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▲Zhang Yunrong dressed up photo
The veteran of the Northern Expedition was promoted to chairman of Henan Province
At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, Zhang Yi was transferred from the post of chief instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy to the commander of the 56th Regiment of the 19th Division of the 6th Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and led his troops to fight in Jiangxi and was the first to invade the city of Nanjing; by July 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing government and Wang Jingwei's Wuhan government had been promoted to deputy commander of the 6th Army; but with the detention of the commander of the army, Cheng Qian, the divisions and brigades of the 6th Army also quickly collapsed, and Zhang Yi also repeatedly went to the wilderness in the subsequent warlord melee.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Zhang Yun successively served as commander of the Northern Henan Division, deputy commander-in-chief of the 14th Group Army, commander-in-chief of the Henan Southern Advancing Army and director of the Henan Southeast Bureau, deputy commander of the 10th Theater, deputy director of the Zhengzhou Appeasement Office, deputy director of the Wuhan Xingyuan, deputy commander of the Central China "Suppression General" and commander of the 5th Theater, and chairman of the Henan Provincial Government.
▲ Zhang Yi was the commander of the Expeditionary Force
Twice as a "scapegoat" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Although there were also times of high power, Zhang Yi had never been able to form a basic army of his own. When he was the commander of the Yubei Division, he had organized several supplementary regiments, but he was soon transferred to the commander of the 13th Army and was deprived of his military powers; while the 13th Army was a unit of the Central Army, and the commanders of the divisions only obeyed the old commander Tang Enbo; in the summer of 1939, Kou marched into Tanghe and Xinye, and the commander of the 13th Army, Tang Enbo, retreated from the battle, and finally Zhang Yi was dismissed from his post after assuming the guilt.
In April 1942, Zhang was appointed commander of the 66th Army and joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma. As in those days, the three divisions under his command were chiang kai-shek's cronies, and only under the blind command of Stilwell, chief of staff of the Allied Chinese Theater, eventually almost all the troops were destroyed, and only 1 battalion was withdrawn with Zhang Yun. After the investigation of responsibility, Zhang Yi once again became a scapegoat and was almost tried by military law.
Bai Chongxi, commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General" in central China
10 security brigades were expanded within a few months
Repeated encounters taught Zhang Yi that Chiang Kai-shek and his concubine Central Army were simply unreliable, and that in order to gain a foothold, they must have their own troops, both as capital to demand a price from the Kuomintang authorities and, as a last resort, as a capital to the Communist Party. In the spring of 1948, Zhang Yi was appointed commander of the 5th Appeasement District; in the autumn of the same year, he was promoted to the chairman of Henan Province, although Henan Province had already lost a large number of cases and had a territory of its own in the southern Henan region.
However, the units belonging to the 5th Appeasement District were either the Central Army or the elite of the Gui clan of Bai Chongxi, the commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General" in central China; Zhang Yi could not command at all; in order to develop his own forces, he sent dozens of former former subordinates and students to the counties to serve as county chiefs and commissioners, and went all out to reorganize local armed forces and take in scattered soldiers and brave soldiers, and in a short period of time he set up 10 security brigades. At the beginning of 1949, the elite main force of the Kuomintang army was basically lost in the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin, and in order to replenish the troops, Chiang Kai-shek pushed the boat along the water to give Zhang Yi the title of the 19th Corps and appointed it as the commander.
▲ Lu Daoyuan, commander of the 58th Army
He was officially appointed Commander of the Corps
Zhang Yi immediately reorganized the 10 security brigades into two corps, namely Zhao Zili's 127th Army and Xin Shaoting's 128th Army, into the 19th Corps; soon after, the 58th Army was also incorporated into the corps. This 58th Army was a Dian army unit from Yunnan, so Zhang Yi was not disgusted with the army, and later before Zhang Yi led his troops to revolt, he also found the commander of the army, Lu Daoyuan, three times to talk secretly, hoping that he would revolt together.
Unexpectedly, this Lu Daoyuan had already defected to Bai Chongxi, and turned around to report the secret, resulting in Zhang Yi's corps headquarters and 7 battalions of the directly subordinate troops being surrounded and disarmed, and the uprising was almost premature.
▲The People's Liberation Army is about to cross the river
▲ Zhang Yi's troops were peacefully reorganized