Unlike the five official Japanese concessions in Tianjin, Hankou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Chongqing, the Shanghai Japanese Concession is actually only a customary name for the Japanese settlement in Hongkou, Shanghai, and is not a real concession.

It was not until 1870 that the Japanese began to settle in the Hongkou area of Shanghai, and in the same year that the Shanghai Public Concession authorities began to build roads across the boundary in the Hongkou District, and the Hongkou area was informally included in the jurisdiction of the Public Concession. In 1873, Japan forced the Manchu Qing to agree to change the name of the Japanese Shanghai Office to the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai.

In 1898, the former British and American public concessions were renamed the Shanghai International Public Concessions, and Japan and other countries began to participate in the management of the concessions. The following year, the public concession was divided into four districts: Northern, Eastern, Central, and Western, with Japanese expatriates occupying a dominant position in the North and East Districts. In the same year, in order to permanently maintain a military force in China, Japan organized the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a paramilitary organization, in Hongkou. In 1910, for the first time, the number of Japanese expatriates in the Hongkou area surpassed that of other countries, ranking first.

In 1916, the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau of the Ministry of Industry set up a Japanese Capture Unit, and 30 Japanese patrolmen were in place to take over the public security affairs in the Hongkou area, and finally the Japanese government forces entered the concession legally.

The Japanese were not satisfied, and after the May Day Massacre broke out, Japan took the opportunity to send marines to Shanghai under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese and stationed in the Hongkou area. In 1927, the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army occupied Shanghai, and the Japanese army deployed defenses on the North Sichuan Road to prevent the Northern Expeditionary Army from entering the Hongkou area.

In view of the fact that the Northern Expedition had not yet been completed, the Nationalist Government could not afford to clash with the Japanese army in Shanghai, so it had no choice but to ignore this black concession.

Other words. The so-called Shanghai Japanese Concession does not exist at all. The Manchus never signed any land lease agreements with the Japanese. The Hongkou area, where the Japanese concession is located, was completely occupied by the illegal enclosure of the US and British public concessions. Even now, it is only nominally part of the Public Concession, but because the Japanese have a Marine Corps in the Hongkou area, they have military strength. Britain and the United States were also willing to have Japanese troops here to deter the Chinese authorities, which was the result of the tacit consent of all parties.

Bund. Gothic city hall style, with a row of spires on top of the beautiful and magnificent backyard gate of the China International Commercial Bank, slowly opened, and out of it came a middle-aged man in a robe and a horse coat. The middle-aged man came to the gate. After taking a closer look at the street entrances on the left and right, he saw that a few people who were walking around the streets on both sides of the street in short clothes who looked like disciples of the Green Gang had given a safety signal, and then turned around and made a gesture towards the courtyard.

Soon, three black sedans and five tightly covered trucks with canvas sheds drove out of it.

After the vehicle drives out of the door, turn out of the street and disperse. Drive north. One of the sedans headed straight for Old Target Road with three trucks.

Founded in 1897, China International Commercial Bank is the first commercial bank run by Chinese. The initial period was controlled by Sheng Xuanhuai.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Fu Zongyao was the fourth manager. Fu Zongyao defected to the Beiyang government and supported the Beiyang government with a large amount of money, and was hated by the national government. In March of the 16th year of the Republic of China, the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Shanghai, and Fu Xiao'an was immediately wanted and fled to Dalian. After spending a lot of money, after the dredging of Yu Qiaqing and others, the Nationalist Government revoked his arrest.

After returning to Shanghai, Fu Zongyao remained the chairman and general manager of Commerce Bank. Through the relationship of Vice Minister of Finance Xu Kan, the right to issue new banknotes was obtained. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, the amount of new banknotes issued by the Commerce Bank reached more than 29 million yuan, and the cash reserve plus the guarantee reserve was only about 9 million yuan, which was seriously insufficient. In the summer of the following year, there was a run on Shanghai, the financial situation was urgent, the bank was prepared to be empty, and it was difficult to deal with it, Fu Xiao'an begged Xu Kan for help, but the result happened to fall into Du Yuesheng's trap, Du Yuesheng came forward, through various relationships, coordinated to the central government, China, and the three banks of Communications each with a loan of 1 million yuan, and solved the crisis of the Commerce Bank. …,

On June 7, the board of directors of Commerce Bank held a meeting to promote Du Yuesheng as chairman and Fu Xiaoan as managing director. Since then, Commerce Bank has entered a period of relatively stable development, and since then, Commerce Bank has been known as the "Small Four Banks" together with Siming Commercial and Savings Bank, Industrial Bank of China and China National Bank.

At this time, the people in the vehicle driving from the Commerce Bank were not ordinary people, this was the special combat team that Shi Ming brought to Shanghai. Under Du Yuesheng's arrangement, these people quietly entered the warehouse of the Commerce Bank on the evening of the 28th.

Their purpose was to wait for orders and make a big fuss in the so-called Japanese concession.

At this moment, the encirclement and annihilation of Shark Island Guzhong is at a critical moment, Shiozawa Koichi has gathered almost all the forces that can be gathered, and is making every effort to rescue Sameshima Guzhong, and the 60th Division of the 19th Route Army will not wait until the evening to arrive at the battlefield, and the strength is seriously insufficient. Although Weng Zhaoyuan has mobilized all units of the 156th Brigade to move closer to the North Station, and the division commander Ou Shounian is also mobilizing the Huanggu 155th Brigade of the 78th Division stationed in Kunshan and Jiading to rush to help, it will take time.

Shi Ming needed Shiozawa's rear to be chaotic and relieve the pressure on the blocking troops.

In the black car driving on Lao Target Road, in addition to the driver, there was a middle-aged man with a tanned brown face and two young people, both wearing suits, but the texture of the middle-aged man's suit was much better. At a glance, you can see that the middle-aged man is the head, and the two young people should be secretaries and bodyguards.

The middle-aged man's name is Du Wende, and he is the leader of the Special Brigade of the Fourth Route Army, and the two young men are his team members.

On the old target road, there are patrols from the concession at various intersections to patrol the posts, among these patrols, there are blonde foreigners, there are also Indian Ah San with thick turbans wrapped around their heads, and of course, more Chinese patrols.

Although the British and American concession bureaus were very reluctant to see the Japanese and the squadron fighting in Shanghai, because Japan was the only country with troops stationed in the concession, and for various reasons in their respective countries, it was impossible and did not have the energy to station troops in China, so they could only tacitly ignore the Japanese army's arrogance and the Japanese people's blatant contempt for the rules of the public concession.

However, there is a bottom line by default, that is, the Japanese can do whatever they want in the black concession of Hongkou, but they must not come around in the public concession, therefore. The Ministry of Public Concession has set up strict sentry posts in places such as Suzhou Creek and Laojizi Road. Clearly inform the Japanese consul Aoi. No Japanese armed personnel were to enter the Public Concession. Of course, the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau also absolutely forbade any anti-Japanese forces from entering the Hongkou area from the concession.

That's why these patrolmen came here to set up a strict guard.

The convoy was stopped on Old Target Road and saw the license plate. Knowing that it was the car of Japan's Mitsui Bank, a Chinese detective hurriedly ran towards the car. And at this time. A San who stopped the car was slapped hard by the young man who got out of the front of the car and scolded loudly: "Baga".

No one in the concession of the Indian Ah San regarded them as foreigners, and even the Japanese did not take these outsiders who had no roots in China seriously. The three are usually bullied. Ah San, who was slapped, looked aggrievedly at a British patrol who ran over. Dry mouth open speechless.

The arrogance of the Japanese in the past two days has annoyed the British, and they are even more annoyed by Ah San's troubles.

They stood guard on the old target road, mainly because they were afraid that the Japanese would be too arrogant and infringe on the interests of the public concession, and that they would be taken by the Japanese in the future. Of course. They were also afraid that Chinese would enter Hongkou from the concession and give the Japanese a pretext. As for the Japanese. If they want to go to Hongkou, they can go, what do you care about him!

The British wanted all those nasty dwarves in the public concession to get out of the way, lest they get into trouble in the concession. …,

It's just that these hateful Japanese dwarfs are so unforgiving that they actually beat Ah San under his nose, and if he doesn't say anything, he can't get his face down.

Listening to the dense gunfire in the north, the British patrol was about to go up and send these hateful dwarfs away, but the Chinese inspector ran over and said a few words of Japanese to the arrogant and rude Japanese under the car, and then waved his hand and signaled the convoy to pass.

The British knew that this Chinese inspector was the apprentice of Du Yuesheng, the boss of the Shanghai Youth Gang, and that he was usually mixed inside and outside the concession, and when they saw that he had sent away the Japanese dwarf, they just saved him trouble, turned his head, stopped looking at those hateful Japanese, and continued to "patrol" on the road.

After crossing the old target road, we entered the so-called Japanese concession, and at some major intersections, there were three or five ronins with guns guarding them, but the people in the sedan showed the signboard of Mitsui Bank, and they all passed without hindrance, and those ronins did not have the courage to intercept Mitsui Bank's car.

The convoy headed straight for the Japanese naval headquarters in Hongkou.

At the corner of the street in front of the compound of the Japanese Navy Headquarters in Hongkou, one truck at the back stopped, the other truck turned directly into the back street of the compound, and the sedan went straight to the headquarters gate with the remaining truck.

Although the Japanese Navy Headquarters Building is only a four-story building of reinforced concrete, it occupies an extremely large area, and the entire building is U-shaped, with hundreds of rooms inside. Outside the building, there is a tall red brick fence.

On both sides of the wide gate, sandbags had already been piled up, two heavy machine guns had been erected, and more than a dozen Japanese marines were on duty. Looking through the gate, there were occasionally three or two Japanese soldiers patrolling the courtyard, but other than that, there were no other people walking around inside and outside the courtyard.

Originally, there was a squadron of marines guarding here, but after Sameshima Gushige was surrounded, Shiozawa Koichi was anxious to rescue Sameshima Gushige, and had gathered almost all the troops that could be mobilized to relieve the siege of Sameshima Gushige. The entire headquarters building was left with only a small squad of troops, as well as civilian personnel.

The Japanese soldiers on duty were a little nervous when they first saw the arrival of the vehicle, but when they saw that the license plate of Mitsui Bank was hanging on the car, their expressions relaxed. Kazuo Miki, the manager of Mitsui Bank, is a friend of Koichi Shiozawa, and the car often comes here.

After the car stopped on the side in front of the courtyard gate, all three people in the car got out of the car, and more than a dozen people jumped down from the truck behind them, and two large cardboard boxes were also carried down.

A young man walked up to the Japanese squad leader who was blocking the gate and told the Japanese squad leader in fluent Japanese with a Japanese Kansai accent that because of the war, Mitsui Bank has often had Chinese people make trouble recently, and they were instructed by Mitsui Manager to send some valuables to the Marine Corps Headquarters for safekeeping, which had been agreed by Shiozawa Koichi in advance.

Although the captain of the Japanese army knew this license plate, and the sedan looked like the original Mitsui Bank car, he did not know the people in the car and had never seen it, and the vigilance of the soldiers made him simply refuse directly.

"I didn't receive an order from your bank to come, my mission is to guard the headquarters. Keep it safe and you can't enter. ”

Duvande, who was in the back, stepped forward. With an arrogant expression, he said to the Japanese squad leader, "You call Commander Shiozawa." I'm going to talk to him. ”

Then he said to the people who got off the truck behind him, "Bring all the things and comfort our samurai in Japan." ”

The Japanese squad leader glanced Du Wende up and down, just from the material of Du Wende's suit, he knew that he couldn't afford to provoke such a person.

The Japanese squad leader straightened up. Bi replied respectfully: "I'm sorry sir, the battle ahead is fierce." Commander Shiozawa has already led his troops to the front, and I can't contact him. ”…,

By this time, more than a dozen people had already lifted the cardboard boxes into the sandbag fortifications of the two Japanese soldiers. Open the carton. A lot of tobacco and alcohol were taken out of it and distributed to the Japanese soldiers after the fortifications. Although the captain of the Japanese squad felt that it was inappropriate, he couldn't say anything.

Seeing that his team members were all in place, Du Wende's face changed, and he scolded: "Baga, you're dead, you're dead." ”

The voice did not fall. The Japanese squad leader only felt a chill in his heart and looked down. I saw that at some point, Du Wende was already holding a short knife in his hand, and at this moment, the blade of the short knife had completely pierced his heart.

The captain of the Japanese army team didn't expect that the people of Mitsui Bank would be so arrogant and domineering, and they would pull out a knife and stab people without saying a word!

Du Wende's words were a signal to do it, and more than a dozen team members had already found their respective goals, and in just a few seconds, the Japanese soldiers who were happily holding cigarettes and alcohol were either cut or their necks were broken.

Hand-to-hand combat, one move to the enemy, is the strength of the special combat personnel, and it is also a key subject in their daily training, and it is more than enough to deal with these almost defenseless Japanese troops.

At the same time, the truck, which had not been turned off, drove at full speed and rushed towards the courtyard, the canvas shed on the car was suddenly uncovered, a ZB-26 light machine gun had been erected on the roof, and more than a dozen special combat teams with MP-18 submachine guns were also exposed on both sides, and they fiercely strafed the Japanese troops patrolling the courtyard. At this time, the backyard also resounded with the sound of dense submachine gun fire.

Without waiting for Du Wende's order, the special combat team that had finished guarding the courtyard gate left six members to guard the gate, and the rest of the people also took out their shell guns and rushed into the courtyard.

The Japanese squad guarding the headquarters building was all on guard and patrol in the courtyard, and under the intensive fire of the front and rear flanks, all of them were quickly wiped out, and Du Wende led the special combat team to the building.

The Japanese headquarters building occupies a large area, but at this time it seems to be a little empty, with only a dozen officers and panicked civilians on each floor, and their resistance is weak in front of the well-trained special combat personnel. The Japanese soldiers who resisted in the corridor were beaten into a sieve, and the Japanese soldiers who hid in the room were also killed and injured by grenades, and then they were made up by the special combat personnel who rushed into the room.

After finding the codebook in Shiozawa's confidential room, Du Wende ordered fire prevention in the building.

Another truck parked on the corner of the street had already driven to the front of the building, and more than a dozen special operators were moving the ** on the truck to the main hall of the building, and more than a dozen large boxes of TNT were soon piled up in the center of the hall.

At this time, the fireworks in the corridor were already very large, and Du Wende shouted loudly to get into the car for the soldiers who had withdrawn from the building, ordered the ** to be lit, and then led the soldiers to drive away west in a puff of smoke.

A few minutes later, an earth-shattering explosion was heard in the courtyard of the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps, half of the building collapsed, and in the smoke and dust of the explosion, scarlet tongues of fire burned violently on the ruins of the building.

After the explosion of the Japanese Marine Corps building, a fire also broke out in the Japanese factory area east of Hongkou. The strength of a squadron guarded by the Japanese in the factory area was also drained by Shiozawa Koichi, and there were only ronins guarding them, and if they fought hand-to-hand, these ronins might still have some chances, but under the accurate shooting and strafing of the special combat team, the ronins were not vulnerable at all.

Under the guidance of several Du Yuesheng's apprentices, the special combat team members rushed into the Japanese factory when they saw it, shot all the Japanese who dared to resist, and then broke into the workshop and warehouse to prevent fire.

Most of the Japanese factories were yarn mills and flour mills, and the fires burned even more vigorously, and as more and more factories caught fire, the flames soon burned into pieces and burned more and more violently. When the special combat team withdrew, they happened to encounter several fire trucks of the fire brigade of the Japanese Concession that were fighting the fire, and a grenade was thrown at them, and several vehicles were blown up and fired, and most of the Japanese who were fighting the fire were also killed. …,

Shiozawa Koichi, who was commanding the troops to rescue Sameshima Gushige, saw that there was a fire behind him, and there were explosions and gunshots, thinking that the 19th Route Army, which had the advantage in numbers, had copied his back road, and could no longer care about the life or death of Sameshima Gushige, and led people to retreat to the concession in a hurry.

In addition to Zhang Junsong, who was still commanding the troops to encircle and annihilate Shark Island, Zhong Jingrui, the commander of the Fourth Regiment, and Ding Rongguang, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, did not wait for Weng Zhaoyuan's order, and immediately commanded the troops to take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on the retreating Japanese army.

The panicked Japanese army, in the face of the 19th Route Army, which rushed over with high morale, had no time to organize resistance and carried out an organized retreat, which soon turned from retreat to rout.

Under the fierce attack of the two regiments of the 19th Route Army, Shiozawa Koichi had no time to organize the troops, knowing that the general trend was gone, so he had to lead the 7th Brigade as a reserve to rush into the concession, retreat all the way to the wharf, and ordered the 7th Brigade to use the warehouses and other strong buildings on the wharf to organize a defensive circle at the wharf to put up desperate resistance to the pursuing 19th Route Army.

He himself ran to a merchant ship parked at the dock, and in case the 19th Route Army rushed into the dock, he ran to the Japanese warship at Wusong on a merchant ship.

Ding Rongguang, who was excited, ordered the troops to rush several times but did not rush in, his mind gradually calmed down, and he hurriedly ordered the messenger to tell Zhong Jingrui, the commander of the fourth regiment, to stop the attack first.

He viciously ordered the second company commander loudly: "Go, take your people, and bring the wild artillery abandoned by the Japanese army in Hongkou Park for Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will use the little devil's own field artillery to blow up the dock." ”

However, before the field artillery was pulled, the outfit of the brigade headquarters came first, conveyed Jiang Guangding's order to Ding Rongguang and Zhong Jingrui, and ordered the four or five regiments to immediately withdraw from Hongkou and return to Zhabei.

Although as long as the field artillery was pulled up, it was easy to destroy the Japanese troops on the dock, but the order was an order, and they had to carry it out, so Ding Rongguang and Zhong Jingrui had no choice but to order a retreat with hatred.

As soon as Ding Rongguang and Zhong Jingrui, who were unwilling, returned to the brigade headquarters, they hurriedly asked Weng Zhaoyuan the reason for letting them withdraw their troops, and Weng Zhaoyuan explained the reason to them helplessly.

Because the foreign mission headed by the British and American consuls in Shanghai urgently met with Wu Tiecheng and the new foreign minister Luo Wengan, claiming that the Sino-Japanese war had endangered the security of the concession, and suggested that the two sides cease fire and accept mediation.

Previously, Wu Tiecheng asked the United Kingdom, Britain and the United States to mediate and ask for a cease-fire negotiation, but Shiozawa Koichi arrogantly refused. This time, the Japanese were very "reasonable," and the Japanese consul in Shanghai, Aoi, agreed to the armistice request without consulting Shiozawa Koichi.

After receiving the order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, although Jiang Guangding was also very unwilling, the order must still be carried out, he knew that now was not Sun Ke's time, he had the boss Chen Mingshu to rely on, and now his boss has stepped down from the post of vice president of the Executive Yuan and changed to the minister of communications, and then the 19th Route Army will not have good fruit to eat.

As a result, the troops attacking Hongkou had to be ordered to withdraw. However, although the ceasefire was over, Jiang Guangding refused to give up on Shark Island, which was surrounded at the North Station, and told He Yingqin on the phone, "The Japanese army at the North Station has been wiped out, and now the troops are clearing out the remnants of the enemy." ’

After putting down the phone, Jiang Guangding immediately ordered Shi Ming and Weng Zhaoyuan, asking them to annihilate Shark Island within an hour. At the same time, he told the communications staff officer that as long as it was a phone call from the Ministry of Military Affairs, it would all say that he and Cai Tingkai had gone to the front line to inspect the troops.

Shi Ming and Weng Zhaoyuan, who knew the reason for the ceasefire, couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard Jiang Guangding's order, and immediately ordered Zhong Jingrui's regiment to be on alert to the Hongkou side, and the rest of the troops all joined the battle to encircle and annihilate Shark Island.

After more than 40 minutes of continuous fighting, the Japanese army, which had been fighting for more than 20 hours, was able to withstand the troops of the 19th Route Army and the Fourth Route Army, which had high morale like wolves, and after more than 40 minutes, they were all resolved, and Shark Island was killed.

In this way, the first ceasefire appeared on the battlefield in Shanghai.

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