Lieutenant General Huang Hsing-chiang said, "the educational goal of the Academy is to prepare a group of outstanding men for the cause of completing the revolution."
民國廿六年七七事變起，中國全面抗日，而培養大批革命幹部的南京中央軍校，便成為日本攻擊的主要目標，學校一切設施盡毀於砲火，遂著手西遷，並沿途吸收學生。