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Chapter 437 This revenge is not a gentleman

In the early morning of the next day, Commander-in-Chief Chiang arrived in Tai'an, escorted by the generals of all armies, and immediately issued an order to the whole army: Zhu Peide continued to serve as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, An Yi served as the chief of staff, and commanded the second, third, and fourth armies to continue the northern expedition. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At noon on 3 May, General Zhu Peide led the Seventh Division to make a detour north and headed for Yucheng, and the independent division, which had taken a short rest, also left for Yucheng after leaving Jiyang, General Chen Tiaoyuan's Second Army Corps continued to go north after leaving Jiyang, General Fang Zhenwu's Fourth Army Corps advanced out of the plain and pointed directly at Dezhou, and General He Yaozu's Third Army Corps formed the Middle Route Army of the First Group Army together with the former enemy's general headquarters.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a soldier of the 40th Army who was seriously injured and stayed in the poor homes of Jinan could not survive, and was carried on a stretcher by two coolies to the Christian hospital opposite the Nanjing Government Negotiation Office, and was found by the patrolling Japanese soldiers before they arrived at the entrance of the hospital. The Japanese army couldn't see Hunter's appearance clearly from the back, and saw that someone dared to come forward to save and shoot again savagely, the bullet entered from Hunter's back, pierced the heart, and shot out of the chest, and the kind Mr. Hunt died instantly.

When the first gunshot rang out, British journalist Cowell happened to be in the corridor of the Christian Hospital, heard the gunshots, sensitively ran to the corridor railing, and immediately took the footage of Hunter being shot by the Japanese army.

The unbelievable brutality was still to come, a team of Japanese military police followed the sound, and was shocked to see a white man lying dead in a pool of blood, and soon, a group of military police surrounded the three corpses under the order of a squad leader, and quickly stripped them naked, and more than a dozen Japanese brutes then trampled on the corpses with dirty leather shoes, making them unrecognizable.

After Cowell took the footage of the atrocity, he quickly went downstairs and called a group of priest doctors to rush out of the hospital to defend Hunter, just as the Japanese army carried three unrecognizable corpses covered with blood and dust and was about to leave, Priest Simmons saw that it was his friend Hunter, and rushed forward desperately, the Japanese military police hurriedly threw down the other two corpses to stop him, Cowell and the doctors and priests protested loudly and rushed up, only to hear a "pop" gunshot, and Priest Simmons covered his abdomen and slowly fell.

At this moment, the people on both sides were all stunned, the doctors and priests stopped moving forward, three of them quickly lifted Priest Simmons and rushed into the hospital, Colwell and the other two priests squatted next to the dead Hunter, crying bitterly, the Japanese military police saw such a big life lawsuit, where can they care about the corpse? In the blink of an eye, it dispersed like a bird and beast, and the grief-stricken Cowell rushed into the hospital again, took out his camera and took pictures of the scene one by one.

Half an hour later, Priest Simmons, who had been shot in the liver due to the gun's misfire, never woke up due to excessive blood loss, and dozens of doctors, priests, and European and American expatriates from the angry Christian hospital immediately rushed to the British and American consulates to seek justice.

Diplomatic personnel from the European and American embassies rushed to the Japanese consulate in the afternoon to lodge a strong protest and solemnly announced that this bad incident had been reported to the British and American governments, and that Japan would bear all the responsibility and consequences. The despicable and shameless Japanese blamed the revolutionary army for the incident, slandering the revolutionary army spies and deliberately provoking the incident in disguise, claiming that the matter still needs to be investigated and cannot be drawn to conclusions.

Where do the envoys of Europe and the United States believe this set of lies? The three sides quarreled fiercely for more than an hour, and finally the angry British and American envoys brushed off their sleeves and immediately held a press conference.

In order to divert attention and create even greater chaos, the Japanese side and the military began to loot the shops in the city and beat up civilians the next day after a night of secret discussions, and then simply sent troops to surround the Christian hospital on the pretext of hiding the revolutionary army, set up machine guns and fired wildly at the hospital, and the entire city of Jinan was in chaos.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the heinous Japanese army blatantly trampled on international law, put Huang Ying, the foreign minister of the Nanjing government, under house arrest, and sent troops to surround the Nanjing Government Negotiation Office, and tied up and beat the director of the diplomatic office and the Shandong negotiator and 19 staff, Cai Gongshi, who was proficient in Japanese, explained his identity and strongly protested against the atrocities of the Japanese army. The arson of the office created the Jinan tragedy that shocked China and the world.

However, the atrocities of the Japanese army aroused the strong anger of the people of China and the world, and the US Government immediately convened an emergency meeting after receiving the telegram from the embassy in Jinan, and three hours later issued a strongly worded condemnation affirmation, and the US Congress announced to the whole world that it would discuss relations with Japan as quickly as possible, and that Britain, France, and Germany had long been squeezed out by Japan in their interests in North China, and immediately seized on this incident to create public opinion and asked the League of Nations to convene an emergency meeting to sanction Japan. Huge anti-Japanese demonstrations and demonstrations immediately took place throughout the country, and boycotts of Japanese goods were in full swing.

Although the Japanese Government put a stop to the barbaric acts of the Japanese troops in Jinan in robbing and beating civilians, it did not give the whole world a satisfactory answer, and even sent planes to bomb the barracks of the Tai'an Revolutionary Army on 6 May, and on 7 May, the Japanese army that crossed the western suburbs of Jinan fired at freight trains on the Jinpu Line with machine guns.

The First Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army stopped the pace of the Northern Expedition and turned around and forced Jinan, and Feng Yuxiang, commander of the Second Group Army, also issued a statement severely condemning the atrocities of the Japanese army and saying that he would not hesitate to fight Japan for the sake of national dignity.

Chiang Kai-shek ordered all units of the revolutionary army to stop advancing, and was originally scheduled to be on standby, and constantly sent Zhang Qun, Xiong Shihui, Yang Yongtai, He Chengjun and other diplomatic and military personnel to negotiate with the Japanese embassy and consulates repeatedly.

On 10 May, He Yingqin, chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army, who had been idle in Nanjing, suddenly arrived at the former enemy's headquarters of the First Group Army, convened an emergency military meeting of the generals, formally announced that Acting Commander-in-Chief Chiang was exercising the rights of commander-in-chief of the First Group Army, and ordered An Yi to lead the independent division to retreat south within three days and return to the Yanzhou camp to rest and wait for duty.

As soon as the order was issued, the officers and men of the First Group Army reacted strongly, questioning the correctness of the order one after another, and competing to stand up for An Yi. An Yi silently accepted it, saying that he would obey the orders of the General Headquarters, rest for a day tomorrow, and lead his troops to retreat south the day after tomorrow and return to Yanzhou to standby.

In the evening, seven or eight generals, including Zhu Peide, He Yaozu, the commanders of the Central Route Army, Xia Douyin, Mao Bingwen, and Li Shilong, jointly hosted a banquet for An Yi, and the atmosphere at the wine table was dull and depressed. Mao Bingwen and others were indignant and scolded, and were soon drunk by their own commanders Zhu Peide and He Yaozu.

He Yaozu picked up the wine glass, clinked glasses with everyone, put down the glass as soon as he could, and said to An Yi: "Life is not satisfactory for the top ten, since ancient times, all heroes have suffered and been tortured, and it is commendable that the virtuous nephew can have today's attainments. What's more, although the commander-in-chief asked the virtuous nephew to lead his troops back to Yanzhou to recuperate, he did not remove the virtuous nephew from the post of chief of staff of the former enemy. Is there anyone in the whole army of our First Army who does not admire the talent and virtue of the virtuous nephew? Don't be discouraged by this small setback, the future is long! ”

Veteran Xia Douyin took over the topic: "Yes, General An, now the matter in Jinan seems complicated, but in fact it has become clear, although the Japanese reversed black and white in the negotiations, and repeatedly insisted that General An took the lead in provoking the incident, blowing up the iron bridge and shelling the Japanese army, resulting in more than 500 Japanese soldiers killed and wounded, and even Brother Guiyan was asked by the Japanese to be relieved of his military post and punished according to law, but all this is in the eyes of the people of the world, and it is clear in the heart, the Japanese are arguing with reason, in fact, it can only show that they are fierce and inward-looking, and the donkey skills are poor, and the commander-in-chief has not resisted it?"

This political thing is not so easy for those of us who practice martial arts to understand, but one thing I know is clear, this battle with the Japanese really cannot be fought, not forever at the mercy of others, but now at this time we can't fight, as long as we fight, we will relieve our hatred, but more people will suffer, not to mention that our Nanjing government has no money to fight this war, just one point, who will continue after we have beaten out? Do you expect Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zongchang to be like them?

So, it's right to take a step back, with such a deep hatred, how can we soldiers forget it? In a word, this revenge is not a gentleman, it is not that it is not revenge, but the time has not come! With your full strategy, I'm afraid that I won't have a chance to teach little Japan a lesson? Ha ha...... Come, the old man toasts you with a cup, you and I are the same, all of them are born from poor people's children, is there anything that can't be put down at this point? Come on, drink! ”

"Thank you, Uncle He, Uncle Xia! Respect the teachings, the little nephew is grateful, or the little nephew respects Uncle Xia to be etiquette, Uncle Xia, please! An Yi respectfully raised his glass with both hands, touched Xia Douyin heavily, and poured his head into his throat.

An Yi wiped his mouth, motioned to the orderlies to pour wine, stood up and then saluted Zhu Peide, He Yaozu, Mao Bingwen and others one by one, until the handsome face was red like sauce and still refused to put down the cup, and only stopped when he was unconscious and was carried back by his two chief guards.

Xia Douyin looked at An Yi being sent into the backyard wing, sighed, invited everyone to touch another cup, put down the cup and sighed: "I have never seen such a smart child, not to mention his outstanding military talent, he is full of innocence, which is admirable!" What is rare is that he is obviously already miserable and grief-stricken, and he can still control his emotions, he has such attainments at a young age, and he is a dragon and a phoenix among people! Brother Yizhi, you are his elder, can you tell us some anecdotes about him? ”

Zhu Peide readily agreed, so he told the process of seeing An Yi for the first time and then seeing An Yi for the second time in Hukou, and the audience heard a burst of exclamations and sighs, who knew that An Yi had vomited all the things in his stomach at this time, rinsed his mouth and wiped his face, and immediately sat around with a group of subordinates who had been waiting for a long time to discuss nervously.