Many people know that Mr. Zhu likes to play chess, even in the war years when military affairs are busy, he will often find someone to kill a game.
However, Mr. Zhu's chess playing is not only leisure and entertainment, but also has a deep purpose.
In July 1939, Mr. Zhu led the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to be stationed in Brick Wall Village, Wuxiang County, Shanxi, and one day, Mr. Zhu found several villagers playing chess, so he walked over and said, "I'll come to the next game." ”
The person who plays the most chess with Mr. Zhu is called Li Zuogen, who has a high level of chess skills, often kills Mr. Zhu and loses a lot, and sometimes triumphantly jokes that Mr. Zhu is always a "stinky chess basket".
Of course, at first, Li Zuogen did not know that this rustic veteran was Mr. Zhu, and thought that he was just an ordinary veteran, but when he later learned his identity, he was frightened and rushed to Mr. Zhu's residence to apologize.
But Mr. Zhu didn't mind at all, and said with a smile: "The stinky chess basket is the stinky chess basket, and if you lose the chess game, don't let people say it?" ”
However, Mr. Zhu has a habit of playing chess, which makes Li Zuogen very strange, that is, sometimes the two have just played halfway, and suddenly the secretary comes to Mr. Zhu and says that there is an emergency in the headquarters to find him, and Mr. Zhu said to Li Zuogen: "You keep this game of chess first, and then I will come back and continue to play it." ”
Sometimes Mr. Zhu came back quickly, but sometimes he could only come back after two or three days, and Li Zuogen was very strange and asked: "In fact, we can re-order the next plate, why do we have to continue to the next plate every time?" ”
Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "Playing chess is not only for leisure and entertainment, mainly to exercise the brain, increase wisdom, playing chess is like fighting a war, fighting a war will have a harvest, from the beginning to the end of a step can not be sloppy, not to give up halfway." ”
Later, Li Zuogen said to the people: "Why did Commander-in-Chief Zhu fight so fiercely?" He's even playing chess and fighting, can you say he's not good? ”
A few months later, Mr. Zhu led the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to Wang Jiayu, and as soon as he had time, he went to play chess with his neighbor Uncle Zhang.
This Uncle Zhang is also a local old chess fan, the level is not bad, but every time he plays with Mr. Zhu, it is difficult to win, and he is often killed by Mr. Zhu's pawns.
Uncle Zhang felt very incredible, and said: "The masters I have met before are all good at using cars and horse cannons, and I have never encountered such a powerful use of pawns!" ”
Elder Zhu smiled and said, "This is the same reason as fighting a war, the car and horse artillery are equivalent to the regular army, and the pawns are the ordinary people of the whole country, to defeat the Japanese Kou, we cannot rely solely on the regular army, but also on the ordinary people, as long as the ordinary people are mobilized, they can play a role that the regular army cannot play!" ”
Uncle Zhang was still a little unconvinced, and then found several chess masters in the village to play with Mr. Zhu, and as a result, it was still more than losing and winning less, and even the cars and horses were forced to move by Mr. Zhu's pawns, which was very uncomfortable.
Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "See? This is the power of the pawn! As long as they can fully mobilize the common people and fight the people's war well, the Japanese will be like these cars and horses, trapped by the common people and unable to do anything! ”
Later, Uncle Zhang also joined the guerrilla group of the Eighth Route Army with several of his sons, and made many contributions.
In fact, this story also vividly illustrates the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Route Army, that is, to fully mobilize the masses, let the Japanese and Kosovars fall into the ocean of people's war, fight piecemeal, and finally eat the Japanese kosher little by little.
Of course, the contribution of the Kuomintang troops on these frontal battlefields cannot be erased, and indeed played an irreplaceable and important role in the War of Resistance Against Japan, but the guerrilla war and the people's war under the leadership of our party actually achieved no worse results.
For example, Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, once said: "We have more than 200 counties, and each county can kill one Japanese Kou every day, and in a month it can kill him six or seven thousand, which is equivalent to a brigade." ”
See? It seems inconspicuous that a county only kills one Japanese Kou in a day, but it adds up to a very staggering number, and even those famous battles can kill six or seven thousand Japanese troops, which is a very big victory!
No wonder Wei Lihuang deeply admired the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Route Army after studying it, and from then on he could help the Eighth Route Army.