Chapter Fifty-Six: Four Years of Chaos
Just after New Year's Day in 19(), Chiang Kai-shek couldn't wait to resume his role as commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army and once again kicked off the warlord war. In June of 19', Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi presided over the "Eastern Conference" in Japan and
The "Outline of China Policy" (i.e., the Tanaka Memorial) was formulated, and the policy of aggression was established to "separate Manchuria from mainland China, form its own region, and place it under Japanese influence." Although the Japanese army has been cooperating with the Feng clique warlord Zhang Zuolin
However, as time went by and Zhang Zuolin repeatedly refused to sign a traitorous agreement with Japan, Japan began to regard Zhang Zuolin as a thorn in their side and an obstacle to their splitting China.
"Bagoya Road, Zhang Zuolin, this bandit, really doesn't know how to praise him. Our Empire of Japan supports him to become emperor, but he is not willing. It is really impossible to support the wall with mud." Ishihara Wan'er angrily walked into Doihara Ken
Er's office dropped his hat and sat down.
Doihara Kenji smiled nonchalantly and stood up. He personally poured a glass of water for Ishihara Wan'er and said, "Ishihara-kun, you can't make me angry. Zhang Zuolin will be angry soon without our help."
I can’t hold it any longer.”
Ishihara smiled lightly and said: "I have seen through him. Even if he cannot support it, he will not bow to us. I think the only way is to remove this stumbling block."
Doihara Kenji picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "Although it is in the interest of our Empire of Japan to remove Zhang Zuolin, it is not the time yet." Seeing Ishihara Wan'er's puzzled expression, Doihara said
Kenji Hara explained: "China is a nation that likes internal fighting. Their energy and resources are consumed in internal battles. Since the Sino-Japanese War, Emperor Meiji has constantly adjusted national policies and encouraged fertility in order to conquer China. However,
No matter how hard we try, we are still far inferior to the Chinese people in terms of numbers."
Ishihara Wan'er reacted immediately, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, showed his terrifying smile, and said: "Doihara-kun, what you said is very correct. Zhang Zuolin is now a weapon in our hands, as long as he keeps fighting them
Go down, we'll keep him. If he retreats, it's not too late to deal with him."
In April 19 (year), under the joint attack of the four major armies of Chiang, Feng, Yan, and Gui, the Fengjun army collapsed. After learning the news, Ishihara Wanji, Doihara Kenji and Itagaki Seishiro immediately gathered together.
Discuss countermeasures...
"Lin, your country is very lively right now." One afternoon's class had just ended, and when Lin Aofeng walked out of the classroom, Johns quickly caught up with him from behind, hooked Lin Aofeng's shoulders, and joked with a smile.
Lin Aofeng frowned slightly and tilted his head to look at Johns. Johns took out a stack of paper from the book and handed it to Lin Aofeng and said, "I got this through my connections. You will understand after reading it.
"
Lin Aofeng took what Johns handed over with doubts and looked at it carefully. After about half an hour, Lin Aofeng said: "Johns, thank you!"
"We are friends, you don't have to be so polite to me." Then Johns changed the subject and asked: "Did you see anything in it?!"
Lin Aofeng replied: "The Japanese monkeys are going to attack Zhang Zuolin."
"Why?!" Johns looked at Lin Aofeng curiously and asked.
Lin Aofeng replied calmly: "Profit!"
"Profit?!" Johns muttered to himself. Lin Aofeng responded: "Yes! Profit! Northeast China, which is what the Japanese monkeys call Manchuria, is rich in mineral resources. Japan is an island country
, everything he has depends on imports. They urgently need to obtain resources from the Northeast to arm the army. And Zhang Zuolin is a stone standing in front of Japan. If they don't move him away, they will have no way to implement their follow-up plan.
"
"Cunning Japanese monkey!" Johns cursed and said: "If you don't have capital, don't imitate others and act like the boss. See how I deal with them when I have the opportunity in the future."
Although Lin Aofeng seemed calm on the surface at this time, his heart was in turmoil. Because Lin Aofeng knew that it would not be long before Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China in order to eliminate the increasingly obvious contradictions and their ambition to dominate the world...
In May, when the Kuomintang | Kuomintang | Communist Party troops broke through the Fengjun defense line and pressed against Beijing and Tianjin, Japan was afraid that the war would spread to Manchuria. On the one hand, it increased its troops in Qingdao and threatened its troops from the south to the north. On the other hand, in accordance with the decision-making of the "Eastern Conference", Japan
They exerted pressure to force Zhang Zuolin to agree to their request and leave Beijing as soon as possible.
On the evening of the 13th, Japanese special envoy Fangze arrived in Peiping. He had no time to rest and hurried to Zhang Zuolin's official residence.
"Commander, the Japanese special envoy Fangze has arrived. He wants to see you." After hearing the guard's report, Zhang Zuolin snorted coldly and said, "I don't have time to chat with him today, so let him get out!"
"Yes!" the guard responded and walked out of Zhang Zuolin's study and said to Fangze: "Your Excellency, please come back! The commander-in-chief has no time to see you today."
"What?!" Fangze's face changed, and he stood on the spot and said, "Tell Marshal Zhang that I will come to visit again tomorrow! I hope Marshal Zhang will see you then." After that, Fangze turned around, got in the car, and left Zhang Zuolin's official residence.
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"Did he leave?!" Fangze had just left, and Zhang Zuolin walked out of the study. Looking at the car that had disappeared at the intersection, he asked: "What did he say?!"
The guard replied: "He said he would come to visit again tomorrow. I hope you will see him then, Marshal."
"You bastard!" Zhang Zuolin scolded and said, "When he comes tomorrow, tell him that the fighting is intense these days and I don't have time." After hesitating for a while, he then said, "Let him come over on the night of the 17th.
!”
"Yes!" the guard responded.
Time flew by, and May 17th arrived in the blink of an eye. Shortly after Zhang Zuolin had eaten in the evening, Fangze came. Zhang Zuolin took Fangze into the study, and before he had time to sit down, he was already suffocating after waiting for a few days.
Fangze took the lead and said: "Commander Zhang, the situation is now like this. In order to prevent the war from spreading to Beijing and Tianjin, you can pack up your troops and withdraw them to Manchuria to maintain public order in Manchuria. I think this is a sound policy for both the Chinese people and the Fengtian sect."
"Hmph!" Zhang Zuolin said displeasedly: "A perfect solution. I think you want me to be your watchdog! Don't mention this matter again."
Seeing that Zhang Zuolin refused, Fangze sneered and pressed forward step by step: "Commander Zhang, can you defeat the Northern Expeditionary Army?!"
Zhang Zuolin seemed to have been prepared for it. He smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to worry about it now! Even if I can't defeat them, I can lead the troops out of the pass."
"I'm afraid I may not be able to go back!" Fangze said in a threatening and threatening tone.
Zhang Zuolin glanced at Fangze, lit up a dry cigarette nonchalantly, took two puffs and said: "Outside the customs is our home. If you want to go back, you can go back. What's wrong?!"
Feeling the aura emanating from Zhang Zuolin, Fangze frowned inadvertently and said to himself: "Cunning bandit, it seems that he is too soft, so he can only be tough!" Thinking of this, Fangze bit his teeth and took out his belt.
The Japanese government's warning about the Manchuria issue came to Zhang Zuolin, and claimed that Zhang Zongchang's soldiers killed dozens of overseas Chinese in Jinan, and Zhang Zuolin was responsible. Zhang Zuolin was so angry that he left Fangze and left the study.
"De Lin (Li Zongren's cousin), Zhang Zuolin, the bearded man, is having a hard time now!" Looking at the ultimatum issued by the Japanese, Bai Chongxi said to Li Zongren next to him with a smile.
Li Zongren sighed deeply and said: "Zhang Zuolin's life is not easy, and our life is not easy. The Fengjun army is powerful and Chiang Kai-shek promised us to win over us with huge profits to jointly deal with him. Now that the Fengjun army has been defeated, if my prediction is correct,
, as soon as Fengjun returns to the northeast, Chiang Kai-shek will immediately turn his guns and use methods to deal with us, and we have to guard against it!"
After hearing what Li Zongren said, Bai Chongxi, who had always looked down on Chiang Kai-shek, smiled and consoled him nonchalantly: "Delin, are you thinking too much?! Even if Chiang Kai-shek attacks us, he won't get anything.
Advantages. Even if our Seventh Army cannot stop Chiang Kai-shek's army, there are millions of Bagui children behind us. If we really fight, it is not certain who will win in the end!"...
On June 2, Zhang Zuolin issued a statement to withdraw from Beijing. Japanese agents hidden around Zhang Zuolin also began an intensive assassination operation. Zhang Zuolin, who thought he could return to the Northeast safely and continue to live out his addiction as a general, never expected that he had already stepped into
Daisuke Kawamoto, senior staff officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army, carefully prepared his death array.
On the night of June 3, when Zhang Zuolin's special train was driving to Beijing Station, his secretary walked into the office of Japanese Consul General in Fengtian, Hayashi Kujiro, with the telegram he had just received, and saluted: "Your Excellency, Consul General, urgent call from Peking!"
Kujiro Hayashi took the telegram, looked at it and said to Daisaku Kawamoto next to him: "Kawamoto-kun, your prey is here. I wonder if you are ready?!"
Daisaku Kawamoto smiled and replied: "I placed thirty bags of high explosives and a pair of stormtroopers armed to the teeth under the bridge near Huanggutun Railway Station, one and a half kilometers away from Fengtian. No matter how powerful Zhang Zuolin is, he will intervene this time.
The wings cannot escape."
"Kaishi!" Hayashi Jiujiro's eyes lit up and he said, "Then I would like to congratulate you in advance for making great contributions to the Empire of Japan this time."
There was nothing to say all night, and in the early morning of the next day, Kujiro Hayashi, the Japanese Consul General in Fengtian who had been excited all night, got up very early because he couldn't sleep. He climbed to the roof with a telescope and looked at the Sandong Bridge. At 5:23, when
When Zhang Zuolin's special train entered the Sandong Bridge at the intersection of the Beijing-Fengcheng Railway and the South-Manchuria Railway, Tetsuo Tonomiya, the captain of the Japanese Kwantung Army, pressed the button of the detonator. There was a loud "boom" and a granite pier in the middle of the Sandong Bridge was blown up.
Open, the rails on the bridge were blown up, and the bridge was bent and thrown into the sky. Zhang Zuolin's special carriage was blown up and only a chassis was left. Wu Junsheng was blown to pieces and bloody, a large iron nail was pierced in the top of his head, and his brain matter spilled out, and he died immediately; Zhang Zuolin died instantly.
I was blown more than three feet away and my throat was broken; my Japanese consultant Yi's face was covered with blood and he held his head and screamed; the school's director Wen Shoushan was buried under the broken wood; Zhou Dawen's hand was blown up, and his sixth concubine's toes were blown off.
Chapter completed!