The true biography of Yaqiao, the first chivalrous king of the Republic of China

Chapter 41 Shanghai "September [-]th" Stillborn

Mamoru Aoi didn't get on the train?If I got on the train, why didn't I get off the train side by side with Song Ziwen as usual, and leave the station together?
Thousands of calculations are worse than fortune-telling.

At that time, Shigemitsu Aoi did take the limited express 55 times.Afterwards, he chatted with Song Ziwen for a few words, and then went back to his soft sleeper private room to sleep.Since the Nakamura incident, he has been under pressure from home and abroad, especially the severe accusations from the Japanese military, which made him feel miserable and restless.The train swayed back and forth, and it was blurry, and it was hard to close my eyes.

Normally, when the express train arrives at Zhenru Station in the suburbs of Shanghai, the waiters wake up the VIPs on the float.However, something happened that day. As soon as the train arrived at Suzhou Station, the waiter knocked on Chong Guangkui's door.Shigemitsu woke up and was about to get out of the car, but was told that the call was wrong.If you sleep again, you won’t be able to sleep; if you don’t sleep, it will take a long time to get off the car.Shigemitsu Aoi, who was already in a bad mood, no longer felt sleepy, and looked out the dark window and lost her temper.When the train arrived at Shanghai North Railway Station, as soon as the doors opened, Shigemitsu Aoi jumped off the train and left angrily.Song Ziwen washed his face, tidied up briefly, and came to Shigemitsu's box, but there was no one there.He felt that it was not polite to let Shigemitsu go alone, so he got out of the car to chase Shigemitsu together with his secretary Tang Yulu.Unexpectedly, this "mistake" not only saved Shigemitsu's life, but also Song Ziwen's life.The unlucky one is Tang Yulu, who is similar in age, appearance and size to Song Ziwen, and also wears the same clothes, so he becomes the "target" of Wang Yaqiao and Chang Yuqing.It's a pity that this Harvard University master of economics and the daughter of Tan Yankai, the dean of the National Government's Executive Yuan, were shot to death just after their honeymoon, leaving behind a beautiful wife and a posthumous child.

The North Station assassination shocked the world.Soon, a reporter from The New York Times conducted an exclusive interview with Song Ziwen.In the article "The Bullet Didn't Hit Song Dynasty", Song Ziwen said not without self-beautification:

I was walking outside the station when I was about 15 feet away from the exit when shots were fired from both sides of me.Realizing that I was the target, I threw off the hard white sun hat that stood out in the gray station and ran into the crowd, hiding behind a pillar.

The entire station was soon enveloped in smoke from the revolvers of the assassins. Random shots were fired from all directions, and my guards returned fire.It took a full 5 minutes for the smoke at the station to dissipate.My guards saw at least four Assassins firing, but there may have been more.

When the smoke cleared, we found my secretary, who was walking beside me, shot in the stomach, buttocks and arms.Bullets entered his body from both sides.His hat and briefcase were battered with bullets.

On the night of the assassination of the Song Dynasty, Chang Yuqing happily waited for the reward from the Japanese military attache in China and "magic soldier" Takashi Tanaka, but in the end, he slapped him twice: "You idiot, you broke the Imperial Army's Good thing!"

Japan's plan to invade China was disrupted and delayed for two months because of the patriotic actions of Zheng Baozhen and others. Objectively speaking, it created conditions for China to prepare for war.

It turned out that when the time entered 1931, Japan's plan to invade China had come to an end. Whether the first shot was fired from Northeast China or East China made the Japanese military quite troubled.If we start from Northeast China first, we can use the 1 Kwantung Army, 1 militiamen, and 3000 railway policemen who protect the South-Manchuria Railway to attack first. Once the war breaks out, the Japanese troops stationed in North Korea will be sent to reinforce them. As a springboard, we continued to send reinforcements to the front line; however, Northeast China was the sphere of influence of the Northeast Army. At that time, the Northeast Army had more than 30 troops. In addition to the 11 troops who entered the customs to participate in the warlord melee, there were 17 infantry brigades stationed in the three northeast provinces. , 3 cavalry brigades, and 1 infantry division, with a total strength of 17.6, unified command, well-equipped, and well-trained. Once a war starts, the Japanese army may not be its opponent; while East China, adjacent to the capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing, is China's economic In the center, various factions are intertwined and check each other. More importantly, there are many conflicts between the Central Army and the miscellaneous army. Most of the troops went to Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hubei and other places, busy encircling and suppressing the Red Army and warlords in various places.If they occupy Shanghai and deter Nanjing, they can "surrender without fighting", and the national government surrenders without fighting.After repeated deduction, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters issued an order to Takashi Tanaka (whose secret identity is the head of the Shanghai Secret Service) to create trouble and capture Shanghai.Unexpectedly, Wang Yaqiao's intrusion completely disrupted the "wishful thinking" of the Japanese army.

Two months later, that is, on September 9, the Japanese army couldn't wait, and directed and acted in Northeast China. At Liutiao Lake, about 18 meters south of Beidaying, Shenyang, they blew up a section of the South-Manchuria Railway, falsely claiming that it was the Chinese army. The railway was destroyed, so the Kwantung Army began to attack Shenyang on a large scale, which opened the curtain of the "September 800th Incident".To the surprise of the Japanese army, the Northeast Army was just a paper tiger, and it was defeated without a fight. The Kwantung Army did not encounter any decent resistance. It took only more than 4 months to occupy 128 million square kilometers of Baishan Heishui, more than 3000 million The Chinese were reduced to subjugated slaves, and China's official property loss was as high as 170 billion.All the arms of the Northeast Army became the spoils of war of the Japanese army.According to statistics, in Shenyang alone, the weapons and equipment seized by the Japanese army can be used to equip 10 divisions.Zhang Xueliang's personal property also suffered heavy losses. The Marshal's Mansion lost 6 treasuries, countless jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and the value of gold and silver lost 2.5 million yuan.Many years later, Zhang Xueliang, who personally ordered the troops not to resist, discovered his conscience and said regretfully: "The country cannot be defended, and the revenge of the father cannot be avenged. How can I see Jiangdong's elders again? I am a sinner of the nation!"

On July 1937, 7, at Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing, the Japanese army created the "July 7th Incident"; soon, on August 8, the Japanese army opened up a second battlefield in Shanghai and launched a southern offensive.It can be seen that a two-pronged approach in the northern and southern battlefields and mutual support are the basic routines for the Japanese army to invade China.

The assassination of Song Dynasty failed, and Wang Yaqiao did not smile for more than half a month.He distributed the 4 yuan "deposit" of the Southwest faction to everyone who participated in the operation to pay 1000 yuan for hard work, so that everyone can learn lessons, sum up experience, wait for orders, and prepare to find another opportunity; the remaining money is all handed over to Zhang Wennong for safekeeping , as their monthly living expenses; he also sent someone to attend Tang Yulu's memorial service, and sent 2000 yuan under a pseudonym to make up for his apology.

Back then, gangsters were rampant on the beach, Japanese ronin made waves, large and small assassinations were often seen in the newspapers, and Chiang Kai-shek was very troubled. This time, the dignified Minister of Finance and his brother-in-law almost became a "ghost under the knife", which made him unable to bear it. , Strictly ordered Dai Li and Yang Hu to thoroughly search for the suspects.Although Japan's plan to assassinate Shigemitsu was aborted, the physical evidence that Chang Yuqing's subordinates deliberately left at the scene of the incident: Anhui people's blue cloth wrapped skin, unexploded grenades with axes painted on them, etc., still exposed Wang Yaqiao's identity.Therefore, the police targeted Wang Yaqiao and carried out intensive investigation.Wang Yaqiao will also "tear face" with Chiang Kai-shek, fighting hand in hand, and launching an unprecedented life-and-death fight...

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