Glorious Mission 1937

While Chen Feng was making active preparations in the northern part of the Great Wall, the Japanese army was not idle either. Apart from secretly forming new troops in the country, the Japanese army was also wantonly forming puppet troops in the occupied areas, and secretly preparing to form a puppet regime in Nanjing.

With the strong support of General Bin Shanyuan, the Puppet North China Security Forces, which had already been wiped out by Chen Feng's troops, reversed their previous decline and aggressively recruited strong men in North China. At the same time, they mobilized captured Kuomintang troops from various battlefields across the country. In a very short period of time, the regular army of the Puppet North China Security Army expanded to 18 infantry divisions. In addition to ordinary infantry, the Puppet North China Security Army formed 4 artillery regiments and 2 cavalry brigades with the help of the Japanese army. More than 14.

In Central China, the Japanese army moved more frequently. In view of the "stinky and hard" attitude of the Nationalist government's refusal to cooperate, the Japanese government decided to fundamentally attack the Nationalist government.What is a fundamental blow is to completely disintegrate the National Government politically, and they support a pro-Japanese Chinese to form a unified Chinese government.

In fact, during the nearly three years since the Japanese army invaded China, a large number of puppet regimes have been established. The relatively large ones include the puppet Manchukuo government in Northeast China, the puppet Republic of China provisional government, the puppet Republic of China Restoration government, and the one that has been wiped out by the Eighth War Zone. The self-government of the Pseudo-Mongolian Alliance, and those small local governments are even more numerous.

But the Japanese did not form a nationwide puppet regime from the beginning to the end, because they felt that it was unnecessary. From the beginning of the war, the Japanese believed that the Chinese were vulnerable, and the Chinese army was even more disorganized.The Chinese regime is a high-rise building built on sandy soil. As long as they lightly touch it with a saber, it will collapse. It is not their goal to establish a unified pro-Japanese regime. They want to completely turn China into a Japanese province. Japanese colony.

But they underestimated the determination and courage of the Chinese Communists to resist the war, and even underestimated the Generalissimo Jiang who seemed to have no backbone, and even surrendered the big man "Manchuria" to the Great Japanese Empire. They won the Songhu battle, They won the Taiyuan battle, they also succeeded in the Xuzhou battle, and they were even victors in the Wuhan battle.But the Japanese found out with horror.Although they are winning every moment, the attitude of the retreating Chinese government has never changed, and that is to resolutely fight the Great Japanese Empire to the end.

In fact, all of this is thanks to one person, Jiang Baili.This person is one of the most famous military strategists in modern China.Graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy.Moreover, he once won the No. 1 graduation from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and this person presided over the compilation of the National Government's anti-Japanese general strategy.

Not long after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Jiang Baili had a conversation with Lao Jiang on Lushan Mountain.He said meaningfully to Chiang Kai-shek: "No matter how far you fight against Japan, it doesn't matter if you lose everything. The ultimate card is not to compromise with Japan! Only a long-term war of resistance can bring Japan down. In a word, it doesn't matter if you win. , defeat, just don’t make peace with him (Japan)!”

If the poor relatives themselves do not live up to expectations, they will always be looked down upon.The communication between people is snobbish, so why not the communication between countries?Asking others is better than asking yourself!Rather than compromise with Japan and linger on, it is better to fight to the death.Lao Jiang, who had nowhere to retreat, chose to resist resolutely. This was the only way out before him!

If you don't resist, everyone else has a way out, but he has no way out!The only way out waiting for him is to be a prisoner.Thinking of the fate of the two unlucky emperors Song Qinzong and Song Huizong in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Lao Jiang shuddered.Lao Jiang has thought countless times that he is a leader of a big country, the supreme commander of millions of troops, and a supreme and special person, how can he be a prisoner!So Lao Jiang made up his mind, even if he fought all his money, he would continue to fight unswervingly, either to die, or to break the net!

The resistance of the national government made the Japanese extremely angry, but there was nothing they could do. Even though the Japanese army was victorious in the military, the domestic economy in Japan was deteriorating. The poverty of the Japanese people had already surfaced, which made the Japanese government and army extremely anxious , If there is no way to solve the China Incident, the Great Japanese Empire will be dragged down by this war.

Japan launched the war originally to grab more benefits. Now, instead of bringing any gratifying benefits to the Japanese government and people, this war has plunged Japan into an endless quagmire of war. This is not what the Japanese want to see Therefore, after deliberations by high-level Japanese military and political circles, it was decided to immediately form a "unified" Chinese government to fight against the Chiang regime, in order to achieve division and disintegration of the Chinese government.

Although forming a unified government must be an extremely cumbersome task, it is actually not a very difficult task for the Japanese. First of all, the Japanese army already has a target to support, and this person is the former vice president of the Kuomintang Wang Jingwei. , this person is a full-fledged pro-Japanese element, the most important thing is that this person is very in line with the requirements of the Japanese in terms of prestige and status, so he was quickly recognized by the Japanese.Secondly, at the end of July 1937, the Japanese army began to plan the establishment of a traitor puppet regime in the North China occupied area, and on the second day after the fall of Nanjing, the Japanese invaders established the provisional government of the Puppet Republic of China in Beiping.Continue to use the year name of the Republic of China, with Peiping as the capital.It has jurisdiction over the four provincial offices of Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan, and the two municipal governments of Beiping and Tianjin.Shortly thereafter, after occupying central China, the Japanese army established the puppet regime of the puppet Republic of China Restoration Government, which governed the three provincial governments of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui and the two special municipal governments of Nanjing and Shanghai.In addition, there are many other puppet regimes, large and small. The large ones govern several cities, and the small ones govern several counties.With these puppet governments, large and small, as long as these ghosts and monsters are integrated, wouldn't this unified regime become a reality?

The plan to establish a unified puppet regime actually started a long time ago, but the Japanese were not very active at the beginning.Since Wang Jingwei defected to Hanoi at the end of 1938 and issued a "bright electricity" to publicly "fall to the sun", Wang Jingwei stepped up preparations. At the end of May 1939, Wang Jingwei and others went to Japan and had talks with Japanese Prime Minister Hiranuma and Ministers of Army and Foreign Affairs, and obtained the Japanese government's support for the establishment of a "central government".Subsequently, Wang Jingwei and others held the so-called 5th Congress of the National Government in Shanghai and issued a manifesto. The manifesto once again affirmed Japan's three principles of "good neighborliness and friendship", "joint defense against communism", and "economic cooperation", and even publicly stated: Japan He has "abandoned aggression, and wants to conspire with China for a just peace", "we must try our best to realize the principles".

Not long ago, the Wang Jingwei Group and Japan signed the "Outline for the Adjustment of New Relations Between Japan and China", which is the infamous "Japan-Wang Agreement".The agreement recognized the "existence of a fait accompli" of Japan's aggression against China.The annex to the agreement specifies the principles and key adjustments of the so-called "new relationship between Japan and China": first, "recognition of the Manchurian Empire."North China is a "strength combination zone" between Japan, Manchuria, and Zhimanchu. A "North China Political Affairs Committee" has been set up, which has autonomy in terms of finance, economy, personnel rights, and negotiations with Japan and Manchuria.Mengjiang is also a "strength combination zone", which occupies a special position in military and politics, and has extensive autonomy.The area in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is a zone where the economic strengths of Japan and China are combined.Japan has "special status" on certain islands off the coast of South China.Second, Japan may station its army and navy in "the key places in North China and Mongolia", "specific locations along the Yangtze River" and specific islands in South China.It also "reserves its military requirements and supervision rights" for railways, aviation, communications, and major harbor waterways within the garrison area.Third, the development and utilization of resources in North China, Mongolia and other regions "should be specially facilitated with Japan."Japan will control the finance, economy, transportation, agriculture, trade and customs in the occupied areas by means of "aid".Fourth, Japan controls the Wang regime through the deployment of consultants and other means.

On November 1939, 11, Wang Jingwei held a political meeting of the Puppet Central Committee in Nanjing.In addition to representatives from the Wang faction, the participants also included representatives from the Puppet Provisional Party, the Reform Party, the China Youth Party, and the National Socialist Party.The meeting decided that the puppet regime would use the name of the "National Government" and the national flag of "blue sky, white sun and red everywhere".It was decided that Wang Jingwei would be the acting chairman of the "National Government" and the chief executive, Chen Gongbo would be the legislative chief, Wen Zongyao the judicial chief, Liang Hongzhi the supervisory chief, Wang Yitang the examination chief, and Wang Kemin the chairman of the North China Political Affairs Commission. On the 19th, the Wang Puppet National Government was proclaimed in Nanjing.

Although the Wang Puppet National Government nominally controlled the "North China Political Affairs Commission" and the pseudo-"Mengjiang Joint Self-Government" in name only, but in fact it only directly governed Jiangsu, Huaihai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, etc. provinces, and special cities such as Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hankou, and except for Jiangsu, Huaihai, and Anhui, where the situation is relatively complete, other provinces often only occupy a few counties.

Soon, Japan's special ambassador and former Prime Minister Nobuyuki Abe went to Nanjing to "congratulate the National Government on returning the capital." In mid-November, the Japanese Imperial Council decided to recognize the Wang puppet government.Abe and Wang Jingwei signed the "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of China" and the subsidiary secret agreement, and at the same time, Japan, Wang and the Puppet Manchukuo signed the "Japan-Manchuria-China Joint Declaration".The so-called basic relationship treaty is to change the secret agreement between Japan and Wang into a formal treaty.Its content goes far beyond Article 11 of the traitorous treaty.

The establishment of the Wang puppet regime shocked the whole country.Lao Jiang, who was in Chongqing, vomited blood and immediately instructed the foreign minister of the national government, Wang Chonghui, to send a note to all countries, denying the Wang regime, and asking all countries not to recognize it.At the same time, it declares that the treaty illegally signed by Japan and Wang is completely invalid. (To be continued..)