Chapter 78 Chapter 9 The Battle of Magnetic Forces and Forests: The Confrontation Between Friction and Anti-Friction

After the Battle of Wuhan and Guangzhou, China's War of Resistance Against Japan entered the stage of strategic stalemate from the stage of strategic defense.At this time, the Eighth Route Army advancing behind the enemy had grown to 300,000 people.Chiang Kai-shek did not expect to put the Communist Party behind enemy lines and let them mix among the common people, just like letting a tiger go back to the mountain and a dragon go into the sea. The power of the Eighth Route Army has already made it difficult for him to sleep and eat. If he continues to put it aside, he may be infested with tigers.He couldn't hold his breath anymore, and he wanted to find a suitable opportunity to attack the Communist Party.

In this context, a new struggle has emerged that is difficult to understand without careful consideration - "friction" and "anti-friction".The so-called "friction", as the name suggests, means not going all out to fight, but full of hostility, which contains both provocation and the intention to test the opponent. Although the Kuomintang local army and central army in North China are not very capable of fighting Japan, they are all good at engaging in "friction".After repelling the "friction" between Lu Zhonglin, the chairman of the Hebei Provincial Government, and Yan Xishan, the warlord of Shanxi, the Kuomintang troops, such as Pang Bingxun, Zhu Huaibing, and Shi You, went from south to north to cooperate with the Japanese army's "mopping up" from north to south. There will be new "friction" with the Eighth Route Army.

"Friction" is the "action" from the "friendly army", and "mopping up" is the threat from the enemy. At a critical moment related to the life and death of the nation, when the Eighth Route Army is becoming the mainstay of the war of resistance behind the enemy, who can say that it is from the "friendly army"? Isn't "friction" another kind of "mopping up"? After the frontal battle in North China ended, many "vacuum" areas were left.According to the established policy of developing guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, the Eighth Route Army began to "march into the vacuum."This was originally a plan to embody the ambition of the CCP and the Eighth Route Army led by it to fight the war, but it touched Chiang Kai-shek's sore spot.Chiang Kai-shek understood that the result of such development could only benefit the Communist Party. He did not care about the Communist Party, and the Japanese could not control the Communist Party. If things went on like this, the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party would be like a kite with a broken string, completely out of control.He wanted to "recover" from the hands of the Eighth Route Army the lost ground lost to the Japanese army.

For this reason, in January 1939, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Kuomintang adopted the so-called "Measures for Restricting the Activities of Alien Parties" to persecute Communist Party members in its ruled areas; The development of the party, our army and the anti-Japanese mass organizations.Chiang Kai-shek also sent additional troops in an attempt to "recover lost ground" from the people in our anti-Japanese base areas.They have gradually developed from politically "dissolving the Communist Party" and "restricting the Communist Party" to "military anti-Communism."

Under Chiang Kai-shek's instruction, Lu Zhonglin, Shi Yousan, Zhang Yinwu, Qiao Mingli, Hou Ruyong and others used their own schemes to engage in "friction" activities with the Eighth Route Army. Shi Yousan cooperated with Lu Zhonglin, Zhang Yinwu and others to recruit local ruffians, relying on the reactionary local tyrants and evil gentry, frantically occupied the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, expropriated the people, brutally massacred the Communist Party, the Eighth Route Army personnel and their families, destroyed the anti-Japanese democratic regime and people's organizations, His crimes are numerous and can be described as too numerous to describe.

On February 22, 23, and March 10 and 25, 1939, the Zhao Yunxiang Department of the Jinpu Column under the jurisdiction of the Hebei Guerrilla General Headquarters of the Kuomintang was in Songjiazhuang, Jixian County, Liujiazhuang, Guangzong County, and Zaokezhuang, Weixian County respectively. A total of 44 people were buried alive 4 times, including deputy officials Bingyin and Li Huayi of the Fifth Detachment of the Eastward Column of the Eighth Route Army, Kang Jianxiu, the manager of the column headquarters, He Yichang, and Wang Shenyuan, the political instructors of the 8th Company of the 2nd Regiment.

On February 12, 8 comrades including clerk Wang Maonan of the 2nd Regiment of the Eastward Column lost a horse, 4 rifles, more than 40 rounds of bullets, 64 yuan of ocean and some military supplies when fighting the Japanese invaders in Shulu. connection.On his way back to the south, when he passed by Xingjiazhuang in Xinhe County, he was all captured by the 10th Regiment of the Kuomintang Militia.After they snatched away all the weapons and property of our personnel, they fired threats and pushed them all into the river.Fortunately, due to the shallow water, these eight comrades managed to escape back.

On May 5, the Hui Min Company of a certain unit of the 129th Division was attacked by Japanese invaders on the highway between Guantao and Daming.When the company was transferred to Shanle Village, Guantao County, it was attacked by the 3rd Security Brigade of the KMT’s Puyang Commissioner Ding Shu’s Headquarters in Hebei Province. More than 60 soldiers in the company were disarmed by him. On May 15th, the Shi You San Division took away 2 mortars, more than 600 rifles, and many shells, bombs, and military uniforms stored by the Eighth Route Army north of Qinghe. Wang Ziyaobu had another clever move. He asked the troops to control the water in the upper reaches of the Fu River, and the common people were not allowed to irrigate the land with water.If you want to irrigate the land with water, you must pay them 30 cents for every acre of land irrigated.Its despicable method of "scraping oil" has reached the point where it cannot be added!

Qiao Ming's Ministry of Rites was not far behind, and hunted and arrested Eighth Route Army scouts several times in the northeastern area of ​​Ningjin, in order to show their merits to Zhang Yinwu.The troops of these Kuomintang diehards often pretended to be the Eighth Route Army, robbed, kidnapped, and raped women everywhere, deliberately tarnishing the reputation of the Eighth Route Army.They also posted a fake notice in the Daying area, "Following Zhu Peng's reply to the telegram to cancel the two administrative directors' offices in central Hebei and southern Hebei"; they spread rumors everywhere, saying, "The Eighth Route Army does not fight, but only eats millet" and "The Eighth Route Army is not from Hebei, but they want to report to the Communist Party of China." The people of Hebei want to eat; they won't live in Hebei for long, and they will definitely run away in the future." "The Eighth Route Army has no ammunition and food, and it is about to collapse. The common people should not join the Eighth Route Army guerrillas," etc.They also hanged and beat the directors of the peasant associations in many townships and villages viciously, shouting while beating: "Because you are the Communist Party, you must be beaten!" They poisoned our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in large numbers.