Beiyang reactionaries

The emperor personally recorded the tape of accepting the "Ili Declaration" and surrendering unconditionally.Prepared for broadcast at noon on October 1944, 10.In order to avoid provoking military radicals, the meeting was kept secret, and even the broadcast the next day was conducted in secret.The tape was handed over to Koichi Kido, the Minister of the Interior, and broadcast directly on the radio station the next day, resulting in a fait accompli.But I didn't expect the news to spread out, and the result was to anger the radicals of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army went up and down, and mutiny among young officers was very common.

Various assassinations and mutinies frequently occurred in Japanese political circles in the 30s and [-]s, all of which were directly initiated by young military officers.Of course, behind every mutiny caused by young officers, there is the support of military leaders.

This time too.

After hearing the emperor's decision to surrender, these young officers could not accept it at all.Their slogan is "Qingjun side", thinking that the important ministers around the emperor are a bunch of sycophants, agitating the emperor to surrender for their own benefit.So these radical officers gathered hundreds of people and began to attack the homes of those Japanese ministers who supported the surrender.The homes of almost all the important Japanese ministers who supported the surrender were attacked, including the homes of ministers who usually had an ambiguous attitude and were more supportive of peace talks.Fortunately, these important Japanese political officials are used to such riots in Japan.Therefore, all of them are smarter than monkeys. When they saw the army rioting, they immediately hid.Some people were planning to go back to the palace to ask for help, but these daring radicals even broke into the palace and fought with the palace guards.

As a result, even Sen Jiu, the head of the 1st Guards Division of the Guards, was killed by these radical troops, and many guards also participated in the riots.The purpose of these officers is very simple, one is to eliminate those important ministers who encouraged the emperor to surrender, and the other is to find out the surrender tape recorded by the emperor himself.They absolutely did not allow the emperor to surrender, nor did they allow the tapes recorded by the emperor to be circulated.

Fortunately, Anan Weiji, the Minister of War, is awesome.

Troops were quickly mobilized to quell the unrest.

At noon on October 1944, 10, Japan broadcast the instrument of surrender written by Emperor Meiji himself.

The whole country was in an uproar.

Not acceptable to many.

Especially those radicals in Japan are even more unacceptable, and many people do not believe this.After the news is confirmed, it is unknown how many radical officers chose to commit suicide.

On the contrary, Anan Weiji, the most radical army minister, was not as crazy as imagined.Not only did he not do anything excessive, but he was very decisive when the young officers rioted, and together with Yoshijiro Umezu, they quickly quelled the riots.Ananwei accepted the fact of Japan's surrender very calmly, and did his work in an orderly manner.Helped Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro, stabilized those army ministers, and even stabilized the Japanese army.

It was precisely because of Anan Weiji that the Japanese army only had some riots that night, and there were no such riots after that.Those clamoring radical army officers were all suppressed by Anan Weiji, and they completed their tasks very well.

It also proved the correctness of Suzuki Kantaro choosing Anan Yuji when he took office.

But Ananwei did not accept surrender psychologically, but because it was the choice of the Japanese emperor, he would accept it and perform his duties.However, after he finished what he should do and stabilized the situation in the army, on October 1944, 10, Anan chose to commit suicide at home.

There are many diehards in the Japanese army, but not all of them are willing to fight.

Especially those generals on the front line, many of them have long since given up wanting to fight.After China, Britain and the United States stepped up their attacks on the Japanese army, the Japanese army on the front line has reached the point of collapse.The Japanese navy had suffered a devastating blow, so it was no longer possible to maintain their logistics by sea.Air supremacy was also lost, so air transport was completely cut off.The result is that there is not enough to eat, how can everyone have the strength to fight, how can they have morale.

Therefore, after the Japanese emperor announced his surrender, many frontline troops surrendered.Needless to say, those puppet troops who were attached to the Japanese army, many of the foreign nationals who followed the Japanese army also disintegrated, handed over their weapons and surrendered.

Of course, it is not that there are diehards. Even if Emperor Meiji announced his surrender, they still resisted.

However, in the face of the general trend, such resistance is no longer mainstream.After all, all defenses are not isolated, on the contrary, defenses are linked together.For a complete defensive position, as long as one part is breached and one part of the Japanese army surrenders, the entire defensive position will collapse.

Therefore, some scattered resistance does not affect the overall situation.

According to the agreement with Japan, China quickly began to control those places currently controlled by Japan.And began to land in Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands.The troops landing on the Japanese mainland have also begun to gather.

"Ren Chao (Li Jishen), let our troops quickly land on the Japanese mainland and accept the surrender of the local Japanese troops. Immediately start negotiating with the US military and let their troops withdraw as agreed."

"Yes."

Li Jishen nodded.

This is no easy task.Although China and the United States have already reached an agreement, the millions of U.S. troops in these areas can be released wherever they are asked to come out.Not to mention the army, the U.S. military has deployed about 50 aircraft carriers in this area, and there are more than a dozen large aircraft carriers alone.Such a powerful deployment of troops, if it is China, China will not be willing to give up so much territory after being asked by others.

So even if there is an agreement, the two sides will definitely need to fight with each other, and there may even be a lot of conflicts.It is not as easy as imagined to grasp the intermediate scale, to complete the task and avoid armed conflicts.

"The meeting in Yalta this time should mainly discuss matters in Europe and the formulation of the post-war world order, and will not involve combat issues. So Vice Chairman Wang followed me."

The Far East battlefield is over, and now only the European battlefield remains.

The European battlefield is not over yet, but Germany is already at an absolute disadvantage.The British and American coalition forces have landed and started to kill from France.The Soviet Union counterattacked across the board, and the German army retreated steadily.Also, all the former allies of Germany are now turning against the water. There are many guerrillas in the territory controlled by Germany.

Now that the Far East battlefield is over, the British and American troops are preparing to increase their support for the European battlefield.

Therefore, several major powers are preparing to hold another meeting, and the place chosen this time is Yalta in the Soviet Union.For this meeting, China, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union have been discussing for some time.

Before attending the Yalta Conference, Duan Xun made arrangements for domestic affairs.

"Vice Chairman Duan, the war is coming to an end soon, and the cabinet must continue to promote normalization and end our country's semi-wartime state as soon as possible."

"Yes."

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Yalta is a very good place in every aspect, especially the place to live and hold meetings, which is very luxurious, safe and quiet.The palaces here were all redecorated by the Soviet Union calling a large number of people.

It took the Soviet Union more than half a month.

The Soviet Union mobilized tens of thousands of people to participate and decorated the palace here to welcome the leaders of China, Britain and the United States.

And in order to ensure safety, the Soviet Union conducted a major inspection of the local area of ​​Yalta, and anyone who was slightly suspicious was temporarily detained by them.Moreover, a large number of aviation units and a large number of air defense units are deployed here.

Including the air-raid shelters inside the palace, they were all refurbished.

After the plane came here, Soviet troops maintained law and order along the way.It can be said that the Soviet Union was very well prepared for this meeting.I was worried that after Germany knew about it, it would raid Yalta, or send spies to disrupt the meeting.

On October 1944, 10, the Yalta Conference finally began.

As Japan announced its surrender and China and the United States took over the territory controlled by Japan in the Far East, the Far East War was in fact over.All that remains is to deal with the aftermath of the Far East issue.This issue is a matter between China, Britain and the United States, but it is mainly a matter between China and the United States.

Britain basically withdrew from the right to speak on the Far East.

So on the issue of the Far East, it is mainly China and the United States that are discussing.How to deal with the remaining Japanese troops who have not yet surrendered, how to punish Japan after the war, and how to formulate a new order in Asia are all discussions between China and the United States.Although the United Kingdom also sent representatives to participate, they basically did not speak much.So as long as China and the United States reach an agreement, the Far East issue can be resolved.

Therefore, although the Yalta Conference also had some issues related to the Far East, it was not the mainstream.The Yalta conference mainly discussed the European battlefield, the new world order in the future, and so on.With regard to post-war Germany and post-war Poland, many agreements were reached in previous summit meetings.

As for the Yalta meeting, it is to reconfirm and add some content.

Postwar Germany had too many problems.

Previously it was mainly about how to deal with Germany.For example, several powers occupied Germany, abolished Germany's military industry, and so on.At the Yalta Conference, we began to discuss more specific issues, that is, how several powerful countries occupied Germany, how to deal with war criminals after the war, and how to pay compensation.

In the previous meetings, it was originally determined that the three countries of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union occupied Germany, but this time France was added to the Yalta Conference, and it became the four countries of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and France occupying Germany.

After the British and American Allied Forces landed in Normandy, they quickly launched in France and began to annihilate the German troops here.By this time, the size of the Free French army had exceeded 150 million. Coupled with the resistance forces in France and the industrial strength of France itself, France's strength was rapidly recovering.

Of course, the biggest reason is that Britain is now more and more urgent.

After all, through the Second World War, the strength of the United States and the Soviet Union expanded rapidly, and both of them are eyeing Europe.The Soviet Union wanted to redify Europe, and the United States wanted to control Europe.

Britain is indeed in decline, but after all, Britain was once the world leader, and it still has a large number of colonies.Don't look at Britain's respect for the United States, but the old imperialism has its dignity after all.Britain did not want to cede Europe to the United States and the Soviet Union, so Britain supported France.Although Britain and France have many conflicts in history, both Britain and France maintain the colonial system and tend to be consistent in safeguarding European interests as a whole.Britain and France, as declining powers, will oppose the United States and the Soviet Union to control Europe for their own interests.

Therefore, on the issue of dividing Germany, France also got a share.

And how to abolish the German military industry, how to abolish the entire German system, how to abolish German law, and so on.Anyway, it is to carry out a major transformation of the entire country of Germany and completely abolish the Nazis.

On these issues, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union quickly reached an agreement.

How to formulate war crimes in the future, everyone has not reached a consensus.Because several countries have different definitions of war crimes.So in the end it was decided to set up a post-war court-martial to review these things.