After Xue Yue led his troops to a major victory at the Third Battle of Changsha, the Japanese 11th Army was seriously injured, and for about two and a half years from January 1942, it was no longer able to invade Changsha south. The commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater is a bit angry, while Wu Yizhi, chief of staff of the theater, is a bit idle, idle is bored, bored and trouble, And Chief of Staff Wu wrote an article entitled "On the Importance of the Asian Battlefield" and submitted it to the Chongqing Military Commission. In fact, old Jiang did not take a serious look, but in order to encourage the generals to think more strategically, he still gave two simple words of encouragement in the article, and The subordinate lieutenant general Wu Yizhi, the chief of staff, was also a bit adrift.
Wu Yizhi's paper also attached a specific plan for strengthening joint operations in the Asian theater, in which the Chinese army should increase its strength and open up new battlefields along the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang (the third theater), and at the same time send five to ten elite units of the division into the Pacific theater to cooperate with the US military's operations against Japan. After receiving the encouragement of the old Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Yizhi was greatly excited, and it just so happened that he had a cousin working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, so he transferred the article and the plan to the Us side through his cousin, and it really fell into Roosevelt's hands.
The attitude of Old President Luo and old Chiang Kai-shek is similar, as the commander-in-chief of the army, he always has to be comforted by the habits of the people below who are diligent in thinking, even if what he thinks out may not be feasible, especially the letter from important generals on the Chinese battlefield is more polite and polite, so he also replied to the text message, saying that he would let the Joint Chiefs of Staff study and study, in fact, this is all polite official language. However, Chief of Staff Wu was serious, and the usable president's personal reply made him very excited, and immediately telegraphed the matter to Old Chiang, thinking that a general order commendation or a medal could not run away.
As a result, Wu Yizhi waited for a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Old Jiang's instructions on the telegram were: "Dismiss from office and hand over to the Military Law Enforcement Director Department for strict handling"! This matter is really not bad for old Chiang, Wu Yizhi is indeed a self-inflicted person who does not understand politics, and old Chiang is most afraid of the generals of the Chinese army from privately contacting and communicating with the United States, for example, the later Sun Liren was much more prestigious than Wu Yizhi's authority, and he also lost trust. After receiving the notice from the Department of The Executive Director of Military Law, Xue Yue was so angry and funny that he could only mediate with the Chongqing side, and after some operations, Wu Yizhi was finally spared from prison, but the chief of staff of the theater and the education chief of the cadre training regiment was definitely unable to do it.
The final result was that Wu Yizhi was dismissed from his post, transferred to the senior staff of the Military Commission, and had to leave Changsha to work in Chongqing, which happened in December 1943, and in October of the following year, he was sent to the Army University for further study. However, Wu Yizhi was also a blessing in disguise, because only half a year later, xue Yue's fourth battle of Changsha broke out, and the Japanese gathered more than 200,000 troops from ten divisions and regiments to launch the operation in the Hunan section of "Operation No. 1".
After Wu's chief of staff was taken down, Major General Zhao Zili, the chief of staff of the former Theater Command, was replaced, and at the end of December 1943, he was appointed as the chief of staff (rank) of the Ninth Theater Lieutenant General, compared with Wu Yizhi in the sixth period of Baoding, Zhao Zili's seniority was much worse, he was only a huangpu sixth-term student, Dai Kasa, Liao Yaoxiang and other small characters. Zhao Zili was not mixed with Xue Yue before, but guan Linzheng's combat staff of the 52nd Army, and after graduating from the army university in 1938, he was assigned to Xue Yue's First Corps as a senior staff officer and chief of the operations section of the major general.
Zhao Zili was somewhat talented in the Military, as early as the Battle of Wuhan in the Battle of Nanxun Line (wanjialing victory was here), during which he first pointed out that the corps headquarters had improperly used Yu Jishi's 74th Army, then suggested that troops be drawn to form a second-line reserve, and strongly advocated rejecting the order of old Chiang Kai-shek to transfer two armies, and finally resolutely proposed to dispatch the 32nd Army and the 66th Army to participate in the Wanjialing Siege and Annihilation Campaign. This made Xue Yue look at him with astonishment, so he was successively promoted to deputy chief of staff and chief of staff, and now Wu Yizhi had resigned and was promoted by Xue Yuebao as chief of staff in the theater.
However, the relationship between Zhao Zili and Xue Yue is exactly the opposite of the promotion of the position, and it is declining all the way, of course, for many reasons, the most critical of which is that he and Xue Yue do not have the same personal friendship as Wu Yizhi. Wu Yizhi and Xue Yue were "brothers plus old subordinates", from the beginning of joining the Cantonese army to follow Sun Yat-sen, Wu Yizhi has been under Xue Yue's hands, when the "Three Musketeers of the Cantonese Army" were the battalion commanders of the Guard Regiment of the Grand Marshal's Office, Wu Yizhi was the company commander of Xue Yue's first battalion, and the same Guangdong people were also Baodingsheng, and the relationship between the two was naturally extraordinary.
"Tiger Boy" Xue Yue was a very crazy person, especially after he was in a high position of authority, except for Old Jiang and Chen Cheng, he did not give much face to anyone, and even Bai Chongxi, director of the Guilin Camp and deputy chief of the general staff of the Central Military Commission, who theoretically had the right to direct operations in the Ninth Theater, could not command him at all. In the combat command, Xue Yue has always preferred to attack proactively, but he has also developed a style of arbitrariness, so when he is the chief military staff, it is actually a very painful thing, and only an old brother and old friend like Wu Yizhi, Xue Yue is afraid to give a certain amount of respect.
Unfortunately, Zhao Zili is not, Huangpu graduates and Baoding military cadets are different from each other, such as Wu Yizhi and Xue Yue Tonggeng, by 1944 they are nearly fifty years old (born in 1896), and Zhao Zili of the Huangpu Shaozhuang school is only 36 years old, and he is still a Henan native in the north, and every aspect is not on the same channel as Xue Yue. Zhao Zili served as a staff officer for a long time, acted carefully and carefully, and was more integrated into the Huangpu sheng system, and was not a circle person at all with the unruly Xue Yue. In fact, by the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xue Yue was very politically ambitious and did not like old Chiang's Huangpu lineage.
Another problem involved complex interpersonal relations in the official arena, when Zhao Zili was only a staff officer or chief of staff, and only had the qualifications to suggest operational command, Xue Yue would selectively listen and accept with an appreciative eye, so the relationship between the two was acceptable. However, when Zhao Zili became the second person in the theater command, he had a certain degree of military decision-making power, which affected Xue Yue's arbitrary behavior, coupled with the personality of Zhao Yue's chief of staff who was not very attached, Xue Yue was more and more unpleasant the more he looked.
The conflict between the two men erupted in May 1944, when intelligence from all sides showed that the Japanese army was bound to make a big move, and Zhao Zili judged that the devil's attack was not unusual, and the existing strength of the Ninth Theater was probably not enough to deal with it, and it was necessary to report to Chongqing as soon as possible and request reinforcements (the strength of the Ninth Theater was greatly weakened in 1944). Unfortunately, Xue Yue did not believe that the Japanese still had the ability to launch a large-scale offensive in 1944, and he was overconfident in his "Heavenly Furnace Tactics", and he could not listen to Zhao Zili's opinion at all, and reprimanded Xiao Zhao:
"The higher your position, the less courage you have, do you remember the Battle of Wuhan?" You're not like that, in the Ninth Theater, enemy attacks are the norm, but why haven't they attacked in the last two years? The year before, they mainly fought in the Third Theater (the Battle of Zhejiang and Gansu), and last year they were fighting in the Sixth Theater (the Battle of Western Hubei and the Battle of Changde), and it cannot be said that it is all thanks to the deterrence of the Third Battle of Changsha, but the cowardice of the enemy army is also a fact. Although there is wind and grass at present, but the soldiers will come to block the water and come to Tutun, our army will respond to all changes with no change.
Zhao Zili tried to explain and persuade that at present, there are only 60 regiments of field troops in the theater, and the situation is very different from two years ago, and once the Japanese army attacks with a large army, it is bound to be unable to replicate the victory in the Third Battle of Changsha. In Xue Yue's view, this was tantamount to teaching him how to fight, and offended his military authority, and he threw down a sentence of "if you want reinforcements yourself", and whisked his sleeve away.
Zhao Zili knew that xue Yue could not be persuaded, and could only try his best to save and protect himself, so he contacted Lin Wei, the director of the Shiyi Department, through Wang Yaowu, and expressed his worries, but under the back-and-forth of the Chongqing authorities, the Ninth Theater finally did not adjust its deployment in time, and when the chief Hengshan Yong strengthened the two wings of the killing with the "anti-heaven furnace tactics" that day, the front-line troops of the Ninth Theater collapsed one after another, and Changsha instantly became a dangerous city. By June 14, 1944, the defeat at the Fourth Changsha Battle had been decided, and Xue Yue decided to withdraw the Yuelu Mountain Theater Command Post to Leiyang, and before leaving, he said to Zhao Zili: "I will go to the rear first, and you will take care of it here."
This is to leave Xiao Zhao behind, the deterioration of the relationship between the two people can be seen, left is left behind, but did not explicitly order Zhao Zili to command the Changsha garrison, which is even more strange. When Zhao Zili found that there was a big problem with the defensive deployment of Zhang Deneng, the commander of the Fourth Army, he once asked Commander Zhang to change the deployment, but Zhang Deneng turned his eyes and said that it was Xue's explanation, and Zhao Zili was angry and wanted to call Xue Yue and asked: "Do I command the Fourth Army here?" Xue Yue replied, "You don't want to direct it", and the more Zhao Zili listened, the more confused he became, saying that what use did I have here, it was better to go to Leiyang as well.
Xue Yue said, "You stay there to make contact," Zhao Zi was half dead, what kind of liaison did I have with the chief of staff of a grand theater of operations, so why not send a liaison staff officer? Xue Yue didn't pay any attention to him and hung up the phone. Under the erroneous deployment of Zhang Deneng to defend the city with the main force instead of Yuelu Mountain, the city of Changsha, which had been held for nearly seven years, was captured by the Japanese army in just one day, and the Fourth Army was completely defeated. After the destruction of Changsha City, Zhao Zili quickly rushed to Guilin and reported the causes and consequences to Bai Chongxi, and there were also Wang Yaowu and other witnesses, so when the responsibility was pursued after the war, Zhang Deneng was tried and executed, and Zhao Zili was relieved of responsibility.
Old Chiang's warrant was: "Zhao Chief of Staff is not responsible for actual command, and should not be discussed.", the final result of the handling was to be dismissed, and then guaranteed to the army university general officer class A first stage of study, that is to say, after the defeat of the Battle of Changheng, Zhao Zili left the Ninth Theater and Xue Yue's side, and went to Lu University to study, and the intersection and contradictions between the two people came to an end. As a result of this experience, Zhao Zili gradually got closer and closer to Bai Chongxi, and became the commander of the 127th Army in the late stage of the Liberation War, which belonged to the combat sequence of the Central China Suppression Army, but he was not a member of the Gui clan, so he could not get real trust.
On December 26, 1949, Zhao Zili, commander of the 127th Army and commander-in-chief of the 2nd Road Appeasement, declared an uprising in Bazhong, Sichuan, and later became a member and standing committee member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.