胡宗南(1896-1962),浙江镇海人,国民党陆军一级上将,黄埔系一期生,是蒋介石最宠爱、最重要的军事将领。但就是这个在国民党集团中呼风唤雨的人,早年生活却非常坎坷。胡宗南出身贫寒,在湖州吴兴中学毕业后,因为无钱继续读书深造,只好回家乡孝丰当小学教员。1924年,孙中山在广州创办黄埔军校的消息传到了胡宗南家乡,胡宗南对孩子王的生活早已厌倦,决心投笔从戎,南下报考黄埔 Hu Tsung-nan (1896-1962), a member of the Zhenhai people in Zhejiang Province, a first-rank general of the Army of the Kuomintang and a first-term student of the Whampoa, was the most favorite and most important general of Chiang Kai-shek. However, this is a person who has a role in the Kuomintang clique and has a very rough life in his early years. Hu Zongnan was born in poverty, after graduating from Wu Xing Middle School in Huzhou, because no money to continue his studies, had to return home Xiaofeng when primary school teachers. In 1924, Sun Yat-sen’s news that the Whampoa Military Academy was founded in Guangzhou reached the hometown of Hu Tsung-nan. Hu Tsong-nan was already tired of the life of his children’s king and was determined to vote for himself.