During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the total number of puppet troops reached an astonishing 2.1 million, surpassing the number of Japanese troops invading China, nodding at the Japanese army and Chinese but being extremely vicious, which was really a shame for China. Speaking of the actions of these puppet soldiers, people are indignant and demand that these traitors be shot, but are these more than two million puppet soldiers extremely vicious? Not necessarily.
The man introduced today who learned martial arts since childhood was Sun Liangcheng's right-hand man, who led his troops to make great achievements in the bloody battle with the Japanese army; in one unincorporated county town after another, he took the initiative to garrison and defend the people, and after the team was pulled up, it was not eliminated by the Japanese army, but his own people had a different idea, and the central army of the nationalist army gradually annexed these armed forces, and was forced to surrender to the Japanese army in desperation.
He was in Cao Ying's heart in Han, took the initiative to help the Eighth Route Army, took the initiative to revolt to join the People's Liberation Army after the victory of the War of Resistance, was appointed as a military commander, was detained by the Nationalist army for many years for going to persuade Sun Liangcheng to surrender, after liberation, he found the Military Control Commission to ask to participate in the work but there was no news, and in his later years he was seriously persecuted and forced to hang himself.
Zhao Yunxiang was born in 1905 in Haocheng, Henan, his grandfather was a Qing Dynasty martial artist, serving as the Qing Court Janissaries to guard the Forbidden City, he followed his grandfather to learn martial arts since childhood, the original family was still well-off, but since 1915, his hometown has suffered three years of drought, and the originally wealthy family has gradually declined. In 1917, Zhao Yunxiang, who was only 13 years old, left the Yinyang Zhao Village where he had lived for many years, and was introduced by his fellow villagers to apprentice in a hotel, where he was humiliated and beaten.
In November 1920, Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade moved to Xinyang, Henan, and recruited troops in Henan, one day Zhao Yunxiang heard the guests talk about recruiting, so he moved the idea of joining the army. Zhao Yunxiang, who was only 15 years old, falsely reported that at the age of 17, he entered the recruit company of the first regiment and one battalion of the 16th Mixed Brigade, and because of his martial arts background, he repeatedly won the championship in the military martial arts competitions, and soon became famous throughout the army.
The first battalion commander Sun Liangcheng was happy to see cai, and coupled with the fact that Zhao Yunxiang could also read and hyphenate, he took him from the recruit company to his side as a service soldier, and later with Sun Liangcheng's continuous promotion, he rose from battalion commander step by step to commander of the Third Army of the National Coalition Army, and Zhao Yunxiang also rose from a new soldier to a battalion commander step by step. Although there is a relationship between Sun Liangcheng and Sun Liangcheng, it is also inseparable from his bravery in battle, and he respects his commanders and treats soldiers well, and his popularity in the army is very good.
Zhao Yunxiang successively participated in the Zhifeng War and the Beijing Coup, and after Feng Yuxiang passed the oath of the Northern Expedition, he led his troops as the main force to attack Sun Chuanfang, becoming Sun Liangcheng's beloved general and becoming a rising star in the war. After the victory of the Northern Expedition in 1928, Sun Liangcheng was appointed chairman of Shandong Province by the Nationalist government, and for his own safety, he did not promote Zhao Yunxiang to division commander, but let him continue to serve as the head of his guard regiment.
In 1929, Sun Liangcheng held a meeting in Jinan, just encountered the Jinan Massacre, surrounded by the Japanese army in Jinan City, he sent people to negotiate with the Japanese army but was tortured by the Japanese army. When the provincial government and his party fell into panic, Zhao Yunxiang asked for orders to rely on his martial arts skills to break through alone, and organized troops in Jinan to relieve Sun Liangcheng and become a hero of Sun Bu.
In 1933, the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War broke out, Feng Yuxiang gathered the old department in Zhangjiakou to organize the "Anti-Japanese Allied Army", Zhao Yunxiang led the guard regiment to join, and successively participated in the reconquest of Guyuan, Duolun and other battles in Hebei, but after the defeat of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, he returned to his hometown in Henan. Zhao Yunxiang, who returned to his hometown, gave the accumulated money to his father, and as a result, he was squandered by his father, who was still in his prime at this time, and decided to return to the military world after being lonely.
Zhao Yunxiang came to Beiping and learned that his colleague Ruan Xuanwu was then the commander of the Independent Thirty-ninth Brigade of the Twenty-ninth Army, so he went to defect, And Zhao Yunxiang had saved the life of Ruan Xuanwu, so Ruan Xuanwu learned that the benefactor was coming, and did not hesitate to let him take the position of captain of the officer teaching team. In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and the Chinese defenders decided to break through after heavy losses after resistance.
When Zhao Yunxiang led his troops south to Zhaitang Town, Pan Ziming, deputy commander of the pistol team of the Independent Thirty-ninth Brigade (a native of Xiaoshangqiao, Linying County, Henan, was Zhao Laoxiang), and Zhao Qunxiang, deputy commander of the First Battalion of the Three Regiments (Zhao Yunxiang's cousin), also led some of their officers and men to arrive one after another, and the three of them collectively promoted him as the regimental commander. On zhao yunxiang's pursuit of the headquarters of the Twenty-ninth Army, he met more than 300 people of the Jidong Security Brigade, which was also willing to be incorporated into the Zhao Regiment, and the number of troops was expanded to 800.
Zhao Yunxiang came all the way, the people were in a panic, local government officials at all levels had already run clean before the Japanese army arrived, and he arrived at the Bozhen station in pain and immediately defended and defended the people. In order to avenge the people, Zhao Yunxiang gathered the machine gunners to retaliate against the Japanese army, shooting down and injuring 1 Japanese aircraft.
Before the Japanese army went south, Zhao Yunxiang led his troops to destroy the railway, and then was ordered to retreat south, and when they arrived in Wei County, Dai Xinkuan, the leader of the Jiaohe County Security Brigade, led the whole team to retreat to Wei County, and Dai Bu was willing to be reorganized by Zhao Yunxiang and organized into the fourth battalion, with Dai Xinkuan as the battalion commander, at this time Zhao Yunxiang's department had a thousand people. When the people who were afraid to see the Chinese army, they sent grain and grass one after another in order to ask the troops to stay and protect the border and the people, and the enthusiasm of the people for the troops was unprecedented in the past twenty years when Zhao Yunxiang joined the army, so they put up a big anti-Japanese banner in the local area and used the method of recruitment and reorganization to expand the troops, and soon the troops were expanded to more than 3,000 people.
Zhao Yunxiang also had a very good vision for development, sent people to Tianjin and Beijing to recruit technical workers, and purchased machine tools and other equipment left behind by the Twenty-ninth Army, and set up a repair station in Jixian County, which can manufacture more than 100 rifles every month. In order to meet the sweep of the Japanese army, deeply feeling that his strength was not good, he vigorously propagated the anti-Japanese resistance, mobilized people to join the army to resist Japan, and for a time people enthusiastically signed up, and even some bandits took the initiative to surrender, which soon grew to more than 10,000 people, forming a situation of division in Hebei.
Some bandits did not change their nature and harmed the people everywhere, but bad things were counted on Zhao Yunxiang, which was also the reason why he was mistakenly arrested later. Under the banner of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhao Yunxiang actively contacted the Eighth Route Army, formed an anti-Japanese alliance, and fought against the Japanese army together, inflicting great damage on the Japanese army and achieving great success. In 1940, Tang Enbo attempted to annex the miscellaneous troops, and Zhao Yunxiang was very angry at Chiang Kai-shek for supporting his concubines and excluding dissidents, and naturally it was impossible to obediently obey.
The Japanese army also seemed to see Zhao Yunxiang in trouble, and immediately sent the traitor Xie Qingyun to persuade Zhao Yun, who was forced to think helplessly, surrendered to the Japanese army, and the unit was reorganized into the Fourth Army of the Pseudo Peace Salvation Army, with Zhao Yunxiang as the commander. After Zhao Yunxiang's surrender, he was stationed in Dongming County and actively rescued the people, and there were hundreds of political prisoners detained in the pseudo-county government, most of whom were progressive people who were inclined to resist Japan, and there were also many people from the New Fourth Army, and in order to establish good relations with the Eighth Route Army, he released all of them.
On November 11, 1945, Zhao Yunxiang led more than 10,000 troops to revolt in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, which was reorganized into the 4th Liberation Army of the Central China Military Region, and appointed Zhao Yunxiang as the commander, Ji Pengfei as the military political commissar, Dai Xinkuan as the deputy commander and commander of the 11th Division, Peng Ganqing as the commander of the 12th Division, and the whole division removed the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there were more than 12,000 people, all of whom were veterans of hundreds of battles.
After the uprising, Zhao Yunxiang was detained by the Nationalist army for many years in order to persuade the old commander Sun Liangcheng to revolt, and in the later stages of the Liberation War, when the military commander was preparing to execute him, he fled back to his home in Shanghai. After the liberation of Shanghai in May 1949, when Zhao Yunxiang learned that Guan Wenwei, the former commander of the Soviet Central Military Region, was serving as the director of the Municipal Military Control Commission in Wuxi, he took his wife Wang Wenyuan to report to the organization and asked to participate in the work, but Guan Wenwei only let him go back to wait for the notice, and since then there has been no news.
In order to maintain the livelihood of the whole family, Zhao Yunxiang opened a small grain store in Shanghai, bought and sold small grains and diamond powder to live, in 1954 he was also arrested, Zhao Yunxiang thought more and more uncomfortable, he never did anything sorry for the people, he was almost killed by the military commander at the beginning, and now he encountered this matter, feeling that the original uprising was not flattering at both ends, and later several places could not convict him, and was released and returned home.
In 1970, a large number of people found Zhao Yunxiang and asked him to sign, saying that the original subordinates of the uprising led by Zhao Yunxiang were "fake uprisings." It is worth saying that the subordinates who originally followed Zhao Yunxiang's uprising, after years of fighting, had become senior cadres of the People's Liberation Army, and these people let Zhao Yunxiang sign in order to frame these cadres. How could Zhao Yunxiang sign on such a piece of paper, he also patiently introduced the uprising to people, because Zhao Yunxiang refused to sign, so he was seriously persecuted, and on the morning of September 7, 1970, he hanged himself at home, ending a bumpy life.