Chapter 215 Pingjin Special Economic Zone
Ueda Kenkichi was eventually forced into a car by the staff officers, and then fled to the train station in a hurry escorted by hundreds of soldiers and armed expatriates, and just as he boarded the train, cavalry in the distance had already appeared.
Looking at the surging enemies behind him, and the Japanese expatriates who were crying and rushing to the train station, hoping to catch up with the train that had already started, Commander Ueda could not help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart, when had the Imperial soldiers suffered such a humiliation.
"Shame, shame!" The old guy muttered to himself in grief.
"Your Excellency Commander, please rest assured, we are only temporarily sheltering, after the 11th Division lands, we will let this group of arrogant enemies be buried in Shenyang." Seishiro Itagaki said viciously.
In Liaodong Bay, a flotilla of dozens of troop carriers, escorted by two cruisers and four destroyers, was heading north to the port of Yingkou.
On the cruiser Kuma escorting, Captain Daigo Osa was looking at the calm sea with boredom, to be honest, in his opinion, there was no need for escort at all, the Bohai Sea was the world of the Japanese Navy, although several warships had been lost inexplicably in recent years, but that could not change this fact.
"Maybe our cabinet ministers were frightened by the sea monster?" The first mate next to him said with a smile.
The story of the surviving crew of the destroyer Fengfeng about the sea monster has long become the laughing stock of the Navy.
"Maybe we can catch a sea monster for dinner!" Captain Daigo said with a smile that because of the bad luck of the army, the navy has been in a good mood recently, and when he thought that those low-level fools actually let the enemy threaten his headquarters, Captain Daigo wanted to laugh a few times.
"Captain, a telegram from the Lushun Town Guard, asking us to speed up, the Chinese army has captured Shenyang." A staff officer hurriedly ran over and saluted.
"Nani?" Captain Daigo and the first mate's eyes almost popped out, and the two looked at each other in disbelief.
It's hard to believe. Although they despise the army, they despise the Chinese army even more.
"Where's Commander Ueda?" The first mate asked the staff officer with a smile.
"Commander Ueda fled Shenyang by train."
The staff officer's words made Captain Daigo and the two finally couldn't help but laugh.
"It's ridiculous, the dignified commander of the Kwantung Army actually ......" Before the first mate's words were finished, there was a sudden shock under his feet, and then he felt his body suddenly fly, and before he could react. It slammed down on the deck again, and at the same time a dull loud noise came to his ears, and the next moment a huge wave crashed down on him.
The last thing the first mate saw was the frightened face of Captain Daigo, who was rolling to the side of the ship.
On the cruiser Oi, which was escorting the ship, a reporter held up his camera with a trembling hand and faithfully recorded a rare shot, which was the starboard side of the cruiser Tama in navigation, and suddenly arched a huge column of water, slamming the bow of the 5,000-ton cruiser more than two meters high. At the bottom of the water column is the glow of fire.
The ball mill hit a mine, and the water pressure impact formed by the huge underwater explosion directly broke the keel of the ball mill, and the light cruiser began to sink in full view of everyone, and the entire fleet was in chaos at once, and the commander of the fleet escorting the ship did not hesitate to order all ships to stop on the spot.
Now that the army is gone, Ueda Kenkichi is still waiting for them to take revenge, what's the matter with stopping here? Some of the militant officers on board even pulled out their guns and threatened.
"The convoy stood still. The troop carriers belonging to the Navy stood still, and the requisitioned civilian ships were as they pleased. The fleet commander said with a sneer.
There is really a civilian ship that is not afraid of death. This merchant ship with a displacement of 1,000 tons sailed to Yingkou with a warrior's pride, and before it could sail out of the fleet's sight, it saw a sharp jump, then stopped, and then sank to the bottom of the sea with half a brigade on board.
Now everyone is honest.
The news that Liaodong Bay was laid with mysterious mines. Lieutenant General Matsushita, the commander of the Lushun Town Guard, was stunned.
"It can't be!" The commander's exclamation echoed in the headquarters of the town guard mansion, which was indeed unbelievable, who laid it? Ships come and go in this sea area every day, and it is impossible for someone to lay mines under their noses, if that is the case, how can he be the commander of the town guard?
But alas. Not long after his exclamation fell, a dull loud noise suddenly came from the direction of the port, and Commander Panasonic subconsciously threw himself in front of the window, and then saw that on the channel outside the port, a merchant ship that had just gone to sea was lying crookedly and stopping there.
Commander Panasonic, who had very good eyes, could even see the crew members who jumped into the sea in panic, this scene was like a slap on his back, and a feeling of almost vomiting blood came to his heart, not only Liaodong Bay let people lay mines, but even outside his own port, people also laid mines.
"It's a good thing, I'll need to get more in the future." In Beiping City, Boss Yang was eating lunch while looking at the telegram sent by the Lushun intelligence officer, and said with great satisfaction.
To be honest, as a modern pseudo-military fan, he does not have a very intuitive feeling about the mine, but the consequences of these two hundred mines thrown down made him feel a little surprised, he finally found a weapon with the highest cost-effectiveness ratio, and when he thought of the 300,000 mines in Lao Maozi's warehouse, he couldn't help but feel excited.
"What's the latest situation in Shenyang?" Big Boss Yang asked his little secretary while wiping his mouth.
"This is the latest telegram just sent by the division headquarters, Commander He has arrived in Shenyang, and now he is clearing the remnants of the Japanese army in the city." Han Chae-yi handed him the telegram.
In fact, how can there be Japanese troops in the city to wipe out? If there is really a soldier, Kenkichi Ueda, will he still run away with his tail between his legs? The so-called purge is actually helping the tyrannical people to clean up those Japanese expatriates.
The Japanese in Shenyang City are now in a state of despair, the cavalry who rushed into the city are sweeping all the property of the Japanese, Boss Yang is not a good bird, these warlords and bandits are not a decent man, hundreds of people have died all the way, not to mention that they can't pay at least if they make a little, this military budget must first be taken back from the Japanese.
And in order to boost morale before coming, Boss Yang had made it very clear that all Japanese property in Shenyang City was not protected by law and morality.
The subtext of this sentence is that you can rob them casually, since the big bosses behind the scenes have spoken. Then these soldiers naturally have no worries, although He Zhuguo and Zhao Dengyu do not agree with this, but considering that the composition of this coalition army is relatively complex, especially the scum of Ma Jiajun, they will turn a blind eye to it.
The only thing the two of them could do. It is to impose a restriction on these guys, except for the property of the Japanese, no one else is allowed to move, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law.
Then these two guys threw Shenyang City and the Japanese concession to the rebels, and went straight to the Shenyang Arsenal with the convoy of the security division, and they also went to loot and load all the things that the Shenyang Arsenal could pull away, artillery and ammunition of various calibers. More than 200 trucks were loaded with guns, and all the workshops were piled with explosives and razed to the ground.
Not only the arsenal, almost all the factories in Shenyang were blown up, anyway, the arsenal has explosives, and it is cheaper for the Japanese to stay, and it is also very good to use it as waste.
"Master Wang, I know that after the explosion of the arsenal. A lot of workers may lose their livelihoods, but you have to understand. Let this arsenal continue to make guns and cannons to supply the Japanese army to invade our China, then we will be national sinners. He Zhuguo said to a middle-aged man beside him.
This man was an engineer in the Shenyang Arsenal, and he was also a leader in the night storm.
"General He, we can understand." He nodded. However, looking at the factory that was reduced to ruins in the explosion, he did look a little worried, he knew that it was impossible for He Zhuguo and these people to stay, and they would leave after the destruction, but the tens of thousands of workers and their families in this arsenal. After that, there was no livelihood.
"Don't worry about the future, if you want to, you can go south, Pingjin is now short of skilled workers, how many can be digested, before coming, Mr. Yang specially said that as long as the workers in Shenyang go south, he will accept them all." Next to He Zhuguo, a regimental commander of the security division said.
"Really?" Master Wang's eyes lit up.
"Absolutely, I have a machinery factory in my own house, producing parts for the tractor factory, and now there is no shortage of others, there is a shortage of workers who understand machinery, and I dare not say that two or three hundred people can definitely be arranged, I don't believe that I can sign a contract with you on behalf of my father now." The young master of the capitalist couldn't wait to say.
In fact, the Pingjin capitalists supported Boss Yang to make such a big move, to a large extent, for the tens of thousands of workers in Shenyang, these workers are really skilled and can work without even being trained in the workshop, which can be said to have solved the biggest problem in Pingjin now.
"Captain Hu, it's not necessary, you tell us the address, we will come over then, you can see the craftsmanship first." Master Wang said with great emotion.
"No, I'm not worried about you? It is also easy to sign the contract directly. As he spoke, Commander Hu looked at another officer not far away with a wary gaze.
He is not the only one who has this kind of mind, in fact, among the officers and men of the security division, there is a shortage of workers in the factory at home, and they have all begun to compete for the workers in Shenyang, and some of these guys have even directly put up signboards to openly recruit workers amid the rumbling explosions of the factory.
So the cavalry of Ma Jiajun and Sun Dianying in the city robbed the Japanese, the people of the 29th Army and the 51st Army outside the city robbed the arsenal, and the people of the security division robbed the workers.
He Zhuguo only stayed in Shenyang for two days, and two days later the raid army returned with a full load, and looted all the Japanese banks by the way before leaving, not that they didn't want to stay here longer, but the conditions did not allow it, the 11th Division did not dare to go to Yingkou and Lushun again, but there was still Anton to land, and the 5th Division of Changbai Mountain also gave up the encirclement and suppression of Tang Juwu, and the whole army was killed in Shenyang, and the 1st Mixed Brigade in Manchuria was also going south, and it was blocked here if it didn't leave.
They left, but left a piece of ruins to the Japanese, Shenyang, the largest heavy industry base in Northeast China, was completely destroyed, all the factories were turned into ruins, and the entire Japanese concession was almost razed, not to mention the property losses of the Japanese in Shenyang, the loss of those banks alone was very staggering, and if you want to restore the previous prosperity, it is estimated that there will be no two years to count on, anyway, after returning to Shenyang, Ueda Kenkichi was in tears.
He Zhuguo, who had withdrawn from Shenyang, returned to Linxi almost unimpeded, and Li Du and others, who were fighting fiercely on the banks of the Xilamulun River, immediately began to consolidate their positions and turn to the defensive, while at the same time the Japanese 5th and 11th divisions all turned to the western front.
Kenkichi Ueda was removed from his post and General Takashi Hishigari, who had been reinstated from the reserves, took over as commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army. In order to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy, he changed the strategy of Ueda Kenkichi emphasizing the east over the west, and cooperated with the puppet army to defend Tang Juwu with a small number of troops, and moved all the main forces of the Japanese army to the western front, adopting the steady tactics of step-by-step battalion, and gradually compressing Li Du's area of activity.
But at this time, Li Du. It has become the climate, it is unrealistic to want to eliminate him, the raid on Shenyang made the Northeast Liberation Army famous all over the world, a large number of northeasterners who were scattered all over the country went north, and the team doubled in just one month, and the 20,000 cavalry who returned from the raid except for He Zhuguo returned to Leting with his brigade, all the others stayed on the grassland, including the brigade of the Ma Jiajun, this army was all under the command of Zhao Dengyu. As for the identity, it depends on the need, when you enter Rehe, you will change the military uniform of the Northeast Army, and if you exit Rehe, you will change into the military uniform of the Northwest Army, anyway, now Li Du, Song Zheyuan, Sun Dianying, and Feng Zhanhai have actually become a group.
It was a huge group, with a total strength of 200,000 troops. These 200,000 troops firmly occupied the northwest corner of Chahar and Rehe, and sufficient logistics supplies gave them sufficient combat effectiveness. In order to provide them with air support, Yang Feng moved all the Hawks in his hands to Duolun, and his identity became the 41st Army Air Force.
Naturally, the Japanese, who had suffered such a big loss, could not give up and rest well, and while conducting a military offensive, they were also engaging in some other actions. For example, he continued to harass the bald guys, and put forward all kinds of evidence to prove that it was not the Northeast Guangfu Army that attacked Shenyang, but the 29th Army, led by He Zhuguo, the commander of the 51st Army, and especially made him cry. How many civilians were slaughtered, how many property was looted, and so on, demanding that the skinheads severely punish the murderers, in addition, there was also a ban on providing support to the Northeast Liberation Army, and the withdrawal of the 41st Army that crossed the border to occupy the Jingshan to Rehe, etc., in short, even threatened and intimidated a lot of demands.
But none of them have been effectively answered, and the bald guy is still on fire! If you have the ability, you can go to Yang Feng, everyone knows that this guy is the mastermind behind the scenes, don't dare to look for him, see me as a bully?
Let me care? What do I do? Can I manage Song Zheyuan or Sun Dianying? Even He Zhuguo can't be controlled now, let alone Li Du.
Of course, some superficial work still needs to be done, that is, the investigation, we will definitely investigate clearly, and then give a satisfactory explanation to the friendly countries, of course, this investigation takes time, when the investigation can be completed is difficult to say, anyway, he will not be this gun for the Japanese, you have the ability to solve it yourself, anyway, I can't control these guys.
Besides, the bald guy can't offend Yang Feng now, the Germans have finished inspecting, the lignite in the Kunming coal mine does have the conditions for direct liquefaction, this news makes him excited, although the place is a little remote, the traffic is more difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, it is nothing more than to build a road, and it is a big deal to requisition hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to build a road from Kunming to Hunan through Guizhou? After Wang Jialie was deceived, now Guizhou has become his territory.
Of course, the premise of this is to coax Yang Feng well, in this case, the bald guy will not trouble Yang Feng no matter what, not only can he not trouble him, but he also has to give this guy enough sweetness.
In the face of strong protest and solemn representations by the Japanese side, the Nationalist Government announced that the capital of Hebei Province would be moved to Baoding, Beiping, and Tianjin, together with the surrounding seven counties of Wanping, Tongxian, Daxing, Anci, Wuqing, and Ninghe, and merged into the Pingjin Special Administrative Region as a pilot for constitutional government and local autonomy.
This news did shock public opinion, but if you think about it carefully, there is nothing to be shocked about, Pingjin and Tianjin have already been out of the control of Zhongyang, and now it is nothing more than legalizing this semi-independent state.
As for the constitutional pilot, it is purely a fig leaf, and on people's own turf, they naturally play as much as they like!
But how to play, Yang Feng didn't know how to play, or he didn't care at all, but his father-in-law was very concerned, and now making money couldn't make him find fun, so he immediately threw himself into the vigorous constitutional movement.
Not only him, but also the same group of capitalists like him, and even the old and young people of the Beiyang era, are now as excited as chicken blood, these old guys who are not willing to be lonely are now playing mahjong, and they are spitting together every day to discuss how to establish their own government, and many long-dormant ideas have surfaced, when those thinkers and philosophers from Peking University and Tsinghua University joined, the war situation became more intense, and Yang Feng was afraid that they would fight directly like the parliamentarians on the treasure island.
He doesn't have the guts to participate in this kind of thing, so it's up to these old guys to toss how to play! Anyway, no matter how much you toss, you can't get out of your control, you should let them exercise, and besides, don't these old guys be mentally empty, and always do something that makes people speechless.
Boss Yang is very busy, he doesn't have time to care about these little things, he has to hurry back to get his submarine back, Zhao Tong's gang has been screened, and finally half of them have met his requirements, these people have been sent to Muping, and now they are tossing in the sea every day to exercise their water adaptability.
As for the future training, we can only wait for the submarine to come, Yang Feng has asked Xiao Sun to prepare a full set of training manuals for him, and when the first two ships come, first close them to the floating island to familiarize themselves with the submarine, and then get familiar with the use of various equipment, and then drag the submarine to the open sea together, find a secluded sea area for them to practice entering and exiting the floating island, short-distance activities, so that the training is slow, it is estimated that there will be half a year's work, and they will be able to have combat capability. (To be continued......)