On July 1, 1941, the Wang Puppet regime officially began to implement the "Qingxiang Movement".
The so-called rural Qing Dynasty movement will be divided into military Qing Xiang Qing, political Qing Xiang Qing, economic Qing Xiang Qing and ideological Qing Xiang Qing.
This also means the beginning of the so-called "three-point military and seven-point politics" proposed by Wang Jingwei!
The Qingxiang Movement first started in southern Jiangsu, and then in the southeast of Taihu Lake, the suburbs of Shanghai, and the Suhuai Special Zone.
These places are the core areas of the Shanghai District of the Military Command Bureau.
On July 1, Meng Shaoyuan, director of the Supervision Office of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and Wu Jingyi, district director and secretary of the Shanghai District of the Military Unification Bureau, jointly launched the "Anti-Qingxiang Movement".
Faced with the military clearing out the countryside, Meng Shaoyuan ordered that the military-tong loyalty and salvation army should work closely with local guerrilla armed forces and military groups to break the Japanese and puppet troops' raids.
These military groups also include the Fourth Route Army.
This is not the first time Meng Shaoyuan has cooperated with the Fourth Route Army. We have had many successful cooperation experiences before.
On July 1, the day when the Qingxiang Movement officially began, two detachments of the Loyalty and National Salvation Army, under the command of Song Deng and Wei Yunzhe, and coordinated by two regiments of the Fourth Route Army, launched an attack on the Fourth Division of the Southern Jiangsu Puppet Army. .
During the battle, the Eighth Puppet Brigade suddenly entered the battlefield, leaving the Puppet Fourth Division defenseless and completely defeated.
In this battle, deputy division commander Lu Yijin was killed, and more than 2,200 puppet troops were annihilated and captured.
This gave the Qingxiang Movement a big mouth.
Before the battle began, the Military Command Bureau had done a lot of work.
They first instigated the rebellion of the Eighth Brigade with the cooperation of Gong Lucai, the hero of the uprising and the former commander of the Second Division of the Appeasement Army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces.
Then, all the troop deployment and other information of the Pseudo Fourth Division were completely sent to the attacking troops.
The Pseudo-Fourth Division has no secrets.
This is a brilliant victory!
The news that the Puppet Fourth Division was defeated greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in southern Jiangsu during the Anti-Japanese War.
The anti-Japanese arrogance in southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu and other places is rising!
The gnashing teeth of the Japanese and the Wang puppet regime increased the rewards for Meng Shaoyuan and Wu Jingyi!
Meng Shaoyuan's reward was raised to 6 million yen, while Wu Jingyi's reward was raised to 1 million yen.
This is undoubtedly an astronomical reward.
However, Meng Shaoyuan was not satisfied, very dissatisfied.
"Damn it, two years ago, the Japanese offered a reward of 5 million yen to deal with me. How come my head only gained 1 million yen in two years?"
Meng Shaoyuan became angry from shame.
"Yeah, I'm worth four million. How valuable is my head?" Wu Jingyi was also curious.
"Hey, then our combined value is worth seven million yen?" Meng Shaoyuan's problem with his funny head has always come from what he said: "One day we run out of money, you take my head , if I take your head and give it to the Japanese, wouldn’t we just make a fortune?”
"You really need to see a doctor." What else could Wu Jingyi do besides smile bitterly?
However, Master Meng's head is really valuable, almost as valuable as Dai Li's.
"Report!" Xiao Zhong walked in: "Mr. Dai from Chongqing called, and the 'Sun Hunting' plan has been approved."
"'Hunting the Sun'? When did I make this plan?" Meng Shaoyuan felt baffled.
"I'm sick and I need to go see him."
Wu Jingyi couldn't laugh or cry: "Isn't it the 'Pig Head' plan you formulated and declared?"
Meng Shaoyuan suddenly realized.
Before, he made a plan:
Japanese people wearing military uniforms are targeted for killing, regardless of their military rank or position. There is no need to declare. They will be killed on the spot if they succeed. The execution location is limited to the Japanese-occupied area and its sphere of influence!
He named this plan the "Pig Head" plan and submitted it to Dai Li for approval.
In fact, Meng Shaoyuan had great authority and did not need Dai Li's consent at all. The "Pig Head" project was already in full swing, and the application was nothing more than a formality.
Dai Li's call back came quickly. He didn't say whether he agreed with the plan or not. He just said this:
"I think you are a pig. Do you have any decent code names for various operations in Shanghai?"
But when Master Meng gets a code name, it's really not a decent one.
What wild boar intestines?
Now comes another "pig head" plan.
In the end, it was Wu Jingyi who changed the name of the plan to "Hunting Day"!
"I still think the 'Pig Head' plan sounds good." Meng Shaoyuan muttered.
Immediately, his face straightened:
"The 'Hunting Day' plan has officially begun!"
Hunting the sun, targeting all Japanese troops!
Meng Shaoyuan had the confidence to do this!
In 1941, both the Shanghai District of the Military Command Bureau and the entire military command had reached their peak state!
In this year, in order to strengthen the anti-Japanese activities in South Asia, Dai Li went to Myanmar twice to establish an intelligence network. In Southeast Asia, "as long as there are Chinese ancestry, there are Dai Li's intelligence agents."
He also obtained 1,000 commercial truck licenses through Peacock Company, ensuring the transportation of international supplies during wartime.
The number of staff in the Military Command Bureau has reached more than 80,000.
The total number of the Loyalty and Salvation Army and guerrilla armed forces from various places exceeds 600,000!
In the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions, the armed forces directly controlled by Meng Shaoyuan exceeded 200,000!
This does not include civilian armed forces and reserve forces.
Meng Shaoyuan alone controls one-third of the military's armed forces!
His power and strength are so great that no force dares to underestimate him.
The regular national army guerrilla forces under the direct command of the Military Commission of the National Government must also obtain Meng Shaoyuan's permission and support for activities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
The chief of the Japanese secret service in Shanghai, Sasaki Akira, once lamented:
"If Meng Shaoyuan doesn't die for a day, if I don't think about food and drink for a day, I will be awakened even when I sleep."
The higher-ups initially disagreed with the six million yen reward. The number was too large and the Japanese believed it was not worth spending so much money on a spy leader.
At this time, Japan's foreign exchange reserves were only a pitiful 20,000 German marks.
However, this reward has the full support of Kenji Doihara, the former head of the Japanese secret service stationed in Shanghai and now the Japanese army general and aviation director!
He said: "As long as we can get rid of Meng Shaoyuan, even if we pay ten times the price, it is completely worth it. If the military department still doesn't agree, then I will sell the iron to help Shanghai raise the funds!"
Kenji Doihara personally experienced the terror from Meng Shaoyuan.
Even if he is not in Shanghai now, he can still feel Yingzuo Zhenzhao's despair as if he was experiencing it himself!
As long as Meng Shaoyuan is around, he alone can exert strong pressure on the Japanese special forces and the Wang puppet regime.
The existence of the Meng Shaoyuan Group hindered Japan and the Wang puppets everywhere in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
The Qingxiang Movement, which was particularly valued by the Japanese and Wang Puppet regime, could not be launched smoothly.
"He is a myth." Koichi Hahara once said: "One person can defeat a hundred thousand soldiers. Originally, I didn't believe it, but there was a person in Shanghai who did it!"
