First, Xue Yue's reflection
It is known that Xue Yue and Bai Chongxi are both top generals in the national army, and they both graduated from the Baoding Army School. Xue Yue is the sixth period, Bai Chongxi is the third period, but the relationship between the two is very delicate.
According to Xue Yue's nephew Xue Weizhong's recollection: In his later years, Xue Yue never understood Bai Chongxi's shoulders with four stars (first-class general). Xue Yue did not have four stars until 1965, which means that Xue Yue was twenty years later than Bai Chongxi before he equaled others.
In Xue Weizhong's original words, "the person that the uncle (Xue Yue) despises the most is Bai Chongxi", and at the same time, he does not understand why Bai Chongxi is called "Little Zhuge on this side of the mainland".
Of course, at that time, in addition to looking down on Bai Chongxi, Xue Yue also buried Chiang Kai-shek in various ways, such as he said: "Mr. Sun fights the world like this..." Drawing circles from the inside out with his hands, drawing bigger and bigger, and then saying, "This is how Mr. Jiang fights the world." "Draw circles from the outside to the inside with your hands, and the smaller you draw!
Xue Weizhong naturally understood the deep meaning, and later said with emotion, "He (Xue Yue) later also had disappointment in Chiang Kai-shek."
Because in addition to Chiang Kai-shek's defeat on the mainland, because Xue Yue lived a long life, so in the twilight years, people here in Taiwan knew very little about Xue Yue, but it was the mainland of the motherland, and when Xue Yue was mentioned, they all respected him and knew that Xue Yue was a famous anti-Japanese general - this gave Xue Weizhong great emotion and emotion.
In any case, Xue Yue was indeed complaining in his later years, and he must have deeply reflected on the defeat of the Kuomintang troops on the mainland. As for the result, it can only be said that Xue Yue believes that Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi are the culprits.
Xue Yue's disappointment with Chiang Kai-shek was expected. But his "contempt" for Bai Chongxi was obviously unexpected.
At this moment, naturally people have to ask: What did Bai Chongxi do, and why did Xue Yue look down on him until death?
Second, the conflict between Xue Laohu and Little Zhuge
The open conflict between Xue Yue and Bai Chongxi occurred before the Second Battle of Changsha in 1939. At that time, Xue Yue, who was already the commander of the Ninth Theater, predicted that the Japanese army would concentrate its forces to attack Changsha, and "the Japanese army seems to have begun to attack the south in mid-September, and will use the main force from northern Xiangbei to Changsha, and carry out strategic operations in northern Gan and southern Hubei."
So Xue Yue began to intensively start pre-war preparations, to fight with the Japanese invaders in Changsha. Besides, Bai Chongxi, at that time, he was older than Xue Yue's official, he was "deputy chief of staff and director of military training", and naturally he also knew that the Japanese invaders wanted to capture Changsha.
So Bai Chongxi came to Xue Yue with Chen Cheng, and the purpose was clear: to persuade Xue Yue to abandon the north of Changsha and retreat his troops to the Liling, Hengshan, and Xiangtan areas first. In other words, Bai Chongxi did not agree with Xue Yue's battle plan and came to guide.
Xue Yue is nicknamed "Xue Laohu" and Bai Chongxi is nicknamed "Little Zhuge ", both of them are famous generals and have personalities, you can imagine how difficult this persuasion is. Sure enough, Xue Yue disagreed, and gave five major reasons in one breath. But Bai Chongxi still insisted on his opinion.
Finally, Xue Yue became a little angry and said, "Victory is a blessing for the country and Chairman Jiang, and if I lose the war, I will commit suicide to thank the world!" This sentence is equivalent to "military order".
But Bai Chongxi was also angry and said, "Wuchang was lost, Nanchang fell into the hands of the enemy one after another, and Changsha became isolated. It was hoped that Chief Xue would still follow the instructions of his superiors and retreat to Hengyang, so as not to make senseless sacrifices. ”
It's really needle to needle, no one will budge! Xue Yue continued to roar, I Xue someone played a great victory in Wanjialing last year, Yang Wei inside and outside, what do you have? Is it the Battle of Songhu? It was you who changed the attack plan indiscriminately and buried the lives of tens of thousands of Gui Army generals ...
Bai Chongxi jumped to his feet: Without the tragic casualties of the Battle of Songhu, how could it be possible to make the destruction of China in three months a joke by the Japanese invaders, and what kind of Wanjialing victory did you Xue someone have?
Xue Yue also jumped to his feet, and pointed to Bai Chongxi's "space and time, small victory and big victory theory", and emphasized, "The focus is on the words 'resistance' and 'war', and we must maintain contact with the enemy at all times and consume the enemy everywhere, so as to achieve a long-term war of resistance." If you just retreat backwards and give up space, then there will be no talk of resistance at all. ”
The two had such a big disagreement, naturally Chiang Kai-shek would finally have to make a decision! However, Chiang Kai-shek was also difficult to decide, so he asked his subordinates to speak freely. Because of his good personal relationship with Xue Yue, Chen Cheng said: I support Xue Boling!
But Liu Fei, deputy commander of the military command, supported Bai Chongxi, thinking: "Xue loves to show off, is so happy, and is an extreme general..."
Yes, Chiang Kai-shek is even bigger, who said everything is reasonable, how to do it? When it was difficult to make a decision, Soong Meiling was even stirred up, and expressed to Chiang Kai-shek that she supported Xue Yue, saying that "the loyalty and patriotism of General Xue in my heart was really moved to the extreme, and my admiration was beyond words."
At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek can be regarded as having the backbone of the main heart, saying: Madame's words are exactly what I want. Let Xue Yue be in Changsha and start a war with the Japanese invaders again!
Third, Xue Yue's wife became the key
At this point, I am afraid that everyone has seen a problem, the dispute between Xue Yue and Bai Chongxi is a military issue, how can it actually alarm Song Meiling? This has to talk about Xue Yue's wife.
Xue Yue had three wives, the first lady was the Zhu family, and when Xue Yue was not found, he married in his hometown, which naturally helped Xue Yue very little.
Xue Yue's second wife is powerful, named Fang Shaowen, who once served as a secretary for Xue Yue and is a native of Wenchang, Hainan. So where is Song Meiling from? Also from Wenchang, Hainan! In other words, Fang Shaowen and Song Meiling are fellow countrymen, and the two have a very good personal relationship - some people have even said that the two once worshiped sisters.
Of course, because there is no conclusive historical support, the author does not dare to accept it, and can only write it out for reference, but it is enough to show how close the relationship between Fang Shaowen and Song Meiling is.
Now that I understand the relationship between Xue Yue's wife Fang Shaowen and Song Meiling, do you understand at once, why did Song Meiling also intervene? At the same time, this also makes us understand the following three points about Xue Yue's incomprehension.
First, Xue Yue is not a Chiang Kai-shek lineage, why is it reused? Not only is Xue Yue very good at fighting, but also this relationship.
Second, Xue Yue has deep qualifications and obviously belongs to the level of bigwigs in the national army, but why he has not developed into a relatively independent force like other bigwigs such as Bai Chongxi and Fu Zuoyi is also because of this relationship.
Third, why did Xue Yue despise Bai Chongxi so much, there was only one reason: Bai Chongxi belonged to the Gui family and had participated in several "overthrowing Jiang" behaviors. And Xue Yue, because of that relationship, is a typical support for Chiang Kai-shek, a little foolish.
Coupled with his military talent comparable to Bai Chongxi, the so-called rivalry between peers and wrongdoers, so that until Xue Yue's later years, he refused to forgive Bai Chongxi's betrayal, even if Chiang Kai-shek disappointed Xue Yue, it did not prevent Xue Yue from continuing to despise Bai Chongxi.
Just like in Xue Yue's later years, he commented to Bai Chongxi to his nephew Xue Weizhong: He was a "hero" who defeated the Kuomintang! This sentence probably refers to all kinds of things that Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren have fallen for...