Last weekend, in the series "The Past of the Republic of China: Zhou Xicheng of the Guizhou Warlord Tongzi Lineage", I introduced the rise, governance, fall and political legacy of Zhou Xicheng. Continue this series today and write the story of Zhou Xicheng's successor, Mao Guangxiang.
The relationship between Zhou Xicheng and Mao Guangxiang is somewhat similar to the relationship between the Xingyi warlord Liu Xianshi and Wang Wenhua.
Wang Wenhua was Liu Xianshi's nephew and had always been the number one of Liu Xianshi's military powers; Mao Guangxiang was Zhou Xicheng's cousin and had always been the number one under Zhou Xicheng. However, unlike Wang Wenhua,who later rebelled against Liu Xianshi, Mao Guangxiang was the only one who was the head of the horse and loyal to Zhou Xi from beginning to end.
Early life
Mao Guangxiang: 1893-1947, Maoba people, Tongzi County, lost his father at an early age, and his family was poor.
In 1911, Mao Guangxiang joined the army with Zhou Xicheng and participated in the Guizhou Xinhai Revolution, and then followed Yang Xingcheng, the governor of Guizhou, in his campaign against Changde.
In 1914, Zhou Xicheng participated in the War of the Patriotic Army with The Governor of Guizhou Province, Dai Jie, and entered the Sichuan Campaign, and Mao Guangxiang served as the company commander of Zhou Xicheng's battalion. After Dai Jiezhan died, he killed a bloody road with Zhou Xicheng and returned to Guiyang.
In 1920, Zhou Xicheng was appointed as the battalion commander of Dou Juren's brigade and Mao Guangxiang was appointed as the deputy battalion commander; after Zhou Xicheng annexed Dou Juren's brigade, Mao Guangxiang served as the commander of the first regiment (a total of two regiments, Wang Jialie served as the commander of the second regiment).
With Zhou Xicheng's promotion, Mao Guangxiang also filled Zhou's position in turn; by the time Zhou Xicheng was appointed commander of the 25th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Mao Guangxiang was appointed deputy commander.
Because Mao Guangxiang and Zhou Xicheng had a close relationship (fellow villagers, classmates, cousins), he first fought with Zhou Xicheng in the world, and was the most trusted person of Zhou Xicheng, and was officially identified as the second person of the Tongzi family at the Fuling Conference in Sichuan in 1923.
In 1926, Zhou Xicheng traveled from Chishui to Guiyang to become the governor of Guizhou, and Mao Guangxiang was stationed in Chishui to defend the northern and southern Border of Sichuan. Zhou Xicheng stayed behind to guard Mao Guangxiang's base camp, which shows his trust in Mao Guangxiang.
Mao Guangxiang: Suit photo
The Warlords of Dianqian have a grudge
The warlords in Yunnan and Guizhou have deep historical roots and entangled grievances...
As early as when Liu Yanshan and Liu Guanli father and son of Xingyi ran a regiment to help the imperial court suppress the White Flag Army uprising, Liu Shi relied more on yunnan forces and obtained arms from Yunnan, after all, it was much more convenient to go from Xingyi to Kunming than to Guiyang.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out in Guizhou, Liu Xianshi entered Guiyang, and then introduced the Yunnan warlord Tang Jiyao into Guizhou. Liu Xianshi and Tang Jiyao staged a coup d'état and wantonly slaughtered important members of the "Autonomous Society", eventually stealing the military and political power of Guizhou. This period is regarded by the Guizhou people as the "period of death", which shows the deep hatred of the Guizhou people towards Yunnan.
In 1920, the Xingyi warlord Shaozhuang faction Wang Wenhua rose up, and Liu Xianshi once again conspired with Tang Jiyao in Yunnan to remove Wang Wenhua from the position of commander of the First Division of the Qian Army, but Wang Wenhua learned of the telegram to preempt it.
After Yuan Zuming assassinated Wang Wenhua, Liu Xianshi and Yuan Zuming joined forces against the Xingyi warlord Shaozhuang faction. After "Dingqian", Yuan Zuming reneged on his promise to exclude Liu Xianshi, and Liu Xianshi once again relied on the Yunnan warlords to oppose Yuan Zuming, and the Yunnan warlords once again entered Guizhou.
In short, when the Xingyi warlords were in charge of Guizhou, the Guizhou warlords were completely the little brothers of the Yunnan warlords, and everything was only the head of the Yunnan horse; and the Yunnan warlords entered Guizhou several times, killing people, setting fires, robbing money, and deceiving the people.
As a result, Zhou Xicheng naturally had a grudge against the Yunnan warlords, and after allying with Li Zongren of the Gui clan, Zhou Xicheng changed the attitude of his younger brother in Guizhou and unceremoniously expelled all the forces of the Yunnan warlords in Guizhou.
Mao Guangxiang: Rong Costume Photo
Delayed fighter
In 1927, Long Yun and others plotted to subvert Tang Jiyao and launched the "February 6 Coup"...
Zhou Xicheng finally waited for the opportunity and ordered Mao Guangxiang to aid the commander-in-chief of Yunnan and attack Yunnan, hoping to bring Yunnan into the sphere of influence of the Warlords of Guizhou in one fell swoop, and Mao Guangxiang would rule Yunnan.
Ironically, Mao Guangxiang actually did not leave when he marched to Anshun, because "his mother ordered concubines to continue his heirs", because at this time, Mao Guangxiang had no male heirs, and his mother was worried that Mao Guangxiang would never return (died in battle).
So Mao Guangxiang took a three-day vacation and became a concubine. The army has not yet arrived in Yunnan, and the situation in Yunnan has calmed down.
Mao Guangxiang's mother was extremely filial, but as far as this matter was concerned, not wanting to fight Yunnan was naturally the root cause, and taking a concubine yansi on his mother's order was just an excuse.
One wants to achieve great things and also achieves his subordinates, and the other does not want to forge ahead and miss the fighter.
Zhou Xicheng wanted to cure Mao Guangxiang of his crimes, but in the end he protected the calves and sent Mao Guangxiang to Japan to "investigate military and political affairs."
As a result, Mao Guangxiang stayed in Guangdong for several months, eating, drinking, having fun, and not leaving.
During Mao Guangxiang's stay in Guangdong, he again aroused Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance, fearing that Qiangui and Yue would join forces, and eventually prompted Chiang Kai-shek to encourage Li Shen (formerly yuan Zuming's subordinate, commander of the 43rd Army) to return to Qian to fight for military and political power, and Zhou and Li broke out the Battle of Qiandong.
After the Outbreak of the Battle of Qiandong, Mao Guangxiang was urgently recalled to the province by Zhou Xicheng, and achieved his goal of not going to Japan as he wished.
Mistake the fighter again
After Yunnan Longyun initially gained a firm foothold, he naturally wanted to take revenge on Zhou Xicheng.
In 1929, Li Shen, who had lost the Battle of Qiandong, joined forces with Long Yun and attacked Guizhou in two ways.
Zhou Xicheng appointed Mao Guangxiang as the commander-in-chief of the Left Wing Army, and led the Yuguo Material Division out of Xingren to defend against the enemy of Xingyi from Luoping in Yunnan; the Middle Route Army was the Huang Daobin Department, defending against the army from Pan County in Yunnan.
As a result, Mao Guangxiang repeatedly fought unfavorably, entangled with the Dian army in the Xingren area, and failed to achieve the strategic intention of meeting the Division of the Zodiac Binbu division on the middle road (the Zodiac Binbu was actually defeated again and again), completely disrupting the overall deployment of Zhou Xicheng.
Originally, the two sides were on an equal footing, but the result was that the Long and Li coalition forces drove straight in and went straight to Guanling, and the two sides ushered in a decisive battle. Zhou Xicheng was in a hurry to personally supervise the battle, but he died unexpectedly...
Mao Guangxiang and his staff
He was promoted to the position of King of Guizhou
As soon as Zhou Xicheng died, the Qian army collapsed, and the long and Li allied forces drove straight into Guiyang, and the remnants of the Tongzi clan retreated to northern Qianbei.
It is also considered that tongzi is good luck, at this time, the "July 11 Incident" against Longyun occurred in Yunnan, and the Dian army retreated to Guizhou in a hurry.
Wang Jialie led the army to Zunyi, and the Yuguo Caibu also rushed back to Zunyi, the foreign enemy was in front, and the Tongzi clan was in the same spirit, reorganized the 25th Army, and jointly elected Mao Guangxiang as the leader (Mao Guangxiang was the heir arranged by Zhou Xicheng before his death), and counterattacked Guiyang in one fell swoop.
Li Shen ruled Guizhou for only 18 days, the Yunnan warlords withdrew, naturally alone, and then withdrew from Yunnan, Tongzi returned to the government of Qianzheng, Mao Guangxiang succeeded as the commander of the 25th Army and chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Government, becoming the new king of Guizhou.
Although Mao Guangxiang sat in the position of king of Guizhou, he missed the fighter several times, and Zhou Xicheng was accidentally killed, which also had a lot to do with the defeat of the left wing army, and there were many people within the Tongzi clan who were dissatisfied with Mao Guangxiang.
In particular, Wang Jialie, the third person of the former Tongzi clan (who was already the second person at this time, serving as the deputy commander of the 25th Army), was even more eyeing Mao Guangxiang, and Mao Guangxiang naturally knew it, so he chose to defect to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek keenly saw the contradiction between Mao and Wang, so he turned to support Wang Jialie, and the story of the brothers in the Tongzi clan was about to be staged...
"The Past of the Republic of China: Guizhou Warlord Tongzi Lineage" series to be continued...
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