For the Beiyang warlord Wu Peifu, how should he be objectively evaluated?

He is a very capable leader, and he has a good idea of everything he does, and people can see that he is a capable person.

Wu Peifu was a rising star among the Beiyang warlords and the de facto head of Cao Kun's line of power. At his peak, he had hundreds of thousands of troops, standing in Luoyang, and fantasizing about unifying China by force.

In the Second Zhifeng War, due to Feng Yuxiang's return to Beijing to launch a coup d'état, Wu Peifu collapsed. Soon, he was beaten by the Northern Expeditionary Army and lost his armor and had no choice but to take refuge in the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, and for four years, he finally settled in the Assorted Garden Hutong in Dongcheng, Beiping. As far as the first half of his life is concerned, this direct head of the Beiyang warlord is indeed a reckless soldier, bringing disaster to the country and the people, and lackluster to show for his kindness.

However, in his later season, he was not afraid of the coercion and temptation of the Japanese hypocrisy, and refused to be traitors, which is still commendable. The Beiyang warlord Wu Peifu (1874-1939) has been characterized as a villain in history textbooks, but his life story is complex and sometimes legendary.

Beiyang warlord is a general term for a faction of warlords, after the Xinhai Revolution Yuan Shikai stole the country as the emperor, although overthrown, but after his death his original descendants are still there. Yuan Shikai once trained the New Army in Tianjin, which was originally the defense area of the Beiyang Naval Division, so the Tianjin New Army was also called the Beiyang Army. After Yuan Shikai's death, his subordinates Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun, Duan Qirui, etc. held military power and political power, so they were called Beiyang warlords, mainly divided into Anhui and direct factions (the leader of the Anhui line, Duan Qirui, was a native of Anhui, and the direct leader Feng Guozhang was a native of Tianjin, and Tianjin belonged to the Zhili Prefecture at that time).

The Feng family (Zhang Zuolin) in the northeast did not belong to the Beiyang warlords, but they were also powerful warlords in the north, and they were all old warlords (compared with new warlords such as Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan, and Bai Chongxi), so they were also called Beiyang warlords in a broad sense.

The various factions of the Beiyang warlords had deep grievances and contradictions, and there were two Great Wars of Zhifeng and Great Anhui. During the First Civil Revolutionary War in 1926, with the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Northern Expeditionary Army defeated Wu Peifu's direct line and Sun Chuanfang's Anhui line. After Zhang Zuolin's death in 1930, Zhang Xueliang announced in Shenyang that he accepted the change of **, known as "changing the flag and changing the flag" (no longer raising the five-color flag symbolizing the old warlords, but raising the blue sky and white sun flag).

So far, all the Beiyang warlords.

Yuan Shibai Kai was born in Beiyang.

He was born in a small station, and Zhi Yuan Shikai's family. After that, DAO Yuan Shikai inherited Li Neihongzhang's Beiyang military appearance. Let them have their own power and strength in the Beiyang circle.

So collectively they are Beiyang warlords. You have an inductive understanding, so there are a lot of vernaculars, and if you think it's correct, you can sort out the language yourself!

The Northern Expeditionary Army dealt with Wu Peifu in two battlefields, north and south.

Since the Feng Department and Wu Peifu jointly attacked Feng Yuxiang's national army in April, although the total strength of the coalition army was as high as 500,000, it was not until August 14 that Nankou was captured, and Wu Peifu's troops were also very large. The Northern Expeditionary Army took advantage of this opportunity to march into Hunan, captured Pingjiang and Yueyang on August 22, and entered Hubei, while Wu Peifu hurriedly moved south on August 25 and arrived in Hankou on August 25. On August 26, 6 regiments of the Northern Expeditionary Army launched a fierce attack on the Tingsi Bridge in Hubei, Wu Peifu personally came to supervise the battle, and ordered that "the retreaters will be killed without forgiveness", the two sides won and lost each other, the Tingsi Bridge changed hands several times, but its northward troops stagnated in Jigong Mountain, and on the 27th, Ye Ting's independent regiment occupied the Tingsi Bridge.

Wu Peifu's troops were demoralized, and then Wu Peifu's army was successively defeated in Heshengqiao, Wuchang and other places, the main force was basically wiped out, and the rest of the warlord troops attached to it were either eliminated or defected.

Northern Expedition.

The national ** is based in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the strategy is to "defeat Wu Peifu, contact Sun Chuanfang, and ignore Zhang Zuolin", and implement various breakthroughs. Advance to Hunan, capture Pingjiang and Yueyang, and annihilate Wu Peifu's army. On August 26, 6 regiments of the Northern Expeditionary Army launched a fierce attack on the Tingsi Bridge in Hubei, Wu Peifu personally came to supervise the battle, and ordered that "the retreaters will be killed without forgiveness", the two sides won and lost each other, the Tingsi Bridge changed hands several times, and on the 27th, Ye Ting's independent regiment occupied the Tingsi Bridge.

After that, the two sides fought a fierce white-knuckle battle at Hesheng Bridge, and on August 29, the 4th and 7th armies of the Northern Expeditionary Army won a great victory at Hesheng Bridge, and on August 31, the army gathered under the city of Wuchang. At the beginning of September, the Northern Expeditionary Army launched an offensive against the three towns of Wuhan, occupying Hanyang and Hankou respectively on the 6th and 7th. On the 10th, the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Wuchang, and Wu Peifu led the remnants to flee to Xinyang, Henan.

At this point, Wu Peifu's troops were basically wiped out.

He first started as a staff officer, and then was appreciated by the general at the time, so he was given the position of non-commissioned officer. Then he started from a non-commissioned officer, from a battalion commander to a regiment commander, and walked step by step to the position of the great warlord of Beiyang.

He is a showman, and at the same time very talented in military affairs, so he helped the army to give advice, and slowly gained a certain status, and then developed into a great warlord of Beiyang step by step.

Wu Peifu had to give up his background as a showman in the corrupt Qing Dynasty, and wanted to seek his own development in the troubled times. Therefore, Wu Peifu resolutely abandoned literature and joined the Tianjin New Army. The quality of the soldiers at that time was not high, so people like Wu Peifu who had read books were very popular in the army.

After Yuan Shikai died, it was the era of warlord melee, Wu Peifu was a scholar among the warlords, and he was indeed very talented in military affairs, so he became the biggest warlord in Beiyang step by step.

Wu Peifu is a talent, he is also because the country was particularly weak at that time, so he gave up literature and martial arts, because he was brave and good at fighting, resourceful, so he won Yuan Shikai's trust step by step and became a frontier land.

Relying on the relief of others to make a living, although he once had power in the world, he did not accumulate any money, so his life after going into the wild was quite miserable.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to turn from luxury to thrift. When Wu Peifu was a warlord, he was too profligate and did not accumulate wealth, and he would not be happy in his old age.

It should also accumulate wealth to a certain extent, and it should still rely on what it has accumulated before, and continue to engage in some other industries to make ends meet.

It is said that he was indeed poor, but Zhang Xueliang later arranged some things for him to do, and his life was still passable.

When he was a warlord, he had already developed the habit of extravagance and waste, and he didn't know how to accumulate money, so he would definitely have an unsatisfactory life after **, after all, he couldn't accept the poor days for a while, and he probably didn't bother to go out to make a living.

After his ** life, his life was quite miserable, and he could only go to Sichuan to join others. And after arriving in Beiping, Zhang Xueliang has always arranged everything for him.

At that time, he also had his own ability, and many people were more convinced of him, so he could also maintain his anger