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Chiang Kai-shek had three rice buckets and straw bales under his command, but if the old Chiang Kai-shek used one less, he would not lose so badly in the end.
Speaking of Lao Jiang's ability to employ people, it made a person who heard it sad, and a person who saw it cried, and a good hand of cards was played poorly:
A talented warrior, he doesn't reuse any of them, and he uses a straw bag for a vegetarian meal.
Today, let's take stock of the "rice buckets" that have been reused by Lao Jiang.
Pig General Liu Zhi
The first to bear the brunt is naturally Liu Zhi, who was scolded as a "pig general" and "rice bucket" behind his back.
This Liu Zhiguang looks like a fat head and is not very smart, in fact, his ability is indeed not very smart.
However, Liu Zhi still had a good time, otherwise he would not have been able to get in front of Chiang Kai-shek.
In the early days, Liu Zhi was known as the head of the Five Tiger Generals in Jiangxi, but his brilliant achievements were actually limited to before the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, when he was Chiang Kai-shek's most qualified executioner, and he waved a butcher's knife against our party.
It was precisely because he had killed too many revolutionaries of our party in the early stage, coupled with the repeated beating of warlords from all walks of life, that Liu Zhi was greatly appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, and was soon reused by Chiang Kai-shek, and was regarded by Chiang Kai-shek as his most loyal "confidant".
At his peak, Liu Zhi even directly held the title of second-class army general and was appointed chairman of the Henan Provincial Government.
But in fact, as soon as Liu Zhi beat Sun Yat-sen to death, he completely tore off the disguised mask of the aspiring young man in the past, exposed his corrupt and depraved nature, and began to indulge in extravagant pleasures, busy embezzling to make money, wine-colored dogs and horses, and had no heart to study any military tactics at all, so his military ability naturally plummeted.
Especially at the critical moment of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Zhi held great power and fought independently, so he directly "exposed his true form" and lost one after another.
It turned out that in the past, the battles were all small-scale troop operations, and Liu Zhi could still rely on the help of other famous generals to mix up some achievements for himself, but now no one can help him, and the essence of "General Pig" is naturally unobstructed.
Especially in the battle of Pinghan Road, Liu Zhi fell into a rout on the whole front before he even entered a full-scale battle with the Japanese army, but who expected that in the face of the collapse of the army's heart, Liu Zhi, as the leader, not only did not think about how to remedy it, but set an example for the whole army to resist the Japanese army to the death, but took the lead in fleeing, and the result of the battle was naturally a rout.
And Liu Zhi, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, has been given the nickname of "long-legged general".
However, even if it has reached such a point, Chiang Kai-shek did not even think of punishing Liu Zhi, just because Liu Zhi is the "descendant" of Lao Chiang, so in Lao Chiang's opinion, no matter how much he uses his own people, he is more at ease than "outsiders", so he gave Liu Zhi opportunities again and again.
Fight until Liu Zhi continues to fight, it is estimated that we will lose the country and the army, Lao Jiang was forced to reluctantly transfer Liu Zhi from the front line back to Chongqing, the capital of the company, to take charge of some logistics affairs.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended and the War of Liberation was fought, Lao Jiang was impatient to reuse Liu Zhi, and also handed over the extremely critical Huaihai Battle to Liu Zhi, and let Liu Zhi serve as the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Xuzhou.
For Lao Jiang at that time, many people expressed their incomprehension, after all, there were still many capable generals under Lao Jiang at that time, from Xue Yue to Sun Liren to Bai Chongxi and Du Yuming, just grab one, and their abilities are far stronger than Liu Zhi, but Lao Jiang just let these fierce generals go and reuse an incompetent Liu Zhi, which makes many people unable to figure it out.
So for a while, there was a lot of discussion in the army, and some generals complained in private:
"Xuzhou is the gate of Nanjing, even if you don't send a tiger, you can't always send a "pig" to guard it! ”
It is said that at that time, even Song Meiling euphemistically reminded Lao Jiang that Liu Zhi was useless, but Lao Jiang didn't know what lard he was blinded by, so he insisted on letting Liu Zhi take office.
So, Liu Zhi, who didn't know anything, came to the battlefield with 600,000 elite Kuomintang troops in his hands, and then, unsurprisingly, reasonably, under the devastation of the People's Liberation Army, completely lost the ability to resist, retreated one after another, and finally ended up with the Kuomintang 550,000 troops being completely annihilated, and also put Huang Wei, Du Yuming, Huang Baitao and other famous generals into it.
It can be said that it was Lao Chiang's reuse of Liu Zhi that made the demise of the Kuomintang directly press the acceleration button.
It can't be said that the heart of the Yellow River is not dead, and it was not until this defeat that Lao Jiang lost the last bit of patience with Liu Zhi and no longer reused it, but unfortunately it was too late.
"Water and locust soup" Tang Byrne
If Liu Zhi's scourge is only military incompetence, then Tang Enbo is simply a scourge in Chiang Kai-shek's army, and directly by himself, he made the Kuomintang government of the old Chiang Kai-shek frantically press the acceleration button to lose the support of the people.
Don't look at Tang Enbo's usual happiness, look at everyone's gentle face with a smiling face, but in fact, Tang Enbo is a notorious "smiling tiger", and what he does can be described by the words "annihilation of human nature".
First rewind the time to the Anti-Japanese War period, during this period, because Lao Jiang did not hesitate to blow up the Huayuankou embankment in order to "flood the Japanese army", causing the Yellow River to burst the embankment, flooding a large area of farmland and houses, many people were homeless, and indirectly led to the "Henan Great Famine" in 1942, the whole Henan was like a purgatory on earth, starving all over the wilderness.
However, even though the people have reached such a difficult point, Towne is still trying to squeeze these hungry refugees.
In the name of building and intercepting Japanese fortifications, he demolished all the temples, ancestral halls, Taoist halls, and even the houses of ordinary people in various villages, and used the demolished building materials to build fortifications.
However, the "demolition money" that should have been compensated to these people was all filled by Tang Enbo.
The common people were already hungry, and now they didn't even have a house to live in, so they were directly forced to be displaced, regardless of life or death, and even scolded this Tang Enbo for being a butcher, and even the Dragon King's Palace had to be demolished and sold for money!
Moreover, in order to maintain his army, Tang Enbo also completely ignored the difficult situation of the common people, still warned the common people of heavy taxes, sent people to collect military rations from door to door, and beat those who did not give them, and finally forced the common people not only to have no rations for themselves, but also to hand over all the seed food.
If there is no seed, how can we grow new food? Therefore, the coming of famine is naturally reasonable.
Even when the Kuomintang Central Committee later ordered the distribution of relief food to the victims, Tang Enbo did not forget to withhold oil and water layer by layer, and in the end, what really fell into the hands of the victims could only be used to stuff their teeth.
Because of this, the common people are all scolding Tang Enbo, and there is even such a folk song in Henan, called "I'd rather the Japanese devils come to burn and kill, than Tang Enbo to be stationed!" ”
And Tang Enbo, a corrupt official like the fish and meat people, also vividly interprets what is called "Zhumen wine and meat stink, the road has frozen bones", Tang Enbo is making a lot of money, and his family is rich, but the people are skinny, unclothed, and homeless, no wonder Tang Enbo finally lost the hearts of the people, even if he has elite soldiers, but he still lost 37 counties in 36 days under the offensive of the Japanese army.
When Tang Enbo first joined the army, he was still an iron-faced and selfless general in the army, and his reputation was not so bad, but when he led the army into Henan, he was as insatiable as a locust crossing the border, showing the villain style.
When it came to the Liberation War, Tang Enbo was even more of a master of selling his teammates, first because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, he killed Zhang Lingfu, and then betrayed his teacher, and came to betray his teacher for glory, and continued to exchange for the reuse of Lao Jiang.
But even a discerning person can see that this Tang Enbo's character is worrisome, he is a wall grass who will not be truly loyal to anyone, and his ability is not very good, but Lao Jiang still chooses to reuse him, why?
And more importantly, this Tang Enbo can be regarded as the only one among the people who Lao Jiang is desperately reusing, and he is not a descendant general from the Whampoa Military Academy, how did he do it?
First, because Tang Enbo and Lao Jiang are fellow villagers, and when the villagers see their fellow villagers, their eyes are full of tears, so Lao Jiang naturally feels that Tang Enbo is very close.
Second, Tang Enbo and Lao Jiang are still alumni and have both studied at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, so this relationship is naturally close to each other.
Third, it is because Tang Enbo writes well, and often writes words to give to Lao Jiang. Although this doesn't sound special, you must know that Lao Chiang especially likes people who write well, and he once regarded good handwriting as the assessment standard for Kuomintang generals.
In addition, Tang Enbo pretended to be loyal and hardworking in front of Lao Jiang, which made Lao Jiang mistakenly think that he was a good general and reused him, even if Tang Enbo did so many immoral things during the Anti-Japanese War, after the Anti-Japanese War, Lao Jiang still appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison, and asked him to lead his troops to attack Shandong, but the result was naturally only a fiasco.
Temporary
But if you want to say that Lao Jiang's most trusted general, it has to be Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng is a proper Huangpu descendant, and he is still Lao Jiang's hometown, and with the blessing of these two identities, it is simply a life that is properly reused.
And Chen Cheng also has a good grasp of his identity, to Lao Jiang Na called a touting obedience, as long as it is Lao Jiang's order, he will resolutely carry it out, as long as it is Lao Jiang's rule, he will not hesitate to support, only Chiang Kai-shek is from, the whole person is simply like Lao Jiang's No. 1 dog's leg, or half of Lao Jiang's son.
In order to get close to Lao Jiang, Chen Cheng even did not hesitate to abandon his original wife and marry Lao Jiang's goddaughter Tan Xiang.
The cronyistic old Jiang is the most addicted to this set, so naturally the more he looks at this Chen Cheng, the more he likes it, so he simply regards Chen Cheng as his cronies, and declares that he can't live without Chen Cheng for a day.
Since he was a cronie, he naturally reused it, so soon, Chen Cheng became a core figure within the Kuomintang by virtue of patting Lao Jiang's sycophants.
But in fact, what is his true strength? Looking at its record, it can be said that it has lost more than it won, and it has no military talent at all.
However, even so, Lao Jiang never felt that it was Chen Cheng's own ability, but blamed everything on Chen Cheng's "still too young" and "need experience", and continued to reuse Chen Cheng, and even during the extremely important Battle of Wuhan during the Anti-Japanese War, he also asked Chen Cheng to lead hundreds of thousands of troops to fight against the Japanese army, and the result naturally ended in a fiasco.
After this defeat, Chen Cheng's ability was greatly questioned in the army for a while, but Lao Jiang ignored these doubts, and still insisted on reusing Chen Cheng in the Liberation War, and let him fight against the Northeast Siye.
But who would have thought that it may be that he is used to being praised too high by Lao Jiang on weekdays, Chen Cheng completely lacks a clear understanding of his own strength, and even said wildly before the battle that he can exterminate the communist bandits in only three to five months.
However, in the end, he was naturally beaten by our army and almost annihilated.
But if it's just a lack of military talent, the most important thing is that Chen Cheng always uses Lao Jiang to his own pedestrians, blowing wind next to Lao Jiang, gossiping about others, and provoking the relationship between Lao Jiang and those really powerful generals.
For example, when Lao Jiang wanted to take Lin Biao under his command, but Chen Cheng was jealous, so he deliberately said bad things about Lin Biao in front of Lao Jiang, so that Lao Jiang had doubts about Lin Biao, which made the arrogant Lin Biao feel that he was ignored by Lao Jiang, so he decisively turned his head and joined our army, standing on the opposite side of Lao Jiang, and beat Lao Jiang Na to call him bitter and regretful, hating himself for losing talents back then.
It can be seen that Lao Jiang looks at people so much, no wonder he finally failed miserably, in the final analysis, in fact, Lao Jiang himself is to blame, if it were not for the brains of "rather using slaves than talents", he would not let so many talents under his hands be ignored and neglected, unable to make the best use of them, but a mediocre corpse vegetarian meal, and finally buried his country!
Nepotism was ultimately defeated, and Lao Jiang did not end well after all.