#新四军为什么后来特别能打? #
The 7th Division of the New Fourth Army was originally the smallest division in the New Fourth Army, and it did not love to fight much, so why did it become the "pearl in the palm" of the New Fourth Army and Mao Zedong?
Positioning of the 7th Division of the New Fourth Army: From "Bayonet" to "Printing Press"
Shortly after the Anhui Incident, in May 1941, the 7th Division was formally established, and the total strength of the division at that time was only 0.19 million people. Because the base of the 7th Division is the Anhui River area, the geographical position is superior, and the secretary of the Central China Bureau is also the secretary
Liu Shaoqi, political commissar of the New Fourth Army, positioned the 7th Division as a "strategic mobile unit" and a "bayonet inserted in the heart of the Japanese army in central China."
And appointed the very tough old general Zhang Dingcheng as the commander of the 7th Division, ready to do a big job.
In March 1942, Liu Shaoqi went to Yan'an, and Rao Shushi succeeded Liu Shaoqi as the new secretary of the Central China Bureau and political commissar of the New Fourth Army. Rao Shushi was mao zedong's "excellent student", "money bag" and "firefighter". In addition to not knowing how to command a war,
Rao Shushi was a very versatile high-ranking talent, the most capable diplomatic expert under Mao Zedong
He is also one of the few negotiators, intelligence experts, management experts and economic experts in the central government.
Gao Gang and Rao Shushi were both talents that Mao Zedong focused on cultivating in the early days
In the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Rao Shushi and Wang Ming jointly drafted the famous "August 1st Declaration" in the Soviet Union, which is also known in China as the "Letter to All Compatriots for Resisting Japan and Saving the Country". afterwards
Rao Shushi was ordered by Mao Zedong to travel frequently to developed countries such as France, Britain, Canada, and the United States
He mobilized patriotic overseas Chinese and raised a large amount of money and goods for the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army (equivalent to Sun Yat-sen's early main work). Many patriotic overseas Chinese youth, including foreign experts such as Bethune in Canada, were brought to Yan'an by Rao Shushi.
Shortly after Rao Shushi presided over the overall situation of the New Fourth Army,
Mao Zedong and the Central Committee received more than 70 percent of their funding from the New Fourth Army
Of these, the 7th Division contributed the most,
Rao changed the positioning of the 7th Division from "bayonet" to "printing machine" and one of the intelligence centers of the New Fourth Army
。
Rao Shushi carried out vigorous reforms in the New Fourth Army
In the early days of the New Fourth Army, it was "poor and weak" and "lined with mountains," and its commander, Ye Ting, was completely overwhelmed by political commissar Xiang Ying, and it also needed the Eighth Route Army to often provide assistance from the perspective of funds and personnel, and the situation was not critical and complicated. Rao Shushi was parachuted into the New Fourth Army by Mao Zedong to "fight the fire", but was also ruthlessly suppressed by the political commissar Xiang Ying.
After Rao Shushi presided over the overall situation, he vigorously carried out reforms from head to toe in the New Fourth Army, and completely eliminated the influence of the former political commissar Xiang Ying's faction, because Chen Yi "sympathized with Xiang Ying's faction".
Rao Shushi was furious and directly gave Chen Yi'an the "Ten Great Crimes" and the "Crime" of "Only Playing a Few Stinky Chess Games and Not Fighting"
At that time, all the senior generals and cadres of the New Fourth Army no longer dared to contact Chen Yi.
In Chen Yi's own words: Don't talk about people, "ghosts don't come to the door"
Marshal Chen Yi
"A military commander can't even fight a war", the situation of the New Fourth Army is still not optimistic, Mao Zedong did not dare to risk supporting Chen Yi, and could only choose to trust and support his student Rao Shushi, and as a result, Chen Yi was transferred to Yan'an for cultivation. Until the New Fourth Army was canceled, Chen Yi did not return to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army.
Rao Shushi exerted a great deal of "performance pressure" on the leadership of the New Fourth Army and pursued a rough policy of "either capable or get out." Even the commanders were so miserable that the entire high-ranking generals and cadres of the New Fourth Army were shrouded in "
Heaven is not afraid, it is afraid of the political commissar to talk
"Under the shadow.
In order to make the fastest performance, Rao Shushi also began to shield his subordinates, and bad things happened in the New Fourth Army, and Mao Zedong also hid something. The intelligence agencies of the New Fourth Army began to step on the edge of the red line, and there was some "ambiguity" with Wang Jingwei and Wang pseudo agents. The 7 main divisions of the New Fourth Army,
"Either you can fight, you can earn, or you can expand your territory," Rao Shushi did not leave a place for the incompetent cadres of the New Fourth Army
How rich was the 7th Division of the "Printing Press"? It can raise 20 Grade A divisions
The New Fourth Army was founded in 1937, and in June 1946, the Kuomintang completely tore its face, a full-scale civil war began, and the New Fourth Army and its subordinate units were cancelled one after another, and by the spring of 1947, the New Fourth Army's "Blue Sky and White Sun" hat emblem and unit number were all canceled and reorganized.
According to the diary of Lai Chuanzhu, chief of staff of the New Fourth Army, from the end of 1942 to the beginning of 1947, in just over 4 years,
The seventh division handed over cash and materials (including gold, funds, bank deposits, medicines, and factory equipment) to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army and Rao Shushi totaled more than that
More than 1 million taels of gold
And in these more than 4 years,
The cash and materials handed over to Mao Zedong and the Central Committee by the New Fourth Army and Rao Shushi amounted to more than 700,000 taels of gold, and in terms of "making money", the New Fourth Army was much stronger than the Eighth Route Army
Mao Zedong was very satisfied with the New Fourth Army from a broken heart, of which the 7th Division contributed a lot.
According to the regulations of the New Fourth Army, the 7th Division only needs to hand over one-third of its total financial revenue, one-third of which remains with the 7th Division and one-third from the base area. In just over 4 years,
The total revenue of the 7th Division was equivalent to 3 million taels of gold
Of all the New Fourth Army and Eighth Route Army, it is definitely the richest one.
Lai Chuanzhu's diary also recorded such a detail: in the year from January 1944 to January 1945, not counting other materials, only the cash and gold handed over by the 7th Division were equivalent to more than 200,000 taels of gold.
200,000 taels of gold, according to the highest supply standards of the national army at that time, could support 20 Grade A divisions for a year
The National Army's Grade A division is about 18,000 people, the B Division is about 13,000 people, and the C Division is about 10,000 people
。 If Lai Chuanzhu's diary is correct, on average, the 7th Division's annual cash and materials handed over to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army are equivalent to 200,000 to 250,000 taels of gold, which can support the main field army of the "First Class A Division of the National Army".
How did the 7th Division of the "Printing Press" train?
In the later period of the New Fourth Army, the 7 main divisions became very rich, and each main division had its own "industry", of which the 7th Division was the richest one. Rao Shushi was a workaholic who often went down to the army to inspect, and Rao Shushi concurrently held more than 20 core positions in the New Fourth Army, sending a lot of capable personnel such as production and construction personnel, tax personnel, financial personnel, and intelligence personnel to each division.
The 7th Division was also poor at the beginning,
The rise of the 7th Division, Cai Hui and Ye Jinming contributed greatly
。 Ye Jinming was formerly the station chief of the General Military Station and the deputy director of the Supply Department of the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and Cai Hui was the director of an office of the 6th Division. In order to turn the 7th Division into a "printing machine," Rao Shushi left Zhang Dingcheng, the commander of the 7th Division, who was very capable of fighting, to his side to command the war, and sent Cai Hui and Ye Jinming to the 7th Division to engage in economic trade.
In 1942, Rao Shushi sent Ye Jinming to the 7th Division as the minister of the Supply Department and the director of the Finance and Economics Department, and sent Cai Hui to the 7th Division as the deputy director of the Finance and Economics Department and the director of the Anhui River Trade Administration Bureau
The 7th Division is not very good at fighting a big battle, but after all, it is the main division in the field, and it is more than enough to fight the puppet army and the big traitors. If these puppet troops and traitors in the Anhui River area did not cooperate with the 7th Division in trade, they would not be able to buy a single grain of grain, and if they could not complete the Japanese army's grain collection task, they would be killed by the Japanese army. These puppet troops and traitors not only did not dare to offend the 7th Division, but also helped the 7th Division to "work": open and protect trade routes, cover the transport of the wounded of the New Fourth Army and the exposed underground party, and spy on Japanese intelligence.
The advantage of the 7th Division was that it was taxed only once on goods, providing the most reliable and secure trade routes at that time. Due to the good reputation of the 7th Division, the Anhui River area soon became the largest trade and trading market in Jiangnan.
Many Chongqing politicians and businessmen and Japanese military politicians also came here to do business
。 Soon the field troops of the 7th Division more than 10 times from 0.19 million to more than 20,000,
More than 20,000 people were all equipped with the most advanced Japanese weapons and equipment
The fiscal tax revenue has reached an "astonishing amount", which can help the New Fourth Army to enrich hundreds of thousands of field troops and nearly a million militiamen.
Prospering Shanghai's economy: The former Economic "Soil Experts" Regiment of the New Fourth Army defeated the Kuomintang's Economic Expert Corps
After the liberation of Shanghai, Rao Shushi, the "King of East China", concurrently served as the first secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and Chen Yi concurrently served as the first mayor of Shanghai.
During the construction of Shanghai, Rao Shushi still reused the economic "soil expert" regiment and intelligence system of the former New Fourth Army.
In Shanghai, in the hands of the Kuomintang, prices soared, but in the hands of the economic "soil experts" group, Shanghai's economy was stable and prosperous. At that time, even the media in the Soviet Union, the United States and Europe had to praise that the economic prosperity of new Shanghai was a miracle. If you like "fresh history" articles, just follow me and support more articles of "fresh history".