introduction:
After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China entered a decades-long period of warlord division. During this period, China's civil war was continuous, and the warlords were fighting for a long time, which aroused the concern of the founder of the Chinese revolution, Sun Yat-sen, who realized that it was necessary to seize power through armed revolution and establish a unified regime, for which Sun Yat-sen established the Whampoa Military Academy and personally participated in the preparations. In the early days of the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, Sun Yat-sen sent his confidant Chiang Kai-shek to serve as the principal, and among the first batch of students of the Whampoa Military Academy, there was such a graduate, who was reused by Chiang Kai-shek at a young age, and later became a general, so who was he?
In 2001, he entered the Whampoa Military Academy in his early years
The Whampoa Military Academy graduate mentioned today is the later General Liu Yongyao, who was born in 1909 to a rich family, and from an early age he had the ideal of obtaining meritorious fame. Although the Qing government abolished the examination system at the time of his birth, after the establishment of the Republic of China, the government became more and more corrupt, and the phenomenon of buying and selling officials was endless, but this made him start to study for ideals. Later, at the age of 13, he was admitted to Chaoyang University in Beijing, which at that time could be called a genius, but he was not proud, but continued to study hard after entering the university.
Later, because the Beiyang government was still trapped in the warlord melee, there were even several times the phenomenon of emperor restoration, which made the people lose confidence in the Beiyang government. So the young and promising Liu Yongyao began to rush to Guangzhou to participate in Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities. Soon after the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, Liu Yongyao also successfully entered the Whampoa Military Academy, he performed well in the military academy, commanding the operation is very good, so he was quickly appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek as the principal, and took the road of ascension.
02 Became a red man by Chiang Kai-shek's side
After the start of the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek began to command the united front in a unified manner, quickly broke through the Jiangbei defense line, and successively eliminated warlords such as Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang. In the Northern Expedition, because Liu Yongyao repeatedly performed miraculous feats, he was promoted quickly, and soon became the backbone of the Kuomintang army. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, he carried out a tug-of-war with the Japanese army for a long time in central China, although the long-term tug-of-war had made the two sides know each other, but he still fell into the trap of the Japanese army because of an negligence, causing serious losses.
After this fiasco, Liu Yongyao took the initiative to plead guilty, but Chiang Kai-shek did not blame him, but continued to promote him. This led to his promotion to general at one point. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he worked thoroughly in the rear, and after the outbreak of the civil war, he also served as an instructor at the rear military academy, although he had proposed to Chiang Kai-shek that he would go to the battlefield, but chiang kai-shek still refused, and Liu Yongyao in the rear had to watch the collapse of the Kuomintang army.
In early 1949, the Nationalist army suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek's main force was completely annihilated, and the People's Liberation Army drove straight in to make further plans for the liberation of Nanjing. On the eve of the People's Liberation Army's campaign to cross the river, Liu Yongyao and his family fled to Taiwan by plane. In Taiwan, he was terrified all day, afraid that Chiang Kai-shek would hold him militaryly responsible. However, after arriving in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek not only did not blame him, but also awarded him the rank of general and became a hero of the civil war. Later he quit the military, opened a newspaper, and lived an ordinary life, however
His granddaughter was the singer Rene Liu, who later became a household name
For his later years, it was really very low-key, allowing him to successfully evade Chiang Kai-shek's investigation and live in peace in his old age.
epilogue:
Liu Yongyao has been intelligent since childhood, and is very talented in culture and art, known as "Confucian General". After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, he participated in the Northern Expedition and began his career in the army.
Later, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he also made many achievements and became Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, but his mistakes in the War of Resistance Against Japan made him retreat to the rear and had no chance to face the battlefield. Many people said that if there was a capable general in the civil war, he might lose a little better. In fact, in the civil war, Chiang Kai-shek's government was already powerless to return to heaven, and no one could recover the defeat. After arriving in Taiwan, although he became a general, the rapids retreat was his success, and he successfully avoided Chiang Kai-shek's suspicions and was able to spend his old age peacefully.