After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, a New Fourth Army suffered many hardships on the way to the front line to resist Japan, but it always resolved the crisis at difficult times and survived in a desperate situation. Why is this happening? The person who broke the sentence was very surprising, and it turned out to be a county magistrate of the Kuomintang.
In early 1938, the six companies of the fourth regiment of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army, led by Liu Yongsheng and Chen Maohui (both later became founding major generals), set out from Longyan, Fujian Province, and rushed to the front line to prepare for the japanese war. However, the Kuomintang diehards set up heavy cards and deliberately made difficulties during their march, and after going through all kinds of hardships, the troops finally entered the border of Zhejiang, and arrived at Jiangshan County at about three o'clock in the afternoon, preparing to transfer trains here and continue eastward along the Zhejiang-Gansu line.
However, the Kuomintang jiangshan county party and government organs did not allocate wagons to the New Fourth Army or pay grain on the pretext that they had not received orders from their own province.
A few days later, the commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army had difficulties in their lives and suffered from a lot of trouble. Several overseas Chinese young people who had just joined the army were indignant at the Kuomintang's unwarranted hardships and generously donated all their pocket money.
The troops relied on their own internal economy and spent the spring and autumn in the jiangshan mountains. In order to quickly reverse this situation, Liu Yongsheng and Chen Maohui shook a long-distance telephone to the Nanchang office of the New Fourth Army, reported the situation here to Li Kenong (who later became the founding general), and listened to his instructions.
That night, Li Kenong sent people to Jiangshan, sent food expenses, and stayed in Jiangshan to help them negotiate the train.
At this time, a group of journalists who were traveling with the New Fourth Army also completed the task of interviewing and reported back to the unit. Despite the very difficult economic situation, the New Fourth Army did its best to organize a reception and gave each journalist a pair of shoes embroidered with the words "Resist Japan and Save the Country."
The reporters were very touched, and the reporter of the "Central News Agency", holding a cloth shoe, said to the cadres of the New Fourth Army: "Walking together for a while, winning ten years of reading books, my education is too profound!" ”
Along the way, the Kuomintang's actions provoked the dissatisfaction of these reporters, who said that the interview had reached real "news."
Two French female journalists said: "Your army, the impression left on us is too good! With an army like yours in China, the War of Resistance will certainly be victorious. They also said that they would write down what they had seen along the way into a newsletter and tell the French people.
Seeing that they could not get out of the car for a while and a half, the units of the New Fourth Army seized the time to carry out propaganda work. However, in the past few days, the streets were full of songs calling for salvation, posting slogans to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance, and countless young people asked to join the New Fourth Army.
All this frightened the Kuomintang masters, and a security regimental commander went so far as to warn Chen Maohui that "the army cannot carry out propaganda activities at the local level."
"Everywhere our army goes, it must propagate the anti-Japanese resistance." Chen Maohui answered him with a straight face.
"I'm not allowed!" He cried out frantically.
"Japanese imperialism has occupied the northeast, occupied Pingjin, occupied Beijing and Shanghai, and is about to hit the areas under your control.
The guy was stunned by Chen Maohui's questioning, and he played a rogue and shouted loudly for them to quickly withdraw.
Chen Maohui said to him: "This matter is very easy, as long as we get out of the car skin, we will soon leave Jiangshan." If we do not dial the bus, we will propagate the anti-Japanese resistance, which is our right and our obligation. You can't stop it, otherwise, the people will suspect that you have an outside heart. ”
Shortly after the head of the security regiment left, he really got out of the car. These guys are like bats afraid of the sun, and it is really indignant that the New Fourth Army publicizes the anti-Japanese principle! However, because they were afraid of the truth, they quickly helped the New Fourth Army to get a wagon, and they made the commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army laugh and talk for a while.
The troops of the New Fourth Army walked along the Zhejiang-Gansu line, got off from Lanxi, and were about to walk toward southern Anhui. After taking a break in Jiande, I happened to encounter a group of Kuomintang troops who had retreated from defeat in The Shanghai and Hangzhou areas.
They could not fight wars, but they were masters of harassing the people, and they split the doors and windows of the ancestral hall to cook rice and boil water, and the yard was full of wood fragments and horse dung.
The officers and men of the New Fourth Army, on the other hand, have always maintained the glorious tradition of the Red Army, not taking a needle and a thread from the masses, and helping the masses to carry water and chop firewood at every opportunity, and cleaning the ancestral hall clean.
The masses of the two nationalities in the two ancestral halls, on the one hand, are affectionate and warm, smiling happily, and on the other hand, they are dodging and dodging, and their faces are sad. Those masses angrily said to the soldiers of the New Fourth Army: "The Kuomintang army has really ruined us, not only have we suffered, but even our ancestors in had no peace!" ”
Before departing the next day, Chen Maohui went to bid farewell to the Jiande County Government as usual and solicited their opinions on the New Fourth Army.
The county magistrate was a relatively righteous person in the Kuomintang, and he uttered something completely out of Chen Maohui's remarks: "I am a member of the Kuomintang, not that I praise your army; from the comparison between the two ancestral halls, we can see that your party governs the army well, and China's future and destiny must be pinned on your party and your army. ”
On the road from Jiande to southern Anhui, wherever Kuomintang troops were stationed, the New Fourth Army was harassed everywhere. Thankfully, there are sympathetic and supportive people everywhere. The Kuomintang county magistrate could be described as a broken word, which precisely broke the mystery that the New Fourth Army had suffered many hardships but could always survive.
In this way, all the way along, all the way to the Kuomintang in an uninterrupted struggle, this New Fourth Army unit finally reached southern Anhui in victory.