During the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek gathered a group of young talents around him, each of whom possessed super high military talents, and also became a powerful general around Chiang Kai-shek, and there were five generals with very outstanding military achievements in Chiang Kai-shek's military clique, who were known as Chiang Kai-shek's five tiger generals, these five people were: Chen Cheng, Gu Zhutong, Liu Zhi, Jiang Dingwen, and Wei Lihuang. These five people were all heavily used by Chiang Kai-shek during the Northern Expedition, and it can be said that they were all senior executive positions in the military clique, but with the disintegration of Chiang Kai-shek's military clique, four of them followed Chiang Kai-shek's defeat and retreat to Taiwan, so what was the fate of these four people?
1. Chen Cheng: Chen Cheng should be regarded as the most important person of these five people by Chiang Kai-shek, and within the Kuomintang, Chen Cheng has the title of small chairman. He was born in Zhejiang, graduated from the Baoding Army Officer School, and after the end of the Northern Expedition, Chen Cheng was gradually used by Chiang Kai-shek and appointed as the commander of the Eighteenth Army, which also laid chen Cheng's position in the Nationalist Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Cheng successively served as commander of the Ninth Theater, commander of the Expeditionary Force, and many other important posts; as the importance of his positions increased, Chen Cheng himself was constantly used by Chiang Kai-shek, and then during the War of Liberation, Chen Cheng's army lost in the northeast, but Chen Cheng himself was not severely punished by Chiang Kai-shek, but was sent to Taiwan as Chiang Kai-shek's back road. Chen Cheng died in Taiwan in 1965 at the age of 67 due to illness.
2. Jiang Dingwen: During the Northern Expedition, he served as the deputy commander of the First Army, and served as the commander of the First Theater during the War of Resistance Against Japan, but later suffered a disastrous military defeat, fled the military circles after a slump, was used by Chiang Kai-shek in the later stages of the Liberation War, and was helpless to retreat to Taiwan, jiang Dingwen died of illness in Taiwan in 1974 at the age of 79.
3. Gu Zhutong: Gu Zhutong, like Chen Cheng, graduated from the Baoding Army Officer School, Gu Zhutong was also a capable general of Chiang Kai-shek during the Northern Expedition, and was arranged by Chiang Kai-shek to serve as a commander in the Ninth Army of his own concubine unit, but during the War of Resistance Against Japan, although Gu Zhutong also made great contributions, he did not get Chiang Kai-shek's importance, but he still held important positions such as commander of the Third Theater, and was called a tumbler.
During the Liberation War, Gu Zhutong held the position of commander-in-chief of the army, and with the defeat of the Liberation War, he went to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, but in Taiwan Gu Zhutong only held some virtual positions, until 1987, Gu Zhutong died of illness in Taiwan at the age of 94.
4. Liu Zhi: During the Northern Expedition, Liu Zhi served as the commander of the First Army of Chiang Kai-shek's concubines, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Liu Zhi also held an important position, then serving as the commander of the Fifth Theater.
However, during the Liberation War, Liu Zhi served as the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou, but at this time Liu Zhi was always ridiculed as a pig general, and later Liu Zhi was defeated in the Huaihai War, and after being deposed by Chiang Kai-shek, he took his family and took refuge in Indonesia until 1954, with the consent of Chiang Kai-shek, and in 1971, Liu Zhi died of illness in Taiwan at the age of 79.