As a controversial figure in modern history, whether Chiang Kai-shek was a hero or a sinner has always been a question.
To some people, Chiang Kai-shek seems to have many meritorious deeds worth mentioning, but in chiang kai-shek's life, he committed four heinous crimes against the country and the people, and each of these four crimes is enough to be spurned by thousands of people.
So, what are the four crimes committed by Chiang Kai-shek? Was he a sinner or a hero in his life?
The first crime, the Zhengzhou Huayuankou dike breach.
In April 1938, after the great victory of Taierzhuang, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to further expand the results of the battle, mobilized more than 600,000 troops from all over the country to Xuzhou, but only a month later, on May 19 of the same year, Xuzhou was completely captured by the Japanese army.
At this time, the Japanese army planned to take Zhengzhou first and then attack Wuhan, and in order to successfully stop the Japanese attack, Chiang Kai-shek had to send Cheng Qian's 120,000 troops, the purpose of which was to completely annihilate the 20,000 remnants of Kenji Doihara.
It is reasonable to say that with 120,000 to 20,000, the Nationalist army is basically impossible to lose, but to paraphrase Chiang Kai-shek's own words, there are several generals under him who are really not as good as rice buckets.
On May 23, 1938, Tu Feiyuan first focused his attack on Lanfeng, and at this time it was Chiang Kai-shek's general Gui Yongqing who was stationed in Lanfeng.
Since Gui Yongqing's troops were Chiang Kai-shek's concubines, judging from the situation at that time, Toihara was simply looking for his own death when he found this unit, and even Chiang Kai-shek said that this unit basically could not lose.
However, just after jiang and cheng made some analysis, Gui Yongqing's troops slapped old Jiang hard.
Previously, although Cheng Qian thought that Gui Yongqing's troops might lose, they did not expect that Lan Feng would lose his defense in less than a day, but at this point, Jiang and Cheng had no choice but to rearrange their troops, and this time, according to Cheng Qian's analysis, this unit could take tufeiyuan, a remnant of the defeated general, in three days at most.
However, just as Song Xilian had just recaptured Lanfeng on the front foot, Huang Jie, who was stationed in Shangqiu on the back foot, actually fled without a fight, and Jiang, Cheng, and others were completely absent, and finally under some consideration, Cheng Qian, Xue Yue, and others had to retreat.
In fact, the incident was only a problem within Chiang Kai-shek at this point, but at this moment, the Kuomintang did not know who had proposed a bad move, this person wanted to emulate Guan Yu, so as to explode the Yellow River and drown the Japanese army, so someone made this request to Chiang Kai-shek.
After learning of this news, many people dissuaded Chiang Kai-shek, after all, once the garden mouth broke the embankment, the common people would definitely suffer.
But in response, Chiang Kai-shek not only adopted this absurd decision, but even constantly urged the Kuomintang troops to quickly break the embankment, and shouted in his mouth that he should break his misgivings, resolutely do it, and do it all.
On June 9, 1938, Zhongmu fell behind, and in the early morning of this day, the garden mouth was suddenly exploded, according to the "Record of the Disaster situation in Yu Province": when the embankment broke, the waves rolled, the yellow water was terrible, and the sound was 100 miles.
For a time, countless people in Henan were swept away by the river in their sleep, but although more people escaped the disaster, they suffered from different diseases and died of painful diseases after the disaster.
Moreover, even if it escaped floods and diseases, Henan at this time has caused the famous Henan famine, and this unprecedented catastrophe, at least 3 million people in China have been starved to death.
As for the Japanese army, the casualties in this flood were less than 7,000, so this crime could not be washed away by Chiang Kai-shek under any circumstances.
After learning about the crime of breaking the embankment at the mouth of the garden, it was followed by chiang kai-shek's second crime, the acquittal of Okamura Ninji.
As everyone knows, Okamura Ningji was a Class-A war criminal in the war of aggression against China, and with his crimes, even if he died thousands of times and tens of thousands of times, it is not too much to say.
Therefore, when Japan surrendered unconditionally, Okamura Ningji was actually ready to die, but at this moment, Chiang Kai-shek actually saved this person for his own selfish desires, and his purpose was so absurd that it was not too much to let the people spit on him.
It turned out that the reason why Chiang Kai-shek saved Okamura Ningji was only to let him help himself, and Chiang Kai-shek even ordered that if there were any acts of resistance against Japan and humiliation of Japan by the Yan'an side, they would be severely punished.
Therefore, after seeing Chiang Kai-shek's attitude, Okamura Ningji also took the initiative to move closer to Chiang Kai-shek, and under Chiang Kai-shek's strong protection, Okamura Ningji was not severely punished.
Okamura's task was simple, he only had to bow to the Chinese general at the ceremony of surrender, and then hand over his blood-stained butcher knife.
Such an approach was completely insufficient for Okamura Ningji, but it was such a simple request that Okamura Ningji did not even hand over the knife in the end.
It turned out that the day before the surrender ceremony, Chiang Kai-shek actually asked He Yingqin to tell Okamura Ningji that there was no need to hand over the command knife, and that the surrender ceremony was just a formality, so Okamura Ningji was not only not hanged in the end, but even the knife was not handed over.
Just after attending the surrender ceremony, Okamura Ninji took the initiative to visit Chiang Kai-shek, and there is no doubt that this behavior caused the indignation of the people at that time.
However, Chiang Kai-shek only superficially sent him to a military court, and behind his back, he even arranged a large number of plainclothes to protect the other party, and finally under Chiang Kai-shek's operation, Okamura Ningji unexpectedly returned to Japan unscathed.
From this incident alone, Chiang Kai-shek was sorry for the people, sorry for the country, sorry for all the martyrs who died for the War of Resistance, and this crime was enough to become a reason for him to be reviled by the people.
The third crime, Chiang Kai-shek renounced Outer Mongolia.
Also in 1945, just as the Chinese people were celebrating, Chiang Kai-shek signed a "Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship" with the Soviet Union, which stipulated that China needed to abandon Outer Mongolia, and this treaty was even opposed by many people in the Kuomintang.
Everyone knows that signing this treaty is a sinner for eternity, but only Chiang Kai-shek still has to fight against public opinion and must sign it.
So, why did Chiang Kai-shek sign this treaty?
To put it bluntly, Chiang Kai-shek's selfishness is too heavy, and although Chiang Kai-shek has a sense of internationality and nationality, these emotions are not worth mentioning at all compared with his selfishness.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek wanted to sign this treaty was actually only to let the Soviet Union abandon our party and let the Soviet Union send troops to help him expel the Japanese army in the northeast.
Then, seeing that this may be another person, some people have to ask, why did Chiang Kai-shek not send troops to fight these Japanese?
In fact, there are two main reasons, and these two reasons are even more absurd than the treaty he signed.
The first reason was because Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that he would not be able to defeat the Japanese army, but from a factual point of view, the Japanese army was already defeated at that time, and the Kuomintang army would not be unable to defeat these defeated generals at that time, at most, it was a matter of Chiang Kai-shek spending more time.
However, this brings us to the second reason, the reason why Chiang Kai-shek is unwilling to spend more time is actually in large part because he put the center inside, so that Chiang Kai-shek said to Zhang Xueliang as early as the anti-Japanese period, "Outside must first be inside."
If it were not for the Xi'an Incident, the group detained Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek would still have waged a civil war for his own selfish desires.
However, with regard to the Outer Mongolia issue, Chiang Kai-shek actually later admitted that the Outer Mongolia issue was entirely his own personal opinion, and he was willing to bear this responsibility, but even so, it could not change Chiang Kai-shek's third crime.
Finally, let's talk about Chiang Kai-shek's fourth crime, and Chiang Kai-shek's fourth crime is undoubtedly to start a civil war.
In fact, this crime has a great connection with the previous two crimes, and the reason why Chiang Kai-shek released Okamura Ningji and signed the "Sino-Soviet Treaty" is to put it bluntly, chiang kai-shek in order to launch a civil war.
After all, Chiang Kai-shek had more than 4 million troops at that time, but our party's side was also more than 1 million, and from the perspective of troop strength, Chiang Kai-shek had a great advantage no matter what, but the final result was that the People's Liberation Army won the battle.
However, if you ask why Chiang Kai-shek lost in the end, first of all, it must be inseparable from the superb tactics of the People's Liberation Army. Even though the People's Liberation Army can win more with less and defeat the strong with the weak, what does it rely on? It is the strong will and clever tactics of the PLA that the PLA can win the final victory.
However, in addition to these, there are actually other factors, and this can be seen from the gap between the two leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Why has the chairman been able to win over Chiang Kai-shek again and again? This is not only because the chairman's use of soldiers is like a god, but also because the chairman has won the trust of the people, because the people know that the chairman is bent on the people, and only the chairman can lead the people to victory.
And Chiang Kai-shek? In order to win the Japanese army, he did not hesitate to blow up the yellow river embankment, and even threatened his subordinates that "not blowing up the embankment is the benevolence of a woman." Based on this attitude toward the people alone, Chiang Kai-shek will certainly not be able to get the support of the common people.
Moreover, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek also did not consider the feelings of the Chinese people, and in order to realize his own selfish desires, Chiang Kai-shek launched a war again, and such a person was doomed to become the leader of the people.
Looking back at the four deadly sins committed by Chiang Kai-shek, each of which can be said to be inexcusable in the eyes of the people, but if we analyze it further through history, in fact, Chiang Kai-shek's crimes are far more than these.
It is true that he has made many military achievements in his lifetime, and he also has his own national complex, but judging from the four deadly sins he committed, Chiang Kai-shek is ashamed of the country, the nation, the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the War of Resistance, and even more ashamed of the people who suffered from the chaos of war.
And this doomed Chiang Kai-shek to the final defeat, because history has taught us countless times that only by winning the support of the people can we be called a real victory.