On August 21, 1993, a special trial was held in Taiwan, and outside the courthouse, many people held signs of "protest" and shouted loudly, and after a while, a 97-year-old man was supported and slowly walked into the courtroom to sit in the defendant's seat.
The trial of the case took 2 hours, during which the old man did not say a word, until the judge was ready to judge, the old man stood up, and said in a loud voice: I once eliminated 100,000 Japanese troops, but now I am going to be tried and guilty by my own people, and my heart is painful!
In the audience, the people who heard these words all shed tears, and the old man in the defendant's seat was named Xue Yue, whose life was full of legends, and he was a general who made the Japanese army famous and fearful, but now he could not even pay the rent and was prosecuted.
It is sad that a generation of famous anti-Japanese generals have fallen to such a point.
In 1896, a generation of famous generals Xue Yue was born, the original name of Xue Yangyue, originally meant to be like Yue Fei, became a generation of warriors, decades later he succeeded.
The awakening of the Chinese nation is the rush of countless young people with lofty ideals, and Xue Yue is among them. He attended the Baoding Military School and later joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party. In 1918, he joined the revolutionary army formed by Sun Yat-sen to aid the Fujian-Cantonese Army, and because of his talent, he was appointed as a captain and staff officer of the headquarters, entered Fujian, and began his life as a horse. And Xue Yue sighed in the courtroom: I have destroyed 100,000 Japanese troops. Just a conservative estimate.
In May 1938, after the Japanese army captured Xuzhou, it began to attack Wuhan, and in order to successfully occupy De'an, Okamura Ningji sent the 106th Division of the Japanese 11th Army to go. On the way, he met the 187th Division of the 64th Army commanded by Xue Yue.
Xue Yue immediately commanded the army, with the "pocket array", surrounded tens of thousands of Japanese troops, spent 12 days, annihilated them, the Japanese 106 division totaled more than 12,000 people, was killed 10,000 people, took 300 prisoners, only more than 1,000 people escaped.
The site of the war was in Wanjialing, and after the war, Wanjialing became a no-man's land, both houses and trees were destroyed, and Xue Yue also set a precedent for annihilating the entire division of the Japanese army.
If the battle of Wanjialing was just Xue Yue's small test knife, then the battle of Changsha was to make him famous in the world.
In 1939, in order to quickly occupy Changsha, the Japanese army mobilized 100,000 troops and began to divide the troops into three roads, and the general who guarded the town of Changsha was Xue Yue.
At that time, the Japanese army mobilized hundreds of fighters and ships, and there were countless tanks and shells, but Xue Yue did not have the slightest fear.
He deployed his forces in three ways, complementing each other, and no matter which way the enemy entered the ambush circle, the other two roads could be supported at any time. This is the "Heavenly Furnace Tactics".
In the first battle of Changsha, Xue Yue and Okamura Ningji fought for 20 days, annihilating more than 40,000 enemy people and hitting Okamura Ningji to doubt his life.
But the proud Okamura Ningji refused to accept defeat, and in September 1941, he mobilized his troops again to make a comeback, because the first battle was too bad, he learned from experience, mobilized a full 150,000 troops, and more than 100 aircraft and more than 200 ships, attacked Changsha in two separate ways, Xue Yue learned of this, immediately mobilized more than a dozen armies and more than 200,000 troops, distributed seven armies in the mountains on the east side, contained their people, and after resisting one by one, led the Japanese army to
The Miluo River and the Laodao River were severely damaged and annihilated. The second attack on Changsha by the Japanese army was still a crushing defeat.
Three months later, Okamura Ningji prepared to launch a final attack, again increasing his strength and weapons and equipment, attacking Changsha for 6 months, and was annihilated by Xue Yue with more than 50,000 troops, and had no choice but to retreat.
In 1944, the Japanese army appointed
As the commander-in-chief, Itagaki mobilized more than 200,000 Japanese troops, and more than 600 fighters, etc., to attack Changsha again, and changsha was lost in this battle.
Xue Yue led the soldiers and horses to hengyang, in July 1944, Okamura Ningji commanded the Japanese army to attack Hengyang, Xue Yue ordered the troops to start counter-encirclement and suppression early, and sent a telegram asking for help, but the city was insufficient, reinforcements were blocked by the Japanese army, and Hengyang was helpless.
After the fall of Hengyang, Xue Yue took his soldiers and horses to the border areas of Xiang, Gansu, and Guangdong to garrison and resist the Japanese army all the way to eliminate the Japanese army.
Xue Yue's life, not only these battles, his life is more like a legendary book, not so much like Yue Fei, but rather that he and Yue Fei stood on the same line, but such a famous anti-Japanese general, and finally left this world with resentment.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was very jealous of Xue Yue, who openly opposed him as a leader and repeatedly resisted his orders in the war, and Xue Yue was close to the Communists.
When Premier Zhou led an armed uprising of workers in Shanghai, Xue Yue protected him in all aspects, angering Chiang Kai-shek and being deposed from his post.
In 1928, when the Kuomintang was seriously divided, Xue Yue took this opportunity to defect to Li Jishen, but after some tossing and turning, he finally belonged to Chiang Kai-shek.
After Chiang Kai-shek took in Xue Yue, he not only did not give him a position, but also targeted him everywhere, and had no choice but for Xue Yue to go south, until the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Xue Yue returned to the Kuomintang again.
In the battle against the Japanese army, his various achievements surprised Chiang Kai-shek and began to reuse them. However, Xue Yue was not a general he could surrender, and when Chiang Kai-shek reused him, he was still jealous of him.
Later, when Chiang Kai-shek retired to Taiwan, Xue Yue went with him, but in Taiwan he did not have a good life, because he was not welcomed by Chiang Kai-shek, so Chiang Kai-shek let him hold a false post, xue Yue in his later years, he missed his hometown very much but could not go back, when Chiang Kai-shek's father and son were alive, although Xue Yue was not welcomed, but the treatment that should be treated was not falling, life was quite comfortable, but when Chiang Kai-shek's father and son died, Xue Yue's life also became very miserable.
Because his personality did not tolerate sand, offended many high-ranking officials, in his old age the house he lived in was canceled, Xue Yue had to pay rent to live, and the high rent was simply not something that Xue Yue could bear, so the bank sued him in court, which also appeared in the opening scene.
After coming out of the courtroom, Xue Yue left the place where he had lived for decades and moved to a room of only a dozen square meters.
The place where he lived was very far from the county seat, and if he wanted to go out of the village, he had to go to the small wooden bridge, and once it was windy and rainy or flash flood, then the village would be disconnected from the outside world.
In 1996, the crew of the documentary "An Inch of Mountains and Rivers and An Inch of Blood" came to visit Xue Yue and listen to him tell about the "Battle of the Heavenly Furnace" that year.
After the old man finished speaking that day, he went to the study and wrote a few words to the crew, on which there were four big words "Jing Loyal to the Country".
Centenarians have been obscure for half a lifetime, and they still want to be loyal to the country, and their hearts are unmatched.
Xue Yue raised nine children, but he has not been very educated, and his son said: In this life, his father only has a country and no home.
Several of the children grew up in Chiayi, lived in a remote rural area when they were young, went to school to go to the county seat, and when they grew up, they went to Taipei, discovered the prosperity of Taipei, and once resented why their father did not bring them to Taipei.
And the father never asked about their studies, did not get close to them, in his later years of life was very disciplined, got up at four o'clock in the morning, he played a set of tai chi in the courtyard, wrote and read, went to bed at seven o'clock at night, ate three meals a day, and dressed poorly, like an ordinary old farmer.
When they were children, they did not understand Xue Lao's thoughts, and when they grew up, they learned that their father had been blaming himself and leaving the mainland.
On May 3, 1998, the old man closed his eyes in a dilapidated farmhouse and left the world where he had lived half his life as a war horse.
Before closing his eyes, he shouted angrily: It is better to use slaves than talents.
He left with a sense of resentment.
Source: Beijing News
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