Zhang Fakui served as commander-in-chief of the 8th Army Group and commander-in-chief of NRA ground force before retiring in Hong Kong in 1949.
23 Facts About Zhang Fakui
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Zhang Fakui was born in 1896 in Shixing County, Guangdong province.
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Zhang Fakui entered a private learning facility at a young age and went to Guangzhou to become an apprentice before joining the local militia.
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Zhang Fakui entered elementary military academy in Guangdong in 1912 and then went to Wuhan's military high school.
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Zhang Fakui served as Sun Yat-Sen's personal bodyguard and was appointed as a battalion commander of the newly created 4th Corps of the National Revolutionary Army.
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When Chiang Kai-shek unleashed his forces against the communists in the Shanghai Massacre on April 12,1927, Zhang Fakui stayed with Wang Jingwei's Wuhan government.
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Zhang Fakui was appointed to command both 4th and 11th Corps.
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Zhang Fakui was then promoted to commander-in-chief of the 4th Area Army and prepared to attack Nanjing.
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Zhang Fakui's army defeated the communists and chased the mutineers across into Fujian, then he returned to his home province.
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The remaining communists in his army used the confusion to launch the Guangzhou Uprising, which Zhang Fakui immediately quelled with three divisions.
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Zhang Fakui Commanded 4th War area from 1939 to 1944, defending Guangdong and Guangxi against the Japanese in South China, achieving a victory in the Battle of South Guangxi.
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Zhang Fakui then was appointed as commander in Chief of the Guilin War Zone during the Japanese Operation Ichigo.
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Zhang Fakui was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire ; his medal was presented by Governor of Hong Kong Sir Mark Young in May 1947.
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Zhang Fakui was nicknamed Zhang Fakui Fei, after the historical Three Kingdoms figure.
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Zhang Fakui did not retreat to Taiwan with his commander Xue Yue.
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Zhang Fakui was instrumental in the Kuomintang support of Vietnamese revolutionary organizations and parties against the French Imperialist occupation of Indochina.
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General Zhang Fakui shrewdly blocked the Communist Party of Vietnam, and Ho Chi Minh from entering the league, as his main goal was Chinese influence in Indo China.
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Zhang Fakui worked with Nguyen Hai Than, a VNQDD member, against French Imperialists and Communists in Indochina.
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In June 1949, Zhang Fakui resigned and moved to British Hong Kong.
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Zhang Fakui later became the President of the Tsung Tsin Association, the umbrella body for Hakka people in Hong Kong.
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Zhang Fakui had built schools back in his native village.
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Zhang Fakui was the organizer of the First World Hakka Congress in Hong Kong and died there in 1980.
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Zhang Fakui stayed neutral leaning neither to the Communists nearby or his previous Nationalist Government.