The Southern King of Guangdong for eight years - the legendary Chen Jitang

The Southern King of Guangdong for eight years - the legendary Chen Jitang and Yu Yushu (6) Lost the opportunity and everyone lost their lives (Part 2) In January 1936, Hu Hanmin returned from Europe, but saw...

The Southern King of Guangdong for eight years - the legendary Chen Jitang and Yu Yushu (6) Losing the opportunity and losing everything (Part 2) Hu Hanmin returned from Europe in January 1936, but saw that the state affairs had not improved, and he was filled with worry and anger, unable to relieve himself. After dinner on May 9th, I played against Yi with my friends. We won first and then lost. Suddenly, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on his right side and his death was delayed until the 12th. Chen Jitang saw party and state elders who were older than him: Hu Hanmin died of illness; Wang Jingwei regained his old love with Chiang Kai-shek and ran to Nanjing to become the executive president; Xu Chongzhi took his 200,000 yuan and prepared to go to Fujian He went to summon his old subordinates, but unexpectedly his eldest son was kidnapped by a gang member close to Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai. He had to use the activity fees as a ransom and never got involved in political affairs. So, encouraged by his staff, he was eager to try again, intending to aspire to the Central Plains. However, he was cautious and first sent his brother Chen Weizhou to Nanjing to visit Chiang to test his tone. Chiang asked him to tell Chen not to get too close to Li Bai of the Guangxi faction. Of course Chen understood that this was a estrangement plan. So he tried his best to persuade Li Zongren, and Guangdong and Guangxi took joint actions to form the "Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army" to prepare for the Northern Expedition against Chiang Kai-shek. However, Chen was a superstitious person of Feng Shui and divination. It is believed that he was influenced by Chen Weizhou. It is said that he dug up the ancestral grave of Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Furongzhang, Huaxian County at all costs, and moved his mother's bones into it, hoping to use the mysterious power of Feng Shui to rule the world. Before sending troops to attack Chiang Kai-shek, he asked a famous magician in Guangzhou for divination and got a fortune teller saying "opportunity cannot be missed". He thought it was a God-given opportunity and immediately ordered the dispatch of troops. On June 11, Chen, Li, and Bai jointly called Chiang and publicly stated their attitude of resisting Japan and Chiang to save the country. However, Chiang Kai-shek, who was wily and scheming, good at instigating divisions and subjugating troops without fighting, quietly disintegrated the "Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army" that had not yet engaged in battle. Originally, in addition to an army of 150,000 soldiers, Chen also had an aviation fleet equipped with new European and American fighters. Most of these Cantonese pilots were patriotic young men recruited from the Americas by Yang Xianyi and Lin Sen to serve the country with aviation. They included Cen Zeliu, Chen Qingyun, Lin Weicheng, Zhang Huichang and Huang Guangrui from Enping. In early July, Huang Guangrui and his teammates Huang Zhigang, Huang Jugu, Hu Zuolong and others flew directly to Nanchang to defect to the Central Committee in the name of practicing flying. At the same time, Chen's generals Yu Hanmou and Li Hanhun, who had become army commanders, suddenly revolted in front of the battle line and energized the Central Committee. Guangxi Li and Bai Shigu respectively accepted appointments from the central government in September and took office as Director of Guangxi Appeasement and Standing Committee Member of the Military Commission respectively. Seeing that the situation was over, Chen hurried to Hong Kong for temporary refuge. Soon he disguised himself and took a boat back to Zhanjiang. Chen was short and inconspicuous, but he was still recognized by a steward on the ship. Fortunately, this person was his former platoon leader, who said to him: "Commander-in-Chief, don't worry, I have everything under control." Sure enough, he returned to his hometown in Fangcheng safely. Later, Chiang Kai-shek did not embarrass him and gave him a sum of money to study in Europe. This was also Chiang Kai-shek's usual method of dealing with political opponents. In December 1950, Chen was once again appointed Chief Executive of Hainan Island by Chiang Kai-shek. Lin Biao's "Four Fields" divisions of the Communist Army crossed the sea and attacked. His tenth son, Captain Chen Shubai, personally led a security company of 150 recruits to fight desperately to cover Chen's safe boarding of a special plane from Haikou Airport to Taiwan. He died of illness in Taipei on November 3, 1954. alberta times