562 Shanhaiguan Incident
Major General Luo Youjun, chief of staff of the Second Division of the Youth Army and Major General Luo Youjun of the Second Huangpu Phase Biya, stood on a hill northeast of the first Guanshan Customs in the world today, wearing a neat military uniform. The Second Division of the Youth Army has received an order from the Northeast Theater of Operations, and today it is here to deal with the Northeast Army of a cavalry regiment stationed at Shanhaiguan.
In the heart of this young soldier, he absolutely does not want to see this thing happen.
However, the military order was like a mountain, and the Second Division of the Youth Army not only received an order from the Northeast Theater, but also sent a plane to send a warrant from Wang Zixing, who was far away in Xinjiang. So they can only obey orders.
The adjutants led their horses and waited for Luo Youjun to arrive. In today's scene, Liu Zhongyan, the commander of the Second Division of the Youth Army, avoided participating in the scene, but just gave an order to Luo Youjun, the chief of staff. Luo Youjun also had to go in person. And in his heart, he also wants to take good care of the soldiers of the Northeast Army who have disarmed, and try to be accommodating where he can. Even if he doesn't disarm, as long as He Zhuguo agrees to give up Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao, he can deal with it.
He glanced at the gray door and g. He glanced at the gray door and g, and seemed to mumble two words in his mouth, and then turned over and got on the horse. Several cavalrymen followed him and walked towards the first Xiongguan in the world at the bottom of the mountain.
Why do we always do the wicked Luo Youjun, chief of staff of the Second Division of the Youth Army, to himself.
At this time, in the garrison of the Northeast Army in Shanhaiguan, it was already a deserted scene. This garrison originally occupied a large area, and there was originally a Northeast Army of the Route Army stationed here, which was the First Route Army commanded by Guo Songling. However, after Zhang Xueliang decided to go to the light, he transferred the First Route Army back to Tianjin to prepare for reorganization. At this time, only a five-man cavalry regiment was left on guard with guns.
Confronting them were more than 7,000 people from the Third Brigade of the Second Division of the Youth Army, but looking at the resolute expressions of the defenders of the Northeast Army and the flat muzzles of their guns, these young soldiers did not dare to step forward for a while. Only one officer was holding a tin horn and shouting there.
"The Chinese do not fight the Chinese! Everyone is the army of the Republic of China, don't kill each other!
We, the Youth Army, only want to crusade against the Beijing government that is vainly trying to abolish the Republic of China, not to be the enemy of our Northeast Army, we are still comrades-in-arms or brothers in the common struggle against Japan......"
He Zhuguo looked at everything outside from the window of the city tower, looked at his own cavalry lying at the mouth of the city wall, and looked at the youth army of the brigade that had completed the deployment and was digging trenches outside, and let out a long sigh. The chief of staff of the cavalry brigade walked in and saluted him. He Zhuguo asked, "Did Vice Chairman Zhang from Tianjin call?" "Vice Chairman Zhang is referring to Zhang Xueliang, who has been sworn in yesterday to join the Chinese GCD, became an honorable GCD member, and was also by-elected as a Chinese G
Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission!
The chief of staff nodded and sighed: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Vice Chairman Zhang orders us to resolutely fight back and resolutely deal with the civil war conspiracy of the Kuomintang reactionaries and the Shabaab reactionaries. Reinforcements are already on the way and will arrive soon. The two smiled bitterly at each other, and He Zhuguo ordered: "Let all the officers go to the conference room for a meeting." "It didn't take long for officers above the rank of second lieutenant of the Second Regiment of the First Cavalry Brigade of the Northeast Army to crowd the conference room of the Shanhaiguan camp, with seventy or eighty people. He Zhuguo looked at them all with serious expressions, and squeezed out a little smile: "Brothers, now our Commander-in-Chief Zhang has joined the GCD, and he has also been elected as a member of the Politburo of the GCD and an official who is the vice chairman of the Military Commission. Our Northeast Army is about to be reorganized into the Red Army! I'm afraid that today's battle is only the last battle for us as the Northeast Army? We can't give anything to Commander-in-Chief Zhang and Veteran Zhang to embarrass people? ”
The commander of the second cavalry regiment suddenly said loudly: "Brigade seat, the brothers have not been paid for two months, and after hearing this, they will not be paid if they become red grass, right?" ”
"Brigade seat, is it not necessary for our Commander-in-Chief Zhang to join the GCD? What else are we fighting for? It's better to disarm. ”
"Yes, we are all soldiers of the Republic of China, we are fighting for the Republic of China, not the army of their Soviet State."
"That's right, we didn't die defending the country and defending our homeland, why did we die in vain for this Soviet state that came out of nowhere? What kind of business is this? ”
"Isn't the Soviet State just an old man? We are not Maozi, why should we help Maozi fight? And you don't take money to give your life in vain? Even if we could agree to this, the brothers below would not agree to it. ”
Hearing these young officers shouting nonsense there, He Zhuguo's heart was also cold. In the end, he still controlled his emotions, shook his head and sighed: "Brothers, we have eaten Zhang's family meals and worn Zhang's clothes for so many years, and now it's time to sell our lives, how can we not let go of a single shot?" Conscience, do we want to be worthy of Vice Chairman Zhang and worthy of the veteran's spirit in the sky? He stood up suddenly: "No matter what, we must always shoot a dozen, even if it is a shot!" On February 6, 1931, he was called by the Chinese as "the Kuomintang reactionaries created friction,
The first shot to sabotage the War of Resistance and provoke a civil war was fired in front of Shanhaiguan! Who fired the first shot, no one knows. Anyway, when Luo Youjun rushed to the foot of Shanhaiguan City, this "Shanhaiguan Incident" that shocked the world was over. Several cavalrymen of the Northeast Army stationed at Shanhaiguan fired a few shots indiscriminately, and then rode on their horses and slipped away. The exchange lasted less than five minutes, and the officers and men of the two armies did not even meet each other.
However, Zhongg's reaction to this matter was unexpectedly strong. At the second target of the Shanhaiguan incident, the Central Committee of the Central Committee of China in Beijing issued a murderous electrification.
He said that the Kuomintang reactionaries did not give an explanation for the Shanhaiguan incident, punished the disaster, and withdrew from Shanhaiguan to compensate for the losses of the Chinese side G. The Chinese army will act freely, punish the disaster on its own and regain the lost territory! From the day of the telegram, the Central Government and the Beijing Government completely cut off all contacts with the Kuomintang reactionaries and Wuhan, and at the same time cut off communication between the north and the south.
At the same time, the Beijing government also sent a telegram in the name of Mao Zd, the president of the Republic of China, stating that the Fifth Army of the central government colluded with the puppet Nationalist government to rebel, rebel against the central government, and sabotage the War of Resistance. If you don't rein in the precipice and try to blackmail the central government with SI soldiers, then the central government will resolutely crusade! The units of the Central Army and the Northeast Army under the Central G began to mobilize one after another, and went to the three main railway lines, the Jinghan Line, the Jinpu Line, and the Beining Line, to deploy defenses. The navy of the former Northeast Army, which was anchored at the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin and was waiting for reorganization, was also fully prepared for war and was ready to attack Bohai Bay......
The Kuomintang leftists and the democratic parties also followed the Beijing government in a telegram, holding that what the Youth Army had done was completely instigated by the Kuomintang reactionaries and was a shameful act of defecting to the Kuomintang reactionaries and the Wuhan puppet Nationalist government! The proposal on the establishment of a Soviet state discussed by the CPPCC fully represents the will of the people of all nationalities throughout the country and is an irresistible historical trend.
The Youth Army and Wang Zizheng should clearly understand the reality, return to the correct path at an early date, abolish the status of the so-called local autonomy of the three provinces under their jurisdiction as soon as possible, and petition the central authorities for their guilt as soon as possible. If the war starts, the central government will be obedient and rebellious, and the destruction of the youth army is just around the corner.
Wang Zizhi, commander-in-chief of the Youth Army, who was the "wicked" who provoked the incident, made a statement on the day of the incident, claiming that the Youth Army's expulsion of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Northeast Army stationed at Shanhaiguan was entirely for the purpose of safeguarding the national system and constitution of the Republic of China, and was a warning to China's GCD that vainly attempted to change the national system and abolish the constitution. If the Chinese side continues to make mistakes on the road of "abolishing the Republic of China and establishing a Soviet state". The Youth Army and the three northwestern provinces will break away from the Beijing government and join the Nationalist Government in Wuhan, and the Youth Party will also fight together with the Kuomintang to punish the thieves at home and resist the power externally, without compromise!
The reaction of the Kuomintang, as the "mastermind behind the incident", after the incident was born, can be described as sluggish. Until the third day of the incident, the Nationalist Government did not make a statement or telegram on the matter, nor did it express any position on the Shanhaiguan incident. It was only the Northeast Theater of Operations that sent an order to the Beiyang Fleet, ordering permission to attack any Northeast Navy ships leaving the port of Dagu in Tianjin.
In addition, Chen Duxiu, who was still in the Tianjin Concession and declared that he was going to run for the presidency or the presidency of the Soviet government, and his Trotskyist associates sent telegrams hoping that all parties involved in the incident would exercise restraint and that they would shift their main energies to resisting Japan and that they would never take any action that would worsen the situation, lest the Japanese invaders reap the benefits and become the biggest winners of the incident.
In the days before and after the Spring Festival of 1931, the clouds of full-scale civil war seemed to hang over China, which was experiencing a national war of resistance.
Northeast, Lushun.
The front door of the Kwantung Army headquarters was heavily guarded as usual, and the soldiers standing guard at the gate were wearing thick winter clothes, their hats were pulled down to cover their ears, and their hands were wearing gloves. But even so, the sentinels shivered from the cold. The temperature plummeted in the past two days, and the entire Tohoku was swept by a cold snap.
Vice Admiral Eisuke Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, who had just arrived at Lu Lushun, felt a hint of strangeness as soon as he walked into the Kwantung Army Headquarters building, and the officers in the corridor were obviously happy, and there were whispers from time to time. It seems that in some kind of "China Civil War", did the China people start killing each other?
Eisuke Yamamoto raised his eyebrows slightly, just about to ask. When the young officers saw his naval uniform and lieutenant general rank, they all immediately stopped talking and looked at him with complicated and dissatisfied eyes. Yamamoto Eisuke has long been a little numb to the fact that the opponent's army and navy despise each other, and since the outbreak of the "Manchurian Incident" this time, the navy seems to have been unable to make any effort in its work, and has not made a decision to enter the Bohai Bay to fight for a long time, and the army's anger has long been difficult to suppress. But now, the top brass of the navy has finally gritted his teeth and made a big decision, and Eisuke Yamamoto himself came to Lushun to discuss the matter with the commander of the Kwantung Army, Takashi Hishigaru.
His proposal was to strengthen the First Foreign Fleet with one Kongo-class battleship and two heavy cruisers, two first-class coastal defense ships, and a number of light cruisers and destroyers.
Then take advantage of the night to break through the Bohai Bay from the sea near Lushunkou, where there are fewer mines, and then go north to the sea off Huludao, and completely destroy the Huludao fortress with the eight 356mm naval guns of the King Kong-class battleships!
However, this proposal was opposed by Koichi Shiozawa, also commander of the Navy's First Foreign Fleet, who believed that relying on one battleship and four heavy cruisers was not enough to break through the blockade of the Shina Navy! Because to break through the blockade of mines and submarines at night, it was necessary to bear the risk of losing the battleship, and if there was only one battleship to carry out this task, if the battleship hit a mine or was sunk by a submarine of the China Navy, it would mean the complete failure of the entire operation. Because the 200-mm 2003-mm naval guns that relied on the remaining heavy cruisers and coastal defense ships were not at all an opponent of the 210-mm howitzer groups and 280-mm shore defense guns of the branch nose army. The only way to complete the task of destroying the fortress of Huludao is to dispatch the main force of the combined fleet, and also be prepared to lose one or even two battleships!
Shiozawa Koichi's suggestion scared Eisuke Yamamoto by the loss of battleships, maybe two! When did the China Navy become so strong? If the China Navy, which did not have battleships at the moment, would be able to make Japan lose battleships
......, wouldn't it be the end of the Japanese Navy when the four "Karl Marx" class battleships of the Coming China were launched?
But Shiozawa Koichi came up with a bunch of damage reports to confirm his point. In the past few days, the Japanese transport ships heading for the Port of Arthur have been attacked one after another by submarines and planes, even with escorts! In particular, the naval aviation of China seems to have a new dive bomber with a much increased range and bomb load, and its appearance is comparable to that of the previous A-1
The series comes with a noticeable difference. This dive bomber can carry a 200-kilogram bomb, and even a heavy cruiser will not be able to withstand its attack! But fortunately, there are not many of them, otherwise the navy really doesn't know how to fight it.
Eisuke Yamamoto was also extremely shocked by this, as the first head of the Japanese Naval Aviation Headquarters, he had long been aware of the huge role of aircraft in future naval warfare! However, the Japanese Navy was dominated by the warship faction, and the entire Japan even lagged behind the latecomer China in the research and development of aircraft.
"Your Excellency Commander Yamamoto."
Just when Yamamoto was worried about the new dive bomber, the voice of Lieutenant General Miyake Koji, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, suddenly sounded in his ears. He turned his head and saw Miyake looking beaming, looking at him with a smile.
"Miyake-kun, what's going on today? What's the joy? ”
"Don't know? The Nationalist Government of China and the GCD fought a battle at Shanhaiguan! Miyake Koji was a little surprised, but he didn't care.
"What? The civil war broke out in China? Eisuke Yamamoto was a little surprised, and Mitsuji Miyake nodded: "Let's almost go up together." Admiral Ling was already determined to take advantage of the internecine attack of the Shina people, and hoped that the navy would do its best to cooperate. "Miyake Koji didn't know about the disagreement between Eisuke Yamamoto and Koichi Shiozawa. This is the top secret of the Navy! Well, what even Emperor Hirohito didn't know, only the Minister of Naval Orders and the Minister of the Navy knew. Therefore, the Kwantung Army thought that the navy was deliberately delaying and was unwilling to send battleships into the Bohai Bay. Miyake Koji made a solemn gesture to Eisuke Yamamoto, and then led the way upstairs. Eisuke Yamamoto followed behind him, and Koichi Shiozawa, who came out of nowhere, followed closely.
The Kwantung Army Headquarters building has three floors, and Takashi Hishiba's office is on the third floor, and Miyake Mitsuji invited Yamamoto and Shiozawa into this large and luxurious office, which was originally the Governor's Palace of the Russian Empire, and the architecture and decoration style are very atmospheric.
This command is much more luxurious than the Combined Fleet Command in Hiyoshidai, Hiroshima.
"Yamamoto-kun, you're welcome, feel free." Ryokari smiled and stood up to greet him.
The Japanese army has a strict hierarchy and a clear distinction between respect and inferiority, Takashi Hishikari is the rank of general, and Eisuke Yamamoto is still a lieutenant general, although both of them are "princes of one side", but Yamamoto is still a head shorter than him. So he could wait in the office instead of standing at the door to greet him.
"Thank you." Eisuke Yamamoto only nodded slightly in thanks, after all, he is the commander of the Combined Fleet, representing the face of the entire Japanese Navy, and he can't be too humble.
Several people exchanged pleasantries for a while before they sat down, and the orderlies served tea.
Yamamoto Eisuke looked at Ryokari Takashi and shook his head slightly: "Your Excellency, today's interest is very high" Concubine Kanlong picked up the tea and took a sip: "I just received the news that the Kuomintang in China has seized Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao, and the GCD in China has begun to mobilize. Hehe, it's really good, now the Manchurian incident is finally in sight. "What? The Chinese army captured Qinhuangdao? It's also a nice deep-water port. Shiozawa Koichi, who was sitting next to Yamamoto, exclaimed in surprise. He had just heard about the Shanhaiguan incident from the staff officers of the Kwantung Army downstairs, but he didn't know the specific situation.
Hishikari was slightly puzzled, looked at Shiozawa Koichi, and asked, "What's wrong?" Shiozawa-kun, isn't it a good thing for the people of China to kill each other? Shiozawa Yuichi sighed slightly, walked to the map hanging on the wall, picked up the whip and pointed at Qinhuangdao, and smiled bitterly: "Qinhuangdao is only twenty or sixty kilometers from Penglai. That is, the sea area between Qinhuangdao and Penglai can be completely controlled by the planes of the Kuomintang in China! It is almost impossible for our navy to blockade Qinhuangdao, and what is even more troublesome is that if the navy wants to destroy the two ports of Qinhuangdao and Huludao, it will have to stay in the Bohai Bay for three days, because it will take two nights to complete the attack