After Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang military clique split into warlords with local factions divided into eras of division, such as Anhui warlords, direct warlords, Fengzhi warlords, and some relatively weak Jin warlords, Dian warlords, and so on.
These local warlords also had many generals under their command, and they all became a provincial overseer, but among these warlords, the most prominent were "Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu, and Sun Chuanfang", known as the three major warlords of Beiyang.
Today, Xiao Xiong will introduce you to the "Sun Legend of the Three Great Warlords of beiyang", he is a legendary warlord, he beat Okamura Ningji when he was studying in Japan, and then let him serve as his own military adviser to help him dominate the southeast.
Sun Chuanfang, a native of Tai'an City, Shandong Province, the family situation is not very good, his father died early, and he lived a turbulent and displaced life with his mother since he was a child, fortunately, his third sister married Wang Yingkai, the law enforcement camp of the Wuwei Right Army under Yuan Shikai, the inspector of Shandong, which never allowed Sun Chuanfang to have a safe place.
It was also under the introduction of his brother-in-law that Sun Chuanfang became a soldier, and in the army, Sun Chuanfang, who performed well, won the admiration of Feng Guozhang at that time, thinking that he would become an outstanding soldier in the future, so he escorted him to the Army Rapid Military Preparation School to study military affairs, because of his excellent results, he was admitted to stay in Japan to study military affairs, so in 1907 Sun Chuanfang successfully entered the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School to study, and it happened that the Japanese side let Okamura Ningji serve as the captain of this group of students who stayed in Japan.
You must know that at that time, the Japanese looked down on the students of the Republic of China, and Okamura Ningji they also beat and scolded, as long as they made a little mistake, they used harsh language to scold, just at this time, Sun Chuanfang bumped into the muzzle of the gun.
One day Sun Legend and Yang Wenkai, Zhang Qun and others went out to play, to know that the military academy every night to roll call, to prevent students from not returning at night, affecting the next day's training, maybe Sun Chuanfang they first arrived in Japan, see what is strange, so they missed the time to return to school, this time was caught by Okamura Ningji, he was angry, when Sun Legend and others returned, he came out with two slaps, then Sun Chuanfang was angry, he and Okamura Ningji did it, which beat Okamura Ningji not lightly, of course, Sun Legend's face was also injured, Later, it was the school leaders who came forward to stop it.
But after experiencing this incident, Okamura Ningji had a little admiration for Sun Chuanfang, and suddenly one day, Okamura Ningji found Sun Chuanfang and said to him that you are the boldest Chinese I have ever seen, and called him Sun Jun (if you want to know that in the eyes of the Japanese, it means that you are called a friend), so the two became good friends, really do not fight and do not know each other.
After graduating and returning to China, Sun Chuanfang began to rise in the chaotic era and joined the direct family camp, of course, the direct family figures at that time were Cao Kun, Feng Guozhang, Wu Peifu, Qi Xieyuan, Li Chun and others, and Sun Chuanfang was considered a junior in front of them.
But he was, in such an environment, desperate, became the last warlord leader of the direct line, and in the process of growing, Okamura Ningji also contributed a lot, it was in the rising period of Sun Chuanfang's career, he hired Okamura Ningji when he studied in Japan as his military adviser, and in the military, Okamura Ningji gave Sun a lot of good ideas, so that he later dominated the southeast.
In September 1924, the second Zhifeng War, the direct warlords Cao Kun and Wu Peifu were defeated, this was Duan Qirui came to power, Sun Chuanfang relied on Duan Qirui to develop his own strength, successively occupied Shanghai, and then left the victory to the north, directly into Shandong territory, he controlled most of the southeast provinces, and then established a coalition army of the five provinces of Wan, Fujian, Suzhou, Anhui, and Gansu, Sun Chuanfang served as the commander-in-chief, becoming the strongest one in the late period of the direct lineage, when most of the north was occupied by the Feng clan, and the south was Sun Chuanfang's world.
But later Sun Chuanfang was defeated by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and since then he has been depressed, and in his later years he converted to Buddhism, and after the 918 Incident, Okamura Ningci visited his former classmates and hoped that he could go out of the mountains, but Sun Chuanfang insisted on opposing "saying" that even if he died, he would not be a traitor.
It was not until 4 years later, in 1935, that Sun Chuanfang died at the hands of Shi Jianqiao, at the age of 50.