Third Field Army

Author: Zhang Bin et al.
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Publishing Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Japan's defeat and retreat to the East; Chiang Kai-shek fled from Mount Emei. Mao Zedong said, "To snatch the 'peach,' ask the people if they agree." Tang Enbo complained about not having a rehearsal before accepting Japan's surrender. Chiang Kai-shek was fooled by the Political and Military Academy, sending three "urgent" telegrams to Mao Zedong. Invited to Chongqing, Chiang had no choice but to act the part. With Japan's victory in the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese bandits must leave China. As a result, the vast land and immense wealth they had looted from China would be returned to the Chinese people. Although China was poor and backward, having been subjected to frenzied plunder and brutal oppression by countless imperialist powers, especially the Japanese fascists, the remaining wealth was still substantial. "As long as the Chinese have a position in the government, they can lick the buttocks of the Americans or the British." Although this was an insulting and vulgar remark by a British man named Lytton about the Chinese in 1932, the words themselves truly reflected the mindset of China's rulers and corrupt officials since 1840. In the face of foreign bandits, they were dogs; before their "parents," they claimed superiority; "behind closed doors, swinging a bamboo pole—everyone is a bully in their own nest" was the true face of the reactionary officials in old China. Some people say that if Chiang Kai-shek had devoted one-third of the energy he used against the Communist Party and the people to fighting the Japanese, the "September 18th Incident" might have been averted, and the "July 7th Incident" would not have occurred—it is not without reason to say this. During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek, who had always shown indifference and helplessness in resisting Japan, suddenly became energetic as soon as the war ended, even before Japan's surrender was announced, like a drug addict receiving a shot of morphine. He transformed from a timid rabbit into a fierce lion, leading his lackeys with fierce determination down from Mount Emei. What was he going to do? To snatch the fruits of the Anti-Japanese War. Mao Zedong compared the fruits of the war victory to "peaches." On August 11, 1945, the third day after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the same day the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan, Japan was about to announce its surrender. Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered his troops: "Intensify operations, advance vigorously, and do not relax." To seize territory. At the same time, the Chongqing government decided to establish a Political and Military Receiving Committee under the General Headquarters of the Army, with He Yingqin as the director and Gu Zhenggang and Xiao Yi as deputy directors. Corresponding committees were set up in each theater and province. Later, after being signed by the Minister of Executive Yuan Song Ziwen and approved by Chiang Kai-shek, the National Receiving Committee for Recovered Areas under the Executive Yuan was established, chaired by the Vice Minister of Executive Yuan Weng Wenhuo, with corresponding offices for enemy and puppet property handling in each province and city. In addition to setting up various receiving institutions, the country was divided into seven receiving areas: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui; Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi; Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian; Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia; Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi; Northeast, and Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek, who regarded himself as the national hero of the "anti-Japanese achievement," and his government as the "legal" government of China, believed that "under heaven, all is the land of the king," so he could seize as much as he could, and by any means necessary.