The chaos caused by the movie "Lord of War" to the Japanese political arena, as the Japanese military department sent military police to arrest the relevant responsible persons of the Taiwan garrison as an explanation, they reluctantly gave the people an explanation, and temporarily pacified the boiling and passionate people.

However, how could the members of the Imperial Dao Sect, who had accumulated countless grievances in their hearts, be satisfied by arresting a few moths from the military department?

Their dissatisfaction is not really due to the corrupt behavior of the Taiwan garrison, nor is it the issue of the military department's China policy, but the real reason in their bones is their own interests.

The Imperial Sect was a loose group, largely made up of young field officers, even company officers. Their radical stance toward China and toward the Soviet Union was, to put it bluntly, for their own interests -- for middle- and lower-ranking officers, only war would give them the fastest chance of promotion. And during peacetime, if these low-level officers want to be promoted, they can only honestly work hard for seniority. And they themselves don't have a big backstage background, in Japan, a country where the concept of hierarchy is extremely strict, and promotion has to talk about backstage, backing, and "hugging thighs", what hope is there if you want to be promoted in peacetime?

In contrast, the officers of the unification faction originally occupied the upper echelons of the Japanese military department, were self-contained, and had the gold-lettered signboard of graduating from the regular "professional class" of Lu University, and all the good opportunities for promotion and promotion were digested by "their own people." This is the real reason why the two sides have "a deep hatred like the sea" and even tear their faces to engage in assassination.

If we analyze it from the angle of class struggle, the root cause of the contradictions between the two sides can be clearly explained in four words: class solidification.

Whether it's the "paper bombardment" of Nagasaki. Or the impact of the army scandal poked out in the movie "Lord of War", it was Lin Han who poured another spoonful of gasoline into the disgruntled and dissatisfied imperial officers' heads, making the resentment in their hearts burn even more.

On the 10th of July, Captain Kiyosada Kada, Lieutenant Teru Ando, and Captain Kono Totobuki, several young radical young officers of the Imperial Sect were gathering here at a ryotei shop in Nagata Town, Tokyo, for a weekly meeting

Captain Xiangtian Qingzhen said with a blue face: "It's time for our dream to wake up!" The gang of national thieves who live in Nagata Town, what have they tossed the Great Japanese Empire into in the past two months? Ando-kun, it's time for us to do something. ”

Since the end of May. There have been a series of terrorist incidents in Japan. After a large number of high-ranking officials of the unification faction were killed, the frequency of this gathering increased. The people of the imperial sect who had been suppressed at that time saw the opportunity to rise, but the reality was ruthless. Even if the Rulers died overnight, several important bigwigs died. Even the emperor who supported the faction behind him died. However, the Imperial Dao faction, which is located in the middle and lower classes, still has no room for improvement.

Ando Hui shook his head and said, "Now is not the time, since the assassination of His Majesty the Emperor, the whole of Tokyo is full of the eyes and ears of Tegaoke. Tokyo now. The guards were many times tighter than before, and we couldn't move at all. Koda-kun, we must be patient! ”

Kada Qingzhen snorted dissatisfiedly: "The best opportunity to endure and endure has been missed!" As for the gang of thieves in the Congress, at this time, they are still thinking about entering China "legally". As early as three years ago, when Chang Kaishen was assassinated, it was time for them to take full action. The current South China, the Red Bolsheviks, are far from being comparable to Chang Kaishen's gang of rubbish. ”

Kada Kiyosada is extremely dissatisfied with Japan's current policy toward China: "Akaro, as well as Germany, they are all behind the support of the Red Branches, and now that our Great Japanese Empire does not do anything, in two years at most, the Red Branches will grow to the point that we cannot suppress them." Fortunately, the hot-headed gang of the Red Tyrant blew up the warships of the British, and now that Great Britain is on our side, this is the last chance. Only by maximizing the war, entering the Kwantung Army, and fully uniting the navy and army, and launching a full-scale invasion of China, is the only chance to completely solve this greatest threat! ”

Ando Teru was also dissatisfied: "Those short-sighted guys in the cabinet are now just satisfied with digging a piece in the Yangtze River Delta, saying that the war cannot be completely expanded, so as not to attract interference in the northeast." What country is Lucia? Thirty years ago we could defeat them in Lushun, and thirty years later the Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire could destroy them with the same lightness. ”

Xiangtian Qingzhen said: "However, you are right about one thing before, now is not the time for us to turn against those national beetles of the ruling faction. Those people above the military headquarters are guarding us, and the people of the special high-tech department are also keeping a close eye on us, now is the critical moment for the use of troops in South China, and the forces of all parties are very tense, and the current Japanese Empire cannot be chaotic, at least before taking Shanghai and obtaining the bridge fort to enter South China, we must not act rashly."

Although the radical young Zhuang faction in the imperial road headed by Xiangtian Qingzhen was extremely dissatisfied with the domestic situation, because Japan was now mobilized, the upper echelons of the military department had even more strict control over the Tokyo area, and the extra-high branch was operating everywhere, even if their group of young Zhuang faction wanted to come to "go down" to the heavens and punish the national thieves, they had to weigh it. After a series of assassinations, the Japanese high-ranking officials are now stepping up their defenses, and even if these hot-brained imperial factions want to send dead men to assassinate, the chances of success will not be very high.

There were some words that Koda Qingzhen did not say, and in his heart, he was not optimistic about the second expedition of the military department to South China. On the first expedition, due to the haste of preparations, the navy was heavily damaged by the China Air Force at sea, and a large number of the army accompanying the ships sank into the sea. In the past half month, the army air force and the China air force on the Taiwan side have fought fiercely. Kada Kiyozhen received secret information from Lu Hang's old classmates that Lu Hang had suffered a great loss in the air battle over Fujian. It's just that Lu Hang's people die to save face, and they lie about the military situation when they summarize after the war, and those national thieves in the upper echelons of the military department are even more desperate to save face, pretending not to know and letting them fool them.

The China Air Force, which was supported by the Soviet Union and Germany, was very strong, and Koda Kiyosada was not optimistic about the second expedition of the military department. But, in his opinion, for their group, the second expedition was a frustration. The people who have reached the limit of their tolerance for defeat will inevitably go into an uproar, and that is their chance.

Xiangtian Qingzhen said leisurely: "Although we can't make a big move now, this cross-sea expedition to China will have results before the end of July." Before that, we still have to prepare a lot. Regardless of whether the war goes smoothly or is blocked, as soon as the war between the empire and China begins, the attention of the military department will be diverted, and then we will have a chance. ”

Among this group, Koda Qingzhen has always regarded himself as a "think tank". He was radical though. But there's still a little cleverness. In this general mobilization for the war against China, several of his troops were still stationed on the mainland, and a large number of troops were transferred to China. Here's their chance.

The Imperial Sect is a loose alliance. When the officers in the middle and lower ranks are secretly plotting the shadows of the unsightly. The upper echelons of the Imperial Daoist faction did not know at all -- the representatives of the Imperial Daoist faction, Sadao Araki and Shizaburo Mazasaki, had no idea that the "red deer" below were actually planning to do these "rebellious" things. This was not uncommon in Japan before World War II. This is entirely the result of the cleverness of the upper echelons. "I will share the credit for doing things well, and if things are done badly, the younger brother below will bear them", it is this kind of "clever" connivance mentality that leads to the chaos of the Japanese political situation in this era.

The British, having completed their mobilization, formed a Far East Fleet centered on the aircraft carrier Fury and the battleship Barham, plus 30 large and small cruisers, destroyers, and troop transports, totaling 30,000 men, arrived at the port of Keelung, Taiwan, on 25 May of the same month. The British also made a great effort to intervene in the Chinese Revolution, collecting nearly 40,000 colonial troops from India and Southeast Asia, and Australia also sent an intervention force of 3,000 troops and some warships to join. For the British Empire, which was in decline in power after World War I and was lazy during the "naval holiday", it was not easy to draw so many troops from the East in a short period of time.

The upper echelons of the British government actually want to prepare for a longer time, but the London stock market has fallen miserably in the past month, although the British government has paid a great price to protect the market, but the pressure of the people and the pressure of finances have forced them to delay any longer. In terms of "shearing" Britain's "wool", the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany have joined forces, and for more than a month, they have been sniping at Great Britain who want to die, forcing them to send troops in a hurry.

Having learned the lesson of the fiasco of the Japanese intervention for the first time, these warships were urgently equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft weapons before they set off, but because the newly developed ping-pong guns had just been equipped with the local fleet, these warships in Asia had not had time to install the anti-aircraft weapons that could be installed were all old goods that had been temporarily looted from various places, and most of them were mainly machine guns, and their performance was really not impressive. This huge fleet is temporarily stationed in Taiwan, and the two sides will jointly send troops when the Japanese front is ready.

The commander of this expeditionary intervention force, Admiral Rodbeck on the navy, and Sir Hamilton on the army, so it would be these two people because they had participated in the Battle of the Dardanelles in World War I and had experience in landing battles.

In the process, one man also rushed from England to the Far East, and even stayed in Japan to meet with the emperor, and that was Churchill. On the surface, this British fat man is trying his best to drag Japan into the water and carry out a plan to drive the tiger and the wolf. Privately, however, he secretly contacted French and American diplomats and began to secretly discuss the matter of kicking the Japanese out of South China after the "successful intervention" of the three companies.

As for the British government's two-faced attitude, the US government, which has the idea of two sides and three knives, is also dealing with it in a vain manner. They are now completely looking at the attitude of a lively third party, and no matter which side wins this war, the Americans will be the winners, so the US government is in no hurry to make a statement.

In the past month or so, the insincere "negotiations" between the British Empire and the Chinese Communists have naturally failed, and the British Empire, which has suffered huge losses in China, is now left with the only way to solve the China problem by force. Seeing Britain fall into the big pit of China, both Germany and the United States are all gloating.

Needless to say, the US government shouted loud support for Germany, but in private, it took advantage of the gap in the pre-war preparation period to increase the export of fuel and chemicals to the Chinese Communists, and ships of fuel and chemicals were constantly sent to the Yangtze River, and when they left, the ships were full of "foreign exchange" copied from the banks of various countries -- all of which were money from the unlucky banks of Western Europe. Of course, in the process, German and Soviet cargo ships had a similar experience.

During the last peace window in July, the Red Army in Shanghai imported large quantities of war materials from the Soviet, German, and American countries and hoarded them. In order to support China, on the German side, Hannah even sent a large number of aircraft in active service in the Air Force directly to China without even changing the markings. The vast majority of FW90 fighter production this year has been used to supply China, with a total of 300 FW90 fighters sent to China in July, and 200 HE51s that can be retracted from the rack and landing. The Red Army now has so many planes in their hands that it far exceeds their reception capacity that the pilots develop a feeling of being "overwhelmed" by them.

However, in times of war, the wear and tear of aircraft is extremely fast. Half a month after the air battle in Fujian, one-third of the engines of the planes participating in the war were replaced for overhaul and maintenance. If an air force can maintain 60 percent of its aircraft's attendance, it is already quite high -- just like in World War II, when the Soviet Air Force was at its most difficult, the air force's fighter attendance rate was even as low as 20 percent.

In July, the Red Army Air Force also completed the rearmament, and all Hawker II fighters were relegated to the second line and replaced with bombing missions or trainer aircraft, and all front-line troops were equipped with monoplane fighters.

On 20 July, the air battle off the coast of Fujian, which had been suspended for two weeks, resumed and after replenishing new planes and pilots, the Japanese Army Airlines, which had been repairing for two weeks, again sent planes into the skies over Shanghai to challenge. Although the Japanese learned the lessons of the previous air battle, the performance of their aircraft remained unchanged, and the battle situation was still overwhelmingly suppressed.

After five days of air fighting, the Japanese Army lost more than 40 planes, and had to stop fighting again for repairs. At this time, the British fleet arrived in Taiwan, and in addition to sending a military fleet and a landing force that was about to invade Shanghai, it also temporarily stationed a group of Royal Air Force planes at the Hsinchu airport in Taiwan.

According to the plan, after a three-day rest, on 28 July, the two companies will send troops at the same time, arrive at the sea off the coast of Shanghai on 30 July, and force a landing and breakthrough. In the process, the Japanese will also send a larger fleet to cooperate with the battle. (To be continued......)