Chapter 27 26. Chairman Xiqia of Jilin Province opened the city with a bandit

When the Nationalist Government in Nanjing asked the people to be calm and patient, the Japanese chariots were still rumbling forward; The members expressed their sincerity to Lieutenant General Tomon, the head of the Second Division of the Japanese Army marching into Jilin, and expressed their willingness to "peacefully hand over Jilin" and unconditionally meet the requirements of the Japanese army. The highest military and political officer in Jilin Province was originally Zhang Zuoxiang, known as the "Auxiliary Commander".Zhang Zuoxiang was relied on by Zhang Zuolin in the era of the veteran Zhang Zuolin, and enjoyed a high prestige based on his qualifications, reputation, and connections in the Northeast military and political circles.After Zhang Zuolin was bombed to death by the Japanese, Zhang Zuoxiang presided over the aftermath, calmed down inside and outside, stabilized the situation, and helped Zhang Xueliang sit on the throne of the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Security Army.After the Northeast changed flags, Zhang Xueliang became the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Frontier Army, and Zhang Zuoxiang served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Frontier Army and the chairman of the Jilin Provincial Government.Zhang Xueliang was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force and Commander-in-Chief of the Northeast Frontier Defense Forces since September 18, 1930 when Zhang Xueliang issued a telegram for peace and led 100,000 Northeast Army elites to enter the border to mediate the Central Plains War. Zhang Zuoxiang, Deputy Commander of the First Northeast Frontier Defense Force, acted on his behalf.Before the September 18th Incident, Zhang Zuoxiang returned to Jinzhou for the funeral because of his father's death.In order to fulfill his "filial piety", Zhang Zuoxiang arranged his father's funeral with great pomp and ceremony. He stopped for forty-nine days, thousands of mourners, and all the luxurious hotels and restaurants in Jinzhou were booked by Zhang's family.The grand scale is astonishing.During the funeral, the Northeast Frontier Defense Chief of Staff Rong Zhen was in charge of the military affairs of the Northeast Frontier, while the Jilin Provincial Military Administration was handled by Xi Qia, the Chief of Staff of the Deputy Commander's Office of the Frontier Defense Army and a member of the Jilin Provincial Government.

Xiqia is a member of the Aixinjueluo family of the former Qing Dynasty. He once studied in the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy and had a teacher-student relationship with Lieutenant General Duomen, the commander of the Second Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Xiqia finally had the opportunity to practice his life's thought.When the incident happened, there were 5,000 to 6,000 Chinese troops stationed in the Kuanchengzi barracks and Nanling barracks in Changchun. Just after midnight on September 19, Hasebe, head of the Japanese Army’s Third Brigade stationed in Changchun’s “Railway Attachment,” received information that the incident in Shenyang had already started, and immediately ordered his troops to launch an attack on the Chinese army. .The first brigade of the fourth regiment attacked the Nanling barracks at night, and the second brigade attacked the Kuanchengzi barracks.

After the Shenyang Incident, Xiqia received an order of "non-resistance", that is, he telegraphed Fu Guanjun, the commander of the second battalion of the Kuanchengzi Road Guard Army: "If the Japanese army attacks, do not resist, all back down, and wait for negotiations." Dao ordered that when the Japanese attacked, the troops of the Second Battalion were not actively preparing to resist, but were still planning to negotiate; the Japanese asked the Second Battalion to disarm, but were rejected, and the two sides exchanged fire, and the fighting was very fierce.Xiqia urgently ordered to "avoid conflict", and the officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion were frustrated in their fighting spirit. Except one broke out, most of them were disarmed by the Japanese army.The Nanling Barracks was attacked unexpectedly.When the head of the 19th Artillery Regiment stationed in Nanling asked Xiqia for instructions, the reply he received was: "Withdraw quickly, no resistance is allowed!" The 671st Infantry Regiment, under the order of Xiqia not to resist, The artillery regiment under attack sat idly by, and even the Japanese army felt "staggered"; when they were also attacked by the Japanese army, some angry officers and soldiers fought back, inflicting heavy damage on the Japanese army, but after repeatedly receiving orders not to resist, Withdraw from South Ridge.Zhou Douqin, the chief executive of Changchun City, under Xiqia's instruction of "be patient and not resist", approached the Japanese army, disarmed the Chinese army in the city, and withdrew from the city.

Changchun fell.Xiqia, who had fulfilled the order of non-resistance, reported to Zhang Zuoxiang in the telegram: "I am in the Changchun Chengbu army, and I followed the order to lead them away. The ordnance left behind will be dispatched by the township office of the municipal office, and it will be collected together with the Japanese military police." On the 19th, the Japanese army occupied Shenyang and Changchun.This morning, although the Japanese cabinet decided on the policy of "not making the situation worse than the status quo," the General Staff Headquarters stated in a telegram to the Kwantung Army that day that "after the night of September 18, the determination and handling of the commander of the Kwantung Army were very timely. , I firmly believe that this is an act to enhance the prestige of the imperial army." The commander of the Kwantung Army, Honzhuang Fanda, was encouraged.The staff of the Kwantung Army also suggested that Fan Zhuang use "arbitrary" methods to advance troops to Jilin, so as to urge the commander of the Korean Army to take decisive actions to assist the Kwantung Army, and at the same time push the Central Military Department to make up its mind to move towards a fundamental solution to the Manchurian-Mongolian issue. .Honjo Shigetsu ordered Lieutenant General Domen Erlang, head of the second division, to gather troops in Changchun and prepare to attack Jilin City.

That night, after Xiqia received the information that the Japanese army was gathering in Changchun, he feared that the Japanese army would attack the capital of Jilin Province at night, so he ordered the troops in the provincial capital to withdraw urgently: "We should avoid conflicts and preserve our strength. The Sino-Japanese incident should be resolved diplomatically; all troops should Strictly stipulate that the troops are not allowed to fight without authorization, which leads to the expansion of the situation. All troops stationed in the provincial capital immediately leave the city for dozens of miles to stand by." At that time, the Chinese army in the city of Jilin Province included two regiments of the independent twenty-fifth brigade and two regiments. Feng Zhanhai led the Northeast Frontier Defense Forces in Kyrgyzstan Deputy Commander's Office Guard Regiment.Feng Zhanhai asked Xiqia why he didn't resist, and Xiqia argued sophistry: "Not to mention the Northeast Army, even the whole country's army can hardly defeat Japan. In the history of China, whenever foreign aggression came, the country was destroyed in the war, and there was no negotiation to subjugate the country." . A small number of armies clashed arbitrarily, striking a stone with a pebble."

On the morning of the 21st, Lieutenant General Duomen commanded the main force of the Japanese Second Division to attack Jilin.The Japanese army had lingering fears because of the resistance they had encountered in Changchun, so they opened the way with armored trains and advanced slowly. When Lieutenant General Duomen arrived at Huabark Factory cautiously along the way, Xiqia's envoy had already been waiting there for a long time. When Xiqia learned that the Japanese army had marched towards Jilin, he urgently sent Shi Luben, director of the Jilin Special Commissioner's Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to visit the Japanese Consul General in Jilin Ishisa Inotaro, expressing his willingness to "peacefully hand over Jilin" and asking Shi She to mediate on his behalf.Shi She immediately sent someone to carry the letter to Lieutenant General Duomen, and together with Lieutenant General An Yuzhen, the envoy sent by Xiqia to Shucheng, Secretary General Zhang Yanqing, and Jilin Army Advisor Da Li Tongzhen, took a temporary train to the Huabark Factory to meet him. Head of many divisions.

Lieutenant General Duomen was overjoyed, so he boldly drove straight in.The Japanese army entered the capital of Jilin Province without firing a single shot.That night, Lieutenant General Duomen summoned Xiqia to ask Jilin's army to disarm.Xiqia obediently said "do my best to do it"! Although many high-ranking officials in the Northeast China authorities have inextricably linked with the Japanese, and pro-Japanese thoughts are popular among them, there are only a few who expressed their willingness to cooperate with the Japanese army at the beginning of the incident. And Xi Qia is one of them. On the 22nd, the Kwantung Army sent Captain Shintaro Imada to convey to Xiqia that the Japanese army would entrust him with important tasks. On the 23rd, at the invitation of Seishiro Itagaki, Luo Zhenyu, a minister of the Qing Dynasty, went to Changchun to meet Xiqia with the head of the Duomen Division.Duomen first proposed to Xiqia that the Kwantung Army wanted him to organize a puppet regime, and Luo Zhenyu also encouraged him to break away from the National Government and become "independent". On the 26th, Luo Zhenyu returned to Shenyang to report to the Kwantung Army, saying that Xiqia agreed.The Kwantung Army then "ordered Xiqia to declare independence on the 28th" and ordered Lieutenant Colonel Tongzhen to serve as Xiqia's advisor to the head of the Japanese Secret Service in Jilin.

Just like the Japanese arrangement, Xiqia announced on the 26th the establishment of a provisional Jilin provincial government, with military and political departments under it, as well as industry, construction, education and finance departments, and the provincial police department.The key candidates for the interim government were all selected by the Japanese army. On the 28th, Xiqia announced that Jilin Province was an independent administrative region, which was in a state of estrangement from China's sovereignty. To get along with each other in a real way, and to fulfill the purpose of goodwill." In this way, Xiqia unabashedly tried his best to flatter his Japanese master.At this time, the directors of the departments and divisions of the Jilin Provincial Government of the former Nationalist Government, who had national integrity, resigned one after another; among the more than 40 counties in Jilin Province, the puppet regime can control only a dozen or so.In the puppet regime, in addition to the military advisor Osako Tosada, the governor’s advisor Mihashi Shiro, Hamada Kazuru, and other agencies also employed Japanese advisors. All the real power of the puppet government was actually in the hands of the Japanese.