Research On The Kuomingtang Guerrilla Warfare During Anti-Japanese Of Anhui Province(1937-1945)

With the developed of the Anti-Japanese War,the Kuomintang military authorities realize the disadvantages of positional defense battlefield and the role of guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines seriously rise.In the winter of 1937 military meeting held in Wuhan determined the decision to carry out guerrilla warfare.The Military commission instructed all war zones to establish guerrilla zones and base areas,go deep behind enemy lines,and assist the frontal battlefield operations through harassment and destruction.Anhui straddling the Yangtze River with the Huaihe River,and there are mountains in the south and west,which can be used as military bases,especially the Dabie Mountains,Wuhan in the west,and Huaihe River in the north.Anhui has a very important strategic position.After the fall of Wuhan,Anhui province was designanted as a guerrilla war zone.The guerrilla forces in Anhui include regular and local guerrilla forces.Both regular forces and local guerrilla forces need to carry out military and political training.In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War,the Kuomintang guerrilla army in Anhui united public resistance against Japan,destroyed the enemy rear,expended the enemy forces,cooperated with frontal battlefield.Entered the stage of strategic stalemate,not only contain the enemy also active harassing the enemy,against the enemy independently.Yangtze river's Anhui region water guerrilla warfare has caused a serious loss to the enemy.Guerrilla warfare was deeped behind the enemy lines,if we want to persist in guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines for a long time,we must build base areas in order to obtain human and material resources.In the base area behind the enemy in Anhui,the Kuomintang not only carried out military and political power construction,but also mobilized culture,education and economy to support the military.This is the reason why the guerrilla war behind the enemy lines in Anhui developed and persisted to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.The Kuomintang guerrilla army in Anhui,supported frontal battlefield,engaged in guerrilla warfare against the enemy independently,breaked the enemy crackdown,shoot down enemy planes,sinking their ships,got remarkable achievement,set up economic guerrillaarmy,destroied enemy economic system,prevented the enemy sustain the war by means of war,maintained the Kuomintang governance on the occupied areas,made important contributions in the war of resistance.In the later period of the Anti-Japanese War,due to the change of the Kuomintang political and military strategy adjustment of the guerrillas,beyond that,the problems in the guerrilla forces,included sectarian tensions,swerved from popular will,the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party,which caused the development of guerrilla warfare in the battlefield behind the enemy lines in Anhui was restricted,also weakened the Anti-Japanese forces of the Anhui battlefield in central China.