Back to the Republic of China as a commander

On December 12, break the game!

On this day, after a fierce quarrel, Prime Minister Yuan Jing finally agreed to transfer the two divisions in Kyushu to Shandong to relieve the siege.But just half an hour after the signing, two bad news came.

One is that the Shandong Fleet of the Japanese Navy was attacked by the submarine formation of the Chinese Navy. One battleship, three cruisers, and four destroyers were sunk and damaged, causing heavy losses.

The second is in the waters of Taiwan. Eleven merchant ships and an escorting destroyer were attacked by the Chinese break-through fleet composed of four cruisers.When the news reached Tokyo, the entire Japanese nation was in an uproar. You must know that the lifeline of Japan is the ocean. Now the very weak China Navy dare not fight with the Japanese Navy. Instead, it broke the rules by playing pirate tactics. Let the Japanese nervous.

So the navy first gave up its position of cooperating with the army, and Dongxiang's suggestion was to attack Shanghai and make an emergency landing on the government of South China.Yuan Jing opposed this, because it was not allowed by the British and French powers. More importantly, the chaebols asked the navy to escort their merchant ships. The total tonnage of the eleven merchant ships that were sunk has reached an astonishing Forty-five thousand tons, such a loss for ordinary merchants would go bankrupt directly.Now, Your Excellency the Prime Minister is about to start a new round of headaches. . .

It wasn't until this time that all parties really realized that the aggressive Japan was not prepared for war at all. They came to Shandong, China purely to pinch the persimmons, but instead suffered a loss and became the biggest war among the great powers. joke.

Just when the Japanese were still in disputes, the actual controller of the central government in Beijing had lost confidence in the Japanese. He secretly called a few hard-core confidants for a secret meeting all night, and declared to the outside world that he would go south to crusade Preparations for rebellion are actually planning to return to the old nest in the Northeast.

"Father, why do we want to go back to Fengtian? I still want to go to the temple fair during the Chinese New Year in Beijing? Fengtian is not as fun as here." Zhang Xueliang, who just turned 15, asked with a childish face.

Zhang Zuolin, who was wearing a mink coat to keep out the cold, looked at his son with a bit of heartache, stroked his head and said, "Little Six, Daddy is incompetent. There is no way for you to stay here in Beijing. Let's go back to our hometown. Let's come back when we finish cultivating our internal strength someday."

Zhang Xueliang nodded sensibly and said nothing more, while Zhang Zuolin looked back at Ju Ren Tang, wondering if he could come back here again in this life.Then he got into the car with his son and went straight to Fengtai Railway Station.

Feng Jun's retreat plan was very concealed, because Zhang Zuolin also hoped that the Japanese in Jinan would last a few more days.Therefore, what Fengjun actually withdrew in the first stage was supplies. Since most of the Japanese consultants went to Tianjin to inquire about the situation in Shandong during this period, although the action was big, they did not leak the news.Zhang Zuolin and his men gave full play to the characteristics of bandits, and absolutely kept a little bit of everything that could be taken away for the youth army.Zhang Zuolin even planned to move the Forbidden City to Fengtian if it wasn't for the Manchu imperial family's refusal to move.

Zhang Zongchang was subsequently appointed as the governor of Zhili and the patrol envoy to North China. Since Xu Shichang's post of president had been vacant for many days due to the war, Zhang Zongchang could not be officially appointed to this position, but could only act as an agent.Zhang Zuolin also trusted Zhang Zongchang to hand over the expanded army after entering the customs. For a while, Zhang Zongchang's troops reached an astonishing 60.On the other hand, the 15 people of Fengjun's direct line took the railway back to the Northeast in a mighty way. When they were interrogated by the Kwantung Army, they said it was a normal deployment. This time, the secrecy was in place.

But no one can hide it from anyone, Major General Wu Junmei, the head of the National Security Bureau Beijing Terminal, has his eyes fixed on the whole of Beijing. . .

Chapter 463 Big Event

During these days, Wu Junmei's work pressure was extremely high. As the head of the Beijing Central Station of the National Security Bureau, when the Youth Army's Shandong battlefield was in full swing, his first task was to find out whether the Fengjun had sent troops to Shandong to join the Japanese army. plan.Although Wang Zhenyu looked down on Fengjun's combat effectiveness, it was an army of 70 after all. Once it was put into the battlefield, it would disgust you even if it didn't kill you.

But now it's all right, the Japanese army has been surrounded by groups in Jinan, and Fengjun is even more courageous to go south at this time. As for the rescue of the Japanese army, even Fengjun's Japanese advisers don't have this idea, and Fengjun himself will not run out to do it. died.

But Wu Junmei has not yet reached the time to breathe a sigh of relief, because Wang Tianmu brought back a very bad news: "Station Master, the Japanese have frequently entered and exited the mansions of some Manchu princes recently. It seems that there is some big plan. I have sent People are going to investigate."

Wu Junmei did not express her position, and her mind was on another issue, that is, Red Russia. Following Kolchak's defeat in the Russian Civil War, more and more Russians appeared in Beijing. Some of them applied for political asylum. But there are also people who don't look like escapees.Wu Junmei remembered that she was received by the Marshal before she left for Beijing. At that time, the Marshal specifically mentioned Red Russia, saying that Red Russia has a secret service organization called Cheka, which is very powerful and has almost penetrated into every corner.

For this purpose, Wu Junmei specially selected a team of 40 people to conduct a secret screening of Russians in Beijing.It was soon discovered that the behavior of at least a dozen Russians was abnormal. They were men and women, and they were not in a hurry to make a living every day. They just haunted the streets and alleys of Beijing and asked various clubs for information about the central government. , the biggest anomaly is that the dozen or so men and two women live together. Although they go in and out of different places, they will return to the residence on time every night.

These are nothing, any regime will place spies in the sphere of other forces, it is not worth making a fuss, but Wu Junmei still sent a five-member team to keep an eye on these people in shifts out of professional caution.

What really made Wu Junmei nervous was that half a month ago, among the twelve Russians, one woman and two men suddenly went out of customs. It would be fine if they just went out of customs, but they didn't go to any city, they just surveyed along the railway line .The action was very subtle, but they couldn't hide it from Wu Junmei, because the guide they hired was a peripheral staff of the Beijing Terminal, an inconspicuous middle-aged man.

What are they going to do?Wu Junmei held a meeting overnight with Dai Li and Ming Dahu to study.Ming Dahu yawned and said, "They don't plan to blow up the railway, do they?"

Dai Li shook his head: "Could it be that the purpose of bombing the railway is to block the retreat of the Feng army? What's the benefit to them? The Japanese are still controlling the Far East. Could it be that they can fly over to take the Northeast?"

Everyone was puzzled, and at this time, the war in Shandong was at its climax, the strength of Beijing Station had to be tilted towards Fengjun, and the monitoring of these Red Russian agents had to be let go.

In addition to the Fengjun, Beijing Station recently discovered a problem, that is, according to the information provided by the Koreans lurking in Japan, some soldiers in the Japanese Army Ministry planned to take the Emperor Xuantong of the last Manchu Qing Dynasty out of Beijing, and then entered the Northeast, waiting for an opportunity to establish Manchukuo, these extreme soldiers proposed to kill Zhang Zuolin, paving the way for the establishment of Manchukuo.

Now the situation is complicated. After thinking about it, Wu Junmei called Ming Dahu, Wang Tianmu and Dai Li over.

"Everyone knows the news of our army's great victory on the Shandong front, but now there is a very difficult problem that we need to use all our strength to solve at the Beijing Headquarters. I want to know if everyone has the confidence to complete this task."

Wang Tianmu took the lead and bluffed: "If there is any task, the station master, you old man, I am absolutely unambiguous."

Wu Junmei didn't care about these, just nodded slightly and said: "According to Director Dai's information, the Japanese recently planned to kidnap Puyi, the last emperor of the former Qing Dynasty, to Fengtian, and then use him to replace Zhang Zuolin, establish a puppet country, and blatantly embezzle our country Northeast region. The General Administration ordered us to prevent this from happening at all costs. Now let’s discuss together how we can accomplish this task..."

In a place less than 800 meters away from Vivian Vivian's secret meeting place, the people from the world's most advanced, happiest, most civilized, most independent, and most. . .In short, it is the best country. The twelve agents of Soviet Russia are also having tense meetings, but their target is not Puyi, but Zhang Zuolin. . .

I have to say that it is better not to be too arrogant in life. If Zhang Zuolin reads more books, with his appearance, no matter how you look at it, he will be a humble and elegant person.It's a pity that he didn't study, so he really acted like a bandit.

After the October Revolution, Japan sent troops to Russia, and immediately became sworn enemies with the nascent Soviet regime.However, the Soviet regime led by Lenin chose armed struggle while facing the interference of foreign powers, while choosing to continue to export its own revolutionary ideas and strive for world revolution.

And China is obviously the first, but the process now seems a bit tangled.As the central government of the Republic of China, the Beijing government led by Zhang Zuolin was naturally the first choice for Soviet Russia to contact.

Before figuring out the situation, the People's Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian Soviet government blindly sent diplomats to Beijing, hoping to be recognized by the government of the Republic of China.The results of it?Zhang Zuolin, a bastard who is so happy to die, actually regarded the diplomats of the great People's Foreign Affairs Committee as red bandits, directly arrested and executed them, and even yelled in the newspapers that these people are the generation without kings and fathers, and completely forgot When he left the army and pulled the pole in the Northeast, he had no king and no father!

Before the two countries were at war, Zhang Zuolin was too superstitious about the power of the great powers, and he did everything in early 1918.

And the Russian Communists obviously don't trust these Chinese rulers who are in the same boat as the imperialists. They did not choose to go to Nanjing to find the Chinese mercenary government that fought for Britain and France. China becomes a red country.

This plan was once again attacked by Zhang Zuolin. In July 1919, knowing that the All-Russian Provisional Government led by Kolchak was failing militarily, Zhang Zuolin still ordered the arrest and execution of three cadres of the Far East Bureau of the Communist International. , At the same time, more than 7 Chinese red elements who had just been developed and joined the Communist International were executed, most of them were scholars and journalists, including Li Dazhang, a famous professor of Peking University.

The accumulation of these things made Lenin, the top leader of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, fully realize that it is necessary to teach a painful lesson to those reactionary elements who opposed the great cause of the Communist Party of China and moved against the trend of history from the bottom of their hearts, and to deter a group of bad elements. Let them recognize the trend of historical development, so as to prevent them from walking on the wrong path of anti-people and anti-socialism.

The two female "swallows" Yevgenia and Soyana were selected by the Cheka, and they will go to Beijing, the capital of China, to work together with ten other outstanding male Cheka agents.

Specifically, if it is just a punitive action, it is not worth paying such a high price to implement it. The main reason is that the person in charge put forward a bold idea to plan an assassination against Zhang Zuolin in the Japanese defense zone, which will inevitably lead to The confidant of the Chinese leader fought the Japanese army for revenge.Once the war begins, the Japanese army will inevitably consider a full withdrawal from the Far East of Siberia.Whether it is recovering lost territory or messing up China, it is in the great interests of Soviet Russia, so the Cheka headquarters immediately instructed to look for opportunities to implement it.

Feeling the heavy responsibility, Yevgenia personally took people to Jinzhou and Shenyang to survey the terrain, and now it was the 21-year-old determined female soldier of the Communist Party of China who held a very urgent secret meeting.

"According to the intelligence from the insiders of the Marshal's Mansion we bought, the supreme ruler of China, Zhang Dashuai, plans to secretly leave Beijing and return to Fengtian by train in three days. Since the outcome of the Sino-Japanese War is moving in a direction that is unfavorable to Japan, rely on Japan The Fengzhang forces fostered by the other side have no confidence in defending Beijing and the central government, and their plan is to retreat to the northeast and separate one side."

Yevgenia paused and said: "I have already reported this time to the Moscow side, and now the Moscow side asks us to give an accurate and reliable analysis report to analyze the situation of the entire China once the supreme ruler of China dies." What will happen? Comrades, everything is for the revolution, everything is for the Soviets, please speak freely!... "

In Wang Lifa's teahouse, the meeting also reached a critical moment, and Wang Tianmu shouted decisively: "Isn't Puyi what Little Japan wants? It's simple, let's catch this kid and send him directly to Wuhan. It's over. I want to see Look, what will they use to establish that damned puppet regime?"

Everyone's eyes lit up, this is also a solution, Wu Junmei shook her head: "Then, this only solves the problem of the puppet regime, we took people away, how about the political impact? Who will help the commander in aftermath , Tianmu, if you act like this, we all have to take off our military uniforms and get out."

Dai Li suddenly interrupted at this time: "Station Master, there is a serious problem. We have been staring at Pu Yi, but we have ignored this problem!"

"What's the problem?" Wu Junmei admired Dai Li's talent very much. Now hearing what he said, she immediately became nervous.

"Isn't the premise of the Japanese supporting Puyi to kill Zhang Zuolin? This is the key to the premise!" Dai Li caught the key point of the whole issue in one sentence, and everyone was immediately stunned. . .

Chapter 464 Big Event ([-])

But what Yevgenia, Soyana, and the Beijing Headquarters of the National Security Bureau don't know is that the twelve people in Beijing are only responsible for the intelligence work of this operation. To be precise, the Moscow side actually didn't tell them the truth. The task of the Beijing team is actually to collect information about Zhang Zuolin and divert the attention of interested people.It was another team that was actually in charge of carrying out the assassination mission. The person in charge of this team was Sarnen, and he had two very good blasting experts under him, Vinarov and Ettingon.

Previously, Soviet Russia had assassinated Zhang Zuolin many times, but all ended in failure.So this time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Soviet Cheka headquarters issued a death order that must be successful. If the executor fails, it means that they are not loyal enough to the revolution.And their family members will also be sent to labor camps for reform through labor because of their "disloyalty" to the revolution.Thinking of this, everyone has to cheer up immediately, redouble their efforts, and complete the glorious tasks entrusted to them by the organization.

The members of the "clearing" Zhang Zuolin special action team led by Sarnen were not the same as Yevgenia and the others. They gathered in Harbin one after another as Belarusian refugees.Considering Zhang Zuolin's habit of often returning to Fengtian by train, the special operations team decided to target the "clearance" operation between Shanhaiguan and Fengtian.

After approving the implementation plan, Moscow also made a supplementary plan: when implementing the "clearance" operation, it must direct its attention to the Japanese or the Wang Zhenyu Group, preferably to the Japanese, and send some staff Guiding public opinion in China.According to this instruction, the special operations team immediately started preparations, Vinarov was responsible for preparing the explosives, and Ettingon was responsible for selecting the location and route of the operation.He finally chose the old crossing at the intersection of Jingfeng Road (that is, the Beijing-Shenyang Line) and Nanman Road (that is, the Changchang Line), which must be passed by the train.Because the area is under the jurisdiction of the Japanese, it is easy to lead the suspicion of the explosion to the Japanese.At the same time, the third group was urgently established in Shanghai. Their task was to establish good relations with Chinese journalists and guide the entire public opinion when necessary.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Beijing was already the center of national railways, and the three main lines of Jingzhang, Jingfeng, and Jinghan radiated the whole country from Beijing.Zhengyangmen gathers two major railway stations, one is Zhengyangmen West Station, which is the starting point of the Beijing-Hankou (Beijing-Hankou) Railway; and Zhengyangmen East Station is the starting point of the Jingfeng (Beijing-Shenyang) Railway stand.

There are two major railway stations gathered outside the small Zhengyang Gate, which makes the traffic pressure in this area huge, and congestion often occurs, so we must find a way to solve it.To this end, the Beiyang government took two major measures. One was to renovate Zhengyangmen, mainly to dismantle the east and west moon walls of the Zhengyangmen urn city, and to open two gates on both sides of the city wall. The project was completed at the end of 1915; Ring Railway.The Ring Railway is an extension of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. It is planned that the Xizhimen Station of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway will start from west to east, pass through Deshengmen and Andingmen, then turn south from Dongzhimen, pass through Chaoyangmen and Dongbianmen to Zhengyangmen East Station, and connect with Beijing Bong rail connection.Each city gate has a station, which is convenient for passengers and goods to go up and down.

On April 1915, 4, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Bureau established a ring railway office in Xizhimen, and began to solicit contracts for various projects. On June 28, the railway project around the city was fully started. Stations were set up at each city gate, roadbeds were filled, urns were demolished, river ditches were repaired, and the Jingfeng Line was connected at Dongbianmen. On January 6, 16, the ring railway was officially opened to traffic, with a total length of about 1916 kilometers.In order to facilitate the joint transportation of goods on the Beijing-Han and Beijing-Zhangjiakou railways, a connection line was built between Xibianmen and Guang'anmen stations, about 1 kilometers long, and was completed in August 1.

The railway around the city runs around the inner city along the way. According to the analysis of the people at the time: "The only people who use the railway around the city are the four gates of Chaoyang, Dongzhi, Anding and Desheng in the northeast. These four gates are densely populated with streets and alleys in the city, and there are also streets outside the city. , shopping malls, and roads. If the outer city has the Jingfeng Railway and Jingyuan Railway in Yongdingmen, the Jingsui Railway in Guang’anmen, Zuo’anmen and Guangqumen, there are probably many vegetable gardens, wasteland, and graves in the city. Residents outside the city especially less, passengers and goods must be less than the inner city. Therefore, the survey route will not go around the outer city."

The direction of the Ring Railway is basically the same as that of the East Second Ring Road and the North Second Ring Road in Beijing today.Its completion satisfies the connection between the northern and eastern regions of the city; it connects the three main lines of Jingzhang, Jinghan, and Jingfeng into one, which facilitates the connection of various railways and the transfer and distribution of foreign goods.

At 12 a.m. on December 22, at Zhengyangmen East Railway Station in Beijing, a large group of tall and tall Fengjun armed with guns divided into two columns and ran to the front of the station very neatly, and then separated the two sides with guns.The staff at the station and the few passengers who took the night train immediately understood that this was the rhythm of some important people coming here to take the train, so they consciously gave way to the entrance passage in the middle, and then entered the station through the small gates on both sides.

In the middle of the night, the motorcade of Zhang Zuolin’s Marshal’s Mansion departed from Zhongnanhai and arrived at Zhengyangmen East Station. Senior Fengjun general Yang Yuting, who was ordered to stay in Beijing to deal with the aftermath, as well as Prime Minister Zhang Shaozeng and the heads of various ministries went to see him off one after another.The scene was also very grand for a while. After all, Zhang Zuolin, the generalissimo of the Anhui government, was in the central government without a president (after Xu Shichang died, a new president had not been elected, so the Beijing Congress used the generalissimo of the Anhui government as the president, and Zhang Zuolin became the president. The veritable supreme leader of the country) can be regarded as the real top leader.The power and influence are rare since Lao Yuan.So in the face of the senior officials who came to see them off, Zhang Zuolin was also very energetic in recent years, looked at everyone with a smile on his face, and chatted with everyone kindly one by one, which seemed to be a farewell.