Chapter 26: The First Negotiations Begin
Weng Zhaoyuan couldn't help but glance at Jin Zhao, "As far as your kid ability, why don't you just go to Tokyo with the soldiers?" ”
Jin Zhao scratched his head and smiled, "Hehe, I don't know how to swim." ”
Weng Zhaoyuan sighed helplessly and said, "The British and American consuls have been asked to mediate, and now the two sides have reached an agreement to stop fighting at 20 o'clock on the night of the 29th. The military seat has ordered the division seat to be responsible for negotiating with the other side. ”
Jin Zhao frowned and said, "The little devil wolf is ambitious, he has suffered a loss in this battle, and he will definitely not give up, I think this is most likely a delaying tactic of the little devil!" ”
After listening to Jin Zhao's words, Weng Zhaoyuan's eyes couldn't help but light up, and Weng Zhaoyuan suddenly had an illusion that the Jin Zhao standing in front of him was no longer the original Jin Zhao. In the past, Jin Zhao fought bravely, and he was a fierce Zhang Fei type of character, although he liked to play some clever tricks in battle, but he was only limited to being clever. And now Jin Zhao has a deep understanding of the current situation, from before the war Jin Zhao concluded that no matter how we retreat, the little devils will attack, and the battle of Shanghai is inevitable. And now when Jin Zhao heard that the little devil was going to negotiate, he concluded that this was the little devil's delaying tactic without even thinking about it, and this insight alone was no longer comparable to the original Jin Zhao, who was only a little clever. But standing in front of him was indeed Jin Zhao, which made Weng Zhaoyuan couldn't help but be in a trance, maybe it was because he was fighting with the little devil in the past two days, and he was too nervous to have this feeling, Weng Zhaoyuan said secretly in his heart.
"Traveler!" Jin Zhao's scalp was a little numb when Weng Zhaoyuan saw it, and he couldn't help but scream.
"You kid has grown! Learn to use your brain! Yes, the little devils are likely to be delaying the army, and their reinforcements are probably already on the way. However, as soon as we need to adjust our deployment, the military seat has ordered our 78th Division to be fully engaged in battle, and the 60th Division stationed east of Zhenjiang will be stationed in Nanxiang and Zhenru on the front line, and the 61st Division will be transferred to Shanghai. Come on! The country is weak! Alas! Speaking of this, Weng Zhaoyuan sighed helplessly, and then continued, "If we do not accept mediation, it is inevitable that we will settle down and fall into international isolation, and if this is the case, it will be even more difficult to settle the matter in Shanghai." To put it bluntly, the country is too weak now, and we can't afford to fight! Saying that, Weng Zhaoyuan patted Jin Zhao on the shoulder, encouraged Jin Zhao a few more words, and then left with the guards.
Jin Zhao looked at this iron-blooded general, a generation of famous generals who resisted the world, the lonely back, sighed helplessly, but secretly swore in his heart, since Lao Tzu came to this world, he would never let that humiliating history repeat itself, one day, I will let this group of Oriental beasts know that I know how powerful I am Chinese, and I want everyone in the world to know that those who offend my Chinese Tianwei will be cursed even if they are far away!
On January 30, Lao Chiang issued a "telegram to the soldiers of the whole country", in which he said that after the Shanghai War, "the officers and men of our 19th Route Army rose up to defend themselves loyally and bravely, and the revolutionary officers and men of our army should fight for the personality of the country, seek survival for the nation, fulfill their responsibilities for the revolution, and embrace the determination to be a broken jade rather than a complete building, so as to deal with this violent saying of destroying peace and despising faith and righteousness." "Require the soldiers of the whole country to work hard and share the same hatred...... Pillow Ge stood by to save the perilous", and said that he himself was "willing to swear to live and die with all the soldiers and do my duty". After the release of this telegram, the impact was very great, and the morale of the people was greatly boosted. At the same time, the Nanjing government issued the "Declaration on the Relocation of the Capital to Luoyang," stating that it would never give in, and that it would move the political axe department to Luoyang from that date, but the Military Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs remained in Nanjing, and at the same time ordered the forward army to be jointly commanded by He Yingqin, minister of military affairs, and Zhu Peide, chief of staff.
Jin Zhao took Lao Jiang's "Message to the National Soldiers" issued by his superiors, and couldn't help but show a sneer, Jin Zhao, who was familiar with Lao Jiang's personality, naturally would not believe Lao Jiang's nonsense, in Jin Zhao's view, this was nothing more than Lao Jiang's show to stabilize the army's morale. If he had such determination, he would not have finally compromised with the little devil and signed the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" that humiliated the country. The current Lao Jiang has been frightened by the strength of Yueben, and he does not dare to start an all-out war with Yueben. Even after the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, after the so-called golden decade of development, the Nanjing government did not dare to start a war with himself, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, he still held a fluke mentality, hoping to solve it peacefully, but the result was that the little devil did not buy it at all, and launched the August 13 Incident in Shanghai. So he mobilized his army to resist desperately, but he was defeated again and again, causing half of the country to fall into the hands of the Kou.
"It's still too weak!" Jin Zhao sighed helplessly. Now Jin Zhao is just a small battalion commander, with only a few hundred people under him, although he has the golden finger of the system, but his strength is still too weak, and it is difficult to have a decisive impact on the entire battle situation. Jin Zhao knew that in the historical Songhu War of Resistance, the little devils finally increased their troops to 100,000, while our army only had a 19th Route Army and a Fifth Army, only 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the equipment was backward, how to resist the 100,000 troops armed to the teeth. Thinking of this, Jin Zhao couldn't help but have a headache, and it seemed that he could only take one step at a time.
On 30 January, although there was an armistice, the enemy and us still fired at each other from time to time, and gunfire came and went. From this day on, the front-line soldiers received condolences from the people. Many people came enthusiastically and said many words of praise and encouragement. Someone advocated in the newspaper to sew cotton clothes for the soldiers at the front. For a while, donations of cloth and cotton came one after another. Not only poor women rushed to volunteer, but also young ladies and young grandmothers from wealthy families actively participated. For a while, the jewels, the temples and clothes, and the laughter formed a special scenery during the war. At night, Zhabei was razed to the ground in total darkness. But the concession not far away is still brightly lit, singing and dancing, and there is a difference between heaven and hell. Yue Kou used the cover of the concession to attack our army. The concession authorities were powerless to stop the movement of the Japanese army. Although our army's action of strictly guarding the neutrality of the concession won the praise of foreigners, it made itself passive in combat.
At the same time, military representatives of the two sides held talks at the British Consulate. The representative of our side in charge of this negotiation was Ou Shounian, commander of the 78th Division of the 19th Route Army. Ou Shounian, the word Jiemei, a native of Luoding, Guangdong. Cai Tingkai's nephew. On the eve of the 128 Incident, Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin personally came to Shanghai and asked the 19th Route Army to immediately retreat to a new position to set up defenses, but Cai Tingkai politely refused. Cai Tingkai tested Ou Shounian's tone and said: "The central government has decided to back down on the peace talks, and if you are not obedient, you will have to change your guard, what should you do?" Ou Shounian said indignantly: "If you really want to retreat, I'd rather stop being a soldier and go home to plant sweet potatoes!" Cai Tingkai naturally knew that this negotiation was just a delaying tactic for the little devil, so he sent this [***] faction to negotiate with the little devil.