After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, China fell into a period of warlord chaos, and countless warlords rose everywhere. As the influence of imperialism on China grew, a new group of warlords rose, and they successively replaced the old warlords and continued to sing the drama of warlord scuffles.
Whether it is the old warlords of Beiyang or the new warlords mainly composed of Chiang Kai-shek and others, their own limitations are doomed to fail to win the hearts and minds of the people. The existence of these warlords has also become a stumbling block for the Chinese revolution. Therefore, in the course of the development of the CCP, in addition to the Nanjing government, which was dominated by Chiang Kai-shek, the reactionary new warlords in various places were also enemies of the revolution.
After the outbreak of the War of Liberation, as the People's Liberation Army became stronger and stronger, Chiang Kai-shek gradually could not support it. The warlords who had originally sided with him for the sake of opposing communism also felt the pressure of the CCP, and they could not stop the pace of the PLA's advance and lost the war.
In desperation, many warlords could only defect to chiang kai-shek, their former sworn enemy, and even a few big warlords chose to run to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek. In the past, they had deep contradictions with Chiang Kai-shek, and some people still had a vendetta against Chiang Kai-shek, but for them, the CCP was an even more terrible enemy than Chiang Kai-shek.
In this way, they had to defect to their mortal enemies, so who were these warlords who followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan? What will happen to them in the end?
The first is the famous Shanxi "Tu Emperor" Yan Xishan, who is a very famous warlord in modern history. Relying on the Japanese, Yan Xishan successfully seized power in Shanxi, and since then he has run his own territory.
Yan Xishan was a very complex figure who made great contributions to the modern development of Shanxi, and in the War of Resistance Against Japan, his Jin Sui Army cooperated with the Chinese Communists and inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army in Shanxi. But Yan Xishan was still a reactionary warlord in his bones, and even though many of his subordinates had defected to the CCP, he did not compromise.
Yan Xishan, once relied on his eight-sided exquisite ability, wandered among various forces. Relying on the complex terrain of Shanxi, it resisted the attacks of countless warlords. But in the face of the CCP, which represents the power of the people, all yan xishan's means are meaningless.
His rampage in Shanxi and the massacre of communists hastened his defeat. Later, he immediately fled to Nanjing, and then to Taiwan, which evaded the people's sanctions.
Yan Xishan and Chiang Kai-shek were not on the same road, and after fleeing to Taiwan, he was completely hollowed out. Fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek did not particularly hate him, but still gave him good treatment, and in his later years he hung up a false post in Taiwan and lived a comfortable life on his own.
Yan Xishan died in 1960, and although he had a good life in his later years, he had always longed to return to the mainland, but unfortunately he failed to realize this wish.
Yan Xishan passed away with countless regrets, but he was already a very lucky person, but Bai Chongxi was not so lucky.
As a representative of the Gui warlords, Bai Chongxi's political ambitions have always been great. Together with Li Zongren, he repeatedly opposed Chiang Kai-shek. Bai Chongxi's Gui army was relatively capable of fighting among the warlords, and he himself made many contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
But after the War of Resistance, Bai Chongxi made a series of wrong decisions, which eventually led to his tragedy. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Bai Chongxi's Gui clan had a more complicated attitude, and they were resolutely anti-communist on the one hand, and anti-Chiang Kai-shek on the other. As a result, Bai Chongxi helped Chiang Kai-shek fight the People's Liberation Army on the one hand, and on the other hand, he and Li Zongren engaged Chiang Kai-shek.
As a result of this, Bai Chongxi himself did not catch anything, and even after the basic collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's main force, Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to use him in key battles.
However, a series of delays by Bai Chongxi and the Gui clan in the Liberation War also greatly helped the CCP and contributed to the liberation of the whole country. After Jiang fell and ran away, Bai Chongxi began to actively defend the territory of the Gui clan, and together with Li Zongren, he fantasized about crossing the river and ruling.
So they fought with the People's Liberation Army many times in the south, and the Gui clan could indeed fight, but that was only compared with other warlords, and when they faced the People's Liberation Army, their proud combat effectiveness was not worth mentioning. The People's Liberation Army successively eliminated the main forces of the Gui clan in various parts of the south, and Bai Chongxi was defeated all the way, and finally ran to Vietnam, and then ran to Taiwan when there was no way to retreat.
Facts have proved that Bai Chongxi made an even more wrong decision, and as a Gui warlord who was not flattered by both sides, Bai Chongxi ran to Chiang Kai-shek, which was undoubtedly unwise. In contrast, Li Zongren ran to the United States and appeared very smart.
After Bai Chongxi arrived in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek naturally did not be soft in the face of this former enemy. At first, the two sides were still able to get by, and Bai Chongxi really thought that Chiang Kai-shek was a lenient and generous person for a while, but soon Chiang Kai-shek exposed his true nature.
He emptied Bai Chongxi and arranged a large number of spies to monitor Bai Chongxi's every move. Since then, Bai Chongxi's daily life has been monitored, and in Taiwan, he has been completely excluded and ignored, and the family's situation is very difficult.
Even if Bai Chongxi was not willing, he had no choice at this time, he could not escape from Taiwan, and he could not change Chiang Kai-shek's mind. Chiang Kai-shek can target a person for a lifetime, which Zhang Xueliang has personally proved. Bai Chongxi did not learn a lesson and insisted on believing in Chiang Kai-shek, which ended up with such a tragic end.
In 1966, Bai Chongxi, who had a hard time, completed his life, and his death became a mystery in Chinese history. To this day, many people still believe that Bai Chongxi was murdered, and Chiang Kai-shek is undoubtedly the biggest suspect.
Smart sometimes hurts himself, Bai Chongxi is smart but smart is mistaken, but one of them still relies on his own little cleverness and has a good result. This person is the northwest warlord Ma Bufang, as the boss of the northwest Ma family army, Ma Bufang relied on his own shameless behavior, and was also nailed to the pillar of shame.
Ma Bufang joined the Northwest Army with his family in his early years, and they gradually mastered many troops by relying on their fierceness and bottomlessness, and then he gradually broke away from the Northwest Army and formed his own forces. In the process of development, Ma Bufang's repeated jumping characteristics brought him a lot of benefits, and he frantically expanded his army and strengthened his influence in Qinghai, Gansu and other places.
Later, in the course of the Red Army's Western Route Army's western expedition, Ma Bufang took advantage of the natural environment to seize the problems of the lack of support for the Western Route Army's expedition, and finally eliminated the Western Route Army. This incident was also the darkest moment in the history of the Chinese revolution, and the fiasco of the Western Route Army had a great impact on the development of the CCP.
Ma Jiajun, led by Ma Bufang, even more brutally abused the Red Army soldiers, and the prisoners of war of the Western Route Army were wantonly tortured and killed by them, and all kinds of cruel practices were unacceptable. Countless Red Army prisoners of war died under the brutal mistreatment of the Ma family army, and it was not until later, after many efforts by the central authorities, that they saved a small number of surviving soldiers from them.
Naturally, this matter will not be forgotten by the Central Committee, and during the War of Liberation, Chairman Mao ordered the concentration of forces to fight a decisive battle against the Ma family army. Even with the help of Hu Zongnan, Ma Bufang could not change his fate. Under the sharp attack of the People's Liberation Army, the main force of the Majia Army was completely eliminated, and Gansu, Qinghai and other places were liberated one after another.
Seeing that the territory he had been operating for many years was gone, Ma Bufang did not even have time to be sad, so he hurried to Taiwan with his property and family. However, Ma Bufang's little cleverness still played a role, and after he ran to Taiwan, he immediately realized Chiang Kai-shek's sinister intentions.
So he found an opportunity to run overseas and lived in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other places. Overseas, he continued to live a luxurious life, but his greedy and lustful nature also caused him a lot of trouble in Saudi Arabia and other places. In 1975, Ma Bufang fell ill and died in Saudi Arabia, ending his sinful life.
In the end, like Ma Bufang, he was also a famous warlord in the northwest, and the two of them were also similar in smell and had a very bad reputation in history. This person is Sheng Shicai, who is a famous speculator in modern history, and he relied on his relationship with Guo Songling in his early years to gain a foothold in the Northeast Army.
Subsequently, he saw that Guo Songling had failed, and he successively defected to Sun Chuanfang and others, and finally paid homage to Chiang Kai-shek. At first, Sheng Shicai's status was not very high, but he saw that Xinjiang had an opportunity, so he ran to Xinjiang.
Here, Sheng Shicai exerted his speculative ability to the extreme, on the one hand, he took advantage of the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Xinjiang to make a fuss and frequently cleaned up dissent. On the one hand, he took advantage of the ethnic contradictions in Xinjiang to make a fuss, and at the same time he ran to hug the Soviet Union's thighs and pretended to be Stalinists.
Relying on this means, Sheng Shicai mixed better and better in Xinjiang, and gradually grasped the military and political power in Xinjiang. But he started out as a speculator, and naturally there will be no bottom line. Turning his face immediately after gaining momentum is his routine operation.
He gained a foothold on the Soviet Union, and then began to massacre the Communists on a large scale, and Mao Zemin and other important revolutionaries died at his hands. He also expropriated and brutally exploited the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and sheng shicai's reactionary rule also made the Soviet Union finally abandon him.
The Soviet Union's face turned over and sheng shicai had no way out, and the volunteer army in Xinjiang continued to revolt against sheng shicai and killed all his father-in-law and his family. In the end, Sheng Shicai, who had rebelled against him, had to run to Taiwan, but he was extremely despised by both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
After arriving in Taiwan, the Kuomintang has also been denouncing him and forcing him to commit suicide quickly. In desperation, Chiang Kai-shek had to send heavy troops to protect his safety, and Sheng Shicai was able to survive. In 1970, Sheng Shicai died of illness, and this reactionary warlord who had committed many evil deeds still got a good death, which can only be said that God does not have long eyes, so that such a scourge as him can have good results.