In the short 38-year history of the Republic of China, there have been many bull coaxing characters, three of whom have the reputation of "Little Zhuge ", namely Bai Chongxi, Yang Yuting and Xu Shuzheng, the three of them belong to different camps, and they all have left a place in history with their own abilities.
1, Bai Chongxi
Among the three, Bai Chongxi should be the most famous, and he is the one who has been active in politics for the longest time among the three.
Bai Chongxi, a native of Guilin, Guangxi, attended a new-style primary school, and returned to Guangxi in 1916 after graduating from the third infantry section of the Baoding Army Military Academy to join Lu Rongting's army in the Gui Army. In 1924, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren jointly defeated Lu Rongting, and the two of them became the heads of the Xingui lineage.
Bai Chongxi
In 1926, during the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, Bai Chongxi was appointed deputy chief of general staff, and participated in the command war with the General Headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army. After the victory of the Northern Expedition, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren fought many wars with Chiang Kai-shek and other local forces, during which they twice forced the old Chiang out of the wilderness.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937, Bai Chongxi, Li Zongren, and Huang Xuchu jointly sent a telegram to the Nationalist Government to support Chiang Kai-shek's war of resistance against Japan. During this period, Bai Chongxi participated in and commanded the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Guinan and other major battles.
Bai Chongxi
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Bai Chongxi was promoted to the first class general of the National Revolutionary Army, and in 1946, he served as the Minister of National Defense and participated in the civil war. In 1948, Bai Chongxi was appointed commander-in-chief of Central China, and unified command of the two "general" troops in Central China and Xuzhou with He Yingqin. At the end of the same year, Bai Chongxi once again forced Lao Jiang to go to the field, and Li Zongren became the acting president.
After the Huaihai Campaign, Lao Jiang's descendants were basically lost, and the Gui army was left in the national army, Bai Chongxi led the Gui army to fight against the Siye army, and the Qingshuping Battle severely damaged a division of the Siye Zhong Wei Army, but was finally defeated by the Siye in the Battle of Hengbao, and finally fled to Taiwan.
After arriving in Taiwan, Bai Chongxi lost his former glory and was no longer reused, and Lao Chiang even set up a police station opposite the Bai Mansion to monitor Bai Chongxi's every move every day. In 1966, Bai Chongxi died at home for unknown reasons at the age of 74.
2, Yang Yuting
Yang Yuting was one of the leaders of the Feng warlords during the Beiyang period, and also an important adviser of Zhang Zuolin, the "King of the Northeast".
Yang Yuting is a native of Faku, Shenyang, in 1906 into the Japanese Army non-commissioned officer school artillery section of the seventh study, in 1910 after returning to China to the Changchun Army third town artillery probationary officer, in 1916 by Fengtian overseer and governor Zhang Zuolin appointed as the chief of staff of the Fengtian Superintendent Military Administration, soon promoted to the chief of staff of the Superintendent Military Administration, the rank of major general, since then began to be reused by Zhang Zuolin.
In 1918, Yang Yuting and Xu Shuzheng conspired to use Fengjun funds and ordnance to prepare to build another army, Zhang Zuolin found out and dismissed Yang Yuting, before the outbreak of the first direct war in 1921, Zhang Zuolin was forced to recall Yang Yuting back to let him counsel military affairs due to lack of talents.
Yang Yuting
In the following years, Yang Yuting has always been very used by Zhang Zuolin. In 1922, after the defeat of the Feng Department in the First Zhifeng War, Zhang Zuolin renamed the Feng Army as the Zhenwei Army and appointed himself as the commander-in-chief of the security of the three eastern provinces. Yang Yuting served as the general staff member of the General Security Headquarters of the three eastern provinces, and concurrently served as the director of training, and began to grasp the military power of the three eastern provinces. In 1924, when the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War broke out, Zhang Zuolin appointed himself commander-in-chief, with Yang Yuting as the chief of general staff, and took the opportunity to lead 170,000 soldiers into the customs. In 1927, Zhang Zuolin was inaugurated as the generalissimo of the army and navy of the Republic of China in Beijing, and Yang Yuting became the decision-maker of the military and political diplomacy of the Beijing regime.
After Zhang Zuolin was killed in 1928, Zhang Xueliang became the highest military and political chief in Northeast China, and Yang Yuting's status was second only to Zhang Xueliang, holding the real power of the military and politics, and soon Zhang Xueliang relieved Yang Yuting of military power. At the beginning of 1929, Zhang Xueliang invited Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai to the Shuaifu in the name of studying the establishment of the Northeast Railway Supervision Office, and shot two of them to death at the age of 44.
3, Xu Shuzheng
Xu Shuzheng was a famous warlord of the Anhui system during the Beiyang period, and he was also the think tank of the Anhui system.
Xu Shuzheng is a native of Xiao County, Anhui Province, and was admitted to Xiucai in his early years. In 1901, he went to Jinan to defect to Yuan Shikai, but Yuan Shikai could not meet Xu Shuzheng in person in Ding Weizhong, so he asked Zhu Zhongqi to observe Shandong to investigate, but Xu Shuzheng and Zhu Zhongqi did not speculate, and Zhu was turned away, Xu Shuzheng lived on the streets of Jinan, during which he met Duan Qirui, the two hit it off at first sight, Duan Qirui hired Xu Shuzheng as the secretary, and Xu Shuzheng followed Duan Qirui's side for more than 20 years and started his own career.
In 1905, Xu Shuzheng went east to Japan to study military affairs, during which he became a classmate of Yang Yuting, and after returning to China, he became his main adviser to Duan Qirui. During the Xinhai Revolution, the Hongxian Empire, and Zhang Xun's restoration, he assisted Duan Qirui in the "Three Republics", and in the struggle with Feng Guozhang, he introduced Zhang Zuolin into the customs to consolidate the power of the Anhui system and presided over the "unification by force". He also established the Anfu Club, manipulated the parliamentary elections, and was active in the political arena of the early Republic of China.
Xu Shuzheng
In 1919, because of the failure of the Southern Expedition and the discord between the warlords, Xu Shuzheng was appointed as the Northwest Border Envoy, he used force as the backing of force, forced Outer Mongolia to unconditionally revoke its autonomy, return to the direct jurisdiction of the Chinese central government, and as the Northwest Border Envoy sat in Outer Mongolia, operated, returned to Beijing the following year, participated in the Zhiwan War, and fled to Japan after defeat.
Later, Xu Shuzheng tried to support Duan Qirui's comeback, contacted Sun Yat-sen and Zhang Zuolin to form an anti-direct triangular alliance, and once invaded Fujian and organized the founding of the country, but soon failed. After traveling abroad after 1924 and returning to China in the winter of 1925, Xu Shuzheng wanted to unite Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zuolin against Feng Yuxiang. However, because Xu Shuzheng had assassinated Feng Yuxiang's in-law Lu Jianzhang, Feng Yuxiang hated him even more and ordered Zhang Zhijiang to abduct and shoot Xu Shuzheng on December 30, 1925 when he left Beijing by train through Langfang.
Brief summary:
Bai Chongxi is the think tank of the new Gui department, Yang Yuting is the think tank of Zhang Zuolin of the Feng department, and Xu Shuzheng is the think tank of Duan Qirui of the Anhui department. Xu Shuzheng was shot dead by Feng Yuxiang, Yang Yuting was killed by Zhang Xueliang, and Bai Chongxi died in an unknown manner.