"Tiger Boy", which is the nickname of the famous anti-Japanese general Xue Yue, and the performance of General Xue on the anti-Japanese battlefield is indeed worthy of this title, and his footprints are all over most of China, including the Battle of Wanjialing (
The only battle during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in which almost completely annihilated the entire division of the Japanese army
and the Battle of Changsha (
In the three major wars, a total of about 117,500 enemy soldiers were annihilated
It is the greatest achievement of the general's life, and it is such a famous general, why did Chiang Kai-shek not use him as the "main force" after launching the civil war?
As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek has "three major criteria" for employing people, one is a fellow villager, the other is a cadet graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy or the Baoding Military Academy, and the third is an in-law, and Xue Yue, judging from his seniority, he only barely meets Chiang Kai-shek's second criterion---a graduate of the Baoding Military Academy. In fact, here, we have to mention a figure - Chen Cheng, this person is Chiang Kai-shek's confidant general, known as the "small committee chairman", and is one of the few "Zhejiang people" in the Kuomintang army who can meet these three criteria at the same time, and the relationship between Chen Cheng and Xue Yue is not ordinary, both of them are graduates of the Baoding Military Academy, have the feeling of brotherhood, and have served in the Guangdong Army, during the Second Battle of Changsha, Chen Cheng took the initiative to launch the Yichang counter-offensive war in order to cooperate with Xue Yue's troops. Forcing the Already stretched Japanese army to return again without success after dropping tens of thousands of corpses shows that the reason why Chiang Kai-shek trusted Xue Yue so much during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was not unrelated to Chen Cheng.
In addition to his good relations with Chen Cheng, Xue Yue resolutely carried out Chiang Kai-shek's plan to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army in his early years, and chased all the way from Jiangxi to the southwest region, with a total journey of about 20,000 miles, posing a huge threat to the Red Army.
After the end of the southwest war, although Xue Yue failed to achieve a decisive victory, he "threw beans into soldiers" on the way to the battle, brought the power of the Central Army to the territory of various local powerful factions, and expanded the power of Chiang Kai-shek's rule over the southwestern provinces. After the Battle of Songhu broke out, Xue Yue was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek
Nineteenth Army group of the National Revolutionary Army
The commander-in-chief, assigned to the left-wing army battle sequence commanded by Chen Cheng, this move undoubtedly pushed Xue Yue to Chen Cheng, and Chen Cheng was also very "able to be a man", and since then he has always regarded Xue Yue as a "successor", so that after he was promoted to commander of the Ninth Theater, he still handed over the power to Xue Yue, and only became a nominal "commander" (at that time, Chen Cheng had several positions and could not take care of the Ninth Theater at all, so the command of the theater was always in xue Yue's hands).
Based on the above, Xue Yue's status in Chiang Kai-shek's heart is naturally not low, but why was he not used as a "main force" in the civil war?
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched a civil war in spite of the strong protests of the masses of the people, and sent Xue Yue to attack the liberated areas of northern Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shandong, and as a result, in just over half a year, Xue Yue was dissatisfied with the Kuomintang top level because of successive defeats, and many people suggested that he be dismissed, and his old friend Chen Cheng's situation at this time was also very embarrassing, as the chief of staff, he was also reprimanded by all sides because of the defeat of the entire war situation, if it were not for Chiang Kai-shek's urgent transfer to the northeast battlefield to replace Xiong Shihui. Then his life in Nanjing will not be better, and with Chen Cheng's political and military defeat, Xue Yue naturally has no "backstage" and has to resign and return to Nanjing to resume his life, and this short period of half a year is Xue Yue's only brief appearance in the Liberation War.
Soon after returning to Nanjing, just in time for the Nationalist government to elect "president" and "vice president", there is no doubt that Chiang Kai-shek must be the "president" on the board, but it is not clear who the "vice president" is, so Xue Yue joined forces with Zhang Fakui, Yu Hanmou, and others among the generals of the Cantonese army
A campaign group was set up to prepare for
Sun Ke
The deputy general manager of the campaign co-ordinated funds, solicited votes, and informally set a Sun Ke's"
Shadow Cabinet"
(The content is generally to appoint Zhang Fakui as minister of national defense, Xue Yue as chief of staff, and Yu Hanmou as minister of military affairs.
Chen Ce
for the Secretary of the Navy,
Li Han Soul
as Minister of the Interior,
Zhong Tianxin
As the Minister of Education), the result was revealed, resulting in Chiang Kai-shek, who was already very suspicious, feeling more and more that Xue Yue could no longer be used, so after experiencing this incident, Xue Yue was completely kicked out of the inner circle, until the end of the three major battles, after the cards in Chiang Kai-shek's hand were finished, in order to attract the important people of the Guangdong department, Chiang Kai-shek had to reactivate Zhang Fakui, Xue Yue and others, in an attempt to use the slogan of "Cantonese people governing Guangdong" to attract these generals from the Cantonese army to defend the Guangdong region.
Late in the Liberation War, Wu Qiwei
Together with 7 other Cantonese generals, they declared an uprising and contributed to the peaceful liberation of parts of eastern Guangdong, but Xue Yue did not intend to stop there, trying to use the "Boling Defense Line" again to resist the People's Liberation Army, and as a result, he was completely defeated in the First World War, and he himself had to follow Chiang Kai-shek and retreat to Taiwan, and from then on he lived a life of idleness.
On May 3, 1998, General Xue Yue died in Taiwan at the age of 102.