Correcting a mistake made in the previous chapter (the resignation and apology cabinet in the previous chapter was supposed to be Hirota Hiroki instead of Okada Keisuke's cabinet, which has been corrected in the original text, and it is Konoe Fumiro who now takes over from the Hirota cabinet)

As he struggled to board the light cruiser Cairo, which had come to pick him up, Winston Churchill couldn't help but glance back at the city behind him.

Behind him is the city of Tokyo, where the smoke has not yet dissipated.

"What a crazy country."

Churchill let out a long sigh, then limped aboard the warship and left the country that was now extremely disgusted with him.

It is now the 4th of September, and the Japanese cabinet, which has just come to power and has not yet sat on the hot ass, has stepped down.

On 31 August, the Imperial Road faction staged a long-planned mutiny because of the dissatisfaction of the new cabinet members who had come to power after the Yamada Hitokazu incident, and it was quickly responded to by a large number of middle- and lower-ranking officers and the military in Tokyo. The 1st Division, an important garrison force in Tokyo, also had a large number of members who joined the civil strife in Japan. The result of the imperial coup d'état that night was, on the surface, a success.

The 226 Mutiny in history, the imperial road finally failed, and there were many reasons.

For example, the Japanese emperor did not support or even extremely disliked the emperors, did not receive the support of the navy, and there were very few supporters in the army. In terms of scale, it is also much smaller than this plane that was shattered by Lin Han: it was just a "small-scale" rebellion of more than 1,000 people as part of the 1st Division stationed in Tokyo.

This plane is different.

Emperor Hirohito had already been killed by Lin Han, and the new emperor had just come to power. The foundation is not stable, and the prestige is insufficient. More importantly, the successive defeats of the Japanese military in the war against China can even be called "the exhaustion of foreign affairs," and after the Yamada Hitokazu incident, it aroused the righteous indignation of the people throughout the country. After the "scandal" was discovered, Hirota Hiroki resigned like a show, and a new group of unification officials formed a cabinet and came to power.

"Those national beetles who made such a serious strategic mistake and brought such huge losses to the Japanese Empire, there is actually not a single one who needs to be imprisoned and held responsible!" ——Before the incident, the officer of the Imperial Road faction, Kada Kiyosada, said as such.

No one in the upper echelons of the military department was imprisoned or held accountable for this. This was a key factor in triggering the indignation of middle and lower-ranking officers and soldiers. When the young officers of the Imperial Dao faction with ulterior motives took this point to make a fuss, they agitated a little. More than two-thirds of the troops of the 1st Division stationed in Tokyo were mobilized, and the scale was far greater than the number of "middle twos" in the history of the history without traversers, which only a few hundred "middle twos" were operating.

Late on the night of 31 August, more than 10,000 soldiers of the First Division raised the "Banner of Righteousness," and a cannon rang out in Tokyo Bay. Angry "Showa warriors". Groups rushed into the official residences of various high-ranking officials in Tokyo. They are high on one side

On the night of the coup, a large number of high-ranking officials of the pro-establishment faction were arrested in their official residences and then directly executed. The two cabinet members, Keisuke Okada and Hiroki Hirota, suffered the most casualties.

Former Prime Minister Keisuke Okada and his son-in-law were shot dead at home by indiscriminate soldiers. Takahashi is Kiyoshi, Minoru Saito and a group of former Okada cabinet members, most of them were also killed. Not only members of the previous cabinet, but also many people in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Hiroki Hirota were killed, and Hirota Hiroki was also killed. And Prime Minister Fumiro Konoe, who had just played a "horse change" and came to power, was also regarded by the rebels as an accomplice to shield the scum Hirota Hiroki, and his home was attacked by the rebels, fortunately he hid in the pond at home as soon as the gunshots rang out, and later hid in the British Embassy in Tokyo, barely escaping.

On the night of the coup d'état of the 1st Division in Tokyo, the police station in Tokyo was also slaughtered by the army because of its intervention, which was also regarded as a lackey, and also suffered heavy casualties.

That night, while drinking the "Song of the Showa Restoration", these rebels blocked and occupied the Japanese political, military, police, and other central organs of state power in the southwest of the Imperial Palace, such as Miyakesaka, Hirakawa Town, and Kasumigaseki. The coup soldiers first occupied the Sanno Hotel in Akasaka, emptied the guests who stayed there, and took control of the hotel's telephone exchange, which was used as the headquarters of the coup command. Then, the coup forces took control of the residence of the prime minister of Lu and the Metropolitan Police Department of Kasumigase. At the residence of the prime minister, the coup soldiers asked the current prime minister, Yoshiyuki Kawashima, to come out for negotiations, but Kawashima promised to get up and negotiate on the grounds that he had a bad cold and needed to rest.

By daybreak, the assassinations of the rebels were over. They occupied the offices of the five major newspapers in Tokyo, demanded that each newspaper publish their "Letter to the Whole People," put up slogans such as "Respect the Emperor and Fight for Adultery" and "Seven Lives to Serve the Country" in the areas they occupied, and ordered the closure of cinemas and theaters and the suspension of radio entertainment programs. The whole of Tokyo is shrouded in terror.

In the "Letter to All the Nations," the statement of the members of this imperial sect is nothing more than a big fuss about the recent fiasco of the navy and the army, claiming that the real sinners who caused the nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Japanese Empire who died in battle for these two fiascos were not really punished at all because of the protection of the officials at the top of the Japanese military department. He claimed that his mutiny was for this "belated justice" and to seek justice for the unjustly killed imperial warriors.

Initially, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters and the Emperor regarded this as a rebellion, a disruptive operation of the troops' command, and an unorganized and undisciplined action, so they set the policy of "cutting off the pressure of bullets."

However, unlike history, in this historical plane that has been distorted by the traverser Yan Zòng, due to a series of political and military mistakes in front of the unification faction, the people in Japan have long been lost, and the officers of the rebellious First Division have many sympathizers in the Japanese army. After the Sendai 2nd Division, which had been transferred to quell the rebellion, arrived at Tokyo Castle and was shouted at by the 1st Division, a considerable number of them turned against the enemy on the spot and joined the ranks of the 1st Division's demand for "Heavenly Punishment of National Thieves."

Unlike those members of the Imperial Dao Sect in history who acted for personal gain, this time they received "righteousness".

The two defeats of the Shanghai Raiders, and especially the deception of the people about the defeat of the people, which was worse than the defeat, had long made the unification faction the most dissatisfied object in the army.

At this time, the unification faction was already well-known in Japan, and in the hearts of middle- and lower-class civilians and officers, even these people were no better than the shogunate.

When even the common people of Tokyo supported the "revolutionary uprising" of the Imperial Daoists, Emperor Takahito was soon outraged to find that his counterinsurgency plan could not be effectively carried out.

Historically, the navy, which had supported the emperor's suppression of the rebellion in the first place, was also extremely dissatisfied with the huge losses caused by the blind command of the officials of the unification faction. Instead of showing their support for the emperor's "counterinsurgency" at the first time, as in history, they put on a goodwill attitude of "neutrality" to mediate.

After the initial control of Tokyo, only Kawashima Yoshiichi came forward to negotiate with these rebellious young Zhuang troops. Yoshiyuki Kawashima succeeded Hayashi Jujuro on September 5, 1935, and he was an acceptable figure for both the "Imperial Way School" and the "ruling faction".

"Restore the absolute power of the Emperor; arrest of the anti-imperial faction Minamijiro, Koiso Kuniaki, Kenkawa Miji, and Ugaki Kazunari and other "culprits and rebels"; In order to deter Russia, we will severely punish those related to the Hirota Cabinet who made mistakes in formulating the national policy in the course of the two requisitions, etc."

In the end, under the military advice of the Imperial Daoist faction, the new emperor Takahito was forced to accept the high request of the "military advice" as it was.

In the end, Sadao Araki, the head of the Imperial Sect, took advantage of the fuse ignited by the Yama Nitowa Incident and the impetus of the August 31 Mutiny, reached a compromise with the new Emperor Takahito on September 3, and came to power under the "expectations of the people" and formed a new Japanese cabinet composed mainly of members of the Imperial Sect. As for the head of the Konoe Interior who had only been in power for less than a month, because of the many casualties in the mutiny, although Konoe Fumiro was lucky to escape, he could only resign on the pretext of physical discomfort when the general situation was decided.

The Imperial Road faction came to power, realizing that Japan's China policy would become more radical. In the history of Japan, the later Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was called "Sergeant Tojo" behind the backs of countless domestic commanders who looked down on him because of his extremely poor strategic literacy, in order to ridicule his shallow and short-sighted eyes. But in front of Sadao Araki, even Hideki Tojo is qualified to ridicule this person as a "middle two".

Why?

After the sudden changes in China in 1935, he put forward the strategic idea of "the north town is exposed, and the south is flattened and the violent branch is the enemy" on two fronts.

Now that this guy, who even Hideki Tojo is qualified to mock, has become the prime minister of the Japanese cabinet, it is no wonder that Churchill is so depressed.

Knowing that it was impossible to bring the strategic focus of the Japanese back to the Yangtze River Delta, Churchill left Tokyo with infinite disappointment. Negotiations with the new cabinet members were left to other British diplomats, while Churchill prepared to go to Zhoushan Island to cheer up the Royal Air Force, which was about to embark on a large-scale air campaign against the Red Army.

On the other hand, Lin Han, who was far away in Shanghai, China, also discussed with the Red Army the impact of the Sino-Japanese War on the Japanese coup d'état.

Coming from the future, knowing that the Imperial Dao faction was even more strange than the madman of the unification faction, he and Chairman Lee Yun-seok and the senior leaders of the Red Army all agreed that a full-scale war of aggression against China by the Japanese was inevitable. The only question is the scale and timing of the outbreak.

Lin Han's view was that with the "cleverness" of the Japanese, they were likely to choose to start after the British Royal Air Force launched an air operation against the Red Army, entangled the Red Army's air force, and inflicted great losses.

The war has reached this point, and there are not many cards that Lin Han can use. The Japanese, who had made countless mistakes, had suffered a lot, and it was already difficult to win easily with tactical tricks, and the next period would be the most difficult period of the War of Resistance. (To be continued......)

PS: Yesterday I spent the whole day on the way home, and I didn't have time to write until after 11 p.m. Today I will change the three thousand words now, and tomorrow I will write the next one during the day.