The proportion of Hunan generals in the National Revolutionary Army is very large, and in addition to the good fighting and popular customs of "no Hunan army can be formed," there are three historical factors that directly contributed to this result.
The first is on the eve of the Northern Expedition, the National Revolutionary Army, that is, the Northern Expeditionary Army, has a total of eight armies, of which Tan Yanmin's Second Army, Cheng Qian's Sixth Army, and Tang Shengzhi's Eighth Army are all Hunan troops in the original sense, from generals to soldiers, basically Hunan people.
**Wan Fan Incentive Plan Tan Yanhong, a native of Chaling, Hunan, in the second army where he was the commander, Lu Diping, deputy commander, was from Changsha, Yue Sen, chief of staff, and Shaoyang, and the three division commanders Zhang Huizan, Tan Daoyuan, and Dai Yue were from Changsha, Xiangxiang, and Shaoyang.
Cheng Qian, a native of Liling, Hunan, in the Sixth Army where he was the commander, the three divisions under his jurisdiction were numbered divisions, and the division commanders were Yang Jie, Zhang Zhen (later Cheng Qian's son-in-law Duan Yuan, a native of Hengyang), and Yang Yuanjun (a native of Xinhua, Hunan).
As for Tang Shengzhi's Eighth Army and the troops that were later expanded, in addition to Li Pinxian, Liao Lei, Ye Qi and other three Guangxi people, the senior generals were basically Hunanese: Tang Shengzhi himself was from Yongzhou, He Jian was from Liling, Liu Xing was from Hengyang, and Liu Jianxu was from Liling.
Before 1937, the Hunan army successively had Tan Yanhong, Cheng Qian, Zhao Hengti, Tang Shengzhi, He Yaozu, Ye Kaixin, He Jian and other Hunan troops. In 1926, Tang Shengzhi, He Yaozu, and Ye Kaixin's Hunan Army joined the National Revolutionary Army and participated in the Northern Expedition. By 1929, He Jian had seized the military and political power in Hunan and became the leader of the Hunan army. In 1937, He Jian was dismissed by Chiang Kai-shek, and the Hunan Army was annexed by Chiang Kai-shek and became the first army.
Cheng Qian, in his capacity as the military minister of Mr. Zhongshan's base camp, set up a base camp army lecture hall on Changzhou Island in Guangzhou, where there were about 150 students from Hunan, especially Liling, including the famous Chen Geng, Song Xilian, Zuo Quan and others.
After the opening of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924, most of the more than 100 Hunan students in the Army Lecture Hall were transferred to the Whampoa Military Academy, and the Army Lecture Hall in the base camp has existed in name only.
The Hunan generals in the National Revolutionary Army were: Cheng Qian, Tang Shengzhi, He Yaozu, Ye Kaixin, He Jian, Ye Qi, Liu Jianxu, Tao Guang, Xu Kexiang, Zhou Xiwu, Zhang Qixiong, Wang Dongyuan, Zhou Bin, Chen Guangzhong, Li Jue, Peng Weiren, Yue Sen, and Luo Lin.
In addition to the Hunan Army, there are also many Hunan generals of the National Revolutionary Army who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, such as Chen Mingren, Li Mo'an, Huang Jie, Song Xilian, Liao Yaoxiang, Peng Shiliang, Peng Bisheng, Tang Shouzhi, Pan Yukun, and so on.
On the one hand, because of the relationship between the base camp and the army martial arts hall, and on the other hand, because Hunan is not far from Guangzhou compared to other provinces, a large number of young people from Hunan have entered the Whampoa Military Academy, which is known for its abundance of high-ranking generals.
The first six phases of Huangpu are not only the cradle of training senior generals, but also the graduates of the first six phases of Huangpu in the real sense, and their studies were completed on Changzhou Island in Huangpu, Guangzhou.
During the period of the modern democratic revolution, Hunan was located in the center of the revolution, and countless people participated in it, which led to a large number of Hunan people becoming military generals of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Maybe it's already the best in the country.