The Republic of China founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen advocated the Three People's Principles, but after overthrowing the feudal imperial Manchu Qing Dynasty, it became a warlord scuffle for territory. Moreover, the Republic of China has always given the impression of bureaucracy and the people's lack of livelihood, and even in the period of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, most of them were stubborn and secretive.
However, there was a general who fought bravely to kill the enemy and would never compromise with the Japanese, no matter how much The Japanese coerced and seduced, no matter how tough they were, he still held his position and never gave the Japanese army a chance to invade. Who the hell is he? What kind of story happened to him? What was the difference between him and other Kuomintang officers?
First, he has been repeatedly promoted
Fan Shaozeng was a native of Qinghe Township, Dazhu County, Sichuan, and fan Shaozeng's family was very well-off at that time, and he had never been hungry since he was a child. When he reached the age of study, Fan Shaozeng entered the academy, and he watched the old-fashioned teacher holding the book all day and constantly asking the students to memorize boring articles, which was very boring.
Fan Shaozeng's parents have wanted Fan Shaozeng to be a reader since he was a child, and he will have a future appearance. Unfortunately, Fan Shaozeng had no interest in reading, often skipped to play in the town, leading several friends to fight with other children in the town, for which the school's teachers repeatedly sought Fan Shaozeng's parents.
Fan Shaozeng's grandfather liked his grandson very much, but he couldn't watch his grandson become a little bastard, so he let him join the local "brother robe" gang. In 1911, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and Fan Shaozeng also joined the local armed forces, he fought very bravely and made many achievements.
The good times did not last long, and his immediate superior was surrounded and suppressed because he opposed Yuan Shikai as the president, and finally he could only occupy the mountain as the king, and Fan Shaozeng became the second in command. In the mountains, Fan Shaozeng was very at ease, but his superiors were killed in a big battle with the bandit army, and he became the boss of the cottage.
However, he made a rule for the brothers in the cottage, that is, to go down the mountain to rob the grain of the big households, and absolutely not to move the things of the poor and poor people. Therefore, when Fan Shaozeng and his brothers went down the mountain to grab grain, the common people did not dislike him, and it was very difficult for the local security regiment to eliminate them.
You know, at that time, the warlords in Sichuan were fighting, and many poor people went to become soldiers, and Fan Shaozeng's men also thought about becoming soldiers. Fan Shaozeng never believed in how much money those warlords could give when they became soldiers, so Fan Shaozeng repeatedly stressed that there was no future for being a soldier. Until 1918, Yang Sen and Liu Xiang joined forces to encircle and suppress the cottage, and eventually Fan Shao was outnumbered and was taken to Yang Sen's side.
Yang Sen saw that Fan Shaozeng was a very tough man, so he asked him if he was willing to become a soldier and eat food, Fan Shaozeng knew that the cottage was suppressed, and he also had no way to retreat, so he had to agree to become a soldier. He still had more than two hundred men under his command, so he became a company commander when he defected to the army. You know, Fan Shaozeng is very good at fighting, and was soon promoted to battalion commander.
Yang Sen belonged to the relatively large warlords in Sichuan, and Fan Shaozeng was the most capable person around him, so he promoted him to brigade commander. After a few more years, the warlord melee had long ended, Chiang Kai-shek occupied the position of the main force of the Kuomintang, and Fan Shaozeng fell into Chiang Kai-shek's name.
2. Resolutely resist Japan
Chiang Kai-shek also wanted to stabilize Sichuan at that time, so he made Fan Shaozeng a division commander. You must know that Fan Shaozeng's team at that time was tens of thousands of people, and he also had light and heavy weapons in his hands. However, Chiang Kai-shek was not very reassured about the Sichuan army, and in Chiang Kai-shek's view, the Sichuan army was ostensibly submissive to the Central Army, and secretly who knew whether it would rebel against him.
Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek knew that Fan Shaozeng had also been a bandit, and who knew if he would be the kind of person who did not change his anger, so he used the military commander as bait and sent He Yingqin to reorganize the army. He Yingqin first took over Fan Shaozeng's men, and then gave Fan Shaozeng the position of commander of the Light Pole Army. Fan Shaozeng was annoyed and ashamed, but there was no way, he could only listen to Chiang Kai-shek.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, and patriots throughout the country demanded that the Kuomintang government stop the civil war and resist Japanese aggression. Fan Shaozeng saw that the Japanese were so rampant, and he indignantly asked Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan, so he gave him the post of commander of the 88th Army. An army can mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers, but unfortunately, Chiang Kai-shek did not give him a soldier and a pawn, and asked him to recruit his own troops and buy horses.
Fan Shaozeng knew that Chiang Kai-shek had mobilized most of his troops to suppress the Red Army, and there were no troops available at all, so Fan Shaozeng went to Sichuan to recruit troops himself. With the help of a local officer friend in Sichuan, Fan Shaozeng recruited a team of more than 10,000 people and went to the arsenal to make some weapons and ammunition for his soldiers.
Looking at more than 10,000 soldiers, Fan Shaozeng said passionately: "Brothers, we are all Chinese, the Japanese invaders burn and loot, sooner or later will hit our Sichuan, we Sichuan troops might as well rush out and fight those Japanese invaders to the death." The words were so impassioned that more than ten thousand soldiers responded.
In 1939, Fan Shaozeng led soldiers to Jiangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places to actively resist Japan. Japanese Lieutenant General Naoji Sakai initially underestimated Fan Shaozeng's army, so he sent several companies to eliminate Fan Shaozeng, but unexpectedly, in less than three days, several companies he sent out were all killed!
Naoji Sakai once again sent two brigades of troops to eliminate Fan Shaozeng with heavier weapons, only to be defeated by Fan Shaozeng's Sichuan army! To this end, Sakai Naosuke wanted to lure Fan Shaozeng, give him the temptation of gold and promotion to commander-in-chief of the puppet army. In the face of temptation, Fan Shaozeng was unmoved, and his determination to resist Japan was unshakable.
In the end, even Lieutenant General Fan Shaozeng died at the hands of Fan Shaozeng, and the Japanese military was completely confused! They had never seen such a brave Chinese army, and even the Kuomintang did not expect Fan Shaozeng's Sichuan army to be so capable of fighting.
Three, 40 wives
Such a general, Chiang Kai-shek, was supposed to be reused, but Chiang Kai-shek was very unhappy and transferred him to the rear, which had no real power, to become deputy commander-in-chief. Fan Shaozeng was furious and didn't care about anything, and retreated to Chongqing to become an official. After Fan Shaozeng returned to Chongqing, he married forty wives, each of whom was as beautiful as a flower.
He also paid for a mansion in Chongqing, with hundreds of servants alone. Fan Shaozeng spent all day in the manor with his 40 wives to enjoy a good life. Until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China will begin. Fan Shaozeng did not want to Chinese fight Chinese, so he asked all the more than 20,000 of his men who followed him to revolt.
After the founding of New China, with the approval of the state, Fan Shaozeng was appointed deputy director of the Henan Provincial Sports Committee. He also changed some of the official factions in the Kuomintang and became a public servant of the people. He is also divorced from 40 aunts and wives, with only one beloved wife. In 1977, Fan Shaozeng died of illness at the age of 73.
4. Summary
In fact, there were also many military generals in the Kuomintang who actively resisted Japan, such as Zhang Zizhong, Sun Liren, Li Zongren and so on. They did not compromise in the face of the temptation of the Japanese army, let alone be frightened, but led the Chinese soldiers to confront the Japanese army.
Although Fan Shaozeng also joined the warlord in his early years, he never was vague about the anti-Japanese war. Many TV dramas and movies have played the Sichuan Legion, they have thwarted the japanese army's vigor, and even the Japanese army has seen their Sichuan legion frightened and fled everywhere, which is the strength of the Chinese soldiers.