March 26, 1938. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition to attending the second public trial of traitors, Xiaolu also held a press conference to meet with several Chinese and foreign journalists.

The reporters waited outside the headquarters for about half an hour before entering the hall one after another. The security forces conducted a search of the journalist to ensure that he was not carrying firearms, knives and bombs. The search went smoothly and no one was armed.

In addition to local Chinese and foreign reporters in Beiping, there were also reporters from Yan'an from Shanxi and foreign reporters from Tianjin and other places. Because Japan and various Western countries had not yet declared war, these foreigners were under the consular protection of the Japanese.

After entering the hall and waiting for more than ten minutes, Xiaolu arrived, gave a short speech, distributed a press release that had just been printed, and began to answer questions.

Foreign reporters were curious about this contingent that suddenly occupied Beiping, and asked a lot of questions about Xiaolu. The main questions focus on who you are, whose troops are your troops, how did you occupy Beiping, and what are your plans for the future.

Xiao Lu basically answered all these questions, and as for his future plans, Xiao Lu did not answer directly, but just asked them to go to Langfang to interview his troops.

During the interview, there was an episode when, after answering a question from an American reporter, two Chinese-looking men asked for questions. Xiao Lu felt that the Chinese reporter should be given a chance, so he asked him to ask questions.

The reporter looked at the notebook and asked, "General Lu, may I ask a question, how long do you think China can hold out under the blows of our great Japanese army?" Can you predict when China will fall? ”

Xiao Lu glanced at the guards beside him and said, "It turned out to be a Japanese reporter." I can predict that Japan will surrender in five to ten years. And the Chinese will set foot on Japanese territory as a victorious power. ”

And when they heard this, they began to discuss.

At this time, the Japanese photojournalist picked up the camera and aimed it at the path, and a guard next to him kicked the camera, and with a bang, the gun in the camera went off, and the bullet hit the ceiling. Several guards swarmed up and arrested the two Assassins.

A plainclothes man took the camera apart and pulled out a modified pistol from it.

Xiaolu said: "I'm sorry, please continue to ask questions." ”

An American journalist asked, "Where did you and your troops come from?" I'm a little confused. ”

Xiaolu said: "I am from Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Of course, we call it the Northeast. We have a large number of troops and people who persist in the war of resistance behind enemy lines. Today, we have a base. You can go to us for an interview. All are welcome. ”

The American journalist asked, "Then why are you fighting in Nanjing?" I've heard the story of a ship you captured, but I have a question, how did you get to Nanjing? ”

Xiaolu said: "It was a complete accident. After the ships I captured arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River, I took part in the defense of Jiangyin, and the results were good, and I also made some remarks. When the leader found out about these remarks, he summoned me to Nanjing. That's why I got involved in the Battle of Nanjing. ”

"One ship, thousands of people?"

"Yes. With the exception of Japanese advisers and officers, it is difficult to imagine how crowded the cabins of the Manchurian puppet army were, some with bunks to sleep on, others only to sit. The Japanese have reached a crazy level of transporting troops to Songhu. ”

Xiao Lu saw that everyone no longer asked questions, and said: "I want to emphasize that the Japanese army slaughtered a large number of Chinese people in the towns and villages near Nanjing, the number of which is not yet known, but the preliminary estimate is that their massacre caused the death of more than 100,000 people. I have some information here, which I will share with you in a moment. Time is in a hurry, and only two sets of photos have been printed, I hope everyone will help each other and send all the photos. ”

In the evening, Xiaolu received a battle report that the transfer of a large number of Japanese civilian prisoners from Beiping to the Pingxi base area had ended. These Japanese were moved to the mountains west of Beiping with their families. Moved on foot, complaining bitterly. At the same time, their possessions in Peiping were also emptied.

March 27, 1938.

Many newspapers in the world have published articles about the situation in North China, lamenting that a chaotic unit under the leadership of the Red Army has occupied Beiping, lamenting that anything can happen in this world.

A large number of newspapers also carried the news of the massacre by the Japanese army.

This news caused a shock, and a large number of intellectuals took to the streets in the cities of southwest, central and southern China, where there were no falls, marching and giving speeches to protest against the atrocities of the Japanese. Other countries were also shocked, and the image of the Japanese was known to people all over the world.

On this day, Xiaolu made an appearance in Langfang. Only one reporter from Yan'an and one reporter from the Yanxi Mountains in Shanxi Province were allowed to follow the report.

On the same day, the 20,000 devil puppet army on the Baoding side moved north, one to Beiping and the other to Tianjin. In addition, tens of thousands of troops from Tangshan also passed through Tianjin to move to Beiping.

The devils of Chengde are also approaching Beiping. Chengde's army is a devil army, and it is very fast, and it is the fastest of these troops. They marched on two routes, the small army went southwest to the mountain road, out of Miyun County, and the large army went south to Zunhua, passed through Tangshan, and went straight to Beiping.

It was also on this day that Mentougou and Changping were restored. The attack on Mentougou was a force of 1,000 men, while the attack on Changping was a force of 2,000 men.

For the next three days, although Xiaolu made an occasional appearance, he refused to meet outsiders and concentrated on preparing for battle. The reporters came to inquire about the location of his road, and the reply was that everyone was asked to leave Beiping, because there would be a big battle here soon, and it was not safe.

In the past few days, traitors and Japanese war criminals have been executed every day in Beiping. Each execution was accompanied by a proclamation detailing the crimes of the executed. Executions are also being carried out in various counties on the outskirts. The total number of executions has reached more than 800 people.

March 30, 1938. The trail is gone.

The vanguard of the Japanese army in Chengde quickly arrived at the Miyun line by car, and in the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese army occupied Miyun County.

Because the Japanese spies, Japanese trading houses, and even the Japanese people in Miyun County were all cleared, and no useful information was asked at all, and the interpreter found a few locals, saying that there had been no troops stationed here for a long time in the past few days. When asked where the unit had gone, some said it was going south, some said it was west, some said it had gone east, and some said it was going north.

March 31, 1938.

Huairou fell. The Japanese continued to search the trail for the large force, and this time the message was clear that the unit was heading west.

The situation has also changed in the other two directions.

The Japanese puppet army approached Nanyuan in Beiping until the front line of Jixian in Langfang, and in the morning, Japanese planes and artillery bombed the ground fortifications. The air force finally completed the transition, and gathered dozens of planes in North China to bomb many targets on the periphery of Beiping.

In the afternoon, ground forces went on the offensive and quickly occupied the positions of the opposing side. The position was empty, there was no one. At less than two o'clock in the afternoon, the Nanyuan military camp was occupied, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, the whole of Beiping fell again.

The Japanese troops who had re-entered the Beiping Command searched the headquarters and found a letter on the commander's desk, which was handwritten by Commander-in-Chief Lu to the Japanese commander in North China. In addition to solemnly demanding that they leave China, the content of the handwritten letter also said that negotiations would be held for important Japanese prisoners of war.

On April 1, all the county towns near Beiping fell. Lu Xiaoming and his troops evaporated.

The Japanese army was annoyed from top to bottom, and tens of thousands of people evaporated, which was impossible. The various units were asked to conduct searches. The North China secret service began to collect intelligence long ago, but unfortunately a large number of intelligence officers were arrested and killed. The information reported by the surviving informants was chaotic and of poor quality.

The reconnaissance plane searched around Beiping City, but could not find this unit, so it expanded the search area and found several small units in the mountains. The small troops, disheveled in disheveled clothes, flew on the hillside and hilltop. The planes searched along the mountain road, focusing on the road from Beiping to Chengde, but they also found nothing. While searching the mountain road from Beiping to Zhangjiakou, small units were also found, and even one unit opened fire on a reconnaissance plane.

The North China Front had a new commander, with Sugiyama Mototo as commander and Yamashita Fumi as chief of staff. These two took office ahead of schedule.

After Sugiyama took office, he immediately set about cleaning up the mess.

At present, the erosion of North China has caused the materials of Manchuria and North China to be unable to be transported to the south bank of the Yellow River, and the Battle of Xuzhou was affected for a time, so the transportation line was changed to sea transportation. The resumption of rail transport was his top priority. And to restore railway transport, we must find that mysterious unit, we must annihilate him.

While Sugiyama was concentrating on studying the whereabouts of this unit, a reconnaissance plane spotted a large force near Chengde, and at the same time, Sugiyama received a telegram from a captured staff officer using an old code. The telegram said: I am Lu Xiaoming, and I have arrested Shouichi Terauchi. Currently, Shouichi Terauchi is in good health. On behalf of northern Shaanxi, I will negotiate with you on the issue of the handling of Shouichi in the temple. The call was made on April 5.

When asked about the place of negotiation, he replied: Chengde.

In fact, starting from March 25, Xiaolu and more than 1,000 troops walked around in Beiping, making high-profile trips. The troops on the Pingjin front were also small troops, just a pretense, and their own large troops were lurking during the day and marching at night towards Chengde.

The march was difficult, except for cars, tanks, etc., which were handed over to the local troops to hide. The seized floating wealth was also exchanged for food as much as possible. In addition to carrying guns and weapons, the soldiers also had to carry fifteen pounds of their own rations.

Because the small army from Chengde was marching, no traces of the march of the small road and the large army were found. Therefore, the planned encounter did not take place.

The troops marched very slowly, and had to take refuge in the ravine when the Japanese troops on the opposite side arrived, and finally reached the outside of Chengde on April 5. Today, Chengde is almost an empty city, garrisoned only by about 1,000 Japanese troops plus 1,000 puppet troops. More than 2,000 people quickly collapsed under the sneak attack of more than 30,000 people, and later a powerful offensive, and the troops completely annihilated the Japanese puppet defenders, and Chengde was recovered. It will be on April 4.