Shanghai's resentment, of course, is the artillery party, and foreigners hate it. ()

On 13 June, the vanguard of the Southern Red Army had occupied Jiaxing and was approaching the city of Shanghai. The Hongkou Japanese Concession in Shanghai was slaughtered at this time, and Japanese ronins who were building fortifications could be seen everywhere. The local Japanese military and police were also all dispatched to check passers-by.

Last night's earth-shattering bombing, overshadowed by the big news of the fall of Nanjing and the killing of the emperor's entire family, did not shake the world, but shook Shanghai. Now that the whole of Shanghai is under martial law, not only the concession but also the Chinese community is also in the middle of the world." Everywhere you can see barricades blocking roads and military police checking out.

As one of the most important bridgeheads for the invasion of China, Shanghai was of extraordinary significance to Japan in the era of militarism.

Since the end of the Sino-Japanese War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese army has been stationed here for a long time to send fleets, and often acts with sailors on 6, and once suppressed the famous May Day Movement. In 1927, the Japanese Navy sent three brigades of 6 warbands to 6 Shanghai, first to prevent the Northern Expeditionary Army from entering the Japanese concession, and then to send troops to Shandong to participate in the Japanese army's attack on the Northern Expeditionary Army in Jinan in May 1928.

When the flames of the Northern Expedition were gradually subsiding. The Japanese army did not transfer this unit back to the mainland, but in June 1928, it selected its elite to be stationed in Shanghai, officially organized into the "Shanghai 6th Combat Team", under the command of the "China Dispatch Fleet", and was equipped with heavy weapons, including wheeled armored vehicles. It is considered quite combat-ready. If it weren't for Limham's 1932 Carlyle incident, the British Empire would have lost 35 tons of gold. A year after that, in order to track down the whereabouts of gold, the British turned all their attention to Shanghai. forced the Shanghai 6 team to be honest. In the original history, it was also this army that single-handedly provoked the "128" incident.

After the signing of the "Treaty of London," the Japanese navy planned to gradually strengthen its forces and strength in Shanghai under the pretext of "Sino-Japanese friendship and joint defense against communism." However, during this period, it was strongly opposed by the British, mainly because of the follow-up ferment of the "Carlyle Incident."

After the sinking of the Carlisle, the British spent a lot of effort to investigate the incident, and finally confirmed that all the gold on board was missing. Obviously, this was not an accident. It was a very targeted attack. And the target of the perpetrators was the thirty-five tons of gold on board.

Even if not for the whereabouts of thirty-five tons of gold. The British government also had to give an account to the families of the hundreds of sailors on board.

Who will be the biggest suspect? Who would do such a heart-wrenching thing?

There are only two forces in the Pacific that have the ability to stir up trouble for the British in the Pacific Ocean and salvage dozens of tons of gold in a very short time: one is the United States and the other is Japan. And Japan is even more suspicious.

Before and after the Northeast Incident. Lin Han spared no effort to communicate with the British and American media. To "popularize" Japanese culture to the people of Britain and the United States, and to tell them what it means to "go alone" and what it means to "go down". For this reason, he also specially wrote an anonymous book called "Chrysanthemum and Knife" published in Britain and the United States, which is a work of the same name plagiarized by Lin Han from later generations, coupled with Lin Han's own understanding of Japan's national conditions and political structure during World War II through the Internet, mixed with his personal goods and written into the book, the content of which is nothing more than a metaphorical way to instill the Japanese threat theory to white people. The book sold well in Britain and the United States, and became a must-read for politicians in Britain and the United States who were concerned about Japan.

After the Carlisle incident, the British set their sights on Japan, and they seriously suspected that the Carlisle incident was committed by the Japanese, and they were extremely vigilant about Japan's behavior of reaching out in the Yangtze River Delta. In both 1933 and 1934, even after the Gannet incident, when the Japanese "kindly" offered the British government to "help" solve the problem of the "Bolshevism" of southern China, the British "politely" refused.

The politicians of the British Empire are quite sober on this point. Later, the British united with the Americans to exert pressure on the issue of garrisoning troops in the concession area, limiting the expansion of the number of Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai.

After 1935, at the end of May, the Red Army launched a full-scale attack, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government was crushed by the Red Army to the brink of extinction in less than half a month.

In the face of sudden incidents, the response of any government is delayed, and the British and Japanese governments are no exception.

The Japanese had been prepared for meddling in the affairs of South China, and the arms in the warehouses in Kagoshima were prepared for this purpose. However, Lin Han's bombing completely destroyed the port facilities, not only the arsenal was bombed, but even the nearby oil storage tanks were also affected, igniting a sky-high fire, and the entire port was completely scrapped and unusable for a short time.

Later, due to the Kagoko incident, it caused the collapse of the cabinet of Keisuke Okada in Japan. During the transition between the old and new cabinets, the parties fought each other for power, and the attention to China temporarily declined, and a few days were wasted. And these few days are the time for the Red Army to launch a full-scale offensive.

By the time the Japanese government had properly handled the transfer of power at the top and began to turn its attention back to China, it would be after 8 June. But by this time, the collapse of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing had quickly exceeded the expectations of all countries.

The destruction of Kagoshima's arms stockpiles had made all the preparations made by the Japanese personnel, and by the time they had re-coordinated their preparations, it was June 11. The original plan was to leave Nagasaki after 13 June and send 3,000 devil soldiers to forcibly enter Shanghai in the name of assisting in the defense of Shanghai, but on the 12th, the emperor's family was assassinated, the Japanese high-level was shaken, and the Japanese navy and the 6th army were forced to return their attention to China.

Although the emperor's family was wiped out by Lin Han, there is no shortage of "heirs to the emperor" in Japan, but the biggest question is, who should be pushed to power? Japan's domestic situation is not monolithic, and there are also many contradictions, the contradictions between the navy and the Sixth Army, and the contradictions between the control faction and the imperial faction, which have always entangled Japan.

In the past, when the emperor was there, with this referee, the two sides could barely distinguish between the two sides and maintain a semblance of peace and harmony, but now the emperor is gone. What kind of person to hold for the position of emperor has become a major issue for various factions in Japan. At this critical time, the "China Dispatch Army", which was originally going to be sent to Shanghai, was also detained halfway for domestic power struggle because of the power struggle at the top, and it was unlikely that the mainland would send troops in a short period of time. As for the Taiwan side, due to the difference in the previous assignment of tasks, the original plan was to act at the same time as the Shanghai side. At that time, Taiwan's garrison and fleet were all staring at Fujian, which was across the sea, and they still did not think of rushing to Shanghai. The reason for this is because of the assassination of the emperor. This caused a confusion of coordination on the part of the Japanese Navy. Because the minds of the upper echelons are now all focused on the struggle for power and profit at home.

The impact and damage caused by the violent death of the emperor and his family on Japan's political structure has only just begun, before a new emperor is elected and the Japanese government is re-established. There will be a very exciting internal strife in Japan. It's just that this kind of civil strife unfolds to what Cheng dù. Lin Han himself couldn't be sure.

The Japanese were in internal disarray because of the assassination of the Emperor, and at this critical moment, the Red Army in the south was already under the city of Shanghai. The local Japanese with bad intentions did not receive strong foreign aid from their own country. Now I can only rely on digging up potential inside to save myself and delay time.

However, in the past two years, although the Japanese have not been able to openly increase the number of colonial troops stationed in Shanghai, they have continued to make small moves behind the scenes. Its headquarters of the 6th Naval Force, located on the North Sichuan Road, was the headquarters of the Japanese Rental Force in Shanghai. It was reinforced with anti-artillery steel plates, making it a very strong battle fortress.

In addition, in the eastern area of the public concession and Hongkou, where the road was built across the border, from the Huishan Wharf to the east to the Qiujiang Wharf, the Japanese military has built bunker-style houses. In Yangshupu, Jiangwan and other places. Japanese schools and factories were dotted with fortress-like military posts, and cannons and machine guns could be erected at any time on solid concrete roofs. And these ordnance are usually hidden in the basement. To put it simply, the Japanese fortified the Japanese Concession.

During World War II, fighting such fortified cities was a headache. Fortunately, regarding this situation, Lin Han was prepared. Hannah, who is the soul of a German ship, is also deeply impressed by the meat grinding war that gave birth to Stalingrad in World War II. At Lin Han's request, the German side, based on the experience of the Battle of Verdun in World War I and the lessons learned from the Leningrad and Stainingrad battles in World War II provided by Hannah, specially developed a batch of heavy weapons for street fighting and sent them to the Soviet area, and now this batch of equipment is on its way to Shanghai.

The upper echelons of the Red Army, after being reminded by Lin Han, also had a deep enough psychological preparation for the Shanghai Campaign. One of the biggest problems of the Red Army in the south was that the war with the artillery party in the past two years was too "smooth," and the troops lacked experience in fighting tough and ruthless battles.

"It's not a good thing to fight too much downwind."

Li Runshi and the officers in the upper echelons of the Red Army were well aware of this. In the past winter, the Red Army continued to carry out large-scale military training while expanding its troops, not only in terms of combat skills, but also in the thinking of middle- and lower-level officers. Before the start of the June war, the Red Army had already been informed of the idea of "rectification" and told every middle- and lower-ranking officer and even ordinary soldier that in the 1935 war, the Red Army's greatest enemy was no longer the rotten snake of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, but the imperialist intervention army, which was a hundred times more ferocious than him.

Before the start of the war in 1935, the Red Army was mentally prepared to fight a "foreign war".

In order for the Red Army to win the concession more smoothly in future battles, Li Huamei had collected a large amount of local intelligence when she was here, and the maps she drew were even detailed to the point of every room. Dressed in a ronin costume common in Japan, Lin Han walked around the Japanese concession area to make sure that the layout had not changed much from before. During this period, he was interrogated twice, but when Lin Han spoke, under the cover of Japanese with a Kyoto accent, he passed the test very lightly.

The situation in the British Concession was slightly better, the British only added a barricade at the entrance of the concession, and there were more Indian Asans with guns on the road, and the overconfident British still think that the Red Army did not have the courage to act against the British Concession, and there were only more guards on the streets than before.

The British placed most of their hopes of preventing the Red Army from occupying Shanghai on diplomatic negotiations and military intimidation of the Red Army. Lin Han could imagine that the British representatives at the Hankow chargé d'affaires must have broken through the threshold of the Red Army's headquarters in Wuhan, and all kinds of "old imperialist intimidation" must have been indispensable. However, Ringhan understood that the weakened Red Army upper echelons of the British Empire did not take them seriously.

In Shanghai. Another armed force in the state of facing a great enemy, the famous local merchant group, has a total strength of about 2,000 men.

In 1853, Britain and the United States organized the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, later known as the International Merchant Corps, which became a paramilitary force of the concession authorities and played a role in maintaining the rule of the concession authorities. Subsequently, the army was expanded over the years, and its supreme command structure was the general headquarters, with one commander-in-chief and several deputy commanders-in-chief, including cavalry teams, field artillery teams, light artillery teams, engineering teams, ironclad teams, infantry teams, etc. By the beginning of the 2o 3o years, the establishment reached more than 15oo people. has become a regular army.

And when the Red Army rose strongly in the south. By 1935, the number of members had increased to 2,000. Under the headquarters, there are six brigades of A, C, cavalry, special forces, and artillery. Its ingredients are also diverse.

For example, Brigade A has a team A, a team B, a Shanghai Scotland team, a Jewish team and an air defense team. Group B includes Team USA, Team Portugal, Team USA, Team USA Machine Gun, and Team Philippines. Brigade C, popularly known as the Russian Wing. It is the only standing army in the merchant group. It is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Standing Corps and the Russian Volunteer Corps. After the October Revolution in the USSR. Most of the members of this Russian wing were White Russians who had fled from Tsarist Russia (White Russia was the White Russia of the White Army, not Belarus). As for the cavalry brigades, they were divided into the Naval Cavalry and the American Cavalry. Special Forces Brigade. It mainly includes the Shanghai engineering team, the armored team, the Chinese team, the Japanese team, the interpreter team, the transport team and the communication team.

In terms of composition, this so-called international merchant group is like a miniature eight-nation alliance, with everything. Except for the Japanese team with evil intentions, the rest of the members are basically mercenary in nature, and they are also a force to be reckoned with on the beach.

The strength of the Shanghai Tang foreigners was so complex, adding up to more than 6,000 in pieces, not counting the "armed expatriates" who could be temporarily armed, mainly Japanese.

Compared with the Japanese Concession, although the Chinese Concession in Shanghai also began to dig trenches on the outskirts of the city and build barricades in the market, Lin Han walked all the way, and all the soldiers he saw on the road were listless, and their morale and fighting spirit were extremely low. It is even less energetic than the local Green Gang and the Red Gang, two criminal and evil organizations -- on April 12, Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng both made great efforts, and their hands were stained with the blood of revolutionaries, and they had a stronger will to resist when they had blood debts.

Sun Yuanliang, the long-legged general of the Shanghai underground party, who is still swaying against the wall, is still swaying against the wall, and it is this gentleman who still harbors illusions about the foreign forces stationed in Shanghai, and wants to wait and see until the last second before making a decision.

Lin Han walked around several foreign concessions in Shanghai, in addition to observing the scene and looking for suitable locations for sniping, he was also thinking about the focus of his actions.

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that his thoughts had fallen into a misunderstanding, that is, he had focused too much on Wang Jingwei.

Among the artillery party, there has never been a shortage of leading party and Wu Sangui-style figures. For their own interests, these people will do anything at the lower limit, and killing Wang Jingwei here, the effect of the monkey is really limited. More importantly, if the imperialist countries want to interfere in the revolution in China, and the Japanese want to invade China, is it important to have a good excuse?

"They always come up with all sorts of excuses. The key place is not here, but somewhere else! ”

After figuring this out, Lin Han took his attention back from Wang Jingwei and decided to put it on the other two people.

One of them is Dai Li, Dai Yunong, the head of the Lanyi Society, and the other is the last powerful military leader in the hands of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, Sun Yuanliang, who defended Shanghai Beach.

So at noon on the 13th, Lin Han returned to the secret headquarters of the "Mocking Wind" organization in the British Concession in Shanghai, where he contacted the underground party and asked them about negotiating with Dai Yunong and Sun Yuanliang.

Sephiroth was still on its way back to Shanghai from Daban, and although he had been at sea with maximum intensity, it would be forty hours later at the earliest, that is, before noon to-morrow. The Sephiroth was not around, and Lin Han had much less freedom to act. Now that the whole of Shanghai has entered a state of military control, and the Huajie District is full of soldiers checking intersections and carrying guns, it is impossible to imagine that last night had such a sensational play.

While Lin Han was thinking about what to do next, Xiao Bailang, who was sent by him to contact Sun Yuanliang last night, had already returned.

Xiao Bailang complained to Lin Han: "That long-legged general has been playing Tai Chi with us. Whether it's for us or for the Red Army, he has a warm attitude, that guy is a wall-to-wall grass, he is waiting for an opportunity, he wants to sell himself for the best price. ”

Lin Han snorted coldly: "Don't care about his duplicity, the guy is so unreasonable, we will buy off his subordinates." Half a million dollars can't buy him? With such a big appetite, if it weren't for the fear of leaks, I would have been able to buy off his men for less money. How are you getting in touch with the commanders of his regiments? ”

Xiao Bailang said: "They are all connected, and they are all very interested." ”

"Good!"

"Give me an offer code, a regiment commander, lead his soldiers to join the Red Army, I will give 100,000 dollars! I will pay $50,000 for the battalion commander, and I will pay $10,000 for the company commander! For every soldier who brought a gun and a bullet to throw it, I would have fifty dollars in the ocean! ”

Xiao Bailang hesitated: "Will it be a little more expensive?" ”

Lin Han said loudly: "It's not expensive! If you really fight, how much will it cost to destroy the arms? How much does a broken artillery or something cost? Every inch of land is precious here in Shanghai, and the losses of the war are even greater! In addition, you also open a copy of the price list that I am going to buy from his subordinates to Sun Yuanliang, and then sue him, no, it is to warn him! I gave him twenty-four hours to consider that he would either accept the $500,000 for the uprising, or I would use the $500,000 to buy his head from his men! ”

Lin Han initially took out a budget of 1 million US dollars to buy the artillery party army, of which 300,000 US dollars were spent on the defenders of Jiangyin Fortress, 500,000 yuan when buying Wang Yaowu, and the rest of the money was used to lure the defenders of Hangzhou and Nanjing to "revolt". In Lin Han's opinion, this money was well spent, and the two places were almost completely handed over to the Red Army without the destruction of the war, and the spare parts at the airports of Hangzhou and Nanjing, and the seizures of gasoline in stockpiles were far more than the money spent.

When Sun Yuanliang was bought in Shanghai, Lin Hai's budget was capped at one million US dollars, but Sun Yuanliang's wait-and-see attitude made him extremely unhappy.

Lin Han said murderously: "He has more than 10,000 soldiers in his hands now, supporting the death of ** thousand guns, and buying a gun with bullets for a hundred dollars, which is very cheap!" (Note: It is impossible for an army to be all combat soldiers, and it is impossible for each person to have one gun, and the proportion of gunmen is sixty or seventy percent or even lower, and the proportion will be higher in special periods.) ）

Xiao Bailang said again: "Is the money paid in real money or in German goods?" ”

Lin Han said: "Of course it's a fake!" The wall-riding faction also wants to eat meat, so tell him to eat! ”

Xiao Bailang said worriedly: "The British and the United States are investigating this matter now, will there be a danger of leaking secrets afterwards?" ”

Lin Han said: "Now it is difficult to find a ticket to leave Shanghai, you can also prepare a ticket for him." When he leaves in a boat after the uprising, just make a little more accident and throw the fake money into the sea or burn it to ashes to make him cry. ”

After dealing with Sun Yuanliang's affairs, Xiao Shu'an, the head of the Shanghai underground party, and Ding Ying, who went to work with him. They learned that Dai Yunong had seen the shape clearly, and decided to cooperate with the Red Army when it entered Shanghai, and took the initiative to take out the important information they had collected about the defense of various parts of Shanghai.

And Dai Yunong also expressed a clear welcome attitude towards Lin Han's intention to solicit. The members of the Blue Coat Society under his command were in an embarrassing and dangerous situation after the liberation of southern China. No matter how tolerant and generous the Red Army may be, these people who bear the heavy mark of "spies" still have pimples in their hearts -- in fact, many people in the upper echelons of the Red Army also have pimples, and they are also not too relieved to put them on their hands.

Lin Han stood up and expressed his willingness to accept all these people and take them all abroad, which was undesirable for both sides - of course, Lin Han could not accept all these people, those who had blood debts and had been captured by the Red Army, Lin Han said that he could not help, and Boss Dai also expressed understanding.

When Dai Yunong also decided to "revolt anyway", it was not far off to quickly solve the Shanghai problem. (To be continued......)

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