When the Battle of North China was in full swing and fierce, news came from Wuhan, China, that the "National Axe of the Republic of China" was officially established in Nanjing on August 25, 1939. Although the newly established national political axe is also called the national political axe, its essence is that the [***] pro-Yue faction headed by Wang Jingwei within the national political axe, succumbed to the military offensive and political inducement of the imperialists, and established a puppet regime under the wing of the imperial army, so this newly established national political axe is neither recognized by Chiang Kai-shek's political axe in Yucheng, let alone [***], so this newly established national political axe is also called "pseudo-Nanjing national political axe" or "Wang puppet regime".

On August 25, 1939, under the protection of the Japanese army, the puppet Nanjing National Political Axe held a grand establishment ceremony, which not only included the commander of the Central China Front of the Japanese army, General Yan Jun, but also the representatives sent by the puppet Manchu regime in the northeast. The Wang puppet regime was chaired by Lin Sen, chairman of the Yucheng State Government, and Wang Jingwei was appointed president and acting chairman of the Executive Yuan. Chen Gongbo, president of the Legislative Yuan, Wen Zongyao, president of the Judicial Yuan, Liang Hongzhi, president of the Supervision Yuan, Wang Yitang, president of the Examination Yuan, Wang Kemin, chairman of the North China Political Affairs Committee, Ren Yuandao, commander-in-chief of the appeasement army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, Qi Xieyuan, commander-in-chief of the North China Appeasement Army, and Zhou Fohai, minister of finance and secretary general of the Central Political Commission.

This time, the inauguration ceremony was very beautiful and grand, but the establishment of the Wang puppet regime in history was much more miserable than this. At that time, because the former site of the Nanjing National Political Axe was occupied by Liang Hongzhi, a former puppet political axe member of Yueben, Wang Jingwei had no choice but to choose the address of the new political axe in the pre-war examination institute. On this day, the weather was very sunny, and under the supervision of the police, every household in Nanjing hung a new flag. The shape of this flag is extremely irregular, the top is the Kuomintang's blue sky and white flag, and below is hung a triangular scarf with the words "peace, [***], and the founding of the country." The people of Nanjing are very happy to see the blue sky and white flag, and when they see this triangular scarf, they are righteous indignation and sourness, so they say that this triangular scarf is their own pants. In this atmosphere, Wang Jingwei read out the "Declaration on Returning the Capital" after the national anthem, and then delivered a speech. Wang Jingwei, who has always been good at speaking, may have had mixed feelings that day, so his speech became very low and pale. It was an inauguration ceremony that was not taken seriously, and after the speech, the ceremony ended in a hurry. It was said that the present side did not even send officials who had been promised in advance. When the inauguration ceremony was held at this time, the soldiers on the street were excited when they saw the blue sky and white flag, and many of their comrades-in-arms died under this banner, which made them suffer enough. The soldiers in the Drum Tower of Nanjing City and the Xinjiekou area in the center of the city began to point to the blue sky and white flags and curse, but the scolding was not enjoyable, so they began to shoot at the national flag one after another.

This time it is because the fighting spirit and passion of the Chinese people in the past two years have been much stronger than in history, and the intensity of resistance has also been much greater. The number of soldiers dying and disabled in China is increasing year by year and at a rapid rate, so the army has to pay attention to the puppet of the Wang puppet regime, so Wang Jingwei can be regarded as being taken a lot seriously by the army.

Han Yunhua had been paying attention to the war situation in North China during this time, and he didn't have the energy to pay attention to the situation in Central China at all, so he didn't know when the Wang puppet regime was established. It wasn't until Qian Zhuangfei and the urgent telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army were put on his desk that he remembered that he had forgotten such an important matter.

In fact, this is not Han Yunhua's own negligence, but history has taken a major turning point at this moment, according to the practice of the past two years, due to the emergence of Han Yunhua, history has changed a lot, and this change is almost all deviated in time, almost all the major events that have happened in history have happened in the end, but most of them have been delayed for nearly a year, just like the fall of Wuhan, although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have made great efforts, Wuhan, which originally fell in 38 years, finally fell. It's just that the time of the fall has become 39 years. Therefore, Han Yunhua originally thought that the time of the establishment of Wang's puppet regime should be 41 years later, and the worst should be 1940 in history, and there is still more than a year before the full battle, so Han Yunhua will put this matter in the back of his mind. However, what he didn't expect was that the pseudo-"Republic of China National Political Axe", which was officially established in Nanjing on March 30, 1940, was established eight months ahead of schedule, which caught Han Yunhua off guard.

Historically, at the beginning of the war of aggression against China, he planned to use a puppet regime to rule China, and then slowly turn China into a colony. To this end, in 1931, he supported Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, to establish a puppet Manchu regime in northeast China. In December 1937, the army prepared for the establishment of the puppet "Provisional Political Axe of the Republic of China" in Beiping, the occupied area. In March 1938, he set up a puppet "Republic of China Restoration Axe" in Nanjing, the occupied area. On December 18, 1938, Wang Jingwei, Zeng Zhongming, Zhou Fohai and others fled from Chongqing. After arriving in Hanoi, Vietnam, he announced the surrender of the enemy "Yan Dian". Subsequently, the special agents secretly escorted Wang and others into Shanghai and began to organize the puppet central political axe. After this plan, the puppet regimes in Beiping and Nanjing were abolished, and on March 30, 1940, the puppet "National Axe of the Republic of China" was officially established in Nanjing. The blue sky and white flag are all red as the "national flag", and a triangular cloth piece is added, and the words "peace [***] founding the country" are written. Its organizational structure still uses the organizational form of the National Political Axe, and Wang's puppet "National Political Axe" was once chaired by Lin Sen, chairman of the Yucheng State Government, and Wang Jingwei was appointed president and acting chairman of the Executive Yuan. Chen Gongbo, president of the Legislative Yuan, Wen Zongyao, president of the Judicial Yuan, Liang Hongzhi, president of the Supervisory Yuan, Wang Yitang, president of the Examination Yuan, Wang Kemin, chairman of the North China Political Affairs Committee, Ren Yuandao, commander-in-chief of the appeasement army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, Qi Xieyuan, commander-in-chief of the North China Appeasement Army, and Zhou Fohai, minister of finance and secretary general of the Central Political Committee, etc.

The establishment of the Wang puppet regime against Chiang Kai-shek's national political axe was the established strategy of the army, and the establishment of the Wang puppet regime was reported in detail in the report submitted to the cabinet by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The capture of Xuzhou on May 20, 1938 was a great progress in terms of the war situation on the mainland, but in view of the fact that the future of dealing with the incident was still very far away, in order to pool China's strength to directly resolve the incident in the future, with a view to achieving the war objectives within this year, it was necessary to study the matters that should be implemented on the premise of domestic and foreign policy. On June 13, 1938, the five-phase meeting decided on the "Guidelines for Future Incidents in China" and accepted the conditions of friendly mediation by a third country according to the situation. If the old Nanking political axe surrendered, it was merged under the central power of emerging China; If it does not surrender, it will pour the strength of the whole country to defeat the old Nanjing political axe or force it to surrender; At the same time, it is necessary to expand and strengthen the various political regimes and unify them into one political power as soon as possible, so that they can be formed as the political axe of the Chinese Central Committee, so that the new political power will be recognized at home and abroad to replace the old political axe of Nanjing.

Since the outbreak of the war of resistance against the Japanese army, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek has been fighting against the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield one after another, and although several major battles have ended in defeat, it is undeniable that it is precisely because of this insistence in the early stage of Chiang Kai-shek's political axe that the army has to change its policy toward China and begin to plan the formation of a new political axe to replace Chiang Kai-shek's national political axe.

As a matter of fact, there is no consensus among the top leaders in the country on cooperating with a Chinese politician, and some people in the military department have expressed opposition to Wang Chingwei's work from the operational angle, but the five-phase meeting on 6 June decided that in order to cooperate with the guidance for all-out war at the present stage, to handle problems on the basis of an independent standpoint, the establishment of a new central political axe can be taken as a general policy. The new central political axe was composed of Wang, Wu (Peifu), the established regime, and the repentant Yucheng political axe. Although it is a problem on the Chinese side, our side should appropriately assist in its establishment. At the same time, the future political form should adopt the principle of division and cooperation in accordance with historical and current conditions. As for its contents, in addition to the "policy of adjusting relations between China and China," the Chinese side will handle internal affairs on its own, and it has decided to recognize the Kuomintang and the Sanming Rebellion, which have taken the policy of abandoning resistance to the "Manchu" and anti-Communists.

It was only a little more than a year between Wang Jingwei's departure and the establishment of the puppet regime by the "National Political Axe" in New Nanjing, but it was this year that Wang Jingwei experienced a lot. Wang Jingwei left Tokyo on June 18, 1939, and went to Tianjin on June 24, 1939, where he met with Wang Kemin and Commander Sugiyama, and met with Wu Peifu, but they disagreed. On the 28th, he went to Shanghai and met with Liang Hongzhi, Wen Zongyao, Chen Qun, and Ren Yuandao. On July 3, he met with the commander of the Yamada Army in Nanjing. On July 23, he went to Guangzhou, consulted with the military headquarters, and returned to Shanghai on August 15. On August 28, the Sixth Plenum of the Kuomintang was convened, a manifesto and political program were issued, and it was decided to establish a new central party department, and the reconstruction of party offices in various localities began. On September 1, a telegram was sent to the whole country. On the 19th and 20th, the so-called triumvirate talks with Liang and Wang were held to discuss the convening of a central political conference. Since the end of September, he has actively liaised with all parties and factions, non-party and non-factional, financial, political, and cultural circles, completed contacts with the National Socialist Party, and continued to liaise with Wu Peifu. In terms of military work, the main focus is on Guangdong, with Zhang Fakui, Deng Longguang, and Li Hansoul as the targets. The others are Bao Wenyue and Yang Yuling from the Northeast Department, Liu Yufen, Zheng Dazhang and Liu Ji from the Northwest Department, and Yang Yuyi and Ye Peng from Hubei and Sichuan. With regard to fiscal and economic policies, a study plan has been drawn up to study the fait accompli of North and Central China. On December 30, he secretly signed a document of agreement with the Mei organ. On January 16, 1940, Wang Jingwei issued a final peace exhortation to Chiang Kai-shek. On 12 February, Wang held talks with prominent people of various parties and factions in society and agreed that they had the same views on the outline and program for the establishment of the Central Political Axe, and then convened the so-called Qingdao Conference on 23 and 24 January, and then convened the Nanjing Central Political Conference to lay the foundation for the new political axe within three days from 20 March, and finally on 30 March 1940, the "National Political Axe" returned to Nanjing, and established a new Central Political Axe. On March 30, 1940, Wang Jingwei, who had been brewing for a year, established the National People's Political Axe in Nanjing and held an inauguration ceremony with the permission of the Emperor, thus opening the prelude to the tragic fate of the "Wang puppet regime" as we now call it.

The establishment of Wang's puppet regime is definitely not a good thing for Han Yunhua or for the entire Chinese nation. The harm of Wang's puppet regime is enormous, much greater than that of the previous puppet Manchukuo and the puppet national provisional political axe established by Wang Kemin and others in Beiping. Although Han Yunhua has a certain understanding of the reasons for Wang Jingwei's establishment of the puppet regime, this does not prevent Han Yunhua from hating the members of Wang's puppet regime. Wang Jingwei, Chen Bijun and his wife felt deeply under the fence, very depressed, if once the reading power is king, although the court is small, the final victory over the cow, so the national hypochondria played a role in him. Wang Jingwei and others managed to secretly escape from Chiang Kai-shek's control and fled to Hanoi, Vietnam, and then Prime Minister Konoe Fumiji issued a statement on China's surrender, and Wang Jingwei responded by sending a telegram to surrender to the truce, and then negotiated "peace".

After the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, China's war of resistance against Japanese aggression ushered in the most difficult moment, and the surrender of batches of Kuomintang troops became a nightmare for Chiang Kai-shek, and it is not possible to fully count that in just five years from the establishment of the Wang puppet regime to its dissolution in 45 years, more than 1 million Kuomintang troops surrendered to the Wang puppet regime.

Moreover, the defense area of the Wang puppet regime was extremely large, and the restrictions on the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and other anti-Japanese forces were also extremely severe, and the area under the jurisdiction of the Wang puppet political axe included most of the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, the cities of Shanghai and Nanjing, and a small part of the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shandong, and Henan. After the warlords invaded and occupied China's northeast region, they pressed forward step by step towards Guannai, and successively set up puppet regimes such as the "Autonomous Political Axe of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communists", the "Mongolian Military Political Axe", the "Provisional Political Axe" (Yanjing), the "Restoration Political Axe" (Nanjing), the "Autonomous Political Axe of Chanan", the "Autonomous Political Axe of Northern Shanxi", and the "Autonomous Political Axe of the Mongolian Alliance". It was not until after Wang Zhaoming's treason that Wang Zhaoming established a puppet "national political axe" in Nanjing, and integrated the "North China Political Affairs Committee" restructured from the puppet Yanjing "temporary political axe", and the "Mongolian-Xinjiang Joint Committee" established by merging the "autonomous political axe of the Mongolian Union" with the "autonomous political axe of Chanan" and the "autonomous political axe of northern Shanxi". Although Wang's puppet "national political axe" nominally has a puppet "North China Political Affairs Committee" and a puppet "Mongolian-Xinjiang Joint Autonomous Axe," in fact it only directly governs Jiangsu, Huaihai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, and other provinces, as well as extraordinary cities such as Nanjing, Shanghai, Hankou, and Xiamen. The pseudo "North China Political Affairs Committee" has jurisdiction over the four provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi, as well as the three extraordinary cities of Yanjing (later changed back to Beiping), Tianjin, and Qingdao; The puppet "Mongolian-Xinjiang Joint Autonomous Political Axe" has jurisdiction over the five leagues of Bayantara, Chahar, Xilin Gol, Ulanqab, and Yikezhao, as well as the two political offices of Chanan and Jinbei, totaling seven provincial-level units. Nevertheless, the harm of Wang's puppet regime is enormous. Politically, the Wang puppet regime co-opted the Kuomintang troops and bribed hooligans to establish "peace building" and spy organizations, implemented fascist rule in its jurisdiction, and hunted down and killed patriotic anti-Japanese people. Cooperate with Yuben to lure the national political axe of Yucheng into surrender, in a vain attempt to disintegrate the anti-Japanese national united front. In March 1941, the Township Clearing Committee was established, and a large number of puppet troops were assembled to carry out [***] Township Cleanup with the Yue Army, in a vain attempt to eliminate the New Fourth Army and guerrillas who insisted on fighting behind enemy lines. Economically, they have issued paper money indiscriminately, encircled land, "entrusted the operation" of certain industrial and mining enterprises, forcibly expropriated grain and cotton, exercised material control, and collected a wide variety of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and openly levied opium donations. In terms of culture and education, the "New National Movement" was carried out and slavery education was carried out. Diplomatically, in November 1941, he followed Yuben to participate in the "International Defense of Communism", and in January 1943, he declared war on Britain and the United States, calling for allegiance to the alliance. In November of the same year, he signed the "Greater East Asia Joint Declaration" with the puppet political axes of the puppet Manchukuo, Thailand, Burma, the Philippines and other countries, waving the flag and shouting for the establishment of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere".

After receiving the news of the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, Han Yunhua was a little confused, and the Wang puppet regime was established ahead of schedule. Out of understanding of Wang's puppet regime, Han Yunhua felt that the list on his body suddenly became a lot heavier. Although Han Yunhua deeply despised Wang Jingwei's crime of betraying the country and defecting to the enemy, he even had an impulse after receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, preparing to send an elite special operations force to assassinate Wang Jingwei. However, Han Yunhua now knows that even if he knows the development trend of history, he is powerless against Wang's puppet regime, and according to Han Yunhua, the national political axe also hates Wang Jingwei's treason against the enemy, and he has also taken a very extreme and severe way to retaliate against Wang Jingwei. In fact, after Wang Jingwei fled, the national political axe has always sent people to monitor him. On March 19, 1939, Chen Gongshu, who had been monitoring Wang Jingwei, received a sanction order issued by Dai Li, director of the Military Control Bureau, ordering that Wang Jingwei be severely punished. Late at night on March 20, a shooting occurred in a garden house at 27 Gao Lang Street in Hanoi at the apartment of Wang Jingwei, a former vice president of the Kuomintang who had fled Chinese mainland for months. Wang Ching-wei himself was an assassin and had been assassinated many times in his life, but this assassination in Hanoi was shocking and saddening. Even Zeng Zhongming, a close subordinate whom he regarded as a son, was shot in the abdomen more than 10 times, like a honeycomb, and died in the afternoon of the following day. But there is still no way to deal with him, Wang Jingwei is not alive and well, and he has not yet established a puppet regime. The gunfire on Gao Lang Street also woke up him, and Ying Zuozhen Showa and Inu Yangjian quickly set off to Hanoi to rescue Wang Jingwei.

Moreover, the number of special combat teams in the military region is not large, and now there are wars everywhere, and the special combat teams are extremely important to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Since the beginning of the Battle in North China, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has not only photographed all the special combat teams, but even almost all the cadets of the Saibei Military Command College have been transferred to the front line, including 987 special combat personnel. Therefore, at this critical juncture, it is impossible for Han Yunhua to send special operations troops to Nanjing to assassinate Wang Jingwei.

(To be continued)