On May 15, 1943, the Comintern announced its dissolution for a number of reasons. At this moment, Lao Jiang, who was sitting in Chongqing, began to kill people, believing that this was "the general trend of the world" and "an inviolable historical law".

Because the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression at this time has gradually become clear. In other words, Lao Chiang believed that the war against Japan could already be somewhat relieved, and that China's war of resistance had caught the chariot of the United States and Britain, and it was only a matter of time before it was victorious. Therefore, Lao Chiang began to ponder how to eliminate the "big trouble" of our party, which "has no international legitimacy".

On May 25, 1943, Chiang convened a party meeting to "discuss the attitude and propaganda policy towards the abolition of the Third International". He instructed: First, I should do my best to find a political solution to the CCP issue. In particular, propaganda should not give the impression that the government is ready to settle the matter by force. Second, it is necessary to strongly express goodwill toward the Soviet Union in order to promote the continued evolution of its China policy.

On June 12, 1943, Lao Chiang wrote in his diary: "The CCP's policy of handling is to be wide on the outside and tight on the inside, first release and then receive. At this time, the "Central Daily" only published the Western world's comments on the dissolution of the Comintern, but not the comments of the Chinese side, especially the Kuomintang. Zhang Difei, a member of the Fuxing Society, convened a meeting in Xi'an on June 2 and sent a telegram to Comrade Zedong in the name of "various cultural groups" demanding the dissolution of the CCP and the abolition of the Northern Shaanxi Special Economic Zone. This news has also been suppressed for a long time and has not been published in time.

Of course, this is only a superficial wave. In fact, Lao Chiang was ordering his proud disciple, Hu Zongnan, the "King of the Northwest" who was in the northwest, to quietly prepare a military plan to "blitz Yan'an".

On June 7, 1943, Lao Chiang called Hu Zongnan to ask "what is the current level of preparation for the border area" and asked Hu Zongnan to "reply in detail". On 8 June, Hu Zongnan convened a military conference in Luochuan, and transferred the two armies that had been defending the Japanese army on the edge of the Yellow River to the vicinity of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area to prepare for an attack on the border area, and scheduled to complete all arrangements on 10 June, and to attack immediately at the behest of Chiang's orders.

The plan was to first capture five counties, including Chunhua in the Guanzhong subdistrict. These five county towns went deep into the area ruled by Hu Zongnan and were commonly known as the "sac-shaped zone". On June 29, Hu Zongnan sent a telegram to Lao Chiang: "Fight against the border area and recover the sac-shaped area first." The use of troops in the sac-shaped area, in addition to the current pillbox troops, the rest is an attack force, first seize the town of Malan, and then march north to block the mouth of the sac. ”

The secret telegram said that the attack was scheduled on July 28 and the battle would be completed in a week.

At that time, in order to implement the determination of the "old man", Hu Zongnan also tried his best, and a total of three armies were deployed on the Yellow River defense line, and he actually mobilized two armies to take place in advance, and in order to increase the chances of victory, he also planned to transfer the elite of the last army away.

It can be seen that this "King of the Northwest" is already desperate for the future monarch of Lao Jiang.

Soon, the loyalty of this confidant was fully affirmed by Lao Chiang, "You can be really prepared, but you must have an order to start the attack, otherwise you must not act, and you should be extremely secretive and silent." ”

But he never thought that Lao Jiang wanted Hu Zongnan to "make real preparations" and "extremely secretive". However, on July 3, 1943, Xiong Xianghui, an underground member of the Communist Party of China who served as a confidential secretary by Hu Zongnan's side, urgently reported the situation to Yan'an.

On the one hand, it made an exception and cited intelligence to positively expose the Kuomintang's crimes of sabotaging the anti-Japanese resistance and provoking a civil war; On the other hand, troops were quickly drawn from other regions to defend Yan'an.

Among them, the most classic are two important links.

First, Mr. Zhu sent a telegram to Lao Jiang and Hu Zongnan: "There are many roads, and the central government will take the opportunity of the dissolution of the international community to suppress the Communist Party." If a civil war is launched and the great cause of unity is undermined, the country and the nation will be in danger. ”

Second, Chairman Zedong personally wrote an editorial for Yan'an's "Liberation Daily" entitled "Questioning the Kuomintang," which first raised the fact that the Kuomintang had transferred two group armies away from the Yellow River to prepare for an attack on the border areas, and then raised sharp questions to the Kuomintang. At this critical juncture of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lao Chiang and the Chongqing Nationalist Government actually planned to destroy the Kuomintang and Communist united front. Isn't it a typical compromise with the Japanese invaders, and there is no difference between Wang Da traitor who defected to Japan?

After that, the CCP continued to play its specialty of mobilizing the masses and public opinion offensive. On July 8, the Party Central Committee decided to launch a "propaganda counterattack" and at the same time prepare military forces to crush its possible offensive, requiring the Central Bureaus and Central Sub-Bureaus to "mobilize local public opinion and convene popular meetings."

On July 9, 30,000 people in Yan'an held an emergency mobilization meeting, calling on the people in the border areas to mobilize to stop the civil war and defend the border areas. Subsequently, mass meetings were held in various localities.

The "blitzkrieg" plan was exposed ahead of schedule before it could be put into action, and the elder Jiang was so angry that he had to order Hu Zongnan to stop the action on July 10 under the pressure of public opinion across the country. On July 11, he replied to Mr. Zhu, denying that he had mobilized troops and attacked the sac-shaped area in Guanzhong. On July 12, Hu Zongnan ordered the retreat of one division and two army headquarters.

At this point, the "blitzkrieg attack on Yan'an" plan was completely aborted, and this also became a classic example of "a telegram scaring off hundreds of thousands of soldiers" in the history of the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Among them, the one that played the greatest role and was talked about by everyone afterwards was, of course, Hu Zongnan's confidential secretary and the CCP's secret reward Xiong Xianghui.

This Xiong Xianghui is not simple, according to Comrade Enlai's summary and evaluation, compared with Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di, they belong to the "former Longtan Three Heroes"; Xiong Xianghui, Chen Zhongjing and Shen Jian belong to the "Three Heroes of Houlongtan", especially Xiong Xianghui. It can even be said that Xiong Xianghui is the "chess piece" that affects the battle situation.

Actually, Xiong Xianghui was not called this name, but Xiong Huiquan.

In the spring of 1938, Hu Zongnan, the "King of the Northwest", met with members of the Hunan Youth Field Service Corps. AFS is made up of progressive youths, and Hu Zongnan hopes to select some talented young people among them to train them for his own use.

"Interviewer" Hu Zongnan held the roster of the service group and asked questions by name in turn, and Nan drew circles behind each person's name according to his impression, most of them had one or two, and a few had three circles. There is only one young man, painted in four circles.

The young man's name is Xiong Huiquan, a top student of Tsinghua University, and his father is the president of the Hunan High Court of the Nationalist Government. Hu Zongnan is convinced that he has discovered a "capable general". The next day, Mr. Hu's secretary approached Mr. Xiong and said that Mr. Hu had invited him for a "one-on-one conversation."

In early May 1938, Hu Zongnan sent Xiong Huiquan to study at the Seventh Branch of the Central Army Military Academy (the predecessor of the Whampoa Military Academy). After the completion of his studies in March 1939, Xiong Huiquan was transferred to Hu Zongnan's side, and soon became Hu's right and left hand, all the way from the attendant adjutant to the confidential secretary.

Although Xiong Huiquan was appreciated by Hu Zongnan and other KMT leaders, in fact, in the autumn of 1937, Xiong Huiquan had secretly joined the Communist Party.

As early as his studies at Tsinghua University, Xiong Huiquan became the backbone of the student anti-Japanese group, the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard. In the vanguard, Xiong Huiquan, who was born in a family of eunuchs, studied and accepted communist ideas, and completed the ideological transformation from a "rich child" to a progressive youth.

At the end of 1937, Xiong Huiquan met Comrade Enlai for the first time in his life. At that time, Comrade Enlai went to Wuhan to give a speech to some progressive students, and Xiong Huiquan was among them, and he was deeply impressed by Comrade Enlai's extraordinary charm, and was even more inspired by the Communist Party's active anti-Japanese policy of "swearing to resist Japan and defend the country", and strengthened his "communist faith".

After this day, more legendary stories followed for Xiong Huiquan.

In view of the anti-Japanese situation at that time and the relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Party Central Committee made an important decision to open up a "hidden front" and planned to arrange some outstanding young party members with progressive ideas and firm positions within the Kuomintang.

While the two parties remained relatively peaceful, these youths could continue to resist the Japanese invasion; Once the Kuomintang suppresses and attacks the Communist Party, they can play an active role in defending our Party.

In the words of Comrade Enlai, these are some "idle chess players".

Jiang Nanxiang, leader of the Beijing Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, recommended Xiong Huiquan to Dong Lao and Comrade Enlai. After fully understanding the specific situation of Xiong, Comrade Enlai said, "This role is none other than Xiong." After that, signing up for the service group, accepting interviews with Hu Zongnan, and further becoming Hu Zongnan's secretary were all deliberately arranged.

Xiong Huiquan also changed his name to "Xiong Xianghui" at the suggestion of the organization and began his 12-year undercover career.

Xiong Xianghui was deeply respected by Hu Zongnan, even more so after serving as Hu Zongnan's confidential secretary. Lao Jiang's secret orders to Hu Zongnan were all signed by Xiong Xianghui, and the orders issued by Hu Zongnan were also drafted by Xiong Xianghui. This "assistant who understands both military affairs and politics" is well versed in Hu Zongnan's temper and writes a speech that is "both passionate and reasonable," which completely meets Hu Zongnan's requirements.

Hu Zongnan's attitude towards Xiong Xianghui gradually changed from appreciation to complete trust.

At the same time, Xiong Xianghui is also conscientiously fulfilling his task - observing Hu Zongnan and understanding the situation at the top of the Kuomintang. Hu Zongnan also actively advocated anti-Japanese resistance in the initial stage, and did not put too much energy into suppressing the CCP.

As a result, Xiong Xianghui's "idle chess" has been "idle".

However, as the anti-Japanese situation became clearer. Beginning in 1943, the Kuomintang's attitude towards the CCP slowly changed, and hostility was high.

The Blitzkrieg Yan'an plan was also proposed at this time.

In the end, the plan was aborted, and the KMT's conspiracy did not succeed. Hu Zongnan realized that someone had leaked secrets, but he never thought that this was actually done by his personal secretary Xiong Xianghui. So, I didn't track it down too much.

This amazing "radio broadcast" has been famous all over the world since then. But is this just a flash in the pan?