Research On The Kuomintang’s Anti—Japanese War Behind Enemy Lines In Shanxi Province

This paper takes the historical archives and reminiscences as the main historical materials.and takes the Kuomintang’s anti-Japanese war in enemy’s rear area in Shanxi province as the research subject.It emphasises on the investigation on the main process and the reasons of its decline of the Kuomintang army’s persistence in fighting the invading army in enemy’s rear area in Shanxi province during the anti-Japanese war.The paper is divided into three major parts.Chapter I as part I,is the background section.This chapter mainly introduces the formation process of the KMT’s thoughts behind enemy lines and the same thought of Yan Xishan, who was the representative of local powerful group in Shanxi province. Since then, with the development of the war, the KMT’s thoughts in enemy’s rear area formalized, and at the same time Kuomintang troops in the battlefield behind enemy lines in Shanxi province also built up step by step. Chapter II as part two, focuses on the development situation of Kuomintang military’s resistance to Japanese troops behind enemy lines in in Shanxi province, which combined with the evolution of the relationship between the Kuomintang and the CCP. At the beginning of the establishment of battlefield behind enemy lines in Shanxi province, there are not so many wars behind enemy lines in the in Shanxi province, and the main task for them is corresponding to the national government at positive war in central China and South China. Because of the close collaboration between the Kuomintang and the CCP in this period, the Kuomintang military achieved the significant results in the war behind enemy lines. After the fall of Wuhan, the war was at a stalemate, and both sides of the war changed their strategies. The KMT was more aware of the importance of war behind enemy lines, and put more attention to it. Its troops are beginning to increase the number and methods of war behind enemy lines in Shanxi. But in this period, there are some conflicts occuring between the KMT and the CCP. Through all kinds of regulation, both sides maintain a united front. But since then the cooperation of two sides in battle behind enemy lines sharply reduced, and both of them basically fall into "prevention and treatment".So, during this period, the results that Kuomintang troops in behind enemy lines has achieved is not as good as the previous period of the war. After the Battle of zhongtiao mountains, which was failure, the Kuomintang army in Shanxi was almost destroyed. And then Taiyue and Taihang citadel were perished by the Japanese army. The Kuomintang army in the battlefield behind enemy lines in Shanxi began a severe contraction. Since then, the Kuomintang army has only left the1ulliang mountains citadel in Western Shanxi which was led by Yan Xishan. The CCP and the Japanese treated it as a strategic "buffer", which made the citadel lasted until the end of the war. chapters III and IV as the third part, it discusses the reasons why Kuomintang troops in Shanxi war behind enemy lines began to languish from the aspects like "Japanese military strikes and political allure","strategic dilemma", and "they can’t get popular support". Finally, the paper briefly evaluates and analyses the battle of Kuomintang army in Shanxi war behind enemy lines, and summarize the important historical significance they play.