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All along, *** has a strong sense of hierarchy, and the strong sense of hierarchy of *** people is not only manifested between superiors and subordinates, but also found in other aspects of *** people. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoFor young people with less qualifications, *** people rarely entrust them with important responsibilities, because they not only question the experience and abilities of young people, but also take into account the existence of hierarchical concepts. The hierarchical order will never change in ***, when walking, the older people or the people with high status must be in front, and when they sit down, there is also a hierarchy arrangement, the high-ranked, the wealthy and the older people are always arranged in the upper seat or upper seat. When socializing with *** people, if you don't pay attention to the hierarchy, it will cause *** people to be disgusted.

The occurrence of "the following grams" originated from the "Huanggutun incident". On June 3, 28, the Kwantung Army tried to create chaos and occupy northeast China, and senior staff officer Daisaku Kawamoto and others blew up the special train of Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Chinese Feng warlords, in Huanggutun, a suburb of Shenyang, and Zhang Zuolin died on the spot. The prime minister at the time, Yoshiichi Tanaka, reported to Emperor Showa: "This murder of Zhang Zuolin unfortunately has the participation of the emperor's *** people, and it is now under investigation, and the perpetrators must be severely punished according to law." The emperor said, "Please strictly maintain military discipline." However, when Tanaka was about to punish Daisaku Kawamoto, there was strong opposition within the military, claiming that "family scandals should not be publicized" and that if Kawamoto was publicly punished, it would seriously damage the image of the Imperial Army in the world. Under strong pressure from within the military, Prime Minister Tanaka had no choice but to report to the emperor: "After investigation, this matter has nothing to do with the emperor. The emperor was furious: "Why is the Prime Minister's words completely different from last time?" You don't have to explain anymore, and I don't want to hear it anymore. Tanaka was reprimanded by the emperor and was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. The next day, Tanaka announced his resignation in despair. After Tanaka's resignation, the Army Headquarters only suspended Daisaku Kawamoto from his post internally, on the grounds that Daisaku Kawamoto's motive was "selfless patriotic acts", so he was given a lenient punishment. This kind of connivance at the illegal behavior of military personnel on the grounds of "patriotism" directly led to the proliferation of "subordinate and superior" behaviors in the *** army later.

The second time there was a "following gram" was the September 18 Incident. When the incident happened, even the commander of the Kwantung Army, Shigeru Honjo, and Emperor *** did not know that it was completely planned by Seishiro Itagaki, Kenji Dohihara, and Ishihara Waner. According to Ishihara's theory of the "Manchurian and Mongolian lifeline", he believed that "if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer Manchuria." The original date of the "Manchurian Incident" was 28 September, when the local crops such as high grain were harvested to facilitate the war. But by mid-September, the plans for the Wicker Lake incident were exposed in *** country. War Minister Minamijiro and others sent Major General Miji Kenkawa, chief of operations of the General Staff, to Tohoku to convey the opinion that the military department did not agree with the incident in the near future. Therefore, Seishiro Itagaki and Ishihara decided to bring forward the "Manchurian Incident" to 18 September. This day happened to be the day when Major General Miji Jianchuan, chief of staff operations sent by the *** base camp, came to the northeast.

Of course, the Kwantung Army is not monolithic, some people once objected that Zhang Xueliang in the Northeast has 300,000 elite troops, and the Kwantung Army plus the Japanese railway garrison in the Northeast, the soldiers in the township, the police force and the *** ronin, at most 50,000 people, how to confront the Northeast Army? Ishihara sneered at such remarks: "Zhang Xueliang knows very well that there is a strong *** behind us!" And behind him is the same bed Chiang Kai-shek! There is Zhang Xueliang in the Northeast Army, just like a tiger with a sheep's heart, can he not be afraid of wolves? "Ishihara and Seishiro Itagaki arranged a careful plan: first, Captain Shintaro Imada led people to blow up a section of the South Manchurian Railway near Wicker Lake, falsely claiming that it was the squadron that sabotaged the railway. Then the 2nd Brigade of the *** Garrison, the 5th Brigade of the *** Garrison and the Hirata United launched an attack on the Northeast Army. Nine. The three culprits of the 18th Incident are all middle- and low-level officers, and they are "below the gram". The gamble of Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro is to bet on these two points: first: if Honjo Shigeru does not agree and does not send reinforcements, if the War Department resolutely opposes it and does not get the support of his superiors, the Wicker Lake Incident will be aborted. Second: If Zhang Xueliang resolutely resists and Chiang Kai-shek resolutely resists, the well-equipped 300,000 Northeast Army and the 50,000 troops in the Northeast will not be able to compete with it at all. But Ishihara Waner believes that the domestic War Department will definitely support it, and Zhang Xueliang will definitely not resist.

After the September 18 incident, the government convened an emergency cabinet meeting. War Minister Minamijiro emphasized that this was an act of self-defense by the Kwantung Army, but Foreign Minister Kishigero Bihara suspected that it was a conspiracy of the Kwantung Army and tried to resolve the incident through diplomatic means. On 24 September, the Cabinet decided on the policy of "not further escalating the situation." On September 25, the delegates announced at the "League of Nations" that the Japanese army would immediately begin to retreat. However, the Kwantung Army simply ignored the government's decision and continued to expand the front in the name of self-defense. Since the Kwantung Army had only more than 10,000 troops and was unable to capture the entire territory of Tohoku, it asked the government for reinforcements from the Japanese troops stationed in Korea. After consulting with the Minister of War, the Prime Minister rejected the request of the Kwantung Army and ordered the commander of the Korean Army, Ichiro Hayashi, to be on standby. However, Hayashi sent more than 30,000 troops to reinforce the Kwantung Army. At that time, both the Minister of War and the Chief of the General Staff supported the immediate withdrawal of troops, but the officers of the Kwantung Army did not pay any attention to the instructions from above, and once again resorted to the tactic of "going down and going up", and on October 18 they launched a fierce attack on the Northeast Army stationed in Jinzhou. At that time, the consul general in Shenyang had negotiated with the top brass of the Kwantung Army and tried to explain the government's policy of wanting a peaceful settlement, but the officers of the Kwantung Army actually pulled out their sabers and threatened: "Do you want to interfere in our affairs?" The Northeast Army led by Zhang Xueliang did not resist, and soon all withdrew into Shanhaiguan, and the entire Northeast fell.

It is worth pointing out that despite the fact that there was a considerable degree of rhetoric at the time, the society of *** was basically on the side of the fanatical military. Lin Miichiro sent the North Korean army into China in violation of the order, and he was praised by the press, saying that he was a true patriot, which made it impossible for the increasingly weak central government to hold Hayashi Moichiro responsible. Because the war was not recognized and supported by the prime minister, the militant forces in the military department were greatly annoyed, and they formulated a plan to attack the prime minister's residence, assassinate the prime minister, and establish a military regime, but this plan was finally ruined due to internal strife. On December 11, 31, Inu Yangyi, who was over seventy years old, became prime minister. Inu Yangyi is an old friend of Premier Sun, and he has good personal relations with many high-ranking figures in the Nationalist government. Inuyang Yi intended to resolve the crisis in the three eastern provinces by peaceful means, and on December 20, Inuyang Yi secretly sent a special envoy to Nanjing to hold talks with high-level Chinese government officials, but the secret peace talks were exposed, angering the radicals in the military. On March 1, 32, under the planning of the Kwantung Army, the "Manchukuo" was proclaimed. The fact that the Prime Minister did not recognize "Manchukuo" angered the radical military even more. On May 15, 32, a group of fanatical soldiers broke into the prime minister's residence with open fire and killed Prime Minister Inuyangyi. After the killing of Prime Minister Inubi, the government officially recognized "Manchukuo" on September 15, 32, and on March 27, 33, *** announced its withdrawal from the "League of Nations". What is thought-provoking is that at that time, the *** society even sympathized with the murderer of the prime minister, believing that the fanatical soldiers were out of "noble patriotic dedication" and "patriotic innocence", and also launched a national signature campaign to exonerate and commute the murderer's sentence. Some teenage girls even wrote letters saying they were going to marry the murderers.

The most representative of the Japanese army's "following the gram" was the "226 Mutiny" launched by the Shaozhuang faction. In the mutiny, a large number of moderate officials, including the two prime ministers, were killed one after another, and the "ruling faction" soldiers led by Hideki Tojo took the opportunity to take control of the regime.

This time in the land of North China, the Japanese army still adopted the method of "following the defeat" and calmly faced the order issued by its domestic base camp to "suspend the war and wait for assistance" and took the initiative to provoke the flames of war. At 6 o'clock in the evening of 8 July, a Japanese brigade launched another fierce attack on Wanping City, mobilizing artillery to bombard the city wall fiercely, and nine light tanks attacked the positions of the Chinese defenders outside the city.

The city wall of Wanping City is full of holes, the city was blown into a ruin, the west line of the city was quickly broken through by the Japanese army, and the sappers rushed to the city wall with intensive firepower, and the high-power explosives were installed to carry out blasting, and after several attacks and defenses, it was finally successfully detonated, and the ancient city wall was blown out of two mouths. The officers and men of the 29th Army were already red-eyed, and they did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives, stubbornly fought back, and fiercely fought back with rifles, grenades, explosives packs, and other weapons.

At this moment, the 110th Brigade led by He Jifeng, the commander of the 29th Army, was ordered to come with reinforcements, and the Japanese army could only choose to stop the siege of the city, retreat quickly, and seek an opportunity to shoot at the reinforcements with a cold gun.

The guns and cannons on the front line of Wanping were non-stop, but Beiping and Tianjin were engaged in arduous negotiations. Qin Dechun, deputy commander of the 29th Army, who was entrusted by Song Zheyuan, negotiated with Matsui Taikuro, the head of the Japanese army's secret service, in Beiping, and Zhang Zizhong, who was sitting in Tianjin, was ordered to negotiate with Hashimoto, chief of staff of the Chinese garrison in Tianjin. 2. The Japanese army withdrew to Fengtai, and the squadron withdrew to the west bank of the Yongding River; 3. The defense of Wanping City will be taken over by the Chinese security forces, numbering 200 to 300 men, and the withdrawal of troops from each other is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.; Fourth, it is strictly forbidden for the Central Army, especially the 17th Army, to go north, otherwise it will be regarded as a declaration of war against ***.

This humiliating agreement caused the officers and men of the 29th Army to lose their fighters under the condition of gaining the full advantage, and not only did not exchange for the Japanese army to keep its promises, but because of the initiative to withdraw its troops, the Japanese army seized the opportunity to calmly arrange the battlefield.

While the sinister Japanese army was negotiating, the commander of the Japanese brigade, Shozo Kawabe, quietly issued an order again: "The brigade will gather its forces near the Lugou Bridge station and prepare to attack at dawn tomorrow!" ”

At 6 o'clock in the morning of 9 July, after receiving the notice of the armistice agreement between China and Japan, Hebian still ordered his headquarters to bombard Wanping City again. At 9 o'clock in the morning, Song Zheyuan's North China Security Regiment, which was ordered to take over Wanping's defense, retreated to Dajing Village near Lugou Bridge, where it was suddenly attacked by the Japanese army, and the unprepared security team suffered more than 300 casualties.

The generals of the 29th Army, who had just completed the negotiations, were extremely angry when they received the news, and Song Zheyuan, whose interests had been repeatedly threatened, once again showed a helpless compromise attitude, and the attacked troops carried away the bodies of the brothers in tears, and carried the wounded on their backs and left with hatred. Emergency negotiations began again, and the negotiating generals authorized by Song Zheyuan made representations to the Japanese side on the basis of reason, angrily accusing them of trying their best to set up obstacles and obstruct the security team from receiving defenses.

At this time, the two main divisions of Hujialin's 17th Army had occupied the advantageous terrain from Zhuozhou to Bazhou and built fortifications, and a brigade of more than 6,000 traitors stationed in Langfang quickly opened the city gate and disarmed and retreated south under the threat of the two main divisions of the Anjia Army and superior artillery and machine guns. The Japanese side saw the huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, and the reinforcements of the two divisions that were rushing at high speed could only jump off the train and quickly go south to Tangshan because the railway bridge was blown up, and it was at least 24 hours later to enter the battlefield, and the cunning Japanese army had to agree to Song Zheyuan's armistice request, allowing the local security forces to enter Wanping City, and the rest of the Chinese garrison troops were all withdrawn.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army not only breached the contract and did not withdraw a single soldier, but instead transferred the chariot brigade of the first wing to Shagang near the Lugou Bridge to take over the defense. In less than 12 hours, the Japanese troops who sneaked to the northeast corner of Wanping once again fired guns and cannons, fiercely attacking the city, and a large number of Japanese troops who arrived at the battlefield first mobilized to Fengtai from Tianjin, Tongzhou, Gubeikou, Yuguan and other places, and planes, artillery, ironclad vehicles, and tanks all entered the position, and the commander of the riverside brigade brazenly set up his headquarters in Fengtai, commanded the Japanese army to surround Wanping, and once again brazenly launched an attack, and the battle in Wanping City and the surrounding areas became more and more intense.

Wherever the Japanese army went, they killed people and set fires, plundered and plundered, and committed heinous crimes against the Chinese people. The ditch on the north side of the Lugou Bridge, which is more than 30 meters long, more than 8 meters wide, and about 1 meter deep, is filled with the corpses of seven or eight hundred Chinese.

Hearing the increasingly fierce gunfire in the north, the *** Division and the *** Regiment could no longer sit still, and took a special train to break out of the blockade of the security forces of the 29th Army and go north at high speed, but was stopped by the 111th Brigade of the 29th Army in Fangshan again and could not advance.

Song Zheyuan, who was negotiating with the Japanese army, sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek and Hu Jialin at the same time, angrily denouncing the 17th Army's sabotage of the peace talks. After receiving An Yi's secret telegram, Hu Jialin suppressed his anger and ordered the whole army to temporarily stop advancing.

Chiang Kai-shek made it clear to Song Zheyuan: The peace talks were a trick of the Japanese army, but Song Zheyuan was unmoved, for the 29th Army entrenched in Pingjin and Chahar, the threat of the Central Army was greater than that of the first people, so the attitude was unusually resolute, that is, the 17th Army was not allowed to go north, otherwise the responsibility for starting a civil war would be borne by the central government.

Chiang Kai-shek was in a hurry, but for a time there was no way to take Song Zheyuan and others, at this critical juncture, the 29th Army, which had 150,000 horses, had too critical a position, once it fell to ***, the consequences were unimaginable, and at the moment he could only telegraph to order all the armies to make all preparations for counterattack, and advised Song Zheyuan to rush to build defense lines and fortifications in the starry night, and prepare for a full-scale war with ***, otherwise it would be too late to regret it.

Chiang Kai-shek didn't know that An Yi, who had already touched the bottom line and couldn't bear it, had already pulled Bai Chongxi, chief of the General Staff, into the secret room, and showed his overall plan to fight back.