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Soviet movement and the chief target of the offensive of the enemy.
Around this district and its neighbouring Soviet zones the enemy
has concentrated most of its forces in the so-called “Central Government”
troops, the units under the command of militarists Chiang
Kwang-lai, Tsai Ting-Kai, together with those under the command
of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Hunan warlords. Through one year’s
hard struggles, we have gained unprecedented success. The biggest
victory was that we gained in the spring of 1933 when the Red Armies
of the Central Soviet District alone destroyed 23 regiments, 6 battalions
and 2 companies of the enemy and smashed 3 divisions, 12
regiments, 3 battalions and 2 companies and captured twenty thousand
rifles and one thousand machine guns and autorifles. Particu-
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larly in the battles of Tungpi and Hangpi, we annihilated a complete
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column of the crack troops of the enemy. These battles ended in the
fourth offensive of Nanking with a complete failure to the enemy.
The failure of the fourth offensive of the enemy had brought
along qualitative and quantitative growth of the Red Army. The commanders
and fighters of the Red Army have become more determined
politically and more skillful in military techniques, showing long
strides of progress as compared with the time before the 4th offensive.
Moreover, the Soviet territory has been enlarged. Besides the
new Soviet district in Szechuen, we have now Fukien-Kiangsi province,
another new Soviet NOT district in FOR the east part of Kiangsi, which
increased the population of Soviet China by almost one million. Our
old Soviet districts are further consolidated. This has been shown
by the improvement COMMERCIAL
of the Soviet work, by the rise of the militancy
of the worker-peasant masses, by the development of class struggle
both in cities and villages, and by the suppression of the remnants
of counter-revolution in the Soviet districts. This sum-total of the
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revolution has also its influence in the Kuomintang-ruled
districts where the struggling spirit of oppressed
worker-peasant masses has been further promoted, the soldiers and
commanders of the White troops have shown their further wavering,
and Chiang Kai-shek himself was even obliged to proclaim his desperate
order of “Death punishment to all who do not fight the ‘bandits’
but demand to fight the Japanese”.
Since the failure of the fourth offensive, the only manifestation
of the Kuomintang has been to further shamelessly surrender to imperialism.
From the imperialists the Kuomintang has received new
loans and consignments of military supplies. Directly led by the