September 10, 1941

day and evening. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBeiping, Cuimingzhuang.

Cuimingzhuang is on the east side of the Forbidden City, not far from Donghua Gate, not outside the city, let alone on the outskirts of the city.

Speaking of which, Tsui Ming Zhuang is a place with a lot of history. At the beginning, before the Japanese army launched the 77 Incident, Mr. Mei Lanfang took a fancy to this place, bought it, and wanted to build a big theater. It is located in Dongcheng District, very close to Donghua Gate, and is a good place to open a theater.

Unfortunately, the 77 Incident happened, and the Japanese army set up its headquarters in Beiping. The Japanese army built a courtyard here, a combination of Chinese and Western, blue brick buildings, green glazed tile roofs, most of the buildings are two-storey, and near the gatehouse is a three-story building.

After the Japanese army built Cuimingzhuang, it was set up as a guest house for the Inspirational Society, and the Japanese soldiers came and went.

After Gangcun Ningji took over the post of commander, he took a fancy to this place and placed the commander's residence here. It is said to be the commander's residence, but in fact, this is the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front, and the operational command room is set up here.

Gangmura Ninji hadn't slept well for several days.

Born in 1884, Okamura Ninji was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, the second crow of the Baden-Baden League that created the Showa warlords, and the main war criminal in the war of aggression against China.

In 1927, when he was the commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army, Okamura Ninji sent troops to Shandong, China, and was one of the main culprits in the "May 3" Jinan tragedy. This was his first invasion of China.

In 1932, Okamura Ning served as the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army, participated in the January 28 Incident, led his troops to invade Shanghai, and slaughtered the people of Shanghai.

In the spring of 1933, when the Kwantung Army invaded Rehe and the Great Wall and coerced Tianjin, Okamura Ninji forced the Kuomintang authorities to sign the humiliating Tanggu Agreement on behalf of the Japanese.

From 1941 to 1944, Okamura Ninji implemented the three-light policy of burning and killing all the light. Historically, it is very strange that this person was listed as the No. 1 war criminal on the list of war criminals of the Chinese Communist Party, but he was acquitted by the Kuomintang military court in February 1949, and was later hired by Chiang Lao as a senior instructor in Taiwan.

The evaluation of Okamura Ninji is most famous for Peng Dehuaide's words. Peng told his subordinates: "Okamura Ninji is a more vicious and sophisticated opponent than Tada. He has a lot of skills, can be realistic, meticulous and thorough. Every time he attacked, he had to investigate for half a year and make preparations. There is no inside line to cooperate with the 'maintenance' of the 'cannibalization' of him. He is not in the limelight, does not speak much, is not rude to his subordinates, and you can't see his movements from his speech. He often collected and studied our things extensively, and was one of the most powerful Japanese commanders in North China in history. ”

Ever since the Imperial Allied Army he sent was eaten by the Manchurian Eighth Route Army, he felt the power of the Manchurian Eighth Route Army. This Imperial Cooperative Army is very powerful, and its equipment is the best among all the Imperial Cooperative Army. With such an army, even if the imperial army eats it, it will be difficult, let alone Tubalu?

However, this one unit was eaten.

As before, he took steady measures, and after stabilizing the occupied areas in Shanxi in Hebei, he gradually transferred half of the army, and with the addition of a large number of imperial troops, he pressed heavily to the front line north of Shanhaiguan.

As a result, this time, the imperial army was defeated.

Gangcun stood still, thinking that the movement of the Eighth Route was very large, but there was nothing remarkable. As a result, as expected by Gangcun, although the Rehe Eighth Road was fierce in the past few days, it had conquered more than 20 county seats, and it did not dare to move the big cities at all, and the Manchuria Eighth Road was also unable to advance southward, forming a confrontational situation at Shanhaiguan.

Gangcun is carefully studying the information that has been sent back.

Comparing the fragmentary information collected in the past on the Manchurian Eighth Route to attack the large cities in the northeast, it was found that they possessed a lot of advanced weapons.

The first new weapon is the tank. The Japanese front line called it the Super Tank, and there were about three to six of them. Reports came back from the front that at present, the artillery of the front line of the Imperial Army did not have shells capable of destroying such tanks. An ordinary infantry artillery shell hit it, it could not cause any damage at all, there was a big Zuo who saw with his own eyes, a shell hit a super tank, the tank turned out to be not damaged, did not stop at all. This kind of tank fire is powerful, and there are many machine gun bullets, and many Japanese soldiers saw that the soldier next to them was hit by a bullet, and half of his chest was blown up.

In addition to super tanks, the Northeast Coalition Army also had a large number of Soviet-made tanks. This tank is also very powerful and can knock over the bean tank.

The second new weapon is a communications weapon. I don't know what kind of weapon it was, which caused the radio station at the front line to be paralyzed and the electron tube burned out. This is the fundamental reason for the disruption of the rear front line and the great chaos of order.

The Japanese base camp sent these materials to weapons experts, who said that the weapons were so advanced that even the Soviet Union and Germany did not have them. It should be investigated whether it is the secret weapon of US aid to them.

The third new weapon, the submarine. Recently, it was discovered that there is a submarine force in Manchuria 8, which must be a weapon aided by the United States, so what does Manchuria 8th Road have to do with the United States?

Aware of the danger, Gangcun strictly ordered the troops in all localities to take a defensive position and not to provoke the Manchurian Eighth Road. Ask the Navy to come to the aid, how can the Navy come to the fleet? Only to take a defensive position.

In the past few days, there has been a rare peace on the Hebei front.

However, this peaceful situation was interrupted yesterday.

Yesterday, September 9, the Eighth Route Army dispatched planes to drop thousands of large and small bottles on the frontline positions in Shanhaiguan. The bottles fell to the ground, mostly shattered, and gasoline everywhere.

Immediately afterward, several fighter jets fired at the position, causing a fire on the position, killing thousands of people and wounding many more. A third of the troops at the front were no longer combat-ready.

Last night, Gangcun, who had been thinking for nearly ten hours, issued an order to take the initiative to retreat the Japanese troops in Shanhaiguan to Qinhuangdao, and now, the troops in Shanhaiguan have begun to retreat.

Gangcun had a conjecture that the Manchurian Eighth Route was working on new weapons.

Gangcun was even taken aback by his own speculation. If this were the case, a lot of strange phenomena would be explained. The Manchurian Eighth Road had a very formidable opponent. Is it the mysterious Lu Xiaoming? How could a person who had not attended an army university become the main opponent of the Imperial Army? It's not him, who is it?

After making several conservative decisions in succession, Gangcun returned to his residence in the backyard of Cuimingzhuang, closed the door, and saw no one. He had to think about it as he had done the year before. Because he had good means every time he thought about it after taking office as the commander of North China, everyone was looking forward to his thinking.

Okamura Ninji had a lot of thoughts.

Okamura Ninh received the rank of general in April 1941. Soon after, he was appointed by the emperor as commander of the North China Front.

At that time, the North China Front had 245,000 personnel, 52,000 horses, 740 heavy artillery, 8,000 automobiles, and ammunition of all kinds.

This is one of the largest strategic groups in Japan, and in addition to the Kwantung Army, it is the North China Front.

He was also very dissatisfied that the North China Army did not have a few aircraft.

Last time, Gangmura, who had not long been appointed as commander, had been thinking for a long time in Tsuimingzhuang, and many results had been achieved in this thinking, and several important conclusions had been reached.

With regard to the strength of the Japanese army in North China, he clearly saw the fact that everyone turned a blind eye: The North China Front Army has always been highly dispersed and deployed, and troops have to be stationed in Rehe, Suiyuan, Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong, with an average of only two men per three square kilometers. As for the strategy of the Japanese army in the previous stage, he believed that the imperial army lacked a precise and regular goal of rectification, and only a static defense. If the Japanese army does not take the initiative to crusade, the CCP will not attack.

For the Eighth Route Army, Gangcun did not have very detailed information. However, looking at the situation between the two sides, it is as if the two sides have concluded a non-aggression pact. In fact, the Eighth Route Army developed its strength among the population, and when the time came, it could turn to the offensive in one fell swoop.

The Battle of the Hundred Regiments is a case in point.

Therefore, on that occasion, Gangcun formulated a policy for the future of the Japanese army: to take the planned measures of taking the initiative to attack, to "divide the territory, consolidate the security area for a limited time, conceal the strength of the quasi-security area, enter the security area in a planned way, and use the remaining forces to advance to the non-security area, so that it can develop into the quasi-security area." The ultimate goal is to bring 100 million people in northern China to the Japanese side. ”

Since Gangcun had formulated a strategy, he steadily implemented it, and he planned to increase the area actually controlled by the Japanese army from 10 percent to 70 percent in three years. Gangcun wanted the Japanese army to be superficially kind to the Chinese people in order to consolidate the rule of the occupied areas.

One of the important conclusions of Gangcun's thinking is the criterion for judging whether the law and order in the occupied areas is good or not. Very simply, from the eyes of the Chinese girl, you can see the quality of the local security situation: "First, there is absolutely no trace of the girl. It is evidence of the fear of the Japanese soldiers, and it is not good for public order. Second, I am surprised by our cars and trucks and look out of the window from afar. For security is slightly better. Thirdly, in the case of the preceding paragraph, when she walked out of the house and looked out, the Chinese girl walked calmly on the street where there were Japanese soldiers, and the law and order was good."

As a result, the situation in northern China changed dramatically after a few months.

After several sweeps and the death of 2.7 million civilians, the Kuomintang army could not stand the pressure, and more than 400,000 surrendered alone, and the Eighth Route Army fell into a very passive situation, losing half of its base areas and population, and all the rich areas of the plains became guerrilla areas, and the total strength was reduced from 400,000 to 300,000.

The situation improved slightly, the Pacific Ocean lacked military strength, and the base camp immediately began to transfer troops from North China to the South Seas and Vladivostok, Siberia. The elite of the Japanese army in North China was greatly reduced.

At this stage, the Eighth Route Army's weapons supply was greatly strengthened, and its military strength even began to recover.

At this critical moment, from the beginning of this year, until now, the Manchurian Eighth Route has begun a big move.

The offensive of the Eighth Route in Manchuria forced the imperial army in North China to stop the sweep and send the troops sent from various places to the north of Shanhaiguan, occupying a large amount of military strength.

In September, the Eighth Route of Manchuria took the initiative to attack the imperial army outside the Shanhai Pass, and now, the military strength in Gangcun's hands is even more insufficient.

What countermeasures must be taken to contain the offensive of the Eighth Route in Manchuria?

At this time, the situation in North China unconsciously became worse. Although the big cities of Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces are still under control, a large number of county towns have been lost. Now, almost all the counties far from the railroad are lost. The countryside is all lost. In addition to the suburbs of the city, there are also both sides of the railway, and the land that the North China garrison army can collect grain is almost gone. A large number of Imperial Concord troops rebelled, which led to no one to lead the way during the crusade, and they had to rely on maps.

Because Chongqing also saw the benefits, it sent many people and troops to fight for territory with the Eighth Route Army and contain the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, the Eighth Route Army would not be able to suppress it.

Thinking of this, Gangcun couldn't help but have a headache, rang the bell and called the guards to come in and bring sleeping pills.

After taking sleeping pills, after a while, Gangcun fell into a deep sleep.