Many years later, Yang Bangzi recalled the experience of being examined by the joint investigation team, and still sincerely thanked Hong Mei, and it turned out that if Hong Mei had not found Yang Bangzi in time, not only would the anti-Japanese deeds of Mr. Guo Lao and other 28 martyrs be buried, but Yang Bangzi himself would have completely ruined his military and political career.

Because when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party formed a joint investigation team, the Japanese army had not yet publicized the hero of Shimizu with great fanfare, nor did they shoot the documentary film, and when Yang Bangzi was lying in Kawaguchi Town and was about to be investigated, Shimizu was also under house arrest.

There were five representatives of the Nationalist Government in the investigation team, and they attached great importance to this matter, a major general senator, a colonel, plus the secretary of the provincial party department of the Kuomintang, and two who were said to be entourage, but in fact they were two agents of the Central Union.

The representative of the Nationalist Government said that at the request of Mr. Guo's family, the truth of the Guojiabaozi tragedy was investigated.

Our party has repeatedly stated that Mr. Guo led the people of the whole fort to resist the Japanese invasion together with the Eighth Route Army, and after running out of ammunition and food, he jumped off a cliff and died, but the Nationalist Government said that it was necessary to conduct an on-the-spot investigation and to find the relevant people involved in the war before it could finally decide what the nature of the incident was.

Let's say that history looks very glamorous and moving a lot of times, and it is very beautiful and grand, but in fact, there are too many things that can't see the light under this glamour, especially politics. It's always pretty. Pus on the soles of the feet. Isn't the politics created by man to serve people? It does not matter whether it serves the selfish desires of individuals or the collective selfish desires of a country or a nation.

The year 1941 was a very sensitive year for the whole of China, because after the Southern Anhui Incident at the beginning of the year, the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the joint war of resistance almost fell to the lowest point, and then friction between the armies of the two parties occurred in almost all the base areas and guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

At one point, the Chongqing government even wanted to restart the military campaign to exterminate our party. It is known that in the summer of 1941, Jihua mobilized ten divisions to carry out an all-out military attack on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region.

In the same year, the Japanese devils comprehensively adjusted their military arrangements against China, and adopted the method of attacking and pulling the Nationalist Government, focusing on striking at several theaters represented by the hard-line resistance factions, such as the Fifth Theater and the Ninth Theater, and launched a series of offensive operations, while the third theater of operations, which they wanted to win over, was at peace with both sides.

The generals of the Nationalist Army who resolutely resisted Japan wanted to be eliminated, and some centrists and capitulationists in the Nationalist Government were vigorously wooed.

Look back. This tactic of dividing the Nationalist government from within the Japanese army began in 1939 and reached a small climax in 1941. At that time, there were no less than dozens of generals and high-ranking government officials who defected to the enemy, and soldiers who formed divisions and brigades surrendered to become puppet troops, from Jinnan to Sulu, everywhere.

For example, in February 1941, Liu Yueting, the deputy commander of the newly organized 5th Army, led all his troops to surrender to the enemy. In May 1941, the commander of the 30th Division of the Kuomintang led the division and a total of 22,000 troops from the 3rd, 9th, 17th, 80th, and 93rd armies to surrender to the enemy. In June 1941, Bi Zeyu, the commander of the 69th Army of the Kuomintang, led his troops to surrender to the enemy.

By the first half of 1942, this wave of open surrender reached a peak, and in more than a year, more than 400,000 troops under the Nationalist Government surrendered to the Japanese army!

At this time, the base areas and guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army ushered in the largest encirclement, suppression, and sweep by the Japanese army since the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.

Beginning in the spring of 1941 and continuing until the spring of 1942 for more than a year, the Japanese army focused on the base areas of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in North China and Southwest Shandong.

According to the data, in the past year or so, the total number of troops actually used by the Japanese army to fight the communist army has reached more than 700,000, accounting for two-thirds of its total strength in China.

What is even more outrageous is that in the course of more than a year of sweeping, the "three lights" policy was implemented in the base areas and guerrilla areas controlled by our party, resulting in a large reduction in the population of the base areas, a large reduction in the number of combat troops, and even more terrible losses in agricultural production than in the famine years, and a large reduction in the area of the base areas, such as the base areas in Jizhong and Luzhong, which basically shrank to the area of the grassroots period in 1938.

To put it bluntly, when the Japanese army carried out individual military strikes against the Nationalist Government and comprehensively co-opted them politically, they had no illusions of winning over our Party's troops in the areas they occupied, so they concentrated so many troops and resolutely wiped out our Party's troops and the common people under the leadership of our Party.

In the words of the Japanese army, the Nanyang Operation, which is what we call the Pacific War, the Japanese army hopes to draw more manpower and material resources from the Chinese battlefield to support the needs of the Pacific Theater.

After all, fighting against a powerful country like Britain and the United States, the little devil has no bottom in his heart, and being able to solve the Chinese problem as soon as possible has become very important for the Japanese army's upcoming southward operation.

Why else is it said that 1941 was the most sensitive year in the entire eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after four years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were also very fierce internal differences, the Pacific War had not yet begun, and even the Supreme Commander Chiang was ambiguous about whether the war against Japan was war or peace.

On the side of our party, in the past four years, it has opened up a large area of base areas and guerrilla areas behind enemy lines, expanded the number of troops by more than 10 times, and increased the population under its actual control by 100 times.

From the point of view of the Nationalist Government, after four years of fighting, a lot of land has been lost, millions of troops have died, the people and the national economy are on the verge of collapse, and the international situation is uncertain.

Our party has been fighting the banner of going north to resist Japan since 31 years, and besides, it has already reached the poor place in northern Shaanxi.

These two different attitudes toward Japan have been decided, and there will be friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and there will be disagreement between the face and the heart, and in general they will unite to resist Japan.

I think that after Mr. Fan Zhuxian died and died in the martyrdom, it was the honeymoon period of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and some people still suspected that it was the party's ineffective rescue that caused the fall of Liaocheng, not to mention the martyrdom of Mr. Guo, a veteran figure of the Republic of China, in such a sensitive period.

Having said that, for Yang Bangzi, don't look at it as the commander of our party's military division, but in the military sequence of the National Government, there is still his name, don't forget, when Yang Bangzi was reorganized in 37, Yang Bangzi was a battalion-level cadre, and he still had the rank of major, although he had received two military salaries from the National Government.

Since he is a major of the national army, this excitement is out! Therefore, the investigators on both sides of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were not the first to find the former enemy supreme commander of the battle of Guojiabaozi, and they were all waiting for the other party to make a request to investigate Yang Bangzi first.

As a result, Yang Bangzi slept peacefully, in the end, this investigation team was a blessing or a curse for him, he didn't care about anyone, he didn't do anything, took Lianxiang and dog eggs, and went back to his hometown to farm.

People are afraid of losing this and losing that, there are too many scruples on the back, there are many scruples, and the ideas are complicated, if there is no bottom line, there is nothing to fight for, then the mind is naturally open-minded, others worry about him and can't sleep, he is good, the one who sleeps is called a fragrance!

On the afternoon of the second day after the joint investigation team was stationed in Kawaguchi Town, they sent someone to invite Yang Bangzi, saying that they were going to interrogate, Yang Bangzi knocked on the cigarette bag and pot, and said to Lianxiang that he would take good care of the child, so he put on an overcoat and walked on crutches, and two soldiers helped him to go to the town office. (To be continued......)