Chapter 370: Earth and Feiyuan (please subscribe if you want to double the monthly ticket)
When Peter walked into his office, he saw Cheng Qianfan teasing the pigeon in the cage with a toothpick.
His friend stared at the pigeon he raised with a focused look, as if he was making some idea.
"What are you thinking?" Pete asked suddenly.
"This pigeon is not small, especially its butt is quite plump. It must be delicious when roasted." Cheng Qianfan replied casually.
Then he realized something, and when he turned his head, he saw Peter's angry face.
"When did you come back?" Cheng Qianfan said without any embarrassment, pointing to the pigeon in the cage, "Isn't it just that I want to eat your pigeon? What a big deal."
"This is not a meat pigeon! It is not a meat pigeon!" Pitt said angrily, "This is an Antwerp pigeon, one of the best carrier pigeons!"
"It's the same for us Chinese." Cheng Qianfan whistled at the pigeon, "What's the situation over the Japanese? If the situation is critical, I want to consider transferring our goods to a safe area."
"You know you're thinking about your goods." Peter said angrily.
"Wrong, it's our goods." Cheng Qianfan raised his chin and corrected.
"For you." Pete took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Cheng Qianfan, "You can see it yourself, the war has broken out."
This is a notice letter sent by the Shanghai Municipal Government to the French Concession and the British and American Public Concessions:
"At 9:15 am, heavy artillery of Japanese warships bombarded our Zhabei, and the shells fell into residential areas, and countless innocent civilians were killed or injured.
Later, a small team of Japanese Marine Corps, from Tiantong'an and Yokohama Road, crossed Songhu Road and rushed into Baoshan Road, and shot at the security team stationed near Baoxing Road.
Our army fought for self-defense.
The two sides fought fiercely for about twenty minutes, and the enemy began to retreat."
Cheng Qianfan's heart was as if he was shattered. He could fully imagine how miserable it would be for a naval shell to fall into a residential area.
The corner of his mouth grinned, Cheng Qianfan raised the documents in his hand and muttered, "It seems that the remaining goods we have at the dock should be transferred as soon as possible."
"You can do it." Pete waved his hand, "I'm going to take a nap, don't bother me."
After the meeting, he slipped out to have a tryst with Mrs. Tandell, and now he is very tired.
"Be careful to die one day on a woman's belly." Cheng Qianfan laughed and said, "There is another thing, remember to urge Marseille to load and ship the ship quickly."
"I understand." Pete waved his hand impatiently, and heard Cheng Qianfan's horse boots stepping away from the ground, muttering, "Tell me? Your reputation is not much better than mine."
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The distant Peking.
There is a house with a high wall and deep courtyard near Wangfujing Street.
Kenji Doihara stood at the door, feeling a little lost.
The cicadas sounded in his ears brought him to his senses.
"Your Excellency, Commander of the Division." A accompanying assistant whispered.
"Do you know? This place used to be called 'Sakanishi Mansion'." Kenji Doihara said, pointing to the door.
Here, Bancili Hachiro and Doihara Kenji once discussed their policy toward China together.
Sakanishira once considered his optimistic successor Kenji Doihara and asked him what he had imagined to occupy China.
Doihira explained at the time that in order to invade China, we must adopt a step-by-step approach. Therefore, North China cannot be regarded as the primary place to seize China, because North China is the political center of China. If you first take North China, you will be attacked by both the Northeast and the hinterland of China, so you should first take Manchu and Mongolia.
To this end, Doihiro believed that Zhang Zuolin from the Northeast should be supported and the direct warlord Wu Peifu should be attacked.
A complacent smile appeared on the corner of Kenji Doihara's mouth. He recalled in his mind that after he made such remarks, Sakashiri Hachiro stroking his palm and cheering.
Sakanishi agreed with Doihara's analysis, so he decided to recommend Doihara to Zhang Zuolin, hoping that Doihara could play a major role with Zhang Zuolin.
However, the Japanese consultant Takema Machino, who was beside Zhang Zuolin, had a grudge against Doihara, because Doihara belonged to the General Staff Headquarters, and the Japanese Army has never taken the Japanese cabinet seriously. The cabinet is also wary of the Japanese Army on many sides, and both sides have a deep prejudice. Therefore, Ding Wu Yema's strong opposition was blocked, and Sakasi Rihachiro's recommendation was blocked.
For this reason, Kenji Doihara came to Zhang Zuolin as a consultant a few years later and in 1928.
In response, Kenji Doihara publicly criticized Dingwu's wild horse, saying that if it were not for the obstruction of Dingwu's wild horse, the empire would have occupied "Manchuria" at least a few years in advance. At that time, there was no unity within the Chinese government, and the difficulty of the empire occupying China would have been much lessened.
"His division commander." A Japanese captain walked over quickly, "Shanghai urgent telegram."
Kenji Doihara received the telegram, obese, his huge head lowered slightly, and he lowered his eyes to see.
The telegram said that Japanese warships shelled Shanghai Zhabei on the Huangpu River, and at the same time, the Marine Corps attacked Baoxing Road, and the Battle of Songhu broke out.
After reading it, Kenji Doihara looked neither sad nor happy, and handed the telegram to Nakasa beside him.
"They did not listen to the advice of the division commander, and they did it." Nakasa glanced and sighed.
"They don't blame them for this." Kenji Doihara shook his head.
He knew very well that although the Japanese army fired the artillery first, in fact, the Chinese army was always preparing to take action, and the Shanghai garrison was more forced to take action first.
"What a pity, Chang Kaishen was not deceived this time." Kenji Doihara shook his head.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese army's strategy was to at least take over the two historical cities of Pingjin. If China really refused to give in, the Japanese army decided to annihilate the main force of China in central Hebei through a major battle and complete the strategic intention of cutting off North China.
At this time, the Japanese army did not plan to open up a second battlefield in the focus of China's military, political, economic, financial and taxation in the Yangtze River Delta.
Some Japanese generals led by Kenji Doihara and Kanir Ishihara believe that Japan should cut off and erode China. If war begins in Shanghai at the same time, it will involve the major economic and trade interests of Japan and international power, and will easily be isolated internationally.
In addition, Kenji Doihara was also worried about the Soviet Union's actions. If the war started in Shanghai and the Japanese troops were dispersed to East China, the Soviet Union might invade "Manchuria".
Kenji Doihara sent a letter to the Army General Staff Headquarters, concluding that China did not dare to fight back against Japanese invasion in all directions, and that the Chinese army could only carry out local limited resistance in North China at most.
Based on past experience, after China could not defend itself in the face of Japanese invasion and suffered losses and generals, China could only default on the situation of Japanese control.
Just like the Northeast after the September 18th Incident and the Rehe River after the Battle of the Great Wall, the empire was causing trouble. The Chinese army could not defend it and could only acquiesce to the empire's occupation.
Therefore, when we learned that the Nanjing government was "crazy" and planned to start the first move in Shanghai to open up a second battlefield.
Kenji Doihara was shocked. He immediately mobilized Japanese literati and politicians controlled by the Japanese side to advocate Sino-Japanese friendship and at the same time sent out a "peace signal" to delay Nanjing's determination to take action in Shanghai.
However, the final result was not satisfactory, and Chang Kaishen seemed to be determined to fight in Shanghai this time.
In desperation, in order to avoid being attacked first by the Chinese army and falling into a passive situation, the empire's troops in Shanghai had to take the lead.
"Aoki-kun, call back to Shanghai." Kenji Doihara said as he walked, "Tele to Miss Tian, live well."
Junichi Aoki looked at Kenji Doihara in surprise and nodded, "Yes!"
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Lu Dazhang conveyed the organization's action orders and plans to Lao Huang.
Lao Huang was extremely surprised to hear that the operation was actually involved in Cheng Qianfan, the chief of the Third Patrol Office of the Central Police Station.
"Cheng Qianfan is also our comrade?" he asked.
"No." Lu Dazhang shook his head, "The organization spent ten big yellow croakers to bribe."