On September 19, the "League of Democratic Political Groups" was officially reorganized into the "Democratic League", and Huang Yanpei was elected chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the Democratic League.
At this time, the "Democratic League" actually did not completely favor the Communist Party. They still had unrealistic illusions about the National Government. Because Chiang Kai-shek liked acting, he always slapped democrats and gave them sweet dates.
, making people feel angry but not completely losing hope.
Last September, Chiang Kai-shek put forward the slogan of "implementing constitutional government and returning power to the people" at the First Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang. This made many democrats, including Huang Yanpei, see the light. Huang Yanpei was even appointed to the Constitutional Government of the Supreme National Defense Committee.
As a member of the Standing Committee of the Implementation Association, it seems that Chiang Kai-shek really intends to gradually revolutionize the country.
However, Huang Yanpei soon discovered that he had been deceived, and Chiang Kai-shek's so-called constitutional government was a fake. Just as Taizu proposed "forming a coalition government", Huang Yanpei and his democratic partners immediately responded, uniting the Communist Party and other democratic parties
The political parties put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek.
Even so, Huang Yanpei still believes that the National Government is the orthodoxy. He hopes to form a coalition government of various parties with Chang Kaishen as the leader, and does not believe that the Communist Party can shoulder the important task of leading China.
Until 1945, Huang Yanpei saw no hope of democracy and was invited to Yan'an for a visit. After witnessing the completely different spiritual outlook of the liberated areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas, Huang Yanpei was immediately impressed and became a loyal supporter of the Communist Party.
On the eve of the Kuomintang's defeat, Huang Jingwu, Huang Yanpei's second son, was captured by spies. Taizu ordered his rescue at all costs. Unfortunately, he was too late. Huang Jingwu was tortured but his secrets were not revealed, and his legs were broken and buried by the spies.
Zhou Hexuan still did not join the "Democratic League" after all. The reason is very simple.
The "Democratic League" wants Zhou Hexuan to serve as a member of the Central Committee and Vice Chairman (the number of vice-chairmen of the Democratic League is variable, and at most there are more than a dozen), but Zhou Hexuan insists on being only an ordinary member. This is simply not to give the "Democratic League" face.
, what does it mean that you, Zhou Hexuan, are so influential and only an ordinary member of the alliance?
It doesn't matter, anyway, Zhou Hexuan is also a member of the Zhi Gong Party, and he belongs to the democratic parties.
Let’s go back to the war situation. When the Nationalist army was severely defeated in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, the Communist Party’s army bucked the trend and launched a local counterattack.
From March to September, Luo Shuai's troops in Shandong recovered a total of 118,000 square miles of land; from January to October, Nie Shuai's troops in Shanxi captured more than 30 county towns, recaptured more than 5,000 villages, and destroyed
All the front-line bunkers of the Japanese and puppet troops in the Beiyue Mountains; Liu Shuai's troops in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions recovered a total of more than 60,000 square miles of land from March to December; General Lu's troops in the Jinsui region recovered from April to October
A total of 97,000 square miles of land was recovered in this month.
The above are the achievements of the Eighth Route Army. The New Fourth Army took the initiative to launch an offensive in March and recovered a large amount of lost ground. At the same time, it also marched into the Central Plains with five regiments in mid-August.
The reasons why the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army achieved great success in 1944 were simply due to the following two points: first, the Japanese army mobilized a large number of elites to fight directly with the national army, and the puppet army filled the military void; second, the large-scale production movement carried out in the Communist Party base areas
It was very effective and now has relatively strong logistical self-sufficiency.
No matter what, this major counterattack left the Japanese army in dire straits and paralyzed their logistical supply lines. Even if they caused the national army's rout in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, they were unable to continue advancing and had to spend energy on reorganizing the rear.
The successive victories of the Communist army also panicked Chiang Kai-shek, so the National Army on the battlefield behind enemy lines once again set off an upsurge of "submitting to the enemy under orders". Many of the battles between the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in 1944 were fought against puppet troops who "submitted to the enemy under orders", and
Puppet troops who were unwilling to help the Japanese fight the civil war often surrendered in groups. For example, when Luo Shuai captured the Ju-Lin Highway, 30 squadrons of puppet troops immediately rebelled.
Let’s look at the international battlefield again
In January, the Soviet army completely eliminated the German threat to Leningrad and severely damaged the German Army Group North.
In June, the coalition forces of the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries began the Normandy landing, officially opening the second battlefield in Europe during World War II.
At the end of June, the Soviet army completely defeated the German Army Group Center, liberated all of Belarus and entered Poland.
In August, the US military captured Guam, and the Japanese army failed to attack Imphal, and the Japanese 15th Army was completely wiped out.
In October, the US military landed in the Philippines, the Soviet army liberated the capital of Yugoslavia, the Japanese army suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the Japanese navy basically lost its combat capability.
The international anti-Japanese situation is excellent, except for China...
What Zhou Hexuan felt most distressed was that after the defeat of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, Chiang Kai-shek shouted the slogan "One hundred thousand youth and one hundred thousand troops". Many universities including Central University, Southwest Associated University, Jinling University, and Tongji University
, teachers and students signed up to join the army one after another, and countless educated young people were buried on the anti-Japanese front line.
Fortunately, the great traitor Wang Zhaoming is dead.
At that time, Wang Yaqiao sent someone to assassinate Chang Kaishen, but Chang Kaishen did not show up. The assassin fired three shots at Wang Zhaoming. One bullet hit his left arm and was easily removed; another bullet hit his lower cheekbone, and it took three surgeries to remove it.
; The last bullet injured the spine, and the doctors did not dare to remove it. It remained in Wang Zhaoming's body for nearly ten years.
This was a lead bullet, and the lead poison spread to the spinal nerves, torturing Wang Zhaoming all the time. In the end, the main cause of Wang Zhaoming's death was the spread of lead poison.
In fact, it would be better for Wang Zhaoming not to die. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he would be prosecuted for treason and thrown into prison to continue to suffer the torture of lead poisoning. It would be too cheap for him to die now. Four months before this bastard died, his puppet government also forced conscription
Chinese women serve as comfort women!
In general, although China experienced a huge defeat on the frontal battlefield in 1944, everyone knew that victory in the Anti-Japanese War was just around the corner, because the Allied forces in the European battlefield were so powerful, and the Japanese army in the Pacific battlefield was already a grasshopper.
That’s why people of insight are eager to think about the issue of nation-building after the war and try to avoid the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. No one wants to fight anymore!
The economic situation in the rear area is appalling. Not to mention the people at the bottom, even many businessmen are complaining that they don't have enough to eat. There are only more than 500 factories in the entire rear area, which has been halved compared to last year. Many big capitalists have declared bankruptcy.
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Of Zhou Hexuan's factories in Sichuan, only one pharmaceutical factory, one acid and alkali factory and three daily necessities factories are still in operation, and they continue to lose money as the French currency depreciates.
Zhou Weilie keeps sending telegrams back from Kunming, hoping that his parents can donate more supplies to the school. Nowadays, students at Southwest Associated University often cannot guarantee two meals a day. The students are generally hungry, and sometimes even suddenly during class
faint.
Zhou Hexuan also wanted to donate, but unfortunately he couldn't buy a large amount of grain even if he had money. Grain from various provinces had long been requisitioned to serve as military ration. He previously purchased a large amount of wasteland in Sichuan and built many mutual-aid farms. These lands have been gradually transferred
to tenants.
However, the tenants who had obtained the land asked Zhou Hexuan to take back the land. They were willing to pay 20 to 30% of the grain every year for renting the land, because the National Government's expropriation and requisition policy was too terrible, so they might as well give Zhou Hexuan a share as a tenant.
Live on rations.
In desperation, Zhou Hexuan could only become a big landlord again...
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