With the outbreak of the Pacific War, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the third stage, at which time the Chinese battlefield became the main battlefield in the anti-fascist region of Asia, pinning down a large number of Japanese troops and accelerating the end of the second world war.
However, just as the humiliated old China was about to usher in the dawn of a new era, the Kuomintang reactionaries paid no heed to the people who were still trapped in a poor life, colluded with officials and businessmen to make the country rich, and even openly created the appalling Anhui Incident during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Subsequently, the Kuomintang even disregarded the agreement of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China on anti-Japanese cooperation, stopped the payment of grain and salaries to the Eighteenth Group Army during the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, and even sent troops to disrupt the establishment of the New Fourth Army.
Under the situation of internal and external troubles, the CPC Central Committee decided to temporarily appoint Zhang Yunyi as the commander of Huainan District and absorb the remnants of the former New Fourth Army.
However, when Zhang Yunyi, who had been in the battlefield for a long time, served as commander, he found that the remaining new Fourth Army troops had already run out of ammunition and were in a situation of poverty.
In desperation, Zhang Yunyi secretly established a tobacco factory and made money to supplement the supply of the army, but what he did not expect was that the cigarettes produced by the tobacco factory were extremely good and cheap, and the Japanese army secretly exchanged ammunition and intelligence.
Zhang Yunyi was born in 1892 in a remote village in Hainan Province. From a poor family, he knew the hardships of life for the toiling masses, so he vowed to help these poor people through reading. Fortunately, the painstaking heart of the people did not live up to the day, 16-year-old Zhang Yunyi was admitted to the Guangdong Army Primary School with his excellent results.
During his school years, Zhang Yunyi saw the oppressed working people, and gradually realized the nature of the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, and he began to look for a way to truly save the country and save the people.
In 1909, Zhang Yunyi secretly joined China's first revolutionary organization, the League, and began his glorious years on the battlefield of iron blood.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people, the warlords were in chaos, and wars and chaos were frequent in various places, and the people were miserable. At this time, an uprising broke out in Huanghuagang, Guangdong Province, and Zhang Yunyi was a participant in this uprising. He and other revolutionary comrades-in-arms fought bloodily in the encirclement of the Qing army, but in the end, because they were outnumbered, they could only retreat helplessly and wait for the next revolutionary opportunity.
However, what Zhang Yunyi did not expect was that when he went out to buy vegetables and inquire about the enemy's situation, other revolutionary comrades-in-arms had been surrounded by Qing troops and died tragically under the massacre of the Qing government.
Although this revolutionary activity was brutally suppressed by the Qing government, Zhang Yunyi still never gave up his revolutionary beliefs and always cherished the red ideal of saving the country and the people.
Two years later, Zhang Yunyi once again entered the Guangdong Army School for further study and secretly developed revolutionary forces.
During the Northern Expedition, he resolutely led his troops to the front line of the battle, and made many outstanding achievements in the rain of bullets and bullets clashed between the two armies. However, in the course of the revolutionary battle, Zhang Yunyi also began to gradually realize the essence of capitalism behind the Kuomintang.
At this time, the emergence of the Communist Party brought a glimmer of dawn to Zhang Yunyi's revolutionary convictions. In 1926, Zhang Yunyi, who was already a senior Official in the Kuomintang at the time, unswervingly joined the Chinese Communist Party. As he said, the revolution to which he was loyal should be the liberation of the suffering working people of all of China.
After the Xi'an Incident, the Kuomintang reached a second cooperation agreement, and the Cpc Central Committee ordered Zhang Yunyi to go to the eight southern provinces to contact and form various guerrilla groups, and at the same time invited Ye Tingzushan to serve as the commander-in-chief of the New Fourth Army. After receiving the task, Zhang Yunyi immediately got up and went to Macau alone to look for Ye Ting, and successfully persuaded Ye Ting to serve as the commander of the New Fourth Army.
After the Anhui Incident, Zhang Yunyi was temporarily appointed commander-in-chief of the Huainan Military Region, responsible for integrating the remnants of the New Fourth Army. However, after accepting the troops, Zhang Yunyi found that this so-called unit had basically reached the point of running out of ammunition.
As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass have gone first, and the logistics of military supplies is the necessary prerequisite for the entire unit to do a good job.
Zhang Yunyi looked at the yellow-skinned warriors, and guilt filled his whole heart. One day, when Zhang Yunyi was holding a meeting, he found the little soldier on duty secretly smoking cigarette butts underground.
The small actions of the little soldier made Zhang Yunyi feel a sense of self-blame again in his heart, and he proposed to the soldiers below to build a tobacco factory to meet the needs of the soldiers, and then improve the economic level of the team.
Subsequently, Zhang Yunyi ordered the quartermaster Hu Biliang to find the source of the tobacco. After receiving the task, Hu Biliang began to inquire about the origin of tobacco, and he first went to the local town to turn around, and it was this unintentional accidental wandering that allowed Hu Biliang to discover the source of tobacco.
At that time, Hu Biliang, who was walking around the town, was frowning because the task could not be carried out, when a tobacco-selling aunt appeared and successfully solved the problem for him.
The aunt confessed to Hu Biliang that the Japanese puppet army and the Kuomintang army not only oppressed the local tobacco factories, but also bought a large amount of tobacco from the smokers at a low price and then sold it to the people at a high price.
Hu Biliang, who learned of this news, immediately informed the commander Zhang Yunyi, and under the persuasion of the two men, the owner of the tobacco factory produced cigarettes again. Half a year later, Hu Biliang confidently brought the first batch of cigarette samples produced to Zhang Yunyi and began to plan how to sell the excess cigarettes to other personnel.
After deciding to sell cigarettes, Zhang Yunyi quickly found two reporters from Hainan Daily and gave the cigarette a new name, which is the origin of Pegasus cigarette.
Because pegasus cigarettes came out, with their good quality and low price, the characteristics of excellent tobacco quality quickly occupied the tobacco market in Huainan, and even Chairman Mao, who was far away in Yan'an, smoked this famous Pegasus cigarette.
The large-scale sale of cigarettes not only successfully solved the embarrassment of the New Fourth Army running out of ammunition and food, but even asked for a lot of military expenses to meet the needs of the New Fourth Army. As a result, Zhang Yunyi, who had the remaining money in his hand, finally re-replaced a batch of guns and ammunition for the New Fourth Army team like a big landlord.
In addition, Pegasus cigarettes also attracted the attention of the Japanese army, and even the Japanese army took their own weapons and intelligence in exchange for the beauty of this cigarette. Even once, during a trade with the Japanese puppet army, hundreds of boxes of cigarettes were exchanged for a brand new kayak and Japanese weapons.
Relying on this small tobacco factory, the New Fourth Army not only managed to get rid of the impoverished situation, but was also the only army armed with all Japanese mechanization after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
During those arduous years, the Communist Party of China never forgot the essential intention of serving the people, led the working people to overcome economic difficulties, realized self-sufficiency in production, and carried forward the traditional spirit of arduous struggle.