From to 1935 2020

On March 27, only the sound of pulling (gun) bolts was heard in Pingjin and Tianjin, but there was no sound of firing. Only the two Soviet freighters parked in Tanggu were still continuously unloading a large amount of munitions.

"What do you Red Army want to do?"

In the headquarters of the 29th Army in Beiping, Song Zheyuan asked Huang Kedao in a slightly nervous tone.Now Huang Ke, in his capacity as the representative of the Chinese Communist Party in Beiping, sat in front of him and drank tea with him.Huang Ke, who just returned from the Soviet Union with [-] armored personnel carriers, knows very well that the so-called multi-country gathering to discuss China's issues, or going abroad with a bald head to step down, can negotiate peace. The Red Army is not ready yet, as long as it is ready, the Red Army will attack first before the Japanese make a move.

"I should be the one who asked this question, Lao Song, what do you want?"

"What do you mean?"

"Old Song, are you more expensive?"

"Three out of fifty."

Huang asked Ke, "Do you still have the ambitions of your youth?"

Song Zheyuan narrowed his eyes and looked at the young man whose head was worth 100 million in front of him.After the Battle of Huainan, the whole world knew that Huang Ke was a Communist spy, and made Chang Kaishen miserable, but he also made Song Zheyuan very bad.It's just that when Huang Ke stood in front of Song Zheyuan, he couldn't hate him.

Song Zheyuan said nervously: "What do you want to say?"

Among the people on the CCP side, Song Zheyuan is most afraid of Huang Ke.In the past year and a half, this young man has turned his hands into clouds and rain, and has played with a group of senior Kuomintang officials and a bunch of local warlords starting from Chang Kaishen.Unlike other CCPs, the CCP is very principled and can be deceived, but this young man is both yin and yang, good and evil, and uses all means.

After learning more and more about the things he had done, Song Zheyuan could hardly breathe in front of him.

Huang Ke asked: "Old Song, you and I have known each other for a long time. We know each other well and don't speak secretly. Answer me honestly: what is your greatest ambition and ambition?"

Song Zheyuan bowed his head, thought for a while, and replied: "Be the leader of a place, and keep the Hebei side safe."

Huang Ke nodded first, then shook his head with a sigh and said: "In the words of the Communist Party, your ambition is just to be a local powerful warlord, and the feudal regime will separate the land..."

Huang Ke looked at Song Zheyuan and shook his head.

Song Zheyuan snorted, "What I said is true."

There were 29 Red Army troops in Pingjin City, plus an unknown number of armed workers' pickets. There was an armored division outside the city. His [-]th Army seemed to be superior in numbers, but Song Zheyuan knew that if he really started to fight, he would be the one who would be finished.In the past year, the Communist Party has extended its tentacles into its army through various military exchanges.

"Of course I believe you. I actually want to ask you, have you read history books?"

Song Zheyuan nodded.

"I will not speak to you in the tone of the Communist Party. What I want to tell you now is to ask you one more thing: Qin Shihuang has ruled the world for more than 2000 years. During this period, the dynasty changed more than [-] times. In troubled times and the end of the dynasty, There are many warlords everywhere, and Caotou kings are everywhere. But every time a new dynasty is established and the country is unified, the warlords and hilltops will be separated from various places, how much is left?"

Song Zheyuan's hand holding the teacup trembled.

"Old Song, what I really want to tell you is that you are not ambitious enough but want to give up. This is the worst choice!"

Huang Ke said: "In the world where dragons and snakes fought side by side, after the birth of the real dragon, how many of those dragons and pythons survived? Those who were able to escape and become rich, what did they do before they were alive? Qin Mo Jingbu, Han Xin, heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Eighteenth Routes against the king at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms at the end of the Tang Dynasty... Families, households, how many families survived? Most of them died out, but There are also those who see the wind and steer the rudder, descending just right, retreating in time, and finally King Anle in Anheng's later years..."

With that said, he stood up, opened the curtains, and let the sunlight from the window shine into the room.

Huang Ke asked again: "Then Li Runshi's Red Army, two years ago, it seemed that they were just rogues who were chased out of nowhere by Chang Kaishen, but two years later, there is such a field. If you were him, I would be like helping Li Runshi." Help you, can you achieve what you are today?"

Song Zheyuan kept shaking his head and sighed.

"Li Runshi is a great talent, I am far inferior to him!"

Huang Ke said loudly: "You don't have the ambition to unify the world and swallow up mountains and rivers. You only want to be a warlord grass head king on the side of peace. You dare not advance, and you are reluctant to retreat. Isn't this action waiting for the next year when the country is unified and the whole family is killed? "

Song Zheyuan's body trembled violently.

Huang Ke bent down, put his hands on his knees, and shouted at Song Zhe, who was sitting on the sofa with his head bowed and his face slightly pale:

"The Japanese army's full-scale invasion of China is imminent, and all national righteousness comes first! If you lead the entire army to vote for the Red Army at this time, and become the bone of a thousand gold horses, you can achieve a good reputation after you die, and in exchange for yourself and your family's wealth and honor for the next century. …”

"Thousands of gold horse bones?"

At this moment, Song Zheyuan's eyes lit up.

When leaving Song Zheyuan's Pingjin headquarters by car, Huang Ke murmured in his heart: "If I want to go back on my word and kill his family in the future, it will be because I cheated first... This is a compromise, this is an exchange of interests, This is shameless political fraud and I'm becoming more and more like that guy..."

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-------------------- Chapter 208 Do great things and cherish your life-------------------

As of 1937, with the sudden changes in China's domestic situation, Britain felt very conflicted about the major changes in China.As a century-old shit-stirring stick, they all see the little things of the Japanese.

"The contradiction between the British and the Japanese is that as the Chinese revolution has re-entered the climax period, the British have gradually turned to "agitation" and "agitation" on the Chinese issue, especially the attitude of the Japanese invasion of China in order to safeguard their own interests. "Support"—according to the ideals of the British, it is most hoped that the Japanese will invade China from the north, and then join forces with the Red Army in the area north of the Yellow River, and the south should not exceed the Yangtze River. In the eyes of the British, this is in their best interest. "

When he was in Moscow, Chairman Lee Yun-seok discussed this issue with Stalin.

"As for the Japanese, as China and the Soviet Union adopt a unified attitude in North China, the top Japanese militarists will soon realize that a war in North China requires two-front warfare, which is extremely passive and dangerous strategically! On the contrary, Songhu The invasion of China was against the already fragile Chang Kaishen regime, and it worked well. Chang Kaishen could even ask Chang Kaishen to take the initiative to invite the Japanese army into China, and take the most beautiful middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River without firing a single shot—— And this is precisely the traditional interest area of ​​Britain in China! And this is where the contradiction between the British and the Japanese lies.”

Stalin's diplomatic action this time was a diplomatic means used to sow up the relationship between Britain and Japan after negotiating with Chairman Lee Yun-seok.

The real purpose is to create such a point of contradiction for the Japanese: to start a war in North China will encounter the joint attack of China and the Soviet Union.Before the war in Songhu, the Soviet Union had the same attitude as Britain, France and the Soviet Union before the war: the Japanese were not allowed to do anything in the south of the Yangtze River.And for their own benefit, after seeing the winks from the Soviets, the British must be happy to force the Japanese to the north in this matter, because this can help them solve three problems at the same time (referring to the Soviet Union, the CCP, Japan).

In order to lure the British to bite the bait, the Red Army put forward only the conditions for the peace talks: Chang Kaishen will completely step down and get out of power, and on the south side of the Yangtze River, a replacement will be fine.

During this period, the British had clearly begun to support Chen Jitang.

In actual operation, after seeing the hydrangea of ​​"peace negotiations" thrown by Stalin, the United Kingdom quickly bit the bait-after all, it is in their best interest to fight the Sino-Japanese war in the north.

It seems like a good idea to use something like Chen Jitang and Li Zongren to replace the trash Chang Kaishen and maintain Jiangnan's interests?

On the issue of China, the French have always followed the British closely, and soon the British and French began to respond.After receiving the reply, the whole of Japan was in an uproar. At that moment, Japan seemed to recall the fear of "Three Kingdoms' intervention and return to Liao Dynasty" after the Sino-Japanese War of the last century.

When the attention of the whole world was focused on China and Japan, and the Soviets more openly hoarded heavy troops in the Far East, they put on a stance with great fanfare—if you dare to send the Kwantung Army to attack North China, the Soviet Red Army will dare to cross the river to liberate Northeast China.

"Full Mongolia lifeline"! Even the crazy Japanese military department dare not easily play the little trick of jumping over the emperor and walking alone at this time-of course, the "Showa" staff members of the Emperor's Dao faction who were thrown into the Kwantung Army is exceptional.

After the "North China Incident" in 1935, Japan vigorously carried out military expansion and war preparations with the main goal of conquering China and dominating Asia, and accelerated the pace of launching a full-scale war of aggression against China. On April 1936, 4, the Japanese cabinet brazenly decided to increase its troops to North China. The new commander was Lieutenant General Tashiro Kanichiro, who was the former head of the 17st Division. The Garrison Infantry Brigade was headed by Major General Hebian Zhengsan.According to figures released by the Japanese side, the number of Chinese garrison troops increased from the original 1 to more than 1700 after the increase.The actual number of additional troops is said to far exceed the figures announced by the Japanese side. (According to the survey of Shanghai "Shenbao", the number of troops increased to 5700, and some people believe that the number of Japanese troops exceeded 1.4.) They were deployed in Tianjin, Tanggu, Tangshan, Luanxian, Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao and other places. On the eve of the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident", the specific garrison situation was as follows:

The commander of Japan's "Chinese Garrison" and its directly subordinate tanks, cavalry, engineers, communications teams, gendarmerie, military hospitals and military warehouses were stationed in Tianjin.

The headquarters of the "Chinese Garrison Infantry Brigade" led the 1st Infantry Regiment (belonging to the 2nd Brigade), the Telecommunications Office, the Military Police Unit, and the Military Hospital Branch in Beiping.

第2联队和第1联队第2大队、炮兵联队驻天津，其中第2联队第3大队第7中队驻唐山，第8中队驻滦县。

第9中队驻山海关；第1大队第3中队驻塘沽，另有1个小队驻昌黎，1个小队驻秦皇岛。

The distribution of troops is roughly as follows: along the railway from Fengtai in the west to Shanhaiguan in the east, there are more than 5000 Japanese troops stationed in North China; to the east of Beiping, there are 1.7 enemy and puppet troops of the "Eastern Hebei Anti-Communist Autonomous Government" under the auspices of Japan; On the front, there are about 4 puppet Mongolian troops in Chabei supported by Japan.

These are the Japanese troops stationed in China in the original history. In this era, because of the strong rise of the Red Army and the impact of the Battle of Bailing Temple, the number of Japanese troops stationed in China is only a lot more than in the original history.And very vigilant.

Lieutenant General Tashiro Kanichiro, the head of the 1st Division, and Major General Hashimoto Gun, the new Chief of Staff of the Garrison Army, quietly arrived in the Tanggu area on March 27 in the armed march in the southern suburbs of Tianjin.

Wanichiro Tashiro has been working as a reconnaissance staff officer in the staff headquarters since he was a second lieutenant. He is engaged in intelligence activities against China. He can be called a "China hand". very well.

In 1936, Tashiro Wanichiro was transferred to the commander of the Chinese Garrison, with the rank of lieutenant general.After taking office, Tashiro Wanichiro signed the "Sino-Japanese Economic Development Agreement" with China, which included the construction of the Tianjin-Shishi Railway, the construction of Tanggu Port, Baihe Water Conservancy, Longyan Iron Mine, etc. According to Tokyo's instructions, he is vigorously strengthening preparations for invading China. While increasing troops near Fengtai, he is vigorously building an airport and constantly organizing military exercises in an attempt to stir up trouble and plan to invade China.

Precisely because he is a China hand, Tashiro Kanichiro has a very good understanding of the changes that have taken place in Hebei in the past year.And since November last year, "Meiji 68 Festival" was first notified and broadcast, and then printed as a evil book and widely circulated by the Japanese troops stationed in China. Tashiro Kanichiro was a "loyal" fan. The book secretly hid a copy.

However, after that, he himself became more cautious about launching the war of aggression against China. Instead, he somewhat supported the navy's idea of ​​"picking soft persimmons" and playing Chang Kaishen's idea-this is actually no secret in the Japanese army, and there are conflicts between land and sea. For a long time, in order to destroy the "good things" of the Navy, the Army has no obligation to keep these red deer secret.

The reason for his caution is the same as that of the high-level rationalists. He is afraid that North China will go to war, which will attract Lucia to intervene directly.

The current "Northern Anti-Japanese Alliance Leader" Li Runshi is completely different from Chang Kaishen.

The person who confronted Tashiro Wanichiro in Tanggu was Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division.Tashiro Wanichiro watched his troops change their guns and upgrade their weapons bit by bit.

First there were large-caliber anti-tank guns, and then there was the 37mm infantry gun "sent" by Lucia (readers of Xiyang click here to read the introduction, it is not an anti-tank gun), and the number of mortars is also increasing , and after December last year, the 38th Division actually had [-] tanks, and they were gifted by Li Runshi!

More and more Soviet instructors are openly operating in the 38th Division. What they are doing, Kanichiro Tashiro knows very well through the spy network.Before April [-], the Northwest Army had been in close contact with the Soviets.And now the Communist Party continues to infiltrate and control the Pingjin area, and Tashiro Kanichiro is also aware of it.

Tashiro Kanichiro became more and more frightened, especially when he saw the hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and planes appearing in the sky above Hirajin, Tashiro Kanichiro had completely lost the courage to make trouble at this time.

He is very clear that the center of gravity of the country is all in the south, and in the north of China, the three northeastern provinces plus the North China are stationed in the army, and there are only eight divisions at full count.The Soviet Union has made such a big name in the north. Once the incident happens here, no matter what it turns out to be, the sensitive area of ​​Tanggu where he is located will definitely be hit hard at the first time.

"That's more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles! There are more than 100 more, no, at least two hundred aircraft!"

Kanichiro Tashiro could imagine that once the war broke out, the Soviet Red Army would attract the main force of the Kwantung Army in the north. How much support from the air force and army could he get with this little force?In the past few months, Tashiro Wanichiro has been asking the base camp for help, and he has only obtained six Type 94 tanks (bean tanks) in the Hiraitjin area.But when he thought that the Lucians sent a hundred tanks to the Red Army at one time... Anyway, the frenzy in his mind was instantly cured by this number.

The purpose of walking alone is to get promoted.Tashiro Wanichiro was already a lieutenant general, but now he became more cautious.What made Kanichiro Tashiro vomit blood the most was that his group of grandchildren, after seeing a large number of tanks and planes, instead desperately joined forces in secret, and even encouraged him, the leader, to "fire the first shot".

"Your Excellency, Commander, let's do it! You can't delay any longer, and if you delay, the chance will really pass!"

"Baga! The base camp is now frightened by the military pressure of the Lucians! Whoever walks alone will be unlucky, and I will not end well."

Kanichiro Tashiro remembered the telegram sent by his old classmate Neiji Okamura at the same time, the content was all asking him to restrain his subordinates, and warned him that once the war broke out in the Far East, it would be difficult for the headquarters to send additional troops in the direction of North China in a short time. Too many troops.

At the same time, the chiefs of the garrison troops in other areas of the Pingjin generation also received warnings from Tokyo.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army who were confronting the Red Army and the 29th Army on the front line in Pingjin were conflicted and complicated in their hearts.

Rational, I have been an official enough, and I understand very rationally that it is really not a good time to start a war in North China, I am afraid that this group of middle schoolers will make big news again.

The militarists of the "Second Second" who want to be promoted think that the current situation is "the country is humiliated", and they need to fight hard and "gamble" all their wealth to fight for their breath...

Ren Mutaguchi is one of them.He served as the captain of the First Wing of the Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Garrison in North China, with the official rank of Colonel.After the armed march incident on March 27, Ren Mutaguchi was also extremely dissatisfied with the "weak" performance of the commander of the North China Garrison. As for the command of the headquarters, his thoughts were: This is the rebellion of the national traitors!

In the next few days, Mutaguchi Ren gathered his subordinates, such as Major Kiyonao Ichiki, Captain Shimizu Setiro and others, and closed the door to start a secret discussion, just thinking about making some big news desperately.

At about the same time, various "secret talks" and behind-the-scenes transactions were also going on in several other places in the world.

Here in Tokyo, in the Chichibu Palace, Emperor Yongren and a group of senior military officials are gathering in a dark room behind closed doors, watching a video tape just sent from Lucia.

It was filmed by the Soviet Red Army during a large-scale military exercise near Zhanggufeng. Rows of tanks assaulted the sea, and patches of planes flew across the sky, all shot on the spot.The capture skills of Soviet photographers are far better than that of a powerful country in the East 80 years later. The official media can take pictures of the aircraft carrier as if it were a fishing boat. Numb.

"So many tanks!"

"So many planes!"

Yong Ren kept drumming in his heart. He had just received information from China that sixty armored vehicles had been transported into the Pingjin area in the past few days.According to the analysis of the Japanese intelligence department, the current number of tanks in the hands of the communist army, plus the ones sent by Chang Kaishen, is very likely to exceed [-].

From the emperor to the land minister and even the sea minister, everyone's teeth were sour from watching it collectively.

Yongren looked at it and asked, "What's the opinion of the British?"

The foreign minister said: "They firmly support us in North China, but in the south of the Yangtze River...their current attitude is to support Chen Jitang and form a coalition government of Chen Jitang and Li Zongren. They are planning to drive Chang Kaishen away. Step down and change people, at present, many people from the Nanjing government, including Wang Jingwei and He Yingqin, have secretly contacted the Guangdong side."

"Where's Chang Kaishen? How about him?"

"His situation is very bad! His subordinates are all looking for their own way out. He has been hesitating about the request made by the empire, but he dare not agree. Li Runshi has been publicizing that he is Shi Jintang."

The latter words were not spoken, but all the ghosts at the scene understood: If Chang Kaishen really opened his mouth to invite the Japanese to come to Songhu, most of his subordinates who had been separated from him would disperse in an instant.Another reason is that Chang Kaishen is Britain and the United States, to be precise, the spokesperson of the Americans in China. Did the American masters agree to him taking this step?

Doihara Kenji said: "The Song family and the Kong family, these two families have had a hard time recently. They were mistreated by that Huang Ke. Now they owe a lot of money to the Americans and are almost bankrupt. In fact, he and These two are now desperate. In fact, we can continue to work hard on them..."

"He is not the key, he is just the second Guangxu now! What the British and Americans think is the key! What is the attitude of the Americans now?"

Yongren interrupted him irritably, and then asked the most critical and most concerned question.

"They stated that they will continue to strictly maintain neutrality on the China issue! As long as the empire can ensure that the interests of the United States in China will not be violated, they can continue to be neutral."

Yongren suddenly asked a very sharp question: "If the imperial army goes to war with the Lucians in the northeast, how much support will they give us?"

Before becoming emperor, Yong Ren was a pro-British and American faction - this was related to the fact that he had stayed in England and France for a long time and understood the disparity in national power between the two countries.On the other hand, when Huang Ke met Huang Ke in the Chichibu Palace that day, when Huang Ke talked to him about the United States, he reported a lot of American industrial data and the prophecy in the book "Dark Fate". It is also tangible and intangible, affecting Yongren's judgment.