Whampoa Phase I (198).
* Lieutenant General, Deputy Commander of the Army Assault Corps - Hu Qisan.
Hu Qisan (1901-1963), known as Yudong, was a native of Yiyang, Hunan. From 1916 to 1920, he studied at Changsha Changjun Middle School, and from 1922 to 1923, he studied at Hunan First Class Industrial School. In the winter of 1923, he went to Guangzhou and entered the Army Martial Arts School of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the base camp to study. Hu Qisan was one of the 12 student representatives who were selected to be incorporated into the Whampoa Military Academy at the request of the students of the Martial Arts School, and in the autumn of 1924, the school was merged into the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and was assigned to the sixth team to study.
After graduation, he successively served as the platoon commander of the Third Regiment of the Military Academy, the platoon and company commander of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and participated in the two Eastern Crusades and the Northern Expedition. In 1927, he was promoted to the commander of the first battalion of the 65th Regiment of the 22nd Division (regiment commander Li Mo'an).
In 1928, he was transferred to the second brigade of the sixth infantry corps of the Nanjing ** Military Academy as the captain of the second brigade, and in June 1929, the military academy established an officer education company, with Zhang Zhizhong, the chief of education, concurrently serving as the company commander, and Hu Qi as the third platoon commander.
In May 1930, the teachers and students of the ** Military Academy were the backbone of the establishment of the Second Division, and he served as the colonel of the Second Regiment of the First Brigade and participated in the Central Plains War. Later, he taught the Second Division to be renamed the Fourth Division, and served as the colonel of the 20th Regiment of the 10th Brigade of the 4th Division, and was promoted to the commander of the 12th Brigade in 1932.
In December 1933, he was transferred to the 87th Division (division commander Wang Jingjiu deputy division commander, and from 1934 to 1937, he was successively transferred to the 80th Division (division commander Chen Qi) deputy division commander and the third division (division commander Li Yutang) deputy division commander, during which he participated in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
At the beginning of 1937, he was transferred to the ** Military Academy and served as the head of the Air Traffic Regiment. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he led the team to move to Nanchang in September, and later moved to Sichuan via Changsha due to the impact of the war. Later, he served as a senior instructor of the 15th Military Academy and deputy director of the special training class of the Emeishan Officer Training Corps.
In 1942, he was invited by Li Mo'an to be transferred to the Military Commission's Southwest Guerrilla Cadre Training Course (Education Chief Li Mo'an) as the director of the General Office of Major General and Deputy Education Chief, and in 1943, he was ordered to establish the Army Assault Corps on the basis of the Yougan Class, with Li Mo'an, commander-in-chief of the 32nd Group Army, concurrently serving as the commander, and Hu Qi as the third deputy commander, training with the help of the British army. Later, he went to Jinhua and Lanxi in Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese invaders.
In May 1945, he was ordered to lead his troops to launch an attack on the anti-Japanese base of the New Fourth Army in the Tianmu Mountain area, and served as the commander of the right-hand army.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the leader of the third receiving group of the third theater and the reception of Japanese military materials in the Xiao, Shao and Ningbo areas. In the name of the deputy commander-in-chief of the 32nd Army, he accepted the surrender of a Japanese brigade in Xiaoshan.
In 1946, he was transferred to the Ministry of National Defense as a lieutenant general and senior staff member, and in the same year he entered the ** training regiment for training.
In 1948, the Ministry of National Defense established the Security Bureau, which was in charge of the security headquarters expanded by the provincial police and security departments. At the end of the same year, he returned to his hometown, and under the care of Cheng Qian, he served as the deputy commander of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway Road Protection Command in January 1949. In August of the same year, he participated in the Hunan Peaceful Uprising led by Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren.
After liberation, he served as a senior staff member in the Chen Mingren Corps, and was later transferred to the Corps as the preparatory director of the cadre school.
In April 1950, he went to study at the Nanyue Branch of the Central South Military and Political University, and in December 1953, he was transferred to the Central South Administrative Committee and served as a teacher of the Central South Administrative Cadre School.
Since 1956, he has served as the head of the social group and deputy secretary-general of the Wuchang District Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the chairman of the Wuchang branch of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. He died of illness in August 1963.