Chapter 534: Roaming Westward (5)
There are still too many differences between Yan'an and Chongqing in terms of economy, but if it can be said that the Red Party's doctrine and system are more suitable for war, then the political ecology of the two places makes us feel even more surprised. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Chongqing government is the only central government recognized by all powerful factions in China, including Yan'an, but it is very interesting that the authority of the Chongqing government is not worthy of the name of his central government. In terms of civil governance, it will also make things difficult for people who are not in their own system.
Of course, the Chongqing government is already rectifying these problems, but the rectification I see is very irreproducible, they are taking advantage of this special period of resistance to install personnel on non-central government forces in various places, I don't know if in peacetime, the central government of Chongqing can still do this, and it is also worth mentioning that many troops surrendered to the Japanese army after not getting nearby assistance, it is said that now the number of Chinese who help the Japanese army fight has exceeded one million, and it is still rising, I don't include the Manchurian Army in the Northeast.
Personally, I think that although Chiang intermediary has a way to erode other forces, but I am afraid that this method will not have much effect on the Red Party forces, Chiang's method of using money and power to make transactions, which is the most effective method in this eastern country, but for the Red Party, it is difficult for me to believe that money or power has an effect on them, at least for now, I am afraid that it will not have much effect, just a few years ago, their main force also abandoned everything in the south and carried out a strategic shift - they call it the Long March, At that time, any one of them who defected to the White Party would get a huge amount of money and great power.
Therefore, I think that to solve China's future problems, the only way to cooperate in building the government, but judging from the New Fourth Army incident, the estrangement between the two parties is still very deep, and it is only because of the existence of the Japanese army that they unite with the outside world, as long as this external force disappears, then China's civil war is likely to break out, and our country must make arrangements in advance for China's special situation in order to get the greatest benefits.
And when it comes to political cooperation, the Red Party is much smarter than the White Party, they are learning how to strengthen themselves with other people who can cooperate to the greatest extent, I have met their chairman, their chairman likes to use the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as an analogy, he said that anyone in the world can be divided into three kinds of people, enemy, me, and friends, and a force to become strong must unite the most friends, and then resolutely fight the enemy, so the Red Party first proposed to unite with the White Party to deal with the Japanese army, in domestic affairs, He also proposed to unite the democrats against the White Party, so what we can see is that in China, the Red Party has many potential friends, and this is another topic worth exploring.
Yan Xishan, whom I said earlier, was originally an anti-red member of the White Party, and the actual ruler of Shanxi, and his detailed information I believe we have a drawer, and I found out in my conversation with him that he is now very supportive of the Red Party's approach and is willing to build the country with the Red Party, we also thought at first that this was a lie due to ****, but we later found out that this was not the case, Yan Xishan's original subordinates still had many important positions in the army at this time, There was even a general named Fu Zuoyi who was at the same level as the top military leader of the Red Party in terms of military rank.
It is hard to believe that only one-third of the members of the Red Party's parliament, which they call the Senate or the Congress, are Red Party members, and there are more people who are not Red Party than Red Party members, and among them there are a large number of former Yan Xishan's subordinates.
It is generally believed that in the places of the Red Party, there should be no place for landlords, capitalists, and factory owners to live, but in Yan'an I saw that this is not the case, although the landlords, capitalists, and factory owners were criticized, but they did not endanger their lives, and in the areas near Yan'an, most of the landlords' land was forcibly acquired a long time ago, and in Shanxi, Shandong and other places where I went, the landlords there were not forced to buy land, but were required to reduce the rent and interest on the tenants, and most of the other capitalists and factory owners were the same. As long as they support the anti-Japanese resistance, the Red Party is willing to cooperate with them, the Chinese Red Party calls them progressives, and even some of them are members of the White Party, and the Red Party does not force them to quit the Party, when I talked to them, I learned that although they actually have little to do with Chongqing, they are not willing to give up their White Party identity, they think they are a new party, they are contacting Yan Xishan, hoping to create a new political party, which is also an interesting phenomenon, you know, This is absolutely impossible to happen in Chongqing.
Therefore, after investigation, we believe that the Red Party has more foresight and ideas than the White Party in solving the Chinese problem, and they attach more importance to the peasants and to cooperation, and we are extremely suspicious that if China really breaks out into civil war after the war against Japan, there will be countless White Party troops who will be neutral under the banner of cooperation of the Red Party.
Finally, the military aspect is also the most important part of our investigation, after all, the grievances and grievances between the Red Party and the White Party will be resolved after the war against Japan, and in our contacts with the White and Red parties, we found that they both believe that before the end of the war against Japan, they will not really go to war in an all-out way, unless one side gives up the war against Japan.
The first thing we know about is the Chongqing army, most of the commanders in the Chongqing army are graduates of military academies, and the backbone of them is Huangpu officers who graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy, and most of the top-level officers are also graduates of military academies, which is very similar to our Western army.
But their soldiers are different from ours, most of their soldiers and grassroots officers have no experience in military schools, and even say that many soldiers and grassroots officers are illiterate, their training is very poor, only a very small number of elite troops are conscripted and well-trained before the war, although many soldiers in other units also join the army because of family hatred and hatred of the country, but more of them are to catch strong men or enter the army for a bite to eat, most of these people are only to save their lives when fighting, not to kill the enemyAlthough the Chongqing government has established an institutional system and code of conduct in order to train recruits, and even hopes that all recruits can receive two periods of recruit training for a total of half a year, but in fact, most of the recruits have only accepted two or three months before being pulled to the front line, and can only learn while fighting, at the same time, their soldiers learn more experience, although they are written in books, but they are illiterate, and no one teaches them to read, so they can't look at calipers, let alone combat maps, but I believe, If these soldiers with combat experience receive scientific training, they will certainly have strong combat effectiveness.
When they were studying, their grass-roots officers were particularly interested in the strategic operation of large units, and when they talked, they were prone to military and division-level movements, but they were not interested in basic tactical movements, and they despised standardized drills and neglected small movements. Their senior officers, although aware of these shortcomings, do not know how to change them, and can only keep emphasizing them in meetings, and I don't think these emphasises have much effect.
In terms of the source of soldiers, the Red Party Armed Forces are very different from the Nationalist Army in Chongqing, most of their troops are voluntarily enlisted, and even every once in a while they will ask if they are unable to persist in fighting behind enemy lines, if there is, as long as these people promise not to sell their troops they will let them go and give them severance pay, this kind of thing is not seen in the Nationalist Army, I think this is caused by the difference in military concepts, the Red Party Armed Forces believe that everyone can work together to win the war, so they don't want their troops to have unstable factors, Since most of the Red Party forces were in the rear of the areas occupied by the Japanese army, they also paid more attention to secrecy, and in comparison, the Nationalist army in Chongqing was much worse.
Unlike the National Army, there is also the training of soldiers, although they are all inexperienced farmers composed of troops, but the training of the Red Party armed forces is very systematic, they start from the queue to shoot, drop bombs, everything revolves around actual combat, most of their troops are in the way of the old with the new, with veterans to teach new soldiers, and pay great attention to cultural learning, at the same time strict requirements for combat drills, and at any time to modify to conform to reality.
Most of their senior commanders are from military academies, lecture halls, or Whampoa military academies in various places, while most of the middle- and low-ranking officers have not studied in regular military academies, but the Red Party itself has formed a unique military learning system, from the Anti-Japanese University to train middle and senior commanders, to the Anti-Japanese Artillery Academy, the Anti-Japanese Communications College, and the Anti-Japanese Medical Academy, which train special talents, to the anti-Japanese non-commissioned officer schools and guerrilla training classes in various places to train middle and low-level officers. All armed officers of the Red Party have the opportunity to learn modern military theories and command arts, and their study is more in line with their actual needs.
In terms of armament, Chongqing's army equipment is mainly German and Soviet, most of which are Soviet aided weapons, and their air force is now all Soviet aircraft, according to my judgment, their light weapons and equipment compared with the Japanese army If you throw away the problem of ammunition, and then consider the quantity, Chongqing's light weapons are not inferior, but in terms of heavy weapons, the heavy firepower of the national army is almost none, only a small number of artillery with a caliber of more than 100MM, and 75MM artillery is already a sophisticated weapon, and tanks are even more lackingBut fortunately, their current combat area is mountainous, and the advantage of the Japanese army's heavy weapons has been greatly weakened.
There are three main problems in Chongqing's armament: First, Chongqing lacks ammunition and produces less of its own ammunition; Second, there are fewer heavy weapons, and if China intends to assist them, this aspect is the focus; The third is the lack of air power, and when I was investigating in Chongqing, I saw several scenes of bombing by Japanese planes.
It is said that when the Sino-Japanese war broke out in 1937, the Red Party armed only had an average of three rounds of ammunition per person, and now their main force requires each rifleman to carry 20 rounds of ammunition when fighting, which is mainly due to their self-production and the improvement of their reloading capabilities. Although ammunition was plentiful, at least for the past, they still required their soldiers to practice marksmanship or improve their accuracy by getting the Japanese closer. From my observations, I think that the marksmanship of the Red Party is significantly better than that of the National Army.
IN ADDITION, IN TERMS OF HEAVY FIREPOWER, IN ADDITION TO THE CAPTURED JAPANESE ARTILLERY, THE RED PARTY ARMED FORCES CAN ALSO PRODUCE THEIR OWN MORTARS AND SOME 75MM MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY AND ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, WHICH ARE MAINLY PRODUCED IN THE TWO INDUSTRIAL BASES OF YAN'AN AND SHANXI.
There are two main problems in the armed armaments of the Red Party: First, although it has the ability to produce itself, it is still insufficient, and it needs to increase its own production capacity; Second, heavy weapons and aircraft cannot be produced on their own, and there are few seizures and a relative lack of them, which is the same as that of the National Army.
In addition to training and equipment, the internal atmosphere of the Red and White Party armies is also different, there are many things that help each other in the Red Party Armed Forces, officers and soldiers rarely beat and scold, but it is more common in the National Army, and at the same time, there is a kind of person in the Red Party Army called the political commissar, they will solve the psychological problems of the soldiers, and boost morale, teach culture, I think the political commissar is the real core of the Red Party Armed Forces. This can be seen when I went to Taihang Mountain, although the military command was Liu Bocheng, but the status of political commissar Deng Xianxian was not lower than Liu at all, and when they were studying the battle plan, they often spoke in one person, and the other interjected from time to time, jointly drew up combat orders, and jointly issued them, so Liu Deng's troops generally could not figure out which instructions and opinions were Liu's and which were Deng's, and only knew that this was "Liu Deng's intention" and "Liu Deng's instructions." It is worth mentioning that in the conversation with them, I found that Deng Xianxian was extremely eager to understand the situation in the United States, and he seemed to be more interested in us than others, which made me have an idea, we already have a lot of American workers in the Chinese Red Party, whether these people can generate some political forces, and whether the Red Party can cultivate some people who have a good impression of our country, so that it will be more useful to use our country's judgment of China's situation in the future. All of this requires us to first establish a formal system of interaction with the Red Party of China.
Finally, I went to the New Fourth Army in South China, the troops of the New Fourth Army were composed of the guerrillas left in the south by the original Chinese Red Party, they were preparing to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army in Jiangsu when I arrived, we went to the battlefield to observe their operations, we found that the Japanese army was mainly composed of the Chinese Nanjing troops and the real Japanese troops, among which the Chinese Nanjing troops had poor combat ability, poor equipment, and basically no heavy firepower, but this force liberated the Japanese forces from the vast occupied areas, It can be said that without them, it would be very difficult for the Japanese army in China to hold the current area.