21. Contact Across Time and Space (II)
ββ¦β¦ I know, and then it's the 'Long March', right? It seems to be called that in the video just now...... Alas! After cutting off contact with the Party Central Committee earlier, and seeing that the Red Army did not move during the Fujian Incident, I felt that the situation of the anti-encirclement and suppression war this time was only not good; A few days ago, when I heard that the Guangchang Battle had failed and that the north gate of the Central Soviet Region had been opened, I had a premonition that the 'Chinese Soviet State' might be gone...... But they still didn't expect that they would be able to fight the war like this - they didn't even think about a destination, so they followed Li Zicheng's example and hurriedly lost the Soviet area as a rogue! β
General Political Commissar Hu Dexing shook his head with some interest, "...... and fled 25,000 miles in one go...... I really don't know whether to praise them for their good legs or scold them for being bold...... Forget it, could you please explain to me a little more about the wars that haven't broken out yet......"
ββ¦β¦ haodeγ Wang Qiu nodded, "...... Although we have never thought of overstepping our responsibilities and snatching the arduous task of saving the country and the people from our revolutionary predecessors, if we can provide some help to our predecessors, we who are younger generations will still be happy to do so......"
-- In the following time, Jin Qina brought out hot tea and snacks, while Wang Qiu took out several atlases of modern Chinese history and a modern middle school history textbook to explain to General Political Commissar Hu Dexing what had not yet happened on the land of China, but was about to happen.
As a result, scenes of catastrophic hell and heavenly odes of glory. All of a sudden it was all displayed in front of General Political Commissar Hu Dexing. He was sometimes overjoyed, sometimes sad, as if in a dreamβbut he knew it clearly. I'm still awake.
First of all, it is natural to review once again the fifth anti-encirclement campaign that is about to come to an end, and these are all things that have already happened. But. General Political Commissar Hu Dexing, who is in Shanghai, has completely cut off contact with the Central Soviet Region in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province since last year, and can only learn some public information from newspapers. In the Kuomintang's war news, there are many elements of boasting about water injection, and many "good news" are pure fabrications, and even Lao Mao has "died" more than once in the newspaper (some people believe it to be true and even set up a mourning hall for him to offer incense and sacrifice). So it was up to Wang Qiu to tell them the real battle situation in Jiangxi.
ββ¦β¦ In June of this year, in view of the defeat in the Battle of Guangchang, the northern gate of the Central Soviet District was opened. The three-member regiment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to divide its troops into six ways to resist the attack of the Kuomintang army, but because of the dispersion of its troops, it was passively beaten everywhere, but it could not fight a single battle of annihilation.
Wait until August of this year. That is, this month. The Red Army's northern front had completely collapsed, the Kuomintang Central Army had captured all its forward positions, and its ammunition and food were on the verge of depletion. However, with the support of the air force and artillery, the Kuomintang armies began to advance in great strides. By September, most of the Central Soviet District had fallen. The underground workers lurking in the Nanchang camp received information that Chiang Kai-shek was about to launch a general attack. In this regard, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China obviously did not have the determination to break the kettle, but hastily abandoned the central Soviet area. Embarked on the road of the Long March......"
Speaking of this, Wang Qiu changed his words again. ββ¦β¦ Although the fall of the Jiangxi Soviet region is indeed very regrettable, from another point of view, the Ruijin revolutionary base area is too close to the ruling center of the Kuomintang, the development space is too small, the military pressure is too great, and the strategic location is actually quite unfavorable. Unless it had the ability to defeat Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army head-on, or organize a large-scale riot and mutiny from behind, and directly destroy Chiang Kai-shek's own base areas, the Red Army would have to jump out of this cramped place and rush into a wider world, and the Red Revolution would have the possibility of victory. β
General Political Commissar Hu Dexing pondered for a while and agreed with reservations -- when the Great Revolution failed, the Red Army did not think of spreading its branches in the north, but at that time there was really no such social foundation in northern China, so it could only take root in the south first.
Next, Wang Qiu talked a little about the Long March on the Red Army's side, the Liangguang Incident and the Xi'an Incident on the Kuomintang side, and then the Lugouqiao 77 Incident and the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression...... All of the above things have been described in previous documentary films, so they are only briefly discussed.
What made Wang Qiu feel a little strange was that when he mentioned the tragic situation of the Nanjing Massacre, Hu Dexing's expression was very calm, he just shook his head and sighed slightly, completely without the anger and tears in his imagination...... Later, when I asked, I learned that the slaughter of cities by arsonists, rape and plundering in this era were simply commonplace. The suffering Chinese have long since dried their tears, and they can hardly be excited about this kind of thing.
To give a very straightforward example, the Kuomintang army is now killing people everywhere in the Soviet area, burning villages and slaughtering towns, and in terms of barbarism and brutality, I am afraid that it is no worse than the Japanese. Even in the case of Nanjing, before the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties had already suffered several rounds of catastrophe - the Taiping army captured Jiangning (the Qing Dynasty's name for Nanjing) once, and the Hunan army captured Tianjing (the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's name for Nanjing) again. Especially when the Hunan army broke through Tianjing, they not only slaughtered with knives and killed chickens and dogs, but also set fire to the city, and burned Qionglou Yuyu and Wanzhang Palace in one go, which was even more brutal than the Japanese devils, and it could already be called an "anti-civilization crime".
A more recent catastrophe occurred when Sun Yat-sen's "Second Revolution" failed, and Zhang Xun led the "Braided Army" to break through Nanjing. At that time, under the ravages of the pigtailed soldiers, the city of Nanjing fell into an unprecedented tragedy, almost the sky was dark, and the inside and outside were shaken, and even Yuan Shikai was shocked when he heard it. Wherever the pigtailed soldiers went, they went from house to house, from the ceiling to the gutter, digging three feet into the ground, and not sparing a single bit. The women in the city also suffered from these people, and the women who committed suicide by throwing themselves into the Qinhuai River almost blocked the river...... After the catastrophe, in the words of the people of the time, "the people of all walks of life had no clothes and no food at home" in Nanjing.
In contrast, although the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese killed a little more people, it was a difference in quantity, and it was not a qualitative breakthrough.
-- I have to admit it. This is indeed a sad era when life is as cheap as grass, and even blood and war can no longer attract attention.
On the other hand, Wang Qiu also came from the mouth of General Political Commissar Hu Dexing. After hearing the views of the Chinese on the War of Resistance Against Japan in this era -- after stripping off the cloak of patriotic passion and nationalism, the strategic planning of China and Japan can only be described as fools versus fools.
First of all, the entire war strategy of the Japanese was to play the piano indiscriminately, and although the ultimate goal was to destroy China, they never had a stable and clear road map, and one proposition at a time. The execution is also arbitrary, and it feels quite brainless, like a greedy snake that only knows how to swallow but does not digest -- every time a conflict breaks out, it wants to negotiate peace. Every time I want to find some bargaining chips before the peace negotiation, every time I find the chips, I will change the terms of the negotiation, every time I change the conditions and want to renegotiate the peace, and every time I want to find some bargaining chips before the negotiation...... As a result, I had to fight to the ground.
On the other hand. Chiang Kai-shek's war strategy was clear. But it is also very the street, that is, tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall, desperately delaying time, while desperately holding on, looking forward to international mediation, praying for the American father to save his life, and at the same time to preserve his strength, but he has never thought of self-reliance...... As a result, we have repeatedly missed opportunities, and we have always been passive and tired of coping. Being led by the nose by the Japanese is like the stress reaction of an inferior animal.
-- In Lao Chiang's concept. It seems that the elite soldiers and strong generals were bought with money from the bank, not killed in the smoke of gunfire.
Fortunately, China is big enough to make the Japanese indigestion before they are eaten - it's sad to think about.
Generally speaking, the whole war of resistance is like the feeling of an honest man being scolded by a gangster on the street, "what to see", and then two people fight...... The gangsters actually don't know what they want to do with honest people, anyway, they will fight first. Honest people will only hold their heads and squat to defend, even if they occasionally take the time to punch a few times, they are also shrinking their hands and feet, so naturally they can't beat the gangsters, so they can only grit their teeth and hold on, while looking forward to the police coming to administer justice.
But the question is, what if the police are in a gang with the gangsters? It seems that there is only unconditional surrender!
-- As a matter of fact, on the eve of the Pacific War, when the United States and Japan were holding talks, the Americans did have the intention of comprehensively betraying China's interests and supporting Japan's encroachment on China in exchange for concessions from Japan in other areas...... Of course, they did eventually collapse, which led to the outbreak of the Pacific War, and also gave the struggling Chinese a chance to turn defeat into victory and take revenge; But if the two sides of Japan and the United States had successfully negotiated at that time...... Well, whether there is hope for China or not, at least the Chongqing government is out of play.
There is no way, just as the late Qing court is the "court of foreigners", Jiang Guangtou's regime is also the "national government of foreigners", and he kneels in front of the foreigners and wags his tail and behaves, only asking for a reward to eat. At the same time, it angrily bites those Chinese who refuse to kneel, treating them as enemies of life and death. As for straightening up your backbone...... When did this group of comprador class who worship foreigners ever have such a superfluous thing as a backbone?
It is a pity that the "Comintern" faction in the Red Army was in essence a similar character, weak and powerless externally, frantically biting internally, and worshipping the Soviet masters as God -- fortunately, these people had already stood aside during the War of Resistance Against Japan, otherwise it is really difficult to say what the final outcome would be.
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ββ¦β¦ Fortunately, no matter how lucky we won and how humiliating we played, we Chinese still won after all......"
When he saw the photo in the history textbook of the Japanese representative signing the surrender agreement on the deck of the battleship Missouri, General Political Commissar Hu couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, "...... Although so many people died and so much wealth was lost, China did not perish, but also took the opportunity to wake up the soul of the nation, so that everyone gave up their illusions about imperialism and understood that only their own fists are the last word...... Comrade Xiao Wang, the humiliating and tragic history of the Chinese nation should be almost over here! When will we hear those stories that are bustling with eyebrows? β
ββ¦β¦ It's almost here, Hu senior. Wang Qiu replied with a smile, "...... We will soon talk about the birth of New China. β
Next, when Wang Qiu talked about the devastation of the Liberation War, General Political Commissar Hu was already able to deal with it calmly. But in the midst of the Korean War, the Chinese volunteers who had been in the country for less than a year went on an expedition. Single-handedly defeated the American GIs who won the Second Shijie War, and by the way, they also beat rabbits with grass, overthrowing Britain and France and other "United Nations forces". General Political Commissar Hu still couldn't help but get excited.
When Wang Qiu mentioned that because of the heavy sacrifices of the Korean War, he was scolded and criticized by some liberal literati in later generations, General Political Commissar Hu rolled his eyes and snorted disdainfully, "...... Tsk, no matter what era it is, rightist intellectuals are really a virtue! While saying compassionate words. While doing things that have lost their conscience. How could they really have compassion for the lives and deaths of the toiling masses? Why not take the glory and dignity of the Chinese to heart? Don't you have to die if you surrender? Fart! According to the record in your book, 35 million people have died in China in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the warlords fought before it. It is also the death of hundreds of thousands of millions of people every year, and in order to play the national and military prestige, is it still a few hundred thousand lives missing? It is better to be able to keep the enemy out of the country than to let the enemy enter the country.
Hum. In previous years. If there is any great commander who can scold Fang Xuan and beat so many imperialist powers to the ground in one go, let alone kill hundreds of thousands of people, or millions of people killed in battle, there are also a large number of talents in the world who are willing to follow and support him and put him on the throne of China! Even if it was the Boxers in the early years, as long as they could really invite divine skills, they would kill all the Western soldiers and horses and Oriental devils, leaving no piece of armor behind. I don't mind if my children learn to burn incense and set up altars - as long as they can defeat imperialism, who can control so much of what is left?! β
-- Wang Qiu thought about the future, and those who insisted that "prosperity and strength can only be obtained through surrender." "Defeating a war is more glorious than winning" and "Chinese need to be colonized for 300 years to become civilized" suddenly realized that these people should have a common language with Wang Jingwei......
Then, Wang Qiu talked about the Iron Curtain of the Cold War, the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the space race, the hostility between China and the Soviet Union, and the Vietnam War -- for a small and impoverished country like Vietnam, which was able to "sacrifice a generation" to almost bring down the United States, General Political Commissar Hu, who had spent some days in the French Indochina colony in his early years, expressed his great incomprehension, and he had the impression that the Vietnamese seemed to be as docile as the Indians and lacked the spirit of resistance.
Later, General Political Commissar Hu was dismayed to hear the bad news of the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union....... The Soviet Union, which once shocked all mankind, had only seventy years to live? And so perished...... Dramatic? He tried his best to use tactful words to express his inner loss and disdain.
ββ¦β¦ Yes, fortresses are always easy to be breached from the inside. The Soviet Union was not conquered by the great armies of Nazi Germany and defeated by the aircraft carrier battle groups claimed invincible by the Americans, but it was disintegrated and subverted by corrupt elements within the party and the state without firing a single shot. β
Professor Yang lit a cigarette and opened his mouth to take over the topic, "...... Most of the communist camp collapsed because of the activity of two traitors, Yeltsin and Gorbachev, and the whole party spent twenty years in the 'glory' of American dominance - the red flag fell, the ideals disappeared, and the Chinese Communists almost went astray in confusion. It was not until the industrial power of the East surpassed that of the West that the fragile equilibrium was once again established. β
ββ¦β¦ However, this does not negate the great significance of the communist cause -- the communist movement, which lasted for two centuries, was the largest social science experiment in human history so far, and we should not shy away from the mistakes and tragedies that occurred during this period, but we should also see those brilliant successes that cannot be ignored. As far as China is concerned, whether it is the glorious victories of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Korean War, or the absurd tragedy of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution; Whether it is the joy of recovering Hong Kong and Macau, or the heartache of Mongolia's loss, they are two sides of the same coin. Since the Chinese people have chosen communism, they have to bear its advantages and disadvantages at the same time, and there is no room for picking...... Just like the Chinese landlords and bourgeoisie in 1927, since they chose Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang, these landlords were later forced to ruin their families by all kinds of exorbitant taxes -- it is said that the public grain collected by the Kuomintang government in Henan Province during the Anti-Japanese War had exceeded the total grain output in the fields -- and even hoped that the Red Army would soon carry out land reform and divide up their own fields; These capitalists were forced to go bankrupt and bankrupt by the four major families of Jiang, Song, Mei and Chen, and their family business changed hands, so they are also to blame, and they can't blame anyone......"
Zuihou, the "Future History Lecture" of the time-travelers has finally been carried out in the 21st century, the era when the Chinese dragon soared high.
β¦β¦ Well, as for the drastic changes in the social system of China's reform and opening up, Wang Qiu and others did not mention it much, intentionally or unintentionally.
-- God knows what these revolutionary predecessors of a hundred years ago would have thought after learning that Chinese had become imperialists......
ββ¦β¦ Shijie is the first industrial total, shijie is the second comprehensive national strength, eating meat has become daily consumption, and the annual output of steel is one billion tons?! Lunar Landing Jihua, Antarctic Development ...... Alas, if this is the bright future after the victory of the revolution, we revolutionaries are willing to die! β
-- The five-star red flag flying in Antarctica, the carrier rocket that took off with a bang, the spacecraft that landed on the moon soaring through the universe, the huge steel-making furnace flowing with molten iron, the armored convoy that passed in front of Tiananmen Square, the aircraft carrier battle group that cut through the waves, the imposing Three Gorges Dam and the Zhoushan Sea-crossing Bridge, and the skyscraper complex in Pudong, Shanghai...... General Political Commissar Hu stared intently at the exciting scenes on the screen, and even his breathing became short.
When he saw several bright red flags fluttering at the foot of Big Ben in the midst of the charred ruins, and the spire of the Westminster Houses of Parliament looming behind him, he finally couldn't calm down anymore: "...... Oh, my God! That's London! You're going to London?!! β
ββ¦β¦ Yes, that's the London of the British Empire! Just before we traveled through time and space and came here, China's ocean-going fleet disarmed the British Royal Navy and let the shells from China roar on the banks of the Thames, completely washing away the shame of the Opium War; A few months earlier, China's 'irregular troops' had galloped through the streets of Tokyo, allowing the Japanese to see the majesty of 'Chinese martial arts'......"
Wang Qiu nodded calmly, "...... Hu seniors, we are living in such a vigorous new era. And all this is the foundation laid for us by you, the pioneers of the revolution, with your blood, sweat, fists and lives in the darkest and cruel times, and we will always remember your sacrifice and dedication...... Therefore, since we are fortunate to have come to this era, we are naturally willing to provide you with some help within our ability, so that the Chinese revolution will have fewer setbacks and the Chinese people will have fewer hardships...... Senior Hu, are you willing to cooperate with us? (To be continued......)