Well, Jiefang Daily has been reprinted three times in a row and is still out of stock.
The front door of Jiefang Daily was crowded with newsboys waiting to get their newspapers. Scalpers on the street actually raised the price of a copy of Jiefang Daily to five copper coins, but demand still exceeded supply.
The great victory over the Yellow River, the great victory over Jingxing, and the recovery of Shijiazhuang, exciting news came out one after another through the Liberation Daily. Not to mention spending five copper coins, there were still people who were willing to take a look even if it cost an ocean.
Paper in Luoyang, Chongqing, was suddenly so expensive that even the straw paper used for wiping your buttocks increased by three copper coins per catty.
The whole nation was excited, the whole country was celebrating, and the people's enthusiasm for the war of resistance was completely ignited. The masses spontaneously organized a march and petitioned in front of the Provisional Presidential Palace in Chongqing, asking the government to send troops to regain the lost territory.
This time, the petitioners included not only school teachers and students, but also ordinary citizens and soldiers.
People raised their arms and shouted anti-Japanese slogans.
People sang in unison, and songs from the liberated areas were sung in front of the Chongqing Provisional Presidential Palace.
"Unity is strength, unity is strength, unity is iron, unity is steel, harder than iron and stronger than steel..."
"Cut the big sword on the heads of the devils, kill..."
"A big river has wide waves, and the wind blows the fragrance of rice flowers on both sides... When friends come, there is good wine. If the jackal comes, he will be greeted with shotguns... This is a powerful motherland, and it is where I grew up..."
"Forward! Forward! Forward! Our team is facing the sun, with our feet on the earth of the motherland. Carrying the hope of the nation, we are an invincible force. We are the children of workers and peasants, and we are the armed forces of the people. Never be afraid, never give in, fight bravely until all the Japanese are wiped out..."
"The wind is roaring, the horses are braying, the Yellow River is roaring, the Yellow River is roaring... I have picked up my native gun and foreign spear, brandishing my sword and spear, to defend my hometown, defend the Yellow River, defend North China, and defend the whole of China..."
Tens of thousands of people sang in a chorus, and the loud singing soared through the sky. Even the soldiers who were waiting in front of the Presidential Palace were excited and burst into tears. However, there was silence inside the Presidential Palace.
Facing the rising voices of the people, the old man convened the National Revolutionary Army Military Committee to hold an emergency meeting in the presidential palace.
We can only hold meetings here, we can't go out.
The old man slammed the table at the meeting and cursed his mother. All the national army generals present and not present were scolded, except Xie Baoqing.
Xie Baoqing's reputation is at its peak and has surpassed that of the old man. Why should he be scolded?
The meeting decided to launch a nationwide summer counterattack, with all ten theaters mobilized.
There is no battle plan, no strategic deployment. Wherever there are Japs, there is a battlefield. Whether you fight together or fight independently, you can fight as you like. I just want to see how many Japanese you have destroyed and how much lost territory you have recovered.
The old man was anxious. According to the current public opinion, if the Nationalist Government does not organize a few decent counterattacks, it seems that there is no need for its existence.
Even if it still exists, it has ceased to exist in name only.
The common people yearn for the liberated areas and Xie Baoqing, so can this government still exist?
The country has been divided. The last emperor of the Qing Dynasty of Manchukuo in the Northeast, Wang Jingwei of North China and the Puppet King of Mongolia have been clearly divided. There are also Ma Hongkui of Ningxia, Ma Bufang of Qinghai, Sheng Shicai of Xinjiang, Liu Wenhui of Sichuan, Li Zongren of Guangxi, and Yan Xishan of Shanxi. Although they accepted the appointment of the National Government on the surface, in fact they all acted independently and did not obey the dispatch of the National Government at all.
The most important thing is that there is a Yan'an Mao who is like a thorn on his back, staring at him eagerly.
In fact, the land area controlled by the Nationalist Government is very small, not even as large as the land area controlled by Manchukuo and Xinjiang Sheng Shicai and the Wang Puppet Government.
Now another one, Xie Baoqing, who is causing trouble in northwest Shanxi and North China, has also been appointed by the National Government but is doing his own thing. He also has the support of Allied General Stilwell. The old man's position is already in jeopardy.
At this time, Xie Tian's People's Liberation Army troops were overwhelming and recaptured Baoding, Bazhou, and Xingtai one after another. In Handan, Hengshui, Cangzhou, Hejian and other places, the forward troops have reached Jinghai, less than a hundred miles away from Tianjin, completely cutting off the land communication lines between the Kwantung Army and the Japanese Army in North and Central China.
Xie Tian issued a call to the whole country through Liberation Daily for the entire people to resist the war and liberate the whole of China.
Surprisingly, the commander of the Second War Zone Yan Xishan, who had been driven across the Yellow River, took the lead in calling the whole country to respond, and assembled three armies to launch an attack from Datong to the Japanese army and the Mongolian Puppet King's troops in Dehua, Suiyuan. .
Li Zongren of Guangxi then sent a call to the whole country to respond and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army in his war zone.
Yan Xishan. Li Zongren responded to Xie Tian's call for the liberation of all China, and he responded actively by electrifying the whole country and took action. This was no less than a slap in the face to Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing.
There was an old feud. These two people took the opportunity to retaliate against Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing. Both of them had launched a war against Chiang Kai-shek, but unfortunately they both lost.
Counterattacks were launched vigorously on major battlefields across the country. On the contrary, there was no movement from Yan'an, but they were quietly making a fortune. The Eighth Route Army followed the pace of the People's Liberation Army and regained lost ground one after another, and the base area expanded in a short period of time. Several times.
The Eighth Route Army (18th Group Army) is under the battle order of the Second Theater. Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater, has already called the whole country to respond to the call of the People's Liberation Army, so why should Yan'an be the first to take the lead?
The Eighth Route Army is the main combat force in Yan'an. Another force in Yan'an, the New Fourth Army, belongs to the third theater and mainly fights in the south. Moreover, the New Fourth Army's influence is far less than that of the Eighth Route Army, so there is no need to make any separate noise.
The Eighth Route Army was organized as a group army, composed of the Red Army's First, Second, and Fourth Front Armies and the Northwest Red Army. It was the main combat force in Yan'an.
The New Fourth Army is just an army. It is composed of small units and guerrillas that stayed in the eight southern provinces after the Red Army's Long March. The most famous unit in the New Fourth Army is the Ye Ting Independent Regiment.
Too much talk, at this time Xie Tian has arrived at Jinghai, which is the forefront of the People's Liberation Army troops launching a general attack on Beiping and Tianjin.
In the Battle of Pingjin, Xie Tian chose to attack Tianjin first.
Regarding the question of whether to attack Peiping or Tianjin first, Fu Zuoyi, Xu Shiyou, Zhao Gang and others each had their own opinions. They argued for several days and no one could convince the other. Xie Tian had no idea.
Xie Tian simply brought a roast chicken to Pang Yuan for advice. He put on the table the pros and cons of attacking Peiping first or attacking Tianjin first, and asked Pang Yuan for an idea.
In the end, Pang Yuan finished chewing the last chicken foot before reluctantly speaking: "I don't care about the war, you can do it yourself."
Xie Tian was so angry that he rolled his eyes. He finally understood that this old man only had the patience to listen to him for a long time just to eat a few more bites of roast chicken.
