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Chapter 60 Hengshan Military Conference

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If we trace it back, what really gave Chiang ZS a profound experience of guerrilla tactics should be the Red Army's several anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns. From December 1930 to March 1933, the Kuomintang carried out four "encirclement and suppression" against the **** Red Army, all of which were defeated. This painful lesson prompted the Kuomintang to begin to study the Red Army's tactics and countermeasures.

The experience of "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army had a profound impact on the transformation of the Kuomintang's military thought. The Kuomintang learned and became familiar with the Red Army's guerrilla tactics and began to study and apply them.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, many generals who participated in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army's war still remember the Red Army's guerrilla tactics and are easy to accept and use this tactic to resist foreign aggression. Guan Linzheng, a famous anti-Japanese general of the Kuomintang, once said: "Only by using the Red Army to attack us can Japan be defeated."

After the "September 18th" Incident in 1931, as the national crisis became increasingly serious, many generals and strategists in the Kuomintang realized that the Sino-Japanese War was inevitable, and therefore were seriously studying the strategy of responding to the enemy.

Especially after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Kuomintang army basically implemented deep-ditch and high-rise position wars, but they were defeated repeatedly and suffered heavy losses. The trend of studying guerrilla tactics within the Kuomintang became increasingly popular. Many senior generals with combat experience wrote books and talked about the wonderful methods of guerrilla warfare, thus promoting theoretical research on guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

Among them, the New Guizhou Group compiled the "Scorched Earth Series", Jiang Baili wrote "Outline of New Guerrilla Tactics", Feng Yuxiang wrote "Q&A on Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Tactics", Huang Shaohong wrote "Theory and Practice of Guerrilla Warfare", and even literati and politicians also discussed the guerrilla warfare skills.

As early as April 1938, Chiang zs and the Military Commission realized the strategic position of the increasingly expanding fallen areas in the War of Resistance, so they gave the following comprehensive strategic guidance for the fallen areas: "In the fallen areas, in addition to the uncompromising political and economic culture, they also launched a large number of guerrilla warfare, so that the invading enemy forces can only occupy points and focus, and cannot use their military power to occupy political power and occupy their area, and also caused the enemy to have serious military concerns about the surroundings of the point lines they occupied, and they cannot go straight in to destroy their strategic attempts."

Therefore, just when the government urgently needed a programmatic document to regulate guerrilla warfare and guide the Kuomintang's guerrilla warfare, the Military Affairs Bureau sent Yang Tianfeng's "Boya Tactics Essence". No, the name of the new book is "Guerrilla Warfare Outline Manual".

It has to be said that Dai L is the best at judging Jiang ZS's psychology. Although most of the books adopt Yang Tianfeng's writings, they have undergone appropriate artistic processing and become very different.

First of all, the beginning of the book puts the application of guerrilla tactics early before the Republic of China, and gave countless military struggles such as assassination, raids and military adventures led by the founding father, Mr. Sun, some of the characteristics of guerrilla tactics, and said that Mr. Sun's research on guerrilla warfare "spends no effort, so his experience is also profound."

Then the book describes the strategy and tactics of "bandit suppression" emphasized by Chairman Jiang in 1933, namely "advance lightly, explore far away in casual clothes, secretly and agile, and attack at night and attack at dawn." Well, well, Chairman Jiang's "research results" have been compiled into "Bandit suppression Manual" and have been released in large quantities, and Yang Tianfeng is just taking advantage of the topic to make use of it.

Of course, it is not enough to have the foresight of these two giants in the book. It has also compiled all the articles on guerrilla tactics by Jiang Baili, Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and other senior officials of the State Administration, and finally formed the current "Guerrilla Warfare Outline Manual". As for Yang Tianfeng, it is a comforting place among the authors listed in the book.

No matter what, Yang Tianfeng's goal has been achieved, and he is not so careful about his reputation. As long as the Chinese can kill a few more Japanese in the War of Resistance, he will feel psychologically happy. Anyway, he has and is accumulating his own property.

But now, Chairman Jiang has indeed begun to pay attention to Yang Tianfeng, whom he had never met. Well, he studied in Japan, but Chairman Jiang has always claimed that he graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and has some feelings for the younger brother surnamed Yang.

It was indeed a worthwhile object to train when raiding hundreds of miles, capturing senior Japanese generals alive, restoring two county towns, and writing such a good book that can guide the guerrilla war of the National Army. Although the country was in the War of Resistance, cultivating its own heroes and teams of the Anti-Japanese War is very important in terms of scenery and strength.

"Chairman, everyone is here." The attendant walked in again and interrupted Chairman Jiang's thoughts.

Jiang Zs nodded, stood up, picked up the "Guerrilla War Outline" on the table, and walked out slowly.

The main topic of the Hengshan Military Conference was to summarize the experience and lessons learned from the first phase of the war and determine the strategic policy of the second phase of the War of Resistance. In addition to senior generals from various departments of the Military Commission and the whole country who participated in this meeting, more than 100 officers above the division commander of the third and fifth theaters were also notified to attend the conference. Zhou Er and the Chief of Staff of the 18th Army would also attend the meeting.

Jiang Zs and the generals analyzed the military strength of both the enemy and us in advance. They believed that after the Japanese occupied Wuhan, they were unable to launch a large-scale attack due to insufficient troops and difficulties in replenishing. However, the enemy's army, navy and air force were well-trained, well-equipped weapons, strong manpower, and still have strong combat power.

In view of the above situation, the second phase of the battle will be a period of stalemate between the enemy and us, which means that during this period, the Japanese army will not be able to penetrate deeper into the rear of the National Government; the Chinese army will not be able to defeat the Japanese in one go and drive them out of China.

Based on the above judgment of the situation, the guidelines and strategies of the second phase of the Chinese army's combat operations: continuously launch limited offensives and counterattacks to restrain and consume the enemy; support the guerrilla troops behind the enemy, strengthen the control and harassment behind the enemy, turn the enemy's rear into the front, force the enemy to be stubborn at the point and line, prevent its comprehensive rule and material plunder, crush its attempt to use China to control China and use war to support the war; at the same time, draw out troops to take turns to train, strengthen combat power, and prepare for a general counterattack.

In other words, with the relative calm of the frontal battlefield, the State Government will raise guerrilla warfare to a strategic height and attach importance to it. The "Guerrilla Warfare Outline" will be used as a programmatic document guiding the Kuomintang's guerrilla warfare, issued to various war zones and military schools as textbooks for carrying out guerrilla warfare, providing a feasible basis for the implementation of guerrilla warfare.

At this time, Jiang Zs' mood improved a lot. It turned out that the Kuomintang's anti-Japanese guerrilla tactical ideas were taught by Zhong G, but they were far behind Zhong G, and the two were incomparable. However, now the National Army also has a guerrilla warfare theory that is comparable to Zhong G. Humph, will the battlefield behind enemy lines be the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army be the world?
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