In the modern history of China, eight China people graduated from West Point Military Academy, and some were classmates of General Patton. Unfortunately, these people have not achieved much in the military. These eight graduates of China West Point Military Academy can be divided into three categories: 1) and those who have joined the tax police corps: Wen, Wen, and Wen; 2) Wandering in all walks of life: Cao,,; 3) Unknown: Chen Tingjia, Yan Pusheng,
Uncle Cat wants to talk about 1 category first. They have the best chance to become all-powerful senior generals.
These three people have one thing in common, and that is related to Song Ziwen. They once joined the tax police force. Uncle Mao wrote an article about Song Ziwen Tax Police Force. He said that Song Ziwen studied in the United States, graduated from Columbia University with a doctorate, and his own army was only worthy of high flyers of the United States Military Academy. Naturally, China students at West Point Military Academy became the targets of Song Ziwen's network.
1, Wen (1887- 1968) Patton's China classmate.
He is a native of Xinning, Guangdong Province, and the first China native to study in West Point Military Academy. I entered West Point in June, 1905, but my grades were not good. He graduated from 1909 with the 82nd place. Among Wen's classmates is the famous General Barton. After Wen returned to China, he took a fancy to him and took him as his subordinate. He became the head of the tax police force and was responsible for turning this best-equipped army in Song Ziwen into a bloody army in the United States. Wen served as the first and fourth person in charge of the Communist Youth League, and made great contributions to it.
The text should be the most qualified to make contributions on the battlefield, but he made a mistake and set a scapegoat. After the July 7th Incident, Wen was ordered to lead tens of thousands of tax police corps troops stationed to the east of Longhai Railway to Beiping, in the name of "asking Chiang Kai-shek to stay and fight against Chiang Kai-shek here".
Where can Chiang Kai-shek accommodate Song Ziwen's army to be mobilized at will? When Wen came through Zhengzhou, Chiang Kai-shek was aware of the intention of the Tax Police Corps. Seeing a genial smile, Wen had to let the troops return.
After this incident, Chiang Kai-shek was furious and sent Song Ziwen to Europe for inspection. He resigned as the head of the cultural corps and sent his own clique, Huangpu Military Academy, to be in charge of the tax police corps. Wen was transferred to a training class for senior generals in Nanjing to find another job. However, Wen was regarded as a clique by Chiang Kai-shek and never held real power. He went out to fight without thinking, so Wen became an outsider.
3. Wang Geng (1895- 1942): Chief of Song Ziwen Tax Police Corps.
Wang Geng, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, is the second captain of the Tax Police Corps. Wang Geng was sent to the United States after graduating from 19 1 1 Tsinghua. He studied at the University of Michigan, Columbia University and Princeton University. 19 15 after obtaining a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, he transferred to West Point Military Academy. 19 18 graduated from west point military academy.
After returning home, he first established himself in the military field. After 1928, he successively served as the chief of staff of the headquarters of the allied forces in the five provinces of Sun, 193 1 served as the chief of the tax police corps of the Ministry of Finance and the rank of lieutenant general. Unfortunately, Wang Geng was unlucky. 1932 at the beginning of the "December 8th" Shanghai War, he was arrested for straying into the Japanese military police area and was once framed as a "spy" and imprisoned. The position of the head of the general team will naturally disappear.
After his release from prison, Wang Geng was mainly responsible for coordinating the military system in political circles. During 1935, Wang Geng served as the director of Kunming Office of Ordnance Department, and did a lot of work for maintaining the strategic materials of Yunnan-Myanmar lifeline during the Anti-Japanese War. 1942 in April, Wang Geng, as a member of the military delegation of the government, died in Cairo at the age of 47 due to recurrence of kidney disease.
His ex-wife is more famous than Wang himself. Her name is Lu Xiaoman. Because of the emotional entanglement with Xu Zhimo, it became the hot news of that year, and everyone knows it. Wang Geng, who is quite a general, voluntarily withdrew from the emotional entanglements and let the marriage continue to wander.
3. Wang Zhi (1906-): an important witness of Japanese surrender.
Wang Zhi should be regarded as the most outstanding graduate of West Point Military Academy. He also became famous in his teens.
Wang Zhi, a native of Longxi Township, Huashan, Hunan Province, was admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of 12. It took him eight years to complete the courses of junior high school, senior high school and sophomore year. Influenced by Cao, a West Point graduate who was teaching in Tsinghua at that time, he enrolled in West Point to go to the United States in August, 65,438+0926. 1928 After graduation, he was ordered by the government to transfer to West Point Military Academy to study from scratch.
At the beginning of 1932, 128, the two wars in China broke out, and Wang Zhi had extraordinary courage. He took the initiative to write to General Wang Geng, the senior of the West Point Military Academy at that time and the head of the Shanghai Tax Police Corps, asking for participation in the war. Later, President of West Point Military Academy and Wang Geng suggested that Wang Zhi should finish his studies first and make greater contributions to the country in the future.
1932 10, West Point graduates returned to China at the invitation of General Wen, then Minister of Shanghai Security Department and alumnus of West Point Military Academy, and later became the battalion commander of the engineering battalion directly under the Ministry of Finance, and did a lot of work in the strategic construction of anti-Japanese war preparation.
As a West Point graduate, the Kuomintang government attaches more importance to his relationship with the United States. After the United States declared its participation in the war, in 194 1, Wang Zhi went to the Philippines as a military observer to inspect the war in the western Pacific with the US military. Then General MacArthur moved to the South Pacific, and was promoted to Major General in 1943 as the chief liaison officer of the Allied Command of the Republic of China in the southwest Pacific. When Japan was defeated, General Wang and General Xu Yongchang boarded the battleship Missouri to attend the unconditional surrender ceremony signed by Japan.
General Wang was recalled to China in 1946, and successively served as the director of the second office of the second hall of the Ministry of National Defense, the secretary-general of the presidential palace and the director of the resident office. 1976 retired and settled in the United States.
Speaking of which, you may understand something. These three people's academic qualifications and military literacy were placed in China at that time, and of course they were the top one. But why in China's military history, no one can be as prominent as Huangpu Sheng? The reason is awkward. Of course, it was Song Ziwen's decision that they could join the tax police force, and Song Ziwen gave them a chance to show their military talents. But unfortunately, Song Ziwen had no military power at that time, and the army he developed was regarded as heterogeneous by Chiang Kai-shek. Officials valued by Song Ziwen were naturally unpopular with Chiang Kai-shek, and there would be no chance to lead the troops to make contributions to the war.
The background of their study in the United States is actually more important than their military operations. In the military field, China lacks people who can communicate with the US military system. High flyers, who graduated from West Point Military Academy, naturally became the middleman of the Kuomintang, so a brilliant general was finally appointed as a civil servant and played a role behind the scenes.