Chiang Kai-shek became the president of Whampoa Military Academy without the recommendation of one person, that is, Li Liejun, a veteran of the Kuomintang.
Li Liejun, 1882, was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi. His father once participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. When I was a child, I often told him stories about his heroic struggle against imperialism and the Qing army. Therefore, Li Liejun was educated in anti-imperialist and anti-feudal thoughts from an early age.
Li Liejun has been practicing martial arts since childhood and has a strong body. Moreover, he is proficient in classics and history, and he is also good at calligraphy and poetry. It can be said that it is both civil and military. Sun Yat-sen once commented on him like this: "He got on the horse, and he is a rare Confucian general in contemporary times."
190 1 year, Li Liejun was selected to study in the Japanese Army NCO School. During his stay in Japan, he met Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others, and joined the League.
After the outbreak of Wuchang Uprising, Li Liejun was appointed as the commander of the heavy artillery corps of the Rebel Army, and led the army to the north and south. First, he went south to save Jiangxi, then went north to settle in Anhui, and finally went to Wuchang, which made great contributions to the 1911 Revolution.
In the early Republic of China, Li Liejun was not only armed to the teeth, but also a "specialist" against Yuan. He has served as commander-in-chief of the allied forces in five provinces of Anhui and Jiangxi, and has always stood in the forefront of the fight against Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army. Li Liejun is an indispensable and important force of Sun Yat-sen, including the "Second Revolution", the war to defend our country and so on.
Later, at Sun Yat-sen's memorial service, there was an elegiac couplet, which read: "In the twenty years of revolution, Yuan was completely defeated and Li was the only one in every battle." This "Li" refers to Li Liejun.
(Photo: Li Liejun on the right)
1924, Sun Yat-sen decided to establish the Whampoa Military Academy. In fact, there are many candidates, such as Tan, Cheng Qian and Li Liejun. They are all veterans of the party and the country, and their qualifications and status are above Chiang Kai-shek. But Li Liejun strongly recommended Chiang Kai-shek to Sun Yat-sen, which made Chiang Kai-shek's later glory.
1928, due to poor health, Li Liejun gradually faded out of the power center and returned to his hometown in Jiangxi to recuperate. However, when the September 18th Incident broke out, the China army retreated without fighting and handed over the land in the northeast to the Japanese. Li Liejun was outraged and sent telegrams to Chiang Kai-shek many times, hoping that he could actively resist Japan. He even went to Lushan to see Chiang Kai-shek himself and told him that the nation was in danger. However, Chiang Kai-shek turned a deaf ear to his opinions.
1934, Chiang Kai-shek launched the fifth "encirclement and suppression" against the Red Army. At this time, the Japanese invaders are infiltrating into North China along the Great Wall. Li Liejun was filled with indignation, and wrote a poem: "Looking back at the vastness, the waves rolled wildly. The blind man is a huge ship, and he is arrogant. "
Finally, Li Liejun saw that Chiang Kai-shek was indifferent, so he had to go out in person regardless of his poor health and went to the front line of Chahar many times to encourage the troops there to bravely fight against the Japanese invaders.
What is even more touching is that in order to resist Japan, Li Liejun sent his five sons to the battlefield.
Li Liejun * * * has seven sons with interesting names: Li, Li Ganju, Li Ganxiong, Li Ganji, Li Ganhua, Sui and Li Ganqi, which means that he will succeed to the throne in a hurry.
Except the eldest son who is practicing medicine in Hongkong and the youngest son who is too young to join the army, all the other five sons were sent to join the army by Li Liejun. Two of them are studying, and they also interrupted their studies to join the army.
Li Liejun sent five sons to be soldiers, which was a sensation. Even Chiang Kai-shek personally sent a plaque, saying, "The party and state elders, the five sons joined the army."
During the Anti-Japanese War, although Li Liejun was bedridden for a long time, he still insisted on reading newspapers every day to understand the situation of the Anti-Japanese War, and often published articles in newspapers to encourage Chinese people to fight bravely and overcome difficulties.
It was not until/kloc-0 won the Anti-Japanese War in August, 945 that Li Liejun finally breathed a sigh of relief and died in Chongqing in February, 946 at the age of 64.
After Li Liejun's death, the state held a state funeral and a grand memorial service for him. Duke Zhou and Dong, who were in Chongqing at that time, also went to offer their condolences.