In ancient Chinese history, there have been many very wise strategists, such as Shang Martin, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Fan Sui, Zhang Liang, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Sima Yi, Liu Bowen, etc., their wisdom is very high, they can understand the world's major events, and in China's modern history, there has also been such a person, his name is Yang Yongtai, most people are relatively unfamiliar with him, but it is no exaggeration to say that during the Republic of China at that time, his strategy can be called the first.
Yang Yongtai, born in 1880, when he was 17 years old, he passed the Xiucai examination, when he was 21 years old, he was admitted to the Guangzhou Higher School, received Western education, his talent was extremely high, in the turbulent years of the last years of the Qing Dynasty, he was also used by Sun Yat-sen, and later entered the political arena, after Sun Yat-sen resigned from the presidency, Yang Yongtai also returned to Shanghai, but he was not discouraged, and a little trick was made to find a consultant position in the Ministry of Communications of the Nanjing Government, Yang Yongtai was observing warlords everywhere at this time to see who could display his talents.
In the spring of 1928, Chiang Kai-shek had just returned to prepare for the 2nd Northern Expedition, when he felt that he did not have the resourceful and strategic strategists, at this time someone recommended Yang Yongtai, saying that he was extremely talented, and he had Wang Zuozhi's talent, so that the two of them knew each other, and in 1932, Chiang Kai-shek carried out the 4th encirclement and suppression of our army, Yang Yongtai wrote a letter of ten thousand words, which proposed that the outside must be first inside, and also advocated three points of military, seven points of politics, and the implementation of the armor protection law in the counties, and our army had to be forced to march twenty-five thousand miles.
At that time, there were many Chinese warlords, and the strength of various factions was very large, Chiang Kai-shek adopted Yang Yongtai's method, used the economic disintegration of Feng Yuxiang's 2nd Group Army, used political solutions to Yan Xishan's 3rd Army, used diplomatic methods to deal with Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, and militarily solved Li Zongren's 4th Group Army.
Although Yang Yongtai's talent is very high, but there are many people who do not like him, on October 25, 1936, Yang Yongtai wanted to return to Wuchang by ship in Hankou after attending a banquet at the Japanese consulate, and suddenly met an assassin who fired several shots at him, Yang Yongtai fell to the ground on the spot and died, before dying Yang Yongtai said: I have long expected that there will be today, but I have promised the country, died for the country, the husband asked for it, but unfortunately my life's talent was not displayed, the world was not yet peaceful, after saying these words, Yang Yongtai died, at the age of 56 If Yang Yongtai had not died, Chiang Kai-shek's subsequent path would certainly have been different.