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Tang Shengzhi
Tang Shengzhi as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries
Native name
唐生智
Born
12 October 1889 Dong'an County, Hunan, Qing Empire
Died
6 April 1970(1970-04-06) (aged 80) Changsha, Hunan, China
Allegiance
China
Years of service
1914–1949
Rank
General
Unit
4th Division
Commands held
Garrison commander of Nanjing
Battles/wars
Xinhai Revolution Northern Expedition Central Plains War Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War
Awards
Order of Blue Sky and White Sun
Other work
politician
Tang Shengzhi (Chinese: 唐生智; pinyin: Táng Shēngzhì; Wade-Giles: Tang Sheng-chih; 12 October 1889 – 6 April 1970) was a Chinese warlord during the Warlord Era, a military commander during the Second Sino-Japanese War and a politician after World War II.
After participating in the Xinhai Revolution, Tang graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in 1914. He participated in the National Protection War and the Constitutional Protection Movement. Tang Shengzhi was appointed commander of the Hunan Fourth Division and came into conflict with the governor, Zhao Hengti. He was defeated and forced to withdraw from Changsha. He decided to join the Northern Expeditionary Army and was given command of the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. By 2 June 1926 his troops had reoccupied Changsha. On 11 March 1926 he became the military and civil governor of Hunan after the execution of the former provincial military commander, Li Youwen. While his military office ended 14 July 1926 once his province had been secured, he remained as civil governor until April 1927.
Tang sided with Chiang Kai-shek and helped him to secure control of northern Beijing and the Tianjin region by removing Bai Chongxi, a Guangxi warlord who was in actual control of the region but ostensibly allied with Chiang Kai-shek. Later Tang commanded armies to fight other warlords for Chiang Kai-shek with great success. However, after these potential rivals were defeated, Chiang enraged Tang when he attempted to remove him and as a result, Tang defected to warlords in Guangxi and Guangdong to help them fight Chiang.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War most warlords in China began to nominally unite against the Japanese invaders and Tang became an important member of Chiang Kai-shek's national defense committee. After repeated pleas from Chiang, Tang finally accepted the command of the Nanjing Garrison during the city's siege in December 1937 by the Japanese, and promised to fight the Japanese unto his death. There exists another claim. Some writers pointed out that it was Tang who volunteered to serve as the commander of the Nanjing garrison and promised to fight until his death without any pressure from Chiang Kai-Shek. Before 1937, Tang had served as a general under Chiang but without really much true power. It can be imagined that Chiang Kai-Shek appointed Tang as commander of the capital garrison only because there were not too many alternatives.[1][improper synthesis?]
TangShengzhi (Chinese: 唐生智; pinyin: TángShēngzhì; Wade-Giles: Tang Sheng-chih; 12 October 1889 – 6 April 1970) was a Chinese warlord during the Warlord...
Chiang Kai-shek ultimately decided to defend the city and appointed TangShengzhi to command the Nanjing Garrison Force, a hastily assembled army of local...
concession there, sparking the "Hankou incident". Wuhan garrison commander TangShengzhi and foreign minister Eugene Chen rushed to quell the disorder and assuage...
to form anti-Chiang coalition along with Wang Jingwei. In December, TangShengzhi and Zhang Fakui announced their support of the anti-Chiang coalition...
Japanese, and even when TangShengzhi tried to send them back the jiuchadui, armed communist picketers who were spying on Tang's garrison headquarters,...
by TangShengzhi, who was appointed to serve as the Wuhan army's commander-in-chief. Aided by the defection of remnants of Wu Peifu's forces, Tang advanced...
release to foreign reporters, TangShengzhi announced the city would not surrender and would fight to the death. Tang gathered a garrison force of some...
commissioned him as commander of Liuyang-Liling guerrilla forces. In 1919, TangShengzhi incorporated his army and he became a brigade commander. He joined the...
government in Nanking. TangShengzhi aligned himself with the Wuhan government, and Peng was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. However, Tang's forces were defeated...
Kuomintang politician Zhao Hengti 趙恆惕 1920–1926 friendly to the Zhili Clique TangShengzhi 唐生智 1926–1927 Defected to Chiang during the Northern Expedition, rebelled...
hometown. In 1916, Li was transferred to the Hunan Army. Later, under TangShengzhi, a classmate of Baoding Military Academy, he participated in the Constitutional...
defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General TangShengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in...
It was led by Xu Keqiang (許克祥), a regiment commander under General TangShengzhi. Up to "several thousands" of peasants were killed in the coup. Wu 1969...
surrounded by nearly a quarter million Japanese troops. Sun's superior, TangShengzhi, fled the city without giving his commanders any clear instructions...
his support for the nationalist revolution and joined with General TangShengzhi. After Chiang Kai-shek purged the communists in the Shanghai massacre...
Wang's 51st division suffered heavy casualties and his superior General TangShengzhi fled the city without even notifying him and the other senior commanders...
high-ranking position in the staff of Nanjing Garrison Force commander TangShengzhi and because Tan's estimates line up much more closely with the estimates...
but decided to leave after Sun allied with Zhang Zuolin. In 1929, TangShengzhi, a former student of Jiang at the Baoding Military Academy, turned against...
improve the governance of his country. After a conflict with Zhao, TangShengzhi was driven south into the arms of Chiang Kai-shek, who gave him command...
border region of Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces. In 1926, he was brought by TangShengzhi into the National Revolutionary Army and participated in the Northern...
new offensive by the anti-Chiang Kai-shek Wuhan KMT government led by TangShengzhi. During May, 100,000 of the Wuhan government's troops were wounded,...
xuejiao jiuzhi 湖南省立第一师范学校旧址 Changsha 长沙市 6-1009 Former Residence of TangShengzhi Shude shanzhuang 树德山庄 Dong'an County 东安县 6-1010 Former Site of the Hunan...
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