In October 1924, during the Second Zhifeng War, Feng Yuxiang set fire to Wu Peifu's backyard, not only because he saw that the Zhi army could not defeat the Feng army, but also because Zhang Xueliang sent him 500,000 yuan (the total number of bribes that Feng received before and after was far more than this). Zhang Xueliang had a bad impression of Feng Yuxiang, saying that in addition to being greedy for money, he also liked to deceive people and was very cruel (Zhang Xueliang was the leader of the Feng clan, and the Northeast Army was the Feng Army. ------------------ Feng Yuxiang often betrayed his superiors, but punished his subordinates for betraying himself quite severely. One of Feng Yuxiang's division commanders defected to Zhang Zuolin and Chiang Kai-shek against Feng, and was finally captured and buried alive by Feng.
Puyi and Wanrong
Not only did Zhang Xueliang look down on Feng Yuxiang, but in the eyes of other senior Generals of the Kuomintang Army, Feng Yuxiang's image was not very good. Li Zongren said with great interest in his memoirs: Feng ousted Puyi from the throne and was known as a piece of Grand Duke Virtue, but it was rumored that he stole many treasures in the palace. Feng Yuxiang arranged a clumsy performance to prove his innocence. He hosted a banquet at the Forbidden City for the senior generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and during the banquet, all the miscellaneous personnel of the Forbidden City were suddenly gathered, and the gang shouted in unison, "General Feng is innocent, and did not take a needle and a thread from the Forbidden City." With his toes, he knew that this was deliberately arranged by Feng, which caused laughter at the time, and afterwards he found that the treasures of the imperial palace appeared in the antique market, and Feng Yuxiang's right-hand man Lu Zhonglin also said that the huge amount of 14 million yuan spent in the Battle of Nankou in 1926 was the proceeds from the sale of the treasures of the Forbidden City. (On November 5, 1924, Feng ignored the promise made by the Republic of China government during the Xinhai Revolution in "Conditions for Preferential Treatment After the Resignation of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty", sent Lu Zhonglin to lead troops into the Forbidden City, expelled the last emperor Puyi from the Forbidden City and no longer allocated living expenses to the former Qing Dynasty imperial family, which is known in history as the "Beijing Incident".) Puyi, who was expelled from the Forbidden City, had to move to the concession of Tianjin, and was later "dug" by the Japanese as a treasure to the northeast to become the "Emperor of the Manchurian Empire". Feng Yuxiang is a small strength, in the warlord melee, to control a large army, only to have the right to speak, this requires a lot of military expenditure, in the early days of the Republic of China, a long civil war, the national treasury has been empty, to this stage, basically rely on foreign loans to meet the needs of military expenditure. Feng Yuxiang saw the gold and silver treasures in the Forbidden City, and also saw the annual alimony paid by the Republic of China to the Qing royal family free of charge. If this money is in hand, it is completely out of the question to expand the military strength. Later, Feng Yuxiang said to Sun Dianying, the great thief of Tanglin, "I will revolutionize the lives of the living, and you will revolutionize the lives of the dead, and we are revolutionary brothers." In fact, this basically means that the commonality between the two people is that they are both engaged in anti-manchu sentiment in public opinion and engage in greedy communication, with the purpose of expanding their military strength. Similarly, in 1927, Feng Yuxiang led troops to surround the Xiangguo Temple, and also used force to expel the monks to take out the temple incense money as military expenses, but the target of the looting was changed to the monks.
Feng Yuxiang was tall, but in the eyes of many senior generals of the Kuomintang Army, Feng's courage was very disproportionate to his tall stature. In the early days of the Battle of Songhu in 1937, Feng Yuxiang, then commander of the Third Theater, held a military conference at the Nanxiang Commander's Headquarters, when the alarm of japanese aircraft suddenly sounded. Feng Yuxiang's performance was a big surprise, and Zhang Fakui's recollection was the most vivid: "(Feng) snatched the door and came out, stumbled, and went straight to the outside Tian Cheng (Tian Cheng), one did not pay attention, slipped his feet and fell into the rice field, making his body full of mud, so that the generals Attending the meeting, Zhang Zhizhong and Yang Hu, could not help but be amused by it. ”
Feng Yuxiang
In the eyes of many people, Feng Yuxiang is good at leading soldiers, but Bai Chongxi does not see it that way. Seeing that Feng Yuxiang was not in command in Shanghai, he suggested to the military and political ministers He Yingqin and Chiang Kai-shek to open a new Sixth Theater in the north and let Feng command his old subordinates, such as Song Zheyuan, Shi Yousan, han Fuyu, and other subordinates. Feng was very happy and rushed to his post. Unexpectedly, Han Fuyu was the first to jump out and object, telling Chiang Kai-shek that he would rather be under the command of Li Zongren. Subsequently, Song Zheyuan and Shi Yousan also secretly sent a telegram to the central government to oppose it. Bai Chongxi was very emotional when he learned of this, believing that Feng Yuxiang lacked skill in driving people: "The ancients will be polite, and Feng will be violent. If a subordinate commits any offense, he is punished to kneel at any time. For example, Song Zheyuan was spanked by Feng Yuxiang with leather shoes, and Han Fuyu was punished by Feng in public for kneeling and smoking a big mouth, making these senior generals of the Northwest Army very faceless in public. Bai Chongxi believes that this method can be barely maintained in the isolated northwest region, but it cannot be done as soon as it leaves Tongguan, because "once in contact with the revolutionary army, the subordinates will treat people and things with courtesy when they see the revolutionary army, and of course they will have two hearts."