Chapter 28 2. The "bandits" who almost tied up Puyi

In September 2011, Sa passed by Shenyang to see how many hours before the plane took off, and asked the driver if he could take me to Tanggangzi Hot Spring.It's not enough to take a bath in the hot spring. What are you doing there?The friend in the same car asked suspiciously.That certainly makes sense.This Tanggangzi is a scenic spot near Shenyang. Many romantic events in the novels describing the Northeast are related to this place, especially when Pu Yi came to the Northeast to form the Puppet Manchukuo. People bargain and end up in a cocoon. Many people have already written about Puyi's departure from Tianjin under the planning of the Japanese, so there is no need to repeat it.It is worth mentioning that he and Wanrong did not leave at the same time, just like Liu Bang left Empress Lu when he fled, the emperors are very conscious of putting the country first and then family.It is said that Wanrong's escape was planned by Yoshiko Kawashima after Puyi arrived in the northeast.Wanrong was already under surveillance at that time, and Yoshiko Kawashima was a traitor, but you couldn't help admiring her methods when she did such a rogue thing.

There are many records about this matter, but is it true? Lao Sa didn't know either, but a photo collected in Japan may serve as evidence that Kawashima Yoshiko did play an important role in Wanrong's escape. This photo was published in "History of the Showa era of 100 million people", in which Yoshiko Kawashima is dressed in men's clothing, with only one back clasping her hands behind her back.The Japanese annotation below translated into Chinese reads: "'Beauty in men's clothing' Yoshiko Kawashima (right) fled from Tianjin with Mrs. Puyi. During the Shanghai Incident He was active in collecting intelligence on China, and was shot in 1948." The photo was taken at "near the worker's dormitory of Gongda Spinning Factory on Yangshupu Road, Shanghai in February."

The Anti-Japanese War of the 19th Route Army in Shanghai began on January 28, 1932, and February was the time when the two armies fought desperately in Yunzaobang, Jiangwan and other places.During this month, the 19th Route Army and the 5th Army of the Central Army joined forces to defeat the Japanese army and change their commanders. A regiment leader, Major General Lin Daba, was killed, and a battalion leader, Major General Idle, was captured.The Japanese army claimed more than 3,000 casualties.Judging from Yoshiko Kawashima's attire and the way she bowed her head to avoid showing up in front of the camera, this was taken when she was assisting the Japanese army in espionage activities.

The Battle of Songhu Although the "Songhu Agreement" signed by the two parties was quite humiliating, but there was no land cedement and no compensation. The Japanese army did not achieve the goal of occupying Shanghai. There will also be an incident of cutting the fuse by mistake and blowing up one's own commandos into "war gods". The Nineteenth Route Army had neither tanks nor aircraft, and its total strength was only one-tenth of that of the Northeast Army. People suddenly discovered that the difference between resistance and non-resistance was just that big. In any case, both Puyi and Wanrong later arrived at Tanggangzi, where they waited for the introduction of the puppet Manchukuo.Therefore, even if this place does not have hot springs, it seems to be worth visiting from the perspective of nostalgia.

However, local friends finally proved Lao Sa's ignorance - Tanggangzi is still in the south of Nagada, Anshan, and it is almost to Haicheng, why don't we take you there? After reading it, let's go directly to Dalian and go back by boat from Dalian. up. So it turned out that Lao Sa thought that Tanggangzi was in the suburbs of Shenyang. Seeing Lao Sa feeling disappointed, my friends comforted me to come again in the future.I said there is no hurry to come again, there is a photo, please help me find the local old man to see where it is. It's a long story, I said, I found a few photos in Japan, proving that Puyi may have wronged the Kwantung Army for decades, we have to carry forward the spirit of internationalism to help them get justice.

The driver turned his head to look at me, his eyes staring like a cow, and he couldn't figure out why a well-behaved person should seek justice for the devil soldiers. What kind of misunderstanding did Puyi have with the Japanese? If you look at the historical records, you will find that Puyi slipped from Tianjin to the northeast, and lived in Tanggangzi twice before he came to the throne.The first time was on November 13, 1931, which was the same day when he arrived in the Northeast; the second time was on March 6, 1932, which was already the eve of preparing to assume the "government" of the Puppet Manchukuo.

The misunderstanding between Puyi and the Japanese was formed when he was in Tanggangzi for the first time.He recalled in the book that the Japanese were very rude. When he arrived in Tanggangzi, he was put under house arrest, unable to go out, and could only live upstairs in the hotel.He called Riichi Kamikaku, who was accompanying him, to ask, and the other party said that he was not allowed to go out for safety reasons.Soon, he was told that Tanggangzi caused "bandits" and that he was asked to move to Lushun, which the Japanese had controlled since 1905, for safety reasons. Before going to the Northeast, Wanrong was worried that it would not be safe there, but Puyi felt that there were so many Japanese soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Northeast soldiers were scared away, and safety was not a problem at all.Therefore, decades later, the Kwantung Army still didn't take it seriously for scaring itself with "bandits", and wrote it as one of the tactics used by the Japanese army to intimidate and lure it. The emperor can't do it, he doesn't even want to be in power, the two sides are pushing the envelope.

The intrigue between Puyi and the Japanese can be said to have run through the establishment of the Puppet Manchukuo regime.In the movie "The Last Emperor", there was a scene in which Puyi returned from his visit to Japan and found that Zheng Xiaoxu, his confidant who had followed him for many years, had been replaced, and the prime minister had become Zhang Jinghui, an old general of the Feng dynasty.This is based on history.According to the Japanese records, during Puyi's visit to Japan, Pu Yi secretly planned to try to get rid of the control of the Kwantung Army and gain real power by building relations with the Japanese imperial family.This action angered the Kwantung Army and almost killed him.This is also one of the reasons why the Kwantung Army's control over Puyi became more and more strict in the late period of the Puppet Manchukuo, and it became almost abnormal.

However, as a party with no cards in his hand, Puyi was deceived by the Japanese side more often, such as the death of his concubine Tan Yuling, the purge of the guards, etc., which made him helpless.Therefore, he hated these conspiracies and tricks of the Japanese. However, the photos found in Japan decades later proved that the Japanese were not necessarily trying to scare Puyi, but that there were really anti-Japanese resistance troops active in Tanggangzi at that time, and the fighting was very active.This force attacked Tanggangzi in early November 1931. The Japanese army caught off guard suffered a loss and could only retreat to the core area. The photo just now is the outer building of Tanggangzi destroyed by the resistance forces.

Under such circumstances, Puyi's "restriction" in Tanggangzi was obviously not an excuse, but blocked by the anti-Japanese armed forces. The Japanese were really afraid that he would be captured by the guerrillas. It should be said that putting Puyi upstairs and not letting them come down is also something that the Japanese do not want to see. At this time, Puyi is a cover to be used. Apart from the Japanese, no one will travel to Tanggangzi during the chaos. Or have a reporter come to interview.Let him take a walk around, just to cheaply show the "goodwill between Japan and Manchuria", so are you afraid that he will fly away?If Pu Yi understood that the Kwantung Army could not even guarantee the safety upstairs and downstairs, would he be determined to follow the Japanese?

Judging from the records in the "Complete Collection of Man and Mongolia Photos", the Japanese hated this group of "bandits" so much that they immediately dispatched troops to wipe them out, and the commander turned out to be a lieutenant general. Lieutenant General Mori, the commander of Japan's "South Manchuria Railway Garrison", was in charge of commanding. Lao Sa saw a "General Mori" shot and killed by the Volunteer Army in Japan's "Police Files of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs". Major General Mori Hideki beheaded himself with a knife. After the "September 18th" Incident, the Japanese army in Northeast China was mainly divided into three parts: the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, which was based in Dalian and commanded by Lieutenant General Shigeru Honjo; The Korean Army; and the other is the "South Manchuria Railway Garrison" stationed along the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway in accordance with the "South Manchuria Railway Agreement".Lieutenant General Mori Lien is one of the three giants of the Japanese army in the Northeast. He personally supervised the battle of Tanggangzi, which shows that he attaches great importance to this matter. I'm afraid it will be turned into a picture cake. The Japanese army's crusade lasted until November 21, that is, three days after Puyi left, it ended. Finally, Puyi did not have time to see a peaceful Tanggangzi.During this period, there were many battles with "bandits". Judging from the photos of the Japanese army transporting the wounded to Shenyang, this guerrilla unit seems to have a very strong fighting capacity. However, this unit disappeared strangely after several battles, and did not continue to entangle with the Japanese army in Tanggangzi, and seemed to have little interest in soaking in hot springs.In this way, Lieutenant General Sen Company dedicated his troops to fighting in Changtu, Faku and other places. Who is this mysterious force?Why did they hit Tanggangzi?This can only be speculated. First of all, the activities of ordinary bandits can be ruled out. Even in Zhang Zuolin’s era, Tanggangzi was the location of his father’s villa. Lao Zhang himself was the leader of the green forests in the three eastern provinces.Moreover, this place, together with Qianshan, Shoushan, and Tateshan, is one of the four affiliated places of the Japanese Nanman Railway in Anshan, and the Japanese garrison is stationed there, which is heavily guarded.The Chinese will be shot if they get close, so there are no bandits in this area. Therefore, it is certain that the anti-Japanese armed forces came here to attack the Japanese army—the anti-Japanese armed forces are anti-Japanese, and since Tanggangzi is a subsidiary of the Japanese, who will you fight?Tanggangzi is less than 100 kilometers away from Shenyang. After the "September 18th" incident, they dared to fight the Japanese army here. It should be said that all the Chinese resistance fighters in Tanggangzi were men. In the relevant explanatory text of "The Manchukuo Incident Big Photo Post", the Japanese side called this army the remnants of the Northeast Army scattered west of Tanggangzi.The troops of the Northeast Army that were withdrawn from Shenyang all went south. Tanggangzi is in the south. This general direction is correct, and according to the description in the "Glory" album compiled by the Japanese Military Service Department, when the enemy invaded Anshan, the Northeast Army was no good or bad. Still resisted for a while, causing some losses to the Japanese army.Therefore, it is possible that part of the Northeast Army retreated to Tanggangzi to fight guerrillas.However, the garrison of the Northeast Army and the trainees in the martial arts hall in this area are mainly infantry. Judging from the description of the guerrillas by the Japanese army as cavalry, it does not quite match.Moreover, most of the main force of the Northeast Army was concentrated in Jinzhou at that time. Zhang Xueliang had not yet made up his mind to completely retreat to the pass. The remnants of the Northeast Army should move closer there. It may also be the Communist Party's troops.The Liaozhong County Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Zhu Shichao to break into the local armed Mao Changshan Department. After reforming him, he used him to continuously attack Haicheng, Tanggangzi, Qianshan, Shoushan and other places.The exact time when this team launched the attack on the Japanese army is unknown, but the Liaozhong County Committee was established in 1932, so it is impossible to launch an attack on Tanggangzi in 1931. Then, it can only be the Volunteer Army.According to the local "Modern Anshan Memorabilia" records, on November 9, more than 400 volunteers were active in Tanggangzi, and blocking Puyi in the house was probably their masterpiece.However, the specific number of this unit is unknown.Lao Beifeng and Xiang Qingshan, the main force of the Liaonan Volunteer Army, are cooperating with General Huang Xiansheng in Jinzhou to "capture Ling Yinqing alive and shoot down the Japanese soldiers." The local volunteer army in Haicheng should be fighting in this area. They may rely on their familiarity with the terrain to deal with the Japanese army. And once attacked, they can be scattered among the people safely, leaving the Japanese army confused. The textual research on this matter could have come to an end, but not long after I left Northeast China, a friend in Shenyang wrote to me, saying that the photo was seen by a local old man, and there was an unexpected harvest. There is a police pavilion on the way to the Japanese Manchuria Railway Subsidiary. The collapsed house was originally a gun tower, and it was repaired later. It was not taken down until Japan surrendered in 1945.Go straight along the road in front of it, and you will find a parking lot outside the former Soviet Railway Staff Vacation Hotel, which is called "Old Maozi Pavilion" by the locals.This place is quite far from Duicui Pavilion where Puyi lived, separated by a mountain and a lake, unless the cannons were blown, Puyi should not be able to hear it.Second, there is indeed a volunteer army in the local area who fought against Japan's Manchuria Railway Attachment.The leader of the Volunteer Army was surnamed Zhang. He was a green forest hero before the incident, and he had a group of brothers under him. He fought Qianshan instead of Tanggangzi.He arrested a Japanese manager named Yamamoto or Sugimoto, extorted 40,000 gold notes from the Japanese, and then used the money to buy weapons and improve equipment.In the second year, Old Beifeng also took a piece of this bridge in Yingkou Shanzhai, tied up an Englishman, and exchanged for a thousand guns. This is the famous "Polly Kidnapping Case".The kidnapping of the Japanese manager by Daqianshan is said to have been published in the history edition of the local newspaper a few years ago, not just a rumor. If this hero Zhang harassed Tang Gangzi but retreated in the face of Japanese defenses, he would be too depressed.Just imagine, it's kidnapping anyway, if you bite in and catch Puyi, how many guns can you exchange for! Lao Zhang probably has to cry out for injustice—how do I know that there is an emperor hiding in that bathhouse? ! History is progressing in such blunders. When I finished writing this article, I suddenly received an email from Shenyang again, telling me that the "bandit" who might have almost tied up Puyi was indeed a person. This person is Zhang Wenliang, although there is only one word difference from Zhang Xueliang. But no relatives.Zhang Wenliang, courtesy name Zhibin, was born in Laohutun, Haicheng County.Ben was a local elementary school teacher, but because of being bullied, he pulled the pole and reported the number as "Green Forest Good". After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he couldn't understand the Japanese bullying the Chinese, so he led his troops to join the Volunteer Army, and was active in the suburbs of Anshan. In the winter of 1931, he led his troops to raid Qianshan Old Fort, kidnapped the Japanese manager of Fuyuanhai Co., Ltd. Yamamoto Harufuku as a "hostage", and demanded a ransom from the Japanese side. The police tried unsuccessfully to take back the hostages, and finally had to negotiate with the local officials and gentry, paying 40,000 yen to redeem the meat tickets. "Lvlinhao" used the money to buy a large amount of ammunition, improve its equipment and continue to fight the Japanese army, and its troops joined the Twelfth Route Army of the Liaonan Volunteer Army.This is something recorded in Anshan memorabilia, not a legend.