readx; On January 5, 1934, Seishiro Itagaki himself, a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, who had finished handling the affairs of Northeast China, flew back to Tokyo on a special plane from the military headquarters in Northeast China. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He reported to the emperor and the Japanese army staff headquarters at the base camp on the specific situation of the Japanese army that had invaded and occupied the front line of the Great Wall in the northeast. Subsequently, Itagaki participated in the first plan to wage war in Shanghai, which was very successful, but the emperor and the military department were very unhappy with this. At their behest, Seishiro Itagaki had to make a plan to stir up trouble in Shanghai for the second time, and then the emperor himself personally signed the plan and handed it to the military department, through which he sent another telegram from Tokyo to Takayoshi Tanaka, the army auxiliary military attache of the Japanese legation in Shanghai: "Tanaka-kun, the current situation in Manchuria is not very optimistic (the local anti-Japanese guerrillas and volunteers are too active, and the Kwantung Army is exhausted)... Please take advantage of the current tensions between China and Japan... It is up to you to plan the second Shanghai incident and turn the world's attention to Shanghai once again. ”

After reading this telegram, it was the second time that Takayoshi Tanaka, an army auxiliary military attache in Shanghai, had received this telegram, and it had been at least two years since the last telegram, and after careful consideration, he immediately handed over a high amount of 500,000 yen to the notorious Japanese female spy Yoshiko Kawashima (i.e., Kanebi Hui), and instructed her to make serious and concrete plans for its implementation.

On the afternoon of January 18, 1934, just like the year before in 1932, Yoshiko Kawashima played the old trick that had been tried and tested again last time, and even coaxed and deceived more than a dozen Japanese Nichiren monks (who were cheated several times, and did not reflect on it, and this time they went to be cannon fodder...... With hundreds of Japanese believers (several times the number of people in '32, it seems that little Japan was planning to completely take over the whole of Shanghai, and to make the Beiyang Nationalist Government a vassal of the Japanese, but with Jiang Zhicheng's personality it was impossible) to go to the Huajie Mayushan Road, adjacent to the eastern district of the Shanghai Public Concession (Yangshupu), to find trouble with the Sanyou Industrial Society's main factory, which had resumed production again.

After more than 100 Japanese people marched here, they stopped and watched the drills of the workers' escort team outside the factory, probably because the Japanese and the Chinese did not like each other or had a great enmity of life and death... These Japanese personnel directly threw stones and other objects to provoke many times, and the factory workers did not want to cause a more violent conflict than the last time. However, this group of Japanese monks and believers intensified, which directly led to the outbreak of the workers of the Sanyou Industrial Society, which was at a critical point.

Previously, Yoshiko Kawashima had already premeditated, and had hired a large number of thugs who were willing to be traitors to the organization, disguised as workers, and blended into the crowd. In the fierce conflict, more than 100 people on the Japanese side, who were originally engaged in a war of words, were attacked by a large group of unknown people at this time (that is, a local hooligan gang secretly supported by the Japanese side hired by Yoshiko Kawashima), resulting in dozens of deaths and more than a dozen serious injuries.

Therefore, the Japanese government once again jumped out and took this opportunity to accuse the attack on its incident of being committed by the Chinese factory pickets (the last time the factory pickets had no weapons and equipment, only some non-controlled knives such as wooden sticks, and hardly any firearms, but this time there were many controlled knives and some old-fashioned firearms made by private people), at this time, because the economic crisis has not passed, the Japanese government directly turned the attention of the domestic people to its neighbor across the sea: China in order to divert domestic contradictions.

This is the so-called premeditated "Japanese monk**" by the Japanese side. As for the behavior of China's native workers' and peasants' army to expand its base areas and eliminate the troops of the Beiyang Defense Army, it was directly ignored or despised by the great powers (the mechanical giant of more than 20 meters in the four-armed Moluo disappeared from everyone's field of vision after only two or three battles, and in the eyes of the great powers, it was a waste product of not very high practical value), and what attracted them this time was the second war that was about to take place in Shanghai (for politics, For the war and other powers with a very keen sense of smell, the Japanese simply could not hide or even bypass their own intelligence system), and they were also anxious to get out of the economic crisis, not only with the attitude of watching the show, in order to assess the strength of the Chiang Zhicheng government and the Japanese government in the Far East, so as to formulate the next strategy for the Far East, and at the same time dump the old equipment and commodities that cannot be sold at home to the warring parties.

Two days later, at about 2 a.m. on 20 January, while most people were still asleep, a group of about 1,000 Japanese who claimed to be members of the Overseas Japanese Youth Comrades Association (this was their second appearance) threw their fire-burning tools into the courtyard wall of the Sanyou Industrial Society, and set fire to the entire Sanyou Industrial Society at night. Fortunately, after the incident last time, the factory guards of Sanyou Industrial Society immediately discovered and stopped it, but what they didn't expect was that this group of people with katanas directly hacked and slashed N people who came to organize the fire in the arson The Chinese patrol of the Ministry of Industry Bureau who came to organize the fire were arrested, but the arrogance did not flee afterwards, but swaggered away from the scene.

In the afternoon of the same day, Takayoshi Tanaka saw that the timing was good, and immediately ran to incite 4,000 Japanese expatriates to hold a rally at the Japanese Resident Corps at Wenjianshi Road (Tanggu Road), and marched along the Sichuan Road to the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps at the northern end of the road, demanding that the Japanese Marines intervene.

On the way, when he walked close to Qiujiang Road, he suddenly started to make a coax and rushed to the Chinese store to do miscellaneous burning and looting. (Originally, the Marines did not want to be involved in it after the last incident, but due to local pressure, they had to make a plan with the time planner Takayoshi Tanaka, so there was a petition from the Japanese expatriates and then asked the Shanghai Consul General Murai Kuramatsu to put pressure on the mayor of Shanghai Wu Tiecheng again, and a large number of ronin and members of the Black Dragon Society organization were also involved in the procession to expand the matter, so that Japan could obtain greater benefits in this second Shanghai incident)

On January 21, 1934, in order to enlarge the incident and create established facts and confuse the public, the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, Murai Kuramatsu, himself, swore to Wu Tiecheng, then mayor of Shanghai, that he would arrest Yunyun, the murderer of the Sanyou Industrial Society, and immediately put forward four strong demands that had not been met in the previous time: 1. The mayor of Shanghai himself must make a public apology to the Japanese monk in the media; 2. Demand that Wu Tiecheng order the arrest and punishment of the perpetrators of this incident (this is simply not the right thing to do, and the forces of all parties in Shanghai itself are complicated); 3. Financial compensation for the victims (the victims are the cannon fodder); 4. Ban and dissolve all anti-Japanese organizations and groups in Shanghai, headed by the Anti-Japanese Salvation Association (the Japanese did this in order to benefit their own rule over Shanghai in the future, and feared that these forces would obstruct their infiltration of Shanghai, China).

On 22 January 1934, Koichi Shiozawa, the former commander of the 1st Japanese Dispatch Fleet stationed in Shanghai, was reappointed as commander of the Shanghai Fleet last year. It issued a hard-line public statement, in which it stated that if Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng himself rejected Matsui's four points or did not give a satisfactory answer to the Japanese side, the Imperial Japanese Navy would take "appropriate action" (the Japanese did this to cover up the next move: you see, this is not me giving you a chance, it is just that you have not fulfilled it, so it is no wonder that we will do it when the time comes).

Itagaki Seishiro and the General Staff Headquarters had already arranged a "fake war" after repeated deductions (they did not estimate it, but the fake turned out to be true, and the scale was beyond their control, which led to the loss of almost all of China's concessions, and also led to the confluence of the Chinese Social League and the Red Organization to stand in most of China, leaving the Japanese themselves with a more powerful opponent, which they regretted). First of all, after the occurrence of the "Japanese monks" this time, the Japanese navy, which was much stronger than the year before, first dispatched troops and sent additional warships to Shanghai under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese. In addition to the first "28 January" incident after the "18 September" incident, the Japanese Navy once again dispatched warships to Shanghai.

On 21 January, he dispatched the cruiser "Oi" and the 15th Destroyer Group (4 destroyers) from the mainland of Kure Harbor to carry more than 450 men of the 1st Special Marine Brigade and a large amount of munitions, and arrived in Shanghai on 23 January. On 24 July, another ship of the "Notoro" spy ship anchored at Port Arthur, the "Satsuma Domain" (after this aircraft carrier was renovated in the second half of '32, its tonnage soared from 140 million tons to 33,000 tons, and the number of aircraft on board reached 25) also arrived in Shanghai.

On 22 January, the Japanese Government "pretended" to hold an internal consultation meeting, at which some members proposed that "it was decided to take appropriate measures and have the Dajiao (Cen Sheng) marine camera deal with it" (Dajiao had reservations about the incident in Shanghai again, but he couldn't twist his thigh).

On the 25th, the heads of the Japanese Navy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly held a meeting at which they "agreed that if the Chinese side does not show sincerity and does not carry out Japan's demands, it will be decided to implement the requirements of the military period with strength, and to agree on specific measures in case of emergency."

On the 26th, the Ministry of the Navy convened a meeting at the highest level, and "decided to exert its strength on the first day, second day, and two days or so, and the methods were as follows: (1) In view of the insufficient strength of its own forces in Shanghai to resist the superior strength of the Nationalist Defense Forces on the Chinese side, it could send the reconstructed Second Fleet to Austrian aid; (2) to protect the Japanese overseas Chinese in Shanghai on the spot (unchanged from the previous time), (3) to protect the Japanese navy from Wusong to Shanghai, but to strengthen vigilance and prevention against the appearance of a third-party hostile fleet in the open sea; (4) To detain all Chinese-flagged ships outside Wusongkou, and to investigate and deal with arms smuggling and other related vessels that may be unfavorable to one's own side; (5) Sending additional warships to Nanjing, Hankou, Guangzhou, Shantou, Xiamen, and other ports to incite and cause local ronins to riot at the same time to divert the attention of the National Defense Forces and the Nanking Government in Beiyang. ”

As a result, this modified and added military operation by the Japanese Navy was approved and approved by Emperor Hirohito.

On the 26th, the Supreme Military Council, under the chairmanship of the Chief of Staff of the General Staff, Prince Zaihito, instructed Shiozawa Koichi in Shanghai to "exercise the right of self-defense" and warned him that if he messed up the matter again, the only way to apologize Shiozawa was to apologize.

On the same day (26 July), the Japanese Ministry of the Navy ordered the 1st Mine Squadron (the surviving flagship cruiser "Yubari" led the 22nd, 23rd, and 30th destroyer squadrons, with a total of 12 destroyers) from within Japan, carrying more than 460 men of the 2nd Special Marine Corps to Shanghai, and arrived on the afternoon of 28 July.

At this point, the Japanese army, determined to play a big game, had assembled 24 warships, more than 20 planes, more than 1,830 marines, and 3,000 or 4,000 armed Japanese overseas Chinese in Shanghai, distributed in the Japanese concession and on the Huangpu River. (On 28 January, the Japanese Ministry of the Navy ordered the aircraft carriers "Kaga" and "Hosho," three cruisers "Naka," "Yura," and "Abukuma," and four mine ships, which were not involved in the First Shanghai Incident, to depart from the mainland for Shanghai.) ）