This veteran, who had been ups and downs in the Republic of China for more than ten years, certainly knew how difficult it was to maintain a certain degree of independence in the turbid and ups and downs of the Republic of China.
First of all, you must not touch the interests of those big bosses in the Republic of China, and you must not show any ambition. You are harmless to humans and animals but have the means to protect yourself. It is completely like walking on a tightrope. If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss.
At the same time, you need someone in the court to help you speak for you, you need to be self-sufficient in weapons and food, and you don't want to be short-tongued.
The most important thing is to make those big forces disdain to mess with you, for fear of affecting your reputation.
If the middle forces want to deal with you, they have to pay a certain price. They are afraid that they will not get enough meat and will make a fishy noise, so they will have scruples about you.
The small forces are simply afraid of you and don't dare to offend you.
There are a lot of things going on here, and some people would be hard-pressed to do it even if they spend a lifetime working hard, but this Zhou Wen has created such a situation in just a few years, what a terrible future!
But these strategies have some inspiration for the future direction of him and the 29th Army.
No wonder Zhou Wen only maintains a team of a thousand men. No wonder he has so many masters, elite soldiers, and advanced equipment. All kinds of talents have come to work. It turns out that he has already settled the accounts clearly.
Others can tell by taking only three steps that they are an unrivaled master and talent, but this Zhou Wen can tell by taking only seven or eight steps. It's really weird.
Thinking of this, Admiral Song stopped trying to win over the officers who stayed in the Soviet Union, because he knew that he could not do anything other than make promises to high-ranking officials, and he did not want to do anything else.
As the saying goes, if we have different aspirations and different ways, it will be awkward to force them together.
So, he changed the topic, exchanged a few words with Meng Yuting about the battle, and then watched Meng Yuting and several guards ride away at the entrance of the village.
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Just when the Chinese army was in full swing, gathering troops and preparing to attack the Japanese army, the headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army was not idle either.
At 3 o'clock in the morning that night, in a suite of the Gordon Hotel in the British Concession of Tianjin, the ringing phone woke up a sleeper in the room.
This man was in his forties, with a slender face and a mustache. He was sleepily turning on the bedside lamp and picking up the bedside phone.
"Hey! Who is this?"
"Wang Jun, I'm sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night."
The voice coming from the phone made the middle-aged man sit up immediately, and the anxiety in his eyes disappeared instantly.
He picked up the glasses placed on the bedside table with one hand and put them on, while saying with some surprise: "It's Fujita-kun, what's wrong so late?"
It turned out that this middle-aged man was named Wang Shiqi, and he was a lieutenant general counselor on the Military Commission of the Republic of China.
The reason why he was in the British Concession in Tianjin was because he had a secret mission, which was to negotiate with the Japanese military representatives on behalf of the Republic of China government regarding the Rehe and Great Wall Incidents.
In fact, it has been almost a month since Wang Shiqi came to Tianjin.
Since the principal now only wanted to wipe out the Red Party and had no determination or preparation to resist Japan, the top leaders of the Republic of China asked the British to mediate and brought both parties to the negotiating table with the intention of making peace with Japan.
However, the current wave of anti-Japanese voices in the Republic of China was surging, and the principal was afraid of affecting his reputation, so he specially sent Wang Shiqi to Tianjin secretly to meet and negotiate secretly with Japanese representatives.
Three rounds of negotiations had been held with Major General Fujita Nobuyoshi, the representative of the Japanese Kwantung Army, but all had to be interrupted due to the overly strong and overbearing demands of the Japanese army.
During the Sino-Japanese negotiations in the British Concession in Tianjin, Japanese representative Fujita Keiyoshi was very arrogant and proposed very harsh conditions for an armistice.
The first is to ask the Republic of China government to recognize the existence of the Puppet Manchukuo and include the newly occupied Jehol Province into the territory of the Puppet Manchukuo.
Secondly, the Chinese army must not only withdraw from the Great Wall defense line, but also give up a large area of land from Miyun in the west to Kaiping in the east as a buffer zone between the Chinese and Japanese armies, and no soldiers are allowed to be stationed there.
The most egregious thing is to ask the Republic of China government to hand over the commander of the Chinese army that led to the collective destruction of the Japanese Mishan Brigade and the Huncheng 14th Brigade during the Great Wall War of Resistance to the Japanese army, and to make him public as the culprit of destroying Sino-Japanese friendship.
Judgment.
It was also claimed that if the above conditions were not agreed to, the Imperial Japanese Army's military front would be directed towards Peiping and Tianjin, and where it would ultimately stop would be determined by the combat power of the Kwantung Army.
In several negotiations, Fujita Keiyoshi never relented, and his attitude became stronger each time, which made Wang Shiqi and other negotiators extremely aggrieved and annoyed.
Especially after the Japanese army recently captured the Nantianmen at Gubeikou, Fujita showed Wang Shiqi a lot of photos of the corpses of our anti-Japanese soldiers on the battlefield, and showed them off complacently. This was an attempt to resist the Japanese.
This is the fate of the Imperial Army.
Wang Shiqi considers himself a patriotic soldier. He also studied in Japan early on and is very aware of the strength comparison between China and Japan.
He still has some understanding of the current situation in Japan and believes that it is unlikely that Japan will launch a full-scale war against China. In his advice to the Peking Military Commission, he believes that it is worthwhile to make some appropriate concessions in exchange for temporary peace.
Of course, the establishment of the Puppet Manchukuo cannot be publicly recognized, but this issue can be put aside for the time being and no longer entangled with the Japanese army.
The loss of Rehe Province is a fait accompli. Under the current situation that it is impossible to regain it due to the strength of the Chinese military, we can also adopt a method of avoiding talking about it. In fact, it is to admit the fait accompli.
But the Great Wall defense line must not give in. This is the bottom line.
Especially when our military units along the Great Wall have not yet suffered major losses or crises, giving up this last natural barrier in the North China Plain would mean that the two most prosperous and largest cities in northern China would
Peace and Tianjin will be safe.
Peiping, in particular, is the ancient capital of China. It has a very high historical status and significance in the hearts of the people across the country. Once it is lost, it means that there will be no room for change between China and Japan.
As for handing over the commanders of the Chinese army to trial by the Japanese army, it is even more nonsense.
Wang Shiqi considers himself a patriotic soldier who is devoted to his country, and would never agree to such ridiculous things that make relatives happy and enemies happy.
Moreover, no matter how cowardly and corrupt the current government of the Republic of China is, they will not dare to risk the disapproval of the world and hand over their country's patriotic heroes to their enemies.
However, the stalemate in the negotiations between the two parties prevented him from seeing any chance of reaching an agreement, and the constant calls from Nanjing and the Peking Military Commission made him feel great pressure.
Therefore, Councilor Wang Shiqi has been feeling quite exhausted mentally and physically over the past month, and has not been sleeping well.
I took a sleeping pill today and finally fell asleep, but I was awakened by a sudden phone call from Fujita Sueyoshi.