"Yaga! ”

In the midst of an angry roar, Japanese Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma launched an angry attack in his office. In the entire office, except for the person Ariga Nagao, no one had a straight face.

Army, needless to say. The establishment of the two divisions that had just been added to them did not make them more powerful, but in the other side's attack, an elite division of the army actually suffered heavy losses.

As for the navy, Zengo Shoyoshio, a naval major who had once laughed at Yoshio Fujino, also bent over and stood in front of the angry prime minister, not daring to say a word.

The current situation is indeed very bad, not only the army on the Qingdao side has been completely defeated, but it is also said that the entire Second Fleet of the navy has also been lost.

According to Yoshio Zengo's speculation, it is feared that these warships have sunk to the bottom of the sea, and Yamamoto Isoroku, who returned to the United States, immediately wrote to the Admiralty after the incident, believing that these warships had been sunk by the opposing side's torpedo planes. But this information is no longer on the table of the obviously aged prime minister in front of him at this moment.

What made Yoshio feel uncomfortable was that when the report reached the Lord of the Navy, he was missing.

With his official position, he naturally does not understand the mystery of this.

Nagao Ariga, who had already begun to use a large amount of money from unknown sources to organize his own intelligence personnel to infiltrate the army, navy, and air force, knew that the report had already been made

What this represents, this represents the end of a cabinet, and it also represents the imminent rise of political power. Ariga Nagao's gaze looked at the cabinet of Shigenobu Okuma, who was walking around like a trapped beast on the end of the road, and it was obvious that the oil had run out of gas.

Sitting in a wheelchair, his face was as calm as water, and his eyes chased the figure of Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma. Judging from his pale face, I am afraid he did not sleep much last night.

In the face of this dedicated prime minister, Nagao Ariga is not sorry for him. Because at least his means of dealing with Tang Yunyang have been recognized by others. This can show that in the next cabinet, the prime minister will still have his position by his side, isn't this enough!

"Mr. Prime Minister, now that the news of this incident has spread throughout Japan, the people have begun to fear this self-proclaimed Chinese National Defense Force. We have to fight back, and if we don't attack immediately, I'm afraid we'll ......"

When Nagao Ariga said this, he stopped talking. I believe he doesn't want to talk about the consequences, after all, that result will be a more serious blow to the Prime Minister in front of him.

"Yes, I know, I know!"

Faced with the outcome that he finally had to face, Japanese Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma let out a suppressed cry of rage. The fall of Tsingtao has now been reported throughout Japan in newspapers, and it is hard to believe that the entire Second Fleet has fallen.

However, according to the analysis of his cabinet members, it is not appropriate to start a war against them at this time. The most taboo thing at the time of the war is that the strength of the other side is not clear, and now not to mention the strength of the other side, except for the telegram description sent back by the remnants of the army in Lushun and Dalian, no one in the whole country actually knows how the other side occupied Qingdao and how the entire Second Fleet was destroyed.

All this, Ariga Nagao, who acted as the interior line, was quite clear, although he did not understand how the other party could capture Qingdao with heavy defense, but it must be related to their powerful air power.

Therefore, in the face of the prime minister's irritability, the army and navy generals were panicked, but he was the only one who sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and did not say a word, and the cabinet change had nothing to do with him at all.

What happened in Shandong this time caused the credibility of the Okuma Shigenobu cabinet to be most seriously damaged.

The last time he was attacked, he could still rely on the Army. This time, however, Qingdao, which was garrisoned by the main force of the Navy's Second Fleet, fell, and all the troops were wiped out, and not a single person escaped.

Also, under the watchful eye of the eagle, it is not easy to run out of the ocean, or to run from the land to the Beiyang military district.

Prime Minister Okuma began with a long sigh and pondered the current situation. Contrary to what others have speculated, he is not exactly thinking about the battle situation.

The current cabinet has completed its royal mission, mainly because the elders' greatest expectation for the Okuma cabinet is to suppress the political friendship association and solve the problem of the unpopular army addition of two divisions.

Now that his royal mission has ended, and there is no way to deal with the battle situation in front of him, due to what happened next, Japan's Okuma Shigenobu cabinet has fallen.

As if on purpose, within a few days after the fall of Qingdao, the other side immediately attacked the two ports of Lushun and Dalian, which had been painstakingly operated since the Russo-Japanese War, and completely smashed the main protective forces there.

The rest are only army soldiers who are facing the navy's large-caliber naval guns, without a trace of resistance, and have been cut off from supplies. Not to mention the recapture of the two ports now, there is not even half of the supplies for these soldiers to fight.

At sea, it was completely blocked by the enemy's mines, and the isthmus, which was only 5 kilometers long north of Dalian and connected to the peninsula, became a paradise for mines.

The convoy of supplies on the ground was all blown into garbage by planes. Even if it was transported by camel, along with livestock and supplies, it became the target of the bombardment when the mine exploded.

The problem now is that after the seventh day of the blockade, if the supplies are not delivered, the soldiers there may not last a few days. It's not just food, it's something that can be supplied on the spot with limited supplies compared to other consumptions such as ammunition.

But what about ammunition? Without ammunition and supplies, the Type 38 rifles on the soldiers were not as good as the burning sticks. As for medicine, soldiers who are injured and untreated without medicine will cry out because of the pain, and this is the most fundamental way to break morale.

Shigenobu Okuma was an aging political leader who supported the country, and although he was in the middle of World War I, he had considerable power. However, he has always been a layman in the military, especially since the Qingdao incident was an attack by the Chinese, whom the Japanese had always looked down upon, which raised calls for war against China in Japan.

Eventually, it led to the introduction of a cabinet with military characteristics.

"Billyken" is a kind of pointed god of good fortune, the name comes from English, the legend is that the American Adister in 1908 with the sixth sense obtained in a dream as the prototype of the original form, in 1910 to Japan.

And Terauchi Masashi was nicknamed such a lucky god name in English, and there is naturally a reason for this.

One is that the temple is bald, which is very similar to the Billikan puppet; Second, the Terauchi cabinet ignored common sense of constitutionalism and was referred to as "biliken," a homonym for the Japanese word "unconstitutional." The mention of the temple does not separate him from the second reason mentioned above.

Before becoming prime minister, he served as land minister and South Korea's commander-in-chief, and after the annexation of Korea, he became the governor of North Korea, where he imposed brutal rule. And such a figure is what the Japanese people are looking forward to, a leader who can lead them to defeat the emerging power in China and continue to occupy a position in China.

On August 20, 1917, although the weather in Tokyo was sunny and the sea breeze was smoky, it was a gloomy day for the cabinet of Shigenobu Okuma.

On this day, the Emperor's Imperial Decree formally approved the general resignation of Shigenobu Okuma's cabinet, and formally rejected Shigenobu Okuma's proposal to Foreign Minister Takaaki Kato, president of the Constitutional Comrades Association, to be the next prime minister, which had been recommended by Shigenobu Okuma since March 1916 during his tenure in office.

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During this period, the discontent caused by the "Qingdao Incident" among the people always erupted. On the contrary, it was the posture of the army at this time that won the appreciation of the people.

On the same day, Emperor Taisho of Japan issued an edict again in accordance with the will of the people, appointing Masashi as prime minister. To the excitement of the Japanese people, the cabinet was formed in just six days.

In the Terauchi Cabinet, Prime Minister Terauchi was a descendant of the Yama faction from the Choshu Domain's Army, and with the exception of Minister Kato Yuzaburo, the rest of the cabinet members were also direct or collateral members of the Yama Prefecture faction, and most of them were members of the House of Nobles. For this reason, this cabinet has also been called by some Japanese politicians as the "cabinet of feudal lords," "the cabinet of private discussions," and "the bureaucratic regime."

However, there is no doubt that the Terauchi cabinet began to mobilize the Japanese army and navy as soon as it took office, which was in line with the popular desire to deal a strong blow to the forces of Qingdao in China. The tide of protests that caused the fall of the Okuma Shigenobu cabinet to fall subsided, and the entire people entered a state of extreme excitement at the same time.

"Ariga-kun, I heard that before the 'Qingdao Incident', you had predicted that the other party would land in China, why are you so sure?"

As expected, Mr. Ariga remained on top of his comfortable wheel, serving as the new prime minister's China adviser. Although he was once a figure of Shigenobu Okuma's faction, his judgment of the actions of the Chinese Baath Party has long been quite famous among Japanese politicians.

"Prime Minister, you may have heard others say that I myself was persecuted by a violent organization under the control of that party, and finally fled back to Japan after a great deal of hardship. Therefore, I know a little more about this organization than others, and even know more deeply than the Major General Fujino Yoshio who once met Tang Yunyang! ”

Terauchi Masayoshi, who is much younger than Shigenobu Okuma, is only 65 years old at the moment, has participated in many large-scale wars, and is a typical Japanese militarist soldier who is known for his toughness. At this moment, what he wants to figure out is how much information can be provided to him by this China adviser who is said by others to be a "China expert" to provide him with the enemy.

Because, he has already made up his mind that he is going to go to war.

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