Chapter 2 Chapter Two: Assassination of Liao Zhongkai

In mid-May 1925, acting Generalissimo Hu Hanmin met Wang Jingwei who had returned from Beijing after the aftermath, and declared that he would abide by Sun Yat-sen's will and fight against evil forces to the end. At the end of June, the National Political Conference was chaired by Wang Jingwei.At the meeting, it was determined that the title of "KMT Prime Minister" would always be left to Sun Yat-sen, and that the Kuomintang adopted a committee system of collective leadership. The meeting also decided to reorganize the original headquarters into a national government, with the chairman of the national government as the supreme leader.

In early July, the national government was formally established.Wang Jingwei was elected as the chairman of the National Government and the Central Military Commission by an overwhelming advantage. He combined the power of the party, the government and the army, and became the first leader of the Kuomintang after Sun Yat-sen. Of course, this is also an expected result.In terms of seniority, there is no one in the Kuomintang; in terms of loyalty, friends and comrades around Sun Yat-sen have left group after group for decades, and how many people can never leave like Wang Jingwei; There is no shortage of Wang Jingwei who can make a quick move and live up to the boy's head.

After Wang Jingwei came to power, he did not develop any new ideas or new doctrines. He still held high the great banner of Sun Yat-sen, "followed the established principles" without any change, adhered to the three major policies, and insisted on "sending troops to the north to unify China." The other two veterans of the Kuomintang also have heavy responsibilities. Hu Hanmin is also one of the five members of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee, one of the eight members of the Central Military Commission, and minister of foreign affairs. Liao Zhongkai's importance is not low, he is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee, a member of the Central Military Commission, and also the extremely important Minister of Finance.

On the surface, it seemed that Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai and others were closely united around the KMT Central Committee with Chairman Wang Jingwei as the core, held high the banner of Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles and continued to walk the road of revolutionary unification.In fact, this is just an illusion.The KMT is far from monolithic. With the support of Soviet advisers, while helping the Kuomintang to improve party affairs such as organization and propaganda, the Communist Party also saw the fundamental differences between itself and the Kuomintang, thus strengthening its determination to fight for the leadership of the proletariat in the national revolution.Over time, around the influence of Soviet advisers, the Communist Party’s influence on the Kuomintang, and its leadership over the revolution, a leftist group, represented by Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda, formed within the Kuomintang, who favored and actively promoted “union with Russia, the Communist Party, and support for farmers and workers.” , and the rightists headed by Hu Hanmin and Sun Ke who "cannot tolerate the development of the Communist Party in the Kuomintang and the strengthening of the influence of Soviet advisers", the two factions struggled fiercely.

Ideas determine the way out, and vision determines the realm.Two factions, two roads.The conflict of lines determines that one of the leftists and the rightists is doomed to withdraw from the stage of history in China. The neutral faction represented by Wang Jingwei did not have the prestige of Sun Yat-sen, and was too indecisive, unable to check and balance the fierce struggle between the two factions.The unchecked and balanced power struggle will inevitably become extremely cruel in the later stage. Perhaps only blood can free these people who are addicted to the power struggle. At nine o'clock in the morning on August 19, 1925, in front of the Central Party Headquarters Building of the Kuomintang, sparks of bullets shot out. Members of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, members of the Military Commission, Minister of Finance of the National Government, Party representatives of the Whampoa Military Academy, representatives of the Party and the Army, and farmers Liao Zhongkai, Minister of the Ministry of Labor and Workers, was assassinated, shot four times, and died on the way to the hospital.

This is definitely a serious assassination atrocity. Wang Jingwei was furious, so he formed a special committee with Xu Chongzhi and Chiang Kai-shek to manage military and political affairs and police power, martial law in Guangzhou, and thoroughly investigate the case. Why can Chiang Kai-shek, who is not high enough in the party and has a low political status, join the special committee?The answer is simple, because Chiang Kai-shek was the most suitable person in charge of the detection work at that time. Sun Ke, the mayor of Guangzhou, and Wu Tiecheng, director of the Public Security Bureau, who were supposed to undertake the heavy task of solving the case, were all rightists. Wang Jingwei and the Soviet advisory group were worried.At that time, Chiang Kai-shek belonged to the left of the center and held the most loyal party and army to the Nationalist government. Wang Jingwei and the Soviet advisory group were more at ease.

In addition, the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Liao Zhongkai is extraordinary, which can ensure that he will devote himself to the detection work with tenacious fighting spirit and full enthusiasm. Over the past year or so, Chiang Kai-shek and Liao Zhongkai have cooperated in building a school and building an army in Huangpu. Chiang Kai-shek is very clear about the difficulties involved.When the school was first established, Liao Zhongkai endured the humiliation several times, and obtained some money from Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, and even sold the property of the seller, and handed over a sum of funds to Chiang Kai-shek.On the surface, he, Chiang Kai-shek, was leading the pacification of the business group, the establishment of the school army, and the establishment of the party army, but how much effort Liao Zhongkai put in for this, and how many open and hidden arrows were blocked for him behind the scenes, who can count.For Chiang Kai-shek to come to this day, every step was carried by Liao Zhongkai on his shoulders...

It should be said that Chairman Wang's employment level is good, because Chiang Kai-shek, the person in charge of solving the case he selected, worked very efficiently, and the truth soon surfaced. This is a vendetta, and all kinds of evidence point to the two veterans of the Kuomintang. The mastermind behind it is the right wing of the Kuomintang headed by Hu Hanmin's younger brothers Hu Yisheng and Zou Lu. The struggle between the leftists of the KMT headed by Liao Zhongkai and the rightists headed by Hu Hanmin over whether to adhere to the three major policies has reached the point of life and death, and with the support of Wang Jingwei and the Communist Party, Liao Zhongkai has the upper hand everywhere.

As a result, Hu Yisheng thought of killing Liao Zhongkai because he felt that his brother was being bullied on his head. Of course, he may have been hinted or even instructed by Hu Hanmin. In short, Hu Yisheng found Zou Lu and other rightists. The backbone of the gang conspired to kill Liao Zhongkai. The murderer is the gangster bought by Zhu Zhuowen, the brigade commander under Xu Chongzhi of the Cantonese Army, and others. If Liao Zhongkai and Hu Hanmin had a dispute over ideological lines, then Zhu Zhuowen and Liao Zhongkai had a conflict of interest. After the reorganization of the Kuomintang, Zhu Zhuowen was getting worse day by day.When Sun Yat-sen was still alive, he still thought of his past achievements, and arranged for him to be a county magistrate.When Sun Yat-sen passed away, Liao Zhongkai found that this kid basically did not do good things but only did bad things—using his position to disrupt the economic order (smuggling tobacco, evading taxes), messing with the relationship between men and women, harboring criminals to protect the evil forces, so he withstood Under the pressure of Zhu Zhuowen's boss, Xu Chongzhi, Zhu Zhuowen was removed from the post of county magistrate and his family property was confiscated.

So Zhu Zhuowen lost all his officials, money, and women, and his standard of living was greatly reduced.Barefoot people are not afraid of those who wear shoes, Zhu Zhuowen decided to take revenge on Liao Zhongkai who cut off his fortune.This is the real reason why he was chosen by Hu Yisheng as a partner. This investigation turned out to be inseparable from Hu Hanmin and Xu Chongzhi! Hu Hanmin is the only person in the Kuomintang with comparable qualifications to Wang Jingwei. Although Xu Chongzhi is not as senior as Hu Hanmin, he is also a prominent position-he is also a member of the Central Standing Committee, a member of the Military Commission, and the chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Government.

Although there is insufficient evidence to prove that the two were directly involved in the case, they cannot escape suspicion. Facing the surging doubts, Hu Hanmin chose to conduct profound self-criticism—resigned from his post and went to the Soviet Union for inspection.However, Xu Chongzhi chose superficial self-criticism-the light sentence "I am not strict in running the army", which greatly dissatisfied people inside and outside the party.The bigger problem is that Xu Chongzhi's private life is very corrupt - full of food, drink, prostitution, gambling and drugs, he is not worthy of being called a revolutionary soldier or a party cadre at all. Wang Jingwei took the opportunity to calculate the general account and dismissed him.From then on, Xu Chongzhi left Guangzhou and lived in Shanghai, away from the military... Assassination is the criminal bloodthirsty of the conspirators, and assassination is also the fanatical devotion of the bloodthirsty.But neither the conspirators nor the passionate ones benefited from the assassination in the end. This is undoubtedly the irony of history. The consequences of the "Assassination of Liao Case" seemed immeasurable at the time, but from the perspective of the subsequent historical process, we can barely think that this conspiracy has changed the fate of at least two people. This is because Liao Zhongkai, Hu Hanmin, and Xu Chongzhi left one after another, and the resulting power gap must be filled by these two people. The first person is naturally the familiar Chiang Kai-shek. Although Chiang Kai-shek had already won the trust of Sun Yat-sen when he "bombarded the presidential palace", and is currently a member of the military committee, the highest leadership of the army, since Chen Jiongming's rebellion, Sun Yat-sen has been very vigilant about the military taking power, so he has never let him Chiang Kai-shek intervened in party and government affairs.Except for the Party Headquarters of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek was basically unable to interfere in party affairs outside the school. His position in the party was at most equivalent to an alternate member, and his position in the party was even lower than that of Mao Zedong in the same period. He could not be compared with the above-mentioned party and government officials at all. However, this time, Chiang Kai-shek became the commander of the Guangzhou garrison first, and took over the military power of his elder brother Xu Chongzhi, who had gradually become estranged from him because of the territory and "money". —— Member of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee and director of the National Revolutionary Army, he became the power center of the Kuomintang and became the second person in the Kuomintang after Wang Jingwei. But Chiang Kai-shek's rise to power also raised new problems. Liao Zhongkai was a key figure in the Guangzhou political situation. He protected and suppressed Chiang Kai-shek politically. If Liao Zhongkai was still alive, it was impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to surpass Liao Zhongkai and become the number one political and military leader.In this way, Chiang Kai-shek's future conflicts with Wang Jingwei and Soviet advisers will not be so intense.Liao Zhongkai is a lubricant and a buffer zone. If he was there, the subsequent incidents such as the Zhongshan ship and the "party affairs case" would probably not have happened. Of course, in the dictionary of history, if, if these words have no market. Next, let's take a look at the second person who is lucky to be in the top position—Song Ziwen, Song Qingling's younger brother and Sun Yat-sen's brother-in-law. Song Ziwen served as Minister of Finance and was elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee at the "Second National Congress" of the Kuomintang, which can be regarded as inheriting Liao Zhongkai's position to a certain extent. Song Ziwen is also considered an important person, here is a brief introduction to him. Song Ziwen, born in the 1990s in the 19th century, was 29 years old at the time. His educational background is outstanding: he is a bachelor from Shanghai St. John's University, an American missionary school known as the "Eastern Harvard" in history, a master's degree in economics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. His work experience is also very good: because he has been taught in English since his undergraduate studies, his English level is far superior to those who stutter in the workplace of foreign companies with half-baked English. related to university majors.He worked as an intern at Citibank in New York, and also worked as a secretary in the Shanghai head office of Hanyeping Company, the most important and largest heavy industry company in China at that time, and as the English secretary of his brother-in-law Sun Yat-sen. His current position is Guangzhou National Director and Governor of the Government's Central Bank. As far as his personal qualities and abilities are concerned, he must be one of the most outstanding financial talents of that era, but he has some fatal stink problems: arrogance, self-willedness, impatience, and bad interpersonal relationships in the officialdom. In the future civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, we will suffer a lot. Most importantly, he also has a lofty ideal: to create a unified modern economic system for China with reference to Western economic concepts.But he didn't realize that his ideas from advanced Western countries were somewhat unacceptable.Because most of the Chinese rulers at that time were eager for quick success, what they needed was an ATM-like financial expert who responded to every request and didn’t care about its usefulness, not a financial expert like Song Ziwen who might have a far-sighteder and more capable but disobedient. In this regard, Song Ziwen is not as good as his brother-in-law Kong Xiangxi, who has always looked down upon him.Although Kong Xiangxi likes to engage in corruption and his official rank is far lower than that of Song Ziwen, he has an advantage that Song Ziwen does not have: obedience.Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek, who later gained dictatorship, admired Kong Xiangxi far more than Song Ziwen. Not only was Song Ziwen not liked by Chiang Kai-shek, but he was often beaten by the other party because he was too assertive and daring to resist. The main manifestation was being slapped in the face, which was very miserable.Of course, this is a matter of the future, and the two parties can still cooperate for the time being. The two rising stars rose instantly.It can only be lamented that life is ever-changing.People in the political vortex often change their identities so quickly that it is unbelievable. After the "Assassination of Liao Case", Chiang Kai-shek, who held the military power, stood firmly on the side of Chairman Wang, and Wang and Jiang also entered the honeymoon period because of this cooperation. After Wang Jingwei came to power, he resolutely implemented Sun Yat-sen's established line and seemed to replace Liao Zhongkai as the leftist leader.Chiang Kai-shek became the new middle power. The rightists who lost Hu Hanmin saw that Guangzhou could no longer gain a foothold, so they went to Beijing Xishan to hold the "Xishan Conference" in front of Sun Yat-sen's spirit.The meeting decided: to cancel the party membership of the Communist Party members in the Kuomintang; to expel Wang Jingwei from the party for half a year; to suspend the functions of the Central Executive Committee of the Guangdong Nationalist Government.Lin Sen, Zhang Ji and others who took the lead in this matter were later called the "Xishan Conference School". Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek naturally ignored the decision of the "Xishan Conference", but they did not expect that the rightists did not stop there, and a conspiracy against them was about to start. The "Xishan Conference" was the first serious split of the Kuomintang, and its impact was extremely bad, which led to the publicization of the internal contradictions of the Kuomintang and intensified.Just based on the divisive behavior of these people - in Guo Degang's words - it is not too much to be dragged out and shot for half an hour. It is worth mentioning that the bloody lesson of Liao Zhongkai's assassination also taught the young Communist Party from the negative side - it is very important to take precautions and learn important information in advance.Since then, the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party has carried out the earliest intelligence protection work within the party, laying the initial foundation for the establishment of the legendary "Central Special Branch". Just the day before Liao Zhongkai was assassinated, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government did a major event, canceling the previous names of "Thief Fighting Army", "Founding Army" and "Party Army" and reorganized them into the National Revolutionary Army, referred to as "National Revolutionary Army". Guojun". The name "National Revolutionary Army" was invented by Chiang Kai-shek by scratching a lot of hair.This is how the "National Army" in the TV series came about, and the title of the National Army continued until the Kuomintang withdrew from the mainland. Now, the national army is about to accept the test of the second Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition. It has come out of iron and blood and will use its flesh and blood to build the indestructible Great Wall of the Chinese nation in the upcoming war of resistance. Describe its compilation. The early national army followed the Soviet system, with party representatives and political departments at the army and division levels. First Army: The main force is still the teachers and students of the Whampoa Military Academy.Army commander Chiang Kai-shek (later replaced by He Yingqin), party representative was originally Liao Zhongkai, and director of the political department Zhou Enlai.He Zhonghan and Jiang Xianyun among the "Three Heroes of Huangpu" who were born in the first term have already become regiment-level cadres. Second Army: Adapted from the Hunan Army under Tan Yankai's command.Army commander Tan Yankai, party representative Wang Jingwei. Third Army: Adapted from the Yunnan Army under Zhu Peide's command.Army commander Zhu Peide, when he was studying in the Yunnan Lecture Hall, he and Zhu De were called "two Zhus" together, and his political accomplishment and military ability were both passable. Fourth Army: Adapted from the original First Division of the Guangdong Army.Army Commander Li Jishen, Deputy Army Commander Chen Keyu, Tenth Division Commander Chen Mingshu, Eleventh Division Commander Chen Jitang, and Twelfth Division Commander Zhang Fakui. The Fifth Army: Adapted from the "Fortune Army".Li Fulin, the army commander, was originally a gangster and a veteran of the underworld in Macau and Hong Kong.This person's cultural level is very low. You can get a feel for this person's humanistic style through the allegorical saying "Li Fulin reads the newspaper—turn it upside down".He got acquainted with Sun Yat-sen during his escape to Nanyang, and turned himself into Sun Yat-sen's early revolutionary military cadres. After that, he pulled up a team with gangsters as the core-"Fu Jun". Sixth Army: Adapted from the Hunan Army under Cheng Qian's command.Army commander Cheng Qian. The Seventh Army: The main force is the entire family property of the Xingui Clan. This army began to enter Guangdong in batches to assist in the war in October 1925, and was officially reorganized in March of the following year.Army Commander Li Zongren, Party Representative and Political Department Director Huang Shaohong, Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi. Seven armies, a total of about 80,000 people.The military quality of each army is very different, and the combat effectiveness is also uneven.Although it is hard to say which army has the worst combat effectiveness, I can tell you with certainty that the first, fourth, and seventh armies have the strongest combat effectiveness. Most of the middle and grassroots backbones of the First Army are elites from all over the country. They are revolutionary youths with ideals, culture and discipline. They have received advanced military education from the Soviet Union. They have a common label called "Whampoa Clan".Most of the senior officers of the First Army are graduates of Baoding Military Academy.To put it simply, almost all the officers of the First Army came from two of the best military academies in China at that time, which largely guaranteed the combat effectiveness of the First Army. The situation of the Fourth Army and the Seventh Army is similar, and their officers are almost all trained according to the "four schools" model. The so-called "Four Schools" is actually a fixed routine for training senior officers that Cixi imitated the Japanese military education system at the suggestion of Yuan Shikai: first attend military elementary school, then enter military middle school, and then enter Baoding Military Academy (which is quite Yu University), and finally went to Army University in Beijing for further study (equivalent to postgraduate).There are not many students who can graduate from the four schools, so these graduates hardly have to worry about employment issues. However, the situations of the Fourth Army and the Seventh Army are also slightly different. First, the number of outstanding graduates from the Baoding Military Academy among the officers of the Fourth Army far exceeds that of other friendly armies. , and most of the officers of the Seventh Army are from Guangxi. In other words, apart from factors such as the commander's talent for strategy, level of training, and leadership skills, the combat effectiveness of the Fourth and Seventh Armies is mainly based on the aggregation of classmates and local connections. It can be seen from this that in China, it is very important to have a harmonious relationship with classmates and fellow villagers. Maybe the other party will give you a hand at any time. In the subsequent Guangdong Unification War and the Northern Expedition, the first, fourth, and seventh armies, which were most capable of fighting, were mainly used to fight, and the other four armies could only add to the cake.This is also understandable, after all, the four armies are warlord troops with insufficient comprehensive quality-the cultural level and ideology of the officers, and the training and equipment of the soldiers. According to the normal situation, Chiang Kai-shek should carry out ideological and moral construction for these warlord troops to make contributions to the revolution and loyalty education of being loyal to the party and the nation, and find a way to remove the feudal dross in their heads.But the problem is that Chiang Kai-shek's current strength is not enough, and he lacks control over the troops other than the First Army. Few people listen to him. Cheng Qian, who is older than him in the revolution, doesn't give him much face.In desperation, Chiang Kai-shek could only save the most important moral and ideological and political issues for later.But he never expected that he would suffer so much for it in the future. On May 30, 1925, Shanghai. British patrols shot and arrested ordinary people who were demonstrating, killing and injuring dozens of people. This is the "May 30th Massacre".The tragedy triggered a 16-month "provincial and Hong Kong general strike". Just when the anti-imperialist and patriotic labor movement was in full swing, Chen Jiongming, who was not beaten to death last time, came back again, ready to make a comeback, planning to make a comeback. In September 1925, Chen Jiongming returned to Guangdong from Shanghai and rebelled again.Wasn't Chen Jiongming disabled last time? Why did he come back from the ashes? There are two reasons.For one thing, Fujian and Jiangxi, which were supported and controlled by the Zhili warlords, were too close to Guangdong and Guangxi, which were controlled by the Guangdong Nationalist Government. They had to support someone to cause trouble for the Nationalist Government. Ming" is undoubtedly a perfect candidate. Therefore, Zhou Yinren, the commander of the Fujian Provincial Military Region, and Fang Benren, the commander of the Jiangxi Provincial Military Region, who were directly subordinate to him, continued to give Chen Jiongming special care, provided money and people, and even allocated a special site for Chen Jiongming to support the army. Second, the provincial and Hong Kong strikes violated the interests of the big powers, especially the British, so the British thought of a trick to "use China to control China" - to buy warlords to destroy the provincial and Hong Kong strikes and the peasant associations. Naturally, Chen Jiongming would not let go of such an opportunity.Therefore, Chen Jiongming went to Hong Kong to win the "sponsorship" of the British. But the Guangdong Nationalist Government is now strong and strong, so how can Chen Jiongming be allowed to cause chaos again.Chairman Wang Jingwei immediately appointed Chiang Kai-shek, the No. 2 figure in the national government, as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and took the initiative to fight Chen Jiongming. In October 1925, Chiang Kai-shek set off from Guangzhou to march east again. The Second Eastern Expedition was a little different from the first Eastern Expedition, in that there was an additional special team—a political propaganda team of 237 members.This is Zhou Enlai's creative invention. The members of the political propaganda team were selected from peasant movement workshops, political training classes, Whampoa Military Academy, etc.They are responsible for boosting morale, publicizing policies, mobilizing mass movements, and maintaining close military-civilian relations. The Second Eastern Expedition was the first time that Chiang Kai-shek independently commanded a campaign-scale military operation. It was a matter of personal prestige and the future of the revolution, and there was no room for loss. Therefore, he went to the front to command in person. Chiang Kai-shek's strategy is "central breakthrough", that is, to break through Chen Jiongming's strongest fortress first, and then attack the two wings, dividing Chen Jiongming's territory into pieces and breaking them one by one. Therefore, the first goal of the Eastern Expeditionary Army was Huizhou, because Huizhou was Chen Jiongming's hometown and his most important stronghold. Huizhou, "No matter how chaotic the world is, there will never be any worries here", the terrain is extremely dangerous, and it has always been regarded as a golden city. During the first Eastern Expedition, the Eastern Expeditionary Army easily captured Huizhou because of the surrender of the defender Yang Kunru. Unfortunately, in order to show the government's tolerance for the errant warlord, Xu Chongzhi got Yang Kunru no longer an enemy of the revolution and was willing to accept the adaptation. After the guarantee, Huizhou was handed over to the opponent for defense.But the facts proved that this was a diehard who did not keep his promise, because after Chen Jiongming came back, Yang Kunru resolutely threw himself into the arms of the old leader, and Huizhou was reoccupied by Chen Jiongming.It seems that it is better to take coercive measures to deal with diehards. At the beginning of the battle of Huizhou, facing the main force of the siege - the first army of the national army with extremely strong combat effectiveness, the defenders with superior geographical and military strength did not appear to be defeated.The battle was very fierce. The instructor Liu Yaochen who was very brave in the first Eastern Expedition was killed in battle, and the national army suffered heavy casualties. Chiang Kai-shek was forced to adjust his strategy. Instead of using even force, he concentrated all his heavy weapons and used superior firepower to violently bombard Yang Kunru's key defense of the north gate to implement a key breakthrough. At the critical moment, Chen Cheng, the "God of Cannon" of the heavy weapons unit—the leader of the artillery battalion and a technical pacesetter—made another new contribution. He silenced the enemy's machine gun with one shot, and the death squad took advantage of the situation to ascend the city.Climbing the city was not easy. Jiang Xianyun was shot, and Chen Geng injured his left leg. Fortunately, Chen Mingren, the famous "Desperate Saburo" among Huangpu classmates, performed vigorously. The Gate of Victory in Huizhou. Taking Huizhou opened the way to victory, and the next key task is to wipe out the remnants of Chen Jiongming who are entrenched in the upper reaches of the Dongjiang River.During this operation, Chiang Kai-shek encountered the most dangerous situation in his life: on the way to Huayang, an important town on the Dongjiang River, the troops he led encountered fierce resistance from the superior enemy. Trapped by the offensive. Chiang Kai-shek went to the front to supervise the battle in an attempt to boost morale and turn the tide of the war. However, the troops supervised by Chiang Kai-shek were recently reorganized from warlord troops, and their ideological and moral standards were not high enough, and their combat effectiveness was not strong.Although he fought hard, he still failed to achieve anything.The troops collapsed across the board under the impact of the enemy.In the end, the commander-in-chief Chiang Kai-shek was also injured.The injury was not fatal, but what was fatal was that other members of the general headquarters had fled for their lives. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was surrounded by only the chief guard, Chen Geng.With a polished commander and a polished bodyguard, how can we fight this battle? Can't fight, can only run away. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was unable to move because of his injuries. Facing the approaching enemy forces, Chiang Kai-shek was desperate and wanted to kill himself, but was dissuaded by Chen Geng. Chen Shiwei took Chiang Kai-shek on his back and ran away.Chiang Kai-shek is taller and heavier than Chen Geng, and it is quite difficult to carry on his back, but Chen Geng still refuses to let go of Chiang Kai-shek and run for his life.After running for a few miles, he escaped from the encirclement.After that, Chen Geng trekked mountains and rivers without sleep, traveled hundreds of miles, found He Yingqin and Zhou Enlai, and moved in reinforcements, so Chiang Kai-shek was able to escape. Chen Geng's leg skills and physical strength are really amazing! The overall quality of the "Three Heroes of Whampoa" is really not covered. Chiang Kai-shek was deeply grateful for Chen Geng's "escort", so he kept him by his side as an attendant and staff officer.Because of this life-saving grace, after Chen Geng was arrested in Shanghai after the separation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek also turned a blind eye to allowing the Communist Party to rescue Chen Geng, acting very righteous. As the saying goes, "If you survive a catastrophe, you must have a future blessing." Chiang Kai-shek, who survived a catastrophe, really has a future blessing-Liu Zhi won by a surprise, led his army to conquer Huayang, and turned the tide of the battle.This meritorious service added a lot of weight to Liu Zhi's subsequent competition for the commander of the Second Division of the First Army. This Liu Zhi usually has the appearance of an honest man of "great wisdom and stupidity". Before, he had few defeats and made many achievements. He was a hot and powerful figure in the army at that time. After taking Huayang, the Eastern Expeditionary Army drove straight in, completely defeated Chen Jiongming, and achieved a complete victory in the Second Eastern Expedition at the end of November 1925.Subsequently, the Guangdong Nationalist Government launched the Southern Expedition Campaign. With the assistance of Li Zongren and his three brothers, they completely wiped out the small warlords in southern Guangdong and even Hainan. So far, Guangdong is unified! Chen Jiongming, who lost everything, fled to Hong Kong.Chen Jiongming, who was eliminated on the stage of the warlords, did not recover from the slump, because he still had a card in his hand that allowed him to change his career as a celebrity, continue to participate in politics, and shine on the political stage. This card is a political party organization—the Zhigong Party, which was transformed from the Huidang "Hongmen" with the great assistance of Chen Jiongming.The top leader of the Zhi Gong Party—the prime minister is naturally Chen Jiongming, and the deputy prime minister is our old acquaintance Tang Jiyao.The Zhigong Party is still one of the eight major democratic parties in the Republic to "participate in and discuss state affairs", and Chen Jiongming can be regarded as famous for this reason. On September 22, 1933, 57-year-old Chen Jiongming died of illness in Hong Kong. Before his death, he repeatedly shouted: "Republic! Republic!" This last words became the last expression of Chen Jiongming's adherence to the democratic federal system until his death. A generation of heroes thus ended their complicated life. He is a former scholar of the Qing Dynasty, a member of the Guangdong Consultative Council, and a gravedigger of the imperial system. He is the founding father of 1911 and a traitor to the revolution. He was Sun Yat-sen's comrade-in-arms and follower, and finally met Sun Yat-sen in battle. He pursued "inter-provincial autonomy" all his life, spared no effort to build local autonomy, and created the New Deal in southern Fujian and Guangdong, but he also burned the flames of war to the land of Fujian and Guangdong. He was the founder of the Cantonese Army, who succeeded in the Cantonese Army, but was also defeated by the Cantonese Army. He changed history and was finally buried by history.