Chapter 107: The Beginning of the Tragedy
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At 7 o'clock in the morning of April 26, 1928, Song Guangzhan left the biscuit factory on Wei 11 Road with a sallow face, and went to the empty biscuit factory guard room to find something to eat.
Song Guangzhan looked down and saw that a bright bayonet had already pierced his chest! Blood was suddenly stained with his shabby clothes, and when he looked back, he saw that the Japanese soldiers he had seen the day before yesterday were looking at him coldly behind him! One of them was to take a gun and stab him in the chest with a bayonet at the tip of the gun! Song Guangzhan's lips squirmed and he wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, all he spewed out was blood foam......
"Poof! Poof! "The Japanese soldier pulled out his bayonet and stabbed him a few more times! Song Guangzhan suddenly lay down in a pool of blood, he stared at the sky with his eyes that gradually lost his lustre, and he wanted to ask until he died: Why......
Seeing that Song Guangzhan had died tragically, one of the Japanese soldiers indifferently said to the Japanese soldier who was doing it: "I reported to Shaozuo that we have dealt with a murderer who killed my expatriate. ”
"Hey!" The Japanese soldier who stabbed Song Guangzhan to death put away his gun and bowed his head one by one.
At 11 o'clock, at the intersection of the three major roads, Zhou Qiao, a citizen of Jinan, was preparing to go to the street to buy some vegetables and go home. Suddenly, he heard "Bang! As soon as the gunshot rang out, I felt a heart-piercing pain in my chest! Zhou Qiao looked down and saw that a big hole had been broken in his chest! Blood was pouring out of the hole, Zhou Qiao turned his head to see a group of Japanese soldiers at the intersection of Wei Er Road was looking at him indifferently, and a short man in the group of Japanese soldiers was raising his gun at him, and the green smoke from the muzzle of the gun showed that it was him who shot just now!
"Poof!" Zhou Qiao fell to the ground, and at this time, his mind replayed his three-year-old daughter and his wife, who was anxiously waiting for him to return at home. A Japanese officer wearing a military uniform walked up to him indifferently and took out a pistol and pointed it at his head! Under Zhou Qiao's pleading and desperate eyes, "Touch!" The sound shattered Zhou Qiao's skull......
"Report to Your Excellency Dazuo, the Northern Expeditionary soldier who intends to attack the expatriates of our empire will be executed at the intersection of Wei Erlu!" After smashing Zhou Qiao's head, that Shao Zuo withdrew his pistol and looked at the soldier who shot just now and said coldly: "Ma Lu Yelang! Nishida, you still have to practice your marksmanship, take advantage of this incident in China to practice well! ”
"Hey!" The soldier named Nishida nodded respectfully when he heard this.
At dusk, Li Qinghai, who lives in the south of Weier Road in Jinan, couldn't hold back his pee, so he opened the door to urinate outside the door, just as he left the house and stood at the root of the wall, "Poof!" Jiang Zhongzheng, commander-in-chief of the Guo Min Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, felt 7:15 on the 17th day of the Republic of China.
He Yingqin received a call from Jiang Zhongzheng and breathed a deep sigh of relief. He then handed the telegram to his adjutant and ordered it to be circulated throughout the army to prevent conflict with the Japanese army.
At 9 a.m. on 27 April, Jiang Zhongzheng arrived in Jinan. He Yingqin and other senior generals of the whole army arrived in Jinan by special train from Jiang Zhongzheng, who supervised the battle at Tai'an Railway Station, and then Jiang Zhongzheng set up a headquarters in the old supervision office.
In the afternoon, a meeting of officers above the army commander level was convened, and although some people raised the question of whether they should be tough on the Japanese army, this point of view was forcibly suppressed by Jiang Zhongzheng! Jiang Zhong testified: The Japanese deliberately provoked and created the Jinan tragedy on the occasion of the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, and their purpose was precisely to hinder the reunification of China! A divided China is a good target of aggression against the Japanese, who have been pursuing a "mainland policy," so we cannot fall into the trap of the Japanese.
Forthwith. Jiang Zhongzheng instructed the local authorities on pacification matters, and appointed Fang Zhenwu as commander of the Jinan garrison and Ma Dengying as director of the Jinan Public Security Bureau. Instructed his subordinates to "bear the burden of humiliation":
It is for the sake of the country not to fight with the Japanese army and to protect the expatriates that no matter what happens to the individual, he must endure it;
For the Japanese, absolutely no shots were fired;
In order to save a day, even if you kill ten people;
If something happens, Japan asks for a gun, that is, it will use a gun, and when it asks to be taken prisoner, it will be allowed to be captured as a prisoner.
In the evening, Foreign Minister Huang Yin and Cai Gongshi, director of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Field Affairs Committee and special representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrived in Jinan with the troops. Subsequently, Cai Gongshi immediately set up the Shandong Negotiation Office and began to prepare for negotiations with Japan.
Fang Zhenwu, who was appointed commander of the Jinan garrison, immediately after the meeting, invited the acting consul of Japan in Jinan, Nishida? Koichi and the commander of the Japanese brigade, Sato Liu, declared that they were responsible for maintaining local order and protecting the lives and property of foreigners, and asked the Japanese army to remove the alert immediately. Saito agreed.