The Republic of Heroes

Zhou Longguang didn't expect Wu Xiaoliang's reaction to be so intense, and he stuttered in shock.

"You, you, what are you doing?"

Wu Xiaoliang sneered and said:

"I'm going to wake you up, you foolish person. The Japanese are greedy. How can they satisfy their appetite through compromise?"

"Who doesn't want compensation, but they can't fight, how can they ask for money? It's better to be more pragmatic and allow them to retreat first."

Wu Xiaoliang felt sad when he heard Zhou Longguang's eloquent words. There are many people in China who hold Zhou Longguang's thoughts, even countless.Indeed, on the surface, if you can’t win, you can only choose a pragmatic compromise, but if you compromised yesterday, compromised today, and will compromise tomorrow, how long will China have to compromise?The Japanese are greedy, and in the end, will they offer the whole of China with both hands?

"You sit back and enjoy the success of the negotiation. There is a big show for you to watch."

"Big play?"

Zhou Longguang muttered puzzledly, but Wu Xiaoliang said sharply: "If you mess around again, don't blame Wu for being cruel and ruthless!" He trembled in fright, nodded repeatedly and said:

"The lowly position will never mix it up again, it won't mix it up..."

The negotiation was fruitless again, but bad news came again. A 1000-man security brigade was surrounded by Han Fuju's surprise attack in Dawenkou.The situation in Shandong has changed several times in January, which is dizzying.

Fangze Qianji looked triumphantly at Wu Xiaoliang who was on the opposite side of the negotiating table. Although he could not see sadness and happiness on General China's face, he guessed that General China must be in a panic.

The foundation of General China is in Shandong. If Shandong is not stable, how can he have the mood to negotiate?Naturally, they will be impatient to end the negotiations as soon as possible to punish the rebellion.However, in Fangze Qianji's eyes, Wu Xiaoliang had no chance. With the help of Saito, it was only a matter of time before Han Fuju won Shandong, and the poor General China could only end sadly in the end.He coughed twice, and once again set out the negotiation conditions. In order to lure him into the trap, he deliberately lowered the bottom line.

"We can lower the conditions appropriately. First, the Chinese government needs to apologize. Second, the imperial government will not pay compensation. Third, the imperial army will withdraw from Shandong step by step within a year. Fourth, there must be no Chinese troops within ten miles along the Jiaoji Railway. garrison."

Is this the rhythm of turning Shandong into the second Fengtian?Wu Xiaoliang would never allow this to happen. He stood up and apologized and said, "Your Excellency, if you still insist on these Wuli conditions, I am sorry that it is difficult for us to accept it. And I would like to reiterate the position of the Chinese government. First, the Japanese government An apology must be made to the Chinese Nationalist Government. Second, the compensation must be done in a fair and just manner. Third, the Japanese Army must withdraw from Shandong unconditionally from now on. Farewell!"

After all, Wu Xiaoliang got up and took the Chinese negotiators away one after another.

Fangze Qianji was surprised. Could it be that Wu Xiaoliang is not nervous and doesn't care about Shandong?Does he really want to give up his territory?But then the news from the front line in Tai'an made him call it "impossible".

After several confirmations, he sat on the chair blankly and murmured: "How could this be, how could this be?"

It turned out that after Saito's No.11 brigade entered Tai'an, there was friction with Han Fuju's troops, and the friction eventually turned into a war between the two armies.Han Fuju's troops were driven out of Tai'an in embarrassment, and retreated to Feicheng and Dong'e.Saito did not stop there, but chased and beat Han Fuju's remnants into Henan.

As for the troops on the eastern front of the Korean Army, they heard that their morale plummeted at the northern end of their hometown in Tai'an, and they had no intention of fighting, and the siege of Dawenkou was immediately resolved.Dawenkou's [-] security forces marched northward along Yanjinpu Road, and occupied Tai'an in one fell swoop.

Fangze humbly scolded Saito idiot angrily, not hitting those who should be beaten, and chasing and beating those who should not be beaten, it is simply unreasonable.He didn't care about the negotiations at this time, so he urgently ordered people to send a telegram to recall Saito's [-]th Brigade, and at the same time hurriedly ordered people to request the headquarters of the general staff to send troops to Shandong immediately, so as to prevent the war from expanding and becoming unsustainable.He sent Saito to Tai'an originally as a deterrent and to show the attitude of the imperial country, but he never thought that the idiot Saito would actually fight with the puppet he supported.

It's just that he didn't know Saito's difficulties, and he couldn't guess that Saito was greeting his family members one by one at this time. If it wasn't for the damn Ken Yoshizawa, how could he end up in such a state?Holding the handle in the hands of the Chinese general, the two powers are harming each other whichever is the lesser, and beating another Chinese will not only not pose a threat to his reputation, but will also help Saito's status in the army, so he followed Wu Xiaoliang's instructions , beat Han Fuju to death.

Although there is a large piece of land north of the Yellow River that belongs to the boundary of Shandong Province, it is actually controlled by Sun Liangcheng, the chairman of Henan Province.Saito crossed the Yellow River during the pursuit and headed north again. This time it was Sun Liangcheng's turn to be unlucky, and Liaocheng, Boping, Guantao, and Linqing fell one after another.Sun did not dare to fight the Japanese army and ordered his subordinates to avoid the enemy's edge.So Saito's No.11 brigade was like entering a land of no one, and had a good fight, relieved the depression of being threatened by General China, and finally rushed all the way to Hebei.

There are few travelers in Saito, so they can only fight all the way and give up all the way to the county.Wu Xiaoliang's security brigade followed behind him all the way, taking back the counties that Saito had abandoned one by one, and within a few days there was a tendency to unify the whole province.

When the news spread back to Jinan, Fangze's modest and auspicious Qiqiao smoked, and cursed Saito's pig-headed idiot, but there was nothing he could do.Several telegrams were sent out like nothing, and Saito was tossing around like a kite with a broken string on the north bank of the Yellow River. If this matter was sent back to China, he would face the most severe accountability from Prime Minister Tanaka.Although he thought this matter was weird, he couldn't link Saito and Wu Xiaoliang together anyway.

What made Yoshizawa Kenkichi even more embarrassing was that the telegram sent to the military headquarters also failed to reply.

In fact, no matter what the subjectivity is, Saito and Wu Xiaoliang cooperated very well objectively. Saito went straight to Hebei, and the security brigade followed him along the way to "recover" the lost ground, and then the various militia groups changed into The reserve forces of the security brigade occupied the guards one after another.

Hebei province is the territory of the Jin general Xu Yongchang. Like Sun Liangcheng, he was afraid of the Japanese soldiers, and ordered his subordinates to avoid the enemy. In the end, Saito went all the way to Tianjin, and Wu Xiaoliang's security brigade reserve also "recovered" Along Jinpu Road from Dezhou to Tianjin.

This transfer of thousands of kilometers allowed Saito to take the limelight in the army. At the same time, he also became the first general in the Japanese army to lead troops deep into the three provinces in China. The division has become a sharp knife that the North China Dispatch Army relies on most.

At this time, it was late December, and the severe winter was coming, and Kenkichi Yoshizawa's heart was as hard as ice in this severe winter.Since Saito's military actions in China brought enormous international pressure to the imperial government, Prime Minister Tanaka has urged him several times to end the negotiations as soon as possible.