The Sichuan army was an extremely important force in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at the critical moment of the country's life and death, the Sichuan army went out of Sichuan to fight to the death against the Japanese invaders, showing amazing combat effectiveness. According to statistics, the Sichuan Army was the largest number of participants in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it was also the largest number of people.
During the Anti-Japanese War, many outstanding generals emerged in the Sichuan army, such as Liu Xiang, who everyone is most familiar with. Among the many outstanding generals of the Sichuan army, there is also a general with a very personality. He married more than 40 wives in his life, and his life experience was later adapted into a number of TV series. He is Fan Shaozeng.
Fan Shaozeng. Among the Sichuan warlords, Fan Shaozeng is a legendary figure. Born in 1894 in Qinghechang, Dazhou, Sichuan, he was nicknamed "Fan Haer". Friends in Sichuan and Chongqing know that "Howl" means "fool". How could Fan Shaozeng have such a nickname?
It is said that the Fan family is also a famous family in the local area, and they live a very good life. Fan Shaozeng has had no interest in reading since he was a child, and likes to run around and toss. After only a few years of reading, I couldn't read it anymore. The grandfather wanted his grandson to be a local official by virtue of his studies, but Fan Shaozeng refused to go to school, and his grandfather could only chase and beat him with a stick. So, the people around him called him "Ha'er", and later he got used to it, and he had such a nickname.
Usually after skipping class, Fan Shaozeng will wander around the teahouse and listen to other people's stories, especially some martial arts stories. When he grew up, Fan Shaozeng joined the Pao Brothers' Association. Later, he made many friends in the Pao Gehui and established a deep friendship with each other.
At that time, the whole of China was in a state of warlord warfare, and Sichuan was no exception. The eight major warlords of Sichuan attacked each other in order to become the "king of Sichuan", and often merged and co-opted. It can be said that they are "soldiers of iron-clad warlords and flowing water". Therefore, until 1920, Fan Shaozeng was also under the command of various warlords. Later, Fan Shaozeng joined Xiong Kewu's team and was appointed head of the regiment. For some time after that, Fan Shaozeng has been playing for Xiong Kewu.
In 1923, the warlord Yang Sen returned to Sichuan. Fan Shaozeng was incorporated by Yang Sen and served as the commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Fourth Division. In 1925, Fan Shaozeng was promoted to commander of the Seventh Division. In 1927, Yang Sen noticed that Fan Shaozeng had been quietly expanding his brother's power, and he moved to kill in a fit of anger. As a result, no one has been sent to arrest Fan Shaozeng. He got the news in advance and escaped overnight, and later changed to the warlord Liu Xiang as the commander of the Fourth Division.
Janssen. In 1931, in order to compete with Liu Xiang for hegemony in Sichuan, Liu Wenhui bribed Fan Shaozeng with 500,000 yuan, but Fan Shaozeng, who received the money, turned around and sold him.
In Fan Shaozeng's view, although he often changes his appearance, it does not mean that he is a person who only values money. After Liu Xiang listened to Fan Shaozeng's secret report, he asked Fan Shaozeng to keep the 500,000 yuan for himself, and he didn't have to worry about other things.
As soon as I heard that all 500,000 yuan was given to me, not to mention how happy I was. So, Fan Shaozeng took the money to build an extraordinary Fan Mansion in Chongqing. Fan Shaozeng's mansion occupies half of the street. Three small western-style buildings, each with three floors, each with more than a dozen apartments. The extremely luxurious Fan Mansion is an eye-opener for the locals.
Of course, Fan Shaozeng established the Fan Mansion not for himself, but for his many aunts. In order to make these aunts and wives live without worry, Fan Shaozeng also spent a lot of money and hired several housekeepers, coachmen, cooks, etc., with no less than 100 people, all of whom did their best to take care of the daily life of each of Fan Shaozeng's wives.
Fan Shaozeng is also free to come to Fan Mansion to spend some time, which is really enviable.
Among the many aunts, Fan Shaozeng's favorite is the seventh aunt. As long as Aunt Seven has any requirements, Fan Shaozeng will definitely meet them all.
However, no matter how capable a man is, it is difficult to take care of a group of women. Therefore, among Fan Shaozeng's aunts and wives, some of them can't bear to be lonely and have an affair with others.
Faced with his wife's cheating, Janssen chose to kill brutally. Fan Shaozeng was generous and did not pursue his wife's faults. This can be regarded as "alternative" among warlords.
If nothing else, Fan Shaozeng is likely to guard the "wife, children, and hot kang head" and live a life with peace of mind. However, the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War awakened the long-sleeping tiger, and a famous anti-Japanese general was about to be born.
In July 1937, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to "cut the domain", and Gu Zhutong persuaded Lao Fan to come forward. As soon as Lao Fan thought about it, he actively responded to the call and took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek and became the commander of the 88th Army.
At this time, the Japanese invaders had already begun a full-scale invasion of China. In the face of major rights and wrongs, Fan Shaozeng was bent on resisting Japan. But the problem is that his 88th Army is just an empty name. He is also a bare-bones commander, without a single soldier.
In order to resist the Japanese, Fan Shaozeng ran back to his hometown and found Luo Juntong, a helper. His old subordinates and robe buddies also actively responded to his call to join the army. In only 10 days, Fan Shaozeng pulled up a team of tens of thousands of people. .
People have it, what if they don't?In order to solve the problem of **, Lao Fan searched all the warehouses around his hometown, and only found a bunch of old ** eliminated by the Sichuan army. It is said that it is ** and it is no different from broken copper and iron. There was no way, Lao Fan found an old subordinate in the arsenal and used his own money to repair the guns used by tens of thousands of people. Then, he took out all his family property and recruited some officers from the Laochuan Army with a high salary, and finally made his 88th Army look good.
At the beginning of 1939, Fan Shaozeng led the 88th Army out of Sichuan, first fighting the enemy in the Jiangxi area, and then moving to the Taihu Zhangzhu area. Soon, the Japanese army sent more than 20,000 enemy puppets to attack. Fan Shaozeng personally supervised the battle and defeated the Japanese in Nanchang.
In the 1942 Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, the Japanese army dispatched a total of 87 brigades to prepare to destroy the airfields of the Chinese Army in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces and open up the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway. In the face of the frantic offensive of the Japanese army, the Kuomintang army retreated and did not resist, leaving only Fan Shaozeng's 88th Army to block the enemy. The Japanese army is eight times that of Fan Shaozeng, and the equipment occupies an absolute advantage, and the 88th Army is more than lucky this time.
However, what people didn't expect was that as soon as he exchanged hands with the enemy, Fan Shaozeng picked up a machine gun and rushed directly towards the Japanese army. When his subordinates saw that the commanders had taken the lead, they rushed forward.
The 88th Army shuttled fearlessly under the heavy artillery fire of the Japanese army. They strapped grenades to their bodies and rushed straight up to engage the Japanese in a white-knuckle battle. As long as there is still a breath of air, the fighters will definitely not let the Japanese army go.
Three days after the bloody battle, Lieutenant General Sakai, commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, led many generals to the front line to supervise the battle, but stepped on the thunder array laid by Fan Shaozeng, and all of them were confessed there. This scared the Japanese army. Because this is the first active division commander to be eliminated since the founding of the Japanese army, it has attracted great attention from the Japanese army, which has also made Fan Shaozeng and the 88th Army famous.
Commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, Sakai.
This is not over, Sakai has just been killed, and the next day Kono, the commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, was almost killed at the hands of Fan Shaozeng. The two sides fought fiercely for five days and five nights. The Japanese not only failed to break through the defense line of the 88th Army, but also paid a heavy price.
However, Fan Shaozeng, who had made many meritorious contributions on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, not only did not get reused by the veteran, but also transferred him to a position with no real power, and Fan Shaozeng returned to his hometown in Chongqing in a fit of anger.
In mid-September 1949, the People's Liberation Army had entered Sichuan. The Chiang dynasty was already on its way to extinction. But Chiang Kai-shek still did not give up. He suddenly thought of Fan Shaozeng again. Therefore, he was ordered to establish a team of about 40,000 "robe brothers" in Sichuan to protect Sichuan.
Yang Zhendong was ordered to plot an uprising against Fan Shaozeng, he first found Fan Shaozeng's nephew Huang Xinglun, and then went to work with Fan Shaozeng through Huang Xinglun. Huang Xinglun briefed Fan Shaozeng on the situation in the whole country. Fan Shaozeng listened to Huang Xinglun's words and did not reply immediately. It wasn't until December that Fan Shaozeng, who knew the overall situation, led his troops to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fan Shaozeng served as a deputy to the Henan People's Congress and deputy director of the Henan Provincial Sports Commission.
There are two versions of how many wives Fan Shaozeng has. Some say there are more than 40 of them, enough to form a platoon. Another version comes from what Fan Shaozeng's son-in-law said. Fan Shaozeng's fourth daughter, Fan Zhibi, transferred from Shanghai to Qiujing Middle School when she was a child, and later met Wang Jiguang and married him. In 2016, Wang Jiguang said in an interview with reporters: The old man has a total of 7 wives.
These wives gave birth to a total of 8 girls and 4 boys for Fan Shao, that is, 12 children.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fan Shaozeng began to dismiss his seven wives, because his wife Chen Wenlan died early, his second aunt Zhang Shaofen became the eldest wife and was left behind.
Although the third aunt Taiye Shaofang was on the list of dismissal, she vowed not to leave Fan Shaozeng, so she also stayed by his side. The other four went to Hong Kong, Jilin and Chongqing.
In 1977, Fan Shaozeng passed away peacefully at the age of 83.
However, many children had different opinions on the placement of Fan Shaozeng's body, which eventually led to Fan Shaozeng not being buried for 44 years. It was not until 2021 that he was buried by his descendant Fan Qiusheng in Chongqing Fuguoshan Life Memorial Park.
Throughout Fan Shaozeng's life, although he looks stupid, he is actually very smart. He knows how to judge the situation, which may be the reason why he can die well.