Students who are familiar with military history and party history know that although the Kuomintang lost to the Communist Party of China in the Kuomintang War and lost to Taiwan, the Kuomintang still had several units with extremely strong combat capabilities at that time, which were later called the five main ace units of the Kuomintang by military fans.
The five main forces were Zhang Lingfu's reorganized 74th Division, Zheng Dongguo and Sun Liren's New 1st Army, Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan's New 5th Army, Liao Yaoxiang's New 6th Army, and Hu Lian's 18th Army.
Some people have to ask why there is no concubine line in Chiang Kai-shek's concubine line, the First Army on which Hu Zongnan is famous.
To say that this first army is not only the first in formation, it is Chiang Kai-shek's housekeeper's treasure, the predecessor of the First Army of the National Revolution is the Whampoa Military Academy Teaching Regiment, basically composed of students from the Whampoa Officers, the first regimental commander is He Yingqin, in April 1925 was later reorganized into the 1st Division of the Party Army, division commander He Yingqin, in October of the same year merged with the 2nd Division into the 1st Army, the commander Chiang Kai-shek personally appointed, and later He Yingqin took over as the second commander, after 1933 by Chen succession, 1936, Hu Zongnan, the first protégé of Tianzi in Huangpusheng, took over as the commander of the First Army.
This First Army, indeed the caretaker of chiang kai-shek, accompanied Chiang Kai-shek in the Northern Expedition, especially during chiang kai-shek's first time forced to step down by the Gui forces, the Huangpu students of the first army, under the leadership of Hu Zongnan, showed great loyalty to the principal and became the key backbone of Chiang Kai-shek's victory over Bai (Chongxi) Li (Zongren) and Feng (Yuxiang).
Therefore, for the First Army, Chiang Kai-shek was regarded as a treasure in the palm of his hand, no matter the equipment, organization, and military sound, it was higher than that of other troops, and the hat of the First Army under the heavens was also worn on his head, and Hu Zongnan, the head of this unit, was also regarded as the first protégé of Tianzi.
Why was the First Army of the World failed to rank among the five main forces of the Kuomintang?
The answer, of course, is still two words, record.
Equipment, organization, military sound, commander-in-chief, those are all hardware conditions, no matter how noble a unit is, when you go to the battlefield, everything depends on the battle record.
Hu Zongnan had just become the commander of the First Army, so he met with his comrades Zuo Quan and Chen Geng in the Huangpu Phase I at the narrow road of the mountain castle, and the 78th Division of the First Army fell into the pockets of the Red Army, but Ding Delong, the commander of the 78th Division, was well equipped and did not surround the Red Army, and as a result, General Chen Geng, who was the commander of the Red First Division at the time, led a regiment of troops to charge in front of the 78th Division in the dark, and the two sides could not use any advanced weapons, and when they touched the darkness, they all relied on who danced a big knife and killed until dawn, and the 78th Division was completely destroyed, and a brigade was basically annihilated.
This was the final final battle of the first civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and Hu Zongnan cut a big heel fight in front of the huangpu first phase of classmates.
In the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, compared with the five tiger and wolf divisions of the Kuomintang, Hu Zongnan's first army's report card was relatively poor, the Battle of Songhu, the First Army fought well, Hu Zongnan knew that the principal Chiang Kai-shek was fighting with the Japanese at home, and it did not save effort, and the First Army fought several times to exhaust the bullets and grain to rest and then enter the battlefield. However, in the Battle of Songhu, from Chiang Kai-shek to Hu Zongnan, who began to try to save the First Army, was transferred to the Shaanxi area for the purpose of guarding against the Communist forces, while the other five main forces of the Kuomintang were heroically resisting The Japanese, and the scenes were all hard battles, and they were on the bloody battlefield to resist the Invasion of the Japanese.
Therefore, Hu Zongnanbao did the strength of the world's first army, but lost his reputation, mentioning that the famous anti-Japanese generals of the Nationalist army only knew Xue Yue, Zhang Lingfu, Sun Liren, and Wei Lihuang, and no one mentioned Hu Zongnan. Although Hu Zongnan's promotion speed was the first among the Nationalist Huangpu students, the Generals of the Nationalists and communists were dissatisfied with his combat ability.
At the end of the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Zongnan, who had never fought a major battle, had changed from the commander of the First Division, the commander of the First Army, and the commander of the 17th Army to the commander of the First Theater, with seven group armies and more than 6.7 million troops, and controlled the most complete and powerful corps of the Kuomintang army at that time. Hu Zongnan wanted to prove himself on the battlefield of the Kuomintang.
However, in the first head-on confrontation with the People's Liberation Army, he met Chen Geng, commander of the fourth column of the Jinluyu Military Region, an old classmate of huangpu I, and in June 1946, in Wenxi, Jinnan, Hu Zongnan fought fiercely with more than 70,000 troops of 7 brigades and more than 20,000 troops of 3 brigades of the 4th column, resulting in two brigades being crippled and suffering more than 5,000 casualties.
This was also the first battle after the start of the second all-out civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists, a little earlier than the first victory of the seven battles and seven victories of The Soviet Union, the end of the first civil war and the beginning of the second all-out civil war, Hu Zongnan fell in front of Chen Geng, a classmate of the first phase of Huangpu, and nibbled on a mouth full of mud.
Hu Zongnan, of course, was not convinced, since the fight, he has targeted Chen Gengbu, hoping to get back the lost face, two months later, he gathered more than 100,000 people in ten brigades, and died again with Chen Gengbu in the Fushan area, this time participating in the battle was also the first brigade of the First Army, the first brigade of the first army under the heavens, of course, the first brigade in the world, the brigade commander Huang Zicheng was the highest-ranking lieutenant general of the nationalist army at that time, the regimental commanders were all major generals, and the backbone was all from the Huangpu family.
As a result, in Fushan, in three days, Chen Geng's four columns swallowed the entire first brigade alive, annihilated more than 2,000 enemies, captured 2,000 alive, captured lieutenant general Huang Zicheng, commander of the division, and Dai Tao, chief of staff of major generals, alive.
After the three battles of Chen Geng in the same window of the first period, Hu Zongnan finally understood that the name of Chen Geng "Huangpu Sanjie" in the first phase of Huangpu was not a vain name.
In 1947, Hu Zongnan drew up a plan for a lightning attack on Yan'an, and the plan was sent to Chairman Mao's desk by Xiong Huiquan, an outstanding spy officer inserted by our party, who gave the plan to Hu Zongnan an empty city, and on March 19, 1947, Hu Zongnan finally won a "great victory", occupied Yan'an, and fulfilled his oath not to take Yan'an as an improper groom.
However, Hu Zongnan's secret moon was not yet over, and the main force of the communist army that he "captured" all surfaced, and three of his main brigades were swallowed up in one time, and in August, his main 36th Division was swallowed up in Shajiadian, and the first protégé of Tianzi began to fight at the rhythm of the integration division being annihilated.
By March 1948, in the Battle of Yichuan, Hu Zongnan's reorganized 29th Army was completely annihilated, and the commander Liu Jie committed suicide.
After receiving the news of Liu Jie's suicide, Hu Zongnan knew that Yan'an could no longer be defended, which was originally a bait set for him by the Communists.
After that, the Northwest King Xiao'er's New Year was not as good as a year. Chased and beaten by our army all the way, from Shaanxi to Sichuan, after the defeat of the family, he and Principal Jiang went to Taiwan.
Looking at the battle history of the so-called Tianxia First Army, compared with the New First Army, the New Fifth Army, and the New Sixth Army in the northeast and Marshal Lin Biao, the reorganized 74th Army that was annihilated but won respect in MengLianggu, and the cunning and fierce Hu Lianbu on the Central Plains battlefield, hu Zongnan's First Army and these five aces are really not a little bit worse.
No matter how loud your name is, but the fog of history is blown away, and the officials have their own evaluations.
Night Wolf Roars West Wind/Text
Night Wolf Roaring West Wind, chief editor of the headline history number "Night Wolf Literature and History Studio", historical writer, super moderator of Sina Literature and History Forum, published historical works such as "Hundred Battles", "The Life and Death of an Empire", "Two Song Dynasties", "History Was So", etc.