On August 1, the Presidential Palace of China.

Wang Yaqiao walked quickly to the door of the presidential secretary's office with a briefcase, saw Xiao Gao inside, and immediately said: "Secretary Gao, I have an emergency to report to the president, please report it immediately!" ”

"Oh, it's Director Wang!" Xiao Gao looked up and said a word, and said, "Okay, Director Wang, wait a minute, I'll ask the president if he has time" As he spoke, he picked up the phone and dialed it.

Xiao Gao said on the phone what Wang Yaqiao asked to see, and after listening to him twice, he put down the phone and said to Wang Yaqiao: "Director Wang, the president invites you to come in and come with me!" ”

The two came to the door of the president's office, Xiao Gao knocked on the door, pushed the door in, stood aside and said, "President, Director Wang is here!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei put down his pen and greeted when he heard this: "Brother Jiuguang, come, sit here!" ”

"Thank you, President!"

After the two sat down, Wang Yaqiao took out an analysis report and said: "President, there is definite news!" You see, this is the result of our inference based on a series of information obtained in the last two days and before, the Japanese Combined Fleet will assemble in the waters near Tosa Bay between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. in five days, the time is what we deduced from various intelligence, the difference between before and after is not more than three hours, the place is that we get the exact information, these are the specific coordinates, you see! ”

Xiao Zhenlei took the report and read it in detail, and then frowned=: "Why did the Japanese Combined Fleet assemble in Tosa Bay, there are more places to assemble on the route to the Caroline Islands!" ”

Wang Yaqiao said: "We have also analyzed and speculated on this, and you see, President, Japan now has three large naval bases. The first is the Yokohama Naval Base, and the second is the Sasebo Naval Base. Third, Kure Harbor Naval Base. In addition to cruises, Japanese naval vessels are generally docked at these three major naval bases for maintenance, maintenance, and replenishment. The three large naval sites are not in the same direction, with Sasebo Naval Base in Nagasaki, Kure Port Naval Base in Hiroshima, and Yokohama Naval Base in Tokyo Bay, where a buildup at Tosa Bay is the fastest and safest location. ”

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the map and nodded, and said: "That is to say, there are only five days, but if we want to start a war against Japan, we must find an excuse, are you ready on your side?" ”

Wang Yaqiao nodded and said, "It's ready." A detailed plan has been drawn up and can be implemented at the first glance of you! ”

Xiao Zhenlei instructed: "You don't need to ask me for this matter, you look at the schedule yourself, and what I want is foolproof!" ”

"Understood!"

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Tokyo.

Qian Siqing has been in Tokyo, Japan for five years, where he met his wife Chen Hui, Chen Hui is also Chinese, her parents moved to Japan from the Qing Dynasty, and the two have a son and a daughter after marriage, and live a very happy life. Qian Siqing opened a noodle restaurant here, and the business was very good.

In addition to the fact that his noodles are really delicious, there are many overseas Chinese compatriots around, so his business is better than other Japanese noodle restaurants on this street. And this made the owners of those Japanese noodle restaurants extremely unhappy, and after a long time, the owners of these Japanese noodle restaurants were very jealous of Qian Siqing. He often finds some Japanese ronin to come to his noodle shop to cause trouble.

On this day, a few Japanese ronins walked into Qian Siqing's noodle restaurant drunkenly with samurai swords, and a leading Japanese ronin shouted: "Boss come out." Who is the boss? Come out! ”

Qian Siqing saw that there were a few Japanese ronins again, so he hurriedly nodded and walked over to greet him: "What are the gentlemen doing?" Is it eating noodles or is there something else? ”

The leading Japanese ronin grabbed Qian Siqing's shirt and shouted: "I heard that you are Chinese? Since you are Chinese. Why don't you stay in China, why are you coming to Japan? You are opening a shop in us, stealing our Japanese business, and making our Japanese money, your conscience is greatly damaged, you drop, immediately go back to China, you are not welcome here! ”

Qian Siqing hurriedly laughed and said, "This gentleman, please let go, okay?" If you have something to say, it's a public place! ”

"Huh, in public? This is our place in Japan! The Japanese ronin pushed Qian Siqing hard, and Qian Siqing was suddenly pushed back again and again, knocking down several tables.

At this time, Qian Siqing's four-year-old son Qian Xiaohu had just come back from playing outside, and when he saw his father being bullied, he immediately rushed over and hugged the thigh of the Japanese ronin and opened his mouth to bite.

"Ahh The Japanese ronin screamed in pain and pushed Qian Xiaohu away, and then raised his leg and kicked over, Qian Xiaohu was kicked and knocked down the wall and passed out, his head bleeding. Qian Siqing saw that his son was bleeding from the head when he hit the wall, and because his son was dead, he immediately yelled angrily: "Damn Japanese, Lao Tzu fought with you!" With that, he rushed up and fought with the Japanese ronin.

The three Japanese ronins are young and strong, and they are samurai, how can Qian Siqing be an opponent? He was soon beaten to the ground. The overseas Chinese who were eating noodles in the store were indignant when they saw this, and they stepped forward to reason with the Japanese samurai to prevent the three Japanese ronins from leaving, and the three Japanese ronins drew their katana swords and threatened them and left.

A few Chinese in the store could only watch the Japanese ronin swagger away, at this time was quickly learned by the local Federation of Overseas Chinese, under the investigation of the Federation of Overseas Chinese, the identities of the three Japanese ronins who beat people were revealed, and the Federation of Overseas Chinese immediately organized overseas Chinese to report to the Japanese police station immediately, demanding that the Japanese authorities severely punish the murderer.

Dozens of overseas Chinese held banners to demonstrate, which made some Japanese in Tokyo who hated the Chinese and the Chinese very angry, and under the demagoguery and organization of some extremist Japanese, a large number of Japanese took to the streets to confront the Chinese who were protesting, and both sides were very excited, and the local police station in Japan dispatched police forces to try to maintain order, but the situation was still out of control, and the two sides developed from confrontation to violent clashes, and within an hour, dozens of people died, and most of the dead were Chinese. In view of the situation getting out of control, the Japanese police dispatched troops to quell the riot.

After receiving the news, the Chinese embassy in Tokyo immediately organized personnel to visit the overseas Chinese who had died and been injured in the clashes, and at the same time reported the situation to China, and after receiving the news, the Chinese side demanded that the Japanese side hand over the murderers of more than a dozen Chinese within three days, and apologize to China for the incident, otherwise they would bear the consequences.

This kind of thing can be said to be big or small, mainly depending on whether the injured party is strong and whether it insists on pursuing the case, just like when two German missionaries were killed in China, the German side immediately used this as an excuse to send troops to land in Qingdao and forcibly took Qingdao as a base. The Japanese side did not care about this matter, but only a dozen people died, and the Japanese side only perfunctory about the warning from the Chinese side.

However, after the Chinese side informed Japan, the staff of the embassy in Tokyo began to organize the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Tokyo, and rented several ships to anchor in the port of Tokyo.

This situation was soon learned by the Japanese cabinet, and Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma called a cabinet meeting after learning the news to discuss how to deal with the demands and ultimatums of the Chinese side.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think you all know about this matter, the people from the Chinese embassy in Tokyo have begun to organize the people of China to board the ship and evacuate, what are they going to do? Is it preparing for war against our country or intimidating it? ”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs said, "First of all, my lord, I thought that this matter could be reduced to a small matter, and a small matter to nothing!" Huaguo's request, my country must not agree, how can we hand over those murderous ronins to the Chinese people? Even if we want to pursue this matter, those ronins should be judged by our government and cannot hand them over, the demands of the people are really powerless, and we must not agree to Huaguo's request for our government to apologize, otherwise, Huaguo still thinks that our country is afraid of them, and they will kick their noses and face in the future, and we must not compromise on this matter! ”

The Minister of War also said: "Yes, Prime Minister, I also think that there is no need to pay attention to the clamor of those Chinese people, if they want to withdraw the overseas Chinese and the embassy, let them withdraw, I believe that China must want to intimidate our government with this, want to gain the upper hand in this way, and win a reputation in the world, we must not fall for the tricks of the Chinese people, the cunning of the Chinese people, this is definitely their deliberate posture!" ”

The Minister of Finance said with some concern: "I always have some bad premonitions, what if this time the people of China are not intimidating, but are preparing to come to the real thing?" ”

"Haha!" The Admiral shouted, "Not to mention whether the people of China have the courage to really be an enemy of our country, even if they really come this time?" The people of China are only a large number of land forces, and if they really fight, I believe they will definitely not be the opponents of our Imperial Japanese Army! ”

Seeing that the Minister of the Navy was helping the Army speak, the Minister of War nodded to him and thanked him, and the Minister of the Navy continued: "Besides, in the Asian region, the navy of our Imperial Japan is invincible, what can the people of China do?" In fact, I think that we can have another Sino-Japanese naval battle and completely annihilate the China Navy, so that our country can attack China at will! But China can't do anything to our country."

After a morning of deliberations, the Japanese cabinet finally decided to wait and see what was going on, ignore the demands and ultimatums of the Chinese side, and turn a blind eye to the matter of the Chinese embassy in Tokyo organizing the evacuation of overseas Chinese.

At 8 a.m. on 6 August, 100 fighter planes, 200 large bombers, and 200 torpedo planes took off from two air bases in Shanghai and flew toward the waters of Tosawan Bay in Japan.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the Chinese authorities sent a telegram to Japan and the rest of the world, declaring war on Japan on the grounds that Japan had discriminated against overseas Chinese and had used force against overseas Chinese, causing dozens of innocent Chinese casualties, and the Sino-Japanese War officially broke out. (To be continued......) R1292