China's Yunnan is located at the top of the southwest, in this scenic place, where dozens of ethnic groups live. Although their living customs are different, they all have a heart of respect for the motherland. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, about 420,000 sons and daughters of Yunnan went out to fight in Yunnan, and the bloody battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Changde, and the Battle of Niangziguan all had the figure of the brothers of the Dian Army.
However, speaking of this, we have to mention a person, it is under his initiative that the people of Yunnan have the feat of fully supporting the cause of resistance against Japan, and because of his correct leadership, although Yunnan is remote, its economic and educational level has been significantly improved. He could do his best for the cause of the anti-Japanese resistance, but he hated the dictatorship of the old Chiang Kai-shek and opposed the civil war.
After the founding of New China, he was also reused as a great hero. In 1954, the Military Commission was abolished and the National Defense Commission was established, essentially the same. At that time, in addition to the ten founding marshals who were elected as vice presidents in the near future, there were several senior generals of the national army, one of whom was him, and it can be said that at this time, his status was tied with the ten marshals, and this person was Long Yun.
Enlisted in the army
In 1884, Long Yun was born in an ordinary Yi village in En'an, Yunnan, his father was a hereditary toastmaster, powerful and powerful in the local area, but he was childless under his knees, and he did not know who would inherit the huge family business. Long Yun's birth made his father overjoyed, and when his son was older, he also wanted to cultivate well, maybe he could honor his ancestors in the future.
The village was remote and lacked educational resources, so Lord Toast consulted with his wife and sent his son to Zhaotong's uncle's house. The uncle is also a large family in Zhaotong City, and taking care of his nephew will naturally do his best. He not only sent Long Yun to school, but also invited a famous martial arts master to teach him martial arts.
Long Yun was not interested in learning, but he liked to learn martial arts, and he also practiced martial arts well over the years. Slightly older, he started the timber business with his cousin Lu Han and his friend Zou Ruoheng, and at first it was relatively smooth and made a lot of money. However, there was an accident during transportation, and the goods were not only lost, but more than twenty people were killed. The three did not want to return to their hometown, so they made a living for themselves and ran to Yichuan to join the army.
A few months later, Xie Ruyi, a reinforcement force of the Dian Army, came to Yibin, and after Long Yun and a few people heard about it, they joined the Dian Army and became a captain-in-waiting officer. Long Yun is clever, careful, able to observe the color, people are also very spirited, and the most important thing is to have a strong martial arts foundation. Of course, such talents could not be retained at the grassroots level, and were soon discovered by Xie Ruyi and left around as cronies.
Rise quickly
After the establishment of the Republic of China, Long Yun returned to Yunnan with the troops, and Xie Ruyi had the heart to cultivate him, escorted him to enter the Yunnan Army Martial Arts School, and became a cavalry scientist in the fourth phase.
Long Yun cherished this opportunity, but he did not study well at an early age, his cultural literacy was low, and the teachers in the classroom could not understand what he said. But he is not a person who concedes defeat, using all his time to make up for his homework, with his superior intelligence, his grades have risen in a straight line, from the previous bottom, and finally graduated with the first place, not living up to Xie Ruyi's good intentions.
Upon graduation from military school, he was assigned to the Zhaotong Independent Battalion as a second lieutenant platoon leader. When the Patriotic War broke out in 1915, Cai Yi valued Tang Jiyao's retinue aide- Zou Ruoheng and transferred him to his side. Tang Jiyao's lieutenant had a vacancy, and many people were hot-eyed, and they all gave Zou Ruoheng heavy gifts and asked him to recommend himself. However, in the end, Zou Ruoheng still introduced Long Yun to Tang Jiyao.
Long Yun also seized this opportunity very well, and soon won the appreciation of Tang Jiyao, and in less than a year, he was promoted to the captain of Tang Jiyao's Janissaries and became one of Tang's most trusted people. In the following years, Tang Jiyao traveled, accompanied by Long Yun.
In 1921, Gu Pinzhen took advantage of Tang Jiyao's lack of preparation and sent troops to attack Kunming, Long Yun led a convoy of more than a hundred people to resist desperately, escorting Tang Jiyao to evacuate Kunming safely, and a few months later, Long Yun served as the former enemy commander of the First Army of the Jingguo Dian Army, and led his troops back to Yunnan to defeat Gu Pinzhen and support Tang Jiyao's return to Kunming.
Later, Gu Pinzhen was killed in battle, Tang Jiyao regained control of Yunnan, and Long Yun, who was loyal to him in danger, also served as the commander of the First Army, the Third Army, and the Fifth Army. As Long Yun's power increased, Tang Jiyao gradually became jealous of him, and later withdrew several military titles and appointed Long Yun as the defender of Kunming Town, at which point the relationship between the two was almost broken.
In 1927, Long Yun joined forces with Hu Ruoyu, Zhang Ruji, Li Xuanting, and others to carry out anti-Tang struggles, and soon Tang Jiyao's general trend had gone and withdrew from the stage of history. At this time, Hu Ruoyu and Li Xuanting framed Long Yun and imprisoned him, and finally Lu Han invited Hu Ying to lead the 38th Army to counterattack Kunming, forcing Hu Ruoyu to release Long Yun.
Long Yun spent less than half a year driving Hu Ruoyu, Zhang Ruji, and Zhou Xicheng's Qianjun out of Yunnan, and soon the Nationalist government appointed Long Yun as chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government, and he became a veritable "King of Yunnan" from then on.
Juxtaposed with marshal status
After Long Yun came to power, unlike Tang Jiyao, who only wanted to loot the people's fat and people's paste, he was bent on developing Yunnan industry and reviving the economy. Mining and banks were built one after another, and he also took out funds or raised money to build schools in various places, and later when the Zhaolu River was built for water conservancy projects, he donated a huge amount of money in his personal name. Under his leadership, Yunnan's economy began to recover and developed well.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek came to Guizhou to personally command the "suppression of bandits", when the Red Army crossed the Chishui River in four directions and pretended to attack Guizhou, Long Yun sent four brigades to rescue, and soon the Red Army withdrew. A few days later, the Nationalist government made Long Yun a second-class army general. Although Long Yun at this time was ostensibly completely obedient to Lao Jiang, he fully opposed the entry of the Central Army into Yunnan, and even secretly funded the Red Army.
In the same month that he was promoted to second-class general, the Red Army encountered three cars full of supplies in the Qujing area, which contained not only specialties such as Xuanwei ham and Pu'er tea, but also Yunnan baiyao and precious military maps, which helped the Red Army a lot.
In the 1950s, Long Yun had talked to Zhang Chong about this matter, and Long Yun said that at that time, those things were all asked by Xue Yue for him, and after he sent the car out, he informed the Red Army of the route of the car route through secret channels, because in his opinion, Xue Yue's Central Army was more terrible than the Red Army, and he could negotiate with the Red Army, but the Central Army was like a wolf, and it was even possible to occupy his territory.
Later, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, the two parties did a great job for the second time, and the Red Army of that year really became a partner, and Long Yun at this time did not shrink like when he "suppressed bandits", but fully supported the great cause of anti-Japanese resistance. At the time of the victory of the War of Resistance, Long Yun was already under house arrest in Nanjing, and as soon as the War of Liberation broke out, Old Chiang Hoped that he would be able to lead his troops to fight against our army regardless of his previous suspicions, but Long Yun did not want to fight a civil war and casually found a reason to shirk it.
Fearing that he would be poisoned by Chiang Kai-shek, he escaped from Nanjing disguised as Chennault with the help of Chennault, and finally arrived in Hong Kong secretly. In August 1949, Long Yun publicly issued a statement to break away from the Nationalist government and join the people's camp. After the founding of New China, he was elected as a member of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission.
Two months later, at his efforts, Lu Han declared an uprising at Wuhuashan and Yunnan was peacefully liberated.
After that, he successively served as vice chairman of the Southwest Administrative Committee, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, and vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and became an important leader of New China, and on June 27, 1962, Long Yun died of illness in Beijing at the age of 78.