When Chiang Kai-shek employs people, the most important thing is the word loyalty.
Whether it is Hu Zongnan, the so-called first person of Tianzi's protégé, or Gu Zhutong, Liu Zhi, one of the Five Tiger Generals, and others, they are all known for their loyalty, but under the word loyalty is mediocrity with insufficient ability.
Gu Zhutong, born in the Sixth Infantry Section of the Baoding Army Officer School, was his brother-in-law.
As early as 1922, when Chiang Kai-shek had not yet made his mark, when he was only the chief of staff of the base camp and the chief of staff of the Xu Chongzhi Department of the Second Army of the Guangdong Army, the two met each other, and he met his brother in his hometown, and he saw him as usual, and then Chiang Kai-shek strongly recommended him as a lieutenant of Xu Bu and the leader of the non-commissioned officer teaching team.
Gu Zhutong was very grateful to Chiang Kai-shek for his kindness, and since then he has saddled up for Chiang Kai-shek, winning and losing for decades, and being loyal and courageous.
In 1924, Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded the Army Officer School (referred to as the Whampoa Military Academy) in Huangpu, Guangzhou, and in June, the military academy officially opened, with Chiang Kai-shek as the principal, and Gu Zhutong as the lieutenant colonel tactics instructor of the military school and the acting director of the management department.
In July 1926, when the Northern Expedition began, Gu Zhu was also the deputy commander of the Third Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
Only a year later, in August 1927, after the victory at the Battle of Longtan, Gu Zhutong was promoted to commander of the Ninth Army.
The speed of his promotion can be seen because of Gu Zhutong's military achievements during the period? Not. It is only because his loyalty coincides with Chiang Kai-shek's consistent way of employing people.
In the Battle of the Central Plains, Gu Zhu was also the commander-in-chief of the right wing of the Longhai Line, and he adopted the strategy of surprise attack, breaking through the Feng army's defensive line in one fell swoop, capturing Guide, and was specially commended by Chiang Kai-shek, and after the End of the Central Plains War, Gu Zhutong was promoted again to the commander-in-chief of the Sixteenth Route Army and in charge of the northwest. In July 1931, Shi Yousan rebelled against Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek appointed Gu Zhutong to fight north, and then made military merits, and in November of the same year, he was elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee.
Then Chiang Kai-shek advocated that the outside world must first be at home, so he began to suppress the Communists, and Gu Zhutong, as Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, became a staunch supporter and executor of Chiang Kai-shek's suppression of the Communists. And these have become Gu Zhutong's ladder of promotion. Chiang Kai-shek was very satisfied with Gu Zhutong's approach, awarded the Second Class Cloud Eagle Medal, and then transferred to the guizhou provincial government chairman and security commander, which was very beautiful.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after the fall of Nanjing, Gu Zhutong served as the commander of the Third Theater of Operations, and has been fighting under the encirclement of the Japanese army and the Wang puppet army, although there has been no great achievement, but it has also pinned down the main force of the Japanese 13th Army in East China, effectively cooperating with the entire anti-Japanese battlefield.
In 1941, Gu Zhutong led his troops to attack our army, resulting in more than 9,000 people and only more than 2,000 people successfully broke through, Xiang Ying, who was then deputy commander and political commissar of the New Fourth Army, was killed, and General Ye Ting was arrested.
During the most arduous period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Gu Zhutong dared to risk the world's great disobedience and only blindly obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders, saying that there was no bottom line, no way to use any means, and it was not too much.
During the Liberation War, it was even more revealing that his personal military ability was useless, and he lost a lot.
After the defeat of the Kuomintang in Taiwan, Gu Zhutong stubbornly resisted in the southwest region, but soon collapsed, and in March 1950, he was called back to Taiwan as acting minister of national defense.
In 1954, he was promoted to "General of the First Class of the Army".
In 1987, at the age of 94, Gu Zhutong died of illness at the Kuomintang General Hospital of the Third Army in Taipei.
Yes and no, Ren commented.