More than 70 years ago, the United States sent representatives to Yan'an many times to meet with China, proposing that the US military plan to land on the southeast coast of China, hoping that the Chinese Communist forces would assist. ** Specially sent a telegram asking the New Fourth Army to cooperate with the landing and carefully plan the preparations. Why did the U.S. military ask the CCP troops to cooperate at that time?Why directly agree and ask the New Fourth Army to participate?In 1943, the heads of state of China, the United States, and Britain held talks in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, to discuss the war against Japan and discuss the post-war arrangements for the Far East, and then issued the Cairo Declaration.
At the end of the same year, the heads of state of Britain, the United States and Russia met in Tehran and agreed to open a second battlefield in Europe, and in June 1944, the Allies successfully landed in Normandy, France, and launched a large-scale offensive against the German fascists. After the Soviet Red Army expelled the German troops, it achieved successive victories on the territory of nine European countries and approached the German capital. In China, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party waged fierce battles with the Japanese army, annihilating a large number of enemy troops, and the strategic conditions gradually matured, and the final blow to the Japanese army became an international consensus.
In June 1944, the United States sent a delegation of journalists to Yan'an to visit Yan'an,** to clarify the position of the CCP and introduce the contributions and sacrifices of the War of Resistance against Japan. Subsequently, US Deputy Wallace visited China and Yan'an. On the basis of friendly consultations, the United States sent delegations to Yan'an on many occasions to consider the war against Japan and the arrangements for the post-war order in China. The United States saw clearly that Chiang Kai-shek was corrupt and incompetent, and did not want to blindly support the Kuomintang, so it made overtures to the Communist Party. ** A call to the New Fourth Army military headquarters warning that U.S. forces are planning to land in China and asking for coordinated operations, with a special focus on the Hangzhou Bay area.
** He also instructed the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army to seriously deploy defenses, wage guerrilla warfare, and support the US forces if necessary. ** A telephone call was then made to the front line, warning that there might be a landing of U.S. troops soon, and asking for a focus on developing work in the Ningbo, Shanghai, and Hangzhou triangles to cooperate with a possible landing operation. In order to cope with this situation, ** carried out comprehensive adjustment and deployment, established the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Military Region, and appointed Su Yu as the commander to form a new combat unit to assist the US army in resisting the Japanese army.
He also sent a letter to the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, asking to proceed from a strategic height and put forward the idea of vigorously developing Jiangnan so as to cooperate with the US military units in the strategic situation. Su Yu led the main force and more than 300 local cadres to quietly cross the Japanese blockade line on the Yangtze River, and at night passed through the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, which was heavily guarded by the Japanese army, to the western part of Zhejiang. At the same time, the Zhoushan Islands became an important landing site, and the United States planned to use this to launch a landing operation. In order to consolidate the communication line to the Japanese mainland and prevent the landing of American troops, the Japanese army was very concerned about the Zhoushan Islands.
They were better equipped and had more troops than the New Fourth Army. At that time, the New Fourth Army had only three light machine guns, two small guns, and about 100 rounds of ammunition each. The Communist Party of China (CPC) demonstrated great sacrifice and a responsible national image in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Although there was a huge disparity in strength between the New Fourth Army and the Japanese army, they were undaunted and fought bravely. Even after running out of bullets, they still stood up with bayonets, and some soldiers even chose to jump off cliffs and seas when they were exhausted, preferring to die rather than be humiliated by the Japanese army. These feats were later likened to the "Warriors of Langya Mountain on the Sea".
In addition to arming in Hangzhou Bay, ** is also preparing for a possible landing of US troops on the Yellow Sea front. Because the U.S. military at that time was uncertain about the landing site, it was believed that preparations should be made at multiple places at the same time to better assist the U.S. military. However, at that time, ** resources in the Yellow Sea were scarce, and the number of soldiers was limited. Despite this, Chief of Staff Hong Xuezhi resolutely carried out the order of **. In the end, the U.S. military did not carry out the landing. On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt died and Truman took over.
Truman began to change his policy toward China, favoring more support for the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek rather than the anti-Japanese forces of the Communist Party led by Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, the US military is no longer willing to cooperate with the New Fourth Army and other troops in landing operations. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, causing a huge humanitarian and strategic catastrophe and forcing Japan** to announce its unconditional surrender on August 15. On August 8 of the same year, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and quickly captured Manchuria, the Korean Peninsula and the Kuril Islands in northern Japan.
This made the US military fear that the Soviet Union might land on the southeast coast of China, affecting US interests and influence in Asia. Although the U.S. military failed to land in the end, we can see the great sacrifices made by the Chinese Communist Party for the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression from this dusty history. More importantly, we have demonstrated the image of a responsible country in the international anti-fascist camp that stresses faith and dares to take responsibility.