In the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the mainland once had a general who made the Japanese army feel frightened, and he was the famous anti-Japanese god of war, Xue Yue. With three battles of Changsha, Xue Yue's original Heavenly Furnace Tactics successfully helped the troops block several enemy attacks, and under the tactics of making full use of the terrain advantages, the Nationalist army finally killed more than 100,000 Japanese troops, making the Japanese army have to change its strategy. After the war, the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in North China, Okamura Ningji, even sighed: It is easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake Xue Yue! It can be seen that Xue Yue is indeed a military wizard, and he is also the most feared anti-Japanese general of the Japanese army.
However, it was this god of war who shined brilliantly on the anti-Japanese battlefield, but his performance in the liberation war was greatly surprised, and he could not even come up with a decent battle record. So, during the Liberation War, why did Xue Yue, the god of war, behave mediocrely? Zhang Xueliang said in his later years that he broke the reason!
Xue Yue graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in Hebei Province, and in his early years he followed Sun Yat-sen in the Northern Expedition and served as the commander of Sun Yat-sen's guard battalion. Later, Xue Yue also shined in the Central Plains War, successfully helping Chiang Kai-shek to establish his position. After the Outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, the Kuomintang army was gradually defeated, but after Xue Yue arrived at the battlefield, he turned the tide of the war in one fell swoop and greatly defeated the Japanese attack. The three subsequent battles of Changsha needless to say, this was also Xue Yue's battle of the gods. It can be said that throughout Xue Yue's resume, before the Liberation War, he was quite brilliant, but after the outbreak of the Liberation War, he tended to be flat, and even eventually became unknown.
In the Battle of Lunan in 1947, Xue Yue's command was defeated under the good situation, and his ability was also questioned by the top brass of the Nationalist army at this time, and he was soon transferred out of the battlefield, and then he was cleverly deprived of military power. It was also after this that Xue Yue rarely appeared on the battlefield of liberation, until the Battle of Hainan became his final end. As for the depreciation of Xue Yue, we can see the clues from Mr. Zhang Xueliang's memoirs in his later years.
Zhang Xueliang said: Chiang Kai-shek would rather use slaves than talents! And this sentence is also the reason why Xue Yue is not reused. Because for Chiang Kai-shek, he has always been nepotistic, he will only appoint those who obey, and a genius with self-thinking like Xue Yue, he absolutely cannot be assured. It was precisely for this reason that Xue Yue was degraded again and again in the Liberation War, and eventually fell lonely and followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan.