In addition to the radio station, Fang Buwei also has to deal with other affairs of the firm.

After returning from the United States, Fang Buwei made arrangements for Sin Chew Commercial Bank and Four Seas Commercial Bank in advance.

After the start of the all-out war of resistance against Japan, the Japanese army immediately blocked the coast and inland transportation routes, and the only ones that could be passed to the outside world were the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway leading to Haiphong in Vietnam and the Soviet-Mongolian Highway to the Soviet Union.

As for the most famous anti-Japanese material transportation route during the anti-occupation period: the Yunnan-Burma Highway, it will not be opened until 39 years.

He moved the headquarters of Sin Chew Commercial Bank in Shanghai to Nanyang and set up branches in Hong Kong and Haiphong, Vietnam.

The convoys, fleets, and caravans of the Four Seas Commercial Bank also gradually began to move to Guangzhou, Yunnan and Northwest China.

In addition, Fang did not do anything to disagree with the public, and exchanged all the nearly 15 million US dollars of working capital of Sin Chew Ocean Bank into gasoline and other military supplies that needed to be imported.

And only hoarding, not selling.

For more than a year, Sin Chew has earned money by trafficking gasoline and other scarce supplies.

For this reason, Fang Buwei also let Yu Erjun send people to buy half a hill in Chongqing, which was specially used to build a warehouse.

This is not because Fang Buwei wants to hoard Juqi, but because it is getting closer and closer to the all-out war of resistance, and once the two countries go to war, these things will not be able to be bought.

Including Yu Erjun and Situ Meitang, they didn't quite understand Fang Buwei's intentions.

Fang Buwei only explained that it was a rainy day.

Since we know some key nodes, how can we not respond in advance.

Fortunately, he is the major shareholder, and Yu Erjun, Situ Meitu and others are very convinced of him, so it is up to him to make a decision.

Fang Buwei stayed in Shanghai for three days, and after finalizing the transfer plan of the firm and the remaining materials, he returned to Nanjing without stopping.

The details of the discussion between the two sides of the CCP are intermittent, and every time Qian Dajun will send a party not to observe.

Fang Buwei knew the result a long time ago, but he didn't dare to say it, so he had to continue to be his little transparent.

After several round trips, seeing that nothing worked, the negotiations were suspended.

The negotiators on both sides know that the initiative is still in the hands of the chairman, and if the chairman does not agree, it will only be a waste of time to continue the talks.

Fang does not count the days for the day.

On 4 June, Mr. Zhou went to Lushan to hold talks with the chairman of the committee, but the chairman still refused to give an inch: The Red Army was not allowed to set up a headquarters and must obey all orders of the central government.

Mao and Zhu must leave the Red Army and go abroad to stay abroad......

The two sides broke up unhappily, and history called the first Lushan negotiation.

Just as the two parties agreed that Mr. Zhou was preparing to go to Lushan for the second time, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out.

At about 7 o'clock in the evening of 7 July, a squadron (equivalent to a battalion) of the North China Garrison Army conducted an exercise near the Lugou Bridge.

At about 11 night, the Japanese army said that a soldier had lost his run during the exercise and wanted to forcibly enter the 29th Army garrison to search.

Are you kidding.

The 29th Army was no longer welcomed by the central government, and was nominally a regular force of the Republic of China government.

Again, because of a series of events such as the previous "Hemei Agreement", most of North China was ceded to the Japanese, and the 29th Army quickly became synonymous with traitors.

The Jicha government and the Japanese army agreed that they could coordinate and send personnel to investigate the next day.

The missing soldier had actually been found, but the Japanese army hid it and shelled the Chinese soldiers stationed at the Lugou Bridge in the early morning of the 8th.

In fact, neither the Chinese nor the Japanese side expected that this incident would become the fuse for an all-out war of resistance.

At first, the purpose of the Japanese army was only to take the initiative to provoke incidents, put pressure on the Nationalist Government, and gradually encroach on North China, so that the Nationalist Government would recognize the independence of Northeast China and North China.

The Japanese only thought that this time the 29th Army and the Nationalist Government would certainly make concessions and seek reconciliation as they did in the series of events before the "He-Mei Agreement" last time.

But the Japanese forgot about the domestic and foreign forms at this time.

It has only been half a year since the Xi'an Incident, and no matter how thick-skinned and low his emotional intelligence is, the chairman of the committee does not dare to take what he said not long as air.

If he dares to retreat, these local warlords who have proposed to unite against Japan will dare to unite against Chiang, and Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries will also be suspicious of him.

The headquarters of the 29th Army telegraphed the front-line officers: The Lugou Bridge, the grave of Er, should live and die with the bridge and not retreat.

The CCP telegraphed the whole country: "Pingjin is in danger!" North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger...... Only when the whole nation carries out the war of resistance is our way out! …… Do not allow Japanese imperialism to occupy an inch of China...... Shed your last drop of blood to defend your homeland! ”

Everywhere has responded.

The chairman of the committee, who was still in Lushan, sent a telegram to the 29th Army: "Wanping City should be held and not retreated...... Lugou Bridge and Changxin Store must not be lost".

And electrified the whole country: "If you don't give in, if you don't expand, if you don't seek war, you will fight!" ”

Fang Buwei's sentence seems to be saying: Don't force Lao Tzu, otherwise you will die with you......

The Japanese army also did not expect that the Nationalist Government would be so tough this time?

Seeing that Wanping could not be attacked for a while, the Japanese played the trick of negotiating.

First, they wanted to put pressure on the central government through negotiations, and second, they wanted to take the opportunity to take Pingjin if the Nationalist Government did not back down.

Someone in the Ministry of Military Affairs mentioned this, but He Yingqing and others never believed it, and even Song Zheyuan thought that the Japanese army would never start a large-scale war.

The 29th Army missed the best opportunity to deploy its defenses, and it dragged on until the Kwantung Army was assembled before reacting.

Fang Buwei really wanted to go to North China, but no one agreed.

One is that his weight is not enough, and the other is that he has no reason.

The 29th Army, like the 17th Route Army in the Xi'an Incident, was changed from Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and was not treated well by the central government and the chairman of the National Committee at all.

The salaries and materials aided by overseas Chinese have not even been seen by the 29th Army.

And Song Zheyuan has not scolded the chairman of the committee once or twice, and the contradictions between the two sides are very deep.

At this time, a special commissioner with the nature of a spy will be sent to the ground, and as soon as he arrives at the ground, he is afraid that he will be used by the 29th Army to sacrifice the flag.

Even if he wanted to go to North China to detect the movements of the Japanese army, he couldn't.

Ma Chunfeng didn't say it explicitly, but Gu Zhenlong scolded Fang for not being in his eyes, when Chen Gongshu's North China is not a decoration?

Fang Buwei could only grit his teeth, bat his neck every day, and wait for the war report from North China.

On 11 July, He Yingqing presided over a meeting of the General Headquarters, which was later reported to the chairman of the Qing National Committee for approval to respond to the North China incident.

This time, the reaction of the Nationalist Government was not unpleasant.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. The High Command has decided to transfer war reserves, grain reserves, and so on to North China from now on, which will provide at least 200,000 people for three months.

At the same time, it was reported to the chairman of the committee and requested that part of the German mechanics be transferred north.

In addition, the high command also dispatched the second division to supplement the brigade and secretly stationed in the downtown area of Shanghai to defend the airport and other strategic requirements.

This is for fear of being copied by the Japanese army.

Fearing that the 29th Army would compromise without authorization, the General Headquarters sent Xiong Bin, then director of the General Affairs Department of the General Staff Headquarters, to Baoding and made a series of promises to the 29th Army: guns and guns, and food and grain.

This is afraid that Song Zheyuan will become the second Zhang Shaoshuai.

As soon as he retreats, North China will become the second Northeast.

Fang Buweijue's move is a bit of a stroke of genius.

Before Xiong Bin arrived in Baoding, Song Zheyuan reached the first agreement with Japan......

Of course, it cannot be called a land cession and betrayal of the country, but it is just the usual style of the central government, which agreed to the conditions of some Japanese and agreed that the Japanese would send people to Wanping inside the Lugou Bridge to search.

In fact, even Song Zheyuan didn't expect that this was a delaying tactic by the Japanese, and just three days later, the Japanese took the initiative to tear up this agreement.

Song Zheyuan recited an infamy in vain.

But except for Fang Buwei, no one knew the true intentions of the Japanese, and the Nanjing Command was a little panicked.

As soon as the 29th Army compromised, the Japanese would be able to free up their hands to attack Shanghai and Nanjing, and then it would become a situation in which the enemy was attacked on their backs.

At a meeting of the General Headquarters on 14 July, when some people proposed to blockade the Yangtze River and send a navy to garrison Wusongkou......

This is a posture of all-out war, and no one can call the shots, so they can only report to the chairman of the committee for decision.

The chairman was skeptical.

By this time, he still didn't quite believe that the Japanese army would start a full-scale war.

It wasn't until the Japanese warships sailed to Shimonoseki that the news came that the divisions of the Kwantung Army were assembling in North China one after another......

"The Chinese nation has reached the last juncture, there is no chance to compromise, if you give up the size of land and sovereignty, you will be the sinner of the Chinese nation through the ages......

"If the war starts, it will be that there is no distinction between north and south, no distinction between people old and young, no matter who they are, they all have the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war, and they are all determined to sacrifice everything. Only by sacrificing to the end, fighting to the end, and only with the determination to sacrifice can we win the final victory......"

Fang Buwei finally knew the source of this sentence.

The chairman of the committee had a hurried meeting with Mr. Zhou, published the famous "The Fame of the Lushan Anti-Japanese War", and returned to Nanjing on the 20th.

On 21 July, the chairman of the NPC National Committee personally presided over a strategic meeting of the General Headquarters, at which Chairman Jiang Baili put forward the grand strategic principle that "Japan will take advantage of this opportunity to launch an all-out war, and our side should wage a protracted war against Japan."

However, the chairman of the committee refused to say anything on the spot, and refuted it at the meeting.

Fang Buwei was not qualified to attend the meeting, he heard some of Gu Zhenlong's words, and realized that something was wrong, so he tried to get the strategic policy proposed by General Jiang Baili.

After reading it, Fang was not shocked.

Isn't this the general policy of the Nationalist Government against Japan during the Eight-Year War of Resistance Against Japan?

"Exchange space for time, the camera strikes, the combat power is preset in East China, and the enemy is led from east to west, and the axial attack and defense ......"

Jiang Baili also suggested that the war should be started from Songhu and expanded, luring the Japanese army up the river, placing the decisive battlefield in Shanghai, concentrating the main force to annihilate the living forces of the Japanese army, and then fighting and retreating, and the various fronts were successively transferred to the rear.

We will definitely not be able to win in the early stage, and we must be prepared to defeat the battle, or even fight a big defeat. The purpose was to drag the front and drag the Japanese to death......

Xiong Shihui added: Repeated defeats, repeated defeats; Immigrants clear things, strong walls clear wilderness; Avoid the real and attack the false, and move day and night.

Doesn't that sound familiar?

This proposition was then known as "Protracted War" and was later included in General Jiang Baili's "On National Defense".

After the fall of North China, the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing were all carried out in this strategy.

The method is good, but when it is used in the hands of specific people, all kinds of problems will arise.

In these two battles, due to the indecision of the chairman of the committee, indecisiveness, repetition of orders before and after, improper command by the commander, and the abandonment and flight of the generals of the fighting troops, the planned battle and retreat were turned into a large-scale rout.

The meeting is open every day, and the corresponding arming is also being done, but it can't stand the Japanese moving too fast and cunning.

From the 9th, the Japanese army negotiated with the 29th Army three times, and finally ended with Japan unilaterally tearing up the agreement.

It was not until after the 20th that Song Zheyuan and the Nanjing government knew that they had all been tricked by the Japanese, when they learned that the Japanese had gathered more than 60,000 troops in North China.

It was simply too late to mobilize the main forces, and even the 29th Army was not prepared for war at all.

Song Zheyuan could only grit his teeth and fight.

If he doesn't fight, he is Zhang Shaoshuai's second.

From the 28th to the 30th, in just three days, Beiping and Tianjin were lost one after another, and North China completely fell.

Deputy Army Commander Tong Lingge and 132nd Division Commander Zhao Dengyu were martyred.

……

Fang is not always afraid, because of his existence, history may turn around at a critical time.

That's why he ran to the United States to avoid Wang Zhaoming's assassination and the Xi'an Incident.

History has indeed not turned a corner, and there is no difference from the previous life.

But at this time, Fang Buwei was not happy at all.

Fang Buwei always felt that God had played a big joke on him.

When he wanted to change, he found that nothing could be changed.

What if you know the key nodes?

The War Department has pointed out more than once that the Japanese are using the trick of repairing the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark.

Fang did not ask for orders more than once, and asked to lead the elite of the counter-espionage unit to go to the northeast to North China to investigate the movements of the Japanese army.

But no one agreed.

Gu Zhenlong even persuaded him that even if he could detect the Kwantung Army assembling in North China, it would not play a big role.

Because most people, until the last moment, will not believe that the Japanese army will go to war in an all-out way.

Including the chairman of the committee and Song Zheyuan.

Fang Buwei knew that what Gu Zhenlong said was reasonable, even if he gritted his teeth, he was helpless.

Not to mention now, even when Nanjing fell, the chairman of the NPC National Committee was fantasizing about promoting cooperation through war, and Britain and the United States and other countries came forward to mediate.

That's why during the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing, inconsistent military orders were issued, causing the commanders to be at a loss and the morale of the army to be greatly disappointed.

Damn, it's a big deal to die on the battlefield.

Fang Buwei gritted his teeth secretly.

In half a month at most, the battle to defend Shanghai will begin, and he can't miss it no matter what.

Fang Buwei began to plan, how to send himself to Shanghai.

For this reason, he also secretly sent a telegram to Yu Erjun.

Overseas Chinese from all over the country have industries in Shanghai, and once a war breaks out, they will definitely ask the Nationalist Government for protection, and then it will be the best time.

Fang Buwei's telegram had just been sent, and he was thinking about blowing the wind to Gu Zhenlong, but Gu Zhenlong came to him first.

Something is wrong!

The fall of North China made the chairman of the National Committee once again lose his heart, and he decided to carry out Jiang Baili's "protracted war" and planned to deploy the "Battle of Songhu".

On 28 July, at a meeting of the General Headquarters, the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee laid out a plan to blockade the Yangtze River and wipe out Japanese warships and merchant ships.

But only one day later, the Jiangyin fortress was in the future and was armed, and the Japanese warships, which were originally stopped at Xiaguan and would bombard the presidential palace at any time, fled to Shanghai like crazy?

And then there were Japanese merchant ships......

When the information was transmitted back to Nanjing, the Japanese ships on the Yangtze River were basically extinct.

No matter how stupid the government of the Republic of China is, they also know that the deployment plan has been leaked.

The chairman of the committee was furious and wanted to arrest all the insiders and torture them severely.