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Chapter 1239 Anything is possible

North China maintained a brief period of apparent peace, and I am afraid that no one could have imagined that the Kwantung Army would catch fire in the backyard. www.biquge.info The reason why Ueda Kenkichi and Tojo Hideki were in a hurry to return to Mukden was not only because they actively dispatched troops to respond to the actions of the Japanese army in North China, but also because of the sudden and drastic changes in the situation in the northeast.

In early February, the Fuxin Coal Mine, the largest coal mine in western Liaoning, was breached by inexplicable armed forces, and in addition to destroying the mine and machinery, more than 3,000 able-bodied miners were abducted, resulting in the coal mine being unable to resume production within half a year. Subsequently, the force disappeared as if out of thin air, and even a combination of aerial reconnaissance and ground search could not find its trace.

When it reappeared, this armed force actually broke through the town of Shuangmiaozi in the north of Kaiyuan in Fengtian Province and south of Siping, ransacked a military train that had been temporarily stationed there to transport arms and supplies, and then fled all the way south. The Kwantung Army garrison brigade stationed in Siping pursued with thousands of puppet ranks, encountered an ambush in the Beidaling area, and the whole army was annihilated, which shocked the entire Kwantung Army high-level and directly led to the resignation of Seishiro Itagaki. However, in order to save the so-called face, the Kwantung Army did not publicize it and quietly swallowed this bitter fruit.

After that, this mysterious armed force fled into the Changbai Mountains, and according to the analysis of the intelligence department, it is estimated that it will converge with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, and there has been no major movement since then.

No one expected that just yesterday, this mysterious armed force reappeared, first strangely captured the county town of Jining (now Jixi City), which was guarded by an independent wing and 4,000 puppet troops, and then quickly marched eastward, uprooting 26 border strongholds on the Manchu-Soviet border in one fell swoop, leaving hundreds of kilometers of the Manchu-Soviet border undefended.

Just when the Kwantung Army Command was extremely shocked and discussing countermeasures, this force of armed forces actually sent a partial division to blow up the railway bridge in the east of Mudanjiang City. According to the latest information, the towns of Mashan, Lishu, Hengshan, and Jidong near Jining have all fallen, and several coal mines in Jining are estimated to have been destroyed at this time, and the nearly 10,000 laborers working in these coal mines may have become a supplement to the soldiers of the other side.

At the Mukden Provincial Headquarters, Kenkichi Ueda and Hideki Tojo walked quickly into the conference room, and military and political dignitaries, including Keisuke Tenge, commander of the military police of the Kwantung Army, Jun Imamura, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and military attache stationed in Manchuria, Tachibusi Ayabe, chief of the first section of the Kwantung Army and combat staff officer, Kyoji Toenaga, chief of the second section, Yoshiharu Takeshita, chief of the third section, Makoto Katakura, chief of the fourth section, Junji Yabe, director of the manager, General Toyohiko Yoshida, president of Manchuria Electric Power Co., Ltd., and Senior General Ayao Kishimoto, chairman of the board of directors of Manchurian Steel, all stood solemnly.

Ueda Kenkichi glanced at the generals, frowned, came to the main seat, threw down the telegram in his hand, and asked sharply, "Can anyone tell me that this is the case?" Why did the chief of staff and I make such a big fuss in just one day? How do you ask me to explain to the country? ”

Kyoji Tominaga, who was in charge of intelligence, bent down: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency Commander, but I didn't do my job well. As a matter of fact, our intelligence department has tried every possible means to deal with the Chinese armed forces that have infiltrated East Manchuria at the beginning of the year, but no further information has come from the Anti-Japanese Union or from the undercover bandit forces, and this strange contingent that ransacked our military columns and ambushed our garrison brigade disappeared without a trace, as if it had gone underground.

"Regarding this surprise attack, our intelligence services unanimously agreed after studying it that it should have a lot to do with Soviet Russia. Presumably, Your Excellency the Commander also knows that according to the "Public Security Rectification Plan" formulated by Chief of Staff Tojo the year before last, in order to trap the anti-imperialist forces in the Changbai Mountain area, we have built forts and checkpoints all over the plains, supplemented by blockade ditches, so the enemy has no reason to slip out from under our noses and we don't know, so the biggest possibility is that they sneaked in from the territory of Soviet Russia, and then suddenly attacked, occupied the county town of Jining and the surrounding towns in one fell swoop, and then relied on Soviet Russia to confront our army. ”

Ueda Kenkichi was stunned for a moment and muttered to himself: "Soviet Russia? Is this possible? ”

Hideki Tojo, who was standing in front of the map and carefully examined it, turned around and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, this is very likely." The troops of the Nanjing government are already exhausted in North China, and it is impossible to have any idea of Manchuria, which has been impregnated by our Kwantung Army for many years, and with my perception of the weak Chinese government, they only want to maintain peace and stability in North China, and they are afraid that angering our side will lead to the outbreak of a major war. In this way, it can only be Soviet Russia behind the scenes. ”

Speaking of this, Hideki Tojo turned to the side, took the baton from the staff officer, and made a gesture on the map:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the place where Manchu and Mongolia meet North China is guarded by our Kwantung Army and Manchu and Mongolian Army, and the Chinese cannot rush in at all, and the only thing that can mix in a large number of troops is our long border with Mongolia. In the two and a half years between the outbreak of the Manchurian Incident and the Showa 9 (1934), there were 152 border conflicts with the Soviet Union, and by the 10th year of the Showa 10 there were 136 conflicts, and last year the number increased sharply to 203.

"In February this year, our Japanese imperial ** team took the lead in landing on Ganchazi Island and Dabekichev Island in the Heilongjiang River on the northern border of Manchuria. At the beginning of last month, Soviet Russia also sent troops to land on the two islands, and the 12 th Division of our Kwantung Army met at its meeting and fought-for-tat, and Soviet Russia immediately mobilized gunboats to confront us, and on the 30th, the officers and men of the 12 th Division could not bear the humiliation and opened fire on the Soviet Russian gunboats, sinking one of them, triggering a fierce artillery battle between the two sides, and bilateral relations deteriorated rapidly.

"I think this Jining incident is definitely not isolated, and there must be a shadow of Soviet Russia in the middle, so we must be cautious."

Ueda Kenkichi pondered for a while, and suddenly asked: "According to the intelligence, the mysterious forces that occupied Jining intercepted several military columns of our army at the same time, who knows the specific situation?" ”

Imamura was a little hesitant and stopped talking, and the manager Junji Yabe said stubbornly: "Hai, these five military trains are specially transferred by the Kwantung Army Headquarters in response to the increasingly severe border crisis in Binjiang Province and Sanjiang Province, and the purpose is to arm the troops of the two divisions from the immigrants of the two provinces, and at the same time replenish our arms stocks on the border line. The five special trains carried 10,000 Type 38 rifles, 300 Taisho Type 11 light machine guns (crooked handle machine guns), 500,000 rounds of 6.5mm ammunition, 100 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 150,000 rounds of 7.7 machine gun bullets, 20 Type 92 infantry guns, 10 Type 41 mountain guns, 10 Type 38 field guns, 3,000 rounds of 75mm artillery shells, 10 Taisho Type 10 howitzers, 500 rounds of 105mm shells, 20 Type 92 heavy mortars, 500 rounds of 120mm mortar shells, and 50 Taisho Type 11 mortars. There are 4,000 rounds of 70mm artillery shells, 500 **-type grenadiers, and 50,000 matching 91-type melon grenades.

"At the same time, in order to cope with the rapid expansion of the Soviet Air Force, we also transported 40 Taisho Type 11 anti-aircraft guns and 40 Type 88 anti-aircraft guns, in addition to 10 92-wheeled armored vehicles, 60 Taisho 3-year anti-aircraft machine guns, and 20 Type 92 large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns!"

The more Ueda Kenkichi listened, the more his face turned blue, and finally he angrily reprimanded: "Baga! Who approved the transfer of so many materials to Dongman? Isn't this taking the weapons of the empire and funding the hateful Russians? ”

Hideki Tojo took out a handkerchief and wiped away the cold sweat oozing from his forehead: "Your Excellency, Commander, this is an order signed by Your Excellency. Binjiang and Sanjiang provinces, facing the most important military bases of Soviet Russia in the Far East, are under great pressure. Some of these weapons are relatively backward but still in use, so your Excellency will order that the strategic warehouses in Mukden, Xinjing (Changchun), Lushun and other places be emptied, so that the new weapons can be installed in the troops. ”

When Ueda Kenkichi heard this, it was really like this, and he couldn't help but lose his words for a short time.

Combat staff officer Tachibana Ayabe's face was solemn: "In fact, there is no problem in transporting this batch of supplies, the key is that our opponent grasps the timing of the attack, which is unsettling." Therefore, we have reason to believe that our internal has been infiltrated by Soviet Russia, coupled with the frequent high-altitude reconnaissance of Soviet and Russian fighters, which will lead to our step-by-step crisis. Therefore, I suggest that the Manchurian and Mongolian provinces must intensify their surveillance of the Russians, and at the same time, they must pay close attention to the Manchurians who the Russians come into contact with, and if necessary, do not hesitate to let them disappear, so as to avoid a larger-scale intelligence leak. ”

Hideki Tojo nodded: "That's right." However, the top priority at the moment is how to extinguish this anti-Japanese armed force in time. The Jining region borders on Soviet Russia, and the enemy can attack and retreat and defend, and if our army sends fewer people to fight, it will only bring greater casualties. However, if we mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress us, not only will it be difficult to explain to the country, but the enemy will also be able to calmly retreat into the territory of Soviet Russia and wait for an opportunity to attack us again. Therefore, the crux of this war was that the diplomatic departments of Manchuria must make clear to Soviet Russia our tough stand on the territorial issue, so that the Russians could understand that any attempt to oppose the empire would not succeed and would inevitably be attacked head-on by our Kwantung Army, and that if Manchuria and Soviet Russia went to war, the two countries would be dragged into the quagmire of war.

"Once Soviet Russia retreats, or makes it clear that the Jining incident is not its doing, we can calmly mobilize our troops and attack the opponent with superior forces. Believe me as the 500,000 troops of the Kwantung Army point out, all resistance will be turned to dust! ”

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Jining County, formerly the Fourth Arsenal of Manchuria, has now been renamed Jining Arsenal. At this time, on the gate of the factory, the blue sky and the white sun were planted again with the red battle flag, and many prominent positions in the city, due to the insufficient number of battle flags, simply hung up the red cloth to celebrate the recovery of Jining County.

"Good guy, the scale of this arsenal is not small, it actually includes ten firearms production workshops, as well as two artillery factories and four ammunition factories, with more than 5,000 tons of steel, 300 tons of aluminum ingots, 300 tons of brass, 200 tons of non-ferrous metals, 20,000 tons of grain, 20,000 horses of cloth, more than 2,000 barrels of gasoline, and more than 30,000 tons of coal. A young man of about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a handsome and mighty appearance, exuding a murderous aura all over his body, said happily.

"Captain, now that we have a base and such a big arsenal, it's time to raise the banner and shout, right? Why don't you learn from others and electrify across the country? Another young man standing side by side was also smiling.

The young man who was called the captain was surnamed Tang Honglei, a native of Tangjiabao, Chongqing, Sichuan, joined the An Jiajun in 29 years, stood out in the whole army competition before the Central Plains War, and became one of An Yi's 36 iron guards, followed An Yi for a year and was escorted to the Syrian non-commissioned officer school for further study, and when he graduated in three or four years, in addition to a special combat skills, he was also proficient in Japanese, Russian, English and other languages. At the end of the year, he was transferred to North China, where he led a 12-member reconnaissance team to go deep into the northeast and traveled almost all the mountains and rivers in the black soil.

Tang Honglei can be regarded as an outstanding figure in the contemporary "Tang Gate", not only his marksmanship is extremely accurate, but his ancestral "Twelve Money Darts" and "Stealing Fists" and other kung fu have also been completed.

The person who talked to Tang Honglei affectionately was An Mingqi, the instructor of the northbound detachment, who was only twenty-two years old this year, but with the experience of the Boy Scout Academy, his military age was longer than Tang Honglei. An Mingqi is also an orphan adopted by An Yi in 28 years, when he lived on the streets of Beiping, was adopted by An Jiajun and sent to the old Nanchang Boy Scout Academy, and then entered Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, and then was admitted to the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, majoring in politics, after graduation, he interned in the special brigade of the 24th Army, and was transferred to the "North Detachment" at the end of 35.

"Listening to what was said on the radio, now that the Japanese are ready to move in the Pingjin area, the Kwantung Army and the North China Garrison Army are constantly moving to the Guannei, and our side is making a lot of noise, and there is more support for the commander. But the power is exempt, the reason why we wanted to uproot those strongholds on the Sino-Soviet border before was not to make the Kwantung Army scruple about the Soviets and have more misunderstandings? I estimate that the Kwantung Army will try by all means to suppress the matter and let it digest and solve it internally, and if we openly electrify and let the Soviets find out the details of us and resolutely deny it, it will not be beautiful. Since we have to be prepared for a long-term battle, we have to play with the little devils in order to contain the Japanese army as much as possible. Tang Honglei was a little moved, but he still categorically rejected An Mingqi's proposal.

An Mingqi said with some concern: "I don't know how Zhang Jie's negotiations with the Soviet side were?" If we can get the support of the Soviet Union, I really have the heart to stalemate with little Japan for a longer time on the Sanjiang Plain and consume their strength more. On the contrary, if I can last for a month, I will recite Amitabha. ”

Tang Honglei comforted: "Don't worry, Zhang Jie's kid is ghostly, he studied in Germany, it is said that in the autumn of the previous year, he once followed Chief Yin and talked to the Soviet ambassador to Germany, I believe it will have an impact on the Soviet military and political leaders in the Far East." Besides, we are not taking the supplies of the Soviets for nothing, once the agreement comes into effect, the funds will be paid directly by the Swiss bank, and then we can pick up the goods here, and now the Soviet Union is at the end of the second five-year plan, and we are in great need of external funds, we take what we need, and the Soviets will be tempted. ”

An Mingqi nodded, and his face returned to his usual calmness and confidence.

Since the "Beishang Detachment" entered the Northeast in January, it has received strong support from the Fourth Department in terms of intelligence, and in addition, it has just begun to dress up as a Japanese army, and every member of the team can speak proficient Japanese, so it has been unimpeded in the Northeast. Originally, Tang Honglei and An Mingqi did not want to expose their team too early, but when they saw the atrocities of the Japanese invaders slaughtering the Chinese people again and again, and found many dying miners being thrown into mass graves outside the Fuxin coal mine, they finally could no longer control the anger in their hearts.

On 1 February, the Beishang detachment, in the name of the production inspection group of the military police headquarters of the Kwantung Army, infiltrated the Fuxin coal mine, and launched a frenzied massacre of the Japanese puppet army when it summoned the garrison Japanese troops to speak, and then liberated the entire coal mine. But despite this, not every miner is a hot-blooded man, nearly 20,000 miners, and finally followed the team of more than 3,000 people, and then Tang Honglei and An Mingqi led the whole team to escape into the Daxinganling with the food materials scavenged from the coal mine.

After a month of army reorganization in Daxinganling, when the food was almost exhausted, I again received a message from the intelligence station of the fourth hall: there was a large amount of grain hoarded by the Japanese army in Shuangzimiao Town, and there were often military trains stopping at the railway station, and if the time was chosen correctly, supplies could be obtained from the Japanese army.

Tang Honglei and An Mingqi immediately led the team eastward, and under the combination of intelligence and self-reconnaissance of the fourth hall, they successfully obtained supplies, and dealt a blow to the pursuing Japanese army, completely annihilating the Siping garrison brigade of the Kwantung Army and thousands of Japanese troops, and then withdrew into Changbai Mountain.

In the Changbai Mountains, the First Route Army and the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Federation sent people to contact each other, but Tang Honglei had been warned by An Yi before going north, and the members of the Anti-Japanese Federation were complicated, and there were many Japanese puppet spies mixed in them, so they ignored them all and marched all the way to the Sanjiang Plain, taking advantage of every opportunity to train troops along the way. Thanks to professional guidance and the fact that almost all of the 52 team members have unique skills, this team of more than 3,000 people gradually became confident and strong.

By the end of June, the northbound detachment had successfully advanced to the line from Laoyeling to Taipingling in Heilongjiang, using the cover of darkness to cross the blockade line that the Kwantung Army thought was foolproof, and entered the Sanjiang Plain. Most of the battles in the surrounding towns and strongholds took this form, and the northward detachment completed the battle plan formulated in advance very smoothly.

Now, with the transformation of the surrendered puppet army and the addition of more than 10,000 newly rescued miners, if the anti-Japanese detachment is given a period of time to develop as a whole army, it may not be able to create a miracle and open up a base area in the belly of the Kwantung Army. Invisibly, the Kwantung Army took advantage of Manchukuo's diplomatic channels to conduct long-term negotiations with the Soviet Union, which invisibly increased this possibility.

Anything is possible!