The photos brought to you by "Love History" today are of the siege of Jinzhou after the Liaoshen Campaign began on October 6, 1948, and Chiang Kai-shek flew from Nanjing to Beiping and then arrived at Huludao via Dagu by boat to supervise the battle. As for why Chiang Kai-shek went to Huludao, we have already described it in detail in the "Chiang Kai-shek's Last Visit to lugou Bridge and the First Appearance of the Siege and Defeat of Jinzhou" that we released two days ago, and I will not repeat it here.
And the point we want to tell you today is neither Chiang Kai-shek himself nor Que Hanqian, the commander of the Fifty-fourth Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, who was closely following him, but always vigilant and never leaving Chiang Kai-shek's personal guard.
Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguard was first established on June 16, 1924, the day he became the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy. Chiang Kai-shek appointed Hu Gongmian as his head of the guards and set up a guard platoon to protect his own safety, which was also Chiang Kai-shek's first guard.
In May 1925, Chiang Kai-shek expanded his guard platoon and established three platoons of guards. On March 9, 1926, it was expanded again into a special service battalion, with 3 companies under its jurisdiction, with Wang Shihe as the battalion commander.
Four months later, Chiang Kai-shek was appointed commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, and he once again expanded his guard corps and established the General Headquarters Guard Regiment, with three battalions under its command, with Jin Fozhuang as the regimental commander.
On April 18, 1927, the Nationalist government set the capital nanjing, and the guard regiment of the General Headquarters was once again expanded into the Capital Garrison Division, with Yao Chun as the division commander. Although Chiang Kai-shek's guard ranks were expanding in name at this time, in fact there were only one or two dozen people who really guarded him, and these people were the attendant guards who were inseparable from Chiang Kai-shek.
This team was first formally established in March 1932, after Chiang Kai-shek served as chairman of the Military Commission, the Chairman Guard Corps was established, which has 4 district teams and 1 guard class, of which the guard class is the most core and Chiang Kai-shek's personal attendants.
Although the name of Chiang Kai-shek's guard unit was changed repeatedly, the core bodyguard remained until May 1948, when Chiang Kai-shek became president, it was also renamed the Presidential Palace Guard Corps, with Zhou Juexian as the captain. They were responsible for Chiang Kai-shek's security in the Presidential Palace and when he traveled and inspected various places.
Whenever Chiang Kai-shek went to a place, the special service personnel of Chiang Kai-shek's guard corps had to arrive at the scene in advance and arrange relevant safety vigilance work. On the surface, it seems that Chiang Kai-shek has no guard posts everywhere he goes, and the atmosphere of strict security is tight, but in fact, in all the surrounding corners of the place where he appeared, dozens of plainclothes guards have already been distributed at intersections, and those who may be in contact have been screened and inspected in advance. But even so, the personal guards who followed Chiang Kai-shek closely did not dare to slacken off in the slightest, even if all the senior Kuomintang generals who could stand by his side did not dare to slacken their eyes in the slightest, and they were ready to respond to sudden situations at any time.