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The 7th German-Italian axis? Seven Sino-Japanese breakdowns?

In one of the carriages of this special train going north along the Far Eastern State Railway. The atmosphere was surprisingly solemn. Prince Taihirohito, the regent of Japan, sat in this specially modified carriage, carefully and even with some curiosity at the officers of the "Young Zhuang" faction in front of him. It's not accurate to say that they are young and strong, a few of the younger ones here are already in their thirties and almost forty-years old, and the eldest Sadao Araki is already forty-five years old! However, compared to the old Japanese soldiers that Hirohito, the high-ranking emperor, could come into contact with on a regular basis, these people were really young and strong.

And the biggest difference between these young Zhuang factions and those old-fashioned guys is not the age gap, but the big difference in ideology! Old guys like Yamayama Aritomo and Togo Heihachiro, although they are also respectful to Emperor Taisho and Emperor Hirohito on the surface, they don't really regard these two as gods in their bones. Even the Meiji Emperor, who was praised by the Japanese themselves, was like this when they came to these figures who had passed through the end of the shogunate-a little kid who didn't understand anything was praised as a signboard after the emperor had been murdered by the ministers of the Shogunate faction, and everything was blown out of the wisdom and martial arts. The truly wise ones are Hirobumi Ito, Ritsu Okubo, and Aritomo Yamaguchi, who were ministers and generals.

But these thirty or forty-year-old Japanese army officers don't know this, they are all post-0 (born around 0 years), they have been brainwashed and educated by loyalty and patriotism since childhood, and the emperor and Hirohito, who is the future emperor, are as great as gods in their minds. Hirohito now felt this kind of heartfelt admiration from the few young Zhuang faction officers in front of him, and this feeling was really a bit fluttering.

"Your Highness, these are the elites of my Imperial Japanese Army, the most loyal samurai of His Majesty the Emperor. They are Major General Sadao Araki, Toshiro Ohata Osa, Nagata Tetsuyama Osa, Itagaki Seishiro Osa, Dohihara Kenji Osa, Tojo Hideki Nakasa. ”

The speaker was Prince Zaihito, who accompanied Hirohito on his visit to Russia, and after returning from the defeat in Manchuria and Simberia, the marshal, who was not very old, was honorably transferred to the reserves. However, in the end, he is a prince, and he is a very high generation of Grandpa Hirohito. Therefore, the title of a senator has to be given, and it is extremely convenient to enter and exit the palace on weekdays, plus he is quite familiar with many of the Dazuo and Zhongsa below, so he gradually became the liaison between these young Zhuang officers and Emperor Hirohito. This time, several of these key members were arranged to visit the Soviet Union as Hirohito's attachés. However, although these people were all on the list of attachés, they did not meet Hirohito immediately, and it was not until Hirohito boarded the train from Shioto (Vladivostok) to the Soviet Union that Prince Zaihito found an opportunity to branch out Kita Ikki, who was sent by Tanaka to monitor Hirohito, and then introduced these young Zhuang elites to Hirohito one by one.

Now, every time Jaehito called out his name, a guy with tears in his eyes stepped forward and bowed respectfully to Hirohito. This bending angle, as well as the pious expression on his face, made Hirohito very satisfied—they were all great loyalists when they went up! When you become an emperor in the future, you must promote these people well. Well, go back and write down their names in a little notebook, so that you don't forget them after a long time......

After Zairen finished introducing these people, Emperor Hirohito spoke slowly: "All the secretaries are the elite of our imperial army, and the future of the imperial country depends on the efforts of the secretaries." ”

"The ministers are terrified!" The people below said in unison. This is a cliché, and Hirohito is tired of hearing it, so he nodded. "You are all loyal people, I know, do you have anything to say to me today? That's what you're here for, right? - A lot of words on the net"

Of course there are words, and there are a lot of them! But when you don't talk about it, you don't know? Several officers of the Young Zhuang faction looked at each other, all thinking about how to speak, and finally it was Nagata Tieshan, who had the reputation of being the first brain of the Japanese army in history, to break the silence first: "The lower official has something to say, and the lower official thinks that the current national policy of going south implemented by the empire is too ambitious!" ”

"Presumptuous!" Prince Jaehito pretended to reprimand. Hirohito smiled and waved his hand, motioning for Nagata to continue.

As early as more than 2,000 years ago, during the Warring States Period of China, Qin Prime Minister Fan Sui proposed long-distance friendship and close attack as the basis of Qin's military and diplomatic line, which is also a basic principle of military diplomacy of various countries from ancient times to the present. However, the current national policy of the empire has clearly deviated from the principle of long-distance friendship and close attack, abandoning the target of 'close attack' since the Meiji era, and turning the goal of expansion to the distant South Seas...... And the reason for implementing such a national policy is that it is actually afraid that China will join forces with Red Russia, which is really ridiculous! ”

"Ridiculous? Why? Hirohito asked, a little puzzled. The Imperial Army was still defeated by the Red Russia in the Simberian Intervention War, so how could it be able to defeat the two Red Russia? ”

"His Highness only knows one thing but not the other," Nagata Tetsuyama explained loudly. "According to the repeated research of Xia Guan in the past two years, the defeat of the Xianbeilian intervention was not due to the strength of Red Russia, but to the wrong direction of imperial expansion! The empire abandoned the policy of taking Manchu and Mongolia as the lifeline of the empire that had been unswervingly implemented since the Meiji Emperor, and instead competed with Russia for the Far Eastern states and Simberia, and mistakenly regarded China as an ally in the invasion of Russia!

And the biggest reason for the defeat of Simberia was precisely the secret betrayal of this ally of China! The defeat of Chita and the siege of Manchuria were all conspiracy of the China! Therefore, the Empire can no longer regard a sinister enemy like Shina as an ally! ”

"Then Red Russia can be an ally?" Hirohito asked.

"Red Russia is also ill-intentioned and cannot be relied on as an ally."

"Nagata Qing, who do you mean the empire should be friends with? Whom is it the enemy? ”

"The empire should resist Russia and unite Britain and the United States. Don't do it the other way around! ”

Hearing this, Hirohito's eyebrows furrowed slightly. He has already understood Nagata's words, this is to make Japan give up its dream of leading the world and even leading Asia, and use it as a tool for Britain and the United States to contain China and the Soviet Union!

"Nagata-kun's words are wrong!" As soon as Nagata Tetsuyama's words fell, Major General Sadao Araki, military attache of the Japanese Embassy in the Soviet Union, spoke loudly and retorted.

"Red Russia has ill intentions, but aren't Britain and the United States ill-intentioned? Moreover, now Britain and the United States are not of the same mind at all, and the empire can only choose one of the two, either the United States or the United Kingdom, and there is absolutely no possibility of uniting the two at the same time. Besides, the weakness of the old powers, such as Britain and France, is now well known, and the results of the Polish-East Prussian war have shown us the strength of the land power of the Soviet Union! How can we leave the declining British and French colonies and instead aim at the mighty Soviet Union? ”

"The goal of the expansion of the empire is not the Soviet Union, but Manchuria in China!" Nagata Tetsuyama insisted. "Far Eastern Prefecture and Manchuria are one, and as long as the empire controls these two territories at the same time, it can lay the foundation for eternity! Until the development of the Far Eastern states and Manchuria was completed, the empire should not have sought new expansions. ”

"Yongtian Qing, do you mean that the United Nations is attacking Russia?" Hirohito asked.

"The empire should have the determination to independently defeat China and seize Manchuria!" Nagata said. "And as long as the empire shifts its development focus to the army, the imperial army also has enough strength to defeat the China army!" He took a step forward, bowed deeply to Hirohito, and said loudly: "Your Highness, the empire must do its best to change the wrong national policy, if you wait until the two five-year plans are completed, the empire will not have a chance!" ”

Hirohito didn't know much about China's ongoing heavy industry plans, and there was little publicity in Japanese newspapers and no reports from the cabinet. He turned his head to look at Zairen of the Idle Courtyard Palace, and Zairen pointed to Kenji Dohihara who was present. said: "Tu Fei Yuanjun is a Chinese expert, let him explain it to His Highness." ”

Hirohito nodded, and Tsuchihara just wanted to speak. Suddenly, I heard Toshiro Obata interject: "Why did the train stop?" ”

As soon as he said it, the other Japanese ghosts here realized that the train that was originally moving on the clatter had indeed stopped! That's a bit of an anomaly.

"Tojo-kun, what the hell is going on?" Miyajihito sent Hideki Tojo, who had the lowest rank here, out to inquire about the situation. Then he waved his hand at Tu Feiyuan and motioned for him to speak.

"Your Highness!" Soil and fertilizer

Kenji said with a frown. "Xia Guan thought that there was no need to go to China to complete the two five-year plans, and by 927, when China's first five-year plan was completed, the empire would be powerless to defeat them! Because China has attached great importance to the development of the military industry in recent years and in the first five-year plan, and the guns and ammunition needed by the army and the raw materials for their production are the top priorities! Intelligence estimates that by the time China's First Five-Year Plan is completed, it will be possible for their industry to support 5 million to 6 million troops, and their population will dictate that they will have an almost endless supply of troops...... Therefore, if you want to defeat China, it is better to pull Soviet Russia. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Hideki Tojo rushed in in a rage and shouted, "Your Highness! Your Highness! The people of China have just attacked the Far Eastern railway line! Rail transport has been disrupted! ”

"Nani!" As soon as Hirohito heard the news, he was stunned at first, and then his face was like ashes, and he muttered in a trembling voice: "This, this, what can I do now?" The Chinese called! Will the Far Eastern states still be able to keep it? Ah, it's so close to the Chinese border! What can I do now? Did the command of the Far Eastern Army send troops over? I can't be a prisoner......" As he spoke, he was about to pull out the katana he was carrying with a trembling hand, wondering if he wanted to cut his stomach?

"Your Highness, don't panic, Your Highness ......" Xianyuan Gong Zairen was also in a cold sweat, he was actually more panicked than Hirohito in his heart! Now he knows the deployment of the Far East Army, and there are a total of divisions and regiments, and because of the relaxation of relations between China, Japan, and Russia, the troops are all peacetime establishments, and the full strength rate is only 50 percent, and some of them are a little more than 100,000 troops. Six of the divisions were deployed along the Amur River, one guarding several large cities, and one guarding the Sino-Japanese border - if the Chinese were to carry out a surprise attack, the troops would certainly not be enough to plug their teeth, and the railway line was so close to the Chinese border! It's really miserable now, I am the prince, and the culprit who instigated the emperor to visit the Soviet Union, how can I have the face to be a prisoner? I had to seppuku, I knew how good it would be to stay in Tokyo so comfortably......

"Ladies and gentlemen, now is the time to defend the emperor and be loyal to the country!" Itagaki Seishiro is known for his bravery, and during the Battle of Manchuria, Itagaki who was the captain of the brigade at the time personally led the troops to fight a Banzai assault! At this time, he also pulled out his Oriental sword and put on a posture that was ready to fight desperately. was shouted by him like this, and the other Japanese officers in the carriage also drew their sabers and gathered around Hirohito, probably to defend this imperial lady with flesh and blood, right? - A lot of words on the Internet

The word loyal minister slipped in Hirohito's heart, and several young Zhuang officers here are really loyal and patriotic! It's a pity that I can't escape this time......

"Tojo, what the hell is going on? Is it really the Chinese who called? "Nagata Tetsuyama's brain is a little better. Before becoming Hirohito's attaché to the Soviet Union, he was a senior staff officer in the Far Eastern Army, and the Far Eastern Army did not receive any information on the mobilization and assembly of the squadron at all, nor did it find any signs of war, so how could the war start out of thin air?

"This ......" Tojo was stunned and shook his head a little blankly. The specific situation is not very clear, only that the railway line in front of us was attacked by Chinese armed men, and the Far Eastern Army Command asked us to temporarily stop advancing......"

"Eight squares! The Far Eastern Army Command didn't say about war, why do you ......" Nagata said this, and suddenly remembered that Tojo didn't seem to say war either, it was Emperor Hirohito who was talking nonsense just now!

"Then it's a despicable terrorist attack! Is the target Her Royal Highness? It's so hateful! Kenji Tsuchihara also reacted, and while inserting the saber back into the scabbard, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "These pigs will do such an unseemly deed!" Be sure to punish severely! They must not be let go lightly! ”

"That's right! Can't let go of the overpower! "We must severely punish the tyrannical!" "Unite Red Russia to wage war against the tyrannical branch!"

Suddenly there was another hoarse shout in the carriage.

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"Sir! Mr! Wake up! Chang Ruiqing's sweet sleep was woken up by Sun Yuexun's crying voice. At this time, the heavy cruiser Haitian he was riding on was sailing in the vast Indian Ocean.

"What's going on?" Chang Ruiqing yawned and sat up from the bed, and it took more than ten seconds for him to wake up from his heavy sleep. His gaze swept around the room, and Sun Yuexun and Bai Chongxi were both standing in front of his bed. Sun Yuexun's face was pale, and sweat was rolling down her forehead. Bai Chongxi also frowned, and his face was very gloomy. Chang Ruiqing felt that things were a little strict, took a breath and asked, "Brother Jiansheng, what's going on?" Is there something wrong in the country? ”

Bai Chongxi said in a deep voice: "It's not China, it's Japan!" The Japanese emperor who visited the Soviet Union was assassinated near Boli! The Japanese accuse our people of doing it! ”

"Hirohito is dead?" Chang Ruiqing's face was also a little difficult.

"No, I heard that the passenger car was hit by mistake, and the attacker didn't hurt Hirohito at all."

Chang Ruiqing had already stood up from the bed and walked a few steps in the cabin barefoot. "Is there any movement in the Japanese Far Eastern Army? Are there any signs of offense? ”

"No, not yet." Bai Chongxi said. "But there is some anger in their country, I'm afraid it ......"

"Order, the Northeast Front Army is ready for combat at the first level, and the army implements a mobilization plan!" Chang Ruiqing gave the order to prepare for war with a gloomy face.

Bai Chongxi and Sun Yuexun were both taken aback, and Bai Chongxi said: "Yaoru, this is adding fuel to the fire!" ”

Chang Ruiqing waved his hand. "You're listening to me! We must not be soft on the Japanese, otherwise they will definitely have to gain an inch. Sue sù Guo Maochen (commander of the Northeast Front), if the Japanese side dares to provoke, it will resolutely return fire! If you provoke, you will shoot back! There's nothing to say that you can't fire the first shot first! He paused slightly, and then said, "Brother Jiansheng, you take the Yingrui and go back to China immediately to preside over the overall situation." Don't go to the South China Sea, go back to Burma, and let the Air Force General Department send an airship to Yangon to pick you up. ”

Bai Chongxi nodded heavily and said, "Yaoru, is it really that strict?" Is it really possible to fight? ”

Chang Ruiqing frowned and thought for a while. "I don't know either, but the possibility of war cannot be ruled out, so we must stand on a big footing! By the way, who exactly started the attack? Any news? - The net does not skip words.

"The telegram said it was done by people from the Korean Independence Army." Bai Chongxi replied.

Chang Ruiqing shook his head slightly to express puzzlement. "Oh? So what does Japan mean that we did it? ”

"It seems that the North Koreans confessed." Bai Chongxi said. "Now that we know this, we may have more definite information in a while."

Chang Ruiqing walked up to Bai Chongxi and patted him on the shoulder, squeezing out a little smile. "Brother Jiansheng, you hurry up and give the order, and then get ready to get on the Yingrui ship."

Bai Chongxi gave a military salute and turned around and walked out, Chang Ruiqing didn't feel sleepy at all, he went around there with his hands behind his back. His brows were furrowed tightly, and his face was blue and white for a while. Sun Yuexun closed the door of the cabin, walked to Chang Ruiqing's side and said softly: "Sir, it won't really fight, right?" - A lot of words on the net"

"I can't fight." Chang Rui smiled at Sun Yuexun, who had a pale face. "They have been running the navy for the past two years, and we have been throwing military spending on the army in the past two years, and now the Wehrmacht Army is much stronger than it was during the Four Nations War, not to mention the number of people, even if the firepower is far stronger, the Japanese army is far stronger! At present, our division level is equipped with artillery regiments, there are heavy artillery regiments at the army level, there are about 22 independent artillery regiments, and the entire army has 02 artillery regiments, equipped with more than 600 cannons, and the army's treasury also has more than 1,000 cannons in reserve. Japan, on the other hand, spent mainly on its navy in the past two years of military spending. Before the Four Nations War, their army strength had not yet recovered, and they had one-third the number of artillery wings we had...... So the war can't be fought, Tanaka is not a stupid person, he knows that Japan can't win! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )

The 7th German-Italian axis? Seven Sino-Japanese breakdowns?