Around the time of World War II, the deaths of four commanders were very strange. In chronological order, they are Ye Ting, commander of China's New Fourth Army, Patton, the legendary general of the U.S. Army, Walker, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. front in Korea, and Stalin, the commander-in-chief of the former Soviet Union.
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General Ye Ting is a legend in the history of modern Chinese warfare. As early as the period of the Northern Expedition, the Ye Ting Independent Regiment was already a well-known iron army. Ye Ting was also the commander-in-chief of the August 1st Nanchang Uprising and one of the founders of the Red Army. Later, because of the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, he had no choice but to go into exile. In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, our Party established the New Fourth Army for the sake of the anti-Japanese situation in the south, and Ye Ting returned to the revolutionary ranks as the commander of the New Fourth Army. After that, he made many military achievements in the anti-Japanese battlefield, smashed the Japanese army many times, and was praised by Chiang Kai-shek, but also hated by him.
Around 1941, the Kuomintang repeatedly launched anti-communist upsurges. Our army attaches great importance to the great national righteousness and tolerates many people, but the diehard Kuomintang faction has intensified its efforts. In January 1941, the Kuomintang launched the Anhui Incident and launched an attack on the New Fourth Army with nearly 10 times the strength of the troops. Ye Ting commanded the troops to break through, and after 8 days of fighting, he was finally arrested because he was outnumbered and ran out of food.
After his arrest, Ye Ting began a five-year detention career. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek and his friend Chen Cheng threatened and seduced Ye Ting, hoping that Ye Ting would change the court, but they were all sternly rejected by him. In 1946, after many negotiations, Ye Ting regained his freedom and proposed to rejoin the party. Chairman Mao personally approved and agreed, and was called "Dear Comrade Ye Ting." A month later, Ye Ting boarded a plane back to Yan'an. However, the plane was mysteriously wrecked in Shanxi Province, and Ye Ting died as a result.
After Ye Ting's death, the cause of his death has always been a mystery in history. Many people believe that the plane crash was caused by the hands and feet of Kuomintang agents. In 1998, Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao published an article titled "Memories of the April 8 Crash," in which it was announced that Ye Ting's plane had been sabotaged by Du Jitang, a secret agent of the military command, before taking off. The cause of General Ye Ting's death has since been revealed.
George Barton
Patton was a famous commander of the U.S. military during World War II, a four-star general. His style is brave and tenacious, and he is known as a "bloody veteran". He attached great importance to armored corps combat, and after World War I, Patton formed the first tank unit in the United States, which earned him the reputation of "America's first tank soldier". After the start of World War II, Patton was appreciated by Marshall, the chief of staff of the Army, and officially entered the battlefield.
Patton had three major battles in his life: in November 1941 Patton landed on the coast of French Morocco, forcing the surrender of the local German army; in 1943, Patton launched an offensive in North Africa, forcing the Germans to retreat to the Italian mainland; in 1944, Patton landed in Normandy, commanded the armored corps to sweep through the German army, annihilated 1.4 million enemies, and liberated more than 10,000 towns. Describing him with his military exploits is well deserved.
However, Patton is a very personal person, and he never talks or does anything. When he was in Europe, he was attacked by the media for slapping soldiers, leaving the U.S. Army with no light on its face.
Patton never hid his antipathy toward his ally, the Soviet Union. He once said that if his troops were between the Soviets and The Germans, he would attack both at the same time. At a cocktail party, the Soviet general invited him to drink with him, and Patton said to the interpreter: "Tell the Russian dog that they are my enemies, and I would rather lose my head than drink with the enemy." I don't know what the cause of this hatred is, but it is unusually "deep-rooted." As the war drew to a close, Patton inexplicably said, "The post-war world will be ruled by Britain and the United States." In a conversation with diplomats, Patton made it clear that he wanted to attack the Soviet Union at once.
Patton's attitude has panicked the U.S. government and military. At the moment when the war has just ended, it is very dangerous to play "mouth cannons" without scruples about allies. The United States and Europe are in dire need of recovery now and do not want to be involved in the next war so soon. The Allied commander-in-chief, Eisenhower, therefore summoned Patton at Hirsch and relieved him of his military powers.
Curiously, in December 1945, Patton took a man hunting in Mannheim, Germany, and as a result, his car was in a car accident. The driver and other entourage were less injured, but Barton, who had been sitting in the safest position, was seriously injured and soon died in the Heidelberg hospital in Germany. It is still believed that Patton's death was a murder.
Walton Harris Walker
Walker is an old acquaintance of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, because this man was once the commander-in-chief of the U.S. army on the Korean battlefield. He graduated from the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point and was already on the battlefield during World War I. During World War II, Walker landed in France as Patton's subordinate, and was famous for his operations across central France, and the Twentieth Army he commanded was also known as the "Ghost Army".
In 1950, Walker came to the Korean Peninsula and became commander-in-chief of the U.S. Eighth Army, commanding all United Nations and South Korean forces on the battlefield. As North Korean forces attacked South Korean forces, Walker deployed a ring of defense at Busan to defeat the Korean People's Army in conjunction with the Inchon landings. But after the volunteer army entered Korea, Walker's situation took a sharp turn for the worse. In the first and second battles, due to MacArthur's overall strategic mistakes, Walker lost twice in a row and had to withdraw to the 38th line.
On December 23, 1950, Walker was laying out a new line of defense near the 38th Line when he suddenly died in a jeep crash. Interestingly, before Walker's death, MacArthur had made him a scapegoat, put the blame on him for the defeat of both battles, and relieved Walker of the commander of the Eighth Army. And this command, at this time, is on the way.
The reason why Walker died strangely is mainly because his cause of death is different: one is that Walker flew out of the car in a car accident and fell to his death; one says that walker's car overturned down the hillside and exploded after the two cars collided; one said that he was killed by two North Korean combatants with grenades; and the other is even more outrageous, saying that Walker's jeep was hit by a tank and died.
What is even stranger is that after Walker's death, the U.S. military did not allow media interviews, but simply issued a notice. This is a bit too hasty for the commander of a group army to understand.
But anyway, Walker was dead. But the test for the volunteers had just begun. Ridgway, who succeeded Walker, was careful and brave, and fought with the volunteers in the days that followed, which was very difficult. So it can even be said that Walker's death saved the U.S. military.
Joseph Vissarinovich Stalin
Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. He was a Georgian who had assisted Lenin in leading the October Revolution and was the supreme leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death. After Hitler's blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, Stalin, with his extremely firm character, became the backbone of the entire Soviet Patriotic War. Although he did not really charge on the battlefield, he played an incalculable role in inspiring people, adjusting resources, and determining the direction of the war.
In his later years, Stalin was still in very good health. According to his personal doctors, Stalin, who was already in his 70s, had physical functions that did not correspond to his age. If he were to look at his health, he should have lived to be at least eight or ninety years old. But on March 5, 1953, the Soviet newspaper Pravda suddenly published a news that Stalin had died of a cerebral hemorrhage last night at the age of 75.
It is said that Stalin's death was a natural death. However, a lot of insider information was subsequently exposed, indicating that the death of this iron-fisted tyrant was not so simple.
On February 28, 1953, Stalin and his four core members of leadership: Malenkov, Beria, Khrushchev, and Bulganin, "had lunch" in their villa, and as a result a lunch was eaten until four or five o'clock in the morning. After that, the four left. Stalin did not leave the room until 23:00 the next night. When the service staff opened the door, they found Stalin lying on the ground in a coma, and his lower body was completely wet.
After some communication, the four men who had gathered the day before arrived at Stalin's villa in the early hours of the morning. Among them, Beria looked at Stalin's situation and said a strange sentence: "Panic what! Comrade Stalin is asleep. After that, the four people not only left on their own, but also sent away many service personnel. It was not until eight or nine o'clock the next morning that Malenkov and Beria came to the villa with medical personnel and began to treat Stalin. On the third day, medical personnel said they were helpless and that Stalin's death was "inevitable." It was not until March 5 that the news of Stalin's death was officially issued.
Stalin's death is full of doubts. First of all, after Beria and the others left that night, no one saw any of Stalin's activities. It is possible that at this time, the iron-fisted leader has already fallen into the path of unknown people, and his body has begun to unwell. When Beria returned the next day, he said that Stalin, wearing wet pants and lying on the ground, was "asleep" and did not immediately carry out treatment, which was an incomprehensible attitude.
Until now, many people suspect that Stalin died of murder. However, there is no direct evidence to support this claim. Therefore, Stalin's death is still an open case.