Zhao Zili was quite talented, and more than ten years younger than Xue Yue, so at that time Xue Yue was very important to him, specially cultivating Zhao Zili, and as Zhao Zili's status gradually improved, he began to have his own ideas, and often had some differences of opinion with Xue Yue.
After Xue Yue's chief of staff, Wu Yizhi, was removed from the post of chief of staff by Chiang Kai-shek, Xue Yue elected Zhao Zili as his chief of staff, but unfortunately, the cooperation between the two was quite unpleasant, causing many contradictions, and even in the whole process of cooperation, Xue Yue obviously did not want to see Zhao Zili.
Wu Yizhi was removed from his post by Chiang Kai-shek
Wu Yizhi and Xue Yue were classmates during the baoding military academy, the two were similar in age, studied together, and later participated in the battle together, working side by side for many years, the relationship was basically a brother and sister, just like an old brother and old friend, which is also the main reason why Xue Yue can always work with Wu Yizhi.
After Xue Yue gradually gained high power and won three victories in the defense of Changsha, Xue Yue had gradually become arrogant and proud, and in his eyes, he basically only gave some face to Chiang Kai-shek and his close associate Chen Cheng, and the rest of the people Xue Yue would not give face, and even in many cases, due to experience, Xue Yue was not very willing to listen to the opinions of others, just like a hall of words, which led to no one willing or able to work peacefully with Xue Yue.
Unlike others, Wu Yizhi relied on the friendship accumulated by the two for many years to work with Xue Yue for many years, and almost did not cause any major contradictions, but unfortunately, in the case of victory in the Third Battle of Changsha and the Japanese army did not dare to invade Changsha for about two and a half years, Wu Yizhi, the chief of staff of the theater, had nothing to do, so he wrote a paper entitled "On the Importance of the Asian Battlefield", which was immediately submitted to Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing.
Chiang Kai-shek probably did not carefully read the article written by Wu Yizhi at that time, and in order to encourage the generals to maintain the good habit of thinking, Chiang Kai-shek specially commented on the article to encourage Wu Yizhi, who had thought that Wu Yizhi, who was the chief of staff of the lieutenant general, was quite happy after seeing Chiang Kai-shek's reply, and for a while he lost himself a little.
In fact, there were many things in the article written by Wu Yizhi at that time that could not withstand scrutiny and was not mature enough, and it was precisely because Chiang Kai-shek did not look carefully and did not attract attention, and hastily approved and encouraged Wu Yizhi, which made him have the illusion and made a mistake that Chiang Kai-shek could not forgive.
Wu Yizhi in the excitement, actually a moment of hot head, the article to the foreign ministry work cousin to the US military general to see, perhaps coincidentally, this article to go to many places, actually went to the hands of the US President Roosevelt at that time, Roosevelt estimated to hold a similar mentality to Chiang Kai-shek, the content of this article did not carefully review, just to maintain the relationship between the national government and the United States, Roosevelt specially wrote a reply to Wu Yizhi, He said he would ask the Joint Chiefs of Staff to look specifically at some of the options mentioned in his article.
Obviously, Roosevelt's words were just a polite remark, but under the special historical background at that time and Wu Yizhi's special mentality, he actually took Roosevelt's reply to the letter as true, and naively thought that his article would attract the attention of Roosevelt and even the United States.
Wu Yizhi, in addition to being excited, immediately called to tell Chiang Kai-shek about this matter, he thought that Chiang Kai-shek should praise himself, who had thought that this time Wu Yizhi touched Chiang Kai-shek's bottom line, and after he gleefully reported the situation, he got a reply: "Dismissal, strict handling by the Military Judicial Executive Director Department."
Chiang Kai-shek has always disliked his subordinates' private contacts with the US side, at a lesser extent saying that this was an ultra vires exchange, and at a larger level it may be collaborating with the enemy and treason, as a leader, of course, this kind of behavior of subordinates cannot be tolerated, and Wu Yizhi may have really done such a stupid thing because he was too leisurely and led to a hot head.
At the very beginning, Chiang Kai-shek planned to directly imprison Wu Yizhi and go to chongqing for work, but at this point, the intersection between Wu Yizhi and Xue Yue gradually decreased.
Xue Yue recommended Zhao Zili as chief of staff in the theater
Zhao Zili was more than ten years younger than Xue Yue, and was from Huangpu, who was born in the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and his seniority was much younger than that of Xue Yue and Wu Yizhi's predecessors, and in terms of closeness, he could not be compared with Wu Yizhi, after all, Xue Yue had always disliked Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu family members.
However, Zhao Zili's military ability and ability in all aspects are still quite good, so Xue Yue has already paid more attention to him before he has shown the mountain dew, and gradually reused Zhao Zili, and it is reasonable to say that the relationship between Xue Yue and Zhao Zili should still be very good.
However, after Zhao Zili gradually increased his status, he also had his own independent ideas, although these ideas fully demonstrated the existence of immaturity after many practical proofs, but Zhao Zili still insisted on his own opinions, and often disagreed with Xue Yue because of disagreements, resulting in the relationship between the two and Zhao Zili's status rising to show an inverse relationship.
By the time Wu Yizhi was dismissed and transferred by Chiang Kai-shek, in fact, the relationship between Xue Yue and Zhao Zili was much worse than before, but because no one was really willing to cooperate with Xue Yue at that time, after comprehensive consideration, Xue Yue could only recommend this young man who had worked with him to take on this heavy responsibility.
Xue Yue's move, on the one hand, is to consider that Zhao Zili still has some friendship with himself, even if he is his own person, in his usual work, he will still obey his own arrangements; on the other hand, Xue Yue also has his own selfish intentions, if he does not recommend Zhao Zili to serve as the chief of staff of the theater, in case Chiang Kai-shek parachutes the rest of his cronies to take up the post, it will be even worse for Xue Yue.
At first, Xue Yue thought that Zhao Zili would obey his own arrangement, and at the same time, he also thought that all his ideas must be correct, but the ensuing war made Xue Yue himself unexpected. In May 1944, intelligence gathered from various parties indicated that the Japanese army might launch a large-scale war.
After Zhao Zili got this news, he constantly reminded Xue Yue that the Japanese army might make a big move and told Xue Yue to be ready, but Xue Yue thought that the Japanese army had been scared by himself, and he had no strength to launch a large-scale war.
The two had a great conflict on this matter, Xue Yue was also a little arrogant and proud at that time, quite dissatisfied with Zhao Zili's behavior, and gradually excluded it from the power center, Zhao Zili was completely in the dark about what was going to happen next, and he didn't know anything at all.
This battle was indeed as Zhao Zili said, the Japanese army launched a large-scale war, Xue Yue's army could not resist at all, and soon collapsed, seeing that the war situation was decided, Xue Yue himself was worried that he would take responsibility, so he withdrew with his cronies, and before withdrawing, he did a very unauthentic thing.
At first, Zhao Zili thought that Xue Yue was planning to entrust all the wars in Changsha to himself, but when Zhao Zili found that there was obviously a problem with the defensive deployment of Zhang Deneng, the commander of the Fourth Army, and planned to command all military work in Changsha as chief of staff, Zhang Deneng told him that this was Xue Yue's arrangement.
Zhao Zili was so angry that he immediately called Xue Yue to ask him, who ever wanted Xue Yue to tell him about the military side or listen to Zhang Deneng, he stayed in Changsha mainly responsible for liaison work, you must know that Zhao Zili was still the chief of staff of the theater no matter what, he could only stay in Changsha to communicate, but he did not have any real power, what is the use of this chief of staff?
Later, Zhao Zili understood that Xue Yue's move was to throw the blame for the defeat of the Fourth Battle of Changsha to himself, and after the defeat of the Fourth Battle of Changsha, Chiang Kai-shek began to question the principal responsible personnel, because Zhao Zili was the supreme commander who remained in Changsha at that time, so there was no doubt that he was held responsible, and Chiang Kai-shek planned to shoot him, fortunately, Zhao Zili had more Huangpu classmates, and with the help of everyone, Zhao Zili was able to reflect the real situation on the battlefield to Chiang Kai-shek.
After some interrogation, Chiang Kai-shek confirmed that Zhao Zili did not have actual command on the battlefield at that time, so he did not shoot him, but only removed him from his post as chief of staff of the theater and sent him to the Army University to study the first phase of the general rank A. Zhang Deneng, who did not listen to the command at that time, was shot without any doubt.
After this incident, the relationship between Zhao Zili and Xue Yue had no room for relaxation at all, and later Zhao Zili gradually moved closer to Bai Chongxi, but still could not be reused, in the late stage of the Liberation War as the commander of the 127th Army, seeing that the Kuomintang army had the upper hand in the Liberation War, and finally Zhao Zili led the 127th Army to announce the uprising in Sichuan Bazhong on December 26, 1949, and joined the People's Liberation Army.
Why didn't Xue Yue wait to see Zhao Zili?
After talking about the contradiction between the two people, let's analyze in detail why Xue Yue did not want to see Zhao Zili at that time? In fact, if we analyze it from the perspective of human feelings and political interests, it is enough to draw the root cause of the contradiction between the two people.
From the perspective of human sophistication, Zhao Zili was promoted by Xue Yue at the beginning, and under Xue Yue's trust and reuse, he climbed up step by step and got a good position.
However, as his position rose, Zhao Zili not only did not appreciate Xue Yue's kindness in that year, but often had differences of opinion with Xue Yue in front of everyone, which made Xue Yue obviously unable to pass on his face
The most crucial thing is that it turns out that many of Zhao Zili's opinions against Xue Yue are wrong, which is even more embarrassing.
In today's terms, Zhao Zili seems to be a little ignorant of human feelings, and he still has a sense of leverage, knowing that his opinions cannot withstand scrutiny, and he still insists on competing with Xue Yue, which has affected Xue Yue's prestige in the army, so Xue Yue naturally becomes more and more reluctant to see Zhao Zili.
In terms of political interests, Xue Yue had always disliked Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu concubines, and it just so happened that Zhao Zili was a huangpu graduate, and Xue Yue did not trust him enough, and even somewhat excluded him, which was also determined by the political interests at that time
After all, at that time, the phenomenon of group heating within the Kuomintang was relatively obvious.
We can see this from the fact that Zhao Zili followed Bai Chongxi and still could not be reused, Bai Chongxi trusted gui people, and Zhao Zili was not from the gui clan, and Bai Chongxi naturally did not treat and reuse Zhao Zili much for political interests. To some extent, Zhao Zili was like a kind of marginal person at that time, whether it was for Chiang Kai-shek, for Xue Yue or for Bai Chongxi, he could not enter his inner circle, so it was normal for him not to be welcomed.
epilogue
I have to say that although Xue Yue is indeed very talented in the military field, and the victory won in the three battles of Changsha has made the name Xue Yue immortal in the history of war, his personality is still somewhat arrogant and arrogant, and it is precisely for this reason that Xue Yue is not welcomed by Chiang Kai-shek, especially after going to Taiwan, Xue Yue's situation is even worse, and in his later years he actually went to court because he could not afford to pay the rent, which is really a sigh!
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