From to 1935 2020

On the side of the warehouse building of the Tianjin Main Railway Station, two devil officers picked up binoculars and looked around, and found that there were signs of enemy activities on the roofs of all the two-story residential buildings within a kilometer nearby.In addition to the snipers, they also saw a lot of figures carrying small cannons upstairs-these people were carrying 37mm light infantry cannons provided by the Soviet Union.

A total of three tanks were slowly approaching the warehouse from three different directions. No, they were not tanks, but tracked self-propelled artillery, modified from the chassis of an M2 tank.In addition to them, there are several T37 light tanks used as trailers, pulling a few mountain guns and approaching the warehouse. They stopped about a thousand meters away, and then quickly set up shooting positions.Counting the tank guns, there are at least fifteen three-inch guns, plus a bunch of [-]mm light infantry guns, aiming at the warehouse.

In addition to the warehouse building, the land occupied by the Japanese army on Kono Yohei's side also includes a number of residential buildings next to each other.Form a satellite defense circle.While the two were observing the situation, the Japanese soldiers who followed them into the warehouse were also checking the original stock in the warehouse to see if there was anything worth using.

Then they were delighted to find that there were a large number of sack-shaped goods piled up in the four corners of the warehouse, with the words "Sea Salt" written in large white paint on them.

"Sea salt? It can be used as a sandbag!"

Captain Oda Ryuji was overjoyed and ordered his men to move the sea salt to various places to use as sandbags.Dozens of devil soldiers immediately came to carry salt bags.

During this process, the sharp-eyed Ryuji Oda noticed that the writing on a certain salt bag seemed to be strange. He stopped his men to put down the salt bag, and when he took a closer look, his hairs stood on end.

Why?

He found that the word "sea salt" was added later, the purpose was just to cover up the original name.

He noticed that there was a problem with the salt bag. The word "Sea Salt" on it was written slightly off, not completely covering the original words.Oda Ryuji took a closer look and recognized the original words "NH4NO3" - commonly known as foreign dung, chemical name ammonium nitrate.

Shocked, Ryuji Oda moved closer to the "salt bag", sniffed his nose carefully, and immediately smelled the unique ammonia odor from the decomposition of nitramine, and then exclaimed in fear.

"Put those bags down, this isn't sea salt, this is nitroamine!"

Damn, why are there so many bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer here!In fear, Oda Ryuji ordered the soldiers to immediately "put down" the "salt bag" on their bodies. If this thing is used as a sandbag, isn't it courting death?

Oda Ryuji turned his head to look, and found even more horrified that these mysterious "sea salt" were not concentrated in a corner of the warehouse, but were intentionally placed on the three walls of the warehouse, placed in the shape of a character, every Hundreds of bags are placed at every angle.

One bag is 25 kilograms, one hundred bags is 2.5 tons, and there are at least a few hundred bags in the warehouse, at least ten tons of ammonium nitrate.In addition to these, he also found more than a dozen dangerous things such as gasoline barrels in the warehouse.

"Who did this? This is a trap!"

Just as Oda Ryuji realized the danger, the sound of bombardment was already ringing outside.

A total of fifteen 2 or 3mm guns were firing simultaneously in the direction of the warehouse.Not only these 29-inch guns, the gunners of the 37th Army or the Red Army deployed in other nearby buildings are also using [-]mm infantry guns to fire at the warehouse.

During the first round of bombardment, bricks and stones flew randomly on the outer wall of the warehouse of the main train station, and there was a lot of screams. The lucky Japanese army did not detonate the more than ten tons of "foreign dung" in the warehouse immediately, but unfortunately , Several of the dozen or so gasoline drums placed in the warehouse leaked and caused a fire.

When the artillery group on the periphery was about to reload and start firing for the second time, there was a loud bang, which could be heard throughout Tianjin City, and the entire Tianjin Railway Station exploded amid rising black smoke and dazzling flashes. Collapsed... Hundreds of devil officers and soldiers were almost instantly shattered, and a few remnants who were lucky enough to hide outside the warehouse were quickly dealt with by the 29th Army who surrounded them.

One kilometer away, in the frontline temporary headquarters of the 132nd Division.

"Good job!"

"Thanks to the comrades who work there in the warehouse!"

Zhao Dengyu, the commander of the 132nd division, was shaking hands with Lu Chishui, the representative of the CCP opposite and the head of underground work in Tianjin.As early as two days ago, under the arrangement of the underground party working in the warehouse, a large amount of "foreign dung" marked with "sea salt" was brought into the warehouse of the main station of the railway station, and more than a dozen barrels of gasoline were placed, seemingly randomly " Throw it in the "terminus warehouse.

The Japanese staff in charge of warehouse management suggested that gasoline should not be put here because it is unsafe, but they couldn’t resist the bribery offensive. The underground party businessman who handed it over said that it would be shipped away in three days... The Japanese warehouse manager and the national thief took it away. After paying a small amount of money, it doesn't matter.

Zhao Dengyu said in admiration: "The comrades in your army have clever calculations. They calculated in advance that the devils would use this warehouse for defense."

Lu Chishui said modestly: "They have been working hard to strengthen this place in the past six months, and the signs are obvious."

Lu Chishui looked at the direction of the port concession on the other side with a little satisfaction, especially the large Japanese concession area.Unlike Tianjin Terminal, the Japanese there are self-contained, and it is difficult for the underground party to infiltrate. There is no trick to take it down, but to fill it up with steel, flames, and flesh and blood...

In the Battle of Pingjin, the Red Army and Japanese troops were preparing.The Japanese were not completely passively beaten. Railways were destroyed and wired communication lines were cut in various places in Pingjin, and even around Hebei.Fortunately, with the lessons learned from last time, coupled with the gradual increase of the Red Army's control over Hebei, the damaged railway section was quickly discovered and repaired.As for the interruption of wired communications in the Pingjin area, a large number of transistor radio stations supported by the Soviet Union have effectively avoided this problem.

The Red Army, which took the lead, could gain a little advantage in the first few days by using "Mao tricks", but this advantage will soon be gone...

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When the fight between Pingjin and Pingjin was fierce, at the famous "Six Nations Hotel" in Beiping, the political center of northern China, at noon that day, representatives of the Red Army summoned Chinese journalists and personnel stationed in Peiping from various countries to publicly announce the entry of the entire North China region. total war emergency.

The official representative of the Red Army was Dong Biwu, and Song Zheyuan, the nominal head of the Pingjin area, sat next to him. In addition, the third heavyweight was the Soviet ambassador to China Pan Youxin (he took the Chinese name of ), (the Russian name is Александр Семёнович Панюшкин, (Alexander Panyushkin) because the pronunciation is weird and difficult to pronounce, I use the Chinese name).

When Dong Biwu started, he first read the statement and political views of the Red Army, and then Song Zheyuan made a speech, announcing that the Pingjin area had entered a wartime state, and the general martial law was the same old routine.But the biggest blame was Song Zheyuan's statement that his 29th Army would fully cooperate with the Red Army and obey the direct command of the Northern Anti-Japanese Alliance under the leadership of Li Runshi. , and completely obey the "Northern Central Committee" of the "Taiyuan Government".

After a lot of extremely explosive news was finished, when it was the reporter's turn to speak, the scene immediately exploded.

After a short period of confusion, reporters from various countries came up one by one to ask questions.

The first to be allowed to ask questions was the Japanese reporter, who asked Dong Biwu sadly and angrily why he "despicably went to war without declaring it."

Dong Biwu laughed ironically on the spot: "Our Chinese Soviet government of the Communist Party declared war on Japan in 1932! And from September [-] to the Battle of Bailing Temple at the end of last year, there has never been a war between the Red Army and the Japanese army." Stop it!"

Then Pan Youxin, the Soviet ambassador to Peiping, interjected in somewhat blunt Chinese: "The Chinese Communist Party declared war five years ago. Do you want them to declare war on Japan twice?"

The audience roared with laughter, and then the Japanese reporter asked the Soviet ambassador in a tone of fear and anger.

"At this time, Lucia's army is also attacking Manchuria. Is your country going to declare war on the Great Japanese Empire?"

Pan Youxin sarcastically said: "We are fighting the army of the puppet Manchukuo. What does it have to do with Japan? As for the cause of the war, last night, military personnel from the puppet Manchukuo sneaked into the territory of the Soviet Union and maliciously blew up the A short section of the railway in the Soviet Union, this is an act of self-defense that our side was forced to carry out."

There was another burst of laughter at the scene, and the Japanese reporter was dragged down in anger, and another reporter asked to speak.

A British reporter asked Pan Youxin: "The Soviet Union clashed with the Japanese army in the Far East. What is the estimated extent of this war?"

According to the answer given by Moscow, Pan Youxin replied: "The scale of this war will not be large, but it will be fought for a long time. The intensity will not be lower than the first Russo-Japanese War, but it will not be as intense as the last war." As fierce as the European war..."

Speaking of this, he paused, looked at the Japanese reporter who was still on the sidelines, staring at him viciously, and then in a bully voice, he quoted a sentence he heard when he was in contact with someone not long ago and replied: "For Japan, the war that took place in the Far East and North China should be a national war that gambled heavily on the country's fortunes. But for the great Soviet Union..."

He smiled and put his right hand in his pocket, then took it out again.

"This is just a war in our pockets for training!"

At this time, two relatively independent military bloc alliances in the North and the South have emerged in China. Naturally, there is only one dominant CCP group as the leader in North China, while the south is being torn apart at this time.

Of the five southern powers, the Cantonese faction and the Guangxi faction each have their own strengths, and the two sides are basically on par. When North China changed suddenly, Chen Jitang and Li Zongren also fought fiercely over who should be the leader in the south.

On Li Zongren's side, on the surface, there is only Guangxi, but in fact he has a good relationship with the Hunan Army and has won the support of many Hunan warlords, but politically and economically, the Guangxi faction is at a disadvantage.

As for the Dian army, Long Yun is backed by the French. Long Yun himself is similar to Song Zheyuan, both of whom are guard dogs. As long as his own interests are guaranteed, he is "whoever is in the central government to support whom". Currently he is holding a wait-and-see attitude.

The situation of the Sichuan army is more complicated. Among the forces in the five southern provinces, the Sichuan army is actually under the greatest pressure. There is Songpan in the north and Chongqing in the south. One south and one north are caught in the middle by the Red Army.Although the Red Army is currently friendly to the Sichuan army, the warlords in Central Sichuan know that they are suffering.A dung dog (referring to Xue Yue, dung-eating king dog eats feces) was taken away, but in exchange for a dragon crossing the river (referring to He Long), only I know whether it is suffering or not.

As for Chen Jitang's side, on the surface, the strength of the troops seems to be inferior to that of the Guangxi faction, but Chen Jitang has the support of the British behind him.After Chang Kaishen was finished, all the customs duties owed by the British were handed over to Chen Jitang immediately.Not only that, when Huang Ke visited Europe last year, he wanted to buy a British Gladiator fighter jet, but he didn't even get a chance to take a look at it.On the contrary, Chen Jitang himself easily purchased a total of forty fighter jets from the UK.If the Soviet Air Force is not counted, even if Chang Kaishen's uprising air force is merged with the Red Army, it can only be on par with it.

During the period after Chang Kaishen stepped down, the Cantonese and Guangxi factions formed cliques in Nanjing and fought fiercely. At present, it seems that Chen Jitang has the upper hand.

Chen Jitang's natural advantage, in addition to the support of the British, Guangdong Province itself is the base camp of the KMT's fortune, and it is an "old area of ​​the national army".The Whampoa Military Academy is also in Guangdong!After Chang Kaishen's regime collapsed, many Kuomintang dignitaries naturally approached Chen Jitang and voted for him.In the past half a month, Chen Jitang lived in Chang Kaishen's Chairman's Mansion, slept in the bed he used to sleep in, and sat on the chair Chang Kaishen used to work at his desk.There was a lot of traffic in front of the door, and Chang Kaishen's loyal confidant came from Conglong, and even Chang Kaishen's student Dai Yunong led the Fuxing Society staff.

In contrast, the situation on Li Zongren's side is much worse-because he is now paying off debts after killing too many KMTs after the April [-] purge.

After the April [-]th incident, Chang Kaishen was the most active force in killing the Kuomintang. At that time, Chang Kaishen's political status in the Kuomintang party was actually not as high as the acting head of the Propaganda Department. The commander of the Northern Expedition Army was ousted shortly afterwards.At that time in Wuhan, there was another "National Government" headed by Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin, and Sun Ke.

After April [-], Cai Yuanpei, an "academic leader and a model for the world", the enlightened gentleman Zhang Jingjiang, and Wu Zhihui were the most active in the first wave of Qing Party and Communist killings.

But they are just the beginning.

The following gentry, landlords, and military forces mixed in the Kuomintang soon discovered that it was too convenient to clean up those non-local forces that did not belong to them and that were not pleasing to the eye under the pretext of being "communist". So excitedly waved the butcher knife at the Kuomintang.

Before April 60, the Kuomintang claimed to have [-] formal party members, but after April [-], only [-] remained.Some of those who were missing were left the party, but more were killed by their own people.During this process, the person who killed the most ruthlessly and actively was Li Zongren from the Gui family—the reason was similar to Chang Kaishen.

After April [-], Chang Kaishen discovered that if he did not kill the Kuomintang, he would not be able to play the party election within the party. It was his turn to get the top position in the "Whampoa Military Officer Department", so at that time, he tried his best to kill a wave of Kuomintang in his own control area.

After the merger of Ning and Han, Chang Kaishen was forced to step down, and when the Guangxi clique ruled the central government for a short time, Li Zongren also discovered that his foundation was shallower than Chang Kaishen's. , Sun Lianhe, even worse than Chang Kaishen.

Therefore, he is more active in killing the Kuomintang again!And it doesn't matter whether it's leftists, rightists or reactionaries, as long as they are not in the right direction, they will kill with all their heart.When fighting with Chang Kaishen in the Central Plains, Li Zongren killed even crazier...

Ten years ago, the blood debt owed by the Kuomintang was a pleasure to kill. In 1937, when he fought against Chen Jitang, he did not use guns to gain power, but sat around pretending to be "civilized people" and talking about "party ticket" politics. Li Zongren It is time to pay off the debt for killing the KMT for a while.

In the past ten days after entering Nanjing, the Guangdong and Guangxi families sought alliances everywhere. The Guangxi warlords who "killed the Kuomintang" were obviously at a disadvantage. The gentry in the Liangjiang area also generally supported Chen Jitang, while the Red Army in the north also I also agree with Chen Jitang who had "long-term friendly cooperation experience" with them.

If the war in the north hadn't come too suddenly, in Nanjing, everyone would probably have to fight for another month or two before Chen Jitang officially came to power.

However, after the Pingjin War, the British and French governments saw that Nanjing was still a mess without a leader, and they were also a little anxious.The British joined the French, and directly on April [-], publicly recognized the Chen Jitang government as the only legal government in southern China.Afterwards, Germany, which has maintained a good "tungsten mine" business relationship with Chen Jitang, also recognized his regime.

On the [-]th, with the general support of all forces inside and outside, Chen Jitang convened an emergency enlarged meeting of the Kuomintang. After a formal election, he became the second "Chairman".As a result of the compromise, Li Zongren became the vice chairman of the committee. Under the joint pressure from inside and outside, the two sides finally did not fight, and formed a superficially peaceful, loose military-political alliance to cope with the increasingly serious external crisis.

Both Chen Jitang and Li Zongren understood at this time that if they continue to bite each other like before, neither Li Runshi in the north nor the Japanese who are watching the tiger will not be able to deal with them.

On April [-]th, the northern Pingjin area was still fighting fiercely.

In fact, the Red Army, which has already incorporated the 29th Army, has dispatched more than 50 troops to fight fiercely with nearly 20 Japanese and puppet troops in Pingjin, Eastern Hebei, and the mountains in Rehe.The Soviet Air Force aiding China and the Red Army's own planes are fighting fiercely with Japanese planes over Pingjin.In Shanhaiguan, the line from eastern Jidong to Tanggu, and the Yanshan area in the northwest of Beiping, are two major battlefields where fierce fighting is fought.

In the Far East, the Soviet Red Army's two directions, one east and the other west, have invaded several kilometers into the territory of the Puppet Manchuria and exchanged fierce fire with the Kwantung Army. A biochemical research institute in Harbin burned to ashes, killing countless people.

To the north of the Yangtze River is now the Red Army's hall of speech, open to resist Japan, silently attack the Japanese devils, and also kill the Japanese devils in its hands-the current policy of the Red Army is very clear: everything can be shelved, only fighting the Japanese devils is more important than anything else.

In contrast, the situation in the south is extremely complicated.

The "Chairman Chen" who came to the stage immediately felt that the position of "No. 1 of the Kuomintang" was really uncomfortable.

After entering Nanjing, he immediately discovered that what Chang Kaishen left him was a super mess.

Chang Kaishen's "industrial wealth" in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions suffered heavy losses and countless losses in this short month.

In just five days, most of the machines in the Jinling Armory Factory were emptied by people. After a little investigation, it was found that the people below had stolen them and sold them to the Red Army in the north.Not to mention the disappearance of the machines, the core workers and technicians and their families were even poached.

And Hou Debang, a well-known industrial capitalist in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, also quietly packed up and left the factory in Jiangnan in the last half month of the collapse of Chang Kaishen's regime. Most of them were removed.Chen Jitang received it here, and it was all a pile of leftovers that were too late to remove...

As for Chang Kaishen's most famous "chicken that lays golden eggs", the streptomycin pharmaceutical factory on the edge of Nanjing City, when Chen Jitang excitedly took over the central government, he saw its stock price recovering and skyrocketing. The [-]% shareholding alleviates the financial difficulties. After a careful investigation, it was found that it was transferred to the American consortium by Kong Song and Chen Sanmag in the past few days to pay off the debt...

"If you dare, I came to Nanjing to pick up trash and help the poor!"

After Chen Jitang succeeded in taking over Nanjing "Shangluo", the initial excitement was soon replaced by endless headaches and troubles.

He is called the chairman, but in fact he is only the "co-owner" of all parties, the Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, and Yunnan factions, except for his own

Apart from soldiers, which other people and horses can he really command like his arms and fingers?

Every family has their own calculations, and every family wants to only eat meat to take advantage of it and refuse to do anything! "If there is something to do, the central government will ask for money, if there is nothing to cry for money", the tactics are not enough, and it is really impossible to control these grandchildren.

"Chang Kaishen is really not easy!"

It’s just that I have been at home for a day, and I have seen the Executive Yuan and the party meeting. The forces on the top of the mountain are frantically arguing, talking, dragging their backs, stumbling, and arguing for a long time. , Chen Jitang, who thinks that his personal cultivation is not bad, felt at the time that he wanted to call the guards and set up a machine gun to shoot all the grandsons to death.

"So many hills, so many bastards! How did Chang Kaishen suppress them all back then?"

While sighing, Chen Jitang recalled that during the past ten years of war, he stayed in the audience, flirted with various warlords and local forces, flirted with each other, and made every effort to dig a hole for Chang Kaishen and fight against the central government. happy time.At that moment, at this moment, after changing his position, he really understood that it is really not easy to be the head of the Kuomintang!

First, there is the issue of money.

The central treasury is completely bankrupt, the French currency has been turned into scrap paper, and hundreds of thousands of former Nanjing government officials lined up to hug Chen Jitang's thigh, and all of them want him to pay their wages!This question alone was enough to make Chen Jitang pull out his hair.

Fortunately, the British lent him a large loan at this time and transferred the customs tax bank, which temporarily relieved him.But the bigger problem is that there are many hills below, and the problem of inconsistency and injustice.

The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the north was fierce, and all parties were basically united and sincere, with the same attitude.But here in the south, just a question of whether to declare war on Japan, and whether to support the Red Army in this matter, the people below are arguing.

The warlords of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Hunan pretended to actively support the war of resistance—anyway, they nested in the interior, and Japan would not be able to fight it.In the past, the Guangxi faction who always blamed Chang Kaishen for not resisting the war with a bald head, now collectively misfired, and Chen Jitang himself...

He really wanted to support the Red Army, but the British government behind him put pressure on him at the same time, and Chen Jitang was a little reluctant to send his family fortune to the north...

If you do not support the War of Resistance, you will lose the support of the people.I support the Red Army, but I am afraid that the Japanese will come and the British boss will be unhappy.

What made Chen Jitang want to vomit blood the most was that Wang Jingwei and Sun Ke, party stick speculators with vain positions but no real power, instead pretended to shout anti-Japanese in this period.Chen Jitang really wanted to point at Wang Jingwei and yell at Wang Jingwei. During the Chang Kaishen period, you shouted that the country would be subjugated after three days of resistance to Japan. Why did you change the lines now?

On the issue of anti-Japanese war, everyone seems to have the same attitude, but in fact, how to do it is a headache.They shouted slogans very loudly, and when they officially signed the document, they all pushed their heads and whistled at 45 degrees, pretending to be stupid.As for the specific actions requiring them to send troops and money... Probably just talking about it, they are all traitors and sluts!