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

Chapter 46 Japan Advances, China Retreats

The northeast is raging with war, and the southeast is full of war clouds. On the Huangpu River, more than a dozen Japanese warships are showing off their might. The friction between the Chinese and Japanese people is becoming more and more frequent, and the smell of gunpowder is becoming more and more intense.

Since the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], Japanese militarism has expanded its ambitions to invade China, expanding its living space, plundering the wealth of neighboring countries, and establishing the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" by ruling China. basic state policy.

However, the Japanese are also very realistic. Although China is poor and backward, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. If you want to swallow an elephant with a snake and fight a big one with a small one, it is not enough to just occupy a corner of Northeast China. Once the Chinese wake up, With all the strength of the whole country going north to resist Japan, Japan is absolutely not sure of victory. However, opening up a "second battlefield" in Shanghai, a metropolis in East China, will facilitate the deployment of troops and further expand the results of the war; The third is to distract the attention of the international community, so that Manchukuo was born smoothly.Thus, a conspiracy began to unfold.

Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. is located on Ma Yushan Road (now Shuangyang Road), which is adjacent to the East District of the Shanghai Public Concession (Yangshupu). It is run by Shen Jiucheng, Chen Wanyun, and Fang Zhida, three famous patriotic industrialists. "It means that it has more than 2000 employees. It is the first towel factory produced by large machines in China. It lives next to the Japanese Donghua Towel Factory. The nemesis of "Anchor" towels.Donghua Towel Factory is stationed with Japanese Marines.The two factories are both competitors in the market and one of the areas where the Chinese and the Japanese hate each other.For the safety of the factory area, Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. established the Workers' Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and more than 700 people often participated in military training. At about 1932:1 on January 18, 16, the Volunteer Army was training. Suddenly, some bricks and rubble were thrown from the road outside the wall like raindrops.The team members quickly ran out of the gate, and there were only five Japanese monks on the avenue, beating drums and bells as they walked, and they were doing "winter practice" (a religious activity in which Japanese monks walk and pray while walking on the road in winter).

When emotions are aroused, people's sanity will be greatly reduced.

The members of the Volunteer Army rushed over aggressively, ready to interrogate.The five monks are Keisho Amazaki and Hideo Minakami of Jiangwan Miaoho Temple, as well as followers Fujimura Kuniyoshi, Yoshihei Goto, and Asajiro Kuroiwa.The incident happened suddenly, and the words could not be understood. Seeing that the situation was not good, the monks ran away instinctively.This run made the members of the Volunteer Army even more suspicious, and chased Yuqie.After chasing to Zhao's house, they surrounded the five people and had a dispute. At this moment, a group of thugs wearing the uniform of the Sanyoushe Volunteer Army rushed out from the alleyway, rushed into the crowd, beat and kicked the monks and smashed bricks, and then, Riding the chaos quickly "evaporates".

Fujimura Kuniyoshi and Kuroiwa Asajiro were slightly injured, so they rushed to Donghua Towel Factory to ask for help from the Japanese Marine Corps.Not long after, the Police Department of the No. [-] Branch of Yinxianggang District [-] arrived with a police car and sent the three seriously injured Japanese monks to Ningguo Road Sacred Heart Hospital for emergency treatment. As a result, one died and two were injured.

The major sects of Japanese Buddhism are basically passed down from China, except for the Nichiren sect, which was founded by the Japanese themselves.Nichiren, a famous Japanese monk, believes that only the "Namo Miaofa Lianhua Sutra" is the correct Dharma. On April 1253, 4, he returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, climbed Mount Kiyosumi, and sang the "Lianhua Sutra" ten times to the rising sun on the sea, thus establishing the Nichiren sect.Stretching for hundreds of years, Nichiren sect temples spread all over Fusang, radiating East Asia and having a great influence.The Japanese respect Buddhists very much. If innocent people are killed, it will arouse public outrage.

The incident of the Nichiren sect of monks immediately caused a backlash from the Japanese, and the conflict between China and Japan intensified.

On the 19th, thousands of Japanese expatriates gathered at the Japanese Overseas Chinese Club in Hongkou, demanding that the murderer be punished and compensation for losses.Murai Kuramatsu, the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, lodged a strong protest to the Shanghai Municipal Government and listed four requirements: the mayor of Shanghai must apologize to the Japanese Consul General; All illegal and deviant actions related to anti-Japanese and insulting Japan should be banned, especially Shanghai Anti-Japanese National Salvation Committees from all walks of life and various anti-Japanese groups should be disbanded immediately.

On the 20th, more than 50 people from the Japanese ronin group "Japan Youth Comrades Association" shouted slogans, armed with sticks and Japanese knives, rushed into Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd., set fire to 6 workshops, hundreds of packages of cotton yarn, and damaged 24 looms , and also beat the Chinese police from the Ministry of Industry Bureau who came to maintain order, resulting in the death of Tian Run and the injury of Chen Shengde and Zhu Wulan. 1200 Japanese expatriates gathered at Wenjianshi Road (now Tanggu Road) and marched along Beisichuan Road. When the team reached Qiujiang Road, riots broke out and Chinese shops were robbed and smashed.

On the 22nd, the Japanese government issued an order that the Japanese fleet berthed off the coast of Shanghai would enter the Huangpu River and prepare to blockade Shanghai Port.The number of warships in the Japanese fleet increased to 24 and more than 40 aircraft.Rear Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, the commander of the Japanese Navy's First Expatriate Fleet and the commander of the Special Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai, threatened that "Shanghai can be occupied in four hours."

On the 23rd, Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai and other generals of the [-]th Route Army held a meeting of cadres above the battalion at the Longhua Garrison Command to mobilize before the war.

The Nineteenth Route Army originated from the Fourth Regiment of the First Division of the Guangdong Army, and Chen Mingshu served as the first head of the regiment.The regiment is well-trained and brave in combat.On the eve of the Northern Expedition, it was organized into the 12th Division of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, fought side by side with Zhang Fakui's No.11 Division, and even defeated the important town of the Beiyang Army, known as the "Iron Army".After conquering Wuhan, the Tenth Division was expanded into the No.11 Army, and Chen Mingshu served as the commander of the No.11 Army, the commander of the Wuhan Garrison, and the director of the Training Department of the General Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army.When Ning and Han split, Chen Mingshu abandoned Han and went to Jiangxi to defect to Chiang Kai-shek.After the establishment of the Nanjing National Government, Chen Mingshu successively served as the commander of the No.1931 Army, the chairman of Guangdong Province, and the commander-in-chief of the 9th Route Army. On September 30, 11, Chen Mingshu served as the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison and also acted as the commander of the Songhu garrison. The 20th Route Army of his unit was ordered to be transferred to Shanghai to "share the same hatred with the enemy and defend against foreign aggression"; on November 12, the 15th Route Army arrived in Shanghai , Jiang Guangnai served as the commander-in-chief, Cai Tingkai, the army commander, and Dai Ji, the former chief of staff of the 28th Route Army, served as the commander of the Songhu garrison. On December [-], Chiang Kai-shek resigned from the chairmanship of the National Government and other posts by telegram, and Sun Ke took over. On the [-]th, Chen Mingshu served as the vice president of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Transport of the Sun Ke government.

However, Shanghai citizens were indifferent to the arrival of the "Iron Army".One day, Weng Zhaoyuan, the brigade commander of the [-]th brigade, went to a hotel in Shanghai. The waiter asked him: "The Japanese devils have occupied the northeast, why don't you go north and fight the Japanese?" Weng Zhaoyuan was ashamed and speechless.Soldiers of the Nineteenth Route Army often heard sarcastic remarks when they went shopping, and later they didn't even dare to go out in military uniforms.The embarrassing situation inspired the anti-Japanese fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers.Weng Zhaoyuan wrote vigorously: "If you have a gun in your hand, why don't you resist? Even if the resistance fails, you will still be a soldier! Zhang Xueliang is not a soldier with strong and excellent cultivation; even if the Chinese nation has the spirit of greatness and strength, how can it be from a single person? Found it on a young master covered in morphine pinholes?"

At the mobilization meeting, Cai Tingkai spoke first.He said impassionedly: "In the past few days, the Japanese have provoked us everywhere in Shanghai, oppressed us, harassed the shops, insulted the people, and dispatched more warships, planes, and aircraft carriers in an attempt to occupy Shanghai. Recently, I have discussed with Commander Dai again and again, and I feel that I can't take it any longer, and I must rise up and resist." Dai Ji stood up suddenly and said, "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Success or failure is not a matter of life and death. Only do your best. It is the bounden duty of soldiers from generation to generation to guard the soil and resist insults, and fight to the death with the Japanese slaves." The representative of Chen Mingshu attended the meeting and conveyed his order: "When the Japanese army attacks our defense line, resist and destroy it at the same place." The president who attended the meeting sick Commander Jiang Guangnai said: "The [-]th Route Army is a very prestigious army, and it is now stationed in Shanghai. This is really a critical moment for the life and death of the [-]th Route Army, and it can also be said that it is a critical moment for the life and death of our country. In this period, our soldiers We can only resist with all our strength based on our own personality, responsibility, duty, and reputation." Weng Zhaoyuan shouted loudly, saying: "We are the army of the country, and we are the protectors of the people. Now that the country is being humiliated and the people are being bullied, they all hope to stop the aggression. If the Japanese aggressors continue to act violently, our army should stand up and fight back!"

While the officers and soldiers of the Nineteenth Route Army were waiting in full force, the Nationalist Government, in the name of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, sent three consecutive telegrams ordering the withdrawal of the defense. The Sixth Regiment of the Gendarmerie.

On the 28th, Chiang Kai-shek, who had only been out of power for the second time for only six weeks, came back to preside over the Kuomintang’s interim Central Political Council. He himself served as the chairman of the government and the chairman of the military committee; that afternoon, Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng accepted the four demands put forward by the Japanese side.In the afternoon, after hearing the news, reporters from various newspapers rushed to the city hall and asked Mayor Wu to "speak clearly".Wu Tiecheng turned pale, and said helplessly: "Yu is a public servant of Shanghai, and the security of this city has a great bearing on it, and Yu is really responsible for it. Therefore, I will not hesitate to sacrifice myself to ensure the safety of Shanghai. The damage to the house is irrelevant." When the "National Alarm Bell Association" heard the news, dozens of members carried a big bronze bell as tall as a person, and slammed it like crazy in front of the city hall.

The Weng Zhaoyuan Brigade Headquarters was stationed in Dachang Town, Baoshan, and was responsible for the defense from Wusong to Jiading. The eastern part of the defense area directly faced the enemy positions on the front line of Hongkou.According to Shangfeng's order, Weng Zhaoyuan's brigade should have handed over its defense to the Sixth Gendarmerie Regiment and withdrew to Zhenru before 16:23.Thousands of citizens spontaneously gathered at the gate of the brigade and resolutely persuaded them to stay.Weng Zhaoyuan had no choice but to come forward, read the order of the military department to them, and explained it painstakingly, but instead of leaving, the citizens gathered more and more.The representatives of the citizens proposed: "If the army does not resist, please give us your weapons to fight against the enemy; if you refuse to give us your weapons, please shoot us first and kill us before you withdraw." , crying loudly.Weng Zhaoyuan's heart was twisted like a knife, he didn't want to retreat, and it didn't matter if he didn't retreat.Until [-] o'clock, he wiped away his tears and made up his mind that he would rather bear the military order than fail the public opinion, and not retreat for the time being, and ordered the troops to stand by and be ready to meet the enemy at any time.

(End of this chapter)