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He was the commander of the Kuomintang corps and a "feng shui master" who liked to fight with feng shui superstitions. On the battlefield, he relied on feng shui deception countless times to inspire soldiers to fight heroically. In the War of Liberation, he knew that the defeat was decided, and comforted the soldiers that there would be "heavenly soldiers" to rescue them. It turned out to be the People's Liberation Army, and he was also taken prisoner. This senior Kuomintang general known as the Compass General was Zhang Gan.
01. A shrewd young man from a Muslim family
Zhang Gan, a native of Guilin, Guangxi, was born in 1897 to a Hui family. As an adult, he defected to Bai Chongxi, who was also a Hui nationality, entered the Guangxi Army Accelerated School, and became a low-level officer in the Gui Army after graduation.
Zhang Gan is a relatively shrewd person, in the words of Bai Chongxi, ghosts and ghosts, and there are many bad ideas. In addition to leading his soldiers to fight, he assiduously studied feng shui theory and integrated it into military command. In fact, Zhang Gan's little trick is not remarkable, that is, to take advantage of the characteristics of the Gui Army's soldiers who are more illiterate and superstitious, and to use it. For example, before the Great War, Zhang Gan used a compass and copper coins to calculate the evil luck. He told the soldiers that if the copper coin had its head up, then the war could be won, but in fact, the front and back sides of the copper coin were human heads, just to boost morale. How did this little trick deceive people like Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi? But as long as Zhang Gan did not affect military operations, they did not bother to take care of it.
02. Use feng shui to deceive subordinates
During the Central Plains War, Zhang Gan was only a small battalion commander. However, he used the feng shui theory to deceive his subordinates into fighting bravely, inflicting huge casualties on Chiang Kai-shek's central army, and gradually grew into the core general of the Gui clan.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, Zhang Gan served as the chief of staff of the 48th Army, the main force of the Gui Army. On June 21, 1938, he was transferred to the commander of the 7th Army of the Gui Army, known as the 7th Army of Steel, and led the troops to participate. This period was also the golden period when Zhang Gan used feng shui theory to deceive soldiers. Where the troops were stationed, where they attacked and retreated, Zhang Gan had to use a compass to calculate a gua. In fact, Zhang Gan, who had attended a military academy, knew these military actions very well, and that was why he was just making things up. Not to mention, his move really worked for the disciples of Guangxi, as long as Master Zhang said that this battle would be won, the soldiers would not retreat half a point even if they fought hard. Therefore, the Japanese officers were afraid to fight with the Gui army, calling these Gui soldiers mountain monkeys.
In 1939, Zhang Gan was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army and deputy commander of the 7th Appeasement District, and participated in a series of battles against Japan.
03. Change The Heron Island to Dragon Island
One day in September 1940, Zhang Gan, on his march, passed through the hinterland near Guilin and between Tiefeng Mountain and found a sandbar surrounded by water. Zhang Gan was interested for a moment and blurted out: "The long river from north to south is wide and flat, and the east ridge is three or two stories; the left and right houses come to take care of each other, and the children and grandchildren are designated as military attaches." Then he said, "Well, this is the land of the auspicious house with rivers, mountains, and hills." After the words were finished, he took out the gua gua and the gua he was carrying, and silently read it in his mouth for a while, and then respectfully closed the two pieces of gua and threw them into the air, and as a result, he even made three Sundanese gua, and he couldn't help but get excited and said one after another: "Everything is auspicious, everything is auspicious!" Zhang Gan did not stop for a second, and simply summoned his son-in-law, who was a contractor, to build a tomb on this sandbank. People with a little bit of geographical knowledge know that the sandbars formed by the alluvial formation of rivers are too soft to build buildings at all. However, Zhang Gan insisted on building it, and his son-in-law had no choice but to build Ji Lang according to his wishes. Later, Zhang Gan disliked the bad name of Lulu Zhou and changed it to Xun Long Zhou. After Zhang Gan was captured by the People's Liberation Army, he never returned, so the cemetery was not used, but the name of Xunlongzhou has been used.
04. Against the People's Liberation Army, feng shui does not work
On November 29, 1949, the defeat of the Kuomintang on the mainland was a foregone conclusion, and Bai Chongxi, the commander-in-chief of the Central China Suppression Campaign, still stubbornly resisted in Liangguang with Zhang Gan and other small minions. However, after the defeat of the Battle of Hengbao, the Gui warlords no longer had the military strength to hand, let alone fight back, and even the fight became a luxury. Zhang Gan, commander of the 3rd Corps, led 20,000 remnants of the army from the east to the west, and attempted to escape from the sea through Hepu after a confrontation between Bobai and the People's Liberation Army. At midnight that day, the sound of gunfire continued, the shouts of the People's Liberation Army were almost clearly visible, and Zhang Gan's headquarters was in a mess. In order to stabilize the hearts of the army, Master Zhang took out the compass as usual, surveyed the direction, and threw the deceptive copper coins into the sky, saying: "When people face up, there will be strange soldiers to save each other." The copper coin was indeed head-up, and the crowd breathed a sigh of relief.
However, in just ten minutes, the Flying Tiger Team of the 382nd Regiment of the 43rd Army of the People's Liberation Army touched Zhang Gan's headquarters and captured Master Zhang and the officers of his command. Everyone quipped to Zhang Gan: "The commander's gua is really accurate, saying that when there are strange soldiers, there will be strange soldiers." It's just the People's Liberation Army! "
In 1959, Zhang Gan died of illness at the War Criminals Management Center at the age of 62.