Xue Yue, 1896 (22nd year of Guangxu reign of Qing dynasty), was born in Lechang county, Guangdong province on February 27th. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, my father admired Yue Fei and named him Xue Yangyue, later renamed him Xue Yue.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Xue Yue participated in famous battles such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Wuhan and the Battle of Xuzhou, and commanded the Battle of Lanfeng and the Battle of Changsha for four times (then commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater and chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government). In the battle of Changsha, he invented the cupola method, wiped out100000 Japanese troops, and effectively stopped the Japanese strategic goal. This battle was a very important victory in China's anti-Japanese war.
Xue Yue was a first-class general in the Army of the Republic of China, a famous general in the National Revolutionary Army and a strategist. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Truman of the United States and the Right Sky Medal by the National Army.
1907 (thirty-three years of Guangxu reign in Qing dynasty), Xue Yue was admitted to Huangpu Army Primary School and later to Baoding Army Military Academy; 19 18 (in the seventh year of the Republic of China) joined Sun Yat-sen's newly established Fujian-Guangdong reinforcements, served as the captain's staff officer of the headquarters, and soon served as the battalion commander of the first division machine gun battalion; 192 1 year (the tenth year of the Republic of China) In May, Xue Yue was appointed as the third battalion commander of President Sun Yat-sen's Guard Corps and became one of the famous "Three Musketeers" of the Guangdong Army.
During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he fought with the Red Army many times. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's middle finger fought four famous battles, such as Changsha Battle, and was sometimes called the "God of War" against Japan, and was considered as "General China who annihilated the Japanese army the most in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression". Later, he served as commander-in-chief of Hainan defense in the Battle of Hainan Island in 1950, and retreated to Taiwan Province Province after the defeat.
1952 was promoted to the first-class general in the army. Chiang Kai-shek successively gave Xue Yue several titles, such as "Strategic Advisor to the Presidential Office", "Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Review Committee of the Reform of the Kuomintang in China" and "Administrative Councillor of the Executive Yuan". Although these two Chiang Kai-shek fathers and sons are respectful, they do not grant real power.
Xue Yue has no soldiers to take, no war to fight, and is bored. Most of them live in rural Chiayi in the south of Taiwan Province Province, and live a semi-retired life. 1998 died in Taiwan Province province on May 3rd at the age of 103.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Xue Yue