Since it has been decided to remove Ma Liang, the choice of his replacement has become a problem. As a result, the army once again set his sights on Xin Zhujiu, but Xin still "excused himself from being old and sick." At the end of 1938, the army sent Shao Xichen, secretary of the puppet provincial office, to persuade Xin to take over the post of puppet governor, and threatened: "This can save the life of the whole family." However, Xin still held out. Seeing that Xin refused to give in, the army persecuted Xin personally, and sent spies to put Xin in prison and beat him for 37 days in the name of "bandits." Later, under the rescue of local people, Xin was saved from death. Since Xin Zhujiu refused, the black gauze hat of the pseudo-governor fell on Tang Yangdu's head. Tang Yangdu, whose name is Luyan, was born in Zou County, Shandong, and was raised in the late Qing Dynasty, and studied at Shandong Public Law and Political Science College and Beijing Normal Translation School. Before the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as the section chief of the Shandong Provincial Department of Finance, a member of the Provincial Assembly, and the general office of the provincial capital and city hall. In March 1938, he was appointed director of the Finance Department of the puppet Shandong Provincial Public Office. On January 31, 1939, the puppet North China Provisional Political Axe ordered the dismissal of Ma Liang from the post of governor of the Shandong Provincial Office, transferred the temporary political axe, and appointed Tang Yangdu as the governor of the Shandong Provincial Office. On February 1, Tang officially took office in Jinan. Therefore, at this time, the supreme leader of the puppet political axe in charge of Shandong's military and political power is none other than this Tang Yangdu. The Shandong puppet regime in the Tang Yangdu period showed a trend of strengthening compared with the Maleonn period. The emergence of such a situation is closely related to the changes in the situation and the adjustment of the strategic deployment of the armed forces. After the war situation in China shifted to a stage of strategic stalemate, the Chinese army reduced its large-scale frontal military offensive, and the policy toward the national political axe also changed to political inducement to surrender and military offensive supplemented, so the need for troops on the frontal battlefield was rapidly reduced. The strategic focus shifted from long-term military expansion to control of occupied areas.

As a result, there have been two conspicuous changes in China's policies and actions: First, it has placed vigorous support for and the establishment of a puppet regime in an important strategic position. The invading army understood that it would never be possible to achieve the goal of controlling the occupied areas by relying solely on the army and not trying to recruit the Han annihilators who worked for it and establishing and strengthening the puppet regime. The replacement of Tang Yangdu and Ma Liang is, to a certain extent, the result of this strategic change. Of course, the ultimate goal of the Yue Army is not to just support a single local puppet regime, but to achieve the goal of cobbling together a unified national puppet regime through the support of local political power and the recruitment of leading figures of the Han Dynasty. Later, Wang's puppet regime was officially established in Nanjing, forming a "unified" central puppet regime on the surface, and the North China Provisional Political Axe was reorganized into the "North China Political Affairs Committee". Second, the puppet regime in Shandong was brought under the puppet central regime to the "North China Political Affairs Committee," and the occupied areas in North China became the strategic center of gravity of the army, and its control over this region showed the characteristics of tending to be military, political, and economic multifaceted and integrated, and its military strength was also greatly enhanced. When the Chinese army invaded Shandong in 1938, the defense of Shandong was mainly undertaken by the Second Army of the North China Front. Since it was mainly used for operational advances, the army's control over Shandong was limited to important cities and lines of communication. In July 1938, the Second Army was transferred south to participate in the Battle of Wuhan, and the defense was taken over by the troops directly under the Front Army, and there was no army in Shandong. The front army divided the Shandong and southern Jinpu lines into the B defense area, and the defense troops were the 5th and 114th Divisions and the 5th Brigade of the Reading Force. This was the period when Shandong's army was at its weakest. After the Battle of Wuhan, the Twelfth Army was formed on November 11, 1938, which was deployed in Shandong, and its subordinate units included: the headquarters of the Twelfth Army, the 5th, 21st, and 114th Divisions, and the 5th Brigade and Cavalry Group; In January 1939, the 7th and 10th Brigades were mixed into the 12th Army; In April, the 32nd Division was incorporated into the 12th Army. The army headquarters is located in Jinan, and the commander is Army Lieutenant General Odaka Kamizo. At the same time, the puppet army also formed a large number of puppet armies in Shandong, and the puppet army in Shandong was not quite the same as the puppet armies in other places, because the vast majority of the puppet armies in Shandong were the Kuomintang troops who were captured by the Yue army during the battle and the troops of the former Shandong warlord Ma Liang. The captured Kuomintang troops belonged to very few of the Central Army, and the vast majority belonged to local miscellaneous armies such as the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, the Dian Army, and the Hunan Army. Due to the limited strength of the army, the vast majority of the forces that maintain the normal operation of Shandong are still these puppet army, and these people fell into the hands of the army due to the ineffective command of the national political axe, so the vast majority of people are still full of hatred for the national political axe. In addition, they are often bullied by the officers and soldiers of the Yue Ben, so the combat effectiveness of these puppet troops and the Yue army is not very good, but they are very brave in dealing with the Chinese anti-Japanese forces. Shandong said that the army was reinstated. From January 1939 to March 1940, the army stationed in Shandong carried out the so-called "law and order rectification" in three phases, and successively "swept away" the anti-Japanese base areas and anti-Japanese armed forces in Shandong on a large scale. In this context, Tang Yangdu further strengthened the ruling system of the puppet regime and contributed to the peak of the puppet regime in Shandong. The provincial-level administrative system has emphasized the strengthening and standardization of functions, established and improved various rules and regulations and operating procedures, and there has been little change in the increase or decrease of institutions.

As a matter of fact, these trivial incidents that happened in Yanggu County did not attract the attention of the commander of the 12th Army, Otaka Kamizo, and even Nishida Gengichi, the top adviser of the Chinese Army in Shandong, was not alarmed. It just scared the supreme commander of the army stationed in Liaocheng half to death, you must know that although the number of arms is not too large, there is a small box of poison gas bombs in it.

Since the last time the army's poison gas bombs were seized by Han Yunhua's department and used on Yue himself, the army's control over poison gas bombs has become extremely strict. If the troops want to use this kind of thing, they must apply for it in person by the commander of the unit, and then it can be issued to the troops with the authorization of a senior officer at the level of commander. The troops must be used up within the specified time, and they are never allowed to stay in the troops without permission, in case they are captured by the [***] team.

However, this time, the batch of munitions lost by the army in Shifo Town was only 2,000 rifles and 230,000 rounds of ammunition, but there was a box of poison gas bombs that were time bombs compared to all the senior officers of the 10th Brigade. After the robbery of the munitions in Shifozhen, although the news reached the ears of Otaka Kamizo, the commander of the 10th Brigade did not report the news that the poison gas bombs had also been robbed to the headquarters of the 12th Army. So although Ampeiichiro Shaozo is in a hurry to death now, in fact, the upper leaders of the Shandong garrison know almost nothing about it.

In the opinion of the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force, Mizuno Shin, Apeiichiro Shaozo did an extremely bad job in this matter, although Apeiichiro was very much used by him, but the guilt of losing special ammunition was not something that he could afford as a small brigade commander. In order to save himself, he could only sacrifice Ampeiichiro. If the 42nd Infantry Brigade and Abeichiro Shozo could recover all the lost munitions, then he could act as if nothing had happened. But if they mess up this matter, then Abeichiro's fate will only disappear silently.

At that time, Nagamizuno Shin could report to the headquarters of the 12th Army, and he said that in order to evade responsibility, Apeiichiro Shaozo deliberately concealed the news of the loss of the special ammunition. He and the rest of the brigade headquarters didn't know about it, in fact, the headquarters of the 12th Army just needed an excuse, and Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo would not really punish him, the brigade commander of the major general, at that time.

However, Major General Nagamino Nobu is also extremely confident in his heart. Under the condition that almost all the squadrons in Shandong have withdrawn from Shandong, the squadron that can stop the two elite infantry brigades has disappeared in Shandong. He believed that as long as Apeiichiro Shaozo could find those bold Shina people in the first place, the elite infantry 42 Brigade under his command would be able to trample them to pieces without mercy. Now Major General Nagamino Nobu is not worried that the [***] team will cause harm to Abeichiro and others. On the contrary, he was worried that after robbing so many arms, the hateful Shina people would not hide. If they really don't have the spirit of bushido and hide in the mountains or in the countryside, then they will be in real trouble.

Major General Nagasinoshin knew that even if there were more puppet armies and more Han annihilations, the real effect was very limited, and there was no problem in dealing with those counties with huge targets. But if you deal with these dirt roads who are good at drilling ravines or bandits who are good at mountain warfare, it will be far behind, so Nagasuino Shin is very worried that Ampei Shaozuo has no clue at all.

However, contrary to Nagamino Nobu's expectations, Apeiichiro Shaozo is not stupid, and knows what his own fate will be if he can't find a suitable scapegoat. So he was very clever in finding an "imaginary enemy", and now it seems that Apei Ichiro is still very clever in this move. In this way, the enemy has it, and it is good that the batch of munitions can be found, but if it can't be found, it is said that the soldiers of Shifo Town were martyred before the jade shattered, and it can barely be said.

But to everyone's surprise, Apeiichiro Shaozuo's first battle was a little unfavorable, and he set his sights on the Huyan family early. But this guy also relied on a large group of reinforcements behind him, so he didn't care about the Huyan family, which had been the king of Liaocheng for more than ten years. In his opinion, isn't it a small bandit family? Under the blow of the Iron Army of the Great Empire, it did not disappear quickly. When the time comes, he can pull out his hand to eliminate the batch of earth rats hiding in Zhang Qiuzhen, although Zhang Dafu is not a thing, compared to his old man Zhang, it is really a heaven and an earth. But Zhang Dafu is also obedient, and his annual filial piety is sufficient, and there are other offerings during the holidays. He has only been in Yanggu County for four months, but the gold and silver treasures he sent back to his family alone are enough for the family's wife and mother to live the rest of their lives richly, and Zhang Dafu has contributed a lot.

But such a "good" person was wiped out by the hated bandits, which is undoubtedly a good tool for Apeiichiro Shaozo to collect money. If it weren't for the constant troubles during this time, he would have figured out that his troops were sweeping towards the area where the earth rats were active.

(To be continued)