Chapter 199, Tongzhou Incident.
Jiang Qiang and their police force also sacrificed nearly 100 policemen in these two battles, this is also a matter of no way, there will be death if there is war, this is the cruelty of war, Jiang Qiang came to Yunwu Mountain and began to ask Qin Siyu to step up the training of the troops to adapt to new weapons.
Now the outside has reached the point where it is out of control, and the news that the Japanese army provoked the "77 Incident" to bombard Wanping City and attack Lugou Bridge soon spread to every corner of China, causing a strong reaction throughout the country. The Central Committee of the Red Party in China urgently telegraphed to the whole country, strongly appealing: "Compatriots in all China, Pingjin is in danger!" North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger! And put forward the idea that "only when the whole nation carries out the war of resistance is our way out!" "Don't let Japanese imperialism occupy an inch of China's land!" "Shed the last drop of blood to defend the homeland!" "A loud slogan." Do not give in, do not expand! "If you don't want to fight, you will fight!" The chairman of the Nanjing Authorities put forward a much more moderate policy, and ordered Song Zheyuan, Qin Dechun, and others of the 29th Army to "hold on to Wanping City and not retreat" and "Lugou Bridge and Changxindian must not be lost."
"This group of crazy brutes has finally started a war!" "The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, and the hot-blooded man should protect his family and defend the country!" "Down with Japanese imperialism!" "Beat the Japanese devils back to their hometown!" "Shed the last drop of blood to defend the homeland!" On the morning of July 8, Guangming Daily, Hongkou District, Shanghai, urgently published the major news of the "July 7 Incident", and the sentiment of the entire Shanghai citizens was boiling in an instant, the anti-Japanese sentiment was rapidly rising, and many people even spontaneously organized anti-Japanese demonstrations! Guangming Daily in Hongkou District, Shanghai is the official newspaper of Hongkou District, Shanghai, founded by Jiang Qiang, which mainly publishes laws and policies, recruitment and investment, common sense of life, serialization of novels, current affairs and military information, etc., with strong entertainment, practicality and timeliness, so the popularity value in Hongkou District, Shanghai is very high! In particular, the serialization of Qian Dafa's The Legend of the Condor Heroes has fascinated all readers in Shanghai's Hongkou District, and Shanghai's Guangming Daily has also become the most mainstream newspaper in the country. Now Qian Dafa, I am the vice president of Guangming Daily in Shanghai.
After the news of the "77 Incident" spread in Shanghai, General Tang Juwu naturally would not be idle, and immediately summoned all government cadres and squires and celebrities to hold a mobilization meeting for the Anti-Japanese War in Hongkou District, Shanghai! At the meeting, General Tang Juwu announced the "July 7 Incident" with an unusually heavy heart, and after an impassioned and sensational speech, he officially announced that Shanghai's Hongkou District had entered the wartime system and implemented the city's military control! Immediately afterwards, General Tang Juwu issued a series of wartime institutional policies that had been drawn up long ago, turning Hongkou District into a high-speed war machine. The participants who had long become "dry firewood" were all excited under the inspiration of General Tang Juwu, and expressed their all-out support for the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
After the successful conclusion of the mobilization meeting, General Tang Juwu drove non-stop to the military camp on the outskirts of Taicang! "Salute!" At this time, the battalion and company-level officers who received the notice had been waiting in the conference room for a long time, and when they saw General Tang Juwu, they all stood up and saluted! "Good! Sit down, everybody! General Tang Juwu saluted back to everyone, and then said solemnly: "The reason for convening everyone for today's meeting must be very clear to everyone, so I won't bend around!" Now the Japanese devils have once again brazenly launched a war of aggression, and their ambition is not only Wanping County and Beiping, nor the entire North China region, but to destroy the entire Chinese country and the species, and to make our 40,000 Chinese compatriots become slaves who are allowed to be slaughtered and enslaved! Brothers, what I want to ask is, would you like to see your homeland destroyed, your parents and fellow villagers slaughtered, your wives and daughters and sisters ruined, and you become slaves who have no freedom, no dignity, and no right to live? "We don't want to!" "We will never say yes!" "Fight the little devil to the end!" "Defend the family and the country, do not hesitate!" "Swear to follow the group, even if the last drop of blood is shed!" "Very good, worthy of the soldiers brought out by my General Tang Juwu himself! As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, brothers and sisters, the time to really test us has finally come! "General Tang Juwu and General Jiang Baili issued an order to establish the Shanghai Army in Shanghai, the Northeast Army in the Heilongjiang Military Region, the Northwest Army in Xinjiang and Qinghai, and the Lai San Army in Hunan to He Jian's Hunan Province, which can be freely played in the war, and the Burma Army in the Burma Theater was established under the jurisdiction of the Hongkou District of Shanghai. This series of actions dazzled the Nanjing government, and Shanghai's actions at this time were too fast, and even when the Nanjing government had not yet reacted, Hongkou District had already completed the army reorganization movement.
Jiang Qiang also began to be reorganized into the Tianjin Anti-Japanese Independent Regiment in Yunwu Mountain, with Qin Siyu as the head of the regiment, Li Jinglin as the deputy head of the regiment, and Jiang Qiang as the chief of staff. A regiment of 5,500 people, six battalions, a tank battalion, an artillery battalion, an air defense battalion, a reconnaissance company, and also set up Tang Yao, director of the logistics headquarters, an anti-Japanese military and political university, all the troops were recruited from the local villagers, and the Jiaodong Peninsula in Shandong also established the Jiaodong Military Region, two divisions of 45,000 people, a bomber brigade, a tank regiment, and an artillery regiment, and established the Jiaodong anti-Japanese base area, and the main person in charge was Zhuang Tao.
At this time, the base camp of Tianjin Haiguang Temple was also difficult to ride a tiger, and the 39th Wing in Wanping was wiped out, and the Japanese were blinded at once, they all knew the garrison situation of Wanping City, even if it was defeated, it was impossible to destroy the whole army, that was the 39th Wing, the ace wing of the 20th Division, more than 4,300 people were gone in one night, what a shock this was, plus the rebellion of the puppet army in Tongzhou. In May 1933, Japan took advantage of the defeat of the Chinese army in the Great Wall of Resistance and forced the Nanjing Nationalist Government to sign the Tanggu Agreement. As a result, eastern Hebei, including Tongzhou, became a "demilitarized zone", where Chinese troops were not allowed to be stationed, and the gateway to North China was opened. At that time, the Japanese Kwantung Army sent Kenji Dohihara, the head of the Mukden secret service, to North China to promote "autonomy in North China." On the one hand, Tufeiyuan instigated events such as Xianghe, Zhangbei, and Hebei to create public opinion that "the people demand autonomy"; On the other hand, it stepped up efforts to encircle Yin Rugeng and other powerful local figures in North China to cultivate a pro-Japanese regime. On November 24, 1935, Yin Rugeng, the inspector of the two administrative regions of Luan (County) Yu (Guan) and Ji (County) Mi (Yun) in eastern Hebei, issued a declaration of "autonomy" in 22 counties in eastern Hebei, claiming to "break away from the central government, declare autonomy, and take the lead of the provinces to seek peace in the East". On November 25, the "Autonomous Committee of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communist" was established, and on December 25, it was reorganized into the "Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communist", and the puppet government organs were set up in Tongzhou City.
The "Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communists" is another puppet regime supported by Japan after the puppet Manchukuo. The Japanese aggressors planted Japanese advisers and spies in all departments, offices, offices, security forces, and counties of the puppet regime in eastern Hebei, with as few as 35 or as many as 70 or 80 people in each organ, and actually controlled military, administrative, and financial powers. The predecessor of the "Jidong Security Team" was the Hebei Provincial Special Police Force. After the Tanggu Agreement, eastern Hebei was designated as a "demilitarized zone", and China was not allowed to garrison troops, but could only be maintained by the police. To this end, in the summer of 1933, Chiang Kai-shek secretly ordered Yu Xuezhong, the governor of Hebei Province, to establish a special police force in the name of the provincial government and go to eastern Hebei to guard the place. The special police force is composed of the following parts: First, Yu Xuezhong transferred the two regiment commanders Zhang Qingyu and Zhang Yantian of the former 51st Army of the Northeast Army and some officers and soldiers to form the first and second corps, with Zhang Qingyu and Zhang Yantian serving as the captains respectively; Second, the Hebei Provincial Government incorporated the traitor Li Jichun, who was brought to eastern Hebei by the puppet Manchurians, Liu Zuozhou and Zhao Lei, and divided them into the third and fourth corps; The third is to incorporate the eastern Hebei bandit Hu Xiewu (nicknamed the old mouse) as the fifth corps. The first and second corps each have jurisdiction over 2 district teams, and each district team has jurisdiction over 3 brigades. The other three corps have no district teams, the captain is directly under the control of the brigade, the third and fourth corps have 6 brigades each, and the fifth corps has only 2 brigades. In July 1935, Shang Zhen succeeded Yu Xuezhong as the governor of the Hebei Provincial Government, and renamed the Hebei Provincial Special Police Force as the Hebei Security Force. In December, after the establishment of the "Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communist", the security team was renamed the "Autonomous Government Army of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communist". In August 1936, the "Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communists" reorganized the Eastern Hebei Puppet Army into 4 security corps and 1 teaching corps. The number of each corps is equal, and there are three special forces squadrons, including district brigades, squadrons, mortars, mounted police, and communications. In addition, a training center has been set up to provide unified training for all commanders, unified education and equipment for each corps, and 38 grades from lieutenant general (commander-in-chief) to horseman.
The Japanese invasion and occupation of Jidong and Yin Rugeng's treason were opposed by the entire Chinese people, and the people of Jidong, who were under colonial rule, were even more indignant and resisted continuously. The contradictions between the officers and men of the "Jidong Security Force" with a sense of national justice and the Japanese army invading China and the puppet regime escalated day by day, and finally launched an uprising against Japanese aggression. In the early days of the establishment of the puppet regime in eastern Hebei, on the one hand, the Japanese army tried to buy the hearts of the army with money and goods, and on the other hand, it did not trust the security forces, and even sent Japanese advisers to monitor them. The contradictions between the two sides have become increasingly intensified, and mutinies in the security forces have occurred from time to time. According to the "History of Changli County", "On September 6, 1936, more than 100 officers and soldiers of Li Haitian's department stationed in the northern suburbs of Changli were anyway; On November 20, more than 400 people from Han Zexin's Ministry stationed in Changli mutinied; Subsequently, more than 200 people from Li Haitian's department revolted, occupied the post and telecommunications office, and took control of the county seat of Changli. "In particular, most of the first and second corps of the security team stationed in Tongzhou came from the former Northeast Army, which was burdened with national hatred and family hatred, and had a long history of contradictions with the Japanese army. On August 27, 1936, more than 100 people from the fourth detachment of Zhang Yantian's department mutinied. At the same time, Japanese spies and "ronin" were rampant in Tongzhou City. Some of the security soldiers often clashed with the Japanese in order to maintain national dignity.
One day in early June 1937, the driver of a Japanese car in Tongzhou City drove drunk, went on a rampage, and killed a patrol soldier of the First Security Corps in front of the Japanese garrison. In anger, the patrol team beat the Japanese driver, and the janitor squad of the Japanese garrison rushed out more than a dozen Japanese soldiers when they saw this, indiscriminately surrendered the patrol to the gun, arrested the garrison and beat them severely. Zhang Qingyu was very angry when he heard the news, gathered his team, and went to the garrison in more than 10 cars to ask for an explanation and demand that he be released. The Japanese garrison reluctantly released the soldiers, but distorted the incident of crushing and killing the soldiers of the security team as "caused by the patrol intercepting a Japanese car for no reason" and reprimanded the security team, arousing the dissatisfaction and hatred of Zhang Qingyu and the officers and men of the security team against the Japanese army. This incident further exacerbated the contradictions between the security forces and the Japanese army. When the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, Zhang Qingyu sent his henchman Liu Chuntai to the north to meet Feng Zhi'an, then commander of the 37th Division of the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army and governor of the Hebei Provincial Government, to ask for advice. Feng Zhi'an asked him to revolt in Tongzhou by surprise when the Sino-Japanese war began, and on the other hand, he divided his troops to flank Fengtai, which had a flanking effect. Liu Chuntai got in touch with Zhang Yueting, chief of staff of the 29th Army, and Zhang Yueting incorporated Zhang Qingyu and Zhang Yantian's headquarters into the battle sequence of the 29th Army, ready to launch an uprising in response to the 29th Army's resistance against Japan.
At that time, the armed forces of Tongzhou were: the Japanese garrison and the gendarmerie of the secret service, which were stationed in Xicang, Dongcang and Xita Hutong; The first corps of the security team and the teaching corps are stationed in the old fourth battalion and other places; Outside the city, there is the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 39th Independent Brigade of the 29th Army of the Chinese Army, which is stationed in Sanyi Temple, Baotong Temple, Wang Shuyuan and the southeast power plant outside the south gate of the new city. The garrison of the 29th Army was only separated from the Japanese and puppet army garrisons by a city wall and a water bridge, and the two sides were on guard against each other and had constant friction. In the early morning of July 27, 1937, the Japanese troops stationed in Tongzhou suddenly launched an attack on the 29th Army, and the officers and men of the 29th fought back. Because the 29th Army was deployed in advance, and the security team deployed at the south gate of the old city of Tongzhou did not intercept the 29th Army, but only fired guns into the air and bluffed, the 29th Army was able to evacuate safely. The Japanese were very dissatisfied with the security forces. At 9 o'clock on the same day, 12 Japanese planes bombed the camp of the teaching corps of the security team outside the south gate of the old city, and more than 10 members of the security team were killed and wounded, and the houses were blown up. Afterwards, Japanese diplomats determined that "the responsibility for this matter lies with the Japanese Army." Shigeru Hosogi, head of the Japanese secret service, and Watanabe, a Japanese adviser to the security team, called the bombing a "misunderstanding" and apologized. The Japanese bombing incident provoked the security forces to rise up to save themselves and defend themselves, which became the cause of the uprising of the security forces.
On July 27, 1937, the main forces of the Japanese garrison in Tongzhou, the Xuandao unit and the Xiaoshan artillery unit, were ordered to march to Nanyuan, Beiping, and the troops in Tongzhou City were relatively empty. On July 28, the Japanese army invaded Nanyuan and sent planes to bomb Beiping. Zhang Qingyu thought that the fighter plane was close and could not be lost, so he secretly discussed with Zhang Yantian and Shen Weigan to revolt that night. The uprising contingent consisted of parts of the first and second columns and the teaching corps, with about 4,000 people. The first stage: the rebel army attacked the Japanese barracks in Xicang, captured the puppet government in eastern Hebei and the Japanese secret service in Tongzhou. Zhang Qingyu's arrangements for the uprising were as follows: The first column was divided into three routes, attacking the Japanese garrison in Xicang, the Japanese puppet organs, and the smoke houses, casinos, and brothels opened by the Japanese ronin. The second corps guards all intersections, post and telecommunications bureaus, and various organs in Chengguan; The Teaching Corps was responsible for dealing with the enemy of the Japanese garrison squad and alert reinforcements at the station. At dawn on the 29th, the gunfire of the attack on the Japanese barracks was used as a signal for the uprising.
The first column and the second route of the uprising troops mainly attacked the Xicang barracks. At this time, the Xicang Barracks had 120 troops and non-combatants of the Japanese army's Tongzhou Garrison, Yamada Motor Vehicle Unit, Military Police Detachment, Military Station Headquarters, Military Ordnance Department, and Field Depot, as well as a group of military police, special police, Japanese overseas Chinese, and Koreans gathered during the uprising of the "Jidong Security Force", a total of about 500 people. At about 3 o'clock in the evening of July 29, gunfire rang out during the attack on the Xicang barracks. Although the rebel army was armed with only four field guns, several mortars, and several heavy machine guns, it had an absolute advantage in numbers and launched simultaneous attacks from the east, south, and northwest directions. The Japanese army was well-equipped and fortified, resisted stubbornly, and the battle was not over. The rebel forces increased their fire support, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than six hours, but they were still not captured, and more than 200 people were killed by the security forces. Zhang Qingyu was afraid that the Japanese reinforcements would arrive if it dragged on any longer, and at that time an internal and external attack would be formed, which would be unfavorable to the situation of the rebel army, so he ordered an artillery bombardment at about 11 a.m., and the rebel army gradually gained the upper hand. The shells hit the Japanese motorized convoy carrying supply munitions, and all 17 vehicles were burned. Subsequently, the car fuel depot near the Japanese barracks was also hit, and for a time the fire was blazing, black smoke rose into the sky, and the Japanese army was in chaos. The infantry of the security team attacked under the cover of artillery fire, and all the recalcitrant resistors were annihilated, except for some of the Japanese who fled. After the signal of the uprising sounded, another rebel army immediately blocked the gate of Tongzhou, cut off the communication in the city, occupied the telecommunications bureau and radio station, and surrounded the office of the governor of the puppet government in eastern Hebei and other important organs. The First Route Rebel Army quickly occupied the puppet government, and the traitor Qi Huairen was immediately arrested and taken to the Lu Zu Temple in Beiguan. The rebels demanded that he resist the Japanese anyway, but Qi Huairen hesitated and was imprisoned in the shrine. The 3rd Route Security Team went to attack the Japanese secret service in Nishikura. The Mansion was only one alley away from the puppet office, and when he heard the gunshots, he expected that the situation would change, so he led dozens of spies to confront. The rebel troops immediately captured the secret service, Hosoki Shigeru was shot and killed, and all the personnel of the Japanese secret service were annihilated. The Japanese army sent reinforcements, and the rebels were forced to withdraw from Tongzhou.
The evacuation of the rebel army is not as big as in history, those troops and Jiang Qiang they all withdrew to Yunwu Mountain where to give Jiang Qiang and them a new reorganization, but it is a heavy blow to the traitors in northern Hebei, and now Japan has no way The main thing is the lack of troops, just began to negotiate with the 29th Army, General Zhao Dengyu also began to organize the army to evacuate the universities and major cultural relics in Beiping at this time, and most of the college students will be arranged to the Jiaozhou Peninsula in Shandong, Because Jiang Qiang prepared 10 million US dollars for this evacuation, and where did the Shandong Peninsula send nearly 200 vehicles, Jiang Qiang did not pay attention to the affairs of the 29th Army at this time, and Jiang Qiang thought that Japan did not have sincere negotiations, and General Song Zheyuan was still a warlord after all, so he wanted to be the emperor of the soil here in northern Hebei.
Ten days have passed, Jiang Qiang at this time has been preparing to attack Fengtai, as a person who has come over, Jiang Qiang naturally knows the importance of intelligence work, as early as half a year ago, began to arrange, using commercial banks, expatriate reporters and other channels to continuously dispatch intelligence personnel, in more than a dozen important cities have laid intelligence eyeline! Huang Xiang: "Haha, it's not hard at all!" This is the information I collected about the Japanese army in Fengtai, please take a look! Tuanza is really a clever plan, and he has long expected that the little devil will invade Pingjin and forcibly occupy Fengtai! At this time, Qin Siyu showed the information to Jiang Qiang. The 29th Route Army is at least 100,000 people, and the total strength of the devils in the Pingjin area is only more than 20,000 people. Now it's okay, I can finally follow the group seat to fight the devil and take a hard breath! ……”
Jiang Qiang ordered to take a battalion of troops to take Fengtai, and then the troops asked to wait for orders near Fengtai before six o'clock in the evening, and Jiang Qiang and Qin Siyu and ten special forces came to the battalion headquarters of the army together in the evening, "Very good, this information is very effective!" It's better to hit the day than to choose a day, and we will launch an attack on time at four o'clock in the morning tomorrow morning! Jiang Qiang issued an order, carefully browsed the information provided by Huang Xiang, Jiang Qiang nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Huzi: "Immediately notify all the captains and squadron leaders of the special combat team, as well as the battalion and company officers to come to me for a meeting!" In addition, ask everyone to get out of the car to eat and rest, remember to pay attention to hiding and confidentiality, and never use fire to light with a flashlight! ”
The Xiyuan garrison is the 37th Division, the Feng Zhi'an Department has a strength of about 15,750 people, and the Nanyuan garrison is the 38th Division, Zhang Zizhong's troops, with a strength of about 15,400 people! And the Japanese army in Fengtai, sandwiched in the middle, has only one infantry brigade, with a total strength of about 1,200 people! The Japanese infantry brigade is above the squadron, compared with the Chinese army of the same period, it is much larger than a battalion, but it is significantly smaller than a regiment, between the two battalion and regimental levels! The Japanese brigade consisted of a 30-man brigade headquarters, four infantry squadrons of 200 men; a machine-gun squadron of 174 people; An artillery squad of 55 people, and a transport squadron of 110 people! "1,200 devils, this piece of fat is not very easy to gnaw!" Looking at the information in his hand, Jiang Qiang fell into deep thought, now his total strength is only 1,000 people, and it is the first time he has really gone to the battlefield, and the difficulty of annihilating the well-trained devil infantry brigade overnight can be imagined! At present, the biggest advantage is that your own firepower is strong, you can attack suddenly, and if you can organize it properly, take the lead in eliminating the command system of the devil brigade headquarters, and then launch an attack at the same time with lightning speed, it has a good chance of winning!
I just don't know if my brothers can stand the test and successfully pass the first hurdle! "Chief of Staff, we are here, please instruct how to fight this battle tonight!" "Chief of Staff, give the order, we have long held back our tendons and flesh and have nowhere to go!" "Haha! It's finally time to fight devils, and we're going to have a good time tonight! Soon, Qin Siyu, Li Jinglin, Shunzi and more than ten other people came to Jiang Qiang's side, all nervous and excited, not afraid of the upcoming bloody battle at all! Some people died, but not completely...... "get in the car first!" Let's take a good look at the countermeasures! Jiang Qiang put away the information, and then walked directly to an empty troop truck nearby! After everyone came in, Jiang Qiang asked someone to put down the canvas at the back door of the carriage to cover it tightly, and then Jiang Qiang stood up and clicked and lit the chandelier hanging on the carport, and the whole carriage instantly became like daylight!