At the time of the collapse of the country and the death of the family, many patriots emerged, and Long Yun was one of them. He was a famous anti-Japanese patriotic general, graduated from the fourth infantry section of the Yunnan Army's Daowu Academy, and studied martial arts with the Sichuan martial arts master Ma Desheng and others in his early years. He was an aide-de-camp to Tang Jiyao, the governor of Yunnan, and in 1922, at the age of 38, he was appointed commander of the Fifth Army.
As the saying goes, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. As Long Yun's military power grew, he became more and more unwilling to be subordinate to Tang Jiyao. Thus, in 1927, he staged a coup d'état to force Tang Jiyao to step down, and he himself took control of the military and political power in Yunnan, beginning his 18-year rule over Yunnan. Because when he managed Yunnan, he maintained a relatively stable situation in the territory, and carried out a series of rectification and reforms in the military, cultural, educational, economic and other aspects, and there were certain effects, so that Yunnan's comprehensive strength was enhanced. Therefore, Long Yun is known as the "King of Yunnan".
On August 8, 1937, Long Yun went to Nanjing to attend the National Defense Conference of the Republic of China Government. He expressed his willingness to send 20,000 troops to support the War of Resistance, saying at the meeting: "I will pour out all the manpower and financial resources of the locality, contribute them to the country, sacrifice everything, and fight the Japanese to the end!" In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the 69th Army, which shocked the whole country, was one of his troops. His attitude showed the determination of the people of Yunnan to resolutely resist the Japanese army! After that, Long Yun led the Yunnan military and civilians to fight against the Japanese army many times.
More than a month after Japan's surrender, Du Yuming launched the "Ten.Three" coup in Kunming, and Long Yun was dismissed from all posts in Yunnan. He escaped to Wuhua Mountain, was forced to fly to Chongqing because he resisted his master's orders, and was forced to follow the Republic of China government to Nanjing. At the end of 1948, he fled to Hong Kong by plane. On August 13 of the following year, he published an article entitled "Our Understanding and Propositions of the Chinese Revolution at the Present Stage", formally declared the uprising, supported the leadership of our party, and later successively served as a member of the Central People's Government and vice chairman of the National Defense Commission. In June 1962, Long Yun died of acute myocardial infarction in Beijing and was buried in Babaoshan at the age of 78.
After Long Yun's death, what happened to his 7 sons and daughters?
Daughter Long Guobi was admitted to Fudan, and later studied at Yingbin State Women's College in the United States, and now lives in the United States. As for his sons, most of them joined the army. The eldest son, Ryusawa Takeshi, inherited his father's ambitions and has been serving in the military since graduating from Theobudo. After that he went to Treasure Island, he never returned to the mainland. The second son, Long Shengzu, returned to China after graduating from the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France, and has been fighting with his father until he was a lieutenant general, and later settled in Hong Kong. The third son, Long Sheng, graduated from the fourth class of the General Officer Class of the Army University, and successively served as the deputy regimental deputy of the machine gun regiment of the Dianqian Appeasement Office, and was killed in 1950. The fourth son, Long Shengwen, graduated from Kunming National Southwest United University and became a lieutenant colonel in the army. In 1945, he was admitted to the University of Wisconsin in the United States, where he worked to improve Sino-AMERICAN relations, and died in the United States in 1991.
The fifth son, Long Shengxun, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and died of illness in 2007. The sixth son, Long Shengyuan, died prematurely. The seventh son, Long Shengde, is a linguist who worked at the Institute of Ethnographic Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and now lives in the United States.