On January 4, 1941, nearly 10,000 troops directly under the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui moved north under the leadership of Ye Ting and Xiang Ying at the request of Chiang Kai-shek, but when they passed through Jing County in Anhui Province on January 6, they were surrounded and attacked by nearly 80,000 people from seven divisions of the Kuomintang. Although the officers and men of the New Fourth Army fought bravely to kill the enemy, due to the huge difference in numbers, and the New Fourth Army had been on the road for several days, the physical strength could not be compared with the national army that was waiting for work, and in the end, only more than 2,000 people were left to break out of the encirclement, and the army commander Ye Ting was arrested, and the deputy army commander Xiang Ying, the chief of staff Zhou Zikun, and the director of the Political Department Yuan Guoping were all sacrificed.
This is the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked China and the rest of the world!
And because Chiang Kai-shek tightly blocked the news, it was not until January 9 that ** sent a telegram to the CCP, ** and others did not know the news that the New Fourth Army was attacked by the Kuomintang army. At this time, Xiang Ying, Yuan Guoping and others were nowhere to be found, and Ye Ting was ordered to save the crisis. and ordered *** to make serious representations to *** and ask them to withdraw from the siege on the same day. But Chiang Kai-shek was unmoved.
On January 13, ** and others sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek and scholars from all walks of life to angrily denounce: The New Fourth Army moved north in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's order, but it was besieged by more than 80,000 Kuomintang troops in Jing County, Anhui Province, and was bound to annihilate the New Fourth Army.
On the 16th, "Today's News" published "The New Fourth Army Besieged in Southern Anhui is Still Fighting Hard".
On the 17th, **beaten** to He Yingqin and reprimanded:"Your deeds have made your relatives painful and your enemies happy. You've done what the Japanese wanted to do but couldn't. You He Yingqin is a sinner of the Chinese nation through the ages!β
In the face of such a situation, Chiang Kai-shek also slandered that it was due to the defection of the New Fourth Army, and handed Ye Ting over to military justice.
The second National Political Participation Conference, which was originally scheduled to be held on March 1, had announced the list of political participants before the incident in southern Anhui, and the CCP personnel were Wang Ming, Bogu, Lin Boqu, Wu Yuzhang, Dong Biwu, and Deng Yingchao.
Chiang Kai-shek originally thought that it would not matter if there were no CCP personnel to attend, but because the incident in southern Anhui was known to people from all walks of life at home and abroad, all the democratic parties wanted to ease the relations between the two sides through this meeting, and Roosevelt also expressed his hope to see the CCP representatives attend, and asked his personal representative Curie to stay in Chongqing ** meeting.
It was not until this time that Chiang Kai-shek had to find a way to let *** and others come to the meeting.
However, how could the Chinese Communists still hold a meeting while Chiang Kai-shek was slandering the New Fourth Army?
As a result, the CCP, represented by ***, put forward twelve articles to Chiang Kai-shek. The second of these was to get Chiang Kai-shek to admit his mistakes.
Chiang Kai-shek, however, firmly stated that he would not agree to these 12 articles.
** With Chiang Kai-shek.
While Chiang Kai-shek was trying to get the CCP to participate in the conference, the Red Army in Yan'an was engaged in large-scale production.
It turned out that before the Southern Anhui Incident, Chiang Kai-shek had already ordered not to give the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army military supplies.
The drought in northern Shaanxi and the low grain production are due to the need to solve the living needs of the 2 million soldiers and civilians here.
Large-scale production stipulates the corresponding production tasks of each military and civilian, because at the beginning, the person responsible for formulating the large-scale production plan thought that the comrades who needed to be busy with major matters, so they did not arrange production tasks for them. **After knowing, he said:"As the leading comrade of the party, we must set an example and make an example, starting from me. β
**γThe Red Army's large-scale production campaign was carried out in an orderly manner, and when I saw such a situation, I was very happy in my heart. However, at this time, ** received such a report.
According to the report, an aunt surnamed Wu cried and scolded"God, why don't you chop *** to death".
When the people below found out, they arrested her, and wanted to escort her to Yan'an and shoot her to death after ** approval, so as to make an example.
**After knowing, immediately said to the person in charge:"If you scold me ***, you're going to be shot?Is this the law of **?If you don't do an investigation and just arrest and kill people at will, then what is the difference between our Communist Party and the Kuomintang?I don't agree with you guys doing this!β
That night, ** stayed up all night, and his heart kept thinking:I don't know this aunt in northern Shaanxi, what did I do wrong, she wants to scold like that?
It turned out that when the Red Army first arrived in northern Shaanxi, her family was given 5 acres of land, and the whole family of six had a good life for a few years, but in recent years, there has been a drought, and the task of paying public grain is heavy, and the people cannot afford to pay public grain at all. Her husband was killed by lightning while plowing. Her husband died, leaving a 70-year-old mother-in-law paralyzed in bed, plus three children under the age of 10. She cursed those words in a fit of rage.
**After listening, he said to the Wu family's mother-in-law: ".I don't understand your situation, I have wronged you, you scolded right, not only do I want to let you go, but I also want to thank you. If you have any comments in the future, you can put them forward again.
After that, ** not only sent someone to escort her home, but also gave her the rations she saved from frugality, hoping to solve her family's urgent needs. After this Wu family's mother-in-law went back, she praised everyone ***
On the other hand, for the problem of grain requisition encountered by Aunt Xiang Wu's mother-in-law, ** specially held a meeting.
At the meeting, ** said: ".Our first aspect of work is not to ask the people for things, but to give things to the people. It is necessary to help the people with concrete actions. And if it does not care about the people's weal and woe, only knows how to give orders, and even stands on the opposite side of the people, then the Communist Party will not be able to stand in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region.
After the meeting, the leaders immediately made a decision:Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region and other places have reduced grain requisition.