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

Chapter 47

At 1932:1 on January 28, 23, the Japanese side issued an "announcement" in the name of Major General Shiozawa Koichi: "In view of the fact that most of the people of the state live in the Zhabei area, in order to maintain law and order, the Japanese army will be stationed there for security. The commander hopes that the Chinese army and hostile facilities will retreat immediately." This is actually a declaration of war to invade Shanghai. In order to paralyze the Chinese side, he did not send letters to the mayor of Shanghai and the chief of the public security bureau until 10:23. .

At 23:20, about 1000 Japanese marines attacked Shanghai North Railway Station and occupied the five district police stations; 700 people forcibly occupied Zhabei Tiantong'an Station, which is close to the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters and belongs to the Chinese military defense area, and used it as a base , launched a surprise attack on the Wengzhaoyuan Department of the Nineteenth Route Army; more than 1600 people used tanks as cover, from North Sichuan Road, Laobazi Road to Hongkou Road, to Qiujiang Road, Baoshan Road, Hengbang Road, Qingyun Road and other places, launched an attack. attack.After receiving a call from Zhang Junsong, the head of the Sixth Regiment, Weng Zhaoyuan was so excited that he grabbed the military cap on his head and threw it off, shouting with all his strength: "Hit! Hit me hard! No one is allowed to retreat. Don't be afraid." If there is any trouble, I will bear it!" and the brigade command post was moved eastward to Zhabei, where it commanded from the line of fire.

After the battle started, Cai Tingkai sent an urgent telegram to Nanjing while directing the troops to fight: "According to the report of Zhabei Commander Zhang, the left wing of Zhabei and Qiujiang Road opened fire, and our army is determined to resist." Fearless, Ji jointly issued a telegram, reaffirming his determination to defend against the enemy: "Resist to save the country and protect the species. Even if one person is sacrificed to one bullet, he will never back down." Chen Mingshu immediately sent a secret telegram to the soldiers in front: "At this time, the only thing we can do is to prepare for the final battle." A glorious sacrifice must not be taken lightly as the humiliation of retreating."

Subsequently, the "Shanghai Anti-Enemy Support Association" came into being, headquartered at No. 181 Fuxu Road - Fusheng Company Building, the largest casino in the Far East opened by Zhang Xiaolin, Du Yuesheng and others. Shi Liangcai, the boss of "Declaration", is the chairman, and Du Yuesheng, a well-known person in Shanghai, and Wang Xiaolai, the chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, are the vice-chairmen. In cash alone, more than 700 million yuan was received.Soong Ching Ling, He Xiangning, and Zhu Guangzhen (Mrs. Chen Mingshu) visited the battlefield to express condolences, and within 5 days, led the sisters to produce more than 3 sets of new cotton coats and trousers, and presented them to the officers and soldiers who participated in the war to keep out the cold.In the poem "To the Former Enemy Soldiers", He Xiangning generously sang:

Japanese slaves invaded,

Ambition is not dead.

According to our three northeastern provinces,
Reoccupy my Shenjiang land;
Sigh my great rivers and mountains,

Today is not what it used to be.

How many cities will I burn?
How many compatriots did you kill?
Rape me how many women?
shame!
You wait for bloody soldiers,
How can you swallow this breath!
The Federation of Korean Organizations in Shanghai, the Taiwan Federation in Shanghai, and the National Salvation Federation in Shanghai also actively joined the ranks of resisting the Japanese invaders, distributing leaflets in Japanese and carrying out anti-war propaganda: "We travel to Shanghai on behalf of China, Korea, and Taiwan." 400 million people, advise the Japanese soldiers who sacrificed their precious lives to invade Shanghai, the Chinese nation is inviolable, I hope you will rise up to save yourself, recognize your enemy, turn against each other, overthrow the empire, overthrow the warlords... and maintain world peace."

On the second day of the "January 44th" incident, Wang Yaqiao ordered Xu Zhiyuan, Cai Keqiang, and Zhu Dagang to borrow cars from the two major taxi companies "Xiangsheng" and "Yunfei" to take the workers to "January 1000th" "In Zhabei where the incident happened, an anti-Japanese rally of ten thousand people was held.Wang Yaqiao made a speech on the stage, angrily denouncing the Japanese army's crimes of aggression, resolutely opposed to compromise with Japan, and called on everyone to take up arms and cooperate with the 20th Route Army to fight against the aggressors.Subsequently, the establishment of the Songhu Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army was announced, and the headquarters was located at No. 2 Taoyuanli in the French Concession.Wang Yaqiao was publicly elected as the commander.Cai Daohe served as the chief of staff and head of the second regiment, Xu Zhiyuan served as the military liaison commissioner, and Zhu Dagang served as the liaison staff officer. More than 1 people, divided into [-] brigades, were the largest and most powerful non-governmental anti-Japanese armed forces during the "January [-]th" Incident. Liu Gang, Xiao Peiwei, Li Kai, Fu Yaodong and others served as captains.Subsequently, the Songhu Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army went to Zhenru and Taicang areas to cooperate with the [-]th Route Army in a bloody battle. On February [-], "Shenbao" reported:
After the Japanese army attacked me in Zhabei last night, the commander-in-chief of the Songhu Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army of the Republic of China heard the news and sent more than 200 volunteers to the vicinity of Tiantong Nunnery on Sichuan Road to defend against the Japanese army.Due to the lack of firearms at the beginning of the establishment of the army, the combatants were divided into groups of 20 people. There were only more than 60 guns, some of which carried box cannons, and the rest still had knives, spears and axes. There were more than 40 firearms, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers were injured.After the Volunteer Army Command took part in the first service, it summoned the Volunteer Army again yesterday, and their morale was extremely high.Now there are tens of thousands of troops from Wang Yaqiao, Cai Daohe, Zheng Baozhen, and Yu Likui, and they have established contact with the [-]th Route Army.

Soon, General Chen Mingshu specially greeted him, and took out 400 rifles, pistols, and a large amount of ammunition from the [-]th Route Army, and presented them to the Songhu Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army.Wang Yaqiao was very grateful: "Commander Chen is a timely help! To fight against Japan and aggression, everyone strives to be the first. If the commander needs me in the future, just tell me, even if I am heartbroken, Wang Jiu will not back down."

Chiang Kai-shek was deeply surprised by the Japanese army's sudden attack. In his "Diary", he wrote in confusion: "I heard that yesterday's consular request to Shanghai Japan was accepted, he was satisfied, and he said that he would withdraw troops in the evening. Why did the conflict even occur at midnight?" ?” He invited Wang Jingwei to discuss countermeasures.Wang Jingwei said: "Qin Hui in the Southern Song Dynasty was reviled by the world, but I think Qin Hui is also a good person. When the country is in danger, there is always a victim to make peace. Qin Hui is such a role. He was reviled by the world but in exchange Peace saves innocent lives from suffering. Qin Hui's saving the country and Yue Fei's fighting against the enemy are just different methods."

On the 30th, the national government moved its capital to Luoyang.Chiang Kai-shek became the chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Kuomintang and the chief of the general staff, forming a political structure of "Wang is in charge and Chiang is in charge of the army".It was not until November 1932, 11, when the war subsided, that the national government ordered the return of the capital.

On February 2, Chen Mingshu, commander of the Beijing-Shanghai Garrison, went to Shanghai to condolences to the troops and boost morale.Later, he made a statement to reporters: The 2th Route Army "has the heart of death, and is willing to sacrifice all for the price of national survival and national rejuvenation."

At 3:13 on the 120rd, Weng Zhaoyuan received an order: hand over the defense of Zhabei to the 47th brigade, lead the fourth and fifth regiments to Wusong, and watch to the death.At dawn the next day, Japanese artillery and bombers worked closely together to bombard the Wusong area indiscriminately. On the ground, they could not hear each other's voices clearly by biting each other's ears.Yunzaobang Station in the south of Wusong Bridge was defended by the Fourth Regiment and the Eighth Company. After a fight, there were only 7 people left in the entire company, and the enemy tanks appeared on the position again.In order to preserve strength, company commander Zhao Jinsheng had to lead the remnants to withdraw to the north of the bridge.Weng Zhaoyuan received the report and ordered the guard: "It's useless, go and shoot Company Commander Zhao!" The guard listened to the order, ran to the north of the bridge in the rain of bullets, drew his pistol, and shouted at Company Commander Zhao's head: "Brigade Commander ordered, You are so useless, I want you to be shot!" Lieutenant Zhao burst into tears, wiped a handful with his hand, and replied: "You don't need to shoot me, let me rush back, I would rather sacrifice for the country!" After saying that, he jumped out of the trench , Kill to the south of the bridge.The Japanese army was caught off guard and suffered numerous casualties.The eighth company regained its position, leaving only [-] people, and Zhao Jinsheng died heroically.

On the 7th, there was sleet and snow in the sky, and the position was extremely cold. At about 8 o'clock, 20 enemy planes circled over Wusong for reconnaissance, and dropped a huge bomb on the position at the northeast end. The dust kicked up buried all the officers and soldiers of Weng Zhaoyuan's brigade alive.The battlefield was riddled with bullet marks and corpses everywhere.The Japanese army's clamor to "occupy Wusong at [-] am on the [-]th" all failed, and they were forced to change commanders, and the commander was replaced by Vice Admiral Nomura.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek personally presided over the military meeting in Luoyang. He said dissatisfiedly: "The [-]th Route Army has maintained victory for more than ten days. It is better to stop fighting at this time and avoid another battle." He also ordered He Yingqin and Chen Mingshu to call Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai, and Dai Ji said: "Chiang Jiegong's intention is that no matter how much our army sacrifices in attack, it will not achieve any purpose. Before the overall plan is finalized, we must still focus on offensive defense." He Yingqin echoed: "Don't fight, fight More than ten days is enough." Chen Mingshu pushed the teacup in front of him, and asked loudly: "The soldiers in front want to fight, and the common people want to fight, can I tell them not to fight?" After the meeting, Chen Mingshu sent a message to Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai and others Go to the secret message, saying: Recently, some people advocated that "avoiding another war is extremely unreasonable. The Nineteenth Route Army must implement the determination of the whole army to sacrifice in order to complete the mission entrusted by the destiny of the nation."

However, the softer China is, the harder Japan is. On the 14th, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army increased its troops to Shanghai. "The Japanese army usually organizes two infantry brigades per division, and two regiments per brigade. Each regiment has about 500 soldiers, and each squadron has 140 rifles. , with a flat and curved shooting gun, a heavy and light mortar, and a heavy machine gun. Each division has a cavalry and artillery brigade. The total number of each division is more than 87", and its strength has been greatly enhanced; Zhang Zhizhong saw his brothers in the 88th Route Army fighting hard for several days, alone and helpless, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he volunteered to volunteer.He called Chen Bulei and asked him for an idea.Chen Bulei was full of anger, and said bluntly: "Now the whole country, inside and outside the party, the voice of anti-Japanese is very loud. If Chiang Kai-shek does not send troops again, it will be tantamount to helping a tiger. How is it different from the traitors and traitors in history?" Chiang Kai-shek's face changed. Impatiently, he waved his hand away.Then, I sat at the desk for a long time before finally calling Zhang Zhizhong and appointing him as the commander of the Fifth Army to lead the 15th Division, the [-]th Division and the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps to reinforce Shanghai. On the [-]th, the eve of departure, Zhang Zhizhong did not close his eyes all night. Before he left for the expedition, he left a suicide note: "It is the autumn of the country's national crisis. As a soldier, Zhizhong should go to the battlefield in person and fight hard to defend our sacred territory. , but I want to be shrouded in horse leather, and I don’t want to endure humiliation and steal my life. If I die unfortunately, I hope that with my bloody head, I can arouse the whole people to fight against the war, and I will continue to fight, fight against power, and defend our country.”

On the 20th, the Japanese army dispatched about 2 people to launch a general attack on Miaohang under the cover of aircraft, warships and tanks.Jiang Guangnai commanded the Nineteenth Route Army and the Fifth Army to launch a resolute counterattack, and the battle was fierce.Within three days, our army suffered more than 2000 casualties, killed and wounded more than 800 Japanese soldiers, repelled several enemy attacks, and achieved a great victory in the Temple Walk.The American journalist Snow went deep into the front line and reported that the Chinese army "can only rely on mortars, rifles and a few machine guns to resist the invaders who have far superior heavy weapons. What a fighting spirit! I don’t know the indomitable fighting spirit that the Chinese have.”

The Japanese army increased its troops day by day, while our country's first division of Shangguan Yunxiang stationed in Wuxi and Suzhou, Daiyue's first brigade stationed in Zhejiang, Liang Guanying's 60st regiment stationed in Jiangbei, and Chiang Kai-shek's direct line troops in Hangzhou and eastern Jiangxi consisted of about 200 divisions with [-] million troops. The troops, but sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.Chen Mingshu was so worried that he sent a call for help to the President of the Executive Yuan, Wang Zhaoming, but there was no follow-up.The "Life" weekly magazine edited by Huang Yanpei criticized Chiang Kai-shek by name.Some of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang in Shanghai couldn't sit still anymore, and collectively asked Chiang Kai-shek why he refused to save him.According to Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs did not pay the [-]th Route Army a single shot, bullet, and military salary. Instead, it issued an order to the entire army: "The [-]th Route Army has three divisions and sixteen regiments. They don't need reinforcements. They can support them as much as they want. The soldiers of all armies must Those who act freely under the orders of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, even though they are out of patriotism, must be punished for disobedience." After hearing the news, the officers and soldiers of the [-]th Route Army were so angry that their lungs exploded.Jiang Guangnai scolded angrily: "This kind of traitorous behavior by the enemy and the country is really the most so-called 'shameless' in the history of mankind!"

(End of this chapter)