In 1924, in order to cultivate talents for the revolution, the Whampoa Military Academy was established, and at the same time began to recruit talents, and those who were able to enter the previous periods of the Whampoa Military Academy at that time almost all later became stormy figures of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
For example, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Geng, Zuo Quan and others of our party, such as Hu Zongnan, Zheng Dongguo, Huang Wei and others of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek was the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, and some people said that he made his career through the Whampoa Military Academy.
Among the Names of Kuomintang officials who address Chiang Kai-shek, his favorite thing to hear is not the chairman of the committee, nor the president, but the principal, of course, not everyone can call him the principal, only the students who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy can call him that way.
Chiang Kai-shek trusted the Whampoa students, so in the Kuomintang system, there were many important positions held by Whampoa students.
Among the students who graduated from the first phase of Whampoa, there was such a person, who was famous for his "escaped general".
He is Sun Yuanliang.
Sun Yuanliang is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, born in 1904 in Chengdu, Sichuan, his father was a Zhixian, when he was born, his father was already 67 years old, old and old, the family was very fond of him, he successively entered private school, middle school.
In 1924, he was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
After graduation, he served in the National Revolutionary Army, successively serving as a company commander, a battalion commander, and a regimental commander.
Sun Yuanliang's first "escape" was during the Northern Expedition, when he was the commander of the first regiment of the First Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and after the troops attacked Nanchang, Sun Yuanliang was looking for fun in the city, and then the enemy counterattacked, and he quickly led his troops to evacuate.
The Northern Expeditionary Army suffered heavy losses, and the matter was reported to Chiang Kai-shek, who fired: "Now that Nanchang has been laid down and returned, it is all because the commander of the first regiment of the First Division, Sun Regiment, has no orders and is afraid of dying and retreating, so there is this failure, Commander Sun has violated the company sitting law of our revolutionary army, and I will shoot him."
Later, Sun Yuanliang was not shot by him, because there was another huangpu student who wrote a letter to Chiang Kai-shek to seek revenge, and Chiang Kai-shek's inner fire was under fire, and he did not have to shoot him, so he was dismissed from his post and then sent to the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
After returning from Japan, Chiang Kai-shek still had high hopes for Sun Yuanliang, and successively asked him to serve as the commander of the field artillery battalion, regimental commander, and brigade commander of the 1st Division.
In 1932, Sun Yuanliang participated in the Songhu War of Resistance, he led his troops to fight a bloody battle, and achieved a great victory in the temple, although this battle was defeated, sun Yuanliang had meritorious service, and he was awarded the Baoding Medal.
In 1937, the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Sun Yuanliang was then the commander of the 88th Division, he led his troops to participate in the Battle of Songhu, during the Battle of Songhu, Sun Yuanliang made new achievements, he led his troops to hold out in Zhabei for nearly twenty days, repeatedly defeating the Japanese army.
As a result of this battle, Sun Yuanliang was awarded the Order of the Cloud After the War.
Sun Yuanliang's second "escape" was during the defense of Nanjing, when the 88th Division was guarding Nanjing, fighting fiercely with the Japanese army, fighting very badly, on December 12, Tang Shengzhi, the supreme administrator of Nanjing, decided to retreat and asked Sun Yuanliang to lead his troops to cover, and Sun Yuanliang did not obey at all and directly hid in a brothel in Nanjing.
After the fall of Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek held a meeting of senior Kuomintang generals in Wuchang, and Feng Yuxiang, Wang Jingwei, and others suggested that Sun Yuanliang, who had escaped from the battle, be shot, so Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to find Dai Kasa and ask the military commander to send someone to rescue Sun Yuanliang in Nanjing.
In February 1938, the Japanese army allowed the refugees to leave Nanjing, Sun Yuanliang disguised himself and fled Nanjing, and after arriving in Wuhan in March, Chiang Kai-shek summoned him and scolded him, but in the end he did not shoot him.
Sun Yuanliang was acquitted after being detained for dozens of days.
In 1939, Sun Yuanliang served as the director of the 7th higher education class of the Central Military Academy, in 1943, he was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the 28th Group Army, and a year later, he was again appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the 31st Group Army and commander of the 29th Army.
In 1944, in order to reverse the unfavorable situation in the Asia-Pacific battlefield, the Japanese army decided to launch the Xianggui Campaign, at the beginning of the battle, the Chinese army was defeated one after another, Sun Yuanliang led the troops to participate in it, and repeatedly fought fiercely with the Japanese army in Heishiguan, Ash Slope and other places.
Later, Sun Yuanliang also led his troops to retake Dushan, which became the highlight of the Xianggui Campaign, and Chiang Kai-shek was very happy, and after the war, he was awarded the "Blue Sky and White Sun" medal.
During the Liberation War, Sun Yuanliang was appointed commander of the Kuomintang 16th Corps, and at that time he had the 41st Army, 47th Army, 99th Army, as well as engineer corps, heavy artillery regiment, chariot regiment and other units, with a total strength of 100,000 people.
During the Battle of Huaihai, Du Yuming commanded Sun Yuanliang's troops to fight, and after Huang Botao's corps was destroyed by Huaye, Du Yuming had to take them to retreat to the southwest, at this time, Huang Wei's corps was moving east to prepare to capture Su County, but the field troops of our army had already besieged his corps in Shuangduiji, and Du Yuming's plan was to take Sun Yuanliang and other troops to relieve Huang Wei's difficulties.
As soon as the fighter planes were about to erupt, Du Yuming ordered all the units to break through, but when the predetermined time came, Du Yuming decided to stop the breakthrough, but at this time, he could no longer contact Sun Yuanliang's corps headquarters, and in the end, Sun Yuanliang's corps broke through, and most of them were annihilated by our army.
Sun Yuanliang, on the other hand, successfully "escaped" with more than 400 people from the headquarters and returned to Wuhan.
At the Battle of Huaihai, Du Yuming was captured, Qiu Qingquan was killed, Li Mi's whereabouts were unknown, only Sun Yuanliang returned to Nanjing, and Chiang Kai-shek did not blame him, but allowed him to reorganize the 16th Corps.
In 1949, Sun Yuanliang, seeing the collapse of the Kuomintang regime, took the opportunity to leave the mainland and reach Taiwan via Hong Kong.
In Taiwan, Sun Yuanliang left the army to do business on his own, and in 1985, sun Yuanliang, who was already 81 years old, made a high-profile appearance because Japanese imperialism denied the Nanjing Massacre, and he denounced Japanese imperialism as a witness and refuted their lies.
Sun Yuanliang died in Taiwan in 2007 at the age of 103, the last of the first batch of students at the Whampoa Military Academy to die.
Although many people learned about the general because of "escaping", we must not forget, and history will not forget, Sun Yuanliang was also a well-known anti-Japanese hero.
After Sun Yuanliang's death, his greatest wish was to be buried in Nanjing, and perhaps one day, he would finally get his wish.
Sun Yuanliang had a total of 7 children in his lifetime, these people have all achieved success, among these seven people, the most famous is the fifth son, his name is Sun Xiangzhong, at the same time, he also has a stage name Qin Han, is a famous star in China.