The occurrence of the 917 incident shocked the whole of China and even the whole of Asia. He said that his brutal sneak attack on the Northeast Army's Beida Camp and the siege of Shenyang were tantamount to launching a large-scale war of aggression against China.

Zhang Shusheng was woken up at about 11 p.m. on September 17, and the Southwest Special Intelligence Department had already had early warning information about the occurrence of the 917 incident, and he himself knew about the 918 incident in history. The butterfly flapped its wings, allowing the event to happen a day earlier, and the process was very different from history.

He put on his clothes and took over the documents sent by Mao Yunxian, the confidential secretary, and Zhao Ziyun, the head of the Special Intelligence Department, overnight.

"What happened? Be cautious. He Ning and Lu Yunyan were surprised, this kind of emergency had never occurred.

"I said that I attacked the North Camp of the Northeast Army, you go back and rest. There are us men in the war. Zhang Shusheng simply sent two women, yes, the war belonging to China's iron-blooded men officially began tonight.

When he was called up in the middle of the night, He Ning and Lu Yunyan got up with him very virtuously, made tea for the three of them, watched a few people talk all night, and went to boil some lotus seed white fungus soup.

From time to time, Wu Tiejun, Jiang Baili, and Sun Changqing also came, and Wei Sancai, who was transferred to the post of vice premier and head of the Propaganda Department, and Li Zongren, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other high-ranking officials from the southwest also arrived. Zhang Shusheng's study became a makeshift conference room.

Zhao Ziyun gave a brief briefing, but the people present were not too surprised, except for anger, they were not surprised.

"I still couldn't help it, looking at the large piece of meat in front of me, they finally chose to swallow it." As an important member of the military, Wu Tiejun has already stepped down from the post of division commander and officially entered the top level of the Southwest People's Army, assuming the post of deputy commander of the People's Army, taking charge of the regular work of the military headquarters of the People's Army, and reporting directly to Zhang Shusheng.

Among the high-ranking generals of the People's Army, the understanding that there must be a war between China and China is almost universal. Even if we take 10,000 steps back and say that we do not take the initiative to launch a war of aggression, we still occupy the Kwantung region and Taiwan, and if China wants to take it back, it will be a war sooner or later.

Although this incident is a national shame and makes people feel great sorrow, it is also a good thing, at least let the majority of the numb Chinese people recognize the aggressive face of the people, instead of choosing to continue to endure it."

As the premier of southwest China, Sun Changqing is the oldest person here, and it can be said that from the First Sino-Japanese War to today, he has almost experienced the shock of that era, and he is also the one who feels the deepest feeling of the people here.

As chief of the general staff of the People's Army, Jiang Baili also spoke, "Our general staff has a plan for my own military action. Since the current sphere of influence in the southwest is only in southern China, it is difficult to directly participate in military operations in the northeast. The plan we formulated was divided into three steps, the first step was to force and assist Zhang Xueliang to wave his army to resist. The second step is to negotiate with the Nanjing political axe to jointly resist the war, and it is best to be able to dispatch a dispatched army to directly participate in the anti-Japanese war. The third step is to use submarine forces to attack sea transport ships passing through the South China Sea. ”

Everyone nodded, and in the face of his own aggression, even if the southwest could not directly participate in the war, it could not remain indifferent.

Wei Sancai followed: "In terms of propaganda, I have ordered all the personnel of the Propaganda Department to rush back to the Propaganda Department overnight, and tonight's late-night broadcast, when I came, I had already arranged an emergency broadcast task. The plan of the Propaganda Department is to carry out extensive propaganda early tomorrow morning in the form of political announcements, newspapers, and radio broadcasts in various localities, supplemented by political workers going to the countryside and into the streets. In order to maximize the effectiveness of the propaganda, we have arranged a radio address by the senior leaders of the political axe, which will be tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. ”

"On the diplomatic front, we have summoned the US and German ministers to the southwest overnight, and in half an hour, there will be an urgent trilateral meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Li Zongren said simply: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' emergency plan is in place.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, and summed it up briefly, "I will go to the national broadcast tomorrow morning, and I must do a good job in propaganda work, whether it is in the civilian or military areas, so that the people and soldiers have a minimum understanding of his own aggression."

For military matters, send someone to Beiping to see Zhang Xueliang, and I think General Cai will go. Although he is a lieutenant general of the People's Army, he is also the principal of the Huaxia Military Academy, so it should be most appropriate for him to go.

Diplomatically, it is not practical for us not to ask the Americans and Germans for much help. We only need their formal support, and as long as the two countries do not stand on their side, the diplomatic situation will not be too passive towards the southwest. ”

Everyone nodded, discussed some details, and some people left first, except for Prime Minister Sun Changqing, Chief of Staff Jiang Baili, Wu Tiejun, and Zhao Ziyun.

"Although they may not immediately launch a full-scale aggression, once they are ready, they will definitely launch a more fierce attack on China. Judging from the intelligence, they have completed their so-called Manchurian and Mongolian lifeline plan, and will next expand this kind of interest in China to the entire northeast. And a new round of aggression is also being formulated. Zhao Ziyun briefly recounted the more confidential information.

"Chief, it seems that the time has come for further military expansion plans." Wu Tiejun was referring to the long-awaited new round of expansion plan of the Southwest People's Army, which had already drawn up a comprehensive expansion plan after the occupation of Guangdong.

"Old Wu, you can briefly talk about the important matters of army expansion." Because several other people may not be very clear about this army expansion plan, Zhang Shusheng motioned to Wu Tiejun to explain.

"The current plan for the expansion and reorganization of the army is, first, the need for further liberation wars, and second, the military strength of Nanjing is constantly strengthening. At present, our standing army is mainly composed of one guards division, six main divisions, and a total of 14 garrison divisions in five provinces, with a total scale of 21 divisions, which is fully capable of meeting operational needs. In addition, there are a considerable number of retired servicemen and militia members in various local reserve forces, and after 16 years of development, the southwest has the ability to urgently mobilize 30 to 40 divisions in wartime.

Therefore, the current plan for the expansion and reorganization of the armed forces is mainly aimed at expanding the main combat forces and improving the equipment level of the garrison divisions. The existing four garrison divisions will be reorganized into the main division, and the equipment level of the remaining garrison divisions will be increased at the same time. The principle of equipment of the main division will be to target the motorized infantry division. The garrison division is mainly supplemented with various types of artillery and semi-automatic weapons, as well as trucks. As a result, the combat level of the garrison division has been significantly improved. ”

After the expansion and reorganization of the army this time, the garrison division will not only be able to obtain all kinds of artillery that it urgently needs, but will also be equipped with a batch of semi-automatic rifles one after another, and in addition, the training of the garrison troops is the same as that of the main division, so it is inevitable that the overall combat strength of the garrison division after the replacement will be improved.

"It is also necessary to expand and reorganize the army, and now the domestic and international situation is not very good, and only by maintaining a considerable number of troops can we liberate more places on the basis of defending the southwest." Sun Changqing also supported the expansion and reorganization of the armed forces, and the economic construction of the southwest has entered the fourth five-year plan, and the overfulfillment of the previous three five-year plans has already laid a considerable level of industrial foundation for the southwest. The level of development of heavy industry and light industry has reached the requirements of the large-scale layout of national industries, and the gross domestic product is also increasing. The effectiveness of the currency reform in that year has also been further reflected, and the economy has shown ultra-rapid development. "The southwest can still afford this special military expenditure. If the Fourth Five-Year Plan can accomplish its tasks, the high-tech industry will be further strengthened, and the overall economic strength of our southwest will completely surpass that of second-rate capitalist countries such as Italy and Japan, and will approach that of Britain, France, and other traditional powers that have gradually weakened. ”

In other words, after about 20 years of economic construction, the Chinese-style industrial revolution will be basically completed, and the strength of the southwest will surpass that of countries such as Yuben and Italy, and enter the ranks of the world's economic powers around 1935.

The group briefly discussed that under the premise of the rapid economic development of the southwest, there will hardly be a problem with this plan for expanding the army and reorganizing the army, still less will it affect the high-speed economic development of the southwest.

Early the next morning, when some city residents and towns, towns, and villages collectively turned on the radio, they heard a soft-sounding announcer broadcasting a series of important news.

At 7 o'clock, on the basis of last night's emergency broadcast of the September 17 incident, the radio again reported in detail the course of the entire incident and the latest situation, and immediately broadcast the facts of his aggression to the entire southwest and even to the whole of China. The new Southwest People's Radio has been able to cover almost all of China. However, because the radio penetration rate in northern China is too low, the new radios in the southwest are rarely used, and only a small number of people can listen to programs in the southwest.

"Dear listeners, this is Southwest People's Radio, and I am the host Ye Wanyu. Now for an important piece of news. At 8 o'clock this morning, Comrade Zhang Shusheng, the supreme leader of the Southwest United Autonomous Government, will deliver an important radio speech on the 17 September incident to the audience throughout the country through this station. ”

The news that Zhang Shusheng was going to make a radio speech immediately spread throughout China, especially the hot-blooded young people in the southwest region and the Nanjing political axe area, and they were all boiling at once.

After the establishment of the Southwest People's Radio, Zhang Shusheng did not make any public speeches, but this time, he wanted to speak openly to the entire Chinese audience, because it was now a critical juncture for the nation.

“…… It is said that people occupy our rivers and mountains and invade our China, which is already a blatant aggression. Shen Xingxi, as the supreme person in charge of the Southwest Joint Governance Axe, solemnly announced to the compatriots of the whole country that from now on, the southwest will sever all economic exchanges with the people, confiscate their property in the southwest, and expel them. From now on, the Southwest Coalition will be in a state of war with the Southwest Coalition. I advise me that in this war with no end date, Chinese will use my bravery to prove to the whole world that those who offend our Chinese power will be punished even if they are far away!! ……”

On September 18, 1931, the real September 18 Incident in history, Zhang Shusheng made a radio speech to the whole of China through the Southwest People's Radio in Kunming, announcing that he was immediately in a state of war with Yue.

They may not have realized that it was the radio declaration of war that they regarded as a joke that brought them a great disaster, and a war between China and China that almost wiped out their country and species began on this day. On this day, history is known as "Radio War Declaration"!!

(To be continued)