In the military circles of the Republic of China, there is a saying of "three and a half military experts", these three military experts are Jiang Baili, Yang Jie and Bai Chongxi, and the "half" military expert refers to Liu Fei.
Among them, General Yang Jie's ranking is second only to Jiang Baili. This "Taidou-level" military expert was once a "divine operator" around Chiang Kai-shek.
Yang Jie has written many military works, especially his four major works such as "New Theory of National Defense" are very famous, and during the Republic of China period, many senior officers were proud to have read the above books.
The relationship between Yang Jie and Chiang Kai-shek is also extraordinary, as early as the Preparatory School of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, Yang Jie and Chiang Kai-shek became classmates, and two years later, Chiang Kai-shek stepped down from the army, and Yang Jie officially entered the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
In 1921, General Yang Jie went to Japan again, this time as a student supervisor in Yunnan, and he himself was admitted to the Japanese Army University for further study.
However, Yang Jie paid a big price for this. According to the regulations of the Japanese Army University, candidates must have a military rank, and the rank must be within the range of lieutenant to lieutenant colonel, and Yang Jie is already a lieutenant general.
In order to continue his further studies, Yang Jie did not hesitate for a moment, resolutely gave up the rank of lieutenant general with considerable gold content, changed to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and entered the Japanese Army University.
After returning to China, Yang Jie, a class that had stayed in the west, generated guests of warlords everywhere, and they all wanted to keep Yang Jie by their side, first to decorate the façade, and also hoped to use his talent to seize land for himself and achieve "hegemony" to help.
Yang Jie eventually chose his classmate Chiang Kai-shek as his partner, and after that, in the war between Chiang Kai-shek and various warlords, Yang Jie assisted Chiang Kai-shek in winning many military victories, which was also the best period of Yang Jie's personal friendship with Chiang Kai-shek.
In March 1928, Yang Jie, as chief of staff of the Kuomintang 1st Army, followed Chiang Kai-shek and participated in the Second Northern Expedition.
When Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Shandong, the Japanese army had already sent troops to occupy Jinan, the capital of Shandong, and Chiang Kai-shek was full of worries, not daring to offend the Japanese, but also unwilling.
General Yang Jie saw Chiang Kai-shek's mind clearly and gave him a trick: "It is no accident that Japan sent troops to Jinan, we must not give up halfway, we can bypass Jinan and continue north." ”
Chiang Kai-shek hesitated for half a day, and finally heeded Yang Jie's advice, took a detour to the north, and crushed the Fengzhi warlords in one fell swoop.
In the Battle of the Central Plains in 1930, General Yang Jie, then chief of the general staff of the General Command of the Army, Navy and Air Force, once again followed Chiang Kai-shek and participated in the war. General Yang Jie personally commanded the strength of 6 divisions, laid a pocket formation between the Longhai Line and the Jinpu Line, and defeated the combined forces of Feng and Yan in the initial battle.
Unexpectedly, Feng Yuxiang quickly killed back, this time, Feng Jun's soldiers divided into 7 routes, and at the same time launched an attack on Jiang Jun, of which a cavalry division directly pounced on Lao Jiang's waving troops.
When Chiang Kai-shek, who learned the news, was shocked, there were only a small number of guards around him, and once he was caught, Chiang Kai-shek would be "leaderless," and the outcome of the war would be imaginable.
The panicked old Chiang Kai-shek was ready to retreat immediately, but Yang Jie believed that at this time, a forced retreat would not help at all, and there was no doubt that defeat would be lost, so it would be better to quickly mobilize troops nearby and take the initiative to attack the enemy cavalry division, so that the "decapitation operation" of the Feng army cavalry division would lose its concealment, and this move would inevitably interfere with the Feng army, even create doubts, or save the defeat.
Old Chiang once again acted according to the plan, so there was the story of the "invisible general" Han Liancheng's emergency rescue of Chiang Kai-shek, that is, this operation, Han Liancheng was particularly appreciated by old Chiang, not only broke the rules of the Huangpu School, but also in the thrilling "latent career" in the future, he was trusted and protected by Old Chiang.
Speaking of this, I believe that there will be friends who have doubts in their hearts, and old Chiang Kai-shek has such a "divine operator" like a military expert around him, so why did he still lose many battles in the subsequent wars?
General Yang Jie has the ability to predict war and has an excellent level of campaign planning; while General Yang Jie is assisting Old Chiang Kai in achieving "hegemony," the general's temper is also getting bigger and bigger, and many times he has made Old Jiang unable to step down, secretly annoyed, while General Yang Jie, who is honest by nature, does not think so.
In 1934, General Yang Jie became the director of the Aviation Committee, and it was at this time that an incident occurred that General Yang Jie completely annoyed Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, the Nationalist government imported a batch of aircraft from the United States, and the person in charge of procurement affairs was Kong Xiangxi, a "relative of the emperor and the state". General Yang Jie received a report that there was a problem with this batch of newly purchased aircraft, and the purchase list clearly indicated that it was a new aircraft, but in fact it was not like this, in addition to the fuselage shell is brand new, many parts, especially key components such as power, are old models, and some are even scrapped products that have been repaired.
Once such an aircraft flies into the sky, how can people be assured? This is not a trivial matter, general Yang Jie, who has always been honest and serious, did not think about it, directly found Chiang Kai-shek, reported the matter in the original version, and demanded that the matter be strictly investigated.
Although Chiang Kai-shek promised in one mouth, "Thoroughly investigate this matter, and if there is any fraud, it will be severely punished!" However, General Yang Jie never saw the following, and the planes bypassed Yang Jie and were directly assigned to the Air Force.
General Yang Jie was angry and anxious, and successively asked Chiang Kai-shek for an explanation; at first, old Chiang Kai-shek gave him some explanations, and then he simply blocked Yang Jie out of the door and did not even give him the opportunity to meet.
At this time, General Yang Jie learned that he had annoyed and offended Chiang Kai-shek, and the general resigned from the post of director of the Aviation Committee in a fit of anger, and even had the idea of retiring.
General Yang Jie did not expect that the incident he had provoked did not end because he voluntarily withdrew, and that a retaliatory action against him had already begun, and the person behind this retaliatory action was Kong Xiangxi, a "relative of the emperor and the state", and He Yingqin, who had never been able to cooperate with General Yang Jie.
Chiang Kai-shek received a whistle-blowing letter accusing Yang Jie of embezzling public funds in the construction of the Nanjing National Defense Fortifications, and Chiang Kai-shek quickly sent someone to investigate the matter, and not long after, the two division chiefs under General Yang Jie who were specifically responsible for the project were arrested and executed a few days later, all of General Yang Jie's posts were revoked, and a paper order was issued, and General Yang Jie was transferred to the Army University and served as the chief of education of the Army University.
After that, General Yang Jie was discouraged, unwilling to ask more about "state affairs", and devoted himself to military education for a long time; even in the case of the all-people War of Resistance and the urgent need for war talents, Chiang Kai-shek did not reactivate General Yang Jie, who had a deep understanding of the Japanese and the Japanese country, but the hero was useless, and General Yang Jie's depression and pain could be imagined.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek declared to the outside world: "The main force of the communist army will be destroyed within 3 months", but General Yang Jie scoffed at this and publicly asserted: "Empty words, don't say 3 months, it is 3 years, 10 years, or even 30 years!" ”
In 1949, General Yang Jie accepted the invitation to attend the first cppcc meeting of the New China, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious and personally ordered Mao Renfeng to "do him!" On September 17, 1949, General Yang Jie was assassinated in Hong Kong at the age of 60.
General Yang Jie served as Chiang Kai-shek's chief of the general staff, president of the Army University, chief of education, and the title of army general, and was once praised by Stalin as a "military strategist." However, although General Yang Jie made great contributions to Chiang Kai-shek's unification of the country, he eventually died at the hands of Chiang Kai-shek.