Chapter 619: The Anti-Japanese War, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, and the robbery of the navy

Shi Ming stopped shelling the Zhangjiabang wharf because he had once again received an order for a ceasefire. 1――

This cease-fire was not initiated by the Nationalist Government, but was urgently approached by the Japanese consuls to the British and American consuls and asked them to mediate.

Not only was the 24th Brigade of the Japanese Army almost completely annihilated, and the squadron showed strong combat effectiveness, but according to intelligence, it is said that the Central Army also appeared on the battlefield, which shows that the Chinese government has also increased its troops to Shanghai. The Ninth Division is still floating on the sea, and it will not be able to reach Shanghai until tomorrow evening at the earliest.

After urgent deliberations between Consul Aoi and Nomura, it was decided to adopt delaying tactics first, and Aoi came forward to ask the British and American consuls to mediate, and the two sides temporarily ceased fire and waited until the 9th Division landed before making plans.

Chiang Kai-shek, who received the battle report, was overjoyed, but he did not expect that in less than a day, he would annihilate a Japanese army brigade, although it was only a brigade that was not usually dissatisfied.

Chiang Kai-shek knew very well that the Japanese army had a pitifully small number of permanent divisions and regiments, only seventeen, and although a brigade had only a few thousand people, it was nothing in the eyes of the Chinese, but in the eyes of the Japanese, who had few permanent troops, this was an incomprehensible thing. Therefore, he decided to look for another opportunity to negotiate with the Japanese side.

Therefore, after receiving the request for mediation from the British and American consuls, Chiang Kai-shek immediately instructed Soong Ziwen, Luo Wengan, and others to agree to the British and American demands and negotiate with the Japanese side.

Chiang Kai-shek's bottom line for Soong Ziwen's negotiations was that everything could go back to pre-war times.

As a result, Luo Wengan and Wu Tiecheng came to the British Consulate in the concession with great interest to negotiate with the Japanese side again.

After the Chinese and Japanese sides agreed to armistice, as the gunfire fell down, the patriotic enthusiasm of the people quickly heated up and expanded.

When the war is fought, there are many wounded soldiers. This is no problem, in the Shanghai concession, hospitals for wounded soldiers have been opened one after another, and doctors and nurses from various hospitals have rushed to volunteer for treatment.

Fighting a war requires money and materials, and what the 19th Route Army lacks most are these two things, but now this is no problem, provided that you dare to fight and are willing to fight.

The 19th Route Army completely annihilated the 24th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and people from all walks of life in Shanghai were excited, and the materials sent to comfort the army were piled up.

These materials are earthy, foreign, expensive, and cheap, and everything is available, from dried vegetables, flatbreads, rice cakes, biscuits, cakes, red wine, brandy, and everything is really available. The most is food, to what extent, so much so that Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangding had to publish a statement in the newspaper, thanking the support of the 19th Route Army from all walks of life in Shanghai, and at the same time asking everyone not to send food anymore, because the warehouses of the 19th Route Army can no longer be stacked.

In the newspaper, Jiang Guangding told the citizens of Shanghai that the 19th Route Army now had enough food, and what they lacked now was trucks, gasoline, and other military supplies.

As a result, as soon as this statement came out, in less than half a day, cars and motorcycles of all sizes in Shanghai poured in, and all the vehicles on the market were empty. The Shanghainese who came by car all said that their vehicles were ready for the dispatch of the 19th Route Army at any time and were willing to be used by the 19th Route Army free of charge.

As for money, it's no longer a problem.

Donations have been sent from all over the country, and the most energetic ones are overseas Chinese. People are under the roof and have to bow their heads, China itself is not angry, and overseas Chinese who work hard in various places overseas have suffered the white eyes and humiliation of foreigners. Overseas Chinese hope that the motherland will be strong and that they will be protected, and this feeling is stronger than anyone else. This time, the 19th Route Army defeated the Japanese army in Shanghai, which made the overseas Chinese raise their eyebrows and donate money one after another. In just a few days, the 19th Route Army received a total of 10 million yuan in donations, and overseas Chinese donations accounted for 46%.

The people who donated were not all wealthy businessmen, and people from all walks of life, whether they had money or not, took action. Rich people are 10,000 silver dollars when they make a move, and they don't want to leave their names. And the coolies who had no money, carrying a few catties of dry cakes, sent them over, and they would cry urgently if they didn't accept them. There were even children who saved the biscuits for breakfast and secretly sent them to the labor army. …,

The people's hearts were so excited, and the condolences were so earnest, that the morale of the 19th Route Army was unprecedentedly high.

The people of Shanghai can solve the problems of food, cars, and even money for the 19th Route Army, but there is one thing that ordinary people cannot easily solve, and that is weapons and equipment.

The equipment of the 19th Route Army is poor and poor, and it is not without good guns and cannons, most of these good equipment were sent by Song Zhewu, and some old sleeves that have been used for more than 30 years cannot be replaced. He even held an earthen gun against armor, and there was still a big gap with the Japanese army's equipment. In particular, after this great battle, the losses of weapons and equipment of the 19th Route Army were not small, and ammunition was especially lacking.

Originally, Song Zhewu had urgently mobilized a large amount of ammunition from the Taiyuan Arsenal, but due to the capacity of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, it could not be transported to Shanghai for a long time. The ammunition allocated by the Ministry of Military Affairs is very limited.

Without military pay, the 19th Route Army can endure, but there is no ammunition in a big war, which is absolutely impossible. Therefore, Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai decided to take out the money to buy it.

With money, of course, you can buy weapons and ammunition, and the 19th Route Army, with donations, did get some equipment from the Shanghai Ocean Tour, equipping each infantry company with three Czech-made repeating rifles, each regimental machine gun company with six light machine guns, and adding six mortars to each regiment's mortar company. With these equipment, the firepower of the 19th Route Army was suddenly greatly strengthened.

However, it is not enough to add weapons through the channels of foreign companies.

Because of one, buying weapons through foreign companies is very expensive. Foreigners don't have any love for China, so it's no wonder that they don't take advantage of the market to raise prices. Second, the 19th Route Army bought weapons for emergencies, and they bought them through foreign banks, which did not have so much stock.

Just when Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai were anxious about the ammunition, Shi Ming brought them good news. On the banks of the Huangpu River in the southern part of Shanghai, there is now a large arsenal.

There is an arsenal in Shanghai? Then why didn't the Ministry of Military Affairs distribute it to the 19th Route Army that was fighting? This news couldn't help but make Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai very angry.

After Shi Ming's explanation, the two of them were relieved.

It is true that there is an arsenal in Nanshi, but it does not belong to the Ministry of Military Affairs, but to the Ministry of the Navy. It's just that the navy's armory should store naval weapons such as torpedoes, naval artillery shells, etc., how can this naval arsenal have so much army equipment? Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai are still a little puzzled.

It turned out that the navy of the Nationalist Government was really different from others, and on land it was the changing king flag at the head of the city, but the navy was a small group on its own, and it was not absolutely loyal to anyone. The navy followed Yuan Shikai for a while, then defected to Sun Yat-sen in Guangdong, and then to the Beiyang government, and then to the self-formed faction, and it was not until after the Northern Expedition that the navy threw itself into the national government. However, he still has a lot of independence.

It's just that independent development is absolutely impossible without money, and the navy is a team that burns money. Military salaries, repairs, and supplies all cost money. And the national government can't get this money, so it can only think of more ways on its own. If you want to make money, you have to have land, and if you have land, you have to have someone to defend it. Therefore, the navy set up a marine corps, with the strength of several regiments, and occupied a large area of land in Fujian, enclosing land to make money to live. In order to defend this territory on land, it is natural to prepare the Marine Corps with sufficient army equipment. Therefore, in Shanghai, the arsenal of the navy, the navy has stored a lot of land equipment.

Now that the 19th Route Army lacks equipment, Song Zhewu has set his sights on the arsenal of the Navy and made arrangements for Shi Ming to call.

Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai couldn't help but be overjoyed when they learned about Song Zhewu's plan, and Cai Tingkai even claimed that Song Zhewu's plan was clever.

So, Jiang Guangding first came forward, called the Admiralty, and said that he wanted to borrow equipment.

Minister of the Navy Yang Shuzhuang is also the governor of Fujian, and the ministry is now represented by the first minister, Chen Shaokuan. Chen Shaokuan was very embarrassed by Jiang Guangding's request, but he couldn't refuse, so he had to tell Jiang Guangding that the 19th Route Army could go directly to the Navy Ordnance Department to handle it. In fact, Jiang Guangding was taken away. …,

It is easy to lend out this weapon and ammunition, and I don't know when I will take it back, the Navy Ordnance Department naturally understands the thoughts of their minister, and in the face of Huang Qiang, chief of staff of the Nineteenth Route Army, who came to handle the formalities, the director of the Ordnance Department became official.

"Chief of Staff Huang, your unit fought well in the War of Resistance in Shanghai! The Navy strongly supports it. As for the matter of borrowing weapons and ammunition, we are also willing to lend you to resist the Japanese, but everything must be done according to the procedure, and if you go to the Admiralty for approval, we will give it immediately without delay. ”

Huang Qiang had no choice but to go to the deputy chief Chen Shaokuan. However, Chen Shaokuan could no longer be found in the Admiralty.

On weekdays, the Navy refuses to help, and the 19th Route Army really can't do it. But this time, with Song Zhewu's support, Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai had already prepared, since they couldn't borrow it clearly, they just grabbed it, and they didn't have to consider the favor of the navy.

If this armory belonged to the Ministry of Military Affairs in Nanjing, Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai would not dare to rob it if they were ten darers. But this armory belongs to the navy, and the navy is originally an independent kingdom that can't be pricked by a needle and can't be splashed into the water, robbing him, Nanjing is not distressed. What's more important is that now that the navy has been robbed of this armory, the navy really can't turn its face with the 19th Route Army, because the navy has now been scolded by the newspapers in Shanghai and Nanjing, and the top and bottom are all in disgrace, and they are not qualified to reason with the 19th Route Army at all.

When Jiang Guangding asked Chen Shaokuan to borrow weapons and ammunition, I don't know who actually leaked the navy's performance in the "28 January" incident to the newspapers in Shanghai, which seriously damaged the navy's reputation and discredited it in the eyes of the Chinese people.

It turned out that in this 128 Incident, when the 19th Route Army fought desperately with the Japanese, as part of the national defense force of the Republic of China, the Republic of China Navy stood on the sidelines, and actually put on a neutral posture and became an onlooker.

The head and brain of the navy are all smart people, and their own belongings are such a few warships, and they can't beat the Japanese Navy at all if they really want to fight, since fighting with the Japanese will hurt their muscles and bones, then the navy will not do it, and would rather watch the 19th Route Army fight the Japanese to the death, but he is happy to watch the excitement on the side, just a soy sauce player.

The Navy's approach is unbearable for anyone. Therefore, as soon as the news came out, people from all walks of life were in an uproar and condemned the Navy's actions one after another.

As soon as public opinion pointed the finger at the navy, the Admiralty hurriedly clarified and explained to the outside world.

The Admiralty's argument is that they did not resist because they did not receive orders and did not dare to act rashly. In addition, the financial difficulties made it impossible to fight.

The people were even more angry at the Admiralty's remarks, and for two days in a row, newspapers of all sizes in Shanghai and Nanjing published articles scolding the Admiralty one after another.

No war without money? Is the navy a domesticated family or the country's army? The 19th Route Army has been in arrears for three months, and there is no money, why did people fight it?

And the Shanghai newspapers then poked out the fierce information, which made the navy even more disgraced.

The Japanese Navy went to Shanghai to fight the Chinese, and could not go to the land to buy food and vegetables. So the Chinese Navy was very understanding and helped buy vegetables, which were then handed over to the Japanese warship. The most surprising thing was that when the high-ranking naval officers of China and Japan were fighting the fiercest between China and Japan, they actually welcomed each other off, and Vice Admiralty Li Shijia went so far as to visit Nomura, commander of the Japanese Navy's fleet, and was also invited to jointly inspect the Japanese army's frontline positions.

A country's army stubbornly resists the invaders, but its admirals dangle from the invaders' positions and drink with the invaders. Such reports made the navy unable to resist, and came out again and again to refute the rumors. However, no matter how much you refute the rumors, the "onlookers" of the navy are clearly there, and it is useless to justify them. Some people even turned over the old background of the navy's opium cultivation in Fujian. …,

Under the fierce pursuit of the posters, the navy's image among the people plummeted, and it became a rat crossing the street.

One is a hero, the other is a bastard. Now, the 19th Route Army, which has become a "hero", has come to rob the armory of the "bastard" navy, and the navy really can't say a word. If you don't resist yourself, and the weapons in your hand refuse to be used by the 19th Route Army that resists Japan, this lawsuit starts, and the 19th Route Army will win and not lose, even if you go to Chiang Kai-shek, it must be robbed in vain. If you really want to make trouble, the navy will have no face, and it will be peeled off again. Moreover, the navy only has two companies of guard troops in the Nanshi armory, how can it not stop a group of officers and soldiers of the 19th Route who are like wolves and tigers.

The 19th Route Army was unforgiving, and after receiving a call from Jiang Guangding, Weng Zhaoyuan immediately ordered Zhang Junsong to take a regiment to rob the naval armory.

Zhang Junsong led the whole regiment to the armory, and he didn't talk nonsense, first erected machine guns at the commanding heights on all sides, and then rushed into the armory with hundreds of officers and soldiers with rifles with bayonets and began to "rob" on a large scale.

The 19th Route Army now has cars from all over Shanghai to help carry them, so there is no one to worry about. In this way, the 19th Route Army also carried weapons and ammunition from this naval armory for more than ten days, which shows how big the navy's arsenal is.

The navy's hard-earned family wealth was copied, it really hurt to the bone marrow, and I hated it to the bottom of my heart, but I didn't dare to say a hard word.

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