On the eve of the imminent war of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Zhang Cheng, the consul general of the Tang Dynasty in China, called Zhang Xueliang in Beiping and, in accordance with Zhang Meng's special instructions, kindly reminded Zhang Xueliang to pay attention to strengthening the defense of the northeast against Japan, and that the Japanese Kwantung Army was very likely to suddenly launch a military operation against Mukden in the next few days.

If a month ago, Zhang Xueliang didn't even pay attention to the so-called "Tang Empire", a place the size of a sesame mung bean, let alone that he didn't take it seriously, even a Fengtian mayor didn't take the Tang Empire in his eyes.

But such a small country the size of a sesame mung bean was able to completely annihilate the fleet of Ono Sandian, which made many people like Zhang Xueliang who looked down on the Tang Empire suddenly reflect on what they were wrong with, and also changed their attitude towards the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Xueliang thanked Datang for his concern for him and the Northeast Army. He claimed that although the Japanese army's provocative actions against the Northeast Army have been escalating and intensifying recently, Japan is at war with Datang, and he believes that the focus of the Japanese army is in the direction of Datang. He, in turn, reminded the Tang Empire to be careful of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, as their main fleet was about to make an expedition to the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, as the supreme commander of the Northeast Army, how could Zhang Xueliang not know what the Japanese were thinking?

However, it is a pity that after 10 years of rapid development of the Northeast Army, the military academies of the army, navy, and air force have trained tens of thousands of personnel for the Northeast Army. However, these talents are only suitable for command and operations at the grassroots level, and Zhang Xueliang lacks the generals and senior staff officers who are in charge of their own affairs, especially in the 1929 Middle East Road Incident, the grassroots combat effectiveness of the Northeast Army is remarkable, but the lack of command acumen among the senior officers ultimately led to a disastrous defeat in the war against the Soviet Union and heavy losses. So he knew very well that once he started with the more powerful (the influence of the Russo-Japanese War), the Northeast Army would not be able to defeat them at all. Therefore, in order to preserve his strength, Zhang Xueliang, who still has the idea of a warlord, had to order the Northeast Army not to resist.

Zhang Meng reminded Zhang Xueliang, and he did his best to be benevolent and righteous.

Next, Zhang Meng ordered Zhang Cheng to quickly do a good job in the task of responding to the rout of the Northeast Army, and transfer back to the Blue Fox Special Service from Japan, because after the assassination of Yuyuki Hamaguchi, the Japanese military has begun to militarize and control the whole of Japan, and the effect of terrorist attacks is gone, and there is a risk that if you stay any longer, you may be surrounded and eliminated by the Japanese army.

On the one hand, to protect those Northeast Army talents who are preparing to go to the Tang Empire and the reserve talents trained by major military academies, on the other hand, because more than three-quarters of the industrial base in Northeast China are concentrated around Mukden, their task is to blow up important factory equipment, military weapons and ammunition depots, and granaries before the Japanese army when the Northeast Army withdraws, and resolutely does not leave it to the little devils.

Since Japan's Meiji Restoration, Japan has pursued the principle of military priority and trained a large number of professional soldiers. After the Washington Conference in 1921, Japan began large-scale disarmament, and by 1930 Japan's military spending had been reduced to less than 430 million yen, a reduction of more than 50%.

The large-scale disarmament caused strong discontent within the Japanese army. Disgruntled soldiers began to assemble in secret, and the secret organizations of the soldiers, such as Hideki Tojo, Ninji Okamura, and Ishihara Wanji, were established one after another.

When the Shijie economic crisis spilled over into Japan, Japan was in an extremely difficult situation. Unleashing a war against China in order to divert the attention of the people at home and ease class tensions became the solution for the Japanese military.

The Japanese Cabinet headed by Yuyuki Hamaguchi resolutely opposed a premature invasion of China, believing that once invading China, it would fall into the quagmire of a protracted war, which would deplete Japan's national strength and make it unable to cope with the threat posed by Soviet Russia and the United States.

So Yuyuki Hamaguchi became an obstacle that the Japanese military was eager to remove.

As early as 1928, when the Kwantung Army blew up Zhang Zuolin, the Japanese Army was ready to have a showdown with the Northeast Army, but unfortunately it was stopped by Yuyuki Hamaguchi, who had just come to power, for which Yuyuki Hamaguchi was assassinated by the Japanese military for the first time, but he survived.

Yuyuki Hamaguchi should have been assassinated by the Japanese military again on August 26, and then the Japanese Kwantung Army dared to take advantage of the chaos in Japan to launch the 918 Incident. However, Zhang Meng's appearance caused Hamaguchi's death to be half a month ahead of schedule, and indirectly led to the outbreak of the 918 Incident more than a month earlier.

On the night of August 15, 1931, the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Hushili Garrison of the Japanese Kwantung Army left the Hushitai Barracks, where it was originally stationed, and marched south along the South Manchurian Railway. At about 22:20 p.m., a small detachment led by Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto, captain of the Wicker Lake Detachment of the Japanese Kwantung Army's railway garrison, detonated small explosives on the section of the Wicker Lake Manchurian Railway about 7.5 kilometers north of Mukden and 800 meters away from Beidaying, where the Northeast Army was stationed, and blew up a small section of the railway. And put the bodies of 3 Chinese wearing the clothes of soldiers of the Northeast Army at the scene as evidence of the sabotage of the railway by the Northeast Army, falsely accusing the Chinese army of sabotaging the railway and attacking the Japanese garrison.

The squadron leader of Kawashima, who stayed in Wenguantun, about four kilometers north of the railway blasting point, immediately led his troops south and began to attack the northern camp. The Japanese troops stationed in Shenyang City divided into two routes, north and south, and attacked Beidaying, where the Chinese army was stationed.

That night, Rong Zhen, chief of staff of the Office of the Commander of the Northeast Frontier Army, in accordance with Zhang Xueliang's order, once again stressed that all units of the Northeast Army "are not allowed to resist, are not allowed to move, put their guns in the warehouse, stand up to death, and everyone will be benevolent and sacrifice for the country."

The local authorities in the northeast, headed by Zhang Xueliang, adopted a policy of non-resistance to the Japanese offensive after the incident. Therefore, that night, the 7th Brigade of the Northeast Army stationed in Beidaying was defenseless and was taken by surprise. Beforehand, Zhang Xueliang had instructed the Northeast Army not to resist, and the garrison troops did not make a fierce counterattack. Two of the three regiments of the 7th Brigade withdrew as instructed, and only Wang Tiehan's 620th Regiment did not receive the order to retreat in time and was forced to resist in self-defense.

The Mukden police force played an important role in resisting the Japanese invasion, and together with many patriotic soldiers who were unwilling to retreat, they repelled wave after wave of Japanese attacks, forcing the Japanese army to mobilize the second division of the Kwantung Army from Liaoyang in the early morning to rush in for reinforcements.

It is precisely because of the resistance of these patriotic policemen and soldiers that many aspiring people in Northeast China who are unwilling to become slaves of the country can hurriedly leave Mukden with their families and evacuate all the way to Guannei.

At the same time, it also gave the Blue Fox Special Service team enough time to blow up the Northeast Army's Fengtian Arsenal, steel mills and other heavy industry factories, granaries, armories, ammunition depots and other key military reserve facilities, leaving no bullets for the little devils.

The Longyan commando team even entered the headquarters of the Northeast Army in Fengtian before the Japanese army, and took away most of the military deployment materials of the three northeastern provinces, and burned all the rest that could not be taken away, which greatly delayed the time for the Japanese army to control the entire three northeastern provinces.

Zhang Meng was most concerned about the Northeast Army's air base in Dongta, so Zhang Cheng personally led the guards of the Tang Consulate in Fengtian to rush to the Dongta Airport.

That night, the sudden attack of the Japanese army immediately aroused the anger of the air force of the Northeast Army. More than 300 elite pilots of the Northeast Army's air force, including Zhao Wenyi, Gao Zhihang, and Wan Xianzhang, rushed to the Dongta airfield overnight and demanded that fighters and bombers be taken off immediately to fight against Japan.

Chen Haihua, chief flight instructor of the Dongta Air Base, immediately asked Zhang Xueliang for instructions, but the reply he received was still that resistance was not allowed, and all members were disbanded.

Just as they were about to disobey the order and forcibly take off their fighters, Zhang Tao, the military police headquarters who had already surrendered to the enemy, rushed into the base with more than 30 gun-wielding military policemen. He should have arrested everyone, but Chen Haihua persuaded him to let them go. Zhang Tao didn't want to kill his own people, so he agreed to let all the pilots and ground crew leave, but they were not allowed to take anything with the base.

At this moment, a cold shot rang out, and Zhang Tao was killed.

Zhang Cheng and his guards also rushed into the Dongta Air Base, and quickly subdued Zhang Tao's men.

"Heroes, I know that you all want to kill the devil immediately to defend your family and country. I will not stop you. I just want to tell you that the Northeast Army has all withdrawn, and the Japanese army will arrive here at dawn. You can't hold this place. ”

"Even if we can't hold this place, we're going to die with little Japan, don't you think?"

"That's right! What's the point of living when the family is gone, just fight hard with the little devils, killing one is enough to kill two and earn one! ”

Looking at this group of young people, who are generally around twenty years old, Zhang Cheng admires their bloodiness, but does not support their brutality.

"I say you're stupid! Why? How can you trade your precious lives for the Japanese devils? They are all beasts, and a hundred of their lives are not worth one of your lives. ”

Zhang Cheng's words immediately made everyone laugh, but soon they stopped laughing because they heard the sound of approaching cannons.

"Chief Instructor Chen, I know you understand what I mean."

Chen Haihua had already agreed with Zhang Cheng that if Zhang Xueliang really gave up the Northeast one day, then he, Chen Haihua, would cut off Zhang Xueliang's robe and be willing to join the Tang Empire.

Chen Haihua thought that it was impossible to happen, but now that he had just finished talking to Zhang Xueliang on the phone, he was really disappointed in Zhang Xueliang.

As a result, Chen Haihua publicly praised the Tang Empire's determination to resist Japan, and called on everyone to serve in the Tang Empire, and the Tang Empire would definitely help them return to their hometown in the Northeast to drive out the Japanese in the future.

"After all, we are the Northeast Army, although Young Marshal Zhang now says that we will retreat if we don't resist, but I think Young Marshal will bring us back in the future."

Many people were still hesitating, and Zhang Meng had already guessed this, so he told Zhang Cheng how to answer them in advance.

"I can assure you! Within five years, if your Young Marshal Zhang wants to fight back to the Northeast, then how about our Tang Empire not only allow you to return to the Northeast Army, but also give you ten times the compensation? As long as Zhang Shaoshuai wants to go back to the northeast, you can come back immediately, and we Datang will never stop you, so you can rest assured. ”

"We have to go to your Tang Empire?"

"That's a good question!" Zhang Cheng explained: "First of all, the people of our Tang Empire are all Chinese, and there are not a few people from the northeast, so we have the same origin. Secondly, the treatment of our Datang Air Force is more than ten times higher than that of you in the Northeast Army. Third, you should know that our Tang Empire wiped out a powerful Japanese naval fleet a month ago, and I can tell you that it was our air force that did it. Therefore, after you arrive in our Datang, what awaits you is generous treatment, piloting the most advanced aircraft in the whole Shijie, and the most important thing is that Tang Ri is at war, you can kill the devils to your heart's content, and we will not resist like your young marshal! ”

Zuihou's words, Zhang Cheng's words were like a knife that directly stabbed everyone's most painful place.

"With you!"

"That's right, let's go to the Tang Empire to kill devils!"