Chapter Ninety-Five: The May Third Massacre

Tu Qianjun got the 100 MP18 given by Zhang Zuolin, and he did not hesitate to distribute them to the company platoon commanders on the front line.

Just when Tu Qianjun was training hard, Huang Xiaoling suddenly left his sight and did not appear again for several days. Tu Qianjun sighed secretly, it seems that the storm has happened! Huang Xiaoling's sudden disappearance is a clear proof of this.

On December 10, 1927, three days after Huang Xiaoling's disappearance, news came from Nanjing that the Artillery Party had re-instated himself as a bald man! Wang Wangniao, the leader of the Artillery Party in Wuhan, announced his plan to go abroad. This is undoubtedly a proof of the success or failure of both sides, the bald guy won a big victory, and the Wang Wangniao was defeated in the wilderness.

With the arrival of the bald guy, the new Northern Expedition is undoubtedly about to restart again! And the first to bear the brunt was naturally the Shandong region where Zhang Zongchang was located, so Tu Qianjun decided to return to the Marshal's Mansion to coordinate with Zhang Zuolin about the upcoming Shandong war.

At the beginning of 1928, after a battle between the skinheads and the general Christ and Yan Laojiao, they decided to form four group armies, with the bald men as the commander-in-chief, to jointly carry out the "Second Northern Expedition" to attack the Feng warlords who held the power in Beijing, and the spearhead was directed at Zhang Zongchang, who ruled Shandong!

The bald man, General Christ, Yan Laojiao, and the leaders of the Gui family were respectively appointed commanders-in-chief of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Armies. The forces attacking Shandong were mainly Chiang's army, with the Second Front Army of Sun Liangcheng, the headquarters of General Christ. At the same time, Zhang Zongchang also made defensive arrangements, and decided that Sun Chuanfang would lead his troops and the first part of the Lu army to defend Jining and Yanzhou in southwest Shandong; Xu Kun and others led the main force of the Lu army to defend Lunan Hanzhuang and Taierzhuang; Fang Yongchang led the Lu army to defend Linyi in southern Lunan, and everything was ready for battle!

Subsequently, the battle between the two sides began around April 10. The Northern Expeditionary Army was on a fierce offensive, and Lianketaierzhuang, Tancheng, Yutai, Yuncheng, Juye and other places captured Yanzhou on the 19th! Zhang Zongchang's Lu army, on the other hand, was demoralized and retreated northward. Subsequently, the Northern Expeditionary Army attacked Zhang Zongchang's hinterland - Jinan!

But the success of the Northern Expedition caused extreme unease in Japan! On April 19, Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka played Emperor Nakyo, and decided to send 5,000 troops under the command of Lieutenant General Fukuda, the commander of the Sixth Division, to Shandong; In addition, 460 Japanese troops stationed in Tianjin marched to Jinan. On the 20th, the Japanese troops from Tianjin first arrived in Jinan, and after landing in Qingdao on the 25th, the Fukudabu also arrived in Jinan one after another.

After Japan sent troops, the governments of both the north and south of China protested at that time. Since then, gunfire has erupted all over the commercial port, and more than 3,000 Japanese troops have dispatched to launch a surprise attack on the Chinese people!

At that time, the two battalions of the 7th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the 40th Artillery Army, the headquarters of the 1st Regiment of the 37th Army, and the 1st Battalion of the Supplementary Regiment of the 89th Division were the first to be attacked by the Japanese army! At that time, the garrison was not prepared, let alone ordered to resist, and most of them were captured and disarmed, except for a few troops who were forced to counterattack! Later, according to the on-the-spot investigation of the Jinan Red Cross Society and other groups, as many as 1,000 soldiers and civilians were killed by the Japanese army that day!

Some soldiers of the 40th Army of the Artillery Party Headquarters and the officers and men of the 90th and 92nd Divisions of the 41st Army resisted and quickly withstood the Japanese attack! Helplessly, the artillery party pretended to be a bald guy and was shocked when he heard the news! He immediately ordered 10 staff officers to form a herald squad and went to all departments to order the immediate cessation of the counterattack on the Japanese army, and sent Huang Yin, Xiong Shihui and others to the headquarters of the Japanese Sixth Division to negotiate.

In the course of the negotiations, the Japanese army successively occupied the Jinan Post Office, the Telegraph Office, and other organs, and blew up the Chinese radio station, killing all the soldiers guarding Taiwan.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese army surrounded the Shandong Negotiation Office located on Jingsi Road and Xiaowei 6th Road in Jinan Commercial Port. At this time, Cai Gongshi had just taken over the work of the Negotiation Office.

Cai Gongshi, who was a special negotiator in Shandong at the time, argued with reason, but was tied up. Cai Gongshi studied in Japan and was enrolled in the Department of Political Science and Economics of Tokyo Imperial University, so he is proficient in Japanese! At that moment, he spoke Japanese and sternly condemned the Japanese army's violation of international law and its gross aggression against Chinese diplomatic institutions and diplomatic personnel.

It's a pity that how does this scholar know that the international law of shit in front of guns is nothing more than a piece of paper to wipe his ass?! So the Japanese officer directly ordered the soldiers to raise their bayonets and "strike or stab each of them on the head" of Cai Gongshi and others who were bound. Cai Gongshi's ears and nose were cut off, and his face was bleeding, and he still shouted: "The Japanese army is determined to kill us, but this national shame, when will it snow?" Beasts, the Chinese can be killed but not humiliated!" When the same people heard this, they all cried loudly and scolded the Japanese army. The Japanese army was even more angry, and tore off the clothes of Cai Gongshi and 17 other people, and all of them were shot dead in the courtyard of the negotiation office after all kinds of humiliation!

and a total of 18 staff members in the department, except for one who escaped by chance, the rest were brutally killed! On the morning of May 4, the guns and artillery in Jinan started again, and the bomb fell into the provincial governor's office and headquarters, killing 19 Chinese people. During the whole process, the army of the artillery party didn't even put a single fart! At night, the artillery troops withdrew from the commercial port. The next day, it withdrew from Jinan in batches, leaving only 3,000 people belonging to the First Army and the 41st Army to move to the city.

On the same day, the Artillery Party pretended to be a bald man and held a meeting in Dangjiazhuang, and decided that all armies would make a detour to Jinan and cross the river to the north, and Cui Shijie would take over Cai Gongshi's post and go to Jinan to take charge of continuing to negotiate with the Japanese who tortured and killed their diplomats and shelled their offices as their shit. It is a pity that the Japanese did not appreciate it, and learned that after the artillery party troops crossed the river and headed north, they directly sent more than 10 planes to follow and bomb and shell the river crossing troops, and the artillery party suffered heavy casualties.

On 5 May, Japanese troops fired arbitrarily on the roads from Pulimen to Jinan Railway Station, intercepted vehicles, and strafed them with machine guns, killing more than 50 people on the spot. On the 8th, Japanese troops broke into homes and arrested innocent residents. Then he pierced the flesh with a wire and tortured him in every way until he was killed! After that, the Japanese army occupied Jinan for more than a year.

So far, the entire May Third tragedy began with Zhang Zongchang luring the wolf into the house, and the artillery party was beaten and compromised and ran away by pretending to be a bald guy. The entire squadron fought to the death when it was its own, but in the face of foreigners, they all chose to avoid fighting. Even if people's feces and urine are thrown on their heads, they still play with spitting and doing their own work! It's a good cultivation!

It is worth mentioning that on May 12, 1928, the Artillery Party government explicitly praised Cai Gongshi and 17 other personnel. The dignitaries of the Artillery Party government pretended to be bald heads, Li Liejun, Yu Youren, the head of the Gui family, General Christ, Sun Ke, Song Ziwen, Chen Lifu, Kong Xiangxi, Wang Zhengting and others with inscriptions and praises.

But the irony is that in June 1930, Cai's wife Guo Jingluan exhumed Cai Gongshi's bones in the Shandong Negotiator's Office, where Cai Gongshi was killed, and her desire to bury her was indeed miraculously obstructed. This box of bones was transported to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing for no reason, and no one took care of it in the basement downstairs!

On December 13, 1937, when the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and the artillery government retreated to Chongqing, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs directly abandoned the bones in the basement and ran away.

After the surrender of Japan, the artillery party government was still in Nanjing, and at this time the Ministry of Foreign Affairs finally remembered that there was still a Cai Gong in the basement, so it went down to look for it but helplessly found that the skeleton was missing, and there was no clue about the hero's corpse after that. Since then, the hero has gone from having no place to bury himself to being directly left without bones.