The two main divisions of the Japanese puppet army attacking Wuhu were completely annihilated, which basically made this tentative recovery operation against Wuhu in vain. After receiving the news of the annihilation of the 6th and 13th divisions, the Japanese divisions and vassal puppet troops from Wuhan immediately stopped their march and sent a telegram directly to Nishio Shouzo to ask for tactical guidance.

As for the Wuhu New Fourth Army, Tie Xun had almost no losses, and the two main divisions of the Japanese army were defeated, and they avenged the Nanjing Massacre, a bloody national shame, and all walks of life in Wuhu were extremely excited even when they heard the news.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the New Fourth Army extended its tentacles to the entire area south of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province, occupied a large area in the interior, including Xuancheng, Tongling, Huizhou, and other counties, and enriched the territory of the New Fourth Army.

The Battle of Wuhu eventually turned into a strategic battle in southern Anhui, and things changed quickly and unexpectedly. The comrades of the New Fourth Army Headquarters and the Southeast Bureau also quickly convened an emergency meeting to discuss the development of the New Fourth Army and the CPC's anti-Japanese base areas in southern Anhui.

At the meeting, stabilizing the entire southern Anhui region and enriching the strength of the New Fourth Army became the consensus of discussion. However, everyone is still very optimistic about this task, after all, the New Fourth Army now has 40,000 combatable soldiers, and this number is still improving with recruitment and training, and the biggest hole card wheel king can almost reverse any unfavorable battle situation, how can this not make the leaders of the New Fourth Army full of confidence.

Neither the top of the New Fourth Army nor the top of the CPC at this time considered using the Red Ghost and the Wheel King or anything to complete the heavy task of expelling the Japanese invaders in a short period of time. On the one hand, they have not yet adapted to the strength they have gained, and on the other hand, none of them think that victory in the war of resistance will be as simple as a dinner party.

After all, Japan has been preparing for a long time to invade China, and in terms of national strength, the contrast between the two countries is too great.

At the time of the outbreak of the Lugouqiao Incident, from the perspective of economic foundation, Japan's annual industrial output value was equivalent to 6 billion US dollars, and China's economic output value was 13 that year. 600 million US dollars, Japan's steel output that year was 5.8 million tons, while China's steel output that year was only 40,000 tons. Japan's coal production that year was 50.7 million tons, and China's was 28 million tons. Japan's oil reserves are 1.69 million tons, while China's oil is only 1. 310,000 tons. Copper production, Japan is 8. 70,000 tons, China only has 700 tons.

Japan can build 1,580 airplanes a year, and when the war broke out, it could build so many, and China couldn't build a single one. Japan produced 744 large-caliber artillery pieces that year, and China could not even build one. Japan built 330 tanks that year, and China couldn't build a single one. Japan built 9,500 cars that year, and China couldn't build one. The tonnage of warships produced by Japan that year was 52,400 tons, and China could not build a single ton.

That is to say, when the world enters this mechanized military era, China is actually unable to produce any kind of main battle weapons in the mechanized era, and tanks, airplanes, warships, and artillery cannot be built.

No wonder Stalin said: China does not have a military industry, and now whoever pleases can ravage her.

The military gap is also more obvious, most of the Chinese soldiers at that time were illiterate, Huang Renyu wrote "Wanli 15 years", he was a platoon commander during the Anti-Japanese War, according to his records, he found the grassroots officers, even the roll call roster, do not know how to read. In peacetime, it is impossible to talk about studying tactics, and fighting a war is all about the courage of flesh and blood, the mobilization of the era of cold weapons, and the method of boosting morale. When attacking, they swarm in a dense formation, like ants and bees. But once they fail, they flee separately, and there is no tactic at all. In terms of shooting training alone, the value of a bullet at that time was equivalent to 7 and a half catties of rice, or 35 eggs, in China. So in peacetime, because this thing is so expensive, the army is reluctant to shoot bullets during training, and when a bullet is fired, seven and a half catties of rice are gone, and they can only shoot with empty guns.

The Central Army, which is backed by Chang Kaishen, can be regarded as the best equipped and in the best conditions, but each soldier is only allocated 15 rounds of ammunition for live firing. At the beginning of the war, each soldier could only be given 20 rounds of ammunition. On the other hand, in the Japanese army, the "Infantry Drill Code" stipulates that after recruits enlist in the army, the ammunition used for live firing per month shall not be less than 150 rounds for rifles and 300 rounds for machine guns, and the result is that one-third of the riflemen in each squadron of the Japanese army can reach the level of excellent marksmen. Even 70 years after the end of the war, the archery skills of Japanese veterans are still constantly mentioned by veterans who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Such a huge disparity and contrast directly made the leaders of the CPC army, who had far more courage and fighting spirit than the national army, not think that it would be easy to defeat the Japanese army and recover the entire country.

In fact, in the interests of the CPC itself, the quick end of the war of resistance is not a good thing. At that time, Chang Kaishen's policy of shutting down the outside world must first secure the interior once made the whole country scold, but later the reality can also see that the worries of the bald captain are realistic. In the eight years of struggle against the Japanese army and the government army, an armed force that had been chased for 25,000 miles, hid in caves on the plateau, and was about to collapse at any time, actually developed into an army of 1 million. And it only took four or five years for the CPC to completely uproot the KMT from its domination on the mainland and complete a substantial unification. On the KMT side, it took 16 years from the founding of the country in 1912 to the establishment of a nominally unified country in Northeast China.

As long as the Japanese army is still in China for a day, then the MT that attracts hatred is the Nationalist Government and Chang Kaishen, or the Guofu Army cannot deal with the CPC army with all its might, then the CPC will have enough space to develop its own mass base and expand its own army. At the same time, an incompetent government and a brutal and tyrannical aggressor can help CPC better rally the hearts and minds of the people.

Although the above argument is very utilitarian and "reactionary", objectively speaking, this is the reality. In the same way, even if the Japanese invaders were quickly driven out of their homeland, they might not have to be harmed by the invaders anymore, but under the rule of the Nationalist Government, their lives were not much better. The KMT regime, which did not have the courage to break the old economic order and spent more time on infighting and brain-dead, was indifferent to the people's livelihood and suffering, foreign capital continued to loot the people's wealth, the country's official capital was also amassing wealth on a large scale, small peasant families were constantly bankrupt, and even the landlords were living more and more miserable, and the workers in the cities were exchanging their lives for a bite to eat, and endured cruel exploitation and even physical abuse against them. To put it bluntly, the reason why China's Red Revolution was able to succeed was really to the point that if it did not rebel, it would die.

No matter how the later generations of GZJY whitewashed the singing and dancing and cultural agitation of the Republic of China era, the anecdotes of those cultural models and moral pioneers, and the stories of those romantic and young masters, they cannot represent that era, and the real call of this era is to give those thousands of people a way to live. Therefore, in the end, the revolution of CPC succeeded, and the iron boots with the sickle logo crushed the drunken dreams of the young and petty bourgeoisie, tore off the seemingly beautiful but actually festered face, and started from the most grassroots and down-to-earth place to change the country in a down-to-earth manner.

In the long run, China's Red Revolution was not only about expelling the Japanese invaders, but also about the fact that after the Japanese left, the CPC needed to immediately eradicate one of China's most deformed political parties and interest groups from the already incomparably weak mother of China. It may be that with Qi Yuan and the Wheel King, there is no suspense in destroying KMT, but rebuilding the country and mastering it will require real political and military power.

For example, if a city is occupied, how do you govern the city? This will inevitably require a large number of grassroots cadres and a sufficiently good mass base. Whether the local powerful forces can cooperate, whether there are mature governing policies that can be followed, and how to solve various emergencies. The layout of economic construction, the development of industry and agriculture, the development of cultural, educational, and public health undertakings, and the solution of ethnic and religious problems. For the immature CPC, I'm afraid they are all things like heavenly books. Undoubtedly, the current CPC does not yet have the ability to effectively control the country after the victory of the armed revolution and develop the country very quickly.

The CPC can only accumulate enough strength in the fastest possible time to wait for the arrival of the changing day, and after taking over the fate of this country, it can go more smoothly and steadily. Of course, there is no standard for how much strength to accumulate is enough, and there is no day to say that you can be fully prepared, but at least when the country is established, there will be no big waves, and there will be no situation where some people take advantage of the chaos to stir up.

Qi Yuan saw this problem very clearly, so he did not drive the wheel to sabotage the Japanese, but only regularly and purposefully looted some supplies of the Japanese army and caused some damage, more to supplement the needs of the New Fourth Army. In fact, his personality is not as enthusiastic as his father Qi Yiming, and he is relatively rational in dealing with the problems of the nation-state.

The spring of 1941 came at the end of a battle to defend Wuhu. There was an eerie calm in the land of Shenzhou, CPC was busy strengthening itself, the national army was still observing the situation suspiciously, and little Japan was basically in a kind of irrational confusion.