Chapter 574: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Northern Mongolia Plots Continue (1)

While praising Song Zhewu and the Fourth Route Army, many newspapers certainly did not forget to criticize Zhang Xueliang and the Northeast Army for not resisting in the "September 18 Incident." The comparison between the two highlights the incompetence of Zhang Xueliang and hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army. It's just that because the achievements of the Fourth Route Army are so big and too big, that they don't have the heart to condemn Zhang Xueliang too much.

The parades and celebrations of students from all over the country came and went, and for a time, a wave of Song Zhewu's enthusiasm and joining the army was once again set off in China. Of course, the vast majority of young people who want to join the army want to join the Fourth Route Army. "If you want to be a soldier, you must be a soldier of the Fourth Route Army." This yijing has become the consensus of enthusiastic young people.

For a time, almost everyone was talking about Song Zhewu and his heroic Fourth Route Army, and Song Zhewu's prestige not only rose again at home, but also became famous abroad.

As the mouthpiece of the Nationalist Government, the "Central Daily" naturally will not be left behind, but the content of its report is very different from that reported by other newspapers in China.

In its report, the "Central Daily" did not praise Song Zhewu too much, but devoted the main space to praising the Fourth Route Army; for Song Zhewu, the "Central Daily" only wrote a stroke in the place where it had to mention, and more of a large feature on how the Nationalist Government and Chairman Chiang personally organized and gave strong support to the war in Northern Mongolia.

As circumstantial evidence of the material support for the Fourth Route Army's War of Resistance in Northern Mongolia, the "Central Daily" took the trouble to enumerate one by one how under the instructions of Chairman Chiang, under the instructions of Chairman Chiang, the Nationalist Government allocated the Fourth Route Army's weapons, ammunition, gasoline, and how much money was allocated to the Fourth Route Army under the extremely tight financial situation.

As circumstantial evidence of Chairman Chiang's personal organization and support, it was the participation of Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army and Sun Weiru's 17th Division. There is also the southern part of Hu Zong's move to Ningxia and Ma Hongkui's pillow to wait for the Dan.

What makes people think a lot is that the "Central Daily" especially emphasized that the front-line commander-in-chief of the main force of the Soviet army that encircled and annihilated the invasion of Northern Mongolia was Fu Zuoyi of the Jin Sui army.

Moreover, "Central Daily" seems to be afraid that the world will forget who Fu Zuoyi is, and he recalls the old matter of Fu Zuoyi's defense of Zhuozhou at all lengths, and for a while, Fu Zuoyi's limelight has also risen a lot. Of course, the Central Daily also praised the other units of the Fourth Route Army. For example, Li Wentian, Wu Jin, Gao Zhihang, Gao Zongbao, Chu Xichun, Zhou Yaoming, Wang Bi, Ma Fawu, etc.

Even the "Central Daily" even praised Yan Xishan, who had just taken up the post of director of the Linfen Pacification Office. It is said that Yan Xishan was well aware of the great righteousness, and at the time of national crisis invaded by foreign enemies, regardless of gains and losses, he resolutely obeyed the orders of Chairman Chiang and sent the 35th Army, the most elite of the Jin Sui Army, to fight in Mongolia. Danshi, what is puzzling is that Yang Hucheng, who also sent elites, did not say a word, and he was secretive.

Immediately afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek, in the name of chairman of the Nationalist Government and chairman of the Supreme Military Commission, sent a telegram to the whole country, promulgating a commendation order for a series of personnel such as the Fourth Route Army and Song Zhewu, and promoted Song Zhewu to the first deputy commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force of the Republic of China, Li Wentian, Wu Jin, and Fu Zuoyi to generals, and Chu Xichun, Gao Zhihang, Sun Weiru, and others to lieutenant generals.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek, taking advantage of the great victory of Northern Mongolia, once again called on the whole party and the whole army to obey the military orders and decrees of the central government, like Song Zhewu and Yan Xishan, and unite as one to jointly exterminate the red bandits and resist foreign captivity. This made the Guangzhou government led by Wang Jingwei very passive.

During this period, all walks of life throughout the country also sent congratulatory telegrams to Song Zhewu to congratulate him on the great victory in Northern Mongolia, and even the Guangzhou government and Wang Jingwei himself also sent congratulatory messages.

The report of the "Central Daily" and Chiang Kai-shek's intention to promote and commend him, without looking at the analysis and explanation sent by Jia Jingde, Song Zhewu himself is very clear. His prestige has risen so quickly and so high, he should have committed a taboo. And as a means to cool down his prestige and restrain himself, it is natural to increase Yan Xishan's prestige and create a weighty opponent for himself. As for praising and promoting his subordinates, Chairman Chiang had hidden tricks. …,

Because Jia Jingde and Song Zhewu both found that Chiang Kai-shek had a special preference for the generals who joined the Fourth Route Army in the later period.

Song Zhewu didn't care about Chiang Kai-shek's petty tricks and plots, and Song Zhewu didn't think it was a big deal that Chiang Kai-shek was partial to these generals under him.

Those who have not been promoted, such as Zhang Yafei, Zhang Tao, Liang Fang, Li Sichi, Liang Zhongjia, Xu Fang, Zhao Fengwu and others, will follow them more closely. For Li Wentian, Wu Jin, Gao Zhihang, Gao Zongbao, Chu Xichun, Zhou Yaoming, Wang Bi and others who have been promoted and rewarded, it is just an opportunity to test them.

The situation of domestic public opinion, especially the situation involving the Fourth Route Army, Jia Jingde and Xiao Guodong would send telegrams to Song Zhewu every day. For a summary of these situations, Song Zhewu will also send a copy to all senior generals after reading it.

Most of the generals of the Fourth Route Army scoffed at the report of the "Central Daily" and Chiang Kai-shek's order to promote and commend them, and were even extremely dissatisfied. Li Wentian, Gao Zongbao, Wu Jin, Gao Zhihang and others, who were promoted and rewarded, even had to send a message to refuse.

Among these people, Li Wentian and Wu Jin were the most uneasy. There used to be only one general in the Fourth Route Army, and that was Song Zhewu, who was the supreme commander of the Fourth Route Army. But now Chiang Kai-shek has promoted the two of them to generals, how can these two afford it. They could also guess Chiang Kai-shek's intentions, and therefore refused to accept it with the most resolute attitude. However, they were all stopped by Song Zhewu.

Song Zhewu told them that Chairman Chiang was the supreme leader of the Nationalist Government and that he should take the money he gave. However, some well-intentioned people can still hear the meaning of Song Zhewu's words. Because Song Zhewu only mentioned that the money was taken, but he did not say that the official would do it.

Fu Zuoyi also understood what Chiang Kai-shek meant, this was not only to use himself to share the credit of Song Zhewu and suppress Song Zhewu's prestige, but also to create a rift between Yan Xishan and himself. It turned out that in the Jin Sui army, there was only one general Yan Xishan, and now there are two, Song Zhewu can tolerate Li Wentian and Wu Jin, Yang Hucheng can accommodate Sun Weiru, but how can the narrow-minded Yan Xishan tolerate himself?

However, Fu Zuoyi, who has always been arrogant, doesn't care, he believes that with his own ability, he can make achievements that the world is proud of.

The only thing that made him a little embarrassed was that the "Central Daily" praised him too much, as if he was alone for the credit for encircling and annihilating the main force of the Soviet army. Although he now admires Song Zhewu's wisdom, open-mindedness and personality more and more, if he is asked to explain this matter to Song Zhewu, he will never be arrogant. Moreover, Fu Zuoyi believes that Song Zhewu will never care about these things with him.

However, at this time, Song Zhewu's mind was completely out of this, and there was one thing that attracted his great attention.

Because of the "IX. Inspired by the victory of Northern Mongolia, the boycott of Japanese goods finally broke out in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Shanghai is not the city that is most disgusted with the Japanese. In 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan killed and injured Japanese civilians. All walks of life in Shanghai have organized donations, and the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and the Red Cross Society alone donated 140,000 yuan in cash and materials within 20 days.

Although Japan occupied Taiwan, invaded Shandong, and forced me to sign the 21st Article. However, at that time, the citizens of Shanghai still responded to the call of the Beiyang government, forgot the previous suspicions of the war, and no longer arrived at the goods, so as to reduce the burden on the Japanese people and facilitate the recovery of Japanese production.

The Shanghainese did this, repaying their grievances with virtue, but what did they get in return? The Shanghainese soon discovered that what they had received was the Jinan massacre, the massacre of hundreds of Chinese nationals by the Koreans, and the occupation of Northeast China by the Japanese army, which enslaved 30 million Chinese people. …,

Weak countries have no diplomacy, and the Chinese government can do nothing but protest. But now it is different, and the Chinese finally have a Song Zhewu to compete with the great powers in the north.

Encouraged by the students, patriotic businessmen of Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, they jointly called for the whole country not only to boycott Japanese products, but also to sever all economic ties with Japan.

This time, it is not only not only not to buy Japanese goods, but also not to sell goods to Japanese people, not to provide raw materials to Japanese people, not to settle accounts with Japanese people, and even to call on merchants not to accept Japanese people. In a word, as long as you speak Japanese, even the little people who can't speak clearly, and everyone who is suspected of being Japanese, will play on the side.

It is really impossible to say how much impact this non-governmental spontaneous movement of economic relations will have on the Japanese government and even the Japanese economy. Danshi's more than 20,000 Japanese expatriate businessmen in Shanghai were cornered. The business of the Japanese factories and trading companies could not continue, and even all the Japanese in Shanghai could not make a living. However, these Japanese expatriates do not blame the Kwantung Army, in the eyes of this group of Japanese expatriates, the Japanese army occupied northeast China is not wrong at all, and the Chinese are guilty of daring to boycott Japanese products because of this.

On 11 November, more than 4,000 Japanese expatriates gathered at a Japanese elementary school on North Sichuan Road in Shanghai's Japanese Concession to denounce the Chinese's "violent economic severance." They marched all the way after the rally, beating Chinese and tearing up anti-Japanese slogans along the way. He demanded that "the imperial government consolidate the rights it has gained in Manchuria" and "eliminate the anti-Japanese and national salvation movement in all China," and sent telegrams to the Japanese army and navy, demanding that they effectively protect the interests of the Japanese expatriates in Shanghai.

Seeing these reports, Song Zhewu couldn't help but be furious.

We always like to say that the Japanese people are different from the Japanese warlords. However, these "Japanese people" in Shanghai are really pushing for aggression against China. On the contrary, those Japanese officials who are unwilling to take risks and exert pressure on China have become "national thieves" in the mouths of this group of "Japanese people."

These damned Japanese expatriates are all crazy, and of course the Japanese army has more reason to provoke a war.

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