Let's turn our attention back to China.

In mid-March, the Red Army broke the fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang, and the Central Soviet Region and the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet Regions were connected, and the Red Army rapidly grew to more than 80,000 people.

The Nanjing Nationalist Government was anxious, and Chang Kaishen and Wang Zhaoming met again and made up their minds to go all out to "suppress bandits." Chang Kaishen even announced: "To resist Japan, we must first suppress bandits, and before the bandits are cleared out, we must never speak of resisting Japan, and those who violate them will be punished with the most severe punishment."

At the end of March, a singing and crying incident occurred in Tohoku, and the protagonist of the incident was a Japanese named Ita Sukeo.

Suke Ita served in the Kwantung Army's Majima Baggage Brigade, and his hidden identity was the Japanese Communist Party. He smuggled 100,000 rounds of ammunition from the Kwantung Army to our party's anti-Japanese guerrillas in a car, and then committed suicide, leaving a suicide note: "I really want to meet you and go together to defeat the common enemy." But I was surrounded by fascist beasts and cornered. I decided to commit suicide, and I gave the 100,000 rounds of ammunition that I had shipped to your army, which were hidden in the pine forests to the north, and wished the sacred communist cause a speedy success. ”

The anti-Japanese guerrillas in East Manchu buried Mr. Ita Sukeo and held a memorial service, renaming Majia Datun Primary School as Yitian Primary School.

The incident was widely reported in left-wing publications, but other newspapers and magazines had to consciously ignore it because it could easily be seized by the authorities. Even so, Ita Sukeo's righteous deeds have been widely praised by the Chinese.

Zhou Hexuan was also emotional, although most Japanese people were responsible for the war of aggression. However, there are still a handful of Japanese friends who have contributed to China's cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and these Japanese friends deserve our respect.

At the beginning of May, Zhang Xueliang basically quit opium and went to Europe with his wife Yu Fengzhi to investigate.

The Nanjing Nationalist Government took advantage of the situation to set up the Beiping "Government Affairs Sorting Committee" to strengthen its control over the administrative affairs of the provinces in North China. To put it bluntly, Chang Kaishen and Wang Zhaoming wanted to control North China, and desperately wanted to dig into Zhang Xueliang's corner.

The key figure sent to seize power in North China was named Huang Yin, who was born in the League and served as the Minister of Education of the Beiyang Government and the Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Northern Expedition. This gentleman is Chang Kaishen's brother, who was removed from his post because of the "Jinan tragedy", and now it is reactivated.

Huang Ying's trip had two tasks, one was to seize the civil affairs of North China, and the other was to stabilize the internal and external situation in North China -- to put it bluntly, it was to sell national interests in exchange for Japan not to send troops on a large scale, and at the same time to divide and control the ranks of the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army.

Zhang Xueliang didn't dare to resist openly, so he could only resist quietly.

After Huang Yin came to North China, he was very depressed to find that he was completely unable to interfere in the civil affairs of North China. Even the various orders he issued would be disobeyed by the people below, and it would be a decoration.

At this time, Beiping had become the largest opium trading base in North China. On the pretext of anti-narcotics, Huang Yin applied to Chang Kai for the two posts of mayor of Beiping and director of the railway bureau, and launched a vigorous anti-narcotics application.

Anti-narcotics, of course, are just a pretense.

Huang Yin's true purpose was soon revealed. He sharply rebuked the officials in Beiping for their ineffective anti-narcotics efforts, and transferred two officials from Qingdao to serve as the director of the Beiping Public Security Bureau and members of the Beiping Military Branch.

This is to control the police force and garrison troops in Beiping! In addition, the mayor of Beiping and the director of the railway bureau are both from Nanjing, which is equivalent to embracing the administration, finance, police, and garrison of Beiping.

Zhang Xueliang's officials were directly bombed, and on the day Yu Jin took over as director of the public security bureau, more than 800 people surrounded the gate of the public security bureau.

After many wrestling, Huang was forced to make concessions. Zhang Xueliang and Huang Ying's appointed public security bureau chiefs were all dismissed, and the post was replaced by Chang Kaishen's own nephew, and Huang Yin was no longer allowed to interfere excessively in the affairs of North China.

Even so, Beiping was almost infiltrated by Chang Kaishen.

Mayor of Beiping, Director of the Railway Bureau, Director of the Public Security Bureau, Chief of the Military Police Regiment, and ...... of the Military Branch The heads of these departments have all been replaced by Chang Kaishen's descendants.

Zhang Xueliang suffered heavy losses this time, and when he returned from a visit to Europe, Beiping was no longer surnamed Zhang, and the city head changed the king's flag.

When Huang Yan was a-stirring stick in Beiping, the Blue Coat Society led by Dai Li also shook Beiping.

After two years of development, the Blue Coat Society's strength has rapidly expanded to the north, and there are even signs of their activities in the northeast. For example, Ma Zhanshan, the anti-Japanese hero, was successfully evacuated from the Northeast with the help of the Blue Coat Society.

Now the Blue Coat Society has done another big thing, successfully assassinating the traitor Zhang Jingyao in Beiping.

Zhang Jingyao was the one who failed to visit Zhou Hexuan at the beginning, and was so angry that he threw Zhou Hexuan's works on the side of the road. This guy has taken refuge in Wu Peifu, Zhang Zongchang and Zhang Zuolin, and now he has taken refuge in the Japanese, and he also participated in the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, and is about to be appointed commander-in-chief of the Pingjin Second Army, plotting to carry out a riot in Tianjin, and instigating the Kwantung Army to occupy Beiping and Tianjin.

The Blue Coat Society was still very powerful, and quickly learned the news. And Dai Li personally commanded the operation, Zheng Jiemin was responsible for the implementation, and Zhang Jingyao was assassinated at the Six Nations Hotel in Beiping, leaving only Zhang Jingyao's wife and twelve concubines to divide the family property.

The Blue Coat Society became famous in the first battle, and its "hoe rape salvation group" was also widely praised, and enthusiastic young people signed up to join.

At this time, the reputation of the Blue Coat Society was still relatively positive, but unfortunately, in another two or three years, it would become notorious and become a well-known spy organization.

The day after the assassination of the traitor Zhang Jingyao, India's Gandhi began a 21-day hunger strike to protest against the British occupation of India. Not only did it cause a lot of repercussions in Britain, but even China had Gandhi's supporters, and it seemed that the non-resistance movement could defeat the Japanese invaders.

This is an era of confusion, and any outlandish idea can find its adherents.

For example, there were many pacifists in Britain who supported Gandhi, and after the outbreak of the September 18 incident, some Britons actually called for the formation of a world peace column. The idea they put forward was to organize an international peace team of several hundred people to come to China, and everyone would stand in the middle of the military positions of China and Japan without carrying any weapons, and use their love and lives to influence the Japanese aggressors, so as to achieve the goal of Japan's withdrawal of troops and China's armistice.

There are still many people who have signed up for this kind of brain-filled peace plan.

It's a pity that in the end, due to the problem of travel expenses, this plan to save the world with love can only be shelved. Otherwise, in last year's Battle of Songhu, hundreds of pacifists could be seen on the battlefield in Shanghai.

It is estimated that by that time, the armies of both China and Japan will be confused - where is there so much teasing?

At the end of May, Feng Yuxiang, Fang Zhenwu and Ji Hongchang established the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese League in Zhangjiakou. Chang Kaishen was furious when he learned about it, because this was a signal for the Northwest Army to come back, and he immediately ordered Huang Ying to ban Feng Yuxiang's anti-Japanese alliance at all costs.

However, Feng Yuxiang was very powerful, with Fang Zhenwu as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy and Ji Hongchang as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, he resolutely led the army to the expedition and successively recovered the lost territories occupied by the Japanese army, such as Baokang, Baochang, Guyuan, and Duolun.

For a time, Feng Yuxiang, Fang Zhenwu and Ji Hongchang became famous anti-Japanese generals admired by the people.

The central government, on the other hand, tried every means to suppress public opinion, forbade reports on Feng Yuxiang's brilliant achievements, and even directly sent troops to attack Feng Yuxiang in early July.

This is what Chang Kaishen did, in order to prevent the Northwest Army from rising again, when the Northwest Army was conquering the Japanese and continuously subduing the lost territory, the soldiers stabbed Feng Yuxiang in the back in three ways. The Japanese army has completely occupied Rehe Province and partially occupied Chahar Province, and Chang Kaishen is still taking the initiative to provoke a civil war.

While resisting the attack of the Central Army, Feng Yuxiang sent Ji Hongchang to continue the war with the Japanese. Ji Hongchang overcame the 72-day loss of the important town outside the Saiwai in one fell swoop, and the whole country was excited.

However, under the frantic attack of the Central Army, Feng Yuxiang was finally forced to dissolve the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Many of its weapons, ammunition and soldiers were received by Song Zheyuan's 29th Army, which took this opportunity to expand rapidly.

Zhou Hexuan was very sad about this, and it was also sad that Yang Xingfo was assassinated.

Yang Xingfo was shot several times in order to protect his son and died, and the Chinese Civil Rights Protection League was paralyzed.

The Kuomintang's series of perverse practices have aroused the collective indignation of the whole country. Countless progressives can't figure it out, what is Chang Kaishen trying to do? The fierce and brutal Japanese invaders did not fight, but they specifically attacked the anti-Japanese team, and brazenly assassinated such a famous figure as Yang Xingfo, who was Mr. Zhongshan's secretary.

Zhou Hexuan's Northeast epic "Black Soil" began to be serialized during this dark period.