【Huanggang Normal Academy Figures】Outstanding representative of the HuangzhouFu Normal School - Lieutenant General Xia Sheng of the National Government

Editor's note: In order to further promote the construction of our campus culture brand, recently, the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee launched the "Three Ones Project". In the process of preparing for the construction of the school history museum, we consulted the provincial, municipal and district archives and libraries, visited retired teachers, alumni, and people from all walks of life, combed the history of the school's development, and found some representative figures. Starting from this issue, the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee has opened a special column to introduce representative school history figures from various historical periods of the school. This issue will introduce the outstanding representative of the HuangzhouFu Normal School, General Xia Sheng, Lieutenant General of the National Government, and share it with you.

Outstanding representative of the HuangzhouFu Normal School- Lieutenant General Xia Sheng of the National Government

Xia Sheng (1893-1953), the first of the trumpets, the character An Quan, is a native of Longwangdun, Present-day Xinzhou District.

When his father died of illness when he was 7 years old, the six brothers and sisters were supported by their mother Textile and grandfather Zhou Ji. In the summer, he was intelligent and funded by his relatives, and after completing the higher primary school in Cangbu, he was admitted to the Huangzhoufu Normal School.

In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, Li Liejun's troops recruited in his hometown, and Xia actively enlisted, gradually rising to warrant officer platoon leader. After being admitted to the Jiangxi Army's General School of Martial Arts, he graduated in 1913 and served as the commander (company commander) of the Ammunition Column of the Hukou Front of the Yuan (Shikai) Army in Jiangxi. After the failure of the "Second Revolution", he joined the "Chinese Revolutionary Party" organized by Sun Yat-sen in Shanghai. In 1916, he was sent to teach at the Abia Jingcun School in Sumatra, Sumatra, South Sea Islands, and for only one year, he was transferred to the Malay Peninsula Kaying Yuhua School as the principal. In 1918, he returned to China and served as a senator at the General Headquarters of the Hubei Jingguo Coalition Army, which supported the "Dharma Protection Movement" in Fengjie, Sichuan, and was rotated to the director of the General Bureau of Raising Wages. In 1920, he was transferred to the First Echelon Regiment of the Yunnan Jingguo Coalition Army as the chief of staff of the colonel, the deputy commander of the independent mixed regiment, and the chief of staff of the third mixed brigade of the Yunnan Army. The following year, he entered the Yunnan Army Higher Military School for further study. After graduating, he was transferred to the Right Wing General Headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Yunnan as chief of staff.

In 1923, he was transferred to the Yunnan-Guangdong-Guizhou Coalition Army as a deputy commander and the director of the Guangzhou Bomb Factory. At the first congress of the Kuomintang, he was elected as a delegate to the congress in Hubei and actively agreed with the three major policies of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers" decided by the congress.

In 1925, he was appointed chairman of the Management Committee of the Guangzhou Arsenal. In the following year, the National Revolutionary Army carried out the Northern Expedition and transferred Sun Yuebu of the Ninth Division of the Third Army to serve as the chief of staff of the major general. In 1929, he was sent by Feng Yuxiang to study at the Japanese Army Infantry School. In 1932, he returned to China as the chief of staff of the Twelfth Division of the Third Army. In August, he resigned and returned home, and lived idle for about half a year.

In 1933, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Eighty-seventh Division. In 1935, he was transferred to the chief of tax inspectorate of Fujian Province. The following year, he was reinstated as chief of staff of the 87th Division in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, and in 1937, he was promoted to chief of staff of the 71st Army. "August 13" Xia accompanied the commander Wang Jingjiu to lead his troops into the Battle of Songhu. Xinshi and Hujiang University dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army. In several encounters at Zhangjiazhai and Guanyintang, he won consecutive battles, and he also severely damaged the Japanese army at huishan wharf with friendly troops. Although the troops suffered heavy losses, they held their positions during the arduous defensive battle for more than two months. Until he was ordered to evacuate and transfer Zhenjiang to reorganize. In the meantime, Xia asked the commander to fight the Japanese to the death, but Wang refused to allow it because of the damage to the strength of his troops. A conflict ensued, and Xia resigned on impulse to return home. Wang cherished Xia Cai, regardless of the former suspects, sent a heavy amount of money to the Xia family to urge him to return, but Xia insisted on not complying.

In 1938, Xia was appointed counselor of the Military and Political Department, deputy director of the Guilin Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and deputy director of the Military and Political Department of the Guilin Camp of the Central Military Commission. In 1940, he was promoted to the post of Lieutenant General of the Guilin Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs. In 1942, he was transferred to the Deputy Director of the Evaluation Department of the Central Military Commission.

In 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, He Yingqin was the delegate to the plenipotentiary, and Xia was appointed as an attaché to the delegation because of his proficiency in many Chinese words.

In 1947, he was appointed as a staff officer under the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing. In August 1949, he went to Chongqing to be sent to Chongqing, and in October, he served as a senior counselor at the headquarters of Wang Miaoxu in Chengdu, and on December 21, he participated in the uprising with Wang. In 1953, he returned to his hometown and died.

(The original text is found in the biography of "Cangbu Street Chronicle")