In 1949, after the three major battles and the battle of crossing the Yangtze River ended one after another, the main forces of the Kuomintang on the battlefield of liberation were basically wiped out, and the liberation war, which lasted for more than three years, finally ushered in the final victory.
Seeing that the overall situation had been decided and that there was no way to make any further efforts, Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly fled to Taiwan Province with the remnants of the reactionaries, and never set foot on the mainland again.
When the war first broke out, the Kuomintang was far ahead of the PLA in terms of strength and equipment.
At that time, few people at home and abroad believed that our party would achieve a final victory.
As a result, in just three years, almost all of the Kuomintang's 4 million troops were annihilated, most of the land was successfully liberated, the revolutionary cause ushered in the final victory, and New China was successfully established.
The reason for its defeat was not that the Kuomintang had no available talents, but on the contrary, there were many outstanding generals in its army who had made meritorious contributions on the battlefield of resistance against Japan and had considerable military talents.
Xue Yue, who once severely damaged the Japanese army in the Battle of Changsha and became famous all over the world, is one of them.
However, such a general, who annihilated the most Japanese troops in the War of Resistance Against Japan, was never trusted within the Kuomintang.
Even in his later years, he was so depressed that it was difficult to keep a safe place.
Before his death, Xue Yue shouted eight words, denouncing to the world his indignation at the top of the Kuomintang and his extreme accusation against Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1986, Xue Yue was born in an ordinary peasant family in Lechang County, Shaoguan, Guangdong.
At that time, the First Sino-Japanese War had just ended, and the Qing Dynasty suffered a crushing defeat to Japan in this war that determined the fortunes of the country.
Later, the signing of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" brought the late Qing Dynasty, which was already in the stage of decline, to the brink of collapse.
In an instant, the whole country was plunged into an extremely strong national sentiment.
Xue Yue's father read some books in his early years, and he had a strong sense of family and country in his heart, and he admired Yue Fei, the national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, very much, so he named his son "Yue" to express his enthusiasm for serving the country.
This name also set the tone for Xue Yue's future life path.
In 1907, with his father's expectations, Xue Yue was successfully admitted to the Baoding Army Academy to study Xi military, and since then he has embarked on the road of joining the army.
During his school Xi, the League led by Sun Yat-sen sparked a revolutionary wave throughout the country.
This awakened the lofty ambition in Xue Yue's heart to save the world.
In 1909, at the age of 13, Xue Yue, together with two classmates around him, joined the League and devoted himself to the revolutionary cause.
In May 1921, Sun Yat-sen took office in GuangzhouDeng KengIt was ordered to set up a large ** government guard regiment, which was headed by the chief of staff of the 1st DivisionChen KeyuHe served as the head of the regiment.
Three battalions were formed in the regiment, the commanders of which were respectivelyXue YueYe TingwithZhang FakuiAs.
Being able to stand side by side with Ye Ting, who became famous at a young age, is enough to show how outstanding Xue Yue's ability is.
In 1922, Commander-in-Chief of the Cantonese ArmyChen JiongmingAssassinated Deng Keng, and then staged a mutiny.
In order to protect Sun Yat-sen's safety, Xue Yue and Ye Ting cooperated with each other, led the troops to closely escort Sun Yat-sen's wife Soong Ching-ling, and successfully sent her to the stone house where Zhong Rongguang, president of Lingnan University, lived.
Later, Xue Yue personally led his troops to board the Yongfeng ship, closely protecting Mr. Sun Yat-sen and ensuring his personal safety.
Xue Yue's heroic performances made Sun Yat-sen see his loyal temperament and trust him more and more.
However, although he won Sun Yat-sen's trust, Xue Yue did not have a good impression of Chiang Kai-shek, who was gradually gaining power at that time.
They were both generals around Sun Yat-sen, and the two had a lot of dealings, and after several contacts, Xue Yue felt that Chiang Kai-shek was very important to scheming, too persistent in the pursuit of status, and was not a trustworthy person.
Chiang Kai-shek, on the other hand, saw Xue Yue as a potential threat and was constantly on guard.
So the relationship between the two is not harmonious.
As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek was narrow-minded, sensitive and suspicious, and would not reuse generals who were not his descendants.
This also led to the fact that after Chiang Kai-shek gained power, in the following decades, no matter what major achievements Xue Yue made, it was difficult to squeeze into the core power layer of the Kuomintang.
After Sun Yat-sen's death, Chiang Kai-shek quickly united with the right-wing forces within the Kuomintang and climbed to the pinnacle of power within the party, becoming the de facto leader of the Kuomintang.
In the later battles of the Northern Expedition, the Central Plains War and the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army, although Xue Yue's performance was very good, he was never able to win the real trust of Chiang Kai-shek.
Therefore, for a long time, Xue Yue was in a position that was neither up nor down, and it was difficult to get real power in the army.
It was not until the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that the Kuomintang needed a large number of military talents to rush to the battlefield in the face of the fierce and powerful Japanese army, which gave Xue Yue the opportunity to command thousands of troops and highlight his talents.
On August 13, 1937, after the outbreak of the "August 13" Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Xue Yue left the southwest and arrived in Nanjing, where he was appointed commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army by Chiang Kai-shek.
After receiving the order, Xue Yue immediately reorganized his troops and rushed to the left flank to garrison the area on the south bank of Yunzaobang.
It was thought that this battle, in which both sides invested a large number of troops, would last for a long time, but due to the misjudgment of the Kuomintang high-level and the wrong strategic deployment, the result was that 750,000 people were quickly defeated under the attack of the Japanese army.
This was so angry that Xue Yue scolded in front of many subordinates present:"Those people in the War Hall are stupid pigs who are useless to eat!”
After Liu Xing and Luodian were lost one after another, the Japanese army began to send a large number of troops to attack Yunzaobang.
Seeing that the main force had just suffered a major defeat, and the enemy was menacing again, other generals might have already found an excuse to lead their troops to escape.
However, Xue Yue kept in mind the ambition he set at a young age to serve the country.
He led his troops to stubbornly garrison the south bank of Yunzaohama, set up fortifications, set up machine guns and heavy artillery, and fought fiercely with the enemy for more than half a month without flinching a single step.
On October 28, when the battle lasted until the 20th day, the 19th Army was already nearly half, and as far as the eye could see, there were the remains of the martyrs everywhere.
At this time, the enemy saw that it was difficult to break through Xue Yue's defensive line, and once again sent reinforcements to encircle the 19th Army.
If you don't make any changes, you may be bitten to death by the enemy.
Therefore, Xue Yue decided to break up into pieces and disperse his troops to Jiangqiao Town, Xiaonanxiang, Chenjiaxing, Guangfu Town and other areas to carry out flexible defensive operations.
Then he led the main force Zhuyuan Village to continue the fierce battle with the Japanese army.
With the cooperation of this set of tactics, the main force of the 19th Group carried out five fierce attacks on the Japanese army, and the position was lost and regained, and the Japanese army suffered unprecedented heavy losses.
On November 1, the Japanese army saw that they could not break through Xue Yue's defense, so they could only change their route and go around Hangzhou Bay to land at Jinshanwei.
At this time, continuing to defend had lost its strategic significance, and Xue Yue had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat.
After the post-war inventory, Xue Yue's troops were reduced by nearly 7 percent, and only three-tenths of the soldiers remained.
This battle is also one of the few battles in the Battle of Songhu that can show the will to fight, and at the same time, Xue Yue's prestige began to be revealed.
After the Battle of Songhu, Xue Yue was taken seriously and was appointed commander-in-chief of the First Corps and concurrently served as chairman and chairman of the Kuomintang Hunan Province.
On February 27, 1939, after the loss of Nanchang, the Japanese army marched westward.
Commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Central China Dispatch ArmyNinji OkamuraSix divisions were dispatched, with the cooperation of more than 100 planes and more than 300 ships, to attack Changsha by six routes from northern Jiangxi, southern Hunan, and northern Hunan.
In the face of the menacing Japanese army, Xue Yue immediately mobilized the troops of 21 armies and 52 divisions, which were deployed in northern Jiangxi, southern Hunan, and the shores of Dongting Lake, building an extremely tight and long strategic defensive line.
The First Battle of Changsha broke out.
This time, the Japanese army was deflated on Xue Yue again.
After 24 days of long fighting, the Japanese army carried out more than a dozen rounds of charges and bombardments on the outer defense line of Changsha from land and air.
As a result, not only did they fail to move forward, but they were repelled by the ** team one after another.
In the end, after paying the price of more than 40,000 people, the Japanese army could not afford to fight again and could only retreat in a hurry.
The victory in the First Battle of Changsha revived the morale of the Kuomintang, which had been repeatedly defeated at that time, and Chiang Kai-shek was greatly surprised, so he immediately rewarded the soldiers who joined the army with 150,000 silver dollars as a commendation.
However, this battle was only the first step for Xue Yue to become the "God of War in Changsha".
In September 1941, after the end of the First Battle of Changsha, the Japanese army once again launched a second-scale offensive against the Xiangjiang region.
As summed up the experience of the first defeat, the Japanese commanderAnan WeijiConcentrate 150,000 troops and launch a fierce general attack from the weakly defended north of Changsha.
Seeing the enemy's change of strategy, Xue Yue also knew that this time he could no longer resist in the original way, and needed to develop a more "dexterous" tactic to break the enemy's attack.
Therefore, after some careful study, Xue Yue let the troops "retreat into advance", pretending to be invincible, retreating backwards, and luring the enemy to the Miluo River and Laodao River area.
Then an order was given to the troops lying in ambush on both sides to jointly flank the enemy.
As a result, the lone Japanese army ushered in Xue Yue's "first blow".
Finally, in the Second Battle of Changsha, the Japanese army lost 40,000 men again and fled.
This failure made Anan Wei very unwilling.
Two months later, he regrouped and again mobilized 120,000 men to launch a fierce assault from the New Wall River position.
The Japanese army, having lost twice in succession, began to become extremely frenzied, and at the first contact, the Kuomintang army was heavily inflicted on the enemy.
In the headquarters of the Ninth War Zone, Xue Yue was relieved to see the enemy so crazy.
Because he knows that this is the opponent's last counterattack, and once he loses again, he will completely crush the will to fight.
Therefore, based on the experience of the Second Battle of Changsha, he proposed the "Heavenly Furnace Tactics of Warfare".
That is, use the terrain to arrange a net-like ambush circle in the rear, and then use the method of layer-by-layer resistance to lure the enemy into the ambush circle and annihilate it in one fell swoop.
As a result, the "Heavenly Furnace Battle Method" appeared in the world for the first time, and it played a great role.
On January 4, 1942, Xue Yue's troops successfully retracted after the enemy fell into an ambush circle, completing the counter-encirclement of the Japanese army.
Immediately, the ball attacked from the east, west, south, and north, and routed the enemy in one fell swoop.
This battle, which lasted more than half a month, caused more than 50,000 enemies to invade the south.
From then on, the Japanese army completely lost its will to fight, gave up its attack on Changsha, and its goal of invading Central China was greatly hindered.
The three battles of Changsha and the self-created "Heavenly Furnace Tactics" also made Xue Yue famous all over the world and became the "Changsha God of War" that terrified the Japanese army.
Later, according to statistics, the three battles of Changsha enabled Xue Yue to annihilate 120,000 Japanese troops, plus the number of enemy troops he annihilated in other battles, which made Xue Yue the Chinese general who annihilated the most enemies on the battlefield of resistance against Japan.
However, such a glorious record was still difficult to gain Chiang Kai-shek's trust.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Xue Yue was transferred to Xuzhou as the director of the "Sui Administration".
Although he was nominally promoted, his military power was divided a lot.
Later, Xue Yue, who showed great might on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, could not resist the attack of the People's Liberation Army, so Chiang Kai-shek revoked his post as director of the "Sui Administration" on the grounds of "weak command and low reputation".
Since then, Xue Yue has gradually faded out of the core power layer of the Kuomintang.
In 1949, after the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to Taiwan Province, the role of Xue Yue, a military general who was not a descendant of Chiang Kai-shek, was even more diluted.
However, for the sake of Xue Yue's "hard work and high achievements", Chiang Kai-shek still gave him a fictitious position as a strategic adviser to the "** government".
In the decades that followed, Xue Yue's status within the Kuomintang became lower and lower, and his life gradually began to deteriorate.
In 1988, after the death of Chiang's father and son, a new handover of power began in Taiwan.
As a result of Xue Yue's refusal to sign the Kuomintang's proposed amendment to the Constitution, the provision for his house in Taipei was cancelled.
In 1991, because Xue Yue couldn't afford to pay the high rent, his house was actually taken to a public auction by the bank, and even the old general who had killed the enemy on the battlefield of resistance against Japan and was over 90 years old was sued in court.
This made Xue Yue so angry that he had a serious illness and almost ended his life early.
The downfall of old age was mainly due to the exclusion of Chiang Kai-shek and others, which made Xue Yue full of anger towards the Chiang group in the last stage of his life.
On May 3, 1998, Xue Yue passed away at the age of 103.
Before his death, he was interviewed by a local television station, and when asked what he thought of Chiang Kai-shek, Xue Yue shouted emotionally:"I'd rather use minions than talents!”
These eight words not only express the indignation in my heart, but also accurately summarize the defeat of the Chiang Kai-shek clique.