In the early hours of June 18, 1913, a sudden gunshot broke through the silence of dawn.
In front of the Shangwu Hall of the Baoding Military Academy, the principal who was speaking on the stone steps suddenly fired a shot at himself, and the students in the audience were stunned by this unexpected move.
The principal killed himself, which is unheard of in Chinese history, who did such a miracle?
This person was Jiang Baili, the principal of the Baoding Army Officer School and a well-known military scientist.
During the Republic of China period, there was a popular saying: when born at this time, men make friends with Jiang Baili, and women make friends with Lin Huiyin, and they do not live up to this life."
Born in the Republic of China, men are willing to make friends with Jiang Baili, and women are willing to make friends with Lin Huiyin, so that life is worth it.
Lin Huiyin's generation of talented women is well known, and Jiang Baili, many people are not familiar with it.
He was Jin Yong's uncle, a relative of Xu Zhimo, qian Xuesen's father-in-law, the first military scientist of the Republic of China, and the main designer of the Kuomintang government's war against Japan.
Jiang Baili has learned through things, there are many legendary stories, and today I want to talk about the "three wonders" story in his life.
Yi Qi: The headmaster raised his gun and killed himself, but miraculously survived
When it comes to the reason for Jiang Baili's suicide, we have to start with him as the principal.
Baoding Army Officer School, founded in 1912, is the first regular army military school in modern Chinese history.
Yuan Shikai was born in the military, and he knew very well that in order to stabilize the regime, it was necessary to grasp the barrel of a gun and train military talents.
The first principal was forced to step down for some reason, yuan shikai attached special importance to the second principal candidate, thought twice, and directly appointed Jiang Baili, who had no party and no faction.
However, at that time, the military academy belonged to the territory of Duan Qirui, the commander-in-chief of the army, and Yuan Shikai did not consult with him and directly decided on the candidates.
However, Jiang Baili was bent on building a good military academy and cultivating more modern military talents. In his inaugural speech, he indicated in a determined tone:
"If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent person, and if it doesn't work, you should kill yourself to thank the world."
After taking office, Jiang Baili made great efforts to govern the country, strictly enforce military discipline, strengthen management, and improve teaching, and soon the school took on a new look.
He also carefully formulated an expansion plan, which won yuan shikai's approval, but was harassed by Duan Qirui's faction in terms of education appropriations.
In order to promote the appropriation, Jiang Baili personally went to Beijing to negotiate, and was so angry that he could not say a word. He was greatly disappointed and determined to die.
On the night of June 17, 1913, he did not sleep all night and wrote several suicide notes explaining the unfinished business.
In the early morning of June 18, Jiang Baili asked the service soldiers to gather all the teachers and students of the school and made a final speech:
"After I arrived at this school, I taught you that what I want you to do must be done, and what you want me to do, I must also do; you can't do it, I will punish you, I can't do it, I want to punish myself." 」
Then, Jiang Baili pulled out his pistol and fired a shot at himself in the chest.
This shot was originally aimed at the heart, but because the service soldier jumped on the stage and pulled the principal in spite of himself, the bullet deviated from the heart, saving Jiang Baili's life.
When the doctor arrived, he checked the injury and couldn't help but marvel. It turned out that the bullet was shot between the two ribs of the front chest, and it grazed the tip of the small mulberry leaf lung.
Then from the back of the two ribs through, although a lot of blood, but there is no fear of life, no surgery, this is really a miracle.
After the incident, Yuan Shikai asked for a thorough investigation of the matter, but after the operation of Duan Qirui's faction, the matter became small and trivial, and finally it was prevaricating.
Although the matter was not resolved, Jiang Baili's gun struck out the spirit of being brave and responsible, treating death as a return, and keeping his promises, making him the spiritual leader of the Baoding military.
Many students at the Baoding Military Academy washed a small photo of him and carried it with them to commemorate it.
Many students called him "Hundred Mile Master", which remained unchanged throughout his life, and although the students of the following periods did not receive his direct teachings, they all regarded themselves as protégés of "Hundred Mile Master".
Erqi: The first military scientist of the Republic of China, but he did not lead his troops to fight a battle
Jiang Baili was born in Shijiao, Zhejiang Province, known for his talent in the township, and at the age of 17, he also won Xiucai.
Seeing that the Qing government was bullied by the great powers because of its weak military and signed an unequal treaty, he came from a literati background and deeply realized that wen could not save the country, and only martial arts could save the country that was in dire straits.
After studying in Japan, Jiang Baili met Cai Yi, and both of them were determined to throw in the towel. With the help of Liang Qichao, they entered the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer Preparatory School.
After entering the school, Jiang Baili studied hard, trained hard, mastered as much modern military knowledge as possible, and together with Cai Yi and Zhang Xiaozhun, was called "Chinese Non-Commissioned Officer Sanjie" by the Japanese Army School.
After studying in Japan, Jiang Baili went to Germany to study advanced military theory.
After returning from school, Jiang Baili was determined to sacrifice his life for the country and build the national defense force at that time, but he had no chance to show his talents on the battlefield because of the warlord chaos at that time.
After the death of his friend Cai Yi, he was even more indifferent to politics, began to concentrate on academic research, and wrote a book called "Military Common Sense", which became a must-have book in the military at that time.
Because he often writes articles about the military in newspapers and magazines, the title of "military scientist" is well-known and has a high status in the military circles.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, Jiang Baili was invited to give many speeches to encourage the general mobilization of the whole people to resist Japan.
He also collected a number of his own military theories and published the first national defense theoretical work in China's modern history, "National Defense Theory", which is also a professional guidance book on combat strategy against Japan.
The book summarizes three viewpoints on combat against Japan: First, it is not afraid of whale swallowing, but only afraid of encroachment, and takes the initiative to carry out an all-round war of resistance; second, it takes the initiative to attack the Japanese army in Shanghai and uses geographical conditions to weaken the Japanese offensive; third, it exchanges space for time to fight a protracted war with the Japanese army.
Throughout his life, he studied military theory and abandoned literature to follow the military, and Jiang Baili achieved the goal of "saving the country with his own body."
As a soldier, he hoped to go to the battlefield to "sacrifice his life for the country", and after the outbreak of the War of Resistance, he proposed to hu Zongnan's army to participate in the battle.
However, before his wish to gallop across the frontier was realized, Jiang Baili was sent by the Kuomintang government to Germany and Italy for diplomatic activities.
Jiang Baili never went to the battlefield in his life, but as the president of the Baoding Military Academy and the acting president of the Army University.
He trained many officers who could fight, Andy Ye Ting, Fu Zuoyi, Bai Chongxi, Tang Shengzhi, Chen Mingshu, etc. were all his students, which made him a "general talent."
Wang Yun, editor-in-chief of the "Ta Kung Pao," said: Mr. Baili is a military scientist in China, and he has never appointed soldiers, but most of his students are generals.
Sanqi: A general who studied the war against Japan, but married a Japanese wife
In the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army lost one after another and signed the Treaty of Maguan, which lost power and humiliated the country.
When the news came, the whole country was in an uproar, and it also deeply stimulated Jiang Baili, who began to care about current politics, studied Japan, and in 1901, went to Japan to seek a way to save the country.
In 1920, he was the first to put forward the idea of being wary of Japan, when the Japanese were still behind the Beiyang warlords, and few people in the military had this vision.
Jiang Baili is well aware that Japan's picture of China is not a day, and he has been paying close attention to Japan, understanding Japan's trends and strength, and preparing for the War of Resistance Against Japan.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, Jiang Baili campaigned for the great cause of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and gave advice to the decision-making departments.
In the "Ta Kung Pao" serialized a long article "The Japanese - A Study of a Foreigner", which was his painstaking effort to study Japan for many years, and once published, it greatly encouraged people's anti-Japanese fighting spirit.
Jiang Baili hated the Japanese and devoted his life to studying the war against Japan, but why did he marry a Japanese wife?
It turned out that after Jiang Baili shot himself, he was taken care of by a Japanese nurse, Miss Sato Yomiya.
At that time, Jiang Baili was disheartened, and put a lot of sleeping pills under the pillow, in order to encourage Jiang Baili, Miss Sato began to persuade him.
Her gentleness and carefulness, knowledge and insight made Jiang Baili look at her with astonishment, and she couldn't help but be moved.
The appearance of Miss Sato dispelled the idea of Jiang Baili's life, and he confessed to Miss Sato, but Miss Sato rejected him.
Later, Miss Sato returned to China on the pretext of her death. Jiang Baili began to write letters one after another to tell his thoughts.
His persistence finally impressed Miss Sato, causing her to let go of the prejudice between the two countries and marry Jiang Baili in spite of resistance.
Jiang Baili loved plum blossoms and gave his wife the Chinese name Zuo Mei.
Zuo Mei hated Japan's aggression and personally went to the front line during the war to treat Chinese soldiers and lead his family to collect donations for the anti-Japanese resistance.
After marrying Jiang Baili, Zuo Mei has always regarded China as her own country, not only speaking Chinese herself, but also never teaching her children to learn Japanese.
Although Jiang Baili's wife is Japanese, she and Jiang Baili have the same idea, and there is not only a small love between the two, but also a great love for the country and peace.
The legend of Jiang Baili is far more than the "three wonders", and the story of his saving the country with his body is always worth remembering
This is the story of Jiang Baili's Three Wonders, who kept his promises and kept his promises, killed himself to thank the world but was difficult not to die.
All his life he studied military powers, did not go to the battlefield, but was called a military scientist; he hated Japan, but he married a Japanese wife, and the husband and wife resisted Japan together.
In fact, jiang Baili's legend is far more than this, he also traveled to Germany and was received by General Hindenburg.
He advised Cai Yi and participated in the anti-Yuan protectorate; as a professional soldier, he wrote the "History of the European Renaissance".
Diplomacy in Europe, mediation with Mussolini, etc., he worked hard for the country all his life and never gave up.
Today, people remember Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo, the sister who rode the wind and waves, and the brother who fought hard, but few people remembered the ancestors who saved the country with their own bodies.
In my opinion, they are brave and fearless, never give up, and they are the people who should be remembered by history and remembered by us.
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