Chapter 20 Chapter Seven: Wang Jingwei Failed to Become a God Bird After All

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Mao Zedong, these former enemies of Chiang Kai-shek, most of them stood firmly on the side of Chiang Kai-shek at this time. I regret walking on the road of "resistance to the end". But in less than two years, half of the country fell to the enemy, and millions of soldiers shed blood on the battlefield. Naturally, some people expressed their opposition to the tough stance of Chiang Kai-shek and others.Among them, the most representative figures are the notorious "Team of Five"--Mei Siping, Gao Zongwu, Zhou Fohai, Chen Gongbo, and Wang Jingwei, the No. 2 figure in the Nationalist Government.

Mei Siping, it was mentioned before that he participated in the May 4th Movement.This person has worked as a professor, inspector of Jiangsu Province, commander of security, etc., and is a promising senior cadre. Gao Zongwu, at the age of 29, became the director of the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (official level cadre), and was the youngest diplomat in the Nationalist Government. Zhou Fohai's official position is the deputy director of Chairman Jiang's attendant's office, and he holds a high position. Zhou Fohai was also a representative of the "National Congress" of the CCP. At the time of "Alliance with Russia and the Communist Party", he joined the Kuomintang together with many CCP leaders, but later others withdrew, and he stayed.Stayed with Zhou Fohai, and his good buddy Chen Gongbo, who later became Wang Jingwei's deputy.

Chen Gongbo was formerly Minister of Industry of the Nationalist Government.The relationship between him and Zhou Fohai is so strong that they can almost wear the same pair of trousers, you wear them on one day, three five, and he wears them on two days, four six, let the trousers rest for a day on Sunday, they both run naked.In the next few years, the two conspired together and did a lot of bad things wholeheartedly, including corruption, bribery, smuggling, collaborating with enemies, playing power, forming cliques, and playing with women. Not much to say, Wang Jingwei has a halo all over his body, he is not greedy for money, not lustful, not in love with power, not afraid of death, young in age, senior in seniority, high in merit, and handsome.

These people's official positions are not low, they are all members of the party and state, and everyone has to give some face, they don't have to worry about food and clothing, and they don't have to go to the battlefield.But why do you want to sing against the main battle faction?The reason is not difficult to understand. I believe that everyone will know why after reading the quotations of Wang Jingwei, the leader of the "five-member team". Wang Jingwei's Quotation 1: "In the past, people criticized the government for not resisting and losing territory. Now we have resisted, but as a result, we have lost more territory..."

Wang Jingwei's Quotation 2: "There is a reason for the main war, but what is the purpose of the main war? It is for the country to survive independently. If this goal can be achieved, making peace with Japan is also a means. Blindly advocate The scorched-earth anti-Japanese war and the high-profile ones should be more frank and honest. In my opinion, the Japanese-occupied area is expanding day by day, most of the important seaports and transportation routes are lost, and finances are increasingly scarce. The people are sinking into dire misery. In order to end the war as soon as possible, I have repeatedly advised Generalissimo Chiang to open the door to negotiations."

The implication of Wang Jingwei's words is that if it is clear that we cannot win the war and continue to fight, it will be nothing more than losing more national sovereignty and sacrificing more citizens.Going on like this will lead to the subjugation of China, so we should "save the country peacefully." "Peace" only depends on the conditions. If the conditions are beneficial to China, why can't Japan's "peace" be accepted? We look forward to Japan abandoning their policy of aggression against China that has been unwavering for hundreds of years, and pinning their hope of ending the suffering of the Chinese nation on Japan's charity, just like sheep pin their hope of survival on the great kindness of wolves!Stupid idea, really stupid!From this point of view, after so many years, Wang Jingwei's overall outlook and political wisdom have not improved, but seem to have regressed a lot.

Wang Jingwei did not understand that even without his so-called "saving the country peacefully" and "saving the country with curves", the war would naturally enter a stage of strategic stalemate.Because the Japanese really can't move. Japan has more than 1.3 million troops stationed in China (the "Kwantung Army" stationed outside the pass and the "China Dispatch Army" stationed inside the pass—including the North China, Central China, South China Front Army and the Navy Fleet). Medical treatment, pensions for the dead, and other war expenses cost a lot, and Japan, which has poor resources and a small country, is overwhelmed.Japan urgently needs to restore order in its controlled areas and realize normal production so as to support war with war.Therefore, Japan supported some puppet traitor governments in China to help them restore social production order.

The Provisional Government of the Republic of China (North China Political Affairs Commission) is one of the traitor governments, but most of the traitors in it are small characters in the Beiyang period, such as Wang Yitang and Yin Rugeng, and their appeal is very poor.And the appealing Beiyang big brothers, such as Cao Kun, Duan Qirui, and Wu Peifu, would rather die than be a traitor.It was beyond the expectations of the world that none of the Beiyang warlords who were to be defeated by the Northern Expedition were traitors.When the Japanese were planning to do the work of Tang Shaoyi, the veteran of Beiyang, Zhao Lijun, one of the "three major killers" of the military command, took action and assassinated Tang Shaoyi, a generation of celebrities who had been wronged to the extreme.

As a result, the Japanese traitor government lacks an influential and destructive figure.Just when the Japanese were hungry and thirsty, Wang Jingwei, the No. 2 figure of the Kuomintang, appeared. When Wang Jingwei was unable to persuade the main fighters to take the path of "peaceful national salvation", he entrusted Mei Siping, Gao Zongwu and Japan to secretly contact and negotiate the terms of the truce.The two sides quickly reached an agreement - Japan supported Wang Jingwei to separate from the Chongqing Nationalist Government and set up a "central government", and Wang Jingwei signed an armistice treaty with Japan on generous peace terms to achieve an armistice and peace between the two countries.

Regarding the step he was about to take, Wang Jingwei considered for two full days, and finally said: I have decided!As long as I can save people from fire and water, I will jump into the fire pit. Wang Jingwei originally wanted to be the Jingwei bird, but he made a wrong step and became the bird man of Jingwei.Thirty years of disgrace, not to mention being nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever. In mid-December 1938, Wang Jingwei flew from Chongqing to Kunming, and then arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, embarking on the road of treason. At the end of December, Wang Jingwei issued a statement in response to Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro's plan to "build a new order in East Asia" (later the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"): When the war is ended in a just peace, the survival and independence of the country can be guaranteed, that is, the goal of the war of resistance has been achieved.”

In early January 1939, the national government expelled Wang Jingwei from the party. Later, Chiang Kai-shek ordered to kill Wang Jingwei.Because the Japanese boss did a good job in the security work of the newly promoted key employee Wang Jingwei, Dai Li's military command continued to fail. Only Wang Jingwei's secretary, Zeng Zhongming, was unlucky. Chen Gongshu, one of the killers, was killed. In March 1940, Wang Jingwei declared to the outside world that he had "returned the capital" to Nanjing, established a puppet regime in Nanjing, formally took over the occupied areas, and fought against the Nationalist government.Wang Jingwei’s puppet regime completely cloned the Nationalist Government—the Three Principles of the People are still the guiding ideology, the blue sky and white sun are still red and the ground is still the national flag, Sun Yat-sen is still the pioneer of the revolution, and Double Ten is still the National Day.Make it more real than real. So far, there are four regimes in China at the same time. 1. The Puppet Manchukuo in Changchun.The leader is Puyi, who has done nothing during his term of office and is a truly pure, natural green puppet. Second, the pseudo-national government in Nanjing.The leader is Wang Jingwei, and all members of the "five-member team" hold high positions.During his term of office, Wang Jingwei made some efforts to get rid of his puppet status. 3. The National Government in Chongqing.The leader was Chiang Kai-shek, and this government led the eight-year all-out war of resistance on the frontal battlefields across the country. 4. Maintain an independent government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.The government is in Yan'an, and the leader is Mao Zedong.The anti-Japanese base areas established and led by the CCP played a mainstay role in the Anti-Japanese War. Before the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, although there were many people who wavered in the war of resistance, it was disgraceful to surrender to the Japanese no matter what the reason was, so these people chose to sit on the fence and wait and see.But when the Wang puppet regime was established, the situation suddenly reversed, and these people at both ends of the first rat voted for Japan one after another.This is because Wang Jingwei's defection to the enemy not only reduced the psychological pressure of the traitors, inspired the fighting spirit of the traitors, but also provided a theoretical basis for the traitors to descend to the sun. The traitors, big and small, rushed to tell each other: Chairman Wang said that falling to the sun is not called surrender, but joining the "peace movement."We are all "curve to save the country", and our establishment of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" is based on the will of the national government! Subsequently, the vigorous "Qingxiang Movement" began. The "Qingxiang Movement" can be roughly understood as the removal of all hostile Japanese forces in the occupied areas by force, and the establishment of a stable rear for the Japanese army.There are many names for this "force", such as the East Asian Imperial Association Army, the Xingya Allied Army, the East Asian Alliance National Salvation Army, the Autonomous Army, the National Salvation Army, and the Qingxiang Army... I was dizzy when I saw it, but fortunately later Someone thought of a unified title for Wang Jingwei's subordinates - Puppet Army. In May 1940, in order to cooperate with the indecisive, cowardly and inferior Wang Jingwei, who betrayed the country and defected to the enemy, and also in order to retaliate against the "winter offensive" of the national army, the Japanese army determined to open the passage from Hubei to Chongqing and kill the Chiang Kai-shek government in Chongqing, which was the main battle. Zaoyi will fight." Just to mention a little bit, before this, the Japanese also launched a "Battle of Suizao", but Neji Okamura was defeated by Li Zongren's defensive counterattack. Once can't do it again.This time, the strategic intention of the Japanese army was very obvious. They marched westward along the Yangtze River and went straight to Chongqing, the accompanying capital! How can Chongqing not keep it?So Chiang Kai-shek put Li Zongren in command and mobilized more than 300,000 troops to set up a battlefield between Zaoyang and Yichang in Hubei to fight the Japanese army.In the battle, both the enemy and the enemy come and go, and the Chinese army has won victories, but Li Zongren failed to reproduce the miracle of Taierzhuang, nor continued the glory of the "Battle of Suizao", important passes were lost one by one.Just when Chiang Kai-shek was burning with worry, he heard news that made him even more uncomfortable-Zhang Zizhong was martyred. Zhang Zizhong, this "big traitor" who was once mistaken by many people as murderous and humiliating, rose from division commander in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War to commander-in-chief of the 33rd Army with his outstanding performance in the war against Japan.His status as general and commander-in-chief of the group army made him the most senior general killed by the Allied forces during World War II. From the Great Wall to Lugou Bridge, from Taierzhuang to Yicheng Shili Changshan, Zhang Zizhong made Yamato cry more than once.Even at the last moment of his life, the general was still fighting the enemy bravely. Let us recall Zhang Zizhong's heroic devotion in the last ten days of his life, and pay homage to the general's loyal soul. On May 7, leaving a suicide note and his good brother Feng Zhian, he led his troops east across the Xianghe River and took the initiative to attack, posing a great threat to the Japanese army. Subsequently, the Japanese army mobilized the main force and turned back to counterattack.After seven or eight days of hard fighting, the troops were severely reduced and there was a shortage of food and ammunition. On the 15th, he was trapped in a pumpkin shop in Yicheng, Shili Changshan. On the 16th, he bravely supervised the battle, facing a powerful enemy several times his own, and fought hard without retreating.In the battle, he was shot in the shoulder, but he still commanded steadily, and he was shot seven times in the body, and he still shouted "kill the enemy and take revenge", shedding the last drop of blood for the country and the people. Although the general has gone, what is certain is that Zhang Zizhong must have been extremely peaceful at the moment when his soul returned to heaven. With his own blood and life, he took off the traitor hat that had been worn on his head for three years, and defended his dignity that he regarded as a priceless treasure! More importantly, inspired by his spirit, in the ensuing battle of the "Battle of Zaoyi", the national army marched on his bloodstains to fight against powerful enemies.When the battle is at its height, a city can change hands countless times. In mid-June 1940, at the cost of several times the casualties of the opponent, the national army blocked the Japanese army in Hubei and prevented them from advancing westward. They successfully defended Chongqing and blocked the rear of the southwest. At the end of this section, let us conclude with Zhang Zizhong's oath during his lifetime, and pay tribute to the heroes who sacrificed their lives for the last arduous journey of the rebirth of the Chinese nation and took orders in the face of danger! The country has reached such a point that there is no other way but to die for it.I also believe that as long as we can make up our minds, our country and our nation with a history of 5,000 years will never be destroyed by the Japanese slaves of the three islands.The determination to die for the country and the nation, the sea is not clear, the stone is not rotten, and will never change in the slightest. Ever since Wang Jingwei set up the leadership team of the puppet government, he has been unlucky, and even failed to ignite a few fires for the new officials to take office. The first fire, the "Battle of Zaoyi" launched by the Japanese army to cooperate with him to surrender to the enemy, failed to achieve its goal.This is tolerable, after all, the Japanese have not been able to do anything to Chiang Kai-shek after fighting for several years.But what Wang Jingwei didn't expect was that his other fire also failed. Wang Jingwei, who voted for Japan, not only did not change his consistent anti-Communist stance, but made up his mind to use his "joint anti-communist" policy with the Japanese to completely eliminate the enemy in his heart - the Communist Party and the military forces it controlled behind the enemy's battlefield. - Eighth Route Army, Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Forces and Militia.But Wang Jingwei never expected that in the various battles he cooperated with the Japanese to sweep up the base areas, the puppet army under him not only failed to destroy the opponent, but instead became a sandbag for the opponent to practice, which contributed to the growing strength of the Communist Party. Let's talk about the battlefield behind the enemy. Since the 115th Division achieved the "Pingxingguan Great Victory", this book has never talked about the relevant news of the Communist Party's Eighth Route Army. Where did they go and what did they do?In fact, they didn't go anywhere, they were still in Shanxi. Northeast China fell, North China fell, Central China, and South China fell one after another, and the national army finally stopped the retreat of the frontal battlefield. The situation on the battlefield has changed, and the countermeasures of the national army will naturally have to change accordingly. Therefore, the national army immediately changed the battle series. Enter the enemy's rear to carry out guerrilla warfare.The national government arranged a large number of miscellaneous troops that were not strong enough to directly compete with the Japanese army in the occupied areas (enemy-occupied areas), insisted on guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, dragged down the Japanese army, consumed the Japanese army, and destroyed its war capabilities. For example, Sun Dianying was on the battlefield behind the enemy, and the Northeast Army's Yu Xuezhong Department and the Pang Bingxun Department of the Northeast Army, who made great achievements in the Taierzhuang Great Victory, were also assigned to the battlefield behind the enemy. In the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek, the Eighth Route Army must be considered a miscellaneous army, so the Eighth Route Army was sent to the North China battlefield.But Chiang Kai-shek obviously underestimated the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army, which insisted on independence and independent resistance against Japan, was the supreme master of guerrilla warfare. The sixteen-character policy "when the enemy advances, we retreat; when we station, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue" with perfect proficiency, far surpassing the national army's guerrilla troops. Average.Relying on its outstanding guerrilla tactics, the Eighth Route Army killed puppet troops and devils on the battlefield behind enemy lines, and destroyed the puppet government regime like a fish in water. The Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese behavior and strategies and tactics rooted in the masses made the people in the occupied areas re-understand the Eighth Route Army as an anti-Japanese team.The Eighth Route Army always adhered to the mass line, equality between officers and soldiers, and good military discipline, which also made them popular among the common people. Coupled with the effective political propaganda work of the Communist Party, the recruitment and expansion of the Eighth Route Army became easier.In less than three years, the troops under the leadership of the CCP grew from 30,000 to hundreds of thousands. Of course, the Eighth Route Army has not been fighting guerrillas all the time, and the Eighth Route Army also has the strength to achieve a decisive victory on the frontal battlefield. Soon after the "Battle of Zaoyi" ended, the CCP fought a beautiful battle - the "Hundred Regiments War" commanded by Peng Dehuai. In August 1940, the Eighth Route Army mobilized more than 100 regiments to carry out a large-scale battle that lasted nearly four months in the vast area of ​​Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei. For the Japanese, the Hundred Regiments War came too suddenly.Although the Eighth Route Army has hundreds of thousands of horses and horses, it usually breaks up into pieces and hides soldiers among the people, without showing mountains or dews.The Japanese never imagined that hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops would suddenly appear in their rear to wreak havoc, destroying railways, blowing up bridges, destroying roads, besieging artillery towers and strongholds, without stopping for a moment.Therefore, the Japanese army had to suspend the offensive on the frontal battlefield and turn around to stabilize the rear. Since the Hundred Regiments War has been explained in great detail in textbooks, TV and movies, I will briefly mention it here. As long as you know that the Hundred Regiments War wiped out many Japanese and puppet troops, it provided a rare respite for the exhausted national army on the frontal battlefield. , that's fine. At the moment when the country and the nation were in the most dangerous situation, Boss Peng, with his fearless spirit of sacrifice, attracted the enemy to his side and strongly supported the frontal battlefield.However, while the Hundred Regiments War greatly increased the popularity of the Eighth Route Army, it also exposed its own strength prematurely, which brought two side effects. First, the Eighth Route Army received special attention from the Japanese army.A large-scale raid on base areas behind enemy lines began.Zuo Quan, a first-term student of the Whampoa Military Academy, deputy chief of the general staff of the Eighth Route Army, and one of the initiators of the Hundred Regiments War, died as a result. The Eighth Route Army suffered heavy losses and had to retreat to the mountains again. Second, it made Chiang Kai-shek jealous: Originally, you were only given the establishment of three divisions and twelve regiments, but now you have a hundred regiments, and you are free to expand without my permission. thing? This small ninety-nine in Chiang Kai-shek's heart triggered a big event-the "Southern Anhui Incident" that we are familiar with. Do you still remember?During the Long March of the Red Army, Xiang Ying and Chen Yi were left behind and led the army to cover.Later, this army miraculously survived the siege and interception of the Kuomintang, and grew to more than 10,000 people. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, this unit was reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek as the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army Army, referred to as the New Fourth Army.After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, Ye Ting, who quit the party, became the commander of the army.But Xiang Yingcai is the actual controller of this army, serving as political commissar and deputy army commander, and Chen Yi is the commander of the first detachment. Almost at the same time as the Hundred Regiments War started, Chen Yi led the New Fourth Army to march to the north bank of the Yangtze River (northern Jiangsu), with the purpose of connecting the New Fourth Army on the south bank of the Yangtze River with the Eighth Route Army on the north bank of the Yellow River, and better develop eastward (Central China). Chen Yi's transfer made Han Deqin, chairman of the Nationalist Government of Jiangsu Province, very unhappy. The national army under Han Deqin's command and the New Fourth Army were both guerrilla forces behind the enemy lines, but due to conflicts in controlling the non-enemy-occupied areas behind the enemy lines, the two sides had "frictioned" several times.Han Deqin lost more than he won, and he was already full of anger.But now that the New Fourth Army actually intends to develop by its side for a long time, it is tolerable and unbearable.So Han Deqin gritted his teeth, regardless of the anti-Japanese united front, mobilized more than 15,000 people, and fought a battle with more than 5,000 people from Chen Yi's department in Huangqiao, Jiangsu. The result of the battle was very disappointing to Chairman Han.His men shrank from fifteen thousand to four thousand.If I had known this, I might as well not fight!But it's too late to regret it now. The Battle of Huangqiao ended on October 6, 1940. Maybe it was the result of the Battle of Huangqiao that made Chiang Kai-shek very embarrassed, or maybe it was for other reasons that Chiang Kai-shek did not respond until the 19th.He asked He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi to send a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, to the effect that: Without relevant orders, how can you expand the army without authorization?And the combat organization should be consistent with the combat tasks. Since you now have 500,000 people (meaning that the Eighth Route Army has 100 regiments), then you have to do more things.In order to take care of the overall situation of the war of resistance against Japan, I have transferred away the national army that had clashed with you in the Hebei area. Now please also quickly gather the troops south of the Yellow River in Hebei. This will not only avoid friction, but also allow you to concentrate your forces on dealing with North China. The Japanese Army... On the same day, Mao Zedong gave a reply: he agreed to transfer the New Fourth Army troops (Xiang Ying Department) in southern Anhui to the north of the Yangtze River. Chiang Kai-shek saw that Mao Zedong only agreed to transfer the army to the north of the Yangtze River, which is not acceptable!So Chiang Kai-shek sent another telegram: You must go to the north of the Yellow River to fight, but I can give you an extra month, and the transfer must be completed before January 30, 1941! The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China agreed. As a result, the North Crossing of the Yangtze River by the Xiang Ying Department of the New Fourth Army was put on the agenda, and the KMT and the Communist Party also discussed the relocation route.However, what happened after that suddenly deviated from the planned track.Here are two well-established facts: 1. When the New Fourth Army officially marched north, there was friction with the 40th Division of the National Army who came to change defenses. 2. On January 6, 1941, the second day after the New Fourth Army officially went north, when it reached the Maolin area, it was besieged by Gu Zhutong's subordinate Shangguan Yunxiang with more than 80,000 people with an absolute superiority. After the New Fourth Army with less than 10,000 people struggled for seven days and seven nights, only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers successfully broke through.Ye Ting was detained, Xiang Ying was killed by traitors, and other main leaders of the New Fourth Army either died in battle, committed suicide, or were killed by traitors. A strange injustice through the ages, a leaf in the south of the Yangtze River; ! Why did things suddenly become like this?The Communist Party said: This is a premeditated ambush by the national army, and Chiang Kai-shek's order for the New Fourth Army to go north is definitely a conspiracy! Chiang Kai-shek defended himself by saying that the New Fourth Army not only did not follow the prescribed route, but also took the lead in attacking the national army who came to receive the defense of the New Fourth Army.Since the New Fourth Army did not march northward according to the prescribed route, how can I send troops to ambush in advance? The Communist Party refuted him: If you hadn't planned an ambush, why did 80,000 people appear all of a sudden? Chiang Kai-shek had his own reasons: Your New Fourth Army is walking in our Kuomintang defense zone. How difficult is it for me to mobilize a mere 80,000 people from my defense zone? ... Why didn't Xiang Ying follow the prescribed route?The opinions of many historical materials are quite different, which is undeniable.But it cannot be denied that Chiang Kai-shek definitely wanted to take the opportunity to eliminate the New Fourth Army, which the Nationalist government could not command at all, and attack the Communist Party's vital forces.Otherwise, why do we have to eliminate the New Fourth Army?Can't we solve the problem in another way?At least with Chiang Kai-shek's military power, it is entirely possible to "escort" the New Fourth Army to the north of the Yellow River. After the "Southern Anhui Incident", Chiang Kai-shek canceled the designation of the New Fourth Army on the charge of "rebel army".Of course, the CCP ignored him and appointed Chen Yi as acting commander and Liu Shaoqi as political commissar to rebuild the New Fourth Army. When the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were fighting happily, the puppet troops of Wang Jingwei's puppet government also came to take over the place. The Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and Wang Jingwei staged the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Little Japan must have laughed and shook his head while watching it. Then again, even if the Chinese fight against the enemy while punching their own people, Japan can't take advantage of the fire and take the opportunity to win. It can be seen that it has reached the end of the road!