On January 28, 1932, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai by taking advantage of the attack on the monk. The Nineteenth Route Army and the Fifth Army also played their own prestige, which was also the first victory china won on the battlefield between China and Japan, which inspired people's hearts.
But there are many small details, which have been ignored by everyone, Xiaobian through this article, carefully talk about it.
The first, this time attacking Shanghai was not the Japanese Kwantung Army, but the Japanese Navy. The second, before the 128 Incident, Chiang Kai-shek had resigned and had just been reinstated on the day of the incident. The 3rd, the mysterious Third Party, played a role!
After the Japanese monks were attacked, the Nationalist government also knew that this was a common japanese trick, fearing that the war would spread to the entire Yangtze River Basin. He Yingqin instructed the 19th Route Army to bear the burden of humiliation, and Wu Tiecheng fully accepted the Japanese demands. There is only one purpose, to avoid war as much as possible.
Wu Tiecheng assured the Japanese army that the Shanghai municipal government would arrest and severely punish the murderers on arson, and hoped that Japan would settle the dispute and make good relations. After receiving a satisfactory reply, the Japanese army made more unreasonable demands, demanding that Chinese troops withdraw from the Zhabei area on the pretext of protecting Japanese overseas Chinese.
At that time, the Japanese army stationed in Shanghai consisted of more than 1,800 Marines, more than 4,000 armed Japanese overseas Chinese, more than 40 aircraft, and 40 armored vehicles, distributed in Hongkou and Yangshupu. There are also 23 naval warships, which have been hovering outside the mouth of the Yangtze River and on the Huangpu River.
Without waiting for China to reply, a surprise attack on Chinese troops was carried out on January 28, creating the 128 Incident.
Leading the Japanese was Yukiichi Shiozawa, commander of the First Foreign Fleet. This guy once threatened that as soon as the battle began, he waved the Japanese flag, the Chinese army would flee into the wilderness, and in less than 4 hours, the Japanese navy would occupy the whole of Shanghai.
After the real battle began, Shiozawa Yukiichi understood that the luck of the 918 incident was not repeated in Shanghai, and the Chinese army that resolutely resisted made it difficult for the Japanese army.
At that time, the 10th Division and the Eleventh Army of the Fourth Army of the 19th Route Army of the Chinese Army were garrisoning Shanghai, and on January 11, 1931, the 19th Route Army was transferred to the Beijing-Shanghai area, with a total strength of more than 33,000 troops.
On January 20, in the name of protecting Japanese overseas Chinese, the Japanese army demanded that the Chinese 19th Route Army stationed in the Zhabei area retreat 30 kilometers. After learning the news, on the 23rd, under the command of Jiang Guangding, the Nineteenth Route Army held a meeting of cadres at and above the battalion level.
Commander-in-chief Jiang Guangding, commander Cai Cai Tingkai, and Songhu garrison commander Dai Ji reached an agreement, and the core content was: resolute resistance, a duel of life and death.
The 19th Route Army's attitude of hating the enemy made the Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin very uneasy, and on the 28th, the Japanese side issued an ultimatum to let the 19th Route Army withdraw from the Zhabei area, and the defense area was stationed by the Japanese army, which was rejected by Cai Tingkai, and the war broke out immediately.
The 19th Route Army and the reinforcements of the Fifth Army resisted desperately, and the Japanese army was defeated first by Wu Song and then by Miaoxing. The Japanese army, which suffered heavy casualties, continued to increase its troops, and finally the total number of troops attacking Shanghai reached more than 100,000. However, the situation on the battlefield was still far from the military objectives designed by the Japanese army. The resistance of the Chinese army was extremely tenacious, the Japanese army has never been able to break through the position, in the continuous operation, the Japanese army consumes more and more, ammunition is more and more scarce, the end is worrying.
Shiozawa Koichi was eventually dismissed because of his poor command of the battle.
At this time, the Japanese found that the attitude of the Chinese Nationalist government also began to harden.
There is also a small detail, to explain to you, at the end of 1931, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to resign because of his weak stance toward Japan, and was attacked internally and externally. The Kuomintang convened the First Plenary Session of the Fourth Central Committee to reorganize the government, with Lin Sen as chairman of the National Government and Sun Ke as chief executive.
However, the severe financial crisis made the Nanjing government almost unable to function, and Sun Ke was forced to resign less than a month after taking office, so he asked Chiang Kai-shek, who was recuperating in His hometown of Fenghua, to return to Nanjing. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also persuaded Wang Jingwei, and the two returned to Nanjing together.
On the second day of the 128 Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated as a member of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission, responsible for mobilizing the army and directing the war against Japan.