Who forced the Red Army onto the Long March? This poisonous Zhuge was very smart, but he died unexpectedly
In October 1934, the Red Army carried out a difficult Long March, and in the face of this situation, Chiang Zhongzheng quickly began to analyze the possible route of the Red Army. At this critical juncture, one of the strategists put forward an ingenious view that the Red Army might choose to cross the Jinsha River north and pass through Yunnan.
When Jiang Zhongzheng heard this, although he didn't agree, he smiled and said: "This is a dead end for Shi Dakai, and it will definitely not work!" ”
However, later developments proved that the Red Army did choose this route to the north. The strategist who put forward this unique insight was Yang Yongtai, who was the secretary general of Jiang Zhongzheng's camp at that time, known as "Toxic Zhuge ", with outstanding resourcefulness, and was regarded by Jiang Zhongzheng as a contemporary Wolong.
After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, after graduating from Peking University, Yang Yongtai quickly realized the general trend and actively devoted himself to the revolutionary cause to defend the democratic republic. While attacking Yuan Shikai's restoration, Yang Yongtai quickly demonstrated his resourcefulness. When the king of Yunnan, Cai Ye, launched a campaign against Chiang, he was far-sighted, believing that Yunnan was too vast to confront the Beiyang warlords. Therefore, he advocated uniting the forces of the whole country to make concerted efforts. This view was quickly proven correct.
Yang Yongtai established contacts with the moderates of the Kuomintang and actively urged the Liangguang army to go north to support Chiang. Due to his outstanding ability, he was soon appointed Minister of Finance of Guangdong and later promoted to Chairman of Guangdong Province. At this time, Jiang Zhongzheng was still just an unknown little person.
Yang Yongtai showed his ambition to govern the country and the world, and after taking office, he took a number of measures to improve people's livelihood, winning the love of local residents. However, with the drastic changes in the situation, Yang Yongtai had to face the reality of being forced to idle, and it was not until 1928 that Chiang Zhongzheng completed the Northern Expedition, and Yang Yongtai once again had the opportunity to show his political skills.
Through interpersonal introductions, Jiang Zhongzheng got acquainted with Yang Yongtai. Yang Yongtai's strategy of "looking at the inside and then going all out to the outside world after reunification" is in line with Jiang Zhongzheng's idea of "first securing the inside before the outside", and the two hit it off at first sight, and Yang Yongtai became Jiang Zhongzheng's think tank and obeyed his words.
During the Central Plains War in 1930, Yang Yongtai actively formulated a strategy to divide and win over warlords from all over the country, successfully disintegrated the anti-Chiang alliance, and made great achievements for Lao Chiang to formally unify China, further consolidating Yang Yongtai's position in Chiang's heart.
In the process of "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army five times, Yang Yongtai gradually pushed the Red Army into a desperate situation. He employed a range of means, which included political infiltration of the Red Army. By analyzing the reasons for the failure of the previous "encirclement and suppression" campaigns, Yang Yongtai believed that the reason why the Red Army won many victories was that it had close ties with the local people, and thus won the support of the people.
In order to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Red Army, Yang Yongtai put forward the general policy of "suppressing bandits" of "three parts military and seven points political," that is, to reduce the combat effectiveness of the Red Army to the maximum through political means before taking a military offensive. Lao Jiang was convinced of this.
In terms of specific operations, in order to cut off the Red Army's ties with the local people, Yang Yongtai advocated strengthening the ** offensive and carrying out negative propaganda against the Red Army, portraying it as an image of "doing no evil". Subsequently, he formulated regulations to protect the armor, encouraging the people to expose the Red Army, and at the same time implementing the policy of protecting and sitting, so that the people in the vicinity were implicated.
As a result, many civilians did not dare to have any contact with the Red Army for the sake of self-preservation, which made the Red Army even more difficult. Later, on this basis, Lao Chiang implemented a cruel and ruthless policy, inflicting inhumane destruction on the Soviet area, causing it heavy losses.
A series of measures taken by Yang Yongtai in the process of the development of the Red Army brought great trouble to the Red Army, coupled with the erroneous command of Li De and Bogu, which led to the Red Army falling into a desperate situation and finally being forced to carry out the Long March.
However, what is less known is that in the early days of the Long March, a ploy by Yang Yongtai almost caused heavy losses to our army.
When the Red Army began the Long March, Jiang Zhongzheng immediately found someone to analyze the route that the Red Army might take, and after the fifth "encirclement and suppression", he was full of confidence. The generals also put forward their own views, including the possibility that the Red Army might move west to Hunan and the Red Army.
The 2nd and 6th Army Corps converged, or crossed the Yangtze River from Sichuan to the north to join the Red Fourth Front Army, and some even thought that the Red Army might move south to Guangdong to seek assistance from the Soviet Union ......
For these proposals, Lao Chiang thought that all were possible, so he prepared and ordered his troops to build fortresses along the way, ready to block the Red Army.
Yang Yongtai was the only one who put forward a view that no one thought was true, he believed that the Red Army was very likely to cross the Jinsha River from Yunnan and go north.
At that time, the main force of the ** Red Army was in Jiangxi, thousands of miles away from Yunnan, and it also passed through a number of warlord territories on the way. What's more, 70 years ago, the Taiping Army Shi Dakai crossed the river from here, and was attacked by the Qing army on the front line of the Dadu River, and the whole army was annihilated. Lao Chiang believed that the Red Army could not be "stupid enough to follow the old path of Shi Dakai", so he did not regard Yang Yongtai's proposal as the focus of defense. However, it turned out that the ** Red Army did indeed go north from here.
As for why Yang Yongtai was able to accurately ** out of this route, no one knows so far.
Yang Yongtai was favored by Lao Chiang, which led to a lot of discussions about him within the Kuomintang leadership, and finally in order to maintain unity, Lao Chiang had to let him go to Hubei to serve as the provincial chairman. Although Yang Yongtai was reluctant to do so, he was helpless in the face of factional struggles within the Kuomintang. During his reign in Hubei, Yang Yongtai was stabbed to death on October 25, 1936, at the age of 51.
Yang Yongtai's death caused a huge sensation at the time, and Lao Jiang ordered a thorough investigation, but in the end it was not done. It can be said that the appearance of Yang Yongtai shook the position of some people in the Kuomintang, and his death was not surprising.
Without Yang Yongtai, a think tank, Jiang Zhongzheng's command ability, which was not very outstanding, became even more vulnerable, and this was undoubtedly a major benefit to our army.