Chapter 578: The War of Resistance Against the Northeast (2)

As for the cooperation with the Japanese, Zhang Jinghui later wrote about it very lightly in the War Criminals Management Center, saying only that he only promised the Japanese at that time that he would be responsible for maintaining law and order in North Manchuria, and also said that a police force was organized for this purpose to maintain law and order, so as not to prevent the Japanese from finding an excuse to enter North Manchuria.

However, Zhang Jinghui's subordinates were not polite, and directly revealed that Zhang Jinghui had reached a secret agreement with the Japanese, and even the weapons of the 3,000 police force were provided by the Japanese. It's just that the combat effectiveness of this recruited police force is only known to God. Therefore, in the future chess game, with the political influence of his Northeast Army veterans, Zhang Jinghui can influence the moves of other chess players, but Zhang Jinghui's own military strength is almost equal to zero. This means that for a long time, Zhang Jinghui can only watch from the wall. At least at this time, there were only two chess players who were qualified to play against each other and decide the fate of Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, Zhang Zuoxiang and Xiqia, the deputy commander of the Northeast Frontier Army and his former chief of staff.

The reason why Zhang Zuoxiang was relieved to entrust the military affairs of Jilin after leaving to Xiqia. The main reason is that Xiqia has been an official all the way, except for a short period of time as a brigade commander, he has always been the chief of education, the director of the division and other positions, and there are no basic troops to rely on, even the head of the guard regiment of the commander's office around Xiqia is Zhang Zuoxiang's nephew, Zhang Zuoxiang is of course more at ease, and he is naturally not afraid of Xiqia turning into the sky.

However, no one expected that on the 18th of the month, Shenyang fell, and on the 24th, Xiqia organized the Jilin Governor's Office and openly hooked up with the Japanese.

What is very absurd is that two months after Xiqia surrendered to the enemy, Zhang Zuoxiang did not order the military and political personnel of the whole province to crusade against Xiqia, and even the new Jilin Provincial Government was not established until two months later. In the past two months, Xiqia's traitor office has become the only provincial government in Jilin Province, and Zhang Zuoxiang has almost watched Xiqia sit big.

What's going on?

I have to say that this traitor is not always the incompetent person we always see in movies, and this Xiqia is just a capable person with a lot of means.

Zhang Zuoxiang sent Fan Guanghou to contact Xiqia, wanting to explore the reality of Xiqia. As soon as Xi Qia saw Fan Guanghou, he snorted, and secretly signaled that there were two Japanese standing next to him who were acting as "personal guards" for him, and it was difficult to speak. When he seized the opportunity, he complained to Fan Guanghou, saying that he was making a false accusation and trying to deal with the Japanese, and the establishment of a puppet regime in the public office was to deal with it.

Pity this Fan Guanghou is a living Jiang Gan, and I really believe it. &*．． The fastest update** Zhang Zuoxiang does not withdraw from Xiqia's position, Xiqia can continue to fool people, you can talk nonsense when you see ghosts, you can talk about people when you see people, and you can form gangs left and right. By the time Zhang Zuoxiang understood that he had been fooled and hurriedly drew a line, the precious two months had already passed, and Xiqia, who had no soldiers or generals by his side, was already full-fledged.

Strictly speaking, Xiqia's side was not without soldiers or generals, and the guard regiment directly under the Office of the Deputy Commander of the Northeast Frontier Army, where he was located, was a very well-equipped unit. The regiment had three battalions of infantry, one battalion of cavalry, one battalion of artillery, one mortar company, one company each of heavy machine guns and communications. However, these soldiers, Xiqia can't afford to use and dare not use them, the reason is that the regiment commander Feng Zhanhai is the nephew of the auxiliary commander Zhang Zuoxiang, and such a unit "guards" himself, and Xiqia really can't get tricks.

If you want to collude with the Japanese army to restore the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the great god of the Guards Regiment must be invited to leave first. However, there must be an explanation for the transfer of troops, how to make these Qiu Ba obedient?

Therefore, on the afternoon of 20 July, Xiqia, in the name of the deputy commander's office, ordered all the troops stationed in Jilin, the provincial capital, to leave the city, and the order was very simple: In order to avoid a conflict with the Japanese side and preserve the strength of the Northeast Army, the Sino-Japanese incident should be resolved diplomatically, and the commanders of all units should strictly agree that their units should not resist without authorization, resulting in the expansion of the incident. All the troops stationed in the provincial capital immediately drove out of the city for dozens of miles to stand by. …,

After giving the order, Feng Zhanhai, the head of the guard regiment, was dizzy, and immediately went to ask Xiqia, who ordered him not to resist without authorization?

Xiqia said, you don't care about this, anyway, the person who sent the telegram to order is not allowed to convey the name, and it is inconvenient to inform at this time. Feng Zhanhai's pondering doesn't sound like a lie, because long before the outbreak of the 918 Incident, Zhang Shaomari had already internally instructed that resistance was not allowed, and the Northeast Army knew it from top to bottom. Maybe it's really Zhang Shaoshuai who wants not to resist and dare not be infamy, Feng Zhanhai thinks about it, this is quite reasonable, and he wants to be a bitch, and he doesn't want to demolish the archway.

However, Feng Zhanhai was still somewhat suspicious, Jilin City was 100 kilometers away from Changchun, and he had never heard that the Japanese were coming to Jilin City. Why is it that there is no wind and grass, but his troops want to withdraw from the city?

Many people say that politics is acting, and Xiqia is obviously a very good actor. Although Feng Zhanhai was suspicious, after all, Xiqia's explanation was reasonable, and after all, Xiqia was still the highest sergeant chief in Jilin Province, so Feng Zhanhai had no choice but to obediently obey and take his guard regiment out of the city. Another garrison, two regiments of the 25 Brigade, was withdrawn.

But Commander Feng Zhanhai probably never dreamed that when they withdrew from the city on the afternoon of the 20th, the Kwantung Army was not ready to march to Jilin City at all. Duomen can only draw out more than 800 Kwantung Army now, which is less than the strength of a brigade. At this time, whether it was the Kwantung Army or other units of the Japanese army, their combat effectiveness was far less powerful than in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and Duomen was not stupid enough to take more than 800 people to fight dozens of times the Northeast Army.

However, since Xiqia is so cooperative, it would be a big fool not to pick up this ready-made bargain. At 3 o'clock the next morning, the Kwantung Army gave the order to march to Jilin. At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army took the train to Jilin City, and at half past 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese soldiers occupied Jilin City without blood.

The fact that it took seven hours to reach the 100-kilometer railway without a battle is telling. Duomen suspected that this was a trap of the Northeast Army, so he stopped halfway and hesitated. It was only after meeting Wang Zhiyou, the chief of the Jilin Police who was sent by Xiqia to make contact, that he had the courage to order to march to Jilin.

After the Japanese entered Jilin City on the 21st, Xiqia acted without any worries, and suddenly fell like the wind. The first chess he played was to reorganize the military and political organs. Because before, his identity was only the chief of staff of the Border Guards Chief's Office, and he could command the army, but he could not interfere in civil affairs. On the 26th, Xiqia convened the officials who were still in the provincial capital, announced the merger of the army and government agencies, and on the 28th, the Jilin Governor's Office was formally established, and he was appointed as the governor. This was the first puppet regime that emerged after 918.

The signboard is out, but it can't last long without strength. If you want to have strength, you have to grab money, grain, and territory. In troubled times, if you want to grab money and food and occupy territory, you must first have an army. The provincial capital is protected by the Japanese army, and safety is not a problem, but if other garrisons in Jilin Province cannot be co-opted, then Xiqia, who has no soldiers and no generals, will not be able to run away from the embarrassing situation of the provincial capital.

At the time of the September 18 Incident, Jilin Province had the largest number of soldiers in the three eastern provinces, with seven infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade and one guard regiment.

Jilin Province was divided into four provinces at that time. Jilin Changchun and other places are the essence of Jilin Province, called Jichang Road. Not counting special units, there are two brigades and one regiment stationed here.

One of the brigades is Zhang Zuoxiang's old 25th Brigade, and the brigade commander Zhang Zuozhou is Zhang Zuoxiang's brother. Three regiments of Czech rifles of one color, the most neatly armed. 5200 people, 5100 rifles, 18 heavy machine guns, 38 light machine guns, 34 mortars, 12 infantry guns. It was the Ren Yushan Regiment of this brigade that resolutely resisted in the Nanling Barracks in Changchun and fought against the Japanese army, not counting the wounded, one guy killed more than 40 Japanese soldiers and killed the Japanese squadron leader Kuramoto, causing the heaviest casualties of the Japanese army on the night of September 18. However, Ren Yushan's regiment also suffered a lot of losses. …,

The other brigade is the 23rd Independent Brigade Li Guilin, this brigade has 5,560 soldiers, 421 rifles, and 32 heavy machine guns, but is not equipped with light machine guns, 6 mortars, and 4 mountain guns like the 25th Brigade. On the night of 918, the Kuanchengzi barracks was attacked, and the battalion commander Fu Guanguan who died in the battle belonged to this brigade, and a battalion stationed in the city was also disarmed by the Japanese army. The brigade commander Li Guilin also served as the envoy of Jichang Town.

The Guards Regiment is the Guards Regiment headed by Feng Zhanhai mentioned earlier. According to the pre-war intelligence of the Japanese, this guard regiment had 1,670 personnel, 1,510 rifles, 18 heavy machine guns, and 12 mountain guns.

From the provincial capital of Jilin to the east is Yanji Road, where the 27th Brigade Jixing Department is stationed. The brigade had 570 troops, 5,237 rifles, 32 heavy machine guns, 6 mortars, and 4 field guns.

From Changchun to the north is now the Harbin area of Heilongjiang, but at that time, the outside of the Harbin railway belonged to the Binjiang Road of Jilin Province. Here were three brigades stationed.

Among them, the 22nd Independent Brigade Su Dechen Department was stationed in Shuangcheng, south of Harbin. The brigade had 6,500 personnel, 5,800 rifles, 18 heavy machine guns, 38 light machine guns, 34 mortars, and 12 infantry guns.

The 26th Independent Brigade Xing Zhanqing Division, stationed in Harbin, had 7,150 personnel, 500 rifles, 18 heavy machine guns, 38 light machine guns, 34 mortars, and 12 infantry guns.

The independent 28th Brigade Ding Chao Department, the brigade commander Ding Chao concurrently served as the Binjiang Town Guard, also stationed in Harbin, this brigade has 5,700 personnel, 421 rifles, 32 heavy machine guns, 6 mortars, and 4 field guns.

Running down the Songhua River from Harbin, the northeastern region of present-day Heilongjiang Province was then the Yilan Road in Jilin Province. Stationed here is the Li Du Department of the 24th Independent Brigade, and the brigade commander Li Du is also the guard of Yilan Town. The brigade had 5,560 troops, 421 rifles, 32 heavy machine guns, six mortars, and four mountain guns. This brigade had fought against the Soviet troops going up the Songhua River during the Middle East Road incident.