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People who know Zhang Zuolin and know the Feng Department know Zhang Zuolin's worship and the five tiger generals under him, which is about Guo Songling's qualifications, Guo Songling was only a little famous in the Feng army in 1921, and emerged in the first Zhifeng War in 1922, and made contributions in the second Zhifeng War in 1924。 Guo Songling's gloomy first half of life Guo Songling is a native of Shenyang, Liaoning, and is said to be a descendant of the famous general Guo Ziyi of the Tang Dynasty. 
In terms of academic qualifications, Guo Songling is also regarded as the late Qing Dynasty generation of more military reserve talents, in 1905 the Qing ** in Fengtian Dabeiguan set up Fengtian Primary School, Guo Songling was admitted with excellent results, and then was selected into the Fengtian Army Crash School, Guo Songling served as the head of the Shengjing General Yamen Guard after graduation, and was appreciated by Zhu Qinglan, and later Zhu Qinglan went to Sichuan to garrison, and also took Guo Songling with him, after the Wuchang Uprising, non-Sichuan generals were forced to leave Sichuan, Guo Songling had to return to Fengtian. Because he had participated in the alliance earlier, after returning to Fengtian, Guo Songling participated in the anti-Qing uprising, but was arrested by the Qing **, it is said that it was Han Shuxiu who risked his life to intercept the torture car, claiming that Guo Songling was his fiancé and did not participate in the revolution. In 1913, Guo Songling was admitted to the Chinese Army University, this degree was already able to rank among the top in China at that time, but after graduation, Guo Songling did not die for Beiyang**, after serving as an instructor in Beijing Lecture Wutang, he learned that Sun Yat-sen formed the **army**, and in 1917, Guo Songling went to Guangzhou to defect to Sun Yat-sen and support** movement, Guo Songling can have such thoughts, and it is also related to Guo Songling's early participation in the League, it can be said that Guo Songling has always been a new-style general with revolutionary ideas. However, the ** movement failed, Guo Songling had to return to Fengtian again, when Guo Songling gradually gained a foothold in the Northeast, Guo Songling himself is a native of Shenyang, and there are many classmates, and finally joined the Fengjun camp after being introduced, with Guo Songling's "black history", Zhang Zuolin can stay, or value Guo Songling's academic qualifications. 
Of course, with a talent like Guo Songling, Zhang Zuolin has always wanted, or do not want to reuse, at that time Zhang Zuolin was developing armaments, very short of outstanding middle and lower-level officers, in March 1919, Zhang Zuolin opened the three eastern provinces army martial arts hall, for Guo Songling, a "talent" who graduated from China Continental University, let Guo Songling serve as a tactical instructor in the Northeast Lecture Hall. Is Guo Songling qualified enough as a general of the Five Tigers?Guo Songling served as a tactical instructor in the three eastern provinces, his temper was extremely violent, a large part of the reason was the gap between the ideal and the reality, as a high-achieving student, the achievements at that time should be more than that, if only as a tactical instructor, why wait until 1919, when Guo Songling graduated from Lu University!After so many years of going around and around, what is it for?If it weren't for the young marshal, it is estimated that it would be difficult to get ahead in this life, and the young marshal, as a student of the first phase of the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, was able to graduate with the first grade, which was indispensable to Guo Songling's "help". Because of this, the joy of the two people has reached a certain level, and the young marshal said to others: I am Maochen, and Maochen is me. In Zhang Zuolin's Northeast dialect, two people are too fat to wear a pair of pants. Zhang Zuolin also intended to train the young marshal at that time, so he regarded Guo Songling as a entrusted person, let Guo Songling serve as the deputy of the young marshal, and handed over the elite of the Feng Department to the 38th Brigade of the young marshal. In the first battle of Zhifeng in 1922, the Feng Department was defeated, and the 38th Brigade showed its face in the pursuit record of blocking the direct line at Shanhaiguan, but it did not play a role in turning the tide of the war. 
Later, the Feng army "reorganized the army and experienced the military", and there was a great improvement in armaments, and in 1924, the Zhifeng War was launched again, at this time Guo Songling actually became a deputy commander of the five armies of the Feng department, and the speed of this promotion was simply staggering. In this war, although Guo Songling made meritorious contributions, his personal performance was not outstanding, and he disobeyed military orders on the battlefield and almost led his troops to retreat, but the young marshal went to recover it, and the so-called military command ability did not show much. Guo Songling once again led the troops to fight, that is, he led the 70,000 elites of the Feng Department to defect, except for the sneak attack on the Feng Department in the early stage of the defection with lightning speed and victory, it only lasted for a month to finish the calf, the reason for Guo Songling's failure against Feng is of course complicated, but this absolutely cannot cover up Guo Songling's incompetent performance in military leadership. People who can't do it will never be able to!Of course, Guo Songling can still serve as the five tiger generals, in general, it is still the five tiger generals of the Feng Department who are too scum, in addition to Guo Songling, the five tiger generals also have Jiang Dengxuan, Han Linchun, Zhang Zongchang, Li Jinglin, Jiang and Han are Japanese Lu Shi graduates, military education should be a little better than Guo Songling, in the Feng Department is friendly with Yang Yuting, with strength is valued, they have always looked down on Guo Songling as the crown prince to wash the horse. 
Zhang Zongchang and Li Jinglin gradually gained a foothold in the Feng system in a grassroots way, and they were naturally inferior to Guo Songling in terms of military talent. It can also be seen from this that Guo Songling can become a Feng Five Tiger General, and his own ability is average, and the entire Five Tiger General is also relatively watery. We can see that although Guo Songling has a certain degree of education and was already a hot talent at that time, his career has repeatedly hit a wall, and he was finally able to get ahead in Fengtian, or because Zhang Xueliang was studying in the martial arts hall at that time, Guo Songling was reused in the Feng Department after getting acquainted with Zhang Xueliang, but in terms of qualifications and achievements, calling him the Five Tiger Generals still shows that there is a lack of talents in the Feng Department.