In 1966, Chiang Kai-shek was scolded for attending Bai Chongxi's funeral, and his diary wrote: He was lucky to have a good death. The entanglement between Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi has gone through decades of brothers, life and death, life and death, and several changes in grievances and hatreds. After a great victory in the First World War, Bai Chongxi, "the most talented of the Kuomintang generals", was finally fooled by Chiang Kai-shek and spent his old age under surveillance and neglect. In 1966, when Bai Chongxi died, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to fulfill his courtesy, but he never expected that one sentence would anger the children of the Bai family, so that he wrote in his diary that "he is lucky to have a good death". The story of cannibalism is staged again, and the grievances between Jiang and Bai's families seem to have not been completely resolved?
After all, Bai Chongxi was a famous general, and although he finally fell into Chiang Kai-shek's power struggle, his military command talent was unquestionable. From the beginning of joining the National Revolutionary Army in 1926, he followed the army commander Li Zongren and formed an indissoluble bond with Chiang Kai-shek. At that time, although Jiang Bai and the two did not "change posts" and became brothers, their relationship was very iron, and they could be described as good buddies who "had it" all the way.
With the passage of time, the situation changed rapidly, Chiang Kai-shek intended to suppress Li Zongren, and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi fell out with Chiang Kai-shek and became enemies on the surface. After Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated, he immediately held the two accountable and demanded that Li Gui hand over the military power, Bai Chongxi and others naturally did not want to be captured, so they simply joined forces with Yan Xishan to fight against Chiang Kai-shek, and the two sides fought it out in the Central Plains.
Chiang Kai-shek had the upper hand in that battle, and Bai Chongxi had to retreat to his hometown to recuperate. However, Chiang Kai-shek did not let Bai Chongxi go, and repeatedly sent secret telegrams to Bai Chongxi to fortify and intercept the Red Army on the Hunan and Guizhou borders, but Bai Chongxi intentionally or unintentionally feinted to let him go, which angered Chiang Kai-shek, and the contradiction between the two further intensified. At this time, the relationship between Jiang and Bai was like a broken kettle, and there was still a little warmth at all.
When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the Jiang and Bai families had to put aside their prejudices and re-cooperate against the Japanese army. Although he suffered a lot of losses during this period, Bai Chongxi still made a lot of achievements. It's a pity that when peace came and the civil war broke out again, Bai Chongxi openly shouted to Chiang Kai-shek, asking him to step down and make way for Xian, which made Chiang Kai-shek very angry.
In the following Guangxi Campaign, Bai Chongxi's troops were wiped out by the People's Liberation Army, and he could only fight with his back, and finally chose to surrender to Chiang Kai-shek. It is ridiculous that Chiang Kai-shek was even stingy with Bai Chongxi, a subordinate. Bai Chongxi must be very dissatisfied, but unfortunately he is helpless, so he can only hope that Mei will quench his thirst and linger.
In fact, as early as the beginning of the war, Bai Chongxi's friend He Sui had already seen through the situation and persuaded Bai Chongxi to break away from Chiang Kai-shek's camp and respond to the call of the People's Liberation Army. It's a pity that Bai Chongxi weighed it again and again at that time, and still made a "somewhat rash" decision to insist on following Chiang Kai-shek to leave the mainland.
It is ironic to say that the biggest reason why Bai Chongxi chose to betray his homeland and follow Chiang Kai-shek was to "give an account of history". How do you know that this so-called "confession" will only leave endless shame and regret for yourself in the end.
Before leaving, Li Zongren still gave up instructing Bai Chongxi to "go anywhere, but you can't continue to follow Chiang Kai-shek." However, Bai Chongxi was probably bewitched by Chiang Kai-shek's "Minister of National Defense" and other false posts at that time, and turned a deaf ear to Li Zongren's advice.
Chiang Kai-shek, the old fox, is naturally a liar, and as soon as Bai Chongxi returned to obedience, he was immediately refrigerated by him, and he could only sigh with admiration. But then again, even if Chiang Kai-shek was sincere and polite, the two had already accumulated too deep grievances, and it was difficult to turn around.
The contradiction between the two families can actually be traced back to 1926 before the Anti-Japanese War, when Chiang Kai-shek "changed posts" and co-opted Li Zongren, intending to use the power of the Gui family to eliminate dissidents. And Bai Chongxi, as the master of Li Men, was naturally involved in the whirlpool of this power struggle.
In the next few decades, Jiang Bai and the two went through several rivalries and disputes. In major battles such as the Central Plains War and the Huaihai Campaign, Bai Chongxi repeatedly disobeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and the grievances between the two intensified until the flames of war ignited.
Even during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Jiang and Bai families never sincerely cooperated. Bai Chongxi was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek in his heart, thinking that he was narrow-minded and selfish, and did not want to make progress. On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek looked down on Bai Chongxi's move of "dividing land for self-preservation" and felt that he only cared about himself and had no foresight. It can be seen that the differences between the two fundamentally stem from the opposition of ideas and the conflict of interests.
So what made the contradiction between the Jiang and Bai families irresolvable, and finally came to an irreparable point? I am afraid that the answer can only be found by going back in history.
The grievances and hatred between Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi can be described as complicated, and several disputes against each other eventually led to the rupture of the relationship between the two. Even at the last moment of his life, Chiang Kai-shek still had a bitter grudge for Bai Chongxi, and wrote in his diary such a mean comment as "He is lucky to die well".
Throughout the whole process, it is not difficult for us to find that the core of the contradiction between Jiang and Bai is actually the opposition of interests and ideas. Although Bai Chongxi was a famous general, he was not invincible in Chiang Kai-shek's power struggle. In contrast, Li Zongren's insight into the situation was obviously more advanced, and he withdrew from this war without gunpowder early.
A generation of heroes cannot escape the impermanence of chance, and Bai Chongxi's life experience is really suffocating. That being said, his failure was not without lessons. The power struggle has always been a road full of hardships and dangers, and once you strayed into it, you may fall into a situation from which you cannot extricate yourself, which is the final helpless portrayal of Bai Chongxi, the "little Zhuge ". #头条首发大赛#