Chapter 586: Defending Harbin in the Northeast of the Anti-Japanese War (1)

The next day, Ma Zhanshan, who had made an appointment to continue discussing the current situation with Song Zhewu, did not come to see Song Zhewu as scheduled, but only sent Chief of Staff Xie Ke.

Xie Ke, who looked worried, told Song Zhewu that Ma Zhanshan said that he would "deal with" Little Japan and come back to meet Song Zhewu in the afternoon.

It turned out that Ma Zhanshan posted a notice on the street outside the South Gate, where the Japanese gathered, early in the morning, informing the Japanese that "because of the recent turmoil and tension in the war, there may be incidents that are unfavorable to the Japanese expatriates." In order to ensure the safety of overseas Japanese in Longjiang, at 9 o'clock, all overseas Japanese gathered at Longjiang Middle School for a meeting to preach relevant precautions to overseas Japanese. ”

The Japanese in Longjiang knew that the Kwantung Army would enter and occupy Heilongjiang sooner or later, so they did not care about the information told by the Heilongjiang Provincial Government, and the Japanese overseas Chinese in Longjiang did not all arrive on time, and after 9 o'clock, only about 300 people came, and Park Bingshan, the commander of the Longjiang garrison who came forward to organize the matter, dragged it from morning to afternoon on the grounds that the number was not complete, neither preached the relevant matters nor provided food and water, and only at 14 o'clock did he suddenly announce that "I have received information that someone is going to drop bombs at Longjiang Middle School, which is not conducive to the Japanese overseas Chinese, and the Japanese overseas Chinese will be transferred to Beiguan." ’

As a result, hundreds of hungry overseas Japanese were "escorted" by heavily armed military and police officers and rushed to Beiguan, and as soon as they arrived at Beiguan, two shots were fired at Beiguan, and then the Japanese overseas Chinese came to Dongguan again under the ridicule of a large number of Chinese people who were laughing and watching along the way. Park Byung-san found that Dongguan was not "safe" either, and transferred the Japanese overseas Chinese to Nanguan.

In this way, a large number of overseas Japanese were marched around the whole city of Longjiang, and only then did they let all the overseas Japanese go home under the intervention of Shimizu, the Japanese consul general in Longjiang who had rushed in a hurry.

At the same time, Shimizu handed over a diplomatic note to Ma Zhanshan. It was claimed that the Northeast Army demolished the Nenjiang Bridge, blocked the traffic, and affected the transportation of soybeans by Japanese businessmen to South Manchuria, and demanded that Ma Zhanshan immediately repair the bridge, otherwise the Manchurian Railway would send people to repair it with arms.

Regarding Qing Shui's note, Ma Zhanshan naturally did not buy it, and immediately rejected it sternly.

However, Ma Zhanshan did not dare to be careless about the threat of Qingshui, and immediately made operational arrangements and formed three lines of defense in the areas of Daxing, Tangchi, Sanjianfang, Pleiades Creek, and Fularji north of the Nenjiang Bridge to strengthen the defense of Qiqihar. This also gave Ma Zhanshan an excuse not to see Song Zhewu, and Ma Zhanshan went to the front line to inspect and hid from Qiqihar on the grounds of tense war.

Ma Zhanshan asked Wan Guobin and Xie Ke to tell Song Zhewu that the Heilongjiang garrison had more than 30,000 people, well-equipped and well-trained, enough to deal with the Kwantung Army. He was too busy with military affairs to listen to the teachings of the deputy commander-in-chief. The hospitality is not good, please forgive Song Zhewu.

Liang Zhongjia was furious about Ma Zhanshan's expulsion order and scolded Ma Zhanshan in front of all the guests.

The reason why Ma Zhanshan was reluctant to join forces with the Eastern Resistance to resist Japan, Song Zhewu could think of it without asking, this must have consulted Zhang Xueliang. Zhang Xueliang waited for the arrival of the investigation team of the League of Nations, once the Eastern Resistance and the Northeast Army united and fought with the Kwantung Army in the Northeast, it would ruin his image of a "resentful woman" in front of the League of Nations. He, Zhang Xueliang, has been scolded by the Chinese people in vain these days. Even Zhang Xueliang is likely to think that the Japanese who really want to fight will sit down and negotiate, and it is difficult to say whether the Northeast will have the surname Zhang at that time.

Although it is definitely not possible to unite with Ma Zhanshan to resist Japan, it does not mean that Song Zhewu will do nothing, Liang Zhongjia and Qi Xingya have secretly done a lot of work in the past two days. Su Bingwen has rushed back to Hailar, and Xie Ke has also reached a tacit understanding with Song Zhewu.

The big war was imminent, and there was no point in staying in Qiqihar any longer, so Song Zhewu immediately rushed to Meilis, joined the guard troops and returned to Wuchagou, and issued a series of orders to Guan Yuheng through the radio on the way.

Ten days later, Honjo Fan, who had already learned of Ma Zhanshan's refusal to unite with the Eastern Resistance, believed that it was necessary to destroy Ma Zhanshan before Song Zhewu and occupy Qiqihar and the entire Heilongjiang River in order to block the main force of the Fourth Route Army in Northern Mongolia. Therefore, the Kwantung Army was ordered to form the Nenjiang Detachment with the 1st Division of the 2nd Division, with the commander of the 16th Infantry Wing, Kizaburo Hamamoto, as the head of the detachment. The Nenjiang detachment is composed of the 16th Wing, the Infantry Mountain Artillery Team, the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Field Artillery Wing, the 2nd Cavalry Squadron, the 2nd Squadron of the 1st Engineer Brigade, the 1st Radio Squadron and the 8th Squadron of the Air Force, and half a field hospital, with a total of about 4,000 people. …,

After Hamamoto arrived in Qiqihar, he first commanded the artillery of the Kwantung Army to seize the favorable terrain on the south bank of the river bridge to build fortifications, and sent engineers to the river bridge to prepare for emergency repairs. At the same time, it was ordered to let the main force of the detachment enter the Jiangqiao station under the cover of ironclad vehicles and aircraft. In order to avoid conflict, Ma Zhanshan ordered Xu Baozhen to withdraw to his position in the area of Daxing, which was 18 miles away from Jiangqiao.

Song Zhewu, who got Xie Ke's telegram, couldn't help but be disappointed, the enemy had already hit the doorstep, and he was still retreating and patient, the northeast was over, it seemed that he had no power to return to the sky, and he had to do his best to obey the fate of heaven.

On the day that the Nenjiang detachment arrived in Tailai, Qing Shui was instructed by the Kwantung Army Headquarters to issue a circular to the Heilongjiang Provincial Government on the repair of the river bridge: "Before 12 noon on the 4th, the two armies will withdraw to a distance of 10 kilometers from the bridge, and they shall not enter within 10 kilometers until the bridge repair task is completed." Those who do not agree to the above demands shall be regarded as hostile to the Japanese army and shall resort to force in accordance with the law, and are hereby warned." This "notice" was actually an ultimatum for the Japanese army to attack Heilongjiang Province.

After Ma Zhanshan received the notice from the Japanese army, he immediately convened a meeting of representatives of the military, government, gentry, and businessmen in the provincial capital to discuss countermeasures. Although Ma Zhanshan was determined to resist the war, Ma Zhanshan, Wan Guobin and others resolutely opposed Xie Ke's suggestion to invite the Eastern Resistance to fight together. In the end, the meeting decided that "if the Japanese invade our position, they will resist." and ordered Li Qingshan's regiment to reinforce Xu Baozhen.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, there were more than 500 Japanese troops. With the cooperation of the two planes, the attack on Xinlitun was launched, and the Jiangqiao War of Resistance officially began.

Due to the resolute and fierce resistance of the defenders, Honjo had to increase his troops to Qiqihar three times in a row. The remaining troops of the 2nd Division and the 39th Brigade were sent to the vicinity of Daxing, and the commander of the 2nd Division, Duomen, was ordered to command the Nenjiang detachment together, and each unit set off separately in the afternoon. In addition, three squadrons of fighters and one group of bombers were urgently transferred from China to the northeast, and the 4th Mixed Brigade, which landed in Dalian, was rearranged to land in Busan, North Korea.

After five days of fierce fighting, Ma Zhanshan suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and the newly formed militia group almost suffered casualties, but it also caused more than 2,000 Japanese casualties.

The heavy casualties made Ma Zhanshan unable to fight again, although he regretted not agreeing to Song Zhewu's request for a joint war of resistance, but because of Zhang Xueliang's instructions, he could only do so. Ma Zhanshan ordered the troops to withdraw to Keshan, Baiquan, and Helen. This was the end of the Jiangqiao War of Resistance.

However, Xie Ke did not withdraw with Ma Zhanshan, but led Xu Baozhen's guard regiment and Liu Runchuan's battalion, as well as Wei Fuhai's military police brigade to withdraw north to Hailar, and sent someone to contact Song Zhewu to express his willingness to join the Eastern Resistance.

After succeeding in Heilongjiang, Honzhuang Fan ordered the 39th mixed brigade to be stationed in Qiqihar to monitor Northern Mongolia, and after chasing Ma Zhanshan, he again transferred the main force to western Liaoning.

After the initial stabilization of the three provinces of Liao, Ji and Hei, Harbin is no longer afraid, there is a puppet army in Xiqia, and the most important thing at present is to drive the Northeast Army out of Shanhaiguan and completely close the gate of the Northeast.

As a result, the Japanese army launched an attack on Jinzhou, an important town in western Liaoning, in three ways, but at this time Zhang Xueliang still had no intention of resolutely resisting. After learning that the Japanese army was about to invade western Liaoxi on a large scale, Zhang Xueliang sent a telegram to Yu Xuezhong, commander of the First Army, saying: "When Japan attacks Jinzhou in the near future, it should be defended, but if the current government policy is not decided, it cannot be held by Jinzhou's army, and it should be withdrawn into the pass." ”

Before the Northeast Army in western Liaoning could withdraw west to Shanhaiguan, on 15 December, a major event occurred in Nanjing, that is, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to the wilderness.

Chiang Kai-shek said in a telegram: ...... Hu Hanmin and other comrades telegraphed every day, and there were remarks that the Zhongzheng had to go to the wilderness, remove the military authority, and only then could they go to Beijing to attend the meeting, etc., because they wanted the Zhongzheng to be dismissed from their posts first, and peaceful reunification could be realized,...... Weighing the importance of the matter, we should not delay it for a moment and think about it again, but I would like to ask the Central Committee to allow me to resign from the chairmanship of the National Government and other ......... other posts.

On the 25th, the Nanjing Nationalist Government telegraphed Zhang Xueliang to "do his best and actively resist." But Zhang Xueliang was unmoved and still insisted on going his own way.

The Northeast Army in western Liaoning began to retreat to Guannai on December 29, 1931. On the morning of January 3, 1932, they all withdrew from Jinzhou and assembled in the Luanxian area. In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese army occupied Jinzhou.

After the Japanese army occupied Jinzhou, it quickly occupied other areas of western Liaoning, and approached the Great Wall. After that, they readjusted their arrangements and made preparations for the next step of attacking Harbin and occupying the special zones of the three eastern provinces.

At this point, Song Zhewu also completely believed that the order not to resist the "September 18 Incident" was completely done by Zhang Xueliang, and was definitely not an order issued by Chiang Kai-shek.

At this time, for Xiqia, the situation is very good.

The two Northeast armies in Jilin Province that dared to resist the Japanese were defeated by him, and the Japanese army captured Longjiang and defeated Ma Zhanshan. Xiqia felt that it no longer mattered whether Ding Chao and other wait-and-see people supported him. Now is the time to strengthen the deterrence against them, do those fools who are waiting and see dare to jump out and resist at this time? It is important to know that the best opportunity to unite against the rebellion has been missed by them.

Therefore, Xiqia no longer pretended to be gentle and respectful, but directly issued a series of orders, first of all, the commander of the 26th Brigade also stationed in Harbin, Xing Zhanqing, was relieved of his post and replaced by his regiment commander Song Wenjun, and at the same time, Song Xizeng of the mountain and forest garrison was dismissed from his post, which is called cutting his wings.

To Song Zhewu's great surprise, the order of the traitor Xiqia, who had already betrayed the country and defected to the enemy, was actually carried out in the Northeast Army in the area controlled by the Northeast Army. The post of brigade commander Xing Zhanqing, commander of the 26th Brigade, was indeed replaced by Song Wenjun. Not only Zhang Jinghui, but also Ding Chao ignored it.

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