Chapter 763: Tang Gou Captures the Stubborn (continued)

The handling of the Tanggou incident was carried out entirely in accordance with Liu Yimin's assumptions.

The Eighth Route Army seized the weapons of the Shuyang County Standing Brigade, arrested Xia Zhuyu, Wang Xuwu, Tang Sanhou, and Zhou Faqian, and held a memorial meeting for Tang Shuhong in Tanggou.

It may be that Tang Shuhong's death touched the heavens, and a few clouds drifted in the sky that had always been clear, and soon the clouds were dense, lightning and thunder, and it rained heavily.

There was a cry on Tang Shuhong's grave.

Mr. Tang Mulu, who once wrote elegiac couplets for Tang Shuhong, looked up to the sky and shouted: "God opens his eyes, God opens his eyes!" ”

The memorial meeting was presided over by Chen Fei, director of the Political Department of the Dongshuguan Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Kexin, acting head of the regiment, read out at the meeting a memorial written by Liu Yimin, the head of the Eighth Route Army, entitled "Carry forward the spirit of Tang Shuhong and carry out the War of Resistance to the End."

In the article, Liu Yimin reviewed Tang Shuhong's life and deeds, recalled the scene when Tang Shuhong reported to him on his work, and pointed out: "Tang Shuhong was originally just an ordinary young intellectual, but it was the gunfire of the Japanese invaders that woke him up and made him understand the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country, and knew that if China does not resist Japan, there is no way out, and only by following and uniting to resist Japan can China be saved." Since then, Tanggou Primary School has one less teacher to teach and educate people, and there is one more anti-Japanese hero in northern Jiangsu.

Tang Shuhong's experience tells us that as long as we have a firm confidence in resisting Japan, we can learn war in war, and we can also pick up a steel gun to take revenge on the Japanese invaders with a hoe, a hammer, and a whip. Today they are the people who farm the land, and tomorrow they are the heroes who kill the enemy. As long as all the people are united and put the desire to save the country in the War of Resistance into action, why worry about Shuyang and northern Jiangsu? Under the blows of our army and people, little Japan will inevitably lose its troops and surrender unconditionally with its hands raised.

The resistance against Japan was cruel, not only suffering and starvation, but also bloodshed and sacrifice. Our team, in order to resist Japan and save the people in the occupied areas by the Japanese invaders, has paid a lot of sacrifices, and many outstanding soldiers have fallen on the battlefield of resisting Japan and killing the enemy. What should the survivors do? There is only one answer, that is, to march on the blood of the martyrs, and if the Japanese do not surrender one day, we will not stop fighting one day. Until the little devils are driven out of China! ”

In the memorial text, Liu Yimin called on the soldiers and civilians of northern Jiangsu to learn from Tang Shuhong, fight devils, counter-friction, a grain of rice for military rations, a piece of cloth for military uniforms, and a son to join the army and go to the battlefield to defend the base area with his own blood.

At the end of the memorial service, the propaganda team led the soldiers to sing a military song. The loud singing rose to the sky through the rain curtain, and the soldiers and fellow villagers present were enthusiastic and chanted slogans.

Tanggou has become a strong fortress of the Eighth Route Army!

When Wang Laohu escorted Xia Zhuyu and the four of them to Gaogou Town, where the 33rd Division and Xu Haixing were located, to meet Jia Yunshan, the report on the Tanggou incident, the confession of Xia Zhuyu and others, and Liu Yimin's conversation had already appeared in the newspapers, and the truth had been revealed to the world.

Zhang Zhizhong called to tell Liu Yimin that he had other important matters and had to cancel his trip to northern Jiangsu. The truth of the Tanggou incident is now known to everyone, and it is believed that the Jiangsu Provincial Government and the Sulu Theater will handle it impartially. It is hoped that Liu Yimin will not forget that he is an anti-Japanese general and a member of the squadron, and that he should carry out the orders of Chairman Chiang and the Military Commission and return to the Shandong defense area as soon as possible.

Chen Cheng also sent a telegram to Liu Yimin, saying that Wang Xu's Fifth Department was a guerrilla force organized spontaneously behind enemy lines, which did not belong to the regular battle sequence, lacked strict training, and could not well implement the spirit of Chairman Chiang's anti-Japanese war. The Tanggou incident was purely accidental, but there was a reason for the incident, and if the Dongshuguan Independent Regiment of the Northern Jiangsu Detachment of the Eighth Route Army had not established a base in Tanggou, such a tragedy would not have occurred. Therefore, both sides are responsible for this matter, and it is enough for the Sulu Theater and the Jiangsu Provincial Government to handle it impartially. As long as the instructor insists on uniting in the war of resistance and obeying the national government and military orders, he is willing to come to the instructor as a guest at the right time.

Song Meiling also called here and asked why Liu Yimin didn't call Chairman Jiang for review? Is the current Liu Yimin still the Liu Yimin she saw in Taiyuan who has the overall situation in mind and is dedicated to the war of resistance?

In order to show justice, Han Deqin, chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government and deputy commander of the Sulu Theater, also issued a statement in the newspaper, saying that Xia Zhuyu, Wang Xuwu, and others had disregarded law and discipline, brutalized friendly troops, and undermined unity in the War of Resistance, and should be severely punished in accordance with the law. Major General Jia Yunshan, commander of the 33rd Division and director of the Xu Hai Administration, has been ordered to conduct a detailed investigation, examine the facts of the case, and severely punish him. At the same time, Han Deqin reiterated that the Jiangsu Provincial Government and political authorities at all levels are the legitimate regimes leading the War of Resistance in Northern Jiangsu, and that all anti-Japanese armed forces operating in Northern Jiangsu should accept the leadership of the Sulu Theater and the Jiangsu Provincial Government.

Liu Yimin read the telegrams of Zhang Zhizhong, Chen Cheng, and Soong Meiling and Han Deqin's statement, and did not make any more responses, but only sent a telegram back to Chiang Kai-shek, reporting that the purpose of pursuing the culprits of the Tanggou incident was to better unite the War of Resistance and defeat the invaders more quickly. Although there was an element of impulsiveness in the rhetoric of the last telegram, it was for the sake of the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and there was no disrespect for the chairman. Now that the international situation is changing, the chairman, as the leader of a country, should keep the overall strategic situation in mind and persist in uniting in the war of resistance. Only in this way can we lead the whole people to defeat the aggressor.

This telegram was not sent according to Liu Yimin's original intention, but Vice Chairman Zhou sent a telegram from Chongqing, urging Liu Yimin to consider more from the perspective of unity and resistance against Japanese aggression and to pay attention to flexibility in the tactics of struggle. With regard to Chiang Kai-shek, we must not only oppose his reactionary policy of restricting the development of our party and our army, but also pull him to persist in the War of Resistance and push him away. Only then did Liu Yimin send this telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, giving Chiang Kai-shek a step.

After sending a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Yimin instructed Wang Laohu to hand over Xia Zhuyu and others and the disarmed officers and men of Wang Xu's Fifth Division to the 33rd Division, supervise the punishment of several criminals, and never let go of a single murderer.

Jia Yunshan had also received an order from Han Deqin to interrogate Xia Zhuyu and the others in front of Wang Laohu.

When they arrived at the headquarters of the 33rd Division and saw Jia Yunshan, Xia Zhuyu and Wang Xuwu thought they were safe and found a backer, but they retracted their confessions and refused to admit their guilt, saying that Tang Shuhong's death was all done by Tang Sanhou and Zhou Faqian, and had nothing to do with them.

In the hot summer, I don't know the grievances in the world, and I still keep screaming.

Jia Yunshan was wearing a military uniform, his face was stained with sweat, and his eyes looked at the confessions of Xia Zhuyu and Wang Xuwu spread out on the table, and his face was cloudy.

Wang Laohu looked at Xia Zhuyu and Wang Xuwu, with a disdainful expression on his face, and he didn't say a word.

After a long time, Jia Yunshan said: "Deputy Commander Wang, County Magistrate Xia and Captain Wang do not admit their guilt, brothers are not easy to do!" Could there be any wrongs in this? ”

Wang Laohu ignored Jia Yunshan and said to Xia Zhuyu and Wang Xuwu: "County Magistrate Xia, Captain Wang, it's too late for you to change your words now. Newspapers and radio stations all over China have published your confessions, written clearly in black and white. Tang Sanhou and Zhou Faqian also confessed clearly, and there are still many human and material evidence, which you cannot deny. A good man is a good man, don't learn so much, let me look down on you. ”

At the moment of life and death, Xia Zhuyu can say that the person who is a spy has always been relatively firm, and he will not admit it. Wang Xuwu couldn't do it, he was already injured, so Wang Laohu's punch made everyone half shorter. At this time, where would he care about his face, and shouted for Master Jia to help. shouted and shouted that something was wrong, and even said that the booby trapping Tang Shuhong was agreed upon in the compound of the administrative department, and Jia Yunshan had to call the shots for him.

Saying this, Wang Laohu's eyes swept to Jia Yunshan's face, and a murderous aura made Jia Yunshan breathless, he was no longer verbose, and immediately ordered Wang Xuwu, Tang Sanhou and Zhou Faqian to be dragged out and shot, leaving Xia Zhuyu, saying that this person had a special identity, was the county magistrate, and did not do it himself, and the crime was not to death.

Where would Wang Laohu listen to Jia Yunshan's rhetoric and ask him if he was also involved in the killing of Tang Shuhong.

Jia Yunshan can be the division commander and the director of the administrative department, and he is also a smart person who can be big and small, and he knows that he must clean himself. Therefore, he resolutely denied Wang Laohu's questioning, and repeatedly said that he had no knowledge of this matter. The Shuyang County Government is also working in the courtyard of the administrative office, where will he know about Xia Zhuyu and Wang Xuwu's dealings?

When Wang Laohu interrogated Xia Zhuyu and others, he did not ask whether Jia Yunshan had anything to do with the killing of Tang Shuhong. Xia Zhuyu only explained that because the 33rd Division had withdrawn to Gaogou, he felt that he had a backer, so he attacked Tang Shuhong.

Seeing that Jia Yunshan had left him behind, Wang Laohu felt that it was useless to talk to him more, so he picked up Xia Zhuyu and left, saying that Chairman Han could not give the Eighth Route Army justice, so the Eighth Route Army would deal with it by itself, escort Xia Zhuyu back to the base of the Eighth Route Army, form a court, and convene a public trial meeting, so that the court could judge what crime Xia Zhuyu should bear and what punishment he should accept.

This is to the headquarters of the 33rd Division, Wang Laohu only brought his special operations squadron to Gaogou, and there were only a few soldiers who followed him when he saw Jia Yunshan, if he let him take Xia Zhuyu away like this, Jia Yunshan felt that his 33rd Division would really become the 33rd slip that the people said.

As soon as Jia Yunshan gave an order, the guard regiment of the administrative department surrounded the division headquarters, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at Wang Laohu and the others.

is a good Wang Laohu, not afraid of danger, but sat on the Taishi chair where Jia Yunshan was entertaining, took a sip of the tea bowl, and said to Jia Yunshan with a smile: "Master Jia, do you want to be the second Wang Xuwu?" Do you know how Lieutenant General Tsukihiko Wang, the commander of the Second Army of the Japanese Army, died in Gaogou last year? I promise you, if your soldiers dare to shoot Lao Tzu, within half an hour, you and your guard regiment will all lie on the ground. ”

Seeing that Wang Laohu was soft and hard, Jia Yunshan had no choice but to dispel the idea of wanting to save Xia Zhuyu's life, and waved his hand to let the guard regiment withdraw from the siege. Besides, killing Xia Zhuyu is only good for him, and he can appoint another henchman of his own as the magistrate of Shuyang County. In addition, Wang Xuwu's Shuyang County Standing Brigade can be incorporated into his command, and the only person who benefits from the Tanggou incident is him.

After the execution of Xia Zhuyu, the Eighth Route Army handed over all the officers and soldiers of Wang Xu's five divisions to Jia Yunshan's department, but the weapons and ammunition were left. Jia Yunshan was very dissatisfied with this, saying that the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the fire to rob. Wang Laohu told him that if you engage in friction, you have to pay a price, and there are many weapons and ammunition little devils, and they have the ability to seize weapons and ammunition from the Japanese army like the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese-style equipment of one color is much stronger than these miscellaneous weapons.

Seeing Wang Laohu leaving, Jia Yunshan was so angry that he had no choice but to send a report to Han Deqin and report the disposal.

Han Deqin's call back to him was simple: it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge. It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come.

After dealing with the Tang Shuhong incident, the war situation in North China also changed. The North China Front, which had completed the supplementary training, had already determined at this time that the Eighth Route Army had launched a high-frequency small-scale attack on the line of communication to protect the summer harvest. Shanshanyuan, who felt deceived, strictly ordered all units of the Japanese army in North China to take the initiative to attack, seek out and annihilate the small units of the Eighth Route Army attacking the line of communication, and concentrate on suppressing the offensive of the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, Shanshanyuan mobilized troops in accordance with the original battle plan and began to sweep the Jin-Cha-Ji by different routes, apparently to continue to implement the strategy of divisional sweeping, encroaching on the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, and suppressing the living space of the Eighth Route Army.

Due to the long distance between Normenhan and the fact that the Soviet and Japanese armies on both sides of the war were deliberately concealing their own combat situation, Liu Yimin could not figure out what the battle situation was, so he sent two telegrams to the chairman in succession, asking for an attempt to find out the progress of the war between Japan and the Soviet Union, but he did not receive a satisfactory answer.

Liu Yimin was not afraid that the Soviet Red Army would be defeated by little devils, he knew that it was impossible. Although the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army declined after the Great Purge, they were mechanized troops and were not at the same level as the Japanese army. General Zhukov was the most famous marshal of the Soviet Army after the Soviet Army, and it was absolutely impossible for him to suffer a big loss at the hands of the Japanese army. However, if the Japanese army can put away its arrogance, stop taking a different path, and really divide its troops to march to the northwest as the readers of the Wen Wei Po Military Forum discussed, and take advantage of the confrontation between the main forces of the Soviet army in the Far East and the Japanese army at Nomenkhan, recapture the territories that originally belonged to China, including Vladivostok and Sakhalin Island, east of the Ussuri River, and then cease war with the Soviet Union. In the future, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is won, perhaps this part of the country will be recovered from the Japanese army in the name of justice.

Unable to get the progress of the Battle of Normenhan, Liu Yimin was so anxious that he was like an ant on a hot pot, restless.

Luo Ronghuan sent a telegram urging Liu Yimin to end the sweep of northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu as soon as possible, return to Shandong to command the main force to fight, strive to annihilate the Japanese army again, and respond to the battle of our army in Shanxi.

In view of this situation, Liu Yimin ordered the main force of the Northern Jiangsu Detachment to monitor and contain the enemy in the eastern section of the Longhai Road, and the Dongshuguan Independent Regiment implemented the division of troops, taking companies and platoons as units, leading the way for the cavalry brigade, the new Third Brigade, and the New Seventh Brigade, and making every effort to sweep away the Japanese puppet strongholds in the countryside in northern Jiangsu, isolate the Japanese puppet army in the county seat, and seek opportunities to attack and annihilate.

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