Chiang Kai-shek's transformation from having millions of well-equipped troops to the defeat of Taiwan seems to have taken only a few short years, but in fact, all this has long been doomed; from a military point of view, the failure of the old Chiang Kai-shek was self-inflicted, and there was obviously a "Zhuge Liang" around him, but he unloaded and killed the donkey.
This "Zhuge Liang" type figure is Yang Jie, who is known as a military hero, and almost few people may know about Yang Jie now, but in the Republic of China period, his fame was very large, especially when he was a soldier, almost as a "star" as sought after.
To say a simple phenomenon, Yang Jie has written many military works, of which these four major "New Theories on National Defense", "Military and National Defense", "The Study of The Commander of the Army" and "The Essentials of War" are known as the must-read books for the promotion of officers in the Republic of China.
Yang Jie, Jiang Baili, Bai Chongxi, and Liu Bocheng formed the "three and a half" chiefs of staff of the Republic of China, of which Yang Jie ranked second, and the first in the list was Jiang Baili, but Jiang Baili only had theoretical works, and Yang Jie not only had theoretical works, but also led troops to fight very strongly.
In the early days of chiang kai-shek's struggle with various warlords, thanks to the help of Yang Jie, he was able to win many military victories, and at first Yang Jie and Chiang Kai-shek had a very good relationship, Yang Jie was a native of Dali, Yunnan, talented and successful in his studies, and in 1907, he was sent to the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School by the late Qing Dynasty to study. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was also there, and the two Chinese in a foreign country, and it was easy to become friends, and it was precisely because of this that Yang Jie would help Chiang Kai-shek, especially during the Second Northern Expedition, Yang Jie showed his ability to "anticipate things like gods".
In March 1928, Yang Jie was appointed chief of staff of the 1st Army Group, following Chiang Kai-shek to participate in the Second Northern Expedition, when Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Tai'an, Shandong Province, he learned that the Japanese army had sent troops to occupy the Commercial Port of Jinan.
Yang Jie saw Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts, and immediately spread out the map and said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Japan's troops have long been expected, and they should order the troops to bypass Jinan and continue north." Sure enough, chiang kai-shek followed Yang Jie's suggestion and went north to crush the Feng clan in one fell swoop and won a great victory.
Yang Jie, the "Zhuge Liang", could not only anticipate the Japanese invasion of Jinan, but also decisively defeat thousands of miles away, and in 1930, when the Central Plains War broke out, Yang Jie was appointed chief of the general staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force Headquarters to accompany Chiang Kai-shek to participate in the war, and he crushed the combined forces of Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan in one fell swoop.
According to his plan, a huge pocket array was arranged between the Longhai Line and the Jinpu Line, and 6 division commanders were personally commanded to carry out this plan, defeating the combined forces of Feng and Yan in one fell swoop, and soon after Feng Yuxiang regained his strength and attacked the Chiang Army in 7 ways, and a cavalry division directly attacked the swing headquarters where Chiang Kai-shek was located.
This move was really powerful, once Chiang Kai-shek had an accident, this battle would not have to be fought; at that time, Chiang Kai-shek had only a small number of troops around him, Yang Jie was commanding the battle outside, and Chiang Kai-shek planned to retreat and shrink his position.
If Zhuge Liang had made a plan for Chiang Kai-shek, he suggested that Chiang Kai-shek send a small force available to attack the enemy cavalry division, and the Northwest Army, which had always been stable, naturally had doubts, so it was inevitable that it would not dare to rush to attack.
In this way, the other Chiang Kai-shek army will also have time to mobilize, Chiang Kai-shek acted according to the plan, and it really worked, you said that Yang Jie is not powerful, his talent may not be as good as Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms, but he should also be a general figure of "Zhuge Liang" in the current world, and Bai Chongxi, who is known as "Little Zhuge Ge", is not as good as him.
Chiang Kai-shek had the assistance of such a military strategist, so why did he still lose so many battles in the War of Liberation? With the consolidation of Chiang Kai-shek's position, he became more and more hostile to Yang Jie, who had talent and ability, but his temper was also big and his temperament was straight.
In 1934, when Yang Jie was the director of the Aviation Committee, when inspecting a batch of newly purchased aircraft, he found that these so-called new aircraft were actually assembled from scrap products, and the person responsible for purchasing the aircraft was Kong Xiangxi, who was Chiang Kai-shek's in-laws.
However, the result was fruitless, Chiang Kai-shek avoided this, and yang jie was half dead, so he resigned from the post of director, and he was also greatly disappointed by Chiang Kai-shek, but he did not expect that Kong Xiangxi had a grudge against Yang Jie and joined forces with He Yingqin to retaliate against him.
Falsely accusing Chiang Kai-shek of embezzling public funds for the construction of the Nanjing fortifications, Chiang Kai-shek shot the quartermaster and deputy director, abolished the city jamming group, and also removed Yang Jie from his post as chief of general staff and arranged for Yang Jie to serve as the chief of education at the Mainland University.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, Chiang Kai-shek said that "three months to crush the main force of the communist army", but Yang Jie asserted, "Don't say three months, I'm afraid it will be difficult to fundamentally solve it in ten or thirty years." ”
On September 18, 1949, Yang Jie accepted an invitation to attend the new CPPCC meeting, which aroused Chiang Kai-shek's hatred and ordered Mao Renfeng to assassinate him, at the age of 60, Chiang Kai-shek unloaded and killed donkeys.