"Wanli Jiangxiang dreamed of doubt, and eight years of tears paid for the ocean." On August 15, 1945, the news came from the radio that made the whole Chinese nation cheer, the Japanese emperor announced his surrender, and the eight-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was won a comprehensive victory by the Chinese nation.
After hearing the news, the Japanese army, which was still trying to resist on the battlefield, was extinguished by a basin of ice water like a fiery fire, and there was no fighting spirit, only a trembling and raised the white flag. The clouds that had hung over the land of China for many years had finally dissipated, and both soldiers and ordinary people were celebrating and singing in this long-lost sunshine.
In addition to relying on the strength of the Communist Party and the people in the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the role of the Kuomintang on the frontal battlefield cannot be ignored.
Among the Kuomintang ranks was a famous anti-Japanese general, whose self-created tactics strangled countless Japanese on the battlefield, which made the Japanese army feel frightened, and this general was Xue Yue, who enjoyed the name of "God of War". So why did this famous god of war, who made many achievements on the battlefield, gradually lose his reputation in the years after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan and no longer be known to everyone?
Ambitious
Xue Yue was born in a small village in Lechang County, Shaoguan, Guangdong. At that time, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War had just ended, and the humiliating modern history of China had only begun. In the midst of the chaos, warlords are raging, and the lives of the people are miserable.
Xue Yue was not called the current name when he was a child, and his father worshipped Yue Fei, the national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, so he named his son Xue Yangyue.
Because he was deeply affected by his father's ears, Xue Yue also took the revival of the nation as his ambition, ignited the blood in his heart, he directly changed his name to Xue Yue, he was not just admiring and worshipping Yue Fei, he must hope that he could become the "Yue Fei" at the time of the life and death of this nation, and become a soldier hero who loyally served the country and killed the enemy for the country.
It is precisely because of this heavy but bright heroic dream that Xue Yue entered the Whampoa Military Academy Primary School at the age of 11, and then was admitted to the Army Academy and joined the wave of revolution. By the age of 22, he had joined Sun Yat-sen's Army to aid the Fujian-Cantonese Army, and by the age of 24 had become a battalion commander.
"Drunkenly pick up the lamp and look at the sword, dream back to blow the horns and camp." He was almost a natural soldier, and he was still a shining star in the talented army, and even Dr. Sun Yat-sen valued him very much.
In the years that followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen, he made great achievements, earned a very brave nickname "Tiger Boy", and was also called the "Three Musketeers of the Cantonese Army" with two other great generals, Zhang Fakui and Ye Ting.
In the wind-like youth, this young soldier had never experienced the wind and snow and the melancholy of youth, but he crawled in the billowing smoke and dust on the battlefield, tasting the spicy spirits brewed with victory after victory.
The name of the God of War
Throughout the vast history of ancient times, all the famous heroes and generals can always create a set of tactics that are most suitable for themselves in the rapidly changing battlefield situation and from the ever-changing ancient martial arts.
"The frost is full of heart blood, sprinkled on the Qianfeng Qiuye Dan." Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, used the Mandarin Duck Array when he resisted the Wu Dynasty, and beat those stubborn Wukou to no avail.
And Xue Yue, a soldier who had already shone on the battlefield with his outstanding talent at a young age, naturally absorbed the essence of the martial arts of his predecessors, combined with his own style and actual situation, and created a combat method of his own, that is, the "Heavenly Furnace Combat Method".
The so-called Heavenly Furnace Tactics is to skillfully lay out the troops as a network of strongholds, to defeat the enemy army in a segmented way of consumption, and when the enemy army wakes up to something wrong, it is as powerless to escape as the elixir in the furnace, only to be swallowed up little by little by the soldiers who attack rapidly like fire.
After he became the commander-in-chief of the First Corps of the First Theater of the Kuomintang War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xue Yue relied on this mysterious Heavenly Furnace Tactic to march all the way in the subsequent battles against the Japanese Kou, which can be described as "one body turned three thousand miles, and one sword once became a million divisions." ”
In the Battle of Wanjialing, Xue Yue led the Nationalist army to cooperate with the communist army and fought with the Japanese for 12 days. The incessant barrage of artillery fire and gunfire is a fierce battle, a contest between life and death, a duel between flesh and soul. By the end of the battle, both the Nationalist and Communist armies and the Japanese were already relying on their own beliefs to support the advance and not give up.
In the end, the Japanese Suzuki Wing was completely annihilated, and the Japanese army was annihilated by more than 10,000 people, which was an unprecedented victory in the history of the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation and resistance, and this victory belonged to this talented heroic general and to the thousands of soldiers who participated in the battle.
A year later, in the Battle of Changsha, Xue Yue, with the astonishing record of annihilating more than 110,000 Japanese troops, was like a fierce wolf tearing apart those Japanese troops who could only retreat one by one, and the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, Ningji Gangcun, once sighed: "It is easy to shake the mountain, it is difficult to shake General Xue!" ”
The great victory in the Battle of Changsha made Xue Yue receive the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun personally given by Chiang Kai-shek, and also won the well-known title of "God of War", which encouraged all the Chinese and made history add this heavy stroke to him.
Much suspected
Xue Yue, who shone brilliantly on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, was like a meteor after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, although all the brilliance bloomed on the sky, but it quickly fell silently. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, after only a very brief period of calm, Chiang Kai-shek tore up the Double Tenth Agreement, which heralded the arrival of the War of Liberation.
Xue Yue, who performed particularly well in the War of Resistance Against Japan, was not highly valued by Chiang Kai-shek in the War of Liberation. At this time, the spring breeze of the Communist Party had almost blown to the entire land of China, and Xue Yue could no longer be as relaxed as he had been against the Japanese Kou when facing the tactically flexible communist army, and often suffered.
As the saying goes, "Wood shows the forest, and the wind will destroy it." Xue Yue's innate ability to lead the army enabled him to assume the title of "God of War", but he was also slandered and criticized by others because of his popularity, and because of his poor performance, even Chiang Kai-shek gradually stopped trusting this general who had made great achievements.
After three years of the Liberation War, after the Battle of the Crossing Sea, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and had to retreat to Taiwan, and Xue Yue also went with him. It's just that Xue Yue probably couldn't imagine that he would end up spending the rest of his life on this small island, in a different place.
A miserable old age
In May 1998, in a low, dilapidated farmhouse on the island of Taiwan, a white-haired old man lay dying on his bed. The May wind gradually warmed up, but it never blew the heart in the old man's chest that was already unable to beat.
Just as he was dying, the old man sighed and softly uttered his last words: "It is better to use slaves than talents!" "Who is this old man?" He was the former "God of War", the general Xue Yuexue who had made a name for himself on the battlefield, and what he was accusing was Chiang Kai-shek, who was full of doubts about him and no longer used him.
Xue Yue, who followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, could no longer go to the battlefield, and the military power in his hands was also hollowed out, and he completely became a commander of the light pole.
"The general went to the three armies to disperse, and the green mountains were white in one night." In the past, everything that had been in full swing on the battlefield was already passing through the clouds, and sometimes Xue Yue would stare at the other side of the strait, in the direction of his hometown, he missed his once spirited self, and also sighed at the leisure and boredom of his life now.
Such a dazzling heroic soldier can only live in seclusion between the mountains and rivers, which is as regrettable as the pearl dust. But "ten years of drinking ice, it is difficult to cool the blood." ”
The eight words that Xue Yue said before his death, the accusations and accusations against Chiang Kai-shek between the lines, may be precisely because he still harbors a national dream that has never been extinguished, and he still wants to be the general who killed the enemy for the country and live a life of fighting horses and horses.
brief summary:
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. In the modern history of our country, the Chinese nation has been bullied and abused by the great powers, but it has never lost its backbone, we resist, we struggle, we will never kneel.
Xue Yue is such a well-deserved anti-Japanese hero, in his heart there will always be the spirit of the Chinese nation burning, he is also a shining star in the long river of history of those national heroes, "God of War" and "Hero" these two titles he deserves!