Zhang Gan

Zhang Gan

Zhang Gan (1897-1959), a native of Guilin, Guangxi, graduated from Guangxi army accelerated school. In 1923, he served as an adjutant of major in Lu Rongting's army. After Lu Rongting's failure, his troops were recruited by Li Zongren and served as battalion commander. After 1926, he successively served as adjutant of commander and deputy commander of colonel in the seventh army. After graduating from the Army University in 1928, he served as chief of staff of the Eighth Army. He served as chief of staff of the 48th army in 1937. On June 21, 1938, he served as the commander of the seventh army and led his troops to take part in the battle of Wuhan and the battle of jujube. He served as Lieutenant General on November 13, 1939. In 1939, he served as deputy commander in chief of the 21st group army and deputy commander of the seventh appeasement district. He was commander of the third column in 1947. In August 1948, he served as commander of the third corps and led his troops to participate in the Yangtze River defense war. In April 1949, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the central China military and political office. On December 1, 1949, he was captured by the PLA in Bobai, Guangxi. Later, he was detained in Beijing Gongdelin war criminals Reform Institute. He died of illness in 1959.

Life experience

General compass

Zhang Gan, a Guilin general, was a famous general during the Northern Expedition and the Anti Japanese war. He was famous for his superstition in Yin Yang Feng Shui and his bald head like Chiang Kai Shek. Because his every move is inseparable from compass and divination, Bai Chongxi nicknamed him "compass".

Since 1936, the Guangxi party, government and Army Center has gradually moved back to Guilin from Nanning, and the hinterland between Fubo mountain, Diecai mountain and Tiefeng mountain has become the air defense residence area for high-level people of Guangxi. At that time, lushizhou (today's fulongzhou) also attracted the attention of senior officials, but no one dared to choose JiZhai here.

One day in September 1940, Zhang Gan, the commander of the seventh army of Guangxi, dressed in military uniform and surrounded by several armed followers, boarded the sandbank 400 meters long from north to South and 100 meters wide from east to West in a small boat. After a week's browsing, he uttered a proverb: "the long river between the north and the south is wide and flat, and the Dongling and Xigang are three or two storeys; the left and right houses come to visit each other, and the children and grandchildren decide the military officers." Then he said, "well, this is the land of auspicious houses with rivers, mountains and hills." At the end of the speech, he took out the hexagram and compass he had with him, recited them silently for a while, then respectfully closed the two hexagram petals and threw them into the air. As a result, he divined three hexagrams. He could not help but get excited and said, "everything is good, everything is good!"

The next day, Zhang Gan brought divination tools and compass, and also called his eldest son-in-law, who was engaged in architecture. He manipulated the compass, went from the north end of Zhouzi to the south end, explored the meridian, then from the east side of Zhouzi to the west side, determined the Youmao line, and measured the four corners of XunGen heaven and earth. Then began to "find the dragon, sand, water, choose direction.". After a long time of exploration, Zhang Gan selected a point to the north of the center of Zhou as the acupoint. But later, I thought that it was difficult for a city to be surrounded by a western gate, and it must be the same for the west of a house. He quickly looked to the West and saw that a sharp corner of the Zijin Mountain (Duxiu Peak), which symbolizes Wang Qi, was coming straight over. "It's not right. This sharp corner has a strong momentum, and it will have the evil spirit of losing his wife and harming his mother. Don't do it!" He quickly abandoned the cave and chose another one, followed the meridian to the south, and finally selected a place south of the continent as the North kiji cave.

However, when the pillar went down, he found that the opening of huanzhu cave at the north foot of Fubo mountain was like a big open mouth, with the potential of swallowing people. He quickly called out: "still don't do it!" At this time, the eldest son-in-law, who followed him around, was no longer impatient for his father-in-law's indulgence in Feng Shui. He was afraid of the endless divination of eight trigrams and sixty-four trigrams. Zhang Gan was also in a dilemma. He thought that there was really no good acupoint to choose from in this area of nearly 20 mu, but he was very reluctant to give up. When he was in trouble, he suddenly thought of a move to ward off evil spirits. He decided that in the future, he would build a screen wall or a screen wall in Zhouwei, which is going south, and then insert a stone called "Taishan stone" to stop the big entrance. He felt that all the auspicious things had been considered carefully, so he ordered to lay down four claw shaped piles and build a six foot square "sub" shaped turtle platform as the foundation. It can be said that guizhaotai is an immortal town.

It is also said that after the foundation was laid, Zhang Gan thought that the name of Lushi island was too rustic and had no essence of geomantic omen. He wanted to change the name of Lushi island. Later, he felt that the water of this Zhou Dynasty was like a water dragon circling around. Looking back, it was between Fubo mountain and Mulong cave. It would be better to change its name to Fulong Zhou. Later, it was really changed to this name.

After the restoration, Zhang Gan was too busy with the civil war to come to Lusi island. One day in October 1949, Zhang Gan, who was already deputy chief of the central China military and political office and commander of the third corps, suddenly returned to Guilin and went to Zhouzi. A few months ago, he led the elite seventh and 48th armies of Guangxi, which were annihilated in the battle of Hengbao, and he became a defeated general. This time, he took Zhang daozhong's two sons to say goodbye to his dream of Zhouzi. He was ready to flee to Taiwan Island. Their father and son took a group photo on the foundation platform and left in a hurry. When he left, he sighed sadly: "it's better to take turns in geomantic omen!"

In March 1950, Zhang Gan's children from Taiwan and Hong Kong returned to Guilin to build a burial mound for their father. We had a conversation. It turned out that on November 29, one month after the three of them bid farewell to Lusi Island, Bai Chongxi's "south line offensive" was defeated. Zhang GaN LED 20000 remnant troops to retreat from Yulin to Bobai, and set up a headquarters in the county library in an attempt to gather the remaining troops to escape from Hepu sea. At this time, Bai Chongxi was on the sea to meet them. Unexpectedly, at midnight that day, the Flying Tigers of 382 regiment of our 43rd army launched an attack on his headquarters. In the fierce battle, Zhang Gan is still asking fortune telling. Suddenly, he tells the chief of staff with joy: the divination has been guided, and there will be reinforcements on one side soon! It was the Flying Tigers of the people's Liberation Army who came from that side. Both he and the chief of staff were captured.

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