After Guo Songling rebelled, 70,000 elites fought outside Fengtian City, why did they end up in failure?
On the evening of November 21, 1925, Guo Songling sent a telegram against Zhang Zuolin and Yang Yuting. He reorganized his troops into 5 armies, totaling 70,000 men. On November 23, the anti-Feng struggle was launched, and with the momentum of breaking the bamboo, it quickly captured Jinzhou City and prepared to march towards Fengtian, and a bloody battle was about to begin.
Guo Songling was born in Yuqiaozhai Village, the eastern suburbs of Fengtian, and only entered the academy opened by Mr. Dong Hanru in the provincial capital at the age of 20, where he was exposed to some emerging knowledge disciplines and broadened his horizons. However, after less than two years of study, he was forced to drop out of school due to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. Because Guo Songling's hometown was in the Japanese-Russian war zone, they had been devastated after the war, and many people died after the artillery fire. After seeing many tragic cases, Guo Songling was touched a lot and had the idea of serving the country from the military.
Guo Songling's luck was not good before he defected to Zhang Zuolin, and soon after he defected to the Qing government, the Qing government died. After that, he ran to join the revolutionary army, and soon after, the revolutionary army also failed to protect the law, and at the age of 35, he had to choose to return to his hometown of Fengtian. At that time, Zhang Zuolin happened to be organizing the Army Lecture Hall in the three eastern provinces, and Guo Songling relied on his own skills to serve as a tactical instructor in the Lecture Hall.
Guo Songling met Zhang Zuolin's son Zhang Xueliang at school, and the two have always been in a relationship of mentoring and friendship. After the outbreak of the Zhifeng War, the Feng army suffered an unprecedented defeat, and only the Third Brigade and the Eighth Brigade, under the command of Guo Songling, broke Wu Peifu's plan to break through Shanhaiguan and realize the plan to directly attack the Guandong. During the Second Zhifeng War, Guo Songling and Zhang Xueliang served as the main and deputy commanders of the Third Army, and successfully defeated and won the Zhi Army.
When Guo Songling and his wife went to Japan to investigate the military, they learned that Zhang Zuolin wanted to go to war with the Nationalist army in the south for his own selfishness, and decided to contact Feng Yuxiang to jointly oppose the rebellion. Just as Guo Songling was leading his army to march toward Shenyang, Feng Yuxiang, who was his support, suddenly turned against him and led his army to attack another unit in support of Li Jinglin. The end result of this infighting was that Guo Songling, who was fighting Zhang Zuolin head-on in Liaoning, fell into isolation.
In addition to Feng Yuxiang's rebellion, the Japanese also intervened in Guo Jun's attack. The Japanese garrison had strongly obstructed the Ma Zhongzhong Brigade that crossed the Liao River to the city of Yingkou, which directly led to the delay in Guo Songling's original plan to launch a general offensive against the Feng army on the 14th. It also classified 14 important towns along the railway line, such as Dashiqiao, Liaoyang, Fengtian, Fushun, Tieling, Kaiyuan, and Changchun, as areas where the armed forces were prohibited from entering, and Guo Songling's troops were prohibited from passing, thus delaying Guo Songling's attack. It gave Zhang Zuolin a breathing space to organize his army to fight against the isolated Guo Songling, which ended in Guo Songling's rout after more than a month of rebellion.