What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan Army played a prestige of not having a river and not becoming an army, which shows how much contribution the Sichuan Army made in the eight-year War of Resistance? At the same time, in the Sichuan Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many famous generals of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression were produced, such as: Li Jiayu, Wang Mingzhang, Rao Guohua, Sun Zhen, Wang Lingji, Yang Sen and so on. However, when the liberation period came, because Chiang Kai-shek's defeat had been decided, many senior generals of the Sichuan Army revolted, such as Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, Pan Wenhua, Fan Shaozeng and others, but there were also generals of the Sichuan Army who did not revolt, such as Liu Cunhou, Yang Sen, Sun Zhen, who followed Chiang Kai-shek, and of course, Wang Lingji, who was captured by our army.
These are the ends of the representative figures of the Sichuan Army, but among the generals of the whole army, there is a general who neither follows Chiang Kai-shek nor the uprising, nor is he captured, but is killed, so he also became the highest general of the Sichuan Army who was killed in the Liberation War, and he had the closest relationship with Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, and the highest-ranking general of the Sichuan Army who was killed was "Tang Shizun".
Together with Pan Wenhua, Tang Shizun was called Liu Xiang's most trusted general, and when Liu Xiang was promoted to a higher level, Tang Shizun also rose with him, which shows how much Liu Xiang valued Tang Shizun. But Tang was not single-minded about Liu Xiang, he was a snobbish villain, and when he saw who was powerful, he would beg to whom? Moreover, he was also good at patting his ass and lacked the masculinity of a soldier, so he had to be given the nickname Tang Er plague.
Although Tang Shizun did not have any outstanding military ability, but he was good at seducing his superiors, like in the Red Army period, he was ordered to lead the army to surround the Red Army, and as a result, he was beaten by the Red Army, and he thought that he was punished, but he was promoted to the rank of commander by Chiang Kai-shek, so that Tang Shizun was naturally loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, plus at that time Chiang Kai-shek also needed to have an eyeliner next to Liu Xiang to monitor Liu Xiang's every move, so Jieshi was selected as Tang Shizun.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance, Liu Xiang went out of Sichuan to resist the War and served as the commander of the Seventh Theater of Operations, and also served as the commander-in-chief of the 23rd Group Army, when Tang Shizun was appointed deputy commander-in-chief. However, in the following War of Resistance, due to his command mistakes, Guangde was lost and the anti-war hero Rao Guohua was killed, but in order to relieve his responsibility, he said that Pan Wenhua was unfavorable in battle, and it should be noted that Pan Wenhua was a general who was very loyal to Liu Xiang. When this matter reached Chiang Kai-shek's ears, the old Chiang Kai-shek was very happy, because he was trying to divide Liu Xiang's forces, so he immediately removed Pan Wenhua from his post and investigated it, and Pan Yi was like breaking Liu Xiang's right arm.
Subsequently, Tang Shizun was appointed commander-in-chief of the 23rd Group Army, when Liu Xiang fell ill due to physical reasons, lying in bed recuperating, it is said that at that time, Tang Shizun also sent people to Hankou to find Liu Xiang to ask for the Great Seal, which made Liu Xiang's condition worse, and finally died in 1938, which may be the end that Chiang Kai-shek wanted most, because as soon as Liu Xiang died, Chiang Kai-shek immediately abolished the Seventh Theater of Operations, followed by the division of the Sichuan Army.
However, the generals of the Sichuan Army unanimously opposed Chiang Kai-shek's dismantling of the Sichuan Army, and in the absence of any way, Chiang Kai-shek asked Tang Shizun to take over Liu Xiang's positions in the Sichuan Army.
However, Tang Shizun was not a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek after all, because in the Liberation War Tang Shizun was not reused by Chiang Kai-shek, probably because Liu Xiang was alive before, and Chiang Kai-shek wanted to use him to contain Liu Xiang, so he was very important to him. Now the Sichuan army has long been divided by Chiang Kai-shek.
Tang Shizun had no use value, but when Chiang Kai-shek was about to be defeated, Tang Shizun once again used him to appease the generals of the Sichuan Army and made him the chairman of Sichuan Province. However, it was of little use, because after Liu Deng's army entered Sichuan, the generals of the Sichuan army revolted one after another, and Tang Shizun stubbornly resisted to the end, and finally was shot and killed indiscriminately in the fierce battle of escape, so he also became the highest-ranking general killed in the Liberation War, and he was most closely related to Liu Xiang.