At 3:29 p.m. on September 18, 1931, as soon as Miji Kenkawa, the first director of the General Staff Headquarters, arrived at Mukden Station, he was warmly entertained by the acting adjutant of the Mukden secret service, Masashi Hanaya, and drank a lot of whiskey under the greeting of several leading geisha at the Tokyo Restaurant, the highest class in Mukden Castle.

In Jianchuan Miji's opinion, it is rare for him to come to Manchuria once, and it is normal to relax appropriately, so he quickly got drunk and fell unconscious, and then Hanaya sent someone to settle Jianchuan Miji.

In the secret room on the second floor of the Mukden secret service, Seishiro Itagaki, dressed in military uniform, looked at the wall clock on the wall, like an old monk in meditation, as if time in the entire room had come to a standstill? Soon the confidential secretary Jiro Kojima brought news that Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto of the Kawashima Squadron of the Shimamoto Brigade had arrived at Wicker Lake with more than a dozen sets of Northeast Army uniforms, and had captured eight local Manchurian peasants and ordered them to put on military uniforms and move along the Manchurian Railway and take pictures as evidence.

Itagaki Seishiro snorted, and after a while he said to Kojima Jiro: "You must order Lieutenant Kawamoto Sumomori that 42 explosive packs must be placed near the roadbed, and don't really destroy the Manchurian Railway, because the armored train will also go to the Beida Camp to help in the battle, and please pay more attention to the details, the eight people captured by Shina had better be killed at the explosion site, this will be extremely favorable evidence for us in the future!" ”

Jiro Kojima slammed his feet and left in a hurry! After Jiro Kojima left, Seishiro Itagaki let out a long sigh of relief, picked up the tea on the table and took a small sip, only to find that the tea had cooled down? I couldn't help frowning slightly.

When the hour hand of Zhang Xuewu's watch pointed to 17:09 in the afternoon of September 18, 1931, the battalion commanders of the 619th Regiment and the 621st Regiment were all assembled at the brigade headquarters to stand by.

When Zhang Xuewu appeared at the venue wearing the ribbon of the brigade star officer, the sharp-eyed people found that there were many armed sentries outside the window, and there seemed to be too many guards behind Zhang Senzao of the 620 regiment? There were twelve of them, each carrying two handfuls of German Mauser with a flower machine, could it be that something big had happened?

After looking around at the people present, Zhang Xuewu cleared his throat and said: "The commander's office has instructed that the relationship between China and China has been extremely tense recently, and in order to deal with the emergency situation tonight, I hereby order the Seventh National Defense Brigade of the Northeast Frontier Army to deal with the emergency situation when the commanders at all levels are not in the command position, so as to test the ability of the departments to deal with the emergency. ”

Zhang Xuewu is the cousin of the deputy commander and the brigade star officer this week, so the battalion commanders of the 619th Regiment and the 621st Regiment present did not express any objections, and Zhao Fanzhen, the brigade chief of staff who was originally sitting at the brigade headquarters, had already been unconscious by Zhang Xuewu and others taking turns to fight at noon.

Zhang Xuewu saw that the battalion commanders of all departments had no objections, nodded with satisfaction, and said chicly: "Today's things also depend on everyone, as the saying goes, everyone picks up firewood and the flame is high, today the big guy gives my brother this face, which is not grateful, as long as you all have a place to use my Zhang Xuewu, you can speak!" ”

Zhang Xuewu's actions further confirmed one of the various speculations of the battalion commanders, that is, there are people above who want to find a reason to promote the person in front of them, they are all veterans, if they don't even understand the basic human feelings, they can't sit in the position of battalion commander.

So everyone came over to congratulate Zhang Xuewu and set almost! For a while, the venue seemed to have become the venue of the wedding banquet, and it was full of auspicious words that were pleasant to the ear!

Zhang Xuewu looked at his watch, the time was almost up, so he waved his hand and said: "Twenty minutes later, each battalion will send a company to the Dongshan ammunition depot to collect ammunition, and at 19 o'clock, all the troops will enter the Beida Battalion Camp!" ”

"Yes!" The battalion commanders below gave a clean salute and then dispersed, although there were some doubts about the matter of returning ammunition during the exercise, because just two days ago, the Northeast Frontier Army's Commander's Office had issued an order to collect the ammunition in the hands of officers and men, and even the sentry's guns should be put into storage after dark.

However, Zhang Xuewu is the cousin of the deputy commander and the star officer of the brigade this week, he can toss as much as he wants, for the officers and soldiers of the troops below, it is nothing more than staying in the camp honestly tonight and listening to it for a night, even if there are problems and problems, there is Zhang Xuewu against that!

Zhang Xuewu looked at the officers and soldiers who had entered the position one after another, and he did not feel a trace of tension in the battle, because according to the instructions of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek on 16 August in Nanjing, if he encountered a provocation by the army, he should not resist, and Zhang Xuewu was very helpless in his heart about this telegram that was published in full in the "Complete Compilation of Historical Materials of the Republic of China" in later generations.

Over the past few days, this issue has been repeatedly emphasized at almost all levels, from the commander's office to the brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies, and the officers and men below have subconsciously lost the vigilance that a soldier should have, and even many officers and men believe that since the higher authorities do not allow the problem to be solved, it is natural that the higher authorities will come forward to deal with it, and that when soldiers eat food to support their families, where can they look forward to fighting and dying in war?

Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath, the elite division of the original national defense brigade was so lax? It seems that the so-called resistance or non-resistance is completely between the guidance and the thoughts of those in power, and the young marshal many years later in history also admitted that he made a mistake in judgment when he was interviewed by this TV station, no matter what Zhang Hanqing's purpose was, whether it was his reverence for the late Jiang Gong, or his remorse for his misjudgment back then, it eventually caused the fact that the four northeastern provinces had fallen for 14 years.

A gust of autumn wind blew, Zhang Xuewu couldn't help but pull the neckline, walked forward and shouted loudly to the officers and soldiers who entered the fortifications to pay attention to tactical actions, Zhang Xuewu has already looked at the table twice in a row within ten minutes, Zhang Xuewu has a special hobby or a habit like a great man in history, such as Montgomery likes to eat chocolate when he thinks, Stalin likes to paint wolves, ** likes to smell burning matches, Barton likes to chew tobacco, Zhang Xuewu has a very bad habit of looking at the watch when he is nervous, Zhang Xuewu once laughed at himself for being very economical in this problem, because the watch is made for people to see! I haven't heard of a watch that is broken.

It can be said that Zhang Xuewu is not the only one who is nervous at this moment, Li Xinkai, Wang Chuang, Zhao Xinyu, Xu Guohui, Zhang Tianpeng and others are very nervous, but at this moment, there is no turning back, from the moment they decided to take Zhang Xuewu's boat, it determined their fate in the same boat.

As for betraying Zhang Xuewu, no one has thought about it, but first of all, we must know that although the Northeast Army has been reorganized into the Northeast Frontier Army, it is completely the same as other warlords in other places, and those who betray their commanders will have a good end? Especially since this commander is also the cousin of the deputy commander of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Republic of China?