In the end, there will be merits and deeds in military combat, just to seek victory and not to be proud of defeat and not to be discouraged, to learn from the experience of defeat and stand tall, to get inspiration from victory, this is a good soldier, a good general. In addition to being afraid of being bitten by a snake for ten years, the marching army is afraid of the well rope, and it is even more taboo to lie about military information and risk merit to receive rewards.
After all, if a general's marching style is relatively timid, the worst result is to be defeated and retreated, and if a greedy general commands the battle, it may bury the lives of the entire army. And what we are talking about today is a big joke made by a Kuomintang general who lied about military information and asked for credit, which made Chiang Kai-shek angry on the spot.
Tian Songyao
In the early days of the Republic of China, China seemed to be peaceful and calm on the surface, but in fact, the wind and clouds were not peaceful in the dark, and the warlords everywhere rose up in unison, all of them vainly wanted to make their own names and play their own prestige in this land through the guns and soldiers in their hands. Warlords in various places are constantly in dispute, and wars between forces are taking place one after another.
Tian Songyao was a native of Jianyang, Sichuan, who was subordinate to the Sichuan Army at this time, and gradually made his own name and had his own power in large and small battles. By the time of 1926, it had become the hegemon of the six divisions of the army and 26 counties in northwest Sichuan, and was ranked alongside Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui and Deng Xihou as the four giants of the Sichuan Army.
Later, he was crowned by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Twenty-ninth Army, and for a time the scenery was infinite. Tian Songyao was very grateful for Chiang Kai-shek's reuse, and in the April 12 coup, Tian Songyao also took the lead in actively supporting the Nationalist government and expressing support, which was once again appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek.
However, after this, Tian Songyao and Liu Wenhui had a fierce internal battle, and eventually a small-scale war broke out between the two forces, which was finally put to rest after the persuasion of Deng Xihou. Tian Songyao became more and more courteous to Chiang Kai-shek after this, and Chiang Kai-shek had a hard time meeting a local army general who was so actively surrounded by him, and he had to draw him into his barracks.
But in fact, Tian Songyao's army was poorly disciplined, and the famous double-gun army at that time, the soldiers had a rifle in one hand and a smoking gun in the other, and the source of the smoke came from Tian Songyao's trafficking. This made Tian Songyao's army as fragile as a sand tower that could be pushed down.
The Red Army moved south
At the end of 1932, the local warlords of Sichuan launched a large-scale battle in western Sichuan, northern Sichuan was now unguarded by heavy troops, let go of the emptiness, and Chiang Kai-shek also broke out in fierce contradictions with other units of the Sichuan Army at this time, and the Red Fourth Army planned to take advantage of the news and enter northern Sichuan.
The red fourth army quickly attacked the northern Sichuan region, launched a fierce attack on the Tongjiang, Nanjiang and Bazhong regions, occupied them all in just one month, and created a revolutionary base area here, and greatly expanded its troops.
The Red Army's lightning-fast offensive stunned Chiang Kai-shek, who realized that continuing the civil war would endlessly expand the communist superiority, so on January 21, 1933, the Sichuan Army and Chiang Kai-shek united front, unanimously aimed their guns at the Red Fourth Army, Tian Songyao was appointed as the chief inspector of bandits, sitting on 5 divisions and 7 brigades, and allocated huge military assets and firepower.
The Red Fourth Army has always been known for its fierceness and surprise, and the so-called soldiers are devious. And Tian Songyao's two-gun unit was fragile, so what qualifications could it match? Although Tian Songyao had a large number of weapons, equipment and combatants, he also knew something about it before he left the army.
At this time, Xu Xiangqian proposed to lure the enemy deeper by shrinking the position and conducting roundabout operations, and constantly depleting the enemy's combat strength, and striving to expand the maximum results with the minimum losses while showing the enemy to be weak.
Tian Songrao's military ability was as weak as paper, and in the face of the Red Army's strategic deployment, he was like a headless fly, only knowing how to plunge headlong into a rampage. In the face of the Red Army, which had retreated according to the previous plan, Tian Songyao thought that he had the absolute upper hand of the situation, and even more brainlessly muffled.
When some of the Kuomintang generals looked at Tian Songyao's tremendous achievements, they couldn't help but be stunned, surprised at how the Red Army, which had been able to attack and retreat like a ghost in front of them in the past, was as vulnerable as a mouse to a cat in front of Tian Songyao. Chiang Kai-shek was even happier and praised Tian Songyao in front of many officers and men.
Boasting of the record, self-defeating
Although Tian Songyao is not a talented general, there is no shortage of high-quality generals under his command, and Wang Mingzhang is one of them. In the face of such a smooth situation, he had repeatedly reminded Tian Songyao to be careful of the Red Army's trap. Before Tian Songyao launched a general offensive, he had a great deal of moisture in the war reports conveyed by Chiang Kai-shek, and it was common for false propaganda to expand the results of the war.
One day, Wang Mingzhang gave Advice to Tian Songyao, claiming that after the troops occupied Tongjiang County, they found that many streets were named after generals by the Red Army, such as Yundaiying Street.
After listening to the suggestion, Tian Songyao felt that the name of Dai Ying was very familiar, at which time one of his staff members said: "According to the telegram of Master Wang, presumably this person has been killed by our army on the battlefield, and the general can report it to inspire the morale of the army!" After hearing this, Tian Songyao felt that this was reasonable, so he reported the information that "Yun Daiying had been killed" to Chiang Kai-shek.
After Chiang Kai-shek received the telegram, when he saw the name Yun Daiying, he quickly changed from elation to stunned and stunned. It turned out that Yun Daiying had served as a political chief instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy, and had a very good relationship with Chiang Kai-shek in the past, but later joined the Communist Party and served as the secretary general of the Central Organization Department, and later died under Chiang Kai-shek's bullets after the betrayal of traitors.
And now that a person who has died has appeared in the battle registration form, Chiang Kai-shek looked at the war report in front of him, his hands could not help but tremble with anger, and he scolded fiercely three times in a row, "Niang Xi pi, Niang Xi Pi, Niang Xi Pi!" ”
However, in order to thoroughly investigate the matter, Chiang Kai-shek still ordered Tian Songyao to find out where Yun Daiying died, when, and under whomse gun he died. Tian Songyao received the order and the whole person was confused, and he immediately asked Wang Mingzhang to thoroughly investigate the matter, who killed this Yun Daiying.
After Wang Mingzhang received the order, he was speechless. In front of this "stupid" military commander, he was very angry but did not dare to vent, so he had to make a mistake and order to find out which hero had killed him.
The soldiers knew very well that the only one who could alarm Chiang Kai-shek was a well-known figure in the Communist Party, and without definite evidence, no one dared to take the risk of asking for credit, so the matter became a headless case.
In the end, Tian Songyao suddenly realized that there was no feasible way to do it now, and he could only go to see Chiang Kai-shek with his scalp. After seeing Chiang Kai-shek explain the matter, Chiang Kai-shek scolded Tian Songyao on the spot, and in the subsequent battle, he emptied Tian Songyao and made him a famous and powerless general, and his previous glorious achievements were also swept away.
brief summary:
As a general above ten thousand people, he carries not only the hope of the country, but also the responsibility for the lives of thousands of soldiers behind him, so if he cannot lead by example strictly, then he is not a qualified soldier.
Perhaps in Tian Songyao's later years, when he recalled and talked about the absurd acts of that year, he would also regret it endlessly. The bittersweet and bittersweet in it made the vast majority of the soldiers who died on the battlefield bear the consequences.