The National Revolutionary Army, the main force on the anti-Japanese battlefield, fought one big war after another, exchanged blood and flesh for the stability of the motherland, and they are worthy of the glorious title of "China's guardian spirit".
As we all know, the Nationalist army is not a monolith, and it is divided into many factions, but how many of Chiang Kai-shek's concubines are there? Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were 171 divisions and 40 independent brigades belonging to the Nationalist Army, but only 27 divisions and 5 brigades belonged to the Central Army.
Speaking of this, Xiao Hi felt sad for the so-called "miscellaneous army", the weapons were not the best, people sacrificed and could not get much replenishment, and finally the battle was bloodied, but could not escape the fate of being annexed.
Today, I would like to introduce Zhang Luanji, a general of the Miscellaneous Army, who was assassinated by military command agents all his life.
Born in 1903 in Anren Village, Wei County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, Zhang Luanji graduated from the Weixian Normal School, and later entered the "Jiaodong King" Liu Zhennian as a soldier, and because of his repeated military achievements, he was promoted step by step and became the commander of the most elite 3rd Brigade in the 21st Division.
Although Liu Zhennian was a warlord of the Republic of China, he also did a lot of good things for the people and was good at training troops.
In September 1932, Liu Zhennian went to war with Han Fuyu, and Chiang Kai-shek transferred Liu's 21st Division to Fujian, and the Battle of Han and Liu ended. Chiang Kai-shek's fangs also came out at this time, and directly assigned the most elite 3rd Brigade of the 21st Division to the "base camp" of the Nanjing Military Commission, so angry that Liu Zhennian angrily left the army to go to Hangzhou to "recuperate."
Liu Zhennian's move can be described as a stinky move, and the troops were controlled step by step by Chiang Kai-shek, and finally they could not escape death and were executed by Gu Zhutong. What Zhang Luanji did not know was that he would also follow in the footsteps of the old chief in the future.
After Zhang Luanji's unit was demarcated, it was changed into the independent 45th Brigade, and the brigade commander Zhang Luanji, the deputy brigade commander Wang Zhiqi, and the chief of staff Jia Guangwen were a unit with three regiments under its jurisdiction and very tenacious combat effectiveness. The unit was sent to Shangyu garrison, and soon after it was transferred to the Fujian and Gansu border areas to participate in the battle to encircle and suppress the Red Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhang Luanji gathered troops in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, and led his troops to participate in the Battle of Songhu, at this time the sequence of the independent 45th Brigade was, brigade commander Zhang Luanji, deputy brigade commander Jia Guangwen, and a special task force regiment was added to the original three regiments, and the regimental commander was Tian Xiushan.
After the Battle of Songhu, the Independent 45th Brigade retreated into the Zhejiang region.
However, many of the lower-ranking officers of the Kuomintang army who had retreated from the Shanghai battlefield and lost contact with the large troops were scattered in the Wujiang area, such as the troops of Cheng Wanjun and Cao Shaowen along the Taihu Lake; the troops of Hao Daosheng and Chen Ayou in Beikui and Lili; the troops of Chen Yaozong in Xinta Zhouzhuang; the Zhu Xi troops in the triangle of Wuzhen, Xincheng, and Yan tombs; and the Zhao Anmin troops in East Taihu Lake.
Among them was the Tian Xiushan unit of Zhang Luanji's brigade.
They collected remnants and scattered soldiers, and were not at all ambiguous in their fight against the Japanese invaders, daring to engage in a bloody battle with the Japanese army. In December 1938, when the guerrillas led by Tian Xiushan learned that several Japanese transport ships were going to pass through Youjiagang, they laid an ambush in Youjiagang in advance, and the local farmers helped Tian Xiushan's troops dig holes in several houses along the port and set up heavy machine guns. In the morning, the Japanese transport ship really flaunted its might from The Fenhu Lake, and the Japanese command boat hung a sun flag. As soon as the enemy ships entered the ambush circle, Tian Xiushan immediately ordered the shooting, the Japanese command boat was shot, the emperor fled in a hurry, the Japanese fleet was chaotic, the guerrillas fought bravely, and sank all 4 Japanese ships filled with ammunition, food and diesel.
Not long after, the Kuomintang Military Commission learned that many of the scattered troops in the guerrilla areas around Pudong and Western Hu were remnants of the independent 45th Brigade, so zhang Luanji ordered his troops to drive to the Shangyu area in eastern Zhejiang to take charge of the unified integration and command of these guerrilla forces.
After Zhang Luanji arrived, he quickly reorganized the troops, which increased the number of troops sharply, and was expanded into the newly organized 30th Division, which was subordinate to the 10th Group Army. After that, Zhang Luanji led his troops to fight a guerrilla war in the eastern Zhejiang region, accumulating a large victory with small victories, causing huge losses to the Japanese army and also making a great contribution.
In 942, Zhang Luanji was promoted to deputy commander of the 2nd Guerrilla Zone in southern Anhui in the 3rd Theater of Operations, and Jia Guangwen succeeded him as the commander of the division.
Not long after Zhang Luanji left, Tian Xiushan led his troops to defect to the Japanese army, so that gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, was so angry that he stomped his feet, and Zhang Luanji, as the old commander of Tian Xiushan, was found by Gu Zhutong, asking him to find a way to persuade Tian Xiushan to surrender, and ordered him to get rid of Tian Xiushan if the surrender failed.
After Zhang Luanji came, he did not succeed in persuading him to surrender, of course, he did not get rid of Tian Xiushan, and without mentioning that the relationship between the two was deep, let's say how Zhang Luanji, a lieutenant general without real power, got rid of Tian Xiushan, who had real power.
As a result, Zhang Luanji, who had been fighting horses for decades, was tragic, and Zhang Luanji, who belonged to the miscellaneous cards, was assassinated by military agents in Tiantai County, Zhejiang. After Tian Xiushan learned that Zhang Luanji had been assassinated by Gu Zhutong in collusion with the military command, he found the body of the teacher and wept bitterly while holding the body.
After Zhang Luanji's death, the new 30th Division was immediately canceled, the soldiers were also grief-stricken, the bones of the old commanders were not cold, Chiang Kai-shek could not wait to move, and one of the 30th Division surrendered to the New Fourth Army, and one surrendered to the Japanese army.
Tian Xiushan repeatedly surrendered between the Japanese army and the New Fourth Army, and was executed after liberation.