In mid-to-late February 92 AD, the Japanese Civil War, which had been torn between war and peace, seemed to have come to a point overnight.

The Okuba Line, painstakingly managed by the Japanese Provisional Government, was completely destroyed in a matter of days, and the Japanese Red Army immediately split into two lines after the victory. Invade Niigata Prefecture with a partial division and sweep the Hokurku lands; Capture Fukushima Prefecture with the main force to the south, and the front of the army is directed towards the Kanto Plain. The heavy troops of the six divisions of the Okuwa Front, which the provisional government had worked so hard to assemble, were either completely wiped out, or suffered heavy losses and fled all the way. The crisis of the situation seems to be irreparable!

Yanpo (Vladivostok).

After the main forces of the Japanese Far East Army were either destroyed or evaded by the Soviet Union, the Shioura fortress became the only point of support for Japan in the Far Eastern coastal area. In the city of Yanpo, there are not only two permanent divisions of the Japanese Army, but also more than two million refugees. Most of them fled from various places in the Far East after the armistice between China and Japan, and according to the caliber of the later Japanese GCD, they were all compatriots of all ethnic groups in the Far East (Japan) who were unwilling to be slaves to the country. The other part is the propertied class and intellectuals who fled from Japan itself, as well as the Chinese of the former Japanese Empire, and this type of people is naturally counter-revolutionaries according to the Japanese G.

The Japanese GCD and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association have also established their own organizations in Yanpu City. The former was supported by the exiled Japanese in the Far East, and marched and petitioned in the city of Yanpu all day long, demanding that Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the Shiopu garrison, the current ruler of Shiopo, send troops to resist China! The latter went around talking to the counter-revolutionaries who had come to Yanpu and preached to them the benefits of the Japanese-Chinese alliance. It also attracted some irresolute Japanese devils to go into the water and become Japanese traitors, and every day, many people who had a big face in Japan ran to the headquarters of Terauchi Shouichi and complained to him about the crimes of GCD. Ask to bring troops back to the homeland to suppress the Communist Party!

As for Terauchi Shouichi, there are two lieutenant general division commanders in Yanpu Castle, four major general brigade commanders, and three chief of staff with the rank of Osa, and other high-ranking Japanese soldiers. It is a dilemma, and it is difficult to live in fear. It was their wish to send troops to resist China, but at the moment the Chinese army had placed seven heavy troops in the Far East, two of which were guarding the exit of the Amursky Peninsula. There are also rumors that the Chinese have just ordered four 420mm howitzers from the German company Krupp. It is estimated that it was used to destroy the reinforced concrete fortifications of the Yanpu Fortress! Under such a strong enemy and weak shape, where did this group of Japanese officers dare to send troops to their deaths? However, it is not feasible to bring troops back to the mainland to suppress the Communists, on the one hand, several of them are quite disgusted with such things as fighting a civil war. Moreover, they were also worried that after they left Yanpu with their troops, the Chinese army would take advantage of the weakness; On the one hand, there was no order from Tokyo to mobilize troops, so how could they bring troops back to China without authorization?

So these Japanese young generals just sat in the headquarters of Yanpu, full of complicated feelings. I craned my neck and waited for good news or bad news from Japan. Before February 7. Several of them also rejoiced for a while that the initial peace agreement between the Japanese and the Provisional Government had been reached. But no one expected that the Japanese would go south to fight with Okuyu to decide the winner, and the news of the Japanese Provisional Government's ratification of the Japan-China Treaty came immediately!

These Japanese generals have all understood the general trend, the Tokyo Provisional Government is running out, and the future Japan will be a world of red flags! And these people have to choose between Tokyo and Nanjing......

On the day of Christmas on February 25, a destroyer of the Japanese Red Navy, Nosaka Sanzo, a special envoy sent by the Japanese GCD, slowly sailed into the Golden Horn Bay in Yanpu. And several high-ranking Japanese military officials in Yanpu City. Led by Shouichi in the temple, all of them are neatly draped. With the guard of honor, the military band, or something, they stood solemnly on the dock and waited.

Holding the golden sun flag on a red background on the mast of the destroyer, Terauchi Shouichi sighed and said to the people around him: "I really didn't expect it, 6 months ago, our Great Japanese Empire was still full of glory, and now it is about to become a Japanese Soviet State!" We people will not have a good time in the future! ”

There was an unclear shape at the bottom of the big sa replied: "They also recognize the emperor's majesty, doesn't it mean that Emperor Showa will soon be reinstated as the red emperor?" Our Great Japanese Empire is still here! ”

Shouichi Terauchi shook his head with a wry smile and said: "If it weren't for this Red Emperor, our fate might be a little better, with this Red Emperor, we are afraid that we will not have a place to bury in the future!" ”

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As soon as he entered Shioura, Nosaka received the highest courtesy, and he was arranged to live in the luxuriously decorated Far Eastern Governor's Palace. The Governor's Palace was also the official residence of the former Governor of the Primorsky Province of the Russian Empire, and was later used by the Japanese as the seat of the highest governors of the entire Far Eastern region. However, the original governor of Japan's Far Eastern Prefecture was a prince, who stepped down after the Tokyo Revolution in 9 and went to Hong Kong to live in seclusion, and the Japanese provisional government did not send a new governor, so it has been empty there. Now that Terauchi Shouichi and others have arranged for Nosaka Sanzo to live in, they have actually expressed their attitude of participating in the revolution.

It's not that they, the Japanese generals, really believe in GC doctrine, but if they choose a loyal one between Tokyo and Nanjing, they will not defect to Nanjing in any case.

And Nosaka Sanzo took a look of pity around this golden mansion, and then asked the attaché to invite Terauchi Shouichi and the chief of staff of the Shioura Garrison Command, Sugiyama Moto, to come over and start discussing the future of the Japanese army in Yuura.

With two Japanese generals frowning, Nosaka Sanzo smiled like a spring breeze: "General Terauchi, Sugiyama Daisa, during this period of time, you have led tens of thousands of Japanese elites to defend the isolated city of Yanpu, making it difficult for hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops to advance an inch, it is really hard, I say thank you on behalf of the Japanese GCD, on behalf of the National Salvation Committee, on behalf of the Emperor Comrade and the people of all Japan, thank you!" ”

Hearing this, Terauchi and Sugiyama suddenly felt a warmth in their hearts, and the original resistance to GCD disappeared (what else can you do if you don't disperse?). ）。 Terauchi said: "As the chief of staff of the Far Eastern Army, Xia Guan can only watch a large part of the Far East fall into the hands of the enemy. But I can't do anything, and I'm really ashamed...... Now that the domestic situation in Japan will be settled, the GCD is wholeheartedly determined to resist China. Presumably, a large army will be sent to counterattack the Far East in the near future, and the subordinate is only willing to be a wing captain and personally lead the troops to be the vanguard of the counterattack army! If you can become a god in the battle to regain the land, you can be regarded as having your wish! ”

Sugiyama Motoya also echoed: "Xiaguan is also willing to be the pioneer of the counterattack on the Far East, even if he suffers all kinds of hardships, he must recover the lost territory and drive out the Huakou!" ”

Nosaka Sanzo smiled: "It's really a blessing for Japan and the people to have such an awareness!" However, the counteroffensive in the Far East should not be rushed. At present, the civil war has been decided. However, the Saionji traitor clique is still resisting stubbornly, and it may take some time to liberate the whole of Japan. Moreover, after the civil war, Japan may be in a state of ruins, and without a few years of recuperation, I am afraid that it will not be able to expel the Chinese invaders entrenched in the Far East. ”

Shouichi Terauchi and Mototo Sugiyama frowned slightly. But in an instant, calm was restored. Can the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, the two Japanese officers who are on the front line, still not know? Not to mention Japan, which was hit hard by the Great Kanto Earthquake and had just finished the civil war, didn't Japan, which was in its heyday before, also be defeated by them? So the words of the two of them before were just to express their attitude to GCD, and at the same time they wanted to touch the bottom of the day G. There is no rumor of a joint attack on China with the Soviet Union. However, listening to Nosaka's tone, it seems that the Japanese will still focus on restoring national strength for a long time in the future.

Nosaka Sanzo suddenly changed his heavy expression. He continued: "And we have also received accurate information that after the Saionji national bandit clique signed the Japan-China Treaty despite the opposition of the people of the whole country, Chinese imperialism is planning a full-scale invasion of the Japanese mainland!" ”

"What! There is such a thing! Terauchi and Sugiyama exclaimed at the same time.

Nosaka nodded: "It's true! According to intelligence, Chinese imperialism is working on an aggressive plan to invade the Japanese mainland using the Korean Peninsula as a springboard, just as the historical Yuankou did! But we can no longer pin our hopes on the kamikaze...... We plan a decisive battle with the Chinese imperialist army in the south of the Korean Peninsula! Holding south Korea will be key to defending the Japanese mainland, and with only a few months to go until next spring, we will not have time to build more troops. We can only transfer our forces to south Korea as much as possible. However, at the moment we have very limited troops, so we hope to transfer two divisions from Yanpo to South Korea. ”

Shouichi Terauchi and Sugiyama Mototo glanced at each other. The temple said, "Who will guard Yanpu?" ”

Nosaka shrugged: "We don't have the strength to defend Yanpo and South Korea at the same time. ”

Sugiyama stood up suddenly: "Do you want to give up Yanpu?" ”

Nosaka glanced at him lightly and sighed: "Comrade Sugiyama, the distance between Yanpo and the Japanese mainland is more than 00 kilometers, while the distance between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese mainland is only 200 kilometers!" ”

Shouichi Terauchi asked, "When will the troops be transferred to North Korea?" ”

Nosaka sighed softly in his heart, but he still had a solemn expression on his face: "The transfer must be completed within two months...... The fortress of Yanpu must be completely destroyed, and the refugees in the city must be transferred as much as possible. ”

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In Tangshan, Nanjing, the meeting room of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government was full of core figures of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Everyone had already heard some rumors and knew that Chang Ruiqing was brewing a major event that would affect the future pattern of the whole of China and even the entire East Asia, so no matter what important things were at hand, they all rushed over for the time being.

In fact, everyone has some numbers in their hearts, after Chang Ruiqing defeated Japan and signed the Japan-China Treaty with the Japanese Provisional Government, the next step is probably to form a federation, and at the same time, it is possible to arrange an invasion of the Japanese mainland! This time, Chang Ruiqing summoned the big guys, I'm afraid it's for these two big things, right?

Everyone is a little apprehensive in their hearts, and the formation of a federation is not a big deal, but it is nothing more than a matter of changing a brand. But the use of a "Japan-China Treaty" with little legal effect to turn Japan into a nominal part of the future Chinese Federation feels a little unreliable.

The matter has been spread for a while, and the big guys have discussed it more than once in private, and many "experts" have written commentary articles in the newspapers. The relatively unanimous view is that there is no doubt that "cooperation will benefit both sides." However, the Sino-Japanese alliance must be built on the basis of the willingness of the people and political forces on both sides. And the current "Japan-China United States" obviously does not have such conditions. Especially after the Japanese GCD won the Japanese Civil War, China and Japan were fundamentally on the same footing, and if China wanted to forcibly unite with Japan, the only way was to conquer Japan by force!

So people of insight, including most of the core figures of the two parties. They are not very much in favor of China engaging in any kind of alliance with Japan. However, in a series of recent public speeches, Chang Ruiqing has been vigorously advocating the Sino-Japanese alliance. Considering the prestige of this man, who soared after the Sino-Japanese War and the Great Kanto Earthquake, the voices against the alliance became softer......

However, seeing that the war between China and Japan GCD is "getting closer and closer", some people are finally ready to make a blunt attack and persuade Chang Ruiqing to give up the unrealistic Sino-Japanese alliance. As soon as everyone scattered and sat down, and before they had time to take a sip of tea, Legislative President Song Qingling skipped the greetings and went straight to the topic: "Chairman." Before the meeting, you give us a thorough understanding. Now that the treaty between Japan and China has been signed, and our Republic of China and the Republic of Japan are theoretically yiti, should we save the crisis of the Japanese provisional government? If you want to save. Is it about to send troops to the Japanese mainland? ”

Chang Ruiqing glanced around the people in the conference room. Jiang J Shi rarely came to the meeting, but he sat there expressionless, like a mud bodhisattva. Hu Hanmin leaned back on the sofa with a smile, his face calm. Pan Yucheng is Chang Ruiqing's father-in-law. Zhang Junmai is a confidant civil official who has followed Chang Ruiqing for many years. However, Chang Ruiqing didn't give them much penetration, so his face was full of worry. Chen Duxiu, Wang Yaqiao, Shao Piaoping, as well as Bai Chongxi, Wang Junhao, Zhao Zhen and others on the G side knew some of Chang Ruiqing's thoughts, so they didn't have much worry.

Chang Ruiqing smiled: "The treaty was signed, but it has not yet entered into force, our legislation and the Senate have not yet been communicated, and there is no legislature at all in Japan, so this treaty can also be said to be invalid." But the matter of Japan-China Cooperative State is already there, and we will see where we can go in the future. However, the invasion of the Japanese mainland will certainly not happen in a short period of time, and Mrs. Sun can be absolutely assured of this. ”

Song Qingling sighed softly, Chang Ruiqing made her absolutely reassured, thinking that there was really nothing to worry about. Although the matter of the Japanese-Chinese Cooperative is absurd, it is still more reliable than the previous "normal curse". Jiang Jshi, who was sitting next to her, had been concentrating on studying Zuo Minism for several days, and his eyes flashed and he said in a low voice: "Chairman, the Japanese-Chinese Union should not be the Biqu Pavilion of the World Federation www.biquge.info right?" ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled: "What do you think?" Is it possible for this vision of the brothers to come true? ”

Jiang Jshi smiled but did not answer. Premier Pan Yucheng frowned and said, "Yaoru, of course your knowledge is better than all of us, but ...... Let's not take the calculation too far. At present, most of the political analysts in the international community hold this view, and after the establishment of Soviet Japan, it will be a pool of disaster with the Soviet Union! And there are two destinations for this pool of troubled water, either Nanyang or our China! And when we come up with this Japan-China alliance, it is clear that we are inviting Japan's pool of troubles to our bodies...... Now public opinion in Western countries thinks so, and they also say: There will be a war between China and the Soviet Union and Japan in the future! And their Asian colonies will last for another hundred years. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Junmai took over the topic and said: "Chairman, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also received news that the US government has appointed Leonard Wood, the former governor of the Philippines, as its ambassador to Japan, and there are also rumors that Leonard Wood is very likely to stay after the fall of Tokyo...... It is quite possible that the United States will establish diplomatic relations with GCD Japan! ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded and said, "It's very possible...... Japanese GCD is not a fool! He pointed to Shao Piaoping, a member of the Central Government Bureau, and said, "Piaoping, you tell everyone about what GC International told us." ”

Shao Piaoping said: "The GC International told us that the Japanese GCD had successfully rebelled against the Japanese defenders in Yanpo and was preparing to transfer all of them to South Korea. By the end of February next year at the latest, Yanpo will be our territory, and in addition, the Japanese GCD has also said that they will do their best to find a way to get the Taiwanese army to withdraw to the Ryukyus. ”

Chang Ruiqing just smiled bitterly: "It's not a fool to come to Japan GCD!" ”

Pan Yucheng frowned and said, "So the Japanese GCD wants to ease up with us?" But why didn't they offer that we abolish the Japan-China Treaty? ”

"They don't want to really relax! Of course, they didn't want to break with each other either. They just want to play the future Sino-Japanese relations as a trump card! ”

Chang Ruiqing paused for a moment and said with a smile: "There are high-ranking people among the leaders of the GCD in Japan!" Hehe, it's nothing qiguài, a stupid opponent like Hirohito is really hard to come by. However, their masters are now in a mess, and it is not so easy to do a good job. Let's not take them to heart for the time being, let's do our own thing.

There should be two priorities in the next stage, the first of course, is economic construction! Now that the Sino-Japanese war is basically over, we should hurry up the construction that has fallen during this period, and all the work of the first five-year plan must be completed; The second is the formation of the Great China Federation, which is currently composed of the Republic of China and the Far East...... The affairs of the Japan-China Union will be ambiguously dragged on for the future. (To be continued.) )