February 16, 1941. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the Southern Anhui Incident broke out.

It was a year before the Great War, and countries were relatively calm. Everyone is preparing for the coming big war. Mr. Peng of Shanxi did not expect that his plan of sabotage warfare would have a small impact on Japan, leading to the complete failure of Japan's plan to win the surrender of Lao Chiang, and causing some disturbance in Japan's plan to transfer a large number of troops from the Chinese theater.

However, the plans of Japan, the great power of Asia, are still being carried out tenaciously, and the authors of the plan for the southward expansion are still being prepared.

Europe is also on the eve of the Great War, and it is much more tense than Asia. Soon, Germany was about to invade the Soviet Union. The leaders of Europe are nervous, they are all reorganizing their armaments, they are spying on military aircraft, they are all deceiving each other and putting out false news. The situation in Europe is like a dark cloud rolling in the sky, although there is no thunder and lightning, there is no rain, it changes all the time, suddenly thunder and lightning, suddenly strong winds, suddenly hail pours, suddenly heavy rain.

What about China? China seems to have little to do with the imminent war in Europe, and some of the seemingly insignificant farce-like wars that Europeans seem to have come and gone. The events in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the farce of friction in northern Jiangsu, and the black-box operation in the northeast were all under the manipulation of an invisible hand to prepare for a major war in Europe.

This hand also has to operate, in Yan'an, in the Northeast, in Chongqing, in Kunming, in the Soviet Far East, and even in Moscow. We have to do something to make China reap the tremendous benefits of this great event.

After the outbreak of the Great War, this hand will still start to operate, and then it will be a critical moment.

How critical is it? As long as the timing is right, the tide of the war between Asia and China will turn sharply. In the past, no matter how Lu Xiaoming, a little butterfly, fanned its wings, and even handed over the information in the computer to Yan'an, Yan'an fanned the wings with him, and its impact on the historical process was extremely limited, or even played no role at all.

And 1941 was different.

Europe in 1941 was like a huge powder keg, in which dozens of extremely great and intelligent leaders took torches, fought for and divided interests. There is always a danger of explosion.

And in Asia, especially in the Northeast, the Japanese and Soviets also put a large amount of gunpowder on the border, but there were only two people with torches in the powder magazine, and they both wanted to avoid the explosion of gunpowder. The stacked gunpowder is frightening.

All it takes is a small spark to set this powder magazine on fire.

In that case, history will change dramatically.

The incident finally broke out, albeit more than a month late.

In this matter, Xiao Lu did not participate at all, because he knew that northern Shaanxi would definitely make very careful arrangements because of the computers he provided, and even sent people to supervise the implementation, and there should be no historical tragedy in southern Anhui.

After Zhou Gong returned to China from Moscow, he returned to Chongqing and has been dealing with the affairs of the New Fourth Army. Chief of Staff Ye and others also assisted him in dealing with it, and I heard that the situation of the New Fourth Army was much better some time ago.

When it came to the time of the incident in southern Anhui in history, Xiaolu hadn't heard about it, thinking that it had been avoided, but he didn't expect that the incident still happened.

It may be the reason why the second phase of the battle of the Hundred Regiments was launched, and the matter was delayed.

The New Fourth Army is a somewhat different army from the Eighth Route Army. The New Fourth Army was formed into the New Fourth Army by the guerrillas left in Jiangnan by the Red Army after the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party negotiated and reached an agreement to reorganize the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army guerrillas and the 28th Army of the Red Army in the 8 provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hubei, Henan, and Anhui into the newly organized Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army in October 37.

The Communist Party asked Xiang Ying to be the commander of the army, but the Kuomintang did not approve of it, and when he was hesitating, Chen Cheng brought a message to Lao Jiang: Ye Ting, who had been separated from the Communist Party for ten years, was willing to come out to resist Japan.

Lao Chiang arranged for this person who had been separated from the CCP for ten years to be the commander of the New Fourth Army, Ye Ting quit the party because of the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, and was reprimanded by Li Lisan and Wang Ming. Ye Ting went to Yan'an to talk to Mao Gong in person, and Mao Gong also recognized him.

As a result, Ye Ting was recognized by both parties.

There are deep-seated reasons why Lao Chiang is very jealous of the New Fourth Army. The areas of activity of the New Fourth Army are in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and other places. This area has always been the territory of Lao Chiang. In other words, his gold lords are here. These financiers used a lot of money to support him to start a business, and naturally asked Lao Jiang to ensure the safety of their property.

Although the Japanese occupied the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it was still the territory of those financiers, and the connection between the open and the secret was still there. Some of the financiers went to Chongqing, and some stayed in their hometowns. They were more afraid of the New Fourth Army than of the Japanese.

Lao Jiang naturally wants to control here. The guerrillas here are also his people, including Boss Dai's Loyal National Salvation Army. The New Fourth Army is a fait accompli, a unit, and it naturally has to be controlled in his hands, or at least have an influence on this force.

As a result, the following results were obtained: Ye Ting was appointed commander, Xiang Ying was appointed deputy commander, Zhang Yunyi and Zhou Zikun were appointed chief and deputy chief of staff, and Yuan Guoping and Deng Zihui were appointed chief and deputy directors of the Political Department.

At the same time, the Fourth Army Branch of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, with Xiang Ying as secretary and Chen Yi as deputy secretary. It has jurisdiction over 4 detachments with a total of more than 10,000 people. After the reorganization, according to the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, it went deep behind enemy lines in Central China.

The military party leads two lines, Xiang Ying and others are on both lines, while Ye Ting is only in the army and not in the party. This discrepancy has laid the foundation for the top level of the New Fourth Army. The major affairs of the New Fourth Army are all decided by the party, and many decisions cannot be made, which is very depressing. If you are more depressed, it becomes a big problem.

There is another difference, that is, these units do not have division or brigade numbers, they are only called detachments.

On December 25, 1937, the military headquarters was established in Hankou, and on January 6, 1938, it was moved to Nanchang. In March and April of the same year, according to the instructions and orders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the military headquarters and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd detachments went to the Yansi area of She County, southern Anhui, and the 4th detachment was in Huoshan Mountain in western Anhui and then headed for central Anhui. Then, the 1st and 2nd detachments entered Maoshan in southern Jiangsu. The 3rd detachment remained in southern Anhui. The 4th detachment was engaged in guerrilla warfare in central and eastern Anhui.

In this year, because Ye Ting and Xiang Ying did not agree, the New Fourth Army had many problems, and its development was not satisfactory. Xiang Ying was an outstanding leader of the southern guerrillas, and he was not accustomed to Ye Ting, who had a somewhat Kuomintang officer style, so he excluded Ye Ting.

Ye Ting did have some Kuomintang officers, he brought a cook, he was well dressed, and he was a high-headed horse wherever he went, leading a wolf dog, and hugging him back and forth.

Xiang Ying enjoys a supreme position in the New Fourth Army, and at this time, Ye Ting is no longer in the party, and many party decisions cannot participate. Ye Ting is also the commander of the army selected by the two parties, and he is the number one outsider, and this deviation of power has caused unhappiness in work, and then developed into a contradiction between the two.

Ye Ting was ostracized and left Guangdong. The government, and Chiang in particular, had to dispose of the New Fourth Army as a result.

In order to solve the problem of the New Fourth Army, and in order not to give Lao Jiang the truth, northern Shaanxi asked Ye Ting to come back. This is the reason why Zhou Gong came to the New Fourth Army in 1939.

The arrival of Zhou Gong changed the development of the New Fourth Army. In February 1939, Zhou Gong, vice chairman of the Communist Party of China, inspected southern Anhui. In essence, Zhou made a detour to Guangdong to find Ye Ting, and returned to the New Fourth Army with Ye Ting.

The arrival of Zhou Gong not only adjusted Ye Xiang's contradictions, but also pointed out the problems of the two, and at the same time formulated some guidelines, for example, he agreed with the leaders of the New Fourth Army on the strategic policy of "consolidating in the south, fighting in the east, and developing in the north".

According to this policy, the New Fourth Army has achieved tremendous development. By the end of that year, the team had grown to 90,000 people.

In the summer of 1939, history changed the trajectory, originally, in history, Ye Ting killed Gao Jingting according to some problems without detailed investigation, asking Lao Jiang.

Because in May, northern Shaanxi sent a preventive telegram, which made Ye Ting hesitate for a few days when dealing with Gao Jingting, and at this time, northern Shaanxi sent several urgent telegrams in a row, saving Gao's life.

However, Xiang Ying later began to squeeze out Ye Ting again, causing Ye Ting to leave the New Fourth Army again.

In September 1939, Ye Ting arrived in Chongqing, and he did not want to resign at the beginning, but when he met Lao Jiang, Jiang kept talking about resignation and party. Ye Ting said that he did not want to solve the party problem, but only wanted to resist Japan. Jiang was dissatisfied.

Ye Ting felt that the New Fourth Army did not even have a military salary, and it was very difficult to do it, so he had the intention of resigning and submitted his resignation to Lao Jiang. Jiang asked him to recommend a successor, Ye Ting recommended Ye Jianying, and Jiang was displeased.

This time, Ye Ting resigned again, which touched Xiang Ying a lot, Xiang Ying wanted to ease the relationship and sent someone to ask Ye Ting to go back. Zhou Gong played a key role this time, persuading Ye Ting. Ye Ting felt that he had already submitted his resignation, and he had to inform Jiang if he wanted to go back.

Zhou told him to go back and wrote a letter to Jiang in the name of Ye Ting. At this point, Lao Jiang gave up the idea of wooing Ye Ting.

It was not until July 40 that Ye Ting returned to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army after settling part of the military salary.

After 1939, the Japanese army relaxed its offensive and strengthened its political offensive. This gave Chongqing the energy to start cleaning up the Communist Party.

In October of the 40th year, the historical Southern Anhui Incident was coming. However, its trajectory has not changed, but the rhythm of time has changed.

On October 19, 1940, He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, in the name of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, forcibly ordered the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army south of the Yellow River to withdraw to Jiangbei within one month.

This meant that south of the Yangtze River, the New Fourth Army in the Jianghuai region would have to leave its base areas and go north of the Yellow River. If this order is strictly followed, even the Eighth Route in northern Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan will be withdrawn.

This order meant that the government had made up its mind to clean up the New Fourth Army, but because the Battle of the Hundred Regiments had not yet begun, Chiang did not feel the urgency of solving the communist army, and his determination was not as great as in history.

However, one day after the order was issued, the Battle of the Hundred Regiments of the Eighth Route Army began, and a few days later, the Eighth Route Army was gaining momentum, and the government wanted to clean up the New Fourth Army, which was a little difficult to start. You can't be left behind by a family fighting on the front line, and you have a bad reputation for causing friction in the back.

As a result, the operation to clean up the New Fourth Army dragged on for some days.

In addition, Yan'an also agreed, willing to transfer the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui to Jiangbei. In the name of Zhu Pengye and Xiang Xiang, the Chinese Communists sent a telegram to He Bai, that is, Jiadian, saying that they "agreed to transfer the troops of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui to the north of the Yangtze River," and that the troops in central China could not back down.