Among the generals of the Kuomintang, there are two first-class generals who live to be centenarians, he is in the same era, and the situation he faces is almost the same, but the evaluation of them by later generations is different, these two centenarian Kuomintang generals are Xue Yue and Zhang Xueliang. In the eyes of different people, their evaluations are very different, in the eyes of ordinary people, Zhang Xueliang, as the son of the warlord Zhang Zuolin, even if he does not have any bad behavior, he can not be recognized easily. 
Zhang Zuolin's influence in the Northeast is quite high, but he is too greedy for power, so he intends to expand to Beijing, which makes him affect the interests of many people, and finally under pressure from many parties, Zhang Zuolin has to return to the Northeast. It's just that what he didn't expect was that what he did had already angered the Japanese, and in the end he was killed on the train back to Tohoku. Zhang Xueliang's son inherited his father's business and took over the military power of more than 200,000 troops in the Northeast, but Zhang Xueliang at this time was far from being as tough as Zhang Zuolin, in the treatment of Japan's problems, he was too weak, and even did not dare to start a frontal conflict with the Japanese Japan took the initiative to provoke the incident, but Zhang Xueliang ordered to give up resistance, thus making Japan more unscrupulous, and finally Zhang Xueliang gave up the Northeast and entered the Shanhaiguan, for a time Zhang Xueliang became a coward in the mouth of the people, and it was precisely because of his weakness that Japan opened the door to China's aggression。 In the eyes of ordinary people, Zhang Xueliang is almost equivalent to the existence of a thief, but Xue Yue in the eyes of the people is completely different, he once led the team to fight directly with Japan in Shanghai, and in many tug-of-wars, they all caused heavy losses to Japan. 
The Battle of Changsha commanded by him became one of the classic battles on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, so Xue Yue was listed as the general who destroyed the most enemies in the War of Resistance against Japan. In the subsequent battles of Wuhan and Taierzhuang, Xue Yue's performance was extremely good, so he has the title of anti-Japanese hero. But Zhang Xueliang and Xue Yue in the eyes of *** are completely different images, ** call Zhang Xueliang a national hero, why do *** think so. After Japan launched a war of aggression, many students in Beijing marched in the streets, demanding that the civil war be stopped and united with the outside world, but Chiang Kai-shek ignored this, and at this time Zhang Xueliang signed an anti-Japanese agreement with the Communist Party, and also provided a large amount of materials to the Communist Party, in order to express his determination to resist Japan. Therefore, when Chiang Kai-shek asked him to launch the sixth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign against the Communist Party, Zhang Xueliang resolutely refused to carry it out, and even later Zhang Xueliang directly launched a military admonition to detain Lao Chiang to promote the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. 
In the end, Lao Chiang agreed to cooperate with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but Zhang Xueliang paid a great price for this, and after he personally sent Lao Chiang back to Nanjing, he was directly put under house arrest, and then he was taken to Taiwan. It was precisely because Zhang Xueliang initiated the Xi'an Incident that he laid a solid foundation for the follow-up joint resistance of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party against Japan, so he was called a national hero. On the other hand, Xue Yue, although he is an anti-Japanese hero and is not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice for the anti-Japanese resistance, he has repeatedly targeted the Communist Party on the issue of the Communist Party. 
Xue Yue participated in the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign against the Communist Party, and this encirclement and suppression campaign had a great impact on the Communist Party, and had to make a strategic shift. During the Long March, Xue Yue also kept behind the Communist Party, and after the outbreak of the civil war, Xue Yue was also among them, playing an extremely important role. The reason why the people's evaluation of these two people is completely different from *** is because they only see some superficial problems and do not delve into the meaning, so there is a huge gap between their views on these two people and historical records.