Wang Jingwei was one of the elders of the Kuomintang, and after Sun Yat-sen's death he was the most prestigious person in the Kuomintang and was regarded as Sun Yat-sen's successor. Even before he became a traitor, he was still the most influential person in the Kuomintang besides Chiang Kai-shek.
I really don't understand, why would such a Wang Jingwei become a traitor?
In fact, at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Jingwei was not only not a traitor, but also a main war faction. After the September 18 Incident, Zhang Xueliang did not resist, and he also scolded Zhang Xueliang.
Not only that, he also forced Zhang Xueliang to resign, otherwise, he would go to the wilderness. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek welcomed Wang Jingwei to Nanjing and let him take charge.
Of course, Chiang Kai-shek put Wang Jingwei in charge on one condition, that is, to make him shoulder the responsibility of safeguarding national security. The Northeast Army was beaten by the Japanese army, and Wang Jingwei was of course very atmospheric.
Zhang Xueliang knew that what he had done was not right, and after losing the northeast, because of the pressure given by Wang Jingwei, he did resign. And it took a year to march in Europe.
However, during zhang Xueliang's march, Wang Jingwei's anti-Japanese attitude changed. It seems that he understood why Zhang Xueliang did not resist?
After all, the anti-Japanese resistance is a real gun and a real knife fight, and it is not so easy to shout slogans. Not only Wang Jingwei thinks so, Sun Ke also has such a feeling.
At first, Sun Keda scolded Zhang Xueliang for not resisting and let Zhang Xueliang guard Jinzhou. As a result, Zhang Xueliang gave Sun Keti conditions, and it was okay to keep Jinzhou, but you had to give me money, and it was necessary to fight a war. You still have to give me people, and I can't beat the Japanese army at this point.
To put it bluntly, Zhang Xueliang wanted to protect himself.
First, Sun Ke could not get money, and second, he could not mobilize the army. Even Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army could not command it in the northeast, and it was even more impossible elsewhere.
Therefore, he learned that the real anti-Japanese resistance was by no means so easy to shout slogans, and in order not to put on the hat of non-resistance like Zhang Xueliang, he directly chose to resign and let Wang Jingwei take over.
When Wang Jingwei came to power, the first thing he did was to force Zhang Xueliang, who did not act and resist, to resign.
In January 1932, the Japanese army wanted to divert the contradictions and attack Shanghai.
At that time, the nineteenth route army stationed in Shanghai was the Nineteenth Route Army, and the commander of the Nineteenth Route Army, Cai Tingkai, was a very hard-core military commander, who had long been unaccustomed to the shameless behavior of the Japanese army and wanted to fight a battle for the Japanese army in Shanghai.
However, Wang Jingwei did not want to fight.
The Japanese army told Wang Jingwei that Wang Jingwei should withdraw the Nineteenth Route Army stationed in Shanghai before January 29, otherwise, the soldiers would meet each other.
The Japanese army just wanted to fight, thinking that Wang Jingwei would not withdraw his troops, after all, Shanghai was China's territory. However, Wang Jingwei still withdrew his troops, on the grounds that North China was in a hurry.
The Nineteenth Route Army withdrew on the night of January 28. If Japan did not act again, these troops would all be withdrawn, and if they were withdrawn, they would not be able to fight.
Therefore, they sneaked up on the retreating Nineteenth Route Army. The Nineteenth Route Army launched a Jedi counterattack, and Wang Jingwei had to order the Nineteenth Route Army to start an all-out war.
First of all, why did Wang Jingwei not want to resist?
After he took power, he cleaned up the family foundation and realized that there was not much money in the treasury, and the soldiers' salaries could not be paid.
Soldiers are paid salaries, weapons and equipment are bought, food reserves cost money, pensions are paid for the dead, and countless expenses are incurred. Without money, war is impossible.
This is the reason why Wang Jingwei did not resist.
However, now that the Japanese army has taken the initiative to hit the door, it is impossible not to fight. Seeing that a great war was about to start, Wang Jingwei hurriedly convened a meeting to support Chiang Kai-shek's ascension to power.
To fight the Japanese army, we still have to rely on Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei can't get money, Chiang Kai-shek can. If Wang Jingwei cannot mobilize the army, Chiang Kai-shek can mobilize it.
Wang Jingwei could not win over an opponent, Chiang Kai-shek could win, especially the help of the United States to Chiang Kai-shek.
The reason why the Battle of Songhu was able to fight a draw with the Japanese army was that Chiang Kai-shek transferred the elite troops of the 87th and 88th Divisions defending Nanjing. They cooperated with the Nineteenth Route Army in the Temple Battle, at that time the Japanese army had no idea that it was fighting with Chiang Kai-shek's elite, and they always thought that it was the Nineteenth Route Army.
At that time, they were still wondering why the Nineteenth Route Army was so strong in combat. In fact, when the Battle of Miaoxing broke out, it was Chiang Kai-shek's 87th Division that attracted the Japanese army on the front.
At this time, Wang Jingwei already knew that it was not easy to resist Japan.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Wang Jingwei was still the main war faction, but when he saw that all the major battles, the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and so on, all ended in failure, he came to the conclusion that China could not defeat Japan.
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