Jiang Qiang arranged, Yancheng arranged and went to Haizhou, he didn't have time, he was also thinking about the lost population, what was going on, could it be that there was any ulterior secret, what was it, and why didn't the local garrison act, Jiang Qiang walked on the road for nearly a day and a half before arriving in Haizhou, now Haizhou is still a small county town, because of the influence of Shanghai, the business here is still prosperous, and the economy is much better than Yancheng, Jiang Qiang They did not enter the city, He lived in a small town on the edge of Donghai County, which was probably a town of less than 10,000 people, and Jiang Qiang was in a big house outside the town. This was set up for them by the Intelligence Bureau, and it is also a stronghold in Hongkou District, Shanghai, after Jiang Qiang entered, he saw a family living here, the old man's surname Song The villagers here call him Song Dashanren, and his son Song Xiaobao is also a good hunter.

At this time, Tianjin Tufei Yuan Xianji had just received a news that Jiang Qiang, who was formerly from the Lihe Trading House, went to Tianjin with two trucks and ten people to do business, and Tufei Yuan Xianji was also thinking of a way out of Japan in Tianjin, and Tufei Yuan Kenji was also very worried, because he had just received the secret telegram and was not a last resort. Kenji Dohihara was also unwilling to follow the "918" Shenyang Incident to have a Tianjin Incident or the Beiping Incident or something like that. The Japanese Empire lacked financial resources and could not withstand this repeated toss, and if it provoked an incident, it would definitely be the navy at the head. I'm afraid that the navy will benefit again, and Kenji Dohihara doesn't want to see the navy always pressing the army, and the army will never come out.

The erosion of the situation in Manchuria shook Kenji Dohihara's previous judgment on whether or not to send troops to the Northeast. At this time, the anti-Japanese sentiment in China was high, not only the people, but also the official and even the Red Army in the south also unambiguously waved the banner of resisting Japan and saving the country! If under such a consensus. Forcing the Chinese to unite, it would be quite troublesome. A divided China is quite beneficial to Japan at present. With Wang Yizhe launched a huge counteroffensive in the northeast. The Japanese army had no choice but to shrink its forces and actively defend itself, and the anti-Japanese armed forces that had been beaten by the Japanese army in the mountains and forests sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The volunteers Peng Zhengguo, Li Chunhua and others in southern Liaoning, as well as Lao Beifeng, Xiang Qingshan, etc., the anti-Japanese armed forces that were overwhelmed by the Japanese army all came to life at once, recruited troops, and for a time stirred up the land of Northeast China, and Japan's interests in Northeast China suffered an unprecedented heavy blow! While Muto Nobuyoshi commanded the Japanese army to extinguish fires everywhere, he sent telegrams to the country asking for help.

In the end, the strength of the additional troops gained the upper hand, and the Japanese emperor wrote a letter to decide to send an additional division to Manchuria, totaling about 40,000 people, to be stationed in Manchuria, and at the same time the military headquarters ordered the conscription of 200,000 new soldiers, who were assigned to the reserve forces to carry out military training. As soon as such news came out, the whole world was shocked, and the Japanese Government's hard-line attitude toward China made many countries feel a little nervous, and Japan's sudden expansion of the armed forces made more people feel a little uneasy! The attitude of the Japanese government is very clear, they are unwilling to give up their interests in Manchuria, and they do not hesitate to expand their armaments for the sake of vested interests! This is a very dangerous signal, and the European and American countries, led by the United States, immediately protested against Japan's military expansion, believing that Japan was deliberately provoking a war!

The Japanese government also explained that this batch of recruits was a supplement to the various divisions and regiments of the Japanese army that had died in the previous battles in China, and most of them were incorporated into the alternate sequence of the standing divisions of the Japanese army, which was a normal recruitment behavior and did not deserve the fuss of the international community. The Japanese government also made a list of the number of dead for this, and there were all kinds of them, but what about the Japanese army? After the September 18 Incident, more than 2440,000 people were killed and 10,000 were disabled. This figure added up to only a quarter of the 200,000 newly recruited soldiers, and the countries still could not resolve their doubts about Japan's ambitions to expand its military at this time.

Everyone understands in their hearts that most of the more than 200,000 people are civilians, but when this data was thrown out, the Japanese government and the opposition immediately began to promote hatred for China, and in domestic newspapers and magazines, they constantly distorted the facts, portrayed the Chinese as a group of brutal thugs, how they killed and robbed Japanese expatriates, and accompanied by illustrations. In particular, Wang Yizhe is even more of a butcher, and the voice of the Japanese civil war rose for a while. It was with the help of this terrible force, coupled with the impetus of the young radical faction in the Japanese army, that the Japanese cabinet adopted the decision to continue to increase the number of troops in Manchuria! And, at this time, the Sea of Japan passed a bill to implement the so-called "Trinity" rule in Manchuria. The Japanese cabinet appointed Muto Nobuyoshi to take over as commander of the Kwantung Army, and concurrently served as plenipotentiary ambassador to the puppet Manchukuo and director of the Kwantung Agency.

Muto Nobuyoshi really became the emperor of Manchukuo, no, he is not Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, he has real power, and he has great power. Although Muto Nobuyoshi was in power and promised to send reinforcements immediately, his mood did not rise happily. Reinforcements for at least a week, how to survive this week, Muto Nobuyoshi felt a lot of pressure, the Kwantung Army suffered consecutive defeats, from south to north, on the telegram, on the phone, all I heard was bad news, what cities were occupied, strongholds were pulled out, and the industries of Japanese expatriates were smashed and robbed! In particular, after the Anti-Japanese Union occupied Jilin, for a time the military was at its peak, and the army was strong, and it was a plan to attack Xinjing in the next step, which made the people of the government and the opposition in Manchukuo panic, and even the Kwantung Army was full of rumors, saying that it was going to move the capital and so on. It wasn't until the 14th Division was stationed in Xinjing that people's hearts calmed down a little. After less than two weeks of rest, the 14th Division recovered a little morale, but because of the loss of all its heavy equipment in the Battle of Benxi, its morale was only half restored, and its combat effectiveness was about the same level.

Muto Nobuyoshi appointed the commander of the 14th Division, Naoliang Matsuki, as the commander of the Xinjing garrison, and at the same time assigned the 18th Wing of the original 9th Division to his command. In this way, the total number of troops guarding Xinjing is more than 30,000! With troops available, Muto Nobuyoshi finally had some confidence and rejected the request of the Manchukuo monarch and ministers to move the capital. Muto Nobuyoshi was unwilling to fail, and after the arrival of the 14th Division, he convened a military meeting to deploy the campaign of "recovering Jilin"! The threat to Xinjing is too great for the Anti-United Nations to occupy Jilin, and the only way to recover it is to recover it by force. As long as Wang Yizhe doesn't intervene.

On the other hand, after the Anti-Japanese Federation recovered Jilin, after shooting some traitors who committed the most heinous crimes, the captured puppet soldiers were incorporated into the team, Zhai Lequan's 1st Agricultural Reclamation Division was reorganized into the Jilin Garrison Brigade, with more than 6,000 soldiers in the brigade, Zhai Lequan served as the commander of the garrison brigade and the commander of the Jilin garrison, while Zhao Shangzhi led the 9th Brigade of the East Column and the 10th Brigade of Feng Zhanhai, as well as the Jiaohe Garrison Brigade adapted from the 1st Construction Division, a total of 18,000 people, day and night, all the way north, stationed in Shulan. In Meihekou Town, Zhao Shangzhi handed over the command to Li Chunrun and Bao Jinghua, and gave them the task of holding back the Japanese troops at Meihekou, as long as they did not retreat, they would face them across the river.

Jiang Qiang asked Song Xiaobao what was going on here, how could there be two villages of people who died, and what was the origin of this bandit, Song Xiaobao said, it was Liu Heiqi. Jiang Qiang thought that there was a huge bandit in Shandong, named Liu Guitang, because he was the seventh in line when he was married to other bandits, and he was black, so he was also called Liu Heiqi. Liu Heiqi has been entrenched in Shandong for 29 years, and he is the leader of the bandits, the scourge of the scourge, the cruelty of the means, and the cunning of the character, which can be said to be the head of tens of thousands of bandits in the Republic of China, and it is not an exaggeration to call him the first giant bandit in the Republic of China.

In 1915, Liu Heiqi was 23 years old and married a total of 8 local ruffians as bandits. According to his age, he ranks seventh, and his skin is dark, so he is called Liu Heiqi; His younger brother is called Liu Heiba. They robbed houses and houses in various villages in Fei County, and "invited the God of Wealth" (kidnapping tickets), which grew to more than 60 people. In 1916, Lu Governor Zhang Huaizhi sent troops to suppress bandits, Liu Heiba was killed, and Liu Heiqi and others fled to Baoqianggu. Hug the calf in Fei County, Teng County, Yi County, Linyi County four counties junction, more than 70 peaks, deep mountains and dense forests, known as bandits, sometimes dozens of bandits hidden in the meantime. In 1922, Liu Hei's seven shares were defeated by He Fengyu, the guard of Yanzhou, so he took refuge in Sun Meiyao, the biggest bandit leader, and participated in the "Lincheng carjacking case" in 1923. Afterwards, Sun Meiyao was recruited and killed. Liu Heiqi and another bandit took in thousands of demobilized bandits with a black face, and caused trouble on the Sulu border. Soon, Zhang Heiyan entered Jiangsu in the south, Liu Heiqi stayed in Lunan, and by 1925 there were more than 1,000 people, called "Liu Tuan", claiming to be the head of the regiment.

At that time, all the villages in Shandong were built to build a fence (sound village), the strong men patrolled the night, and the bandits came to resist with arms, and when Liu Heiqi attacked the fortress, he first put silver dollars and box guns in front of the battle, which was used to reward the most "rich" (black words, that is, bandits with courage); After the village was laid, the women chose at will. Therefore, the bandits under his command are extremely vicious. Their weapons and ammunition were mainly taken from officers and soldiers. For example, in 1925, Lu Governor Zhang Zongchang sent troops to encircle and suppress Liu Heiqi, as soon as the officers and soldiers exchanged fire, they abandoned their weapons and fled. When the officers and soldiers returned, they were overjoyed to see their wealth, and when the bandits counterattacked, they deliberately left some more weapons. On so many occasions, the two sides of the soldiers and bandits actually completed the arms sale in the "fighting". Liu Heiqi had weapons and further recruited troops, and by 1928 it had reached 10,000 people, rampaging through the counties of southern Lunan.

From 1925 to 1928, Liu Hei's seven bandits robbed, kidnapped, raped and killed in Tengxian, Linyi, Feixian, Mengyin and other places, and the crimes were innumerable. The song among the bandits said: "If you want to make money, go to the Liu regiment", "Follow the division commander everywhere, and you will not change it for a county magistrate." Liu bandits also sent grain and money to the villages, and if they resisted or did not pay enough, they would break through the villages, burn, kill and rob, and there were still more than 300 people begging for food in Nanxiaoyi Village around the Spring Festival in 1927, and on February 10, Liu Heiqi invaded the village on the grounds that he had not paid money and grain, and burned, killed, and committed adultery. Some men had their limbs cut off and dismembered, and children were not spared. A 10-year-old child was stabbed in the left ear with a seven-inch knife by the bandits, and his right ear was pierced and nailed to the wall. A two-year-old child was grabbed by his legs and torn in half, and a one-year-old baby was placed under a stone roller that grinded wheat into a pulp. A woman was raped to death by more than two dozen bandits. A young girl rebelled against the bandits, who brutally killed her and threw her into a stone by disembowelment. Many women jumped into the well in disgrace, and the bandits rushed into it with rollers. In this raid, 346 people were killed in the village and 41 households were killed. Because the whole village burned down, the surviving and returning people had no way to make a living, 73 people died of cold and starvation, 38 sold their children, and 51 women remarried. There were originally 735 people in the village, and only 212 remained. On March 29, 1928, Liu bandits invaded Dasiyan Village, 48 of the 92 families in the village were killed, 559 people were killed of a total population of 637 people, and 388 people from other villages were killed to avoid the bandits, a total of 947 people died. Only 78 people survived the disaster (including 15 who returned from going out), and nearly half of them died due to famine and plague, and by autumn, only 42 people remained in the village.

Liu Bandit was also extremely vicious towards the kidnapped people. No ransom for three or five days, that is, one ear or eyeball for which a ticket is sent to his home; In another three or five days, the ticket will be torn up. The method of ripping tickets is extremely cruel. If a person is buried in an earth pit, only the head is exposed, and then the top of the skull is slammed with an iron pickaxe, because the blood of the buried person is pressed to the head, so the blood flower brain is rushed out of the old high, which is called "smallpox". Another example is to tie a person tightly with iron wire, and pour kerosene on the upper body to light a fire, which is called "lighting a sky lantern". In addition, there are knife stabs, knives, zero knife cutting, live burial, disembowelment, heart digging, etc. After 1928, Liu Heiqi wandered through the seven provinces of North China, and committed evil in every place he went. In 1928, during the Second Northern Expedition of the Kuomintang, Han Fuyu of the Second Group Army was stationed in Xuchang, and when he saw that there were many Liu bandits, he wanted to recruit them. After Liu Heiqi received 17,000 silver dollars and 2,000 bags of flour from Han, he thought that Han's power was small, so he changed to He Yingqin's department of the First Group Army, organized it as the New Fourth Division, and marched into Jiaodong in the name of the "Northern Expedition Advance Army" and stationed in Juxian, but the banditry did not change.

In February 1929, Yang Hucheng led the 21st Division to clear the crackdown, and Liu Bandit retreated to Anqiu, Pingdu and other counties. During the Central Plains War in the second year, Liu Heiqi took refuge in Yan Xishan, and after the defeat, he fled to the Hebei Daimyo, attached to Zhang Xueliang and Shi Yousan, and continued to harass the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border. In September 1931, Liu Zhi, the governor of Henan Province, sent troops to attack, and Liu Bandit fled back to Shandong, recruiting 10,000 rebels. Han Fuyu, who was the governor of Shandong Province at the time, was in vain, and heard that Liu Hei Qiji was filial to his mother, so he arrested Liu's mother and forced Liu Bandit to surrender. The bandits were organized into the "Shandong Garrison Army", with Han as the commander-in-chief and Liu as the deputy commander, stationed in Gaotang County. In June 1932, because Liu Bu did not listen to the dispatch, Han conspired to disarm him, Liu bandits rebelled again, and dug Han Fuyu's ancestral grave when he passed through Baxian County, Hebei.

In the spring of 1933, when the Japanese army invaded Rehe, Liu Bandit colluded with the Japanese army and was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army and obtained a batch of weapons. In June, he switched to Song Zheyuan, the governor of Chahar Province, and became the commander of the Chahar Suppression of Bandits. He also expressed his willingness to resist Japan to Ji Hongchang and was appointed commander of the 17th Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Cha Province. After the defeat of the Allied Army, Liu Hei's seven divisions went south to Chacha, Re, Hebei and other provinces, and arrived in Henan in early 1934, and then disturbed 48 counties for more than two months. Neighboring provinces successively sent troops to surround and intercept them, and more than 3,000 Liu bandits crossed the Pinghan Line (i.e., the Pinghan Railway) in mid-March and went straight to Shandong.

Upon hearing the news, Han Fuyu mobilized nearly five divisions and militia groups to inflict heavy losses on the bandits in southwestern Lu. Liu Bandit had only 1,000 people left, so he asked Han to be co-opted, and after being refused, he fled into Mount Tai and prepared to return to the old nest of Mengshan in the south. Under the suppression of the officials and troops, in early April, only two or three hundred Liu bandits were left, and they fled to Ganyu County, Jiangsu. Chen Guofu, the governor of Jiangsu Province, sent troops to meet the attack, and Liu Bandit collected more than 500 local bandits and returned to Jiaodong. Qingdao Mayor Shen Honglie dispatched the navy to attack, the Nanjing government sent planes to assist in the war, and Liu Heiqi fled north to Gaomi, Zhucheng, and Anqiu, and then went south to the Sulu border. The remnants of the bandits fled for dozens of days to fight, with long hair and dirty faces, difficulty sleeping and eating, and sitting on their horses and drowsy. On April 22, 1933, the bandits ambushed in Linyi and Juxian, and suffered all casualties. Liu Heiqi handed over the remnants to his division commander Liu Huaizhi, fled to Jiangxi alone, bought a ship and fled to Tianjin to live in seclusion. Han Fuyu devoted all his efforts to chasing and suppressing the bandits for nearly 40 days, but he still did not win the leader, and his public and private hatred for Liu Heiqi was unforgettable. In the summer of this year, Liu Yaoting of the Han Special Detective Brigade and Xu Yilong, the former instructor of Liu Bandit, sneaked to Tianjin to assassinate Liu Heiqi. Liu was shot in the foot and mouth, and his four teeth were shattered, but he was not dead.

Liu Heiqi is extremely cunning and treacherous, "cunning rabbit three holes", but he can't stop crying at 70. His daily whereabouts and nightly lodging are unpredictable; He also found some bandits with similar appearances as stand-ins, and when the pseudo-stubborn miscellaneous army invited him to a banquet, he often went by the stand-in. On several occasions, the Shandong army received reports from the common people that Liu Bandit was staying, and they attacked overnight, but what they caught was a stand-in. Two more cases are enough to prove his cunning. In 1934, Liu Heiqi fled alone after being attacked by Han Fuyu, and the officers and soldiers along the way were closely investigated. When Liu saw a young farmer pushing a wheelbarrow to send his mother to a relative, he stepped forward to talk, talking sweetly all the way, helping to push the cart and buy snacks, so that the old lady happily recognized him as her godson. When she met the officers and soldiers, the old lady said that these were her two sons, so that Liu was able to escape. Jiang Qiang just didn't expect Liu Heiqi and his group.