As the saying goes, the heavens and the earth are all working together, and the heroes are not free. Sun Chuanfang, a direct magnate and former self-proclaimed commander-in-chief of the combined forces of the five southeastern provinces, is probably the warlord giant who can best appreciate the feelings of "time to come" and "transport".
In 1922, when he led an army to aid Fujian on the orders of Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang was only one of the 100,000 troops and dozens of division commanders, and it was not Wu Peifu's elite troops who were under the command of Wu Peifu, and they were not conspicuous among the direct lineage.
Sun Chuanfang
After only three years, on November 25, 1925, Sun Chuanfang, who had defeated many large armies and many warlord troops, had already incorporated China's richest southeast five provinces into his command, and established the five provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Gansu, becoming a decisive warlord giant in China.
According to the development trajectory of many warlords during the Beiyang warlord period, Sun Chuanfang, who became the king of the southeast, reached this point, naturally could create a new faction, and at the same time, the throne of the king of the southeast could last for several years. If Sun Chuanfang had no ambition to continue to expand, try to continue to expand the territory, participate in warlord melee, and honestly manage his own territory, it is entirely possible that he would rule the southeast for a longer time.
However, it is not known whether Sun Chuanfang was lucky or unlucky, after becoming the king of the southeast, only one year passed, before Sun Chuanfang established his own faction and truly unified the 5 southeastern provinces, the Guangdong National Government in the south began the Northern Expedition.
Guangdong Nationalist Government Northern Expedition
Sun Chuanfang's 20 large army, which had not yet been truly integrated, was defeated one after another in the face of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was united in will, firm in revolutionary will, and explosive in combat effectiveness, and in the end, Sun Chuanfang only served as the king of the southeast for more than a year, and then he stepped down and became the shortest one among many warlord giants. Sun Chuanfang's experience perfectly explains what is called "its rise and fall, and its death is also sudden".
Sun Chuanfang, the word Xinyuan, therefore, according to the custom of the Republic of China, he was also called Xin Shuai. Sun Chuanfang was born in 1885 in Tai'an, Shandong Province, to an ordinary peasant family. Like most Beiyang warlord generals, he graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in his early years, and was later sent to Japan to study at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
After returning to China after completing his studies, Sun Chuanfang first served in the 2nd town of the Beiyang Army, and gradually accumulated merits and rose to the positions of regimental commander, brigade commander, and division commander. In 1922, Sun Chuanfang was ordered by Wu Peifu to lead the Army's Second Division, together with Zhou Yinren, commander of the Army's 12th Division, to aid the Fujian warlords who had defected to their immediate lineage.
After arriving in Fujian, he and Zhou Yinren jointly expelled Wang Yongquan, the military governor of Fujian, and seized the military and political power in Fujian. However, as the saying goes, it is difficult to tolerate two tigers in one mountain, and without foreign enemies, the contradiction between Sun Chuanfang and Zhou Yinren has become more and more serious. In the end, Sun Chuanfang, who had lost in the infighting, led his troops to retreat to the Fujian-Guangdong border.
However, it did not take long for Sun Chuanfang's opportunity to come. In September 1924, the Zhejiang-Anhui War broke out between the warlord of direct lineage and the overseer of Jiangsu, Qi Xieyuan, and the Warlord of Anhui and lu Yongxiang, the governor of Zhejiang. Sun Chuanfang keenly saw the opportunity from this, and he decided to give up Fujian and enter Zhejiang.
Sun Chuanfang led his troops into Zhejiang with the determination to be put to death and live later, and together with Qi Xieyuan's Jiangsu army, quickly defeated the Zhejiang overseer Lu Yongxiang, the Anhui warlord Lu Yongxiang was defeated, and his remnants were absorbed by Sun Chuanfang. Since then, Sun Chuanfang, whose strength has greatly increased, successfully entered Zhejiang, served as the inspector of Fujian and Zhejiang and the military governor of Zhejiang, and successfully occupied the rich Zhejiang.
Sun Chuanfang, who occupies the five southeastern provinces
After finally having a provincial land, Sun Chuanfang was not satisfied, and at this time, the second Zhifeng War broke out in the north. The results of the 2nd Zhifeng War were jaw-dropping: due to Feng Yuxiang's imminent defection, the dominant Wu Peifu's direct army was completely defeated, Wu Peifu was forced to flee south, and the powerful direct family was torn apart. Zhang Zuolin, who won the second victory in the Zhifeng War, took the opportunity to lead his troops south.
Feeling threatened, The Jiangsu overseers Qi Xieyuan and Sun Chuanfang formed a joint army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in an attempt to hold a group to resist the Fengzhi army moving south. However, what Qi Xieyuan did not expect was that Sun Chuanfang had secretly defected to Zhang Zuolin, and at the crucial moment, qi Xieyuan's army was defeated and forced to go to the field. Sun Chuanfang, who had defected to Zhang Zuolin, not only did not lose anything, but also greatly increased the strength of Qi Xieyuan's army.
Subsequently, Sun Chuanfang joined forces with Wu Peifu, who had fled to Hubei, and promoted him to be the commander-in-chief of the 14 provinces of the Thief Coalition Army. He himself united the warlords of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang, and proclaimed himself the commander-in-chief of the five-province coalition army, and launched an attack on the Fengjun army in five major armies, and the Fengzhe War broke out.
Wu Peifu
It has to be said that Sun Chuanfang has no one in terms of vision, and Sun Chuanfang quickly defeated Yang Yuting, Jiang Dengxuan and other fengshi generals and occupied Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places. Sun Chuanfang, who was full of pride, immediately held a five-province coalition army meeting in Nanjing, announcing the establishment of a five-province coalition army of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi, and he appointed himself commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of Jiangsu. Since then, in addition to Wu Peifu, another giant of the direct line headed by Sun Chuanfang has been officially established.
However, just like Sun Chuanfang rose like a comet, his fall was also very rapid, becoming the king of the southeast for only a year, the Northern Expedition army that had sworn to the Northern Expedition from Guangzhou quickly defeated Sun Chuanfang's 5-province alliance army with the momentum of destruction and decay, and before the seat of the southeast king was hot, Sun Chuanfang was forced to go to the field.
The daughter of Shi Congbin, who assassinated Sun Chuanfang
After losing his army and territory, Sun Chuanfang first defected to the Feng clan and settled in Tianjin in 1931. In 1935, due to breaking the unspoken rules of warlord melee in the Zhejiang-Feng war, he killed the captured Feng general Shi Congbin, and Sun Chuanfang was assassinated by shi Congbin's daughter who was determined to avenge her father, at the age of 50.