After the Siping War in 1946, the rampant Bai Chongxi proposed: "The Soviet Union sent 6,000 plainclothes troops to Changchun to send troops to attack the Soviet plainclothes troops." When Xu Yongchang, director of the Kuomintang Military Command, learned of this, he said to his subordinates: "Bai Chongxi will brag about it, where is there a 6,000 Soviet plainclothes team in Changchun?" ”
In May 1946, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army withdrew from Siping, and Changchun, Jilin and other places were occupied by Kuomintang reactionaries. Under pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union, Chiang signed an armistice agreement with the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and the Northeast Democratic United Army had the opportunity to temporarily rest. Bai Chongxi, who was known as "Little Zhuge In the Kuomintang army," was supervising the war in the northeast at this time, and in order to ask for credit and blame, he engaged in many tricks.
Bai Chongxi later recalled:
In order to support the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, the Soviet Union sent a plainclothes team of more than 6,000 people to Changchun. Chiang did not dare to offend the Soviet Union and ordered Du Yuming and his troops to stop pursuing. I insisted that the troops continue north, even if they encountered the Plainclothes of the Soviet Army, they could also launch an attack. ”
According to Bai Chongxi, Chiang was afraid of the Soviets, and he was not afraid at all. If it were not for Jiang Shi's repeated obstruction, he would have been able to take Harbin and even the entire northeast, and there would have been no later Liaoshen Campaign. Why did Jiang stop it? Bai Chongxi said conclusively: "On the one hand, Chiang was afraid of the Soviets, on the other hand, he agreed to Marshall and issued an order to sign a 15-day armistice. ”
Bai Chongxi also said: "Because he insisted on continuing to go north, he was dismissed by Chiang Kai-shek and transferred back to Nanjing. In Bai Chongxi's view, the Kuomintang army's occupation of Changchun and Jilin was all due to his own credit. The failure to occupy the entire northeast "overnight" led to the fiasco of the Liaoshen Campaign in 1948, all to Blame Chiang.
Bai Chongxi, the "old fox," dumped all the responsibility for the defeat of the Kuomintang army in the northeast to Chiang Kai-shek and took all the "credit" on himself. And was there really 6,000 Soviet plainclothes teams in Changchun at that time? The answer is no, it was all fabricated by Bai Chongxi alone. In response to Bai Chongxi's remarks, Xu Yongchang, director of the Kuomintang Military Command Department, told his subordinates: "This Bai Chongxi will brag about it, where is the Plainclothes team of the Soviet Army in Changchun?" ”
In Xu Yongchang's diary, the record of the Siping War is that Wang Jifang, the chief of the operations section of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, defected and leaked some intelligence of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army. Because of this information, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army suffered defeat, and the Kuomintang reactionaries achieved some results.
According to Wang Jifang's confession, there were no Soviet troops in Changchun, and the Kuomintang reactionaries dared to attack Changchun and continue north. After Bai Chongxi was transferred back to Nanjing, he served as the defense minister of the Kuomintang army. At this time, Bai Chongxi did not forget the means to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek and support Li Zongren to take over as president.
In 1948, when it came time for the U.S. election, the presidential candidates were the previous president, Truman, and the Republican candidate, Dewey. Dewey's poll approval rating at this time was much higher than That of Truman, who wanted to seek Chiang's support in order to continue to be president.
However, Chiang Kai-shek is a "wall-headed grass", seeing that Dewey has a good chance of winning, directly letting people take money and support Dewey's campaign. When the election results came out, Chiang was dumbfounded, Dewey lost, and Truman continued to be president.
Truman already hated Chiang and once said to his staff, "They should all go to jail, and I would be very happy to see them go to jail that day." It turned out that Truman had provided Chiang with dollars and weapons, but most of them had been embezzled by senior Kuomintang officers, and Truman had written the blame on Chiang's head.
Coupled with Chiang's support for Dewey and his failure to support Truman, Truman has no feelings for Chiang. Bai Chongxi actively contacted the United States and said a lot of bad things about Chiang, which led to Chiang's later resignation and made Li Zongren the acting president.