Chapter 492: Wang's Puppet Regime

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As soon as Gao Fei put down the phone, Cai Yu said with a straight face: "Gao Fei, what you just said to Zheng Qimou is also valid for yourself: major matters must be discussed by everyone, so as to avoid making mistakes!" If he hadn't been careful today, the consequences would have been unimaginable, and he would never have made such a mistake again! ”

Gao Fei knew that Cai Yu would definitely settle accounts after the autumn, so he hurriedly admitted his mistake honestly and promised not to make it again in the future.

Cai Yu was afraid that he didn't know the seriousness of the problem, and further understood the benefits: "Gao Fei, with the gradual promotion of your position and the expansion of the territory under our control, your prestige is also increasing, many people will not dare to point out your mistakes, in order to avoid this kind of lonely situation, you must communicate with people more, ask for opinions from many parties, and brainstorm in order to get things done!" ”

Gao Fei had heard this set of words many times, and in order to stop Cai Yu from continuing, he hurriedly bowed down and said, "Mr. Cai, Gao Fei has been taught!" ”

After Cai Yu's painstaking persuasion, Gao Fei finally gave up his plan to take revenge on the national political axe, and went back to discuss how to properly handle the relationship with the national political axe.

Cai Yu said: "Actually, economic matters are very easy to handle, because we are a very healthy economic system, as long as we maintain normal trade relations with the rear, as for the luxury goods imported by dignitaries and nobles from the customs, they will turn a blind eye, so that they will not interfere with our acquisition of strategic materials and recruitment of soldiers in the national control area, which is mutually beneficial!" The most troublesome thing is political and military matters, after all, you are the commander of the Fourth Theater of Operations and the supreme administrator of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and you have a direct subordinate relationship with the base camp of the national political axe, and if you don't know it, they will use this to weaken our army. ”

Gao Fei sneered and said: "The reason why Yu Hanmou is in trouble is that I misjudged the situation and mistakenly thought that the Central Army would fully support it, and I would never make such a stupid mistake in the future: all military operations must be carried out under the condition of reading autonomy, and I no longer expect the support of others!" It may be very difficult, but it is definitely much safer. ”

Cai Yu nodded and said, "However, in order to show the posture of the Fujian side and win the broad support of the people, we should express it at the appropriate time." For example, giving away some salt, grain, and other things that are in short supply in the rear for free, and at the same time letting the press report on them, will make the national political axe even more afraid to act rashly. ”

"Good way!" Gao Fei said loudly: "You might as well send them some steel, so that we don't have to fight ourselves in the front, and we have to guard against the Central Army in the back!" ”

After discussing the specific details, Cai Yuyan was about to go back to his office, and before he could stand up, Chen Yingying hurriedly walked in.

"According to reliable intelligence, Wang Jingwei will announce the establishment of the so-called New China within the month!" As soon as Fujian's intelligence chief opened his mouth, Gao Fei and Cai Yu were shocked.

It turned out that as early as the beginning of the year, in order to minimize the influence of the national political axe in Yucheng, the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army had been preparing to launch Wang Jingwei and establish a Han annihilation regime with the national surname in order to weaken the influence of the national political axe in Yucheng to the greatest extent. The candidates, organizations, and institutions for the founding of the country have already been prepared according to their own will, and they will appear on the scene as soon as the zodiac is auspicious.

In order to build momentum for his upcoming political axe, Wang Jingwei sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, threatening him to surrender to himself as soon as possible, otherwise, as soon as his 'New China' was established, the Yucheng national political axe would be replaced. The telegram said: Zhao Ming is determined to save the country, and if Mr. always resolutely refuses, then Zhao Ming can no longer worry about this matter, and is bound to go all out to seek partial peace first, and then choose the way to achieve comprehensive peace. There is no other way. If Sir can put the life of the country and the people's livelihood first, and resolutely decide at this time to make peace with the truce and make peace with him, in accordance with the principles of the Konoe Declaration, so as to achieve its concrete realization, then Zhao Ming and his comrades will be able to work together with Sir to quickly achieve peace in the whole country.

Chiang Kai-shek ignored Wang Jingwei's telegram, and at the same time instructed the military commander's spies to assassinate the backbone of the Han Annihilation that Wang Jingwei had recruited as much as possible.

Wang Jingwei, who was afraid of long nights and dreams, immediately accelerated the process and decided to complete all the preparatory work for the new policy axe by April.

After listening to Chen Yingying's introduction, Gao Fei immediately asked, "How about our agents lurking in Shanghai?" ”

Chen Yingying replied: "Although there is a big gap compared to Yucheng and Yuben, it also has a certain strength. ”

Cai Yu asked, "Gao Fei, do you want to fight with the pseudo-agents?" ”

Gao Fei replied, "That's not it, I just want our agents to assassinate Wang Jingwei, or sabotage their founding celebrations, to combat the arrogance of these scum." ”

Chen Yingying thought for a moment and said: "Wang Jingwei himself is good at assassination, plus he has been assassinated in Hanoi, the precautions are quite strict, and it is difficult to start, but if you destroy the celebration, it is relatively easy to do." ”

Gao Fei was worried about endangering the security of the spy network, and asked: "If it will endanger the security of the entire intelligence network, don't force it, I believe that the people of the whole country will soon recognize Wang Jingwei's face, and there should not be much market for such a national scum." Compared to the righteous indignation of a few months ago, Goofy seems to be much more mature.

Cai Yu nodded approvingly and said, "When the storm comes, it will inevitably bring up some scum deposited at the bottom of the water, so we don't have to spend our precious resources for this. ”

Seeing that the two bigwigs said this, Chen Yingying had no choice but to give up the idea of making a big deal and said, "Since this is the case, I will tell them to act when the opportunity arises." ”

On March 30, 1940, many tall buildings in Nanjing suddenly hung a pseudo-national flag; On the main streets, groups of processions, waving colorful flags with the words "peaceful nation-building" written on them, shouted slogans of peaceful nation-building through the city, and the streets and alleys pulled up big-character slogans: Warmly celebrate the return of the national political axe to Nanjing! Long live the peaceful nation-building! Hundreds of large trucks and small cars lined up in a queue of more than 1,000 meters and drove on the central avenue of Nanjing. Wang Jingwei and the big and small men of the new Central Political Axe, various academies, ministries, and committees, stood on the car, with a proud posture of spring breeze.

Finally, the convoy drove into the former National People's Axe Courtyard and held an inauguration ceremony in Ningyuan Building.

In order to confuse the public at home and abroad and better replace the Yucheng National Political Axe, Wang Jingwei's new Central Political Axe, in addition to copying the Yucheng Political Axe in its name, also copied the names of all the institutions in the Nanjing Political Axe, and the funniest thing is that he actually ingeniously put the hat of the chairman of the Nanjing Political Axe on the head of Lin Sen, the current chairman of the Yucheng National Political Axe, while Wang Jingwei himself assumed the post of the premier of the Executive Yuan, and staged a farce of covering his ears and stealing the bell.

However, just as Wang Jingwei's farce was still being staged, the gunshots of 'ping pong' rang out in places such as the Drum Tower and Xinjiekou in the city center, and dense bullet holes suddenly appeared on the brand-new pseudo-national flag, and even some flagpoles were hit by sharpshooters and fell down. The procession thought that firecrackers were being set off somewhere to celebrate, but when the bullets whined and flew overhead, they were shocked to find that it was the soldiers stationed in Nanjing who were shooting! These small people who were promoted to fight originally joined the parade in a semi-forced form, and originally thought that they had received the tacit approval of the garrison, but after seeing the scene in front of them, they were immediately dumbfounded, and immediately threw the flag in their hands to the ground, scattering birds and beasts, and the streets and alleys in Nanjing City had an extra layer of colorful clothes out of thin air, like a clown in a circus.

When Wang Jingwei received the report that the soldiers had shot at the national flag, he immediately sent Mei Siping to represent the political axe of New China to the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army to negotiate.

Seishiro Itagaki replied to Mei Siping that according to the prior agreement, a triangular apricot yellow cloth must be added to the top of the national flag, with the words "peaceful nation-building" or "peaceful petition for the founding of the country" written on it, so as to distinguish it from the national flag of Yucheng's anti-political axe. You have not acted in accordance with the agreement, and as a result, you have aroused the indignation of the officers and men of the Imperial Army, and if the dispatched troops allow the indiscriminate national flag of Yucheng to fly over Nanjing, it will inevitably seriously affect the morale of the Imperial Army and shake the morale of the Imperial Army. Therefore, you must immediately remove the current flag and replace it with a flag with a distinguishing mark.

Although Wang Jingwei was very dissatisfied, after all, he had already embarked on this road of no return under the protection of his own bayonet, and he could only rely on the snort of others, so he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to change to a different national flag according to the requirements of the army. In the blink of an eye, the streets and alleys of Nanjing City fluttered a new national flag with triangular yellow cloth sheets, as if the mothers in Nanjing City were drying out diapers at the same time.

Chiang Kai-shek was furious when he heard on the radio the sound of the Kuomintang's political axe returning the capital to Nanjing and Wang Qingwei reading out the "Declaration on the Return of the Capital", and ordered the Central Radio Station to turn on the power and broadcast it to the whole world, reiterating the arrest warrant issued by the Yucheng political axe on June 8, 1939 against Wang Jingwei and others, and offering a reward of 100,000 yuan for Wang Jingwei's head.

After the news of Wang Jingwei's establishment of a puppet regime spread, it immediately caused an uproar throughout the country: the Kuomintang Autonomous Region, Fujian, Guangdong, and Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region all organized huge mass demonstrations to denounce the Han annihilation of traitors and support the Kuomintang in fighting to the end; However, among the various armed forces that carried out guerrilla warfare in the areas occupied by the Japanese army, subtle changes began, and some of the local armed forces that were not strong-willed or felt that they had been excluded by Chiang Kai-shek began to move closer to Wang's puppet political axe under the temptation of Wang Jingwei's great efforts!

In just a few months, Wang Jingwei's Nanjing political axe snagged hundreds of thousands of puppet troops, many of whom had surrendered to the past with entire regiments and divisions, and as a result, the guerrilla forces in the occupied areas were greatly weakened, so that the occupied areas tended to be stable, and the puppet army not only undertook the task of maintaining the security of the rear of the Japanese army, but also sent a large number of troops to assist the Yue army in attacking, so that the Japanese army could accumulate more strength to launch a larger-scale offensive.

At the same time, in order to completely destroy the will of the Chinese people to resist, the Yue Army concentrated all the forces of its navy and army aviation to carry out an unprecedentedly fierce bombardment of the Kuomintang and the base areas of the 19th Route Army.

On 5 April 1940, eight Type 96 bombers took off from Taiwan's Hsinchu Airport, and after joining up with 12 bombers from the aircraft carrier 'Akagi' cruising on the north side of the strait, they rushed to Fuzhou in a murderous manner, opening the prelude to the air raid on Fujian.

The landform of Fuzhou belongs to a very typical estuary basin: the urban area is located in the center of the basin, surrounded by high mountains and mountains above 600 meters above sea level, with Drum Mountain in the east, Qishan Mountain in the west, Wuhu Mountain in the south, and Lotus Peak in the north.

In order to avoid the anti-aircraft watchtowers set up on the high hills around the basin, the bomber group did not adopt the usual roundabout attack tactics after crossing the center line of the strait, but flew straight toward the mouth of the Min River, facing the three floating batteries that had been renovated only a few months earlier.

Since the establishment of the anti-aircraft floating battery was decided, the air defense forces have selected a total of 13 warships from among the abandoned warships they have purchased for refitting, and so far only seven have been completed, of which three are deployed in Fuzhou, two in Xiamen, and the other two in Quanzhou. Of the seven old warships, two were decommissioned light cruisers and five battleships, while the floating batteries deployed in Fuzhou Port were all converted from battleships with a displacement of about 12,000 tons.

Due to the heavy tonnage of the battleship, eight 88-mm anti-aircraft guns and twelve 37-mm anti-aircraft guns were installed on it, plus four anti-aircraft machine guns, and a 203-mm main gun was specially reserved to deal with the threat of the naval ships. In order to increase the defense capability of the warship, each gun emplacement and ammunition depot was additionally reinforced with 100 mm thick steel plates, and the outside was coated with several hundred mm thick cement, so that the warship could withstand at least five hundred attacking bombs. Most of the equipment on the warships was dismantled to build soldiers' quarters and warehouses for storing food and ammunition, while boilers and steam engines were retained, ensuring that the ships had electricity for lighting and searchlights, and that the batteries had their mobile surnames.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, a terrible air raid siren sounded over Fuzhou City, and the citizens immediately moved to more than 40 air-raid shelters in the city in an orderly manner under the command of the police.

Lieutenant Cao Jin, the commander of the No. 1 battery, led the soldiers to run into the gun emplacements immediately after the alarm sounded, while the lookouts nervously searched the river and sky with binoculars.

A few minutes later, the hoarse roar of the lookout suddenly rang out: "Enemy plane spotted, enemy plane spotted!" The azimuth is 120 on the port side, the angle of view is 340 degrees, and the enemy plane is flying towards us".

Cao Jin immediately shouted: "One cannon, two cannons ready." ”

As soon as his words fell, the first and second guns came from an excited and high-pitched voice: "Ready!" ”

Cao Jin hurriedly ran to the front, took the binoculars from the lookout's hand, and looked in the direction of the lookout's finger: he saw twenty bombers swooping down from the eastern sky.

The four bombers of the first echelon swooped straight down towards Cao Jin's battery, Cao Jin calmly looked at the gradually enlarged military aircraft in his field of vision, silently calculated the distance between the target and the battery, and ordered in a loud voice: "The target is long, the height is one and a half thousand, put!" ”

At this moment, the top of the turret suddenly became quiet, and the sound of the bolt jumping and the barrel locking came to everyone's ears clearly.

A few seconds later, the first and second batteries gave the command to shoot: "Aim at the target, put!" ”

Immediately after that, with a flash of red light, two 88-millimeter shells burst out of the barrel and fired at the front bomber at a high speed of kilometers per second, and then exploded more than ten meters below the belly.

The bomber quickly rushed out the white smoke from the explosion of the shell, a little fire flashed under the belly, the fuselage exploded violently, and billowing smoke came out of it, and the broken flakes of metal scattered from the tail of the plane, and the whole body was like a ball of light wrapped in fire and smoke, tumbling and falling.

"Hooray!" Deafening cheers suddenly rang out on the battery, and the fighters entered a state of boiling joy.

Cao Jin tried his best to suppress the ecstasy in his heart, and ordered loudly: "Three cannons, four cannons ready!" ”

At the same time, two other batteries fired several rounds in succession, damaging an enemy aircraft.

The other two bombers hurriedly dropped a few bombs, then climbed sharply over the battery, and then turned around to join the group of planes on standby, because the bombs were too far away from the battery, so they only produced a magnificent column of water on the surface of the water, but did not cause any real damage.

After perceiving the strength of the opponent, the army immediately changed its tactics and carried out group bombing, and the remaining eighteen bombers swooped down at the same time and swooped straight down on the three anti-aircraft batteries.

Cao Jin hurriedly shouted: "Free attack!" Then he jumped in front of an anti-aircraft machine gun, and after a little composure, he aimed at an enemy plane in an instant, and pulled the trigger sharply.

The 88-mm anti-aircraft guns fired shells into the sky at a rate of 20 rounds per minute, and the anti-aircraft machine guns rained down on the enemy planes.

The first squadron moved from the southeast to the northwest, and the second squadron carried out a two-sided flanking attack in an inverted V-shaped formation that the army is accustomed to, and was determined to carry out intensive low-altitude horizontal bombardment in formation and number!

(To be continued)