People are complex, and the current Prime Minister, Fumima Konoe, is particularly complex. There is a saying that Konoe Bunma is like Mt. Fuji, which is very beautiful from a distance, but it is full of rocks and rough up close. This means that he is indecisive, ambitious, and has very limited leadership skills. Therefore, in 1942, when Hideki Tojo was prime minister, public opinion said that Fumima Konoe was the first stupid person and a defeatist.

In fact, this is not the case, Konoe Fumima was able to form a cabinet three times and become the prime minister, how can it be so simple? The reason why Hideki Tojo connived at public opinion and said that Fumima Konoe was the first stupid person was that he was not as quick as Fumima Konoe to expand his aggression and that his determination to do bad things was not as great as his.

Generally, later generations of Chinese are familiar with Konoe Bunma, mainly on five points: first, he issued the infamous three Konoe statements; second, he was a signatory of the "Three Kingdoms Axis Agreement"; third, he put forward the theory of establishing a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; fourth, during his tenure, the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Songhu Resistance, and the Nanjing Massacre; and fifth, he actively persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to surrender the national axe, and the conditions he proposed were too harsh.

Enough, based on these five points that the Chinese people understand, you can know who Konoe Furuma is. It can be said that this is a guy who has a whole set of theories of aggression, who actively pursues the expansion of the war of aggression, and who understands that it is impossible to completely occupy China by relying on the war, and who never forgets to seek territory, resources, and markets for the sake of the war of aggression, and who also never forgets to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to surrender or support a new puppet regime, so that the instinct can get out of the quagmire of Za Anzheng.

Otherwise, if the military department and Konoe Fumima had sometimes agreed and sometimes diverged, otherwise, if the military department had lowered the conditions for negotiations and only sought the ability of the northeast, I am afraid that Chiang Kai-shek would have agreed to end the war at that time, and it would have been difficult for the suffering China to recover the northeast.

At this time, the base camp has not yet woken up from arrogance, although the army in Shanxi, Nanjing, Tianjin have been dealt a heavy blow, the North China Aviation Division was annihilated twice, but the base camp believes that it was all an accident, it was the Chinese [***] team by sneak attack to win, the smooth recovery of Tianjin shows that the Chinese [***] team does not dare to face the edge of the imperial army, if Chiang Kai-shek's national political axe does not seek peace, then completely eliminate him, form a new friendly political axe, replace Chiang Kai-shek's national political axe in China. Thus, the first Konoe statement, which was unreasonably arrogant, was issued.

At this time, everyone from the emperor to the peddlers and pawns were so arrogant that even the art records in Tokyo were talking about when China would be completely destroyed. As for the extent of the emperor's arrogance, it can be seen from his measures to keep only half of the Guards Division as a garrison in the country, one division in Korea, and all other standing divisions and newly formed divisions to the Chinese battlefield.

Chiang Kai-shek learned of the Konoe statement in Xuzhou.

After reading the transcript of the guard's statement, Chiang Kai-shek shook his body, slowly sat down in a chair, drank a sip of boiled water, and stabilized his mind.

Zhang Qun, who was standing again, hurriedly said: "Commission, don't let this kind of thing interfere with your thinking, this Konoe Wenma probably took the wrong medicine, and even this kind of confused question can be raised." Not to mention that he does not regard the national political axe as an opponent, even if he wants to negotiate peace, we may not negotiate with him. Gua baby, think beautiful! ”

When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said What is Yue Jun's opinion?

Zhang Qun said: "The report is commissioned, and I can't talk about it. However, during the negotiations in Xi'an, I talked with Ci Xiu and Wen Bai with Liu Yimin, and carefully studied and judged the tricks of the book, and judged at that time that the book would adopt the method of hitting and pulling the two, first striking and then persuading the surrender, and then supporting the Han regime if the persuasion failed. So, I thought there was nothing in this Konoe statement, and history would prove that it was just a joke in the future. ”

Chiang Kai-shek let out an "oh", and then asked: "At that time, when you were studying and judging, how did you judge the outcome of the Anti-Japanese War?" ”

Zhang Qun blurted out: "The War of Resistance will be won!" ”

Chiang Kai-shek thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "The current situation of the Anti-Japanese War is not optimistic!" ”

After hearing this, Zhang Qun said with a smile: "You don't have to worry so much, Liu Yimin said, he said that he is a three-plate axe, and when his three-plate axe is finished, it is time to rest." The key is not to compromise or surrender, to constantly reorganize and train the troops, to develop production, to take the initiative in carrying out diplomacy, to mobilize the people to unite and resist the Japanese army, to fight the Japanese army without stopping, and to consume its strength and resources. We are in trouble, and their lives are not good. As long as we persevere, Xiao Yue is not our opponent! ”

Only then did Chiang Kai-shek relent, and with a smile on his face, he asked Zhang Qun to inform Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi to come in and continue to study the defensive and operational deployment of the Jinpu Line.

After the Luoyang military conference, due to the urgency of the military situation, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, [***], Liu Bocheng, Xu Xiangqian, and He Long all set off overnight and rushed back to the Shanxi base area.

In order to be in a hurry, the group crossed the river to the north by car overnight, and the next day they changed to war horses and rushed back to the southeastern base area of Shanxi. Here, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army held an operational meeting to make specific arrangements for the encirclement and suppression of the anti-Japanese army in various divisions and base areas. All divisions are required to send elite small units to seize strategic points, prepare to resist at all levels, attack and harass one after another, and the main force urgently and covertly assemble in favorable areas, so as to eliminate the lone troops at any time; The base areas immediately carried out the clearing of the fortified walls, mobilized and organized the militia to destroy roads and bridges, and laid mines. The reconnaissance units should expand the scope of reconnaissance, and the intelligence departments should step up their efforts to collect intelligence and find out as soon as possible the operational intentions of the co-workers.

After the deployment of the operation in Shanxi, the headquarters telegraphed the instructor to stick to southern Hebei and Luxi, concentrate the main force, and when the enemy's forces unfold and the battle enters a stalemate, strike hard, and seize the strategic points that the instructor believes can force the enemy to rescue on a large scale, and support the Shanxi battlefield and the Pinghan line and Jinpu line battlefields.

After the meeting, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was divided into two, and Mr. Peng led some staff officers and confidential personnel to go north with [***] and He Long, and unified the command of our army in the area north of Taiyuan. Mr. Zhu and Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan acted with the Reading Division, commanding the base areas in the central, southeastern, and southwestern Jinxi provinces, as well as the Reading Division and the 129th Division.

When he received the combat order from the headquarters, Liu Yimin had already made basic arrangements, and he had also received information from the reconnaissance unit.

On the 13th of January, the division left Tianjin and went south along the Jinpu Road, and the division headquarters moved into Dexian to strengthen the garrison of the Jinpu line. It may be that General Terauchi Shouichi was afraid that the division would be annihilated, so he strictly ordered the division to camp at night and march in groups during the day, closely rely on the Jinpu line, cooperate with the railway garrison, and step up the construction of strongholds to ensure the safety of the Jinpu line.

On the 14th of January, the division left Tianjin, passed through Langfang to Zhuozhou, and went south along the Pinghan Railway in Zhuozhou, where the division headquarters was stationed in Shijiazhuang, and began to organize forces to rush to repair railways and highways, establish strongholds, and prepare to open up the communication between the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line.

Then the 22nd Division went south along the railway from Tianjin to Zhuozhou via Langfang, and the division headquarters was stationed in Handan to take over the defense task between Handan and Anyang of the 14th Division.

When Liu Yimin saw the posture of the devil, he was a little confused, the old devil in the temple Shouyi is singing this one? Does he want to build a large encirclement against central and southern Hebei, completely extinguish the resistance forces in central and southern Hebei, and stabilize the rear before using troops in the direction of Shanxi and Xuzhou?

Liu Yimin knew that the 23rd Division, the 22nd Division, and the 21st Division were all newly formed divisions and regiments reinforced by the mainland, and their combat effectiveness should be a little worse than that of the permanent divisions, so he couldn't help but want to wave the main force to pounce on it and take a bite, but considering the need for concealed strategic intentions, he still held back and waited for the main force of the devil to make any new moves.

However, looking at the posture of the devil, it is to learn to be obedient, and has begun to pay attention to strengthening the security of the railway line, relying on the railway to control the occupied area, don't think about it, soon central and southern Hebei will face the sweep of the devil. In the future, if the troops want to cross the railway as if no one is around, I am afraid that it will not work. Liu Yimin was resentful in his heart, and kept cursing Shouyi in the old devil's temple, and one blockade of the railway would worsen the living environment in the base areas of Luxi and southern Hebei. If the military does a little research in the future, it will introduce a cage policy in advance and use the transportation network and dense strongholds to divide the base areas.

In this case, if we want to hold on to southern Hebei and central Hebei, we must carry out a sabotage war and completely destroy and paralyze the enemy's lines of communication. Otherwise, southern and central Hebei will be reduced to guerrilla zones.

Thinking about it, Liu Yimin knows that no matter what kind of battle is fought, it depends on the timing, and now it is absolutely not possible, and the heavy army group is worried about finding a mentor! If you make a move at this time, it is equivalent to taking the initiative to send it to the door. On this great plain of North China, where there is no mountainous cover, although his instructor is elite, he is definitely not the opponent of the more than 400,000 armed to the teeth of the heavy army group. There is no way, so I can only wait for the devil to divide his troops to the south, and then it depends on the situation.

At a time when Liu Yimin was paying close attention to the movements of the army, General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, was also anxiously urging the troops to move.

In fact, although the old devil Temple Uchijuichi is full of spirit with heavy troops, he also has a last resort. The reasons are all caused by Liu Yimin, the railways and highways have been damaged too much, which affects the speed of the devil's troop transportation. Especially at Tianjin Station, not only was the station completely destroyed, but even the locomotive was completely blown up, and it could not be used at all. Like the 23rd Division, it walked from Tianjin to Zhuozhou on two legs, and the 21st Division worked even harder, directly from Tianjin to Dexian step by step. Terauchi Shouichi had no choice but to urge the engineering units to step up their actions, repair the railways and highways as soon as possible, and transfer locomotives from Northeast China and Beiping to Tianjin to load troops.

This is nothing, the most important thing is that all the materials reserved by the North China Front Army in Tianjin have been emptied by the instructor. The new reinforcements from the mainland are better to say, with some supplies, the other Kwantung Army southbound corps, the 6th and 16th Divisions drawn back from Nanjing, and the divisions and regiments that were originally in North China are faced with replenishing fuel, weapons and ammunition, and solving the problems of food and drink.

As soon as Shouichi Terauchi finished the combat meeting, he urged all units to act. However, the commanders of all divisions asked him for fuel, ammunition, food, and medicine, for the same reason: without fuel, tanks and cars could not be driven, and without food, soldiers would starve to death without the help of the [***] team. Without ammunition supply, after a big battle, the cannons are empty cannons, the guns are empty guns, and the imperial army will become bare-handed peasants. Without medicine, the wounded soldier cannot be healed, and it will affect the soldier's will to fight.

The problem of these troops has not yet been solved, and a telegram from Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyosi, commander of the First Army stationed in Taiyuan, urging supplies, came, saying that the Taiyuan area has been strictly cleared by the [***] team, not to mention finding people and food, it is very difficult to find an animal. The 20th Division and the 109th Division tried to organize sweeps several times, but they all gave up because of the shortage of oil and the lack of grain and grass. If the front army did not provide heavy supplies, the 20th Division and the 109th Division could only retreat to Shijiazhuang first and solve the grain problem on the Hebei Plain.

Terauchi Shouichi had no choice, so he asked the Kwantung Army to provide grain and grass supplies as soon as possible, transfer the Zhengtai Line through the Pinghan Line, and solve the problem of food for the 20th Division and the 109th Division; On the other hand, he kept sending reports to the base camp, urging him to hurry up and send supplies and supplies. This will not solve the current problem, Terauchi Shouichi will let all divisions and regiments collect grain and grass in the eastern Hebei and Pingjin areas, and let the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd divisions from the mainland set off first, ensure the safety of the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line, and lay the foundation for the main force to be dispatched.

Since Gu Shoufu arrived in Tianjin, he felt very embarrassed, and he said that the most elite army division of the imperial army was led by the nose like a fool. From Nanjing, I took a car and a boat, and finally arrived in Tianjin, ready to fight and loot, but I didn't expect that the tutor of the Zhina sect had sneaked away. Gu Shoufu only felt that a punch hit the cotton bale, and he couldn't exert his strength softly, how uncomfortable it was.

What makes Gu Shoufu especially intolerable is that when he arrives in Tianjin, so many people can't rob it, and so many women can't be annihilated at will, Gu Shoufu feels that from General Shouyi in the temple to Lieutenant General Shouzao Nishio, they are all old and decrepit. What are you doing without robbing, by force, by murder, or by arson? Don't tell Lao Tzu about the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, that is the dream language of Prime Minister Konoe Fumima, since you came to fight with the Chinese people, occupied other people's land, robbed other people's property, killed other people's people, and still thought about what kind of East Asian co-prosperity you are engaged in with the Hehe people, the ghost believes your deceptive theory!

Gu Shoufu felt that the fundamental interest of the Great Empire was to occupy all of China, and if we wanted to achieve this goal, we had to kill people and kill more people, completely kill and exterminate all the Chinese, and at least kill all those Chinese who had the intention of resisting, so that China could truly be incorporated into the territory of the Great Empire, and the famous mountains, beautiful waters, land, and wealth here could truly become the property of the Great Empire.

Lieutenant General Gu Shoufu, who was dissatisfied with Terauchi Shouichi and Nishio Shouzo, after arriving in Tianjin, plunged headlong into the Jiyuan, and let the chief of staff handle the military affairs of the division. When Count Terauchi solved these problems, the 6th Division was dispatched to carry out the orders of the front.

The chief of staff felt that Gu Shoufu was a little dizzy, but he also felt that letting the elite Sixth Division worry about food and grass was itself a manifestation of the incompetence of the North China Front Command. Naturally, he was happy to go to the headquarters every day to urge supplies according to Gu Shoufu's orders.

As soon as he received the order of General Terauchi Shouichi to collect grain and grass in the eastern Hebei and Pingjin areas, Gu Shoufu came out of the Jiyuan and convened a meeting of the commanders of the Sixth Division, Gu Shoufu looked radiant and roared loudly to the officers under him: "The spring of the Sixth Division is coming!" Earl Terauchi Shouichi ordered all troops to raise grain and grass in the eastern Hebei and Pingjin regions, which was to let us find food for ourselves. Warriors of the Emperor, it's up to us now. Cheer me up, and find out for me the food, gold, silver, banknotes, cattle and sheep of the people of China, and comfort our soldiers! ”

After speaking, Gu Shoufu ordered the troops to move.

Tangqiao Village is located on the edge of the railway, it is a small village, with more than 30 households and more than 100 people. Although it relies on the railway, the life of the villagers is naturally extremely difficult, and most of the houses are thatched.

On the morning of January 13, a squadron of devils from the 6th Division arrived here. When the maintenance chairman of the village saw the arrival of the imperial army, he hurriedly took a cigarette to entertain the imperial army and asked what the imperial army wanted.

The leader of the devil's squadron asked the interpreter to tell the maintenance chairman that the imperial army was here to collect grain, and it would be fine to let the villagers take out all the food and hand it over to the imperial army.

The maintenance president feels that the devil has bad intentions, and I am afraid that this food must be given a little. Hurriedly arranged for people to boil water and cook, treated the imperial army leniently, and notified all families to pay food to the imperial army.

The leader of the devil squadron smiled evilly, and with a wave of his hand, the devils rushed to each house.

Soon, crying, shouting, and gunfire were heard from the courtyards of the houses.

The maintenance chairman knew that the devil was doing evil, so he hurriedly made a fool of the devil squadron leader and begged the imperial army for mercy. The leader of the devil squadron let out another cruel laugh, raised his foot and went to the maintenance leader's house.

The maintenance chairman hurriedly followed behind the leader of the devil squadron, kept saying good things, and begged the imperial army to bypass the villagers.

The guy who acted as the translator didn't seem to know that he was Chinese, and he didn't care what the leader of the devil squadron was going to do, and he pulled the maintenance chairman to compare the gold bar with his hand. It's a pity that this small village is full of ordinary households, where can the maintenance chairman get gold bars? He had to take out a few paper tickets issued by the puppet Hebei Eastern Defense Communist Autonomous Government from his pocket, handed them to the translator, and begged him to make it clear.

The interpreter took the paper ticket and looked at it, and saw that it was not the Yuan, nor was it the currency issued by the major banks circulating in Tianjin, so he threw the paper ticket in the face of the maintenance chairman with a flick of his hand.

At this moment, the leader of the devil squadron had already entered the house of the maintenance chairman and pressed the mother-in-law who was sitting on the kang and sitting on the needlework.

The woman was doing needlework, and when she looked up, she was startled to see a ghost officer coming in. As soon as he wanted to lift his legs and get off the kang, he was pressed onto the kang by the devil officer who pounced on him, and he was so frightened that he immediately yelled.

Seeing that the interpreter didn't want paper tickets, the maintenance chairman was thinking about whether to take out two silver dollars hidden in the house and let the devil go, when he heard the cry of his mother-in-law, and ran to the door of the house to see that the leader of the devil's squadron had knocked down his mother-in-law and was tearing her clothes.

The maintenance chairman was in a hurry, and shouted in his mouth, "Taijun can't help it, I'm a friend of the imperial army, that's my woman", and walked into the house, wanting to save his woman.

The two devil soldiers who came in with the leader of the devil squadron laughed, holding rifles and bright bayonets to force the maintenance leader's chest, forcing him into the courtyard, picking up the butt of the gun and beating the maintenance leader to the ground. Then he lifted his feet and went back to the house, and when His Excellency the squadron leader ran out, he took turns to go up and enjoy the Chinese woman.

Listening to the increasingly miserable screams and curses of his own women in the room and the wild laughter of the devils, the maintenance president finally cried out loud: "God, open your eyes and see, what sin we have done to give birth to such a beast to harm people. God, open your eyes and see, I'm a friend of the Imperial Army, and I'm doing things for the Imperial Army! ”

I cried for a while, but God didn't open my eyes, and the cry of the woman in the house became smaller and smaller. The maintenance president knows that his woman is afraid that she will not survive today. Wiping away his tears, he stood up, went into the kitchen, picked up a pot of oil he had just bought from the market for lighting, and poured it on the firewood. Then he carried the firewood under the eaves, took out the matches, struck them, and threw them on the firewood that had been poured with oil. Turned around and ran, closed the door, and locked it.

Looking at the flames rising into the sky, burning the windows, burning the eaves, and the raging flames completely engulfing his house, the maintenance president was a little demented, and kept shouting to burn you brutes, burn you brutes.

The fire spread rapidly and swept away from the neighbors.

By the time the other devils arrived and shot and killed the maintenance chairman and the surviving villagers, the small village of Tangqiao was already covered in fire and smoke, and it was impossible to tell who and what ghosts were inside.

It was because of General Terauchi Shouichi's order to requisition grain that the army acted recklessly in the Pingjin region and the eastern Hebei region, and under the banner of requisitioning grain, they once again began to loot. Once again, disaster befell the good Chinese, robbing, annihilating, and massacring, and the bestial behavior of the Yue army caused rivers of blood and tears to rain in the eastern Hebei region and the Pingjin region.

In the end, Wang Kemin, the puppet puppet of the Republic of China's provisional political axe, had to come forward to remind Terauchi Shouichi that the eastern Hebei and Pingjin regions were the basic areas of public security in North China, and the imperial army had to pay due attention to the image of the empire. Only then did Terauchi Shouichi order all troops to stop collecting grain, restrain military discipline, and order the puppet Provisional Republic of China Provisional Government Axe at all levels to collect grain and grass for the imperial army.

Finally, on the 20th of January, the first batch of supplies transported from Yueben arrived in Tianjin, the reorganized aviation division from China also arrived in North China, and the airports in Beiping, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, and Jinan were full of planes.

Terauchi Shouichi's confidence was completely strengthened, and he ordered all units to distribute supplies and immediately dispatch to carry out combat missions.

At this time, the main force of the army, which had been replenished with troops and supplies in place, began to move. The trains of the Jinpu Line and the Pinghan Line kept running, transporting the main force of the Yue Army to Shandong and Shanxi. The Great War is finally about to break out!

(To be continued)