Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Since the end of 1940, after Yoshio Shinozuka, the former commander of the First Army, committed suicide, Yoshio Iwamatsu took over as the commander of the First Army, and Hanaya Masa served as the chief of staff.

In the early years, Yoshio Iwamatsu served as the head of the China Section of the General Staff Headquarters. He had been active in China for a long time and had contacts with many senior officials of the Nationalist Government. He was a well-known China hand within the Japanese army.

He successively served as the head of the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Infantry Division, the commander of the Ryukyu Garrison, and the head of the [-]th Division.

Hua Guzheng, together with Seishiro Itagaki, a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, and Kanji Ishihara, a combat staff officer of the Kwantung Army, mastermind the Liutiaohu incident and became the core figure in launching the "September 29th" Incident. Before coming to the First Army, he was a member of the Third Division Commander of the [-]th Infantry Brigade.

After the two took office, they actively implemented the soft policy proposed by Neiji Okamura. The First Army gradually reduced its confrontation with the Chinese armed forces in Shanxi, and instead shrank its strength and began to recuperate.

When Okamura Ningci was in Taiyuan, he proposed that the First Army should concentrate its forces on a sweep of the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base. The Jinsui army was hanging on one side like two time bombs, which made the two feel uneasy.

Previously, in 1939, after the establishment of the headquarters of the Japanese Army’s China Expeditionary Force, Chief of Staff Seishiro Sakagaki proposed that the First Army’s induction of Yan Laoxi’s surrender would be the first task in the future, and called this plan “Bo Job”.

After the Jinsui army arrived in the west of Shanxi, when Yoshio Shinozuka was in office, he took big and aggressive measures against the Jinsui army, but Yan Laoxi put it together. A large amount of funds and weapons and ammunition were defrauded.

After Hua Guzheng took office, in order to ensure the smooth progress of "Bo's work", he sent a flying team to bomb the Kenanpo where Yan Lao XZ was located and the Yellow River Ferry in the Jinsui Army Defense Zone.

This move of the Japanese army awakened Yan Laoxi from his dream, and immediately sent representatives to contact the Japanese army.

At that time, he said to the negotiators: Our situation is very bad. Lao Jiang wants to eliminate us in the name of the War of Resistance. He does not give us enough funds, nor does he provide additional personnel and weapons. He suppresses us everywhere and makes everything difficult for us. .

The Eighth Route Army has done even worse, not only attacking us everywhere, but also trying to use chickens to lay eggs. The Eighth Route Army has a strict organization in various places in Shanxi, and has pulled the common people over. If the Japanese attack us again, we will only end up being wiped out. .

At present, we can develop ourselves only by temporarily borrowing the strength of the Japanese. This is a last resort and our only way out.

And put forward four propositions, that is, "Asian alliance, joint defense against communism, diplomatic unity, and self-care of internal affairs."

So starting in 1940, the Jinsui army and the Japanese army first held talks at Baibiguan. After that, the Japanese army and the Jinsui army reached a consensus to cancel the hostility, support each other, and jointly fight against the Communist Party. The Japanese army withdrew from Xiaoyi County, and the Jinsui army stationed.This also led to the outbreak of the Jinxi Incident to a certain extent. Yan Laoxi arrested people who were developed by the Eighth Route Army in the new army.

Afterwards, the two sides held talks in Fenyang and reached the "Fenyang Agreement", which was an oral agreement between Yan Laoxi and the Japanese.

The general meaning is that the two sides cooperated, the Japanese armed [-] regiments of the Jinsui Army, the whole of Shanxi was handed over to Yan Laoxi, the first army was under the command of Yan Laoxi, and Yan Laoxi needed to electrify the whole country to break away from the jurisdiction of the Nationalist government.

As a result, it took until 1942. For two years, Yan Laoxi did not send out the call, but he raised a lot of conditions. For a while, he asked the Japanese to provide food, and for a while, he asked the Japanese to provide some weapons and ammunition. I will order another site.

Jin Province was the place where the Four World Wars took place, and the Japanese army had an absolute advantage. The Central Army, the Jinsui Army, and the Eighth Route Army were three pillars. Stepping on the spot is very precise.

No one is to offend, everyone takes advantage of it, in his words, it is dancing on three eggs.

The national army and the Eighth Route Army are still calm, but the key point is that the Japanese can't take it anymore. The Japanese army's front in China is getting longer and longer, and there is a shortage of manpower everywhere. However, many troops are pinned down in Jin Province. The Japanese are eager to fight against Yan Laoxi. Settle the matter of surrender so that manpower can be spared.

Yan Laoxi's actions made Yoshio Iwamatsu and Hua Guzheng very annoyed. The Japanese also played hard and soft, giving Yan Laoxi candy for a while, and ordering troops to attack later. Who knows whether Yan Laoxi is soft or hard? Eat, ask for something, beat him, he is unambiguous, and immediately fights back.

Now that the Japanese army wants to use troops against the Eighth Route Army, but the Central Army and the Jinsui Army are watching, how can it not cause headaches for the Japanese army.

Taiyuan, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.

Hua Gu was sitting opposite Yoshio Iwamatsu, and said: "Your Excellency, the representative we sent to contact the Central Army of China has returned, and reached a verbal agreement with Li Moan, the highest officer of China. The Chinese promised that as long as we do not take the initiative to attack , the other party will never take the initiative to provoke a dispute!"

"According to the information, after the former Chief of the First War Zone, Wei Lihuang, was transferred away, the new commander was a smuggler, a master of infighting, many generals under his command were not convinced, and his direct troops sold military supplies. The rest of the troops followed suit and traded with the Eighth Route Army, which led to the corruption of military discipline. At this time, the Chinese armed forces in the Zhongtiao Mountain area are far from what they used to be, so there is nothing to worry about!"

"At this moment, I think that General Gangcun's proposal to win over the Jinsui Army, suppress the Eighth Route Army, and concentrate on the national army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area is an excellent strategy!"

On the opposite side, Yoshio Iwamatsu rubbed his temples when he heard the words: "I don't know, but this is the original intention and the order of His Majesty the Emperor. We must implement it. What does the Jinsui Army say?"

When mentioning the Jinsui Army, Hua Guzheng's face flashed with anger, and he immediately opened his mouth to curse: "Yan Baichuan is really a capricious villain. You can't get some cheap here!"

"As the actual controller of the Jinsui Army, he is not as happy as a war zone chief of the China National Army, and he has not given a clear answer for a long time!" At this time, Huagu had already lost patience with Yan Laoxi's delay.

"Mr. Huagu, we are too anxious, which has led to our current passiveness. Before the meeting, the Jinsui army had already learned of our ongoing troop deployment. If we didn't take the initiative to find Yan Baichuan, he would instead be because he didn't understand our situation. Motivation, eager to talk to us, the current situation is too passive!" Yoshio Iwamatsu said with a headache.

"From past indications, Yan Baichuan has the intention to cooperate, but he only considers his so-called interests, instead of cooperating with the imperial army quickly with sincerity, and completely surrenders to the imperial army. In order to avoid the sharp edge of the imperial army, he continues to contact secretly At the same time, the Central Army also pretended to cooperate with the Imperial Army, and deliberately put forward exaggerated conditions, taking advantage of the cooperation conditions that we cannot implement, so as to delay the negotiation, this is Yan Baichuan's plan to delay the army!" Hua Guzheng said in a deep voice.

"Your Excellency, I suggest that in future negotiations with the Jinsui Army, we should still use force to oppress and economic blockade, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve our goals. Only peaceful means of negotiation will fall into his plan to slow down the troops."

"Now is not the time to talk about this. Send representatives to contact the Jinsui army again, and we can properly agree to Yan Baichuan's conditions. Hmph, as long as the imperial army is free, he will spit out as much as he eats!" said Yoshio Iwamatsu. .

This time, the Japanese army approached the Central Army and the Jinsui Army for talks with great sincerity, and it was a tacit understanding among the three parties to jointly deal with the Eighth Route Army.

It's just that when Chief Wei was in power, he strongly advocated uniting the Eighth Route Army to resist the Japanese army, which suppressed the harmonious voices in the first theater.

Both the Central Army and the Jinsui Army want to sit on the sidelines and watch the tigers fight, so as to weaken the strength of the Eighth Route Army. However, in comparison, Yan Laoxi and his Jinsui Army are natives of Jin Province. Once the balance is broken, The Japanese army turned their guns, and the Jinsui army had only two ways to go.

One is to preserve strength and cross the Yellow River to enter the territory of Shaanxi Province. However, in this way, the Shanxi-Sui Army that Yan Laoxi worked so hard on will become rootless, and will be suppressed by the Central Army everywhere. The Northeast Army is a lesson from the past. .

The other way is to seek refuge with the Japanese, but Yan Laoxi is a person who cares about his reputation after all, and he is not willing to be a lackey for the Japanese if there is a little room for maneuver.

There is also a reason for the Central Army’s willingness to agree. After seeing the Japanese representatives, the First War Zone immediately reported to the old man. Without any effort, someone would help deal with the Eighth Route Army. The old man was of course happy, so he acquiesced adopted this approach.

The people around the old man had an extremely accurate grasp of the international situation, and understood that the Japanese were eager to deploy their troops to Southeast Asia and even the Pacific region, and the Japanese army's troops in China would become less and less.

Under such circumstances, the national government's attitude towards the Japanese army changed, and some of them proposed to show weakness, so that the Japanese army could safely transfer their troops out of China, thereby reducing the pressure on the national army.

Even if the North China Dispatch Army will attack Zhongtiao Mountain in the future, it can take the initiative to shrink its troops to the south of the Yellow River, trade space for time, and consume the Japanese army in China.

This idea is feasible, but Americans cannot know it.

In the next few days, the Japanese army came into contact with the Jinsui Army again, and Hua Guzheng met the representatives sent by the Jinsui Army in person to show his sincerity.

Unexpectedly, at the kind invitation of the Japanese, it was not Yan Laoxi who came.

Huagu was furious at the time, and said domineeringly to the representative of the Jinsui Army: "Can you represent Yan Baichuan himself, or can you represent the entire Jinsui Army?"

"In my opinion, you can't represent him. Yan Baichuan is cunning and deceitful. He has deceived all the people in China. Whoever is appointed as a representative can't be his family. I have to negotiate directly with him to solve the problem, otherwise I will bring it up. The imperial army will not agree to the conditions at all!"

Seeing that the Japanese army was so tough, the representative of the Jinsui Army had no choice but to return to Kenanpo in despair. After learning the content of the meeting, Yan Laoxi smiled instead of anger: "Liar? The old man is good at it!"

"It seems that the Japanese are really anxious now. The movement of the Eighth Route Army in the past two years has been too much. It's time to suppress it. Otherwise, the entire Sanjin land should be replaced. Well, old man, I will personally Take a trip!"

At this time, Yan Laoxi had deep opinions on the Eighth Route Army and the Central Army. After the Japanese army occupied most of Shanxi Province, the Jinsui Army had to retreat to a corner of Shanxi.

The Eighth Route Army has indeed flourished in the name of fighting against the Japanese invaders and defending the land of the Three Jins. The Central Army has done even better. First, it banned the government represented by Sun Chu in the southeast of Shanxi, and then included the entire 358 regiment with only one order. The order of battle of the Central Army.

After Yan Laoxi heard that Chu Yunfei left the Jinsui Army collectively in 358 days and switched to the Central Army, he cursed angrily: "Eating the old man's food and receiving the old man's salary, in the end, you are an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf , the old man’s 358 regiment, if I knew it, I wouldn’t let the Whampoa military students return to my Jinsui Army!”

Anping is the meeting place for the two parties. After learning that Yan Laoxi came to the meeting in person, Hua Guzheng changed his previous tough attitude, and the two sides immediately entered a state of love between you and me.

"Your Excellency, in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the American fleet was defeated by the United Fleet of the Empire of Japan. Our Empire of Japan won successive victories in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Clearly, the national government is not a problem, your cooperation with the Great Japanese Empire is in your own interest, and it is also the right time, there is no benefit in waiting and watching!"

"At present, the Eighth Route Army is growing in North China. The Imperial Army wants to solve this serious problem. You don't need to do anything now. You just need to watch the fire from the other side. During this time, you can also think carefully about the future of your Excellency and the Jinsui Army!"

Hua Guzheng clarified the point directly, but Yan Laoxi wanted to take the opportunity to raise some conditions, and immediately adjourned the meeting temporarily with the excuse of going to the toilet.

Just after Yan Laoxi came out of the toilet, he wanted to discuss with his confidant, but he heard the report from the head of the guard: "President, the troops stationed outside Anping have reported that a large group of people is coming towards Anping!"

"What?" Yan Laoxi was in a state of confusion at the time, thinking that the Japanese would take him to Taiyuan forcibly by taking the opportunity of the meeting.

At this moment, Yan Laoxi heard a loud voice from the rest room where the Japanese were: Artillery come forward!

"No, it's a Hongmen Banquet. The Japanese want the old man's life. Let's go!" Yan Laoxi trotted to the venue and shouted: "The meeting is suspended!"

Then he slipped away with his entourage, a group of Japanese people in the lounge looked at each other, looking at each other, wondering why Yan Laoxi changed his attitude when they were talking just now.

"Baga! Lu! The Chinese people are so cunning, they are all unbelievable!" Hua Guzheng cursed loudly.

"Sir, I'll go to inquire right away, please wait a moment!" The adjutant at the side hurriedly chased out to understand the situation, but saw Yan Laoxi and his party riding away on horseback.

It turned out that the "artillery soldiers come forward" just now was a misunderstanding. Before Hua Guzheng came, he prepared a big gift for Yan Laoxi, which was a full 100 million French currency.

In order to let Yan Laoxi know, he specially ordered people to yell outside during the break: "French currency comes forward".

Who knew that the pronunciation of French currency and artillery in Japanese is very similar, but Yan Laoxi studied in Japan for eight years in his early years, and he is also half-level in Japanese. He just heard "artillery is coming" in a hurry. Yan Laoxi was scared away.