The Japanese are impotent, but this time there is no way to do it. Originally, the country had no money, and the Russo-Japanese War was a money-losing business, and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he couldn't even collect Gengzi's money, Qiao Cannon was willing to admit this account, but this poor ghost still relied on the empire to support him, where did he have the money to pay off his debts. Of course, the Northeast is a rich land, but it's a pity that Zhang Zuolin, who was raised, is a white-eyed wolf, and he doesn't care about the interests of the empire at all. The Imperial Navy is very strong, but it can't get any benefits except for smashing and looting, Qingdao is German, Shanghai is the world's great powers, Tianjin, forget it, there are either Japanese or Japanese friends, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, although the empire is not necessarily stronger than rabbits. Guangzhou is rich, but the British watch it closely, and the younger brother has to give face to the boss. Shandong is also a good place, but the factories and businesses are inland, the army horse manure is not used, and the battleships cannot go to land no matter how good they are.

What should I do? The bigwigs of the army let the people below understand the spirit and go alone, anyway, it is the glorious tradition of the army. The Japanese didn't bother to engage in friction in Kanto Prefecture, I don't know which way the gods helped, and actually let a few small staff officers die violently on the street, these people died well, died wonderfully, and died croaking, and now the excuse was sent to the door, and the various brigades in Kanto Prefecture planned to do a big job, and the credit for expanding the territory and opening up the territory was about to be deducted on the head, and the whole barracks were jubilant, as if the dead were not Japanese. However, there are also excusable circumstances, after all, these staff officers of the saber group are not generals, but their identities are enough to attract the attention of the country, after all, they are people who have been awarded by the emperor, so it is very suitable as an excuse for war.

However, when everyone was gearing up to open the store with Lao Zhangtou, Zhang Zuolin's gang surrendered without discipline, but it was not for the Imperial Army, but for the most feared Marshal Wu of the Empire. These two obviously have adulterous feelings, one has just announced the change of flag, and the other has opened its army to Wafangdian. Is there any reason for this? Although there are many middle two in the Japanese army, Hasegawa Tadaichi, as the governor of Kwantung Prefecture, is not a fool, although he is an out-and-out imperial faction, but compared to those who were fooled by Sadao Araki who believed that "as long as there are two million bamboo spears (spears) is enough to defeat the Soviet Union", he still knows that his brigade will be defeated by the two divisions of the Wehrmacht on the opposite side, and this is almost a sure thing. On my side I don't even have a heavy gun of more than a hundred mm caliber, oh, not no, but fixed on the batteries around Arthur. The two divisions on the opposite side of the heavy artillery alone brought in almost a heavy artillery wing (forty guns), although the planes in the sky did not cross the line, but a team of people passed in front of their own door did not seem to come to show them the results of training, and at the time of this day, three lines of defense were laid on the opposite side, and there were a large number of reinforced concrete firepower points. There are no two standing divisions plus a heavy artillery brigade in this position, oh and a flying wing, so let's wash and sleep as soon as possible. The staff headquarters received Hasegawa's report, and there was no way, it was not impossible to go alone, but if the relevant people lost the battle, they had to perform self-help appendectomy, and regardless of the stitches, it was not easy for everyone to graduate from Lu University, this hornet's nest is better not to mess with, after all, life is still important to yourself.

As for the dead staff officers, let's mourn and change. Although according to the practice of the Japanese Army, outstanding elements who have graduated from the University will be transferred to the so-called "three central officials" of the "Ministry of the Army" (military department), the "General Staff Headquarters" (military orders), and the "Department of Education Directorate" (military training) to serve as staff members, or to serve as instructors at the University of the Army, and then according to their expertise in studying foreign Chinese when they were students, they will be sent to various countries for further study and intelligence investigation work for two years. These outstanding elements who serve in the central government, known as "provincial staff", will generally climb up smoothly and rise to the rank of general, and it will not be difficult. As for those who can't pass the Lu University, if they don't have other specialties, then they can only stay in the army all the time, sweat in summer, freeze in winter, and train soldiers without stopping. So the death of these people is not sad, but seeing these vacancies, there are more happy colleagues, of course, the beard is still righteous, although the murderer was not caught, but one person gave three hundred oceans of buried silver, and it is not old or young to exchange it for yen, and what kind of bicycle do you want.

Of course, they didn't pay attention to one of them, one of the second place guys in Lu University, with a pair of wine bottles at the bottom, sharp-beaked monkey gills and ears, which was even more ugly after death. However, Wu Chenxuan still snorted when he received Yu Jian's intelligence report, Yongtian Tieshan? It turned out to be this guy.

Nagata Tetsuyama, a native of Nagano Prefecture, the future lieutenant general of the Japanese Army, has a low rank. However, this is the leading brother of the dignified control faction, and is known as the first brain in the Japanese army. is smarter than Ishihara, the first staff officer of Japan's Showa, and Ishihara is not an order of magnitude worse than him. Graduated from the Army University this year. Next year, I will go to Germany to study military affairs and return to China the following year. He has served as an official of the embassies in Denmark and Sweden. In 1921, he was appointed military attaché to the Legation in Switzerland. In 1923, he joined the General Staff Headquarters as a member of the Department of Education Directorate, and the following year he became an instructor at the Army University. In 1926, he served as the head of the Mobilization Division of the Maintenance Bureau of the Ministry of the Army, and promoted the modernization of military equipment. In 1930, he was appointed Director of the Military Affairs Bureau. He was engaged in military mobilization and system development for a long time, laying the foundation for the general mobilization system until August 1935, when he was beheaded by Saburo Aizawa, an army member of the Imperial Road faction. The role of this guy is not that he staged a coup d'état or commanded thousands of troops to engage in the east and west of China, but that he paid close attention to the war situation in World War I, and at the same time made an in-depth comparative study of the strategic resources and industrial standards of various countries, as well as the general mobilization system in which they invested their human, financial, and material resources to play the overall war function. In 1920, he submitted a rich "National Mobilization Proposal" to the Japanese army authorities, which was praised by Senior General Ugaki Kazunari (non-commissioned officer 1st term), who served as Minister of War twice from the late Taisho period to the early Showa period, as more brilliant than the overall war theory of General Ludendorff of Germany.

Nagata Tetsuyama, who was bent on promoting the general mobilization of the country, cherished the illusion of the so-called "establishment of the Japan-Manchurian economic bloc" early on, and later created the "918" conspiracy, which actually made the fantasy a reality. It was at this time that the navy decided to withdraw from the two treaties of Washington and London, which limited the tonnage of ships by the United States, Britain, and Japan to 5, 5, and 3, so both the army and navy urgently needed a major expansion of armaments, and coveted the strategic materials such as coal, iron, cotton, and wool in the five provinces of North China, as well as the huge Chinese consumer market, which was sufficient to enable Japan to accumulate wealth and relieve its financial crisis. Therefore, it is necessary to strike at China immediately. Therefore, this time it is not like "918" where a small number of army cadres first secretly make out the facts, and then pull out the Japanese government to rub their butts for them; Rather, it justifiably demanded from the outset that the government first decide on the policy and then implement it.

In the spring of 1935, Nagata sent Hashimoto Gun, the head of the Military Division, to Takero Morijima, the first chief of the East Asia Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to coordinate the basic policy of aggression against China again.

"To make China completely ban anti-Japanese words and deeds, to get rid of the policy of dependence on Europe and the United States, and to immediately implement a policy of goodwill toward Japan, and to cooperate with the empire on specific issues; To make the independence of Manchukuo from China a de facto acquiescence for the time being, to abandon its anti-Manchurian policy, and to promote economic and cultural integration with Manchukuo, at least in the northern branch area bordering Manchuria; The Red forces from Outer Mongolia are a threat common to Japan, Manchuria, and China, and in order to eliminate the threat, we hope to provide various facilities in the border areas with Outer Mongolia, and we should make concerted efforts from the Chinese side. ”

These three points are the so-called "Three Principles of Hirota," which Foreign Minister Hirota Hiroki proposed to Japan later. Even the Japanese consul general in Shanghai at the time, Ihataro Ishikuchi, criticized their conspiracy, saying: Such three principles are to ask China to write a check to Japan without filling in the amount, so that in the future it can arbitrarily expand its interpretation and demand that it be honored.

I have to say that this Japanese soldier still has some bottom goods, but he is helpless even if Sun Wu is reborn as a martial marquis. This is because in addition to the two divisions of the Wehrmacht that have been deployed to Pulandian, there is also a third division that has arrived in Mukden by train, and all the divisions of the Bong Army have been reduced to the garrison according to the requirements and accepted the reorganization of the Wehrmacht.

In the face of this kind of strength, the bigwigs of the Japanese Ministry of War had to make a serious deduction, and they found that even if the navy was willing to help cut off the Jingbong Railway, it would not be able to prevent the Chinese Defense Forces from continuing to move from the direction of the grassland to support the northeast. Harbin also has a wing (regiment) of the Wehrmacht stationed in Harbin, and the 27th Division of the Feng Army seems to have merged with the Wehrmacht, their weapons and equipment have been replaced, and even if the combat strength is calculated according to half of the Wehrmacht, it is not something that a few brigades can handle. Now there are only three divisions in Manchuria plus North Korea, and there are only nine divisions without mobilization on the mainland, and we have to count the Guards Division and the First Division that cannot be moved lightly, and then remove the Fourth Division of Tea, the Japanese army is also stretched.

At present, the Wehrmacht seems to have more than 200,000 regular troops, which is not much different from the number of active duty troops of the Japanese army, and the mobilization power of the other side is not inferior to that of its own country, and there are no less than 300,000 militias organized by the reserve forces and "vigilantists," as well as patrol battalions in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, and other places, with no less than 500,000 reserve troops. Even a madman like Araki would not dare to boast that the Wehrmacht, which was not inferior in these weapons, could defeat the Wehrmacht in a matter of months.

If the war becomes protracted, Japan's finances will surely collapse first, and not everyone can afford the consequences of failing to pretend to be forced at that time. So the General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of War pretended to have amnesia from top to bottom, and when they met the navy's red deer, they deliberately asked how the three saber groups who died in Mukden how to repay the blood debt, and the adjutants of the army all bowed their heads and fled with their faces flushed, which was too sad.