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In the half month since Song Zheyuan arrived in Tianjin on July 11, China and Japan were divided into three factions, and they continued to move.

As mentioned above, Japan mobilized two brigades of the Kwantung Army, one brigade of the Korean Army, units of the North China Garrison Army, and various units such as aviation and artillery, and entered the designated assembly areas one after another. At the beginning of the Japanese campaign to annex North China, there was still no attempt to escalate the situation, and their ultimate goal was twofold: first, not to allow Chinese troops to be stationed within the jurisdiction of the Political Affairs Committee; Second, the organization and employment of personnel in the region must obtain the consent of the Japanese -- in short, to create a second Jidong.

Song Zheyuan did not know whether he could not guess the bottom line of the Japanese, or whether he had illusions about the other side, and repeatedly tolerated in the face of the harsh conditions put forward by the Japanese side, and finally Zhang Zizhong and the Japanese side agreed on the following terms, Song Zheyuan came forward to apologize, punished the responsible person within two or three days, and promised the future, and it will be determined after Song Zheyuan returns to Beiping, and the city of Beiping will be garrisoned by Song's direct guards, all of which are written in writing.

The next day, Song Zheyuan personally visited the newly appointed commander of the Kazuki Kiyoji, and for the sake of face, he did not apologize, but took a tactful form of paying respect and greetings to the new commander.

After all this, Song Zheyuan finally returned to Beiping on July 19, he thought that he had reached an agreement with the Japanese, the other party would not drive him and his 29th Army out of the Jicha area, he would return the favor even more, strictly control the soldiers, and ask them to avoid conflicts with the Japanese army as much as possible.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Lao Jiang of the national government was also very concerned, he was much more sober than Song Zheyuan, and after discussing with Wang Jingwei, He Yingqin, Cheng Qian, Tang Shengzhi and others, he prepared two sets of plans for peace and war, and at the same time ordered Sun Lianzhong (26th Army) and Pang Bingxun (40th Army) to go north along the Pinghan and Jinpu roads; Shang Zhen (32nd Army), Guan Linzheng (25th Division) and Li Mo'an (10th Division) and other armies gathered along the Longhai and Pinghan roads centered on Zhengzhou to stand by, and then sent Hu Zongnan's first division and instructors between Xu Beng to move to Xuzhou and Zhengzhou, and the Central Air Force, which was originally stationed in Wuhan, sent 30 fighters to take off and go north.

At that time, along the Pinghan and Jinpu roads, there were more than 400,000 Chinese troops, including 130,000 in the Central Army, 75,000 in the collateral system, 35,000 in the old Northeast Army, 110,000 in the Shanxi Army, 60,000 in the Shandong Army, and 20,000 in the Suiyuan Central Army.

Under the general environment of the Central Army's large-scale march northward with the intention of defending North China, Song Zheyuan's selfish psychology was troubled, and he repeatedly sent telegrams to Lao Chiang, asking him to order the troops to stop advancing, and insisted on pressing hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the front line of Baoding and Shijiazhuang without moving, thus missing the best time for strategic preparation.

At the same time, he ordered Zhang Zizhong, who had always been in charge of peace, to make peace with the traitors Qi Xieyuan, Chen Juesheng and the Japanese, and signed the infamous "Xiangyue Treaty", which was roughly divided into five articles, mainly, first, China formally apologized to the Japanese side; second, the retreat of the Chinese army, including the withdrawal from Beiping; Third, punish and dismiss anti-Japanese personnel, first of all, punish Feng Zhi'an, who is 'very strong in the main battle', and at the same time, because Qin Dechun and Feng are attached to each other, they are also among the punishments; fourth, evacuate the anti-Japanese organizations and personnel in Jicha, and strictly carry out anti-communist and anti-Japanese propaganda, education, student and mass movements, and so on.

Zhang Zizhong signed the secret agreement without Song Zheyuan's consent -- and in fact, the Japanese had already promised to let Zhang replace Song -- which was also a very important reason why Zhang Zizhong was later scolded by the Chinese as a traitor.

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Historians have debated the role of General Zhang Zizhong in the July 7 Incident and the annexation of North China, and whether he was a traitor or not is not the question to be discussed in this article, but only to select a historical point of view and present it to readers.

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Song Zheyuan had the intention of compromising and seeking perfection, and the Japanese pressed forward step by step, until July 26, when the so-called Langfang incident finally broke out.

The Chinese people in North China have been bullied by the Japanese for too long, and the pent-up anger finally began to erupt after the July 7 Incident, and the actions of civil organizations, organizations, students, workers, and merchants from all sides took to the streets like wildfire, but because of Song Zheyuan's negative attitude and the strength of the Japanese, there was a provision in the Sino-Japanese agreement finally adopted, which said '...... From the date of entry into force of the agreement, there will be no more marches. The demonstrations were all regarded as acts of the Communist Party and were vigorously cracked down. ’

Because of such provisions, such protests were forcibly suppressed, but various civil revolts emerged one after another, one of which was the destruction of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines.

The fuse started on July 25, when a part of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Tanggu discovered that the military wire had been cut into sections. So a communications unit was dispatched, coordinated by an infantry squadron (about 200 people), to Langfang for repairs, the squadron leader was called Gonoi Yodo no Suke, and the rank was lieutenant. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th, we arrived in Langfang.

The Chinese defenders of Langfang were Zhang Zizhong's 38th Regiment of the 113th Brigade of the 226th Division, and the regiment commander was Cui Zhenglun. At that time, the headquarters of the 113th Brigade was stationed in the Pingjin border areas such as Chengguan Town, Yangcun, and Hexiwu in Wuqing County, and the main force of the troops was stationed in Langfang, Langfang Railway Station, and Tongzhou. After contact and negotiation with the Chinese defenders, the Japanese army began to repair the damaged power lines, which continued until 23:10 at night, when suddenly gunshots rang out (the author consulted Cui Zhenglun's memoirs, and the first person to shoot was called Wang Chunshan, a native of Tianjin, who was a private in the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 226th Regiment).

The Japanese army was shocked! Zhang Zizhong was the main peace faction of the 29th Army, and he never had a frontal conflict with the Japanese, and the Japanese army was defenseless at all, and the firepower of the Chinese army was very fierce, and at the beginning it was the strafing of five light machine guns, which made the Japanese cry and call their mothers, and the dead and wounded everywhere.

Lieutenant Gonoi led his troops back while organizing a counterattack, and at the same time ordered the signal corps to report to the wing immediately. They retreated to the Langfang railway station and initially gained a foothold - they had laid out fortifications here beforehand, plus the buildings in the station as a cover, and fought a confrontation with the 226th Regiment, which bombarded the station with Type 82 mortars, because this was the territory of the Chinese defenders, the position was relatively clear, and caused great losses to the Japanese, on the contrary, the casualties on the Chinese side were almost negligible.

"How? It's not worse than the Dai Xiaodian of the 219th regiment, right? Xing Bingnan, the commander of the third battalion, said with a smile, "He threw a company on the Lugou Bridge, how about our brothers?" Only 6 were killed and 12 were slightly wounded! ”

"Shut up!" Brigade Commander Liu Zhensan spat him, he rushed from Wuqing Chengguan Town, and scolded: "Do you really think that the Japanese are pigs of national shame? You can kill as much as you want? Tell the brethren to take the station down while it is dark, or it will be difficult to do it by tomorrow dawn as soon as the Japanese reinforcements arrive. ”

The so-called national shame pig was a very interesting scene of the 29th Army at that time. Every weekend, the surplus regiments and battalions would buy a few live pigs, tie them to yellow sheet paper with the words 'Japanese imperialism' written on them, and let each company platoon use them to practice charging and assassination, and whoever killed the pig would carry it away and eat it -- this can be regarded as a kind of patriotic education in a special sense (this is a historical fact, not a fabrication made up by the author).

Xing Bingnan took the order and made arrangements with the troops, preparing to launch an attack from the southeast and northwest sides, and take the station in one fell swoop. When questioned, it turned out that mediators from Tianjin had boarded the train and asked them to stop the fighting and wait for further orders.

After waiting for two hours, the train did not arrive, and then another news came that a Japanese military train from Tianjin was heading for Langfang, asking them to be more vigilant.

Xing Bingnan was startled, and hurriedly suggested to Cui Zhenglun, "Regiment leader, you can't let Little Japan drive over so easily, and I suggest that I tear down the railway along the line, and at the same time take my brothers to ambush along the railway, the Japanese are coming, give them a good blow." ”

Cui Zhenglun consulted Liu Zhensan, but the other party did not agree, and only allowed one company of troops to occupy a position in a place called Yangqi in the southeast of the station, and when the troops were ambushed as planned, a new order came, requiring the ambushed troops (the 11th company of the 3rd battalion) to withdraw to the camp -- after the order was changed several times, the Japanese reinforcement train from Tianjin drove into Langfang without hindrance.

More than 1,000 men of the 77th Wing of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army arrived at the station, carrying a variety of light and heavy weapons. After getting off the bus, they set up their positions and used Type 94 light mortars to carry out a fierce bombardment of the 226th Regiment, which blew up the positions, barracks, and headquarters of the Chinese defenders to a pulp, and the flat-roofed houses of the headquarters collapsed -- Liu Zhensan and others hid in the basement and escaped.

When the sky gradually brightened, the Japanese air force came to reinforce, three waves before and after, a total of 27 planes, all of which were Nakajima Type 97 light bombers and fighters, each aircraft carried four 25 kg bombs, hail generally fell on the heads of the Chinese defenders, and the light and heavy firepower of the Japanese troops in the station launched a fierce retaliatory action!

The 226th Regiment suffered hardships, and the soldiers began to suffer serious casualties, so they had to evacuate Langfang.

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