The third part of the bloody fire resistance Chapter 9 of the rushing flowing section 1 of the bow (I)

"……….., the Battle of North Hubei, which lasted for more than 50 days, ended with a complete victory. The National Government announced that the Battle of North Hubei would annihilate 214,871 Japanese pirates, capture 226 Japanese soldiers, kill the Japanese chiefs, Lieutenant General Kanda Masato, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Hideta, Lieutenant General Sumida Leishi, Lieutenant General Shiko Shiko, Lieutenant General Hirabayashi, Lieutenant General Hirabayashi and other twenty general-level officers, seized 3,800 artillery and six tanks,..."

"Central News Agency, General Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth War Zone, and General Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of Hengyang Command, entered Wuhan today to condolences to the soldiers who revived Wuhan. General Chen Cheng announced that the troops of the Ninth War Zone and the Third War Zone will continue to pursue and defeat the fleeing Japanese troops..."

"In the Chongqing news of the Central News Agency, President Roosevelt sent a congratulatory message to congratulate ** on his victory in northern Hubei and the restoration of Wuhan. President Roosevelt said in the congratulatory message that due to your country's efforts and sacrifices, our common cause has achieved important victories and taken an important step towards ultimate eliminating the Japanese invaders. I am very much looking forward to meeting with the Chairman and discussing our future work."

"Central News Agency, Marshal Stalin of the Soviet Socialist Union sent a congratulatory message to congratulate ** on his victory in northern Hubei and the restoration of Wuhan,..."

"In the Central News Agency, British Prime Minister Mr. Churchill sent a congratulatory message to the Chairman, congratulating me on winning the victory in northern Hubei and restoring Wuhan. Prime Minister Churchill said in the congratulatory message that he would work with our people to fight against the Japanese invaders,..."

"Central News Agency news, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium, ………….”

"From the recent developments, the central government's concerns make sense."

The audio machine was turned on. When Zhou Enlai heard the sound coming from behind, Zhou Enlai turned around. The entire leadership of the Southern Bureau was in the office. Dong Bwu, Ye Jying, Bo Gu, Wu Kejian, and they were circulating the central documents brought back by Zhou Enlai.

During the Battle of North Hubei, the Central Committee called them to determine the prospects of North Hubei. The Southern Bureau had specially studied it and believed that the prospects of North Hubei were worrying. When the Fifth War Zone began to counterattack in Dahongshan, the Southern Bureau believed that the prospects of North Hubei were very good. After the revival of Jingshan and the Ninth War Zone sent troops to northern Hunan, Ye Jying quickly determined that the victory in northern Hubei was about to be imminent, and it was very likely that Wuhan would be revived.

Zhou Enlaiben was ordered to return to Yan'an to participate in the rectification movement. According to the original plan, he would stay in Yan'an for a year. However, due to concerns about the future situation, the central government asked him to end the rectification movement and study early to return to Chongqing, while Kaifeng, who returned to Yan'an with him, was left to work in Yan'an.

"The restoration of Wuhan is the greatest victory since our war of resistance," Zhou En looked at the leaders of the Southern Bureau in the house. Today's meeting was the Secretariat of the Southern Bureau, which was mainly to convey the central government's instructions and determine the future work policy: "The Chairman pointed out that this victory is the victory of the anti-Japanese national united front under the leadership of our party. After the restoration of Wuhan, the activities of the surrendered factions within the Kuomintang will be hit hard, and the pro-war factions will re-dominate the Kuomintang's policies. However, with the victory and the prestige of the Kuomintang increases, the power of the Kuomintang's group will also rise. Therefore, the central government believes that the biggest danger at present is the re-rise of the thoughts within the Kuomintang, to prevent the surrendered factions from rising again, and to prevent the merger of Jiang and Wang from spreading together."

"The central government's concerns make sense. In the later stage of the Battle of Northern Hubei, Chen Lifu's attitude changed, and he no longer gave in to the issues and logistics supply of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee." Dong Bwu said.

At the beginning, the two parties reached an agreement, and the Hebei-Chahar War Zone handed over to GCD. At the same time, the chairman of Hebei and Chahar provinces was also appointed by GCD. However, the Kuomintang always held on to the Party headquarters and insisted on establishing Kuomintang headquarters in the two provinces. He even extended his tentacles into the Taihang Mountains and wanted to establish party headquarters in the GCD base area. This move was firmly resisted by GCD, but the Kuomintang did not make any concessions and sent people to form Hebei Provincial Party Headquarters and Chahar Provincial Party Headquarters, and was gradually forming party headquarters in various counties.

With the establishment of the Party Headquarters, the Kuomintang began to rely on the Party Headquarters to publish newspapers, establish schools, secretly develop organizations, and publicize the Kuomintang’s policies and laws. Especially since the rectification movement, all base areas have taken extreme actions. These actions were captured and used by the Kuomintang Headquarters and launched political and propaganda attacks on the local GCD government. As a result, the two parties have arisen in countless disputes.

** On the one hand, he also began to fight back. On the one hand, he used the anti-Japanese united front to infiltrate the Kuomintang headquarters; on the other hand, he mobilized the masses to isolate the stubborn party headquarters; Okamura Yasuji carried out a large-scale mobilization of the enemy-behind base areas in Hebei, a few pro-Communist party headquarters withdrew into the Taihang Mountains with the troops, and the rest of the party headquarters were dispersed one after another, and most of the members were captured, a few of them were killed, most of them were detained or sent to Manchuria outside the pass as coolies, and a very small number surrendered to the enemy and became traitors.

In addition, GCD also found that most of the personnel in the Party Committee were either the Military Control Commission or the Central Commission, and were not party officials sent by the Central Party Committee at all. These agents used their identity as the Party Committee to engage in large-scale activities in the base areas, making the local government jealous of the weapons and it was difficult to deal with.

The Kuomintang accused ** of being afraid of the enemy as if it were tigers, fled against the enemy, secretly colluded with Japanese pirates, and betrayed the people of the base behind enemy lines. The Kuomintang refuted that the Japanese army gathered heavy troops to encircle and suppress the base behind enemy lines, which proved the huge role of the war of resistance behind enemy lines. The War of Resistance behind enemy lines shared the Japanese army's 50 troops. At the same time, it in turn accused the Kuomintang, believing that the Kuomintang colluded with the Japanese invaders in various places, provided intelligence to the Japanese army when the Japanese army attacked, and cooperated with the Japanese army's encirclement and suppression.

During the negotiations between the two parties, GD asked the Kuomintang to hand over the post of directors of the Civil Affairs Departments of the two provinces, stop sending spies to the base areas, and provide logistical support to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in military terms. The Kuomintang firmly refused to provide logistics supplies, believing that the battle between the Hebei Central Committee proved that the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were low in combat effectiveness, and such troops must be reorganized, but it was a little loose in the party department and tended to no longer establish party departments in the GCD traditional base areas.

But the battle in northern Hubei changed everything.

"The Central Committee believes that the Anti-Japanese United Front should be vigorously developed to promote the development of moderates and pro-war factions within the Kuomintang," Zhou En said, pausing to see the people in the conference room: "The Central Committee believes that Zhuang Jihua has become a banner of pro-war factions. We must strengthen our ties with him. The strength of our party in the fifth war zone should be strengthened. We should rebuild the liaison office of the Eighth Route Army of the fifth war zone as soon as possible and send strong comrades to preside over the work."

Three years ago, when the relationship between the two parties was tense, the Eighth Route Army Office in the Fifth War Zone was abolished, and Xuan Xiafu was also transferred to Shaanxi, and the Eighth Route Army Office in Xi'an served as deputy director. However, whether Xuan Xiafu was sent back to preside over the Fifth War Zone Office, Kang Sheng, who was in charge of the Central Organization Department, believed that Xuan Xiafu had a very small influence on Zhuang Jihua, which was proved in the Zaoyang negotiations, and it was recommended that the Southern Bureau want another candidate.

Zhou Enlai held his arms with his hands, his tone was still slow. Although the propaganda agencies are vigorously promoting the Ninth War Zone, Chen Cheng and Xue Yue frequently appeared in front of the news media, but in fact, in this battle in Hubei, the main combat mission was to eliminate the 11th Army's main force, and the troops in the Fifth War Zone were the Fifth War Zone. But what is evocative is that after the war, the generals in the Fifth War Zone did not appear before the news media and were collectively silent.

"Comrades, from various channels, the Fifth War Zone will undertake the main tasks of the Kuomintang's counterattack against Japan," said Zhou En. "In addition, there is reason to believe that the relationship between Zhuang Jihua and the Kuomintang Democratic Promotion Association chaired by Deng Yanda and Li Jishen is extraordinary. Zhuang Jihua is likely to cooperate with us and become an important force in maintaining domestic peace and opposing civil war after the war."

Dong Bwu nodded slightly, but Bo Gu showed suspicion. Ye Jying said at this time: "Military point of view, after the restoration of Wuhan, the Kuomintang had three directions of attack. One was to go directly north and attack the Japanese army in Henan; the other was to attack Xuzhou from the Fifth War Zone, cut off the Jinpu Road, and open up the connection with the Sulu War Zone; the third was to go east along the Yangtze River and attack Anqing. Well, there was also, after the restoration of Wuhan, most of the lost land in the Nine War Zone was recovered, and there was no need for the Nine War Zone to exist. I thought Chiang Kai-shek would soon adjust the war zone and cancel the Nine War Zone."

"There are very likely to be four war zones." Zhou Enlai added: "After the Battle of Northern Hubei, the Japanese army will no longer be able to land in Guangzhou, and Guangdong is completely safe."

Wu Kejian had an idea in his mind, but he never spoke. After Li Nong returned to Yan'an, he took over Li Nong's work and presided over the intelligence work of the Southern Bureau. Zhou Enlai's information about Zhuang Jihua's contact with Deng Yida was transmitted by Blade Feng. The entire process of this Hubei-North Battle also reported to the central government. He admired Zhuang Jihua's use of the two Japanese spies.

"In addition, the Battle of Hubei also eliminated the possibility of Yan Xishan's surrender," Zhou Enlai continued. The central government had intelligence. Before the Battle of Hubei, Yan Xishan had been in peace talks with Okamura Yan Ji's representatives. The two sides were close to reaching an agreement. However, Yan Xishan asked for a high price, requiring equipment of 150 regiments. As long as the Japanese provided so many weapons, Yan Xishan would turn against him. Now this possibility is gone.

"Comrades, let's consider who to be the director of the Fifth War Zone Office?" Zhou En asked.

No one spoke, and the candidate was difficult to decide. Based on their understanding of Zhuang Jihua, this person was not good at liking the soft and hard. During the reign of Xuan Xiafu, the Eighth Route Army gained a lot of benefits from the Fifth War Zone, but also suffered a considerable loss. Since the central government thought that Xuan Xiafu was not suitable, who should I send to?

Zhou Enlai seemed to be very clear about everyone's confusion, so he smiled and said, "I think it's Comrade Xuan Xiafu. I originally wanted to propose Wu Yuzhang and Mr. Wu, but Sichuan's work also needs him. After repeated measurements, I think Comrade Xuan Xiafu had experience in the fifth war zone, and the main generals of the fifth war zone, Song Xilian, Du Yuming, and Fan Hanjie, were all in the first phase of Huangpu. And it was serious. Chen Mingshu was also in the fifth war zone, which was very beneficial to his work. In addition, Zhuang Jihua's attitude was also different from before."

"So should Comrade Huang Mingcheng be sent back?" Dong Bwu asked.

"No need." Zhou Enlai shook his head, then turned his head and said to Wu Kejian: "Comrade Wu Kejian, you must send a comrade to assist Comrade Xuan Xiafu."

"I understand, please rest assured Vice Chairman Zhou." Wu Kejian replied briefly.

"Okay, the candidate will report to the central government like this. Please report to Chongqing as soon as possible." After Zhou En finished speaking, he turned his head to Bo Gu and said: "The key points of Xinhua Daily's propaganda are to restore Wuhan, promote the anti-Japanese national united front, and the coalition government."

Ye Jying suddenly frowned and picked up the topic just now: "Come on the battle of Hubei and the Japanese army will definitely increase their troops in China after the Japanese army was defeated. I just said that the Kuomintang had three ways of attack. Now the troops in the three war zones were divided into two groups. The 24th Army attacked Jiujiang and launched an attack in southern Anhui. I believe that the Japanese army will soon give up Jiujiang and retreat to Anqing. In Jiangbei, the Japanese army will retreat over the Dabie Mountains, so the Kuomintang's attack direction will be very wide."

Speaking of this, he stood up, picked up a map from the table next to him, and spread it on the conference table: "At first, I thought that the Kuomintang was most likely to go east along the Yangtze River, but just now, after thinking carefully, I felt that their greater possibility was to cross the Dabie Mountains and attack Xuzhou directly."

Zhou Enlai's expression became serious, and his judgment was also to go east along the Yangtze River. Because the fifth zone suffered a lot of casualties, he should temporarily go to rest. However, the third and ninth zones had a total of about 800,000 troops in the two zones, with little casualties, and the attack was completely possible.

He expected Chiang Kai-shek to make the following adjustments, transferring troops from the Ninth War Zone to southern Anhui and southern Jiangxi, and attacking Anqing and Wuhu with the Anhui-Jiangxi border as a base. The main force of the Third War Zone will be transferred east to southern Zhejiang, threatening Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou from the southeast.

This judgment was recognized by the central government, but Ye Jying's reminder made him realize another possibility.

"The Japanese reinforcements must have gathered in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou areas, so along the Yangtze River, this seemingly most likely path may not be adopted." Ye Jying said: "After the battle in northern Myanmar, I studied Zhuang Jihua's combat style. From the Nanjing Defense War and the two Jinpu Road battles, Zhuang Jihua's combat was unconventional and had no consistent routines, but one thing is certain. He was very cautious and did not easily invest in the main force. In defensive wars, he often used the main force to rearrange the enemy. After all the strategic intentions of the enemy were exposed, he came up with his own real deployment. With Zhuang Jihua's combat style, he would not stab the powder barrel of Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou."

"The second road, heading north, this road has a great influence on our Hebei-Shandong-Henan base. During this battle in northern Hubei, Gusuo shrank his troops, and our Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area has developed greatly, and the Japanese army has put much less pressure on me."

"The third road, crossing the Dabie Mountains and directly attacking Xuzhou, this road should be said to be a surprise attack, but," Ye Jying calmed down and said hesitantly: "I think Zhuang Jihua will choose this road. The advantages of this road are very obvious and can be cooperated with the Sulu War Zone. Secondly, the Japanese army may not notice this route. But if we take this route, it will have a great impact on our Shandong base."

Zhou Enlai certainly understood what this impact was. If the Japanese army wants to fight Zhuang Jihua, they will inevitably take time to garrison in Shandong, which provides Shandong Luo R-Huan and Chen Y with great development opportunities. However, this kind of large development requires concentrating the main force, and the Shandong troops are now scattered to fight guerrillas. Once it is determined that Zhuang Jihua will cross the Dabie Mountains and attack Xuzhou, the Shandong troops must assemble in advance.

"Report this judgment to the central government," Zhou Enlai immediately adopted Ye Jying's judgment.

The Battle of Hubei and Northern Hubei revived Wuhan, changed the entire battlefield of China and the entire process of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Resistance entered the counterattack stage.

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