There are also some of the modern Kuomintang generals, because they did not see the essence of the Kuomintang headed by Chiang Kai-shek at first, and mistakenly served the Kuomintang. For example, the patriotic general Yang Jie is a prominent example, when he held the persistent concept of military salvation and became a famous general of Chiang Kai-shek after being invited by Chiang Kai-shek, and achieved many meritorious deeds for Chiang Kai-shek in the Second Northern Expedition and the Central Plains War.
During his tenure as president of Lu University, he also cultivated a group of outstanding military talents for the country. After that, after he recognized the true face of the Kuomintang headed by Chiang Kai-shek, he also resolutely embarked on the road of democratic revolution.
And Yang Jie, who was once a classmate and deputy of Chiang Kai-shek, also openly said: Old Chiang Kai-shek will not fall, I will go and become a monk!
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Born in Yunnan in 1889, Yang began to enroll at the age of 16, and from an early age he showed a brilliant talent and ability to never forget, and had novel ideas about the questions raised by his teachers.
Yang Jie experienced the period when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and the Qing government was forced to sign a treaty of mourning power and humiliation of the country, and under the guidance of the scholars of the academy, he also had a sense of social responsibility of "the rise and fall of the world, and the responsibility of the puppeteer".
At the age of 16, Yang Jie walked to Kunming to apply for the Military University in order to study, but after arriving in Kunming, he missed the entrance semester, so at that time he switched to applying for the Yunnan Army Accelerated School, and since then Yang Jie has begun his military career.
Later, because Yang Jie performed well in the Yunnan Army Accelerated School, he was sent to the Baoding Beiyang Army Accelerated School the following year. In 1907, when the Qing government selected outstanding students to study at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, Yang Jie, who was in the Baoding Beiyang Army Accelerated School, was also selected.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was also studying at the Preparatory School of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, so the two were once classmates.
The Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School has a special way to examine the students' military command ability, that is, to let the students personally command the navy and army exercises, in one exercise Yang Jie combined the knowledge he learned and the situation of the exercise at that time, the exercise was very successful, and even won the praise of the Japanese emperor, and was also awarded the emperor's sword by the Japanese emperor.
At that time, there were very few students who were awarded the Emperor's Sword and the Emperor's Sword was a student who could obtain the highest honor at the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, so it can be seen from the side that Yang Jie was excellent at that time.
In 1909, Yang Jie also participated in the League led by Sun Yat-sen in Japan, and after graduating from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, Yang Jie also successfully promoted to the 10th Artillery Section of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, at which time Chiang Kai-shek was sent to the army training.
After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Yang Jie resolutely chose to return to China and participate in the struggle to overthrow the Qing government.
When he first returned to China, he joined the Dian Army, serving as the brigade commander of the Ninth Brigade in the Dian Army, and in the following years, in the battle to protect the country, with the military knowledge he had previously learned, he won the "Great Victory of Tongren" and the "Battle of Luzhou", and Yang Jie himself became famous in the army, and his rank was constantly rising, and Yang Jie was already a lieutenant general at that time.
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Later, because of his excellent military ability, he was also competed for by many parties, and Chiang Kai-shek also desperately wanted to attract Yang Jie to his command. In the end, Yang Jie chose his classmate Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1926, Yang Jie participated in the Northern Expedition as the General Counselor of the Sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, when Chiang Kai-shek was Yang Jie's superior and the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Revolutionary Army.
In the subsequent Battle of the Central Plains, when Chiang Kai-shek was at a disadvantage in battle with Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang's troops, Chiang Kai-shek also sought a way to turn around yang Jie.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters was stationed at Liucheng Station, so Yang Jie came up with a way to confuse the enemy's judgment, and he told Chiang Kai-shek to install a locomotive on each side of the train.
When the enemy attacks the carriage, first drive the car south for a period of time and then drive north, the enemy will be disturbed by the train traveling in different directions, and make a wrong judgment, in addition, they will also be busy running at both ends of the train, which will reduce the time to fight with it, which is conducive to saving troops.
At that time, the other side was indeed disturbed, and also followed the train in different directions for a while, but then the opposing commander realized that he had fallen into a trap and decided to blow up the nearby airfield. Some of the planes in the airfield had heavy bombs inside, so after they blew up the airfield, they also detonated the heavy bombs inside the aircraft, producing a deafening noise.
At that time, the enemy did not know that there were heavy bombs in the aircraft, so they thought that they had been ambushed, and they were very panicked for a while. At that time, Yang Jie sent a special agent company to take advantage of the confusion of the enemy army to repulse the enemy army.
Chiang Kai-shek successfully turned defeat into victory in the midst of danger, so he admired Yang Jie's ability, deepened his trust in Yang Jie, and used Yang Jie more seriously.
In 1934, Chiang Kai-shek also made Yang Ming the president of the Kuomintang Central Army University, and during his presidency, Yang Jie dutifully taught his many years of experience on the battlefield and the military knowledge he learned during his study abroad to the students, so he also cultivated a lot of military talents for the Kuomintang during that period. Just three years later, Yang Jie was promoted to general from the middle.
Yang Jie was promoted much faster than other generals in the Kuomintang, so many generals in the Kuomintang also developed jealousy of Yang Jie, and Yang Jie was a straight man, not very good at observing the color of speech, and even less did he know how to pretend to cater to Chiang Kai-shek.
Therefore, when he was suppressed and slandered by other generals in the Kuomintang, he did not know how to maintain his image in front of Chiang Kai-shek, so gradually Chiang Kai-shek's impression of him deteriorated.
In addition, he who really had a patriotic heart also had some discord with chiang kai-shek's political views, who had selfish intentions, and then Chiang Kai-shek demoted him from the president of the army university to an instructor of the "Central Training Corps", and also sent people to spy on him for a long time.
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After Yang Jie learned that Chiang Kai-shek had sent someone to spy on him, his favor for Chiang Kai-shek also declined, and Yang Jie also saw the phenomenon of decay within the Kuomintang at that time.
He found that many Kuomintang generals were not really trying to save the country and the people, but were constantly arguing over their own fame and interests, which was very corrupt and degenerate, so he felt that he could no longer stay in the Kuomintang, so on the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he used the excuse of returning home to recuperate and lived in Kunming for a long time.
During his time in Kunming, Yang Jie joined some local anti-Chiang Kai-shek activities, and during that time he learned more about the Chinese Communist Party, gradually approaching the Chinese Communist Party and stating in public:
Chiang Kai-shek is a single husband, and if he does not collapse, I will become a monk; in the past the revolution passed, and now I want to start again.
At that time, he said this sentence according to the facts at that time, and after the end of the Liberation War, Yang Jie's words were also verified. But before Yang Jie could successfully join the Chinese Communist Party, Yang Jie was assassinated by Chiang Kai-shek, and a good military general did not die on the battlefield. Instead, he died at the hands of Chiang Kai-shek's poisonous hands, which is undoubtedly regrettable.
brief summary:
When Yang Jie was a child, after experiencing the period of loss of power and humiliation of the country such as the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, Yang Jie also firmly wanted to join the army and serve the country, and then he joined the Yunnan Army Accelerated Learning. Later, because of his excellent performance, he was selected by the Qing government to study at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School. During his studies at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, Yang Jie was one of the few outstanding students who had obtained the Emperor's Sword.
After Yang Jie enriched his knowledge of military theory and returned to China, he was also used by many people and finally chose Chiang Kai-shek, who followed Chiang Kai-shek for many years in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and helped Chiang Kai-shek to turn the crisis into safety many times, and was also highly used by Chiang Kai-shek.
However, because he was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek too quickly, he was jealous of other generals in the Kuomintang, and eventually Chiang Kai-shek gradually lost trust in Yang Jie, an excellent general, under the rumors of others.
Yang Jie also saw clearly Chiang Kai-shek, who was his classmate and superior, and once openly said: Old Chiang Kai-shek will not fall, I will become a monk! Later, this excellent military general also came into contact with the Chinese Communist Party, but he was assassinated by Chiang Kai-shek before he became a party member, and the fall of such a military talent is undoubtedly regrettable.