Speaking of the " Iron Blood Gang," one had to mention the leader of the Axe Gang, Wang Jiuguang. He had tried to assassinate the Minister of Finance of the National Government, Song Ziwen, after failing to kill Jiang Zhongzheng. Unfortunately, both of them were lucky, and he failed as well. Later, he was put on the wanted list by Jiang and ran to Hong Kong to take refuge.
However, in order to ease the war in the northeast and the vision of the League of Nations, the Japanese army chose to create trouble in Songhu and launched a war.
This was the 128 Songhu War of Resistance. Because Jiang was afraid of angering Japan, he called the war the 128 Incident.
In reality, before this, the Japanese army first created the September 18th Incident that shocked China and foreign countries. The leader of this incident was a princess of a former Qing Dynasty prince. After being raped by her adoptive father in Japan, she did not choose revenge. Instead, after giving up on herself, she acknowledged a Japanese godfather, the head of the secret service. She learned the skills of spies from this head. After she completed her studies, she did not take revenge but helped the tyrant. She even changed her name to a Japanese name, Kawashima Yoshiko.
From then on, she began to plan for Japan. Japan wanted to plunder the three northeastern provinces, so she led people to create the "Nakamura incident" and the "Wanbao Mountain incident" and then falsely accused the Chinese army of "harming the safety of the Japanese and Korean immigrants". Therefore, she brazenly launched the 918 incident in the northeast!
In the end, in order to divert the attention of the League of Nations, so that Japan could easily annex the three eastern provinces, they created an opportunity in Shanghai. It was planned by Kawashima Yoshiko to send a Japanese monk to provoke the factory with the name of the 'volunteer army'. The workers in the factory were so angry that they directly killed two monks and injured one.
After this incident, when the time was ripe, Japan took the opportunity to publish a headline in their newspaper titled " Shanghai Longhua Ancient Temple Chinese Murder 100-year-old Japanese Monk Innocent Murder ". It was a full-page spread, saying that the Japanese Master Lian Zong was killed in Shanghai.
Immediately after, the Japanese Army Headquarters issued a " solemn statement " in Tokyo and pointed out that the assassination incident at Longhua Temple in Shanghai was caused by the " Nakamura Incident " in Manchuria of China, and the spearhead was directed at the Great Japanese Empire.
Therefore, in the early morning of January 28th, 1920, the Japanese navy sent troops from the concession and brazenly launched an attack on the Chanbei area of Shanghai. The 19th Route Army stationed in Shanghai rose up to resist. The commander of the 19th Route Army, Cai Tingkai, was now the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai Weixu. He ordered Jiang Guangnai and others not to let the Japanese army act recklessly.
This also caused the 128 Incident that shocked the world.
For the sake of his motherland and not to be a slave to a subjugated country, Wang Jiuguang, who had taken refuge in Hong Kong, had no choice but to return to Shanghai at the risk of being beheaded.
He had wanted his Axe Gang to join the war as the "Shanghai Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army" and some other groups formed by Shanghai citizens, such as the "Shanghai Citizens 'Revolutionary Army" and the "Shanghai Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association" formed by lawyers like Wang Pingnan, but Jiang Zhongzheng did not allow the existence of other armies besides the National Revolutionary Army.
In order to resist the Japanese, they had to endure it. Wang Jiuguang had his men form 15 small anti-Japanese teams and a "Iron Blood Evasion Group" to join the 19th Army.
Wang Jiuguang also self-proclaimed himself as a commander. It was Jiang Zhongzheng's fault for not giving him the position. Anyway, he didn't want to be an official of the Republic of China government at all.
The two men, Li Dasheng and Tao Bailing, were both Wang Jiuguang's capable subordinates. Today, Tao Bailing had been ordered by Commander Wang to deliver supplies to the 19th Route Army.
Because Jiang Zhongzheng only wanted to suppress the Chinese, he did not send troops to support the war. Instead, he always handed over his national affairs to the League of Nations, which the Chinese people could not speak of. He always tolerated and retreated. He sent people to negotiate with the Japanese. In order to successfully complete the negotiations, he gave all the materials to support the 19th Army to the Japanese Navy.
This also caused the 19th Army to fall into a state of hunger and poverty. In the cold winter weather, the sky would still snow from time to time. The 19th Army was about to fail because of this. At the last moment, it was the merchants from overseas and Shanghai, as well as some wealthy and powerful people, who participated in the donation event.
During this war, there were GCD members who used their professions as teachers to lead students, workers, farmers, and other people to protest on the streets, including the slogan of stopping the civil war and uniting against the outside world.
It triggered a national anti-Japanese war.
Under pressure, Jiang Zhongzheng finally agreed to send troops to the Central Army. However, he did not go much. It was because Zhang Zhizhong kept stopping him every two or three days that he had no choice but to let the 88th and 87th Divisions of the Central Army combine into the Fifth Army, with Zhang Zhizhong as the commander.
In order to show the people that he was also the commander of the anti-Japanese war, he transferred a small artillery regiment to Shanghai with He Yingqin.
His brother-in-law was very active in the war. He was the finance minister of the national government, Song Ziwen. He was supported by the eight consortiums, so he had a tax police regiment that was not inferior to the central army. This regiment was actually a military. The number of people in each battalion was 1,000, and each regiment was three battalions. In total, there were six regiments with special forces.
Song Ziwen wanted to fight, but Jiang Zhongzheng didn't allow him to participate. In the end, he couldn't go directly to his sister, Song Meiling. With Song Meiling's help, Song Ziwen agreed to let the people of the tax police regiment into the Fifth Army. However, he didn't let him add more, only three regiments.
With the addition of these people, Han Fuju, Liu Jingfu, Shangguan Yunxiang, Liang Guanying and the other 2,000 new recruits, as well as the donations from all over the country, the 19th Route Army finally got food, clothing and relief.
This could have driven the Japanese back into the sea in one go, but Jiang Zhongzheng had always wanted to negotiate with the Japanese so that he could send troops to suppress the Chinese, so he only let the 19th Route Army defend.
On the second day after Zhang Zhizhong's Fifth Army arrived at the Songhu battlefield, Jiang Zhongzheng sent a telegram to Jiang Guangnai asking him to negotiate with the Japanese. However, Jiang Guangnai directly said that the Japanese were already at their doorstep. If they withdrew, the Japanese would march straight in, so they firmly refused and asked Jiang to send more reinforcements.
On the other side, Jiang saw the telegram and was so angry that he directly cursed him. Then, on the 22nd, he sent a telegram to Zhang Zhizhong. At this time, the Fifth Army had only arrived for two days, and Jiang said that if they wanted to resist foreign aggression, they must first stabilize the country. He also said that Shanghai was just an emergency and that the League of Nations had intervened. As long as they sent people to negotiate with Japan, the war could be completely resolved.
Zhang Zhizhong also wanted to fight against the Japanese. When the war broke out in Shanghai, he had asked to lead troops to fight, but Jiang Zhongzheng had never allowed it. In the end, under the pressure of the whole country, Jiang had no choice but to agree to send troops. Seeing that Zhang Zhizhong was eager to fight, he gave him the position of commander of the Fifth Army.
Before the battle, Zhang Zhizhong went home to see his son, who was just two months old, and left a farewell letter. Then he led his troops and set off, determined to die so that the Japanese invaders would not step on his doorstep.
Now that he had received a telegram from Jiang asking him to withdraw, Zhang Zhizhong directly refused. Jiang Zhongzheng was so angry that he said directly,"I don't have any soldiers to lose now. This year's financial deficit is just an emergency with Japan. You guys have also sent troops, and the League of Nations has also helped us one-sidedly. In order not to make things worse, you guys should focus on negotiations.”
He spoke very kindly in the telegram, but in his notes, he secretly scolded those people for not listening to his orders.
Zhang Zhizhong had received his telegram. After reading it, he happened to have a stomachache. After looking around, the telegram in his hand was just right, so he took it to the toilet.
Now that the whole country was supporting the war, how could the boy scouts in Shanghai stand by and watch? Although there were only a hundred of them, they could serve the country. It was an honor to die!
The battle lasted until February 25th, 1920. A month was almost up. The Japanese army had initially said that they would be able to resolve the Shanghai issue in a week. They arrogantly believed that all the troops and generals in China were like the Northeast Army. However, they did not expect that after fighting for almost a month, they still could not resolve the issue.
As a result, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters was forced to do nothing. After three transfers to the Navy, they could not solve the problem. They directly issued an order to let the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Shirakawa Masanori, go to Shanghai as the commander.
On the 26th, Shirakawa Masanori took over as commander and called a meeting of officers above the rank of warrant officer to discuss the plan to defeat the enemy.
The Japanese military officers were having a meeting, while Xu Qingfeng and Feifei were brought by Tao Bailing to get the medicine they needed. Huang Yonghua needed to hold his ground, so he didn't go with them.
The few of them and their subordinates arrived outside a concealed tent. Tao Bailing shouted a report into the tent. When he heard the sound coming from inside, Tao Bailing ordered the others to stand guard outside while he led the two of them inside.
Inside, although it was a little dark, he could still see people clearly.
Xu Qingfeng saw that there were several people inside. They were all gathered around a table, listening to a middle-aged man with glasses and a straight beard pointing at the map.
"Big brother, I'm back! Brothers, I'm back!”Tao Bailing stretched out his hand and wanted to give a bear hug, but everyone avoided him as if they were avoiding the God of Plagues. This made Tao Bailing very embarrassed. Coincidentally, Xu Qingfeng and Feifei were there, so he forcefully hugged one of them to save face.
The one who was hugged wanted to cry but had no tears. The two of them did not know what to say, and the others did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Li Dasheng happened to be there too. When he saw Xu Qingfeng, he was about to greet him. At this time, the middle-aged man wearing glasses saw that Xu Qingfeng and Feifei both had tender faces, but both of them were carrying guns, so he asked,""Bailing, who are they?”
"Big Brother, this is Xu Qingfeng, a boy scout. The other is called Feifei, a nurse. They ran out of medicine in the battlefield hospital, so they wanted to go to the pharmacy in the enemy's territory to find medicine. They happened to pass by Commander Huang's defense area, and we happened to be fighting with the Japanese. They helped us kill the Japanese soldiers. Then, I brought them here. By the way, Big Brother, do we still have the medicine?”Tao Bailing gave a simple introduction.
Then, Li Dasheng also told that person about him and Xu Qingfeng. Finally, he looked at Xu Qingfeng and introduced,"Little brother, this is the leader of our Axe Gang, the commander of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, and the number one assassin, Wang Jiuguang. However, people like to call my big brother Wang Yaqiao!”
"Boy Scout Xu Qingfeng salutes you!”He didn't know what to say, but he was very excited. The Axe Gang gave him the impression that they were bad guys, and Wang Jiuguang was a national hero.
Wang Jiuguang had just asked him not to be so polite, but before he could say anything else, he saw Feifei rush over like a little fangirl. As a result, due to her years of assassination habits, she was naturally alert to people she was not familiar with. She was ready to kick but quickly reacted, so she hid to the side, and Feifei came into close contact with the ground.
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