In February 1932, Wang Jialie, deputy commander of the 25th Army of the Qian Army, led his loyal troops to the provincial capital of Guiyang and forced Mao Guangxiang, the commander and chairman of the provincial government, to go to the field, and in one fell swoop seized the military and political power of Guizhou Province. Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Nanjing, was happy to sit and watch the civil unrest in the Qian army, so he ordered the formal appointment of Wang Jialie as the successor commander and chairman of the provincial government; after that, another deputy commander of the army, Yu Guocai, and others also raised an army to attack and seize Guiyang, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Yu Guocai as the commander and acting chairman of the army.
Please ask the Central Army to enter Qian for reinforcements
Since then, the Qian army has always been in a state of fragmentation, and Wang Jialie, as the commander of the army, can only directly command the 1st and 2nd divisions of the 5 divisions under his command, and the other 3 divisions (Jiang Zaizhen's 3rd Division, Hou Zhi's Mentor and Yu Guocai's Independent 1st Division) are fundamentally different, especially Yu Guocai, who is the biggest competitor. However, Wang Jialie had the advantage in the province after all, and several large cities such as Guiyang and Zunyi were also under his control, and the remaining divisions were dependent on the Dian and Sichuan armies outside the province to barely survive.
At the end of 1934, after the fierce Battle of the XiangJiang River, the Long March Red Army turned its troops west into Guizhou, and on December 15, the Liping area of the Qiantong Passage was captured; on the 18th, the county seat of Kejianhe was captured, and on the 22nd, Taigong, Zhenyuan and other places were also lost. Wang Jialie, like a needle felt, urgently sent a telegram to Nanjing to request reinforcements from the Central Army, "Imploring the Central Committee to fly to the Xiang armies and move west to qianjing; and the troops of Gui Province will cross the border and suppress it, in order to gather and annihilate the enemy, save Qian, and pray without any sense of resignation."
The Central Army seized Guiyang and was busy fighting for power and profit
On January 2, 1935, the Red Army broke through Hou Zhidan's instructor on the Wu river and approached Zunyi, a major town in northern Qianbei and the second largest city in Guizhou. Wang Jialie urgently telegraphed Xue Yue, the former commander-in-chief of the "Pursuit and Suppression Army," requesting reinforcements immediately. However, on January 7, on the same day that the Long March Red Army occupied Zunyi, Xue Yue's central army did not march north to Zunyi, but rushed into the provincial capital of Guiyang and sent Guo Siyan, commander of the 99th Division, to take over the city defenses.
In the next few days, Xue Yue did not rush to fight the Red Army, but instructed a group of close associates to secretly investigate Wang Jialie's bad deeds in recent years, and secretly investigate the factional struggle within the Qian army, and tried his best to win over Wang's cronies, He Zhizhong, commander of the 1st Division, and Bai Huizhang, commander of the 2nd Division, "sending letters and telegrams to express trust, in order to promote his tendency toward the central authorities." Seeing that Guiyang had no place to live, Wang Jialie decided to lead his troops to personally march on Zunyi and develop his forces to the northern Qianbei region, while at the same time fortifying the area around Loushan Pass to protect his starting place, Tongzi City.
Qianbei was defeated, and the administrative power must be handed over
On January 9, as the Long March Red Army voluntarily abandoned Zunyi and moved north to the Chishui River area, Wang Jialie easily recaptured Zunyi. However, just one month later, the Red Army crossed the Chishui River back to the division, first annihilated more than 600 Qian troops at Loushan Pass, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue, crushed the 4 regiments personally commanded by Wang Jialie, and reoccupied Zunyi City. Wang Jialie's men suffered heavy casualties, and their plans to take root in northern Qianbei were completely foiled.
On March 24, Chiang Kai-shek personally flew to Guiyang to supervise the battle and directly showed Wang Jialie a showdown: if you choose one of the two positions of provincial chairman and commander of the 25th Army, if you are a military commander, you cannot be the provincial chairman, and if you are a provincial chairman, you cannot be the governor. Wang Jialie himself also knew that "if the military commander does not concurrently serve as the chairman, there will be no military expenditure, and if the chairman does not concurrently serve as the commander, there will be no guarantee", but he has suffered successive big defeats in the past, and it is indeed impossible to explain it without removing a post.
His subordinates were rebelled against him, and his military power was forced to surrender
However, poor Wang Jialie did not know that his right and left arms, Bai Huizhang and He Zhizhong, had already been plotted against, and Yan Daogang, director of Chiang Kai-shek's attendant office, had reached an agreement with the two men: In the future, the salaries of the two divisions would be paid by the central authorities and would no longer be withheld by Wang Jialie, on the condition that Wang Jialie resign as a military commander. After that, under the direction of Xue Yue, Bai and He instigated the officers and men of their units to ask for military salaries, and for a time surrounded the military headquarters, which made Wang Jialie anxious.
Wang Jialie also sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek asking for military salaries, but Chiang Replied that "the troops have not been downsized, and they will not be paid without inspection." Wang Jialie was attacked from inside and outside, and the people rebelled and separated, so he was forced to resign from his post as military commander again. At the end of May, Chiang Kai-shek gave Wang Jialie a false position as a senator in the Senate and sent him to Nanjing.
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