From to 1935 2020

"At this time last year..."

At that time, Song Zheyuan had just been appointed by Chang Kaishen as the commander of Pingjin and concurrently the chairman of Hebei Province.

"It's only been a year, it's only been a year..."

The area of ​​Pingjin is actually the most violent city in the modern history of China.From the beginning of the Wuchang Uprising to the present, the "big kings" who have become the lords of Pingjin, from Yuan Shi Yuan Kai at the beginning, to the later Zhili warlords, Zhang Xun's restoration, Feng Yuxiang's devotion, and then Zhang Zuolin's taking over, serving the world, April 26 The "Chairman of the Standing Committee Bashi" after the second generation, Song Zheyuan was in power in Pingjin. In just [-] years, he has changed many "generals".

Song Zheyuan didn't know how long he could be the "false" "Pingjin Marshal".

For some reason, Song Zheyuan thought of Wang Jialie and He Jian.

"Slowly infiltrating, moistening things silently, killing people without blood... Chang Kaishen also used this method in the past, annexing Hunan and Guizhou... and Chang Kaishen's silver coins" Compared with bribery, the Communist Party's spiritual infiltration method is actually more terrifying...."

In the past period of time, Song Zheyuan has been very cooperative.In private, Song Zheyuan had thought about it, and some of his subordinates even warned him in private: "Commander, if this continues, our 29th Army will be swallowed by the Red Army."

"I know, of course I know! But what do you want me to do? Go to war, vote for Chang Kai or the Japanese? We don't have as many soldiers as Li Runshi, we don't have as many guns, we don't have as many people, and we don't have as many money. We don't even have doctrine, so why should we fight Li Runshi?"

As a warlord, Song Zheyuan knew very well that the whole of Pingjin and even Hebei was getting out of his control day by day.The number of his troops has been increasing in the past few months, and the equipment has also been continuously improved. However, after hearing the publicity of the Red Army, the troops under his command, the officers and soldiers at the lower level, actually didn't want to There is a civil war.

As for the officers in the middle and upper ranks, they don't want to fight either, because everyone knows that they can't win, and they just want to preserve their own strength.The current practice of the Red Army is to boil frogs in warm water and infiltrate from the grassroots. The 29th Army did not have the concept of establishing a grassroots organization. On the surface, there was no conflict between the two sides, but Song Zheyuan understood that if the grassroots is empty, he will be empty, and he is indeed being emptied now.

The four divisions under him, Zhang Zizhong of the 38th Division, were once called traitors by the Chinese because of the Tanggu Agreement, and have been depressed all the time.But Song Zheyuan knew that this person really wanted to fight against Japan. After the Battle of Bailing Temple, after discovering that the Red Army was a "very capable" anti-Japanese regime, he recently took the initiative to introduce the political commissars and military personnel of the Red Army into the 38th Division to help Transforming the army, he is becoming a second seven-and-a-half like Fu Zuoyi.

Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, and Liu Ruming, commander of the 143rd Division, have also had a lot of contacts with the Red Army recently. The 29th Army came from the Northwest Army. Before April 412, the Northwest Army had close ties with the Communist Party, but now it is just "reviving the tradition of Chief Feng Yuxiang".Now the 29th Army is doing business with the Communist Party without any psychological barriers, and it is done clearly. "Community" is also carried out clearly.Dong Zhentang, a senior official of the Red Army of the Communist Party, was originally from the Northwest Army and was from Hebei. The 29th Army has a lot of old acquaintances.

When working in the Communist Party, there is still a bit of "student spirit". Huang Ke is an overseas person who claims to be not a Communist Party member, but Song Zheyuan is more afraid of him.This is a soft-spoken, ruthless man who holds a gold bar in his left hand and a big stick in his right.

When Song Zheyuan saw Huang Ke for the last time in October, he found that the young man had become different from before.

In the past, he spoke in a low voice and treated people very politely. Even when he hit people with gold coins or gold bars, he always had a gentle smile hidden in the cotton.

But he went abroad for a trip, and after returning, when Song Zheyuan saw him again, he found that the "harmony" in this young man was gone.

Now, his eyes are very scary and full of aggression.After returning to Pingjin, his methods of doing things became even more "rude".

In the past, Huang Ke spent money when he was doing things. If he had money, everyone would earn it, and if he had meat, everyone would eat it together. As long as he followed him, everyone could benefit from him and earn money. Everyone would win.

But now he has completely torn off the "nice" pretense.

After October, all factory owners in the Pingjin area were "visited" by Huang Ke.

"The Japanese are coming soon. If you haven't moved your factory yet, are you preparing to join the enemy?"

"Move the factory to the south, or I will ask someone to set a fire and burn your factory down, choose one!"

Lucky psychology is a common phenomenon in human beings. Even though the smell of gunpowder in the Pingjin area is getting heavier every day, there are still many people who are unwilling to respond to the "call" to relocate the factory, and still have various illusions.Huang Ke, who returned to the Pingjin area, came to ask these capitalists to move the factory by means of "more hooligans than hooligans".

If the capitalist refuses to agree, he will directly ask someone to kidnap, rob, and move.From the equipment to the factory to the owner's family, they are directly packed into trucks, ships and railways.The factories in the Pingjin area are now moving south in large numbers. Rather than saying that the boss voluntarily moved them out, it might be better to say that they were forced to move away by him.Only some factories were moved into the areas controlled by the Red Army, but most of the rest went to Hubei and Hunan areas south of the Yangtze River.

In Pingjin now, there are one-third fewer factories, one-third fewer students, and one-third fewer rich people.In the Pingjin area, which has been heavily infiltrated by the Communist Party, the upper echelons are looking for a way out and are eager to evacuate Peiping.Ordinary people in the middle class can't enter, can't retreat and panic, and those who are related to them are walking.

Song Zheyuan's 37th Army now has four divisions, four main divisions 38, 132, 143, and [-], plus [-] independent supplementary brigades.The reserve force of fifteen brigades was formed by Song Zheyuan under the persecution of the Red Army after July. Originally, he only wanted to build six supplementary brigades and was satisfied, but the Red Army on the opposite side told him that a war was about to take place. too little.

If it was Chang Kaishen, all he thought about all day was cutting down the feudal clan and reducing the strength of the local power faction, but Li Runshi next to him kept asking him to recruit more troops.

For warlords, more conscription is of course a good thing, but Song Zheyuan has seen Huang Ke play Chang Kaishen like a monkey to death, and knows the CCP's ability to "win people's hearts", so he doesn't understand that these soldiers will probably vote in the end Communist Party, especially after the Battle of Bailing Temple, the prestige of the Red Army in the Chinese people has soared a lot, and many young people are now changing their minds: Li Runshi is the savior of China.

"Will the war really break out next year?"

Song Zheyuan bought a newspaper on the side of the road, the "Xinhua Daily" published by the Communist Party in Beiping, and the content of the newspaper was "On Protracted War" just published by Li Runshi.Since the Red Army won the right to publish publications in Hebei three months ago, "Xinhua Daily" landed in Pingjin for the first time, and then a radio station was also established there.

When noon was approaching, in teahouses, restaurants, foreign speakers and foreign radios on the side of the road, the twelve o'clock chime sounded on time.

After the twelve bells struck, a female voice rang on the radio.

"The song I'm playing for you today is called "Song of the Showa Restoration". This song is dedicated to the Japanese spies who lurk in the Pingjin area and are used by Japanese chaebols, capitalists, and landlords to act as pawns in the invasion of China!"

"puff!"

Countless diners who were eating in teahouses and restaurants in Pingjin, after hearing this opening remark, sprayed it on the spot.

This is the Communist Party's new radio station in the Pingjin area. On October [-]th, it just launched a new program.As soon as it was broadcast, Song Zheyuan's driver, who was driving while listening to the radio, was so scared that he almost had an accident.

From the speakers, passionate Japanese songs sounded.

"The waves in Miluoyuan are turbulent, and the clouds are flying around Wushan Peak. In a chaotic world, I am independent, and my righteous anger burns with blood. How can you think about it?"

Song Zheyuan, who has been dealing with the Japanese for a long time, knows a little Japanese, and after understanding some of the lyrics, his eyes almost popped out.

"The Communist Party, the Communist Party has even done this kind of thing!"

-------------------- Chapter 179 Kenji Doihara's Fear --------------------

Before the Battle of Bailing Temple, Kenji Doihara had already rushed to China, hid in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin, and personally sat in the battle, commanding the spies lurking in Hebei to destroy a large section of the railway.

The sabotage of the railway was successful, with only a small amount of cannon fodder lost.

However, because it was so successful, Gu Hisao Sixth Division jumped into the big pit of Bailing Temple without any scruples, and never came out again.

These days, Kenji Doihara is aware of the Communist Party's infiltration of Hebei and Pingjin areas, and is anxious in his heart.In his report to the base camp, the proposals were all that the war of aggression against China should be fought as soon as possible, because with each passing day, the Red Army on the opposite side became stronger.

After September, with the completion of the Tanggu Wharf, Kenji Doi became even more anxious.

Countless weapons from the Soviet Union and machines from the United States are constantly flowing into Shanxi through that wharf.

"Where did the Communist Party get so much money? Is Stalin crazy? Is he selling his liver to aid the Red Army?"

When forty T26 tanks blatantly pulled by tank trailers rumbled through the streets of Hiraitsu, Kenji Doihara almost went crazy.

Although Japan also has tanks, in 1936, the entire dispatched troops stationed in China had only one or two hundred tanks that could be used.The country is still mobilizing, but it is still not fully prepared.The Battle of Bailing Temple, in fact, was intended as a "probing" attack by the upper echelon to test the strength of this "unfamiliar" Communist Party force.

As a result, the seven thousand carefully selected imperial army elites were wiped out!There is no worse outcome than this.

The survivors who have escaped so far are only dozens of riders.The ending of the annihilation of the entire army stunned all the troops dispatched to invade China, but what made the Japanese army even more frightened was the huge loss of the Army Aviation.

More than seventy bombers were shot down or barely returned to the Bailing Temple and were scrapped. According to the surviving pilots, they saw the faces of Soviet pilots during the air battle, and the radio personnel on the plane also heard the Soviet accent many times during the air battle. dialogue.

The Soviet Union entered the war, and this is what shocked the Japanese even more.

Historically, the Japanese army dared to launch September [-]th. A large reason was Zhang Xueliang’s coquettish manipulation during the "Middle East Road Incident" to wage war on the Soviet Union and destroy the triangular balance between China, the Soviet Union and Japan in the Northeast.But the Red Army is different. The relationship between the Communist Party and the Soviet Union is known to the whole world.After the Battle of Bailing Temple, the terrified dispatched army, in order to throw the pot away, "rumors spread", frantically accusing the Soviet Union of participating in the war-not only the planes, they also accused the Soviet Union of sending the army to support the Red Army, and even in the Chinese Concession, some unscrupulous newspapers It also claimed that the Soviet Red Army going south from Mongolia attacked the Imperial Japanese Army.

The country is not ready yet, the test attack was defeated, and the self-intimidation. Under the influence of multiple factors, this is the reason why the high-level officials of the dispatched troops stationed in China were suspicious and did not launch further military operations immediately.Now in the Northeast, the entire Kwantung Army is in a highly tense state of combat readiness, just for fear that the neighbors in the north, the red giant bear, will make further moves.

One of the tasks of the base camp that Ken Doihara received was to find out the truth about the fiasco of Bailing Temple through the intelligence agencies here.

As a China hand, once he arrived in Tianjin, Kenji Doi would turn on the radio at [-]:[-] noon every day to listen to the propaganda reports broadcast on time by the Communist Party radio station in Tianjin.

After the Battle of Bailing Temple, the Communist Party has realized that a full-scale war between China and Japan is imminent, and has become more "blunt" and "blind" in its propaganda.

The radio stations built in Beiping and Tianjin blatantly publicized to the citizens that Japan's all-out war of aggression against China would break out at any time.Beiping and Tianjin are the primary targets of the invasion of China, and recently they have publicly withdrawn a large number of cultural relics and books from the Forbidden City.The factories in Pingjin City have also recently received notices of "forced" relocation.

Regarding this, the Japanese side naturally made various protests and threats, but the representative of the Communist Party replied with a sneer: stop making ugly performances. Japan invaded China. Why can’t it find a reason?This time, are you going to blow up the railway first, or use a missing soldier, or kill one or two Japanese ronin as an excuse?

Compared with the submissiveness of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, the Communist Party is so tough that it will not budge.As for Song Zheyuan, the nominal supreme military officer in the Pingjin area, he was even more angry when he mentioned Kenji Doihara.The Japanese also threatened him and asked him to sever ties with the Red Army, but Song Zheyuan rarely got angry in front of the Japanese envoy and became tough.

"Now the Hebei region belongs to the Northern Coalition Government. You should go to Taiyuan, Shanxi and negotiate with Li Runshi."

Song Zheyuan also figured it out now.He was caught between the Red Army and the Japanese Army, and it was impossible for him to be alone.These days probably won’t be able to go on anymore. When facing the Japanese, he simply no longer plays Tai Chi weakly. firepower.

After the Battle of Bailing Temple, the Pingjin area is now also mobilized.A large number of fortifications began to be built in the Wanping City area at the forefront. The Japanese soldiers discovered that the 29th Army stationed there had even begun to plant landmines everywhere in recent days. Army technology and materials.

With the help of the Red Army, the 29th Route Army built a mine factory in the suburbs of Beiping in the past two months.The factory was originally a pottery factory, and the Red Army provided some raw materials and designs, and then selected people from local potters and fireworks craftsmen to manufacture landmines on a large scale.

Kenji Doihara managed to obtain a few landmines and handed them over to the Japanese military experts in the concession for research, and found that these mines were all crudely made pottery landmines, made of a small amount of explosives or even black powder, combined with dried excrement , is completely extremely rough "inferior goods".But this kind of inferior goods, in two months, the entire Hebei region produced more than 29 pieces.After the Battle of Bailing Temple, tens of thousands of inferior mines were quickly distributed to various departments of the [-]th Army.

What makes Kenji Doihara even more terrified is the infiltration of the Communist Party into the grassroots in Pingjin, the nominal communist party in North China.Various civilian grassroots armed organizations that have sprung up in Pingjin, such as workers' pickets and militia defense teams, have also been mobilized.These infiltration organizations that were infiltrated by the Communist Party into Pingjin, their most common weapon is not rifles, but land mines.Song Zheyuan only had one landmine factory in his hands, but the non-government forces organized by the Communist Party in the Pingjin area were like new grass sprouting everywhere after the rain. Around Pingjin, and almost every county town, there were soil workshops producing such inferior mines in large quantities. mines.

Kenji Doihara learned from the spies stationed in Pingjin that the Communist Party is now in the form of a task force, infiltrating into the counties and villages around Pingjin, and starting to act openly.These evil communists held a document titled "Manufacture of Militia Explosive Equipment" and distributed it in large quantities in the Hebei area. They crazily taught the local people how to make land mines, how to plant mines, how to attack the imperial army, and how to counterattack. Special Anti-Spies...

After only a short contact, Kenji Doihara realized that this is an organization completely different from the waste regime of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and their ability to mobilize the grassroots people in China is terrifying.

As the power of the Communist Party continued to infiltrate the grassroots in Pingjin, Kenji Doihara, who was in the Tianjin Concession, clearly felt that every day the Japanese army invaded Pingjin, the price paid would increase.

"Chinese quagmire!"

The deeper the understanding of this opponent, the fear in Kenji Doihara's heart will increase accordingly.In Chichibu Palace, what Huang Ke said that day is becoming reality bit by bit.

"This is impossible, this is impossible! Even if Hebei is a quagmire, as long as our imperial army is not greedy, sticks to the cannibalization policy, and concentrates our forces in one corner, we can dig you up!"

When Kenji Doihara was thinking viciously about the "Chinese quagmire" in his heart, the "Song of the Showa Restoration" broadcast on the radio made him dumbfounded on the spot.

During the February [-] Mutiny, the middle school students of the Huangdao faction sang this song to initiate the mutiny.Because of Huang Ke's later intervention, the mutiny ended in a funny way.

In the eyes of outsiders, Japan has just changed its emperor, but the blow to the spirit of Japan is very huge.In the propaganda of "making gods" in Japan in the past, the emperor was great, holy, and a god on earth.As a result, when February [-] came, the Emperor was seriously injured and died—the godhead, the forceful personality was all lost overnight!

This is what kills!Once the God Master card is broken, the invisible loss is extremely huge.

After that, "Song of the Showa Restoration" became a banned song in Japan.What Kenji Doihara did not expect was that this song would actually spread to China at this time, and it would be openly broadcast on the Communist Party’s propaganda radio station in such a mocking way. To the Japanese spies and agents in China", it was a face-to-face slap in the face, deceiving people to the extreme.

"This tone, this feeling of arrogance must be the fault of that Huang Ke and Huang Yuanxing!"

Kenji Doihara felt great regret, only hated that Huang Ke didn't kill him when he was still in Japan.He patiently listened to the most famous "anti-song" in Japan on the radio.Then the host on the radio station began to explain the history of this song to the audience, first talking about its creator (I posted a free chapter with a special explanation the day before yesterday), and then mentioned that this song is [-] During the mutiny, the rebel officers and soldiers sang it.

Then the announcer translated the content of the lyrics into Chinese and explained the original meaning to the audience sentence by sentence.After 15 minutes of explaining everything, all the Chinese audience who didn’t understand Japan understood now: It turned out that the [-] Mutiny was a group of “patriotic” Japanese soldiers who wanted to appeal to the Emperor and use the Emperor’s power to deal with it. Plutocratic capitalists who oppress them.

However, at this time, the host changed his mind and told the audience: These stupid and pathetic Japanese soldiers did not understand until their death that their remonstrance was doomed to fail from the very beginning: because the facts were not what they imagined. The emperor in the book was deceived by treacherous ministers, because the interests of the Japanese emperor and the chaebol are one, and he is fully aware of the suffering of the people, but the emperor just pretends not to know.

"Everything, the tragedy of Japan, the root of Japan's full-scale invasion of China, we have to start with the things that happened to Japan before and after the Meiji Restoration..."

PS: I have been seriously ill recently, and I am still in poor health, so I can only update [-] words first.

-------------------- Chapter 180 Meiji Restoration 68th Anniversary Festival-------------------

In the broadcast, in the form of historical science popularization, the citizens of Pingjin were told in detail about the events that happened in Japan before and after the Meiji Restoration. The truth about "power" and the contradictions and differences between their shogunate forces.

The name of this program was originally called "History of the Meiji Restoration"

The show lasted for two full hours, and it was not finished. Then it ended temporarily with a Japanese song called "Senben Sakura". If you want to know what will happen next, please listen to it tomorrow.

"Bold and fearless foreignization revolution,

open and aboveboard anti-war country,

Riding a two-wheeled bicycle of the Hinomaru seal,

It's nothing to run a Mercedes-Benz across the ring road.

Boys and girls Sengoku Warriors follow the wave of Ukiyo,

Thousands of cherry blossoms dissolve into the night, even your voice cannot be heard,

Here's a banquet in a steel cage and look down from that guillotine,

In the darkness of the underworld in the three thousand worlds, you can't even hear the song of lament...."

The so-called "ending song", the lyrics are also similar to "Song of the Showa Restoration", full of malice.The singing and accompanying music are a bit weird, but it sounds unusually pleasing to the ear.

In the days to come, this program will be broadcast in the Pingjin area at [-] noon every day, and will be replayed at [-] in the evening.At [-] o'clock in the evening, the Japanese version will be broadcast for the Japanese Concession area with the largest number of Japanese.