Chapter 358: The Beacon Smoke Rises from Lugou
Although Feng Tian borrowed the means of the media to warn the Japanese army that they would start a war and occupy the entire north of the river, it was useless. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Politics is complex, and it is not media propaganda that will change the views of politicians, and it has not reversed the development of the situation except to cause panic among the people and cause people in the north of the river to flee their homes to avoid the war.
Song Zheyuan, the supreme commander of Hezhibei, was very skeptical of Chairman Chiang's determination to resist the war, and Song Zheyuan once said: "Whoever believes in Chiang Kai-shek's resistance to Japan is a fool and bastard!" It can be seen that the resentment in my heart is very deep.
As a high-level figure, everyone knows Lao Chiang's methods.
Regarding the military threat of the Japanese and Japanese people, Song Zheyuan still had luck and illusions, hoping for a peaceful solution, and once said: "Peace can be achieved if there is peace", which shows his mentality.
Feng Tianpin's hope that the media will play a role, and it will probably all fail, at most so that some sensitive people can avoid war. Therefore, at the political level, Fengtian is still a little immature.
In 1936, the Japanese garrison in North China occupied Fengtai by despicable means, and set the next target at Lugou Bridge.
On the eve of the outbreak of the 77 Incident, the northern, eastern, and southern sides of Beiping had been controlled by the Japanese army.
In the north, the first part of the Kwantung Army is deployed, in the northwest, there are about 40,000 people in 8 divisions of the puppet army controlled by the Eastern Army, in the east, there is the puppet "Hebei Eastern Defense Autonomous Government" and the puppet security force of about 17,000 people under its control, and in the south, the Japanese army has forcibly occupied Fengtai and forced the Chinese army to withdraw.
In this way, the Lugou Bridge has become the only passage to the outside world in Beiping, and its strategic position is more important.
In order to occupy this strategic location, cut off the communication between Beiping and other parts of the south, and then control the authorities in the north of the river, so that North China was completely separated from the Chinese central government.
The Japanese army was constantly conducting provocative military exercises near the Lugou Bridge, and a storm was coming.
On the afternoon of July 7, 1937, the 8th Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Japanese North China Garrison Army, led by Captain Setsuro Shimizu, loaded with live ammunition and drove to the area between Huilongmiao and Dawayao, which was close to the Chinese garrison at Lugou Bridge.
At 7:30 p.m., the Japanese army began the exercise.
At 22:40 in the evening, the Japanese army claimed that gunshots were heard in the exercise area and that a soldier Kikujiro Shimura was "missing", and immediately forcibly asked to enter Wanping City, the garrison of the Chinese garrison, to search, but the 219th Regiment of the 110th Brigade of the 37th Division of the Chinese 29th Army sternly refused.
On the one hand, the Japanese army deployed for battle, and on the other hand, under the pretext of "gunfire" and the "disappearance" of soldiers, they pretended to negotiate with the Chinese side.
At around 24 o'clock in the middle of the night, the Jicha authorities received a telephone call from Matsui Taikuro, head of the Japanese Japanese secret service in Beiping. Matsui said: The Japanese troops were exercising in the suburbs of Lugou Bridge yesterday, and when they suddenly heard the sound of gunfire, they immediately collected their troops and called them by name, and found that they were missing a single soldier, and suspected that the person who fired the guns was the Chinese army stationed at Lugou Bridge, and believed that the soldiers who fired the guns had already entered the city, and demanded that they immediately enter the city to search for them.
The Chinese side refused to hear that it was late at night, that the Japanese troops entering the city might cause local unrest, and that the Chinese officers and soldiers were sleeping soundly, and that the gunfire was not fired by the Chinese side.
Soon after, Matsui called the Jicha authorities again and said that if the Chinese side did not allow it, the Japanese army would forcibly enter the city by force to search it.
At the same time, the authorities in the north of the river received a report from the Chinese defenders of Lugou Bridge that the Japanese army had formed an encirclement and offensive posture against Wanping City.
In order to prevent the situation from escalating, the authorities in the north of the river agreed to send personnel to Lugou Bridge to investigate after consulting with the Japanese side.
At this time, the Japanese side claimed that the "missing" soldiers had returned to the team, but they did not report it.
At about 5 o'clock in the morning of July 8, the Japanese army suddenly launched an artillery bombardment, and the headquarters of the Chinese 29th Army immediately ordered the officers and soldiers on the front line: "Ensure the Lugou Bridge and Wanping City", "The Lugou Bridge is the grave of Er, and it should live and die with the bridge and not retreat." ”
The army guarding Lugou Bridge and Wanping City was the 3rd Battalion of the 219th Regiment, which rose up to resist under the command of regiment commander Ji Xingwen and battalion commander Jin Zhenzhong.
On 9, 11, and 19 July, the agreements reached three times between the Japanese garrison in North China and the authorities in the north of the river were proved to be dead letters by the intermittent sound of artillery at the Lugou Bridge.
The "on-the-spot negotiations" enabled the Japanese army to gain time to increase its troops in North China, but it blinded the eyes of the authorities in the north of the river, delayed the preparations of the 29th Army to respond to the battle, and brought great harm to the Pingjin War of Resistance.
By July 25, 1937, more than 60,000 Japanese troops had been massing in Pingjin.
After the operational arrangements of the Japanese garrison in North China were basically completed, they deliberately created the Langfang Incident and the Guanganmen Incident on 25 and 26 July in order to find a new pretext for further waging a war of aggression against China.
On the afternoon of July 26, the North China garrison issued an ultimatum to the 29th Army, demanding that the Chinese defenders withdraw from the Pingjin area by the 28th, otherwise they would take action.
Song Zheyuan sternly refused, and on the 27th, he issued a telegram to the whole country to defend himself and defend the territory, resolutely defending the land and resisting the war.
On the same day, with the approval of the emperor, the Japanese Army General Staff ordered the Japanese North China Garrison Army to launch an attack on the 29th Army, increase the strength of five divisions of the army, and about 200,000 people to reinforce the Hezhibei War, and issued an official combat mission to the commander of the North China Garrison Army, Kazuki Kiyoji: "Responsible for the crusade against the Chinese army in the Pingjin area." ”
The Japanese side was carefully prepared and premeditated to carry out its strategic intentions, while the other side was unprepared and still fantasized about solving the problem through negotiations, presetting the good wishes that the Japanese army would not invade on a large scale.
What's more, the Japanese were strong, and the reinforcements of 200,000 troops were enough to destroy the resistance of the 29th Army.
Such a war ending, no matter how you look at it, is unreliable.
The Japanese have used similar methods many times, and the Chinese side is still insensitive.
The 918 Incident was like this, the loss of Jinzhou was similar, and then the loss of Shanhaiguan, step by step to today, the Chinese side still did not raise its vigilance against the aggressive nature of the Japanese army and made the necessary arrangements.
The reason why the closure of the sky no longer warns the national government is also a bit of anger, and how much the role the media can play is left to fate.
The defense area in the north was also under pressure from the Japanese army, but Feng Tian was well prepared and had a strategic countermeasure.
If the Japanese army marched from Rehe, the Beidi Volunteer Army would take advantage of the favorable terrain in the Rehe Mountains to resolutely resist the attack of the Japanese army.
Unless the Japanese army was determined to pave the Rehe Mountains with corpses, Fengtian would never retreat in Rehe.
In the Eastern Plains battlefield, Fengtian used the vast depth of the no-man's land to resist steadily, if the number of Japanese troops participating in the attack was small, it would definitely be blocked by the sky, and at least three or five divisions and regiments below would attack the Beidi Volunteer Army, and Fengtian would definitely let the Japanese army have no return.
Although Fengtian was unable to counterattack the Japanese army and prevent the Japanese army from attacking the northern defense area, he had a countermeasure and made the worst plan.
On the other hand, the Nationalist Government, including Song Zheyuan, has no strategic layout at all, and is still paralyzing itself with unrealistic illusions.
This was the status quo at that time, and Feng Tian couldn't do anything about it.
It is very difficult to convince a person to accept his or her point of view.
Even if Feng Tian knew the result, but Chairman Jiang had his own plans, why should people listen to Feng Tian's advice?
Don't talk about Chairman Jiang, even Song Zheyuan will probably scoff at it, a hairy child knows a fart!
Development is the last word, only when the Northland Volunteers develop to a certain extent, will they have the ability to influence the development of the trend, before they have enough strength, how can Fengtian influence others?
Feng Tian did not plan to get involved for the time being, and waited for the development of the situation in the north of the river.
The word crisis is only organic when there is danger.
The fall of the north of the river was a foregone conclusion, and Feng Tian stood in the north of the north of the river, quietly watching the fall of the north of the river.
Damn, this heart is ruthless enough!
Yes, Feng Tian is quietly watching the fall of the north of the river, at least for now, he will not intervene in it.
Of course, with the overall attack of the Japanese army, waiting for the moment of the end of the strong crossbow is the arrival of the opportunity.
Feng Tian has his own strategy, and if he is not completely sure, Feng Tian will never make a move.
The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and Feng Tian, as the leader of the Northland Volunteer Army, cannot act rashly. Every military decision he made would be related to the survival of the Northland Volunteers and the safety of tens of millions of people in the entire defense area.
However, from the perspective of the National War of Resistance, is it a bit inappropriate to seal the sky to do this?
The bloody battle of Pingjin was no longer inevitable, and the Chinese army then rose up to resist, staining the Pingjin Road with blood, and the strong men repaid the hatred of the country.
On the morning of July 28, 1937, the Japanese army launched a general attack on Beiping as planned.
At that time, the 16th Division of the Korean Army, which had been gathered around Beiping, the 3rd and 13th Brigades of the Kwantung Army, and the infantry brigade of the Chinese Garrison Army, about 10,000 people, launched an all-out attack on the 132nd, 37th, and 38th Divisions of the Chinese 29th Army stationed in the suburbs of Beiping, with the cooperation of more than 100 artillery pieces and armored vehicles, and the cover of dozens of aircraft.
The officers and men of the 29th Army rose up to resist in their respective stations and composed an unyielding battle song.
Nanyuan is the focus of the Japanese attack, the 29th Army stationed in Nanyuan about 8,000 troops, including more than 1,500 students of the military training regiment trained in Nanyuan, the 29th Army deputy commander Tong Linge, the commander of the 132nd Division Zhao Dengyu martyred, many students of the military training regiment also sacrificed their young lives in the battle.
On July 29, 1937, the 38th Division of the 29th Army, under the leadership of Deputy Division Commander Li Wentian, launched the Battle of Tianjin.
Subsequently, the 38th Division attacked the Japanese troops at Tianjin Railway Station, Haiguang Temple and other places, and won a large number of people, but was heavily bombed by Japanese planes, and suffered heavy casualties, so it was ordered to retreat.
The war of aggression and counter-aggression has broken out in an all-round way in the north of Hebei, and the whole of Hebei is filled with gunsmoke, and the scale of the war has expanded dramatically.
On July 30, Tianjin was lost.
Obviously, the Japanese army had already launched a strategy of all-out invasion of China, and at the end of September, it completely occupied the north of the river, some time earlier than the original history.
History has returned to its original trajectory, so far, Fengtian has only changed the part, and has not affected the entire overall situation of the war, although the little butterfly is still stubbornly inciting, it is difficult to say how big the impact is. (To be continued.) )