Chapter 228: Li Tie's helplessness
Commander Chiang did not immediately return to Nanjing, but he personally presented Li Tie with a medal and a letter of appointment for appointing Li Tie as the principal of the Shanghai Huaxing Aviation Military Academy at the headquarters of the Shanghai Huaxing Company.
Many employees of Huaxing Airlines saw that their bosses were highly commended, and only then did they know that their Huaxing Airlines had made such a great contribution to the country.
Many Chinese people have also seen the hope of China's victory over Japan and the recovery of the three northeastern provinces from the huge achievements of Huaxing Airlines.
However, in fact, the great victory of Huaxing Airlines could not change the situation of Japan's complete occupation of Northeast China, and only a week later, it was supplemented by a division from Korea, and at the same time, reinforcements from a Honjo division from Japan also arrived in Northeast China one after another.
Japan soon launched another operation to occupy Heilongjiang and expel Zhang Xueliang. The Japanese first bombed Jinzhou, where Zhang Xueliang was located, and then sent troops to besiege the defenders of Heilongjiang.
At this time, the Northeast Army lost all its aircraft and heavy artillery because of the loss of the Shenyang Arsenal. The generals of the Northeast Army in Jinzhou are even less motivated.
Now that there are no generals of the Northeast Army who want to counterattack Shenyang, everyone now agrees that how to keep Jinzhou and prevent the Japanese army from moving south to Beijing and Tianjin is the most important thing.
However, having lost all their heavy weapons and not having sufficient ammunition supplies, these officers and men of the Northeast Army had enough confidence to defend Jinzhou, the gate of Liaoning.
As a result, half a month later, on October 8, the 12 plus Japanese bombers bombed Jinzhou once, and the resistance of the soldiers in the northeast of Jinzhou was shattered.
The Japanese army did not even organize a major ground offensive, relying only on the bombing of aircraft and heavy artillery attacks every day, and in just one month, the morale of Jinzhou was completely lost, and deserters appeared almost every day.
And in this month, the Japanese army was not idle, and the Japanese troops who came with reinforcements began to attack Heilongjiang on a large scale, and it was also in this month that most of Heilongjiang fell.
Only a few large cities, such as Harbin, are still in the hands of the Chinese, but everyone knows that without a full-scale counteroffensive by the Nationalist army, the fall of these cities is only a matter of time.
And when it comes to the reason why these big cities have not yet fallen, I have to thank Li Tie again. It was their Huaxing Escort that inflicted a lot of damage on the Japanese Kwantung Army in street battles, and the Japanese army finally changed its strategy of attacking by force and switched to a strategy of siege and surrender.
In fact, this strategy of subjugation is very harmful, because at this time, there were already many generals in the Northeast Army in these big cities who were secretly communicating with the Japanese.
If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Shaoshuai was still sitting in Jinzhou now. These generals of the Northeast Army have long since defected to the arms of the Japanese.
So when Jinzhou was bombed for more than a month, Zhang Xueliang finally decided to withdraw his troops to Guannei, and the entire Heilongjiang defenders became demoralized.
Finally, after Zhang Xueliang led his troops to retreat from Jinzhou overnight, the last cities of Heilongjiang also fell because a large number of generals of the Northeast Army defected to the enemy.
That is to say, from the beginning of 918 to the end of 31 years, it was only three months, because Zhang Xueliang once again led his troops to retreat, and the entire three northeastern provinces completely fell.
From then on, the military and civilians of the three northeastern provinces began to enter a period of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
And when the Japanese army began to fully occupy the northeast, the Japanese army sent an aircraft carrier fleet into the inland sea of China, aiming directly at the important places of Beijing and Tianjin. The Chinese National Revolutionary Army did not dare to counterattack the northeast.
At the same time, in order to distract the attention of the Chinese Nationalist Government and to cover up the Japanese plot to establish Manchukuo, the Japanese began to frequently create disputes in Shanghai and rebel against the Chinese people.
At this time, there were 2,000 Japanese marines, 5,000 armed merchants, 40 planes, 50 tanks, and 23 warships of various types.
At the end of the 31st year, because of the fall of the three northeastern provinces, Zhang Shaoshuai was certainly pointed out by thousands of people, and also because the National Revolutionary Army did not counterattack for several months.
At the same time, the Guangzhou government led by Wang Jingwei and Sun Ke, which had long been dissatisfied with Commander Chiang's arbitrary dictatorship, began to go around in tandem to overthrow Commander Chiang's rule.
By the end of November, warlords across the country, led by the Cantonese government, had finally launched a campaign against Commander Chiang.
Within the Nationalist Government, many Kuomintang bigwigs who were dissatisfied with Commander Chiang's dictatorship also responded to the call of the Guangdong government and at the same time attacked Commander Chiang.
As a last resort, as the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, Commander Chiang reluctantly announced his resignation again on December 15, 31. Return to his hometown Fenghua and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.
At the same time, Zhang Shaomarshal was also dismissed from his post as vice chairman of the Navy and Air Force, and Zhang Shaomarshal was reappointed director of the Beiping Pacification Office.
However, although Zhang Shaoshuai was dismissed from the post of vice chairman, at this time Beiping had been occupied by nearly 200,000 Northeast troops who had retreated from the Inner Pass. So in fact, Beiping is still under the control of Zhang Shaoshuai.
In this way, the Chinese people, who had suffered many hardships and hardships, finally survived the disaster-ridden year 1931 and entered 1932 in the chaotic struggle for power in the Nationalist Government.
When the time had just entered January of the 32nd year, the three northeastern provinces had already fallen, the masses of the whole country were more and more dissatisfied with the behavior of the Japanese army, and Shanghai also set off an anti-Japanese upsurge everywhere.
Early in the morning of early January, hundreds of students gathered at the door of Shanghai Huaxing Foreign Bank to petition again. They asked Li Tie to support the War of Resistance and asked Li Tie to send planes to bomb the Northeast.
At this time, Li Tie was standing in the manager's room on the second floor of the foreign bank, with Mike and Wang Qi and others standing beside him.
"Dear Li Tie, I don't understand. Why do these students keep coming to our door to petition? How many petitions has this been the month? Mike asked.
"Today is the 10th, and this is the fifth time this month." Li Tie replied lightly.
"Oh my God, it was only five times a month last month. It's good now, an average of one every two days. It's more frequent than me and my mother-in-law have slept with each other.
If it goes on like this, it won't be long before we don't do the business of Huaxing Foreign Bank. Let these students block the door every day, who would dare to come to our Huaxing foreign firm to do business.
I think I'm going to have to call the patrol house, and I have to stop these young people, get rid of them, and not let them do whatever they want.
I don't understand, why didn't they go to the city government to petition? Going to Nanjing to petition? We're just a foreign business. Mike said helplessly.
"They also have no choice, they are enthusiastic but have no way to serve the country. China's army of several million has hundreds of thousands of troops in the Pingjin area alone.
However, because they did not have a strong navy, the Japanese sent an aircraft carrier fleet casually, which was like choking the throat and could not go north to recover the territory. So everyone is naturally depressed. Li Tie explained to Mike.
"Oh, speaking of this, I also sympathize with you Chinese. As the most populous country in the world, it also has a long coastline.
You don't even have a decent navy, which is unbelievable to me. But it's none of our business. Why do these young people come to us to petition? Mike was still puzzled.
In fact, these young people just wanted to go to the front line to fight the Japanese army to the death, but the reality did not give them this opportunity.
And the city government didn't support them to go north to resist the Japanese, so they had to come to me. Li Tie said softly.
"Why, we are neither the government nor the army, why should they come to us? We're just a foreign businessman. "Mike doesn't understand the young students' petitions.
"Because I am the principal of the Huaxing Aviation Military Academy and the leader of the last big victory over the Japanese army, they all think that if they find me, they can start a plane to bomb the Japanese again." Li Tie explained again.
"Oh, are these young people stupid to read? You are neither a general nor a president, how can you give the order to bomb the Japanese?
Besides, even if you are a general, you have not declared war between China and Japan, and you cannot take the initiative to bomb the Japanese. Besides, the war between the two countries is a comprehensive national strength, and where is the opponent of the Japanese with only those 200 fighters? Mike wondered what the young man was thinking about the petitioner.
"They also have no choice, our country does not have a decent navy, so a single aircraft carrier fleet can scare hundreds of thousands of troops in Pingjin into immobility.
And our current army wants to fight the Japanese, but we can't beat it, but the air force has a brilliant record, so these hot-blooded young people naturally thought of asking me to send troops to bomb the Japanese.
It's just that they forgot that I was only the principal of the Shanghai Huaxing Aviation Military Academy of the Republic of China, and theoretically speaking, these two hundred planes and hundreds of pilots belonged to this country.
Even I, without the orders of Commander Chiang and the orders of the central government, would not have been able to go into battle with great fanfare. Li Tie said helplessly.
"Then why don't you go and explain it to them? Let them know your troubles, and I see that many students are already calling you a coward and a coward. "Mike is upset about Li Tieming.
Li Tie smiled: "What's the use of explaining? They have now lost their minds, they all have a lot of blood, as long as they are given guns, they will now dare to attack the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters in Shanghai.
We in China have never lacked enthusiastic young people, what we lack is a leader who will lead these enthusiastic young people to achieve great things.
See the first few students? They are alumni of my economics class at Tongji University, and they can't even shoot a gun, but they are also mentally prepared to sacrifice their lives for this country at any time.
And I can't lead them to the right path now, are they just coming to the foreign bank to show a demonstration, to make a wish, and I still have to find a patrol house to drive them away?
The world needs hot-blooded young people, and only they can arouse the blood of 40,000,000 compatriots and lead us to defeat Japan together.
I have mobilized the chambers of commerce in Shanghai to actively raise donations, and now I have raised 10 million oceans, and just now this money has been sent to the Nanjing government. It is hoped that the government dignitaries who have received the money will be able to build up a few more decent troops, because there will be another war between China and Japan. Li Tie said lightly.
"Oh, dear Li Tie, China and Japan are about to go to war again? How do you know? Mike became more and more interested in Li Tie's magic.
It used to be because of Li Tie's superhuman earning power. But since a few months ago, Li Tie's Huaxing Aviation pilots bombed the Japanese Kwantung Army and inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese Navy.
As Li Tie's closest partner, he naturally has more things to do than ordinary people. So he was shocked by Li Tie's generosity.
At the same time, he also admired Li Tie's strong military command ability, and he naturally wanted to understand Li Tie even more.
Fortunately, Mike is not a woman and has a normal sexual orientation, otherwise with his curiosity about Li Tie, he would have to fall in love with Li Tie sooner or later.