What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Among the senior generals of the Nationalist army, a special person was hailed as Chiang Kai-shek's successor. He successively crossed the department of secret service and the department of military circles, and all of them held important positions, which was very important to Chiang Kai-shek, and he was the head of the secret service, Kang Ze. Some people will surely ask Chiang Kai-shek if he did not have a son Chiang Ching-kuo? How could Kang Ze be his successor. This also begins with the historical background at that time, because Chiang Kai-shek was away for many years, his son Chiang Ching-kuo later went abroad, and the place where he went at that time was the Soviet Union. Due to the inconvenience of transportation, information is not developed. This went for a few years, and there was no news of the birds, plus the Soviet Union was also a civil war. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek thought that his son had died in a foreign land, so Kang Ze was hailed as Chiang Kai-shek's successor. Moreover, Old Jiang also had high hopes for him, and he attached great importance to Kangze and cultivated him as a son.
Kang ze
It can be said that before Chiang Ching-kuo returned to China, Kang Ze held great power in many aspects, such as the Department of Secret Service, the Department of Government Affairs, and the Department of Military Command. However, all this changed in 1936, when Chiang Kai-shek was detained in Xi'an, and he held an attitude of uncompromising determination to die. However, Zhou Gong told him that there was news about Chiang Ching-kuo, which rekindled Chiang Kai-shek's heart and gave him the expectation of continuing to live. He also told him that as long as he agreed to compromise and stop the civil war, he would use all his connections to let Chiang Ching-kuo return to China, and under such conditions, chiang kai-shek finally chose to compromise, and Zhou Gong did not renege on his word, and soon after, Chiang Ching-kuo returned safely to his father Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Ching-kuo
The real son has returned, and Kang Ze, as a false son, has naturally been snubbed, and the rights in all aspects are not as great as before, and they are restricted. In order to prepare for Chiang Kai-shek's succession, Chiang Kai-shek also replaced some things by Kang Ze before, and now all of them are handed over to Chiang Ching-kuo. That is, old Jiang is paving the way for his son, so the problem comes. After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in the war, Kang Ze, who was once known as Chiang Kai-shek's successor, what was the end of his life?
Although Kang Ze graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, since he left the school, he rarely participated in military activities such as marching and fighting. Most of them are involved in intelligence work, you know, he once set up an Einsatzgruppen, and he is also one of the founders of the Three People's Principles Youth League (the other two are Liu Jianqun and Chen Lifu). It can be seen from this that Kang Ze is not a qualified soldier. However, during the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek felt a little indebted to Kang Ze, so he asked him to lead his troops to fight and serve as the commander of the 15th Lieutenant General of the Appeasement District.
Youth League
At that time, he was guarding Xiangyang City. But in our army, after successive victories on the battlefield. Kang Ze knew that he did not have the ability to lead troops to fight, so he made Guo Xunqi, a famous general of the Sichuan Army, his deputy, in charge of the military. Friends who may know well know that Guo Xunqi once defeated the Red Fifth Army and the Red Third Army during the Long March of the Red Army. Not to mention, Kang Ze's eyes are really poisonous, and he knows to let Guo Xunqi serve as his deputy.
Nakano Meishō-Ou Chikayama
Later, when the Sixth Column of the Central Plains Field Army liberated Xiangyang, The famous Nakano general Wang Jinshan adopted the tactic of "attacking the city with skim off the mountain and digging out the heart of the fierce tiger", concentrating the main force on conquering Mount Pipa and Mount Zhenwu, directly pounding the west gate, and the siege force "slashing three passes". Coupled with the brave fighting of all the soldiers of the Sixth Column, in just two days, they invaded Xiangyang and annihilated more than 20,000 enemy troops. Captured Lieutenant General Kang Ze, commander of the 15th Appeasement District, and Lieutenant General Guo Xunqi, deputy commander of the Lieutenant General.
Kang Ze, the head of the secret service after being captured, was imprisoned in Gongdelin for reform, and at first he was stubborn. Later, over time, he also sincerely accepted the reform and exposed the mistakes he had made. And in April 1963, Kang Ze was granted an amnesty, and our party also arranged a job for him as a commissioner of literature and history of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Until 1967, Kang Ze died of illness at the age of 63.