Yan Xishan’s Military Strategy And Military Affairs Practice

Yan Xishan in Shanxi ruling38years in the changing political arena of the Republic of rare. The reason, on the one hand, Yan Xishan good at sitting on the fence between the various political forces, both ways, on the other hand, Yan Xishan painstaking efforts of Shanxi, the establishment of an own army. In melee successive years of the Republic, the army is a guarantee of political rights, the paper aims to Yan Xishan’s military strategy and military affairs practice from a military point of view in-depth study, Analysis of Yan Xishan’s military strategy, the core and related practices. Surrounding China’s military environment and its complexity, from the Korean conflict to a dispute over the Diaoyu Islands, and then to the South China Sea sovereignty... In this paper, Yan Xishan’s military strategy, and hope for the complex situation should be taken to military strategy available the relevant reference.This article is divided into three parts:the first part of the three factors that affect the Yan Xi-shan military strategy formation-the influence of Confucianism, and the impact of study in Japan and the environmental impact of the Republic; the second part of the in-depth analysis of the core of Yan Xishan’s military strategy-"conservative balance of power" principle, this principle, Yen implementation of the "protectors" policy, military stick Shanxi, engage in a military balance between the various factions; the third part focuses on the "conservative balance of power" military policy impact Yan Xi-shan to take military affairs, the practice, including the establishment of the circle of loyalists generals, Jin expansion, development of military education and military production and other measures, these efforts make the military strength of Yan Xi-shan to be effectively consolidate, lay a solid foundation for his ruling in Shanxi.In research methodology, this article focuses on collecting, analyzing first-hand the file information, including the diary of Yan Xi-shan I, Yen military attache with the United States, the transcript of grass-roots company commander, Jianjun Yan Xishan’s remarks compilation of valuable historical materials. The same time, the comparative analysis, Yan Xi-shan of the military achievements of the last failure of dialectical view, to analyze the positive experience of Yan Xi-shan military and failures.