In 1982, the famous Kuomintang general Song Xilian was interviewed by an American reporter, in which the reporter asked him: "Mr. Song, you have been a Kuomintang and a Communist Party, in your opinion, which is greater, *** or Chiang Kai-shek?"”
This question is undoubtedly the question that Americans want to know the most, but Song Xilian, who is deeply favored by the Kuomintang, answered without thinking: ** is much better than Lao Jiang, and the two of them are not at the same level at all. Lao Chiang lost the Liberation War, purely by his own doing.
This remark caused the surprise of the reporters present, after all, people who came out of the Kuomintang rarely scolded Chiang Kai-shek, so who is this Song Xilian?Why was he able to straddle the two parties?
Speaking of Song Xilian's history, it is also a confused account that makes people sigh.
Time came to Yucai Middle School in 1923, in the winter of that year, in the examination room of Changsha Yucai Middle School, there were two Hunan youths sitting side by side, one of whom was Song Xilian, and the other was Chen Geng, who was later the second founding general.
The two were classmates, and it was a coincidence that they participated in the first enrollment of the Whampoa Military Academy at the same time, and they were admitted together and went to the Whampoa Military Academy together.
As fellow villagers and classmates, the relationship between the two is undoubtedly very good, and they both seem to have a special sensitivity to military aspects.
Later, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to give full play to their respective influences, and as a well-known leader of our party, Chen Geng accepted the influence of Marxism early and joined the Communist Party.
As a good friend of Chen Geng, Song Xilian also inevitably leaned towards the Communist Party, and also joined the Communist Party of China under Chen Geng's introduction.
In fact, if you look at it according to the direction of history, Song Xilian's life is very lucky, he hugged a "thigh", and was forcibly pulled into the right direction of history by this "thigh".
Not only that, but the history at that time seemed to have been pushing Song Xilian forward.
He was fortunate to come to the *** class and listen to the lecture of the director of the political department, and he admired the conversation of this big man, which strengthened his yearning for communism.
However, those who are familiar with history know that in the Huangpu situation, the ideological collision of those years was too intense, and even within the Kuomintang there was a serious **.
Therefore, those talents who have excellent military talent but lack political acumen have been confused like never before. Where is the road?How should we deal with our classmates, do we really want to turn against each other?
Originally, if there was *** Chen Geng by his side, Song Xilian would never give up the Communist Party easily, but Song Xilian's unit was all Kuomintang members, and his good friends were busy with the military and rarely met.
So, when I was confused and difficult, a bald man wrote a letter: Come to Nanjing to see me. Under the oppression of such a domineering president, Song Xilian finally chose to succumb to Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1927, he was sent to Japan's Chiba Infantry School to study Xi military affairs, and after returning to China, he served as the head of the first instructor of the Kuomintang Army, and then was promoted to the commander of the 261st Brigade of the 87th Division stationed in Nanjing.
During the period of confusion, he finally went against his ideals, left the party organization, and became a traitor. At that time, Song Xilian was addicted to it, as a vested beneficiary, he was very nourishing in this world of flowers, money, beauty and power were all in his hands.
However, when Chen Geng was arrested in 1931, Song Xilian still tried his best to rescue his friends, and even went to the palace late at night to see Chiang Kai-shek to vouch for him. However, at this time, Song Xilian was also very sad about his old friend's choice, and he felt angry.
After rescuing Chen Geng, he personally watched Chen Geng leave, and a pair of classmates were separated in the end because of "different ways and no conspiracy", and they also thought that each other's path was wrong.
But with the development of time, Song Xilian found that he was wrong, and it was outrageously wrong.
In the Songhu War of Resistance, Song Xilian ignored He Yingqin's obstruction and forcibly led the 261st Brigade, the most elite of the Kuomintang, to Shanghai to participate in the war.
After the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, Song Xilian showed his might, in the case that the army could not destroy the Japanese fortifications, he led the troops to break into the Huishan Wharf where the Japanese army was entrenched, forcing the Japanese army to retreat to the ** on the Huangpu River, this battle caused a sensation throughout the country, and greatly encouraged the fighting spirit of the soldiers.
In particular, Song Xilian's troops were more than 570 people, and the Japanese army suffered more than 400 casualties.
After that, his troops attacked more and more fiercely, and some Japanese troops even fled to British territory to disarm and surrender to avoid the crisis. Obviously, Song Xilian led the army to successfully break the evaluation of various countries as vulnerable, and both China and foreign countries praised it: good at war.
Of course, the defeat in the Battle of Songhu cannot be reversed, even if Song Xilian can fight again, his troops have **1More than 20,000 people, he can only withdraw from Shanghai with the remaining more than 3,000 people.
This battle still made Song Xilian successful, and also made him feel Chiang Kai-shek's incompetence. If we go to the history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, I will find that everyone in the Battle of Songhu is the god of war, and only Chiang Kai-shek is dragging his feet.
From the beginning, Song Xilian had already understood the situation of the Japanese army, and was ready to wipe out the Japanese army in Shanghai at any time. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek dragged on and on, thinking about the ruling of the international community, and missed the best opportunity, causing heavy losses to the army.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek indiscriminately set the battlefield in Shanghai, resulting in 700,000 troops being too dense, cut leeks by Japanese shells, and the troops were miserable to the point of outrageousness.
Thinking of those comrades-in-arms who could not come back, Song Xilian's attitude towards Chiang Kai-shek had gradually changed.
In later history, it seems that this was also proven, and Chiang Kai-shek completely lost the hearts of the people. The embankment at the mouth of the garden burst, and millions of people were displaced. There was a great famine in Henan, and hundreds of people starved to death.
On the other hand, on the Communist Party's side, between the four crossings of Chishui and hundreds of thousands** and applause, Chiang Kai-shek, who was still frightened by the blitzkrieg in Kunming, was strained. After the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated in the War of Resistance, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated for thousands of miles, and even Li Zongren couldn't hold it.
Only the Communists, under the leadership of ***, continued to penetrate deep into the enemy's territory and establish base areas, so that the Japanese army could not digest the occupied areas.
And what about Chiang Kai-shek?Even at the end of the Japanese army, the Allies had already taken Germany, Chiang Kai-shek had another Yuxianggui rout, and the losing Western leaders no longer regarded China as a great power in the war of resistance.
In the later Liberation War, Song Xilian felt even more.
** Remote control of the three major battles, Chiang Kai-shek will only say "the advantage is in me", and then several main forces were all destroyed, even the Kuomintang side of the god of war Wang Yaowu and Du Yuming, also became our army's meritorious Lin "students".
Looking back on these past events, Song Xilian was angry, he was pulled by Chiang Kai-shek to put out the fire, but he caught up with the situation that the overall situation had been decided, and as a result, this anti-Japanese celebrity was beaten by our army, and he himself was captured in 1949.
However, Song Xilian was lucky, because he was pardoned in 1959.
When the reporter asked this fateful question, Song Xilian simply had too much to say, from the Red Army period to the later War of Resistance against Japan, and even the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek and *** are not comparable at all.
He pondered for a while, and finally gave three points where he was stronger than Lao Jiang.
First, they will employ people. Needless to say, there are too many legendary talents cultivated, the most famous of which are Mr. Lin and Su Yu. However, Chiang Kai-shek has many famous generals, but he is always suspicious and suspicious, which makes Li Bai, Wang Du and others all end tragically.
The second is the will of the people. This point was already doomed after the aforementioned War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek did not treat the people as people, but united all the workers and peasants, even the literary and artistic circles.
Finally, there is the human heart. This point can be referred to after the decisive battle, Chiang Kai-shek's treatment of the enemy is to physically eliminate him, and the treatment of the enemy is to use Marxism and philosophy to turn the enemy into teammates. For details, please refer to the 50th Army of the Dian Army, which later beat the American army on the Korean battlefield.
Looking back, Song Xilian finally gave a clear reply.
But for his life, there may be remorse, history pushed him in the right direction, and he himself chose the wrong path. Thankfully, he corrected his mistake in the end.