Whampoa graduate who was one of Chiang Kaishek's favorite commanders

Whampoa graduate who was one of Chiang Kaishek's favorite commanders

Du Yuming (November 28, 1904 - May 7, 1981) is a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi Province, Han nationality. Famous Anti Japanese general, general of the National Revolutionary Army, backbone of Huangpu department.

In June 1924, he joined the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy. After graduation, he made his debut in the National Revolutionary Army's eastern expedition against Chen Jiongming. He successively served as the Deputy platoon leader of the military academy's teaching regiment, the lieutenant commander of the Wuhan branch school's learning corps, the squadron leader of the central army's military academy, the battalion commander and regiment commander of the 2nd division, and the brigade commander and deputy division commander of the 25th division of the 17th army. He participated in the northern expedition, the Great Wall Anti Japanese War, and the Songhu Anti Japanese war.

In November 1939, he served as the commander of the 5th army, led the army to participate in the battle in southern Guangxi, and commanded the Kunlun Pass in southern Guangxi to fight against Japan, which severely damaged the so-called "steel army" of the 5th division of the Japanese army. In 1978, he was elected deputy to the Fifth National People's Congress, member of the fifth Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, and deputy head of the military group of the literature and History Research Committee. On May 7, 1981, Du Yuming died of illness in Beijing at the age of 77.

Life of the characters

Youth

He was born on November 28, 1904 in dujiawan, lvjiahu, East District, Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province. The ancestors were local feudal landlords. His father, Du liangkui, was a Juren in the late Qing Dynasty. When he was teaching in Chang'an University in Xi'an, he participated in the alliance. He went back to Mizhi several times, encouraged the county militia to drive away the officials of the Qing government, and took part in the struggle against Yuan Shikai's becoming emperor.

Du Yuming loved playing with guns when he was young. When he was 12 years old, he studied in chengjiaben primary school run by his cousin Li Dingming. I got the guidance of this strict teacher in my study. After the death of his grandparents and his uncle, Du Liangfu, Du liangkui has been teaching outside the country. He never cares about housework, so Du Yuming has to bear the burden of housekeeper. Because of his intelligence, he soon mastered a set of skills in managing household chores and preserving his family property.

When Du was 16 years old, his father returned home from Yulin. He was disappointed to see that his studies were basically abandoned because of housework. He decided to hand over the housework to his nephew Du Yucheng. Du went with his father to class D, grade 20, Yulin middle school, the only middle school in the 23 counties of Northern Shaanxi at that time. President Du Bincheng is Du Yuming's cousin. His teachers include Wei Yechou, Li Zizhou, Wang Senran, Zhu hengqiu and so on. Classmates include Xie Zichang and Huo Shijie, who later became Communists, and Liu Yunhua (Liu Qing), who later became a modern writer.

In 1923, Du Yuming graduated from Yulin middle school. In August of the same year, he married Cao Xiuqing, who was two years older than him. In the early spring of 1924, Du Yuming, who was less than 20 years old, came to Beijing with his fellow Yulin villagers Yan kuiyao and Ma Shigong. Du Yuming originally wanted to apply for Peking University, but during his stay in Beijing, he witnessed the darkness of the Northern Warlords' delaying political affairs and stealing state power. In the magazine New youth, I saw the advertisement of recruiting students for Huangpu Military Academy. Due to the influence of revolutionary thoughts and the influence of Du Bincheng, after careful consideration, I decided to apply for Huangpu Military Academy.

Huangpu Military Academy

In March 1924, Du Yuming, his cousin Du Yuxin, Shaanxi Youth Yan kuiyao, Guan Linzheng, Zhang Yaoming and other 11 people traveled from Beijing via Tianjin and took the British ship south to Guangzhou. During the period of school, he was never careless in his study. He devoted himself wholeheartedly to the military courses set up by the military academy, such as marching, artillery, engineer, tactical tactics, demonstration and Simulation of the drill in line, etc. Du Yuming and his classmates also took part in the battle to bring down the reactionary business group in Guangzhou. This was the first time that he experienced a real battle. At the end of that year, after graduating from the first class, he was assigned to the third company of the first battalion of he Yingqin's first training regiment as a trainee officer and a quartermaster sergeant. Soon he was promoted to the second platoon vice platoon leader.

In the spring of 1925, under the command of the military academy, the battle against the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming began. During the attack on Danshui City, Du Yuming, Chen Geng and other students signed up to join the death squads organized by the training regiment to climb the city. Du and Chen were the first to climb the city. Then they opened the gate of the city and ushered in a large group of people to annihilate the enemy and finally won the whole victory. In early March of the same year, Du and his party arrived in Beijing and were received by Wang Jingwei. They met Sun Yat Sen, who was in a coma. Du handed Liao Zhongkai's handwritten letter to Mr. Sun's adjutant Ma Xiang in both hands, and then wrote a letter to Mr. Liao, reporting Sun Yat Sen's illness. Then they went to Kaifeng and, under the direct leadership of Hu Jingyi, assisted Soviet advisers in organizing military academies.

Soon after, Wu Baoshan, the commander of the supplementary battalion and the big landlord of the gaoguizi regiment of the second national army, hired Du Yuming as the deputy commander and the first company commander with a large sum of money in order to expand his power. Du solemnly wrote letters to Guangzhou revolutionary base camp and Huangpu Military Academy, reporting the situation and asking for instructions. The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang immediately wrote back a letter instructing that it is hoped that Du Yuming will stay in the north, strive for the opportunity to contact Ma Xiang, and participate in the protection of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Linggui, who stopped at Biyun temple in Beijing. At this time, Gao Guizi was ordered to lead his troops to Beijing to serve as the garrison of the capital. Wu Baoshan's supplementary camp, which was reorganized, also went north with the regiment. After arriving in Beijing, Gao Guizi changed the supplementary camp into a spy camp, and sent the camp to Jingyi garden of Biyun temple in Xishan to guard Sun Yat Sen's Linggui. Du Yuming is still the deputy battalion commander and the first company commander of the battalion.

The Northern Expedition

In July 1926, the Guangzhou revolutionary government vowed to launch the northern expedition. Du Yuming returned to the south. After many hardships, he arrived in Nanjing. Unfortunately, he was caught by sun Chuanfang's inspection team and put into Nanjing Tiger Bridge prison. Then he escaped to Wuhan to see Deng Yanda. Go to Nanhu xuebingtuan of Wuchang to find Zhang Zhizhong, head of xuebingtuan of Wuhan Branch of Huangpu Military Academy. Later, Du Yuming served as commander of the third company of the first battalion in Zhangzhi high school Corps.

In the summer of 1928, Zhang Zhizhong returned to China for an inspection tour and served as the director of the Training Department of the Central Army Academy of officers. He ordered du to be the commander of the second squadron of Hangzhou preparatory brigade. At the beginning of the next year, Du returned to Nanjing Military Academy to serve as the commander of the fourth squadron of the seventh phase. In the winter of the same year, he also served as the chief of staff of the second brigade of the new first division.

At the beginning of 1930, Chiang Kai Shek established the second teaching division. Zhang Zhizhong served as the division commander, and Du Yuming served as the commander of the first battalion of the fifth regiment of the division's second brigade. He was soon promoted to the commander of the sixth regiment of the division.

In the winter of 1930, the second division was renamed the fourth division of the army, and Du was the head of the 24th regiment of the 12th brigade. Xu Tingyao, the teacher, asked his subordinates to be very strict. Seeing that most of the teams were loose and broken, Du Tuan, the only one, conscientiously followed his instructions. He was well-organized in all aspects of education and training, and practiced skillfully. Therefore, he greatly appreciated Du Tuan.

At the beginning of 1932, Xu Tingyao's fourth division was ordered to go to northern Anhui to take part in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army in the Dabie Mountains, and was defeated by Kuang Jixun's Department of the Red Army in Huoqiu. At the critical moment, Xu ordered the 24th regiment to make a full counterattack, and Du Yuming led his troops to penetrate Huoqiu, causing great losses to the Red Army. Xu Tingyao made his first contribution and reported to Du for promotion to major general. In the winter of this year, Xu was promoted to commander of the 17th army, Du was appointed commander of the 73rd brigade of the 25th division, and soon became deputy commander of the division.

In February 1933, the Japanese aggressor army divided its forces to attack Rehe in three ways. The 25th division was ordered to gather in Tongxian county from Xuzhou and Bengbu to stop the enemy. On March 9, after the 25th division arrived at Shixia Town, Du Yuming and Guan Linzheng drove to Gubeikou and contacted Wang Yizhe, commander of the Northeast Army. Du Yuming, acting as division commander, commanded the officers and men of the division and fought with Japanese invaders. On March 12, Du was ordered to hand over the position to the second division. In the autumn of the same year, Du Yuming entered the first phase of the higher education class run by Nanjing Central Military Academy. During the period of study, Ma Zhichao, who graduated from Huangpu phase I, joined the Fuxing society.

In the spring of 1936, Du Yuming graduated from the advanced education class of the Central Military Academy. Du was supposed to return to the 25th division, but he didn't want to go back because he didn't get along well with his teacher Guan Linzheng. Xu Tingyao recommended him to the newly established Nanjing Army Jiaoye school as the leader of the Cadet team, responsible for training officers who command mechanized forces. The rank of major general was awarded on October 5.

In 1937, the combat vehicle battalion of the Jiaoye school and the armored vehicle team of the second regiment of the communications corps were co organized, and a number of combat vehicles were added to form the first Armored Regiment of the Kuomintang army, with Du Yuming as the first head of the regiment. During the "August 13" Anti Japanese war in Songhu, Du led the second and fourth companies of the first battalion of the Armored Regiment in Shanghai Huishan wharf to cooperate with the infantry to stop the Japanese army trying to land.

Counter-Japanese War

In 1938, the Panzer Corps withdrew to Hunan Xiangtan for training. Soon after, the Corps was expanded to the 200th division, with Du Yuming as its commander. After the Changsha fire, the KMT Changsha police officers and arsonists came to Xiangtan city to burn Xiangtan city. When Du Yuming learned of this, he angrily denounced this kind of panic and reckless practice. He sent officers to collect the equipment of the arson team, forcibly control and guard the arsonists, and put up a notice forbidding arson in Xiangtan County. Only in this way can the lives and property of hundreds of thousands of people in Xiangtan city be preserved. Afterwards, all the people in Xiangtan praised and appreciated Du Yuming and the 200 divisions for saving the city.

In December 1938, the 200th division was expanded into the new 11th army, which was moved from Xiangtan, Hunan Province to Quanzhou, Guangxi Province. Du Yuming was appointed deputy commander. Soon after, the title was changed to the Fifth Army, and Du was promoted to commander. The army was the only mechanized new army set up by the Kuomintang government at the beginning of the Anti Japanese war. Du put forward that "the playground is the battlefield", "sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime", which requires the new army to have the vigor of "five eliminating" (eliminating pride, laziness, hypocrisy, desire and evil), "three learning" (learning essence, sincerity and diligence).

Since the summer of 1939, the Japanese aggressors have assembled their forces and prepared to open up the South China battlefield. On November 17 of the same year, Japanese invaders landed in Fangcheng and Beihai and occupied Qinzhou. On November 19, they broke through xiaodongfang

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