I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

After the meeting with Yamamoto 56 and the high-level statement of the Japanese Navy, Ishihara Wanji went to the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda District, Tokyo under the guidance of Kido Koichi. He did not see Emperor Hirohito himself. , three old men are waiting for him.

Among the three people, two of them are not angry and majestic, and have a dignified temperament. One is the former chief of staff, Prince Xianyuan Gongzairen, and the other is the former head of the military command, Prince Fushimi Gong Hiroshi. As for the first person on the scene The three were Minister of Foreign Affairs Mamoru Shigemitsu who had just gone to China for diplomatic mediation and political negotiations.

Prince Zaihito and Prince Hirohito are both members of the royal family and important officials of the royal family. Before the US-Japan War, the two served as the highest officers of the Japanese army and navy, representing Emperor Hirohito to command the Japanese army and navy. Later, Emperor Hirohito worried that Japan would lose In the US-Japan war, if the Japanese royal family directly commanded Japan's military and political power during the war, it would be too conspicuous. It may cause the Japanese royal family to be settled after the defeat of Japan. Therefore, Prince Zairen and Prince Bogong were specially dismissed from their posts and replaced by others. In the front, let these two people hide behind the scenes to command the Japanese army and navy. Therefore, although Prince Zairen and Prince Bo Gong are only hanging on the surface at this time, and rarely participate in public military and political meetings, these two are the Japanese army. The real power "head" of the navy.

"Very good. Foreign Minister Shigemitsu went to China and is back now. Deputy Chief Ishihara went to the United States and is back now!" Seeing Ishihara Waner enter the room, Prince Zain nodded, "Then, let's summarize our opinions , submit it to His Majesty the Emperor earlier, so that His Majesty can carry out the "holy ruling"!" He looked at Aoi Shigemitsu and asked, "Minister Shigemitsu, what is the attitude of the Chinese people?"

When Mamoru Shigemitsu heard Prince Zairen's "China" and "China people", he couldn't help but secretly smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, the Chinese side has put forward very strict demands on us, for example, asking us to hand over the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands to China immediately. ..."

"Extremely despicable and shameless!" Prince Bo Gong was furious, "Jiang Weiguo is not dead at all, this is a vicious conspiracy against the empire planned by him alone! Return North Korea and Ryukyu to them? Wishful thinking! Their sinister intentions are clearly revealed The empire can't agree no matter what!" When he said these words, Prince Bogong might have forgotten that Japan is actually taking the blame at this time. In the past year or so, the Japanese intelligence agencies have been deliberately trying to assassinate Jiang Weiguo, To overthrow the current regime in China, it's just that Japan lost the secret war between China and Japan, and it turned out to be completely passive at this time. It was not Jiang Weiguo who took the initiative to plot against Japan.

Mamoru Shigemitsu sighed: "Your Highness, what Jiang Weiguo is playing is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy, let us watch ourselves fall into his trap but be unable to fight back.

I argued repeatedly with Jiang Weiguo on the negotiating table, and he reluctantly modified his request, and finally changed it to let us immediately hand over the eastern and central parts of North Asia and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula to China unconditionally!"

"Northern part of the Korean peninsula?" Koichi Kido asked, "Where do you mean?"

Shigemitsu Aoi said: "Jiang Weiguo said that with the 38th parallel north latitude as the dividing line, North Korea north of this line will be handed over to China, and South Korea south of this line will still belong to Japan.

According to Jiang Weiguo, as long as Japan hands over eastern North Asia, central North Asia, and North Korea to China, China can let Japan go. Although the Sino-Japanese alliance may not be restored, it will not go to war against Japan, and it is even possible. Continue to aid Japan in its war against the United States!"

"This is absolutely unacceptable!" Ishihara shook his head repeatedly, "Even if Jiang Weiguo only asked us for the desolate and bitterly cold eastern and central North Asia, we would not agree.

Ladies and gentlemen, can we still trust Jiang Weiguo?Don't we know Jiang Weiguo?Jiang Weiguo is not only extremely cunning and shrewd, but also always unscrupulous in doing things, using everything to the extreme.

I have said long ago that Jiang Weiguo is an out-and-out, die-hard anti-Japanese factionist. The reason why he promoted the Sino-Japanese alliance back then was by no means to make China and Japan truly turn hostility into friendship as he said. China has gained more benefits, and he has never regarded Japan as an ally, but only as a tool that can be used by China. Now, Japan is not of much use value to China, and he has reached the point where he has a poor dagger for us. It's time to see you.

The Korean peninsula is the first and only barrier for Japan to defend against China. If the Chinese get the Korean peninsula, their army and navy can use the local area as a springboard to directly attack the Japanese mainland. As a base, across the Sea of ​​Japan, bombing the Japanese mainland!We must not lose the Korean Peninsula, let alone hand over half of the Korean Peninsula to the Chinese!How is that different from slow suicide?Jiang Weiguo asked us for northern North Korea in order to attack us more conveniently!How can we do something that stupid?Also, don't forget, Jiang Weiguo is now a 'dead man', can you believe the promise of the dead man?At that time, China will turn back on us again. Are we shouting around with the treaty signed with Jiang Weiguo?The Chinese government will say, Jiang Weiguo was killed by you long ago, how could he sign a treaty with you?Hehe, Jiang Weiguo is such a person, he has no bottom line in doing things!"

Prince Zairen looked at Shi Yuan and smiled, his eyes were dignified, and his tone was heavy: "Deputy Chief Shi Yuan, what do you mean...the empire and China have no room for maneuver?"

"Not at all!" Ishihara Waner said firmly and affirmatively, "There is no hope at all! Besides, this is not what I mean, but an unquestionable and undeniable objective reality! We can no longer have self-deception It’s a fantasy! Jiang Weiguo’s goal is to destroy Japan! Let’s not doubt this! Japan’s only two ways of survival are to take refuge in the United States or use the United States to counter China.

Your Royal Highness, stop thinking about how to give up your interests in order to get China's "forgiveness" or try to temporarily stabilize China to delay time, it will not work at all!That is the behavior of drinking poison to quench thirst and cutting flesh to mend sores!Jiang Weiguo simply put Japan to death and then quickly!He is determined to destroy Japan!This Chinese-Japanese mixed blood is ten thousand times more vicious and ruthless to Japan than the pure-blood Chinese!Although I can't understand why he hates Japan so bitterly, but this is Jiang Weiguo's thought and will! "

Prince Zaijin nodded grimly, expressing his agreement. Prince Hirokaya and Kido Koichi both expressed their acquiescence, while Shigemitsu Aoi let out a heart-wrenching sigh. The sinister situation, and second, the disillusionment of faith brought him a heavy mental blow.

Shigemitsu Aoi, like Konoe Fumimaro and Yamamoto 56, are all "pro-China faction" among Japanese high-level officials. They sincerely believe that "China and Japan will never fight again, and China and Japan will truly turn their enemies into enemies." We are friends, and the two countries will continue to be friendly and long-term cooperation, seek common ground while reserving differences, mutual benefit and win-win, overcome difficulties together, join hands and make progress together", just like Wang Jingwei and other "pro-Japanese factions" in China's top management. They were stunned to find that their good wishes were just an unrealistic, wishful thinking, and self-indulgent bubble, which suddenly burst in front of the cruel and cold facts, and they had always been used by Jiang Weiguo. , The mental blow is conceivable.

After a wry smile, Shigemitsu said in a dry and hoarse voice: "The current situation in Japan reminds me of Su Xun's work "Six Kingdoms". , It’s not that the army is disadvantaged, the war is not good, the disadvantage lies in bribing Qin, bribing Qin and losing strength, it is really the way to ruin’, ‘cut five cities today, cut ten cities tomorrow, and then have to sleep overnight, start to look at the four realms, And Qin Bing came to the end again', 'As a matter of family, I still hold the salary to put out the fire, the salary is not exhausted, and the fire is not extinguished'!" He said, his expression became more and more sad and desolate.

Ishihara nodded slightly with a smile: "Master Shigemitsu is right! How can the six countries obtain permanent peace by ceding land for peace? Because Qin's purpose is not to take advantage, but to destroy the six countries! The six countries will not stop. Ceding the land to Qin State not only makes Qin State stronger, but also makes itself weaker, which is completely self-defeating.

Today, the relationship between Japan and China is just like the relationship between the six countries and Qin. China's goal is to destroy Japan. Our only way is to resist to the death!What is the difference between the six countries who want to cede interests to China in exchange for peace, and the six countries that eventually destroy themselves?The more we give up now, the stronger China is, the weaker we are, and when China finally attacks us, the easier it will be for China to win, and the easier it will be for us to be defeated and perish!So, we can't let it go! "

Prince Zain, Prince Hirogong, and Kido Koichi looked at each other, and all three of them saw approval and firmness from the eyes of the other two.

"Yes, there is no doubt that the Chinese want to understand Japan's wolfish ambitions. We have to fight to the death!" Prince Zairen nodded, "It seems that the road to stabilize China is a dead end, so what about the United States Sample?"

Ishihara said with a smile: "Roosevelt has a strong interest in the strategy of 'Japan becoming a tool of the United States against China', but he is also extremely shrewd and does not give us any room. He requires us to take practical actions immediately to prove our sincerity. The first sincerity is to hand over Hawaii!"

"Hand over Hawaii?" Prince Zairen and the others were lost in thought.

"I have already asked General Yamamoto, the commander of the United Fleet. Although Hawaii's geographical location is very important, it is already a tasteless place for the Imperial Navy today. It is no big deal to hand it over to the Americans!" said Ishihara Wanji. "However, Hawaii is jointly occupied by Japanese and Chinese troops, so the problem is complicated, but it is precisely because of this that Roosevelt asked us to do that.

Roosevelt is skillfully killing two birds with one stone, one is to take advantage of the opportunity to regain Hawaii, which is a vital strategic point for the United States and the United States Navy, at the least cost, and the other is to force the conflict between Japan and China to take Hawaii as the real explosive point!"

"What do you mean?" Prince Bogong asked.

"What Roosevelt meant..." Ishihara Waner replied, "Of the eight major islands in Hawaii, seven are in the hands of the Japanese army, and the most important island of Oahu is in the hands of the Chinese army. The seven large islands in the hands of the army are all handed over to the US military, and they will also assist the US military in taking Oahu, which is occupied by the Chinese army.

Yes, Roosevelt asked us to go to war directly with the Chinese army in Hawaii! "

"After all, China hasn't started a war with us yet, but we want to take the initiative?" Shigemitsu murmured.

"Master Foreign Minister!" Ishihara Waner said in a cold tone, "Could it be that the Chinese won't attack us if we don't take the initiative to do it? Instead of sitting and waiting, why don't we preemptively strike? In addition, I have an auxiliary idea!" From the eyes of Prince Ren, Prince Hirogong, and Koichi Kido, "The 'Northern State' of the empire is the eastern part of North Asia and the central part of North Asia. It is rich in resources but the environment is harsh, and it is not suitable for large-scale settlement of the population. Therefore, although it is vast, The status in the empire's territory is the lowest, so it's no big deal to abandon it.

According to Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, the Imperial Headquarters is willing to cede the "Northern State" to China. However, ceding it to China is not beneficial to Japan. It is naturally beneficial to China but not to Japan. Once China and Japan go to war, it will be difficult for the Japanese army to hold there. Since that place is doomed to be lost, why not use its waste to maximize its value? "

Kido Koichi asked in surprise: "How to 'use waste'?"

"Leave it to the Americans!" Ishihara Waner explained his idea clearly, "As long as we reach a secret agreement with the Americans to allow the US military to land in eastern North Asia, and our army deliberately retreats without a fight, we can take over North Korea." Eastern Asia or central North Asia were handed over to the Americans.

In this way, China and the United States will directly border each other!In the past, China and the United States played games across Japan, but we chose to let them face each other directly!For the Chinese, the Asian continent is China’s Asian continent. The Americans have stolen two-thirds of North Asia at once, which poses no less threat to China than the revival of the Soviet Union or Russia, and makes the Chinese feel that they are coming from the north. Can the Chinese bear the confidant's serious trouble?As far as Americans are concerned, they wish they could gain a firm foothold at the gate of China, and they have picked up such a large place for nothing all at once, so why not do it?It's as if they picked up Alaska from the Russians for nothing.

In this way, the conflict of interests between China and the United States will be intensified and detonated by us secretly. The more intense the conflict between China and the United States, the more beneficial it will be for Japan!isn't it? "

"Wonderful!" Prince Bo Gong couldn't help praising, "Throwing a bone at two dogs will surely make the dogs bite the dogs!"

Kido Koichi sighed and said, "If Ishihara-kun had become the core decision-maker of the empire earlier, why would the empire be in trouble today? China has Jiang Weiguo, and the empire has Ishihara-kun, which is enough to compete with each other. It's a pity... Sigh!"

Prince Zairen cleared his throat: "Alright, let me summarize our opinions now.

First, the empire will no longer make any concessions to China, and is fully preparing for a war with China!Second, the empire will make full use of the power of the United States to counterbalance China, with a view to breaking the situation for the empire to survive; third, the primary purpose of the imperial government and the imperial army is to defend the "imperial order" of the empire, so as to fully provoke China and the United States. Contradictions and conflicts have made the empire neither defeated by China nor surrendered to the United States. The powerful countries that have achieved sovereign independence continue to stand tall in the east of the world;

Guys, do you need anything to add?If not, I will go to meet His Majesty the Emperor immediately, and ask His Majesty to make a 'sacred ruling' on the new national policy!"

Human history is naturally created by humans, but is human history created by a few people?Or is it created by the majority?Regarding this very philosophical question, some people believe that the history of mankind is created by a few people. The so-called "minority" refers to great men and elites in various fields who account for a small number of human beings, such as a national leader and Compared with an ordinary person, the former can create history as long as he gives an order, and the latter can't make much trouble in the long river of history with his best efforts; some people think that the history of mankind is jointly created by the majority or even all mankind, such as A leader of a country issues an order that is enough to make history, but history cannot be made without countless ordinary people carrying out his orders.

To sum it up, if you want to create history, you need strength and opportunities. Big people have enough strength, and opportunities will naturally come with their strength. Recognizing and making full use of opportunities can also make history.

There are countless such examples in history. For example, on June 28, 1000, a Serbian little man named Gaffigri Principo killed the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, Franz Archduke Ferdinand detonated the powder keg of the First World War at once. More than [-] million people were killed in the war that lasted for more than four years because of his shot, and the world pattern was changed because of his shot. Earth-shaking changes have taken place; for example, on September [-], [-], a small group of radical-minded and fanatical mid-level and low-level officers in the Japanese Kwantung Army led their subordinates to attack the North Camp of the Northeast Army of China, which shocked China and the world. As a result, the "September [-]th Incident" broke out; for example, on July [-], [-], a small group of middle-level and middle-level military officers with radical ideas and fanatical minds in the Japanese North China Garrison led their subordinates to attack Lugouqiao and Wanping City brazenly. As a result, the "July [-] Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries broke out, and China and Japan launched a full-scale war as a result.

Whether it was the "September [-]th Incident" or the "July [-]th Incident", the cause of the outbreak was not the decision of many big figures in the top management of China and Japan, nor was it in their plan or control. It was a group of small people who did it, but those small people It is precisely because of seizing the "opportunity" that the history of China and Japan, the entire East Asia, and even the world was created at once, so that the big men had to be involved in the history created by the little men because of the actions of the little men. inside.

The rematch between China and Japan, that is, the decisive battle between China and Japan, has long been a big powder keg that is about to explode, but it is a group of "little people" who ignite the fuse.

As the secret war between China and Japan, which lasted for more than a year, finally ended with Jiang Weiguo's "death" in Tokyo, the world situation suddenly surged, followed by the severance of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Germany and Japan, and Japan's expulsion from the Allied Powers... Originally The structure of the world war of "two powers contending for hegemony" between the Allies and the Allies suddenly became "four countries and three parties".

Faced with such a new and complicated situation, the top leaders of the United States, Germany, China, and Japan did not dare to act rashly for a while, and all needed time to find and formulate the most beneficial strategy to break the situation. There was a very strange calm.

The big people think too much and worry too much, so they are cautious and walk on eggshells, but the little people don't think so much, and they don't care too much about things. They only do things based on the most direct cognition and logic in their minds.

Although China and Japan are ready to fight again, the two countries have not moved for a long time, because the two countries have their own deep-seated reasons.

As far as China is concerned, going to war with Japan immediately will inevitably take the United States out of the fire first, and secondly, it will affect Germany and then affect China itself. Taking advantage of the Japanese's "apology and compensation to China" and taking the opportunity to blackmail the Japanese, firstly, to weaken Japan and strengthen itself, secondly, not to let Jiang Weiguo "die in vain", and thirdly, to have an explanation for the domestic military and civilians (Japanese "killed" Jiang Weiguo, the Chinese government neither claimed compensation from Japan nor retaliated against Japan, and the domestic military and civilians would definitely not agree), thus "forgiving" the Japanese on the surface, and then China continued to stay out of the matter, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight Waiting calmly, waiting for Japan to be beaten even more impoverished by the United States, waiting for the United States to kill and wound more people on the battlefield against Japan, waiting for the joint development of the atomic bomb by China, Germany and Jews, and finally joining the battle with the atomic bomb, which can not only give the Japanese a fatal blow It can also "kill chickens and monkeys" by bombing the Japanese with atomic bombs, deter Americans, and force the United States to give up more interests in the Asia-Pacific to China.

This is the reason why China has not formally declared war on Japan for so long.

——Actually, since Japan’s top leaders have decided to “not cede benefits to China” and “treat China with a tough posture”, it is difficult for China to take the opportunity to “blackmail Japan”, but this does not prevent China from continuing to sit and watch the war between the United States and Japan.

As for Japan's delay in officially launching a war against China, the reason is much more straightforward. Japan can no longer withstand the blow of the United States. Wouldn't it be tantamount to committing suicide if it took the initiative to provoke China?Although Japan's high-level leaders are very sure that China has made up its mind to go to war with Japan, since China has not gone to war with Japan, Japan does not need to provoke a decisive battle between China and Japan in advance. On the one hand, they passively waited for China to go to war with Japan. However, high-level officials in the United States pinched Japan's "death spot" and demanded that Japan take the initiative to go to war with China, forcing Japan to be unable to turn back on the road of "abandoning China and investing in the United States."

The big men calculated and calculated, considered this and that, and did not dare to act rashly. As a result, the little men didn't care about the three sevens and twenty ones, and suddenly broke this tightrope balance and detonated the powder keg of war.

At 1944 o'clock in the morning on April 4, 4, the border between China and Japan, Changbai Mountain.

The Japanese soldiers Miura and Kobayashi were patrolling in the white snow as usual. Both of them were well-armed and loaded with live ammunition. The bullets they carried were more than three times that of before, because recently "the wind is getting tighter and tighter."

Even low-level Japanese soldiers like Miura and Kobayashi can feel that the atmosphere is quite different from before.

During the Sino-Japanese alliance, there were not many Chinese and Japanese troops stationed on both sides of the Yalu River and Changbai Mountain. However, since the beginning of this year, both sides have continuously sent additional troops to both sides of the Yalu River and Changbai Mountain.

The Korean Peninsula is very important to Japan. Compared with Japan's "Northern State", the Korean Peninsula with an area of ​​only 22 square kilometers can be called a tiny place, but the Japanese troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula are stationed in The number of "Northern States" is more than ten times. The reason is needless to say. Since ancient times, as long as China and Japan go to war, the Korean Peninsula will become a battlefield between China and Japan without exception.

The monotonous white snow made Miura and Kobayashi feel dizzy and visually fatigued. The two tried their best to chat while walking. Suddenly, Miura felt his eyes flicker, as if something reflected light on his face.

"Hey, Kobayashi, do you see there?" Miura pointed to the same white snow on the opposite side of the national border, "It seems that something is reflecting light on me!"

"Where?" Kobayashi forced his eyes wide open and looked in the direction Miura pointed. Suddenly, his pupils constricted, because he saw two black lightning-like things rushing through the snow, one of them hit him. neck.

Xiao Lin fell to the ground all of a sudden, he felt a heart-piercing pain coming from his neck in disbelief, accompanied by the warm blood gurgling outwards, the thing shot through his neck neatly, making him He couldn't speak.

Xiao Lin, who fell on the ground, desperately clutched the bleeding part of his neck, twisting and turning like a fish thrown on the shore, opening his mouth wide open in vain but unable to make a sound.

A large amount of blood poured out, which not only took away Xiao Lin's body temperature and vitality, but also kept pouring into his trachea, making him unable to breathe.

While struggling, Kobayashi saw Miura who fell down at the same time out of the corner of his eye. Miura opened his eyes with a surprised expression on his face. His right eye was shot by a crossbow arrow, and the arrow protruded from the back of his head. , let him die on the spot, and what shot through Xiao Lin's neck was also a crossbow arrow.

At the last moment when his consciousness was about to disappear, Kobayashi saw two pictures. One was two people wearing white camouflage suits and holding crosses with optical sights. The second is that in the farther snow, a large number of people, a large number of Chinese soldiers, are rushing across the border between China and Japan all over the mountains and plains. Those Chinese soldiers are all wearing white winter uniforms, and their left arms are uniformly Wrapped with a black cloth.

"Fengtian kills thieves!" The earth-shattering Chinese shouts of killing converged into the slogan that the Nanjing Army had not used on the battlefield for a long time. Thousands of Nanjing Army officers and soldiers roared towards the Korean Peninsula like an avalanche.

Chapter 733 The Horn of the Great Battle (13)

Driven by the hand of God, the "Sino-Japanese alliance" that lasted for more than five years and was essentially using each other with evil intentions was finally completely broken. Will to transfer", was officially detonated.

For a time, the situation was turbulent and the whole world was shocked. Nanjing, Tokyo, Washington, Berlin... fell into a state of emergency.

There are two places where the first wave of war between China and Japan ignited, one is the Korean Peninsula, and the other is the Hawaiian Islands.

The sudden war on the Korean peninsula was not only planned by the high-level Chinese and Japanese leaders, but also unexpected by the high-level Chinese and Japanese officials. Anyone with military common sense knows that if China and Japan go to war, the Korean peninsula will definitely be involved in the war, or become a war. The battlefield where the Chinese and Japanese armies are fiercely fighting each other may become a springboard for Japan to attack China, or it may become a forward base for China to attack Japan. Either side of China and Japan must first control the Korean Peninsula if they want to deal with or defend against the other side. Therefore, at the moment Under the overall environment of "China is strong and Japan is weak", if China wants to attack Japan, it must first conquer the Korean Peninsula, and if Japan wants to defend against China, it must first defend the Korean Peninsula. They all have enough understanding, so since Japan returned the Northeast to China, there have always been heavy troops on both sides of the Yalu River. The number of soldiers has never been reduced, and even the Japanese troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula surpassed their troops stationed on the four islands of Japan’s mainland. Its intention is obvious: it is to turn the Korean Peninsula into Japan’s first barrier to resist and defend China.

Of course, Chinese high-level officials know that the Japanese army has stationed heavy troops in the Korean peninsula and is fully prepared. In addition, the Japanese have operated the Korean peninsula for more than 30 years and know the Korean peninsula well. If China and Japan go to war on the Korean peninsula, the "time" is on China's side. The "geographical advantage" is on Japan's side ("Renhe" is not easy to say. Among Koreans, there are pro-Japanese factions and anti-Japanese factions. As for China, China has openly handed over Kim Koo, the head of the Korean government-in-exile, and others to Japan. As a result, the pro-China faction among Koreans has decreased a lot, and many anti-China factions have emerged at the same time), it is certain that China will have to pay a high price if it wants to conquer the Korean Peninsula. This is the main reason why China’s top leaders are afraid. As far as the Chinese military is concerned, the Sino-Japanese Korean War cannot be easily launched without adequate preparations. However, a group of "simple-minded, fanatical, radical and even extreme young soldiers" brazenly provoked the war.

在朝鲜半岛爆发的中日武装冲突爆发于1944年4月4日，该事件因此而被称为“四四事件”，挑起“四四事件”的部队是中国陆军第202师第202旅第1020团。

The 202nd Division belongs to the "Nanjing Army" system. It made great achievements during the Soviet War, especially in the full-scale counterattack of the Soviet Army code-named "Avalanche", and became famous for defending the Champion City (Omsk) and won the honorary title. "Beiwei", at the same time, the division suffered heavy casualties in that battle, with a personnel loss rate of more than [-]%. After the battle, the division was transferred back to the northeast for rest. More than [-] well-trained reservists Being added to the division, since the division was resting in the Northeast, most of the recruits who were added to the division were from the Northeast.

As we all know, the Northeast fell to the iron heels of the Japanese after the September [-]th Incident. Neither Zhang Xueliang nor Chiang Kai-shek was able to regain the Northeast. Only Jiang Weiguo did it, making the Northeast people generally respect him, love him and even worship him. Feelings are like Taiwanese people also respect, love and worship Jiang Weiguo because of Jiang Weiguo's recovery of Taiwan.

After the 202nd Division was rested and reorganized, more than two-thirds of the officers and soldiers in the division were from the Northeast. Naturally, the whole division "recognized no one except Jiang Weiguo". "Dragon Soul Club" secret club members, such as Zhu Jianming, deputy brigade commander of the 202nd Brigade.

Zhu Jianming, like Zhang Yun, commander of the 17th Brigade of the 18th Division, was a soldier who "dedicated his allegiance to Jiang Weiguo and worshiped Jiang Weiguo wholeheartedly".

After learning that Jiang Weiguo died in Tokyo, Zhu Jianming, who was from Northeast China and regarded Jiang Weiguo as his hometown benefactor, burst into tears of grief and indignation, and then waited for the order of "war against Japan" from his superiors. On the other hand, there has been no order to go to war against Japan.

Zhu Jianming felt deeply inconceivable. After repeated thinking, he believed that there were three reasons why Nanjing did not issue an order to start war against Japan: First, Jiang Weiguo had just succeeded in seizing power but died suddenly. The bureaucrats in Nanjing were busy Regaining power and secretly celebrating it. Jiang Weiguo took away their power. They wished that Jiang Weiguo would die soon, so they would not take revenge against Jiang Weiguo; , only caring about his own self-interest and official position, not as vigorous as Jiang Weiguo, full of vigor, dedicated to the country and the people, even if China has the ability to defeat Japan, those old and foolish people have no courage to go to war with Japan at all; third, Jiang Weiguo died in Tokyo, and there were even rumors that "this is a big conspiracy between Tokyo and Nanjing to kill Jiang Weiguo, because Jiang Weiguo's continued existence not only made the Japanese sleepless, but also made many people in China panic all day long." Jiang Weiguo was killed by Tokyo and Nanjing. Nanjing's death by partnership is of the same nature as "Yue Fei was killed by the Jin people and Qin Hui, Zhang Jun and other Song people in partnership".

After thinking about this, Zhu Jianming became more and more sad and angry. He was very eager to avenge Jiang Weiguo, but he was only a deputy brigade commander, so how could he do it?The last approach he took was to follow the example of the "Imperial Way School" within the Japanese army.

As a native of Northeast China, Zhu Jianming certainly has a profound understanding of the September [-]th Incident. He knows that the major event that changed the national destiny of China and Japan and the pattern of East Asia was not planned and implemented by the Japanese high-level officials at all, but by a small group of Japanese Kwantung Army. After the September [-]th Incident broke out, the Japanese high-level officials were as caught off guard as the Chinese high-level officials. Many Japanese high-level officials were even panicked and nervous, fearing that the Kwantung Army would be captured by the Northeast. The army was wiped out, fearing that the Kwantung Army's move would set fire to itself and even bring major disasters to Japan, but later it was proved that although the Emperor's self-assertion behavior was an out-and-out disobedience to orders, it brought huge losses to Japan. Zhang Xueliang did not have the guts to resist the Kwantung Army, and led the Northeast Army to abandon the Northeast without a single shot, so that the Japanese got the Northeast that the Japanese dreamed of without much effort. The behavior of self-assertion turned a blind eye and closed one eye, and then adopted an attitude of acquiescence, connivance, and support; not only the September [-]th Incident was like this, but the July [-]th Incident was also like this, except that the protagonist was replaced by the Japanese Garrison in North China, and the The Japanese North China Garrison’s move is also imitating the Kwantung Army (whether it is the North China Garrison or the Kwantung Army, the radicals inside belong to the Emperor’s Dao faction), and there is even a battle in Nanjing. At the beginning, the purpose of the Japanese “Shanghai Dispatch Army” was to They took Shanghai, but never thought about fighting Nanjing. As a result, after they took Shanghai, the radicals inside the dispatched army shouted "Fight Nanjing! Fight Nanjing!" Then they marched directly to Nanjing without asking for the consent of the Tokyo headquarters. The Tokyo headquarters, which has already done so, has no choice but to not object.

In this regard, Zhu Jianming was "deeply inspired". His logic is very simple: Why can't the Chinese do what the Japanese can do?As long as war is provoked, the Sino-Japanese war will break out completely, and Nanjing will be unable to participate in the war, and the goal of avenging Jiang Weiguo will be achieved.

Zhu Jianming is a secret member of the "Iron Blood Dragon Soul Society". Of course he doesn't know the true nature of this organization. He believes from the bottom of his heart that by joining this organization, he is loyal to Jiang Weiguo.

After the Nanjing Incident, because Jiang Weiguo knew that the Iron Blood Dragon Soul Society was a tool used by the Japanese to stir up civil strife in China, he ordered it to be disbanded. However, the time when the Iron Blood Dragon Soul Society was disbanded was very unfortunate. It happened that Jiang Weiguo "died in Tokyo." At that time, and in consideration of maintaining the honor of the Nanjing Army, Jiang Weiguo’s own reputation, and the stability of the Chinese army, Jiang Weiguo did not order to announce the true nature of the Iron Blood Dragon Soul Club to the outside world (the organization in the Nanjing Army that claims to be the most loyal to Jiang Weiguo is actually The pawn of the Japanese, the leader Yi Shuihan is a Japanese spy. Wouldn’t it be ridiculous to spread such a truth?), which led Zhu Jianming and other members who felt the pressure to think that “General Jiang Weiguo just died, and those old-school forces couldn’t wait to get it. Get rid of General Jiang Weiguo's direct lineage", and then he was stimulated and made a desperate determination.

After making up his mind, Zhu Jianming looked for "like-minded people" in the 202nd Division. In fact, like-minded people were everywhere around him. Nine and a half out of ten officers and soldiers in the division were Jiang Weiguo's "die-hard loyalists." However, considering the reasons of "many people and miscellaneous people" and "regiment-level troops are enough", Zhu Jianming only focused on the 202th Regiment of the 1020nd Brigade. Li Lianghui, the head of the regiment, and Zhong Daohai, the deputy head , Chief of Staff Huacheng, and several battalion commanders were determined by Zhu Jianming to be "all brothers who are absolutely loyal to General Jiang Weiguo." In the end, Zhu Jianming, Li Lianghui and others secretly gathered together and formally formulated a plan of action.

During the secret meeting, Zhong Daohai asked Zhu Jianming:

"Senior passenger, we only have the strength of one regiment, is that enough?"

Zhu Jianming said: "Enough is enough! Please remember that our purpose is to start a war, not to enter Tokyo alone. As long as our regiment fights the Japanese army in a dark and dark manner, no matter whether we win or lose in the end, our goal will be achieved. !"

Huacheng asked Zhu Jianming: "Deputy traveler, we are imitating the practice of the Japanese Emperor's School. You must remember what happened to the Japanese Emperor's School!"

Zhu Jianming said: "Of course I remember! Although the Japanese Emperor's School is loyal to the Emperor of Japan, in the end it was overthrown by the Emperor.