Song Zheyuan
Song Zheyuan 宋哲元 | |
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Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Battle of Beiping–Tianjin | |
| Awards | Order of Blue Sky and White Sun |
| Other work | military advisor |
Sòng Zhéyuán (宋哲元) (October 30, 1885 – April 5, 1940) was a Chinese general during the Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
Biography
Early life and education
Born in the village of Zhaohong, northwest of the seat of
Confucian private school in Yanshan County. At the age of 20 (1904) he began studying in the military institute founded by Lu Jianzhang at Beijing and had since become Lu's favorite. In 1912 the troops of Lu and Feng Yuxiang, now subordinates of Yuan Shikai
, were regrouped and Feng had then been Song's superior.
Military career
In 1917, a year after being appointed the head of 1st
Northern Expedition, Sòng assumed the Chairmanship of Shaanxi province in November 1927 and in April of the same year the head of 4th division under the II Corps of the National Revolutionary Army
.
Switching sides to the
Chahar provinces against the Japanese in Manchukuo
.
Chair of Chahar province
Song was the chairman of Chahar province when Japan invaded the provinces in the end of year 1932. Though poorly equipped compared to the better armed Japanese, Song led the 29th army to resist the aggression in a war known as the
Ho-Umezu agreement
.
Later years
In the
Han Fuqu, chairman of the province and suspected for his clandestine Japanese liaison, forbade Song to retreat across the Yellow River, resulting in the 29th Army being shattered at Shijiazhuang in December 1937 and January 1938. Remaining forces suffered various losses against the Imperial Japanese Army and were delegated to guerrilla combat after retreating into the mountainous regions at the borders of Henan and Shanxi
province in February 1938.
He soon suffered various illnesses and died at the age of 54 in Mianyang County, Sichuan province after several unsuccessful medical treatments in Guilin, Chongqing, and Chengdu.
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