Chapter Seventy-Six: Death to those who engage in friction

In the rural areas of northern Jiangsu during the Republic of China, almost all villages had walls rammed with mud, and the locals called the walls wei. The main reason for this is because of the raging bandits, and the villagers built walls and bought firearms to protect themselves in order to prevent bandits from robbing. However, there are too many bandits, and the small polders cannot withstand the attacks of the bandits, and they are often looted. Later, the peasants were forced to live in Dawei according to factors such as surnames and clans - the local area is also called Ji, which is the origin of many place names with the word "Wei" and the word "Ji" in northern Jiangsu. It's not that it's called a commercial bazaar.

The bandits in northern Jiangsu are different from Xiangma in Shandong, Hu in the northeast, and swordsmen in Henan. Most of the swordsmen in Shandong, Hu in the northeast, and Henan are professional bandits, gathering in the mountains and forests, and some are even bandits for generations. This northern Jiangsu, because it is a large plain, does not have the conditions for bandits to set up camp and be hereditary. In addition, since ancient times, northern Jiangsu has been the land of fish and rice, and it is the key ruling area of the rulers. J Tong is convenient, as long as there is no war 1UN era, there is no basis for the survival of bandits.

In the early years of the Republic of China, it was the time to change the dynasty, and the bandits in the rural areas of northern Jiangsu began to increase. The first bandits were destitute peasants who had no way to survive, and they began by kidnapping and extorting people from their own village and nearby villages. Gradually, some ruffians actually saw being bandits as a good way to make money, and the bandits increased. Especially during the warlord melee, there were many bandits, and ordinary people had to build polders to protect themselves. During the Northern Expedition, there were riots and riots, and the warlords suppressed the riots on a large scale, and the blood of the killings was like a river. When the Northern Expedition ended, he consolidated his rule in northern Jiangsu and began to suppress bandits. In this way, the bandits have been transformed into security groups in various villages and townships, and they have gradually merged with the gang organizations with the quality of the underworld organized by the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and they are human during the day and ghosts at night, and robbing other villages and towns is their open occupation. Later, perhaps they were annoyed by the back and forth, and these guys simply divided the territory, collected protection money, and slowly took control of the township power. The civil affairs in the city turned a blind eye, and as long as it wasn't, they all pretended not to know. In northern Jiangsu, an unprecedented and peculiar political structure has been formed -- the city is the world, and the outside is the world of local underworld forces.

There is another characteristic of northern Jiangsu, that is, J Tongda. Huaibei salt accounted for 32 percent of the country's salt production, and the salt tax was as high as 20 million taels to 30 million taels of silver during the Beiyang warlord period. In order to transport and sell Huaibei salt, coupled with the proximity to Shanghai, during the Republic of China, the Beiyang government and the national government fǔ had a large-scale dredging of salt rivers such as the Salt River, and built highways in Jiangbei, which made the northern Jiangsu region form a national highway, provincial highway, and county road supporting the J network.

The national highway has the Haizheng line from Lianyungang Xugou to Zhengzhou, the Jinglu line from Nanjing to Jinan passes through the border J fork, the provincial highway has the Zhenshu line from Zhenjiang to Shuyang, the Tongyu line from Nantong to Ganyu, the Huaichen line from Huaiyīn to Chenjiagang in Guanyun, the Sipi line from Siyang to Pizhou, the Guayu line from Guazhou to Yutai in Shandong, and the Yangqing line from Yangzhou to Qingjiangpu for the renovation of the canal embankment. The prefectural road is open to cars in all prefectures. By the time of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, there was already a public automobile transportation company and more than a dozen private long-distance automobile transportation companies in northern Jiangsu. All this was abruptly halted because of the war of resistance.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army captured almost all the important towns in northern Jiangsu and controlled the J Tong line in northern Jiangsu. With Han Deqin leading the provincial government and the deputy headquarters of the Sulu Theater to withdraw to Xinghua, northern Jiangsu was basically in a state of fall. The local security regiments in those villages were divided, some became anti-Japanese guerrillas, some were incorporated into Han Deqin's security forces, and some became puppet armies.

The Wang Xuwu Shuyang County Standing Brigade, which killed Tang Shuhong, was a local security team composed of bandits and local tyrants and gentry.

Liu Yimin did not expect that not only did he not wait for Han Deqin to be the murderer, but waited for Chiang Kai-shek's telegram ordering the instructor to go south and return to Shandong.

There were two telegrams, one from the military headquarters and the other from Luo Ronghuan, needless to say that Chiang Kai-shek was a two-pronged approach, both reporting to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and transferring it through the communication and liaison group of the resident instructors.

Chiang Kai-shek said very politely in the telegram, and in half-written and half-plain words, he reprimanded Liu Yimin for disrespecting military orders, leaving the defense zone without authorization, and heading for northern Jiangsu and northeastern Anhui. The previous trip to northern Jiangsu was for the sake of the enemy's southward movement, which is understandable. This time, the Yu enemy stayed for a long time after going south and did not return, and recently marched to northern Jiangsu, is it to fight ghosts or grab territory? Is Master Liu still a citizen? Do you still abide by the regulations of the Military Commission on the division of theaters?

Chiang Kai-shek also said in the telegram that because Liu Yimin wantonly violated military discipline and military orders, the Fifth Theater and the Sulu Theater both reported to the Military Commission and demanded that Liu Yimin's troops be strictly ordered to withdraw to Shandong. In the past, Gao Jingting, commander of the Fourth Detachment of the Fourth Army, was approved by the Military Commission to be executed by the Fourth Army for disrespecting military orders, and now Tang Shuhong, commander of the Eighth Route Army's Northern Jiangsu Detachment, was killed for inciting food resistance.

Chiang Kai-shek sarcastically Liu Yimin, Shandong concentrated a large number of sharp troops of the Japanese North China Front, Liu Yimin was praised by the Chinese people as China's invincible anti-Japanese general, the previous paragraph also expressed a conversation, vowed to destroy the Japanese division and regiment formation within the year, the main force of the Japanese army in northern Jiangsu is a brigade system, is it possible that Liu Division Commander wants to fight to the Yangtze River to recover Shanghai?

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin immediately thought that this was Han Deqin who was afraid of asking for his guilt, so he preemptively played a trick and the wicked sued first. It just so happened that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to restrict the exhibition of our party and our army, so he took a bad breath out on himself.

Liu Yimin didn't care much about the others, he was a time-traveler, he knew the process and results of the historical exhibition of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and he never regarded Chiang Kai-shek's orders as important. However, Chiang Kai-shek warned Liu Yimin to learn the lesson of Gao Jingting and Tang Shuhong's killing, which made Liu Yimin angry. This is really reversing black and white, killing the generals who fought bravely, and pouring sewage on their names, which is unbearable!

Liu Yimin immediately sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, pointing out that the Eighth Route Army went south to northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu in order to resist Japan. Chairman Chiang has long said that there is no distinction between north and south, that is to say, wherever there are ghosts, there is a battlefield to resist Japan and kill the enemy. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army's instructor's eastward march into Shandong was ordered by Chairman Chiang to save the Xuzhou battlefield, and Shandong was assigned to the Sulu Theater, and whether the instructor fought in Shandong or in the Suzhou-Anhui Border Region, they all fought in the Sulu Theater. The Military Commission's establishment of the Sulu Theater and the appointment of Yu Xuezhong, Han Deqin, and Shen Honglie as chief and deputy commanders were in itself discrimination against the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, who had made meritorious contributions to the Japanese army. Just ask the people of the world, who can serve? If it weren't for the unity of the War of Resistance and the obedience to Chairman Chiang's government and military orders, would Yu Xuezhong and Shen Honglie be able to enter Shandong? If it weren't for the anti-Japanese resistance and the main force of the central government, the instructor would have returned to Shaanxi a long time ago. The chairman of the committee will not be invited to the Suzhou-Anhui border area. The instructors who did not have military salaries attacked the Japanese army in the Suzhou-Anhui border area, and the Han Deqin Department, which enjoyed the full military salary of the national government, favored peace and rejuvenation, and everyone in the world could see who was good and who was bad, who was right and who was wrong. Why is Chairman Chiang's eyes like a torch, but he does not distinguish between right and wrong? The Fifth War Zone is too busy to take care of itself, where will there be spare energy to pay attention to the Suwan region, and how can it falsely accuse the instructor? Only Han Deqin, deputy commander-in-chief of the Sulu Theater, despicably killed Tang Shuhong, the head of the Dongguanshu Independent Regiment of the Northern Jiangsu Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, who was fighting with the Japanese army on the front line, creating friction and undermining unity to resist Japan.

Liu Yimin went on to write: "Chairman Chiang is the commander of all squadrons, and all squadrons, including the Eighth Route Army and the Fourth Army, are under the leadership of Chairman Chiang. As a commander-in-chief, the key is to be fair and strict in rewards and punishments. Gao Jingting, commander of the four detachments of the Fourth Army, has accepted reorganization since the Anti-Japanese War, and has gone out of Dabie Mountain to resist the Japanese. Such a hero was slandered by the Anhui Provincial Security Command as harassing 1UN Anhui Province. Let me ask the anti-Japanese hero who attacked the Japanese army was disturbing Anhui Province, and what crime should the Anhui Provincial Security Command be guilty of retreating into Dabie Mountain in the face of ghost attacks? Is Gao Jingting guilty or is the Security Command, which lost most of Anhui's territory, guilty? It is a pity that Chairman Jiang has his own yardstick in his heart, and instead of holding accountable those who lost their teachers and land, he listened to false accusations, and with a stroke of his pen, he sentenced Gao Jingting, who had made meritorious contributions, to be executed. What is the principle of heaven? Gao Jingting's unjust case has not yet been snowed, and Han Deqin's department has created another unjust case. Tang Shuhong was originally a teacher in Shuyang Tanggou, and the Anti-Japanese War was prosperous, Tang Shuhong took off his long shirt, formed an arm, and fought to the death against the Japanese invaders, and should have been commended and praised by Chairman Jiang and the National People's Government, but he was unexpectedly killed by the Standing Brigade of Shuyang County, Wang Xuwu, of the Han Deqin Department, in the name of negotiating a solution to the anti-grain incident. As the commander-in-chief, Chairman Chiang not only did not order Han Deqin to deal with the murderers and comfort the loyal souls, but instead listened to slander and accused the martyr Tang Shuhong of violating military discipline, inciting resistance to food, and pouring sewage on the martyr's name. How can such a decision be convincing? ”

Writing about the indignation, Liu Yiyi was like flying, and then said: "Since the instructor of the Eighth Route Army went north to resist Japan, the achievements made by the people of the whole country are obvious to all. Han Deqin feared the enemy like a tiger, ignoring the fall of the enemy in the fertile fields of northern Jiangsu, and favored a corner of peace and prosperity. After robbing the people's grain and ruining the image, Yu killed Tang Shuhong, the head of the Dongshuguan Independent Regiment of the Northern Jiangsu Detachment, who was a clown, and deceived people too much! How can the prestige of a teacher be despised by those who create friction? How can the anti-Japanese heroes allow the clown to be killed? Rubber, die! On behalf of the Eighth Route Army, tens of thousands of instructors and instructors of the Eighth Route Army, Jīn Rui assured Chairman Jiang that if Han Deqin did not kill the murderers Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian and the real culprits behind the scenes within two days, the post general personally led Jīn Rui to disarm the Shuyang County Standing Brigade, capture Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian alive, execute them in a public trial, arrest the real culprits behind the scenes, remove the garbage, and comfort the martyrs. If the ROK dares to resist, it will be punished for sabotaging unity and resisting Japan and creating friction."

may be overly angry, Liu Yimin even used a few clowns to describe Han Deqin. To be fair, this is also unfair to Deloitte. But under Liu Yimin's anger, where do you care so much?

After the telegram was issued, Liu Yimin immediately ordered Wang Laohu's No. 1 Special Operations Squadron, which had moved with the cavalry, to go to Tanggou to arrest Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian, disarm the Shuyang County Standing Brigade, and escort Wang and Zhou Erren to Bancheng for public trial.

Whether it was Chiang Kai-shek or Zhu De, no one thought that Liu Yimin would dare to send such a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek.

Before Chiang Kai-shek's reply arrived, the telegrams from the chairman and the headquarters arrived. The chairman's telegram said that if anyone does not offend me, I will not offend, but if anyone offends me, I will offend. Not afraid of friction and daring to stop friction is the foundation of our army. However, we should pay attention to the tactics of struggle, and do not expand the situation and force Han Deqin to be the murderer. At present, the great enemy should actively safeguard and promote the anti-Japanese national united front and not provoke incidents. Facts have proven that Comrade Liu Yimin is worthy of being a high-ranking cadre of our party and a high-ranking general of our army who can stand the test.

Mr. Zhu's telegram praised Liu Yimin's firm position, but criticized Liu Yimin for being young and vigorous, and for being too fierce and not leaving face to Chiang Kai-shek. Strictly ordered Liu Yimin to deal with it calmly, not to be carried away by hatred, and to expand the situation. To a large extent, after Han Deqin refuses to kill the murderer, the Shuyang County Standing Brigade can be disarmed, but it is not allowed to attack Han Deqin's department, unless the Han department takes the initiative to attack our army.

Chiang Kai-shek may have been overdone and did not call Liu Yimin back. It was Song Meiling, He Yingqin, Li Zongren, Chen Cheng, and Zhang Zhizhong who flew like snowflakes.

Song Meiling's telegram was very particular, first asking Liu Yimin if he was in good health, and then saying that Ni Hua was very good in Chongqing, and she and her eldest sister and second sister would take care of her, and Liu Yimin could rest assured. Then, as soon as Song Meiling's pen turned, she scolded Liu Yimin for being stunned, not knowing the severity of her speech, and disappointing her and Chairman Jiang's hard work. The truth of the Tang Shuhong incident can be investigated. However, Liu Yimin, as Chairman Chiang's trusted general and Ni Hua's cousin's lover, dared to speak disrespectfully to Chairman Chiang in such a way. It's disappointing.

Soong Meiling asked Liu Yimin to apologize to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that Liu Yimin's telegram was rude, his attitude was arrogant, his threatening remarks, and he was bold and reckless, and he even accused the chairman of the committee of improper use of personnel, exposing his ambition to become the commander of the Sulu Theater, and he has become a laughing stock in the world. The faces of the Ni family and the Song sisters have all made him lose them! If Liu Yimin dares not to apologize, the Ni family will not have this nv son-in-law, the Song family will not have this relative, and Liu Yimin's generation will never see Ni Hua again.

He Yingqin's telegram was very tough, ordering Liu Yimin to immediately carry out the chairman's order and quickly withdraw to Shandong. Otherwise, it will be punished for disobeying military orders.

Li Zongren's telegram was like an old peacemaker, and he first asked his fellow Guilin villager Tang Xingying nv Shimu to be safe, and then asked the American NV reporter Huang Wei how well he worked, and then explained that he was busy commanding the battle of Suizao, and that he had limited strength, and that he had less questions about the work of Liao Lei's Anhui Provincial Government and Security Headquarters, and that Gao Jingting's fact was an accident, that the military headquarters of the Fourth Army wanted to enforce discipline against Gao Jingting, and that the Fifth War Zone was just transferring Chairman Jiang on behalf of Chairman Jiang, so I asked Brother Liu to forgive me and bear with him. The next thing is to reminisce about the past, and even recalled the past meeting with Liu Yimin in Xuzhou on the telegram, and sighed for Chen Yaoguang's heroic sacrifice.

After so many nonsense, Li Zongren cut to the chase, saying that Han Deqin was not clear about the Tang Shuhong incident, and he was indeed afraid that Liu Yimin would ask for guilt, so he reported to the chairman of the committee, hoping that the chairman could make Liu Yimin withdraw from Shandong. This is also Han Deqin's helplessness to affect the unity of friendly forces because of the Tang Shuhong incident, not to falsely accuse Liu Yimin. With Liu Yimin's status in Chairman Jiang's mind and Ni Hua's status in Mrs. Jiang's mind, who in the world can falsely accuse Liu Yimin? Chairman Jiang's stern remarks are also a deep responsibility of love, and Brother Liu is young, and he can't touch the chairman's thoughts, so he is angry and angry, and he has nothing to say to the chairman, which makes the chairman angry. In fact, there is no need to be rash about this matter, it can be reported to Yu Xuezhong, and Yu Xuezhong is asked to order Han Deqin to investigate the truth and give Tang Shuhong justice. If he really doesn't want to talk to Yu Xuezhong and Han Deqin, he can mediate and let Han Deqin lock up Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian first, and then deal with them after finding out the truth.

Later, Li Zongren earnestly persuaded Liu Yimin that Han Deqin's troops were behind enemy lines in northern Jiangsu, and there was no food and grass in the foreign reinforcements, so it was not easy to independently support the situation of the War of Resistance in northern Jiangsu. That would only make the Japanese army see the joke. With Liu Yimin's mind and vision, he will not fail to see this clearly.

Chen Cheng's telegram is unique, he first said that since he met Liu Yimin in Xi'an, China has finally produced a hero who has no party prejudices and is bent on resisting Japan, and today he read Liu Yimin's telegram to the leader, and he knew that he was very wrong. Liu Yimin turned out to be just an ordinary man who was confined to party views and supported the army and respected himself. Compared with the past Central Plains War, it is really a hundred steps with fifty steps. To be disrespectful to the leader is to be disloyal to the country and the nation, and such a person, no matter how great his achievements are, are not worth learning and emulating. Then, Chen Cheng turned his head and said that he represented all the generals of the Central Army and asked Liu Yiyi what was the public opinion? Whether it is a friend or an enemy, it is decided by Liu Yimin's words alone! No matter how strong the instructor of the Eighth Route Army is, the two million Central Army will defend the dignity of the leader to the death!

Zhang Zhizhong is a general who is close to Liu Yimin, and his telegram is similar to Li Zongren's telegram, which is persuasion. It's just that Zhang Zhizhong is a little more loyal and reprimands Liu Yimin for being too hasty in this telegram, and no matter what he says, he can't speak to Chairman Jiang in this tone. If this telegram is detected by the Japanese army, it will inevitably become a lever for the Japanese army to attack our army, and it will make people laugh at it. No matter what, we must refrain and refrain again, and we must never point a gun at Han Deqin's department. In that case, the consequences are severe. In the worst case, the Military Commission will remove Liu Yimin from his post, and at the worst, cancel the number of instructor and declare him a rebel. Please Liu Yimin must think twice.

Zhang Zhizhong later told Liu Yimin that he would report to Chairman Jiang and asked for approval to send him to northern Jiangsu to investigate and deal with the Tang Shuhong incident. Before he arrived in northern Jiangsu, he asked Liu Yimin to restrain the troops and not act rashly.

After reading the telegram of Song Meiling and others, Liu Yimin twitched the corners of his mouth, said "cut", and casually put it aside.

This time, Liu Yimin made up his mind that he had to ask for the heads of Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian. Because he knew that according to the current exhibition trend, it would inevitably explode by the end of the year, and the squadron would fall into internal friction. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party are fighting endlessly, where can they still take care of fighting ghosts. Only by using thunderous means to take the heads of Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian can deter those who want to engage in friction and make them honest. That's it, I don't know if it has an effect!

As for Song Meiling's threat that his generation would not see Ni Hua, where would Liu Yimin be afraid. Ni Hua is in the office of the Eighth Route Army, and he may go to the United States very soon, what can Song Meiling do with Ni Hua?

Thinking of Ni Hua, Liu Yimin felt that this girl was stupid, why was Song Meiling known as soon as she arrived in Chongqing. Later, when I thought about it, I laughed, the Chongqing Office of the Eighth Route Army was surrounded by spies, and Ni Hua was so sè that he couldn't hide it at all. Besides, when she goes to Chongqing, she must try to get in touch with the people at the US Embassy, and maybe she will have to use Song Meiling's signboard!

It may be that he did not reply to the call when he saw Liu Yimin, worried that Liu Yimin would use force against Han Deqin, Yu Xuezhong also sent a telegram to Liu Yimin, saying that he did not see Liu Yimin after arriving in Shandong, and he was very regretful, and he was always looking forward to the early triumph of Master Liu and discussing the anti-Japanese plan in Shandong.

Yu Xuezhong reported that he had ordered Deputy Commander-in-Chief Han to arrest Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian, and escort them to the headquarters of the commander of the Sulu Theater in Shandong, where they would be interrogated by the Military Justice Department of the Commander's Department in accordance with the law to clarify the truth. If it is indeed Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian who framed the anti-Japanese generals, they will definitely be severely punished.

Yu Xuezhong later said that he had just arrived in Shandong, and he was not familiar with everything, and there were many questions that needed to be asked by Liu Yimin. The affairs of this theater should be settled by this theater, and they all belong to the same sequence of operations, and they will have to cooperate with the operations in the future, so that they can sit down and discuss calmly, and they can do what they should do, and they cannot be disunited.

may be really worried about the safety of Han Deqin's department, and later, He Yingqin sent another telegram. This time, in addition to reiterating the need to carry out Chairman Chiang's military orders, He Yingqin told Liu Yimin that Chairman Chiang had sent Zhang Zhizhong to personally come to northern Jiangsu to deal with the Tang Shuhong incident, and asked Liu Yimin to be calm and not be impatient. However, after the Tang Shuhong incident was handled, the instructors of the Eighth Route Army must withdraw to Shandong to consolidate the Shandong defense area. The defense of the Su-Anhui region left behind was in charge of the Fifth Theater and the Han Deqin Department of the Sulu Theater.

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…… Chapter Seventy-Six: Death to Those Who Engage in Friction......

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