Red Sorghum, Yellow Earth CBI (id:#57381)

Critical Hit (Paddington Bears '96 Pack ID: PBP 1)

Prior Publication: Paddington Bears: Aussie `95 Pack PB1

Xianchou, Northern China 1938-09-18 (3 others)

Overview:

Determined to destroy the Chinese Communists before facing the Japanese, Chiang Kai-Shek had difficulty controlling his patriotic subordinates in 1936. Late in that year, the “Young Marshal” Chung Hsieu-Leng detained him at gunpoint in Xian. At risk of being handed over to the Communists, the Generalissimo agreed to a unified national effort against the Japanese invaders. A grudging truce began which was to last until the defeat of Japan, a serious friction as inevitable from time to time. During 1938 the Nationalists realized that inside Japanese-occupied Hopei province, the CCP had become the de-facto local government. This prompted GMD commanders to move units north of the Yellow River to reassert their influence. Caught off guard by such an anti-partisan sweep, a CCP regiment dispersed “to disappear among the people like fish into the sea”. Their weapons group set out through the paddies with pursuers close behind, only to spot more enemy ahead. Evasion without a fight was no longer possible. With their machine-gunners holding off the pursuing infantry, the remaining guerillas moved through the tall grain towards the blocking force. . .

Defender: Chinese (Kuomintang) (Elements of the KMT 12th Army)  

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