According to statistics, in the history of the Republic of China for more than 30 years, there have been more than 400 ground wars in Sichuan. Interestingly, Sichuan warlords generally speak Jianghu rules, and the winner will win as soon as possible, and will not chase the loser as an enemy. Therefore, there is a lot of friction between warlords, but the damage to Sichuan and Sichuan is not great.
Although Sichuan warlords are not very good at infighting, the Sichuan army's foreign war is really hard. Starting from Liu Xiang, the general of Sichuan, he led Sichuan Army athletes to take an active part in the Anti-Japanese War. In the past eight years, Sichuan has suffered the greatest pressure of anti-Japanese war. 7,000 people in Wan Chuan will either eat or drink to support the Sichuan Army in the Anti-Japanese War. The husband died on his son's head, and 3 million athletes in Sichuan have been rushing to the front line. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, post-war statistics show that the Sichuan Army suffered the most casualties in the Anti-Japanese War, accounting for 20% of the total casualties in the country.
Besides the famous Liu Xiang mentioned above, there are many other famous Sichuan generals, such as Yang Sen, Wang He and Rao Guohua. Among them, Yang Sen is a special anti-Japanese general. Especially in the Battle of Shanghai and Shanghai, his troops claimed to be one of the five best divisions. However, some people commented that he was "seven points healthy and three points evil", and colleagues even made up a jingle to laugh at him. "The general who picks flowers is called Yang Sen, and his wives are all beautiful."
What is the relationship between a positive evaluation and a negative evaluation?
General Picking Flowers and Twelve Women in Jinling
Yang Sen likes beautiful women. The concubine married by Ming media, room number 12, is known as "Twelve Women of Jinling". In private, it is impossible to estimate who has no name and who has no score. Yang Sen was born in a warlord, and some people have money and guys. As long as it is a girl he likes, he will either throw money at her, stalk her, sweet talk her, or coerce her until she gets married.
In his later years, Yang Sen recalled that he admitted that the way he married his wife was a bit unkind, and his concubines were afraid that they would compromise, but Yang Sen said instead, "I know they don't really love me, but I love them very much." When he said this, it seemed that Yang Sen was a man.
Tian Hengqiu, the fourth concubine, was forcibly taken away by Yang Sen from others. Tian Hengqiu is one of the twelve concubines of Yang Sen, who is the most favored and has the highest status. In his early years, Yang Shengtun was stationed in Langzhong, and when he was playing in the street, he met a girl with outstanding appearance. Yang Sen was immediately attracted by each other's temperament and followed him all the way to the girl's door. Knowing the girl's home address, Yang Sen prepared a dowry and sent someone to propose marriage.
When the matchmaker arrived there, he learned that the girl had been engaged to a rich family. Tian Hengqiu's parents did not agree, and returned the dowry in full. Is Yang Sen a good man? The man in his heart must marry home. From then on, Yang Sen put down all military affairs, courted Tian Hengqiu every day, and threatened Tian Jia and wealthy businessmen.
No matter how rich a wealthy businessman is, he is not as good as the gun in Yang Sen's hand, so he has to return it. Yang Sen got his wish and married Tian Hengqiu into the house.
Besides his wife Zhang Hetan, the third aunt Liu Jiafang, the fifth aunt Chopin Qiong, the sixth aunt Chen Shunrong, the seventh aunt Zeng Guizhi, the eighth aunt Wang, the ninth aunt Cai, the tenth aunt Zheng Wenru, the eleventh aunt and the twelfth aunt were basically married by Yang Sen by abnormal means.
Uneasy seven aunts and nine aunts
Yang Sen studied in Zi Bian College of Guang 'an and Shunqingfu United Middle School, and then went to Sichuan Army Accelerated School for further study, which was also considered semi-illiterate. Therefore, when choosing a concubine, Yang Sen pays great attention to the girl's scholarly temperament, at least it looks a little cultural.
In order to cultivate the aunts at home into cultural people, Yang Sen spared no expense to let them study abroad. It seems absurd that a woman without talent is virtuous today, but it made sense in the past. When women read more books, their horizons will be broadened and their thoughts will live.
Soon, something happened to Yang Sen's seventh aunt.
The seventh aunt's name is Zeng Guizhi. She was picked up by Yang Sen from the roadside. Her hometown is Bijie, Guizhou. When Yang Sen marched to fight, he saw Zeng Guizhi in trouble. She is soft-hearted enough to take her with her and treat her as an adopted daughter. After dressing up, Zeng Guizhi's appearance is not lost to the fourth aunt Tian Hengqiu. Yang Sen thinks that goddaughter is also a foster, so is concubine, and Zeng Guizhi feels the same way. With the consent of her fourth aunt, Taitian Hengqiu, Yang Sen successfully transformed from "michel platini" to her husband.
Yang Sen wanted to train Zeng Guizhi into a knowledgeable aunt, so he sent her to Shanghai to study. While studying, Zeng Guizhi met a classmate named Chen, and they fell in love. It is both a classmate and a lover. This matter soon reached the ears of Yang Sen, who quickly wrote a letter from home to let Zeng Guizhi go home. Zeng Guizhi also knew that things were exposed and told Yang Sen the truth frankly.
Yang Sen obviously promised to fulfill them, and finally sent an assassin to solve Zeng Guizhi and all her lovers.
The apricot flowers outside the wall are particularly red. The seventh aunt's class passed soon, followed by the ninth aunt Cai Wenna.
Cai is a famous beauty in the county. Yang Sen wanted Cai to replace Zeng Guizhi and paid a foreign language tutor to tutor Cai. One to two middle schools, Cai is tutoring a tutor. Fortunately, Tian Hengqiu made a request, and Yang Sen decided to let Cai go.
I think Jiugu has a bad memory. Yang Sen sent her to Chengdu West China University for further study. She fell in love with a medical student. The two sides privately agreed to go overseas for life. Yang Sen pretended to agree to her request, and finally sent someone to get rid of her and throw her into the dry well next to the tennis court.
The greatness of Yang Sen is that when he was in his 60s, he married his first aunt Hu Jieyu. At the age of 86, Hu Jieyu gave birth to a daughter for Jansen. At the age of 90, Jansen married his last concubine, Zhang Lingfeng, on the grounds of recruiting a secretary, thus ending his extraordinary marriage perfectly. At this point, Yang Sen finally collected his own Twelve Women in Jinling.
Military management of marriage
Yang Sen deserves to be a lean man in troubled times, and he is good at managing concubines. He extended his method of running the army to marriage, which was very effective. Every concubine has a clear division of labor. The first aunt is in charge of housework, the second aunt is in charge of money, the third aunt teaches children, and the fourth wife is in charge of entertainment.
It is said that Yang Sen adopted a "day and night accommodation system" for his concubine. He kept his word and never delayed. During the battle of Changsha, Yang Sen followed Xue Yue to the front. According to your own rotation plan, it is your third aunt's turn to accompany you. It happened that my third aunt was looking at the house in Chengdu. His men advised him to make it up later. Yang Sen thought it was wrong, so he went directly to Xue Yue, hoping to send a plane to Chengdu to pick up his third aunt and go to Changsha. After staying overnight, it will be sent back to Chengdu by special plane.
Yang Sen's unusual attitude towards life will make many people think that he is very unreliable. However, a person cannot judge by his appearance, and the sea cannot be measured, but Yang Sen is a valiant soldier on the battlefield. It was very famous during the Republic of China, especially during the Battle of Songhu, which was called "one of the five wonders of the Battle of Songhu".
Songhu experts
Yang Sen's military experience is quite rich. As early as when General Cai E led the Yunnan Army in the northern expedition to Yuan Shikai, he joined the "National Protection Movement". Later, he joined the camp of General Xue Yue, actively cooperated with the Anti-Japanese War, and made outstanding achievements.
After the Lugouqiao Incident, Chinese people ushered in eight years of hardship in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In the past, it was said that the Sichuan army, which was "a mouse carrying it and lying across its nest", began to step onto the historical stage. After Liu Xiang, the leader of the Sichuan Army, launched the anti-Japanese call, Yang Sen was the first to submit a "petition for participation in the war".
Although Yang Sen's 20 th Army was not the strongest warlord's army, it initially gave people the impression that the military discipline was lax, the weapons and equipment were backward, and the combat effectiveness of the foot soldiers was low, but Yang Sen was unpredictable. Before the Lugouqiao Incident, Yang Sen already felt that there would be a big war between China and Japan. In order to survive, Yang Sen invested a lot of money to purchase a batch of new equipment for the 20th Army.
In August 1937, the famous Battle of Songhu broke out. Two months later, the two sides entered a critical moment to decide the outcome. Yang Sen, who was stationed in Sichuan, received an urgent telegram asking him to reinforce the Songhu battlefield. It would have taken a month and a half to get from Sichuan to Shanghai. Yang Sen ordered a light and fast March, and it only took more than 20 days to get to the front.
Yang Sen's 20th army is leaving Sichuan.
In the past, there was no regular fighting. Compared with a large-scale battle like the Battle of Songhu, it used to be a little angular friction. Just arrived at the battlefield, the first task of the 20 th Army was to hold the stronghold of the stadium. Their opponents are the 7 th and 35 th wings of the Japanese First Division.
After five days and nights of bloody fighting, Yang Sen's 20 th Army held the Dachang stronghold intact. Adhere to the Yunsong Wei 3 1 Army and the Zhao Ye 66th Army for relief support. After retiring from the front, Yang Sen counted his troops. 18000 Sichuan troops left Sichuan, leaving only 1 1000 people, and all the remaining 7000 people were killed or injured.
Zhang Wenzhi, a veteran of Sichuan Army, recalled that before the exchange of fire between the two sides, Yang Sen made an impassioned speech before the battle: it was the most glorious to transfer the 20th Army to Shanghai to resist Japan. It is worthwhile to sacrifice for your country.
How brave was the Sichuan Army in the Battle of Songhu?
No sandbags, no bunkers, what are we doing? When the Japanese saw it, the artillery fire was shot down. There is no way, so we have to endure tears and pile the bodies of our dead brothers in front of us as bunkers.
We don't have planes, cannons, or even bunkers, only rifles. Why should we resist the Japanese attack if we are to hold our ground? If the equipment can't beat them, we will fight with our lives and stop them with our lives! Seeing the Japanese tank coming, the two brothers picked up explosives and got under the Japanese tank. So many good brothers died.
-Veteran Zhang Wenzhi recalled.
Many soldiers of the Sichuan Army just went into battle and were killed in the artillery attack without even touching the "Fire Gate". Every day, a division joins the front line one by one. Some departments cut staff by half in three hours, while others cut staff by two-thirds after only five hours.
-Veteran Jiang Yongyao recalled
In such an unfavorable and extremely cruel situation, Jansen's 20th Sichuan Army not only held the Dachang stronghold, but also regained the previously lost Chen Jiaxing stronghold.
The Battle of Songhu is so famous because it forced the Japanese army to adjust its strategy, and the prediction that it threatened to crush China within three months was broken. Strategically speaking, the Sichuan Army played a vital role in the victory of the Battle of Songhu.
Jansen's 20th Sichuan Army Division cooperated with the 26th Sichuan Army Division in Liu Yuqing, and achieved remarkable results. After the Battle of Songhu, the 20th Army was rated as one of the top five divisions in the Battle of Songhu, winning the honor of "Sichuan Army can fight" for Sichuan and Sichuan athletes.
Yang Sen, on the one hand, is a "flower-picking general" in love, and on the other hand, he is an expert in the battlefield of Songhu. How to evaluate him comprehensively is a difficult problem. As far as resisting Japan and saving the nation is concerned, the heroic Sichuan Army should be affirmed.
Chuan Jun, a good man!