Due to the Battle of Normenhan and the signing of the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, the cabinet of Kiichiro Hiranuma could no longer support it, and in the face of losing face and embarrassment at home and abroad, Kiichiro Hiranuma threw down the sentence "The situation in Europe is complicated and strange" and announced the general resignation of the cabinet.

After the resignation of the cabinet of Kiichiro Hiranuma, the Japanese military, political circles, and military circles followed suit. Due to the tension of the war on the front line and the changing international situation, it was impossible for Japan to remain in the state of the underwear cabinet for a long time, and with the support of Noboru Saionji, Fumima Konoe, Hirota Hiroki, Ugaki Kazunari and others, Army General Nobuyuki Abe appeared on the stage and formed the 36th Japanese Cabinet.

With the coming to power of the Abe Cabinet, there was a major reshuffle within the Japanese army in January.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, and the chief of staff, Ryosuke Isoya, were removed from their posts, and the commander of the First Army, Umezu Mijiro, took over as commander of the Kwantung Army, and the chief of staff was replaced by Lieutenant General Ryo Iimura. As a result of the heavy hemorrhage of the Kwantung Army, the Abe Cabinet made a major supplement to the Kwantung Army and established a new Kwantung Army Flying Group, with Lieutenant General Saburo Ando as the commander, under the jurisdiction of the Second Flying Group, the Fifth Flying Group, and the 12th and 13th Flying Regiments.

The commander of the North China Front, Shanshan Yuan, was also dismissed, but he had no place to place, Lu Xiang was still Shunroku Hatata, and Shanshan Yuan had to be a military counselor after returning to Tokyo, and like Terauchi Shouichi, he went to the cold bench. The chief of staff of the North China Front, Yamashita Fumi, was transferred to the post of commander of the Fourth Division. Succeeded by Sugi Sugimoto was the commander of the Third Army, Tada Jun. Replacing Yamashita was Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, the former commander of the 9th Division, who had just been incorporated into the reserve. Originally, it was Kasawara Yukio who served as the chief of staff of the North China Front Army in history, but Kasawara Yukio died as early as when his instructor captured Taiyuan, and Yoshizumi Ryosuke, who sat on the cold bench in Tokyo, was cheap. Akira Muto, deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, was transferred to the post of director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Army, and Major General Masashi Hirata took over as deputy chief of staff of the North China Front.

The North China Front Flying Group was reorganized into the Third Flying Group, with Lieutenant General Toshitoshi Kinoshita still serving as its commander.

The commander of the army stationed in Mongolia was succeeded by the commander of the 1st Division, Naosaburo Gangbe. This guy has been promoted very quickly recently, and he sees that he is going to be a general in the future.

On September 23, the Japanese army revoked the number of the Central China Dispatch Army and established the China Dispatch Army, which commanded the Japanese army in Guannai in a unified manner, and the headquarters was stationed in Nanjing. With the newly promoted army general Nishio Toshizo as commander-in-chief, the selection of chief of staff once again surprised people, and Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, the former commander of the First Army, who was removed because of battlefield disobedience, finally came to the fore, and this time His Majesty the Emperor reused him for the first time and made him the chief of staff of the Chinese Dispatch Army. You must know that this position was historically held by Seishiro Itagaki, who was kicked down from the post of prime minister, and now Seishiro Itagaki committed suicide by caesarean section early, and Seiji Kazuki, an outdated demon, has been released again. It seems that he will not stop if he does not die in China.

The second thing Nobuyuki Abe's cabinet did after taking office was to grasp the diplomatic talks between Japan and the United States. This time, Nobuyuki Abe made Lieutenant General Kichizaburo Nomura the foreign minister and asked him to negotiate with the United States wholeheartedly. Because the United States will break off the Japan-US commercial treaty in a few months, how can the Japanese army and navy claim hegemony without the supplies imported from the United States? Don't talk about this to others, but Emperor Hirohito thinks about it, and his scalp is numb for a while.

The third priority of Nobuyuki Abe's cabinet was trade and price control. At this time, due to the abnormal development of the economy in Japan, coupled with the high cost of the war, prices soared, and there was a shortage of goods, and even the daily necessities such as matches and soap disappeared from the market. After Nobuyuki Abe came to power, he realized what kind of mess Kiichiro Hiranuma left him.

Abe was angry and ran to question Kiichiro Hiranuma, but Kiichiro Hiranuma spread his hands and said that it didn't matter to him, and he should ask the military department. It was the incompetence of the military headquarters that allowed the Eighth Route Army to occupy Tianjin and Qingdao, and Qingdao to occupy Jinan and Lianyungang, and the limited supplies of Great Japan were supplemented by the army. Like matches and soap, most of them were originally produced by Qingdao, Tianjin, and Jinan to meet the needs of the Japanese market. Now the factories in these production areas have been looted by the Eighth Route Army, and it is very difficult to recover. In addition, Qingdao and Jinan are surrounded by the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, how can they be produced without raw materials?

Abe had no choice but to discuss it at a meeting. At this time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs put forward a plan, that is, to separate the Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and expand it into a trade ministry to specialize in managing foreign trade, ensure the plundering of resources in China and the Asia-Pacific region, and meet the needs of the overall war. Not to mention, the military department's proposal this time has received strong support from the financial circles, because trade is now too difficult, and it is necessary to implement the integration of trade administration. Unexpectedly, when Nobuyuki Abe ambitiously decided to establish a Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs withdrew from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that diplomacy must be led in a unified manner. To put it bluntly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just doesn't want to hand over the Bureau of International Commerce. Abe was hit in the head.

The lack of access means that it will be more difficult to trade with foreign countries. Abe turned around and began to think of a way to deal with the common people in the country. I don't know who gave him the idea, but Abe sent someone to investigate and prepare to adjust the policy of ruling the price of rice, raising the price of brown rice from 38 yen to 43 yen per stone, and also preparing to introduce public prices for food, metal products, fuel, and silk products, and issue a price freeze and wage freeze order.

The Japanese people today are no longer the Japanese people at the beginning of the war, and the endless donations, high taxes, soaring prices, and incessant notices of the death of their relatives have pulled the Japanese people back from the national frenzy at the beginning of the war to the groaning of the hardships of life. Nobuyuki Abe is doing this, which is tantamount to making the Japanese people worse. This terrible army general doesn't understand politics and economics at all, and at a glance, this guy's cabinet is destined to be a short-lived cabinet, and it won't last long.

Japan's domestic political and economic situation is in a mess, but Tada Jun is ambitious in North China and ready to show his strength.

As soon as Tada Jun took office, he began to vigorously promote the "cage policy".

As early as the last time he went to North China to assist Terauchi Shouichi in commanding heavy troops to encircle and suppress the instructor, Tada Jun had the idea of implementing the "cage policy". At that time, he once talked to Terauchi Shouichi about relying on the communication line to blockade and encroach on the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese army later did the same. It's just that the effect is not obvious and does not play a big role.

During this time, although Tada Jun served as the commander of the Third Army of the Kwantung Army, his eyes never left the North China battlefield. This old devil is lean and lean, and he doesn't have a few taels of meat, but he has a lot of things in his stomach, which can be regarded as deep in resourcefulness. This time, he was determined to divide and surround the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines by railways, highways, and other lines of communication, forming a prison cage, and constantly extending them to the base areas in an attempt to wipe out the base areas in one fell swoop.

Returning to North China, Tada Jun was ambitious, and he was determined to make a career as commander of the North China Front, completely annihilating the Eighth Route Army in North China and restoring law and order in the occupied areas.

Tada's determination was strongly supported by the emperor and the base camp, and Tada was approved to implement the cage policy at the same time as the implementation of the "Shosho Construction" plan, that is, to overhaul railways and highways in North China, and to cooperate with the cage policy with the railway and highway construction campaign.

In accordance with Tadajun's plan, in the whole of North China, with the three longitudinal lines formed by the Tongpu Railway, the Pinghan Railway, and the Jinpu Railway, and the three horizontal lines of the Longhai Railway, the Jiaoji Railway, and the Zhengtai Railway as pillars, with highways as chains, and pillboxes as locks, we will vigorously build new roads and railways, dig trenches and forts, and expand the occupied areas by connecting lines and forming surfaces from lines.

At the military meeting of the North China Front, Tada Jun triumphantly said to his generals: "**The Eighth Route Army is good at fighting guerrillas, fighting if it wins, and running away if it can't win." This time, we will turn the whole of North China into a big fishing net, and divide the lively Eighth Route Army into grid-like cages, so that they cannot move. In particular, Liu Yimin's instructor made trouble everywhere, like a pack of hungry wolves, and pounced on him when he seized the opportunity and took a bite. The dignity and face of the Great Japanese Army were ruined by them! This time, we will use the cage policy to divide Liu Yimin's instructors into various base areas and cut them into pieces of cake, so that they will not be able to gather strength. As long as this is achieved, it is possible to sweep in zones and eat the small cakes one bite at a time. ”

Tada Jun said excitedly, simply took off his military hat, revealing his bare skull, and his hand kept stroking his skull, as if the bare skull could give him a little pleasure.

The key to the implementation of the cage policy lies in the construction of Zhengzheng, that is, the construction of railways and highways. Xiangde Stone Road, which has long been destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, has not even had a single track on the road, where can there be a train! According to the Suzheng construction plan, the Japanese army first had to build the Tongdeshi Road and connect the Pinghan Road with the Jinpu Road, so that it could truly divide central Hebei and southern Hebei, and also link Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi into one, so as to facilitate the mobilization of troops to the greatest extent.

However, the construction of Suzheng requires money and materials. However, the North China Front was poor to death, and it was all supported by supplies from Japan and the Northeast. At present, the Japanese army is selling large amounts of tobacco in North China, increasing taxes, and specializing in grain, cotton, and other important materials, and the common people in the Japanese theater are overwhelmed. Under such circumstances, it is not easy to carry out the construction of rectification and rectification.

He transferred the rails and sleepers urgently needed for the construction of the railway from the northeast, so that the cement factory in Tianjin could produce at full capacity, providing him with steel and cement for the construction of railways and highway bridges. As for the road construction workers, Tada Jun waved his hand: "Catch!" Catch the laborers, there is no salary, and the food keeper works! ”

These alone were not enough, and Tada Jun handed over to the newly appointed deputy chief of staff, Hirata, a task to issue a certificate of good citizenship.

Tada Jun confessed to Hirata's verdict that the certificate of good citizenship should be uniformly numbered, and anyone over the age of 15 must affix a photo, clearly write down their name, place of origin, men and women, occupation, residence, etc., and must also have a certificate of guarantee from the chief of security, and have the signature and seal of the place of origin of the certificate.

Hirata Masashi had just taken up the post of chief of staff of the North China Front, and his heart was hot. Soon he designed a certificate of good citizenship and sent it to Tada Jun for review, and then began to find Wang Kemin to organize forces to carry out pilot projects in the Japanese puppet occupation area.

Hirata judged that this guy was also a ruthless character, and he set the pilot in Tianjin. Because Tianjin was once occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and there was a concession. In the eyes of Hirata, the huge Tianjin is a place where dirt is hidden. I don't know how many resistors there are

At this time, taking photos is a very luxurious thing for ordinary Chinese. Moreover, many superstitious people also believe that taking pictures will suck people's essence and blood away. Hirata is judging to let the common people take pictures, and it is cheaper to open a photo studio, but it has also caused resistance from the common people.

Hirata Masashi judged that regardless of these, does the Chinese have anything to do with having money to take pictures? His task is to complete the deployment of His Excellency the Commander, as long as there is a clear bayonet as a backing, assassinating a few more Chinese is nothing to Hirata.

Hirata Masatoshi used bloody means to implement the system of good citizen certificate in Tianjin City. The Japanese puppet spy agencies were very happy with the implementation of the certificate of good citizenship, because they quickly arrested a group of suspicious elements in Tianjin who did not have identity certificates and did not have the guarantee of the chief of the guarantee.

This trick of Tada Jun is very vicious, which is tantamount to standardizing the household registration management of the common people in the occupied areas, and separating the ordinary people from the Eighth Route Military Region at once. Those who have a certificate of good citizenship are naturally honest residents and villagers. If there is no certificate of good citizenship, it is naturally the work of the Eighth Route Army, so just arrest it.

After Tianjin's implementation of the Good Citizen Certificate was effective, the Japanese puppet regime tasted the sweetness and began to implement the Good Citizen Certificate system throughout the Japanese puppet occupied areas of North China.

The North China Front of the Japanese Army is now very large, but it is passively beaten everywhere, and the commanders of those divisions and brigades are all depressed. Seeing that Tada Jun made such a powerful name as soon as he came up, he rejoiced one by one, as if he had found a sharp weapon to restrain the Eighth Route Army.

The First Army stationed in Shanxi, the Twelfth Army stationed in Shandong, and the troops stationed in Henan and Hebei under the direct jurisdiction of the North China Front Army all began to arrest Dinglav on a large scale and build roads and dig trenches. Moreover, it has begun to carry out good citizen certificates in the occupied areas.

Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, commander of the 12th Army stationed in Shandong, and Major General Maesaburo Kobayashi, chief of staff, worked the hardest. Kobayashi Maesaburo made a plan not only to build the Tongdeshi Railway, but also to build a large-scale highway in Shandong. Kobayashi Qianzaburo's wishful thinking relied on railways and highways to block the main force of the instructor in the Yimeng Mountains, and then concentrated troops to sweep the plain areas in different divisions, and built a road network for each area swept to achieve the goal of complete control. In the end, the concentrated forces swept through the Yimeng Mountains.

Hayashi Mae Saburo's plan was actually not very good, Terauchi Shouichi and Sugi Sugimoto both thought so, and the last one did not come true, and they all ran back to Japan in disgrace. But Tada Jun did not think so, and he participated in the combat operation of the heavy army group under the command of General Terauchi Shouichi to encircle and suppress the instructor. In his opinion, Kobayashi Maesaburo's plan faithfully implemented General Terauchi Shouichi's operational thinking on teaching instructors of the Eighth Route Army, and the reason why the last heavy encirclement and suppression failed was not that the battle plan was not good, but that the division of troops provided an opportunity for the Eighth Route Army. It is absolutely feasible to encircle and suppress heavy troops and sweep up divisions. Therefore, he strongly supported Kobayashi's plan.

In this way, Tada Jun began to implement the cage policy in North China.