August 1937.
The "Battle of Songhu" that Meng Shaoyuan was familiar with was getting closer and closer.
Meng Shaoyuan decided to wait quietly for this moment to arrive.
This will be an earth-shattering and tragic war.
Later generations have always had different opinions on whether the Nationalist Government was right in actively seeking a decisive battle in Shanghai.
Meng Shaoyuan was a staunch supporter of the decisive battle in Shanghai.
The arguments that the Chinese army has poor mobility, abandoning the decisive battle in North China, and decisively fighting in East China, etc., have been discussed and verified by countless experts.
Meng Shaoyuan only had one idea:
In Northeast China, the Japanese took action first; in Peiping, the Japanese took action first. Do we have to wait passively for the Japanese to take action in Shanghai?
It's like two boxers on the stage, one heavyweight and one lightweight. The lightweight is always passively defensive and will definitely lose.
If you take the initiative, you may be able to find a glimmer of hope.
My thoughts may be wrong, but since something is bound to happen, why do I have so many worries?
Shanghai will be lost, but at least the Nationalist Government has completed its evacuation to the southwest.
Moreover, in the land of Shanghai, a piece of Japanese meat was severely bitten off.
If you want to fight, then fight!
The pace of war is approaching.
The Chairman began to mobilize troops frequently.
Target:
Hongkou!
The 523rd Regiment of the 88th Division put on security uniforms and entered the Wuqiao area of Zhabei to secretly station, deploy defenses and build fortifications.
On August 9, the 523rd Regiment of the 88th Division based in Wuxi disguised itself as a security team and sneaked into Zhabei, Shanghai in batches. They rented private houses in the Zhabei area and built reinforced concrete bunkers indoors.
There will be more Chinese troops entering Shanghai.
At this point, war is inevitable.
Regardless of whether China and Japan are willing to fight or not, whether they are ready or not...
August 9th.
Meng Shaoyuan had dinner early in the morning.
Just like the day of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, if a person knows what is going to happen, it will actually be a kind of torture for him.
His eyes were always fixed on the phone on his desk.
His psychology at this time was a bit complicated. He knew that the phone would definitely ring in a while, but he didn't want it to actually ring.
Meng Shaoyuan checked the time.
5 o'clock.
That Oyama Yuuo and Saito Yozo have already set off, right?
Everything can be imagined in reverse.
Although the Oyama Isamu incident provided an excuse for the Japanese, why didn't it also provide an excuse for the Chinese?
Time passes minute by minute.
5:45.
The phone on the desk finally rang.
Meng Shaoyuan, who had been a little nervous just now, felt inexplicably relaxed when he heard the phone ringing.
He answered the phone: "I'm Meng Shaoyuan."
"Director Meng, something big happened." Zhou Weilong's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Just now, at 5:30..."
Meng Shaoyuan knew clearly what happened without the other party having to tell him.
Two Japanese were killed.
At 5:30 pm on August 9, 1937, Isamu Oyama, the squadron leader of the Western Expedition Team of the Marine Corps stationed at Toyota Cotton Mill in Japan, Saito and Zangzang drove to various sections of the Shanghai Public Settlement to investigate the actions of the Chinese regular army.
The two went straight to the entrance of Hongqiao Airport along Baili South Road, Beas Road, Paifang Road and Hongqiao Road, which were built across the border.
When the airport guards saw Japanese soldiers approaching, they fired their guns and shot Dashan to death in the car. Saito suddenly turned the car around and drove on the original road. The airport guards continued to shoot. Saito abandoned the car and hid in the fields, but was still shot dead in the end.
After the airport garrison killed Dashan and Saito, they found that the Japanese side had no follow-up troops. They quickly called Zhang Zhizhong, the security headquarters, and Zhang Zhizhong sent Zhu Xia, director of the staff department, to immediately drive to handle the matter.
Zhu Xia immediately ordered Dashan and Saito's cars to be moved 300 meters to the entrance of Hongqiao Airport to create a second scene.
"I know." Meng Shaoyuan replied calmly.
"Director Meng, you are still so calm after such a big thing?" Zhou Weilong's somewhat helpless voice came from the other end of the phone: "By order of the peak, Meng Shaoyuan will join the Chinese investigation team immediately and rush to the Songhu Security Headquarters to report .”
"clear."
Meng Shaoyuan walked out calmly: "Prepare the car."
"Director Meng, where are you going?"
"Don't ask any questions, prepare the car." Meng Shaoyuan's tone had never been so stern: "Let the brothers outside be on standby at any time."
At this moment, he seemed to have smelled the smoke of gunfire...
When Meng Shaoyuan arrived at the security headquarters, the place seemed extremely chaotic.
Zhu Xia, director of the Staff Division of the Security Command, was appointed by General Zhang Zhi as the leader of the Chinese investigation team.
Although Meng Shaoyuan had never met Zhu Xia, the matter was serious and no one dared to neglect it. When they met, Zhu Xia did not exchange greetings: "Director Meng, you came at the right time. It was specifically stated above that you have the people to handle this matter." Experience. Do you know what happened?"
"I understand." Meng Shaoyuan nodded: "How is Director Zhu going to deal with it?"
"I fabricated a scene." Zhu Xia called Meng Shaoyuan aside and lowered his voice and said, "Moreover, I secretly sent people to find a death row prisoner named Shi Jingzhe, asked him to change into military police uniforms, and put him Kill them at Hongqiao Airport, and then create a fake scene where the Japanese army first shot and killed our military police when they forcibly broke into the airport, and then our military police fought back."
Meng Shaoyuan understood the whole story too well and pretended to frown: "Death row prisoner? Director Zhu, there will be many flaws if a death row prisoner pretends to be a military policeman. Once discovered by the Japanese, the consequences will be disastrous."
"I know, but the matter is urgent and I can't take care of it." Zhu Xia said in a hurried tone: "The advance team of the Japanese investigation team is about to arrive. I am fully prepared. What happened was too sudden. The Japanese were killed. They were all regular troops posing as military police and had no experience in dealing with Japanese scouts. As soon as they saw Japanese people wearing military uniforms, they opened fire as soon as possible."
When Oyama died, he was dressed in military uniform, wearing a military hat, white gloves, a saber, long military boots, and no pistol.
According to the memories of Murata Renhei and Miyazaki and others from Oyama Yuuo’s unit:
"At that time, the squad leader (sic) would normally wear civilian clothes and take a noncommissioned officer out with him. But that day, he was wearing military uniforms and wearing a long sword, and he and the driver only went out for inspections... Usually they went out outside the concession. I went out in casual clothes, and I would talk about it wherever I went. I didn’t say anything that day. I might have worn military uniform to go to the headquarters, but I didn’t ask. I asked the health corpsman behind me, and he said he was going to inspect outside the concession. I wanted to wear military uniform. How dangerous is that?" "
Meng Shaoyuan said calmly: "Wearing military uniforms? What do these Japanese want to do? Director Zhu, if there is anything you need me to do, please just give me your orders."
Zhu Xia nodded: "My people have no experience in doing this kind of thing. You rush to the scene I arranged immediately to see if there are any flaws. According to our agreement with the Japanese, their advance team has another It’s just hours later.”
"I know, I'll leave immediately."
Meng Shaoyuan raised his wrist to check the time again.
The scene arranged by Zhu Xia was extremely busy.
All three bodies have been arranged.
The person in charge here is Ji Zhangjian, the head of the Shanghai Security Corps.
At this time, not only here, but the entire Shanghai and the entire National Government began to get busy.
Shanghai Mayor Yu Hongjun and Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government Zhou Jue called the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai and the Japanese Navy respectively. The Japanese side first stated that no soldiers had gone out, and then said that Oyama went out privately after drinking.
At 10 o'clock that night, Yu Hongjun negotiated with the Consulate General in Japan and described the incident, advocating that the incident should be resolved through diplomatic channels to avoid escalating the situation, and the Japanese side also agreed.
And this Sino-Japanese joint investigation team will also become the key among the key.
"Director Meng, come here quickly and take a look." Ji Zhangjian was so busy that he didn't even have time to breathe. When he saw Meng Shao, he felt like he had seen a savior:
"The two Japanese corpses are here. The death row prisoner... no, a member of my security team... Shi Jingzhe, his body is right there. Go and see if there are any flaws?"
Meng Shao originally inspected the two Japanese corpses. Not long after looking at them, he shook his head:
"Mr. Ji, the bullet was shot from the rear of the Japanese into the head and abdomen and exploded in the body. This is the official warhead, which is also known as the dum bomb in the world. Where did a security team get the dum bomb? This is not a pretense. Tell the Japanese clearly that we violated the "Sino-Japanese Songhu Armistice Agreement" and transferred regular troops to Shanghai? Also, look at these two corpses, there are traces of secondary injuries from knives and blunt objects. These are all It’s a flaw.”
"What should we do?" Ji Zhangjian suddenly became nervous.
Meng Shaoyuan thought about it for a moment: "If you don't let go, let's say that your security team has some of the dum bombs discovered in Siming Office and Songbaili Street in the 21st year of the Republic of China... no, the official warheads... ...That batch of warheads was not completely destroyed...As for the secondary injuries on the bodies, just say that your subordinates were angry at the Marco Polo Bridge Incident."
After saying that, he made a special statement: "Besides, you have to hold on tightly. Two people, Oyama Yufu and Saito Yozo, were wearing military uniforms and carrying weapons and forcibly attacked the security team checkpoint. Damn it. , Actually this is not a lie, don’t they carry sabers? Sabers are not weapons? Damn it!”
After saying "fuck" several times, Ji Zhangjian suddenly felt that the spy chief was very interested in him.
It's not as gloomy as expected.
"Okay, then Director Meng, let's go take a look at Shi Jingzhe's body to see if there are any flaws."
Shi Jingzhe’s body?
What's there to see?
Meng Shaoyuan didn't need to look at it at all to confirm that Shi Jingzhe's body was full of flaws.
The Japanese are not stupid, so how could they not discover anything about the fake scene and fake corpse they created in a hurry?
Before he could speak, an officer came in hastily, panting.
"Oh no, the Japanese, those members of the Japanese investigation team have arrived early!"
