I have nothing to be sorry for the country, but what good does the country do to me? It is really fast for the communist bandits. I am not sorry, but I have been a country all my life, so I am not willing to end up like this! ...... After peace, bury me in Yunlong Mountain, Xuzhou...
After the peace, I was buried in Yunlong Mountain, Xuzhou, and I was always helpless and sad to listen to.
This is a suicide note from Li Yutang.
He was a famous anti-Japanese general, deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek, held many positions in the National Government, and made great contributions to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
He was also the best first batch of cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy, but the final outcome of such a person was regrettable.
He followed Chiang Kai-shek for several years, but was finally sentenced to death by Chiang Kai-shek himself.
During the Battle of Changsha, Li Yutang was eating, but the shell accidentally hit him outside his headquarters, and shrapnel flew in from outside the window, smashing the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and the chopsticks were also cut off.
His chief of staff heard the movement and ran to ask him if he wanted to transfer, Li Yutang refused, and laughed and asked the chief of staff not to panic, then picked up the broken chopsticks to continue eating, and finally threw the chopsticks away and ate with his hands.
Then, why would such a famous anti-Japanese general who was not in danger of chaos, who was not greedy for fear of death, and who had made countless meritorious achievements, be judged by Chiang Kai-shek himself?
Li Yutang came out of the battlefield, he was in the chaotic Republic of China period, because the times plunged into the revolution, and his life can also be described as a great achievement in battle.
One of the battles that made Li Yutang famous was the Battle of Coffin Mountain in Wuning.
Wuning Coffin Mountain is a battle against Japan, he led the soldiers in the Coffin Mountain position and the Japanese army for 8 days and 8 nights of war, tenacious resistance to the Japanese onslaught, and finally not only made the Japanese army unable to break through but also consumed most of the strength of the Japanese army.
This battle also laid a good foundation for the Battle of Nanchang, and later When Chiang Kai-shek heard this news, he especially praised his defensive merits, and even specially approved the army he led as the Taishan Army.
Li Yutang fought countless battles like this, and he followed Chiang Kai-shek all the way to the Eastern Expedition and went from platoon commander to division commander.
The most worth mentioning is the Changsha Defense War, which is also the battle that made him a famous general.
During the first defensive battle of Changsha, the army led by Li Yutang mainly played a coordinating role, cooperating with the counterattack of the main combat army and disrupting the Japanese strategy.
During the second battle, our army was fiercely attacked by the Japanese army, and after two days and nights of fierce fighting, the positions of Fulinpu and Jinjing were breached by the Japanese army.
Because of the mistakes of other generals, Li Yutang could only be forced to abandon his position, and finally moved to the outskirts of Changsha, and then made full use of the terrain advantage to fight with the Japanese army for four days and nights, and finally waited for reinforcements.
Because he lost several important positions during the Second Battle of Changsha, he was punished and removed from his post.
The fact that Li Yutang was punished also caused a lot of turmoil.
The officers and men of the Tenth Army led by Li Yutang strongly protested against this, and Commander Zhong Bin, who wanted to succeed the Tenth Army, also postponed his resignation for some reasons, so the Tenth Army was a team without a commander for a long time.
And because Li Yutang was removed, Chiang Kai-shek personally made a phone call to him.
After being dismissed, the Japanese army soon launched a third campaign, but the Tenth Army still had no commander, so Commander Xue Gang planned to let Li Yutang return to continue as a commander.
Unexpectedly, Li Yutang refused, and in the end, Chiang Kai-shek could only call him personally.
The phone call was very simple, only a few conversations, but the phone call contained Chiang Kai-shek's trust in Li Yutang, and he did not want to live up to expectations and re-assumed the post of commander.
And this phone call also strengthened his determination to defend the city.
Therefore, in the Third Battle of Changsha, he took advantage of the shortcomings of the Japanese army and showed his determination to see death as a homecoming, and finally won the battle.
It also brought him to the peak of his military career.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Yutang also participated in the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Nanchang, and the Battle of the Central Plains, and in these wars he made a lot of contributions, and successively appointed commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, and military commander.
However, he had a straight personality, and later slowly fell into disagreement with many high-level officials of the Nationalist government.
Although it is said that the military position is constantly improving, the number of troops in their hands is decreasing, and their real power has begun to be weakened.
His subordinates, who had been following him, also began to be implicated and were transferred to other regions. Li Yutang was unconsciously marginalized in this way.
After the Battle of Huaihai, the government completely excluded him and gave him a useless judgment.
Li Yutang, who had been awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun by the Nationalist Government, was thus excluded by the Nationalist Government.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japan ended and a new civil war came.
At this time, Li Yutang had been excluded by the Nationalist government, and the military power was gone, but he still did not get a good end, and after he fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, he was again targeted by the nationalist government.
In the Battle of Huaihai, the Communists had contact with Li Yutang, and he lost the battle again, so some people said that he had rebelled, and at first Chiang Kai-shek only suspected that he had not pronounced a verdict.
However, his wife Chen Bolan had ties to the Communist Party, and it was learned that Li Yutang's retinue aide had plotted against him.
Li Yutang was sentenced to 15 years for these things, but Chiang Kai-shek's suspiciousness finally dealt him a heavy blow, and in his verdict, Chiang Kai-shek personally approved four words: "Shameful shooting."
After fighting countless battles and making countless meritorious achievements, Li Yutang finally bore shame, and Li Yutang left only a suicide note in prison.
It is said that many years later, when Chiang Kai-shek remembered Li Yutang and his suicide note, he was very nostalgic and regretful.
It is indeed a pity that the famous generals of the War of Resistance annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, but in the end they ended up like that.
During the Republic of China period, Dr. Sun Yat-sen established the Whampoa Military Academy for the revolutionary cause, and the Whampoa Military Academy was trained by military backbones, and Li Yutang, an anti-Japanese general, came out of the Whampoa Military Academy and was the most powerful Whampoa Phase I cadet.
It was such a person, with deep patriotic feelings, who was the most outstanding cadet of the Whampoa Military Academy, and who bravely killed the enemy during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and made great contributions, but did not have a good end, and could only leave a regrettable suicide note.
A generation of famous generals, who survived the war, died in calculation and suspicion.
Fortunately, in 1983, he was finally approved by the Shandong Provincial People's Government and posthumously named him a martyr, and the famous general of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression received his due honor.