Battle of Dazhongji

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Battle of Dazhongji
Part of the Chinese Civil War
DateSeptember 1–13, 1945
Location
Jiangsu, China
Result Communist victory
Belligerents
Flag of the National Revolutionary Army National Revolutionary Army PLA New Fourth Army
Commanders and leaders
Flag of the National Revolutionary Army Gu Zhenzhi PLA unknown
Strength
3,700 unknown
Casualties and losses
3,700 Minor

The Battle of Dazhongji (大中集战斗) was fought between the

communist
victory.

Prelude

Like other similar clashes immediately after the end of World War II between the

communists and the nationalists in China, this conflict was due to the fact that Chiang Kai-shek had realized that his nationalist
regime simply had neither the sufficient troops nor enough transportation assets to deploy into the Japanese-occupied regions of China.

Unwilling to let the

communists as necessary, until the final arrival and completion of the deployment of the nationalist troops. As a result, most members of the Japanese puppet regimes and their military forces rejoined the nationalists
.

However, most of these former

warlords troops who were only nominally under the Chiang Kai-shek's before World War II, considering they were nationalists
in name only and mostly maintained their independent and semi-independent status.

These

warlord problem that had plagued China for so long and the problem of the extermination of communism together, which proved to be an extremely fatal mistake for him and his nationalist
regime later on, as shown in this conflict.

Nationalist strategy

In accordance with his strategy to simultaneously solve the

communists
would be weakened by the fights and Chiang's own troops would have easier time to take control.

For the former

communists who were targeted as rebels by Chiang Kai-shek and his nationalist
regime.

Communist Strategy

The

communist strategy was much simpler than that of the nationalists
because there were not any notable divisions within the communist rank like that of the nationalist. The communists already earned considerable popular support by being the only Chinese force left in the region fighting the Japanese invaders and their puppet regime after the nationalists withdrew, and after successfully establishing communist bases in the rural regions where better life was provided to the general populace in comparison to that of Japanese occupied regions, the general Chinese populace agreed that the communists were well deserved to represent the Chinese to accept the invaders’ surrender in the region and takeover the regions occupied by the invaders.

The Battle

After those former nationalist-turned Japanese puppet regime force had rejoined the nationalists after the end of World War II, they refused to surrender to the communists, the only Chinese force in the region according to Chiang Kai-shek's order. This had obvious led to numerous clashes with the communists and the local population that strongly supported the communists, and eventually the full scale battle between the two sides erupted in the beginning of September 1945.

The clashes was concentrated around the Great Central Village (Da Zhong Ji, 大中集), an important town of Dongtai, Jiangsu and the communist units of the New Fourth Army of the communist Central Jiangsu Military District first took the outposts outside the Great Central Village (Da Zhong Ji, 大中集), and finally launched the final assault on the town on 13 September 1945. After fierce battle, the town fell on the same day and the entire garrison, the nationalist 7th Brigade was completely annihilated, with majority of the troops killed, including the commander, Gu Zhenzhi (谷振之), while the surviving 1,500 were captured alive by the attacking enemy.

Outcome

Like other similar clashes immediately after the end of World War II between the

warlord problem plagued China for so long was thus reduced for this particular region. Chiang Kai-shek's secondary objective was achieved here, and any positive gains obtained by the nationalists were negated by the politic fallout. The reason was that this success of achieving the secondary objective came at a huge cost in nationalists’ loss of popular support in this region formerly dominated by the Japanese. As the local population had already blamed nationalists for losing the regions to the Japanese invaders, while reassigning these former Japanese puppet regime forces as the nationalist forces to fight the communists, the only Chinese force left in the regions further alienated the local populace and strengthened the popular resentment to Chiang Kai-shek
and his nationalist regime.

See also

References

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