As the corrupt and impotent Kuomintang government lost one battle after another and the Japanese troops advanced unchecked to the vicinity of Wuhan in the first year of the War of Resistance,some backward people became profoundly pessimistic.

• 这是因为国民党政府腐败无能，在抗日战争中节节失败，而日军则长驱直进，在战争的第一年中就侵占了华北和华中的大片土地，因而在一部分落后的人民中产生了严重的悲观情绪。