Chapter 296: Jingyanggang Reverse Sweep Dàng (4)

Since it has been decided to remove Ma Liang, the choice of his replacement has become a problem. As a result, the Japanese army once again targeted Xin Zhujiu, but Xin still "excused himself with old age and illness". At the end of 1938, the Japanese 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 Japanese army persecuted Xin personally, and sent spies to put Xin in prison in the name of "bandits" and hanged him for 37 days. 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 lùyan, was born in Zou County, Shandong, and was raised in the late Qing Dynasty, and studied at the Mén School of Shandong Public Law and Political Science College and the 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 Provisional Government of North China ordered the dismissal of Ma Liang from the post of governor of the Shandong Provincial Office, transferred the temporary government to his post, 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 government in charge of Shandong's military and political power was 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 this situation is closely related to the change of the situation and the adjustment of the strategic deployment of the Japanese army. After the Chinese war situation shifted to a stage of strategic stalemate, the Japanese army reduced its large-scale frontal military offensive, and its policy towards the national government was also changed to a political subordination to a military offensive supplemented by a military offensive, so the number of troops needed for 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 Japan's policies and actions toward China: First, it has placed vigorous support for and the establishment of a puppet regime in an important strategic position. The invading Japanese army understood that it would never be possible to achieve the goal of controlling the occupied areas by relying solely on the Japanese army without making every effort to recruit the Han people who worked for them 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 Japanese army was not to support a single local puppet regime, but to achieve the goal of cobbling together a unified national puppet regime through the support of local regimes and the collection of Han figures. Later, Wang's puppet regime was officially established in Nanjing, forming a central puppet regime that was ostensibly "unified", and the North China Provisional Government was reorganized into the "North China Political Affairs Committee". Second, the occupied area of North China became the strategic center of gravity of the Japanese army, and its control over this area tended to be military, political, and economic in a multifaceted and integrated manner, and its military strength was greatly enhanced. When the Japanese 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 Japanese army's control of Shandong was limited to important cities and the Jiāo line. 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 Zone, and the defense forces were the 5th and 114th Divisions and the 5th Brigade of the Independent Hún. This was the period when the Japanese army in Shandong was at its weakest. After the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army formed the Twelfth Army 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 independently; In January 1939, the independent hún was incorporated into the 7th and 10th brigades and regiments 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 Japanese army also formed a large number of puppet armies in Shandong, and the puppet armies in Shandong were not quite the same as those in other places, because the vast majority of the puppet armies in Shandong were Kuomintang troops captured by the Japanese 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. However, due to the limited strength of the Japanese army, the vast majority of the forces that maintain the daily operation of Shandong are still these puppet troops, and these people fell into the hands of the Japanese army due to the poor command of the national government, so the vast majority of people are still full of hatred for the national government. In addition, they were often bullied by Japanese officers and soldiers, so these puppet soldiers did not have much combat effectiveness when they fought with the Japanese army, but they were very brave in dealing with the Chinese anti-Japanese forces. The Japanese army in Shandong was reinstated. From January 1939 to March 1940, the Japanese troops 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 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 focuses on the strengthening and standardization of functions, and has established and improved various rules and regulations and procedures, and there has been little change in the increase or decrease of institutions. ,

In fact, these xiǎo incidents that happened in Yanggu County did not attract the attention of the commander of the Japanese Twelfth Army, Otaka Kamizo, and even Nishida Gengichi, the top adviser of the Japanese army in Shandong, was not alarmed. It just scared the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Liaocheng half to death, you must know that although the number of arms is not too large, there is a xiǎo box of poison gas bombs inside.

Since the last time the Japanese army's poison gas bombs were captured by Han Yunhua's subordinates and reused on the Japanese, the Japanese 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 distribution to the troops must be used up within the specified time, and the sī must not be allowed to stay in the troops in case it is captured by the squadron.

However, this time, the Japanese army lost no more than 2,000 rifles and 230,000 rounds of ammunition in Shifo Town, 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 Mizuno Shin, the commander of the 10th Independent Brigade, Apeiichiro Shaozo did an extremely bad job in this matter, although Apeiichiro was very much used by him, but the guilt of losing the special ammunition was not something he could afford as a 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. With almost all the squadrons in Shandong withdrawn from Shandong, the squadrons that could hold back the two Jīng Rui infantry brigades had disappeared in Shandong. He believed that as long as Ampeiichiro Shaozo could find those bold and reckless Shina people at the first time, the 42nd Brigade of the Infantry Ground under his command would be able to trample them to pieces without mercy. Now Major General Nagamino Nobu is not worried that the squadron will cause harm to Apeiichiro 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 a bushido god 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 Jiān, there were only a few people who could really play a role, 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 Nagasinonobu's expectations, Apeiichiro Shaozo is not a fool, and he 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 they were broken, 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 family of bandits who are xiǎoxiǎo? Under the blow of the Iron Army of the Great Japanese Empire, it did not disappear quickly. At that time, he can chōu go out and destroy the batch of earth rats hiding in Zhang Qiu Town, although Zhang Dafu is not a thing, compared to his old man Zhang Laozi, it is really a heaven and an underground. 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 it was such a "good" person who was exterminated by the hated bandits, which was 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 would have swept towards the area where those earth rats were active.