As a great warlord in the Republic of China, he once appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was poisoned by refusing to betray the country. Who is he?

It is difficult for us to know which warlord is the strongest in the situation of warlord melee. After all, the peak period of each warlord is different, which is quite difficult to compare. But in the eyes of Americans, Wu was the most powerful warlord in China's heyday, because he not only ousted Duan, but also defeated Zhang in the Phoenix War, which undoubtedly made him stand out among the warlords. He was a great warlord in the Republic of China, the first person on the cover of Time, and was poisoned by refusing to betray the country!

Wu was a scholar when he was young, but he got into the bad habit of smoking opium in his early years. Since then, he has been living as a fortune teller in Beijing. With the continuous decline of the government in the late Qing Dynasty, Wu was worried about the weak situation, so he had the ambition to save the country and the people and embarked on the road of joining the army. Later, when he was studying in the armament school, he was taken a fancy to by Cao Kun. With his support, Wu was promoted continuously and finally became a warlord leader.

Although Cao Kun is a leader in the direct line, the real power of the army is always in Wu's hands. At that time, Duan's Anhui system was the most powerful one among the northern warlords. In this regard, Duan monopolizes the power, the people are in trouble, and the people's grievances are boiling. In this regard, Wu contacted Zhang Feng, launched a student movement, and made a military ruling, eventually forcing Duan to step down. Later, Wu fought side by side with Zhang, and defeated Zhang in the battle of Zhifeng, making him on the cover of Time magazine in the United States and becoming the first person in China.

Later, due to the change of Wu's power, he was forced to take refuge in Sichuan. Since then, he has been unwilling to fight and has always called himself a hermit. However, after the Japanese invasion of China broke out, the Japanese wanted to use Wu's influence to oppose more warlords for their own use, so Japanese spies found him and sent him millions of silver dollars. However, in the face of such temptation, Wu is able to shrug off. He decisively rejected the Japanese and warned people around him to draw a line with the Japanese. Later, I invited him to be the "co-president of the five provinces", but he refused, which also made the Japanese hate him.

1939, Wu went to a Japanese clinic for toothache. However, after receiving an order from Jun Hara Kenji, the doctors in the clinic gave Wu a highly toxic drug. So a few days later, Wu suddenly died of illness and became another patriotic warlord killed by the Japanese army after Zhang.