Chapter 127: Retreat without a Fight

Dai Li and Bai Fei took a car, rushed all the way to Jigong Mountain, entered the camp, and before they entered the ****** office, through the door, they heard ****** scolding angrily in the house.

Bai Fei and Dai Li glanced at each other, and Dai Li whispered: "The commission must be angry about the affairs of Shandong." ”

I heard ****** scolding in the room: "This damn Han Fuyu, the national disaster is at the head, he doesn't know how to unite to defend the land and resist, he is calculating, and he does everything possible to retain his strength, and he disobeys the order and retreats without a fight, it's damned!" Damn it! ”

At this time, Bai Fei and Dai Li walked into the ****** office under the messenger of the attendants.

As soon as he saw Dai Li, he immediately pointed at him and said, "Yunong, you immediately find a way to send someone to arrest Han Fuyu, this bastard, and I will shoot him with my own hands!" Niang Xipi! ”

When Dai Li heard that ****** gave him this task, he immediately made a bitter face. Just kidding, Han Fuyu is also a big member of the party, he has been in charge of Shandong for many years, and he has a lot of soldiers, how can he have a good way to capture Han Fuyu in the short term?

It turned out that before Japan launched the war of aggression against China in July 37, Han Fuyu was already the military and political head of Shandong----- chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government and commander-in-chief of the Third Group Army. He was born in Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, defected to Chiang in 1929, and was appointed chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government and commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army by ****** in 1930.

Because Han Fuyu was the number one leader in Shandong, and because of Shandong's important position in North China, before Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, in order to instigate Han Fuyu to participate in the "autonomy" of the five provinces and three cities in North China (Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, Suiyuan, Chahar, Beiping, Tianjin, and Qingdao) or the "independence" of Shandong, with the intention of provoking civil strife in China and benefiting the fishermen.

Since 1936, Japan has repeatedly sent high-ranking officials to Jinan to visit South Korea. Sergeant Hihara Kenji, chief of the Japanese Kwantung Army's secret service, Isoya, the Japanese military attache in China, Shigeyuki Kawayueki, Japanese ambassador to China, and Hanaya, staff officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army, all came to Jinan to meet and discuss with the ROK.

Moreover, the reason why Han Fuyu did not agree to cooperate with the Japanese was not because he was a staunch anti-Japanese patriot, but because after Japan launched the September 18 Incident to invade and occupy Northeast China, the anti-Japanese wave swept across the country, and he was afraid that once he cooperated with the Japanese, he would be swallowed up by the anti-Japanese wave and become Liu Yu, Zhang Bangchang and others. Therefore, in order to show that he was anti-Japanese, he ordered all counties in Shandong to expand the militia and train the people, and the students concentrated on military training, saying that this was "to prepare for the resistance against Japan." However, he did not want to provoke the Japanese too much, so he ordered the dissolution of the anti-Japanese association, the banning of anti-Japanese propaganda, the arrest of the resolute anti-Japanese **, and the arrest of the head of the Shandong Provincial Party Department of the Kuomintang. Therefore, before the Japanese army invaded China on a large scale in 1937, Han Fuyu's attitude towards Japan was "no war, no surrender", not only to pretend to be an anti-Japanese patriot, but also not to dare to directly collide with the Japanese, he hesitated and wandered, and his greatest hope was to retain his territory and permanently consolidate his status as the "king of Shandong".

The Japanese tried to "self-government" in North China for a while without success, so they launched a full-scale war of aggression against China at Lugou Bridge in Beijing on July 7, 1937, and the Sino-Japanese War broke out.

At the beginning of the war, because Shandong was on the verge of Pingjin and the war was easy to extend, in order to strengthen Shandong's defense, ****** ordered Han Fuyu's Third Route Army to be expanded into the Third Group Army, and Han was appointed commander-in-chief of the group army and deputy commander of the Fifth Theater (the commander was Li Zongren). After the outbreak of the "13 August" War in Shanghai, Feng Yuxiang was ordered to go to the northern section of the Jinpu Line to command the operation against Japan, and served as the commander of the Sixth Theater. Since Feng did not have an army, he planned to transfer Han's army to northern Lubei to resist the Japanese attack, but Han refused Feng's request on the grounds that his defense area was on the Ludong Jiaoji line instead of the Jinpu line. Feng immediately telegraphed the situation to ******, and Chiang ordered Han to assign two divisions to Feng's command. Although Han had to obey the order to allocate two divisions of troops to Feng, he did not actively support and cooperate, and adopted an attitude of standing idly by and watching Feng's war against Japan in the north of the Yellow River, resulting in Feng's defeat and retreat under the fierce offensive of the Japanese army, so Feng was extremely dissatisfied with Han's indifferent attitude. Han Fuyu said to He Siyuan and others, who were in charge of Shandong education, at that time: "Mr. Feng is grinding with his bare buttocks---- turning around in a circle and embarrassing!" This means that Feng has suffered repeated defeats in previous wars against Japan, and this is the case in the Northern Lu War of Resistance.

In late September 1937, the Japanese war of aggression against China moved south from Pingjin, and its forward had reached the area of Dezhou, Shandong. At the beginning of October, Han was ordered to transfer all his troops from the Gaomi area of the Jiaoji Line to the Jinpu Line, at this time he had no excuse to fight against the Japanese, in early November, Han Qin led his pistol brigade and Zhu Shiqin's special team, crossed the Yellow River to meet the Japanese army, the pistol brigade lacking heavy weapons could not withstand the fierce attack of the Japanese army and was defeated, and he himself was almost captured by the Japanese army, and later fled back to Jinan in embarrassment.

After Han Fuyu returned to Jinan, he met with He Siyuan, director of the Department of Education, and others and said, "Fight! Beat! --it's almost impossible to get back! From these complaints, we can also see Han's anti-Japanese attitude.

Due to the defeat of the Jinpu Line against Japan, on November 14, the Japanese army invaded and occupied Yucheng, and the Korean army quickly retreated to the south bank of the Yellow River.

Han Fuyu fought against the Japanese army in northern Lubei, although he only dangled three shots and lost a few troops, but his heart ached. Because he knew that in that era, with an army, there was territory, and there was everything; Without an army, there is no voice, everything is lost. At that time, Han Fuyu had 140,000 regular troops, more than 60,000 militia members, and 3~40,000 people from the national militia and the righteous army in various counties in Shandong, and these 200,000 people were his strength and his political bargaining chips. He knew very well that the quality of his army was not as good as the Japanese, and if he fought with the Japanese army, he would lose this capital, and Shandong, the territory he had painstakingly managed for many years, would not be able to keep it. Therefore, when the Japanese army had not yet occupied Dezhou, he ordered the civil servants of the provincial government to send their dependents back to their hometowns. In early October, he ordered the public servants to withdraw south. In November, the provincial capital was moved to Tai'an. In December, the provincial capital was moved from Tai'an to Cao County, the southwesternmost part of Shandong.

As for his army, although Han was anxious to withdraw his army to the west of the Pinghan line, he could not find a reason to withdraw from Shandong. At that time, although the Japanese army continued to advance southward from the Jinpu line, it did not cross the Yellow River to the south and invade, nor did it land on the Jiaodong coast or Qingdao. However, the Japanese army on the Pinghan Line on the West Road made rapid progress, and had advanced to the area of Anyang in northern Henan and Daimyo in southern Hebei, and there was a danger of cutting off the road for the westward retreat of the Korean army. Therefore, Han Fuyu was in a hurry, and he hurriedly transported the important baggage and property to Shangqiu, Yuncheng, and Zhoukou in Henan. On November 28, Li Zongren went from Xuzhou to Jinan to inspect, and Han Jing deployed his troops in front of Li Zongren to withdraw to the area of Zhoukou and Yuncheng in Henan. Li Zongren was furious and telegraphed Han's attitude of not actively resisting the war ******.

In mid-December, when the Korean army and the Japanese army confronted each other across the Yellow River, the Japanese army's long-range artillery continued to bombard the city of Jinan.

He Siyuan once went to the mountains to persuade Han to stick to Jinan, saying: "Now it is a full-scale war of resistance against Japanese aggression, it is a national war, and all the losses of the army are replenished by the central government, which can dispel concerns, and all provinces have sent troops, even Liu Xiang in Sichuan and Long Yun in Yunnan have sent troops to Xuzhou, not to mention Shandong, which was directly invaded by the Japanese army?" Besides, ****** have already said that in the future, wherever our army retreats, the power will be handed over to us. ”

Han Fuyu said: "You are so naΓ―ve, take a mallet as a needle!" Do you know when ****** compromise with the Japanese? We are only tens of thousands of people, and this family has been sacrificed, and if we suddenly have an agreement with the Japanese ******, North China will have no share of us! He didn't defend Nanjing, but told us to defend Jinan to the death, and told us to use rifles to resist the Japanese aircraft artillery? ”

Neither Li Zongren nor He Siyuan could change Han Fuyu's determination to abandon Jinan to preserve his strength, and he still transported his dependents, household furniture and military supplies to Nanyang according to his original plan, and the Shandong Provincial Government also moved from Tai'an to Cao County.

He said to his subordinates: "This war of resistance has a beginning. We can't really fight. To preserve our strength, we don't guard Jinan or Tai'an, just to preserve our strength! ”

At that time, Li Zongren telegraphed to Han Fuyu not to put the rear outside the scope of the Fifth War Zone.

Han Fuyu actually said that now is a full-scale war of resistance, how to distinguish each other. These words, the secretary issued according to the original text, and Li Zongren was almost high blood pressure. He telegraphed the matter to ******.

Chiang learned that Han Fuyu was withdrawing his troops westward, and urgently telegraphed that he must not abandon Jinan. But Han Fuyu had already arrived in Tai'an when he received Jiang's telegram.

There was already a contradiction between him and Han Fuyu, and at this time, seeing that he had hundreds of thousands of troops and retreated without a fight, surrendered Jinan to the Japanese, and repeatedly disobeyed orders, he had already started to kill, and he couldn't wait to pick up a machine gun and press it on his head to make him suddenly.

Therefore, as soon as he saw Dai Li, he immediately ordered him to arrest Han Fuyu, but Dai Li's own family knew about himself, and now although Han Fuyu was defeated, he still had more than 100,000 troops, so let him arrest people, doesn't this mean that he will die?

Dai Li's face was embarrassed and he wanted to excuse himself, but now that he was ****** angry, how could he dare to say nothing? So he threw a look of help to Bai Fei, hoping that he could help say a few words.

Bai Fei looked like he was out of sight at this time, and he didn't know if he really didn't see it, or if he pretended not to see it.

Dai Li's heart turned sideways and said, "Headmaster, I think this matter needs to be considered in the long run..."

When he heard this, his brows fell up.

Dai Li's cold sweat immediately fell, and he hurriedly said: "Headmaster, the student thinks that Han Fuyu now has a large number of soldiers in his hands, and if he is in a hurry to put him to death, once the news is revealed, it will be easy to force him to the side of the Japanese." General Bai thought about it and was resourceful, he is here now, if he wants to kill Han Fuyu, we might as well listen to his opinion..."

It turned out that Dai Li saw that Bai Fei ignored him, so he simply dragged him into the water, thinking that he would shift his attention to you first, anyway, the dead Taoist friend is not the poor Tao, Amituo Buddha! Good, good, good!