Fu Zuoyi, the most hateful person in North China during the War of Resistance Against Japan, gritted his teeth, who harmed the North China Nationalist Army? After the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, Chiang Kai-shek established the Second Theater of Operations in North China, and Yan Xishan, the "King of Shanxi", was inaugurated as the commander of the theater. In addition to Fu Zuoyi, Yan Xishan also relied heavily on Liu Ruming of Chahar, who was nominally subordinate to the Twenty-ninth Army, and Fu Zuoyi and Liu Ruming were appointed as the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army, respectively.
Front row from left: Zhang Weifan, Zhang Zizhong, Song Zheyuan, Liu Ruming, Shi Yousan
From The perspective of Yan Xishan, Fu Zuoyi and Liu Ruming, one was a hero of the Suiyuan War of Resistance, and the other was a feared general of the Japanese army killed by Luo Wenyu with a large knife in the Great Wall War. But Yan Xishan definitely did not think that time could change a lot. Liu Ruming was no longer a fierce general wielding a large sword and desperately fighting with the Japanese army. After Liu Ruming occupied Chahar, he had the idea of establishing his own rights. Then, under the seduction of a subordinate secretary surnamed Du, he began to cooperate with the Japanese with limited limitations. At the time of the July 7 Incident, the main force of the Twenty-ninth Army broke out in Beiping and the Japanese army, and even Liu Ruming's brother bravely killed the enemy in Beiping.
In fact, at this time, Liu Ruming thought that as long as he had a good relationship with the Japanese, the Japanese would not do anything with him. The first to perceive That Liu Ruming had a problem was Fu Zuoyi, who naturally could not escape Fu Zuoyi's eyes when he was in Chahar and the Japanese army. Originally, Fu Zuoyi had no right to interfere, but by this time the War of Resistance Against Japan had completely broken out. Everyone was under the same roof, and Fu Zuoyi could no longer ignore Liu Ruming. Fu Zuoyi took great pains to persuade Liu Ruming. He first sent troops to conquer the commercial street of the important town occupied by the Japanese army, and then lured Liu Ruming to conquer Zhangbei by means of intimidation and inducement.
Liu Ruming
Chahar was the poorest area at that time, Zhangbei and Shang were rich places, occupying Zhangbei was extremely tempting for Liu Ruming, and after more than three hours of secret talks, Liu Ruming agreed to send troops to attack Zhangbei. After Liu Ruming's troops set out, Fu Zuoyi found Li Fuyi's troops of the Jin army and asked Li Fuming to secretly follow Liu Ruming, in order to prevent Liu Ruming from regretting it halfway, and if necessary, he could replace him. After arranging everything, Fu Zuoyi found Tang Enbo, the Central Army in the fierce battle with the Japanese army, and wanted to cooperate with the Central Army to attack the Japanese Army's Itagaki Division at Juyongguan. Fu Zuoyi's series of battle plans were very well formulated. Tang Enbo was very happy, and the Wei Lihuang Department of the Central Army was about to arrive. After Wei Lihuang's troops arrived, they carried out Fu Zuoyi's plan to encircle and annihilate the Banyuan Division. However, when Fu Zuoyi and Tang Enbo were happy, they got information from Chahar. Although Liu Ruming behaved boldly in front of Fu Zuoyi, he actually did not attack Zhang Bei.
Liu Ruming's troops circled around the north and came back again. Liu Ruming and Li Fuyi spared Zhang Beicheng's Japanese puppet army, but the Japanese did not intend to spare them. After the Japanese Kwantung Army Chief of Staff Hideki Tojo personally led the Mongol Corps to Zhangbei, the first target of attack was Zhangjiakou, where Liu Ruming was stationed. For the menacing Japanese army, the brave Liu Ruming of the past could no longer recover the bravery of the past, and was attacked by 200 Japanese tanks, and finally found that it was just a Japanese truck for transporting troops. As for Li Fuyi, who was behind Liu Ruming, he fled into the wilderness before he saw the Japanese army, and the rout of the two directly led to the fall of Zhangjiakou and Chahar, and Fu Zuoyi's plan failed before it was implemented, and the war situation in northern China deteriorated sharply. Fan Changjiang, a reporter accompanying Tang Enbo at the time, angrily wrote a press release entitled "Liu Ruming Who Can Be Killed", saying that he was the most hateful person in North China, and Fu Zuoyi hated Liu Ruming to death.