Rise to the top of the list
Li Zongren was born in a family of "farming and reading", "the ancestor Ruxi Gong was not only kind and charitable, but also heroic and righteous, and made friends with heroes from all over the world." ”
Li Zongren's father once went to Malaysia to work as a Chinese laborer, so it can be said that Li Jiazu had an adventurous spirit.
In 1907, Li Zongren took the entrance examination for the second phase of the army primary school, but due to the delay in registration, he failed to enroll, and in 1908, he applied for the third phase of the army primary school again. From then on, Li Zongren began formal military education. After the army elementary school was changed to the army crash school, after the army crash school, Li Zongren entered the Nanning Guangxi General School Training Institute, which was only run on a trial basis for one year, Li Zongren was ordered to wait for another job, and soon went to the second battalion of the 13th Regiment of the Seventh Infantry Brigade of Lin Hu, the headquarters of the Sixth Army in Guangxi, as a lieutenant platoon commander.
After entering the military career, Li Zongren participated in a series of warlord wars, in which he went all the way, rose continuously, and soon became a separatist leader on the ruling side.
In a fierce battle, Li Zongren's company commander was a little timid, and without waiting for his report and approval to the battalion commander, he left his post as company commander to Li Zongren without authorization, and he retreated to the rear.
Li Zongren led the company forward, and a bullet entered the upper palate bone from the right cheek, and the bullet went out of the left nostril. After the battle, the original company commander had to resign because he was cowering in battle, and Li Zongren was officially promoted to company commander.
In another battle, Li Zongren's battalion commander suddenly had a fever and could not support it, so he had to go back to the rear**, so he ordered Li Zongren** battalion commander to command. In this battle, Li Zongren was hit by four bullets, one of which was shot into the thigh, and the other three bullets only pierced his pants and did not hurt his muscles.
After the battle, the original battalion commander was transferred. Li Zongren was officially promoted to battalion commander. After Li Zongren was promoted to battalion commander, he was promoted again. Regarding this experience, Li Zongren wrote in his "Memoirs":
Once, I went out shopping with a few senior officers in the headquarters. According to them, there is an astrologer here with the surname Choi. Some of the people in our robes who asked him to see his face or fortune teller said that he was very effective, so they wanted to go and ask him to see his face, and we had nothing to do to go shopping, so we went together.
And six or seven went with them. Anyone who didn't ask him to see a picture asked him to see it. I didn't believe in astrology because my father was the most superstitious person, and when everyone had finished reading it, the astrologer had already paid a lot of attention to me, so he said that he wanted to take a look at it for me, but I was reluctant to do it because I was worried that people would say that I was superstitious. He said, look at your appearance, it is better than all of them, look at it, and do not accept money. Coupled with the encouragement of my friends, I let him see it. He first said, "I see that your husband looks much better than all your friends who came with him!" He said this quite boldly, because we were all with the headquarters and several senior officers in our army, one of whom was a major general, and I was a major at the time, and I was the lowest rank.
I said, "Here, my class is low!" ”
Physically, you're going to rise next year**!
I said, "Then unless there is a plague here next year and kills all my friends, I will have this chance to rise **!" Everyone laughed. "I don't know," he said, "but that's how it should be." Others then asked him: "What happens after even being promoted?" He said: "The journey is thousands of miles, and the future is immeasurable." ”
He said a lot of flattering words, and in the end he really didn't take any money. At that time, I only thought that Qu was a warlock, flattering people, asking for a few money, and did not pay attention to it at all, who knew that the next year the Guangdong-Guizhou War broke out again, I was actually from the battalion commander to help the commander, and the commander, and finally promoted to the commander of the border defense, within a year just promoted **. In the summer of the thirteenth year, I telegraphed Lu Rongting to go down to the field to rest the army, personally lead the army, and go straight to Nanning, and when Mr. Zhongshan appointed me to supervise the pacification of the Guangxi Group, this Cui specially came to Nanning to visit me. When Zhou Zuhuang, the chief duty officer and adjutant of the Office of the Superintendent, reported to me that a friend of mine, Cui, had come to visit. When I took the card, I was stunned that I didn't know the guest, because I had forgotten about it. When the chief duty officer saw that I was stunned, he said: "He said that he had seen the photo for you in Yulin, and said that you would be promoted to **, so I came here to say hello." "I just remembered it, and at the same time I wondered why it was so coincidental. However, in order to avoid talking about the superstition of our revolutionary soldiers, I did not meet him personally, but only issued a note asking the Quartermaster Department to give him 500 yuan, which made the trip worthwhile. When I think about it today, I still feel that this matter is strange, because Cui said that my future affairs, such as the two sons and daughters-in-law, the early death of my father, the longevity of my mother, etc., have all come true, which is incredible.
Li Zongren said in "Memoirs" that he was promoted within a year, so how did he get promoted?
In a war between Guangxi and Guangdong, Jiang Qi and Li Zongren, who were gang commanders, stood six or seven meters on the flank of the mountain artillery, for safety, the two moved to the left about 300 meters, the two used binoculars to observe the hit of the shell, Jiang Qi squatted down, sat on the ridge line of the mound and continued to observe, about two minutes, a stray bullet hit his lower abdomen, Jiang Qi ordered Li Zongren to command two battalions of soldiers to continue fighting, and he went to the city to bandage. The next day, Jiang Qi died of inflammation in his abdomen due to bullets piercing several layers of intestines. Soon, Li Zongren was officially promoted to gang commander. After more than ten days, he was promoted from gang leader to commander.
Guangxi was defeated in this war, the Gui army retreated, Chen Jiongming's Cantonese army marched into Guangxi, and Li Zongren's troops were ordered to go to Nanning to stand by, and on the way Li Zongren suddenly changed his mind, broke away from the original department, and brought two battalions of soldiers into the 60,000 mountains.
Li Zongren's bringing troops into the 60,000 mountains and breaking away from the original department can be said to be a turning point in Li Zongren's fate.
Li Zongren's army numbered more than 1,000 people, and they stayed in the 60,000 Mountain, and not long after, Lu Chao led four companies of officers and soldiers to the 60,000 Mountain. Two days later, two more companies of soldiers came to surrender, so that Li Zongren's strength expanded from more than 1,000 people to more than 10 companies and 2,000 people.
The Cantonese army entered Guangxi, and the remnants of Guangxi resisted in various places. In order to stabilize the situation, Chen Jiongming sent people to incorporate Li Zongren's army. The aim is to amplify the impact. Li Zongren put forward two conditions: First, it should not be absorbed by any unit and unit, and it should directly belong to the headquarters of the Guangdong Army and become an independent unit. The second is to have the title of one post and two provinces, and do not want to belong directly to any province.
These conditions put forward by Li Zongren are very important, because they will not be absorbed by any unit, they can act independently, they can avoid the danger of being disarmed without reason, and they will have more flexibility to hold positions in the two provinces.
Chen Jiongming agreed to these two conditions, and the Li Department was designated as the "Third Road of the Guangdong-Guizhou Frontier Army," and Li Zongren was appointed commander.
Li Zongren led the team to Hengxian County for reorganization, and the whole army was organized into two detachments, with a total of 4 battalions and 16 companies (including a company of artillery directly under the central government), about 2,000 men and horses, 1,004 rifles, 10 heavy machine guns, and 4 mountain artillery.
After this, Li Zongren refused to be incorporated into the other units of the Gui army and became an independent army, which created the conditions for Li's later promotion and unification of Guangxi. **11 years (1922) Chen Jiongming launched a rebellion, bombarded Sun Yat-sen's ** mansion, Sun Yat-sen escaped from Guangzhou, Chen Jiongming retreated into Huizhou, at this time Guangxi was ownerless, and fell into a state of chaos, Li Zongren's troops occupied Yulin in the chaos, and soon occupied seven counties around Yulin.
From then on, Li Zongren had a territory that belonged to him, and this territory laid the foundation for his future unification of Guangxi, and in this territory, he could send county magistrates, collect money and grain, and even rest and recuperate, expand and train the army.
Guangxi is in chaos, into a state of no **, all kinds of stragglers all over the province of Guangxi, each does not belong to each other, more people and guns, self-proclaimed "commander-in-chief of the autonomous army", or division commanders, brigade commanders, people and guns less, then call themselves commanders, gang commanders, battalion commanders, they divide one side, send county magistrates, set up checkpoints, collect money and grain, and do their own thing.
At that time, Liu Rifu was more powerful, with three or four thousand people, who claimed to be "the commander-in-chief of the first road of the Guangxi Autonomous Army." ”
Lu Yungao, formerly the commander of the First Brigade of the First Division of the Guangxi Army, was well-equipped and his unit was well-equipped, and Lu Yungao called himself "the commander of the First Division of the Guangxi Army." ”
Lu Fuxiang, with 3000 guns, claimed to be "the commander of the First Independent Brigade of the Guangxi Army." ”
The rest of the men had more than a dozen guns.
Li Zongren's ministry was also renamed the "Second Road of the Guangxi Autonomous Army", and Li Zongren remained the commander. At this time, Li Zongren, as the head of the military and political affairs of the seven counties, was not yet 30 years old.
*In November 11 (1922), Shen Hongying's department returned to northern Guizhou from Jiangxi, and the department had more than 20,000 people, which was actually the largest force in Guangxi.
*In September 11, Lu Rongting, the former warlord of Guangxi, also took advantage of the chaos in Guangxi to make a comeback and have great influence.
*In 11 years (1922), more than 1,000 people from Huang Shaohong's department entered Yulin and were organized into a detachment of Li Zongren.
With the support of Li Zongren, the Huang Department occupied Wuzhou, and from then on, the cooperation between Li Zongren, Huang Shaohong, and Bai Chongxi began. The Huang Department also broke away from Li Zongren and formed its own "General Headquarters of the Guangxi Thief Army", with Huang as the commander and Bai Chongxi as the chief of staff, with three regiments under its jurisdiction and more than 3,000 guns.
*In the autumn of 12 (1923), Li Zongren and Huang Shaohong jointly attacked Lu Yun's high army, and the land department collapsed, Huang Li gained a larger territory, and Li Zongren joined the Kuomintang through Li Jishen and Chen Mingshu's introduction.
At this time, Guangxi became a three-legged situation, Huang and Li were one foot, Lu Rongting was one foot, and Shen Hongying was one foot, of which Lu Rongting was more than 10,000 people and Shen Hongying was more than 20,000 people. Huang and Li have 10,000 troops, 15 counties, 9 counties for Li Zongren, and 6 counties for Huang Shaohong.
* At the beginning of the 13th year (1924), Lu Rongting and Shen Hongying fell out of peace, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and Shen Hongying besieged Lu Rongting in Guilin for three months. At this time, Li Zongren sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, waiting for the opportunity to move. When the Lu and Shen ministries made peace, Li Zongren and Huang Shaohong launched an attack on more than a dozen counties where Lu Rongting's troops were entrenched, disintegrating Lu Rongting's troops, and Lu Rongting had to enter Hunan, and soon went to the field with electricity.
The two divisions of Li and Huang occupied Nanning and became a larger armed force, and the second division became the Dinggui Bandit Alliance. Li Zongren was appointed commander-in-chief, Huang Shaohong was appointed deputy commander-in-chief, and Bai Chongxi was appointed chief of staff and commander-in-chief of the former enemy.
*In November 13 (1924), Sun Yat-sen appointed Li Zongren as the "Governor of the Appeasement of Guangxi Province". The Li and Huang armies were organized into two armies. At this time, Li Zongren became the supreme military and political leader in Guangxi.
*In 14 (1925), Li and Huang attacked Shen Hongying's army, Shen's army failed, and Li and Huang occupied Guilin.
*In the autumn of 1925, Li Zongren unified Guangxi.
To be continued, this article** comes from the Internet).