In dealing with the relationship between non-Whampoa meritorious generals as commanders and Whampoa generals as subordinates, President Jiang often ran wildly with selfishness and encouraged the latter to replace the former.
In March 1938, President Chiang appointed Li Mo'an, commander of the 14th Army, to be promoted to the commander of the newly established 33rd Army Corps, mainly commanding the 14th Army and Liu Huan's 93rd Army, and still under the command of Wei Lihuang, commander-in-chief of the 14th Group Army.
The 14th Group Army was under the jurisdiction of Li Mo'an's 14th Army (Peng Jieru's 10th Division, Liu Huan's 83rd Division, Chen Tie's 85th Division), Hao Mengling (died in the Battle of Xinkou in October 1937) 9th Army, and Liu Maoen's 15th Army. The former is Wei Lihuang's starting force, and the latter two are from the original Northeast Army and Henan Zhensong Army system respectively, so the 14th Army is very important to Wei Lihuang.
Li Mo'an, a first-term student of Huangpu, once succeeded Wei Lihuang as the commander of the 10th Division and the commander of the 14th Army.
General Wei
After being promoted to the commander of the 33rd Army, Li Mo'an quickly made personnel adjustments to the 14th Army.
He proposed that Chen Tie, the former commander of the 85th Division of the 14th Army, succeed him as the commander of the 14th Army, that Peng Jieru, commander of the 10th Division of the 14th Army, be appointed deputy commander of the 14th Army, and that Wang Jinxiu, the former deputy commander of the 14th Army, be transferred to the commander of the 10th Division, and that Chen Wu, the former deputy commander of the 10th Division, be dismissed.
At the same time, it was suggested that Liu Huan's 83rd Division be expanded into the 93rd Army (under the jurisdiction of the 83rd Division and the Fifth Independent Brigade), and Liu Huan was promoted to army commander and concurrently served as division commander.
Chen Tie and Chen Wu are all Wei Lihuang's descendant generals, and Liu Huan, Wang Jinxiu, and Peng Jieru are Li Mo'an's close subordinates. Do you see the doorway to this personnel adjustment plan?
Once promoted to army commander and no longer concurrently serving as division commander, it will be difficult to command and command the 10th Division and the 85th Division, especially after expelling Chen Wu from the 10th Division, Chen Tie will be "blind" in the 14th Army.
Through Liu Huan, Li Mo'an can still firmly control the newly formed 93rd Army. In this way, Li Mo'an's 33rd Army Corps has become a monolith, and it is difficult for Wei Lihuang to interfere in command.
General Wei and Li Mo'an (middle)
Li Mo'an's proposal was readily adopted by President Jiang. But problems soon followed.
The first to jump out was Chen Wu, who was extremely dissatisfied with his dismissal, and lobbied Peng Jieru to be "rising and descending secretly" by Li Mo'an. Chen and Peng persuaded Chen Tie to complain to Wei Lihuang with them.
Li Mo'an didn't expect this result at all: he thought that if Chen Tie was promoted to army commander and Peng Jieru was promoted to deputy army commander, they would be grateful to Dade and didn't want such a big backlash.
What was even more annoyed was Wei Lihuang, who personally submitted a document to President Jiang on the one hand, resolutely opposing Li Mo'an's personnel plan and putting forward his own plan, and on the other hand, he entrusted someone to do Jiang's work.
In the end, General Wei's plan won, as follows:
Chen Tie served as the commander of the 14th Army, Peng Jieru was still the commander of the 10th Division, Chen Wu was the commander of the 83rd Division of the 93rd Army, and Liu Jian was promoted to the commander of the 93rd Army, but he no longer served as the commander of the division.
There are also many doorways to this program. What does it mean?
Liu Huan
The commander of the 83rd Division, the main force of the 93rd Army, was replaced by Chen Wu, a close confidant of General Wei;
Peng Jieru, commander of the 10th Division of Chen Tie's 14th Army, was subdued by General Wei from then on, and later went to the northeast to serve;
In this way, General Wei was able to command the 33rd Army Corps (14th Army and 93rd Army) easily, but Li Mo'an had a lot of constraints within the 33rd Army Corps.
In the spring of 1939, Li Mo'an saw that it was not good to stay in the 14th Group Army, and took the initiative to resign after receiving the instructions of Jiang and He Yingqin.
This "big war", the non-Whampoa department won with difficulty, just because he was General Wei.
Cases such as non-Whampoa and Whampoa games are not uncommon in the Jiang Jun system, but it is often the Whampoa system that succeeds in the end, which is more in line with President Jiang's interests after all.