"When we open this school, we must use the students in it as the foundation to set up a revolutionary army, and you will be the backbone of the revolutionary army in the future." Only when a revolutionary army is created can our revolution succeed. ——Sun Yat-sen's speech at the opening ceremony of the Whampoa Military Academy
The Whampoa Military Academy is a famous military school in China's modern history, when Dr. Sun Yat-sen adhered to the concept of "education is a sacred cause, talent is the foundation of the country", he personally founded two schools, one article and one martial arts, the national Guangzhou University and the Wu for the Huangpu Military Academy (The Chinese Kuomintang Army Officer School). At that time, Dr. Sun Yat-sen hoped to save China from peril by creating a revolutionary army, and if China wanted to stand in the forest of powerful countries, it must have excellent military strength, first of all, it needs the support of military talents. Living up to expectations, the Whampoa Military Academy later trained many famous anti-Japanese generals.
In 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy began the first phase of enrollment, when the requirements for the first phase of the military school enrollment were very strict, in addition to the need for excellent own strength, but also need to be introduced, such as the first phase of the cadet Sun Yuanliang is looking for Mr. Li Dazhao as a referrer, and then take various examinations before entering the military school. The first batch of cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy were basically the pillars of the country after graduation, and most of the people in the first phase were later in important positions, and there were also many famous generals. One of the first batch of trainees was very special, only 15 years old when he entered the school, and later served as the "vice minister of national defense" of the National Government, and the official position was Liu Yongyao.
Liu Yongyao, born in July 1909 in Yaojiaba Township, Liling County, Hunan Province, grew up in a well-off family and studied in primary schools and private schools. At the age of 10, Liu Yongyao was admitted to the Hunan Provincial Yueyun Middle School, and at the age of 14, he entered the Student Company of guangzhou base camp, and then directly entered the Army Martial Arts School. After Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded the Whampoa Military Academy, Liu Yongyao directly applied for the Whampoa Military Academy and eventually became a cadet of the Sixth Team of the Whampoa Phase I, the youngest cadet of the same period, when he was only 15 years old. The following year, Liu Yongyao followed the school's student army on the Eastern Crusade (having graduated from Whampoa), when he was only 16 years old and had already entered the battlefield.
Although Liu Yongyao was young at the time, he was particularly brave on the battlefield, he served as the leader of the stormtrooper team at the age of 16, and was seriously injured many times and did not want to go into the line of fire, and was promoted to battalion commander after the war. During the Republic of China period, most of the military talents who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy were officers, and if they were concubines, their official positions were higher. Among the huangpu phase I students, Liu Yongyao was able to stand out from it, which was enough to prove its strength. At the age of 16, Liu Yongyao was ordered to go to Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow for further study, and entered the seventh class of Sun Yat-sen University, with a total of 20 people in the class, and later all of them were important members of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, such as Deng and Zuo.
After returning to China after completing his studies, Liu Yongyao can be said to have been promoted all the way, and at the age of 19, he was already the chief instructor of the Political Training Office. At the age of 20, Liu Yongyao was already the director of the Army Major General of the Political Department of the 20th Division (partial civilian). At a young age, he made many military achievements, was not afraid of death on the battlefield, and also went abroad to study, which gilded Liu Yongyao's repeated standing layer after layer of gold. However, Liu Yongyao later did not go to the battlefield to command thousands of troops and horses, but was assigned civilian work. In 1933, Liu Yongyao was transferred to the Political Training Department of the Military Commission as deputy director, and concurrently served as the director of the political training research class, the central officer of the China Revival Society, and the professor of the National Central University.
Liu Yongyao did not reject civilian work, but he did a very good job in his post. In 1936, Liu Yongyao organized the first major parade of the National Scouts with tens of thousands of participants, which was a sensation that year. Liu Yongyao has served as a professor and president of many universities, such as Hunan University, Chung Cheng School, army university and so on. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Nationalist government awarded Liu Yongyao the rank of lieutenant general when he was only 36 years old. The Nationalist government later launched a civil war, and after the defeat, Liu Yongyao followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan Province. Many years of engaging in political affairs made Liu Yongyao a little tired, and he also saw through the corruption within the Kuomintang, so he turned to military theory research and education.
Liu Yongyao lived until 1998, in fact, compared with the youngest student of the Huangpu Phase I, Liu Yongyao's granddaughter seems to be more famous. Liu Yongyao's granddaughter is the well-known star Rene Liu, who won the best actress for her film, and later won many awards in the field of music, her "Later" and "Crazy for Love" are still very popular, and she relied on this song "Crazy for Love" to be described as popular all over the country. According to Rene Liu's recollection, her grandfather Liu Yongyao's favorite thing to do in his later years was to listen to his granddaughter sing to himself, especially the school songs of the Whampoa Military Academy. Many people know that Rene Liu is a household star, but they don't know that she also has a general grandfather.