Eighty-seven years ago today, on June 22, 1938 (May 25, 1938), the Battle of Wuhan was lost in the Battle of Madang Fortress. Chinese Defenders of Madang Fortress In 1938, the Japanese army advanced westward along the Yangtze River, and the largest battle of the Anti-Japanese War, the Battle of Wuhan, was about to begin. The Chinese army built many strong forts and fortresses on both sides of the Yangtze River, one of the most important of which was Madang Fortress. Madang Fortress is located in Pengze County, and is intertwined with the famous Xiaogushan Mountain in the Yangtze River. The river here is wide and the water surface is gentle, but there are many invisible sandy beaches in the river. In order to prevent the Japanese army from going west along the river, the Chinese Navy and countless migrant workers spent several years, expending financial and material resources, carefully laying down more than 30 artificial reefs, 39 shipwrecks, and more than 1,600 mines. The Chinese army believes that this line of defense must be impregnable. On June 5, 1938, the head of the Second Division of the Staff Department of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Ying Zuozhen, instructed the double-sided spy A Xiang to memorize four poems before going to Wuhan, and then deliberately recite them when meeting Wang Jingwei after Wuhan. It will be of great use. A Xiang, whose real name is Shen Bihui, was a female agent of Dai Li's "Su-Anhui-Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Einsatzgruppen Squad" during the Battle of Songhu, and her identity at that time was a student of Aurora University. Later, due to the tracking of the Japanese spy agency, Shen Bihui was secretly arrested, and then fell into the water as a traitor. She became a double agent of the Second Section of the Staff of the Kwantung Army, under the alias A Xiang. A Xiang's four-line poem is the privacy of Wang Jingwei, written by him in the prison of the Qing court, and there is also a disgraceful past. After A Xiang accepted the instructions, she went to Wuhan alone. At this time, Wang Jingwei's identity was the second leader of the Kuomintang after Chiang Kai-shek. The Japanese spy agency had already found out that Wang Jingwei's wife, Chen Bijun, happened to be in Guangzhou, so A Xiang claimed to be Mrs. Wang's entourage and deceived the doorman with a fluent Cantonese. In Wang Jingwei's living room, Wang Jingwei did not show up at the beginning. A Xiang knew that Wang Jingwei had been an assassin before and had also been assassinated, so he was very vigilant. It is estimated that he was peeking at her in the secret room next to the living room. So, A Xiang recited four poems to himself: "I have been generous all my life, but I have not learned to nourish my qi. My grief and joy are too intense, and my essence is a latent stimulant." Wang Jingwei was taken aback when he heard this poem in the secret room next to the living room. He quickly appeared to prevent privacy from being exposed, and repeatedly told that it can only be understood, not spoken. Afterwards, she invited Xiang into the secret room for a secret conversation. Xiang made a request, saying that Ying Zuozhen had arrived in Shanghai and asked Wang Jingwei to save the peace situation in East Asia. Wang Jingwei was very embarrassed, because going to Shanghai would be equivalent to publicly admitting that he was a traitor. Seeing Wang Jingwei's hesitation, Xiang resorted to the pornographic tricks unique to female spies. This was like a fire meeting dry wood for Wang Jingwei, whose wife was far away in Guangzhou. The final result was that Wang Jingwei completely fell under Ah Xiang's pomegranate skirt. Wang Jingwei was worthy of being a cunning, and while fooling around with Ah Xiang, he thought of a way to get the best of both worlds. He shirked the invitation to go to Shanghai, but in order to prevent A Xiangbai from making a trip to Wuhan, he gave her a fortress layout map that his subordinates had obtained from Liu Xing, the commander-in-chief of the frontier defense of Madang Fortress, to show their sincerity for cooperation with the Japanese side. After Ah Xiang returned to Shanghai, he immediately presented the fortress layout map of Madang Fortress to Ying Sa Zhenzhao. Ying Sa Zhenzhao was overjoyed, because the battle of Wuhan was about to start, and the Japanese army was struggling with the Chinese army's strict deployment along the river and had to hold back. On June 22, 1938, the Japanese Hakata Detachment and the 11th Marine Team were sent to Jiangxi by Anqing. After two days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army could not get through the water passage. On June 24, 25 Japanese warships escorted 8 troop carriers, and under the cover of artillery fire, they easily captured the strategic points to the east and west of Madang Fortress. On June 26, the Japanese warships successfully bypassed the reefs and mines laid by the Chinese Navy. In this way, Madang Fortress was easily captured by the Japanese, and an important gateway to Wuhan was opened. (According to "Literature and History World")