Located in the middle of the Primorsky Road in the Japanese Far Eastern Prefecture, near the plain of the Ussuri River, Shin-An-to-Sho Castle was expanded on the basis of the Russian town of Dalnerechensk after the Japanese occupation of the Far Eastern Prefecture, a semi-military and semi-civilian border fortress city, and also the capital of Azuchi Prefecture and an important station on the Far Eastern Railway. In addition, there are nearly 200,000 Japanese immigrants near Shin'an Soil Castle, of which nearly 10,000 are also organized into volunteer teams and distributed weapons, ready to fight with the Japanese regular army

But such a relatively strong force, in the future of the commander of the second division, Kensuke Nagasaka, it is still not enough to ensure the safety of the Xin'antu and the Far Eastern Railway, because on the land of China's Heilongjiang Province, which is just across the river from Xin'antu, there is also a large military fortress built by the Chinese in recent years, the Tiger Head Fortress, which is built on flat land not far from the Ussuri River, and is only three or four kilometers away from the Far Eastern Railway and Xin'antu, not to mention with heavy artillery. Even with a 75mm mountain gun, it is easy to block railway traffic with firepower and cut off the rear road of the Japanese troops on the front line of the Amur River! While building the Hutou Fortress, the Chinese side also laid a light railway connecting the fortress with the Mudanjiang Railway Station of the Middle Eastern Railway, and also built a large number of barracks and fortifications around the fortress, and even designated a large area nearby as a military restricted area.

However, what really made Lieutenant General Kensuke Nagasaka feel was not the squadron on the other side of the Ussuri River, but the new captain of the 30th Wing under him, Seishiro Itagaki! Well, a dignified lieutenant general division commander is actually afraid of a big Zuo wing captain! This Nagasaka is really a nest, but Nagasaka also has his troubles, Itagaki Dasa's officials are not as big as himself, but he can't stand the backstage of others, like a steel plate, that's a cronie of His Royal Highness Prince Regent Hirohito! This time, going down to the 30th Wing as a wing captain is what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince meant...... Originally, this was nothing, at most it was just a gilded plating and then a good promotion

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was extremely dissatisfied with the current "national policy of going south" and "weak diplomacy against the Soviet Union", and during this visit to the Soviet Union, he also made a secret agreement with the Soviet Union behind his back, preparing to join the Soviet Union to start a war against China! It was really hot-headed to the extreme, and was so pounded by Hirohito that the "mainland faction" that had not made a lot of noise in the army was now gaining momentum, and the young Zhuang faction officers in the Far Eastern Army seemed to have become the bones of the "mainland faction" overnight

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Gan also openly discussed the issue of "war against the branches" in the division headquarters, and that Itagaki Seishiro Osa became the core of these people in a short period of time because there was Crown Prince Hirohito behind him

And Muto Nobuyoshi, the immediate boss of the head of the Nagasaka Division, who served as the commander of the Far Eastern Army with the rank of lieutenant general, after hearing Nagasaka's complaints, said a few words to him: "Nagasaka-kun, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is now in charge of the government, and what he means is the meaning of His Majesty the Emperor, and we can only obey it...... It's a pity that His Excellency the Prime Minister doesn't understand this and is still trying to wrestle with His Royal Highness, and now the real danger is here, the palace and the cabinet can't work together, the cabinet doesn't follow the will of the palace, and the palace doesn't know the cabinet to carry out major policies, the two sides watch out for each other, and in the end, I'm afraid that nothing will be accomplished, such a mistake, our Far East Army can't make the current Nagada-kun, Itagaki-kun, they are carrying out the will of His Royal Highness the crown prince, and we can't help from the side, it has violated the way of the ministers, if we want to obstruct it, Can he still be regarded as a courtier loyal to His Majesty the Emperor? ”

The meaning of these heartfelt words in Kensuke Nagasaka is probably this: Now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is messing around, we can't be controlled as courtiers, so just open your eyes and close your eyes and let him go, anyway, this great Japanese Empire belongs to their family, so you can toss it as much as you like

Since His Excellency the Commander has said so, Kensuke Nagasaka can only suffer from the selective blind Mao Bo and let Itagaki Seishiro come down there

In fact, Nagata Tetsuyama, Seishiro Itagaki, Daisaku Kawamoto, and others, who were responsible for creating a pretext for war in the Far East and provoking the Sino-Japanese war, were still very meticulous in their actions, and they did not have the slightest intention of preparing for nonsense, and they were all real elites of the Japanese Army, and naturally knew that "the estimation of the shape must be based on the facts", a principle in Prussian military doctrine, so they made two completely different estimates based on the fact that Chang Ruiqing was alive or dead. And they have drawn up a complete strategy that can go up and go back, if their opponents are not so nonsense

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Itagaki Seishiro Osa, who was responsible for the implementation of this foolproof policy, glanced at the watch in his hand by the moonlight, the time was already 0:02 in the evening on June 7, although it was already late at night, but the weather was very good, so with the help of the moonlight, he could still make the situation on the Ussuri River, which was slowly flowing not far away, clear The defensive position on the 30th Wing of the 2nd Division of the Far Eastern Army was garrisoned by all 3,000 officers and soldiers of the 30th Wing, and since last night, they have driven out from the station of Shin-An Tucheng in the name of exercises, Waiting and lurking here, eating cold rice balls and drinking cold water, it is just waiting for the good news of the King Kong to come to Xin'an Tucheng, where the 2 50mm howitzer door 05mm howitzers and 2 75mm "" field guns of the Second Artillery Wing are also all ready, as long as the news of the success of the assassination comes, they will spit out tongues of fire at any time, and more than 3,000 officers and men of the 30th Wing will jump out of the defense line, force the Ussuri River with assault boats, and take the middle ** with a surprise attack through Guò The team used to threaten the Tiger Head Fortress, a large stronghold of the Far Eastern Railway, fired the first shot of the Far Eastern Army's westward advance into Manchuria! But why hasn't the good news of the King Kong come yet? The second hand of his watch turned in circles, and a somewhat ominous premonition began to creep in his mind

Due to the time difference, it is almost 0 minutes near the Strait of Malacca, and although it is close to the equator, the day is relatively long, but at this time the night should also fall, right? If the King Kong hadn't discovered Chang Ruiqing's ship by the time it got dark, I'm afraid something would be wrong, right? He turned in the direction of the wing headquarters, where a long-wave radio station was waiting for the King Kong message that "the operation was successful" or "the target was not found".

In addition, on the playground of the wing station, there were more than 40 North Koreans who had changed into the uniforms of the Chinese National Defense Forces, and they were evidence of the legitimacy of the raid! As long as the good news of the King Kong comes, they will be dragged to the side of the railway near the barracks of the 30th Wing and shot, and at the same time, a small package of explosives will be detonated on the side of the tracks of the Far Eastern Railway, so that the criminal evidence of the squadron's sabotage of the Far Eastern Railway will be able to justifiably start a war against China, and take advantage of the internal chaos in China after Chang Ruiqing's death to seize the rich land of Manchuria!

At this time, the Japanese Far Eastern Army also completed the mobilization in the name of "China implements mobilization", eight divisions and one cavalry group have reached full strength! Moreover, in the name of "normal defense," Commander Muto Nobuyoshi secretly mobilized the main force of troops from the banks of the Amur River to the Far Eastern Railway, and 200,000 heavily armed officers and men and nearly 500 artillery pieces of various calibers were ready to go, waiting for the moment when the war began in an all-round way, although they also knew that there was a national defense force in Manchuria in China with a total of more than 400,000 troops, equipped with at least 500 artillery pieces of various types. There is also an air force far more powerful than the Japanese Army Air Force, but the top brass of the Japanese Far East Army still believes that as long as the Chinese dictator Chang Ruiqing dies, this seemingly powerful squadron will suddenly fall into the chaos of the dragons without a leader, and the entire empire behind the Japanese Far East Army will not hesitate to follow, under the wise leadership of Crown Prince Hirohito, the disintegrated China will be defeated again, and the hegemony of the Japanese Empire on the East Asian continent will be established in one fell swoop, and then go south with peace of mind to compete with Britain and the United States! This is the national policy that Japan should adopt

On the other side of the Ussuri River, the Tiger Head Fortress

"Hurry up, hurry up, everyone move quickly!" Commander of the Tiger Head Fortress and the 11th Fortress Brigade of the Army "Iron and Blood Great Republic."

The beginning of the war was chaos

"Brigade Commander Colonel Fu Zuoyi was standing in strict military uniform on the artillery position of the fortress at this time, and urged the artillery officers and soldiers under his command to hurry up and prepare for battle with a straight face! Lieutenant Colonel Hao Mengling, chief of staff of the Tiger Head Fortress and the 11th Fortress Brigade, held a document and issued a voice to the commanders of each artillery company, and the shooting Zhu Yuan, which cost tens of millions of Chinese dollars and took two and a half years to build, the biggest role of the Tiger Head Fortress was to bombard the Japanese garrison and the Far Eastern Railway on the other side of the Ussuri River with the artillery attached to the fortress, so the strength of the fortress artillery was not great, and it was equipped with a total of 2 7-inch shore defense cannons, 55mm field cannons, and 2 55mm field heavy howitzers. 2 75mm mountain guns, 2 mm anti-aircraft guns and 2 7mm rapid-fire guns! Except for the two rapid-fire guns used for tanks, the remaining 60 guns were all able to get the Japanese Shin-Azuchi Castle and the Far Eastern Railway

After receiving the instructions of the General Staff and the War Department to "start entering a wartime state" and the Northeast Security Command to "carry out the No. 1 combat order", the battle alarm of the fortress suddenly sounded, and it took less than 000 minutes for nearly 000 officers and men to get dressed up and go to their respective combat posts, and then the 6 cannons of the 4 artillery batteries that were ready to be engaged in this shelling also pointed their guns high at the Japanese garrison and railway in the east, waiting for the arrival of the scheduled shelling time at 0:00

Fu Zuoyi looked at the officers and soldiers who had completely entered the combat state, a smile of satisfaction flashed on his face, and the long-term rigorous training was still quite effective He raised his wrist and watch, it was already 0:02

Now on the long Sino-Japanese border on both sides of the Tiger Head Fortress, the military headquarters of the three infantry corps and nine infantry divisions of the Chinese National Defense Forces also received orders to enter a wartime state almost at the same time! More than 50,000 heavily armed Chinese officers and soldiers have been waiting for a while, waiting for a Sino-Soviet or Sino-Japanese war to test China's achievements on the road to self-improvement over the years.

The minute and second hands of Fu Zuoyi and Seishiro Itagaki pointed to the Arabic numerals 0 almost simultaneously

"Fire! Fire! Let Little Japan know how good we are! With Fu Zuoyi's order

Sixteen cannons roared almost at the same time, the fire spewed out, and the smoke was filled, and in the blink of an eye, the Japanese army was rising from the barracks positions near Xin'an Tucheng and all over the Far Eastern Railway!

The huge explosion sounded continuously, and the orange fire illuminated the barracks of the 0th Wing of the Japanese Army outside Shin'an Tu Castle and the nearby railroad into a bloody cloud, and the huge mushroom cloud was covered with firelight, rolling up in the sky, this momentum was not like a 50mm first-class cannon could be shot! The sand, stone, rail, sleepers, and human flesh and blood were all lifted at the same time, and they all rushed into the sky! After the first round of shelling of the "iron-blooded Great Republic", the Far Eastern Railway, which connected the north and south of the Japanese front, had been divided into two by more than a dozen craters with a radius of tens of meters and a depth of several meters!

Seishiro Itagaki and several captains of his 30th Wing, who were waiting for good news on the front-line positions of the Japanese army not far away, were immediately stunned by this astonishing scene in front of them, and the Chinese actually started first despite the ancient precept of "salute first and then soldier"! What the hell is going on? Itagaki Seishiro was the first to react from the shock, and crawled back to his former enemy command post, found the field phone, shook the handle and picked up the earphone to call the second division headquarters, and shouted at the top of his voice: "The people of the branch have done it, they shelled the Far Eastern Railway is the real people!" It's really fired! The railway line has been severely damaged and impassable! "I don't know how many times the hoarse cry has been repeated, and each time I have to emphasize that it is true, not the criminal evidence of the Chinese attack that they fabricated!

When the news of "the Chinese really began to attack" was transmitted layer by layer by the command system of the Second Division and the Far Eastern Army, all the ships of the Chinese Navy that could sail out to sea to fight were also quietly leaving their docks under the cover of night. It was because the main ports of China were so lively that night that the marines in small boats or simply the officers and soldiers of the local security forces searched for Japanese-flagged passenger ships and cargo ships everywhere in the harbors, and they were overcrowded! Moreover, in the course of carrying out the mission, there were frequent exchanges of fire, many seamen of Japanese ships were killed in stubborn resistance, and many more were honestly taken into the camps where they were concentrated...... All this qiē seems to indicate that China and Japan are already in a state of all-out war!

However, at this time, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka did not seem to know that his country was already at war with the Chinese, and in the days since Crown Prince Hirohito returned from the Soviet Union, the crown prince, who had always been relatively comfortable, had assured in front of him that he had not concluded any secret treaties with the Soviet Union behind his back on the cabinet of ministers After exchanging views with Kita Ichiki, Tanaka Yoshiichi also believed Hirohito's assurances in the following days, The crown prince regent seems to have returned to a quiet but boring palace life, Tanaka thinks that maybe after the death of Emperor Taisho, His Royal Highness Hirohito will jump out again to make trouble for the cabinet, but now, with such a powerful prime minister as himself, this crown prince should not be able to make any tricks, right? I'm a powerful prime minister who controls both the Diet and the Army

Moreover, this afternoon, there was an urgent telegram from the Japanese consulate in Chita, saying that the Soviet Far Eastern Republic seemed to have triggered a large-scale riot because of the government's oppression of the peasants! There were also regular troops involved in the uprising, and the capital of the Far Eastern Republic, Chita, was also attacked, and by 2 o'clock local time, the rebels had already entered the city of Chita and engaged in street fighting with some armed men of the Soviet GD...... That should be good news, right? Tanaka thought: "Regardless of whether His Royal Highness Hirohito has reached a conspiracy with the Soviet Union or not, the civil strife in the Soviet Union will always make this conspiracy temporarily impossible to implement, at least until the Soviet Union quells the civil strife, and the prime minister can live a comfortable life for a few days."

So on this night, Tanaka Yoshii fell asleep with his little wife in his arms early in the morning, and when he slept to the sweetest time, suddenly a voice shouted in his ear: "Master! Master! Wake up! It's a war! Wake up quickly......"

Tanaka Yoshiichi vaguely heard the word "war", and his years of experience as a professional soldier made him wake up from his deepest sleep at once, he sat up from the tatami mat with a yawn, and looked around with a pair of foggy sleepy eyes, and saw his henchmen, Army Intelligence Chief Okamura Ninji and Foreign Minister Kita Ichiki, actually kneeling in his bedroom, and they were both angry and ruined! (To be continued.)