When Lin Han and Hannah reached a compromise again, outside Fengtian City in Shenyang, in the base camp of the Kwantung Army, there was already a lot of quarrel about the policy towards China. Not only the Northeast garrison, but in fact, at the headquarters in Tokyo, in the face of the variables of Chang Kaishen's sudden violent death in China's political situation, the upper echelons of the Japanese military department were also fighting for it. For the Japanese government, Chang Kaishen's violent death has brought their China policy to a new juncture.

In addition to the old-fashioned controversy between "swallowing whales" and "encroaching" on China, another focus is the controversy between "rushing offensive" and "slowing off" China, and the focal target is precisely the northeast.

The so-called rapid attack was to take advantage of the fact that the upper echelons of the Nanjing Nationalist Government were now in a state of nowhere to immediately launch an attack on the northeast, take the three northeastern provinces, and seize the rich resources here to help Japan tide over the economic crisis.

A slow attack is a pause and an attack when China becomes weaker. The reason is that as soon as Chang Kaishen is gone, warlords all over China are now ready to move, and a new round of the Central Plains War seems to be about to resume. Why not sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight for the benefit of the fisherman. In the process, Japan could take the opportunity to support the pro-Japanese faction in the Nationalist Government, how to respond to the coming to power of the likes of Chin or Wang Ching-wei, and then induce them to sign treaties such as the "21 Articles" to lay the foundation for the gradual encroachment on China.

And Ishihara Wanji and Itagaki Seishiro, who were secretly planning the "918" and other middle- and lower-level officers of the Kwantung Army, are now extremely depressed. Newspapers in various countries are almost overwhelmingly insinuating and even accusing Japan of being the most likely culprit in Chang Kaishen's assassination. Although this incident was planned by Lin Han, Britain, the United States, and France were also happy to see it come to fruition. Over the past few years, Japan has frequently extended its outstretched hands to China, and has the courage to dominate China and eat alone, fearing that it will harm the interests of the great powers in China. In the case of Chang Kaishen's assassination, Lin Han pushed it for the first time in the media, and the anti-Japanese people in the three countries and those who were wary of Japan also took advantage of the situation to follow up and hype up this topic.

On 10 September, after the shelling of the palace of Marshal Zhang in Beiping, the media of various countries took advantage of the situation and naturally linked this incident with the death of Zhang Zuolin in the Huanggu hoarding incident a few years ago. ”。

At this time, Japanese officials have also noticed the recent reports of the Western media, which are obviously secretly hyping up and adding fuel to the fire. Although they have launched an investigation, it is not so easy to find out the truth. However, pressure from the West forced Japan to postpone its move in the Northeast.

Regarding the 918 Incident in history, nominally the 918 Incident was the result of Ishihara's own actions, but when Lin Han, a latecomer, discussed this matter with his friends on the forum in the past, many people thought that it was just an excuse for the upper echelons of the Japanese army to hide treachery and play tricks.

At that time, Ishihara was only a staff officer, but he was able to command a division and six independent garrisons, which was not quite like a joke. According to the Japanese nature of gambling on the fortunes of the country, this is exactly their favorite trick: if things go well, the upper class will naturally accept them, and if things don't go well, Ishihara will be fucked out. In history, when Kawamoto Dazuo blew up and killed Zhang Zuolin, the military department played such a hand.

Although the "solitary walk" of the Japanese Sixth Army was arrogant, the military headquarters really had to deal with it, and sending a few gendarmes could educate them in minutes to learn how to behave again. 918 is not so much the "solitary" of the middle and lower strata as the deliberate connivance of the military department. In 1931, the Japanese army was far from being ready for war, and Lin Han played this hand, facing the pressure of public opinion and propaganda from the Western powers, the "warning questioning" of the ambassadors to Japan, and the military headquarters that liked to "gamble on the fortunes of the country" began to shrink again at this moment.

After receiving the military headquarters' beating order to "strengthen the rectification of the Kwantung Army stationed in China," Ishihara realized that the upcoming attack on Shenyang was going to be "yellow." After the bombing of Marshal Zhang's mansion, Japan's international image became even more unbearable, and although the authorities vigorously denied any connection with the two assassinations, Britain, the United States, and France were happy to see Japan take the blame. And the propagandists are even more viciously linking the assassination with the upcoming operation against the Northeast.

Faced with pressure from the upper echelons of the military department, Seishiro Itagaki began to retreat. He had just received a telegram that the Kwantung Army headquarters was about to send a commissioner to Mukden to supervise and prevent the "solitary" behavior of the lower ranks. Seeing that the arrow had been wound, he was about to let go at the end, and how could Ishihara's group, who had been preparing for this for nearly a year, be willing.

In the past six and seven months, Seishiro Itagaki deliberately orchestrated the Wanbaoshan Incident and the Nakamura Incident in Northeast China, the latter of which directly became the trigger for the September 18 Incident in Japan.

With the foreshadowing of the tense incidents, the Japanese militarists in Japan seized the opportunity to stir up a tense atmosphere of the "Manchurian-Mongolian crisis." On August 4, the Minister of the 6th Army, Minamijiro, made a tough statement on the "Manchurian and Mongolian issues" and demanded that the army "be ready to fulfill the duty of a soldier at any time." At the meeting, the Cabinet Minister also proclaimed that in order to defend the rights and interests of "Manchuria" and Mongolia, the people should be prepared to "rise up bravely at any sacrifice." Moreover, as early as June, the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army drew up an "Outline of a Program for Resolving the 'Manchurian and Mongolian' Problem," calling for a one-year period to strive for "understanding" at home and abroad, and to make preparations for the complete occupation of northeast China in three stages to resolve the so-called "Manchurian and Mongolian issue." In short, the Japanese Government, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Kwantung Army have decided on the policy of settling the "Manchurian-Mongolian issue" by force, and they are only looking for a favorable "opportunity."

At the same time, in July, two 24-centimeter heavy guns promised by Nagata Tetsuyama arrived at the Japanese garrison in Mukden, where they were secretly installed and aimed at the Beidaying of the Northeast Chinese Army and the Mukden airfield. With the end of the heavy personnel reshuffle within the Japanese military department in early August, organizational support was basically formed -- Major General Miji Kenkawa, who secretly indulged and supported the invasion of "Manchuria" and Mongolia, was transferred to the post of chief of operations; Lieutenant General Shigeru Honjo, a "China expert," was appointed commander of the Kwantung Army, and Kenji Dohihara was appointed chief of the Mukden secret service.

A qiē is ready to go, just waiting for action. However, at this moment, the news leaked and reached Tokyo, and the cabinet put pressure on the General Staff Headquarters, believing that it was not yet ripe to provoke an incident. Itagaki and the others saw that the matter had come to this point, and they had to take the initiative. Therefore, in the name of Mitsuharu Miyake, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, they first sent a telegram to Miji Kenkawa, chief of operations of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, explaining that the Kwantung Army was "really unbearable for the recent tyrannical insults" and requesting that people be sent to Manchuria to "inspect" so that "the government can have a proper understanding of the current situation." After receiving the telegram, Chief of Staff Kanaya Fanzo tried his best to prevent them from being too hasty on the grounds that the time was not yet ripe at home and abroad, and asked them to "endure for another year," and sent Miji Kenkawa, the chief of operations, to Manchuria to "pacify" the Kwantung Army.

On the surface, he was ordered to go to the northeast to dissuade Itagaki and other young Zhuang officers from taking action, but in fact, he had already revealed the decision of the General Staff Headquarters to the head of the "Sakura Society" of the fascist young officers of the 6th Army at that time and the head of the Russian squad of the General Staff Headquarters, Hashimoto Shingoro, who sent three secret telegrams to Itagaki one after another, urging him to act quickly.

Therefore, 918 is definitely not born by a few middle- and lower-level officers "walking alone", and behind him is actually the shadow of the Japanese 6th Military Department.

Without Lin Han's intervention, from the assassination of Chang Kaishen to the offensive of international public opinion, the plans of Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro would have been implemented smoothly. But now that Chang Kaishen has been assassinated, the situation in China has changed dramatically, and the voice of "slow moving" has begun to prevail.

As soon as Chang Kaishen was gone, China's largest warlord force was facing a situation of fragmentation, and the Northeast Army at this time replaced Chang as the most important force in China in one fell swoop. In the face of strong international pressure, wouldn't it be more in Japan's interests to use the tactics played against Yuan Shikai in those years to support Zhang Xueliangwei's Northeast Army to enter the customs and compete for the power of the central government, and to provoke various warlords and the nominal Nanjing Nationalist Government to fight for civil war? Whether it is to take advantage of the new round of civil war between the Chinese and the first valve or to take advantage of the fisherman, it is more advantageous to do things after the Northeast Army is transferred to the customs and the Northeast is empty.

In the past two days, both the upper echelons of the Japanese military department and Ishihara's group who were preparing to leave alone, this voice prevailed, and in the end, the 918 participants of the Kwantung Army garrison not far from the northern camp in Mukden, including Ishihara Waner, even temporarily gave up the 918.

However, after Lin Han fired the three shells in order to provoke Zhang Shaoshuai's bloody son, the international pressure became even greater, and the seemingly clear situation in the Northeast was disturbed. Although the Japanese envoy in Beiping came to the door afterwards and constantly explained to Zhang Xueliang that the incident was absolutely not Japan's doing, Zhang Xueliang was still very vigilant against Japan.

After the shelling incident, the whole of China was in an uproar, and anti-Japanese voices came and went, and there were even voices of resisting Japanese goods in several large cities. Zhang Xueliang even ordered the Northeast Army stationed in Mukden to be more vigilant, and Zhang Zuoxiang, who had just returned to his hometown for funeral, rushed back to Mukden on 12 September after receiving the telegram of Zhang Xueliang's assassination after Lin Han's three artillery shots were fired.

On the evening of 13 September, when Zhang Zuoxiang arrived in Mukden, Xiqia, chairman of Jilin Province, who had previously held the post of temporary acting commander, was suddenly attacked by a roadside bomb on his way home, and Xiqia was killed on the spot.

The person who blew up Xiqia was naturally Lin Han. This time, he used a "high-tech" radio-controlled bomb: On the way home, he packed a 40-centimeter explosive in a board car and parked it on the side of the road, and when Xiqia's special car passed by, it was detonated by remote control, and the "leading party" that had colluded with the Japanese in 918 was blown to pieces.

At this delicate moment, Xiqia was eliminated at a fixed point without Lin Han splashing dirty water, and at this time, some people naturally associated this incident with the Japanese. After the news broke, a large-scale anti-(crab) day march broke out in China on 14 September.

The young marshal is an emotionally impulsive and high-spirited young man. The assassination of Xiqia once again made him wary of the Japanese. Under the influence of various forces, intentionally or unintentionally, the series of assassination incidents that took place in September have now all become "criminal evidence" that Japan is about to invade China and occupy Northeast China; under the influence of international pressure, the military headquarters of the Japanese Sixth Army did not dare to commit a serious anger at this time, and the arrow that had already been put on the "string" was put down. The voices of "slow down" and "wait for the situation in China to become clearer before acting" have finally completely taken over the mainstream.

In the process, Ishihara saw the trick played by Lin Han.

"This series of incidents is obviously someone secretly stirring up the situation. I don't know who the person who stirs up the trouble is, but our Kwantung Army must not follow that man's rhythm. ”

"Killing Chang Kaishen, shelling Zhang Xueliang, and killing Xiqia, that person did so many things, obviously against our Great Japanese Empire. What is his purpose? ”

"He's scared, yes, Itagaki-kun, he's scared! He was afraid that our Kwantung Army would reach out to the Northeast. Therefore, we do not hesitate to use any means to mobilize international public opinion to suppress us, so that we cannot move. We, the Kwantung Army, should not follow that person's rhythm, our plan of action, we can't stop! ”

Although Ishihara kept shouting, and Seishiro Itagaki was also moved when he heard his words, the "wait-and-see" attitude prevailed at this time, and the two could only wait and see quietly with others to see the changes in the situation in China.

The time soon came to September 18, when the railroad at Wicker Lake was not bombed, and there was no war in the northeast.

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