At the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese strategy of attacking from north to south was blocked, so it was changed to "southern defense and northern attack", and rapidly advanced along the Jinpu Road, so the situation in the northern section of Jinpu became very serious. What no one expected was that the crisis of the Battle of Xuzhou began with the fall of Shandong.
The defense of the northern section of Jinpu Road was taken care of by Han Fuyu, chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government.
The character of Han Fuyu is a bit complicated. In his early years, he followed Feng Yuxiang and fought braver, rising from a small platoon leader to a military commander. In 1929, Feng Yuxiang opposed Chiang Kai-shek, he directly defected to Chiang Kai-shek, in the Middle Plains War, he did not forget Feng Yuxiang's grace of reconstruction, only hit Yan Xishan, not Feng Yuxiang.
After the End of the Central Plains War, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him commander-in-chief of the First Army and put him in charge of the defense of Shandong.
In this way, Han Fuyu worked in Shandong for eight years.
Han Fuyu is a very personal person, and apart from being consistent with Chiang Kai-shek in his anti-communist stance, he does not cooperate with the Nationalist Government in anything else, especially in the National Government's interference in Shandong's administrative affairs.
Han Fuyu, very maverick, once, a progressive clerk, put a sign on the wall, when the interrogation, Han Fuyu said a very interesting sentence: Long live the Communist Party is not long live I don't know, but it is okay to hit Chiang Kai-shek! Not only was he acquitted, but he was also reinstated and his monthly salary was raised to 40 yuan.
After Han Fuyu took over Shandong, he directly expelled all the officials appointed by the Nationalist government, and assassinated those who did not leave. At the time of the Liangguang Incident, he supported Li Zongren and Li Jitang against Chiang Kai-shek, and the Xi'an Incident, and he praised Zhang Xueliang's deeds as a feat.
He thought that he was the emperor of Shandong Province, and that the one who could threaten his position was not the Communist Party or the warlords of all walks of life, but Chiang Kai-shek, who was secretly in command of the Nanjing government.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was also very worried about Han Fuyu, and if he did not take a firm stand, the situation in Beiping would spread in Shandong, and if Han Fuyu insisted on resisting Japan, he could control the deteriorating situation.
It is gratifying that there is no historical data that can show that Han Fuyu was a renegade.
When the Japanese persuaded Han Fuyu and Song Zheyuan, Han Fuyu directly refused, although Shandong Province was the boss, everything was decided by him, but there was a bottom line, and it was impossible to make Shandong independent. At the same time, Han Fuyu used all the reasons to refuse the Japanese garrison in Shandong, or even pass by.
In order to prevent the Japanese army, he blew up the Yellow River Bridge early.
Han Fuyu's limitation is that all his actions are not motivated by any national righteousness, but only to protect his own territory. Using Japan's prestige, he told Chiang Kai-shek: I will not get involved with Japan, but the Japanese army will not allow Shandong to garrison the Central Army.
After the Japanese army began to attack Jinpu, Li Zongren personally went to Jinan and had a deep conversation with Han Fuyu.
However, everything was in vain, Han Fuyu believed that the War of Resistance was a long-term thing, absolutely not allowed, his own troops, in a short period of time, was consumed, in his concept, to preserve strength is the first priority.
Surprisingly, the Japanese army in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, began to move south, and after crossing the Yellow River in Zhoucun, Han Fuyu realized that the Japanese army would soon arrive in Jinan along the Jiaoji Railway. The first thing that came to his mind was to withdraw his army and transfer his property to Henan.
Li Zongren telegraphed Several times to Han Fuyu that he must not abandon Jinan, but at this time, Han Fuyu had retreated to Tai'an, and Li Zongren telegraphed again, asking Han Fuyu to stick to Tai'an, at this time Han Fuyu was also a little angry, and replied directly: Chiang Kai-shek did not even guard Nanjing, why did he ask me to guard Tai'an?
Han Fuyu is still a local warlord concept, as long as he has a gun in his hand and a troop, he can stand on his own wherever he goes!
Therefore, he directly ordered that the Jinan Minsheng Bank, the treasury of 13,000 gold, more than 30,000 silver, as well as public and private weights, all loaded into the car, and transported away in one brain.
As soon as Han Fuyu retreated, the Japanese army followed all the way, and on January 11, 1938, the Japanese army occupied Jining and approached Xuzhou.
In just 20 days, Han Fuyu retreated hundreds of kilometers, easily lost the Yellow River, Jinan, Tai'an, Qufu, Yanzhou, Jining and other places, and the Japanese occupied most of Shandong, resulting in the opening of the northern section of the Jinpu Line, Xuzhou and the Longhai Line, directly exposed to the threat of the Japanese army.
It can be said that Han Fuyu's behavior alone disrupted all the deployments in the Fifth Theater.
Chiang Kai-shek went to Kaifeng, Henan Province, held a meeting of senior generals, and after thinking about it again and again, Han Fuyu also went to participate in it. After Chiang Kai-shek reprimanded him, Han Fuyu directly bumped into him: The loss of Shandong is my responsibility, who should be responsible for the loss of Nanjing?
Han Fuyu was taken down on the spot when the outline left the venue, and at the military tribunal escorted to Wuchang, Han Fuyu was still defending: If he insisted on holding jinan, it would be because of the attack of the Japanese army in the north and south, and he would not take away the property, and he would stay behind to be used by the Japanese.
But by this time, no cunning argument had been used, and not a single shot had been fired, causing the loss of land and disrupting the layout of the Battle of Xuzhou. On the night of January 24, Han Fuyu was shot directly, and he was shot seven times in the head alone.