It is basically confirmed that a total of 15 people including Yoshikura Oshima, the manager of Yongjin Bank, Chieko, the lobby manager, and the following staff and security personnel were killed. The loss of funds is unknown and will not be confirmed until verification by Yongjin Bank headquarters.
Under the influence of the current Manchurian Incident, it is no longer possible for the Chinese government to provide any effective help in the robbery of Yongjin Bank. The investigation results can only be reported to Japanese agencies in various parts of China to assist in the investigation. It is too difficult to solve the case and arrest the murderer in a short time.
As a result, the explosion gradually faded out of people's sight with the passage of time and the cover-up of a series of actions by the Japanese Kwantung Army in the Northeast. At present, the focus of all Chinese and international attention is on Northeast China. When did the Northeastern Army stop retreating but rise up to resist? When will the army in China's customs go to Northeast China to join the war? Where is the bottom line of the Northeast Army? Where is China's bottom line?
"The bottom line of our country is that there is no bottom line." Before Zhou Wen's voice fell, there was an uproar around him.
Gao Xiaoshan roared angrily: "Awen, is it possible that our country is just watching the Japanese tyrannize in the Northeast, beating hundreds of thousands of people to pieces by tens of thousands? Are they still men?"
It turned out that this was Zhou Wen's third day back in Taiyuan. The joy of the mercenary group's success in robbing Japan's Yongjin Bank and the joy of the huge harvest had been replaced by a failed battle report and the reports of Fengtian, Siping, Yingkou, etc. in the northeast. The news that 18 towns along the South Manchuria Railway and the Anfeng-Fengcheng Railway, including Fenghuang City and Andong, had fallen was lost. What appeared instead were the unwilling and aggrieved faces of the brothers, and the angry and blank eyes of each pair.
Today, Zhou Wen held an enlarged meeting of the leadership of the mercenary group. Not only Gao Xiaoshan, Miaohua and Uncle Wu attended the meeting, but also Xu Dacheng, Zhang Xiaoping and the leaders of each group. The content of the discussion was the situation in Northeast China and future responses.
Gao Xiaoshan then looked at Zhou Wen expectantly and said: "Awen, is the country still gathering heavy troops? Yes, our country's local ladies cannot mobilize too many troops at once. They must be gathering heavy troops. That must be the case. . There are so many people and soldiers in our country, even one person can drown these tens of thousands of little Japanese with just a spit of spit."
Gao Xiaoshan and the other brothers who were infected by him looked at him with blood-red eyes, hoping that he could say "yes". Zhou Wen's heart felt as painful and uncomfortable as being cut with a knife, and he was speechless for a while.
The room fell into a dull silence for a while, with only Old Uncle Wu blowing out smoke one by one. In the smoke, Miaohua, who had been staring at the map, suddenly said: "Jinzhou, as long as Jinzhou is defended, the gate to the Northeast cannot be closed. As long as Jinzhou is defended, the troops in the pass can continue to move up, and then little Japan will It’s impossible to gain a foothold in the Northeast. I’m afraid the country is considering a decisive battle with Little Japan in Jinzhou, Awen, do you think so?”
Zhou Wen sighed. Even a low-level officer like Miaohua, who had only commanded dozens of people in large-scale battles, could see the problem. Could it be that the senior officials of the Northeast Army and the government couldn't see it?
When the Kwantung Army launched the September 18th Incident, Marshal Zhang was watching a theater in Fengtian and received a telegram that night. His first reaction was neither to send troops to counterattack nor to contact Japan for negotiations, but to immediately abandon Fengtian and order the troops to retreat to Jinzhou. The principal of Nanjing was in Jiangxi at the time. He only heard about the incident the next day and felt it was baffling (China and Japan were negotiating on Northeastern affairs at the time). It took another two days to return to Nanjing and officially received the news about the September 18th Incident. Report.
Nanjing's response was to contact the League of Nations and the Japanese for negotiation on the one hand, and on the other hand, send a telegram to Marshal Zhang to hold on to Jinzhou and wait for support from the Central Army. In addition, troops should be mobilized to prepare for war in areas such as Qingdao and Shanghai that may be landed by Japan. As a result, Mr. Zhang not only refused to send reinforcements to Heilongjiang, which was resisting bravely, but also stood still in Jinzhou, where the heavy troops were assembled, while Japan encroached on the Northeast for three months. After the Japanese took 4 months to conquer Northeast China, they asked Zhang Xueliang to withdraw from Jinzhou, otherwise they would launch an attack. The Nanjing government twice ordered Zhang Xueliang not to withdraw from Jinzhou, but Mr. Zhang refused to execute the order and directly led his troops to withdraw from Shanhaiguan in January 1932.
The established policy of the Nationalist Government in dealing with Japan is to negotiate and resist at the same time. It was also a provocation. When the Japanese invaded Shanghai, they were resolutely counterattacked by the Chinese 19th Route Army and persisted until the Central Army came for reinforcements. But Marshal Zhang's Northeastern Army is the largest warlord in the country. To be precise, the Nationalist Government cannot issue truly effective orders to him.
After the Central Plains War, the entire Northeast and most of North China became the territory of the Northeast Army. If he did not agree, the National Army belonging to the Nanjing government would not be able to enter these areas. Therefore, whether to resist or not is up to Marshal Zhang himself. And he led the Northeastern Army without firing a shot, and gave up the Northeast that his father had run for decades without directly contacting the Kwantung Army. The Nanjing central government could only stare at this and had nothing to do with him.
This situation of local disobedience to central military orders did not change until Japan fully invaded China six years later. At that time, China was already in a situation where there was no retreat and no escape. The only way out was for all the political and military forces in the country to Only when the forces unite and the whole country shares the same hatred and fights bravely can it be possible to save the national crisis that is about to be subjugated and annihilated. Only during that period did the central government basically implement orders and prohibitions, bring all the country's military forces under its command, mobilize them centrally, and focus on operations.
Only then can the central government truly enforce battlefield discipline and punish those warlords who ignore the national crisis and national justice and only want to preserve their strength.
A famous example occurred in the winter of 1937. The Japanese army launched a massive attack on Shandong. In order to preserve its strength, Chairman Han of Shandong Province abandoned Jinan without a fight.
When the Japanese army advanced to Shandong, Chairman Han, a second-level general of the country, faced the aggressive approach of the Japanese army. In addition, when the war was approaching, the principal did not trust him and transferred the Central Army's heavy artillery brigade promised to him to Tang Enbo's department. Han In order to preserve the strength of his direct troops, the Chairman almost retreated without a fight, and even took the initiative to abandon the natural dangers of the Yellow River and Mount Tai. Within a few days, he abandoned the Yellow River defense line that was originally expected to be defendable for several weeks.
As a result, at the subsequent military meeting, the central government immediately arrested and tried Chairman Han, and quickly executed him. This is also the only second-level national general to be executed by firing squad in the history of the Republic of China. No matter how many political factors were behind the execution of Chairman Han, or how many good governance and good deeds Chairman Han had done when he was in charge of Shandong Province, the crime of disobeying military orders to preserve his strength during the national crisis was enough to sentence him to death.
