Chapter 210: Sending troops to North China (I)

Just as the Wuhan Military Commission was actively dispatching troops to prepare for reinforcement of the 29th Army, the Peking side had a strange ceasefire. Then, news came that Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the 38th Division, secretly met with Major General Hashimoto, the chief of staff of the Neon Army North China Garage Army, in Tianjin.

When Chen Xiuwen heard this news, he felt a little sad and asked quickly: "The news is accurate?"

"The news is accurate. Song Zheyuan secretly arrived in Tianjin at night and convened senior generals of the 29th Army to convene a military and political meeting. On the morning of the fifth day, Zhang Jinchen secretly went to the Tianjin North China Governor Army Command." As he said, he added another sentence: "Now the commander of the North China Governor Army, Tashi Ichiro, is seriously ill. At present, the affairs are under the leadership of Major General Hashimoto Qun. The agents from the Tianjin Station of the Secret Service saw Hashimoto Qun personally send Zhang Jinchen out."

In this era, although Chen Xiuwen had never seen Zhang Zizhong, and Zhang Zizhong was not a division commander of a miscellaneous army at this time, in the memories of later generations, Zhang Zizhong was a national hero and a famous anti-Japanese general. Huaibei defeated the enemy and fought hard in Linyi. Zhang Zizhong resolutely rescued Pang Bingxun's troops and severely damaged Itagaki Division. This not only shocked Itagaki, but also made the enemy Pang Bingxun sigh, but also laid the victory for the Taierzhuang victory. Xuzhou, Wuhan, Xiangdong, Zaoyi, and all the places where the war was most fierce, Zhang Zizhong was left with the capable and strong figure. Almost all the battles he participated in were played with the drums and music of victory. He was the first commander of the army to fall on the front line during the Anti-Japanese War. Chen Xiuwen could not understand why Zhang Zizhong chose to negotiate and compromise with the Japanese at this time. This behavior was undoubtedly a traitor.

Seeing that Chen Xiuwen didn't speak, he sighed indifferently: "The Japanese are using their old tricks again to prepare for their increase in troops. The 29th Army's peace talks with the Japanese at this time is tantamount to seeking a skin with a tiger."

The situations reported by the intoxicated person were all circulated through the intelligence network of the Secret Service in North China. He knew that Chairman Jiang must have known it. However, there are many warlords in North China, each of whom is making their own small plans. When the disaster comes, they are still disregarding national justice for their own personal gain. Thinking that the hero in his mind is doing such a thing, Chen Xiuwen suddenly felt upset.

"It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, let him go. Even the principal can't control such things. One day they will pay the price for their stupid actions." He sighed.

Chen Xiuwen felt a deep sense of powerlessness even though he knew the development of things but could not stop them from happening.

On October 6, on the first day after the new commander of the North China Garage Army, the Japanese Emperor, was appointed by the Japanese Emperor, took office, Song Zheyuan publicly issued the so-called declaration of peace in Tianjin. At the same time, he issued an order to the entire army: (1) After the first train started early on October 10, the train operation was normalized; (2) lifting the martial law in Peking; (3) Releasing the arrested Japanese; (4) Strictly prohibiting friction with the Neon Army.

On the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Zizhong reached a humiliating agreement on behalf of the 29th Army and Hashimoto, the commander of the North China Garage Army of the Neon Army, Hashimoto, reached a humiliating agreement. He not only agreed to apologize, guaranteed that similar incidents would not occur in the future and banned anti-Japanese groups, but also agreed to the unreasonable request of the Neon Army Wanping City and returning to Long Temple to not station in the Chinese national team.

When the news reached Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek was shocked. He did not expect that he repeatedly ordered Song Zheyuan to make all the preparations for resistance, and would never compromise with the Neon Army, and had ordered the army to go north to reinforce. However, Song Zheyuan still dared to take the blame for the world and reached an agreement with the Neon Army privately on his back.

While denying the 29th Army's charm of Japan and Song Zheyuan had no backbone, he ordered Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui to notify the Japanese Embassy in China in the form of a memorandum: "Any understanding that is not approved by the central government will be invalid."

At the same time, the telegram was sent to Song Zheyuan again, and the central government had decided to use all its strength to resist the war, rather than to keep the character of our country. At the same time, on the eve of the Battle of Shanghai, Japan was essentially a slowdown in the name of peace talks, and was a lesson for the past, and advised Song Zheyuan to stop, abandon his fantasy, and prepare for the battle.

But Song Zheyuan, who was determined to save his territory and army, could not hear it and ordered Zhang Zizhong to represent the Hebei-Cha regime. Accompanied by the traitor Qi Xieyuan and Chen Juesheng, he would continue negotiations with Hashimoto Group, the representative of the commander of the garrison army, the Hashimoto Group, Hashimoto, the representative of the commander of the garrison army, Kazuki Kiyoshi.

But all this was just Song Zheyuan's wishful thinking. Just as he was busy negotiating with the Japanese and withdrawing troops from Wanping, Kazuki Kiyoshi was actively deploying troops. In just one week, the Neon Army gathered forces in Peking and Tianjin: the former North China garrison army, the Hebian Masaru Infantry Brigade; the 11th Independent Brigade of the Kanto Army, namely the Suzuki Shigekatsu Independent Mixed Brigade, which was from Rehe troops to Gubeikou and had already entered the northern suburbs of Beiping; the Kanto Army Chahar dispatched corps led by Tojo Hideki, led by Tojo Hideki Independence Independence Corps of the Kanto Army led by Hideki Tojo

The 1st brigade, namely the Sakai Hoji Brigade, also advanced from the Rehe River to Beiping and captured the Shahe Town of Beiping; the 20th Division of the Japanese garrison stationed in Korea, led by division commander Fumisaburo Kawakishi, had entered Shanhaiguan and invaded the area south of Beiping; the 5th Division led by Seishiro Itagaki was transported to North China by sea from Japan and cooperated with the navy to land in Tanggu; the 2nd Flight Group, the regiment commander of Ando Saburo, had a Japanese plane of 120 flights to Tianjin. The above forces were about 60,000.

In addition, there were about 17,000 puppet security teams in eastern Hebei, more than 20,000 puppet self-defense troops in Mongolian and Han, about 12,000 puppet Manchukuo-Mongols and Suizhou United Army, and about 7,000 puppet Mongolians and Suizhou Army. The number of Japanese troops was on par with the 29th Army, and their combat strength was far exceeding that of the 29th Army. In terms of weapons and combat readiness, the Neon Army had unloaded 100,000 tons of supplies at the Tanggu Port, and the Tianjin Neon Army transported forty heavy-duty vehicles to Fengtai and other places day and night every day.

With the continuous arrival of the Neon Army reinforcements, the Neon Army and the 29th Army continued to be tough in negotiations, and then proposed to withdraw from Peiping's 37th Division.

Faced with the unreasonable conditions of the Neon Army, negotiator Zhang Zizhong also felt that the Neon Army had no sincerity at all. As their reinforcements arrived, they even had annexation of Pingjin. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek's repeated orders also made him intent. Although he had no good feelings for Chiang Kai-shek, he also felt that Chiang was from the perspective of national justice this time.

"The military captain cannot continue to talk. Now the Neon Army has dispatched heavy troops from North Korea and outside the pass to try to surround the Peking group. We must make a countermeasure." Zhang Zizhong said to Song Zheyuan worriedly.

In fact, Song Zheyuan was already in a difficult situation at this time. Now, the Neon Army outside the city of Peking has far surpassed the defenders of Peking, but even surpassed the entire Twenty-Nine Army. Song Zheyuan, who had fought with the Japanese, knew very well that with his current strength, there was only a dead end to fight. What should we do? We can only talk about it.

"Female, I think the Japanese are just bluffing. They just want to gain greater benefits in negotiations with us. The talk will continue. In this way, I will go to the meeting with you tomorrow to express our sincerity." At this time, Song Zheyuan was still blinded by his own interests and said deceivingly.

"But the conditions proposed by the Japanese now are all conditions for losing power and humiliating the country. Besides, there are many calls for anti-Japanese wars across the country. The Battle of Songhu, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Sichuan are actively fighting against Japan. If we promise the Japanese such conditions at this time, it will undoubtedly be pointed out by thousands of people. If we don't do it well, we will become the second Zhang Hanqing and the sinner of the nation..." Now the Japanese are obviously unwilling to give up. It is not the bluff that Song Zheyuan said, and Zhang Zizhong continued to persuade.

"I am not Zhang Hanqing, and North China will not become Northeast China." Before Zhang Zizhong finished speaking, Song Zheyuan interrupted him in shame and anger. However, when he saw Zhang Zizhong stunned on the spot, he sighed and said, "Friendly, the reason I did this is entirely for the 100,000 brothers of our 29th Army. North China is on the front line, and it is definitely not comparable to the Guangxi, Guangdong and Sichuan Army. They have their territory, which can advance or retreat. But we have no way out except North China. Even though the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing are fierce, look at Han Fuju in Shandong and Yan Xishan in Shanxi. Have they used one soldier and one soldier? I hope you can understand my efforts and leave the last territory for my Northwest Army and some old foundation for the Northwest Army that Huan Zhang Gong worked hard to establish."

Hearing Song Zheyuan's words, Zhang Zizhong was silent. Song Zheyuan was right. Once he lost his territory, local troops like them would be like rootless floating floating paddles. The Northeast Army, the most elite troops back then, have now lost almost all of them on the Songhu front line. The remaining troops, except for Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army and Wan Fulin's 53rd Army, were either incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek or cancelled. If the Northwest Army, which had repeatedly anti-Chiang lost North China, would definitely end up worse than the Northeast Army.

"Feither for our Northwest Army and for the peace of North China, I hope you can stand with me." Song Zheyuan continued to say when he saw Zhang Zizhong silent.

Song Zheyuan said this to this point, Zhang Zizhong glanced at him in a complicated manner, slowly stood up, and said, "Yes."

At this time, accompanied by Zhang Zizhong, Song Zheyuan visited Xiangyue Qingsi, the new commander of the Neon Army North China Governor Army. After returning, Song Zheyuan optimistically said to Tong Linge, the deputy commander who still insisted on fighting with the Japanese, and said: "We met Xiangyue very well, and there is no problem with a peaceful solution."

But Song Zheyuan never expected that he wanted to touch Xiangyue's bottom, but Xiangyue was fooled. Xiangyue saw that the attack on Pinglu had not been completed, so she was polite to Song Zheyuan. Song Zheyuan was happy, not only thought that a peaceful solution was expected, but also revealed his own trump card.

At this time, the Neon Army had reached five divisions, with a force of more than 100,000, and the military power comparison between the two sides reversed. That afternoon, the Neon Army established the Supreme Command in Fengtai, commanded by Xiangyueqing Division. Song Zheyuan was happy that less than a day, and in order to force the 29th Army to submit and accept their conditions, the Neon Army launched a large-scale attack on Wanping, bombarded Changxindian, and blew Langfang.

The Neon Army soldiers were approaching, and the war was in front of us, but Song Zheyuan still hoped to influence the Japanese through his unilateral sincerity in reconciliation. On October 15, just after the Neon Army began to attack, he not only issued a summoning statement with begging, but even ordered the Beiping City Defense Force to demolish street fighting fortifications. For a moment, a strange scene occurred inside and outside of Peking: the Neon Army put away trenches and set up artillery, and prepared horses and soldiers; the Twenty-Nine Army demolished trenches and filled trenches and cleared roadblocks, and were all very busy.

Xiangyue Qingsi, who was still perfunctory Song Zheyuan the day before, issued a statement at 22:00 on the 15th: "From midnight on the 16th, the garrison troops will take free actions."

At this critical moment, Song Zheyuan had to order negotiator Zhang Zizhong to sign a secret clause for the implementation of the armistice agreement at 23:00 on the 15th, which further took the terms of the undrying of the ink mark signed on October 6th. The content was: In order to achieve the third item signed on October 6th, it was agreed to implement the following items:

(1) The instigation of thoroughly suppressing the Communist Party.

(2) The Hebei-Chahar side will voluntarily remove employees who are not suitable for cooperation between the two parties.

(3) Within the scope of Hebei-Chahar, if any other establishment agencies have a sun-shaped color, they will be banned.

(4) Removal of the Japanese group such as the Blue-Clothing Society and CC Group in Hebei and Cha.

(V) Ban the propaganda agencies that dismiss the Japanese remarks and dismiss the Japanese remarks, as well as the Japanese remarks movements for students and the masses.

(VI) Crack down the volleyball education and volleyball movement of all troops and schools under the Hebei-Chahar region. The 37th Division in the city of Beiping was also removed, and the Hebei-Chahar region was responsible for implementing it.

At 5 a.m. on the 16th, Song Zheyuan issued the following order based on the above humiliating clause:

1. The 37th Division near Peiping will gather in Xiyuan starting today and should be completed tomorrow;

2. In order to warn the above assembly, the third unit of Shiyou was placed near Babaoshan, and retreated the next day after the 37th Division was assembled.

At 3 pm that day, the Japanese secret service chief Matsui Taihiro came to visit Song Zheyuan again and agreed to withdraw from the 37th Division near Baoding and be taken over by Zhao Dengyu's troops. Song Zheyuan and others finally fully agreed to the conditions proposed by the Neon Army to lose power and humiliate the country.

At the same time, in order to worry about irritating the Japanese, and to beware of others' seizure of power, he ordered Sun Lianzhong and Pang Bingxun, who had arrived in Baoding, who had arrived in Baoding, to prevent them from going north again.

When Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Wuhan, learned from Dai Li, who was hurrying to report that Song Zheyuan did not listen to his orders at all, bypassed the central government and signed a peace agreement with the Neon Army alone, he couldn't help but slapped the table and cursed: "Mom Xipi, it's not a good deal! I have repeatedly stated that the Japanese pirates do not value Xinyi, and Song Mingxuan is still determined to act alone. When the troops are in the forefront, they do not want to prepare for war. Not only does they remove the defense of the Beiping City, but also signed a peace agreement with the Japanese. Who gives him this power?"

Chiang Kai-shek was right and really angry. Since the outbreak of the incident, he had sent North China to North China, demonstrating the determination of the central government to fight against the war, and repeatedly reminded the 29th Army of North China not to have illusions about the Neon Army. In particular, a large number of troops of the Neon Army were frequently mobilized, and on the sixth day, he sent Kazuki Kiyoshi to take office as commander of the Neon Army of North China, replacing the sick former commander Anyi Ichiro Tashi. Chiang Kai-shek even believed that the war would break out at any time, so he sent North China almost every day. Taking the example of the past several times the Neon Army broke contracts, he told Song Zheyuan not to trust the Neon Army too much and launch an attack on the Neon Army as soon as possible. But in the end, Song Zheyuan not only did not fight, but also acted smart, but also signed a peace agreement with the Japanese behind his back.

"Tell Song Mingxuan." Chiang Kai-shek ordered Chen Bulei, director of the Second Office of the attendant, and said: "It is very dangerous and wrong to remove the defense of the Beiping city. It is necessary to correct it immediately. In addition, we must prevent the Japanese from taking good care of every step, and do not calculate it. In addition, we must notify them to report the process of signing the agreement quickly."

After saying that, Jiang walked to the window, pondered for a moment, and added: "Tell Foreign Minister Wang and issue another statement that any agreement signed by the local government without the permission of the central government will be invalid."

After Chen Bulei and Dai Li left, Chiang Kai-shek was still in a state of upset. In the past two years, Song Zheyuan had been ordered to deal with the Japanese without any intention, and he agreed to every time he made concessions to the Japanese. But the situation has changed drastically to this day. Although there has not been a formal declaration of war, Song Hu and Central China have been in a state of unbreakable struggle, Shanghai and Nanjing have been lost, while Song Zheyuan repeatedly resisted his orders and retreated step by step, contrary to the central government. If this continues, how can we maintain the consistency of the central government's policies and how can we face the Chinese people?

If Chiang Kai-shek wanted the international community to interfere and adopt a war and harmonious strategy during the Battle of Shanghai. However, the international community was indifferent. After Nanjing fell, the only condition for the Japanese brought by the German ambassador Todmann, who was willing to mediate, was to become a puppet of the Japanese. In this regard, Chiang Kai-shek was unacceptable to death, whether from the perspective of personal or nationality. As for him, many historians believed that he had been arrogant and stubborn since childhood, and never wanted to be controlled by others. Today, he was the supreme country of a country. How could he accept it if he wanted him to pay tribute to the Japanese Emperor and the Japanese government? In addition, his worship and firm belief in the ancient Chinese culture and rich and profound classics made him more superior to the oriental cultural center. In Chiang Kai-shek's view, how could a great cultural country surrender to the Japanese pirates! So he had already been determined to fight against Japan.

However, the Yan Xishan Group and Han Fuju Group, which were entrenched in North China, did not listen to his command and could not mobilize their troops during the Battle of Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek knew that Song Zheyuan would not listen to the telegram alone. Compared with the local forces of the Guangxi clan, Guangdong clan and Sichuan clan, Chiang Kai-shek looked down on them even more.

Shanghai was lost, Nanjing was lost, and North China could not be lost anymore. And the Japanese could not be spared in their hands. In this situation of the enemy, Chiang Kai-shek was determined to send his Central Army north.
Chapter completed!