After waiting for a while, Luo Ronghuan and Li Jiansheng glanced at each other again, and Luo Ronghuan coughed lightly. The conference room was quiet for a moment, and it seemed that the military and political leaders had something to say, and they all looked at the rostrum. Luo Ronghuan glanced at it and saw that everyone had calmed down, so he said, "Please ask the commander-in-chief to analyze the domestic situation!" Li Jiansheng also put down his teacup at this time and continued the second agenda item of today's meeting: analyzing the current domestic situation and predicting the future period.

Li Jiansheng got straight to the point and talked about the current situation, that is, after the "Double 12" Xi'an Incident, the war between the two parties in China will come to an end for the time being, because the current priority has been transformed from internal contradictions to resisting the invasion of foreign enemies. Any hostile action between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is a matter between brothers; But at present, the Japanese invasion of China is a top priority, and it is necessary for brothers to abandon their isolation and resist foreign aggression together!

Next, Li Jiansheng carefully analyzed the situation in Japan. He believes that Japan's successive launches of the "961118" Incident and the "16128" Incident and finally completely invades Northeast China is the beginning of China's annihilation step by step. Li Jiansheng analyzed that this kind of aggression needs to be traced back to the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era.

As early as 1582, after the unification of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was determined to abandon Chinese culture. Toyotomi Hideyoshi believed that in order to conquer China, it was necessary to first conquer Korea, and finally conquer India, acting as the hegemon of Asia, and establishing a great Asian empire including Japan, China, India, and Korea, which was the beginning of Japan's idea of conquering Asia for hundreds of years. In 1582 and 1587, Toyotomi Hideyoshi twice launched the so-called Korean conquest war, and the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty twice sent the generals Li Rubai and Deng Zilong to Korea to attack the Japanese and defeat the Japanese army, Toyotomi Hideyoshi fell ill and finally died of illness on August 18, 1598, and the Japanese army was forced to completely withdraw from Korea, which also brought me 300 years of peace and tranquility in China.

Later, Japan carried out the Meiji Restoration, and the prototype and practice of Japanese militarist strategy took shape. From 1867 to 1894, Japan embarked on a militaristic path through the Meiji Restoration, with the military-controlled General Staff Headquarters controlling the Japanese cabinet, annexing the Ryukyus in 1872 while completely denying that the Qing Dynasty was the suzerainty of Korea. This is tantamount to clearing the periphery of direct aggression against China.

In 1880, Aritomo Yamagu, head of the General Staff Headquarters, wrote the "Commander's Military Preparation Strategy", emphasizing that China and Japan must have a war, and it is necessary to strengthen the expansion of armaments. Ten years later, in March 1890, Yama Prefecture Youtomo made a special presentation to Emperor Meiji of Japan, throwing out the so-called "sovereignty line" and "interest line" of aggression and expansion theory, and the so-called "way to defend the country" is: a defense of the territory; 2. Annexation of Korea; 3. Aggression against China. Li Jiansheng pointed out that this twist and turn and this so-called "way of defending the country" were positioned by Emperor Meiji as the fundamental way of Japan!

Li Jiansheng then painfully recalled that Japanese militarism, under this "strategic way," launched the First Sino-Japanese War on July 25, 1894, when it suddenly attacked a Chinese troop carrier. In the end, the Chinese Beiyang Navy was completely annihilated! Japan forced China to sign the "Xinchou Treaty", and China was forced to cede Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, and at the same time compensate 230 million taels of silver for the war! Equivalent to ten years of China's GDP at that time!

Li Jiansheng pointed out that Japan used this extortion of 230 million taels of silver war reparations from China to carry out capital accumulation at a high speed, develop modern education, industry and commerce, and the military industry, and make full preparations for further aggression against China! China, on the other hand, used its own funds to create an enemy who shared the sky!

"We, China, the Westernization Movement, with the total annihilation of the Beiyang Navy, declared a complete failure! Our first attempt to modernize was broken! Li Jiansheng's sentimental voice suddenly stopped. He needed to soothe the oppressive breath in his chest!

Everyone in the conference room, whether it is Luo Ronghuan who lives on the rostrum, Zeng Zhongsheng, Yuntian, Liu Qiao who is sitting in the first row of the stage, whether it is Yang Zhishen, Luo Kaikai, Niu Dali, Bai Kaishan in the second row, or Shen Pheasant, Shang Zhiyuan and others in the back row, they are all lonely and angry at the moment. But no one made a sound, and they all knew that the commander-in-chief Li Jiansheng must have something to say. For a while, the atmosphere in the conference room was extremely depressing, dull and silent.

Li Jiansheng sighed inwardly, calmed himself down, took out a box of cigarettes from his trouser pocket, opened it by himself, popped one out, and didn't care about others, gently lit it with a match, and took a heavy puff. He didn't smoke before, but now he's getting used to it. In the entire conference room, except for him, no one else smoked, including several old smokers Guo Hu, Guo Da, Xu Zhengfang, Lao Cai Zhong, Niu Dali, etc. Zeng Zhongsheng has never smoked, a typical military habit. Luo Ronghuan didn't smoke at this time, but quietly took out one from the cigarette case that Li Jiansheng put on the table, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it vigorously, without saying a word from beginning to end.

Li Jiansheng paused, took another sharp breath, and then continued his speech. The usual loud voice seemed particularly cold at this time: "During the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905, Japan and Russia divided Russia in Inner Mongolia and Northeast China into Japan's sphere of influence through the Portsmouth Peace Treaty. Comrades, that is the land of China, but it has been successively divided into spheres of influence by Russia and Japan, and the world is so big, how can there be such a reason? But, it's happening all around us! After speaking, Li Jiansheng took a sharp breath again. However, it seems that this sip was sucked too hard and choked all at once. After coughing twice, Li Jiansheng took another sip of water and continued to explain:

In 1915, Japan proposed to Yuan Shikai the 21 Articles for the destruction of China; In 1921, Japan's Hara Kei cabinet formulated the "Manchurian and Mongolian Policy", in 1927, after the post-war economic crisis and the 1923 Kanto earthquake, the fanatical militarist Tanaka Yoshiichi came to power to form a cabinet, and soon held the Oriental Conference, at which Tanaka issued the "China Policy Program", after the meeting, Tanaka according to the spirit of the meeting and the essence of the above-mentioned program, the emperor said: "If you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchu and Mongolia; If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China. ”

"This is the infamous Tanaka Sotsune!" Li Jiansheng said: "This memo elaborates on the steps and methods for implementing the above-mentioned aggressive strategy. In my opinion, this Tanaka twist and turn marks the final formation and large-scale implementation of Japan's policy toward China, and Japan regards Korea and Manchuria-Mongolia as Japan's lifeline, and its fundamental strategy and essence is to eventually invade China and conquer the world! ”

Li Jiansheng went on to point out that at the same time, the Japanese emperor used Japan's traditional Shinto religion and military to strengthen his autocratic rule and supremacy over the country; The Japanese fascists also advocated the establishment of a power political system with the emperor as the absolute authority. The combination of the totalitarian politics of the Japanese emperor and the military, and ultra-nationalists, formed the Japanese fascist ideology; Japan finally embarked on the road of full-scale invasion of China! "All this has disrupted our second effort towards modernization in China!"

After speaking, Li Jiansheng paused, lit another cigarette, and continued to count the sins of Japan:

In July 1926, Chiang Kai-shek led the Chinese National Revolutionary Army to start the Northern Expedition, and after the formation of the Tanaka Cabinet, he obstructed the Northern Expedition of the Nationalist Government;

In May 1928, Japan sent troops to Shandong to cause the Jinan Massacre;

On June 3, 1928, Zhang Zuolin was killed in Huanggutun. The reason was that Zhang Zuolin was unwilling to be a puppet of Japan and hindered the "Manchurian and Mongolian" policy of the Japanese militarist forces. Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang, the Northeast authority, properly handled the incident and successfully implemented the Northeast Banner Change on December 29, 1928, and Japan did not achieve its goal of annexing the three eastern provinces this time. However, at this time, Japan's established national policy and strategy did not change, and it was a prelude and exercise to the September 61 and 18 incidents three years later.

In May 1931, Shintaro Nakamura, a spy of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, escaped and was killed after being caught espionage in Northeast China.

In July 1931, Japan instigated the Koreans to invade and occupy Chinese farmland at Wanbaoshan in Changchun, and instigated the Korean ronin to deliberately destroy the farmland of Chinese farmers on a large scale; after the Chinese peasants obstructed, the Japanese military and police shot and killed many Chinese peasants, and fabricated lies in North Korea that "Chinese peasants killed Koreans, and China ordered the expulsion of Koreans", inciting a wave of anti-Chinese trends, and a riot against China broke out in Pyongyang, resulting in the death of more than 80 Chinese, which is the "Wanbaoshan Incident" in history. This time, Japan fabricated lies, created public opinion about the crisis in Mongolia, pushed the incident to the brink of war, and prepared for the war of aggression against China.

Speaking of this, Li Jiansheng stopped again, smoked all the cigarettes in one go, and glanced at everyone in the conference room, and then Li Jiansheng slowly talked about the "9611118" Wicker Lake incident:

After the Nakamura Incident and the Wanbaoshan Incident, the Japanese fascist forces instigated an unprecedented war frenzy, and made a series of war preparations, now there is only one pretext for war, the Japanese military department formulated a detailed plan and action plan, on the evening of September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army in accordance with the plan of the military department, in the South Manchurian Railway wicker lake section ignited the pre-planted explosives, blew up the tracks, and then falsely claimed that the Chinese army blew up the railway, at the same time the Kwantung Army fiercely bombarded and attacked the Northeast Army North Camp, the Japanese cabinet issued a statement: "The Kwantung Army's current operation was a self-defense operation against China," and the Japanese emperor also approved the decision of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, "The military department hopes to solve the Manchurian and Mongolian problems together." What is hateful is that hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army in Northeast China retreated without firing a single shot, and Japan achieved the unanimity of the whole country and finally invaded and occupied the three northeastern provinces of China. A large amount of gold and heavy weapons left in the Northeast by the Northeast Army, including an arsenal, were all taken by the Japanese as owned!

"Bang!" Before Li Jiansheng's words fell, he saw Niu vigorously slap the table next to him and stand up suddenly. The table "banged", and under Niu Dali's palm, it was dispersed at that time. Li Jiansheng looked at Niu Dali, and saw that the kid looked like a division commander now? His eyes were red and bulging, obviously angry at the situation he had just said, and he lost his temper in a hurry. Sweep it again, which of the others is not a gas pole? It's just that it didn't happen. And Niu Dali's personality has always been like this, which is understandable. Luo Ronghuan, who was sitting next to Li Jiansheng, of course, also knew the reason for Niu Dali's move, and stretched out his hand to signal Niu Dali to sit down, Yang Zhishen and Li Qing sat on both sides of Niu Dali, and persuaded him to sit down. Niu Dali also knew that he was out of shape, and sat down, just panting.

Li Jiansheng did not stop, and continued to talk about the "16128 Incident". However, this time, Li Jiansheng decided to take some time to seriously introduce the trustworthiness and shamelessness of the Japanese to everyone, so that when his troops encountered the Japanese army in the future, they could do what they should do and save themselves from suffering. So, he detailed this incident that also made him indignant.

After the "18 September" incident, in order to cover up the conspiracy of the puppet government of Manchukuo, Seishiro Itagaki, a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, colluded with Takayoshi Tanaka, assistant military attache of the Japanese Legation in Shanghai, to create an incident in Shanghai. On January 18, 1932, Takayoshi Tanaka and Yoshiko Kawashima, a female spy, plotted and instigated five people, including the Japanese monk Keisei Amazaki, to throw stones at the workers' volunteers of the main factory of China Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. on Mayushan Road, and beat each other with the workers. Tanaka manipulated hooligans and traitors to take the opportunity to beat two Japanese monks to serious injuries, and it was reported that one of them died in the hospital. Immediately using this as an excuse, he instructed a group of thugs from the Overseas Chinese Youth Comrades Association to burn down the Sanyou Industrial Company in the middle of the night on the 19th, hacking and slashing three Chinese police officers to death. On the 20th, he instigated more than 1,000 overseas Japanese to rally and march, strongly demanding that the Japanese consul general and the Marine Corps intervene. On the 21st, Japanese Consul General Murai Aomatsu made four unreasonable demands to the mayor of Shanghai: an apology, punishment of the culprits, compensation, and dissolution of anti-Japanese organizations. On the 22nd, Koichi Shiozawa, commander of the 1st Japanese Foreign Fleet in Shanghai, issued a threatening statement to step up preparations for war on the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese and to transfer troops from Japan to Shanghai. On the 27th, Murai issued an ultimatum to the Shanghai authorities, giving a satisfactory reply by 6 p.m. on the 28th, otherwise necessary action would be taken. In order to concentrate its forces to "suppress the Communists" in Jiangxi, the Kuomintang government continued to implement a policy of non-resistance against Japan. He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, sent an urgent telegram to the 19th Route Army to endure humiliation and ask for perfection, ordering Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng to accept all the unreasonable demands made by the Japanese side at 13:45 on the 28th. Chiang Kai-shek, who was temporarily in the wilderness, entrusted the Kuomintang veteran Zhang Jingjiang to persuade Cai Tingkai to avoid conflict with the Japanese army, and transferred the 16th Military Police Regiment to take over the defense of the 19th Route Army in Shanghai. After receiving Wu Tiecheng's reply, the Japanese side expressed "satisfaction," but on the grounds of protecting overseas Chinese, it demanded that the Chinese troops must withdraw from Zhabei and did not wait for a reply to make a surprise attack on Zhabei that night.

At the beginning of the incident, the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai had more than 1,800 marines, more than 4,000 armed Japanese nationals, more than 40 aircraft, dozens of armored vehicles, and 23 naval vessels in the Hongkou Concession and Yangshupu, cruising outside the mouth of the Yangtze River and on the Huangpu River, under the command of Koichi Shiozawa, commander of the Navy's 1st Foreign Fleet. At midnight on January 28, it raided Zhabei in three ways, capturing Tiantongan Station and Shanghai North Railway Station. Under the command of commander-in-chief Jiang Guangnai and army commander Cai Tingkai, our army and civilians rose up to resist the war, and our party organized workers and students to fully support this anti-war force at that time. In the end, our army and civilians repelled the Japanese troops attacking from Hengbang Road, Qiujiang Road, and Baoshan Road, and recaptured Tiantongan Station and Shanghai North Railway Station on the 29th. The Japanese army was defeated and retreated from the concession, and through the consuls of Britain, the United States and other countries came forward to "mediate" and reached a ceasefire agreement.

But this is only a delaying tactic. On the one hand, Japan issued a statement on the 29th threatening the Chinese government, falsely accusing the Shanghai incident of being caused by China's anti-Japanese movement. By February 2, the Japanese army had transferred 2 additional aircraft carriers, 12 warships of various types, and 7,000 marines from China to Shanghai. On the 3rd, the Japanese broke the ceasefire agreement and attacked Zhabei again, but were repulsed by the defenders. The Japanese cabinet then sent the 3rd Fleet and the Kurume Army to help Shanghai, and the commander of the 3rd Fleet, Nomura Kichizaburo, took over the command of Shiozawa. Waiting for reinforcements. China was fooled again, giving the Japanese army an opportunity to increase its troops.

The battle situation in Shanghai was unfavorable to the Japanese army, and on February 14, the Japanese cabinet transferred the 9th Army Division to participate in the battle, and changed the command of the 9th Division Commander Ueda Kenkichi. On the same day, the Chinese government sent Zhang Zhizhong, who was fighting against Japan, to serve as the commander of the 5th Army, and led the 87th and 88th divisions of the headquarters and the teaching corps of the Central Army Military Academy to reinforce Shanghai, which was under the unified command of the 19th Route Army, and took over the defense line from the northern end of Jiangwan through the temple to the western end of Wusong, as the left wing army. The 19th Route Army was the right wing army, responsible for the defense of Jiangwan, south of Dachang and the urban area of Shanghai. On the 18th, Ueda issued an ultimatum to blackmail the Chinese defenders into retreating 20 kilometers before 17 o'clock on the 20th, but Cai Tingkai sternly refused. On the 20th, Ueda ordered the Japanese army to attack on the whole front, adopting the tactics of breaking through the center and attacking on both flanks, and used the 9th Division to attack the junction of Jiangwan and Miaohang, in an attempt to besiege Wusong with the Kurume Brigade in the north and the Marines in the south. The defending 19th Route Army fought side by side with the 5th Army, closely coordinated, used the water network zone and existing fortifications in the Yangtze River Delta to resist stubbornly, and organized troops with strong combat effectiveness to flank the enemy who broke through to the junction of Jiangwan and Miaohang. After six days and nights of fighting, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and switched from a full-front offensive to a focused offensive, and then was forced to suspend the offensive.

The Songhu War of Resistance inspired the whole country, and the officers and soldiers in the rear asked for the war of resistance, but Chiang Kai-shek refused to send more troops to Shanghai. The Japanese Cabinet decided to form the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and sent former War Minister Yoshirakawa Yoshinori as commander for unified command. From 27 February, the Japanese army in Shanghai received additional troops from the 11th and 14th Divisions of the Army, and the total strength increased to 90,000, 80 warships, and 300 aircraft, and its combat effectiveness increased sharply. At that time, the total strength of the Chinese defenders was less than 50,000, the equipment was poor, and after a month of hard fighting, the casualties were relatively serious, and the river defense in the Liuhe area on the left was weak. Drawing lessons from the failure of the frontal attack of the previous three commanders, Shirakawa decided to land on the Liuhe River on the flank, flanking the Songhu defenders on both sides. On March 1, he commanded the 9th Division and other units to attack Song and Shanghai head-on, and escorted the 11th Division into the mouth of the Yangtze River with the 3rd Fleet, and suddenly landed at Liuhekou, Yanglinkou, and Qiyakou, and quickly outflanked the defenders. The defenders of Songhu suffered from the enemy on their backs and were forced to retreat to the front line of Jiading and Taicang. On the 2nd, the Japanese army captured Shanghai, and the battle ended on the 3rd.

"This is the whole process of the 16128 incident." Li Jiansheng concluded: "In this campaign, our army fought bloody battles with the support of the people, successively defeated the Japanese attack, caused the enemy to change its commander three times, increased its troops several times, and suffered more than 10,000 casualties, which dealt a heavy blow. After a pause, Li Jiansheng said sadly, but it is a pity that the authorities of the Nationalist Government compromised and retreated, did not continue to send reinforcements, the defenders were outnumbered, and the defense line was finally broken through by the Japanese army from the flank and forced to retreat. Later, under the mediation of Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and other countries, China and Japan negotiated and on May 5, the Chinese government and Japan signed the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" that humiliated the country.

In the conference room, Li Jiansheng took a sip of water, sorted out his thoughts a little, lit another cigarette, and continued: "In March 1933, the Japanese army sent troops to occupy Rehe and attack the passes of the Great Wall, the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army commanded by Song Zheyuan resisted hard, but the Japanese army still broke through Lengkou and Gubeikou and entered the pass. In particular, it should be noted that Gubeikou was breached because the traitors led the Japanese army to cross the Great Wall from the mountain road through the gap. By this time, the Japanese army also hoped to stabilize for a period of time to consolidate the northeast. After secret negotiations between Huang Yin, chairman of the Beiping Political Affairs Committee at that time, and Okamura Ninji, deputy chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Finally, the plenipotentiary representatives appointed by He Yingqin, acting chairman of the Beiping Branch of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, signed an armistice agreement in Tanggu on the morning of May 31, 1933. At the time of signing, Okamura Ninji first put forward the draft armistice agreement, explained that this was the final motion of the Kwantung Army, and that not a word could be changed, and asked the Chinese representative to give a reply before 11 a.m. whether he promised or not, and discarded the "Opinion of the Chinese Army Representative on the Armistice Agreement" put forward by the Chinese representative Xiong Bin. Okamura said in a strong line that the Chinese side can only answer the "no" or "no" answer to the draft armistice agreement proposed by the Japanese side, and that all statements must be made after the armistice agreement is signed before discussion. The two sides held each other until 10:50 a.m., only 10 minutes before the deadline, and Xiong Bin was forced to sign the Japanese proposal, which could not be amended.

Glancing at the blood-red eyes and almost distorted faces in the conference room, Li Jiansheng paused for a moment. Then to his surprise, everyone did not make any surprise moves, just silence. Silence is silent, either perish in silence or explode in silence! Thinking about Lu Xun's famous sentence, Li Jiansheng sighed in his heart. Continue to speak: It is undeniable that the desperate resistance of our various armies against Japan has made Japan see our determination to resist China, and at the same time, because it wants to consolidate the land that has already been invaded, Japan has not launched any more wars of aggression against China for a period of time. "However, this is not that Japan is no longer invading us. It's that they are not ready, and once they are ready, they will invade China in full! Li Jiansheng pointed out that after three years of preparation, Japan is now ready for an all-out invasion of China. He asserted that in three months or six months, Japan would invade China in an all-out way. If we don't prepare for the all-out war of resistance, every one of us here, our children and grandchildren, will forever be crowned with one name: Slaves of the Lost Country!

(This chapter is a transitional paragraph.) More quotes. Apologize! ）