As we all know, Zhang Zuolin is the leader of the warlords in the northeast, and there are many small leaders of the Feng clan under Zhang Zuolin, and Tang Yulin is one of them, he is a force that has a lot of influence in the northeast after Zhang Zuolin's death, and even Zhang Xueliang's northeast Yizhi is also influenced by Tang Yulin.
After Tang Yulin announced the change of name in Rehe, he was appointed by the Nationalist government as the provincial security commander of Rehe, and soon became the governor of Rehe, when Rehe had Tang Yulin's 120,000 troops, and he also actively expanded the army, and his two sons Tang Zuorong and Tang Zuofu assisted in managing finances.
In order to obtain military expenses, Tang Yulin set up a non-smoking bureau in Rehe to guide the peasants to plant opium, and he benefited greatly from it, and in a few years, Tang Yulin accumulated a lot of money, but it also laid the groundwork for his own failure, and it was inevitable that opium planters would smoke opium themselves.
Tang Yulin had a certain military talent, and his troops were also a very strong combat force, just like the combat departments of the Feng army and the Jin army in 1927, when Yan Xishan led 130,000 Jin troops to attack the territory of the Feng family, and Tang Yulin, Zhang Zuoxiang and others led the troops to resist.
A part of the Feng army was led by Tang Yulin, in the Xuanhua area of Hebei Province, and the Feng army fought fiercely for 6 days and 6 nights, the left route army of the Jin army was defeated by Tang Yulin, the defeat of the Jin army in this battle directly led to Yan Xishan forced to go to the field, the victory of the left route army was the key to the victory of the Feng army, Tang Yulin was praised by the Feng army as the "god of war".
However, since planting opium, Tang Yulin's tiger and wolf division has become a two-gunner, one hand rifle and one hand smoking gun, the battle is greatly weakened, it will only oppress and frighten the people, not only the soldiers have degenerated, Tang Yulin has also become only able to earn money, unscrupulous money.
In the spring of 1930, Tang Yulin ignored the persuasion of his son Tang Zuorong and insisted on leading his troops to secretly dig up the three imperial tombs of Liao Shengzong, Liao Guangzong and Liao Daozong in the tomb ditch of Baitazi Wang, The Left Banner of Balin, Inner Mongolia, and unearthed a large number of rare Liao Dynasty cultural relics, all of which can be called rare treasures.
These cultural relics all became his private property, which also made Tang Yulin's reputation more and more stinky, on March 2, 1933, the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army personally led 3 Japanese divisions and puppet troops, a total of 10 people attacked Rehe, Tang Yulin's double gunners could not resist at all.
It took only 7 days for the Japanese army to occupy Rehe, when Sun Dianying, who was the commander of the 41st Army of the Northeast Army, was ordered to rush to the aid of Rehe, but he did not expect that when the troops reached Chifeng, Rehe was lost, which shows Tang Yulin's incompetence, the same tomb robber, Sun Dianying's anti-Japanese attitude is still commendable.
At least in the circumstances at that time, Sun Dianying immediately led his troops to build a position in Chifeng and launched a blockade of the Japanese army, in terms of weapons and equipment, Sun Dianying's troops were not as good as Tang Yulin's troops, but Sun Dianying knew that it was strong, and he had to block the Japanese army at Chifeng for seven days and seven nights.
After retreating to Monkey Head Ditch, note that Sun Dianying did not escape, after arriving at the place of Monkey Head Ditch, he continued to resist, fought with the Japanese army for more than ten days, and finally was forced to retreat to Chahar after being defeated, but Sun Dianying also took a lot of advantages and annexed two brigades of Tang Yulin.
Although Sun Dianying was defeated, his strength was not only not damaged, but also grew due to the absorption of a large number of remnants of The Tangbu, especially his reputation in the country, from the Tanglin thief to the anti-Japanese hero, washing away the notoriety.