Chapter 66: Things Deteriorate
"Bang!"
Qin Yu slammed the teacup on his desk to the ground, his face was pale, and what he was holding in his hand was a telegram, Zhang Zuolin's telegram.
The Japanese actually staged the 9/18 incident in the future, and it is really a dog that can't change the eating of. He had long known that this treaty would not bind the Japanese, and that it would be torn up sooner or later with the unflattering perverted character of the Japanese, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, and it was very likely that it was not Katsura Taro's decision but the private decision of the people below.
"Let the prime minister and them rush here immediately to discuss the matter, and send a telegram to Marquis Chiang to step up the layout, by the way, has that person found out?" Qin Yu calmed down and said.
"Your Majesty, I've found some clues, and the results will come soon. The Jilin incident is our dereliction of duty, and our subordinates should be damned! ”
"Check it well, try your best to find out the moths, as for the Jilin incident, it's not your fault, this matter is too weird, since our people in the Japanese government have not received the news and said that this matter was not ordered by the Japanese government, you should also investigate it well." After Qin Yu finished speaking, he waved his hand to let him retreat.
After a while, Chen Fu and the others also arrived, Qin Yu didn't speak, just asked them to read the telegram, and I believe that he didn't need to say more.
After reading the telegram, Chen Fu and the others all turned pale, they couldn't imagine that the Japanese army would attack Jilin at this time, if this is really the decision of the Japanese government, it will be strict, after all, the war between the empire and Tsarist Russia is not over.
"I don't know if this is a decision of the Japanese government or if some people act privately, the contradictions within Japan are also very strict, I'm afraid that someone will cause trouble about this matter, and it is not the time for Katsura Taro to fall." Chen Fu said very sternly, and then looked at Qin Yu, because the intelligence department has always been directly controlled by Qin Yu.
"It shouldn't be the decision of the Japanese government, although it is true that it is time to invade and occupy the Northeast, but Katsura Taro is not going to war with the Empire and Tsarist Russia at the same time, do not forget that both the Empire and Tsarist Russia have a camp to support. Now I am afraid that this matter will directly force the Japanese government to admit to war, although the empire is not afraid, but it is not conducive to the development of the empire, wait for the secret telegram Kerataro to ask. Qin Yu shook his head and gritted his teeth and said.
What Qin Yu said is not impossible, the September 18 incident in later generations was a decision made by the Kwantung Army privately, and the Japanese government had to support the Kwantung Army.
"Jian yì majesty xià transfer the army of the Ming and Han regions to the northeast to deter the Japanese army, if it is really a war, it can also enter the northeast in the fastest time, and block the Japanese attack on Jilin." Chen Fu thought about it for a while and built a yì road.
"Your Majesty, the finances are very tight now, this year's finances have been overdrawn, if there is a war with Japan, we will not have extra financial support for the war, please Your Majesty!" The Chancellor of the Exchequer said wryly.
"The army in the Ming and Han regions can't move, the news is going to be blocked, it's an eventful time now, don't worry about the financial part, if you really can't do it, I will confiscate my private money, it should be enough to support a while." Qin Yu said very firmly.
Hearing Qin Yu say his private money, a bright light flashed in the Chancellor's eyes, and he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although he didn't know how much money Qin Yu had, but he would definitely be able to support it for a while, and seventy percent of the major commercial houses in the empire were from the Qin family.
"Your Majesty, by no means, you have already confiscated half of your property when the empire was established, and if this is still the case, the citizens of the empire will not agree, and I will issue treasury bonds throughout the country, just like the Western powers issue treasury bonds in times of war." The Chancellor of the Exchequer came up with the idea in the eyes of a group of ministers.
"Will it be too early if the treasury bonds are issued now, it is easy for the people to misunderstand, after all, we still have a war that has not ended, and it also makes countries think that the empire cannot support the war of Tsarist Russia, and the impact is not good." Chen Fu thought for a moment and then expressed his concerns.
"The national debt is good, if you misunderstand it, you will misunderstand it, and when the time comes, it will be used for the construction of the empire, and now is also the time to prepare for war with Japan or the situation of being attacked on both sides. If the finances are still insufficient, come to me, my money is also the money of the empire, and special treatment is given in special cases. Qin Yu's eyes lit up when he heard the national debt, why didn't he think of this, it seems that the knowledge he learned in the UK has degraded a little.
Tokyo, Prime Minister's Office, Katsura Taro was spitting at Yusaku Uehara at this time, the ground was in a mess, there were scraps of paper and teacup fragments everywhere, and Katsura Taro's henchmen knelt on the ground and did not dare to make a sound.
"Nonsense, do you think now is the time to go to war with the Huaxia Empire? Stupidity! Hurry up and pull the army back for me, this time it's just a collision, do they think that this will force me to declare war on Huaxia? ”
"How do you manage your subordinates, you don't have any patience to fight with the navy, all those involved in this matter will have to go to the military court, and Your Majesty will personally inquire into this matter."
"The attack on Jilin is tantamount to unilaterally tearing up the Entente with China, and if China exposes the Empire's attack on Vladivostok and Sakhalin, the madman Nicholas II will definitely declare war on the Empire, and the Entente will blockade the Empire, just like the blockade of China. The relationship between the Empire and Britain will also be completely broken, not only that, but you must understand that China is now supported by the Allies, and if there is a war with China, it will also be blockaded by the Allies. Moreover, China has a close relationship with the United States, and the United States has long been wary of the power of the empire in the Pacific, and now if it goes to war with China, although it will get the northeast, the empire will be isolated from the world, understand? ”
"Do you think the Northeast is so easy to occupy? China had already won a decisive victory in the war with Tsarist Russia, and the army of China was not the pigtail army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty anymore. ”
After scolding for a while, Katsura Taro was also tired, and the clothes of the people under him were all soaked, and at this time they also knew the strictness of the matter, and there were so many doorways inside.
"In any case, now is not the time to attack, and unless I step down, it is not the time to go to war with China. If the empire is isolated, I see what new warships they still have in their navy, go and sue them, this is what I said, let them be more restrained, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind. Katsura Taro said tearing his face.
The Japanese army, which was storming the Jilin army, suddenly received a telegram from the emperor himself, telling them to stop fighting, withdraw from Jilin, and return to Vladivostok, and then the prime minister sent them to stop fighting, otherwise they all went to military courts.
The officers of the Japanese army were very hesitant, and they did not dare not listen to the emperor's orders, but now they were ready to send them.
"If there is a truce, you know the end, now there is only to continue the war, and then after we all become heroes of the empire, the emperor will forgive us, there is no way back."
"I quit, I am not participating in this war, you dare not listen to the emperor's orders, are you against it?"
There were those who were in favor and those who were against, and the crazy belligerent maniacs directly imprisoned those who decided to obey the orders of the emperor and the prime minister to stop the war and continue to wage war.
The Chinese government asked the Japanese government what was going on, and the Japanese government reasoned that some officers in the army had been bribed by Tsarist Russia, and they had launched a military mutiny in the army and took control of the army, in order to deepen the contradictions between the two countries and cause a major war.
The Japanese government promised to compensate Jilin and immediately put down the rebellion, hoping that the Chinese Empire would not be misunderstood.
When Katsura Taro received the information, the army did not stop but continued to attack, and he was very angry, and directly ordered the Korean army to rush to stop it, and it was a capital offense to dare not obey the emperor's orders.
As everyone knows, Gui Taro mobilized the North Korean army to rush to Vladivostok and made Zhang Zuolin misunderstand, if Qin Yu hadn't ordered him to block the news, I'm afraid the whole world would have known about it now.
Hunchun, the only port in the Chinese Empire directly facing Japan, is the same as the waterways of Korea, Japan, and Tsarist Russia, and is also rich in natural resources, and its strategic significance is more important, so this is the place where the Japanese army attacked.
Zhang Zuolin deployed a total of 100,000 troops in Hunchun, and Japan sent 70,000 troops this time, as well as some Japanese naval help.
Japan implements a compulsory military service system, and all the soldiers of the army have undergone several years of rigorous training, and both the overall strength and the individual strength are much stronger than those in Jilin, and some veterans in the Jilin army have been trained by instructors sent by the Chinese army for more than half a year.
There is no gap between the Jilin army and the Japanese army that you support with the Chinese army in terms of weapons and equipment, so they are still confident in holding Chunhui.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The Japanese navy was the first to open fire, and one shell after another rushed towards the positions of the Jilin army, and then fell to the ground and exploded, killing and injuring some Jilin soldiers who had no time to dodge.
The Jilin artillery on the position returned fire on the small Japanese gunboats, and many Japanese gunboats were hit, and some were even hit by several shells at the same time and then slowly sank.
The Japanese army also began to attack, wave after wave of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the position of the Jilin army, the heavy machine guns of the Jilin army poured frantically, and one by one the Japanese soldiers fell.
Seeing that the firepower was so overwhelming, the Japanese army hurriedly asked the artillery to suppress the machine gunners in Jilin, and under the suppression of the artillery fire of the navy and the Japanese army, the machine gunners in Jilin were quickly suppressed. The Jilin artillery has always been fighting back at the Japanese gunboats, and it is impossible to shell the artillery of the Japanese army, which also makes it very difficult for the soldiers in the positions to fight.
"The firepower of the dog day is too fierce, and the brothers are all crushed to death, can you let the artillery support it!" A regimental commander wearing the rank of major of the Jilin Army spat out a mouthful of dirt and shouted at his adjutant with a dark face.
"There's no way, regimental commander, there are too many Japanese gunboats in dog days, and the artillerymen are returning fire at those gunboats."
"No matter what, you must support it, Hunchun can't lose it, otherwise the handsome man will definitely kill me, hold on!" The regiment commander shot the Japanese soldiers fiercely a few times before hiding back in the trenches and said the adjutant.
There are many soldiers in the army in Jilin who have a deep hatred for the Japanese army, because Jilin was also one of the battlefields during the Russo-Japanese War, and many families were torn apart because of the Russo-Japanese War, and the Japanese army also recruited locals in Jilin to participate in the war or help transport logistics, and these people basically did not come back.
Many of Zhang Zuolin's troops were mountain bandits before, and they all followed Zhang Zuolin to accept the Manchu Qing's recruitment, and many of the reasons why they fell into the grass were forced by the Japanese and the Tsarist Russians, and now they are also very excited to be able to fight with the Japanese. If it weren't for the elite instructors sent by the Empire to train them and give them as many weapons as possible, they would probably have retreated immediately when they saw the Japanese army.