The Chicoms had a habit of letting the Nationalists do all the heavy lifting (and take the brunt of casualties) while they ate paste and mostly just stayed underground. The notion that the Communists were actually not just helpful in the war against Japan, but even did more fighting and fought more competently than the Nationalists, is pure Maoist revisionism with zero grounding in reality.
Hell, those assholes ended up fighting non-Communist-aligned guerrillas behind Japanese lines as much as or more than they did the Japanese themselves. He Long's campaign to eradicate all such resistance militias in Hebei which wouldn't recognize CCP leadership in the late 1930s is just one example of this perfidy. And Mao himself had the nerve to thank Japan for invading decades later, because Japanese aggression got Chiang's generals to backstab & coerce him into an alliance with the Reds when he had them on the ropes and then weakened the ROC to a point where they could take over fairly easily!
The French resistance was similar to the Chicoms. They spent most of their time fighting amongst themselves and robbing tobacco stores. The anglos largely stopped air dropping supplies to the French because the different groups would ambush each other trying to recover the drop.
That is actually tactically sensible, though. Who would you attack if you wanted to take their money and supplies? The full might of the WWII Wehrmacht - or - some ragtag bunch of guy who don't even have any support to call in afterwards?
Completely strategically and morally bankrupt, but tactically sensible.
From the comments:
"You're using the wrong flag for China. Here's the flag of the Republic of China"
"No, that's not the flag of the 1.3 billion Chinese people!"
"It was in 1945"
"But some of the ChiComs fought too! I'm using the Commie Flag for China!"
"Hey you're using the wrong flag."
"Yes."
The Chicoms had a habit of letting the Nationalists do all the heavy lifting (and take the brunt of casualties) while they ate paste and mostly just stayed underground. The notion that the Communists were actually not just helpful in the war against Japan, but even did more fighting and fought more competently than the Nationalists, is pure Maoist revisionism with zero grounding in reality.
Hell, those assholes ended up fighting non-Communist-aligned guerrillas behind Japanese lines as much as or more than they did the Japanese themselves. He Long's campaign to eradicate all such resistance militias in Hebei which wouldn't recognize CCP leadership in the late 1930s is just one example of this perfidy. And Mao himself had the nerve to thank Japan for invading decades later, because Japanese aggression got Chiang's generals to backstab & coerce him into an alliance with the Reds when he had them on the ropes and then weakened the ROC to a point where they could take over fairly easily!
The French resistance was similar to the Chicoms. They spent most of their time fighting amongst themselves and robbing tobacco stores. The anglos largely stopped air dropping supplies to the French because the different groups would ambush each other trying to recover the drop.
That is actually tactically sensible, though. Who would you attack if you wanted to take their money and supplies? The full might of the WWII Wehrmacht - or - some ragtag bunch of guy who don't even have any support to call in afterwards?
Completely strategically and morally bankrupt, but tactically sensible.
There are no Chinese Communists. Only Communists that occupy China.