Research On The Third Guangxi Students Army During The Period Of Anti Japanese War (1938—1941)

After the Anti-Japanese War broke out, to save the nation in peril, young students joined the army enthusiastically. To this day, the academic achievements mainly concentrated in the war of resistance in the late of the national government of educated youth military exercise. But little research has been done on the regional power groups setting up student Army.In October 1938, after the Japanese occupied Guangzhou and Wuhan. The Anti Japanese war had entered a new stage, Japan on the fronts of limited military attacked at the same time, also took the policy of political lure into surrender, surrendered to lure Chinese military and government, treated the Chinese public service to its aggression. In view of the change of the situation, the national government that China has entered the stage of the second phase of the war of resistance, fighted at the beginning of the national government military commission revised partial resistance line, from a purely military resistance to the political, people and spirit, locomotive war and guerrilla war.For the Guangxi Clique, after the fall of Guangzhou, Guangxi had directly faced the Japanese threat of force. Because of its weak forces and unable to fight the Japanese invasion, the Guangxi Clique set up the third Guangxi Students Army in November 1938 to mobilize the masses in the Anti Japanese national salvation and cooperate with regular army combat (hereinafter referred to as the Students Army).After the Students Army was founded with a brief military and political training, It was ordered to advance south Guangxi, southeastern Guangxi and other places which is responsible for the mobilization of the public, the implementation of government decrees etc.. During the battle of South Guangxi, the Students Army took various measures to cooperate army and ensure the battle in war zone. After the battle, the Students Army coordinated the army and the government and completed the rehabilitation work.In August 1941, the third Guangxi Students Army was disbanded. The CPC on the establishment of the Students army also attached great importance and fought over the students Army with the Guangxi Clique through a variety of ways.Around the above two clues, this paper discusses the following aspects.The first chapter mainly analyzed the formation reasons of the Students army.The establishment of the Students Army had all sorts of reasons and background. After the Anti-Japanese War entered a new stage, The Guangxi Clique either in public or political mobilization of troops training needed a large number of personnel in urgent.To guard against forces of Chiang kai-shek to the expansion of Guangxi and the CPC of the scramble for the Student Army, in view of the outstanding the Students Army in the civil war and the successful experience of the first and second session, the Guangxi authority set up the third Guangxi Students Army.The second chapter studied the organizing and training of the Students Army. Mainly studied of Guangxi government propaganda and mobilization, evaluation methods, forming forces, creating leading institutions, military training, etc..The third chapter studied the Students Army before and after the battle of South Guangxi. Before the battle of South Guangxi, the Students Army mainly cooperated with the government in the political and military, economic, cultural propaganda and carried out social mobilization. After the battle broke out, the students Army cooperated with regular army, assisted grassroots government, mobilized people to destroy the Japanese supply, hit the traitors forces, built civil military cooperation station, guaranteed the army logistics supply, provided troops with intelligence and guide and produced war propaganda, etc.. By the end of the battle, the Students Army actively to restore power at the grass-roots level, to tackle the problem of war legacy for refugee relief and assiste the government and army completed recovered in the aftermath.Competition for students between the CPC and the Guangxi Clique was the important content of this article, the thesis in the fourth chapter carried on the investigation on this issue. The CPC put great emphasis on the establishment of the Students Army. At the beginning of its establishment, the CPC sent a large number of party members to join the army. After Students army was founded, the CPC sent generals and scholars in the speech, trained military for students propaganda cadre, sent a party member students acquire army founded by the press, counterattacked trots, anti SanQingTuan and officers control, strengthened the upper infiltration, organized students to learn culture and marxist theory, basic mastered the students the cultural leadership and leadership at the grass-roots level, made many students became the the CPC party members and activists.The fifth chapter mainly studied the reasons of the dissolution of the Students Army and the problem of the students. Due to the change of the situation at home and abroad, and Japanese from South Guangxi retreat, After completion of the aftermath, the Guangxi Clique dissolved the Students Army in the name of the Redefines, and arranged the students.After the Students Army was dimissed,the CPC members and activists continued to activities, developed and expanded theforces of the CPC. After the outbreak of the Yu Xiang-Gui Battle, they led people to carry out guerrilla warfare and launched the anti-Japanese armed uprising. In the third civil war, they continued to adhere to guerrilla struggle with armed uprising and established a guerrilla base areas,They cooperated with the PLA in liberating Guangxi,for the victory of new-democratic revolution in Guangxi and made a certain contribution in other regions.Throughout the three years of activity, the Students Army was basically had the following several aspects:Soldiers and officers are equality in the army, the work styles of the Students Army wass given priority to dispersed operations and closed to people; On the home front, the Students Army played a model role in the youth;the CPC trained and reserved a batch of cadres and talents through the efforts in the Students Army which developed and strengthened the CCP in Guangxi.The number of theStudents Army although only equivalent to a division of regular army, but most of them were received a certain education which had the strong ability to organize and mobilize students, they played a special role in the war of resistance in the far from regular army had already been a division. Other places such as Shanxi province had formed a new army, but belong to combat troops. We can say that mass form was given priority to with propaganda and mobilize people to young students armed groups, Guangxi was unique in the KMT local strength.To sum up, at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Guangxi faced a variety of forces such as Japan, Jiang Jieshi and the CPC, in order to ensure their own turf, they recognized the existing army alone was difficult to deal with the complex situation, and must relied on the power of the people, so they had to set up the Students Army to mobilize the public to enhance their own strength. Under the new situation, the CPC realized the old work of the Guangxi Clique armed forces that was hard to achieve effective results, and the agreement of the anti-Japanese national united front also limited their activities.Therefore, the CPC could only through a variety of ways to control and influence the new establishment of the Students Army of the authorities in Guangxi. Seen from the above discussion, the work of the CPC basic reached the expected goal.