A 97-year-old anti-Japanese fighter, who was accused of rent arrears, went to court and immediately sighed in court in public: "I have eliminated 100,000 Japanese troops." ”
This incident occurred on August 21, 1993, and this trial seems to be of great significance today, because there are anti-Japanese veterans in the court to express their dissatisfaction, and thousands of Taiwanese citizens outside the court shouting and protesting, and it can be seen that the elderly in the trial are the obstacles in their hearts.
The old man exclaimed in court: "I have defended my family and defended the country all my life, killed 100,000 Japanese troops, and now I have been tried by my own people." ”
What kind of meritorious contributions did this old man make to the anti-Japanese resistance? What was the final verdict of the court?
The old man's name was Xue Yue, and it could be seen from his name that his parents hoped that he could be as loyal to the country as Yue Fei and be a useful person to the country, and his life was indeed spent in this way, without failing to live up to his parents' expectations.
Xue Yue went to study at a military academy when he was 10 years old, and when his peers were still playing, he understood the importance of the state.
After successfully graduating from the military academy for 3 years, Xue Yue entered the Second Reserve Army of the Wuchang Army for further study, during these two years, Xue Yue's mood of wanting to protect the motherland became more and more intense, and finally he waited for the opportunity to show his fists, and joining the revolutionary army was the beginning of his ideal.
After successfully joining the revolutionary army, Xue Yue knew that he had a very heavy burden on his body, so in the many battles that followed, Xue Yue became a big red man in the army at that time with his outstanding performance, and in July 1924, he was given the opportunity to work under the old Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, he was highly valued by Lao Jiang because of his superior strength, and it took only one year to become the deputy division commander, and at this time, Xue Yue had become the leader in everyone's mind.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Xue Yue won a great victory in the Battle of Songhu with his own strength, and he won many victories in various battles that followed, allowing the Japanese army to see Xue Yue's strength, and it is no exaggeration to say that Xue Yue was definitely a presence that made the Japanese army feel frightened.
Later, in the Battle of Wanjialing, Xue Yue led the Kuomintang army and the Japanese 106th Division to fight, which was a battle with very little chance of victory in the eyes of outsiders, because the Japanese army at that time was well equipped and had very advanced weapons, but Xue Yue did not care at all, bent on annihilating the Japanese army, so he used a simple encirclement tactic to counterattack the Japanese army.
At first, many people did not believe that Xue Yue could win with such simple tactics, but it turned out that they were wrong, and the battle ended with the victory of Xue Yue's troops, successfully annihilating more than 10,000 Japanese troops, and also capturing a lot of sophisticated weapons, sending a lot of supplies to the Kuomintang arsenal.
After this battle, the Japanese army was completely confused, and they could not believe that our country could have such a powerful general.
In the subsequent battle, Xue Yue once again showed his strength, using his original heavenly furnace tactics, successfully suppressing the Japanese army again and again, so that the morale of the Kuomintang was greatly increased, it can be said that Xue Yue made a very outstanding contribution to the later victory of the anti-Japanese war and laid a very good foundation.
It is worth mentioning that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army invading China at that time was amazed by Xue Yue's talent and admired him so much that he threw himself to the ground, but it was such a powerful existence that he could not even pay the rent in his later years, which really made people sigh.
Looking back on the many battles that Xue Yue participated in, the Battle of Changsha was his battle of the gods, when Xue Yue relied on his original Heavenly Furnace tactics to confront the Japanese army, and this battle directly caused 117,500 casualties of the Japanese army, which was a devastating blow to the Japanese army.
However, it is worth mentioning that this battle was not carried out smoothly in the early stages, and even Xue Yue was advised by others to leave Changsha quickly, there was no need to continue to stay here in Changsha, and even Old Jiang wanted to evacuate.
The reason why everyone has this idea is entirely because Changsha is located in a hilly area that is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and once someone comes in, it will most likely be destroyed, so in order to reduce the damage to personnel, everyone proposes to evacuate.
But at this time, Xue Yue was very stubborn, and he was resolutely unwilling to withdraw, because in Xue Yue's view, Changsha was very important, it was the granary of the world, and once it was robbed by the Japanese army, it would be very unfavorable to the future war of resistance, and he had to fight for more chances for the future, so Changsha must be preserved, and he must also stay.
In the face of the persuasion of everyone, Xue Yue still insisted on his own ideas, he said that he wanted to coexist and die with Xiang Province, and made a military order, claiming that he would fight the Japanese army in Changsha, and if he finally failed, he would commit suicide to thank the country, and if he won, he would disobey, and it would not be too late to shoot himself when the time came.
It was precisely because of Xue Yue's insistence that Old Jiang agreed to let him guard Changsha, and this time the Battle of Changsha was fought three times, and each time it was shocking and made the Japanese army afraid.
The Battle of Changsha occurred in September 1939, when in order to quickly occupy Changsha, the Japanese commander directly mobilized 100,000 troops and set out for Changsha in three ways, hoping to take Changsha in one fell swoop.
At this time, although Xue Yue's troops had previously captured Japanese ammunition, their military equipment was still inferior to the Japanese army, and there were hundreds of fighter aircraft and 300 ships, while the conditions of Xue Yue's troops were a bit worse than those of the Japanese army.
But even so, Xue Yue still faced the difficulties, and once again used his own heavenly furnace tactics, ambushing the troops in the necessary places of the three units of the Japanese army, hitting them by surprise, no matter which of their troops attacked, what awaited them was the envelopment of Xue Yue's army, using the tactics of the sea of people to deal with the Japanese army.
In the First Battle of Changsha, Xue Yue's troops fought fiercely with the Japanese army for nearly 20 days, when more than 40,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, which greatly increased the morale of Xue Yue's troops.
At the same time, the Japanese army, which did not accept defeat, wanted to make a comeback and attacked Changsha again in September 1941, this time the Japanese army was no longer as tentative as the last time, and directly concentrated 150,000 troops to attack Changsha strongly, but this time the Japanese army still suffered defeat.
In December 1941, after three months, the third battle began, when the Japanese army sneaked into the Pearl Harbor military base in the United States, the Pacific War broke out, at this time the Japanese army wanted to take this opportunity to take Changsha, sent more than 2 times the military strength of Xue Yue's troops, it can be seen that this time the Japanese army is inevitable, but what everyone did not expect is that this time it is still Xue Yue who won, and the Japanese army was forced to evacuate with heavy casualties.
In general, although the Japanese army was well-equipped, it still lost to the unremitting Xue Yue, and under xue Yue's strong defense, it not only successfully defended Changsha, but also eliminated 110,000 enemy people.
Therefore, after these three battles in Changsha, the Japanese army instigated, they did not dare to attack Changsha for many years, as long as Xue Yue was in Changsha, they hid far away, and since then Xue Yue's title of "Tiger of Changsha" has appeared.
Of course, Xue Yue, who can lead the troops to repeated battles and victories, his own strength is naturally very strong, if you use a word to describe him, it is Xiao Yong and good at war.
However, what was surprising was that Xue Yue, such a crack general, failed to gain the trust and reuse of Old Jiang after this, and once almost killed Xue Yue. Why didn't Old Jiang like Xue Yue? What exactly is the grudge between the two?
In fact, the reason why Old Jiang did not like Xue Yue can basically be divided into three points: First, Xue Yue repeatedly did not obey Old Jiang's orders and worked against Old Jiang. Although sometimes Lao Jiang knew that Xue Yue had done the right thing, old Jiang still did not look at this kind of behavior of publicly disobeying orders and refuting his face.
Second, because Xue Yue once had the idea of showing favor to our party, this was absolutely not allowed by old Chiang Kai-shek, because what old Chiang always wanted to do most was to unify the Kuomintang and become the greatest leader.
To this end, lao Jiang also made a lot of efforts, and also tried to win over the United States and Stalin to help him, but he had no choice but to end in failure, so after learning that Xue Yue had this idea, lao Jiang was already angry and it was impossible to reuse Xue Yue.
Third, in 1927, when the workers were armed with an uprising, Bai Chongxi ordered Xue Yue to suppress the workers and prevent them from causing chaos, but he did not expect that Xue Yue not only did not suppress them, but also protected these workers, which made old Jiang angry and immediately dismissed them.
Combined with the above three reasons, even if Xue Yue had great ability, Old Jiang would still not reuse him.
In 1928, the warlords within the Kuomintang were chaotic, and all factional relations became very complicated and changeable, at this time Xue Yue also found his own opportunity to turn around, and Xue Yue, who was initially dismissed, first came to Li Jishen's side, and then went to Zhang Fakui's side, but there was no major improvement.
Maybe it was fate that xue yue still returned to old Jiang's side, but even so, old Jiang was still full of doubts about Xue Yue, and he was difficult everywhere, and even the position was not arranged for him.
In desperation, Xue Yue chose to go south to participate in the activities aimed at overthrowing lao Jiang's leadership, after all, there would inevitably be mustard in his heart without heavy use, but after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Xue Yue still put aside his previous grudges and returned to Lao Jiang's troops, and was made a great battle merit by lao Jiang.
This time, Old Jiang finally looked at Xue Yue differently and wanted to requisition him, so he sent him to confront the Central China Field Army, but he did not expect to be completely annihilated by our army.
This made Old Jiang angry again, believing that Xue Yue's heart had always been toward our party, so he once again dismissed Xue Yue from his post, and this time Xue Yue was completely beaten to the bottom, and his later life was also very unsatisfactory.
Although Xue Yue in his later years was still superior in strength, but also because of this righteous spirit, he was also exhausted by the villain's conspiracy, and Lao Jiang naturally did not like it, so after the defeat of the Liberation War, Lao Jiang fled to the Taiwan area with the rest of the people, and he was even more dissatisfied with Xue Yue and completely emptied it.
It can be said that Xue Yue's later life was quite lonely, and the trial results given by the court made his later life even worse.
At that time, Xue Yue was at the scene of the trial, lamenting that he had annihilated 100,000 Japanese troops, but now he was tried by his own people, these words have long been in tears in the eyes of others, but everyone is equal in front of the law, the court did not open a side to Xue Yue, and the final trial result still required Xue Yue to pay a high rent debt and move away from the original residence previously allocated.
The outcome of this trial made Xue Yue's already poor old age even more bleak, but fortunately, there were well-meaning people who helped him pay off all his debts and provided him with a place to live.
In the face of Xue Yue's later life, we can't help but sigh, once upon a time he was also a great hero who killed countless enemies on the battlefield, a fierce general in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and made countless military achievements for the country, but he did not expect to end up in such a place in his later years.
It is worth mentioning that there is a different situation in Xue Yue's hometown of Shaoguan, where people remember all of Xue Yue's efforts and pass on his great deeds from generation to generation.
He is a great hero in the hearts of the people of Shaoguan and an example for future generations to learn from, and his old site in Shaoguan has also been renovated by people and has become the former residence of the hero.
In this way, Xue Yue's life was not in vain, and when he was young, he did not fight in vain, at least the people in his hometown remembered him, respected him, and loved him.
At the same time, Xue Yue, who was far away in Taiwan, was also thinking of his motherland and his hometown.
On May 3, 1998, Xue Yue died in a dilapidated farmhouse in the Taiwan area at the age of 103.
No one knows what Xue Yue was thinking at the last moment of his life, maybe Xue Yue was thinking about why he had been a country all his life, but the country treated himself like this, maybe he was thinking about why he had made great achievements for old Jiang but could not be reused, resulting in his bleak old age.
Xue Yue's funeral after his death was also very cold, without the pomp and circumstance of the hero's memorial service, but no matter what, such a hero who had done his best for the country is still worthy of our admiration and eternal memory.