Xue Yue[a] (December 26, 1896 – May 3, 1998) was a Chinese Nationalist military general, nicknamed the "Patton of Asia" by Claire Lee Chennault of the Flying Tigers.

However, in July 1918, he departed south for Guangzhou and joined an army created by Sun Yat-sen and Chen Jiongming with the rank of captain.

Purged from the 1st Army, Xue returned to Guangdong to serve as a divisional commander under Li Jishen.

After political turmoil that saw Chiang return to power, Xue joined Zhang Fakui and served in the Guangdong 4th Army.

During the combined forces' entry into Hengyang, their line of retreat was cut off by Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai.

During the first stage of the Chinese Civil War, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek ordered General Xue to lead the Guangdong First Army to attack the Chinese communists during the Fifth Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet, forcing them to start the Long March and his forces chased the retreating communists all the way to Sichuan and Guizhou, until the communist forces retreated across the great swamplands and finally escaped to Shaanxi Province.

In the mountains northwest of Wuhan, Xue succeeded in nearly destroying the entire 106th division of the imperial Japanese army.

This was the only occasion the Imperial Japanese Army had to use airborne strategy to save a whole division from being eliminated by enemy forces during the Second World War.

Before I climbed aboard the transport I gave Hsueh the old Sam Browne belt from my pre-war Air Corps uniform.

When Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949, Xue was put in charge of defending Hainan Island.