Take stock of the three major "rice barrel" generals of the Kuomintang during the Republic of China period.
One person stabbed Chiang Kai-shek three times in a row but was still reused by old Chiang, and Hu Zongnan, who claimed to be the king of the northwest, was beaten by Mr. Peng.
Thanks to the "unremitting efforts" of the three of them, the situation of liberation of our army has been very good.
Some people say that the Kuomintang would never have lost so quickly without the three of them, but who are these three big rice buckets? How did they personally bury the Kuomintang's "great future"?
The third runner general, Tang Shengzhi
Tang Shengzhi is a native of Hunan and graduated from the Baoding Army Officer School.
He commanded the defense of Nanjing, but left his troops to flee alone, leading to the massacre of Nanjing.
Since he joined the army, he followed Sun Yat-sen in the Dharma Protection Movement, and also carried out armed campaigns against old Chiang Kai-shek, and finally he was still a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang.
He is most famous for his three anti-Chiang Kai-shek campaigns.
In 1927, the old Chiang rebelled against the revolution, and as the commander-in-chief of the Wuhan National Government, Tang Shengzhi actively opposed the old Chiang.
However, the Nanjing government presided over by Chiang Kai-shek wanted to recruit Tang Shengzhi and gave him a high-ranking official who was a member of the Kuomintang government.
Unexpectedly, Tang Shengzhi, who had just taken office, stabbed old Jiang with a knife and directly stopped the operation of the Hankou Central Bank.
In October of the same year, the Nationalist government in Nanjing decided to attack Tang Shengzhi and remove Tang Shengzhi from all positions, but he did not expect that Tang Shengzhi had already slipped away with his subordinates.
So the Kuomintang sent the Western Expeditionary Army to recruit and suppress Tang Shengzhi's troops, and Tang Shengzhi's troops suffered one defeat after another, and soon after, Tang Shengzhi directly telegraphed himself to the field, and the troops were absorbed by Bai Chongxi, but he himself went to Japan to travel freely and happily.
Bai Chongxi
In 1928, Tang Shengzhi, who was tired of playing abroad, returned to Shanghai, and as a result, the old Jiang did not have a long memory and directly appointed Tang Shengzhi as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army.
As a result, at the end of the year, Tang Shengzhi took Lao Jiang's huge sum of money of 1.5 million yuan to find his former subordinates, and was still secretly contacting his old friend Song Zheyuan and others to try to oppose Chiang Kai-shek, and joined forces with Shi Yousan to launch an anti-Chiang war, and personally set out from Zhengzhou to attack Old Chiang's subordinate Liu Zhi.
As a result, when Tang Shengzhi attacked Jiang's army, Liu Wenhui, Yan Xishan, and others who had been in contact with him in advance did not move, and as a result, Yang Hucheng used the strength of two brigades to take Tang Shengzhi's general headquarters, and Tang Shengzhi had no choice but to retreat to Zhumadian.
After the defeat of the army, he played the old routine, energized and went to the wilderness, and he ran to Macau and Singapore to play alone.
His troops were handed over to his subordinates, and when his men saw that Tang Shengzhi had left them and run away, they didn't even think about it and turned to Old Jiang.
As a result, during the game, the "918 Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries broke out.
Tang Shengzhi then took the opportunity of the September 18 Incident to shake hands with old Chiang Kai-shek and make peace, and In this way, Tang Shengzhi became a high official of the Kuomintang again, and also became a member of the Military Commission of the National Government and president of the Military Senate, a member of the National Aviation Construction Committee, a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Military Commander, the director of the First Department of the Military Commission of the National Government in Nanjing and the director of the Training Director Department, and was also awarded the title of General of the Army.
Seeing Tang Shengzhi's "prodigal son turning back", Old Jiang did not treat him badly at all, and this high-ranking official Feng Lu came one after another.
As a result, in 1937, Tang Shengzhi gave the old Chiang a hammer, and even more brought the toothless and unforgettable Nanjing Massacre to the Chinese nation.
After the July 7 Incident, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, and at the end of November, Shanghai was captured, and the Japanese army aimed its guns at Nanjing.
At this moment of crisis, Tang Shengzhi stood up:
"Now the enemy is approaching the capital. The capital is the place where the tomb of the Founding Father is located, and at the moment of this great enemy, if Nanjing does not sacrifice one or two generals, we are not only sorry for the spirit of the prime minister in heaven, but also sorry for our supreme commander. I advocate sticking to Nanjing and fighting the enemy to the end! ”
Tang Shengzhi's enthusiastic speech was boiling with Chiang Kai-shek's blood, and without saying a word, the old Chiang Kai-shek handed over the fortifications of Nanjing to him, who took over the army in Nanjing and led the army to defend the city of Nanjing.
The Battle of Nanking
As a result, tang Shengzhi, who had not been fighting for a few days, made this impassioned speech, and ran away in a speedboat all night, leaving the defenders of a city with a confused face.
Behind them are the people, and they dare not retreat a step.
As a result, the Nanjing defenders were killed in battle, and the remaining remnants of the troops had no boats to escape, and could only swim upstream from the glacier in the winter, and as a result, most of the remnants of the defeated soldiers drowned in the river.
Then the Japanese army entered the city and created the "Nanjing Massacre" that shocked the world.
Tang Shengzhi's escape led to the demoralization of the defenders, and eventually they fled in defeat, and in the process of escaping, there was also an infighting gun battle.
Tang Shengzhi could not escape the blame for such a tragic incident, but after the Surrender of the Japanese Army, the old Chiang Kai-shek, who had no long memory, invited him to Nanjing, and as a result, he directly ran away to join our party, transformed from a senior general of the Kuomintang into a gravedigger of the Kuomintang, and once again embarked on the road of opposing Chiang Kai-shek.
As a Kuomintang general, he can be described as a rice bucket general without compromise, and even our army general Chen Yi "praised" him:
"Mr. Meng Xiao, you are a friend enough, a general of the Kuomintang level, only you have not fought with our Red Army and the People's Liberation Army."
Under the "wise" leadership of Tang Shengzhi, Chiang Kai-shek's troops collapsed, and he also stabbed old Chiang in the body one after another.
The second dog-licking general Hu Zongnan
Hu Zongnan is a native of Zhejiang and a first-class general in the Republic of China Army.
He applied for the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924, and as a result he was eliminated because he was not tall enough to be one meter six, but he was later allowed to take the exam and was admitted by Liao Zhongkai, but Liao Zhongkai could never have imagined that this move of his indirectly led to the inevitable collapse of the Kuomintang.
This Hu Zongnan not only did not grow tall, but even his IQ was not high.
After entering the Whampoa Military Academy, he became acquainted with old Chiang, followed old Chiang's reactionary April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, and participated in two Northern Expeditions.
During the Northern Expedition, Hu Zongnan used only one regiment of troops to lay down one of Sun Chuanfang's elite divisions, so he was valued by Old Jiang all the way up. It took only four years to go from platoon commander to division commander, and he became the first general among the students of the Whampoa Department.
After being promoted to division commander, his ambitions began to swell, and he established his own military system, the Huangpu department, forming the "Shaozhuang clique", becoming the head of the thirteen Taibao of the old Chiang Kai-shek, and also calling himself the "prince" of the Huangpu department.
But after the Northern Expedition, he himself was like a ripe ham sausage, which suddenly withered.
When encircling and suppressing the Red Army, he led a force far exceeding the Red Army by dozens of times, and surrounded and blocked the Red Army in the area east of Hekou Town, but the result was that our army broke through the layers of encirclement.
Even in 1935, when he was encircling and suppressing, Hu Zongnan, who led many troops, was hit by our army and suffered heavy casualties, and Hu Zongnan himself was almost captured alive by our army.
But after he returned, the old Chiang did not rebuke him, but instead let him be elected to the Fifth Central Supervision Commission of the Kuomintang.
In 1936, Hu Zongnan led an army of troops to swear to die and be ashamed, and as a result, in northern Shaanxi, the Red Army led by our boss Peng was defeated and lost its armor.
Shaanxi, Gansu, and other places were also under the leadership of Hu Zongnan, packed up and sent to our army.
Boss Peng Dehuai
Some people may ask, Hu Zongnan is such a "rice bucket", why does Chiang Kai-shek reuse him?
This, of course, is inseparable from his years of experience as a dog licker.
After he met Lao Jiang at the Whampoa Military Academy, he has always been a right-hand man beside Lao Jiang, following Lao Jiang in everything he does. When Lao Jiang was detained by Zhang Xueliang, he immediately rushed from the battlefield to Tianshui and asked Dai Jia to rescue Old Jiang.
Old Jiang asked him to go east and he would never go west, Old Jiang reached out and he handed over a cigarette, and old Jiang raised his leg and said that he was the fart he put, which shows the depth of his ability to lick the dog.
It is precisely because of this that he has always been the closest confidant of Lao Jiang and is deeply appreciated by Lao Jiang.
Chiang Kai-shek (left) Hu Zongnan (right)
After Hu Zong's defeat in southern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi, he took the troops sent to him by Lao Jiang to participate in the Battle of Weilu, and was promoted to the commander of the 17th Army, but the result was a disastrous defeat.
The Battle of Kaifeng surrounded the Japanese army but was broken through by the Japanese army, plotting a surprise attack on Yan'an but leaking wind and sound, the so-called "King of the Northwest" was beaten by Mr. Peng, and he escaped from the northwest in ashes, which can be said to be a solid "rice bucket".
During the Liberation War, he took over Zhengzhou and other places, and as a result, his troops were annihilated by Yan Xishan. When Hu Zongnan sent troops to reinforce Yichuan, which was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army, he was beaten to the point of crying and crying, and was completely annihilated by the People's Liberation Army, and the division commander and brigade commander were all killed.
Battle of Yichuan
At the end of the Liberation War, he actually abandoned his troops and sneaked to Sanya on vacation, causing all three of his corps to revolt.
Under Hu Zongnan's "unremitting efforts," the situation of liberation of our army was very good, and the Kuomintang was gradually defeated and retreated under his "wise leadership."
It can be said that without him there would be no Kuomintang today, and we would like to applaud him and thank him for his tremendous contributions to our Party as a Kuomintang officer.
The first mourner of the Kuomintang The stepping stone to the rise of the Communist Party The strongest gravedigger of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek
Some people say that without him there would be no new China, and without his leadership, the founding of New China would never have been so rapid. He was a key figure in China's modern history and a leading figure in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chiang Kai-shek always trusted his cronies and entrusted them with heavy responsibilities, even if these cronies were more than one "rice bucket" after another.
He unswervingly carried out the Kuomintang's policies and principles, even if these policies and arrangements were more outrageous than the other, and the jaw-dropping "outside must be before inside" was from his hand, and he personally guided the Kuomintang to the end of the road.
He actively opposed communism and passively resisted Japan, which led to the fall of the country's territory, which can be called a civil war illusion god who is an insider in the civil war and a layman in the foreign war.
After graduating from the Baoding Military Academy, he joined the League, was highly respected by Sun Yat-sen, and was appointed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen as the president of the Whampoa Military Academy.
At the Second National Congress of the Kuomintang in 1926, he was appointed executive member of the Central Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee, and subsequently the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army.
After taking office, he single-handedly created the "Zhongshan Ship Incident", which struck a blow at the forces of the Communist Party and the revolutionary Party and consolidated his political position.
Subsequently, he successively served as chairman of the Military Commission and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and became a big figure in the center of the Kuomintang's power, and for a time he was in the limelight.
It can be said that Old Jiang said that he was a man who was very good at playing politics, but he was a layman in leading the army to govern the country.
He reused Tang Enbo, Hu Zongnan, Liu Zhi, Tang Shengzhi and other "rice barrel generals", and even though some people betrayed Chiang Kai-shek many times, Chiang Kai-shek still used them.
His tang enbo destroyed the Yangtze River defense line that he was proud of, and after retreating to Taiwan, he still allowed his high-ranking official Houlu; Liu Zhi folded his favorite general Du Yuming, but he continued to let Liu Zhi stay by his side.
He is like whoever has an accident he uses, of course, it is not ruled out that he will use whoever has an accident, and his riot operation can even produce a reward for human confusion.
Even more confusing is that in 1938, in order to resist tens of thousands of Japanese troops, he had people blow up the Yellow River embankment, directly causing nearly a million innocent people to be drowned alive.
After he was elected president, he also changed the currency on a large scale, resulting in inflation and people's livelihood, and domestic opposition to Chiang Kai-shek continued to rise.
He also sabotaged the peace talks, causing our army to directly invade Nanjing and completely overthrow the National Government in Nanjing.
Liberation of Nanjing
The KMT turned from prosperity to decline until it finally embarked on the road to the end of the road, and the old Chiang Kai-shek can be said to have made great contributions and can be called the king of the KMT's "rice bucket".
These are the three major "rice bucket" generals of the Kuomintang during the Republic of China period, and it was precisely under their common "struggle" that our army won a complete victory in the War of Liberation.