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1940 1 June19, Chiang Kai-shek instructed He and Bai Chongxi to call Zhu De and Peng of the Eighth Route Army and Ye Ting and Xiang Ying of the New Fourth Army in the name of the Chief of Staff of the Military Commission of the Kuomintang government, forcing them to go north within1month. 165438+1October 9, Zhu De, Peng, Ye Ting and Xiang Ying wired He and Bai Chongxi to refute the unreasonable demands of the Kuomintang, but for the sake of the overall situation, they still promised to send the troops of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui to the north of the Yangtze River. Chiang Kai-shek ignored this and ordered Gu and Shangguan Yunxiang in the third war zone to "solve" the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan immediately as planned.