I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"The leader of the puppet government in Eastern Jidong!" He Jifeng pointed at one of them excitedly, "That is Yin Rugeng!"

"Oh?" Jiang Weiguo looked at the trembling Yin Rugeng in surprise and disgust. This man was the chairman of the Puppet Hebei Anti-Communist Autonomous Government and the first influential traitor leader who recognized a thief as his father during the Anti-Japanese War (Yin Rugeng officially had defected to the Japanese before the start).

"What are you doing with these forgotten things?" Jiang Weiguo said in disgust, "Why didn't you solve them on the spot?"

"The reason why the brothers didn't kill them on the spot was because they wanted to bring them back and hand them over to Duke Ming or the Chairman!" He Jifeng said.

"What is there to deal with?" Jiang Weiguo waved his hand, "Traitoring the country and seeking glory, everyone will be punished! Kill them all!"

He Jifeng knew that Jiang Weiguo's words were almost equal to Chiang Kai-shek's own words, and he himself hated Yin Rugeng, a traitor and scum, so he didn't hesitate: "Okay!" After speaking, he waved to the officers and soldiers around him, "Take them all out and kill them!"

Immediately, Yin Rugeng and other traitors were all shattered and desperately begging for mercy.

"Wait!" Jiang Weiguo stopped suddenly, but he didn't mean to let Yin Rugeng and other traitors go, "Keep it for now, put it in a prison van tomorrow, drag it out to parade the streets in the whole city of Beiping, kill chickens to scare monkeys, and deter those who are half-hearted. After you're done, pull it out and kill it!"

"Okay!" He Jifeng also felt that this method was better.

In fact, Yin Rugeng and other traitors were not shot, because they were stoned to death by the excited residents of Beiping City during the street parade the next morning, and their bodies were finally dragged outside the city and buried in a stinky road. In the ditch.

The anti-water uprising of Zhang Qingyu and other puppet troops and the capture and killing of Yin Rugeng and other traitors marked the complete collapse of the "East Hebei Anti-Communist Autonomous Government". In the north of Pingjin and south of the Great Wall, although the 29th Army was able to recover for a while before the Japanese army moved into the pass, it was easy to recover and difficult to defend, and the recovery of these lost areas would lead to the dispersal of the national army in the Pingjin area , so the 29th Army did not regain the jurisdiction of the puppet government.

As for Zhang Qingyu and other former leaders of the puppet army, because their righteous actions had great positive significance in military, political, diplomatic and other aspects, the Nationalist government rewarded them.

The officers and soldiers of the uprising puppet army were reorganized into an independent brigade, and Zhang Qingyu was appointed as the major general of the brigade. The brigade was then included in Feng Zhian's 37th Division and became an upright Chinese army.

At this moment, the situation in Pingjin and North China can be said to be very good on the surface.

Chapter 141 Mishima Earthquake (1)

The capital of the Japanese Empire, Tokyo.

At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was getting bright, and the heart of the Japanese Empire, which had been sleeping all night, was slowly waking up. One by one, newspaper sellers on bicycles shuttled through the streets and alleys of the city. The yelling together attracted the attention of busy citizens who got up in the morning and got ready to go to work, work, study, and be busy.

"Extra! Extra! The 'North China Incident' is rapidly deteriorating!"

"The Chinese army violently attacked the imperial 'China Garrison Army'! The Garrison Army is fighting bravely!"

"The battle is fierce! The imperial army fought bloody battles, advancing one after another, while the Chinese army was strewn with corpses, and there were countless casualties!"

"Song Zheyuan is arrogant and arrogant, and rejected Lieutenant General Tashiro's peace and kindness for the third time!"

Pedestrians paid for newspapers one after another, and then either hurriedly read the news or gathered in groups of three or four to discuss.

"How did this happen? How did the 'Northern China Incident' get worse? Didn't the commander of the garrison, General Tashiro, have ordered the Mutaguchi Regiment to withdraw from Wanping City to make concessions and start negotiations with Song Zheyuan?"

"Does it need to be said? It must be that the Chinese army did not know the heights of the heavens and the earth, and was arrogant and arrogant, so they attacked again!"

"Hmph! These Chinese people who overestimate themselves! They are so arrogant and provoke the imperial army time and time again. The imperial army should have taught them a lesson long ago!"

"The 'Manchurian Incident' six years ago still didn't teach the Chinese people a lesson! The Northeast Army of China took the initiative to provoke the Kwantung Army, but was defeated by the Kwantung Army! Now, the North China Army of China took the initiative to provoke the Garrison Army again. Could it be that Song Zheyuan wanted to Be the second Zhang Xueliang? If he wants to, the Imperial Army can satisfy him!"

"That's right! Prime Minister Konoe is indeed too polite to the Chinese government! Although tolerance is a virtue, you can't indulge the Chinese government again and again!"

Some pedestrians were worried, some cursed, some glared, and some were filled with righteous indignation.

Today is July [-]th. During today and the past two days, the whole of Tokyo and Japan has been shocked by the "North China Incident", and the news reports have been full of twists and turns.

On July 7th, the Japanese news media headed by the three major Japanese newspapers "Asahi Shimbun", "Mainichi Shimbun", and "Yomiuri Shimbun" sent back a very heavy news to Japan: the North China Incident broke out!According to the description in the newspaper, the "Northern China Incident" known to the general Japanese people is as follows: On the afternoon of July 7, a squadron of the First Regiment of the Japanese Garrison in North China conducted a routine incident in the legally stationed area of ​​the Japanese army outside Wanping City, Beiping City. During the exercise, they were suddenly bombarded for no reason by the Chinese army stationed in Wanping City. A reconnaissance balloon was shot down, and a second-class soldier in the balloon basket fell to the ground and died. Seven Japanese soldiers were wounded. After learning about it, Colonel Mutaguchi Renya went to Wanping City and asked to negotiate with the Chinese garrison in Wanping City to resolve the incident peacefully. In a fit of rage, the captain of the Mutakou Regiment led the First Regiment to surround Wanping City. The Chinese garrison in Wanping City, with a guilty conscience and panic, pretended to be peace talks while actively preparing for war quietly. However, the 29th Army of the Chinese Army in the Pingjin area made a large-scale mobilization, arrogantly rejecting the reasonable demands made by the Japanese side, and tried to encircle the First Wing in Wanwan. In the Pingcheng area, the captain of the Mutaguchi Regiment mourned for the soldiers who died for no reason, and ordered the artillery squadron to carry out a wave of symbolic bombardment of Wanping City to comfort the souls of the dead soldiers. Restraint and unwilling to expand the incident, they ordered the artillery squadron to blast shells into no man's land, causing no casualties to the Chinese army. However, the Chinese army blatantly used this as an excuse to suddenly concentrate artillery fire and violently bombard the first regiment, causing the first Hundreds of officers and soldiers of the wing suffered heavy casualties.

The captain of the Mutaguchi regiment couldn't bear it anymore, and ordered the first regiment to resolutely resist the arrogant Chinese army, which was dozens of times stronger than the first regiment and surrounded the first regiment.

Under the valiant fighting of the First Wing, the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties and was completely defeated. The First Wing successfully broke out of the encirclement when it was dark.

At present, Lieutenant General Tashiro Wanichiro, Commander of the Garrison Army, Major General Kawabe Shozo, Commander of the Infantry Brigade, and other senior officers of the Garrison Army have formally lodged a strong protest to Song Zheyuan, asking the Chinese army to take responsibility for this incident, and expressing that the Japanese side is willing to contribute to the incident. Maintain "Japan-China friendship" and "East Asia peace" and put the overall situation first, tolerate retreat, but never let innocent people die in vain.

On July 7th, the news media in Japan reported the latest developments on July 8th the next day of the "North China Incident" in this way: Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army of the Chinese Army, was at his hometown in Leling County, Shandong Province. Qin Dechun, acting army commander and mayor of Beiping City, was in charge of this matter. On the one hand, Qin Dechun evaded and claimed that Song Zheyuan was not in Pingjin, and he himself could not make the decision. Important military institutions such as the airfield in Beijing, the Infantry Brigade Headquarters of the Garrison Army in Fengtai District of Beiping, etc., tried in vain to form a favorable situation for the Chinese army to launch a sudden attack.

Lieutenant General Tian Dai, the commander of the garrison army, Major General Hashimoto, the chief of staff, and Dasa Matsui, the senior staff, worked hard to resolve the incident peacefully. Lieutenant General Tashiro negotiated and reached three agreements. One is that the two sides immediately stop the armed conflict; the other is that the two sides withdraw from their respective defense areas;

But the Chinese negotiators Wang Lengzhai, Zhang Yunrong and others refused to sign the written agreement, expressing that they only wish to reach the negotiation result through oral agreement.

Lieutenant General Tashiro was deeply disturbed by this and suspected that the Chinese side had ulterior motives, so he tentatively demanded that the Chinese troops who were surrounding the garrison headquarters, the airport, and the brigade headquarters withdraw first to prove the sincerity of the peace talks, and Lieutenant General Tashiro ordered the garrison troops to withdraw first The two militaries confronted each other in order to prove the sincerity of Japan's peace talks, but this good-faith request was once again brutally rejected by the Chinese side.

That night, the Feng Zhian Department of the 37th Division and the Zhang Zizhong Department of the 38th Division of the Chinese Army suddenly launched a sneak attack on the important targets of the garrison troops in Beiping and Tianjin. The garrison troops were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. Order the troops to launch a full-scale counterattack.

On July 7, the news media in Japan reported the latest developments on the third day of the "North China Incident" on July 9: The army was suddenly attacked by the Chinese army's deliberation and long-planned for a long time, but the vast number of soldiers in the garrison army shared the same hatred and sacrificed their lives, causing huge casualties and heavy losses to the Chinese army. The arrogant Chinese army was hit head-on by the garrison army. There were also more than 29 casualties of soldiers.

Due to the courageous resistance of the garrison army, the plot of the Chinese army failed. Qin Dechun, Tong Linge and other senior leaders of the 29th Army brazenly proposed an armistice and peace talks to Lieutenant General Tashiro, trying to paralyze and deceive the garrison army. On the one hand, Lieutenant General Tashiro was still trying to make the last effort and hope to maintain peace. On the other hand, considering that his garrison troops suffered heavy casualties and needed a rest, he agreed to the truce negotiations between the two sides.

But the facts proved that China was still cunning, despicable and untrustworthy. Qin Dechun and others saw that the garrison troops could not be wiped out with the 29th Army and sneak attacks.

The Nanking government and Chiang Kai-shek have mobilized troops northward to reinforce the 29th Army.

During the negotiations between the two sides, Qin Dechun and others arbitrarily and unreasonably demanded that the garrison troops withdraw from the Pingjin area to prove the sincerity of the peace talks. Stunned, the garrison troops had just withdrawn from Pingjin, and the 29th Army immediately tore off the mask of peace talks and pursued the garrison troops across the board.

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It is conceivable how indignant the citizens of Tokyo and the entire Japanese people were when they saw these news reports.

"Increase troops in Northern China! Punish the Chinese people!" quickly became a wave of voices from all walks of life in Japan.

In the meeting hall of the Japanese National Assembly, after listening to the report of the representative of the garrison army who added extravagance and distorted the facts, the members of the scene immediately became excited. The people of China can only learn lessons and teach them again! Since they are so arrogant and do such stupid things, the Empire of Japan can only use cannons to make them sober!" All the "hawkish congressmen" burst into applause.

"Send troops to China! Punish violence!" In the streets and alleys of Tokyo, a large number of passionate young people gathered in a long line, gnashing their teeth and impassionedly shouting the battle cry.

As for the embassy of the national government in Japan, it was surrounded by passionate Japanese people, and stones rained down on the embassy. Ambassador Jiang Zuobin and other embassy personnel had to strengthen the protection of doors and windows.

Early in the morning, Kawabe Torashiro, the head of the War Guidance Section of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, hurried into the General Staff Headquarters building with anxiety that almost killed everyone. He was surprised to find that the building was already overcrowded. Senior military officers of the rank of Major General Zhongzuo Dazuo are discussing in groups of three or five, some of them look dignified like iron, while others look like fire of resentment.

"My lords!" one of the crowd yelled loudly, "What are we waiting for? The war has already broken out! We are still discussing whether to go to war or not! It is a joke! What we are going to discuss now should be How to fight!" (The Japanese army and navy do not have a joint command organization, the highest decision-making body of the army is the "General Staff Headquarters", and the highest decision-making body of the navy is the "Military Command Department".

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Colonel Kawabe didn't need to look. Through the voice, he recognized that it was the voice of Chief Akira Muto, Chief of the Operations Section of the General Staff Headquarters.

Akira Muto was an extremely fanatical militarist. After learning about the July [-]th Incident, he called Colonel Kawabe, and the first thing he said was: "Kawabe-kun, a happy thing happened!" Bian Dazuo was stunned for a long time, not knowing how to reply.

"Muto-kun!" Kawabe said calmly, "Whether to go to war or not is decided by His Majesty the Emperor, not your turn.

I heard that you have formulated the "Outline for Dealing with the Situation in the Northern Branch" overnight, and plan to dispatch the five divisions of the Kwantung Army to join the battle. Are you a bit overstepping the mark? "

Following the voice, Colonel Muto saw Colonel Kawabe, and immediately walked over with a smile on his face and handed over the previous document: "Mr. Kawabe, the plan can't keep up with the changes! The situation in Northern China has undergone major developments. The original "Deal with The Outline of the Situation in Northern China is no longer in line with the latest situation, so I have already formulated a new "Guidelines for Dealing with the Situation in the Northern China". Advise!" He said, leaning forward again and whispering, "Mr. Hebian, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is right in front of us, we can't miss it! I hope that your guidance class can fight with ours in this matter." With one heart and one mind, work together to suppress the voices that oppose the war, and let the great cause of the empire go one step further!"

Colonel Kawabe suspiciously accepted the document handed over by Colonel Muto, and he was taken aback as soon as he glanced at it: "Muto-kun, what are you kidding? You still plan to send troops to Shandong Province? This will lead to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of!"

"What's the matter with the outbreak of all-out war?" Colonel Muto looked at Colonel Kawabe in amazement, "The empire is what we want!"

"Nonsense!" Chief Hebian was furious, "You are reckless! You will plunge the empire into a huge crisis!"

"I'm messing around and acting recklessly?" Colonel Muto suddenly became exasperated, "Seize the opportunity and make a decisive move, what's wrong?"

"Muto-kun..." A strange voice suddenly came from the side, it was Chief Tanaka Shin, Chief of the Military Affairs Section of the Military Affairs Bureau, he looked at Colonel Kawabe with a sarcasm, "Kawabe-kun is afraid of your plan as a snake and a scorpion It's not an accident, have you forgotten Hebian-jun's nickname?"

More than a dozen lieutenants and senior officers around them let out tacit laughter.

Kawabe has always maintained a cautious and steady attitude on the issue of China. Therefore, in the eyes of radicals such as Muto and Tanaka, Kawabe is a cowardly person. His full name is Kawabe Torashiro. He was nicknamed "Cat Shiro by the River" by Muto Osamu and others, and satirized him as "a tiger-skinned cat with a heart".

"Enough!" Chief Hebian held back his anger, "Where is the minister?"

"Staying in a daze in his office!" Colonel Muto sneered, "It seems that this 'Hero of the Manchuria Incident' is now just like you, Hebian-kun, depressed and unmotivated! Back then he had the guts to spend 30 Kanto The army attacked the [-] Northeast Army, and now it has transformed into a "Japan-China Goodwill Ambassador". It can be seen that soldiers should be born to charge on the battlefield, so as to maintain their aggressiveness and vitality. Once they sit in the office, they will Be as comfortable and lazy as an administrative bureaucrat!"

The surrounding officials laughed again.

"Bastard!" Someone couldn't help but yelled, "How can you accuse the minister like this? The minister is an imperial hero! He made great contributions to solving the 'Manchuria Incident'! What qualifications do you have to demote the minister behind his back?" The person who was talking was Colonel Shibayama Kenshiro, the head of the Military Affairs Section. His war thinking was the same as Colonel Kawabe's, and both belonged to the "cautious and steady school."

"Hmph!" Colonel Tanaka snorted coldly with a face full of disdain, "Although the minister has indeed made great contributions to the empire, that is all in the past! Now he is content with the status quo and does not seek to make progress, sitting in the position of minister It's simply taking up a high position for nothing and eating a vegetarian meal!"

"You..." Grand Master Shibashan was furious.

"Mr. Chaishan!" Dazuo Hebian held back Dazuo Chaishan who was about to get angry, "Don't pay attention to them, let's find the minister!"

The "minister" that Kawabe spoke of was Ishihara Wanji.

Ishihara Wanji was originally a star figure in the Japanese military circle. The September [-]th Incident was known in Japan as "the result of the combination of Ishihara Wanji's wisdom and Itagaki Seishiro's courage." However, after the September [-]th Incident, Ishihara However, Wan Er changed his tough attitude towards China and strongly advocated the goodwill between Japan and China, which made his influence in the Japanese military circle continue to decline. At first he was suspected, then he was jealous, and now he is repelled, and because of this he made enemies Not a lot.

Akira Muto, who is a subordinate of Wanji Ishihara in terms of position, is a staunch "opposition". After the July [-]th Incident broke out, Akira Muto, who was in charge of the battle, and Wanji Ishihara, who was in charge of peace, quarreled with each other. Therefore, Akira Muto had a chance Just add a lot of irony to Ishihara Waner's "no more ambition".

Chief Hebian and Chief Shibashan held back the anger in their hearts, and walked quickly to the office of the Chief of the Operation Department of the General Staff Headquarters.

Knocking on the door and pushing it open, the two saw the minister, Major General Ishihara Waner, sitting on the chair behind the desk with blank eyes, as if his mind was too far away.

"Your Excellency, Minister!" Hebian Dazuo and Chaishan Dazuo closed the door and whispered respectfully.

"Ah..." Major General Shi Yuan immediately came back to his senses. He looked at the two of them, "Mr. Hebian, Mr. Chaishan, are you here?" His tone was very low, and his expression was a little dull.

"Minister!" Kawabe Dazuo said eagerly, "Muto and Tanaka are trying their best to encourage the expansion of the 'Northern China Incident'. As a minister, you will not come forward to take care of it? If this continues, the strategic policy of the military department will be completely different from ours. It’s gone the other way as I hoped! The empire will also fall into the quagmire of China as you predicted!”

"That's right!" Shibayama Dazuo also said very anxiously, "The 'Northern China Incident' is of great importance, and we must not be hasty, but Muto and the others seized this opportunity, jumped up and down, and got crowned with monkeys, and things will be messed up by them! Please hurry up and take care of it!"

"Care?" Major General Ishihara sighed, looking disheartened, "Mr. Hebian, Mr. Chaishan, the situation in the Northern China incident has developed completely out of control! I feel powerless!" There was a trace in his tone Feeling helpless and helpless.

Chapter 142 Mishima Earthquake (2)

"Your Excellency Minister..." Hebian and Shibashan looked at each other in disbelief.

On the eve of the September 20th Incident, the mid-level officers of the Kwantung Army planned to put all their eggs in one basket. Many officers had no idea. After all, the Kwantung Army had only [-] soldiers, while the Northeast Army on the opposite side had [-] people. Only Ishihara Waner said confidently, "I am Holding a wooden sword can also scare Zhang Xueliang into fleeing without fighting." Later facts fully proved his shrewd vision and sharp mind. It was from then on that General Hebian, Shibashan and others admired Major General Ishihara He has become his staunch supporter and advocate.

Major General Ishihara looked at Colonel Kawabe: "Kawabe-kun, isn't your elder brother the commander of the Infantry Brigade of the Garrison Army? Don't you know the details of the Northern China Incident?" The elder brother is Major General Hebian Zhengsan, commander of the Garrison Infantry Brigade.

"This..." Colonel Hebian hesitated a bit, "My elder brother was in Qinhuangdao when the incident broke out, and he has not been able to return to the Beiping brigade or regiment headquarters or the Tianjin headquarters, so he is also vague..."

Major General Shi Yuan smiled wryly: "Why can't your brother return to the brigade headquarters or the headquarters? Because the garrison army has been wiped out!" He sighed long, full of heart-wrenching pain, But obviously, he didn't sigh in pain for the annihilation of the garrison army.

"What?" Chief Hebian and Chief Chaishan both paled in shock, "The garrison army has been wiped out? Didn't you mean..."

"Didn't you say something?" Major General Shi Yuan smiled wryly again, "Withdraw from Pingjin? Is there a fierce battle?" He shook his head, "The General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of Army are worried that the news of the annihilation of the garrison troops will seriously damage the morale of the troops, so they concealed it and did not report it. Those reports in the news are naturally fabricated out of thin air. Even the so-called "true battle reports" learned by senior officers like you are also fake.

Do you really think that the garrison troops have retreated to Tangshan, Chengde, and Qinhuangdao to counterattack?No, it's gone!"

Both Hebian Dazuo and Shibashan Dazuo were terrified and terrified. They were so shocked that they didn't know what to say.

Major General Ishihara seemed to be talking to himself: "Ren Mutaguchi is also an out-and-out idiot! It is no exaggeration to say that he is a sinner of the empire through the ages! As far as his ability is concerned, being a squadron leader is barely enough. Let him be the captain of the regiment! The intelligence department of the empire has long reminded him that the Chinese army in Wanping City is a special unit, but he ignored it. He really thought he could replicate our success in Manchuria? Ridiculous Sad! He led the troops to attack Wanping City, and made countless low-level mistakes! He should have provoked troubles, and should have retreated if he saw that the situation was not good, but he turned the troubles into a It was a violent attack with pebbles and stones to death! The ruin of a regiment was second, and the most serious thing was that it brought about a series of bad chain reactions, which first led to the annihilation of the entire garrison army, and now lead to the inevitable war between the empire and China. ..."