Due to the Battle of Nomonhan and the signing of the non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany, Hiranuma Kiichiro's cabinet could no longer support it. In the face of humiliation and internal and external difficulties, Hiranuma Kiichiro said, "The situation in Europe is complicated and strange."
He announced the resignation of the cabinet chief.
After the resignation of Hiranuma Kiichiro's cabinet, the Japanese military, political and military circles were in a state of panic. Due to the tense fighting on the front line and the ever-changing international situation, it was impossible for Japan to remain in a lingerie cabinet for a long time.
With the support of Ma, Koki Hirota, Kazunari Ugaki and others, Army General Nobuyuki Abe took the stage and formed the 36th Japanese Cabinet.
As the Abe cabinet came to power, major adjustments occurred within the Japanese army in September 1939.
The commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, and the chief of staff, Rensuke Isotani, were dismissed. The commander of the First Army, Yoshijiro Umezu, took over as the commander of the Kwantung Army, and the chief of staff was replaced by Lieutenant General Joe Iimura. Due to the hemorrhage of the Kwantung Army, the Abe cabinet
The Kwantung Army was greatly replenished, and a new Kwantung Army Flying Group was established, with Lieutenant General Saburo Ando as the commander, and under its jurisdiction was the Second Flying Group, the 5th Flying Group, the 12th and 13th Flying Groups, etc.
The commander of the North China Front, Sugimoto Sugimoto, was also dismissed, but he had no place to relocate him. The land minister was still Shunroku Hata. After returning to Tokyo, Sugimoto Yuan had no choice but to become a military counselor. Like Juichi Terauchi, he went to the bench. North China
Front Army Chief of Staff Tomofumi Yamashita was transferred to the position of commander of the Fourth Division. Sugimoto Sugimoto was replaced by Commander of the Third Army Shun Tada. Yamashita was replaced by the former commander of the Ninth Division who had just been assigned to the reserve force.
Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke. Historically, it was Yukio Kasahara who served as the chief of staff of the North China Front. However, Yukio Kasahara died when the instructors captured Taiyuan. It was convenient for Ryosuke Yoshizumi who was sitting on the bench in Tokyo. Deputy Chief of Staff of the North China Front Muto
Zhang was transferred to the post of Director of Military Affairs of the Army Province, and Major General Hirata Masanori took over as deputy chief of staff of the North China Front.
The North China Front Flying Group was reorganized into the Third Flying Group, with Lieutenant General Toshiro Kinoshita still serving as commander.
The commander of the garrison in Mongolia was taken over by Naosaburo Okabe, the commander of the 1st Division. Naosaburo Okabe has been promoted very quickly recently, and he sees that he will become a general in the future.
On September 23, the Japanese army revoked the designation of the Central China Expeditionary Force and established the China Expeditionary Force, which unified the command of the Japanese military operations in the pass. The headquarters was stationed in Nanjing. The newly promoted Army General Nishio Hisao was appointed as the commander-in-chief, and the selection of the chief of staff was once again a major issue.
Contrary to people's expectations, Lieutenant General Kozuki Kiyoshi, the former commander of the First Army who was dismissed for disobedience on the battlefield, finally came out. This time, His Majesty the Emperor unprecedentedly reused him as the chief of staff of the China Expeditionary Force. You know, this
Historically, the position was held by Seishiro Itagaki, who was kicked out from the post of land minister. Now that Seishiro Itagaki committed suicide by caesarean section early, the outdated devil Kozuki Seiji has been released again. It seems that he will not die.
China will not give up.
The second thing that Nobuyuki Abe's cabinet did after taking office was to engage in diplomatic negotiations between Japan and the United States. This time, Nobuyuki Abe made Army Lieutenant General Koshisaburo Nomura the foreign minister and asked him to focus exclusively on negotiations with the United States. Because in a few months the United States will
The trade agreement between Japan and the United States was interrupted, and without the supplies imported from the United States, how could the Japanese Army and Navy continue to dominate? If not others, even Emperor Hirohito's scalp went numb when he thought about it.
The third task of Abe Nobuyuki's cabinet was to promote trade and stabilize prices. At this time, due to abnormal economic development in Japan and excessive war expenditures, prices soared and goods were in short supply. Even daily necessities such as matches and soap were withdrawn from the market.
Disappeared. After Nobuyuki Abe came to power, he realized what kind of mess Hiranuma Kiichiro had left him.
Angry, Abe ran to question Hiranuma Kiichiro. As a result, Hiranuma Kaichiro spread his hands and said that it was none of his business and that he should ask the military headquarters. It was the military headquarters' incompetence that allowed the Eighth Route Army to occupy Tianjin.
Qingdao occupied Jinan, Lianyungang, and the country's limited supplies were used to supplement the army. For example, matches and soap were mostly produced by Qingdao, Tianjin, and Jinan to meet the Japanese market. Now they are produced by Qingdao, Tianjin, and Jinan.
The factories in these production areas were all robbed by the Eighth Route Army, and it was very difficult to recover. In addition, Qingdao and Jinan are surrounded by Eighth Route Army base areas. How can we produce without raw materials?
Abe had no choice but to hold a meeting to discuss. At this time, the Military Ministry proposed a plan, which was to separate the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Commerce and Industry and expand it into a Ministry of Trade to specifically manage foreign trade, ensure the plunder of resources in China and the Asia-Pacific region, and meet the needs of the overall war.
Not to mention, this time the proposal of the Military Ministry received strong support from the financial circles, because the current trade and trade is too difficult, and trade administrative integration should be implemented. Unexpectedly, when Abe Nobuyuki ambitiously decided to establish the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs quit, saying that diplomacy must be under unified leadership. To put it bluntly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just didn’t want to hand over the Bureau of Trade and Industry. Abe was given a slap on the head.
The blockage of this road meant that foreign trade would be more difficult. Abe turned around and began to think of ways to deal with the domestic people. I don’t know who gave him the idea, so Abe sent people to investigate and prepare to adjust the rice price control policy.
It has raised the price of brown rice from 38 yen per stone to 43 yen, and is also preparing to implement public prices for food, metal products, fuel, and silk products, and issue a price freeze order and a wage freeze order.
Today's *** people are no longer the *** people at the beginning of the war. Endless donations and high tax burdens, soaring prices, and constant notifications of relatives dying in war have turned ***
The Japanese people have been dragged back from the national enthusiasm at the beginning of the war to the difficult life of Japan. Abe Nobuyuki's actions are tantamount to making the Japanese people even worse. This terrible army general does not understand politics and economics at all.
After all, this guy's cabinet is destined to be a short-lived cabinet, and it won't last long.
***The domestic political and economic situation is in a mess, but Tada Shun is ambitious in North China and is ready to flex his muscles.
As soon as Shun Tada took office, he began to vigorously promote the "cage policy."
As early as the last time he went to North China to assist Juichi Terauchi in commanding a heavy encirclement and suppression campaign, Shun Tada had the idea of implementing the "cage policy". At that time, he had discussed with Juichi Terauchi relying on transportation lines to attack the Eighth Route Army base areas, and the Japanese army
I did the same thing later. But the effect was not obvious and it didn't have much effect.
During this period, although Tada Shun served as the commander of the Third Army of the Kwantung Army, his eyes never left the North China battlefield. This old devil was lean and lean, with not much meat, but he was full of food.
With few things, he was considered very resourceful. This time, he was determined to use railways, highways and other transportation lines to divide and surround the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines to form a prison, and continuously extended to the base areas, in an attempt to eliminate the base areas in one fell swoop.
Returning to North China, Shun Tada was ambitious. He was determined to accomplish something great as the commander of the North China Front Army, completely annihilate the Eighth Route Army in North China, and restore public order in the occupied areas.
Tada Jun's determination was strongly supported by the emperor and the base camp, who approved Tada Jun to implement the "Suzheng Construction" plan while implementing the cage policy, that is, to overhaul railways and highways in North China, and to use the railway and highway construction movement to
Comply with the cage policy.
According to Tada Shun's plan, throughout North China, the three vertical lines formed by the Tongpu Railway, Pinghan Railway, and Jinpu Railway and the three horizontal lines of the Longhai Railway, Jiaoji Railway, and Zhengtai Railway were used as pillars, with roads as chains, and blockhouses.
In order to lock the enemy, we vigorously built new roads and railways, dug trenches and built forts, connected points and lines, and expanded the occupied area.
At the military meeting of the North China Front Army, Shun Tada proudly said to his generals: "The Eighth Route Army is good at fighting guerrillas. If it can win, it will fight. If it cannot win, it will run away. This time, we will turn the whole of North China into a
A large fishing net divided the lively Eighth Route Army into grid-like cages, making them unable to move. Especially Liu Yimin's instructors, who made trouble everywhere, like a pack of hungry wolves, pounced on them when they got the chance.
Take a bite. The dignity and face of the Chinese army have been completely ruined by them! This time, we will use the cage policy to divide Liu Yimin’s instructors in various base areas and cut them into pieces of cake, so that they cannot gather strength.
.As long as this is achieved, we can carry out raids in different areas and eat the cake one bite at a time."
Tada Shun was so excited that he simply took off his military cap, revealing his bare head, and kept stroking it with his hands, as if the bare head could give him a little pleasure.
The key to implementing the cage policy lies in Suzheng construction, which means building railways and highways. The Xiangde Stone Road has been destroyed beyond recognition by the Eighth Route Army. There are no rails on the road. Where can the train be connected? According to Supreme
In the construction plan, the Japanese army will first build Tongde Stone Road and connect Pinghan Road and Jinpu Road, so as to truly separate Jizhong and South Hebei, and also connect Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi into one, maximizing convenience
Mobilization of troops.
However, the construction of Suzheng requires money and materials. However, the North China Front Army is extremely poor and relies entirely on supplies from the Japanese mainland and the Northeast. Now, the Japanese army in North China is selling cigarettes, increasing taxes, and
The common people in the Japanese war zone were left breathless by monopolizing grain, cotton and other important supplies. Under such circumstances, it was not easy to carry out the construction of a serious government.
Tada Shun is really remarkable. He transported the rails, sleepers, etc. that were urgently needed for railway construction from the Northeast, and allowed the cement factory in Tianjin to operate at full capacity, providing him with the steel and cement for railway construction and highway bridge construction. As for the road construction workers
, Shun Tada waved his hand: "Catch! Catch the Chinese laborers, those who don't get paid, those who take care of the food are doing the work!"
As these alone were not enough, Shun Tada gave the newly appointed deputy chief of staff Masaru Hirata a task, which was to issue certificates of good citizenship.
Tada Shun told Masanori Hirata that good citizen certificates must be uniformly numbered. Anyone over the age of 15 must have a photo and clearly indicate their name, place of origin, gender, occupation, residence, etc. They must also have a certificate of long-term care and the place of birth where the certificate was issued.
Signature and seal.
Masabu Hirata had just assumed the post of Chief of Staff of the North China Front, and he was very excited. He quickly designed a Good Citizen Certificate, sent it to Shun Tada for review, and then began to find Wang Kemin to organize forces to conduct a trial in the Japanese-occupied areas.
Shogun Hirata is also a ruthless character. He decided to pilot the project in Tianjin because Tianjin was once occupied by the Eighth Route Army and had concessions. In the eyes of Shogun Hirata, the huge Tianjin is a place where filth and evil people live. I don’t know.
How many resistance elements are there!
At this time, taking pictures was a very luxurious thing for ordinary Chinese people. Moreover, many superstitious people also believed that taking pictures would suck away the essence and blood of people. Hirata was determined to let people take pictures, which was cheaper than opening a photo studio.
, but it also aroused resistance from the common people.
Shokan Hirata doesn't care about this. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Chinese have money to take pictures. His mission is to complete the deployment of the commander. As long as he has a bright bayonet as a backing, he can assassinate a few more Chinese. For Shokan Hirata,
, it’s nothing at all.
Masaru Hirata used bloody methods to implement the Good Citizen Certificate system in Tianjin City. The Japanese and puppet secret services were extremely happy with the implementation of the Good Citizen Certificate system, because they quickly captured a group of people without identity documents and without security guards in Tianjin City.
Guaranteed suspects.
Tada Shun's move was very vicious. It was equivalent to standardizing the household registration management of the people in the occupied areas, and immediately separated ordinary people from the Eighth Route Army area. Those with good citizen certificates are naturally honest residents and farmers. There are no
Those who have proven to be good citizens are naturally the work of the Eighth Route Army, so just arrest them.
After the implementation of the Good Citizen Certificate in Tianjin was effective, the Japanese and puppet regimes enjoyed the benefits and began to implement the Good Citizen Certificate system throughout the Japanese-occupied areas in North China.
The Japanese North China Front Army now has a very large force, but it is passively beaten everywhere. The division commanders and brigade commanders are all dejected. Seeing that Tada Shun has achieved such a powerful trick as soon as he comes up, everyone is happy and excited, as if they have found
It was the same weapon used to restrain the Eighth Route Army.
The First Army stationed in Shanxi, the Twelfth Army stationed in Shandong, and the troops stationed in Henan and Hebei under the direct control of the North China Front Army all began to arrest Ding Laf on a large scale, build roads and dig trenches. They also began to issue good citizen certificates in the occupied areas.
Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, commander of the Twelfth Army stationed in Shandong, and Major General Kobayashi Maesaburo, chief of staff, worked the hardest. Kobayashi Maesaburo formulated a plan to not only build the Tokushima Railway, but also build large-scale roads in Shandong
Kobayashi Maesaburo's wishful thinking relied on railways and highways to concentrate the main force of the instructors in the Yimeng Mountain area, and then concentrate the troops to raid the plain areas in different areas. After each area was swept, a road network was built to achieve complete control. In the end,
Concentrating troops to sweep across the Yimeng Mountains.
Kobayashi Maesaburo's plan was actually not very good. Juichi Terauchi and Sugimoto Yuan all thought so. In the end, none of them came true and they all ran back to Japan in despair. But Shun Tada didn't think so. He participated.
In his opinion, Kobayashi Maesaburo's plan faithfully implemented General Tokuichi Terauchi's combat ideas against the Eighth Route Army instructors. The reason why the last heavy encirclement and suppression campaign failed was not the battle plan.
No, but dividing the troops and advancing provided the Eighth Route Army with an opportunity. Heavy encirclement and suppression, and divisional raids were definitely feasible. Therefore, he strongly supported Kobayashi Maesaburo's plan.
In this way, Tada Shun began to implement the cage policy in North China.