In the early morning of May 7, 1933, three gunshots rang out from the Six Nations Hotel in the central urban area of Dongjiaomin Lane in Beiping. A wealthy businessman named Tokishigu was shot and killed, and the perpetrator had already escaped in a car. The next day, the headline tabloid in Peiping reported a very pleasant news that Zhang Jingyao, a traitor who had defected to the enemy and betrayed the country, was dead. In fact, Chang Shigu is Zhang Jingyao, who came to Beiping this time precisely to help Japan establish a puppet Manchukuo as soon as possible to oppose its subordinates and strengthen the puppet Manchukuo forces. He had thought that changing his name and surname would be seamless, but he didn't know that Chiang Kai-shek was waiting for him! After the September 18 Incident in 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army attacked Kannai in a big way, occupied the three northeastern provinces, and defeated Zhang Xueliang, the king of the northeast. Chiang Kai-shek was brewing peace talks with Japan before he could do so, so why risk offending the Japanese and assassinating his lackey Zhang Jingyao? What did a former warlord do to annoy Chiang Kai-shek?
Zhang Jingyao, born in 1881 in a low-level bureaucratic family, grew up in a wandering skeleton without learning any techniques, and at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he was saddled with a lawsuit for human life and fled in the Tianjin area of Beiping.
In 1896, in order to make a living, he joined Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army, and was personally selected by Yuan Shikai to study at the Baoding Military Academy for his outstanding performance. After graduating from the officer school, Zhang Jingyao became a small leader, and from then on, Yuan Shikai followed yuan shikai's orders.
In 1911, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and Zhang Jingyao was sent by Yuan Shikai to the south to contain the revolutionary army, and was commended by Yuan Shikai for his meritorious efforts in suppressing the revolutionary army.
He never abandoned Yuan Shikai until June 1916, when Yuan Shikai died of illness, and he began to find another way. At this time, Zhang Jingyao was already famous, no longer an outlaw who fled everywhere, and defected to Duan Qirui in the name of the former commander-in-chief of the Fifth Road of the Beiyang Army, and was subsequently appointed as the governor and governor of Hunan.
During his two years as governor of Hunan Province, the Xiang people complained bitterly, and after the fruitless treatment, they simply broke the jar and broke it, and began to plunder the people's fat and people's ointment.
In 1920, he was expelled from Hunan by the Southern Revolutionary Army and the Xiang people, and was subsequently dismissed from his post and began to flee. At that time, the situation was turbulent, the warlords were fighting, he successively defected to Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu and others, and was finally accepted by Zhang Zongchang and began to fight against the Northern Expeditionary Army.
In 1928, after the victory of the Northern Expedition, Zhang Jingyao had no place to stay like a headless fly, the warlord melee was over, there was no warlord to turn to, he set his sights on the Japanese Kwantung Army that had entered the palace in a big way.
At this time, Zhang Jingyao surrendered to the enemy and betrayed the country, Chiang Kai-shek did not have the heart to kill him, he did not yet enter Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, until 1933, after the Japanese Kwantung Army co-opted Wu Peifu to retreat fruitlessly and chose Zhang Jingyao as the key support object, Chiang Kai-shek began to pay attention to this erratic warlord.
On September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up the South Manchuria Railway and launched a large-scale attack on Shenyang, and in less than half a year, the Japanese Kwantung Army occupied the three northeastern provinces and began to plan the establishment of a puppet state of Manchukuo.
In September 1932, the Secret Service under the leadership of Dai Kasa came into being, and its main function in the early days was to collect intelligence for Chiang Kai-shek and strengthen control. In the face of the japanese Kwantung Army's wanton attack, Chiang Kai-shek was still calm, and his plan at the moment was to first take the inside, eliminate the communist forces in the country, and then concentrate on dealing with the Japanese invaders, so he was prepared for peace talks from the beginning.
Chiang Kai-shek had a close friendship with the then Japanese Foreign Minister Uchida, and in 1927 Chiang Kai-shek crossed east to Japan for the first time due to internal contradictions, and later returned to China with the support of Uchida and established a national government in Nanjing in 1928.
Chiang Kai-shek thought that giving up the three northeastern provinces would temporarily stabilize the Japanese's aggressive will, so he was very active in promoting peace talks between the two sides.
However, at that time, internal differences arose on the Japanese army side and were divided into two factions, the Japanese military attaché in Shanghai, Negehiro, advocated peace and letting the Japanese Kwantung Army first settle in the three northeastern provinces, the Japanese military attaché in Peiping, Nagatsu Sachi, and the japanese secret service leader Sakata Seishiro refused to negotiate peace, advocating that the Japanese Kwantung Army should increase its offensive intensity, give the Chinese anti-Japanese people a way to get off the horse, and at the same time vigorously support the new forces of puppet Manchukuo.
In the end, Japanese Foreign Minister Uchida gave the decision to the commander of the Kwantung Army, Muto Nobuyoshi, who was inclined to order an attack across the Great Wall on May 3 in favor of Sakata Seishiro. Chiang Kai-shek hastily dispatched ten divisions to garrison the Great Wall to prevent the Kwantung Army from attacking, and seeing that there was no hope of peace talks with Japan, he focused his attention on Zhang Jingyao, a key target supported by the Japanese.
In order to promote peace talks with the Japanese as soon as possible, Chiang Kai-shek issued an order to Dai Kasa to sanction Zhang Jingyao, ordering him to kill Zhang Jingyao within a week.
At that time, Zhang Jingyao had just been appointed commander-in-chief of the pseudo-Pingjin Second Army, holding the 7 million yuan of activity funds given by the Japanese to prepare for a big job. He was proud and excited about his wit, but he didn't know that at this moment, the head on his neck had been targeted.
Zhang Jingyao is proud of it, originally the Japanese support object is Wu Peifu, Zhang Jingyao was not looked up to by the Japanese at the beginning. Unfortunately, Wu Peifu did not want to collude with the Japanese and refused, and Zhang Jingyao began to work hard to brush up on the sense of existence, hoping to be appreciated by the Japanese. He was a former warlord and did not have much strength, and after several runs, it was really embarrassing, and the Japanese did not look at him squarely at first.
It was not until May 1932, after the Kwantung Army launched an attack across the Great Wall, that Zhang Jingyao released the news that he knew Song Zheyuan, the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army who was stationed at the border of the Great Wall, that the Japanese began to look at him with admiration, and immediately used him as a key support target for the new puppet state of Manchukuo.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek came at that time against not Zhang Jingyao, but against the support plan of the Yellow Kwantung Army, who was the key target of the Kwantung Army's support at that time, Chiang Kai-shek would kill anyone.
Zhang Jingyao rushed to his death and became a tool for Chiang Kai-shek to kill a hundred people.
In 1933, Zhang Jingyao accepted instructions from the Japanese to go to Peiping to plan an uprising and cooperate with the Kwantung Army.
In April 1933, Zhang Jingyao, disguised as a wealthy businessman under the pseudonym Chang Shigu, infiltrated Beiping, and after arriving in Beiping, his first target of rebellion was a former subordinate Wang Zhixin.
After Zhang Jingyao left, Wang Zhixin immediately reported the information to the secret service, and Dai Kasa, who received the news, immediately organized and planned the assassination. The assassination mission fell to the commissioners of The Beiping Station and tianjin station under the secret service.
After some investigation and tracing, they quickly locked Zhang Jingyao's possible hiding place in the six countries hotel and the Japanese embassy, and finally excluded the Japanese embassy, and locked the location in the central area of Dongjiaomin Lane.
The Six Nations Hotel was the preferred high-class meeting place for dignitaries and political celebrities at that time, and it was difficult for ordinary people to enter. In order to determine the location of Zhang Jingyao's activities, Zheng Jiemin, the leader of the Beiping Commissioner, disguised himself as a rich businessman under dai Kasa's arrangement, and stayed at the Six Kingdoms Hotel in a high profile, hoping to lure the snake out of the hole.
However, Zhang Jingyao was very cunning, he did not show up for a long time, and his whereabouts were uncertain, and he ordered multiple rooms to be changed at any time, and the agents could not even find the opportunity to meet. Since May 4, the agents have been waiting for rabbits in all corners of the Six Kingdoms Hotel for several days, afraid of hitting grass and snakes, so they dare not act rashly.
After several twists and turns, I found out Zhang Jingyao's living habits, and learned that he paid great attention to grooming and appearance, and had the habit of getting up early, and he only had no bodyguards to follow during the early washing.
So the secret agent killers found the right time, waiting for the opportunity to take advantage of his washing in the early morning. Coincidentally, on the morning of May 7, when the secret agent killers Wang Tianmu and Bai Shiwei went to the third floor to find Zhang Jingyao, they passed an ordinary guest room on the second floor and just happened to catch a glimpse of Zhang Jingyao after washing.
Cunning Rabbit Three Caves, it turned out that Zhang Jingyao not only booked several high-end buildings on the third floor, but also booked an ordinary guest room on the second floor just in case. After Wang Tianmu recognized Zhang Jingyao, he gave Wang Shiwei a look, saying that it was too late and fast, Bai Shiwei drew his gun and fired three shots at the defenseless Zhang Jingyao, and after he fell to the ground, the two quickly left the scene.
This assassination operation was a success at a time and place, and the operation was a complete success.
After Zhang Jingyao's death, Chiang Kai-shek was very happy, and on May 12, he sent people to resume peace talks with the Japanese side again, and on May 13, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Muto Nobuyoshi, announced the limiting of the scope of the Kwantung Army's attack, and two days later, announced the will to cease war.
May 22,
The Japanese side resumed negotiations with the Chinese side
On the 31st, China and Japan concluded the Tanggu Agreement, which tacitly accepted Japan's occupation of Manchuria and Rehe, laying the foundation for Japan's all-out attack on China in the future.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was quite satisfied, and after appeasing the Japanese invaders, he began to exert all-out efforts to encircle and suppress the Communist Party, and he attributed the peace talks with Japan to the wise decision to assassinate Zhang Jingyao, thus attaching more importance to the role of developing the secret service organs and unswervingly embarking on the road of "assassination."