, although Chiang Kai-shek and commended the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese armed forces led by the Communist Party of China, it also exposed the strength of the Eighth Route Army. In 1937, the Eighth Route Army had only more than 50,000 people. , But it took more than three years to develop into a powerful regiment with more than 500,000 troops and more than 100 regiments. This made Chiang Kai-shek very worried. After the Hundred Regiments War ended, Chiang Kai-shek began to clashed with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army more frequently, and wanted to eliminate the weak New Fourth Army.
On October 19, 1940, Chiang Kai-shek sent He Yingqin . Bai Chongxi, in the name of the Kuomintang Military Committee, called the Eighth Route Army Commander Zhu De, Deputy Commander Peng Dehuai, New Fourth Army Commander Ye Ting, and Deputy Commander Xiang Ying. The Eighth Route Army to the south of the Yellow River, the New Fourth Army and other troops went to the north of the Yellow River for reorganization. Want to restrict the development of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, or want to use the Japanese to get rid of the Eighth Route Army, New Fourth Army and other troops.
On November 9, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Ye Ting, Xiang Ying and other generals refuted the unreasonable demands of the Z14z Kuomintang . However, in order to take into account the overall situation of the War of Resistance against Japan, the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui was still promised to go to the area north of the Yangtze River. In response to the Chinese Communist Party’s concessions, the Kuomintang Army ignored the third theater commander's commander Gu Zhutong, commander-in-chief of the 32nd Army Shangguan Yunxiang assembled his troops and prepared to launch an attack on the New Fourth Army.
At the end of December 1940, the 32nd Army Commander Shangguan Yunxiang held a military meeting in Huizhou. The 23rd Army Commander Tang Shizun, the 50th Army Commander Fan Ziying, the 25th Army Commander Zhang Wenqing, the 52nd Division Commander Liu Bingzhe, and the 40th Division attended the meeting. The division commander Fang Riying and other senior officials of the Kuomintang army, the purpose of this meeting is to formulate a combat plan based on Chiang Kai-shek's secret order, secretly, quickly, and completely wipe out the New Fourth Army without letting it slip through the net. After the meeting, Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang had already mobilized 80,000 troops from eight divisions in southern Anhui. Two divisions were transferred from the front lines of eastern Zhejiang and western Zhejiang. Such a large-scale deployment of troops allowed the Japanese At one time I thought I was going to attack them.
On January 6, 1941, the search company sent by the Kuomintang army 40 army exchanged fire with the New Fourth Army reconnaissance units. The 80,000 soldiers of the Kuomintang Army who had been ambushing began to attack the New Fourth Army troops marching into the Maolin area of Jing County, Anhui. Due to the disagreement of the leaders of the New Fourth Army military headquarters, the best time to break through was lost. The New Fourth Army military headquarters and the directly affiliated units totaling more than 9,000 people were almost wiped out.
The Southern Anhui Incident had a huge blow to the New Fourth Army, but in this war, one unit successfully broke through, that is, the New Fourth Army led by Fu Qiutao. As soon as the battle started on the left wing, the radio station was destroyed and lost contact with the military. Fu Qiutao immediately convened a meeting with the cadres of the various units. It took only a few hours to formulate a breakthrough plan, and the troops quickly broke through. In the end, this force was successfully broken through by more than 2,000 people and became the seeds for the reconstruction of the New Fourth Army. In 1955, Fu Qiutao was awarded the rank of general.
