Chiang Kai-shek, one of the most controversial figures. You say that he is patriotic; he has mobilized our country's civil war more than once, and has also connived at the actions of the aggressors more than once, for example, he once pursued a "policy of non-resistance" during the Japanese army's invasion of China, and the final result was that the northeast of our country was completely reduced to the pocket of the Japanese army and fell completely. In addition, there is the war that has been waged against our army, that is, the war of "encirclement and suppression".
And you say that he is not patriotic, after General Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng launched the famous "Xi'an Incident", the Kuomintang army led by him was also fully anti-Japanese. In the Japanese invasion of China, the Kuomintang army has always been the main force on the frontal battlefield, and to tell the truth, if it were not for the Kuomintang army in front, our losses would have increased exponentially. And the "Chinese Expeditionary Force" as we know it is also the main force of the Kuomintang army.
The price they paid in the War of Resistance Against Japan will only be more than ours, not less than ours. And many elite generals died in this war, such as General "Dai Anlan". The deeds of this general do not need to be recounted too much, his experience can be called legendary! That is why I would say that Chiang Kai-shek is a very difficult person to evaluate, and what he has done is full of contradictions, full of confusion, and people are puzzled.
However, this also cannot hide some of the crimes he committed, such as the "Anhui Incident", "Liberation War", "Encirclement and Suppression", and so on. And what we want to talk about today is the "Anhui Southern Incident." Probably in the mid-twentieth century, Chiang Kai-shek, not knowing what kind of wind to draw, issued a tough order for the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army south of the Yellow River to withdraw completely, and this order was the kind of room for no bargaining.
Because it was in an important period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order not to affect the entire situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army finally led the large troops to retreat from here after discussion. And it was this decision to retreat that led to the subsequent tragedy. After they chose to retreat, Chiang Kai-shek's next plan had already begun to move, and it could be said that one link was tied to one link.
After the New Fourth Army had all retreated, he ordered his troops, led by Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yun, to launch an indiscriminate attack against the retreating New Fourth Army! Completely disregarding the entire anti-Japanese situation, he insisted on going his own way. And these two people also did not stop them in the slightest, and completely followed Chiang Kai-shek's lead. Therefore, in the case that the New Fourth Army was completely defenseless, a deadly net against them had been quietly laid.
When the time was ripe, the troops led by Shangguan Yun and the two men launched an all-out attack on the New Fourth Army. The place where the war took place was in southern Anhui, and the Kuomintang army had about 80,000 people, which completely crushed the troops of the New Fourth Army in terms of numbers. In addition, they were waiting for work, and they were the side of the ambush, in which case, although the New Fourth Army counterattacked with all its strength under their surprise attack, it was finally defeated due to various difficulties and the traitor's internal and external cooperation.
Unless defeated, the New Fourth Army has done its best to engage the enemy army, but the gap between the enemy and us is too large, and the result of the hard fight under the condition that the enemy is outnumbered and the enemy can only be destroyed, so in order not to destroy the whole army, the New Fourth Army chose to break through, but the final result was not too ideal. Less than one-tenth of the breakouts were ordinary soldiers, and those high-ranking generals had only two outcomes, death and captivity!
This is the "Anhui South Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, and the main reason why he caused such a big sensation was due to the environment at that time. In this war, in addition to the soldiers who came out of the battle, there were thousands of prisoners, and these prisoners were like hot potatoes in the Kuomintang army. Because no matter how arrogant they were, they did not dare to commit the world's great mistakes and kill them all, and the consequences caused by that were even more serious than their ambush of the New Fourth Army.
In the end, after deliberation, two methods were taken against the captives. First, part of it was incorporated into the army; second, those who were "stubborn" were shot to death, thus achieving the effect of killing chickens and monkeys. Among these survivors, some returned to their original units, some retired from the army, and everything. And the main reason for the defeat of this war is the traitor! These traitors did not end up well in the end, dead and crippled. For us, we must cherish a peaceful and stable life!