The Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance of Faithful to the Party

The Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance was the first people's anti-Japanese armed forces under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. In the long-term absence of food and forage and foreign reinforcements, they have always been red-hearted to the party and consciously carried out a long and arduous struggle.
"Using the Experience of Southern Zhu Mao"
The Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance and its main leaders Yang Jingyu, Zhou Baozhong, Zhao Shangzhi, Li Zhaolin, etc., consciously insisted on using Mao Zedong's military thought to guide the practice of anti-Japanese struggle in Northeast China.
In October 1934, the Jidong Bureau of the Communist Party of China pointed out in the "Letter to the County Party Committee of Raohe Center": "Only team members and political instructors do political work, which is completely insufficient. We must use the experience of Southern Zhu Mao." Before the Red Army's Long March, pamphlets about the history and experience of the Zhu Mao Red Army were spread to the Northeast, and Yang Jingyu and other leaders of the Anti-Japanese Alliance conducted serious study and research. According to Han Guang, a veteran comrade of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Yang Jingyu and others often took this pamphlet with them to learn from the Soviet area's experience in carrying out guerrilla warfare and establishing revolutionary bases. In the process of studying and implementing the experience of Zhu Mao's Red Army, Yang Jingyu and others paid attention to starting from the reality of the Northeast region, creatively using these experiences, and gradually formed the experience of building a base area with Northeast characteristics. In "Strategic Issues of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War", Mao Zedong particularly praised the Changbai Mountain Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Base created by Yang Jingyu, and believed that the Changbai Mountain and other base areas "will be the most long-term support for the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War and an important fortress of the Anti-Japanese War". Yang Jingyu was hailed by the National Salvation Times as "the first person in the three eastern provinces to carry out guerrilla tactics".
The Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance not only paid attention to learning the experience of the military struggle of the Zhu Mao Red Army, but also paid attention to learning the political work experience of the Zhu Mao Red Army. The "Provisional Regulations on the Political Work of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army and the Red Guerrillas" formulated by the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China focuses on the experience of the struggle in Jinggangshan and the Central Soviet Area. This document particularly emphasizes the need to implement the principle established by Mao Zedong that "branches are built on companies": "Branches are the basic unit organizations of the Party in the People's Revolutionary Army, and those who have more than three members in each company may form branches. A branch is established in an independent company and a general branch is established in the regiment." Under the guidance of Zhu Mao's Red Army's political work experience, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance established a party branch within the guerrillas, and each unit established a party organization; the guerrillas implemented a political commissar system with the party as the leadership center, and the party's resolution was the final decision. During the period of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, the system of instructors and political commissars of the party organization was improved. The Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance adhered to and developed the concrete practice of the principle of "building branches on the company" and consolidated the foundation of the party.
All members of the Central Committee "headed by Mao Zedong"
The Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance consciously supports and implements the political line of the Party Central Committee since the Zunyi Conference, and is loyal to the Party Central Committee with Comrade Mao Zedong at the core.
In December 1936, Zhou Baozhong said in a letter to Li Jingpu, commander of the First Division of the Fifth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army: "All members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, headed by Mao Zedong." This is the first time that the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance has mentioned the core issue of the leadership of the Party Central Committee, which indicates that the Northeast Party organization and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance have realized Mao Zedong's core position in the Party Central Committee. At the end of 1937 and the beginning of 1938, Mao Zedong's report on "the tasks of the Communist Party of China in the Anti Japanese period" and the conclusion of "struggle for millions of people to enter the Anti Japanese national united front" made by Mao Zedong at the Party Congress of the Soviet area. After the Northeast Anti Japanese United Army, Li Zhaolin stressed that "Comrade Mao Zedong's political report outline and conclusion at the Party Congress of the Soviet area are the main basis of our work". It is the first time for the Northeast Anti Japanese Alliance to take Mao Zedong's works as the main basis, which indicates that the Northeast Anti Japanese Alliance has clearly stood under the banner of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core.
In the case of losing contact with the Party Central Committee, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance insisted on studying the Communist International and the documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong and other works through secret international communication lines, implemented the spirit of important instructions, and deeply realized that Mao Zedong's ''On Protracted War'' The strategic thinking of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance guides the actions of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance. After the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance entered the Soviet Union to set up a teaching brigade, the commanders and fighters studied the documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the works of Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and others under the arrangement of the party's caucus organization, and deepened their understanding of the party's line, principles, and policies. The troops also hung portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai in various companies. These portraits are carefully drawn based on news photos in newspapers and periodicals, expressing the deep feelings of the Anti-Union commanders and fighters who love the party leaders. "We will die with our feet to the west!"
The most fundamental reason why the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance was able to persist in the struggle under the harsh environment of extreme hardship and hardship, and the enemy was strong and weak, is to adhere to the leadership of the party.
Despite the long-term loss of contact with the Party Central Committee, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance still placed itself under the leadership of the Party organization. The establishment of the Southern Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in July 1936 marked that the Northeast Party organization began to realize the unity of party leadership and military command after losing contact with the Party Central Committee, which played an exemplary role in Jidong and Beiman. The leaders of the Northeast Party Organization and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance have made unremitting efforts to seek the leadership of the Party Central Committee in the Northeast Anti-Japanese struggle and to obtain the spirit of the Party Central Committee's instructions in time. In order to open up the channel of contact with the customs, Yang Jingyu once sent people to the customs to get in touch with the Party Central Committee. In June and November 1936, Yang Jingyu organized the Western Expedition twice. The purpose was to get in touch with the Red Army in the pass, and then find the Party Central Committee, change the isolated anti-Japanese situation, and enable the anti-Japanese struggle in the Northeast to be closely related to the anti-Japanese struggle in the pass. Combine. Due to the disparity between the enemy and our forces, the two Western Expeditions eventually failed. In order to get in touch with the Party Central Committee and the Red Army inside the pass, the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance broke through many difficulties and obstacles to carry out an expedition, fully demonstrating the heroic spirit and firm belief of the Communist Party members and the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance fighting in the Northeast. In November 1938, the Sixth Plenary Session of the enlarged Sixth Central Committee of the Party issued a message of condolences to "the officers, soldiers, and political workers of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces Yang Jingyu turned to the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces", praising them as "A model of fighting against the enemy in the ice and snow for more than seven years without fear of hardship".
After Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, Wei Zhengmin, secretary of the Southern Manchurian Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy commander-in-chief of the First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, wrote a sincere and affectionate report to the central delegation. The report said: Without the specific instructions of the central government and the documents and communications issued by the central government, "We are like a boat that has lost its helmsman in the sea, like a blind child, bumping around and not knowing what to do." At the end of the report, it is proposed that the Central Committee should send cadres and documents so as to obtain the direct leadership of the Central Committee. After the Northeast Anti-Japanese War was transferred to the Soviet Union, it insisted on the principle of independence while striving for Soviet aid. When the Soviet representatives wanted to change the nature of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and turn the Anti-Japanese Alliance into a Soviet reconnaissance force, essentially attempting to abolish the Chinese Communist Party's leadership of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Baozhong stepped forward and argued with reason to resolutely oppose this erroneous view, making it clear that "to maintain the CPC Central Committee system. Maintain the leadership of the Party in the army", determined that "we will die with our feet to the west!" It fully embodies the lofty quality of loyalty to the party and red heart always to the party. After discussion, the Executive Committee of the Communist International affirmed Zhou Baozhong's correct opinion. Although the Northeast Anti-Japanese Union Teaching Brigade was included in the Soviet army's establishment sequence, it still maintained the independence of the Anti-Japanese Union.
In September 1942, the Special Branch Bureau of the Northeast Party Organization of the Communist Party of China, also known as the Northeast Party Committee, was established in the teaching brigade. This reunified the Northeast Party organization, which had been in a decentralized state since the abolition of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1936. after returning home, the northeast party committee handed over all organizational relations to the northeast bureau of the cpc central committee. Zhou Baozhong said happily to Feng Zhongyun, "The Party Central Committee has recognized the Northeast Party Organization, and we have been looking forward to the resolution of the major events for many years. In the future, we will work hard under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and do whatever the Party calls."
As the people's anti-Japanese armed force under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance firmly supported the Party Central Committee with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core in the arduous struggle. It fully embodies the unique quality and political quality of listening to the party's command, and is a model of loyalty to the party.
 

Source: Learning Times