Kyushu Island was captured by the Chinese army within a month, and Shikoku Island was also occupied by the Chinese army within a month, which greatly shocked the members of the Japanese military cabinet, and the loss of Shikoku Island made the Japanese authorities realize that if this continued, Japan would definitely perish, and those people in Terauchi Masayi had the idea of coexisting with Japan, and the Lordship faction headed by Saionji Konobo hoped to save Japan.

Saionji Gongwang and others knew very well that if they continued to fight with Huaguo like this, Japan would die even worse, and the only way now was to surrender to Huaguo, truly surrender, and accept all the terms of Huaguo unconditionally, as long as it could continue Japan's national cha. And now Japan is in power is the main battle faction headed by Terauchi Masatsuki, and if they want to surrender to China, they must first overthrow Terauchi Masayi and others.

After Shikoku Island was fully occupied by the Chinese army, Saionji Gongwang, who received the news, immediately contacted the old generation of retired military generals such as Omasato Naotoshi, Kawamura Keiaki, Sameshima Shigeo, and Ueda Yuzawa in the main and faction, and secretly discussed the overthrow of the military cabinet headed by Terauchi Masatsuki.

Although the older generation of retired military generals, such as Naotoshi Osako, Keiaki Kawamura, Shigeo Sameshima, and Ueda Yuzawa, have retired and are old, their prestige and roots in the Japanese army are still very deep, and many of their disciples are serving in the army, and some of these people are still middle- and high-ranking officers, and they control some troops to a greater or lesser extent, and several of them are stationed in Tokyo.

After discussion, Saionji Konozomi agreed that a military coup was now necessary, and that the members of the military cabinet headed by Terauchi Masashi would take control and deprive them of power.

Although the Japanese army suffered one defeat after another, they lost Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island successively. But this is not the fault of the current Japanese military cabinet, after all, since the war between China and Japan. After Japan's naval fleet was completely destroyed and the whole of Japan was indiscriminately bombed by the Chinese army, the gap in military strength between China and Japan became wider and wider. So. There had to be a reason for a military coup, a reason that convinced everyone in the military, and at the same time convincing all the Japanese, and that reason could not have been the loss of the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku by the military cabinet headed by Masashi Terauchi.

Saionji and others quickly thought of a good reason, that is, the military led by Terauchi Masayi staged a coup d'état without the emperor's edict to abolish the previous cabinet, and also put Emperor Taisho under house arrest, which was unforgivable for the Japanese people who regarded the Japanese emperor as an object of worship.

On the side of the Qing monarch, this reason was sufficient enough, so the Lord and the faction of Xiyuan Temple Gongwang immediately split up. After planning all the details of the military coup, they went to secretly contact their protégés and former officials in the army, organized their protégés, and agreed on a time to launch a military coup to overthrow the Japanese military cabinet.

On December 12, a military coup d'état was jointly launched by Konobu Saionji and other high-ranking military and political officials and generals in the name of the Qing monarch, and a change of power occurred in Tokyo overnight, and the military cabinet headed by Terauchi Masashi was arrested, and the military cabinet came to an end.

The main reason why the military coup d'état launched by Gongwang and others in Saionji was so smooth was that the Chinese army had externally attracted all the energy and attention of Masayi Terauchi and others. The loss of Shikoku Island made Terauchi Masashi and others realize that all the defensive measures they had deployed before were not enough to resist the attack of the Chinese army, and since the fortifications of Shikoku Island could not stop the attack of the Chinese army, then the fortifications of Honshu Island could not stop the Chinese army.

Terauchi Masashi and others focused all their energy and attention on how to deal with the next Chinese attack on the island of Honshu and the Japanese army in Siberia, so they neglected the interior. neglected to take precautions against Gongwang and others in Xiyuan Temple, allowing them to take advantage of it.

After Terauchi Masashi and others were arrested, Saionji Gongwang and others immediately took over power. First of all, the Taisho Emperor was released from house arrest, and at the same time sent a representative to contact Huaguo. Indicates that they want to surrender.

December 13, Huaguo Beijing. Presidential palace.

"President, Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang has a phone call, do you want to come in!" The voice of the secretary Xiao Gao came from the phone.

Xiao Zhenlei pinched the phone and said, "Take it in!" ”

"Yes, please wait!"

The phone was quickly answered, and Lu Zhengxiang's somewhat urgent voice came: "President, I just received the news that a coup d'état has occurred in Tokyo, and a group of Japanese military and political dignitaries led by Saionji Gongwang secretly contacted a part of the Tokyo garrison to launch a military coup in the early hours of this morning, and all the members of the military cabinet headed by Terauchi Masashi were arrested, and Emperor Taisho was released at the first time. ”

"Oh?" Xiao Zhenlei stood up, and after a little thought, he said, "Got it, I'll hold a meeting right away, and you guys wait for instructions!" ”

Lu Zhengxiang immediately agreed: "Okay, big president!" ”

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Zhenlei immediately dialed the secretary's phone, and he asked Xiao Gao to notify the others to come to the meeting immediately.

Song Shijie, Fan Zhiyong and others came very quickly after receiving the notice, and the meeting began a quarter of an hour later, Xiao Zhenlei sat on the main seat and looked at the participants: "I just received a very urgent news, there was a military coup d'état in Tokyo, Japan in the early hours of this morning, and the Japanese military and political dignitaries headed by Xiyuan Temple Gongwang secretly contacted the Tokyo garrison to arrest all the members of the military cabinet headed by Terauchi Masatsuki!”

After Xiao Zhenlei's words fell, the conference room became lively, and Song Shijie said: "This is a good thing, if Japan surrenders now, we don't need to invest a lot of war materials, and we can save a lot of military spending."

Jiang Fangzhen also said: "If Japan surrenders, our campaign in the Eastern Theater can be over, we only need to send troops to receive, at present, our army's Fourth Army Corps' attack on Siberia has begun, and the casualties are greater than those in Japan, which is mainly caused by the climate, the cold climate is very unfavorable for our army's attack, and now that Japan surrenders, our army can reduce unnecessary losses, but whether the Japanese army in Siberia will obey the orders of the Japanese mainland, it is not easy to say."

Fan Zhiyong said: "Japan's surrender is too timely for us at this time, and we can focus on the Western theater and the response to the Soviet and Russian sides!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei touched his head after listening, he was not satisfied with the opinions expressed by these people, they only talked about the benefits of the Japanese surrender to the current Chinese side, and did not say whether China would accept Japan's surrender now, and what kind of demands it would put forward to Japan.

After thinking about it, Xiao Zhenlei said: "The coup d'état in Japan is undoubtedly beneficial to our country, and Japan's surrender to our country now is also beneficial to our country's current situation, we should accept Japan's surrender, but what price do we want the Japanese to pay?"

First of all, I believe that the form of Japan's surrender must be carried out at our request, and in order to ensure that we can receive Siberia smoothly, the Japanese Emperor Taisho must personally write an edict of unconditional surrender, ordering the Japanese forces in Japan mainland and throughout Siberia to surrender to our army, and only to our army.

Secondly, after Japan signs the instrument of surrender, we will decide on the punishment of Japan, and Japan must accept it unconditionally and implement it conscientiously!

As for the details of the surrender of the Japanese army and the surrender of our army, it is up to the diplomatic department and the military to discuss with the Japanese. If anyone thinks there is a problem, they can raise it".

After receiving the notice, Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang quickly contacted the Japanese, saying that the Chinese army would accept Japan's surrender, but asked the Japanese Emperor Taisho to personally write and announce to the world the surrender to China through radio and radio, and demanded that the Japanese army can only surrender to the Chinese army! As for the specific ceremonies of surrender and surrender, the two sides will send dignitaries to conduct specific consultations.

On December 16, Emperor Taisho of Japan announced to the world through radio and radio that he had surrendered to China, and issued an edict ordering all Japanese troops to prepare weapons and ammunition and wait for the Chinese army to take over the defense.

The 3rd and 4th Chinese armies soon marched into Honshu and Siberia respectively, and the Chinese army first took over Vladivostok, an important port city in the Far East, where nearly 100,000 Japanese troops surrendered, and the Chinese army imprisoned these Japanese troops in concentration camps, and selected some soldiers who were brave in battle, experienced in combat, and had high tactical literacy to form a separate army, and did not treat them harshly in terms of food, and the Japanese troops who received them elsewhere would also be treated in accordance with this situation.

Next, the Chinese army successively took over Irkutsk, Chita, Boli and other largest cities in Siberia, and in less than half a month, the Chinese army took over the entire Siberia, and the surrendered Japanese troops were also concentrated in these cities after being screened out of the elite and waiting to be dealt with.

On the Japanese mainland, the Chinese army also received the surrendered Japanese troops on the entire Honshu Island at a very fast speed, and the whole of Japan was occupied by the Chinese army.

Although Japan was pressed and beaten by the Chinese army at the beginning of the war, but because of the existence of Japan, a considerable part of the Chinese army was contained, and now Japan has surrendered, which is undoubtedly a very big blow to Germany and Austria and other allied countries, after the surrender of the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria, Japan became the third Allied country to surrender, and the top level of Germany and Austria has undoubtedly suffered a huge psychological setback. (To be continued......)