Chapter 50: Beginning with the Day of National Shame
Hearing the eldest brother ask why he changed from the Northeast Army to the Eighth Route Army, Xingliang smiled bitterly and said: This matter has to start with a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek.
Don't forget the national shame, let's first review the 9/18 incident.
A brief introduction to the events of 9,18 is as follows:
Ninety-one. The August Eight Incident was the beginning of the all-out invasion of China by Japanese imperialism.
The September 18 Incident, also known as the Mukden Incident and the Wicker Lake Incident.
On September 18, 1931, the Kwantung Army of Japan in Northeast China suddenly attacked Shenyang and occupied Northeast China by force. The September 18 Incident was a war of aggression against China deliberately created and launched by Japan, the beginning of Japanese imperialism's attempt to conquer China by force, the starting point of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the beginning of China's partial War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the prelude to the Eastern Theater of World War II.
After the September 18 incident, the local war of resistance of the Chinese people also marked the starting point of the world anti-fascist war.
On the night of September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army, entrenched in Northeast China, in accordance with a well-planned conspiracy, had the railway "garrison" blow up the tracks of the Japanese-built South Manchurian Railway near Wicker Lake in Shenyang, and blamed the Chinese army.
The next day, the Japanese army invaded Shenyang, and then occupied the three northeastern provinces one after another.
In February 1932, the entire Northeast fell.
After that, Japan established a puppet regime of Manchukuo in Northeast China and began a 14-year enslavement and colonial rule over the people of Northeast China, causing more than 30 million compatriots in Northeast China to suffer the pain of being exiled from the country.
The Historical Background of the 9.18 Incident:
After World War I, Japan's expansion in China was contained by the British and American powers, and China's Northern Expedition weakened Japan's interests in China, prompting the Japanese government to adjust its China policy and accelerate the pace of annexing Northeast China.
In the early 30s of the 20th century, a world economic crisis occurred, and the Japanese economy suffered a heavy blow, falling into extreme difficulties, which led to a political crisis.
In the face of domestic and foreign difficulties, the Japanese fascist forces were determined to break through the shackles imposed on Japan by the Washington system, and seized Northeast China while Britain and the United States were busy coping with the crisis and Chiang Kai-shek was "suppressing the Communists" on a large scale, so as to extricate themselves from the predicament and attempt to dominate the world.
After the First Central Plains War, Commander-in-Chief Zhang had the heart to cooperate with Wang Xingliang and sent him to the Northeast Lecture Hall.
Xingliang began to lead the troops from the platoon commander, and gradually was promoted to battalion commander by relying on combat courage step by step, courage and resourcefulness.
On the night of the September 18 incident, the big leader was in Beijing for medical treatment, but he was not in Shenyang.
When the telegram of the Japanese attack was handed over to the leaders of the Northeast, he thought about the problem too simply, believing that this matter was a small-scale war launched by the Kwantung Army without going through the R government.
The Northeast Boss, who was not strong enough to resist, also sent a telegram back, asking the Northeast Army to obey the instructions of Commander-in-Chief Chiang, exercise restraint, and allow the Japanese army to invade.
As a result of pursuing a policy of non-resistance, the Northeast Army collapsed on all fronts, fighting its own battles and making a mess of porridge.
Wang Xingliang led his battalion and fought to the death from the devil at the beginning.
However, after hearing the order not to resist, the brother troops on the left and right, who were adjacent to each other, withdrew from the battlefield, leaving their battalion vulnerable to the enemy, and finally had to lead their troops to break through the encirclement and break out of the encirclement with a bloody way.
But after the strength of one battalion broke out, there were less than 100 people left.
Seeing that the brothers who got along day and night were gone like this, Wang Xingliang himself couldn't change all this, and then looked at the great rivers and mountains so vain, he couldn't swallow this breath, so he led the remnants into the customs.
After entering the customs, he first participated in Ji Hongchang's Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and later Chiang Kai-shek colluded with the Japanese army, resulting in Ji Hongchang's defeat.
Later, there was an encounter with the Japanese army in Qinghe, Hebei, surrounded by the Japanese army, fortunately, the Eighth Route Army arrived immediately and rescued these dozens of people, Xingliang from then on, officially joined the people's side, and later the Eighth Route Army set up a special task team to perform special tasks, Wang Xingliang was appointed as the captain of the special task team because of his high military quality and rich combat experience.
After abandoning the Yellow River defense line from Han Fuqu and escaping, the Japanese army moved south, and the special task force led by Wang Xinglan has been fighting in the mountainous areas around Mount Tai and Kulai Mountain, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Japanese army.
This time, the provincial party committee ordered the special task force and the Zhou battalion commander to set up an ambush in the old devil cave to delay the second wing of Ohnosa.
After listening to the little brother Xingliang's narration, the family understood that this was still something he avoided and said lightly, but it was actually a hundred times more dangerous than this. The journey from Kannai to home can be described as a life of nine deaths.
In the war years, fathers and sons and brothers met, and there were endless family routines and endless lovesickness.
On the third day, Battalion Commander Chen received an order from his superiors to lead his troops to Beixiang County to stand by, Wang Xingliang was injured and temporarily stayed in District 8 to recuperate, and the special operations team temporarily had a deputy captain to act as an agent and followed Battalion Commander Chen's department to Beixiang County to be stationed on standby.
There was also news from the Battle of Xuzhou that under the leadership of General Li, the Chinese army fought to the death with the Japanese army in the area of Taierzhuang, and annihilated more than 20,000 Japanese troops armed to the point of arrogance at the cost of nearly 50,000 casualties. Shattered the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army. It laid the confidence of the Chinese people in the future war of resistance against Japan.
After the troops were mobilized, Mu Dongwei, Dongqing and others studied and decided to take advantage of the convenience of Xinglan being familiar with the county town to open several underground contact points, with soldiers as single-line traffic officers.
Wang Xingting also told Mu Dongqing that if there is a need for him in the team in the future, he will do his best to help.
Wang Xinglan and Xingting said goodbye to their families and went back to the county.
On this day, Mu Dongwei and Yang Chun were leading the members of the anti-Japanese detachment of the Eighth District to train in the west of the village, when suddenly a violent explosion sounded from Jingdi Village, Yang Chun led several people to quickly run back to the village, and soon found out that the explosion was due to two brothers, fighting for family affairs such as separating the family, and later developed to throw grenades at each other.
The two brothers who still want each other to kill each other are surnamed Song, and there are five brothers in their family, these two are the third Song scientific name, and the fourth Song Xueyin. They are all veterans who have returned home from the army.
Among them, the third was once a soldier of the First Army of the Northeast Army, and after 9.18, the First Army entered the customs, accepted Chiang Kai-shek's changes, and became the 51st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Yu Xuezhong as the first commander.
Song Xueyin, the fourth child, has done all kinds of evil since he was a child, and he has done all kinds of bad things, so the people of Jingdi Village gave him a nickname called "bad", and his character can be seen in general, this "bad" once served as a soldier in Wu Huawen's warlord army for six years, in addition to being bad, he is also a standard veteran ruffian.
After the two brothers came, they disagreed with each other by being soldiers and killing people, and after they all got married, his parents divided the family for them, and he felt that his father was biased towards the third brother, first quarreled with his parents, and then his three Song scholars were not used to theorizing with him, and the quarrel escalated, and then the two brothers threw grenades at each other, causing an explosion.
According to the people nearby, the two threw a total of six grenades at each other, and after the bad throw, the third child quickly lay down in concealment, and the third threw it, and the bad one was the same, all of which were standard military actions.
In fact, after the two brothers returned to Jingdi Village as soldiers, they wanted to join Mu Dongqing's self-defense force.
For this, the bad still holds a grudge against this old letter family.
At that time, bad weapons and ammunition were everywhere, not to mention that these two were even easier for the soldiers to get.
After understanding, the two of them threw explosive grenades at each other, causing no casualties, but killing their neighbor's old sow who had just laid a piglet.
Mu Dongwei ordered the two brothers to compensate for the loss of the sow owner, and now the eight districts are strong and strong, and the two brothers dare not listen, after pooling the money to compensate, the two brothers carried the killed sow home, and the two families ate the pork.