When the morning sun of June '92 began to illuminate the entire Eastern world. All peace-loving people suddenly find themselves at war! And it was not just a war, at the same time that China and Japan began to make a big move without declaring war, a riot in the Soviet Far East had almost escalated into a civil war!

At this time, in the building of the Far Eastern Bureau of the United Communist Party in Chita, there was already chaos. Since yesterday afternoon, the gunfire in the city of Chita has not stopped, and the main forces of the Red Army in the Far East are all deployed close to the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Japanese borders, and the garrison troops in Chita are only a small number of units directly under the First Army of the Red Banner in the Far East, two internal guard battalions of the Far Eastern Political Security Bureau, and the 5th Division of the Red Army in the rebellion. However, upon learning of the rebellion of the 5th Division, Blyukhers and Dzerzhinsky immediately mobilized the GCD, Komsomol and workers' comrades in Chita and demanded that they take up arms and take part in the struggle to defend Soviet power. There were tens of thousands of party members and hundreds of thousands of workers in Chita City, and as long as one-tenth of the workers and half of the party members could take up arms and participate in the battle, Chita could hold out until reinforcements arrived.

But they never imagined that when such a call was broadcast on the loudspeakers in Chita City, not many party members and workers reported to the designated places, which caused even greater chaos! The masses in Chita City, who did not know the truth, were instigated by a few bad elements with ulterior motives, and even raised a march in support of the rebels! He also clashed with the comrades of the political security bureau who went to persuade him, and finally turned into a counter-revolutionary uprising that was coordinated with the outside world! By this time on the morning of June, the rebels and insurgents had taken control of most of the city of Chita, and only a few important buildings, such as the building of the Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party, the building of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Far East, and the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Far East, were still under the control of the GCD authorities in the Far East.

Dzerzhinsky and Stalin remained in the building of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party. Arrangements are being made to burn Wen Jiàn in preparation for a breakthrough. The building was a chaotic scene of people coming and going, official documents and telegrams that had not had time to burn were thrown everywhere, and all the staff were dispensed with weapons, but all of them looked panicked, and there was no sign of preparation to fight to the end for the cause of GCISM.

Stalin and Dzerzhinsky were together, they were tried and tested proletarian revolutionaries who could barely maintain their composure by this time. However, Dzerzhinsky's face was very bad, and his lips were purple, which was a sign of a heart attack! The old Bolshevik, who had led the October Revolution, seemed to be on the verge of falling, but he sat in the conference room with his breath in his breath, and he was the leader of the Far East. How could that Comrade Stalin, who was nothing more than a People's Commissar of Agriculture, preside over the overall situation?

An officer in a blue hat ran into the conference room and said loudly with a dejected face: "Comrade Secretary, Comrade People's Commissar of Agriculture, a telegram from Moscow has arrived!" "The chapter is updated the fastest," Stalin jumped. The splitter snatched the telegram and read it, and when he finished reading it, he stomped his feet. With a long sigh, he said: "Comrade Lenin and Comrade Trotsky want us to mobilize the revolutionary masses in Chita to defend Soviet power together!" He smiled wryly and pointed to the square outside the window, where nearly 00,000 people who did not know the truth had gathered. They were all chanting "Long live Lenin, down with Trotsky; Long live the NEP, Down with the collectivization of agriculture" Stalin said: "What should be done now? How to explain to Moscow? Do you have any ideas? ”

Dzerzhinsky took the telegram with a trembling hand, glanced at it a few times, and said with difficulty: "Comrade Stalin...... You are the People's Commissar of Agriculture, and the matter here has nothing to do with you...... You go first. Retreat to Romanov, where there is a labor camp with more than 10,000 troops to mobilize, and one each in Keker and Spega. If they are all mobilized, there will be at least 40,000 troops! ”

Stalin was stunned for a moment, and after a long time he said: "Felix Edmondovich, you are mistaken, the garrison of the three labor camps together will not exceed a thousand......"

Dzerzhinsky coughed dryly twice, gasped and said: "There are 40,000 prisoners there, most of them former Red Army commanders and fighters, the most upright people, and if their crimes can be pardoned, they will definitely be willing to take up arms to defend Soviet power." He paused, and then added: "But the larger labor camps further north will not be able to move, and the landlords and rich peasants and White Guards who are imprisoned there are the most dangerous enemies!" Certain...... Destroy them all! Kill them all, and not one of them will be left! ”

Stalin thought about it, and this Dzerzhinsky method was also the only way at the moment. The masses in Chita have been blinded, not to mention the collective farms outside the city, and the reinforcements are far west of Lake Baikal or on the Sino-Soviet and Japanese-Soviet borders, and it is difficult to say whether the latter's troops can be brought back! At the moment, the only thing that can be used in the urgency is probably those former Red Army prisoners in labor camps, but where can they pardon their crimes?

He asked again: "Do you want to report to Moscow first?" ”

Dzerzhinsky glared: "Wait for Moscow to make a decision, can you still leave Chita?" Let's go now...... I estimate that the rebels are not in full control of the situation now, and they would not have thought that the situation would become like this, and after a while, when that group of traitors controls the masses of Chita, we will not be able to hold it here! Let's go, let's go! ”

Dzerzhinsky was indeed an experienced rebel and knew that the characteristic of this "European-style rebellion" was that the situation was often chaotic and difficult to control. In particular, Zhang Guotao, Tang Jiu and others who launched this rebellion did not have a strict political party that could be used to control the masses, so after the masses rose up, the biggest question they faced was not whether they could seize Chita, but how to guide the hundreds of thousands of people who followed them without knowing the truth!

On the roof of a building that once belonged to a government agency on the edge of Chita city, the party flag with a sickle and hammer still flies high. However, the masters here have been replaced by Zhang Guotao and Tang Jiu, and there is also a Mongolian named Dunduk Kula, who is the deputy commander of the 5th Division of the rebellion, and has a good relationship with Zhang Guotao and Tang Jiu in the past, and is also an old man of the Eastern Army. Now they have formed a three-member committee, which is meeting to discuss the future and fate of the counterrevolutionary cause.

For the ultimate future of the cause of the counter-revolution. None of them really had much faith. Unless the Chinese revisionists are willing to send troops to help in the war, it is difficult to say whether they will be able to support the little strength they have now until the winter of '92. And now that China and Japan are at war, it is estimated that there is no possibility of sending troops to the Far Eastern Republic, and the telegram just sent to Tang Jiu by the Military Intelligence Bureau in Nanjing also confirmed this, and the Military Intelligence Bureau asked Tang Jiu to prolong the period of civil strife in the Far Eastern Republic as much as possible and completely destroy the railways in the Far Eastern Republic...... I only wanted to use the civil strife in the Far East to drag down the Soviet Union and avoid being attacked on both sides when China and Japan were at war. However, in front of Zhang Guotao and Deng Dukekula, Tang Jiu would not tell the truth.

"The present situation is very good, the hearts of the people of the Far Eastern Republic are on our side, and all are opposed to Trotsky's policy of collectivization of agriculture. The international community is also supporting our voices! The governments of the United Kingdom, France, and the United States have all issued statements of support for us, and it is expected that aid will be sent soon...... Several arsenals here in Chita are also under our control, and the weapons in them are enough to arm an army of 00,000, so there are only two things we have to do after we control Chita: one is to announce the resumption of the New Economic Policy; The second is to do everything possible to expand the army and prepare for the counterattack of the Trotskyists! ”

He roughly said his opinion, and then smiled at Zhang Guotao: "Brother Kaiyin." You have more revolutionary experience than I do, what do you think of my construction? ”

Zhang Guotao smiled bitterly and shook his head. "It's not that easy," he said. We are stirring things up in the name of Lenin. Now everyone knows that Lenin and Trotsky are in contention, so this name is valid for a short time, but this is a lie after all, and there will always be a time when it will be exposed, and will people still be willing to follow us then? Also, who do our enemies say? It's the Soviet GCD. This is a fairly well-organized ruling machine with millions of party members! What do we have? Thousands of rebellious Red officers and soldiers, as well as hundreds of thousands of people who did not know the truth. To put it mildly, it's a rabble! If there is not a strong political party or organization to lead them. I believe that it will be difficult to hold out until the imperialist aid arrives! Moreover, Zabaikalsk, southwest of Chita, is still under the control of the army loyal to Trotsky. Finally, let's say one more thing, how many months have we been in the "iron-blooded Republic of China?" "What is the ultimate purpose of this uprising? It's time to have a definitive opinion, right? ”

After speaking, he stared at Tang Jiu with burning eyes, but Tang Jiu just shrugged his shoulders with a wry smile and did not answer Zhang Guotao's questions, because these questions could only be made by Chang Ruiqing, who was far away in the Bay of Bengal. But Chang Ruiqing didn't have much energy to think about the Far East now, because he also encountered a big trouble.

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"Rama VI still doesn't agree to our crossing?" Chang Ruiqing asked Pan Wenzhao, who had just walked into the officer's lounge, in a low voice, and the latter nodded silently. When the entire officer's room heard this answer, their faces all became solemn.

Chang Ruiqing turned his gaze to Chen Shaokuan, and Chen Shaokuan said with a smile: "Rest assured, the fuel on our Haitian can last at least a week, and the Jindenagar of French India has agreed to our shore replenishment." ”

Before he could finish speaking, Minister of Commerce Song Ziwen interrupted: "But we can't keep floating on the sea, right?" There are so many things in the country, and there are thousands of things waiting for the commission to go back and get ideas! These Siamese people are really hateful, and they actually help the Japanese to deal with us. ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid it's not to help Japan, but to help the United Kingdom, right?" ”

Everyone heard Chang Ruiqing mention the UK, but they didn't speak. An hour ago, the government affairs council in Nanjing sent a telegram to Chang Ruiqing: The Japanese Government announced that a naval rebellion had occurred on the battlecruiser Kongo, and that the ship was no longer under the control of the Japanese Government, and that the previous shelling of Chang Ruiqing's ship Haitian had nothing to do with the Japanese Government. Moreover, the British Prime Minister has just met with the Chinese ambassador to London, saying that Britain is willing to mediate the conflict between China and Japan, and hopes that the squadron can stop hostile behavior against Japan and resolve the contradictions between the two sides through negotiations......

However, Chang Ruiqing did not seem to have any interest in negotiating with Japan, and still sent a telegram urging the navy to do its best to carry out a campaign to break diplomatic relations, and also ordered the Military Commission to carry out the second phase of mobilization and recruit and train 500,000 recruits within three months, which seemed to put on a posture of preparing for a big fight with Japan.

"Let the Navy send submarines to the Bay of Bengal!" Chang Ruiqing thought for a while, and then said: "Send electricity to Nanjing, tell Pan Yucheng: first, do your best to raise 200 million yuan for military spending; Second, to implement wartime economic control and make preparations for a long-term war; Third, let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs file a claim of $100 million with the Japanese side and cancel the order for five battlecruisers to Japan; Fourth...... Let the Foreign Ministry raise the Far Eastern question to Britain, the United States and France. Sue sù they are we supporting the rebellion in the Soviet Far Eastern Republics, and if possible, we are ready to support the return of the Provisional Government of White Russia to Chita to power! ”

"White Russia? And what about our relations with the USSR? Song Ziwen frowned, raised his head to look at Chang Ruiqing, and showed a solemn expression on his face. "If the Soviet Union and Japan join forces, we will have to fight on two fronts!"

"We can only take this risk, we need the support of Anglo-American law now. And the USSR will not go to war with us until it defeats the rebels in Chita...... So be it. ”

Pan Wenzhao quickly recorded these orders, handed the Wen Jiàn clip to Chang Ruiqing for a look, and asked in a low voice by the way: "What about the shelling of the Japanese Far East Railway?" Would you like to pause? And the operation of the Navy to break diplomatic relations? ”

Chang Ruiqing waved his hand and said coldly: "Continue to execute!" The Japanese will not accept our terms. So war is inevitable! With that, he signed the text and handed it back to Pan Wenzhao, who quickly turned around and left.

"Commission, do you really want to fight? Maybe a few more years will be more beneficial, right? Lu Yixuan, deputy chief of general staff, leaned into Chang Ruiqing's ear and whispered. If we can wait until the first five-year plan is completed, our industry will be able to support a large-scale, long-term war. ”

Chang Ruiqing waved his hand with a smile. smiled: "Zixiu, don't worry, we will definitely win this war." And Japan won't be able to support it for long. They won't be able to fight for months. ”

"Months? How so? Lu Yixuan shook his head and wanted to say something, but Chang Ruiqing stood up and smiled at everyone in the conference room: "The big guys have been tired all day, let's go back and rest for a while, now that the war has just begun, it's not good to exhaust your body and bones." ”

……

On the afternoon of June 92.

Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. The official residence of the Prime Minister of Japan.

“…… The British embassy has just called, and China has made a claim of $100 million as a condition for an armistice, and has cancelled the order for five battlecruisers for the Reich! ”

A secretary from the Prime Minister's Office hurried into the conference room where an emergency meeting was being held, and no one had yet arrived. The contents of the phone call from the British Embassy in Japan, which is responsible for mediating the conflict between China and Japan, have been reported loudly.

Immediately, a few scoldings of "eight grids" resounded in the room, and several army and navy generals jumped up, and the chairs made a ping-pong sound.

"Robbers! The people of China are all robbers! You can only talk to them with a cannon! ”

War Minister Yusaku Uehara simply said loudly to Yoshiichi Tanaka, who was sitting at the top of the conference table with a gloomy face: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, don't hesitate, let's hurry up and take advantage of Chang Ruiqing's failure to return to China, and let the Far Eastern Army launch the 'Tiger Head New Antu Battle'!" Chief of Staff General Tian Zhonghua also echoed: "Your Excellency, the Tiger Head Fortress of the China Army is like a stinger inserted in the defense line of the Far Eastern Army, and it must be completely uprooted!" Take advantage of this opportunity! ”

Yoshitoshi Tanaka must have sat there fixedly, not moving his eyes for a moment. After his talks with Crown Prince Hirohito in the early hours of this morning, he left the palace with the edict tasked with organizing the wartime cabinet, and Hirohito, on behalf of Emperor Taisho, handed over the Imperial Japanese war plane to him...... Now it's up to you, Your Excellency Prime Minister, to lead the Japanese Empire to fight this battle.

He is well aware that the current situation of the relative strength between China and Japan should basically be regarded as evenly matched, and if the military commanders of both sides are cautious and do not make any mistakes, the final result should be a draw. This ending is really not too bad, but can the palace and the people accept it?

The answer is obviously no, a draw would mean that the Japanese Empire would forever lose the opportunity to expand to the mainland, and the southward expansion would become difficult to achieve because of China's containment, and the entire empire would be trapped in the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan, Korea, and the Far Eastern States.

And as China's national power grows, they are afraid that they will also launch a new war to seize the Far Eastern states and Korea, right?

If a draw is not acceptable, then how can Japan win the war?

I'm afraid there are only two ways. The first is to take advantage of the situation of ineffective command of the squadron before Chang Ruiqing's return to China to launch the 'Hutou Xin'an Tu' battle, breaking the main force of the Chinese army of more than 100,000 on the west bank of the Ussuri River, and laying the foundation for victory in one fell swoop.

The second option is procrastination. After the Soviet Union put down the rebellion in the Far East, Japan and the Soviet Union joined forces against China! And this method should be the safest.

Just as Tanaka was about to say his decision, he saw another secretary of the Prime Minister's Office walk to the door with a gloomy face, holding a stack of papers in his hand, which seemed to be some kind of report.

"The Ministry of the Navy has just sent a report that two hours ago, two 10,000-ton bulk carriers of the Osaka Merchant Marine Company were sunk by the Chinese cruiser Haiqi in the waters near Okinawa!" (To be continued.) )