| Feng Yuxiang is an important figure in the modern history of China,a famous military strategist,politician and social activist.Feng Yuxiang regarded running the army as his first ambition.Although his thoughts of running the army were complex,they reflected the characteristics of the times and progress.Feng Yu-hsiang was born in the old military.He adhered to Confucian ethics and made it the basis of military administration.He introduced Christian values into the army,highlighting the uniqueness of the army and making the Western powers think differently of him.He was able to keep pace with the times and accept Sun Yat-sen’s new Three People’s Principles and the three major policies of "alliance with Russia and the Communist Party,and assisting the peasants and workers".He completed the incomplete transformation from the old military to the new military,and helped the Northern Expedition to establish a lasting cause for the national revolution.Unique military thought formed a unique military practice of Feng Yuxiang’s general plan in the military is also distinctive,unique.Feng Yuxiang made great efforts in military cadre selection and training,soldier selection and training,military strategy planning and campaign deployment and command,military,political and civil-military relations,and created a well-disciplined,skillful and prestigious force.However,due to the limitations of Feng Yuxiang’s own cultural level,military accomplishment,political horizon and pattern,his thoughts of governing the army are inevitably characterized by incomplete transformation.Reflected in the army construction,utilitarianism,pragmatism and even opportunism are permeated among them,and the selection of military personnel has never changed the old habits of rivers and lakes of the army,forming an insurmountable drawback,and finally making such a powerful army disintegrate into an unjust warlord melee.The study of Feng Yuxiang’s thought and practice is of great historical significance and academic value in understanding the concrete experience and lessons of the development and evolution of the army in the period of transition from the old to the new in modern China and the concrete experience and lessons in the history of modern Chinese war. |
