During the Republic of China period, the world was in chaos, the storm clouds were everywhere, and various warlords were constantly conquest, which caused heavy disasters to the country. However, whenever there is chaos in the world, there will always be some legendary figures, the axe gang leader, wang Yaqiao, the first assassination king of the Republic of China, who is one of the representatives.
Axe Gang Leader
Wang Yaqiao was born in 1889 in Hefei, Anhui Province, he was small in stature, but he learned martial arts from an early age, studied, and took the imperial examination held by the Qing government at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the chaotic world, Wang Yaqiao witnessed the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government and hated the officials who oppressed the people.
At the time of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, Wang Yaqiao was 22 years old, and Wang Yaqiao also participated in the revolution with many righteous soldiers. However, he was later wanted by the Beiyang government and had to flee to Shanghai. After arriving in Shanghai, Wang Yaqiao did hard work during the day and stayed on the road to build newspapers at night, although he lived a very poor life, he still had firm ambitions.
Wang Yaqiao lived in Shanghai for ten years, and also established a huge axe gang, with thousands of brothers under his command, and tens of thousands of people at the highest number, even the three tycoons of Shanghai at that time did not dare to offend him
。 Wang Yaqiao's Axe Gang is mainly composed of poor laborers in Shanghai, and if the laborers are bullied by the capitalists, Wang Yaqiao will lead the axe gang workers to ask for explanations, so Wang Yaqiao has also offended many high-class people in society.
Wang Yaqiao was a chivalrous man who was worried about the country and the people, and who was jealous and hateful, and he hated some corrupt officials in the government very much, and often assassinated some evil officials who were extremely harmful. In 1923, Wang Yaqiao was successfully assassinated
Director of the Songhu Police Department
Xu Guoliang. Later, Lu Yongxiang of the Anhui clan appointed Wang Yaqiao as the commander of the Zhejiang Column and made him start engaged in military activities.
Although Wang Yaqiao's time in military activities was not long, he got to know many people, such as the later famous anti-Japanese generals Fang Zhenwu, Yu Yanong and others. Wang Yaqiao also married Dai Kasa and Hu Zongnan as brothers with different surnames. It's just that Wang Yaqiao has a fierce personality and can't see all kinds of despicable acts in the Republic of China government and the Kuomintang government, so he has been wanted many times. Later, after Dai Kasa defected to Chiang Kai-shek, he felt that Wang Yaqiao was born anti-bone and would definitely not be able to go with the government, so he and Wang Yaqiao were estranged.
Assassinate Yoshinori Shirakawa
In modern times, Japanese imperialism has been invading and encroaching on China's territory, and Wang Yaqiao also hates these Japanese and traitors to the bone. After the September 18 Incident, Zhang Xueliang came to Shanghai, and as a result, as soon as Zhang Xueliang arrived in Shanghai, someone had a grenade at his door, and the person who threatened him was Wang Yaqiao.
Wang Yaqiao pointed out three paths to Zhang Xueliang:
first
He returned to the northeast and went to war with the Japanese; the second time he broke off the northeast and apologized to the people of the whole country; the third changed his property and assisted the troops outside the Guanxi.
If he didn't listen, he would kill Zhang Xueliang. Later, Du Yuesheng took the initiative to negotiate with Wang Yaqiao and sent Wang Yaqiao a lot of money, and Wang Yaqiao gave up.
After the September 18 Incident, Japan's aggressive arrogance was very arrogant, and the Japanese army in Shanghai was also eager to move, carrying out one provocative act after another in Shanghai. Cai Tingkai, the main leader of the 19th Route Army stationed in Shanghai, was very angry and also deployed a tit-for-tat military deployment.
The Japanese have insulted our country too much, and as long as Cai Tingkai is in Shanghai, he will absolutely not let the Japanese set foot on my land. ”
On January 28, 1932, the Japanese army first launched an attack on Zhabei, Shanghai, and although the 19th Route Army was ready, the enemy's strength was three times that of our army, and its weapons were much stronger than those of the Guangdong army. Immediately after the battle began, it became very tragic, and the casualties of the 19th Route Army increased sharply.
Wang Yaqiao immediately organized a unit and ordered it to be the "Shanghai Anti-Japanese Salvation Army", responsible for assassinating Japanese officers, sneaking into the Japanese logistics warehouse, transporting soldiers for the 19th Route Army, providing logistical support and other tasks. On February 29, 1932, Japanese Army General Yoshinori Shirakawa took command of the Izumo aircraft carrier, and Wang Yaqiao personally selected a group of water ghosts, full of explosives, to die with the Japanese warships, but because the explosives were too small, it only caused some tremors to the Japanese warships.
At that time, Wang Yaqiao also had an assassination organization called the "Iron-Blooded Hoe Traitor Group", which specialized in assassinating Japanese and Traitors. In April 1932, after the ceasefire between the two sides, the Japanese army clamored to hold a victory conference in the Songhu War in Hongkou Park on the Japanese Lease, when the head of the Japanese army will participate, in order to ensure safety, the conference does not allow Chinese to participate, but Taiwanese and Koreans are allowed to participate.
Among Wang Yaqiao's "iron-blooded hoe traitors" were Koreans, the Korean righteous soldier Yin Bongji, and Jin Jiu took the initiative to ask for help to carry out this assassination. In the morning, Yin Fengji disguised as a reporter arrived at the venue, and in order to ensure the success of the assassination, Jin Jiu installed two specially made virulent grenades in Japanese military kettles and Nissan bento boxes (lunch boxes).
Once at the venue, the two of them squeezed into the front and threw the kettle and lunch box containing the grenade on the review table. There was a loud "bang", and suddenly the review platform collapsed, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and a ghost cried wolf howl.
Japanese Army General Yoshinori Shirakawa was blown to the ground, and Japanese Minister Shigemitsu Aoi was blown off a leg on the spot, and his body flew into mid-air and fell down again
Other military and political dignitaries were also injured to varying degrees.
General Yoshinori Shirakawa was the highest officer killed by Chinese soldiers and civilians during the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, which caused a great shock in the international community at that time.
The feud between Wang Yaqiao and Chiang Kai-shek
In 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolution, Wang Yaqiao also hated Chiang Kai-shek. In 1929, Wang Yaqiao, Fang Zhenwu, Shi Yousan and others organized an anti-Chiang coalition and wanted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek by force, but due to someone leaking secrets, Fang Zhenwu was also trapped and imprisoned, and Wang Yaqiao's anti-Chiang plan ultimately failed. In the end, Wang Yaqiao organized a killer and assassinated Zhao Tieqiao, the general office of the Shanghai Merchants Bureau, who leaked secrets at that time.
After the assassination of General Yoshinori Shirakawa, Chiang Kai-shek felt that since this man had certain abilities, he secretly contacted his brother Dai Kasa, but Wang Yaqiao did not buy it. Chiang Kai-shek was not satisfied, and sent Hu Zongnan to write a letter to Wang Yaqiao, proposing to make Wang Yaqiao vice chairman of the Anhui Provincial Government, but Wang Yaqiao also refused.
In the end, Chiang Kai-shek asked Wang Yaqiao's compatriots to participate in the Xinhai Revolution together, and Yang Hu, then commander of the Songhu garrison, personally went to him and decided to grant Wang Yaqiao a lieutenant general in the army, and it was a real post with military power, not a false post, which was rejected by Wang Yaqiao. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind: Since this person cannot be used by me, he must be resolutely eradicated so as to avoid future troubles.
On July 23, 1931, Wang Yaqiao, in line with the principle of "overthrowing Chiang Kai-shek must first overthrow the Song Dynasty and disrupt his economic organization", decided to personally lead the killers to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek's money bag Song Ziwen at the Shanghai North Railway Station, and as a result, he hit Song Ziwen's secretary, and Song Ziwen escaped from death.
In order to hunt down and kill Wang Yaqiao, Chiang Kai-shek asked his brother-in-law Dai Kasa to do this. Dai Kasa mobilized a large number of military, police, and special personnel, and all those who had contact with Wang Yaqiao were checked one by one, but just when Dai Kasa was pursuing Wang Yaqiao, Wang Yaqiao did another big thing.
On November 1, 1935, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Fourth Central Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee, which had been prepared for a long time, was held in the Auditorium of the Central Party Department on Hunan Road in Nanjing. Prior to the meeting,
Wang Jingwei, president of the Executive Yuan, led all the members to a meeting. Wang Yaqiao seized on the plan and sent the killer Sun Fengming disguised as a reporter to carry out the assassination, and as a result, when the photo was taken, Wang Jingwei was hit by a bullet on the spot and seriously injured.
After Wang Jingwei was assassinated, his wife Chen Bijun, as well as Li Zongren of the Gui clan, Bai Chongxi, and others all thought that Chiang Kai-shek had done it, and they all blamed Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he called Dai Kasa over and scolded him, and let Dai Kasa solve the case for three days, but Dai Kasa quickly found out that Wang Yaqiao was responsible, but there was still no way to take Wang Yaqiao.
In 1936, in order to clear his name for assassinating Wang Jingwei, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Dai to seize the time to arrest Wang Yaqiao. In March 1936, after capturing many of Wang Yaqiao's generals, Dai Kasa finally found out the situation of Wang Yaqiao and personally led more than a dozen agents to Hong Kong.
Wang Yaqiao also knew that Dai Kasa had come personally, but he did not hide, and in order to reorganize the forces, he went to Nanning many times to lobby Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi against Jiang.
Dai Kasa was also a hidden agent around Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, so he quickly caught Wang Yaqiao's whereabouts. After finding Wang Yaqiao's residence, Dai Kasa quickly sent more than a dozen agents to rush into Wang Yaqiao's room and kill him with submachine guns. At this point, a generation of tyrants Wang Yaqiao completed his extraordinary life.