On June 9, Yoshijiro Umezu, commander of the Tianjin Garrison Army of the Communist Party of China, proposed many treaties to He Yingqin, chairman of the Peking Army Branch, in the form of a memorandum. He must give a reply within three days. The contents of the treaty were almost the same as those previously proposed to the Peking Army Branch.
Exactly the same.
He Yingqin had repeated secret meetings with the Japanese side many times to discuss how to resolve differences. During this period, four Japanese secret service personnel were conducting military surveying and mapping from Duolun to Zhangbei and were quickly arrested by the local garrison. Four Japanese special agents were arrested for not carrying
Passports and any identification documents were detained by the local garrison.
After Song Zheyuan, Chairman of Chahar Province, learned that the prisoners were Japanese, he urgently ordered the garrison to release them. However, the Japanese army immediately used the normal security inspection behavior of the Chinese *** team to provoke the "Zhangbei Incident" and brazenly demanded that
**The government must publicly apologize to the Japanese army and replace the officers involved in the incident
, to ensure that the Communist Party and Manchurian nationals can conduct independent operations in Chahar Province in the future, and at the same time abolish the Communist Party organizations in Chahar Province, establish the Hebei East African Armed Area, and the 29th Army will withdraw from the area and return
Demanding that China stop immigration to Chahar Province, Chahar Province Chairman Song Zheyuan was immediately removed from office.
At the same time, the Kwantung Army, which had occupied most of Rehe, and the Chahar area, immediately pressed forward with troops and assumed an offensive posture. The Peking Army branch was frightened and quickly dispatched Qin Dechun and Xiao Zhenying to meet with the Japanese spy agency chief Doihara Kenji.
Doihara Kenji limited order twenty-four hours
They flew back to Nanjing when the situation had to be solved, and finally flew back to Peiping with the "return training" issued by the special meeting of the Central Committee chaired by Wang Jingwei. After negotiating with the Japanese side, Qin Dechun, Chen Juesheng, Lei Shourong, Doihara Kenji, and Gao
Qiaotan signed and reached another *** agreement:
(1) Security teams were stationed at the hot and Chacha border, and the army retreated; (2) Party affairs in Chacha province ceased activities and special agencies were cancelled; (3) A formal apology was made to the Japanese side; (4) Shandong Province stopped paying Zhang Bei
Regional immigration; (5) All measures shall be implemented within two weeks after being agreed upon.
On July 6, He Yingqin finally fully agreed to all the requests made by Umezu Yoshijiro, the Japanese garrison in Tianjin, in the form of a formal reply. The complete content of the reply was:
Dear Sirs, I am committed to all the matters mentioned by Chief of Staff Sakai on June 9th, and I am fully committed to their implementation. We hereby notify you.
Sincerely, Your Excellency Commander Umezu
He Yingqin
July 6, the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China
The content of what was called the "Ho-Mei Agreement" was widely publicized by the Japanese people who were extremely surprised through newspapers and magazines. After the news came out, the whole country cried out in sorrow, and the entire *** people expressed their support for the *** government's repeated signing of the agreement.
The Treaty of Japan was extremely angry, and the heartbroken people from all walks of life could no longer bear it, and finally set off a wave of opposition to the *** that spread to major cities across the country.
On July 9, the Shanghai Court sentenced Du Chongyuan, editor-in-chief of Xinsheng Weekly, to one year and two months in prison for the crime of "disrespect to the Japanese emperor." The court also made a final judgment that no appeal, no suspended sentence, and no fines would be allowed.
The national press is finally angry!
Beginning on July 10, most newspapers across the country began to fiercely criticize the central and local governments. More than 5,000 Shanghai news practitioners launched anti-government activities, and tens of thousands of patriotic people flocked to the
Leave home and join the ranks of *** who condemn it.
Wu Tiecheng, the mayor of Shanghai, was surrounded by countless angry people in his office building and was at a loss to do anything. He urgently called the central government to ask for specific solutions.
Just when Wu Tiecheng received a reply from Wang Jingwei in the name of the Central Party Committee, instructing him to dispatch military and police to fight with all his strength, a young man wearing a lieutenant colonel's military uniform came to Wu Tiecheng's office and asked for a meeting.
Wu Tiecheng heard that the visitor was Chen Jinming, the head of the Shanghai Station of the Fourth Department of the General Staff Headquarters, and immediately went out to welcome him into the office.
Chen Jinming took out a letter from his briefcase and handed it to Wu Tiecheng. When Wu Tiecheng saw that the name on the signature was An Yi, he felt bad. He hurriedly opened it and read it in a hurry. After thinking for a long time, he called his secretary: "Stop the expulsion of ***."
Prepare to accept the petitions and petitions submitted by the Journalists Association, and tell the reporters that I will accept their request and immediately deliver all the documents they submitted to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China."
The secretary was very surprised, but after taking a look at Chen Jinming who looked relieved next to him, he turned around and went out to strictly implement Wu Tiecheng's order.
Half an hour later, tens of thousands of anti-government troops lifted the siege of the Shanghai Municipal Government and marched to the outskirts of the Japanese Concession in an orderly manner, starting another round of demonstrations to denounce Japan.
Chen Jinming took Wu Tiecheng's promise, thanked Wu Tiecheng repeatedly and left quietly.
On the evening of July 10th, Anjia Army Base Camp in Xufu.
The generals in the hall were shouting insults and getting angry. Yang Bin and Ye Cheng looked at each other helplessly and continued to drink tea. Wu Liheng, the former commander of the *** division of the 17th Army, who had been appointed commander of the Yichang Joint Logistics Command, said nothing and buried his head in smoking.
As the news of the signing of the Kuomintang Agreement came one after another, the North China garrison evacuated its garrison and headed south one after another. Under the anger of the 17th Army Corps headquarters being revoked by the orders of the central government and the Communist Party, everyone was full of anger.
What's more, Japanese planes suddenly appeared in Baoding
From the sky, they conducted military reconnaissance on the 17th Army in the name of "monitoring the retreat of the Central Army." The furious Hu Jialin and the generals of the 17th Army were surrounded by the Central Special Task Force and He Yingqin who gathered in the Baoding Camp, and Hu Jialin was strictly ordered not to
Make any overreaction.
How could the generals and generals of the Anjia Army, who had clear feelings about love and hate and were full of ambitions to serve the country, endure such a cowardly government and such brutal oppression?
"Commander arrives——"
The conference room quickly fell silent amidst the loud announcement from the officer on duty. An Yi entered the conference room and stopped a few steps, glanced around at the brothers with murderous faces, raised his steps again, walked to the head of the long table, and didn't even look back after sitting down.
He raised his head and casually ordered: "Have a meeting!"
…
At 9:40 a.m. the next day, three Japanese reconnaissance planes flew swaggeringly over the Xushui Railway in the northeast of Baoding City. They took a special train and stopped briefly at the station. The soldiers of the 25th Division of Guan Linzheng, who were preparing to continue their retreat south, pointed to the sky.
scold.
On the open and simple platform, Guan Linzheng and his generals all looked gloomy, extremely sad and angry, gnashing their teeth as they looked at the formation of Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flying arrogantly from north to south in the sky.
Suddenly, a familiar sound of anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery came intensively. The officers and soldiers of the 25th Division in the entire station immediately looked south nervously. They saw thick smoke billowing from the buttocks of two of the three Japanese aircraft, making clear lines in the sky.
In the arc, the other one quickly rose up and fled eastward.
The platform suddenly burst into flames, and the roars and cheers were deafening.
Guan Linzheng shouted, "The beard is so fucking good!" Before he finished speaking, six silver fighter planes jumped out of the clouds in a two-two formation. At lightning speed, the two fighter planes caught up with the fleeing enemy planes and opened fire.
, in the blink of an eye, the enemy plane exploded in the air, and the two foreigners
Four silver fighter planes launched a siege on two crumbling enemy planes. The angry rain of cannonballs smashed one of them into pieces. The two pilots on the other enemy plane abandoned the plane and parachuted out. The enemy plane dragged the smoke and let out a huge roar.
The whining sound plunged towards the earth.
The 12,000 officers and soldiers of the 25th Division cheered and danced in unison up and down the three special trains. Shouts such as "Brother An Jiajun has the talent" and "Kill the little son of a bitch" came and went.
Amidst the cheers, the six fighter planes completed their mission and turned around to fly south. More than ten silver fighter planes flew quickly. Two of them lowered their altitude, circled over the station, shook their wings a few times, and flew west again.
Brigadier Zhang Yaoming and Liang Kai exclaimed loudly, "It's Junior Brother An's Air Force." Guan Linzheng clenched his fists and shouted excitedly: "Junior Brother An, you really have the guts! I knew you wouldn't give in...
All the ministries immediately boarded the train and rushed to Baoding Station. When we arrived at Baoding, all the brothers will not leave. Together with the bearded brothers of the 17th Army, we will fight the Japanese invaders happily!"
Zhang Yaoming immediately stepped forward: "Master, would you like to immediately send a telegram to Brother Dayun (Huang Jie) who is walking in the front to ask the brothers of the Second Division to also stop withdrawing south and join the battle together?"
Guan Linzheng smiled confidently: "No need, Brother Dayun must have received the secret message from Junior Brother An. He is probably rushing back from Shijiazhuang at this time, haha... get on the bus and drive straight to Baoding!"
The trains drove south one after another. What they saw along the way opened the eyes of Guan Linzheng and his soldiers and inspired them:
Thousands of fully armed brothers from the 17th Army have occupied various commanding heights along the way. Rare new assault vehicles, anti-aircraft artillery vehicles and heavy artillery pulled by ten-wheeled military trucks are arranged in order and slowly move northward.
Liang Kai, who was very familiar with the Anjia Army's equipment and organization, blurted out "Assault Brigade". Guan Linzheng stared at the mechanized equipment outside the car window with green eyes, and couldn't help but murmured:
"Grandma! After this battle, I'll see how you, An Yi, can thank me..."
Baoding Military Depot Camp, Headquarters of the 17th Army.
With Xu Tingyao and other central commissioners and members of the Peking Army branch either watching in silence or watching in panic, He Yingqin once again issued an order to the indifferent Hu Jialin:
"Commander Hu, I am warning you for the last time. You must immediately revoke the order to prepare for war and immediately stop mobilizing Zhang Chengzhu's division from Shijiazhuang to go north. Otherwise, you, Hu Jialin, will be responsible for all the consequences of an all-out war between China and Japan!"
Hu Jialin stood up calmly: "Sir, I only accept the jurisdiction of the Central Military Commission and do not accept the command of your Peking Army Branch. Furthermore, your Military and Political Department cannot interfere with my military operations. If you have any objections, you can only pass
The General Staff Headquarters conveyed to me that under the current situation, I will not recognize anything except the Chairman’s orders! Someone is coming... seeing off the guests!"
He Yingqin, who had always regarded himself as the second-largest figure in the army, did not expect that Hu Jialin would dare to issue an order to expel him. His fair face suddenly turned purple, he gritted his teeth and said three "good" words in succession, and left angrily. All the leaders of the Peking Army Branch
He also followed in panic.
Xu Tingyao and others from the Central Special Task Force who stayed behind often sighed. Xu Tingyao, who returned from an inspection tour in Europe and continued to serve as the camp director of Baoding, had only left Baoding for less than three months. Unexpectedly, the situation in North China had completely deteriorated and became extremely bad and dangerous.
Two days ago, Xu Tingyao, who was in the process of establishing the Jiaotong Military Academy and was responsible for cultivating and establishing China's first armored force, was entrusted by the central government and the Central Military and Political Special Conference as the first commander of the 17th Army to come to appease those who were ordered to do so.
The 17th Army has abolished the Corps Headquarters. It is hoped that the 17th Army will exercise restraint, understand the difficulties of the central government, and stop adding pressure and trouble to the central government, which "takes the development of the national economy as its first priority."
However, when Xu Tingyao saw the angry officers and soldiers of the 17th Army and the Japanese planes flying low and low over the Baoding Military Station, she no longer said any words of dissuasion, but silently approved of Hu Jialin's position.
, He Yingqin, an old colleague and boss who had already foreseen that the Seventeenth Army was going to be angry, tried to dissuade him by doing nothing, and won the respect of the officers and soldiers of the Seventeenth Army.
"Huzi, you have to be prepared for the worst. If there is really going to be a fight, it won't be a local war. Prepare early and think carefully about all aspects." Xu Tingyao suggested in a low voice.
Hu Jialin smiled apologetically: "Sir, a fight has begun. Our air regiment shot down three Japanese aircraft in the airspace north of Baoding ten minutes ago and captured two Japanese pilots. They are on their way back now.
Almost there.”
Xu Tingyao was startled, and the several military commission commissioners around him suddenly turned pale and panicked. Their mouths were open for a long time and they could not say a word.