Chapter 28: The 918 Incident (1)
Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, it was September 16th. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 InfoWhether it's Jiang Tao or Wen Jun, or Itagaki Seishiro and Hanaya, they are all working hard for tomorrow.
Wang Yizhe, commander of the Seventh Brigade of the Northeast Army stationed in Beidaying, had already noticed that something was wrong from the recent extraordinarily frequent Japanese espionage activities, and ordered his subordinates to strengthen vigilance against the entire Beidaying garrison. Colonel Zhao Zhenfan, chief of staff of the brigade, is also making a duty plan for the upcoming weekend, and all officers and men will not be allowed to go home, repair the fortifications in the Beida camp, and strengthen reconnaissance. In order to prevent the Japanese from pretending to be officers of the Northeast Army to carry out a sneak attack, all officers changed their names, changed the color of the symbols, and put them in their trouser pockets. Wang Yizhe hurried to Fengtian City, and met Zhang Xueliang and proposed to strike preemptively and act against the Japanese before the Japanese army, but the proposal was ruthlessly rejected by Zhang Xueliang.
At this time, Fengtian City and its surroundings were dominated by 12,000 people of the 7th Brigade, and there were almost more than 9,500 people in the Beida Battalion, and there was another battalion stationed in the Dongda Battalion, and nearly two battalions of troops were stationed in Huanggutun, and more than 2,000 trainees from the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall were also in the Dongda Battalion, but there was only one teaching brigade of more than 650 people with combat experience. There are more than 500 Air Force guard troops. A guard company at the Mukden Arsenal had less than 200 people. There were more than 2,000 policemen in the Huang Xiansheng belt of the Fengtian Police Station, and there were originally more than 4,000 people in the headquarters of the Dashuaifu Guard. At this time, there was only one guard battalion of more than 550 people left in the Marshal's Mansion. Zhang Haipeng brought about a battalion of more than 500 troops to Fengtian City. When it comes to these forces, they are still far above the Japanese army in Mukden, but under the constraints of the General Staff, there are probably not many who can really play a role in resistance
And Seishiro Itagaki of the Japanese army also received news from the Tokyo base camp. The first telegram was a clear telegram. It was an official telegram sent by Miji Kenkawa to the then commander of the Kwantung Army, Shigeru Honjo. The content basically said: He will arrive in Mukden at 7:05 p.m. on September 18, ask someone to receive him, and so on. The second telegram was a half-light and half-dark telegram, an informal telegram sent by Hiroshi Nemoto, chief of the China Division of the Army General Staff, to Seishiro Sakagaki. The main content is to inform Jianchuan of the purpose of his trip: "Its task is to prevent the incident from happening." If the generator of this telegram was more cautious, only describing the situation and did not make any hints, then the last telegram indicated the generator's position on the Kwantung military d'étain, this telegram was sent directly to Seishiro Sakagaki by the head of the Russian Division of the General Staff Headquarters, Hashimoto Shingoro, and the telegram was also stamped with the stamp of "private telegram, top secret", and the content of the telegram was also very concise: "The incident has been revealed, please act before Jianchuan arrives!" ”
Seishiro Itagaki hesitated, seeing the telegram. Did you act as planned? Or follow the will of the military department and abandon this incident? On the one hand, he immediately set out for Shenyang to meet Commander Shigeru Honjo, who was inspecting there, and on the other hand, he wanted to stay in Lushun to take care of his home, and immediately began to draft orders for the troops.
Seishiro Sakagaki's doubts were resolved after meeting Shigeru Honjo. It turned out that when Miji Kenkawa had not yet left from Tokyo, General Suzuki Shoroku, who had a close relationship with the Japanese imperial family, had secretly come to Shenyang. And accompanied by Honjo Shigeru, he summoned Seishiro Sakagaki, Suzuki Shoroku did not say anything important to Seishiro Sakagaki, but after the meeting, Honjo said to Seishiro Sakagaki: Take more responsibility, you can handle the details yourself, don't bother the old general. Suzuki was in fact apparently a secret envoy sent by the Emperor to Shenyang, and what he brought with him was Hirohito's support for the Kwantung Army's operations. With such a background, Seishiro Sakagaki's determination was made.
Seishiro Itagaki hurried to Mukden Castle and met Ishihara Waner. "Ishihara-kun, our plan is about to be launched ahead of schedule. Someone from the base camp has been sent to stop us. I'll be back on the 18th. “
"No. 18, No. 18, yes No. 18, Itagaki-kun, let's launch it on September 18th, this day happens to be a Friday, when the Chinese must be thinking about a holiday, we can just launch an attack and catch them off guard." As soon as Ishihara's eyes rolled, the date was decided. "BY THE WAY, I REMEMBER THAT SECTION CHIEF NAGATA TETSUYAMA MOBILIZED TWO 240MM HEAVY GUNS FOR US, YOU SEND SOMEONE TO SET THEM UP, AND OUR TARGET IS THESE TWO PLACES." Ishihara drew two circles on the map with a pen, namely Shenyang Airport and Beidaying.
"Don't worry, Ishihara-kun, our heavy artillery has already been set up, just waiting for you to choose a target." Seishiro Itagaki said proudly.
Time passed minute by minute, and soon it was the night of September 18th, and the moon was like water. But the evil that was about to happen under this beautiful moonlight shocked the world.
The sound of the train clattering on the tracks gradually stopped, and a group of heavily armed Japanese soldiers in the countryside poured off the train, and at this time, in front of the square of the Fengtian South Railway Station, there were already hundreds of soldiers of the Second Independent Garrison Brigade waiting for them, and more than a dozen Type 38 field guns stood quietly in front of the military formation, and the muzzles of the guns were inclined to the sky, like a hideous giant beast roaring at one.
The soldiers of the 29th Wing are also gearing up at this time, and they will launch a fatal blow to the enemy army in Mukden when they only wait for an order from Shangfeng.
"The success or failure of the monarchs is here, even if they sacrifice their lives, long live the empire, long live the emperor!" Itagaki Seishiro raised his arms and shouted.
"Long live the Empire, long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the Empire, long live the Emperor!" The faces of all Japanese soldiers were almost crazy fanatical, and the militaristic power was in the Japanese army, and the young Zhuang Showa warlords led by these Baden-Baden Sanyu Wu quickly expanded to all areas. It can be said that with the support of Hirohito, the power of the Showa warlords spread throughout the Japanese Army
Near Wicker Lake, on the railway 800 meters away from Beidaying, the figure swayed.
"Quick, put the explosives away." Kawamoto Sumoru arranged for the soldiers to fill up the explosives, time was pressing, this evening Jianchuan Miji had arrived at the hotel in Dalian to stay, Dalian was entertaining Jianchuan Miji, although Jianchuan Miji has not mentioned the order to terminate the Wicker Lake Incident for the time being, it is obvious that he is also delaying time, and he can use a long journey on the first day to temporarily rest for a day. But the next day, if the order of the base camp was issued, although militarism began to prevail in the Japanese army, it had not yet reached the point of overpower, and once the order of the base camp was issued, it was irresistible. Only by using the established fact of occupying Mukden let the base camp continue on their preset track.
More than 40 bags of explosives were buried on both sides of the railroad tracks, which had to create enough momentum without causing too much damage to the railway, after all, they had to use the railway to transport troops, which was a technical job. Fortunately, Momoru Kawamoto was born as a sapper and specialized in explosives.
"Boom!" The explosion rose into the sky, and all the soldiers and officers who were still guarding the Beida Battalion could see the deafening sound of the fire rising into the sky in the Dawai Battalion.
"Quick, quick, bring the body over." A few sleepers and a section of railroad track were blown into the air and then fell heavily, filling the spot with smoke.
More than a dozen soldiers carried several corpses and threw them on the side of the railroad tracks, at this time Japan had not yet withdrawn from the League of Nations, they needed to create a false image of the Northeast Army blowing up the railway as an excuse, so that this well-planned war could have a superficial plausible statement, these corpses were several beggars caught in Fengtian City two days ago, and after being killed, they put on a set of Northeast Army uniforms.
"Long live the Emperor!" At this time, the Japanese army was like a chicken. The Japanese army had two troops in Mukden, one was the second independent garrison brigade, about 480 people. One is the 29th Infantry Wing, which is part of the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army, with a strength of nearly 2,000 people.
With the sound of the explosion as a signal, the 29th Infantry Wing rushed out of the garrison and directly attacked the provincial capital of Fengtian, and the 480 people of the 2nd Independent Garrison Brigade immediately opened up to attack the Beida Battalion.
At the same time, Mukden, as well as Japanese ronins from all over the country, were also quickly assembling towards Mukden City to support the desperate operation of this small number of Japanese troops. The Japanese artillerymen, who had been shooting at the outside of Mukden Castle for a long time, also operated two Meiji 45 240mm howitzers to launch an artillery attack on Mukden Castle.
Outside the camp was a rising fire.