"Before the battle, you already knew what kind of new Japan we were going to build! Our enemies are Japan's national thieves, and those national thieves are Japanese, who, like us, all hope for a better life and for themselves to live with greater prosperity and dignity. However, the prosperity of those enemies came at the cost of ten or even a hundred times the miserable life of the Japanese people! This era is sick, and the hearts of the people of this era are also sick! We are not for our personal fame and fortune, not for our personal glory and wealth, but for the sake of a more equal and happier life for all Japanese people, including our parents and relatives! ”

Just an hour before Lieutenant Kiaki Nakahashi killed the Military Affairs Bureau, Kato Teruzo Nakasa was making the final mobilization of the two wings of the 1st and 9th Divisions. Banners with the words "Respect for the Emperor and Rapprochement" and "Showa Restoration" are hunting in the wind that still carries meaning in the spring.

Facing the more than 5,000 soldiers in front of him who were interested in participating in the coup, Kato Terumo Sanchusa appealed loudly, "If you believe that according to the direction of today's Japan, Japan will have a bright future, you can leave the team now, and we will not stop you." If you feel that the powerful are invincible and the Restoration cannot succeed, you can leave the team now, and we will not stop you. If you think that Japan today will perish if it is not renewed, and if you feel that you have a mission to save Japan, please follow us forward, and the goal of our common rise is to build a new Japan with food, clothing, and dignity for the workers! No more words are needed at this point! Depart in 10 minutes, and those who do not want to march will exit on their own! ”

There was silence in the queue of thousands of people, and the vast majority of the officers and men were well aware of what they were involved in, just as the vast majority of the officers and men did not really know where the mutiny was taking Japan. The bitter life was filled with anger, sorrow, and reluctance, but when it was their turn to take up arms against the government that had created Japan's miserable situation, everyone felt fear.

At this time, someone sang a song, "The waves in Miluo Yuan are moving, and the clouds are flying next to the peak of Wushan; Faint and turbid, the world is independent, and the righteous indignation burns with blood. The powerful only know the proud family, and there is really no one in the country; The wealthy man knows how to boast and accumulate wealth, and the society thinks about it! ”

This is the "Song of the Showa Restoration", the battle song of the imperial faction. Reflection after the fact is to be painfully settled, and when experiencing unbearable pain, what is needed is not to lament, but to rise up and resist.

"The rise and fall of chaos is like a dream, and the world is really like a game of chess; Under the Showa Restoration, men are connected to justice! There are millions of soldiers in the chest, and thousands of cherry blossoms are scattered when they die; The rotting corpses crossed over, and this body fluttered and floated together. Worried about the country and stand forward, the boy sings from now on!"

The backbone elements of the Imperial Dao Sect had also begun to sing together with solemn expressions, and some soldiers turned pale and even began to tremble. Finally someone walked out of the queue, respectfully put down the rifle, or untied the pistol from the waist, placed it in front of the queue, and then trotted out of the line with his head down. Under their leadership, many officers and men who did not have the courage to participate in the mutiny continued to choose to withdraw.

However, those officers and soldiers who unswervingly participated in the mutiny turned a blind eye and allowed those who wavered around them to break away one after another.

"The heavens are shaking with wrath, and the roar is very loud; The eternal sleeper cannot sleep, and Japan is awakening in the present day; and watch the clouds of the nine heavens, and listen to the uproar of the waves of the four seas; The opportunity for innovation has now arrived, and the storm swept through Japan at night; Between heaven and earth, people are down, confused and don't know where to go. ”

The singing did not stop, and each of the mutinous troops was given a white headband, on which were written the words "Respect the Emperor and Seek Adultery", and the officers and soldiers who stayed behind tied white cloth to their military caps, which was the way the soldiers distinguished between friend and foe.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers who had withdrawn were almost gone, Kato Terumo tied a white cloth to his military cap, and then shouted loudly: "Above! Let's go! The enemy is in Nagata Town, right in the Imperial Palace, right next to the Emperor! ”

The Japanese army was trained quite strictly, and the vacant space in the middle of the queue was quickly filled up. Some officers and soldiers did not take a step, they did not have the courage to leave, and they did not have the courage to move on. The mutinous troops did not embarrass them, nor did they forcibly pull them into the ranks, and the crowd just moved in the direction of downtown Tokyo. Leaving those people behind him, the procession marched resolutely towards its destination amid the military songs, and the sparse soldiers in the square heard the songs left by the marching troops.

"Those who have praised glory in the world, whose tall buildings are still visible; Fame is just a dream, only sincerity will never be lost. Life is full of feelings, and who can comment on success or failure; The song of resignation is chanted, and the song of generosity and sorrow is over today. The sword on my waist is there, and the blood in the sea is surging! ”

Where could the guards in Tokyo have imagined that in broad daylight, there would be an army formed into a mutiny. As soon as the troops entered the city of Tokyo, they immediately divided their troops and began to advance according to the original plan. At this time, the avant-garde had already received the news that the officers and soldiers of the Guards Division had conquered the Military Affairs Bureau and killed the leading boss of the control faction, Nagata Tetsuyama. The troops began to march rapidly, heading straight for the Emperor's Palace.

The people did not expect that so many soldiers would suddenly appear in broad daylight, and many people began to watch. However, when gunfire began to ring out in Tokyo, the people were surprised at first, and the more clever ones began to run back. Tokyo was so big that the mutinous forces simply could not afford a complete blockade, so they could only quickly reach and blockade Nagata Town. They also sent troops to arrest people in several key departments.

As soon as the troops guarding the palace on the opposite side learned of the shooting in Tokyo, they saw a large force of troops arrive at the palace. At the outermost level, a mixed military-police unit was guarding against anyone from petitioning in Tokyo, and the army and police who came to inquire were immediately subdued, and the army outside immediately surrounded the palace. The troops guarding the palace knew that something was wrong, and they immediately made defensive preparations.

Guarding the palace is the elite of the Guards Division, but the so-called elite is just a way of saying it. Kato Keizo did not think that these people would be able to fight the regular army that had actually experienced the bloody battlefield. In the temporary headquarters, Daisa Kibe admired Kato's determination, "Is it feasible to attack the Imperial Palace?" ”

"As long as we can't support the emperor, we can only be considered a bunch of rebels. Only when the emperor speaks in person can we be considered to have legal status, at least for a short time. Kato replied. Most of his subordinates are loyal to Kato Teru, and even if it is to prevent these subordinates from falling into the situation of traitors, Kato Tetsuzo can't have any hesitation.

"Report! The artillery unit has arrived! The herald rushed in and shouted. Because the first division was moving more urgently, the artillery units did not have time to do a good job of mobilization and resettlement for the time being. Now the artillery unit with light artillery rushed to join up with the main force of An Teng Huisan.

An Tenghui Sanzhong Zuo hurriedly rushed out, and sure enough, the artillery unit sweated and carried mortars, dragging light field guns to the front of the palace. On the one hand, the number of people involved in the mutiny with the artillery unit was relatively small, and the artillery could only be transported to the front of the palace. Second Lieutenant Nakajima, a student of the Artillery School, led the cadets of the Artillery School to integrate with the artillerymen and temporarily serve as an artillery unit.

Looking at the panicked defenders in front of the palace, An Tenghui Sanzhong Zuo ordered loudly: "Start shelling!" ”

The last time a battle near the Imperial Palace, including artillery, was fought during the Meiji Restoration, and An Tenghui did not have any sense of tracing the vicissitudes of history in his heart, he was fighting for reality. Kita Ikki had long analyzed it clearly that it was impossible for the emperor to support the actions of any imperial faction. The Showa warlords were a small gang of Nagata Tetsuyama and others who surrounded Hirohito during his time at the Hidden Mansion, and in Hirohito's view, young soldiers from the civilian sector were encouraged by the old men of the Choshu Domain to try to control the government. If this mutiny does not completely control Hirohito, as long as Hirohito openly says that the mutineers are a rebel party, then all those who participated in the mutiny will immediately fall into the state of thieves.

After grasping Hirohito's life and death, it was possible to promote the Showa Restoration. Mo said that the shelling of the palace, even the burning of the palace was not any problem for An Tenghuisan.

An Teng Huisan's decision was cleverly misinterpreted in the eyes of the soldiers who followed him, who believed that Mr. An Teng was confident. So far, the battle has been completely planned, so there will be no problem in attacking the Imperial Palace and "rescuing the Emperor".

After getting the order to bombard, Second Lieutenant Nakajima Waner had already thrown off his military coat, and now he rolled up his sleeves and began to load the shells, and simply measured the distance, and the second lieutenant Nakajima Waner personally fired the first gun, and the shells whistled out, going straight to the bunker in front of the palace gate, as if there was heavenly help, and the bunker that was originally used as a test-fired artillery shell was directly concentrated, and the soldiers and machine guns inside were blown up into the sky.

The first cannon was so successful that everyone in the artillery unit burst into cheers, and the other artillery positions opened fire one after another, and the whistling shells plowed the defensive position in front of the palace gate in a moment.

Seeing that the firepower of the guards was weakened, Captain Kono Shou led the team to rush to the palace gate with a rifle. Because of repeated defeats in battles with China, the Japanese army attached great importance to learning the tactics of the Chinese Army. The Chinese army has been replaced with automatic rifles, and the armored forces are building up rapidly. These Japanese troops did not know where they came from, and secondly, they did not have the industrial strength to imitate them. In the A Division, the troops fully imitated China's combat mode in the era of bolt-action rifles. Bayonets, grenades, three-man combat teams, light machine guns and mortars accompanied the attack.

The cost of such an adaptation is huge, not only the materials needed for equipment, but also the need for more well-trained squad and platoon commanders, especially excellent "military cao". This is the life of the Japanese army. Japan's military system is different from China's, and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has implemented a policy of equality between officers and men, and all kinds of battle summing up meetings have to be held. After democratic discussions on a large number of specific problems in the military, there are many solutions to the problems through the pooling of wisdom. From these methods, we can sift through these methods and brainstorm ideas to finally summarize the infantry battle mode.

Japan's hierarchical system has encountered great problems in trying to engage in this infantry combat mode. The first is that the internal class antagonism of the army leads to the low status of soldiers, and even the best soldiers cannot be truly respected. Soldiers are not respected and promoted, and it is unrealistic to rely on mandatory training to equip troops with a great deal of military skills. No matter how well he trains, he is a big soldier who acts as cannon fodder, and the grassroots soldiers have no such enthusiasm at all.

An Tenghui has tried his best to downplay the traditional oppression in the Japanese army in his own wing, but no matter how hard An Tengzhong tries and the essence of the Japanese army does not change, he will never be able to approach the level of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Even so, Anteng Zhongzuo's subordinates are already willing to serve their superiors, even if they rebel with Anteng Zhongzuo, they don't care. Anteng Zhongzuo's wing can be regarded as having a preliminary grasp of the combat methods of a certain Chinese army.

The enemy that Anteng Zhongsa faced was still the traditional Japanese model, and the troops guarding the palace gate could not adapt to the new combat mode at all, and they still adopted the earlier Japanese combat mode, and the guard troops also had the function of an honor guard in addition to fighting, and it was impossible to popularize the new combat mode. Immediately after the bombardment, the guards guarding the palace gate began to resist the attack of numerous three-man attack groups in squads, and the guards suffered losses as soon as the two sides exchanged fire. The palace guards fired in one direction in a squad, and one squad on the other side attacked from three directions. Even if the level of fire on both sides is comparable, the utilization rate of firepower is very different. After a few moments of fighting, the front troops were already at a distance where they could meet the enemy with grenades. A grenade was thrown into the positions of the palace guards, and the defense system of several positions was immediately disrupted.

Seeing that the various positions on the first line quickly fell into chaos, the firepower points that were originally used as the second line had to be put into battle at this time, although some attacking soldiers were knocked down. As soon as the firing points were exposed, Second Lieutenant Nakajima Wanji ordered the artillerymen to open heavy fire on them.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the mutinous soldiers were killed under the palace gates, clearing the remaining enemy while using the positions of the original palace guards to shoot at the troops on the palace walls.

"Release the smoke screen!" An Tenghui said in the third middle school. A dozen smoke bombs, which had been prepared long ago, soon began to spew thick yellow smoke. The palace guards at the head of the city thought that the mutineers were actually madly carrying out poison gas attacks, and one by one they screamed crookedly, and then quickly covered their mouths and noses tightly.

The sappers responsible for blowing up the door began to run towards the door under the cover of a smoke screen, laying thin steel plates and sandbags. In the smoke screen, An Tenghui Sanzhongzuo's telescope was full of shadows, and he couldn't see anything clearly. In less than ten minutes, the signal from the front finally sent to the rear, and the mutinous troops immediately took cover.

Moments later, with an earth-shattering bang, a huge shock wave shook the vicinity of the palace as if it had been shaken. The gas wave generated by the huge explosion immediately dispersed the smoke, and the smoke of the explosion and the smoke and dust raised temporarily covered the explosion point like fog. After this loud explosion, the sound of gunfire stopped for a moment, and the defenders did not expect that the attacking troops would dare to carry out such a fierce attack on the palace. To put it more bluntly, they didn't expect that these mutinous guys were actually "playing for real", and after the Meiji Restoration, no one in Japan dared to openly challenge the authority of the emperor. It's one thing to engage in power tricks, but it's another thing to attack with such ferocity. Could it be that the people outside are really going to come and kill the emperor? The palace guards were stunned.

The attacking troops, on the other hand, seized the time to adjust their deployment and prepare for the next offensive.

When the smoke cleared halfway, the palace gate was still standing under the explosion, but the old wall next to the arch was blown down, and a 45-degree slope appeared on the towering wall. Without deliberately giving an order, Anten Nakasa's subordinates had already reacted immediately, light and heavy machine guns pressed down on the position, and the infantry rushed there in groups of three, stepping on the bricks and rubble, and they began to try to climb the city wall.

The defenders on the walls began to suppress the gap, and the machine gunners shot directly at the enemy leaning out. Mortars, grenadiers suppressed enemy fire points hiding out of sight. As Anten Nakasa judged, at the cost of more than 20 casualties, the vanguard finally climbed the city wall and established a defensive position. With cover, the follow-up troops began to quickly storm the city. The road to the interior of the palace has finally been opened.

The troops guarding the palace could not be said to be warlike, but after the organization of the war changed, individual bravery was not enough to affect the progress of the war. In other words, the new mode of warfare makes everyone who goes to war more courageous and more determined. This can only be done with a more advanced organizational model.

After an hour of fighting, the attacking forces had already taken out the defenders on the walls. The outer palace gate was also opened, and the mutinous troops rushed into the perimeter of the palace with shouts, tightly surrounding the palace.

Although he had enough confidence in Anto Nakasa, the Japanese army had never had experience in attacking the Imperial Palace, and he was very worried that he would not be able to attack for a long time, and he was also worried that the attacking troops would not be able to control it, so that the war would expand unlimitedly. Control of the Imperial Palace, control of the Emperor, is the purpose of this battle. If the emperor is accidentally killed during the attack, even if the battle is bloodied, it will not change the fate of defeat.

The battle was fought not only in the Imperial Palace, but also in the whole of Tokyo, where the mutinous forces were to deal with. The Imperial Dao faction knew some of the circumstances of this mutiny in advance. After being transferred out of the 1st Division, the Imperial Dao faction in the top echelons knew that something was wrong. Nagata Tetsuyama and others, who have the advantage, will not stop there. Therefore, when the lower-ranking soldiers of the Imperial Dao Sect came to visit, the senior generals of the Imperial Dao Sect said something ambiguous, to the effect that "no matter what you do, we don't know anything."

This is a meaningful phrase in Japanese officialdom, which can be used to express support, opposition, threats, and compromises depending on the situation. Since it was impossible for the unification faction to let go of the imperial faction, even if the high-ranking officials of the imperial faction were powerless to resist, they had no reason to inform the unification faction of the mutiny. Not only that, but these high-ranking officials even asked for leave and pretended to be sick. It would be a foolish thing to be implicated for no reason in a mutiny that is very likely to break out in the future.

So when the mutinous soldiers stormed the War Department and the Admiralty, there were no royal soldiers in them. Senior General Watanabe Setaro, the director of education who was the thorn in the side of the Imperial Sect, picked up his pistol and began to shoot back, and as a result, the veteran general who had "identified the sinister coup plan of Shinzaburo Masaki" at the Army meeting was beaten into a sieve by a random gun.

Kantaro Suzuki, a naval hero of the Russo-Japanese War and an attendant to the emperor, is a representative of the collusion with Britain and the United States. During the attack on the chamberlain's residence, they were met with strong resistance from the guards at the door, and they exchanged fire for 5 minutes before rushing in. After the mutinous troops rushed in, Suzuki calmly asked everyone to be quiet and asked, "There must be a reason why you did this." Tell me what the reason is. ”

Captain Asaichi Isobe, who led the team, immediately told Suzuki, "In the future, the emperor will no longer be the emperor of you high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but the emperor of the Japanese people!" ”

After talking for ten minutes, the positions of the two sides were too different to be discussed. Suzuki said calmly, "Then you guys can shoot." ”

"No, we don't have the idea of killing the captives. You are now our captive. Captain Asaichi Isobe replied. The mutinous troops actually didn't care about Suzuki's life and death, Suzuki's wife Takako was a famous contemporary educator, or the babysitter of Emperor Showa, and a figure that the emperor regarded as closer than his own mother. If the emperor is captured, she will also need to communicate with the emperor.

In addition, most of the dignitaries, including Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, Takahashi Shiqing and others, were arrested. However, the commander of the Guards Division was killed for resisting the mutiny.

By noon, the battle was almost over. The Admiralty, the War Department, the General Staff, and the National Police Agency have all been temporarily suppressed. After Asan Tenghui Sanchusa determined that Tokyo did not have the military forces capable of stopping the mutiny for the time being. He stared at the guards of the inner city of the palace and ordered people to go and persuade them to surrender.