Why can't the Kuomintang defeat the Communists? Presumably, for this issue, people have always been particularly interested, and many people have their own understanding and views on this issue, especially when we stand today and analyze the problem from the perspective and perspective of a saint, it is even more clear at a glance.
Of course, today I do not intend to use our current vision to study this issue, but intend to use the mouth of Zhang Xueliang, who personally experienced that period of history, to study this question together, and the answer to this question, Zhang Xueliang specifically talked about his own views in his later years.
In his later years, Zhang Xueliang
The main reason: the Kuomintang lacked faith
In Colombia's "Yi di Shu Zhai" there are many oral texts of Zhang Xueliang, among which there are zhang Xueliang's analysis records of the question of "why the Kuomintang could not defeat the Communist Party" in his later years.
In Zhang Xueliang's view, one of the main reasons why the Kuomintang could not defeat the Communist Party was that the Kuomintang lacked faith, and the Communist Party, whether it was an officer or an ordinary soldier, had firm faith. Why did Zhang Xueliang come to this conclusion? That was an objective conclusion he came from in combination with some of his own history.
Zhang Xueliang said that as early as the Kuomintang carried out "encirclement and suppression" of the Communist Party, but he could not achieve its goal for a long time, he had already told Chiang Kai-shek that "the Communist Party cannot be completely suppressed." The reason why he was able to draw this conclusion at that time was because Zhang Xueliang was the commander-in-chief and deputy commander in charge of suppressing the Communist Party, and he personally participated in many activities of "encircling and suppressing" the Communist Party. Only then was the Communist fighters able to see death as a homecoming, and to participate in the Long March of 2550000 miles without hesitation.
Zhang Xueliang saw too many examples of Communist fighters sacrificing their own lives for the sake of the party and others, and he did not understand why this was at first, until later he understood that this was faith, and only when a person or a political party had a firm belief and a clear direction of the goal could he have this spirit of seeing death as a homecoming, because in their eyes, everything they did was not only for themselves, but for the party and the future.
Young Zhang Xueliang
On the other hand, although the Kuomintang sings about the belief in the Three People's Principles all day long, it is estimated that even Chiang Kai-shek himself cannot figure out what the real Three People's Principles are, but he just sings them without any faith or central idea, which is a kind of nihilism, Zhang Xueliang said that the so-called beliefs of the Kuomintang are like old chinese wives who mutter", "Amitabha Buddha" all day long, but they do not know what these four words mean.
It is precisely because there is no faith, so the Kuomintang is just like a scattered sand, the top leaders on the surface singing the Three People's Principles, but once they encounter danger, the first to retreat are these people, Zhang Xueliang said a particularly impressive thing, that is, the scene when Wang Jingwei was assassinated, when the murderer had been subdued by Zhang Xueliang and others, when Zhang Xueliang went to the scene, he found that some Kuomintang soldiers were still breaking the gun gate, and they could not open it, not only that, when they went to the toilet, He found a man sitting in the toilet, people asked him what he was doing, he said he went to the toilet, but why did he sit on the floor when he went to the toilet?
In fact, this person was a member of the Central Committee at that time, after hearing the gunshots, he was frightened to run to the toilet, in order to prevent the assassins from knowing that he was a member of the Central Committee, he also threw his work card in the toilet, such a ridiculous scene actually happened to a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.
The senior leaders are greedy for life and afraid of death, have no faith, only think about their own interests, and the soldiers below are just like mercenaries, not only are they not united, but they are not willing to really fight for your lives, such a political party, want to compete with the Communist Party with "communism" in its heart, it is obviously impossible, failure is only a matter of time.
Chiang Kai-shek
Treat the concubines differently from the miscellaneous army
If we want to say that the absence of faith is the most important reason why the Kuomintang cannot defeat the Communist Party, then Chiang Kai-shek's different attitudes toward the yan and miscellaneous troops are the essential reasons for constantly depleting the Kuomintang and causing differences within the Kuomintang. Zhang Xueliang, as the leader of the Northeast Army, had the deepest understanding of this matter.
At that time, Zhang Xueliang chose northeast Yizhi for the general trend of national development, and at the very beginning Zhang Xueliang was absolutely obedient to Chiang Kai-shek and the central authorities, basically reaching the point of blind obedience without asking reasons, so when the Japanese army invaded northeast China, Zhang Xueliang obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders and left without firing a shot, which had a great impact on Zhang Xueliang's life. At the very beginning, Zhang Xueliang still felt that Chiang Kai-shek must have had his own far-sightedness, and would ask him to do so, but later Zhang Xueliang found out that Chiang Kai-shek did not have any far-sightedness, but only to borrow a knife to kill people.
After Zhang Xueliang gave up resistance, he continued to obey Chiang Kai-shek's orders to "encircle and suppress" the Communist Party, but in the process, Zhang Xueliang once again found a problem: the troops sent by Chiang Kai-shek to "encircle and suppress" the Communist Party were all miscellaneous troops, and there was no Central Army at all, and at this time Zhang Xueliang began to have some doubts and dissatisfaction.
Immediately afterward, Zhang Xueliang lost two divisions in the process of "encircling and suppressing" the Communist Party, and he asked Chiang Kai-shek to let him recruit people to replenish his troops, but Chiang Kai-shek resolutely disagreed, saying that the whole country would no longer expand the recruitment of soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek in his youth
In addition, Zhang Xueliang was even more dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek that after his soldiers died because of the "encirclement and suppression" of the Communist Party, he himself took out some pensions for the soldiers, and then applied to the central authorities to give some pensions to the soldiers, but Chiang Kai-shek did not take them out, and also issued a blank check and asked the soldiers to go to the northeast to collect them.
That is, after these things, Zhang Xueliang became more and more dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, and he believed that Chiang Kai-shek's treatment of the army was very different, the Central Army was his own son, and he wanted to give everything, and the miscellaneous army was to do what he wanted to do to his son or daughter-in-law, and wanted to give nothing.
Passionate about power grabs
For example, in the process of "encircling and suppressing" the Communist Party, many miscellaneous troops were worried about being killed by Chiang Kai-shek with a knife, so they were unwilling to go all out, and even fought with the Communist Party, and the Communist Army also understood that the Miscellaneous Army was unwilling to fight for Chiang Kai-shek, and the Communist Army also understood that the Miscellaneous Army was unwilling to fight for Chiang Kai-shek, so it was often moved by emotion and knew the reason, and everyone was at peace.
Originally, he lost the hearts and minds of the miscellaneous troops, and as a result, Chiang Kai-shek still employed slaves, did not use talents, and was keen on playing with power, resulting in even those capable generals in the Central Army slowly beginning to no longer trust Chiang Kai-shek and were unwilling to fight for his life.
In this regard, Zhang Xueliang said a more typical example.
Temporary
Zhang Xueliang said that Chiang Kai-shek especially trusted Chen Cheng, and once everyone held a meeting together, Chiang Kai-shek did not speak, Chen Cheng did not speak, Zhang Xueliang thought that they all acquiesced, but after the meeting was adjourned, Gu Zhutong, who was beside him, told Zhang Xueliang that Chen Cheng would definitely go to find Chiang Kai-shek afterwards, and the decision made today was estimated to change tomorrow.
Chiang Kai-shek just likes to listen to people make small reports, but he is not very willing to listen to the correct opinions said on the table; he is keen on playing with power and dealing with those slaves who completely obey his own words, such as Chen Cheng and Dai Kasa, Chiang Kai-shek will continue to reuse them, and the real talents, because they will not all obey Chiang Kai-shek's words, will be squeezed out, and over time, the high-level officials of the Kuomintang will basically become obedient slaves instead of talents, such a political party, want to do great things, How is that possible?
It can be said that the Kuomintang was constantly in decline because of Chiang Kai-shek's playing with power tricks, internal struggle for power and profit, and slavery, which led to its constant decline and decline; just as Zhang Xueliang said, before the Xi'an Incident, he had a serious quarrel with Chiang Kai-shek over the issues of "internal and external affairs" and "internal and external security." At that time, Chiang Kai-shek believed that only the Communist Party could seize his political power, so it was necessary to eliminate the Communist Party first and then resist Japan.
Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek had different opinions, he believed that whether it was the Communist Party or the Kuomintang, first of all, everyone was Chinese, and only by getting the Japanese first and then talking about their own affairs was the most appropriate, and besides, even if there was no Communist Party, in terms of the Kuomintang's urine nature, it would be replaced by the rest of the parties.
epilogue
Finally, to sum up this article with a classic sentence that Zhang Xueliang said to the Kuomintang, when someone said that the Kuomintang lost the mainland, Zhang Xueliang righteously said: "It is not the Kuomintang that has lost the mainland, but the people of the mainland do not want the Kuomintang." Since ancient times, those who have won the hearts of the people have won the world, and those who have lost the hearts of the people have lost the world, which is an iron law of eternity!
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