Canteen System Assistance Notes

Fortunately, the Communists, mindful of the overall situation, didn't fire the first shot. Otherwise, under such a foolish, last-minute shift, the chaos the Nationalist army would have suffered is unimaginable—but in terms of the outcome, it seems to have made no difference. Ultimately, the "general friction" against the Communists, meticulously planned and personally directed by Chiang Kai-shek, finally began to advance—and naturally, the tit-for-tat of public opinion preceded the military action.

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In early January 1941, the first to show unusual movements were by the Ma family army in the Northwest Passage - they began to frequently set up checkpoints on the merchant caravans and camel caravans in the Northwest Passage, conducting temporary inspections and searches, on the pretext of "suppressing bandits."

Although they still didn't dare act rashly against the two motorized regiments, each covering the other's advance, and the over a thousand-strong, all-motorized railway guards armed with seven or eight hundred rifles, twenty or thirty pairs of twin machine guns, and five or six mobile pursuit guns, they still didn't dare act rashly. However, more civilian transport convoys and merchant groups were firmly intercepted, and the Eighth Route Army's supply teams also began to have difficulty obtaining supplies, which more or less affected transportation along the Northwest Passage.

The Central Daily News was the first to report this incident. The beginning of the report gave a fairly description of the situation of the blockage of the Northwest Passage, but then the Central Daily News changed its tone and began to describe the importance of the Northwest Passage to the entire War of Resistance. It hoped that the Eighth Route Army would not occupy the "precious transportation capacity" of the Northwest Passage and "smuggle supplies" for its own selfish desires, but should "join hands with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party" and "fight the enemy together."

The Eighth Route Army's propaganda system failed to understand Guo Zu's strange logic. This sentence directly ignored the Eighth Route Army, which contributed more than 80% of the transportation capacity of the Hexi Corridor.

It seems that all the supplies purchased by the Eighth Route Army were delivered through the Northwest Transportation Bureau.

The few shabby trucks that came into the bureau really took up half of the transportation capacity for preserved fruits.

This is hilarious. At this point in time, Guo Pu still has the Yunnan-Burma route, enjoying double the international aid, and double the confidence. Moreover, many of the supplies you imported from the Soviet Union were transported by the Eighth Route Army!

At this time, the Eighth Route Army's propaganda department was very powerful. They quickly listed detailed data and actual cases in the newspapers of the base area and the Kuomintang-controlled area, severely refuted this behavior, and bluntly stated that "if it were not for the hard work of the railway security team,

If we don't transport them frequently, I'm afraid the armies in Guanzhong will have no ammunition, food, fodder, pay, or clothing!"

Normally, this kind of rebuttal would be a simple back-and-forth exchange of words, with the Eighth Route Army holding the upper hand in public opinion, so it wouldn't be a big deal. But this time, the preserved fruit's publicity agency was clearly being relentless.

When their plan failed, they came up with another one. Then, the public opinion suddenly changed. Many small and medium newspapers suddenly began to publish a large number of stories about the Eighth Route Army "not fighting against the Japanese, but engaging in friction; stationing troops and storing grain, and plotting against the law".

There were many real frictions, but most of them were distortions and fabrications of the facts. For example, the frictions between the Nationalist Army and our army in the enemy-occupied areas and the flirting with the Wang Puppet regime were replaced with the protagonists, and slandered out of thin air; or the thunderous counterattack after our army was disturbed by them was used as the basis for the accusation.

By cutting out the beginning and the end and making selective statements, it became the case that our army "actively provoked the dispute."

You know, the Eighth Route Army has developed rapidly in recent years and has achieved fruitful results. However, under the Spring and Autumn style of the Guojian pen, which measures the achievements of the Anti-Japanese War by the number of deaths, it has become "wandering without fighting" and "snatching the results of the war." Even Han Chuzhen's troops and the Eighth Guerrilla Team of the National Army, Chen Hua

The internal struggles among Chun's army, such as mutual exclusion, fighting and friction, were also fabricated as the result of the Communist Party's "instigation of discord".

Public opinion was surging, and even the military newspaper "Sweeping Newspaper" joined the chorus. Then, the "Central Daily News" published a long article signed by Chen Xunen, the "literary advisor of the Republic of China", "Recalling the Half Month in Gaojing", in a seemingly fair way.

The objective stance officially sounded the clarion call for the public opinion offensive against preserved fruits.

Although Mr. Chen Xun'en was of noble character, his blind loyalty to the traditional literati, "a scholar will die for his confidant," made him confuse the boundaries between "loyalty to the leader" and "loyalty to the country," which led him to completely ignore the actual situation and act according to Chiang Kai-shek's instructions.

This article was fabricated - it starts with the Gaojing Incident three years ago, first accusing Zhang and Yang of "rebellion" for launching the military remonstration; then it accuses the Communist Party of upholding the overall situation, putting aside hatred, forming a united front against foreign aggression, and actively resisting Japan.

The conspirator who was labeled as "wolf in sheep's clothing" and "two-faced" deceived the leaders of the Party and the country and failed to live up to Mr. Sun's last wish. He actually took advantage of the Japanese attack during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to expand his military strength, attempting to split the country and establish himself as a warlord.

The article also lamented, "... in the name of resistance, but in reality expansionism. Alas, the party-state has become Mr. Dongguo, conspiring with the wolves of Zhongshan for national affairs!" In his words, preserved fruit has become a victim of this situation, being exploited by the two-faced faction of the Communist Party.

The subtext is, of course, that now is the time for the "farmer" to step in and tie up the "Zhongshan Wolf" and beat him to death!

"Oh, Chiang Kai-shek's fox tail can no longer be hidden!"

After reading the newspaper full of gunpowder, the Chairman laughed and said, "Look, even the story of Dongguo and the wolf has come out. The Guo Party and us are probably either that wolf and the gentleman, or the people of Song who are suspicious of their neighbors! No matter how kind we are,

"In his eyes, we are ultimately wrong." He put down the newspaper and picked up the pen.

Soon, a sharp article with detailed information, hidden sharp points and easy-to-understand language was published in the "New China Daily" and "New China Daily". These two newspapers published Chairman Mao's "Who is Destroying the Anti-Japanese War Situation" on the front page.

The article "Who is destroying the situation of the Anti-Japanese War" continues to maintain the Chairman's style of writing with both laughter and anger. The full text lists the frictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party since the formation of the united front, and discusses the phenomenon of preserved fruits provoking friction again.

Satire:

....They seem to think that as long as they shout about friction and suppression of the Communists, they can turn back the clock from 27 to 19 and defeat the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army again. So, the Communists should advise these diehards to turn the alarm clock a few more times and stick to the Communists more.

Put up a few calendars and turn back the time to the first year of the Republic of China. This way, not only can you wipe out the Communist Party you are obsessed with, but you can also drive the Japanese invaders out of the country and drive them back to their lair.

The good gentlemen of the Kuomintang thought that as long as they raised the blue sky and white sun flag, the people would send them food and supplies; they thought that they could arbitrarily conscript labor by shouting "resist the Japanese and save the country"... Little did they know that you were tying the hands and feet of the people, not letting them

We stand up to defend our country, and if we want to gain the support of the people in this way, it is a complete daydream."

The article was not only published in newspapers but also broadcast on Fushi Radio, spreading throughout the country. It was like a bombshell dropped into public opinion circles, and for a time, major newspapers and radio stations across the country were in an uproar.

In the Kuomintang-controlled areas, some newspapers that reprinted this article were banned by the Kuomintang government and were prohibited from sale. Even the newsboys who sold the "New China Daily" and "New China Daily" were driven away.

However, according to the efficiency of the fruit preserves, the more this kind of thing is banned, the more it spreads. The day after the fruit preserves Central Committee started doing this, the Communist Party’s newspapers and radio stations would disclose in detail the news of how many fruit preserves had been banned today and how many had been opened.

They even published photos of the printed pages of the newspapers with the skylights opened, which showed signs of being violently smashed and reassembled.

The Xinhua Daily even maliciously added a footnote: The publication of this article is not permitted.

"So, the current propaganda situation... is extremely unfavorable to the Party and the country's public opinion. Mr. Guo, as a non-partisan, and in charge of the Third Department of the Military Commission's Political Department, could you please..."

"Please me?

"Yes, you only need to write an article...

In the mountain city of the secondary capital, Mr. Guo Dingtang laughed three times, shocking the party and state official in front of him. This real party and state veteran, whose qualifications for participating in the revolutionary cause of the nation can be traced back to the time of the former president, plus the extremely high

His reputation and fame were so great that even Chiang Kai-shek had to be polite to him.

But now, what else can he do? His superiors asked him to ask him to come out and help save the company from being beaten back by the Communist Party in the battlefield of public opinion. He had no choice but to do it.

"Sir, I finally understand and have a clear answer. When the Taijiazhuang victory was won, our media couldn't even pretend to be fair and report on our revolutionary and hard-working soldiers. I had to write an article and publish it.

Tell us panicked editors and writers how to write a normal article."

Mr. Guo smiled, but it didn't look like a smile. He said without mercy:

"And now, I am so honored. Our Supreme Commander-in-Chief invited you here to remind me that this time, I must help him shout, 'Bold Communists, I will hit you, and you must not fight back, so that I can dominate!'

"No wonder the three-color identification belt of our National Revolutionary Army has become a blue-red belt. This means that the Chairman of the General Staff has become the leader of the Blue-Red Gang of the Republic of China. Today, he is going to roll up his sleeves and fight, tear off the fig leaf of the Three Principles of the People, and put on gangsterism.

The big coat of the enemy is rushing to kill the comrades who are still fighting together against the Japanese with you lackeys!'

He pointed outside the door and said disdainfully:

"Get lost! Instead of wasting my time on trivial matters like you, I'd rather dig up a few more pieces of ancient porcelain!"

Chapter 272: February Incident (1) Hammer Captain

In the later generations of this time and space, some historians who "lived abroad", "had a conscientious and pragmatic spirit" or "tried to restore the hidden reality" believed that if the CCP had sufficient "military transparency" at that time, it would not have been possible to "use its own troops to launch a war".

The February Incident, or the Sixth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign, could not be fought because of the "heavy" and "cover-up of the facts".

The reason is that the Kuomintang army at that time had not yet accepted the reorganization and training of the US Army, nor had it sufficient troops and technical equipment, and had established a basic industrial cycle and started the regularization and field army of the Eighth Route Army.

They are not on the same combat effectiveness level.

Just like in our history, you cannot use the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army during the War of Liberation to measure the national army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Why did Guo Ju resolutely try to solve the Communist Party "once and for all"?

According to official statements, on the one hand, it was Chiang Kai-shek's "active anti-communism and passive anti-Japanese" attitude, and the big landlords and compradors had suffered heavy losses in the "economic war" and were trying to retaliate in a "all-in" manner. On the other hand, it was the economic and political relations between the border areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas.

The asymmetry in intelligence and the smooth flow of two external transportation lines gave the Chiang Dynasty twice the external aid and twice the confidence compared to the normal level. Ultimately, faced with inevitable defeat, they were forced to take desperate measures.

However, in the eyes of some folk history enthusiasts, there is another version.

"Chiang deserves death. He thinks that if we become stronger, develop, engage in foreign trade, and unite with like-minded comrades around the world, we will replace his position as a running dog of imperialism and make his big comprador and agent die.

There is nothing to do on the road! It's like kicking a bone out of a dog's mouth. Even the most timid dog will stand up and bark at you. Maybe it will even bite you!

"But comrades, this is ridiculous! How could we stare at the half bone in that dog's mouth?"

For Comrade Wang Tiechui, all of this had already become clear during the pre-war mobilization class.

"What we want is for our families, fellow villagers, and compatriots to have enough food to eat and enough clothes to wear, for national independence and liberation, for the country to be stable and strong, and for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. Those who dare to prevent us from living a good life should all go to hell!"

"Down with the diehards!" "Kill those Chiang Kai-shek bandits!" "Long live the Red Army!"

The soldiers' emotions were aroused, and Tiechui was very emotional. He still remembered such a scene vividly, but this time, it was him who gave lectures to his underground soldiers.

"Okay! Now, check each other's uniforms and weapons! Tie and tuck your shoelaces, tuck your leggings, and make sure your helmets are securely pressed against your heads! Ten minutes to prepare! Each squad leader will check in five minutes!"

"Let's get ready to go!"

"Yes!"

In 36, he joined the Eighth Route Army. In 37, he passed the training and became a squad leader. After the battles of Shanchengbao and Fanzhiguan, Comrade Tiechui had experienced the baptism of several anti-encirclement and suppression battles, including the first time our army annihilated a regiment in the Battle of Changle Village.

Dou--Because the previous platoon leader was selected to study in Fushe, he worked as the acting platoon leader for a while, and was soon promoted to a regular due to his outstanding work level. After that, he was even selected to join the commando team and participated in an unimaginable "infiltration"

rescue mission".

He was then able to return to continue his unfinished Basic Officer Training Course, and after graduating from the 24-week course as a company commander, he became the commander of a reconnaissance company.

"At that time, they asked me if I wanted to join the 'special forces'. I thought about it and decided it would be better to go back to the army, so I stayed.

Wang Tiechui patted the horse beside him affectionately. Unfortunately, the new breed of horse bred by the Border Region Horse Breeding Institute based on Don horses, Russian heavy draft horses (Alkin horses), Ili horses and Mongolian horses was still a lively two-year-old baby and was still receiving training from the trainer.

The "tuning" couldn't be applied for the time being, and the horses they were assigned were still these grassland horses. He took a carrot from his pocket and stuffed it into the horse's mouth. This small "bribe" made the horse very happy. It pricked up its ears, smacked its lips, and came closer.

"Coach Lei, is what I just said okay?"

"Very good, I think you should not have been in the infantry department, you should have been in the political department like me." Next to him, a tall but dark-skinned "educated youth" got on the horse, "But, Comrade Tiechui,

Baby, feed me carrots, just one root, no more, and get ready to go!"

"Hey! Let's go, Feifei!"

In the gullies and plateaus of the border area, the reconnaissance company advanced quietly and quickly in the morning mist.

Company Commander Wang Tiechui and Instructor Lei Zhende rode in the middle of the formation. In front of them, three reconnaissance platoons split into four directions. The platoon with the highest proportion of veterans split into a squad to guard the "artillery" assigned by the front.

The "observation group" followed behind the main advance direction - and this team, through four voice radios, was maintaining close communication with Comrade Tiechui's company command desk.

"Commander Lei, why are these Chiang Kai-shek troops moving so slowly? The day before yesterday, the regiment's report said they had already passed Pengjia Village. Pengjia Village is only 50 miles from Huijia River. How could they still not reach it after three days of marching?"

This unit has more than 130 people. Apart from the horses in the company headquarters and the power-assisted carts in the transport team, the entire unit's means of transportation are basically all a "new type" of vehicle - bicycles.

Although in later universities, this thing is a thing that is easy to lose, but in China at that time, the bicycle, which is essentially a "human engine", was an absolute high-end durable product, allowing Tiechui and others to travel on the dirt roads in the mountains.

It can move at a speed of over 30 miles per hour and can carry a lot of ammunition.

Therefore, in the eyes of Tiechui, who had fought the National Army for only one battle, the speed of the "Central Army" was really too slow. Although there were small groups of our army harassing them, since the National Army launched the "Suppression of Bandits and Suppression of

In the name of "clearing the border", they brazenly launched an all-out attack on the border area, even shouting the slogan of "annihilating the border area". However, they crawled at a speed of no more than 30 miles per day, and there was really no sense of menacing momentum.

From Pengjia Village to Commander Xu's designated pocket, it's only 50 miles. Even if you crawl, you should have reached it in 2 days! Why did it take more than 3 days? Aren't you the Central Army? Didn't you eat so much Soviet aid and be known as the leader of the "Four Attack Armies"?

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"Captain Hammer, Division Commander Sun Baoshan specifically instructed us to do this when we were given the mission. Have you forgotten?"

Compared to Wang Tiechui, Lei Zhende was more familiar with the situation in the border area. He crouched low, controlled the horse under his crotch, and galloped all the way on the mountain road between the plateaus. "How slow are the national army's movements? They march ten miles a day, retreat five miles to build bunkers, march another ten miles, and then retreat again.

They built blockhouses every five miles, just in case we suddenly launch a surprise counterattack!

"Nonsense! They're attacking the army!" Wang Tiechui sneered. "We won't launch a surprise attack on them. We are the eyes of the division, directing the artillery fire and conducting reconnaissance for the brother troops! Go, go!"

For Tiechui and his men, the target they needed to investigate was actually quite clear. In internal operations, even if the military reconnaissance units did not go out, the intelligence systems throughout the base could still point them in the right direction.

The committee assumed that this battle itself was regarded as a training for the field army's external combat mode, and was used to train the newly established field army. The army-level reconnaissance battalion that ran ahead had already informed the marching route and specific location of the national army.

All division and regiment-level units.

The mission of the Hammer itself was to quickly escort the artillery reconnaissance team to the designated artillery observation position, report data to the artillery unit, guide long-range artillery to launch strikes, and cooperate with the front-line troops to encircle and annihilate the national army.

There, in the designated area of ​​the Huijia River pocket, there should be at least one division of the Nationalist Army gathered, and they will be the best targets for artillery fire and flanking forces.

Just now, a platoon leader escorting the artillery observation team sent a short message. They had ridden the last 2 kilometers on the plateau of the loess plateau, sighted the national army at the mouth of Yangzhuang River, arrived at the designated artillery observation position, and were building artillery.

Observation shelter.

According to the predetermined mission objectives, their mission is to guard this artillery observation position and wait for a follow-up regiment, and then together with the friendly forces in front, launch an attack after the artillery preparation, block the gap, and wrap this big dumpling.

child.

But Comrade Wang Tiechui wanted to do more than that. In his mind, many units of our army and the Kuomintang army were turning into two-color mosaic blocks, filling the marching map in his mind.

The battlefield was designed to be an inverted Y-shaped river valley, with the Fushi-Xi'an Highway passing through it. Along with the Beiluo River, it meandered and twisted, while several tributaries also twisted and swirled around the loess.

The inverted Y-shaped head cut off and annihilated a division of the Nationalist army, then pursued it to both sides, coordinated with the more far-reaching and flanking units, and completed the encirclement and annihilation of the Nationalist army's active forces...

A bolder and more proactive plan popped up in his mind. He sighed, reined in "Xiao Feifei", and stopped on the plateau.

"Guo Shun!" he shouted.

"Here!" A young, newly promoted communications soldier jumped off his bicycle and shouted.

"Send a message to the Reconnaissance Platoon and the Third Platoon! Tell them to change direction and infiltrate southwest along the mountains north of the Sludge River. Keep an eye out for enemy camps and assembly areas, and look for courtyards with concentrated antennas!"

"Send a copy of the plan to the division headquarters. Let's go and take down the division headquarters of the Chiang Kai-shek army!"

Chapter 273: February Incident (2) Student Guo

After being selected to join the Sixth Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, Guo Shun's choice of major was indeed "distorted".