After the 918 Incident, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army lost Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces, although the territory was lost, but the strength of the Northeast Army did not suffer too much loss, and it was reorganized in Tianjin, Beijing, Hebei, Chahar and other places, and there were still about 260,000 Northeast Army.
The 260,000 Northeast Army includes 5 infantry corps plus 2 independent divisions and 4 cavalry divisions, so what is the final outcome of these high-level generals?
1. Yu Xuezhong, commander of the 51st Army
Yu Xuezhong is not actually from the Northeast, nor is he Zhang Xueliang's descendant, he was born in Penglai, Shandong, and participated in the 18th Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army in his early years as an artillery battalion commander.
In 1922, Yu Xuezhong's department was sent to Sichuan by Wu Peifu to support Liu Xiang and Yang Sen, and later served as the commander of the 18th Mixed Brigade, stationed in Dianjiang.
In 1925, in order to expand the strength of the army, Wu Peifu promoted Xuezhong to the commander of the 26th Division.
In 1926, the National Revolutionary Army began the Northern Expedition, and Wu Peifu appointed Yu Xuezhong as the deputy commander of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River due to the tense situation in Hubei.
After Wu Peifu's general trend was gone, Yu Xuezhong followed the old leader Wu Peifu to advance and retreat together, and returned to his hometown Penglai to live in seclusion.
After Zhang Zuolin entered Beijing, he learned that Yu Xuezhong was brave and good at fighting, so he asked Zhang Xueliang to invite Yu Xuezhong to go out of the mountain and serve as the commander of the 20th Army of the Zhenwei Army, and Yu Xuezhong has since joined the ranks of the Northeast Army.
After the 918 Incident, Zhang Xueliang was forced to go into the wilderness, and the 170,000 troops of the Northeast Army were handed over to Yu Xuezhong to command the 51st Army.
Due to the rapid expansion of Yu Xuezhong's strength, which aroused the jealousy of the Japanese invaders, the Japanese invaders have been trying every means to win over and threaten Yu Xuezhong, trying to force Yu Xuezhong to take refuge in the land of Hebei, but Yu Xuezhong sternly refused.
In the end, the Japanese invaders actually carried out assassinations, and assassinated Yu Xuezhong three times, but they were unsuccessful.
After the signing of the He-Mei Agreement, He Yingqin repeatedly forced Yu Xuezhong to resign, and Chiang Kai-shek later transferred Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army to Xi'an.
During the Xi'an Incident, Yu Xuezhong resolutely supported Zhang Xueliang.
After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the 77 Incident, Yu Xuezhong led his troops to participate in the Huaihe Campaign, the Taierzhuang Campaign and the Wuhan Defense Battle.
In 1941, Yu Xuezhong served as the chairman of Shandong Province and the commander-in-chief of the Lunan guerrillas.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yu Xuezhong was unwilling to fight the civil war, disarmed and returned to the field, Chiang Kai-shek had coerced Yu Xuezhong to flee to Taiwan, but Yu Xuezhong set up a seclusion in the Sichuan township, waiting for the establishment of New China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yu Xuezhong served as a member of the Hebei Provincial People's Government and was elected as a deputy to the First National People's Congress.
In 1964, Yu Xuezhong died of illness at the age of 75.
2. Commander of the 53rd Army, Wan Fulin
When the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, Tsarist Russia invaded the Northeast, Wan Fulin joined the township regiment and became a bandit, and was later recruited by Wu Junsheng to surrender and serve as the horse battalion manager.
After the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, Wan Fulin served as the commander and head of the regiment, and was still under Wu Junsheng's account.
In 1922, during the Great War, he served as the 15th Mixed Brigade of the Northeast Army and was stationed in Manchuria.
In 1928, he served as Deputy Commander of Heilongjiang Security, Deputy Commander of the Northeast Frontier Army, and Chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Government
In the Central Plains War in 1930, Wan Fulin followed Zhang Xueliang to North China, and never returned to the Northeast to govern.
Subsequently, Wan Fulin led the Northeast Army to participate in the Anti-Japanese War in Rehe, but the performance was poor and the battle was lost, resulting in Rehe being occupied by the Japanese army.
The defeat of the Rehe War of Resistance made the Northeast Army discredited and blamed!
After the 77 Incident, the Kuomintang reorganized the Northeast Army, and Wan Fulin served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the First Group Army and the commander of the 53rd Army.
In 1939, Wan Fulin revitalized the team and successively participated in the battles of northern Henan, eastern Henan, and Wuhan, and his subordinates suffered very serious losses, and was later transferred to Chongqing as a member of the Military Commission of the National Government, and the army commander was succeeded by Zhou Fucheng.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wan Fulin was transferred to the Northeast as the deputy director of the Xingyuan and the director of the Northeast Xingying Political Affairs Committee, but soon the Northeast was liberated.
In 1949, Wan Fulin fled to Taiwan with the Kuomintang and served as a member of the Kuomintang Political Advisory Committee.
In 1951, he died in Taiwan at the age of 71.
3. Commander of the 57th Army, He Zhuguo
Although He Guozhu is a member of the Northeast Army, he was born in Rong County, Guangxi.
In his early years, He Guozhu graduated from Guangdong Army Primary School, Wuchang Army School, and Baoding Army School, and was a top student in many army schools, successively served as the captain and captain of the cavalry section of the Baoding Military Academy, and the chief of the operations section of the Third Army Headquarters of the Xuanfu Army in Suzhou and Anhui, and later joined the Northeast Army as a regiment commander and brigade commander.
In 1931, after the September 18 Incident, He Zhuguo led his troops to participate in the Anti-Japanese War in Shanhaiguan to resist the Japanese invasion of Shanhaiguan.
In 1933, He Zhuguo served as the commander of the 57th Army and participated in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War.
During the Xi'an Incident, He Zhuguo supported Zhang Xueliang, and later served as the commander of the Second Cavalry Army and participated in the Anti-Japanese War in North China.
In 1941, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the 15th Army.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, He Zhuguo served as the chief of staff of the Northeast Xingyuan, but suddenly fell ill, lost his sight, and was forced to retire.
After the establishment of the new Central Plains, He Zhuguo lived in Hangzhou and was elected as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 1985, He Zhuguo died in Beijing at the age of 88.
Fourth, the commander of the 67th Army, Wang Yizhe
Wang Yizhe, a native of Binxian County, Heilongjiang, joined the Northeast Army after graduating from middle school, and successively served as the platoon, company, and battalion commander of the Northeast Army Sergeant Teaching Team, and the brigade commander of Zhang Guard's Major General.
In 1928, Wang Yizhe served as the commander of the Seventh Independent Brigade of the Army, stationed in Shenyang.
After the 918 Incident, Wang Yizhe retreated into Guanzhong with the Northeast Army and later served as the commander of the 67th Army.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek transferred Zhang Xueliang and Wang Yizhe to Xi'an and northern Shaanxi to continue to suppress the Communists, and in the face of the tired divisions of the Red Army that came to northern Shaanxi during the Long March, the Northeast Army was defeated again and again, and three divisions were defeated by the Red Army in a row, which made Zhang Xueliang and Wang Yizhe in great shock.
Under the persuasion of progressive friends and underground party members, Wang Yizhe secretly joined the Communist Party, and told Zhang Xueliang about the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japan, and finally succeeded in persuading Zhang Xueliang to stop attacking the Red Army and began to have secret contacts with the Red Army.
Under Wang Yizhe's communication efforts, Zhang Xueliang finally made up his mind to force Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and unanimously resist Japan through military advice.
On December 12, 1936, Wang Yizhe, Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng and other senior generals launched the Xi'an Incident that shocked the whole country, and finally forced Chiang Kai-shek to finally agree to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan.
The success of the Xi'an Incident is inseparable from the credit of Wang Yizhe, who made great contributions to promoting the second KMT-CCP cooperation to unite against Japan.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was detained by Chiang Kai-shek, and Wang Yizhe became the core leader of the Northeast Army, actively discussing with the Communist Party and using political means to rescue Zhang Xueliang.
However, at this time, there was a split within the Northeast Army, and some radicals in the Northeast Army tried in vain to usurp military power and opposed the peaceful rescue of Zhang Xueliang.
On February 2, 1937, some radical officers of the Northeast Army assassinated Wang Yizhe, who was only 42 years old when he died.
Wang Yizhe's death means that the Northeast Army has begun to decline completely, and the leaderless Northeast Army has finally declined!
5. Commander of the 62nd Army, Feng Zhanhai
Feng Zhanhai, a native of Jinxian County, Liaoning, defected to his uncle-in-law Zhang Zuo as a soldier when he was a teenager, and later entered the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall to learn Xi, and later served as the adjutant of the 108th Captain of the 27th Division.
After the 918 Incident, Feng Zhanhai did not choose to flee, but gathered the people of the green forest and the common people to raise the banner of anti-Japanese resistance and form the Jilin Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, known as the first person in Jilin to resist Japan.
Later, due to the disadvantage of the lone army, Feng Zhanhai led his troops to retreat into Rehe, and after the fall of Rehe, he entered the pass and was incorporated into Wan Fulin's 53rd Army.
In 1933, Zhang Xueliang personally met with Feng Zhanhai and reorganized the Jilin Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army into the 62nd Army, with Feng Zhanhai as the commander.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek was preparing to purge the 63rd Army, and when Feng Zhanhai learned the news, he immediately notified the people on the secret arrest list to leave quickly, saving many revolutionary progressives.
In 1936, in order to get rid of Chiang Kai-shek's surveillance, Feng Zhanhai canceled the number of the 62nd Army and retained the 91st Division, which was still under the jurisdiction of Wan Fulin.
After the 77 Incident, Feng Zhanhai led his troops to block the Japanese army in Gaoyi, Hebei, with heavy casualties, and then came under the jurisdiction of Tang Enbo and was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River in Kaifeng.
In the Battle of Wuhan in 1938, the casualties of the 91st Division were even more staggering, excluding the wounded, the whole division was less than 2,000 people, which made Feng Zhanhai very sad.
Later, due to Tang Enbo's arrogance and discrimination against the side troops, Feng Zhanhai was disheartened, and then quietly left the army and went to Guangxi and Hong Kong to do business for a living.
After liberation, at the invitation of Zhou Enlai, Feng Zhanhai returned to Jilin to serve as the director of the Provincial Sports Commission.
In 1963, Feng Zhanhai died of illness at the age of 64.
Of the five army commanders, except for Wan Fulin who went to Taiwan and Wang Yizhe who was assassinated, the remaining 3 stayed in New China!