With the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, Yu Zuobai made up his mind to join the Northern Expedition of Guangxi Student Army. Later, he was admitted to Wuchang Army Middle School with Huang and Bai Chongxi, and then he was promoted to the third phase of Baoding Military Academy. He returned to Guangxi Army 1 Division as a trainee officer and took the first step in his military career.
According to the regulations of Beiyang * * * War Department, the probationary period of military school graduates in the army is half a year, and they can be promoted to platoon leader after the probationary period expires. But in Guangxi, a relatively closed and backward army, officers and students are generally discriminated against by veterans. Seeing that he had been a student for almost a year, Yu Zuobai failed to become a platoon leader and decided to find another way out. When Yu Zuobai left, his classmates Huang and Bai Chongxi advised him to wait and see, but Yu's mind was made up, and Huang, Bai and others could not stay. Yu Zuobai did not expect that one month after he left, Huang, Bai and others entered the model camp and began to embark on the "right path." If Yu also enters the modeling camp, his future path may be another situation.
Yu Zuobai chose to go to the National Defence Force, and Lin extended a warm welcome to the students. He was immediately promoted to the rank of lieutenant staff officer, and a year later he was promoted to the rank of captain and company commander of the 7 th brigade. 192 1 year/month Hu Lin headquarters was reorganized into Guangxi Border Guard 1 road. At this time, Yu Zuobai was incorporated into the 1 detachment and met Li Zongren, who was also the battalion commander in the detachment.
Hu Lin was defeated in July. Just when Yu Zuobai was worried about his future, Li Zongren's invitation pointed out the way out for him. He promised to join the newly established Guangdong-Guangxi Frontier Defense Third Road with his own troops and become the battalion commander of the 1 detachment of this road, and later he was promoted to 1 road commander. Yu Zuobai is a person who doesn't want to be a sponsor for a long time. In order to survive, he chose to find Li Zongren. When there are other opportunities, he will pull his troops to go it alone. When Li Zongren appointed two team division chiefs, Yu Zuobai thought he would be one of them and didn't want to be robbed of his seat by Li Shiyu, an "outsider". Who told him that Li Shiyu's military qualifications in Hu Lin were higher than his own? Yu Zuobai had to endure, determined to develop on his own.
The separation of Huang made the separation of Yu Zuobai a reality. At the invitation of his old classmates and colleagues, he left quickly with his two battalions without saying anything. Yu Zuobai knew that Huang had been appointed brigade commander by Shen. If he takes two battalions with him, the position of the head of the regiment will definitely not run away, and he can also take this opportunity to organize the troops into three battalions.
But he didn't expect that under the "pursuit" of 1 detachment commander Li Shiyu, Yu Zuobai actually took only one battalion of his own army. Originally, two battalions joined Huang's gang, but now, there is only one battalion left, which makes him particularly embarrassed to see Huang Shi. Fortunately, Huang didn't say anything, but he was appointed as the head of the 1 group. Because he only took one battalion, the expanded 1 regiment based on this battalion can only be composed of two battalions first. Yu Zuobai appointed his confidant Li Mingrui as the battalion commander of 1, and his own brother Yu Zuoyu as the battalion commander of the second battalion.
So Bai went to Huang, and he left Li for one thing. Secondly, if Huang develops well, he can continue to work under his command and choose opportunities to expand his strength. If Huang doesn't develop well, he is already the head of the team and has the capital to compete in Guangxi. No matter what he does, he won't suffer. But Yu Zuobai miscalculated again. While trying to help Huang solve the problems of Huang Bingxun and Feng Baochu, Huang once again sought ways to join forces with Li Zongren. Huang's decision surprised Yu Zuobai. He didn't expect that he had just left Li Zongren and now he was going back? What role does Yu Zuobai play between Li and Huang? On second thought, on the premise that the cooperation between Huang and Li is just another strategy, he proposed to Huang to seize the opportunity to annex Danielle.
When Huang Yan rejected Yu Zuobai's proposal, Yu knew that Huang really wanted to cooperate with Li Zongren. Then what should I do? Leave Huang on the spot? But Huang's strength is complete, not remains, and it will be dangerous to leave by himself. After careful consideration, he decided to follow Huang back to Li Zongren. Well, I went around and went back.
The cooperation between Li and Huang once again made Yu Zuobai understand that in troubled times, no one can rely on him but himself. For Yu Zuobai, who reluctantly returned to Li Zongren, only by striving for the meritorious military service, expanding his troops and increasing his influence can he have independent capital in the future. Therefore, in the subsequent wars of land grabbing (Rong), Shen () and Tang (Yao), Yu Zuobai's thief-seeking army 1 column (later renamed Gui Jun Second Army 1 column) fought tenaciously, and its position in the allied forces continued to improve, becoming a team under Li, Huang and Bai.
With the continuous expansion of Yu Zuobai's influence, his existence gradually threatened the unity of the new Guangxi system. Li Zongren and Huang Ziran will not sit idly by. When the Allied Forces were reorganized into the 7th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Yu Zuobai, the brigade commander of the 2nd Brigade (originally reorganized from 1 column) who had been enlisted for less than two months, was transferred to a military school, and he took this opportunity to leave the army.
Yu Zuobai is not a fool. What military academy trains cadres is actually to seize his military power. But at this time, we can't act rashly, because Guangxi was completely controlled by Li and Huang at that time, and with the support of Guangdong authorities. If we were to become independent at this time, it would be like throwing an egg at a stone, so Yu Zuobai had to swallow his pride and go to Nanning to run the first branch of the Central Military and Political School. However, although Yu Zuobai left, he strongly recommended Li Mingrui, the leader of his cronies, as a brigade commander because of his prestige in the army. Li and Huang don't want to make a big deal out of it. In order not to change the Ministry, they agreed to Yu's request. As long as Yu Zuobai can walk, we can talk about anything. After all, the great cause of the Northern Expedition is the most important thing. In this way, although Yu Zuobai is the president of his military academy in Nanning, all the actions of the second brigade are reported to him by Li Mingrui in time.
Yu Zuobai is absolutely unwilling to be a military academy president for a long time. Just at that time, Donglan started a peasant movement led by Wei Baqun against the new Guangxi system. Yu Zuobai used his power to secretly support them, provided them with some guns and ammunition, and soon sponsored a batch of guns to the Penghua People's Army. Unexpectedly, these guns were discovered by the local garrison when the agricultural army was transported to your county, and there was a battle between the two sides, resulting in 47 deaths of the agricultural army. This is the "Bitan Incident". This incident made Li and Huang aware of Yu Zuobai's little moves in the rear, so they simply decided that Yu Zuobai was "helping the Communist Party to make trouble" and decided to arrest him in April of 12 under the pretext of cleaning up the Party. Fortunately, Yu Zuobai knew the wind in advance and quickly escaped from Nanning, out of danger. After that, Yu Zuobai was wanted and had to live in Hong Kong.
During his stay in Hong Kong, Yu Zuobai actively interacted with people of * * * *, and joined the Kuomintang under the introduction of Li and others. During the "August 1st" Nanchang Uprising, Yu Zuobai served as the military commissioner of Dongjiang, went to Dongjiang to instigate the uprising, and helped Nanchang Uprising Army to go south. However, due to the siege of the uprising troops, he was forced to go north and Yu Zuobai had to return to Hong Kong.
1929 The Battle of Jianggui in April gave Yu Zuobai a chance to make a comeback. Chiang Kai-shek thought of Yu Zuobai in Hong Kong in order to divide and buy off a group of powerful factions in the New Guangxi Department. Jiang sent someone to find Yu, saying that as long as he could instigate some troops, he would be appointed as the chairman of Guangxi Province, in charge of Guangxi's military and political power. For such generous conditions, Yu Zuobai was naturally very willing to accept it, and immediately instigated the old subordinates to rebel in Wuhan, which dealt a heavy blow to the new Guangxi department and made the resignation of Li, Huang and Bai inevitable.
Since then, the waiting army has returned to Guangxi anyway, and the remnants of the Huang 15 army have been incorporated into the Guangxi garrison. 1June, 929 12, Yu Zuobai saw the success of Li Mingrui and returned to Nanning from Hongkong. Officially electrified as the chairman of Guangxi Province and the garrison commander of Guangxi, the desire to govern Guangxi has finally come true.
Although Yu Zuobai became the new owner of Guangxi, Chiang Kai-shek didn't trust him, so he sent political workers headed by Zheng to serve in the Guangxi army and spy on him. Yu Zuobai naturally knew his situation, and he began to actively cooperate with * * *, and with the help of * * *, he reorganized and expanded the Guangxi Provincial Police Force. With the rapid expansion of strength, Yu Zuobai began to overestimate himself wrongly. No, in less than three months, he publicly supported Wang Jingwei's anti-Chiang movement, and on June 65438+ 10/day of 29, he became the commander-in-chief of the South Road for National Salvation of the Baogang Party, leading 1 5 division, Yang Tenghui 57 division, Lu Huanyan's new division 16 division and guarding it.
Yu Zuobai did not expect that this ambitious anti-Chiang movement failed in just four days. The main reason is that Yu Zuobai's foundation in Guangxi is unstable, and all kinds of actions before the anti-Chiang were reported to Nanjing in time by the political workers in charge of monitoring. Chiang Kai-shek sent people to woo Yang Tenghui and Lu Huanyan who refused to accept Yu Zuobai, so that their two divisions declared their opposition to Yu. The 15 division that could have been relied on is also full of problems. 15 division commander is loyal to Yu Zuobai, but Huang Quan, the brigade commander and von Khrushchev, the head of the division, have successively opposed Yu, leaving only three of the six brigades that are regarded as their own. In this way, there are only six regiments (brigades) left in Yu Zuobai's hand, and Chiang Kai-shek can't be defeated with this strength.
Yu Zuobai began to regret it. He regretted not listening to the dissuasion of the representative of * * *, but the mistake has been made. He had to follow Li Mingrui and others, with * * * led by the garrison three brigade to Longzhou, Baise retreat. After arriving in Longzhou, Yu Zuobai felt that this would not work. On the one hand, there are few troops, on the other hand, there is a lack of funds. In this case, failure is only a matter of time. He decided to be under the command of Li Mingrui and Yu Zuoyu on the grounds of going to Hong Kong to raise military expenses, and then went to Japan for "inspection". Later, Yu Zuobai took refuge in the French Concession in Shanghai and lost contact with * * *.
In this way, Yu Zuobai left the stage for the leader of the New Guangxi Department, but accelerated the pace of Li Zongren's return to Guangxi. Since then, he has never been back to Guangxi, while Li Mingrui and Yu Zuoyu who stayed in Baise participated in and formed the Seventh and Eighth Armies of the Red Army, and embarked on the revolutionary road of communism.
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way in 1937, and Yu Zuobai returned to the army in the voice of the national war of resistance. However, the Central Committee of Chiang Kai-shek didn't trust the former traitor, only nominally appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the Loyal Salvation Army, while the actual military power was in the hands of the military leader Dai Li. Yu Zuobai saw that it was meaningless to be the nominal commander-in-chief again, but he resigned. Since then, he has been hanging the title of military commission counselor until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
1July, 946, Yu Zuobai officially retired and moved to Hong Kong. 1In August, 956, he chose to return to the mainland and settle in Guangzhou. Yu Zuobai's return was warmly welcomed by people at that time. He was appointed as Guangdong Counselor and CPPCC member. 1959 On February 26th, Yu Zuobai died of bladder cancer in Beijing.
Chronology of Yu Zuobai (1888- 1959)
Born on1March 6, 888 (24th in the 14th year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty). Guangxi Beiliu people, the word Hou Jian,No. Bai Jian. He graduated from the 3rd Infantry Division of Baoding Army Military Academy.
1 965438+After graduating from the Military Academy in August 2006, he served as a trainee officer of the 3rd regiment (head Tan Ruhan) of Guangxi Army12nd brigade (brigade commander Zhai Hanhua).
1965438+In April 2007, he served as the staff officer of the Second Army of Guangdong Army (commander Hu Lin).
1965438+In April 2008, he was promoted to captain and company commander of the 7th Brigade13rd Regiment (Brigadier Li Siguang).
192 1 year/month its headquarters was renamed as Guangxi Frontier Defense 1 Road Detachment (commander Hu Lin) (commander Huang Yexing), and it still served as the team leader and company commander. In July, his troops were incorporated into the 3rd Guangdong-Guangxi border defense road (commander Li Zongren) and promoted to 1 detachment 1 battalion (commander Li Shiyu).
1 in may, 922, its department was reorganized as No.2 road of Guangxi autonomous army 1 road (commander Li Zongren) and1detachment (commander Li Shiyu), and was promoted to commander of lieutenant colonel. In August, its headquarters was renamed as the 5th Independent Brigade of Gui Jun (Brigadier General Li Zongren) 1 Detachment (Commander Li Shiyu) 1 Road, and it remained as the commander.
1 in February, 923, he was promoted to the head of the Gui Jun Independent Eighth Brigade (Yellow)1regiment. In July, the Ministry was renamed Guangxi Thief Corps 1 Regiment (Commander-in-Chief Huang) and still served as the head.
1 in July, 924, he was promoted to commander of the thief-seeking army1column (and general commander Huang). 1 1 in June, its headquarters was renamed Gui Jun 2nd Army 1 column (and commander Huang), and it remained as commander.
1in March, 926, his department was incorporated into the 7th Army (commander Li Zongren) of the National Revolutionary Army, and he served as Brigadier General of the 2nd Brigade (under two regiments) and captain of the student team. /kloc-In May, 2000, he was promoted to the First Branch of Lieutenant General Central Military and Political School (Nanning Branch). On June 5th, he was appointed member of Guangxi * * * (and chairman Huang).
1In April, 927, he was forced to resign and settle in Hong Kong because of his involvement in "cleaning up the Party". In September, he joined the Revolutionary Action Committee of China. 10 In June, he was appointed as the Military Commissioner of Dongjiang.
1929 June 12 became the chairman of Guangxi province. On the 20th of the same month, he was concurrently the garrison commander of Guangxi. In June, 65438,+10/October 1, he led the troops against Chiang Kai-shek and served as the commander-in-chief of Chiang Kai-shek (under the jurisdiction of 15 Division, 57th Division and newly compiled 16 Division). On the 5th of the same month, he was dismissed by the state. 1 1 In June, he fled to Hong Kong again because of his failure to fight against Chiang Kai-shek.
1933 moved to Shanghai in August.
1936 65438+February 25th, served as major general of the army.
1 March, 1938, served as deputy commander and head of the Zhong Yi Salvation Army1regiment (concurrently acting commander). In July, he was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Loyalty Salvation Army (which governs three detachments).
1939 10 was transferred to the military commission to participate in the Senate.
1945 In September, he was transferred to the Design Committee of Lieutenant General Dai Li, Director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Commission.
1946 July 3 1 was promoted to lieutenant general and settled in Hong Kong after retirement.
1956 moved to Guangzhou in August. 1 1 became a counselor in the counselor's office of Guangdong Provincial People's Committee.
In February, 1957 was elected as Guangdong member of CPPCC (Chairman Tao Zhu).
1959 passed away in Beijing on February 26th.