General Jiang Baili, a native of Jiaoshi Town, Haining Prefecture, Hangzhou Province, Zhejiang Province, was a famous military theorist and military educator during the Republic of China period. He was a giant in Chinese military science along with Li Yuri in Guangdong and Yang Jie in Yunnan at that time, so he was well-known at home and abroad. In 1901 he studied at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and then in 1906 he studied in Germany, and after the Wuchang Uprising, Mr. Jiang Baili served as the General Counselor of the Zhejiang Governor's Office. In 1912, he was appointed as the principal of the Baoding Army Officer School, and in 1913, he was appointed as a first-class senator in Yuan Shikai's Presidential Office, and after the restoration farce began, Jiang Baili entered Sichuan to assist his old classmate General Cai Yi to woo Yuan. After Yuan Shikai's death, Jiang Baili served as an adviser to Li Yuanhong's presidential office.
In 1919, Jiang Baili went to Europe with his teacher Liang Qichao and others, and in 1921, Jiang Baili wrote the results of his European expedition into a "History of the European Renaissance", which Liang Qichao personally wrote foreword. In 1923, Jiang Baili founded the Crescent Moon Society together with the famous literary giant Hu Shi and became close friends with Xu Zhimo. In 1933, General Chiang Baili went to Japan again on the orders of Chiang Kai-shek to draw up a national defense plan in preparation for the inevitable Sino-Japanese war. In 1935, he was hired as a senior adviser to the Military Commission, and the following year he went to Europe and the United States to investigate the military, and after returning to China, he proposed the construction of an air force. It can be said that China's earliest ideas on the construction of the air force came from General Jiang Baili, who was born in the army.
At the beginning of 1937, Jiang Baili published a collection of famous military treatises, "On National Defense.". The strategy toward Japan expounded in his writings and remarks can be summed up in three categories: First, China is not afraid of whales and swallowing Japan, but is afraid of encroachment, so it should not retreat step by step against Japan, but should take the initiative to carry out an all-round war of resistance, turn the rear of the Japanese army into the front, so that it has no time to digest the occupied areas, so that Japan cannot use the occupied areas to improve its combat effectiveness; second, it takes the initiative to attack the Japanese army in Shanghai, forcing the main offensive route of the Japanese army to change from the north-south route of northeast-north China-central China-south China to the east-west route along the Yangtze River. In this way, we should make full use of the mountains and moorlands along the river to offset the advantages of the Japanese army in weapons training; third, exchange space for time, conduct protracted battles, and drag Down Japan through the consumption of time. The specific method was to drag the Japanese army into the second prism of China's geography, that is, the junction of Hunan and Sichuan, where it fought a decisive battle with the Japanese army. In fact, although General Jiang Baili died early in 1938, the development of the Sino-Japanese war was carried out exactly according to his expectations, reflecting his accurate grasp of the strength and strategic posture of the two countries. In an article published shortly before his death, he put forward the guidelines for China's future strategy toward Japan in a resounding manner - "Victory or defeat is to make peace with it." Facts have proved that these views of General Jiang Baili are very correct and very beneficial to guiding the War of Resistance.
In addition to his military fame, General Jiang Baili's marriage is also very famous, because he is a famous Chinese general who studies the strategy toward Japan, but he married a Japanese wife, Sato Yaden, a Japanese nurse who took care of him when he was sent to the hospital for treatment because of the incident of the Baoding Military Academy. In 1938, General Jiang Baili died of illness, bad news came out, many celebrities wrote elegy to mourn, and the Nationalist government also posthumously awarded him the title of general of the army. Later, General Feng Yuxiang could not help but overreact when he heard of Jiang Baili's death, and Lady Zuomei, who was born in Japan, became the object of his suspicions, so he wrote an article suspecting that the general was killed by Lady Zuomei with a poison needle.
This incident brought great pressure to Mrs. Zomi, but Mrs. Zome quickly won the trust and love of Chinese with her actions. In the days that followed, she educated the general's five daughters in Mandarin, and took them to the street fundraising office, pulled off the jewelry on her head to donate to the cause of the War of Resistance, and personally went to the front line to serve the wounded soldiers in China. In her later years, Mrs. Zuomei said that she did this because she believed that China's War of Resistance was of a just nature. In 1978, his wife died of illness, and the name engraved on the tombstone was "Jiang Zuomei"," a traditional Chinese wife's name.