In 1941, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched the "Anhui Southern Incident", which caused the destruction of the New Fourth Army headquarters, and thousands of soldiers of the New Fourth Army were sacrificed. In fact, in this incident, the Nationalist army mainly had five divisions of troops as the main attacker, so which five divisions were these five divisions? Who is the division commander? Did they have this ending after that?
The five divisions were the 52nd Division, the 108th Division, the 40th Division, the 144th Division, and the 79th Division, and their commanders were Liu Bingzhe, Rong Jiwu, Fang Riying, Tang Mingzhao, and Duan Linmao. Below, I will introduce these 5 division commanders to you one by one.
First of all, Liu Bingzhe, a third-term student of the Whampoa Military Academy, successively served as deputy division commander of the 25th Army, commander of the 52nd Division, and led his troops to participate in the Anhui Incident in the early years, and after the war, he was promoted to commander of the Appeasement Headquarters of the Suwan Border Region in Jiangnan Province. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Bingzhe was imprisoned in Suzhou Prison and executed for trying to escape from prison.
The second was Rong Jiwu, a native of Dingxian County, Hebei Province, who graduated from the eighth term of the Baoding Military Academy and was a general in the Northeast Army, who later joined Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the 108th Division. However, because of his origin in the Northeast Army, Rong Jiwu was not allowed to be reused until 1947, when he was awarded the rank of major general, and on the eve of liberation, Chiang Kai-shek personally wrote a memorandum when Rong Jiwu's mother died in order to win the hearts and minds of the people. Since then, the five major banquets of the Rong Dynasty have a month before and after, and their extravagance can be seen. However, his whereabouts after liberation have always been a mystery.
Then there was Fang Riying, a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong, who had studied in the first phase of Huangpu, had a fairly high level of seniority, served as the commander of the 40th Division in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and after the Anhui Incident, he was promoted to deputy commander of the 86th Army for "battle merits", and soon after he was promoted to lieutenant general, and the promotion speed was quite fast. However, at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fang Riying was relieved of his military powers and transferred to the Lieutenant General's Senate, and has never been in charge of the army since. At the end of the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek reached the point where there were no generals available, so he had to reactivate Fang Riying and appoint him as the commander of the Second Security Division of Guangdong Province, but was defeated by the People's Liberation Army, first fled to Taiwan, and then moved to the United States, where he died of illness in 1967.
Then there was Tang Mingzhao, who was a general of the Sichuan Army and a general of Liu Xiang's concubine, who was highly valued by Liu Xiang, and in the Anhui Incident, he led the 144th Division to besiege the New Fourth Army, his hands were stained with the blood of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, and he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general soon after. However, in the Liberation War, Tang Mingzhao's troops were defeated by the People's Liberation Army, and he himself fled to his hometown with his guards, and after the founding of the country, Tang Mingzhao was arrested and imprisoned by the government, and executed soon after.
Finally, let's talk about Duan Linmao, this person is the third term student of the Whampoa Military Academy, after graduation, he entered the Northern Expeditionary Army as a probationary officer, Duan Linmao is very capable of commanding, has received the attention of his superiors, by the beginning of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was already the deputy commander of the 79th Division, in 1940 was promoted to commander. Duan Linmao participated in the Battle of Nanchang, the Battle of Zhejiang and other battles, it should be said that he made great achievements in the War of Resistance, and was promoted to the commander of the 98th Army in 1945, but the 98th Army was completely annihilated in the Battle of Shatuji, and Duan Linmao also became a prisoner, and later he fled without attention. In 1949, Duan Linmao fled to Taiwan, where he was reused by Chiang Kai-shek, serving as a lieutenant general and a lieutenant general of the Joint Combat Planning Committee of the Ministry of National Defense, and died of illness in 1975 at the age of 71.