The Republic of China period was an era of the rise of the masses, but also an era of chaos, warlords in various places and provinces supported the army and respected themselves, just like the ancient land cut off and claimed the king. For example, Zhang Zuolin, the king of northeast China, Yan Xishan, the king of Shanxi, the king of Yunnan (Tang Jiyao, Long Yun), the king of Sichuan Liu Xiang, the king of Hunan Tang Shengzhi, the king of Guizhou (Wang Jialie), the king of northwestErng Feng Yuxiang, and the king of Guangxi (Lu Rongting, Li Zongren) were all famous warlords during the Republic of China period, and they all had heavy troops.
Among the above-mentioned warlords, some of them later withdrew from the political arena despite the scuffle between warlords in various places, such as Feng Yuxiang, who withdrew from the Central Plains War, Wang Jialie, Tang Shengzhi, zhang Zuolin, who was killed by the Japanese, and Lu Rongting, Who was replaced by new people, And Tang Jiyao. But say, who mixed these warlords best later? It was Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren of the Gui clan, who later remained at the top of chiang kai-shek's clique. Moreover, the Gui clan was also the most cattle local faction in the Republic of China period.
Bai Chongxi
Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi are naturally the best representatives of this faction. In fact, in addition to the well-known Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, there were several great warlords in the Gui warlords of the Republic of China period, who were also influential figures in Guangxi at that time, and even the whole country.
The first was the Guangxi king "Lu Rongting", who was equally famous as Zhang Zuolin. He was also born in the green forest, and like Zhang Zuolin, the king of the northeast, the two later married brothers with the surname of Yi, one was the king of the northeast and the other was the king of Guangxi. Lu Rongting was able to stand out in the chaotic world and become a generation of Guangxi kings, naturally with his superior skills. According to rumors, Lu Rongting's marksmanship is very good, and when he was a bandit, he was very moralistic, did not bully the local people, and specialized in grabbing French merchants on the border, so over time, he gathered many heroes and good men, somewhat similar to the Liangshan good men in "Water Margin". This also laid the foundation for him to become the king of Guangxi.
After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, the era of people rising up in various places, guns, and some people being kings came. At this time, Lu Rongting seized the opportunity to unify Guangxi, and was later appointed by Yuan Shikai as the governor of Guangxi, and in this way, Guangxi ushered in the era of Lu Rongting, when Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren were still studying in school.
Lu Rongting
The second was Shen Hongying, a great warlord of the Gui clan, who was also from the Green Forest, and because someone had a gun in his hand, he defected to the allies when the Xinhai Revolution broke out. In the warlord melee, he stood out as one of the more powerful warlords of the Gui clan, although he feng Lu Rongting was a big man in Guangxi, but his heart was always thinking about how to drive Lu Rongting out of Guangxi.
In 1920, Lu Rongting was attacked by the Yue army, and Lu Rongting, who was worried about internal and external troubles, was forced to go to the wilderness, at which time Shen Hongying declared autonomy, saying that Guangxi must be governed by Guangxi itself, so the Guangdong army withdrew from Guangxi. Shen Hongying became an old man in Guangxi as he wished, but later, he was defeated by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, a descendant of the Gui clan, and withdrew from the military, and finally died in a foreign country.
Shen Hongying
The third is the Gui warlord Liu Zhenhuan, a native of Liujiang County, Guangxi, and Liu Zhenhuan is also a capricious man, somewhat similar to Feng Yuxiang. He first joined the Alliance Led by Mr. Zhongshan, and later broke away, relying on Chen Bingkun, the governor of Guangxi and the leader of the old Gui warlords, and in the Gui army he also received chen Bingkun's important position and became a major general on the Gui side.
However, in the 1921 Guangdong-Guizhou War, he defected to the battlefield, causing heavy losses to the Gui army, and also caused Lu Rongting to go into the wilderness, and he served as the inspector of the Guangxi Appeasement Department for his merits. What is even more beautiful is that after Chen Jiongming launched a rebellion, Liu Zhenhuan, as the commander-in-chief of the Gui Army, sent troops to attack Chen Jiongming and helped Mr. Zhongshan return to Guangzhou. Only not long after, he joined forces with Yang Ximin of the Dian Army against Mr. Zhongshan, and finally lost the defeat of the army, fled to Hong Kong, and never returned until his death in 1972.
After the above three were all dismissed, the Gui clan ushered in a batch of new warlords, that is, the familiar Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Huang Shaohu, Li Pinxian, Liao Lei and others.