You're contradicting yourself.
1- If the CCP had less than 1.2 million troops, then it is all the more evidence that they were *NOT* inexperienced and untrained. The KMT had 4.6 million troops. If they couldn't take out 350k Communists with inferior equipment and no combat experience...
2- Of *course* the Nationalists will complain about insufficient aid, since they're losing battle after battle. Nothing remarkable about that. There's a reason Jiang was known as General "Cash-my-check" in the US.
The Japanese surrendered on August 14, 1945. The hostilities between CCP and KMT resumed on June 26th, 1946. 200k KMT troops surrounded 60k CCP troops at the border of Hubei and Henan. The Communists broke out of the encirclement. Is that the possible with inexperienced troops?
Between those 2 events, only 10 months have passed. Factoring in the time it takes to actually take control of surrendered Japanese equipment, the Communists would only have had a few months to train in Japanese equipment *AND* somehow acquire enough combat training to manage the above feat. That is if we stick with your idea that the Communists didn't do anything useful during the war against Japan.
why don't you add up the CCP commanders and their units after ww2 end to estimate if they had 1.2 million regular troops strength? Mao Zedong motive of exaggerating the fake 1 million number would be to claim a non-existent mandate, i.e. support from peasants so to have more bargaining rights during the peace talks in Chungking 1945.
the CCP did have more than 1 million troops by mid 1946. the increase from 300-500K to 1 million came from the Manchukuo army (400K), North Korean troops (100K) and extensive conscription.
the best military aid for the Nationalist are the small arms and ammunition. the United States did not give any infantry weapons to the Nationalist after WW2 end to 1948. the Nationalist also had a severe shortage of ammunition.
i thought Li Xiannian's & Wang Zhen forces were heavily routed, reduced to 500 remnants? i know little about this Hubei-Henan battle.
inexperienced troops doesn't mean no ability to fight / no chances of success. the moral and spirit mattered a lot and are equally important with military might in winning battles. the Communist troops' morale were high on the ascendance from 1946. by contrast the Nationalist troops' morale were deteriorating and increasingly dispirited as the war dragged on due to many reasons.
so the Communist did what useful fighting during the war, especially from 1941-1945? please write a bit more, not just one line like harassing Japanese behind the front lines. harass what? and what did the Commies achieved that really made a useful contribution toward the Chinese war situation?
