Three days, these three days are like years for Tanaka Yu.

During these three days, the troops of the Nanking side were constantly moved, and according to the people he sent, an extremely strange weapon appeared in the southern army, which was a kind of 8[***] truck, with rows of racks, as if a dozen huge shells were installed on them, and the caliber of the shells was simply no less than 300 mm.

Tanaka Yu was really frightened, a 300-millimeter caliber cannonball, isn't that equivalent to saying that the Southern Army dispatched a giant cannon of more than 300 millimeters? The opponent can build battleships, and it is entirely possible to build huge cannons. He is a Beiyang veteran, so he naturally knows the terrifying power of the giant cannon, and when he learned the news, he only felt a cold air rushing from the soles of his feet to the top door, and his whole body was about to stiffen.

Suddenly, he felt that Zhang Wensheng's current life was enviable, he was unofficial and light, he was just making money by investing in a factory, he could speak on it, and the junior was cultivated because of his merits.

"One misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred, and it has been a hundred years since I looked back." Tanaka Yu muttered this sentence, full of bitterness.

The adjutant on the side said: "Dashuai, I and the north have promised to support us, and Nanjing will not dare to touch us." They did not dare to attack. ”

"You know!" Tanaka Yu glared at the adjutant fiercely and said, "Lao Tzu is just afraid that he will interfere." Without his own involvement, the dispute between the north and the south was only a civil war and a dispute of political disagreement. If I came in and helped us, what do you think the Chinese people would think? How will history be written? That is the sinner of the ages, it is Han Jian, it is Wu Sangui and the like. ”

The adjutant was also shocked into a cold sweat, and said half-loudly: "Since this is the case, then let's just return to Nanjing, anyway, you are also from the Anhui family." ”

Tanaka Yu smiled bitterly: "If you return to the Anhui system, don't you say that I won't do it?" Although Nanjing is strong, can it be stronger than Yueben? I have not moved, that is, because the Paris Peace Conference is negotiating the return of Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay, hoping to recover Jiaozhou Bay peacefully, and then I will not be able to directly send troops to interfere in China's internal affairs. I didn't expect Nanjing to be in such a hurry. Can't they just wait? ”

The alternation of government affairs will definitely cause turmoil in Shandong no matter what. At this time, it is simply too easy to deliberately provoke a conflict. If there is a conflict, then I have an excuse to start a war. During this period, the development of national strength was like a mid-heaven development, and no one would think that Nanjing would be able to win.

The adjutant smiled bitterly: "What can I do then?" Let's just learn from Zhang Wensheng, ignore anything, and let Nanjing clean up the mess. ”

Tanaka Yu sighed: "It's a pity. You go and tell Zhang Wensheng that Shandong can be handed over to them, but they must be careful about themselves. ”

"Yes!" The adjutant also breathed a sigh of relief, he naturally knew that the reason why the north was still resisting was entirely because he was making promises to them. Otherwise, Nanjing has completely ruled the fourteen provinces, and the main force of the army has basically changed its equipment, and there are only a few provinces in the north?

Tanaka Yu was full of bitterness and helplessness, although he said it well, but in fact he really wanted peace in his hands to recover the credit of Jiaozhou Bay, so that he would go down in history.

The Nanjing Governor's Mansion was busy.

After two years of running the school, the Nanjing Military Academy has trained tens of thousands of junior officers and low-level staff officers; of course, these are only quick-formed officers, and their foundation is much worse, and they need to combine practical study in the army, and if they have the ability, they will be transferred back to the military academy for training as middle-level officers, so I believe that the situation in the country will also be basically stabilized, and then it will slowly develop into a completed officer system.

In the headquarters, Li Bufan, Wu Di, and a group of staff officers looked at the huge sand table in the middle, which was the big sand table in the whole of East Asia, constantly pointing and pointing at the signs of improving the troops, and the mountains, rivers and rivers were clearly arranged.

Adjutant Li Hengshan handed a telegram to Li Bufan and said, "Commander-in-chief." The Shandong problem was solved. ”

Li Bufan and Wu Di smiled at each other, and then looked at the telegram, Wu Di's expression gradually became surprised, and he said half-loudly: "I can't see that Tanaka Yu, a 'tragic man', still has a little vision." ”

Li Bufan knew what Wu Di was referring to, and that was because of the "carjacking incident" in history, Tanaka Yu was overwhelmed, and finally had to be forced to resign. However, it no longer exists in this era, first of all, Zhang Wensheng's troops were reorganized, and there would be no generals and soldiers who went to Baoqian Gang to join the bandits in Shandong, and naturally there was no rampant bandits of the Sun Meizhu brothers.

Li Bufan smiled and said, "But he didn't expect that we just wanted to fight directly with Yu Ben." If he does not return to obedience, we will storm Shandong and trigger a struggle between the direct and Feng families, and we will send troops, then we will be under much greater pressure. However, it is difficult to say how much it can really be, and it is very likely that the pressure of public opinion will force the north to stop fighting with us, and even if we can't, we will not need too many troops to defend it, and we will be able to block them from the Yellow River. ”

Wu Di smiled: "That's much more dangerous. Over the past year or so, after the troops have been mixed, they have continued to crack down on bandits and train their troops, and although the troops have seen blood, they have no experience in a major war. In my opinion, we should still win with firepower, drive Xiao Yueben into the sea first, and then destroy the enemy at sea. ”

Li Bufan said: "Do your best!" Anyway, we just gave it our all. The top priority at the moment was to immediately send Li Songshan to lead his troops into Shandong to accept and reorganize the Lu army. ”

When the southern army entered the Shandong Peninsula, Tanaka Yu agreed to the reorganization of the troops, and then sent a telegram to the field, which shocked China and foreign countries for a while.

After taking Shandong, the Nanjing political axe has already controlled fifteen provinces, directly controlling most of China, and its strength is even stronger, and it is one step closer to reunification, which has caused the shock of the European and American worlds.

In Tokyo, the cabinet was cloudy and the atmosphere was depressing.

"The construction of two fortress groups in Shanghai has been confirmed." Prime Minister Yuzaburo Kato had just said a word, and there was a violent cough, the problem was so big that he had to go to the meeting with illness.

Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida said: "From the rise of Li Bufan in China, the development of China is extremely rapid, three million tons of steel has surpassed the empire, and a large number of factories have been established. The most terrifying thing is the development of China's military industry, which has built a huge ship of about 12,000 tons, and the development of military production capacity in infantry is also extremely terrifying, with a monthly output of rifles, light and heavy machine guns, mortars and other heavy weapons that can be reequipped by 50,000 people, and even equipped with a lot of tanks and airplanes. ”

War Minister Yamanashi Hanzo said in a deep voice: "The empire can't wait any longer, and it must suppress China." Otherwise, if it continues like this, it will not take a few years for the empire to be completely suppressed by China. If Li Bufan of China had unified China, he would have participated in the most brutal battles of the Somme and Verdun in the world war, and the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

The Minister of the Navy, the Ministry of Finance, snorted coldly: "Joke, China's fragile foundation, a large amount of equipment is produced and assembled from imported parts, including warships, aircraft, and tanks, so why be afraid?" Why is the army afraid? ”

"Presumptuous!" The elder of the army, Yama Prefecture, was furious, but as soon as he was angry, everyone in the cabinet was silent, this is the founder of the modern glory of the army, and its influence is unparalleled. The rise of Yue Ben was to win the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War under the guidance of him and some elites at that time, and he had unparalleled influence in all aspects of military and political affairs.

Youpeng of Shanxian glared fiercely at the Ministry of Finance and said, "Wasn't the same for the development of the Imperial Navy at the beginning? Eighty percent of the parts of the Kongo-class battleship's sister ships were ordered from the British, but ten years later, the empire has designed and built the world's most advanced battleship, the Mutsu. It took twenty or thirty years of development for the empire to have an annual output of more than 200 tons of steel, but after only two or three years of development, the steel output reached 3 million tons. ”

"Report, the emergency power of China, the power of Shandong Province to return to Nanjing!"

"Boom" is like a thunderbolt from the sky, and this news shocked the bigwigs of the cabinet to the point that they either jumped up or turned pale, and this news was really shocking to the company. It is said that Benga sent troops to Shandong to withstand the pressure of the Paris Peace Conference, why is that? It is to prevent the reunification of China and be ready to send troops to intervene at any time. But Shandong settled peacefully, and there was no turmoil, how could they interfere? Once China completes its substantive reunification, the consequences will be unimaginable, especially since such a behemoth is still in the hands of a military strongman.

"Poof" Prime Minister Kato spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his heart was haggard and fainted, which caused a panic in the cabinet.

However, the matter has come to this point, and the cabinet meeting must continue, with Yasuya Uchida presiding over it.

"To use troops against China, the empire must find a reasonable excuse, after all, China is also a member of the Entente."

Youpeng of Shan County sneered: "Have you ever heard a sentence from Zhina-what is the trouble of wanting to add to the crime? ”

On August 15, 1923, Prime Minister Kato died of illness (the history is 24 days after he died of illness), and Yasuya Uchida acted as prime minister.

On 17 August, it was said that the Ninth Division stationed in Yantai was originally one of the two divisions stationed in Yantai under the pretext of safeguarding the interests of the Ninth Division in Shandong because of the confrontation between the north and the south, and the other was that the Fifth Division was stationed in Jimo, and the Sixth Division, which was originally stationed in Shandong, was stationed in the Qingdao area.

The army then dispatched troops to search for it, and "discovered" that households in three nearby villages had stolen a total of 11 pack horses, and friction occurred when recapturing the pack horses, which led to the shooting of the army, and the frenzied army soon ransacked the three villages and slaughtered more than 500 people.

The news of the Yantai tragedy shocked China and the world. The news spread like a frenzy all over the country, arousing monstrous public indignation, and countless patriotic students took to the streets to protest and petitioned the Yanjing and Nanjing political axes respectively, demanding that the murderers be severely punished.

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