Chapter 12 Chapter 12 "January 28", the blood flows to drive away the Japanese pirates

In the "September 18th Incident", the Japanese Kwantung Army easily seized a territory three times the size of Japan's mainland at a very small cost. However, it is precisely because the price paid is too small and the benefits obtained are too great, which has caused dissatisfaction in the United States, Britain, and France.At the request of the national government, the three countries decided to put pressure on Japan. However, Northeast China is vast and rich in resources. Japan is determined to turn it into a hegemony base to compete with the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in the future. Naturally, it is impossible to let go.

Faced with the pressure from the big powers, Japan thought of a unique trick-to attack the east and attack the west to divert international attention, so that Japan's aggression and control of the Northeast can be carried out smoothly. But what kind of project to find to divert attention?The answer is to fight another battle. Japan is an island country, giving priority to the development of the navy and related industries.At this moment, Mitsubishi Shipyard has the ability to produce aircraft carriers by itself, and the overall strength of the Japanese Navy ranks among the top three in the world.Therefore, seeing that the army made such great achievements in the "September 18th Incident", the Japanese navy would not be willing to lag behind.Under the pressure of the Japanese navy, the Japanese military decided to let the navy go out and fight another battle to take Shanghai.

The Japanese chose to attack Shanghai for a reason. In the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai was known as the "Paradise of Adventurers". All the big powers who wanted to get involved in China almost set up stalls here, so there is a saying of the International Concession.To attract attention and divert attention, there is no better place than here.Furthermore, Shanghai was not only China's largest international trading port at the time, but also Japan's largest trading center in China, which provided the successive anti-Japanese organizations with the best targets—Japanese companies in Shanghai and Japanese businesses.In short, the anti-Japanese movement that took place in Shanghai with the main body of the "boycott of Japanese goods" hindered the Japanese from making money.

As usual, before the war, the Japanese engaged in another "incident". Japanese pirates still like to engage in this kind of thing, and they have made several incidents before "September 18th".In fact, do robbers need a reason for robbery? !Japanese pirates are too hypocritical! On January 18, 1932, several Japanese monks clashed with a group of Chinese workers at Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. located on Mayushan Road in Shanghai. As a result of the conflict, a Japanese monk died. Next, the Japanese publicized that the monk was beaten to death by Chinese workers. Of course, this was a complete conspiracy. The person who killed the Japanese monk was hired by the Japanese themselves, and the Chinese Japanese spy Yoshiko Kawashima and one of his bosses, Seishiro Sakagaki, directly planned and implemented the incident.

The next step is the old routine. Japanese expatriates marched and demonstrated, strongly demanding that the Japanese government send troops to protect their safety.Seeing this, the Japanese government was "filled with righteous indignation" and ordered the navy to protect the nationals. In late January 1932, the Japanese fleet with the "Notoro" aircraft carrier as its main force sailed into the Huangpu River. Before the start of the war, the Japanese spewed a lot of nonsense to the Nationalist government as usual, and made a lot of excessive demands, such as China must obediently apologize, compensate, and punish the murderers before January 29, disband anti-Japanese organizations, and remove the garrison in Shanghai. The army is like this, if you don't follow the requirements, you will start fighting.

Before Sun Ke came to power, he slammed Chiang Kai-shek for not resisting, losing power and humiliating the country. After he took office, he wanted to be tough and declare war on Japan, but basically achieved nothing.Moreover, the financial emptiness of the Nationalist government and the fragmentation of the warlords also caused Sun Ke a headache.To make matters worse, within a few days, the Japanese navy called again. Sun Ke has completely lost confidence in his leadership ability: If this is the case, then I will step down, and whoever has the ability will go up. After Sun Ke submitted his resignation report, Wang Jingwei was ordered in a critical situation.

Wang Jingwei was originally a combatant. After the "September 18th Incident", he took the lead in scolding Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek, and declared that if he was in charge of the National Government, he would never give people land by size.It's just that he didn't know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt when he was not in charge of the family. When he arrived in Nanjing, he discovered that fighting against Japan was not as simple as shouting slogans-the treasury was extremely empty, and even the Central Army could not pay wages. Only then did Wang Jingwei understand Chiang Kai-shek: it is really not easy to lead the resistance against Japan.

On the 28th, Wang Jingwei issued an instruction to He Yingqin, Minister of Military and Political Affairs (Minister of National Defense), asking him to order Chen Mingshu, who was stationed in Beijing (Nanjing) and Shanghai, to transfer the 19th Route Army under his command from Shanghai. The regiment received defense.The reason was that the war situation in North China was tight and the 19th Route Army needed to go north to fight against Japan. However, the gendarmerie is equivalent to the current armed police, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the regular army.Moreover, the war situation in North China is tense. If you, Wang Jingwei, don't transfer troops from the nearby area, what are you doing with the troops in Shanghai?

It turned out that Chen Mingshu's subordinates—Jiang Guangnai, commander-in-chief of the 19th Route Army, Cai Tingkai, commander of the army, and Dai Ji, commander of the Songhu garrison, were determined to fight Japan.The three bloody men didn't want to be Zhang Xueliang's second. They jointly published the "Letter to All Officers and Soldiers of the 19th Route Army" and "Letter to the People of Songhu", saying that the 19th Route Army would rather die for the broken jade than live for the sake of the tile. Therefore, Wang Jingwei planned to transfer the Nineteenth Route Army away from Shanghai.Wang Jingwei thought very well: I agreed to all the demands of the Japanese before the 29th deadline and withdrew the troops, so why would the Japanese have any reason to beat me?

Reasons are like water in a sponge, there is always something to be squeezed, not to mention that the Japanese are determined to rob China. At eleven o'clock in the evening on the 28th, the Japanese issued a final announcement: China did not withdraw all troops and hostile facilities on time!Afterwards, the National Government was not given time to argue. If more time was given, the 19th Route Army might withdraw within the remaining hour. This is something the Japanese do not want to see.After all, it is really troublesome to find another reason for aggression. At 11:30 on the 28th, the Japanese army launched an attack on the 156th Brigade of the 19th Route Army.

As mentioned earlier, the predecessor of the Nineteenth Route Army was the Tenth Division under the command of Cai Tingkai, the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army known as the "Iron Army".During the Central Plains War, the division was upgraded to the 19th Route Army, and now it has three divisions with more than 30,000 troops. The 156th Brigade, which was attacked by the Japanese army, was small in number. They were ordered to hand over their defense to the 16th Military Police Regiment, which came to take over the defense. However, when faced with the armed attack of the elite Japanese Marine Corps, they fought back immediately without hesitation.The Sixteenth Gendarmerie Regiment was only an armed police force, but they were not afraid and immediately joined the battle. The "January 28 Songhu Anti-Japanese War" broke out. Wang Jingwei originally planned to compromise and fool him, but the Japanese didn't give him face at all, so Wang Jingwei had to order the 19th Route Army to fight back. Since the Opium War, most of China's foreign wars in modern times were about to collapse at the touch of a button, and it was so outrageous that it would collapse without touching it until "September 18". Therefore, before the war, the Japanese navy arrogantly clamored to occupy Shanghai for four hours. But when the Japanese entered the battle with arrogance, they found that the opponent's tactical level was not far from their own, especially the fighting will.In fact, this is not surprising. Cai Tingkai, the front-line commander of the 19th Route Army, was originally one of the best generals in China. What's more, the 19th Route Army also has the blood of the "Iron Army". The title of "Iron Army" is not picked up. It was achieved through tough battles, and its reputation is well-deserved. The Japanese paid the price for their underestimation of the enemy.Urban close combat reduced the Japanese's advantage in weapons. In hand-to-hand combat, Chinese soldiers could even sneak into the Japanese positions with bombs and kerosene on their backs, pull the fuse and die with the Japanese troops. The Japanese could not take advantage of it at all. On the first day of the battle, the Japanese army suffered more than 800 casualties, accounting for a quarter of the total number of people participating in the war.The Japanese had no choice but to increase their troops to Shanghai from home, and finally they increased to about 80,000. The Chinese soldiers risked their lives in the front, and the national government did not waste the blood of the soldiers in vain. After the war broke out, perhaps Wang Jingwei realized that he was not capable enough to lead the Chinese people to win the war, or maybe he wanted to make a difference, so he called an emergency meeting and invited Chiang Kai-shek to come out again.The meeting unanimously elected Chiang Kai-shek as the chairman of the Military Commission of the National Revolutionary Army.The title of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek has been hanging for 16 years, and "Chairman Chiang" has since become the most familiar title for him. As soon as Generalissimo Chiang took office, he moved the government from Nanjing to Luoyang.He did this not to escape, but to draw out the "Guards" who defended the capital Nanjing to join the battle. The guards mentioned here refer to the 87th Division, 88th Division and the Central Teaching Corps of Chiang Kai-shek's absolute lineage, with a total of more than 30,000 people.Generalissimo Jiang organized the elite of more than 30,000 people into the Fifth Army, and handed over the post of general commander to Zhang Zhizhong who volunteered. Note that this Zhang Zhizhong is not Zhang Zizhong of the Northwest Army. This Zhang Zhizhong was the captain and chief education officer of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he is the backbone general of the Whampoa Department. In terms of seniority and rank, Zhang Zhizhong is not under Jiang Guangnai, but it is strange that Generalissimo Jiang actually handed over the Fifth Army to Jiang Guangnai's command. In fact, this seemingly puzzling arrangement was the result of Chiang Kai-shek's painstaking research.Because Chiang Kai-shek has always firmly believed that China's national strength is insufficient, and it cannot go to war with Japan unless it is a last resort.Once the Central Army representing the country clearly participates in the war, it means that China and Japan are officially at war.Therefore, the fifth army was handed over to Jiang Guangnai, whose blood is the Guangdong Army, to command the battle. This war can be interpreted as a conflict between the Guangdong local troops and the Japanese army.In this case, the war will not be serious, and it is unlikely to expand into an all-out war between China and Japan. In fact, Zhang Zhizhong and his Fifth Army had military autonomy.For example, the division of labor between the Fifth Army and the Nineteenth Route Army is very clear. The two armies have their own positions, and the place where the Fifth Army is stationed is called Miaohang. On February 22, the temple tour battle started. For the "January 28 Songhu Anti-Japanese War", the Temple Walk Battle was a decisive battle recognized by later generations. The terrain of the temple line is flat, with a flat river, which is conducive to the highly mechanized Japanese army's operations. Therefore, the Japanese army planned to break through the center from the temple line, and then attack the two wings, dividing and encircling the national army and defeating them one by one.The Japanese army's "central breakthrough" strategy was correct, but the "central" was really wrong, because their opponent, the Fifth Army, was an elite force that could rival it. Most of the generals of the Fifth Army were Zhang Zhizhong’s students in Huangpu. They had almost accepted the test of all the major wars since the Eastern Expedition. For example, Yu Jishi and Song Xilian in the first phase of Huangpu were the best among them.The soldiers of the Fifth Army are well-trained, and their combat effectiveness belongs to the top level in China.The equipment of the Fifth Army is also good. It is the earliest German armed force in China. Supply rare metal raw materials to Germany in exchange for equipment. Then again, although the Fifth Army claims to be the best equipped Chinese army, it does not have the support of aircraft, artillery and tanks like the Japanese army.During the battle, the Japanese army could easily pour three or four thousand shells on the Chinese defenders' positions in Miaohang within one hour!In other words, on average, one shell is fired every second. What kind of artillery fire is this! Although the Fifth Army has several guns, there are not many, let alone others.Therefore, our soldiers must use their flesh and blood to resist the enemy's steel torrent! But fight for the personality of the country, fight for the survival of the nation!Although there are thousands of people, I will go!Do not destroy the Japanese pirates, vow not to return alive! Facing the attack of more than 20,000 elite Japanese troops, Yu Jishi, the commander of the 88th Division, led his troops to confront the Japanese troops head-on, and the battle was extremely tragic.After three days and three nights of hard fighting, the division commander Yu Jishi was seriously injured in the abdomen, and the generals below the brigade commander were seriously injured.But the huge price they paid was valuable, because they bought time for Song Xilian, commander of the 161st Brigade of the 87th Division, to detour and attack the Japanese army from behind. Song Xilian's sneak attack caught the Japanese army by surprise and brought the Eighty-eight Division back to life. At the critical moment, reinforcements from the Nineteenth Route Army had also arrived.The timing of the arrival of reinforcements is fantastic, this is the perfect time to launch a counterattack! Attacked from three sides, the Japanese army was in chaos. After leaving more than 3,000 dead bodies, they had to abandon the temple and retreat in a hurry. Misfortunes never come singly. The Japanese army not only suffered losses in the temple, but also suffered losses from Chairman Jiang’s hasty deployment of another force on the Shanghai battlefield, the Tax Police Headquarters. As the name suggests, everyone must think that the level of the Tax Police Headquarters can deal with smugglers.In fact, everyone's thinking was correct. Before this unit was included in Song Ziwen's Ministry of Finance, its combat effectiveness was similar to that of urban management, but in Song Ziwen's hands, it has almost developed to the same level as the Whampoa Military Academy Teaching Corps. Song Dacai implemented a high salary system in the Tax Police Headquarters, trained troops according to the training mode of the US Army, and built the Tax Police Headquarters into an American-style army of nearly 30,000 people.At this moment, this American Army Corps also joined the Fifth Army and created an astonishing record that the number of Japanese soldiers killed and wounded exceeded the number of its own losses. The commander of the Tax Police Headquarters is Wang Geng, who graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point.He himself is not well-known, but there are two major celebrities, civil and military, who are very related to him. Wang Geng's wife Lu Xiaoman's married lover is a famous person. This person is Qiong Yao's cousin and Jin Yong's cousin. His name is Xu Zhimo.Coincidentally, not only is Xu Zhimo's pen name "Yunzhonghe" the same name as the prostitute at the end of the "Four Evil Men" described by Master Jin, but also in almost every one of Master Jin's several masterpieces, there is a despicable character. Shameless, heartless and ungrateful, the cousin who tried all the tricks but ended up in vain. Wang Geng's deputy is a dazzling military genius. This genius is from Anhui. He graduated from the Virginia Military Academy in the United States, which is also known as the twin star of the American West Point Military Academy. A few years later, he wiped out tens of thousands of elite devils on the Burmese battlefield, and shined in foreign lands. He was known as "Oriental Rommel". His name was Sun Liren... So far, the elites of the two countries have fought in a stalemate for more than a month. The Japanese army increased its troops several times and changed its commander several times. It can be said that the Songhu Anti-Japanese War was the most outstanding battle of the Chinese Army since the Opium War.It tells the Japanese and the whole world that not all Chinese soldiers are cowards, not all Chinese soldiers are from the Northeast Army, and Chinese soldiers can fight to the last man and still stand firm. Japan sent troops this time to divert the pressure brought by its invasion and occupation of Northeast China, and was not prepared for a protracted war. Therefore, this gave China room for diplomatic operations.At the request of Chairman Chiang, he was very worried that the United States, Britain, and France, which were dominated by Japan in China, began to intervene forcefully in this war.Coincidentally, the so-called "Manchukuo" was successfully established during the war.Therefore, in this situation where the internal preparations were not prepared, the external pressure was there, and the battlefield could not be taken advantage of, but the expected goal of launching a war had been achieved, Japan accepted it as soon as it was good, and gave the big powers a favor. On March 3, 1932, Japan announced that the purpose of protecting the overseas Chinese had been achieved, and the two sides ceased fighting. In May, China and Japan reached the "Songhu Armistice Agreement". The Japanese army returned to the pre-war defense area (the concession area), the Chinese army withdrew from Shanghai, and the law and order in the war zone (Shanghai city) was maintained by the police and military police. Objectively speaking, subject to the national conditions at the time, this agreement was considered a relatively ideal result.Wang Jingwei also believed that he had done a good thing to be worthy of the country at the top and the people at the bottom. After all, when he was in power, the Chinese army used blood and courage to draw a tie with the Japanese.But what he didn't expect was that tomatoes and rotten eggs were thrown at him one after another. The "Songhu Armistice Agreement" loses power and humiliates the country! Our own army of the Chinese cannot enter Shanghai, our own land? ! You, Wang Jingwei, not only failed to regain the Northeast, but also betrayed the country in Shanghai. If you are not a traitor, who is a traitor? ! Wang Jingwei couldn't bear such grievances, and with his self-esteem damaged, he decided to resign and go abroad again.But Wang Jingwei never imagined that three years later, that is, in November 1935, when he returned to China to take charge again, he would encounter an assassination because of the "traitor" tone set by the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" three years ago. .The man who killed him was Sun Fengming, a junior officer of the 19th Route Army. The purpose of this man's assassination of Wang Jingwei was pure: to kill the traitor Wang Jingwei. Although Wang Jingwei was not killed by Sun Fengming's gun on the spot, a bullet left in his back could not be removed, and it has been oppressing his back nerve ever since.A few years later, Wang Jingwei became the "Tianzi No. 1 traitor", and this hidden danger also deteriorated into "bone marrow swelling".Myeloma was terminally ill at the time and could not be treated.There is reason to believe that this is the main cause of death of Wang Jingwei. Wang Jingwei, one of the Chinese leaders of the "January 28 Songhu Anti-Japanese War", died more than ten years after the end of the war, but the commander of the Japanese army and the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Force, Shirakawa Yoshinori, came by ship and left in a coffin . At the end of April 1932, the little devil died in a joint assassination by Chinese and North Korean non-governmental organizations. The hero who assassinated the devil was a Korean named Yin Fengji, and his assistant was Wang Yaqiao, who was known as the "No. 1 killer of the Republic of China".