During the Beiyang period, warlords fought in various places, and there were many powerful warlords, but there were almost no warlords who could really be remembered, except for one warlord, who was famous throughout the country for his many wives and concubines.
He is the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, according to his own public admission of wives and concubines, there are as many as 12, his children have a total of 43 people, although there are many wives and concubines, he is still 93 years old, leaving many legendary stories.
In 1908, the 24-year-old Yang Sen entered the Sichuan Army Crash School, and later the Sichuan Army warlord Liu Xiang was a classmate, and Yang Sen graduated from the school and became a platoon commander of the recruits.
In that chaotic era of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Sen became more and more powerful with his intelligence and courage, and he also did a lot of bad things in Sichuan, but when the Japanese invaded China in an all-round way, Yang Sen seemed to have changed as a person, and resolutely demanded to resist Japan.
In 1937, the Japanese invaded China in an all-out way, it is said that Yang Sen led his troops out of Sichuan this year, when most of his soldiers were still wearing straw sandals, and some did not even wear shoes.
He led more than 18,000 Sichuan troops, fought bloody battles with the Japanese army for 5 days and 5 nights, firmly held the position, and held the position until the 31st Army and the 66th Army came to take over the defense, and only then did he know that his subordinates suffered more than 7,000 casualties.
After the war, the division led by Yang Sen was rated as one of the five most capable divisions on the Songhu battlefield, and even Chiang Kai-shek, who was bent on eliminating dissidents, was moved to order that it should be given priority to replenish equipment and soldiers.
In January 1938, Yang Sen was appointed commander of the 20th Army, but Yang Sen, who had just become the commander of the army, suffered two defeats in a row, and he was particularly embarrassed.
Yang Sen became a military commander in January, and was sent to the Battle of Nanchang in March, and he was transferred to Wuning City to confront the Japanese army, but he did not expect to be defeated by the Japanese army. In June, the Battle of Wuhan began, when Yang Sen led his troops to garrison Anqing City.
On June 13, the Japanese Botian detachment attacked Yang Sen at night, and drove Yang Sen out of Anqing City overnight, so easily lost a city, no wonder Chiang Kai-shek scolded him, and also gave him a punishment of "dismissal and retention".
However, only 3 months later, Yang Sen was promoted to general, and then was transferred to fight in the Battle of Changsha.
If Janssen had not resisted the Japanese, he would have been forgotten long ago. In 1949, Yang Sen left the mainland, and after going to Taiwan, Yang Sen faded out of the military circles, lived a leisurely life, and at the age of 90, he married a 17-year-old female student, which became a joke.