He applied for the Whampoa Military Academy as a commander, the students called him big brother, and the instructor asked him questions
Today I want to introduce to you the generals from the first phase of Huangpu, speaking of the first phase of Huangpu, that is known as the tianzi protégé, but also the first period of the Whampoa Military Academy lieutenant generals gathered in the star, and the first introduction of Fan Hanjie in the first batch of students is far less familiar than Hu Zongnan, Du Yuming, Huang Wei and other generals, but in the first batch of students, Fan Hanjie is not inferior to these students.
Fan Hanjie is a native of Zili Village, Sanhe Town, Dapu County, Guangdong Province, and was born into a poor family. He studied at Zili Public School in his early years, and was later admitted to Guangzhou Polytechnic School and Guangdong Surveying and Mapping School. After graduation, he served as a staff officer and company, battalion and regiment commander in the Deng Zhongyuan Department of the First Army of the Guangdong Army. In 1924, he entered the Whampoa Military Academy and was the first graduate.
Fan Hanjie's father was the principal of the local primary school, and Fan Hanjie studied at the Zili Public School founded by his father when he was a teenager, and was later admitted to the Gezhi Class of guangzhou polytechnic school. In 1911, he was admitted to the fifth triangular science and day survey class of the Guangdong Army Surveying Institute. In 1913, after graduation, he worked as a clerk in the Guangdong Army Survey Bureau. In 1915, he was transferred to Chen Jiongming's Cantonese Army, and successively served as a platoon commander, company commander, major staff officer, and battalion commander of the second detachment of the Fujian Yue Army. In 1918, he graduated from the first phase of the Guangdong Army Survey School and served as a military commissar and director of the general headquarters of the Guangdong Army. In 1920, he was transferred to the commander and commander of the Third Road Detachment of the Gui Army. In 1921, he was appointed deputy regimental commander of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Army of the Guangdong Army and acting commander of the 1st Division. In 1923, he was appointed commander of the Sixth Road of the Guangdong Army and the governor of Sanshui County.
In 1924, when the Whampoa Military Academy began to recruit new students, at this time Fan Hanjie was not only 28 years old, but also the colonel commander, which can be described as a bright future, but he resolutely gave up the colonel commander to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy out of revolutionary enthusiasm, in the first batch of Whampoa students, he and Zeng Kuanqing, Li Xianzhou three people are the oldest, known as the "three elders", but he can have the rank of colonel, many sources say that the commander of the major general is not accurate.
During his studies at the Whampoa Military Academy, he did not have the slightest frame of a colonel commander, humbly learned from scratch, and conscientiously participated in various trainings. At that time, the Whampoa Military Academy was under-taught, and Fan Hanjie was appointed by the school to serve as a topography instructor because he graduated from the surveying school and was proficient in topography and surveying.
Sometimes when the school instructor teaches the course, he will ask Fan Hanjie for advice to confirm that there is no misunderstanding, and the school also asks him to be a teacher to tell the students, after all, his experience and ability are recognized by everyone. The students of the school called him "Big Brother". After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Fan Hanjie returned to the Guangdong Army, and since he was previously a colonel commander, he served as a lieutenant colonel staff officer and battalion commander in the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Guangdong Army.
In March 1944, Fan Hanjie was promoted to deputy commander and chief of staff of the First Theater. At this time, due to the japanese army's gradual defeat in the Pacific War, the sea passage from Southeast Asia to the Japanese mainland had been cut off by the US army, because it was decided to launch "Operation No. 1" in the Chinese theater and open up the mainland communication line, so the Japanese 12th Army invaded western Henan and launched a fierce offensive against the first theater. Annihilating more than 10,000 enemies, it crushed the Japanese attempt to seize Xi'an and threaten Chongqing. In March 1945, he was promoted to lieutenant general. In August 1945, Japan surrendered, and Fan Hanjie and Hu Zongnan went to Zhengzhou together to accept the surrender of the Japanese commander in Henan. This was the most glorious period in Fan Hanjie's military career after the Northern Expedition, and it was also the most glorious period in his life course.
When the Liaoshen Campaign broke out in 1948, Fan Hanjie was transferred to the northeast as deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General" and director of the Jinzhou Command Post, leading an army of 150,000 to firmly hold Jinzhou. Later, under the encirclement and suppression of the Northeast Field Army, Jinzhou was captured, fan Hanjie escaped in the dark of night with his wife and three subordinates in disguise, and the next day he was stopped by the People's Liberation Army on the path of Gujiapu in Daliushu Village, Niangnianggong Town, Jinxian County, more than 10 kilometers southeast of Jinzhou City, and was immediately identified and captured. He was later reformed through labor in a detention center and was pardoned in 1960.
In 1964, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died in Beijing in January 1976 at the age of 80. Later, his children overseas returned to Beijing and took half of the ashes placed in Babaoshan and took them to Taiwan for burial.