When Chiang Kai-shek secretly visited Yan'an in 1947, he thought that he could conquer our party's base area and win in one fell swoop, but after seeing what the great man had left behind, he said the following sentence: "Going to Yan'an is the most regrettable decision in my life, doomed to the defeat of the Nationalist army." A few days later, the Kuomintang army was really as Chiang Kai-shek had said, and the troops in Yan'an were defeated like mountains, causing massive damage. So what did the great man leave behind, and why was Chiang Kai-shek so frightened? After the officials have nodded their praises, listen to the brother of the detective to give you a detailed explanation.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang and the Communists began a new round of confrontation, and Chiang Kai-shek vainly used the time of the peace talks to dispatch troops and generals to launch a civil war on the land of the motherland, which had just calmed the flames of war. In June 1946, the Kuomintang government headed by Chiang Kai-shek brazenly tore up the armistice agreement and launched an all-out attack on the liberated areas of our party, at this time the Kuomintang army had extremely advanced weapons and equipment, and the generals of the army also received senior education in the academy, but it was against this background that the Nationalist army was still defeated and retreated by our party. Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he decided to launch an attack on Yan'an in a vain attempt to preserve the declining situation of the Kuomintang, and it was Chiang Kai-shek's long-time favorite Hu Zongnan who was entrusted with leading the battle. In order to ensure that the war was foolproof, Chiang Kai-shek did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to equip Hu Zongnan's 250,000 troops with American equipment.
At the end of February 1947, Hu Zongnan launched a major attack on Yan'an, and on March 13, he carried out a large-scale bombing campaign and issued a military order to his subordinates, demanding "three days to occupy Yan'an". In the face of Hu Zongnan's menacing situation, our party's defenders in Yan'an only had 30,000 northwestern field troops, and there was an extremely large disparity in both numbers and weapons and equipment. After 7 days of fierce fighting, our party fighters killed more than 5,000 enemy soldiers and crushed the Kuomintang's dream of "occupying Yan'an in three days." As a holy land of revolution, Yan'an is of great significance to our party generals and local people, so many people have proposed to stick to Yan'an and fight the Kuomintang to the end, but at this time the great people put forward different views, and it is really meaningless to lose innocent lives in order to defend Yan'an. So on March 18, the great man ordered the abandonment of Yan'an to begin a large-scale strategic transfer, in fact, this transfer is also a strategy of the great man, so that Hu Zongnan relaxed his vigilance, so as to lure the enemy to go deeper and find an opportunity to destroy the enemy.
After the great man led our party's army to withdraw on his own initiative, Hu Zongnan was overjoyed; at first he was still unable to pay Chiang Kai-shek a messenger because he could not conquer for a long time, and now he was even effortlessly occupying the city of Yan'an. In the end, Hu Zongnan was a general who had been fighting for many years, and when he saw the note from the great man, he instantly understood that he had fallen into a trap, but in order to maintain the hard-won war situation, he still concealed the truth and sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek to ask for credit, saying that the Nationalist army had captured 50,000 enemies and captured countless weapons and ammunition. When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he immediately sent a telegram to commend him, and ordered Nanjing and Xi'an to hang the national flag and set off firecrackers to celebrate the "Great Victory of Northern Shaanxi."
Just when Hu Zongnan turned Chiang Kai-shek's deceitful regiment around, the great man assumed the pseudonym Li Desheng and re-established a pre-war committee in a small mountain village in the distance, using tactics such as mushroom warfare and sparrow warfare to lure the enemy deeper, so that Hu Zongnan was deceived step by step, losing nearly 10,000 troops, and completely defeating the army. Our army successfully reversed the situation in northern Shaanxi in three battles and three victories, making Hu Zongnan really become "difficult to ride a tiger and unable to advance or retreat."
A few months later, unbeknownst to him, Old Chiang decided to go to Yan'an in person, wanting to see how the opponents he had fought for most of his life were living in Yan'an to guide the country and let himself be defeated, and Hu Zongnan began to get busy after learning about it, transporting Chiang Kai-shek's porcelain washbasins, toilets, sofas, wire beds, and Western cooks to the barren Yan'an. On the morning of August 7, Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Yan'an on the "Mei ling," but what he never expected was that Hu Zongnan, in order to cover up the facts, actually built 10 prisoner-of-war camps overnight, captured 500 villagers, and then selected some soldiers who could speak well and locked them up together, creating the illusion of his own great victory. He also ordered the soldiers to disguise themselves as ordinary people, modified the lyrics of the song "Dongfang Hong", and sang along the road when Chiang Kai-shek was riding a white horse to inspect Yan'an: "The red sun in the East is rising, and China has produced a Chiang Kai-shek.", so Chiang Kai-shek became more and more spirited, and praised the welcoming "people" one after another.
After going through the formalities, Chiang Kai-shek took the lead in coming to our party's "military academy." Who knew that the scene in front of him directly stunned Chiang Kai-shek. Where is the school, it is just a black kiln, the blackboard is painted with ash at the bottom of the pot, the chalk is even pitiful, and some classrooms even write directly with loess blocks. The small bench in the open-air auditorium, Chiang Kai-shek also tried to sit down, but the stool was too short, he almost sat over and turned out ugly, frightening Chiang Ching-kuo and Soong Mei-ling to quickly lift him up. Thinking about the Whampoa Military Academy, where he had no worries about food and clothing, and then looking at the scene in front of him, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know how many times stronger huangpu is than here, why are there fewer and fewer people who can fight wars?" In the face of this question, the people under them can only look at each other, and no one dares to stand up and answer.
Early the next morning, Chiang Kai-shek went to Yangjialing, Zaoyuan, Wangjiaping and other places surrounded by people, wanting to see the mysterious places where the great man lived, and how he stayed in the northwest frontier for 13 years. After coming to the "home" of the great man, there is no difference between the cave dwellings where other ordinary people live, the doors and windows are made of old wood that has not been painted, the walls of the house are peeling off, there is only a bed nailed up by elm wood, sitting on it creaks and shakes non-stop, a high and low elm table, after a long time of use, has long been potholed. In the courtyard, a spinning wheel personally used by a great man did his best to provide materials and equipment for the soldiers in his spare time. Chiang Kai-shek leaned down and fiddled with the spinning wheel a few times, and suddenly felt that the sky was spinning and his face was blue.
Think about your luxurious apartments everywhere, look at such simple cave dwellings, how the great man always maintained a strong fighting spirit, how he pointed out the country and mountains on a potholed table, led the soldiers to seize the city, and how the CCP could develop into the current strength, defeating the powerful Kuomintang again and again. Confusion and self-doubt all poured into Chiang Kai-shek's mind, making him deeply shocked and incredulous.
After leaving the cave, on the hillside in the distance, there are fields reclaimed by great men and marshals such as the prime minister, who, like ordinary people, need to work in the fields to ensure that Yan'an can be self-sufficient in grain and vegetables. This information made Chiang Kai-shek's face turn blue, and later he asked several local people about the great man, only to see the old peasant trembling and talking to Chiang Kai-shek: "He usually wears patched old clothes and steps on cloth shoes and grass shoes. ”
Old Jiang asked, "Did he talk to you, did he say anything?"
The old farmer replied, "As he said, he said that my family's red dates are delicious, and after eating, he sent me money, and the pumpkins and tomatoes he usually grows will also be used to entertain people, or given to the surrounding villagers, and his usual hobbies are to tease children, hold meetings, and listen to boxes." ”
After listening to the old peasant's words, Chiang Kai-shek was silent for a long time. After several nights of restless sleep, he refused the luxurious residence prepared by Hu Zongnan and slept in the compound of our party's Central Military Commission. After a few days of unguarded life, Chiang Kai-shek left this place that made him uneasy, and this was the first and last time in his life to come to Yan'an.
The conditions in Yan'an were so harsh and simple, but the great men and the fighters of our party still persevered to the end, while the morale of the Kuomintang troops was low, and even the general Hu Zongnan only wanted to ask for credit to deal with it, when the great wheel of history gradually favored our party. In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek finally had the momentum gone, and before leaving, he reluctantly said a big truth: "Going to Yan'an is the most regrettable decision in my life, doomed to the defeat of the Nationalist army." Abandoning Yan'an to lure the enemy deeper was a decision made by the great man under difficult circumstances, and it also reflected his far-sightedness and superb military skills, so what opinions and opinions did the officials have? Welcome to share in the comment area and Tango message!