全民族抗战时期敌后国统区内的派系争斗OACHSSCD

After the Battle of Wuhan,factional struggles surged under the main theme of jointly facing the national crisis.Since Chen Cheng took charge of Hubei province in September 1940,he decided to take a firm stand against the attempt of the Guangxi clique to control the East Hubei Security Corps and subsequently annex eastern Hubei.Around the control and counter-control of the East Hubei Se-curity Corps,there were several intense political games between Chen Cheng and the Guangxi clique,which epitomized the fact of factional struggles in the Kuomintang-controlled areas behind enemy lines during the war.Seeing the irreconcilable hostility between the two sides,Chiang Kai-shek de-cided to intervene to prevent further conflict,and eventually forced Chen Cheng to make concessions.On the surface,this factional struggle is the result of the two sides never giving up the struggle for force and territory,but in reality it is determined by the nature of the Kuomintang regime.Chiang Kai-shek,driven by his class interests,engaged in political co-opting and power balancing among va-rious factions,which resulted in the Kuomintang regime becoming increasingly mired in factional struggle and unable to extricate itself.