Background
Mr. Lu was born in Tingchow, Chihli, China in 1884.
Mr. Lu was born in Tingchow, Chihli, China in 1884.
He received his military education at a military school in Tientsin.
Chung-Lin Lu was director of police administration in Honan, China in 1922. When Feng Yu-hsiang deserted Wu Pei-fu in 1925, he was promoted a brigade commander and after occupation of Peking by Feng's forces, became Garrison Commander of Peking, in which capacity he expelled the dethroned Emperor "Pu Yi" from the palace. In the same year, he was promoted a division commander and concurrently Commander-in-Chief of the Metropolitan Defense Force, concurrently serving as Inspector-General of the Metropolitan Police Administration and director of the Municipal Administration of Peking.
Upon the split between the Kuominchun and Chang Tso-lin in the winter of 1925, he fought at Tientsin against Chang's forces and later when Wu Pei-fu allied with Chang, he put up a stubborn defense at Nankow but was finally defeated and forced to retire into Shensi by the Fengtien forces. Then joined the Nationalist Revolutionary Army in 1926. After re-occupation of Honan by the Kuominchun in 1927, he was in control of the province and later, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 9th flank army of the Kuominchun which participated in the capture of Hsuchow from Sun Chuan-fang in 1927. He was also promoted Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Route Army operating in North Honan against the Fengtien forces in 1928.
Upon the success of the Northern Punitive Expedition, Mr. Lu was appointed vice-Minister and later Minister of War of the National Government at Nanking, China in 1929. He also participated in the Northern Military Coalition at Peiping in 1930 and was made Field-Commander of the Left Wing Kuominchun forces operating along the Lung-Hai line against the Nanking Government troops in 1930. Since 1930 he occupied a position of senior counsellor of the Military Advisory Council.