Chapter 462: No War in North China (8)
I have to say that Tada Jun is very good at grasping people's hearts, and he knows very well what Wang Kemin, Wang Ji, Tang and others are. These people could grovel as servants when the Japanese were strong, but when the Japanese were no longer strong, they would look for new masters, and even take them as gifts of allegiance to the new masters or as a letter of nomination. From this point of view, there are many similarities between the personalities of these traitors and the Japanese.
As soon as Tada Jun's words fell, the faces of Wang Kemin and the others suddenly became extremely pale, and they never imagined that the powerful Japanese Empire would be defeated in such a short period of time, and now the entire northern Shanxi, northwest Shanxi, southern Shanxi, southeastern Shanxi, eastern Hebei, northern Hebei, southern Zhanan, southern Hebei, and other places have been lost, and even Baoding, the most important military stronghold in the central Hebei region, was lost two days ago, and now the Japanese army in the entire northern part of China has been surrounded by Chinese troops in a limited number of large cities such as Beiping, Shimen, and Taiyuan.
Now there is no slightest chance of a military counterattack, and they are also clear about the number of troops in Beiping City, counting Qi * Yuan's Jingsui army added up to only more than 30,000 people, and the Japanese army with real combat effectiveness is less than 10,000 people, even if Major General Kunizaki Noboru brought back a few thousand people from the Zhangjiakou front, it is not enough to see, you must know that the Chinese army besieging Beiping is no less than 100,000 people.
What worries Wang Kemin and others the most is that now the Japanese army is full of vigilance against the Jingsui Army, all the officers of the Jingsui Army are under centralized supervision, and the soldiers are completely under the direct command of the Japanese army.
As for what was said in the subsequent meeting, Wang Kemin and the others did not hear it clearly, they knew that as long as the Japanese were finished, they would have no hope of survival, although they also did not like these Japanese who were high up on weekdays.
When Tada Jun ordered the families of Wang Jitang, Wang Kemin and others to be "protected" together, Wang Kemin and others realized that their naivety was about to change, and the Japanese had begun to worry about them, or the Japanese had never believed them in their hearts. The reason why I didn't behave so excessively before was entirely because the Japanese were strong before, and they didn't care about them jumping at all, and they could be slapped to death at any time if they jumped so hard. But now the strength of the Japanese has dropped to the extreme, and they have been beaten back by the Chinese army, so they are afraid, afraid that these big and small traitors in the city will collude with the Chinese army outside the city, so they not only control all the officers of the Imperial Army, but now they also have to control their family members, in case they do something "irrational".
But Wang Kemin and others knew the intentions of the Japanese army, but they didn't dare to say anything, they knew very well what Tada Jun was waiting for. Now there are monkeys all over the ground, and there is a lack of a chicken to scare the monkeys, and whoever dares to jump out now will definitely have a tragic ending. After the meeting, under the "protection" of the Japanese military police squad, Wang Kemin and others returned to their respective homes.
Xu Shiyou and others didn't know anything about what happened in Beiping City, but Han Yunhua soon received news from the intelligence department. At the same time, the Central Special Branch conveyed information to him for the first time, and the comrades who were lurking within the Japanese army and were subordinate to the Central Special Branch sent an urgent telegram to the Beiping underground organization, saying that the Japanese puppet army had produced irreconcilable contradictions, and that the Japanese army had now sent people to guard all the traitors and their families in Beiping City, and that two to five Japanese military policemen at the door of each of the little traitors, such as Wang Jitang and Wang Kemin, were directly stationed in their homes. In addition, all the puppet army officers were also shot and put into custody, and all the commanders of the puppet army were taken over by the Japanese army.
Regarding the news from the Central Special Branch, Han Yunhua looked at it again and again, and finally determined that he was really dealing with that mysterious intelligence organization. The Central Special Branch is a secret within the Communist Party, except for a few senior leaders, very few people know about this organization, and Han Yunhua only learned about such an organization in some documents declassified in later generations.
More and more detailed information about this central organization was only known after Han Yunhua returned to Yan'an this time, it turned out that this guy possessed by Han Yunhua was subordinate to the Central Special Branch before, and the level was not low, but because of Han Yunhua's arrival, he lost contact with the superior leaders of the Special Branch. ,
However, the chairman and the others also knew that Han Yunhua's brain had been seriously injured and had lost a large part of his memory, and they saw that Han Yunhua's combat command ability was really good, so the leaders of the special department did not recall him. But Han Yunhua's development is really surprising, in just a few years, he has become the most famous general in the Eighth Route Army and even in the country, although in the eyes of outsiders, Han Yunhua is not a general who has won all battles, but he is a general with the greatest record.
In view of Han Yunhua's current status and identity, under the chairmanship, the Central Special Branch concentrated on destroying all of Han Yunhua's files in the Central Special Branch, some of which are not related to outsiders, but Han Yunhua knows that this is because Chairman Mao of the Party Central Committee does not want outsiders to know that such a general as him will be a "spy".
When the chairman told Han Yunhua about his special identity, he himself was shocked. Later, the chairman told him that the Central Special Branch was set up by Vice Chairman Zhou in November 1927.
The Central Special Section was mainly responsible for the setup of the central organs and other security work, and most of the cadres in the early days of the Central Special Section were also from the Special Service Section, and Han Yunhua's position before going to the front line was the deputy head of the First Guard Team of the General Affairs Section of the Central Special Branch. After the introduction of the chairman and others, Han Yunhua can be regarded as having a real understanding of the Central Special Branch, which is a super-small elite "special force". Its members are rigorously selected, and all of them are skilled and courageous. Among its members were marshals, generals and generals of the later People's Liberation Army, chiefs and deputy chiefs of the General Staff, as well as deputy prime ministers and ministers of the Republic.
This time, it was the members of the Second Special Section, that is, the Intelligence Section, who provided information to Han Yunhua's department. Speaking of the Intelligence Section, it is incredible, its two section chiefs before and after are the most famous figures in the Central Special Section -- Chen Geng and Pan Hannian. Vice Chairman Zhou once praised the six most outstanding intelligence officers of the Communist Party of China as the "top three heroes" and "last three heroes" of the Communist Party of China's intelligence. The "top three heroes" were Qian Zhuangfei (not Qian Zhuangfei of the Inner Mongolia Military Region), Li Kenong and Hu Di, all of whom worked under Chen Geng's direct leadership. And Pan Hannian is one of the "Later Three Masters". The task of the Intelligence Section was to grasp the enemy's movements in order to take action before the enemy moved, to ensure the safety of the central organs and party leaders, and to inform the Soviet districts of military intelligence.
The intelligence section of the Central Special Branch can be said to be the most important intelligence department of the Chinese Communist Party, and the intelligence resources at its disposal are more complete and important than any intelligence organization under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Many of them have even served in the Japanese puppet army, and some have held important positions next to senior officials of the Nationalist government. It was the former kind of person who provided intelligence to Han Yunhua's department this time, and this working method of infiltrating the enemy's interior was created by Vice Chairman Zhou.
In leading the work of special science, Vice Chairman Zhou has explored a set of secret working methods that have repeatedly achieved results. The most important method of obtaining intelligence is to develop two types of intelligence relations within the enemy, that is, "punching in" and "pulling out" that are directly aimed at the enemy's vital points. The so-called "penetration" means that capable personnel are selected to penetrate the enemy's important departments and obtain core secrets. On the issue of whether or not to send people to the enemy's special organs, the Central Special Committee had different opinions, fearing that this would help the enemy, but Vice Chairman Zhou resolutely instructed: "You should bring it over!" Under his guidance, Qian Zhuangfei, Li Kenong, and Hu Di, who were later hailed by him as the "Three Heroes of Longtan," broke into the core organs of the Kuomintang Central Committee, enabling the party to grasp every move of the Kuomintang's top command organ for spy intelligence. Among the large amount of important information obtained, the most valuable was the timely detection of the top-secret information on the defection of Gu Shunzhang, who held the party's core secrets. After learning of the information, Vice Chairman Zhou immediately took a series of emergency measures to avoid this devastating sabotage with unimaginable consequences. The so-called "pulling out" means trying to win over the personnel of the enemy's important departments to provide our party with secret information. Vice Chairman Zhou stressed: To establish a strong counter-espionage relationship, it is necessary to make extensive choices, boldly use them, give full play to their talents, and test them in their work. He studied and approved the special branch to draw out the first important counterespionage relationship in the investigation section of the Organization Department of the "Central Committee," the professional anti-communist leading organ of the Kuomintang, Yang Dengying (Bao Junfu), a special commissioner of the Kuomintang in Shanghai. Taking advantage of his special position and relations with various quarters, Yang repeatedly provided information on the Kuomintang secret service operations and the traitors and spies hidden within the CPC, and helped the arrested comrades Ren Bishi and Guan Xiangying to be released, thus playing an important role in defending the party Central Committee, cleaning up internal traitors, and cracking down on enemy agents, and became one of the earliest successful examples in the history of the party's intelligence and reconnaissance work in winning over and using secret anti-intermediary forces. ,
After receiving this information from the Central Special Branch, Han Yunhua pondered for a long time, every member of the Central Special Branch was an elite, they lurked inside the enemy, dangerous and lonely. He knew very well what the Central Special Branch meant by providing him with this information, which was to let him take advantage of the contradictions between the Japanese puppet army and then create conditions to liberate Beiping.
But Han Yunhua knew the price to be paid by these special branch members for passing on such a piece of information, and to be honest, he admired and was a little grateful to the personnel engaged in intelligence work. To be honest, he was sure of the performance and contribution of all intelligence officers, including Qian Zhuangfei, in their work, but he did not have the slightest good impression of their work, he felt that these people were gloomy and cautious all day long. In particular, the spies of the Nationalist Government left a deep impression on him, so he was not interested in dealing with these people.
After struggling for a while, Han Yunhua sent this point to Xu Shiyou on the front line, ordering him to take Beiping City within ten days. At the same time, the whole army of the 300th Division went north to besiege Tianjin, and the independent 77th Division took Tangshan City at all costs, and half a month later the whole army congratulated the victory in Beiping City.
What kind of person is Xu Shiyou, after receiving Han Yunhua's telegram, he began to send people to contact Wang Kemin, Wang Jitang and others, although these people are hardcore traitors, but at that time they were full of contradictions with each other, as long as they were used, it was not difficult to force one or several of them to surrender to Han Yunhua's subordinates.
Moreover, people like this are very knowledgeable about current affairs, and as long as they see someone surrendering to the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, others will soon be unable to sit still. Besides, now that the relationship between the Japanese army and them has dropped to a freezing point, it is the right time to drive a wedge between these guys.
The breakthrough point of this dissension plan, Xu Shiyou, put it on the "two kings", and the two kings refer to Wang Kemin and Wang Jitang. As a veteran politician in the Beiyang era, Wang Yitang, who represents the Anhui line, and Wang Kemin, who represents the direct line, were once sworn enemies, and the two attacked each other and were incompatible. On December 14, 1937, under the busyness of Wang Yitang and others, the provisional government of the puppet Republic of China was proclaimed in Beiping. As the founder, Wang Yitang has "made great contributions" in it. But then, when the government power was divided, Wang Kemin, chairman of the Executive Committee of the puppet government, planned to appoint Wang Yitang as the head of the Ministry of the Interior.
However, Wang Kemin's proposed appointment was resolutely resisted by Wang Jitang, who resigned from the so-called interior minister. In fact, it is not that Wang Jitang does not like high-ranking officials and generous officials, but that Wang Yitang is cunning and cunning, he not only wants to get some fame and benefits from the puppet regime, but also wants to bear less responsibility for betraying the country. For this reason, he racked his brains and proposed that a "relief department" should be set up in order to provide relief to the disaster-stricken areas, and that he should be the head of the department. Wang Yitang's abacus is very fine: in this way, he can not only enrich his own pockets in the name of "relief", but also deceive the people in the name of "relief", which is really a way to kill two birds with one stone.
However, Wang Kemin is also a veteran of officialdom, and he saw through Wang Yitang's intentions, so he said that disaster relief is only a temporary task, and no special department should be set up, but only a disaster relief committee, which is attached to the administrative committee. The profit-hungry Wang Yitang was not satisfied with a small committee, so he began a fierce quarrel with Wang Kemin.
The traitors, large and small, saw the quarrel between the soul figures, fearing that it would affect the unity of the puppet government organization, and hurriedly came out to persuade them, and the Japanese urged them to speed up the organization of the puppet government, ordering it to open immediately after the fall of Nanjing, and finally they formed a set of compromise plans: set up a "relief department", with Wang Yitang as the general director, responsible for relief, agricultural loans, health, and administrative affairs. In this way, in addition to the administration, education, public security, and justice ministries of the puppet provisional government, there was an additional nondescript "relief department", which set a precedent for the establishment of government agencies in modern Chinese history, and it can be regarded as the first initiative of traitors such as Wang Yitang.
After Wang Yitang happily took office as the head of the puppet government's relief department, he began to fill his pockets. Wang Kemin, the head of the puppet government, had always been obsessed with this matter, and finally at the end of 1938, in the name of enriching the government agencies, the Ministry of Administration was abolished, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was reorganized, and Wang Yitang was appointed as the chief minister, reducing Wang Yitang's power. Although Wang Yitang was deeply dissatisfied with this, it was difficult to speak. Shortly thereafter, Wang's puppet government was established in Nanjing, and the puppet provisional government in Beiping was renamed the "North China Political Affairs Committee." Wang Kemin proposed that Wang Yitang should be the president of the "Examination Yuan" of Wang's puppet government, and expelled him from the "North China Political Affairs Committee" under the pretext that Wang's puppet government should also include people from the former provisional government. Wang Yitang was annoyed and ashamed, he took advantage of the contradiction between Wang Kemin and Wang Jingwei, and did everything possible to curry favor with Wang Jingwei in the position of the dean of the "Examination Yuan", trying to use Wang Jingwei's power to confront Wang Kemin, and finally got his wish, and squeezed his "son-in-law" Wang Kemin out of power in June 1940, and became the chairman of the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee, becoming the number one traitor in North China. Since then, Wang Yitang and Wang Kemin, the "son-in-law" of Weng, have completely turned their faces, and the two have scolded each other. ,
The relationship between Wang Kemin and Wang Jitang has long been well known, so this time Xu Shiyou put the breakthrough of dividing and winning over the puppet army traitors on this pair of "Weng sons-in-law".
On December 27, 1940, on the third day of the siege of Xu Shiyou's department, a major event occurred in the city of Beiping. Just last night, the home of Wang Kemin, chairman of the Executive Committee of the puppet government, was attacked by unknown armed elements, but the Wang family did not have any deaths, but the military police squadron that Tada Jun sent to protect the Wang family suffered heavy losses, and a whole 180-man military police squadron was wiped out by more than a dozen unknown figures in just ten minutes, and no one survived, including the squadron leader. And judging by the scene, the enemy had only a small force of less than thirty people.
At the same time, several other traitors in Beiping City were also attacked, but only Wang Jitang's family did not have an accident. Post-mortem statistics. In less than half an hour last night alone, the Japanese gendarmerie lost more than 300 men, and not even a shadow of the enemy was seen.
This incident attracted the attention of Tada Jun and Yamaguchi Umeko, and the gendarmerie and the so-called security teams went around to arrest the suspects. At first, they thought that the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region did it, but after investigation, they found that these people eventually disappeared into the barracks, and there was no change in the barracks of the Imperial Association Army at that time. That only shows that these attackers were originally puppet armies belonging to various factions, not the so-called Chinese special combat teams.
Tada Jun was furious after receiving the report from Yamaguchi Meizi, and scolded Wang Jitang, Wang Kemin, and Qi * Yuan after calling them, and strictly ordered them to hand over the murderers within ......a time limit, otherwise the imperial army would no longer protect their lives.