Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Speed ​​of Life and Death

Through intelligence spying, Huang Yu discovered that the "hardliners" in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been playing a trick, that is, to formulate a political agreement and bundle it with the military agreement. In this proposed political agreement, three political conditions including the Kuomintang party headquarters and the Central Army's complete withdrawal from North China are included, almost all of which are fatal to China's interests. If the political agreement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was included, it would be equivalent to the complete occupation of North China by Japan.

This must be prevented before formal negotiations. Huang Yu's method is to let the "moderate faction" persuade the "hard-line faction", but the effect is not what Huang Yu can predict. For him, this is an unknown that cannot be known in advance, and politics and diplomacy are the same as wars, and the unknown means that there may be huge risks hidden ahead. What he wants to do most now is to start negotiations as soon as possible, because he has already drawn the Kwantung Army's hole card. Under such circumstances, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the Chinese side. It can be said that there is no delay.

But at this time, Huang Yu fell into a predicament where he could not advance or retreat. It was not the Japanese, but his own people who got him into this predicament. Needless to say, the pressure of public opinion from the outside world, I heard that armistice negotiations will be held, and there are endless remarks denouncing him as a "leader of the pro-Japanese faction" and a "big traitor". no.I don't read newspapers, I don't go to the streets, and I put out all the meditation skills of Buddhism, so I can do it at the head office. What made Huang Yu the most passive was his foster brother's attitude.

Chiang Kai-shek's request is that the armistice agreement to be signed cannot exceed the conditions of the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" of the previous year. But in fact, the Battle of Songhu was not the same as the Great Wall War of Resistance. The former was a draw, while the latter was a defeat. How is it possible to achieve the same result? Holding the telegram sent by Chiang Kai-shek and counting down the fleeting days of negotiations, Huang Yu was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. What can he do, he can only pat his chest to assure himself that "the sad wish will never betray the country, and the wisdom will never deceive the country."

Chiang Kai-shek's instructions and telegrams are all like putting on a show. When the enemy is approaching and disaster is imminent, he has to put on an image of a patriotic leader who is completely indifferent to human fireworks. It is precisely this that Huang Yu can't forgive the most.Because the matter of peace negotiations is very sensitive, as long as Chiang Kai-shek shrinks his head, he may be used as a scapegoat like the Jinan case. In the end, not only the matter fails, but he will also be criticized.The facts in front of me are obvious. People in the future will only need to read these telegrams to think that you, Chiang Kai-shek, are a good person, and I, Huang Yu, are a bad person ("For future generations who only read the telegrams, those who doubt patriotism will be brothers, and those who misunderstand the country will be brothers." and also").

It is inevitable to say that Chiang Kai-shek is suspected of putting on a show, and it may be necessary to stand in his position, but there are indeed some real thoughts of his own. In his view, the Japanese army is now in a position to win the battle, and they are approaching the city. Will they choose to take the initiative to cease fighting with us? No way! The so-called truce is nothing but a legend!That was to frighten us, let us retreat automatically, and then the Japanese can get Peiping without spending any capital. It's just a trick, you think I can't see it? In fact, this is no wonder Chiang Kai-shek.In Japan, the emperor, the government and the army are not the same thing. Even the first-class diplomats of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs were not very clear about this secret, let alone Chiang Kai-shek.

After all, many things in this world are mostly unspoken rules. If you only go from book to book, from surface to surface, you will never be able to comprehend it. Huang Yu has already seen through this joint, and he also believes that this kind of contradiction within Japan is exactly what China can take advantage of. All he needs now is time. The so-called speed of life and death cannot be overstated. At the critical moment, Huang Yu had to use the power of the "Two Giants". Huang Shaohong rushed to Mount Lu in the starry night, and reported the truth about North China in front of Chiang Kai-shek. After the latter understood the ins and outs, he clearly affirmed Huang Yu's approach: it was handled correctly.

However, Chiang Kai-shek was still unwilling.He sent another telegram to He Yingqin, asking him to proceed from a military point of view and finally confirm whether Peiping could be held. The latter replied clearly: I can't keep it! Hearing the "Two Giants" speak so firmly, Chiang Kai-shek understood that Huang Yu was not bluffing, and was telling the truth. Then Chiang Kai-shek sent an urgent call to Huang Yu, telling him: As long as the text is considered and polished, you can sign it. This day is May 30. The deadline set by the Kwantung Army has already passed, and it can no longer be delayed.

To Huang Yu's shock, the persuasion work within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs failed, and the "hardliners" still refused to give up the political agreement, and planned to attend the armistice negotiations. Negotiations are about to start, but Huang Yu has exhausted all the methods he can think of, and the result is left to fate. On May 31, 1933, China and Japan held armistice negotiations in Tanggu.The Japanese representative Okamura Ningji prepared a draft armistice agreement and stated that this was the Kwantung Army's final plan and that no word could be changed. This armistice agreement is the military agreement of the Kwantung Army, and it is not much different from what Yin Tong learned.

During the negotiation, the Chinese side also wanted to bargain with the Japanese side, but the loser would not have the qualification and right to bargain.Okamura froze with a stern face, let alone a step, he would not give up half a step. How to answer, very simple, yes or no. Okamura has the tone of a victor, and he doesn't put the Chinese in his eyes at all.He would not have expected at that time that 12 years later, as a humiliated loser, he would bow his head and sign his name on the surrender document. Seeing that there was no room for maneuver, the Chinese representative had to start to write and sign the Japanese proposal with trembling hands.

The "Tanggu Armistice Agreement", which has been criticized in the future, has now been settled. Huang Yu had no choice but to sign this agreement. In his telegram to his foster brother Chiang Kai-shek, he used these eight words to describe his feelings at that time: Brother tears flowed, brother courage cracked! The only thing I am thankful for is that the political agreement never showed up. God bless, at this palpitating moment, Huang Yu's attack finally received a miraculous effect-the Kwantung Army didn't even notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be there. Ever since Wu Teng, Okamura and other Kwantung Army senior officials came into contact with Yin Tong, they had the wishful thinking that they had found the right person for North China to hand over to Huang Yu and his political and political committee, and there was no need to make extra troubles. That's right, the higher-ups have said hello, saying that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has some political agreement that they want to sign together, and they need to send people to attend the negotiation meeting, but we have to ask, who will win this battle?Who should the honor go to? Our Kwantung Army has killed so many people and exerted so much effort, the glory and dreams belong to us.Armistice negotiations, that is a sacred matter, how can the so-called "officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" who only rely on their mouths to eat, interfere with it?There are no doors! When people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rushed to the negotiation site panting, the armistice agreement had already been signed.Undoubtedly, these people will stumble and sigh: if this opportunity is lost, the general trend is gone, what a pity! Okamura was full of air a minute ago, quite proud of the "coolness" he just showed, and a minute later, when he finished looking through the proposal brought by the "hardliners", he was also very regretful and felt lost. A great opportunity to slash China.But on the surface he couldn't say it yet, so he could only comfort himself: don't be sad, there will be opportunities in the future. But sadness is always inevitable.In fact, part of this "foreign ministry proposal" is almost exactly the same as what the Japanese wanted to achieve two years later.If China had signed a political agreement based on this at that time, it would not only be tantamount to acquiescing to the Puppet Manchukuo in words, but the entire North China would fall into crisis again in advance, and the consequences would be very serious. Of course, China can also make other choices, but when the military agreement and the political agreement are tied together, refusing to sign the political agreement is tantamount to refusing to sign the military agreement. The old road of the loss of North China has gone. It can be said that Huang Yu postponed Japan's invasion of North China for two full years under almost desperate circumstances, and correspondingly gave China two years of respite to prepare for war. Only one month after the signing of the armistice agreement, the Nanjing government quickly started its secret war preparations against Japan until the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance.