The Whampoa Military Academy is the cradle of generals, and there have been many famous generals from here, who can be called the best among them, but there has been a lot of controversy for a long time.
Judging from our mainland's side, those who can be called outstanding among the famous generals are Xu Xiangqian, Lin Biao, Zuo Quan, Liu Zhidan, and Huang Gonglue on the part of our army; Du Yuming, Chen Mingren, and Wang Yaowu on the national army, Qiu Weida, chief of staff of Wang Yaowu, and Song Xilian, a fellow countryman of Chen Geng.
The mainland Taiwan Province version of the top ten famous generals in Huangpu does not have these generals.
You may say that the two sides of the strait have different values, and they will not recognize our party generals, and this is understandable. But in fact, the famous generals of the national army in their eyes are not even on the list of well-known generals of the national army such as Du Yuming, Wang Yaowu, and Liao Yaoxiang, which makes people feel surprised.
So, who are the top ten famous generals in Huangpu in the minds of Taiwanese?
Ye Bangzong, a Whampoa soldier who once served as Chiang Kai-shek's chief of guard, wrote a book called "The Ten Famous Generals of Whampoa" (also called "The Ten Famous Generals of Whampoa"), let us see who the top ten famous generals of Whampoa in his pen are.
The famous Huangpu general at the top of the list, named Yu Jishi, is a native of Zhejiang, a fellow villager with Chiang Kai-shek, and a student in the first phase of Huangpu.
He is different from Hu Zongnan, the "first protégé of the Son of Heaven", who fights bravely and never greedily for life or fear of death.
The biggest shining point of his military career is that when he was the commander of the 88th Division, he took the initiative to ask for help in the Songhu operation in 1932, and fought the Japanese army in the dark, and the blood flowed like a river.
During the battle, 28-year-old Yu Jishi took the lead and personally led the troops, charging with a pistol, and rushed out of the trench despite the guards. At this time, a bullet hit, passed through his intestines, and his life was in danger, but he survived because of the timely rescue.
Judging from this battle, Yu Jishi is a desperate Saburo like Shi Xiu. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek personally hung a "Blue Sky and White Sun Medal", the highest honor of the National Revolutionary Army, on his chest.
In Yu Jishi's "Memories of the Songhu Anti-Japanese Campaign", the number of casualties of the 88th Division reached 3,219, accounting for nearly a quarter of the total strength.
In the year when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he was already the commander of the 36th Army Corps, and led his troops to participate in the battles of Changshan and Lanfeng in Henan, the fierce battles of Wanjialing, and the battles of Nanchang.
In June 1939, when he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, he commanded the troops to participate in the Battle of Nanxun Road.
It can be seen that Yu Jishi is really a famous general. However, from November 1942, after Yu Ji became the chairman of the Military Commission and the chief of the guard, he stayed away from the battlefield.
Yu Jishi was also the first commander of the 74th Army, the ace of the national army, and Wang Yaowu was still a division commander under him at that time. Despite this, it was not Yu Jishi who really made the 74th Army famous all over the world, but the second commander Wang Yaowu.
The glory of the 74th Army has nothing to do with Yu Jishi. At best, he made a partial contribution to the creation of the 74th Army, and also used his influence to supply the army with advanced weapons.
It is a bit far-fetched to say that he is a famous general, but to include him in the top ten famous generals in Huangpu is a bit far-fetched.
It's just that the author Ye Bangzong is Chiang Kai-shek's chief of guard, and Yu Jishi served as his top boss, and he has a tendency towards his old boss, which includes human factors, which is also reasonable.
The second place in the Huangpu famous generals is Qiu Qingquan of the National Army, who is the second phase of Huangpu. He was also a native of Zhejiang, so he was highly regarded by Chiang Kai-shek.
He also has something to boast about, that is, he has a high level of education and is a graduate of Shanghai University. This is relatively rare among the Whampoa military academy students, although it is not unique.
A high degree of education has given him a higher level of understanding, and he has mastered more military theories than others, and he is also superior to others in his play.
Qiu Qingquan has a profound cultural foundation, is proficient in English and German, and has written military monographs, such as a series of military works, such as "Teaching War Part I", "Teaching War II", and "Theory of Army Building". Moreover, Qiu Qingquan also has a shining resume, having studied at the German Army University, which is also relatively rare among the generals of the national army.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Qiu Qingquan was brave and good at fighting, and became famous in the Battle of Kunlun Pass.
In the Battle of Huaihai, he stubbornly resisted and "committed suicide". Therefore, it is not surprising that he can be ranked among the top ten famous players in Taiwan's version of Whampoa.
The third of the top ten famous generals in Huangpu is Lin Biao's classmate, Zhang Lingfu of the fourth phase of Huangpu.
Zhang Lingfu is from Shaanxi, but he became a general of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage, and his ability is definitely good. The man's reviews are mixed, as he once killed his wife, and some say he was a thug. On the battlefield, Zhang Lingfu was also a master who did not want to die in battle, and in the defense of Nanjing, he was once wounded and could not get out of the line of fire.
In the battle, Zhang Lingfu led his troops to defend the area of Huayan Village, and fought with the Japanese 18th Division with the strength of a regiment, and the bloody battle lasted for a day and night. In the end, he was in a coma on the battlefield and had to leave the front line after the war to recuperate.
In the Battle of Wuhan, Zhang Lingfu personally led a commando team by surprise and climbed onto the cliff behind Zhanggu Mountain, carried out a surprise attack on the Japanese army, and fought fiercely with the Japanese invaders for five days and five nights. They blocked the last retreat of the Japanese 106th Division and created conditions for the elimination of the division.
The great victory of De'an excited the whole country, and the playwright Tian Han was ordered to write the drama "The Great Victory of De'an", which tells the story of Zhang Lingfu's achievements, which is unique in the Anti-Japanese War.
However, in the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Lingfu was always a division commander of Wang Yaowu's 74th Army, and he never commanded a large-scale battle like Li Zongren and Xue Yue.
He was named a famous general, which is not unrelated to his experience of becoming the commander of the Imperial Forest Army (commander of the Nanjing garrison) after the Anti-Japanese War, and the experience of "killing himself" in the Battle of Menglianggu.
The fourth Huangpu famous general, named Sun Yuanliang, is from Chengdu, Sichuan, and is a first-term student of Huangpu.
Sun Yuanliang is also a talented person in the army and once studied at Nanjing Higher Normal School. Not only that, but he later went to study in the 21st Artillery Section of the Tokyo Army Noncommissioned Officer School in Japan, which allowed him to lay a solid military foundation and create good conditions for making meritorious contributions in the future.
Sun Yuanliang is very capable of fighting, which can be seen from the speed of his promotion.
He was born in 1904, one year younger than Zhang Lingfu. In 1927, during the Northern Expedition, he became famous, and was recommended by Lao Jiang to study in Japan. In 1932, the "January 28" Songhu Anti-Japanese War made the 88th Division famous in World War I, which not only made the division commander Yu Jishi famous all over the world, but also benefited Sun Yuanliang, who served as the brigade commander.
After this battle, he was promoted to deputy commander of the 88th Division for his military exploits, and soon became the division commander. At this time, Qiu Qingquan was still a regiment leader.
In September 1937, Sun Yuanliang served as the commander of the 72nd Army, and he was only 33 years old this year. Wang Yaowu, who was the same age as him, was also highly regarded by the old Jiang, and he was promoted to army commander two years later.
Tang Enbo was highly valued by Chiang Kai-shek, some people would say that he was Chiang's fellow countryman, and he had a very powerful father-in-law, Chen Yi.
Sun Yuanliang is not from Zhejiang, and he has no background, and his promotion speed is so fast, if he doesn't rely on military merits, I'm afraid no one will believe it.
In 2007, when 103-year-old Sun Yuanliang died in Taiwan, the Xinhua News Agency also praised his performance in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, saying that he "led his troops to hold the Zhabei position for a month and a half, shattering the Japanese army's vain dream of killing China in three months." ”
But on this basis, he is a famous Whampoa general, and some people must be unconvinced. Sun Yuanliang had three escape records in his military career, one was the Battle of Nanchang during the Northern Expedition, the second was in the Battle of Nanjing in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the third was in the Huaihai Campaign during the War of Liberation.
This left a stain on his military career, and he fell into the infamy of "running general" and "flying general".
Ranking fifth on the list of Huangpu famous generals is Huang Baitao, whose ancestral home is Guangdong and was born in Tianjin.
Huang Baitao is a veritable general, and his grandfather Huang Fengshan once served as the general soldier of Caozhou, Shandong, which is equivalent to the commander of the military division. His father, Huang Zongjun, was also a general in the army and served in Li Hongzhang's Huai Army.
In fact, this is not a Whampoa student in the real sense, but has only studied Xi in the officer corps of the Whampoa Military Academy.
However, he inherited the genes of his father's generation, and his military ability is still very strong.
Unlike the above generals, they were all protégés of Chiang Kai-shek and served under Chiang Kai-shek after graduation. Huang Baitao was not born in Huangpu, he used to work for the direct general Li Chun and the Feng general Zhang Zongchang, and when he defected to Chiang Kai-shek, he was already a "third marriage".
If you want to gain Chiang Kai-shek's approval, there is no other way but to sacrifice your life on the battlefield and rely on military merits to win trust.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Huang Baitao served as the chief of staff of the Third War Zone and was Gu Zhutong's assistant, which can only show that he was a military expert, but he did not establish many meritorious achievements. The only "combat achievement" is that he assisted Chen Cheng in launching the "Southern Anhui Incident", and his hands were stained with the blood of the officers and men of the New Fourth Army.
In the War of Liberation, Huang Baitao and Su Yu fought four times. As a general, Huang Baitao dared to fight and put life and death aside. In the face of round after round of attacks by our army, Huang Baitao was not timid, he personally boarded the tank, braved the rain of bullets, and led his subordinates to risk death to counterattack.
In this regard, he is much stronger than Sun Yuanliang. The strong have their own strong players, and Huang Baitao finally lost to Su Yu, the god of war, and committed suicide by pulling out a gun. Objectively speaking, Huang Baitao has not commanded and won large-scale battles, he can only be regarded as a fierce general, brave and strategic, and it is a bit reluctant to say that he is a famous general.
In sixth place is Hu Lian, a native of Shaanxi, graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu, and is also a classmate of Lin Shuai.
is different from Zhang Lingfu and Huang Baitao, Hu Lian is known for his cunning and good at using tricks. During the War of Liberation, he was good at figuring out the laws of our army's movements, and he fled many times when he was surrounded.
The great man once commented that Hu Lian was "as fierce as a tiger and as cunning as a fox".
What really made Hu Lian widely known was the Battle of Kinmen, which made him famous and kept the Kuomintang regime.
He and Hu Zongnan, the first protégé of the Son of Heaven, were called "Erhu", the latter was known as the "King of the Northwest", and the former was known as the "King of Kinmen", but there was a popular saying among Jiang's army: "Ten kings of the Northwest are not worth one King of Kinmen".
Saying that he is a famous Whampoa general, I am afraid there is no controversy.
The seventh Xie Jinyuan, from Guangdong, is also a fourth-term student of Huangpu. Xie Jinyuan fought bravely, and he did not make much contributions before the Anti-Japanese War, so he could not compare with his classmates Hu Lian and Zhang Lingfu.
When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, many of the fourth Huangpu students served as division commanders, and some served as army commanders and even theater commanders, while Xie Jinyuan was only a brigade-level general during the Songhu Campaign. Served as Chief of Staff of the Army Brigade Lieutenant Colonel.
It was in the Battle of Songhu that Xie Jinyuan led a regiment (800 warriors) to hold the Sixing Warehouse, which attracted the attention of domestic and international public opinion and became famous.
Judging from this point alone, Xie Jinyuan is a well-deserved anti-Japanese general.
The eighth famous general is called Hao Baicun, he is the youngest of the "famous generals", born in 1919. When he went to the military academy, it was already 1935, and Whampoa had reached its 12th issue.
He has not participated in fierce battles, nor has he commanded famous battles, and he has no achievements, and his promotion depends on Gu Zhutong, a fellow villager in Jiangsu. Until 1949, he was an entourage staff officer in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Defense.
After arriving in Taiwan, he successively served as chief of staff, minister of national defense, and premier of the Executive Yuan.
Because Hao Bocun later achieved a high position in mainland Taiwan, the author included him in the list of famous generals, which is inevitably suspected of "sycophancy".
The ninth Zheng Dongguo, a native of Changde, Hunan, is from the first phase of Huangpu.
Zheng Dongguo's performance in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War was average, and it was only after he served as the commander of the new 1st Army of the Chinese Army in India that his military command ability was fully utilized and was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek.
In the early days of the Liberation War, Zheng Dongguo also performed prominently, fighting with Siye and drawing Siping, capturing Changchun, and once gaining the upper hand, and the scenery was for a while. From this point of view, it seems understandable that Zheng Dongguo can be included in the ranks of the top ten famous generals of Whampoa in Taiwan's version.
The tenth of the top ten famous generals is Lin Biao, a general of our army, and he is also the only CCP general who is included in the list of famous generals.
Lin is one of the top ten marshals of the founding of the People's Republic of China, outstanding military achievements, not to mention the performance in the War of Resistance, and defeated Zheng Dongguo, Chen Mingren, Liao Yaoxiang and many other famous Whampoa generals during the War of Liberation, and it is absolutely indisputable to be included in it.
To sum up, Taiwan's version of the "Top Ten Famous Generals of Whampoa" is not completely selected based on military talent, and is more or less mixed with political factors and personal emotional factors, which is difficult to convince.