Chapter 51 The New Fourth Army cannot be wiped out[1]

(September 1944) There are only two kinds of people who express their hatred for the victory of the New Fourth Army, the Japanese aggressors and the Chinese Chiang Kai-shek.Needless to say, the Japanese hate us.As for Chiang Kai-shek, he has two things that are most popular with the Japanese invaders: one is anti-communist activities, and the other is "The Destiny of China".Among Chiang Kai-shek's tens of thousands of anti-communist activities, especially the conspiracy to attack the New Fourth Army, the arrest of General Ye Ting[2] and the declaration of the New Fourth Army as "rebels" are the most popular among the Japanese.In the spring of 1941, when Chiang Kai-shek committed such a crime of undermining the War of Resistance Against Japan, endangering the country, and betraying the nation, the Japan League News Agency once commended: "Chiang Kai-shek has not done anything good in the past few years, but the disbandment of the New Fourth Army is considered a good job." .

No matter how Japan and Chiang conspired to endanger the New Fourth Army, the New Fourth Army is still growing and winning battles. To this day, Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang reactionaries are still imitating his old wisdom and emphasizing his so-called "unity of military orders and government orders" every day.And this so-called "unification" is nothing else, it is to "abolish" four-fifths of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army for a limited time, and "concentrate them for a limited time".Everyone understands that this kind of "unification" is not "unification" in the hands of Chiang Kai-shek, but a real "unification" in the hands of the Japanese.Because four-fifths of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were "cancelled" within a time limit, and the remaining one-fifth was "intensively used" again, wouldn't more than four-fifths of the liberated Chinese land be "unified" into the hands of the Japanese? It is really a good strategy to help the Japanese! There is no doubt about His Majesty's order to reward the Japanese.

But the Chinese people will never allow such a conspiracy of betrayal, and neither will the Eighth Route Army or the New Fourth Army.Just take the New Fourth Army as an example. It has now become the Great Wall of the people of Central China and an inseparable part of the people of Central China.To destroy it, to drive it away, the Japanese cannot do it, and neither can any reactionaries. Printed from originals kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] These are a few passages that Mao Zedong added and rewritten when reviewing the editorial draft of "Liberation Daily" "The New Fourth Army's Victory Attack and China's National Salvation Cause" (published on October 1, 1944).The first part of this article was all added by Mao Zedong; the second part of this article was mostly added and rewritten by Mao Zedong.

[2] Ye Ting (1896-1946), a native of Huiyang, Guangdong.In October 1937, he served as the commander of the New Fourth Army. In January 1941, he was detained during the Southern Anhui Incident launched by Chiang Kai-shek.