There are many factions within the Kuomintang, and contradictions between various factions often arise, and even in severe cases, they will evolve into armed struggle. Among them, the Gui clan is an important branch of the many factions of the Kuomintang, and in 1925, after the forces represented by Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren seized power in Guangxi, the so-called "new Gui clan" was formed. As one of the representatives of the Gui warlords, Bai Chongxi was Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, but contradictions often broke out between the two, and even waited for the soldiers to meet each other many times, and in Chiang Kai-shek's three times of going to the field, each time he could not do without Bai Chongxi's planning.
Bai Chongxi was born at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and when he was a child, his family was relatively wealthy, and he received a good education since childhood. Bai Chongxi was sent to a private school at the age of 5, and he has always had excellent grades and was admitted to a normal school when he grew up.
At that time, the politics were dark, the people's lives were miserable, and the nationwide movement against the rule of the Qing government was one after another. So Bai Chongxi decided to abandon Wen to join the army and join the army in Guangxi, and after that, with his outstanding performance on the battlefield, Bai Chongxi began to emerge.
In 1923, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren met and decided to join forces to unify Guangxi. The following year, taking advantage of the conflict between the "old Gui clan" Lu Rongting and Shen Hongying, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren took the opportunity to launch a large-scale attack. By 1925, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren had eliminated the forces of the "old Gui clan" and unified the whole territory of Guangxi.
At the end of the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek planned the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup, during which Bai Chongxi also led troops to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek's actions. After Chiang Kai-shek established power in Nanjing, wang Jingwei was dissatisfied and threatened Chiang Kai-shek with military force.
In June of the same year, taking advantage of the xuzhou war crisis, some people took the opportunity to force Chiang Kai-shek to go to the field again, at this time, the old Chiang Saw that the situation was unfavorable to him, but still made a final resistance, he wanted Bai Chongxi to lead the army to attack Wuhan, and then eliminate Sun Chuanfang's forces.
Unexpectedly, Bai Chongxi, far from cooperating with Chiang Kai-shek, openly confronted him, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious on the spot, but the matter had reached an imminent point, and Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to issue a "declaration of resignation." After that, Bai Chongxi led his troops to eliminate Sun Chuanfang's forces and also went north to Shanhaiguan.
This incident laid the groundwork for the enmity between Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek. Since then, Bai Chongxi has also planned anti-Chiang Kai-shek movements many times. In 1931, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to reformulate the "Law on Training the Government", but was opposed by a kind of Kuomintang key members, and forced Chiang Kai-shek to go to the opposition again.
When Bai Chongxi learned of this, he also responded immediately. Wang Jingwei also established a regime in Guangzhou that was opposed to Chiang Kai-shek, and after some negotiations, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to resign, and the Nationalist government in Nanjing was reorganized.
However, after that, Bai Chongxi did not always oppose Chiang Kai-shek, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order to resist foreign invasion, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren decided to abandon their previous suspicions and join hands with Chiang Kai-shek to resist the war, and Bai Chongxi was also appointed deputy chief of the general staff.
On the battlefield, Bai Chongxi has excellent command ability, is good at using various tactics, and has his own set of means when fighting. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, under the leadership of Bai Chongxi, many battles were won on the frontal battlefield, such as the famous "Battle of Taierzhuang", which was the result of the mutual cooperation between Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren.
After repelling the Japanese invaders, Chiang Kai-shek plotted a civil war against communism and the people, and he also appointed Bai Chongxi as minister of national defense. During the Liberation War, Bai Chongxi brought great trouble to our party and army, and he pursued his own policy of "encirclement and suppression" and brutalized a large number of communist party members and the masses of the people.
The trend of the war did not go along with Chiang Kai-shek's wishes, and with the loss of a large area of war in the north, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren saw that the situation was not right and wanted to observe the trend of the war first, and then wait for an opportunity to move.
As a result, Bai Chongxi began to "maneuver" with Chiang Kai-shek, repeatedly disobeying Chiang Kai-shek's orders and obstructing Chiang Kai-shek's dispatches. In the Battle of Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Bai Chongxi to send troops to support, but Bai Chongxi did not move, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to have no choice but to mobilize the garrison in Hubei to support.
However, Bai Chongxi also came out to obstruct at this time and did not allow the support troops to be released. When Chiang Kai-shek found out, he was furious and immediately called Bai Chongxi, and the two quarreled on the phone, and Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly scolded Bai Chongxi.
With the end of the three major battles and the overall situation of the War of Liberation already decided, Bai Chongxi contacted the Kuomintang troops in various places to call Chiang Kai-shek, demanding that Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists make an armistice and negotiate peace, and also threatened Chiang Kai-shek not to delay the negotiation process because of his personal advance and retreat. Chiang Kai-shek knew that the overall situation had been decided, so he had no choice but to announce his resignation again.
It is worth noting that at the end of the three major battles, Chiang Kai-shek's army was running out, but there were still hundreds of thousands of Gui troops led by Bai Chongxi, and after combining with Chiang Kai-shek's dismissal, Bai Chongxi strongly advocated peaceful negotiations with the Communist Party, and it is not difficult to speculate on Bai Chongxi's motives. Judging from these events, it is estimated that Bai Chongxi's unexplained death after fleeing with Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan after the failure of negotiations is also related to the various grievances between the two men.