Chapter 270: Nineteen Thirty-Three in Turmoil
Li Tie's trip to the United States was not only as simple as a success, but at the end of '32, the Japanese really began to prepare for the passage of the bill for the establishment of Manchukuo in the League of Nations.
The current Manchukuo government has actually begun to officially operate in the three northeastern provinces, but it has not yet been officially announced to the outside world. As the king of Manchukuo, Pu Yi, he also hoped that his ascension to the throne would be recognized by all countries in the world.
Only when it is recognized by the great powers of the world can Japan use its legal status to seek help from the great powers and finally get rid of Japan.
And Japan is also bent on promoting the international recognition of Manchukuo, because only when Manchukuo is separated from China can they better control the Northeast and better invade the Northeast.
As long as Manchukuo gets its legal status, in the end, even if they fully occupy the northeast, China will have no reason to stop it, as for the opposition of the great powers, is it useful? The Japanese have always believed that the comparison between countries is strength.
The Japanese are not afraid of the sanctions of international law, but the Chinese are afraid, so the legal status of this Manchukuo can be passed best, and if it cannot be passed, they will also forcibly declare Manchukuo immediately.
However, in that case, when they invade and occupy Northeast China in the future, they will be constrained by China, and if the Chinese really sacrifice their lives to fight, they Japanese will not feel good.
Therefore, while the votes had not yet been cast, the Japanese delegates began to jump up and down in the League of Nations, sending money and goods everywhere in an attempt to bribe the delegates of various countries so that their plot would succeed.
In the same way, before the official vote, the representatives of the Nationalist Government also vigorously protested against Japan's shameful behavior, lobbied the representatives of various countries, and resolutely refused to allow Manchukuo to obtain a legitimate political status.
And the representatives of various countries did not express their positions in advance. completely played the role of a judge, and after eating the defendant and the plaintiff, for a while, the money was received softly.
The ambiguous attitude of the delegates of various countries made the Japanese delegates overjoyed, and they immediately requested a large amount of money for their activities in China and continued to intensify their lobbying efforts among the delegates of various countries.
As the money diplomacy of the Chinese and Japanese representatives in the League of Nations escalated, more delegates from various countries began to join the ugly game.
Today's supporters of Japan are scolding the Chinese for being nosy, the northeast is originally a land of the Manchurians, what does it have to do with you Han people to build a country on their own land?
Tomorrow China's supporters will scold the little Japanese wolf ambition, the Manchus have been married to our Han people for more than 200 years, and their land is the land of our Han people.
Representatives of both sides fought countless times in front of the League of Nations, and there were many fights in front of the League of Nations, but fortunately, the representatives of both sides were not from the army, so although they all fought bloody, no one lost their lives because of this, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
The whole world entered 1933 in the midst of such a tumultuous noise. At the beginning of the year, many interesting things happened in countries around the world.
First of all, in January of 33, after nearly half a year of painstaking preparations, Commander Chiang officially began the fourth encirclement and suppression campaign against the Soviet area in China.
originally thought that the red bandits without Mao Weiren could be defeated by their own blows, but who knew that a Zhu Weiren appeared among the red bandits, leading more than 100,000 red bandits to beat Commander Jiang's 400,000 troops fat, and almost didn't make Commander Jiang cry.
scolded God for having no eyes, why did so many capable generals run to the red bandits?
On January 30 of the same year, Hitler, who was far away in Germany, finally got his wish as German Chancellor, officially stepped into the center of power in Germany, and stepped onto the powerful political stage of influencing world history.
On the very day that Hitler became German Chancellor, he received a letter from an old friend from distant China, the general meaning of which was, of course, to express his most heartfelt congratulations on his election as chancellor.
The letter acknowledges their long-standing cooperation, looks forward to further cooperation in the future, and concludes with the wish that he will be the supreme head of the country in the coming months.
When Hitler put down the long telegram in his hand, his heart could not be calmed for a long time, and after more than ten years of perseverance, he finally led his party to qualify as the ruling party in Germany.
Just as Li Tie, an old friend of China, said, he will lead the great Germanic nation to re-emerge among the nations of the world, and the great Germanic nation will eventually unify Europe to form a unique Germanic empire.
And what excited Hitler the most was the Führer mentioned by Li Tie in the telegram as "Oh my God! What a domineering title. "Führer, Führer!" The first and largest leader of a country.
"Okay, that's it." Hitler had secretly decided that he would not be called a president by any such name as he would be when he ascended to the presidency.
He thought about it, and in the future, the supreme governor of Germany will not be called the president, but the head of state proposed by Li Tie, in order to express his gratitude to Li Tie.
Hitler decided to increase his return to Li Tie as soon as he came to power, didn't he say a while ago that he wanted to buy some of the latest tanks and submarines? The cabinet has been dragging its feet, and when I officially take office tomorrow, I will definitely help him do this.
This Li Tie is also really, isn't it just to prevent the establishment of Manchukuo at the League of Nations meeting next month? How big is that? And another thousand tractors to procure? Do you want us to secretly transport it to Hainan Island? Do you need to make such a mysterious thing?
Also in January, in the United States, Mr. Roosevelt, who was about to be sworn in as president, made several public statements about his denial of the status of Manchukuo.
At the same time, the current US administration has openly expressed its position of not recognizing the legal status of Manchukuo. This made the Japanese government very shocked and passive.
The Japanese government has repeatedly issued strong statements to withdraw from the League of Nations as a threat to force the League of Nations to accept Manchukuo, but this time, under the leadership of the US Government, under Li Tie's money diplomacy and favor diplomacy. Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries have successively announced that they do not support the legitimate international status of Manchukuo.
In this way, at the end of February of the third year, Japan really announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations, and the first thing Japan that withdrew from the League of Nations in retaliation against the Chinese government was to raise troops to invade and occupy Rehe.
As in the original history, on 21 February, a small number of multi-pronged sorties began, and tentative attacks were carried out on the defenders in various parts of Rehe.
Ten days later, on March 2, the Japanese began an all-out assault on Rehe. At this time, the total strength of the Japanese army in Liaoning Province has exceeded 100,000 people, and there are 100,000 puppet troops, in order to quickly attack Rehe, the Japanese army quickly gathered 80,000 Japanese troops and 60,000 puppet troops to attack Shihe Province in an all-round way.
At this time, there were 250,000 people in Rehe Province and the main force of the Northeast Army, and at the beginning of the war, Zhang Xueliang and various generals issued a declaration in Chengde, fighting to the end, and wanting to snow the shame of the defeat of the three eastern provinces. It's a pity that the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
It turned out that Tang Yulin, who had been operating in Rehe Province for many years by Zhang Xueliang's father, served as the commander-in-chief of the Rehe Provincial Anti-Japanese War, but Tang Yulin had ruled Rehe Province for many years, and he had never done anything else except to loot the people's fat and ointment.
It is said that even the land tax was received from 1928 to 1942, more than ten years later, so the people of Rehe Province were full of resentment against Tang Yulin.
The people all knew that his men were known as double-spearmen, and they usually carried large smoking guns to the countryside to collect taxes. Therefore, the people of Rehe did not believe that Tang Yulin could defend Rehe Province well, so they petitioned for the removal of his post as commander-in-chief.
And Zhang Xueliang, who had lost the land of the three provinces because he didn't fire a shot, wanted to take this opportunity to regain his prestige, it would be better if he came to be the commander-in-chief in person, after all, he was the deputy commander-in-chief of the whole ** team, and he was the second person in the army after Commander Jiang.
But at this time, Zhang Xueliang made a stupid move again, he actually promoted his godfather Zhang Zuoxiang to the commander-in-chief of the defense of Rehe Province, and Tang Yulin was demoted to deputy commander.
This made Tang Yulin, who did not want to resist the Japanese, even more dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang and Zhang Zuoxiang, so the discord between the generals gave the Japanese army an opportunity to take advantage of, so on March 2, the Japanese army was divided into three armies and attacked Rehe Province at the same time.
As a result, Tang Yulin's troops, who had no fighting spirit, abandoned their positions and fled in all directions after the first round of bombardment by the Japanese army, and the saddest thing was that many Northeast Army troops directly surrendered to the enemy in front of the formation and turned to attack the brother troops.
Only one day later, the three-way Japanese army was victorious, and its vanguard of 128 cavalry appeared outside the provincial capital of Rehe on the 3rd.
And whether it was Zhang Zuoxiang, who was the commander-in-chief, or Tang Yulin, who was the deputy commander, they were facing only one hundred and twenty-eight cavalrymen and fled without a fight.
First of all, Zhang Zuoxiang took the lead in taking the troops to escape to Gubeikou in Guannei by train, and then at the zero of the fourth day, Tang Yulin personally led an army of 5,000 troops to retreat to Luanping on the pretext of protecting the transfer of provincial government staff, and also prepared to retreat from Gubeikou into Beiping.
As a result, the 128 Japanese cavalry outside the city listened to the noise of the neighing horses inside the city, and thought that the defenders of Chengde were in some ambush.
The squadron leader of the Japanese cavalry, Hexi Mengyi, even wanted to turn around and run away, but then he thought about it, anyway, there was no cavalry in the ** people, and they were still far from the city gate, and when the ** people came out of the city, it was not too late for him to lead the crowd to escape.
Anyway, they have already arrived outside Chengde, and it would be too embarrassing if they didn't fire a shot. Therefore, Hexi Mengyi, who was ready to flee first, led one hundred and twenty-seven cavalry to line up outside the city, and then fired a few shots in several cities together.
Hexi Mengyi has already sounded, and after a while, as long as the guns and cannons of the ** people on the city tower are thought of, he is the first to turn around and withdraw his troops.
As a result, two magazines were wiped out, and the defenders of Chengde still didn't react at all, just when Hexi Mengyi was still wondering, what the hell was going on. I saw that the gate of Chengde was wide open, and a group of representatives of the Chengde Chamber of Commerce personally went out of the city to welcome the arrival of the Japanese army.
It was in such a confusion that as the first hero of the capture of the Beida Battalion, the captain of the Hexi Dream Relic Squadron, who had been promoted from the leader of the infantry squadron to the leader of the cavalry squadron, once again became a hero of the Japanese army.
What a glory it was to capture Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, with 128 cavalry? The current captain of the Hexi Dream Relic Squadron is already fantasizing about the wonderful scene of his promotion to captain.