Chapter 81: The Difficulties of the King of Guizhou

Wang Jialie is the first person in Guizhou to be beaten by ordinary people. At this time, he was the chairman of Guizhou Province and the commander of the 25th Army of the National Revolutionary Army.

Wang Jialie, the word Shaowu, is a native of Xiaoshui Township, Xinzhan District, Tongzi County, Guizhou Province, graduated from high school at the age of 18, because of the poverty of family life, once carried salt between Songkan and Zunyi, known as Wang Da. When he was 19 years old, he went to Zunyi and worked as a private school teacher in Zunyi for a short time. At the age of 21, he joined the army in Guiyang, and a year later he entered the Guizhou Army Model Battalion and the Guizhou Martial Arts School, and later participated in the "War to Protect the Country" and the "War to Protect the Law" with the Guizhou Army. After that, he gradually developed.

Later, someone commented that Wang Jialie's life was made by two people and defeated by three people.

The so-called Cheng Yu is two, one refers to his direct boss Zhou Xicheng, and the other is his wife Wan Shufen.

Wan Shufen is a strange woman, after being born in a famous family in Tongren, she likes to read military books, and she is quite literate. When she married Wang Jialie, Wang was just a company commander. However, under the command and help of his wife, and Wang Jialie himself was also an intellectual in that era, with a good foundation, so he improved quickly. It is rumored that when Wang Jialie fights, he must be accompanied by his wife's sedan chair, mainly to command Wang Jialie at any time.

Wan Shufen is because of Wang Jialie, which can be regarded as sharing honor and disgrace. Earlier, when Wang Jialie made his career, Wan Shufen was naturally rising; Later, when Chairman Jiang treated Wang Jialie very badly, Wan Shufen's family was implicated. In the middle of this, there are a few more stories.

The story takes place on March 24, 1935. On the same day, Chiang Kai-shek, his wife Soong Meiling, and his advisers Duan Na and Chen Cheng flew from Chongqing to Guiyang to supervise the "suppression of the Communists". As soon as Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Guiyang, he proposed to inspect the Guizhou Provincial Government and the military headquarters of the 25th Army. came out of the military headquarters and proposed to go to Wang Jialie's mansion to sit. Wang Jialie received the party-state head with the most solemn etiquette. Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling talked and laughed in the palace. Song Meiling also promised Wan Shufen to visit the Yangming Temple of Wang Yangming, a scenic spot in Screw Mountain, the next day. As soon as Chiang Kai-shek and his wife left the Wang Mansion, Wan Shufen immediately began to arrange the excursion of Madame Chiang the next day, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to have a good chat with Madame Chiang. On the afternoon of the next day, Screw Mountain was heavily guarded, and the family members of high-ranking officials of the Guizhou Provincial Government were wearing heavy makeup and flowers, sitting in large and small sedan chairs, and rushed towards Screw Mountain. They have heard of Song Meiling's name for a long time, and they all want to see Mrs. Jiang's dignity. This large group of ladies stood on the screw mountain with great interest, waiting for Madame Jiang to come. I didn't know that I couldn't wait for the first time, and I couldn't wait for the second time, Wan Shufen was also anxious and sent someone to urge. As a result, Mrs. Jiang said: "I am not feeling well today and cannot come." After Wan Shufen heard this, it was like a basin of cold water poured on her head for three or nine days. Those officials and relatives also returned dejected one by one. This time, her face was greatly embarrassed, and on the way back, Wan Shufen rarely shed tears because of sadness. And it was at this time that Wan Shufen felt something unusual, so she persuaded Wang Jialie every time, but unfortunately Wang Jialie still believed in Chairman Jiang too much, and finally fell for it. It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek's trip was called a superintendent, but it was actually to solve the problem of Wang Jialie.

On the day they arrived in Guiyang, Chen Cheng proposed to kill Wang Jialie, but Lao Jiang did not agree. He said: "Wang Shaowu is big-hearted, he is not bad, he is bad. Jiang was worried that if he killed the king at this time, tens of thousands of people in his 25th army would rebel. On the third day of his arrival in Guiyang, Chiang Kai-shek talked to Wang Jialie and told him clearly: choose one of the two posts of provincial chairman and commander of the 25th Army. If you are a provincial chairman, you cannot be a military commander, and if you are a military commander, you cannot be a provincial chairman. As soon as Wang Jialie heard this, cold sweat flowed down his neck. He asked Jiang, "Can you let me go back and discuss with my subordinates?" Chiang agreed. After returning, Wang Jialie convened a meeting of his subordinates to agree on a trade-off. Civilian officials advocated retaining the provincial chair and relinquishing the military commander. The reason is that without political power, there will be no military salaries, and in the end, the position of military commander will not be stable. The generals disagreed. The reason is that there is no military power, and the position of provincial chairman will not last for a few days, and the collapse will be faster. After weighing up, Wang Jialie decided to retain the post of military commander. On March 30, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the dismissal of Wang Jialie as chairman of the Guizhou provincial government, and Wu Zhongxin succeeded Wang Jialie. After Li Zongren of Guangxi heard that Wang Jialie had handed over power, he wanted to contact him to jointly oppose Chiang, so he wrote a letter on white silk cloth, sewed it into the suit of Wang Jiezhi, director of the 25th Army's office in Guangdong, and sent him back to Guizhou in a special car to hand over to Wang Jialie. The gist of Li Zongren's letter is: You have handed over the provincial government, and in the next step, Lao Jiang may use military pay to card you and force you to hand over military power. We have decided to pay you $300,000 a month for your military salary, as well as the necessary guns and ammunition. You can concentrate your troops in the southern Qiannan area and strengthen contact with us, and if Chiang advances, you will turn against him. We are against Chiang together. After reading the letter, Wang Jialie threw it on the coffee table and said lightly: "Forget it, monkeys can get up trees, but dogs can't get up trees." I don't want to do it anymore. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Chiang Kai-shek to further card Wang Jialie with military salaries and force him to voluntarily hand over military power. Chiang Kai-shek ordered his headquarters to have 2 divisions, 5 brigades, and 15 regiments, which were reduced to 2 divisions and 6 regiments. The troops were stationed in the counties, which were very scattered, and Chiang did not allow the concentration of troops. Without concentrating the troops, there can be no reorganization, and without reorganization, no salaries will be paid. Later, the old Jiang Kaien agreed to pay salaries, but stipulated that the troops would only pay 100,000 yuan a month for food before the central government made an order. There are more than 20,000 troops in the army, and this amount of money is not enough for food, let alone other expenses. It was this 100,000 yuan, and Lao Jiang also wrote a blank check, but he didn't actually give a penny. As a result, Wang Jialie's situation is very bad. Then Chiang Kai-shek incited Wang Jialie's subordinates to make trouble. At the same time, he bribed Wang Jialie's two division commanders, He Zhizhong and Bai Huizhang, against the king. Once He Zhizhong's 3rd Regiment drove to the military headquarters, Wang Jialie went to visit, and the soldiers of the regiment shouted and scolded in front of him: "The army commander swallowed our military salary!" "The commander doesn't pay, pick his ass! But none of the commanders came out to stop him. In this way, Wang Jialie became more and more interested. Just when Wang Jialie had the idea of going, Chiang Kai-shek had already thought of a way to get rid of Wang Jialie. In early April, Zhang Xueliang flew from Wuhan to Guiyang to meet Chiang Kai-shek, and after having lunch with Chiang, Zhang Xueliang got up and went back to Wuhan, and Wang Jialie and others went to the airport to see him off. When he was about to get on the plane, Zhang Xueliang suddenly asked Wang Jialie: "Have you ever been on a plane?" Wang Jialie smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of you laughing, I haven't sat on it yet." Zhang Xueliang said: "Then how about you get on my plane and go around in a circle over Guiyang?" So, Wang Jialie happily got on Zhang Xueliang's plane, and Zhang Xueliang himself flew over Guiyang City for a week before flying northeast. When Wang Jialie saw that the plane did not land, and was anxious and suspicious, Zhang Xueliang took out Chiang Kai-shek's order from his pocket and showed it to Wang Jialie. The gist of this order was to remove Wang Jialie from his post as commander of the 25th Army, transfer him to the Military Senate as a lieutenant general, and serve in Wuhan. After Wang Jialie read the order, he knew that he had been fooled, but he was helpless.

After Wang Jialie left Guizhou, the new chairman Wu Zhong trusted Xiao Shujing, a special agent of the Central Command, as the provincial police chief. Under the pretext of searching for guns, Xiao Shujing raided Wang Jialie's home, searched the pistol given to Wang by Chiang Kai-shek, and arrested her nephews Wan Shiyuan and Wan Shijin from Wang's wife Wan Shufen, and escorted them to the old east gate to be shot. Wan Shufen's mother and son fled to Tongren's hometown for refuge in tears.

As for Zhou Xicheng, it is Wang Jialie's "Bole", and Wang Jialie was transferred by him. Later, Zhou Xicheng died, which also took a key step for Wang Jialie's development! It turned out that as early as 1920, after Wang Jialie returned to Guizhou, he was promoted to the commander of the eighth company of Zhou Xicheng's battalion, and since then he has followed Zhou Xicheng to gallop in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and has become the main backbone of the Tongzi military and political group headed by Zhou Xicheng with his calm, straightforward, and combative character and meritorious service. After 1921, with the development and growth of the military strength of the Tongzi group, Wang also gradually improved and soared. In 1922, he served as a battalion commander and regiment commander, in 1923 as a brigade commander, in March 1926 as the commander of the second division of the Guizhou Army, and after April 1927, Zhou Xicheng was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to send troops to fight the Communist Party, and ordered Wang to lead his troops into Hunan and garrison Yuanling, and then retreat to Tongren. In October 1928, the battle between Zhou Xicheng and Li Shen broke out in Qiandong, and Wang Jialie, the main commander of the 25th Army, led his troops to fight with Li Shen's troops, resulting in Li being defeated and Wang also being seriously wounded. In May 1929, Zhou Xicheng lost and died in the battle with Li Shen and Qianxi, and Wang Jialie led his troops from Tongren to Zunyi, cooperated with Mao Guangxiang to stabilize his position, organized a counteroffensive, and made Tongzi regain control of Qianxi. After Mao Guangxiang became the commander of the 25th Army and chairman of Guizhou Province, Wang Jialie served as the deputy commander. It was at this time, it was precisely because of Zhou Xicheng's death that Wang Jialie really entered his own era.

said that Wang Jialie was defeated at the hands of three people, and the first one was Chairman Jiang mentioned above. Beside Wang Jialie, there are two other people, one is this Mao Guangxiang, and the other is You Guocai.

It turned out that after Wang Jialie and Mao Guangxiang teamed up to bring Tongzi back to the government of Qian, the feud between the two became public. Mao Guangxiang thought that Wang Jialie was "proud of his achievements" and "dissatisfied with mediocrity and living on himself", and found that Wang was far superior to himself with his strength and prestige, so he was suspicious and afraid, and a dislike gradually developed between him and Wang. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek stepped up his efforts to use the contradiction between Mao and Wang to promote a split in an attempt to break each one, and the rift between Mao and Wang increased day by day.

At the beginning, after being personally appointed by Chiang Kai-shek and rewarded with a large number of weapons, Wang Jialie expanded the army to train cadres, and obtained the approval of Chairman Chiang by attacking the Red Army, and his strength increased greatly, so he decided to replace Mao Guangxiang. Just when Mao Guangxiang was afraid of the king's seizure of power, he wanted to seize his military power several times, and Wang Jialie immediately took advantage of the truth to build a heavy army in February 1932 and surrendered. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government cooperated with the action and immediately appointed Wang Jialie as the commander of the 25th Army on his way to Zhuan. Mao Guangxiang was forced by the situation to give up the provincial government and give up the position of provincial chairman in the name of "voluntary rest". After Wang Jialie took charge of the Guizhou government, in order to consolidate his position, on the one hand, he adopted a pro-Chiang line, and on the other hand, he further suppressed Mao Guangxiang in order to eliminate the problem of elbows and armpits. Both deepened Wang's isolation within the Tongzi group and intensified the contradictions. Mao Guangxiang then left Zhuzhu and went to Zunyi, and together with Jiang Zaizhen, Ju Guocai, Che Mingyi, etc., formed an anti-king alliance. In November 1932, Jiang Zaizhen and Mao Guangxiang first attacked Zunyi, and the great melee within the 25th Army began. It then developed into a major melee between Wang Jialie and Ju Guocai that lasted for several years, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the Tongzi group and the central forces of the Kuomintang Party to take control of Guizhou.

On November 5, 1932, Judah Guocai sent troops from Anshun to attack Guiyang, and Wang Jialie was defeated. Judah entered Guiyang, and Ju Guocai was appointed commander of the 25th Army and temporarily acting chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Government. Only two months later, Wang Jialie counterattacked into Guiyang and announced his reinstatement. Although Wang Jialie returned to power, he was opposed by the Tongzi clique at the bottom, fell out of favor with the central government, suffered from external and internal troubles, dried up financial resources, and his strength was not the same, and the foundation of his rule was in jeopardy.

In December 1934, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Long March into Guizhou, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to encircle and suppress the Red Army, by the way, remove local forces, unify the central government's decree, on the one hand, sent Xue Yue to lead the Central Army to chase the Red Army, on the other hand, sent Guizhou people, Hubei-Henan-Anhui camp secretary general Li Zhonggong, Yan Daogang into Guizhou, to win over and divide Wang Jialie's subordinates, and finally forced Wang Jialie to resign from the post of chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Government and commander of the 25th Army, and withdrew from the historical stage of Guizhou.

Those who are familiar with Wong Ka-lie know that he likes to wear a military uniform with a wide belt and a small pistol hanging from the belt.

Now, dressed in military uniform, Wong Ka-lie is thinking about how to deal with the current situation.

As early as the end of last year, that is, in mid-December, on the day when the Central Red Army occupied Liping, Wang Jialie rushed to Machangping to supervise the battle. He made Ju Guocai the commander-in-chief of Guizhou's suppression of bandits, and let his descendant He Zhizhong serve as the deputy commander-in-chief, deployed the main force of the 25th Army to various counties in eastern Qiandong, and asked Ju Guocai to hand over his six regiments to his command, and let Hou Zhi's burden be deployed along the Wujiang River in Huangping and Shi Bing. The overall defense plan was to prevent the Red Army from entering the hinterland of Guizhou.

However, when he thought of the reality, Wang Jialie felt a headache. Because Guizhou is unified on the surface, it is actually divided into several parts. For example, Hou Zhidan, deputy commander of the 25th Army, seized Chishui, Renhuai, Xishui, Suiyang and other counties in northern Guizhou, and the deputy commander Yu Guocai entrenched the eight subordinates of Panjiang in southwest Guizhou, and the deputy commander Jiang Zaizhen took refuge in Liu Xiang and entrenched in Qijiang and Dongxi, ready to fight back to northern Guizhou at any time. On the surface, these three people persuaded to obey the command, but in fact they were no different from the Emperor Tu, and the two descendants of He Zhizhong and Bai Huizhang who could command themselves were those who could command.

But despite this, he still knew the methods of Chairman Chiang for many years and did not dare to resist, so despite all the difficulties, he still commanded the troops to attack the Red Bandits. However, the strength of the red bandits is too strong. How long has it been? In less than half a month, the four military forces, including themselves, were almost destroyed. First of all, the Red Bandit First Army attacked continuously, occupying all the counties of Chishui, Renhuai, Xishui, Suiyang and other counties in northern Qianbei that were divided by the deputy army commander Hou Zhidan's department; Almost at the same time, the three armies of the Red Bandits defeated all the eight genera of Panjiang in southwest Guizhou, where Judah was entrenched, into red land; The deputy commander Jiang Zaizhen's department was not much better, and the Red Bandit Fifth Army wiped out this separatist force entrenched in Qijiang and Dongxi, and Jiang Zaizhen was captured alive. As for himself, it is even more difficult, He Zhizhong and Bai Huizhang, two descendants, were attacked by the Red Bandit Eighth Army and the Ninth Army respectively. He knew that the heavy division was slightly better, and it ran fast, which was regarded as the strength of one regiment remaining; And the Bai Huizhang division that fought against the Red Bandit Ninth Army was all in ink!

In other words, the whole of Guizhou right now is the world of red bandits!