Nanyang 1931: From piglets to giants

Chapter 145 War begins!
Looking at Zheng Yi, who was staggering but still waving his fists while giving a speech, he was different from those reporters who were respectful and even couldn't help but shed tears.

These Swedish Royal Guards are really having a hard time.

Brother, stop talking and go to the hospital!

Putting aside Zheng Yi's words that inspired his compatriots later, if he said them at the beginning, it would actually be a bit ignorant: Who do you think you are?

Penang is a colony after all. Zheng Yi’s real international position is actually a collaborator of British and American multinational corporations.

As for cooperation, it is actually difficult to say who is subordinate to whom. None of the oil refineries in Penang belongs to Zheng Yi, and Zheng Yi only holds about one-third of each factory.

You said sanctions, so you impose them?

Who is responsible for the loss of money?
The oil business is both a business and not a business. Who to sell to and who not to sell to is the real national policy and cannot be messed with.

Although these refined oil products are all in Penang, even if we talk about reason and the law, the most you can have is one-third of the shares.

As a Chinese, you are interfering in the affairs of the Seven Sisters of Oil?

Is it too floating?

It has always been the British and Americans who give orders to others. When will it be your turn as a Chinese to give them orders?
However, at this time, partner Zheng Yi had just been shot, and was shot in public at the Nobel Prize Hotel in Stockholm.

The moral high ground was immediately established.

Although the tone was a bit tough and a bit domineering, it was as if he was giving an order.

But he was shot.

Aren’t people allowed to get emotional?

Why don’t you go up there and take eight bullets?

For the seven sisters, Zheng Yi is their most important partner. You little Japanese actually dared to carry out such an assassination in public.

Don’t you take us, the Seven Sisters of Oil, seriously enough?
You are a tiny country that imports more than 90% of its oil, yet you dared to assassinate an important partner of our Seven Oil Sisters in public.

I think you are really crazy.

If I don’t teach you a lesson, do you fucking think that the seven of us sisters are easy to bully?
At this time, senior Japanese officials who were listening to the live broadcast were also confused.

Such a big thing as the Nobel Prize was related to Zheng Yi, and some people in his country were paying attention to it, including many high-ranking cabinet officials. They rushed to find Hirohito as soon as Zheng Yi was assassinated.

Hirohito was also confused at this moment, and then he became furious.

"Which bastard did this?"

Nobel Prize!
This is a scientific golden age for the whole world.

The Japanese had thought about assassinating Zheng Yi, but Zheng Yi's security work was very good, and they never found an opportunity.

Going to Stockholm to receive the award does provide an opportunity for assassination, but they have to be brave enough to do it in public!

Zheng Yi is a partner of the Seven Sisters of Oil. There are only eight oil sellers in the world: the Seven Sisters and the Soviet Union.

There's no way Japan is going to buy oil from the Soviet Union, right? The war hasn't even started yet. If the oil supply is cut off, it would be ridiculous.

Hirohito was furious and ordered a thorough investigation, but both the army and navy said that no one did such a thing.

"Could it be that the people below are acting on their own again, or that those bastards of the Imperial Way faction are acting on their own?"

"This... those idiots from the Royal Way faction might have that intention, but that's in Stockholm after all. How could they possibly have the ability to kill someone in Stockholm under the protection of the Swedish Royal Guard?"

It is unlikely that this assassination was carried out by a lone wolf. These days, a lone wolf can't even get a plane ticket to Stockholm.

A group of Japanese senior officials were all pulling their hair in frustration.

This fucking yellow mud fell into the crotch, it's shit if not shit. You can imagine how the entire European and American Western media will evaluate them tomorrow.

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On the other side, Shanghai.

Almost three minutes after Zheng Yi was assassinated, the Chinese air force took off and began bombing warehouses, ships, and docks in the Japanese-controlled areas. Japanese planes then took off and engaged in air combat with them.

On the ground, the Central Army's most elite German-equipped 36th Division launched a surprise charge towards Hongkou, facing the Japanese machine gun positions and began piling up lives.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but just before the charge, the soldiers had just listened to Zheng Yi’s “impromptu” speech.

The sound of machine gun fire, the roar of artillery fire, and Zheng Yi's speech, which seemed to still ring in his ears, finally turned into a unified cry of "Fuck you!"

The Japanese army was caught off guard and was also confused, because they had not received any intelligence that the Chinese army was going to take the initiative to attack.

Even their internal spy Huang Jun specifically revealed that the Kuomintang government not only did not want to initiate a war in the near future, but was already preparing to sign a new treaty that would be humiliating and detrimental to the country.

Why did this call come suddenly?
This is Shanghai.

Concession!
Are you no longer afraid of international attention?

It was already dark, and the Japanese were caught off guard for a moment. The National Army was elite, and although their equipment was inferior, they had much more combat experience than the Japanese. It was pitch dark, and even if the Japanese planes took off, they would not be able to bomb accurately in such a hurry.

Soon, the Nationalist Army rushed into Hongkou Street, which was extremely narrow and was a street battle. The Nationalist Army was the attacking party, but they did not have any heavy weapons at hand, and soon suffered heavy losses.

However, they succeeded in taking advantage of the surprise attack to seize a slight advantage. After paying a huge price in casualties, they successfully engaged the Japanese army in an extreme hand-to-hand combat.

For a moment, Hongkou was in danger, and the Japanese defenders had to send telegrams overnight to call for reinforcements from all over the country.

The national army was not idle either. After the battle broke out, Nanjing also ordered the warlords from various military regions to lead troops to Shanghai for support. The Battle of Shanghai, in which both sides added fuel to the fire, began.

At this time, Zheng Yi, who was shot eight times, was finally carried into an ambulance by a group of royal guards and sent to the hospital for examination.

A group of reporters were eagerly waiting in the cold weather to hear whether Zheng Yi was dead or not.

The result is waiting, waiting, and waiting.

After waiting for over half an hour, an internal doctor finally revealed: "It's just a fracture and a broken rib, the rest are minor injuries. Mr. Zheng was wearing a new bulletproof vest developed in Penang, which stopped all eight bullets."

(End of this chapter)