The Great War of the Central Plains refers to Chiang Kai-shek's single-handedness, when local warlords: Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, Zhang Fakui, a large-scale civil war, lasted more than 7 months before and after, and both sides invested 1.1 million troops, but in the end Chiang Kai-shek won.
Chiang Kai-shek was able to win the Great War in the Central Plains for several reasons: one Xueliang voted for Chiang Kai-shek, two warlords in various places played their own small calculations, and three Feng Yuxiang's subordinates were bribed to vote for Chiang. In fact, Feng Yuxiang's subordinates cast Jiang, and Feng Yuxiang's paternalistic style has a lot to do with it.
Today I will introduce it to you: During the Central Plains War, due to Feng Yuxiang's paternalistic style, the two tiger generals under his command surrendered to Jiang.
The Northwest Army is a unit brought out by Feng Yuxiang, naturally Feng Yuxiang is the soul of this unit, and Feng has a high prestige in the army, but because the Northwest Army does not have a certain political proposition, nor does it have a clear political system, it all depends on the feelings between individuals as a maintenance of this group, a bit of a type of underworld system.
And Feng Yuxiang has always adopted a paternalistic style, personal arbitrariness, and lack of democracy. To his generals, just like parents managing their children, they will fight at any time and in any place, and they will scold when they say they will scold, and they will not give face at all. Even later, when these people became division commanders, Feng Yuxiang still adopted a paternalistic style towards them when they were commanders, and did not respect and be polite to them. This was also one of the reasons why his subordinate Thirteen Taibao rebelled at the first opportunity.
For example, Feng Yuxiang's general Ji Hongchang was punished to kneel in public, and Han Fuyu was slapped in public, please note that one of them was a division commander at that time, and the other was a provincial boss Han Fuyu.
During the Great War in the Central Plains, Feng Yuxiang held a military conference, at which all the generals expressed their views, and some people may think that this is also a normal thing, just at this time Han Fuyu opposed Feng Yuxiang's retreat to the west of Tongguan, and on the spot Feng Yuxiang walked up to Han Fuyu and slapped him, and Han Fuyu was very faceless. Think about as long as it is an individual, will remember the revenge, and then say that Han Fuyu did not do anything wrong, this may be related to Feng Yuxiang's long-term paternalism, may be for Feng Han Fuyu is his son, this does not feel that he did wrong, maybe he did not know that Ruling's sons have grown up and have soldiers in their hands.
Shortly after this incident occurred, Chiang Kai-shek sent people to lobby Han Fuyu, and in addition, he sent money and high-ranking officials, so Han Fuyu joined forces with Shi Yousan to vote for Chiang Kai-shek, and it should be known that these two units under the leadership were the main forces of the Northwest Army, especially Han Fuyu was known as "Flying General".
Although the other generals were still very obedient to Feng Yuxiang on the surface, they all had their own plans in their hearts. Since then, the situation in the Central Plains War has undergone great changes, and Feng Yuxiang himself has also suffered a huge blow, and finally went to the field. The Northwest Army was disintegrated, and the troops were absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek.
The remnants were downsized into Song Zheyuan's 29th Army, Sun Lianzhong's 26th Route Army, Ji Hongchang's 22nd Route Army, Liang Guanying's 25th Route Army, and Han Fuji and Shi Yousan's troops.
However, it is interesting that later when Han Fuyu became the king of Shandong, Feng Yuxiang came to Shandong after losing power once, and Han Fuyu was still very respectful and restrained to Feng Yuxiang.
This article is originally told by Fujian Bear about history, welcome to pay attention and take you along with long knowledge!