The first period of Huangpu was called Tianzi Protégé, and among them, Hu Zongnan was definitely one of the frontrunners, and Chiang Kai-shek was particularly fond of him, and he was also known as the first Tianzi Protégé. Before the Liberation War, Hu Zongnan really deserved this name.
After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Hu Zongnan soon participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, because of his bravery in combat, successive victories, outstanding military ability, and even defeated an elite division of Sun Chuanfang's army with the strength of a regiment, and captured the commander Li Yanchun, so he soon stood out in the first period of life and became the first general in the first period of Huangpu.
As everyone knows, in the past, there were many factions within the Kuomintang army, and the various hills were still tilted against each other. The Central Army, on which Chiang Kai-shek relied most heavily, was roughly divided into three factions, namely the Chen Cheng faction, the Tang Enbo faction, and the Hu Zongnan faction. It is worth mentioning that Chen Cheng and Tang Enbo are both instructors of the Whampoa Military Academy, while only Hu Zongnan is a student of the Whampoa Military Academy. This shows the high ability of Hu Zongnan.
Later, in order to strengthen his personal dictatorship, Chiang Kai-shek established the Revival Society, the predecessor of military unification. Within the Revival Society, Hu Zongnan is an absolute soul figure. It is not difficult to understand that first of all, Hu Zongnan is the best in the first period of Huangpu's life, and secondly, he and Lao Jiang are zhejiang compatriots. All these factors were superimposed, and Chiang Kai-shek naturally liked him very much, so he became Chiang Kai-shek's most powerful cronies.
At this point, Hu Zongnan's career was still on the rise, first he actively participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and then launched a tragic head-on collision with the Japanese army. In the Songhu War, his troops were bloody on the battlefield for two months, and the 20,000 men of the First Army fought until only 1,000 were left, and finally they still held their positions. After Japan's unconditional surrender, Hu Zongnan was already the commander of the First Theater of Operations, with an army of 500,000, controlling Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and parts of Shanxi, Henan, becoming a veritable "King of the Northwest". It can be said that at this time, Hu Zongnan has reached the peak of his life.
However, the peak was the beginning of the fall, and the Liberation War became Hu Zongnan's lingering nightmare. Even though Hu Zongnan once captured Yan'an, the seat of the head organ of the Chinese Communist Party, at the very beginning, he was beaten by more than 20,000 people of the Northwest Field Army of the People's Liberation Army and lost consecutive battles, and his own decision-making mistakes sent troops into the pockets of the People's Liberation Army several times and three times, and the incomprehensible military command finally allowed Hu Zongnan to lose the northwest and southwest clean, and even some people once suspected that he was the biggest undercover agent on our side.
The tree fell and scattered, Hu Zongnan was already cornered, the former king of the northwest was like a cloud of smoke, smoke dissipated, at this time Chiang Kai-shek was no longer able to cover up his proud protégé, Defeated and fled to Taiwan Hu Zongnan was faced with impeachment from all directions, sadness, guilt, humiliation and other negative emotions finally crushed his body, Hu Zongnan died of illness in Taiwan with unwilling pain.