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...have been wounded in action and have returned; most have been shifted from other crack divisions into this super-crack division. HiD and the other divisions of the Sixth War Area (see map, p. 25) are the bailiwick of brilliant Chen Cheng, who is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's favorite general...
There is no younger officer class in the world than that of the Generalissimo's crack divisions. Generalissimo Chiang is 53, Chen Cheng is 41, Chen's Field Chief of Staff is 34. It would be hard to find a divisional or regimental commander in those divisions over 40. Regimental colonels are sometimes in their...
...early years of the republic, Paoting Military Academy turned out eight classes of men who helped implement the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and who now command about one-third of China's 300-odd divisions. In 1924 the Whampoa Academy was founded under the direction of Chiang Kaishek. Its classes became the elite of Chiang's armies. They now command more than half of the divisions...
Little Brother. Chen Cheng is certainly a favorite. He is the only one of Chiang Kai-shek's generals whom the Generalissimo addresses by the Chinese diminutive, ti, "little brother." He rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...
General Chen is a favorite partly because he has curried favor. He is one of China's most political and ambitious generals. He hitched his wagon to Chiang's star at Whampoa, has been riding high ever since. After his rise to public fame in Chiang's northern campaign of 1926, he divorced his wife and the Generalissimo arranged for him to marry the daughter of Tan Yen-kai, soon afterward Premier of China...