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As a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, Tang Enbo's life can not be described as beautiful. After graduating from military school, he participated in the Central Plains War, and since then he has entered the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek, and then he has been in peace.
However, Tang Enbo did not expect that his military career began at the Japanese Military Academy and his life ended in Japan.
In 1954, Tang Enbo, who went to Japan for treatment, died on the Japanese operating table, struggling and wailing before death, and finally died on the operating table because of his exhaustion because of shouting.
Why did Tang Enbo go to Japan for medical treatment? What did he experience before he died?
The talented fellow of the Chiang family
Principal Jiang has been recruiting talents for himself since the Whampoa Military Academy period, and those who are fellow villagers with President Jiang will be high-ranking officials of the Nanjing government in the future.
The same is true of Tang Enbo, relying on this relationship, Tang Enbo's military career has been prosperous.
Born in 1900, Tang Enbo did not have any outstanding talents in his early years, and there was no way to think about whether he could go to a military school in Japan.
He was penniless at the time, and he barely reached Japan with the help of Chen Yi. After that, Tang Enbo attended the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
Tang Enbo didn't know that this projectile land was actually his soul's home.
In 1926, also on the recommendation of Chen Yi, Tang Enbo joined the National Revolutionary Army and became a colonel staff officer because of his study abroad.
After the Northern Expedition of the revolutionary army, Tang Enbo began to be noticed by Chiang Kai-shek, and slowly was encircled by Chiang as his own person.
Here, Tang Enbo's military career can be regarded as setting the tone, and his benefactor is naturally Chen Yi, the elder of the National Government.
After the start of the all-out War of Resistance, Tang Enbo became Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, but others were becoming more and more capable, but Tang Enbo became more and more confused.
Despite this, he still guarded the Central Plains in Henan after the forties of the last century, calling for wind and rain within the Kuomintang.
However, Tang Enbo not only failed to lead troops, but also was politically a mess.
At that time, there were serious droughts, floods, locust plagues and other disasters in the Central Plains centered on Henan in China, which made farmers complain endlessly.
As a parent official, Tang Enbo should have focused his work on disaster relief.
However, even though he already held the actual power of the four major provinces of the Central Plains, Tang Enbo was still not satisfied, and he did not know his responsibilities.
After the natural disaster, Tang Enbo did not change, and the people's taxes were not reduced at all; Moreover, he also played the Kuomintang's consistent "fine tradition" - to catch Zhuangding.
With the reduction of labor in various regions, popular discontent was raging, and to make matters worse, the invaders also fought at this time.
At that time, the Japanese planned to start a war with the Chinese troops in Henan, and Tang Enbo, who was in charge of the local battlefield, disagreed with Jiang Dingwen, and as a result, the Japanese army fought a blitzkrieg like Hitler.
After this battle, the Central Plains national army was almost unable to fight back, and hundreds of thousands of national army elites were destroyed.
The funny thing is that even if the battle is fought like this, the regional management is a mess, and Tang Enbo still became the commander of the old Chiang Third Front with the face of the past.
If Tang Enbo is dead this time, then the next mistake may lay the groundwork for his final snub.
After September 1945, Tang Enbo changed from commander-in-chief of the Third Theater to commander of the Shanghai Garrison of the National Government.
The following year, Tang moved to Wuxi and became Chiang's general in the Nanjing region. Tang Enbo, who was thinking of making a fortune, did not sit hot in the ass, and waited for the news of the rapid offensive of the PLA.
In desperation, Jiang let this fellow come to the surroundings of the Shandong Liberated Area.
After that, Tang Enbo became the commander of the First Corps of the Nationalist Army, and his opponent was the famous East China Field Army of the People's Liberation Army.
Because the Nationalist army was well equipped, the PLA could not confront it head-on, so Su Yu suggested that our army pretend to retreat.
After the implementation of this strategy, Tang Enbo, who had been fighting for many years, did not even notice it.
As Tang Enbo entered Linyi and beyond, the PLA began to make dumplings and launched a fierce offensive against the Nationalist army.
The next situation can be imagined, and the report of the defeated army was sent to the "Ministry of Defense" in Nanjing like a snowflake.
Jiang was angry and corrupted, and scolded Tang Enbo for being incompetent, and at the same time asked Tang Enbo to concentrate superior forces to attack the main force of Huaye.
However, not long after, in the subsequent Battle of Menglianggu, the PLA quickly captured the Kuomintang's reorganized 74th Division.
After this battle, Zhang Lingfu, commander of the 74th Division, was killed by the PLA, and an elite reorganized division of the Nationalist Army was completely destroyed.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek executed some low-ranking generals, and Tang Enbo was also left out in the cold for a while. Logically speaking, such a general, Chiang Kai-shek should have given up a long time ago.
However, to everyone's surprise, it didn't take long for Tang Enbo to return to the military headquarters, and his position was higher than before.
Chiang Kai-shek's principle of employing people, who else can he not fail without failure? However, this may also be the last time Tang Enbo will be seen.
It was eventually discarded by Chiang
Tang Enbo, who returned to office after losing Meng Lianggu, thought that he would be a "freshman instructor" for the rest of his life.
Because after the defeat, Chiang Kai-shek always asked him to replenish troops for the Nationalist army, and basically could not get close to major strategic decisions.
However, in early 1949, Townebo returned to his original position.
It's just that this time Tang Enbo became the commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison, no wonder that the north of the Yangtze River has long been lost by them, where else can he be the commander?
After taking the order, Tang Enbo focused all his attention on Shanghai, the financial and political center.
Although the national army still holds "strategic assistance" from the United States, Tang Enbo, after several encounters with the PLA, has no confidence in guarding the Yangtze River.
Three months later, the People's Liberation Army officially kicked off the battle to cross the river. Tang Enbo did not expect that in less than a month, all his forward positions would disappear.
At the end of May of the same year, Shanghai was liberated, and Tang Enbo fled south in a hurry.
Not only that, Tang Enbo also took countless real money. Chiang Kai-shek did not expect that Tang Enbo, as the commander of the garrison, only thought about whether he could live or not.
During this period, the most aggrieved person may be Tang Enbo's old subordinate Luo Zemin. From his experience, we can also see what kind of wine bag Tang Enbo is and incompetent.
Luo Zemin understood the fact that Tang Enbo had abandoned the city and fled long ago in June 1949, but at this time, Tang Enbo had already been happy in Kinmen.
At that time, Luo Zemin was a general of the defeated army, and his identity was the highest commander of the Kuomintang 37th Army.
This young general, who originally led troops in the Suzhou area, was a division commander before 1948, which was not a big official in the Nationalist Army.
It was not until September of that year that the Nationalist Army began to reorganize, and he became the commander of the newly formed 37th Army, and Tang Enbo became his commander.
Luo Zemin's order was very clear: to unite the 52nd and 75th armies, under the unified command of garrison commander Tang Enbo, to carry out the duty of encircling Suhu.
After the PLA broke through the forward position in Shanghai, Luo Zemin, under Tang's orders, led his troops to defend around Pudong.
It's just that before his arming was completed, the PLA had already killed him.
Helpless, Luo Zemin led his troops all the way back, from Pudong to Huangpu River and then to Baidu Bridge, at this time, the 37th Army had not many people.
When Luo Zemin was still resisting, his "brother troops" 52nd Army and 75th Army had already packed up gold and silver and ran away.
The honest Luo Zemin only knew that Tang Enbo gave him a death order to hold the Huangpu River so that he could retreat together.
It's just that Luo Zemin didn't know that Tang Enbo was just using himself as the last shield. In the end, the result of Luo Zemin and others was that the 37th Army was annihilated.
Luo Zemin was in a dead heart, and in a panic, he changed his military uniform, and while the PLA had not yet begun to clean up the battlefield, Luo Zemin crossed the defense line.
After that, Luo Zemin tried everything to take a boat to Taiwan, he went to Chiang Kai-shek and Tang Enbo to ask for an explanation.
In fact, Tang Enbo, who had already arrived in Taiwan, would never have thought that Luo Zemin would actually come out of Shanghai alive.
Therefore, when Luo Zemin appeared at the military conference, Tang Enbo was extremely surprised. Luo Zemin was indignant, he came out to expose Tang Enbo's true face.
After the two began to argue, Tang Enbo looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.
Luo Zemin said that Tang Enbo was not worthy of being a commander, and he fled on the spot, and also tricked the soldiers to die;
Unexpectedly, Tang Enbo just replied: "The news is to let you retreat, but it's too chaotic, you haven't received it." ”
Disrupted by Luo Zemin's plan to invite credit, Tang Enbo was already very angry, but he didn't expect to argue like a shrew scolding the street now.
At this time, Tang Enbo just wanted to shoot Luo Zemin, so the two people quarreled more and more fiercely.
In the end, Chiang Kai-shek personally summoned Luo Zemin to calm the mood of the defeated general.
Since Chairman Jiang has said everything, Luo Zemin does not dare to say anything even if he has a great complaint. However, after this incident, Chiang Kai-shek also saw Tang Enbo clearly.
Although cronyism was Chiang Kai-shek's weakness, Chiang was not completely talentless.
He saw that Tang Enbo did not have any real ability, but he had a hand in accumulating wealth;
As a commander, he does not cherish his soldiers, let alone the burden on his body, what is the use of him?
After making up his mind, Chiang Kai-shek completely abandoned Tang Enbo.
Subsequently, Tang Enbo was only a "military adviser" to the Ministry of Defense, and he did not have a single gun under him, and he also understood that he could no longer make Chiang Kai-shek pay attention. In his opinion, this is his most unlucky time.
But Tang Enbo didn't expect that he could be more unlucky.
Sad ending
After being punished by Chiang Kai-shek for his false position, Tang Enbo was in a dead heart, just thinking that he could spend his old age in peace in Taiwan's National Government, so that he would have ended well.
Admittedly, this is indeed his best ending, but the inaction and sins of the first half of his life make him destined to have a good ending.
Soon after becoming a military adviser, Tang Enbo became involved in political affairs, and the central figure in the matter was Chen Yi, the teacher who had brought him up.
This incident also dates back to when he was the commander of the Suhu-Hangzhou garrison, when Chen Yi had already seen that Chiang Kai-shek would be defeated, so he wanted Tang Enbo to change his ways.
However, although Tang Enbo was incapable, he followed his "president" Chiang Kai-shek with a dead heart.
As soon as Chen Yi finished talking with him, Tang Enbo told Chiang Kai-shek everything about the matter. Although Jiang Shi was angry, he spared Chen Yi's life at that time.
Perhaps because Tang Enbo lost Shanghai, it was really a big crime, and Chiang Kai-shek was angry; Soon after Tang Enbo was relieved of his military powers, he received news that Jiang was about to execute Chen Yi.
Recalling that he had also said good things to Chen Yi in the past, Tang Enbo couldn't help but feel a chill in his back.
Tang knew Jiang Jiaxi's careful eye very well, so he didn't think about saving his teacher this time, and in his opinion, he was thankful that he was able to survive this incident safely.
Then Chen Yi was shot, and Tang Enbo's previous behavior of betraying the teacher was also dug up, and he became notorious.
At this time, Tang Enbo is like a dog in the water, not only has psychological problems, but his body is also deteriorating day by day.
After the examination, doctors in Taiwan told Mr. Tang that he must have had serious problems with several organs.
Such an outcome is tantamount to a thunderbolt, but Taiwan does not have enough medical conditions to allow him to recover.
Tang Enbo tried to beg Chiang Kai-shek, but in Tang's capacity, Chiang would definitely not let him go abroad. In this way, Tang Enbo's illness dragged on more and more seriously.
Until 1954, Tang Enbo had been identified as liver cancer by doctors.
At this time, even if Tang Enbo can go abroad, there is simply not enough funds. How to say that Tang Enbo is also a former concubine of the Jiang family, and now he has ended up in this situation, which is really embarrassing.
Chiang Kai-shek then also understood that Tang Enbo at this time could not stir up much wind and waves.
As a result, Tang was allowed to travel to Japan for better treatment, and Chiang Kai-shek provided him with funds and airplanes.
Tang Enbo, who finally got on the plane, did not take long to see the Japan he was most familiar with decades ago.
Tang Enbo was treated at Keio University's medical school in Japan, and the surgeon was full of confidence, because he had too many cases like Tang Enbo.
Listening to the doctor's words, Tang Enbo was also very happy, he felt that he would be cured soon.
After the first operation, Tang Enbo recovered well. As the surgeon said, it went very well.
However, it didn't take long for Tang Enbo's condition to deteriorate, and his original trip to Japan was delayed. Not only that, but the second operation soon came.
After that, the most painful time of his life came: on the operating table, despite the anesthesia, he still shouted.
The doctor also did not understand why the patient had been wailing. In the end, Towneber died of worsening cancer, and he was still wailing at the last second before he died.
Chiang was not moved when he received the news of Tang Enbo's death, but he still sent someone to pick up Tang Enbo's body and return to Taiwan.
However, for Chiang Kai-shek, Tang Enbo was just an outcast, and it was also the best example of him seeing the wrong person.
Chiang Kai-shek later said that Tang Enbo, as one of the senior commanders of the party-state, should die on the front line of safeguarding the "interests" of the party-state, rather than dying on the operating table in a wail.
Chiang Kai-shek's attitude towards his subordinates in this way, and heaven gave him a Tang Enbo can be regarded as a "courtesy exchange".
epilogue
Throughout history, few people who followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan ended well after all. It's just that Tang Enbo's old age is too tragic.
Although the other generals were not tortured by illness, they were also imprisoned in Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek all their lives, without any personal freedom.
Since joining the National Revolutionary Army, apart from his few achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Tang Enbo has behaved like a "military blindness" in other wars.
Such a record, from the perspective of a soldier alone, is really sorry for Chiang Kai-shek, who vigorously promoted him.
In addition, when Tang Enbo sat in the Central Plains, he had no achievements and no achievements, and the tragic experience in his later years can be regarded as his retribution.
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- Chiang Kai-shek's killing of Chen Yi Insider丨Unity Daily
- After fleeing from the mainland to Taiwan, Tang Enbo: died on the Japanese operating table丨People's Political Consultative Conference
- Tang Enbo丨Anti-Japanese War Memorial Network