Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

Although Heilongjiang is the same as Liaoning and Jilin, most of the main rulers are muddle-headed masters, but there are a few good Northeast soldiers hidden underneath. Because of them, from now on, we will allow the once discredited Northeast Army to straighten its waist. The chief of staff is called Xie Ke. He gave the young master two ideas. The first idea is called Fudge. The special envoy sent by Wan Guobin went to Taonan, and as soon as they met, he told Zhang Mazi that Governor Wan was not at home, and Director Xiaowan (Wan Guobin and the director of the Tao’ang Railway Bureau) was young and a civil servant, so he could not lead soldiers. Someone is calling, and I don't know what to do.

Although Zhang Mazi was born with a beard, he is a man of the city.He heard something in the special envoy's words, which meant testing, so he guessed that the provincial capital had already heard about his collusion with the Kwantung Army. In front of the special envoy, he first defended himself with a few words, saying that the reason why the Kwantung Army was allowed in was purely hypocrisy and not true. He also said that he was old and weak, and wanted to hide in the provincial capital. The special envoy is a very clever person, so according to Xie Ke's explanation, he expressed the hope that he could go to the provincial capital to take charge and help the junior Wan Guobin to tide over the difficulties.

Zhang Mazi followed suit, claiming that as long as Beiping nodded, he would come out to help. When the special envoy came back to report, Xie Ke made a new arrangement. According to the instructions of Chief of Staff Xie, the new special envoy went to Taonan again.This time, they brought a telegram specially sent by Zhang Xueliang and Wan Fulin. In the telegram, Zhang Mazi was named "Mongolian Frontier Superintendent", promoted to a rank, and asked to act in Heilongjiang military affairs. Holding the telegram, Zhang Mazi laughed happily. It's not because he won this official, but because Le Zhang Xueliang and Wan's father and son are really stupid and easy to deceive.

I don’t care about the so-called “monitored border supervision”. What I want to do is the chairman of Heilongjiang Province, and I need to rely on the Japanese master. Can you give me these? In private, Zhang Mazi was preparing for his attack. What preparation does he need? Zhang Mazi is not the same as a fool. He knew that the Japanese wanted him to be a pawn and a substitute for the dead, so he also made an offer to Duomen: I can fight the war, but a good woman can't live without rice. You have to provide guns and ammunition. Domon agreed without blinking. I give bullets, you go to die, why not do it.

At first it was agreed that there would be 10,000 rifles and 400,000 rounds of ammunition. Zhang Mazi was already very satisfied with this promise. But his two sons were smarter than the old man, and even bargained with Duomen, asking for 20,000 rifles and 2 million rounds of bullets. In the end, there were many compromises, and 6,000 rifles and 2 million rounds of ammunition were sent. Zhang Mazi jumped up and down, he was so proud of his two precious sons. Although the agreed-upon rifle was discounted, the number of bullets was five times higher at once, far exceeding expectations. The main force was armed, but there were still too many guns. Zhang Mazi became agitated and began to go crazy.

It happened that several engineering teams were building barracks for him, so he got the idea of ​​these engineering teams. After counting, there are exactly more than 1,000 people including the processing heads of small workers. Zhang Mazi raised his hand, and put military uniforms on these carpenters, bricklayers, and cement builders. From big to small, the foreman became an official, and the small worker became a soldier, creating a reinforced group like a magic trick. However, this reinforced group disbanded within a few days. The reason was that they had received orders to go to the front.

The foreman made do and was willing to stay. After all, he managed to become a squad leader and a platoon leader without much effort, and he didn't have to rush to the front line.The small workers stopped working. We are all craftsmen. We used to do the work for your family to get paid, but now we put on costumes and hats and let you play around like monkeys.What's the matter, do you really have to die?Fuck you. The small workers fired Boss Zhang's squid and scattered. Although he had such an unpleasant experience, in general, Zhang Mazi was very happy. The old guy felt extremely proud when he thought that Wan Guobin was still in the dark, waiting for him to go to the provincial capital to take office.

Just wait, I'll let you die without knowing how. But he will soon be disappointed. Overnight, all the trains in Taonan disappeared. For attacking provincial capitals, trains are too important. Zhang Mazi hurriedly asked the director of the local railway bureau what happened.The director said that all the vehicles were transferred to the suburbs of Qiqihar. Zhang Mazi was furious: If I don't give orders, who would dare to mobilize these vehicles? The director was wronged: someone, the director of the Tao'ang Railway Bureau can do it.I belong to him. The director of Tao'ang Railway Bureau is Wan Guobin.

One word awakened the dreamer, Zhang Mazi almost sat down on the ground. Thanks to all my tricks, I was accidentally tricked by a young man. As if knowing that old man Zhang was in a bad mood, Wan Guobin also specially sent a telegram to explain: the Japanese were planning to attack the provincial capital, so they mobilized their locomotives for emergencies. Zhang Mazi gritted his molars and called, saying that he would bring troops to the provincial capital in two days. Wan Guobin's call back was very straightforward: Please don't come to the provincial capital, because we have already invited an expert.

The young man also issued an order in the tone of a leader: I must guard Taonan to my death, and I am not allowed to take a step back. Zhang Mazi suddenly understood. From beginning to end, the one who was fooled was none other than himself. What made him vomit blood was still behind. When Duomen led the leading troops of the Sendai Division to Taonan, the combat troops in Heilongjiang Province were still far away from the provincial capital, and Qiqihar's defense was extremely empty. During the period of fooling Zhang Mazi, Xie Ke has completed all the deployment and defense layout, and several main forces have returned to defense.

Please remember this person's name: Xie Ke.Without him, the fate of Heilongjiang Province would be no different from that of Ji and Liao. Now it's time to talk about his second idea to Wan Guobin. very simple.It is to send a telegram to ask the young marshal to select and send a commander in chief to preside over the military administration in Heilongjiang Province. Now that the battle has been fought, everyone knows how much talent Zhang Shaoshuai has in selecting generals. As a result, there was no one in Peking to send. Zhang Haipeng is ready to move, Heilongjiang Province is in dire straits, and Wan Guobin is panicked, powerless to save the crisis. At the critical moment, Xie Ke suggested that one person should be chosen between Ma Zhanshan and Su Bingwen, the brigade commanders of the two powerful brigades in Heilongjiang Province, and this person should be in charge of the overall situation, while Xie Ke himself would be willing to serve as the deputy. At that time, Xie Ke was the highest military and political officer in Heilongjiang Province except Wan Guobin, and the people he recommended were all his subordinates. All to resist aggression. He knew that was the real big picture. We have seen that in that chaotic situation, most of the military and political leaders in the Northeast either chose to live by idling and fled in a hurry, or fished in troubled waters and coveted power. Xie Ke, you are a pure man. Wan Guobin didn't have much opinion of his own, so he immediately telegraphed Xie Ke's opinion to Peiping. After Zhang Xueliang considered it, he sent a telegram to all the armies in Heilongjiang. Ma Zhanshan would act as the chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Government and the military commander, and Xie Ke would be the deputy commander and chief of staff. This is undoubtedly a correct decision. I believe, more or less, God will remember to take care of every believer.Even just once. Zhang Xueliang is a Christian, and is said to be very devout.So although this dear man has made countless mistakes in his life, but God, the old man finally opened his eyes and made the young marshal make an exception and be smart once. We are all relieved. I know that most of the history before and after "September 18" is not very pretty. But this section of Heilongjiang is definitely an exception.At least it's refreshing. Because we no longer need to self-castrate with the command "non-resistance". Because we will no longer let Japanese soldiers run around like chasing rabbits. Because we are about to see a group of hard-boiled heroes, a game that is glorious despite defeat, and a song of majesty and grandeur. OK.let's start. Zhang Mazi's face now has the color of pig's liver in addition to the little peas. A copy of Zhang Xueliang's call was also sent to him, which clearly told him that the Jiang Provincial Chairman's throne had been lost and belonged to a man named Ma Zhanshan. He's just been played around like a monkey. If you don't take this revenge, you won't be a human being. Zhang Mazi became ruthless, ordered the soldiers and horses of his headquarters, and marched towards the provincial capital Qiqihar in a mighty manner. His troops should be called puppet troops. The term puppet army has a bit of Chinese characteristics. During World War II, the German army was rushing forward, and some rebels appeared in various European countries. Even the Soviet Union had its own troops following Germany in the early days of the war.But put it together with the Chinese puppet army, it is nothing compared to the big witch. China's puppet army is not only large in scale, large in number, and has existed for a long time, but also has many schools.Picking up the big ones, there are the "Manchurian and Mongolian" puppet troops in the north, and the Wang faction puppet troops in the south. In the "Manchurian and Mongolian" puppet army in the north, Zhang Mazi was considered to be a relatively early leader. For the first appearance, the backstage boss naturally wants to give a lot of money to show off.Domen specially mobilized a squadron of the Kwantung Army Flying Squadron to assist in the battle in the air. But when it came to the door, Zhang Mazi softened again for some reason, and yelled for a long time, but in the end he still couldn't "cut". The plane that Domen wanted to send to him also did not take off because of the strong wind that day. Soon after, Zhang Haipeng sent troops again. Knowing that soldiers were about to descend upon the border, the provincial government was in a panic.Wan Guobin finally showed his true colors, and took the lead to run away. The top leaders can run away, and the rest of the civil and military officials have all followed suit, dragging their families and talking about it. There is no other place to go, so I can only go to Harbin first.With this run, even Harbin City was harmed by them. In times of war, gold was the hard currency and the most valuable.After these dignitaries fled to Harbin, they desperately snapped up gold with their banknotes, which actually caused the price of gold in Harbin to skyrocket, seriously disrupting the local financial market. Seeing that the situation has reached the most critical moment. Before Ma Zhanshan took office, Chief of Staff Xie Ke immediately stood up to preside over the overall situation.He summoned the remaining civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures. What he didn't expect was that at the meeting, the proposition of resolute resistance was opposed by almost unanimous voices of the participants.The argument of most people is either to surrender or to flee. Xie Ke was very disappointed.He decided to stop talking nonsense to a bunch of cowards. Only the superiority on the battlefield can prove everything. This battlefield is on the Nenjiang Railway Bridge, the famous Jiangqiao. A Nen River has become the natural barrier of Qishi (Qiqihar).The river bridge across the river is related to the safety of the provincial capital and even the whole province. Why not just blow up the bridge? This is of course the most trouble-free and most effective way, but it is impossible. Because the Japanese are the creditors of this railway and have part of the right to operate it. Zhang Zuolin had no choice but to allow the Japanese to build this road at the beginning, and he never thought that it would be so troublesome to cast a mouse-eye now. This time, Zhang Mazi spent all his money in sending troops. He sent all the three main regiments in his family, and the commander was Xu Jinglong, his most proud general. He also held the line himself, and came over in a special train. Didn't it mean that the train was dragged away by Wan Guobin? This newly added military column was given by Duomen.In order to let these grandchildren help him fight, Duomen can discuss anything except that he refuses to give others. And the reason why Zhang Mazi made such a big noise was also because he had to explain to Domen and the Kwantung Army. It was the first time I made soft-footed crabs, and the second time I couldn't let the master down again. "The soldiers swept away, and there was no vegetation left. We must show the momentum of the Imperial Association Army, otherwise the Imperial Army will look down on us." This sentence is a famous saying of Wu Dabaoji, a famous traitor in "My Brother's Name is Shunliu" and an excellent representative of the Southern Puppet Army. In fact, Zhang Haipeng, an old veteran of the Northern Puppet Army, thought so too. Before reaching Jiangqiao, Zhang Mazi and Xu Jinglong were happy, because the dawn here was quiet. Except for a bridge and the white river water, there is no shadow of half of the defenders. They think that the provincial capital left to them may already be an empty city, and all the people in the city have fled (this is indeed the case for the guests of all countries), and the rest may be to reward the "imperial army". Zhang Mazi went to eat first, while Xu Jinglong led his troops to search. There was no movement because the puppet army was surrounded by artillery fire as soon as Zhang Mazi left. Some shells hit far and fell behind the team. The panicked puppet army thought that the rear was also copied, so they turned around and ran away. Xu Jinglong was in a hurry, the army was so fucked up, how could he explain to Zhang when he went back.He immediately called up his trump card—the cavalry cavalry. To be favored by Zhang Mazi, this Xu Jinglong is indeed very ambitious.In order to boost morale, he whipped his horse and rushed to the forefront. The cavalry was fast, taking advantage of the gap between firing cannons, they rushed to the bridgehead on the south bank, but they were caught by Xu Baozhen's guards on the north bank, and beat them upside down. Xu Jinglong is a veteran ruffian, the bullet flew through the air, and he knew which direction it was flying.Immediately turn the horse's head quickly, hit the horse and hide in the trail. What he didn't expect was that Xie Ke had set up minefields along the path. As the saying goes, cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness.With such a flash, his mount was unlucky, and with a bang, they flew into the sky together. A table of unexpected spicy and spicy meals finally made this crazy puppet army lose its temper. Seeing that the general had been defeated, Zhang Mazi was furious.He is like a gambler who is jealous of losing, he refuses to get off the table no matter what, and he is going to try his luck and let his eldest son fight again with the whole team. The next morning, another son sent him a telegram. After reading the telegram, he took the remnant soldiers back to his hometown without saying a word. The reason is that the two regiments who stayed in Taonan started a rebellion in the nest. If they don't go back, their hometown will almost be lost. Although Zhang Haipeng was defeated, Chief of Staff Xie Ke's nerves were still tense. Only he knows that the reason for the success of today's battle is largely due to Zhang Bu's carelessness, apart from the superiority of weapons. Zhang Haipeng already had a special military train sent by the Japanese. If there was a gap in his own defense, the opponent could drive over directly, and the consequences would be disastrous. The more he thought about it, the more worried he became. In order to ensure safety, he resolutely chose a compromise plan, that is, sent engineering troops to destroy the three-hole bridge without destroying the entire bridge structure. To Xie Ke's surprise, this act of necessity turned out to be a reason for the Japanese army to aggressively attack Jiangqiao in the future. Two days later, late at night, Ma Zhanshan left the Heihe station and got off at Qishi station with his guards. I only found Heihe on the corner of the map of Heilongjiang Province with my eyes wide open, right on the border with the Soviet Union. Needless to say, the traffic here is very inconvenient, and since the appointment has been electrified, road safety has also become a problem.In fact, Ma Zhanshan made a long detour along the river (Heilongjiang), finally passed through Harbin, and then arrived in Qiqihar secretly by train. Only the deputy commander Xie Ke and a few military and political officials greeted him. Because others had already fled to Harbin. As an original Northeast native, Ma Zhanshan was born thin and small, which is far from the traditional image of a Northeast man in our minds. Let me tell you a little secret. If you meet a classmate from Northeast China on campus and find that he has nothing to do with a "big man", then you can check his family tree to see if his ancestors were from a hundred years ago. Passed through the Guandong. Because we have tried and tested. This is true of Zhang Zuolin in the front, and the same is true of Ma Zhanshan in the rear. Ma Zhanshan's grandfather fled from Hebei and came to the Northeast to settle down. Those who break through the Guandong are heroes, and their descendants will not be far behind. Like many generals of the Northeast Army, Ma Zhanshan also had the experience of going up the mountain and falling grass to be a bandit. When he was a child, he grazed the Mongolians and practiced horsemanship. The first person in Fengjun's "Jingqi strike" should be Marshal Zhang Zuolin.But if one ignores fame, status and achievements, and only discusses kung fu, the laurels of the first person should belong to this little man, Ma Zhanshan. "Riding" has become an art when it comes to Ma Mouren. There is an unforgettable scene in "Burning the Old Summer Palace", that is the scene where Seng Gelinqin's horse team attacks the foreign gun team. Seeing the brother on the horse get off the horse like a leaf being swept away by the autumn wind, I feel anxious and depressed. Suddenly, a cavalryman who seemed to be "dead" rushed towards the foreign soldiers, but seeing him holding the stirrups, his head hanging under the horse's head, and his body hanging on the side of the horse's belly, the foreign soldiers were shocked. Lost aim and angle. Sooner or later, the horses had galloped into place, the cavalry jumped up, raised their knives and fell, and the arrogant foreign soldiers fell down in response. The audience applauded.Happy. It was only later that I learned that this is "hiding in the stirrups" in equestrianism.Let alone ordinary people, there are very few cavalry who can do this. Ma Zhanshan is even better than this. He can hide under the belly of a horse running at high speed to call the enemy, and use a gun with a hundred shots. He is not only highly skilled and bold, but also extremely loyal, known as "chivalrous and courageous".The most commonly said sentence is: If others only extend a helping hand when they ask you, then you are not called friends. It is worth mentioning that he and the "old thief" Zhang Haipeng were both appreciated and supported by Wu Datong. Every time I think about this, people can't help but sigh, how can they be regarded as brothers, how can there be such a big gap between people? At this time, Qiqihar, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, was sinking into a night of confusion. It may still be wondering whether this "little man" who has just arrived in the Northeast is really capable of turning the tide and resolving the Northeast? As soon as Ma Zhanshan arrived in Qishi, the primary difficulty he faced was not preparing for the war, but panic. The original leaders all took the lead in fleeing, and everyone had reasons and excuses to escape. Facts have proved that there is a difference between being courageous and not being courageous. Ma Zhanshan immediately picked up Dad Wan's chicken feather and sent a command arrow to his son who had fled to Harbin. Jiang Provincial Headquarters sent a telegram to Wan Guobin: "Officer Wan Fulin issued an order that those who leave the provincial capital without authorization will be punished as absconding and absconding." Seeing this telegram, Brother Gongzi had no choice but to return to Qiqihar from Harbin in despair. Wan Guobin was like this, needless to say the others, those who had already fled returned one after another, and those who wanted to escape but did not escape quickly stopped. Then, Ma Zhanshan re-appointed the secretary-general of the provincial government.With three punches and two kicks, he finally stabilized the chaotic social order in the city. The coolest thing is the "Declaration of Resistance" issued by him as the acting chairman of Heilongjiang Province. The full text is as follows: "When this country is in trouble, two of the three provinces have perished. Anyone with a little heart will try their best to save the peril. Although I am in a corner of Heilongjiang, it is still called a pure land. Then anyone who invades our (Heilong) Jiang province Those who swear to fight to the death.” Fight to the death! Even Zhang Xueliang didn't dare to say such words before, Compared with "non-resistance orders", this "Declaration of Resistance" is really cool and exciting. After the "September 18th", there were finally "dead soldiers" who dared to "fight to the death" in the Northeast. To deal with Zhang Haipeng, Ma Zhanshan has his own tricks. He came with a big reward, and there must be a brave man. The province posted a notice saying: Whoever can twist the head of old thief Zhang to use it as a chamber pot, the soldier will be promoted two ranks in a row, and the reward will be 10,000 yuan, and ordinary people will be rewarded. Double (difficulty and requirements are higher), and the reward is 20,000 yuan. He also said that I had nothing to do all day, so I just kept the money and waited for everyone to come and collect it ("saving money to wait").This is a great thing to be famous and profitable.What are you waiting for, let's do it. To be honest, no matter how much the bounty is, the pockmarked head is not so easy to get.But the wonderful thing about this reward order is that it can't kill people, but it can scare people to death. Zhang Mazi was really scared to death. He tossed and turned all day long, fidgeting, and in a trance, he always saw a group of people outside scrambling to come and exchange his head for a bounty. I can't live this day, it's too insecure. As soon as the old man was timid, he immediately became dizzy. He sent a telegram to Zhang Xueliang, arguing: The Japanese called, and he had no choice but to go to the provincial capital to hide. Finally, he said pitifully: Now I am standing by as a whole team, waiting for your instructions.Wherever you want my troops to be stationed, I will be stationed there. Now, no matter how weeping and complaining, Zhang Xueliang will not believe this old boy's words.So talking is tantamount to talking in vain. However, this telegram had another effect, which was to make Domen so angry that he wanted to swear. Dare I feed so many guns and ammunition to a white-eyed wolf, you are still currying favor with your old master. The rebel generals were so useless that Duomen lost confidence in the "soldiers that surrender without fighting". It seems that the Kwantung Army still has to go out in person. Xie Ke's destruction of the three-hole bridge just gave him an excuse, and he became famous! In fact, even if Xie Ke didn't do this, as long as the Kwantung Army wanted to enter Qiqihar, there were still reasons everywhere.If it really doesn’t work, just like Huanggutun and Liutiaohu, if you blow up the gate of your own house, you can still rely on others after self-harm. The articles under Duomen are all about Jiangqiao: if the bridge is not good, I have a reason to send troops; if the bridge is good, I have even more reason to send troops. Shimizu, the Japanese consul in Qiqihar, was ordered to meet Ma Zhanshan and demanded that the "Manchurian Railway" be responsible for repairing the river bridge. He also cited a statistic, saying that since it is now the season for Northeast specialty products to go on the market, Jiangqiao cannot be used, resulting in the failure of many specialty products to be shipped out. Shimizu boldly used his Japanese imagination to analyze how much money Japan could make if these specialties could be shipped out.According to this theory that the chicken lays the egg and the egg regenerates the chicken, it is only a blink of an eye for Japan to lose millions of yen every day due to the unreachable railway. Ma Zhanshan's answer was neither humble nor overbearing: China has already started to repair it, and there is no need for "Manchurian Railway" to intervene. After touching his nose, Qing Shui found Lin Yixiu, head of the Qiqihar Secret Service, and the two went to meet Ma Zhanshan together. This time they brought an ultimatum from the Kwantung Army: It is not impossible for you Chinese to repair the bridge, but within a week, you must repair it for me!If the time is exceeded, we will repair it with "full iron", and at the same time we will send troops to protect it. Ma Zhanshan understood that the Japanese came here deliberately to find trouble. Everyone knows that it will take at least two weeks to repair this railway bridge even if the "Manchurian Railway", which claims to be highly skilled, is in charge of repairing it. The battle with the Japanese seems inevitable. At the emergency military meeting before the war, the scene that Xie Ke encountered back then reappeared. At the meeting, after learning that the Japanese army might directly intervene, the participating civilian officials and gentry immediately panicked.Someone even took Zhang Xueliang's telegram requesting to avoid direct conflict with the Japanese army, and asked Ma Zhanshan to give way to Zhang Haipeng, so as to avoid "accidental clashes" with the Japanese army. Ma Zhanshan is not Xie Ke, he was killed by licking blood on the edge of a knife in the bandits. Dude, I haven't seen anything, so let me play tricks on you. He got up suddenly and angrily hit back at this person: Ma was ordered by the central government to be the chairman of a province, and he was responsible for guarding the land, so he could not be a general.As for the acting chairman of Heilongjiang Province, he was appointed by the central authority.I am an official of the central government, and it is a sacred duty to defend the territorial integrity of the country. The meaning couldn't be clearer, even if Zhang Xueliang himself came, it wouldn't hinder my resistance. Xu Baozhen, the head of the guard regiment, didn't have the patience to be so polite.Pure warriors have the way of pure warriors, he pulled out his pistol and said: Whoever dares to say surrender, I will treat him to peanuts! This sentence is still the most useful, no one dares to clamor for surrender anymore. The entire Jiangqiao position immediately entered a tense state of preparation, because the officers and soldiers had no way out. Husband war, courage also.