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Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren are also known as "Li and Bai", and they are the soul of the Gui warlords, who have not only been reused by Chiang Kai-shek many times, but also feared several times. Even his outstanding military talent can be called the "God of War" by the Japanese, and his name of "Little Zhuge " runs through the entire Republic of China period. Bai Chongxi made timely suggestions and suggestions to Chiang Kai-shek when the Nationalist army was defeated and retreated in 1949, and proposed to Chiang Kai-shek: The mainland is already difficult to preserve, and it can enter Vietnam to exterminate Ho Chi Minh.
At that time, Ho Chi Minh had already established the Viet Cong alliance in Vietnam, and Vietnam was still the backyard of France, so it was not the best choice no matter how you look at it, so why did Bai Chongxi, known as "Little Zhuge ", come up with such a plan? Did his plan succeed?
Bai Chongxi's "Little Zhuge " is worthy of its name
The Gui army is a rich and colorful stroke in modern Chinese history, and the "troika" that drove the Gui system forward - Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Huang Shaohong were rare talents in that era. In this case, Bai Chongxi's proposal to attack Ho Chi Minh at the time of the defeat of the national army was a conspiracy to save the perilous or a prelude to a dying struggle?
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek was very much in favor of the plan. On December 22, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek, who was already lying in Taipei, sent a telegram to Gu Zhutong, who was still in Haikou, and also forwarded Bai Chongxi's clever plan on the 19th - the troops entered Vietnam to destroy Ho Chi Minh.
In the letter, Chiang Kai-shek's tone was very cordial, and he said: Chief Gu,...... Sun Yuanliang, Luo Guangwen, Wang Lingji and others were invited to stay in Sichuan to fight guerrillas...... The remaining Nationalist troops entered northern Guangdong and cooperated with the troops in Vietnam to break through Ho Chi Minh's troops. In this way, the national army can survive on the mainland and on the Sino-Vietnamese border, which is a good policy. If this strategy fails, it can turn into an international complication, and turn the anti-communist war into an international war to gain a buffer moment.
Judging from these few sentences, Chiang Kai-shek trusted Bai Chongxi's plan very much, after all, Bai Chongxi never disappointed him.
On March 18, 1893, Bai Chongxi was born in an ordinary Hui family in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In the winter of 1907, Bai Chongxi came to the Guangxi Army Primary School, where he applied for the school and was admitted to the written examination with a score of 6th.
The Qing Empire was crumbling, the army primary school was burning with the raging flames of revolution, and Cai Ye and others were already waving their flags and shouting. Bai Chongxi was also deeply influenced by it, not only publicly cutting off his long braids, but also shouting the slogan "overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish the Republic of China".
After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Bai Chongxi rushed to the front line and threw himself into the rolling torrent of history with his thin body. In 1914, he entered the 10th Division of the Beiyang Army for internship, and later went to the Infantry Department School of the Baoding Army Military Academy. After three years of training, Bai Chongxi returned to Guangxi as an instructor. Soon, because of his outstanding ability, he was repeatedly promoted and made a name for himself in the military camp. At the end of 1917, Bai Chongxi became acquainted with Li Zongren and Huang Shaohong, and from this, the three became a small group, and they also became Chiang Kai-shek's confidants in the future.
In 1924, Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren and others forced Lu Rongting to go into the wilderness, but the other party naturally disagreed, and Bai Chongxi spoke with strength, he successively captured Nanning, then occupied Binyang, and finally entered Liuzhou, so that the opponent's army was defeated and retreated. The successive victories made the warlords of the time know Bai Chongxi's name, and soon after, he received the nickname of "Little Zhuge ".
Chiang Kai-shek, who was already in power in the Nationalist Government at that time, also noticed the name of "Gui Zhuge ", so at the beginning of the Northern Expedition, he sent someone to ask Bai Chongxi to participate in the command of the war with the Northern Expeditionary Army. During the Northern Expedition, Bai Chongxi made great achievements, and he was in the position of commander in every important battle.
Especially when the National Revolutionary Army was in danger of being counterattacked by the Beiyang warlords. Bai Chongxi was ordered to form the First Army and successfully defended Nanjing. In Nanjing, he and Sun Chuanfang's troops fought fiercely for six days and six nights. After that, Bai Chongxi became famous, and his popularity soared to the first echelon of the national warlords. In 1928, Bai Chongxi, who was honored with honor, entered Beijing, when he was only 35 years old, and came to the highest point of his life.
At that time, Bai Chongxi did not realize that his exploits had made Chiang Kai-shek jealous. At the beginning of 1929, Chiang Kai-shek was shocked by the disbandment of the group armies in Nanjing, and then he left in a bad mood, which led to the Chiang-Gui War and the Central Plains War.
40 years of entanglement with Chiang Kai-shek
Throughout the first half of Bai Chongxi's life, Chiang Kai-shek loved and hated him. What I love is that he can stand up to the sky and the earth in a chaotic situation, turn the tide, and save himself from danger, and what I hate is that he is so high-spirited, brave and strategic, and he does not regard himself as a leader at all, but is self-controlled, and does not listen to propaganda.
Chiang Kai-shek's feelings for Bai Chongxi were very complicated, but before the War of Resistance Against Japan, he did not have the ability to suppress the other party, after all, the "communist bandits" at that time were Chiang Kai-shek's henchmen.
In 1931, the Japanese invaded the three eastern provinces, and Bai Chongxi went out again. This time, what made him shine was on the battlefield of resistance against Japan. On July 7, 1937, Bai Chongxi quickly responded to Chiang Kai-shek's call to resist Japan, and united with other generals of the Gui family to fight against Japan. On August 2, Chiang Kai-shek called Bai Chongxi in extremely gentle language, asking him to come to Nanjing to discuss the anti-Japanese plan. Since then, the contradictions between the Gui family and the Central Committee of the Nationalist Government have been put on hold for the time being, and there has been a period of smooth coexistence between the two.
It was also during this period of time that Bai Chongxi's name of "God of War" was given by the Japanese - he became deputy chief of staff and participated in and commanded many battles, such as the Battle of Xuzhou, the victory of Taierzhuang, and the defense of Wuhan...... These are Bai Chongxi's achievements.
Especially in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army was violently beaten by the troops commanded by Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren, and the Japanese army, which was as downcast as a lost dog, was called "the most painful defeat in modern history" by the international media. As a result, the morale of the people of the whole country was greatly boosted, and Chiang Kai-shek, Bai Chongxi, Li Zongren and others were supported by the people as "anti-Japanese heroes". Bai Chongxi can be described as a brilliant meritorious service, and won the highest medal awarded to him by the National Government - the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun. But at that time, there were people who discussed: Chiang Kai-shek did not know whether he was gritting his teeth or gritting his teeth when he awarded the medal.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Bai Chongxi, who was very senior, served as the defense minister of the first Nationalist Government, and later Chiang Kai-shek transferred him to the commander-in-chief of the Central China Bandit Suppression. Bai Chongxi was in a high position, but Chiang Kai-shek kept an eye on what he was doing.
Due to the jealousy of his superiors, Bai Chongxi's military and strategic talents were repeatedly curbed, so that the contradictions between the two finally shaped the final direction of the entire Liberation War. In May 1946, the Battle of Siping broke out. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party all knew the importance of Siping, so both sides sent generals to each side. Chiang Kai-shek sent Bai Chongxi, who was the most capable of fighting, to the front to supervise the battle, and the general of our army stationed on the front line was Lin Biao.
At that time, Bai Chongxi strongly advised Chiang Kai-shek to take full command in the northeast and deal with Lin Biao to the end. However, due to international pressure and misjudgment of the internal situation, Chiang Kai-shek did not heed Bai Chongxi's advice, but instead demanded an armistice when the war was raging. Originally, Lin Biao's troops were defeated, but they were reborn at a critical time, organized a counteroffensive of the People's Liberation Army, and finally swept the entire three eastern provinces when the autumn wind swept away the leaves.
This defeat shocked Chiang Kai-shek, who was shocked by the speed of Lin Biao's counteroffensive and by Bai Chongxi's name of "Zhuge ", and the two of them have been in frequent gaps since then. At the beginning of 1949, the Battle of Xu Beng, as everyone knows, is the last opportunity for the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to fight to the death, and Bai Chongxi once again put forward a unique strategic policy, but Chiang Kai-shek repeated the old trick - to seize half of the command. Bai Chongxi was furious and asked loudly: If the command power is not unified, the war will be lost! But Chiang Kai-shek did not pay attention to it. The two sides did not back down, and Chiang Kai-shek was full of confidence.
The result was predictable - Bai Chongxi left in a bad mood, and he made the most difficult decision in his life: not to command the Battle of Xu Beng. Sure enough, without the command of "Xiao Zhuge ", the Kuomintang army completely collapsed, and even led to Chiang Kai-shek's downfall.
The huge defeat made Chiang Kai-shek angry, and according to Chiang Kai-shek's point of view, this matter was all a conspiracy of the Gui family: Bai Chongxi deliberately picked on his son and did not command the battle to provoke a great defeat, and then pushed the boat down the river to let Li Zongren take the throne, the purpose was to pull him Chiang Kai-shek off the horse. But in Bai Chongxi's eyes, although it was a good thing for him that Li Zongren went on the horse and Chiang Kai-shek went into the wilderness, his original intention was definitely not like this.
There were already contradictions between the two, and since Chiang Kai-shek's political defeat, he regarded Bai Chongxi as a "thorn in the flesh". At the same time, Bai Chongxi also deeply felt that Chiang Kai-shek could not be relied on, but he still had deep feelings for the Nationalist Government and the Kuomintang, so he refused to revolt and still chose to stay in the Kuomintang. Soon, Lin Biao marched south with a million-strong army, Bai Chongxi had no power to return to heaven, and in December 1949, he left the mainland and flew from Nanning, Guangxi to Haikou.
Bai Chongxi's last plan for Chiang Kai-shek
At that time, the pace of liberation of the land of China accelerated, and the southwestern provinces revolted one after another. Seeing that the situation was not good, Chiang Kai-shek successfully escaped to Taiwan.
As the situation fell apart, on December 19, Bai Chongxi offered his last clever plan - to invite Chiang Kai-shek to send troops into Vietnam, defeat Ho Chi Minh, occupy northern Vietnam, and counterattack the mainland. At the same time, Bai Chongxi proposed to Chiang Kai-shek that a few generals could be left to fight guerrilla warfare in Sichuan, after all, "if you stay in the green mountains, you are not afraid of running out of firewood."
After listening to this suggestion, Chiang Kai-shek felt that it was feasible, after all, "Xiao Zhuge was not in vain". Therefore, he immediately forwarded it to Gu Zhutong, who was still in the mainland. However, from a comprehensive examination of the overall situation, it is clear that the suggestion is not reliable, and it even bears the name of Bai Chongxi's "Little Zhuge ".
Sun Yuanliang was a well-known "runaway general" on the battlefield, and if such a person was allowed to stay in an extremely barren area to fight guerrillas, he was afraid that he would run faster than anyone else; not to mention, the Kuomintang generals had long been accustomed to extravagance and could not adapt to the life of the guerrillas at all, so they fought guerrillas nothing more than raiding homes and robbing houses on the spot. At that time, the general trend of the Kuomintang had gone, and the local people had been oppressed by the Kuomintang army for many years.
The proposal to attack Ho Chi Minh is even more nonsense. After all, Ho Chi Minh had studied with the party organization in Guangzhou, and his belief in communism and his desire to build a unified country would not make him easily captured, so even if the Nationalist army entered Vietnam to exterminate Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh's troops would inevitably fight each other to the end. More importantly, the French at that time had already regarded Vietnam as their own backyard, and it was obviously very unreliable for the Kuomintang army to go to the territory of France to show off its military might.
Therefore, Bai Chongxi's several schemes are not reliable, but why did he have such a confused strategy? This is because this plan is not Bai Chongxi's first creation.
As early as the Battle of Hengbao and the Battle of Guangxi, Xia Wei and others, the main retreat faction within the Gui faction, once advocated that the main force should be brought to Vietnam, and neither the French nor Ho Chi Minh could stop the army from pressing the border. But at that time, "Xiao Zhuge didn't listen" and had to wait for the assistance of the United States in the decisive battle, and as a result, he was defeated and retreated, and after becoming the commander of the light pole, he had to turn back and think of this trick.
So, it's just theoretically possible, but it's even more difficult to put into practice. After all, when Lin'an fell and the Great Song Dynasty was about to fall, the rulers of the Song Dynasty also considered attacking Vietnam to expand their living space, so when the two were combined, this was just a lingering breath. From this, it can be seen that Bai Chongxi has no way to make more strategies, and the Kuomintang army has reached the final game.
Ironically, Chiang Kai-shek was relatively safe at that time, and Chen Cheng had already arranged everything for him in Taiwan, so he still had the leisure to forward this strategy to Gu Zhutong, hoping that they could still fight for a little more victory for themselves.
The later result was that Bai Chongxi not only failed, but was completely overthrown by Chiang Kai-shek after retreating to Taiwan. Because Chiang Kai-shek held a grudge against the Gui family's repeated palace forcing incidents, Bai Chongxi had been under surveillance. In 1950, Bai Chongxi became a high-ranking official in the Kuomintang, but he was monitored by spies every day, and even Chiang Kai-shek set up a police station opposite Bai Chongxi's mansion, which can be described as extremely insulting.
In December 1966, Bai Chongxi died in his bedroom, his body was green, and the cause of death was unknown. After his death, Chiang Kai-shek showed great grief, he gave Bai Chongxi the highest standard funeral ceremony, and personally bowed three times to Bai Chongxi's body. Everyone present at the time felt ridiculous, you know, the relationship between Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek has never been close, so where did the latter's grief come from?
When Chiang Kai-shek expressed his concern to the children of the Bai family, "If you have any difficulties, just tell me", Bai Chongxi's son directly shot back, "The children of the Bai family have never had any difficulties." Like their father, none of the children and grandchildren of the Bai family bowed to Chiang Kai-shek.
The death of Bai Chongxi, a generation of famous generals, is embarrassing, and the 40 years of his entanglement with Chiang Kai-shek are even more emotional. It can be seen from this that the power struggle and fierce struggle within the Kuomintang could not change the fate of the collapse of the Nationalist Government even if Zhuge was alive.