7.1 Stormy Xuzhou

Before leaving Nanjing, Huang Haoran left Rabe with three radio stations and a group of telecommunications personnel, and because of his influence on history, Huang Haoran had no way of knowing whether the horrific massacre would have happened. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Huang Haoran hoped that Rabe could use these radios to convey the truth about Nanjing to the Western world when the Japanese army began to carry out the massacre, and finally achieve the goal of restraining the behavior of the Japanese.

However, history's powerful ability to correct errors once again failed Huang Haoran's plan!

As a result of the traitor's denunciation, the radio and telecommunications personnel left by Huang Haoran to Rabe were surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese army after the fall of Nanjing, and after fierce fighting, only one seriously wounded radio operator and one radio station survived.

By the time the operator woke up from a long coma, the massacre carried out by the Japanese army in Nanjing had been going on for more than a week!

These humanoid beasts wrote "the darkest page in China's modern history" in the beautiful Jinling.

A large number of civilians were gathered in the city square by the Japanese army, tied up in several rows with wires, and taken to the bank of the river to be killed. Japanese officers had the recruits, who had just been added to the troops, use the civilians as a practice tool for fighting bayonets. The Chinese, who narrowly escaped under the bayonet, were doused with kerosene by the Japanese army and burned alive.

The Chinese soldiers who were not able to follow Huang Haoran out of the city of Nanjing were pushed to the ground with their hands and feet tied, and the Japanese soldiers drove military trucks to and fro on them! There were also some prisoners of war who were dismembered by the Japanese army, and then their broken corpses were fed to military dogs.

On the streets of Nanjing, Japanese soldiers put the severed heads of refugees on their guns, laughing and having fun.

Every building in the city was looted by the Japanese army, and vehicles, food, clothes, bedding, clocks, calligraphy and paintings, gold, silver and jewelry were all looted by the Japanese soldiers. In order to destroy the evidence of the robbery, the Japanese troops under the command of the officers set fires everywhere.

Until 10 days after the fall of Nanjing, there would be more than a dozen fires in the urban area every day, massacres and rapes were everywhere, the roads were full of the corpses of Chinese people, and the air was filled with the unique scorching smell of corpses after being burned, one-third of the urban area was burned, and a large area of no man's land appeared in the prosperous ancient capital of Jiangnan. The Chinese who survived could only hide in the "safe zone" set up by the International Committee, begging for an end to the disaster.

At the beginning of 1938, the city of Nanjing had become a purgatory on earth!!

The seriously injured radio operator used the last strength of his life to send out all the information collected by Rabe in clear code! The brutality shown by the Japanese army in the Nanjing Massacre shocked the whole world! Even the Nazi party members in Germany exclaimed in their reports to the German government that the Japanese army was a "group of beasts."

On January 10, Ta Kung Pao was the first to publish the news of the massacre carried out by the Japanese army in Nanjing, and soon, all the pages of domestic newspapers were covered with news related to the Nanjing Massacre!

Knowing about the crimes committed by the Japanese in Nanjing, the Chinese people were furious! Blood-pumping!

Excessive enthusiasm can easily turn into not being calm! After scolding the Japanese, the Chinese people who were extremely sad and indignant actually began to attack Huang Haoran, the decision-maker of the Battle of Nanjing, the highest authority and the commander who commanded the Battle of Nanjing!

In the face of the surging crowd, the highest authorities could not sit still!

The Battle of Nanjing was not wrong from a strategic and tactical point of view, due to Huang Haoran's outstanding performance, the Nanjing garrison was not obviously at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Japanese army, and this battle was no less than a shot in the arm for the Chinese army!

Now the defense of Nanjing has been unanimously criticized by the people! Such a situation could not have been imagined by the highest authorities in any way!

In order to appease the emotions of the Chinese people and guide the people's attention and hatred, the highest authorities issued the "Letter to the People on the Nanjing Massacre" at 13 o'clock in the afternoon of January 10, which reads as follows:

"Since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the total number of casualties among our front-line soldiers has reached more than 300,000, and the loss of people's lives and property cannot be counted. The enemy invaded China in two ways, one was swallowed by whales and the other was encroached. It has been proven that the present person has violently trapped our Nanjing, slaughtered our people, and carried out his entire ambition of conquering China. The scourge of whale swallowing is obvious, and the scourge of encroachment is slow and imperceptible. If the enemy relies on the chronic encroachment policy, infiltrates and erodes us to kill us unconsciously, it is difficult to ensure that there is no desire to follow the path and slack off the righteousness of the enemy and the common enemy.

China's land is vast and abundant, and Japan can swallow it, and the victory or defeat of the anti-Japanese resistance does not determine the loss of Nanjing, or the loss of any township, only the psychology of our whole people is anti-Japanese, if the father tells his son, the brother encourages his brother, everyone is hostile, step by step fortification, then within 40 million square miles of the country, everywhere can create a strong barrier visible and invisible, in order to control the enemy's death, in order to drive out the Japanese invaders, restore our China! ”

Under the instruction of the Wuhan government's propaganda organs, the domestic newspapers unified the chaotic caliber, pointed all the spearheads at the Japanese government and the Japanese army, and vigorously defended the supreme authorities and Huang Haoran. Finally, it was clearly pointed out that if the highest authorities had not placed Huang Haoran in the position of deputy commander of Nanjing's urban defense, I am afraid that the number of compatriots killed in Nanjing would have been even higher.

In less than 24 hours, Huang Haoran and the highest authorities completed a journey from heaven to hell and from hell to heaven!

Due to Huang Haoran's active efforts during the Battle of Nanjing, the final death toll of the Nanjing catastrophe changed from 300,000 in history to 100,000.

The commanders of the Nanjing Garrison Army in Anqing saw the clues from the Wuhan government's propaganda campaign for Huang Haoran, and there were not many names that could appear on the front page of the newspaper with the highest authorities in recent years, and it seems that it will not be long before Huang Haoran will rise to prominence!

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Xuzhou, the headquarters of the commander of the Fifth Theater.

The highest authorities arrested Han Fuqu in Kaifeng, and Chief Li finally let out a bad breath!

Han Fuyu openly disobeyed the military order and swaggered to lead the army to retreat, so that the Japanese army in North China easily passed through the entire territory of Shandong and approached Xuzhou, where the 5th Theater Command was located.

It's a pity that the threat of the Japanese army in North China to Xuzhou was not lifted because of Han Fuqu's arrest

The critical situation on the battlefield in Xuzhou is a severe test for Chief Li!

Xuzhou is located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, near the junction with Anhui, Henan and Shandong provinces. The Yellow Sea in the east, backed by the Central Plains, the south of the Jianghuai, the north of Qilu, because it is located in the north and south, it is called "the important town in the south, the key to the north gate", it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, from the 21st century BC of the Xia Dynasty Peng Boyi and Xihe Wuguan in Pengcheng to meet each other, to the Chu and Han Dynasty to fight, the three kingdoms to fight, until today's Xuzhou battle, there are more than 400 large-scale battles in Xuzhou, it can really be said: "Since ancient times Pengcheng is listed in Kyushu, the dragon fights the tiger for thousands of years."

At the most critical moment when the Chinese nation, which had suffered a great deal of disaster, was brutally ravaged by the iron hooves of Japanese imperialism and faced the most critical moment of national extinction, Xuzhou, an ancient and heroic city, once again became a stage for military strategists.

Xuzhou is located in the transportation hub between North China and Central China, and is also the passage from the Yellow Sea into the Central Plains, where the Jinpu Railway and the Longhai Railway meet, and the Grand Canal also passes nearby, so there are traffic conditions for transferring troops to all directions. If the Chinese army controls Xuzhou, on the one hand, it can cut off the Jinpu Road and isolate the Japanese army in North and Central China; On the other hand, it can maintain the Longhai Road, the main artery of China's military, block the Japanese army to the east of the Jinpu Road, block Central China, ensure the Zhengzhou and Pinghan Road, and give the rear of Wuhan sufficient time to redeploy, which is conducive to the protracted progress of the War of Resistance. If the Japanese army quickly occupies Xuzhou, it can combine the forces of the north and the south, advance west along the Longhai Road, take Zhengzhou directly, and take advantage of the flat terrain of Zhongzhou to give full play to the power of its mechanized troops, advance south along the Pinghan Road, and go down Wuhan in one fell swoop. After the fall of Nanjing, the Chinese army strategically defended the important barrier and advance base of Wuhan, the military command center, and Xuzhou was bound to defend. In order to open up the Jinpu line, communicate the two battlefields in the north and south, and then cut off the Longhai Road and threaten the side of the Pinghan Road, as a preparation for attacking Wuhan, it was also inevitable for Xuzhou.

The highest authorities ordered Chief Li to stay in Xuzhou for at least three months. But the highest authorities didn't give Chief Li any good cards!

Most of the troops in the five theaters were defeated troops who had retreated from the Beijing-Shanghai battlefield and the North China battlefield, and their morale was low, Xuzhou was located in the plain, and there was no natural danger to rely on.

The supreme authorities needed to rely on the troops of the 5th Theater under the command of Commander Li to drag the Japanese in the Central Plains so that his Central Army could be drawn out to reorganize the troops and expand their strength.

The highest authorities actually have more sinister intentions in pushing Chief Li to Xuzhou. It is the consistent practice of the highest authorities to use every opportunity to weaken their opponents by any means necessary. Since Zhang Shaoshuai and his Northeast Army were consumed by the supreme authorities, Chief Li's Gui line has become the biggest obstacle to the supreme authorities' unification of China, and the supreme authorities have not resolved the peace with Chief Li for more than ten years. Until Governor Li went to Beijing to resist the Japanese, Guangxi was actually a semi-independent kingdom outside of Nanjing. What is even more troublesome to the supreme authorities is that Chief Li's efforts to pursue autonomy in Guangxi have caused Liu Xiang in Sichuan and Long Yun in Yunnan to be quite restless, and they have always acted in defiance of the central government in Nanjing. Now that Chief Li is in command of the 5th Theater of Operations, once a miracle is created, the face of the supreme authorities will be bright, and the time required for the expansion and reorganization of the troops in Wuhan will also be settled, but the miracle will not be created, the Sichuan and Gui armies will be weakened, and the reputation of Chief Li will be dealt a blow, which is also what the supreme authorities cannot ask for.

The highest authorities are really shrewd, even if they are chased and beaten by the Japanese to this point, they will not let go of the old enemy of Chief Li!

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