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Hu Zongnan
General Hu Zongnan
Native name
胡宗南
Nickname(s)
Eagle of the Northwest[1]
Born
16 May 1896 Zhenhai, Zhejiang, Qing Empire
Died
14 February 1962(1962-02-14) (aged 65) Taipei, Taiwan
Place of burial
Yangmingshan, Taipei
Allegiance
Republic of China
Years of service
1924–1959
Rank
Captain, June 1926 Brigadier general, November 1927 Major general, 1930 Lieutenant general, 1936 General, 1947
Unit
First Corps
Commands held
2nd Regiment, 1st Div, July 1926 1st Division, First Army, May 1927 22nd Division, November 1927 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, April 1928 1st Division (reorg.), 1930 First Army, April 1936 Seventeenth Army, 1938 34th Army Group, 1938 8th Military Region, 1940 1st Military Region, 1944
Battles/wars
Northern Expedition Chiang-Gui War Chiang-Feng-Yan War Chinese Civil War (1935-1951) Battle of Shanghai Battle of Wuhan First Taiwan Strait Crisis
Awards
Order of Blue Sky and White Sun, Order of Cloud and Banner
Other work
Governor of Zhejiang Province
In this Chinese name, the family name is Hu.
Hu Zongnan (Chinese: 胡宗南; pinyin: Hú Zōngnán; Wade–Giles: Hu Tsung-nan; 16 May 1896 – 14 February 1962), courtesy name Shoushan (壽山), was a Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army and then the Republic of China Army. Together with Chen Cheng and Tang Enbo, Hu, a native of Zhenhai, Ningbo, formed the triumvirate of Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted generals during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the retreat of the Nationalists to Taiwan in 1949, he also served as the President's military strategy advisor until his death in 1962.
^Jonathan Fenby (2005). Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost. Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 495. ISBN 0-7867-1484-0. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
HuZongnan (Chinese: 胡宗南; pinyin: HúZōngnán; Wade–Giles: Hu Tsung-nan; 16 May 1896 – 14 February 1962), courtesy name Shoushan (壽山), was a Chinese general...
held the ministerial post by July 1945 and later worked as an adviser to HuZongnan and held a military post. He joined the rest of the Kuomintang in Taiwan...
back from the northwestern front. In May 1949, General HuZongnan and Ma set up a planned trap. Hu faked a retreat, then Communist General Peng Dehuai advanced...
Yan'an at the Battle of Xihuachi in March 1947. After Yan'an fell to HuZongnan on 19 March 1947, Xi worked on the staff of Peng Dehuai in the battles...
Chinese Civil War, in his capacity as private secretary and aide-de-camp to HuZongnan, one of the most senior Nationalist generals; Xiong was secretly a Communist...
Dehuai led Communist forces in launching a surprise attack against Gen. HuZongnan's troops, inflicting 20,000 casualties upon them and driving all the way...
forty Soviet warplanes sent by Joseph Stalin against his forces. Generals HuZongnan and Ma Bufang led five corps to defeat General Peng's army near Baoji...
They expected that the troops of HuZongnan, another general close to Chiang Kai-shek, would relieve them, but instead Hu led his troops away from the city...
capital, Yan'an. In March 1947, Kuomintang General HuZongnan, invaded the area with 260,000 soldiers. Hu's forces were among the best-trained and most well-supplied...
Lt Col James R Mitchell, USAF Chang Guan-chung Chen Changjie (general) HuZongnan Huang Wei Li Mi (Republic of China general) Qiu Qingquan Shen Yi-ming...
returned to China. The Kuomintang defenses continued to fall apart. General HuZongnan ignored Li's orders, and the Muslim General Ma Hongkui was furious at...
soldiers from the coalition. Compared to other senior party officials like Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei, the political status of Chiang Kai-shek in the Kuomintang...
Yanchuan County later in March to try to prevent Nationalist forces led by HuZongnan from invading Yan'an's urban core.: 28–29 On the morning of March 19...
was fired into the back of his head by Chiang's chief of staff, General HuZongnan. There are only second-hand accounts of the execution. 1928-1930: Chairman...
batteries 1 Light tank Battalion 21st Group Army - Liao Lei 1st Army – HuZongnan 1st Division - Li Tiechun 32nd Division - Wang Xiushen 78th Division -...
retreating on his own accord by Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff, General HuZongnan. Japanese troops controlled Jinan until their defeat in 1945. After this...
that occurred during a hunting trip. After being interrogated by General HuZongnan, the governor of the Northwest, Liu was pardoned. He was awarded the rank...
Encirclement Campaigns against the Jiangxi Soviet under nationalist general HuZongnan. In 1936, he suspected his wife of having affairs, so he shot her dead...
Anti-Communist National Salvation Army [zh] (ACNSA, under the command of General HuZongnan) gunboats near the Chekiang coast in the East China Sea, but both escaped...
Zhonghan's recommendation, Hao Pengju belonged to the 34th Army Group which HuZongnan commanded in Xi'an. Next June, Hao was promoted to Chief of Staff of the...
and western Hubei via Sichuan and Guizhou, and thus immediately ordered HuZongnan to conclude Qinling Campaign by withdrawing from the Qinling defensive...
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