
Yu Jishi personally led his troops to counterattack the enemy's breakthrough area and thwarted the Japanese attack. During this battle, Yu Jishi was seriously wounded and cured by the German Concession Hospital. Because of his injuries after leaving the team, the position of division commander was taken over by Sun Yuanliang.
In 1933, Yu Jishi was appointed as the head of the Zhejiang Provincial Security Department. In 1935, Yu Jishi was appointed commander of the "suppression of bandits" in Anhui, Zhejiang, and Gansu, under the jurisdiction of the 46th Division and Wang Yaowu's reserve brigade, and went to Taiping County, Anhui Province, to attack the anti-Japanese advance team led by Xing Weizhou, Fang Zhimin, and Su Yu. In the fierce battle of Duanjiaqiao, Xing Weizhou was killed on the spot, Fang Zhimin was captured, Su Yu escaped from danger, and the advance team was defeated. Fang Zhimin was killed in Nanchang on August 6 of the same year.
In the same year, Yu Jishi led his troops to Yichang to merge with the former 58th Division, and he concurrently served as the commander of the division and reorganized it on the spot. After the "Xi'an Incident", the Fifty-eighth Division was ordered to go to The Territory of Chaoyi in Shaanxi Province on standby. After Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanjing, he returned to shashi in Hubei Province for training.
When the Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, Yu Jishi was promoted to commander of the 74th Army, under the command of Wang Yaowu's 51st Division and Feng Shengfa's 58th Division. Soon, he was ordered to travel from Hankou to Shanghai via Nanjing. The garrison is in the northern Shenjing and elephant lines. As the enemy landed at Jinshanwei, the defenders fell into the enemy's encirclement.
After the seventy-fourth army moved, it fought fiercely with the enemy army in Qingpu, Suzhou and other places for several days and nights, and suffered heavy losses. He then took part in the Defense of Nanjing. On December 13, Nanjing fell. The breakthrough troops of the Seventy-fourth Army were concentrated in the area of Shashi City, Hubei Province, for reorganization and training.
In the spring of 1938, the Seventy-fourth Army marched to Handaokou, Feng County, Jiangsu Province, to participate in the Battle of Xuzhou. In July, he was ordered to move to the Mahuiling Defensive Line in Jiangxi to participate in the battle, and the military headquarters was stationed in yunfeng Temple on the southern outskirts of De'an County. By this time, Yu Jishi had been promoted to commander of the Thirty-sixth Army and commander of the Seventy-fourth Army. Another army under the command of the Thirty-sixth Army was the Twenty-ninth Army, commanded by Chen Anbao.
Yu Jishi
In July 1939, Yu Jishi was transferred to the commander of the New Fifth Army, and the commander of the 74th Army was promoted by Wang Yaowu, commander of the 51st Division. He was pleased with this order, when the New Fifth Army was the only mechanized unit of the Kuomintang. When Yu Yu was fully dressed up and went to his post, he sent a telegram to the "Central Military Commission" to take away the Fifty-eighth Division of his basic unit, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the new commander Wang Yaowu. Because the division was the main force of the Seventy-fourth Army, if taken away by Yu, it would undoubtedly weaken Wang's strength. therefore. Wang Yaowuto's illness in Chongqing could not be worse, and it dragged on for more than a month.
Bai Chongxi, who was in Chongqing at the time, and Xu Tingyao, the former commander of the New Fifth Army, had a mustard problem with Yu Su, and the two colluded with relevant parties to "participate in a book" in front of Chiang Kai-shek, saying that Yu was not a mechanized talent and was afraid that it would be difficult for him to be competent for his post. After this report went up, Jiang approved the two words "consider", thus ruining Yu's dream of yellow sorghum. Yu Jishi therefore went to Chongqing to recuperate. In order to comfort Yu Jishi, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Yu as deputy commander-in-chief of the Tenth Army and commander of the Eighty-sixth Army. Later, yu Jishi went to Zhejiang for the second time on the orders of Chiang Kai-shek to reorganize the anti-guard column personally established by Huang Shaohu.
In June 1940, Yu Jishi was ordered to establish the deputy headquarters of the Tenth Army group at Bailongqiao, Jinhua. In July, it was stationed in Xinchang City.
Group photo of Yu Jishi (left), Zhang Zhizhong (center), and Dai Ji (right) in the Battle of Songhu
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Shaohu was again transferred to the post of Chairman of Zhejiang Province and Commander of Provincial Security. The power of the provincial security forces was all in the hands of deputy commander Xuan Tiewu. Huang Nai built another team, re-recruited troops, and established the "Zhejiang Provincial National Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment." The six detachments were expanded into four columns, equivalent to four divisions, and the general headquarters was set up at Jinhua Luodian, and he was also the commander-in-chief. Since then, the local armed forces in Zhejiang have added an additional "anti-defense" system in addition to the security forces.
Huang Shaohu set up an arsenal in Dagangtou, Lishui, to manufacture firearms and replenish his strength. However, because he had not submitted it to the "Central Military Commission" for approval in advance, Chiang Kai-shek, after learning of this, was deeply afraid that Zhejiang would become the second in Guangxi, and decided to transfer the anti-guard column to the "national army" and ordered Yu Jishi to take charge of taking over the work of reorganizing the anti-guard column.
Huang Shaohu received a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek to allocate the Anti-Guard Column within a certain period of time, so he had to endure the pain of handing over the officers and men of the four Anti-Guard Columns and their existing equipment to Yu for acceptance. At the same time, Yu Jishi learned that after the start of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Shaohu had purchased a batch of arms in Hong Kong and asked Huang to hand them over, but Huang insisted on not allowing it. In order not to lead to a stalemate, Yu Jishi ordered Wei Sicheng, the manager of the anti-wei headquarters, to mediate from it. Wei Sicheng was Yu Jishi's old subordinate, and he had the grace of knowing Huang Shaohu, huang Shaohu's orders could not be disobeyed, and Yu Jishi did not dare to exonerate. After several round-trip consultations, both sides were required to take a step back, and the handover was completed.
After Yu received four anti-guard columns, it was downsized into three provisional divisions, namely the Provisional Thirty-second Division, the Provisional Thirty-third Division, and the Provisional Thirty-fourth Division. Zhejiang's security team is better equipped and has strong combat effectiveness, and Yu also wants to catch it. Upon application for Chiang Kai-shek's approval, the Zhejiang Security Department issued a security column (equivalent to a division). After Yu received it, it was reorganized into the Provisional Thirty-fifth Division, and another provisional Ninth Army was established, with Feng Shengfa, the former commander of the Eighty-sixth Army, as the chief of staff, and Mao Jingbiao as the chief of staff. The 33rd Division, the 34th Division, and the 35th Division were stationed in Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo, Tonglu and other parts of eastern Zhejiang. Chen Defa, commander of the 94th Division, which was originally under Liu Jianxu's organization, He Fang, commander of the Advance Column, and Weng Guanghui, commander of the guerrilla detachment, were also assigned to the command of the deputy headquarters of the Tenth Army.
Yu Jishi (middle in the back row) and others took a group photo with Song Meiling
In 1942, Yu Jishi was appointed Head of Chiang Kai-shek's Bodyguard. As soon as he took office, he began to readjust the guard structure, gather his cronies, expand the number of guards, and rename the original chief of guards as "the first room of the chairman of the Central Military Commission to be subordinate to the chief of the guard room" to "the room of the chairman of the Central Military Commission to be the chief of the guard," which was directly subordinate to Chiang Kai-shek, and actually got rid of the restriction of Qian Dajun, director of the first department.
Yu personally screened the guards who accompanied Chiang Kai-shek. There is a certain appearance, loyal and reliable, and has a high Chinese of the guards included in the guard group, the rest are members of the police team. There is also an internal guard unit, about a group of people, whose clothing and treatment are the same as those of the guards and police teams, but they are non-commissioned officers in formation, and when they go out with Chiang Kai-shek, in addition to carrying revolvers, they also carry light weapons.
He also expanded the original Central Military Commission Guard Regiment into a guard brigade, serving as a guard at the headquarters of the Kuomintang Central Committee, but mainly Chiang Kai-shek's official residence and villas. There is also a military attaché's room, with five military attaches, all of whom know foreign languages and can speak fluently. Foreign guests and Kuomintang military and political dignitaries who met Chiang Kai-shek were first registered in the military attaché's office, and Yu signed the opinions before sending them to Chiang Kai-shek for personal approval of the date of his reception.
In March 1945, Yu Jishi was appointed commander-in-chief of the Thirty-sixth Assembly Army of the First Theater of Operations, but he did not arrive and remained the chief of the guards.
Yu Jishi and Chiang Kai-shek
In the middle of August of that year, Yu Jishi was busy for a while for Chiang Kai-shek to fly to Yan'an to negotiate with the Chinese Communists. Later, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid of repeating the second "Xi'an Incident" and canceled this trip. On August 28, Chairman Mao Zedong of the CPC Central Committee flew from Yan'an to Chongqing, along with Zhou Enlai, Ren Bishi, Zhang Zhizhong, and U.S. Ambassador to China Hurley. Yu Jishi accompanied Chiang Kai-shek around and was tasked with monitoring the activities of the Communist delegation, exchanging information with the military command and reporting to Chiang Kai-shek.
At the end of this year, the attendant office was reorganized into two major divisions of the National Government's Military Service Department and the Civilian Officials' Office, with Shang Zhen, the chief of the army, and Wu Dingchang, a civilian official. Yu Jishi was appointed director of the Military Affairs Bureau, in charge of the first military affairs of the former attendant room.
During the Liberation War, Yu Jishi was in charge of the Military Affairs Bureau, whose main task was to be in charge of military personnel in the first section. Changes in personnel at the general level of the whole army were first signed and submitted by the Ministry of National Defense, and then transferred to Chiang Kai-shek for instructions through the Military Affairs Bureau. Yu instructed the staff officers of the First Section to control personnel affairs for Chiang Kai-shek, expand the lineage, and eliminate miscellaneous cards. The employment of personnel is first Whampoa and Luda University, then graduates of foreign military schools, and finally graduates of other military schools in China. The second section is in charge of combat and the education and training of the whole army. Yu Jishi specially set up a secret combat research room and pasted military maps of all parts of the country. The field information collected by the staff officers concerned is indicated on the military map. Every day, the combat posture of the two sides should be sent to Chiang Kai-shek for Chiang Kai-shek to judge the situation and command the operational reference.
Mao Renfeng and Xiang Yingxin
After the Battle of Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Xikou in early 1949. At this time, Yu Jishi was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant in distress. It was not until Chiang Kai-shek's death in 1975 that he retired in old age. Yu Jishi's original wife was named Song Xuesu, who had two sons and two daughters. After Song Xuesu died in Taiwan, Yu Jishi and Mao Renfeng's widow Xiang Yingxin lived together.
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