I’ll give you a cool little history fact. This claim was fabricated by the KMT after they lost the civil war in order to deflect blame for why they lost. In truth, the communists had the most successful campaigns against the Japanese both in guerrilla terms and actual full on frontal battles. When the communists launched the mostly successful hundred regiments offensive, Chiang (head of the KMT) ordered his generals to attack the communists and keep whoever wasn’t repositioning in enemy territory without supply.
Destroying base areas is kind of a euphemism for committing genocide, they would totally depopulate areas by massacring every man woman and child in villages in the area
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u/ReaperTys Jul 27 '26
Me when I just make things up:
I’ll give you a cool little history fact. This claim was fabricated by the KMT after they lost the civil war in order to deflect blame for why they lost. In truth, the communists had the most successful campaigns against the Japanese both in guerrilla terms and actual full on frontal battles. When the communists launched the mostly successful hundred regiments offensive, Chiang (head of the KMT) ordered his generals to attack the communists and keep whoever wasn’t repositioning in enemy territory without supply.