In fact, if it were only the officers who ate better than the soldiers, this kind of thing would definitely not happen. Because no matter what country it is, it is normal for officers to be paid more than soldiers, and even no one can find fault with it.

In the past, in the Japanese army, the officers were treated better than the soldiers, and although the soldiers were not jealous in their hearts, there was nothing else to do.

But now it is different, under the successive defeats, the morale of the army is not very high. After being surrounded, the source of food was cut off, and just as everyone was sharing weal and woe, and everyone was gnawing on tree bark and eating wild vegetables, the officers and the soldiers who followed them violated the ban of the temple and fled to the rivers and mountains to catch fish.

Even when the other soldiers were doing the same, the officers and the doglegs ran out to confiscate the prey they had gotten and then feasted and drank it themselves.

In the eyes of people, the Japanese army seems to be relatively clean, but in fact it also has internal corruption problems, the most famous of which is probably the 'Siemens Incident' many years later.

One day in November 1913, the manager of the Tokyo branch of the German company Siemens, Victor? Hermann at the German embassy staff Alexander? Hill accompanied him to the Ministry of the Navy to greet him, saying that someone from Siemens had stolen the company's documents and fled to England, extorting 500,000 marks from Siemens.

The Japanese were a little confused about this, after all, it was a German company that stole it, and it didn't seem to have much to do with the navy.

However, what happened after that surprised the officers of the Navy Ministry. Because according to the Germans, among the stolen documents was a telegram from Siemens agreeing to give a 25 percent kickback to Rear Admiral Tatsuto Iwasaki, the former head of the First Department of the Naval Administration Headquarters, who was in charge of weapons procurement in the Ministry of the Navy.

During the whole incident, Vice Admiral Matsumoto, the former head of the Ship Administration Headquarters, took 400,000 yen from the British. Don't forget that it was a time when a thousand yen could build a house in Tokyo, and Yawata Steel, the predecessor of Nippon Steel, was built for only 570,000 yen. The 450,000 figure is huge.

Later, according to the words of the later Class-A war criminal suspect, the historian Defu Sufeng, it was: "When I think of the navy, I think of Yamamoto Gonbei, and when I think of Yamamoto, I think of kickbacks." The angry Japanese poured into the Diet and the Ministry of the Navy, and the 4,000 policemen were unable to maintain order, and the Army sent a brigade of the 3rd Wing to help maintain order to calm the situation. As a result, Gonbei Yamamoto, who had just sat on the prime minister's throne, resigned en masse with his cabinet in April, and then came to power with the current Okuma Shigenobu.

Since the Navy has such a thing. It is obviously impossible to say that the army does not have it, but it is not very relevant to the people.

Now is the time for everyone to share the joys and sorrows, but those officers have come to do this...

Infighting. And it got up.

Anyway, as mentioned earlier, everyone in the Japanese army in the defense line knows that as soon as the date comes, the Chinese outside will kill in. And their days came to an end. Case. It's better to vent the anger in your chest―――――― anyway, those 'young Zhuang faction' people have long looked at those corpse vegetarian guys who are not pleasing to the eye.

Of course, not everyone is like this, but in the heat of rage, such a little bit of sanity is useless.

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The whole unrest began at about six o'clock in the afternoon, when a couple of younger soldiers got a rabbit from the nearby woods and planned to go back and have some fun. After all, gnawing on the bark of a tree for a long time is also a kind of torture for these people.

But they're smart. Knowing that if they started roasting at five o'clock, they would most likely be spotted by the officers passing by, and then confiscate the prey as usual, so they ate a little bark and waited until the officers had also begun to eat their hares.

It's just that they didn't expect that just as they were grilling in their trenches with a fire, an officer happened to pass by, smelled the scent of a hare, and...

As had happened so many times before, the officer took the hare for himself, and after reprimanding the soldiers for not obeying the ban, he returned to himself with the hare, which had already been made, intending to enjoy a good meal.

However, at this time, the officer did not seem to notice the angry gaze from behind him.

Although Terauchi Masashi had issued a ban a long time ago, but this kind of thing is impossible to strictly enforce after all, so although the ban has been promulgated, it is not much different from not promulgating, at least many officers dare to blatantly violate the ban, or wait for some soldiers who are unwilling to gnaw the bark to get their prey, and then get a ban from them on the grounds of the ban.

After that...

At the moment, it was a tense time, and it was not good to waste food, so the food had to be digested by the officers and the officers.

Although it is a bit shameless to do this, it is not a clear violation of the ban, so no one can do anything about them, even if Terauchi Masaki knows―――――― he can punish one officer, he can also punish ten officers, but a hundred officers...... How exactly should he be punished?

What's more, after losing consecutive battles, Terauchi Masayi himself no longer has much prestige to speak of, even if he wants to punish, it is difficult to say whether those officers will listen to him. After all, everyone knows the current situation, and it is not certain whether he will be able to live in a few days, and how many people will be willing to listen to him, and the military discipline of the Japanese army at this time is very lax...

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Although the officer had obtained their prey from the soldiers by some shameless means, the soldiers did not act radically at first, but made a decision after consulting with each other...

"If that officer really just enforces military law, we consider ourselves unlucky, but if not............... Anyway, sooner or later the Chinese will call. If not, he will have to pay the price! ”

The reason is very simple and clear.

If that officer had confiscated the hare from them in order to enforce the ban. Then they will consider themselves unlucky, but if not, they will die anyway, so it is better to vent.

In the past, they would never have dared to have this kind of thought, but now...

I'm going to die anyway, so what's not to dare? And their disappointment with the officers during this time also played a very important role.

So without the officer noticing, several soldiers secretly followed him from behind. He followed him all the way to his current residence. And then, under the watchful eyes of several soldiers, the officer cut the hare with his saber and was alone trying to enjoy the meal ...

To the point where it has come to this. It's already obvious that those soldiers don't intend to continue to restrain themselves, and the rest is simpler...

Several soldiers rushed in, and one shot at the officer. There were also several soldiers around the officer at that time. I was shocked to see this scene. Then. A shootout broke out, and the turmoil grew bigger and bigger, and more and more people participated, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of people were already involved, and some soldiers took advantage of the situation in other directions.

If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't too late, and these Japanese troops were well-trained after all, I am afraid that there would be a bombing of the camp―――――― if that were the case. Yan Shao is so happy that he can have a good time.

(Bombing the camp, also known as "startling camp" and "camp roaring.") It's a very special military term. The traditional army is strictly hierarchical and closedly managed, and only the officers are abusive and the soldiers are ignorant to command, and they rely on military discipline on weekdays. Before the war, everyone was uncertain about their life and death, and they didn't know if they would be able to come back alive tomorrow, and everyone was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. At this time, as long as there is a little wind and grass, it may be just a soldier's nightmare scream, which can detonate the hysterical and crazy atmosphere in the battalion, and the soldiers are completely free from the shackles of military discipline.

In modern history, the most famous "bombing camp" of the Chinese army was Sun Yuanliang leading the 16th Corps to break through from Chenguanzhuang, and when he ran outside, there were still more than 400 people left. Later, according to the restoration of the witnesses, it was learned that Sun Bu was basically undamaged when he broke through the siege, retreated to camp in Xiao County, and was attacked by a small group of troops of the People's Liberation Army at night. After a night of running wildly, Sun Bu thought that he was far away from the battlefield, and tens of thousands of people fell asleep almost at the same time, and they didn't even release their sentry posts. After being surrounded by intense tension for many days, the officers and men of Sun's corps suddenly relaxed, and then suddenly attacked, their nerves suddenly collapsed, the whole army screamed, and even killed each other, and the army of tens of thousands of people collapsed. ）

Since something has happened, Masaki Tsunachi naturally has to play it well. But at that time, at least thousands of people began to make a fuss, and even Terauchi Masashi wanted to play it was not a simple matter.

As a result, from more than six o'clock to more than nine o'clock in the morning of the second day, the last chaotic point was calmed down by Masashi Terauchi. According to later statistics, the Japanese army suffered more than 3,000 casualties in this civil strife, and countless other losses...

More than 3,000 people does not seem to be a lot for Terauchi Masayi with 70,000 or 80,000 people, but after considering the problems of morale and other aspects, this matter is particularly serious.

The infighting, and it is on the scale of thousands of people, this is probably the first time in Japan's modern history, and its blow to morale is not small, and the blow to Terauchi Masashi is also not small.

Almost as soon as he received the information, Terauchi Masatsuki expressed the same emotion as Yamaguchi Youtomo, that is, the honor of the army has been completely finished in this civil strife.

The last 'Siemens incident' The army people laughed at the navy, but now, I am afraid that Terauchi Masashi and the army will become the biggest joke in Japanese history.

Every time I think of this, Masaki Terauchi has an urge to cut my abdomen.

It's just that after thinking about a lot of things, in the end, Terauchi Masatsuki resisted this impulse. Although the honor of the army was ruined by this turmoil, he still needs to be responsible for the more than 70,000 soldiers, and the army itself needs someone to be responsible for this incident.

In the past, this candidate was Kamio Mitsutomi, but now it seems that Kamio Mitsutomi may not be able to shoulder this responsibility, and at this point, he is the only one who can shoulder this responsibility...

By the way, what he is most grateful for at the moment is that Cai Ye and they have complied with the armistice agreement. There was no taking advantage of the situation to launch an offensive. If they launch an offensive at the time of civil strife, I am afraid that these 70,000 or 80,000 Japanese troops will not be able to resist at all, of course. And now too...

Originally, after gnawing the bark for several days, the soldiers had already become a little weak, and now they had suffered such a blow, and when the armistice deadline came, Terauchi Masashi did not expect them to be able to stop the Chinese at all...

In fact, this time the turmoil was so big. But it took less than a day to suppress the bullet, and the casualties were only more than 3,000 people, and the soldiers gnawed the bark for many days. It's not for nothing that my body is a little weak.

At the same time, in order to avoid similar things happening again, this time Masaki Terauchi also issued a new ban. The ban prohibits anyone from fishing in the river or hunting in the mountains, as long as they are found. Regardless of the size of the official position, they will be shot. Also, if anyone dares to eat it, the same will be done, and the confiscated food will also be destroyed on the spot, and this matter will be handed over to Mitsutomi Kamio...

Kamio Mitsutomi also knew that if such a thing happened, these tens of thousands of people would be ruined, so he did his best, patrolling around with a team of soldiers every day, all day long. More than 40 people were shot, including more than 20 officers alone. But because of this, the military discipline, which was still very loose, suddenly condensed...

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Almost as soon as Masashi Terauchi began to rectify military discipline, Hi Zhiyi also rushed to a venue.

By the time he arrived at the venue, all the ministers had already arrived.

When he saw Hichiyi, almost all of the ministers of these countries looked at him with a strange gaze, which made Hichiyi's face flush at the same time, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth at Terauchi Masayi and Kamio Mitsutomi.

In the case of civil strife in the Japanese army, Nippon Zhiyi had already received the news.

After all, when such a big thing happens, Terauchi Masashi can't help but inform the country.

However, it is almost faster than Yama County, and Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries also learned the news. Of course, they didn't get it from the street tabloids, because it was six o'clock in the afternoon when the riot broke out, and even if there was a newspaper to be released, at least it would be waited until the next morning, when even if they could know the news, it would probably be much longer than the evening of the county friends.

Nor did they get the news from the Nationalist government, although the Nationalist government did tell them about the infighting in the Japanese army.

Their information was obtained from the Mission...

In the event of a conflict between China and Japan, all countries must always send observation missions, on the one hand, to witness the combat capability of each other, and on the other hand, to supervise the situation so that some 'inhumane' and 'uncivilized' things do not happen on the battlefield.

Naturally, we are all well aware that in the latter case, the Mission is useless, but they do have zài.

Moreover, since Britain, France, the United States, Russia, and other countries felt that Japan had a better chance of winning at that time, the observation mission was mainly on Japan's side. But when Japan was getting closer and closer to defeat, or even being surrounded, the observation missions of these countries abandoned Japan and swaggered from the middle of the battlefield on both sides to the side of the Wehrmacht―――――― in which they were neutral countries, so they naturally dared to swagger so much.

For the next few days, the Observer Group watched the battle from the sidelines, and even the infighting fell on their eyes at all.

This time, the observation missions of Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries all carried wireless telegraphies, so not long after the infighting occurred, the telegrams had already reached the hands of the mainland of various countries and Zhu Erdian and others, and the speed was even faster than that of Terauchi Masatsuki―――――― at that time he was hesitating to send a telegram back to China, after all, in this situation, the army was infighting, no matter how you look at it, the commander is doomed.

This kind of infighting in the military has rarely happened in the armies of 'civilized' countries in recent history. Although Japan is a country of color, it is also a member of the great powers, and Britain and France are naturally very surprised when such an incident happens, and even the eyes with the benefit of Japan have become a little strange.

And Rizhiyi came to the venue this time to sign an agreement with Gu Weijun.

The Japanese Government will unconditionally accept the conditions put forward by the Kokusha Government some time ago. And Zhu Erdian, the ministers of various countries, came to witness this incident this time.

"When the army is under siege, there is actually infighting." Nodding towards Gu Weijun, Rizhiyi sat in his seat and smiled bitterly in his heart. "Since even such a big joke has been made, it doesn't seem like a big deal to sign such a treaty..."

This is also an idea held by the Japanese mainland, and even if they can't be defeated, if Terauchi Masashi and they can collectively 'shatter the jade' under the attack of the Wehrmacht, as long as the propaganda department plays a good role, maybe it can be made into an extremely tragic story and boost the morale of the Japanese people...

But now they are actually fighting among themselves under the siege of the enemy, and even if they are still 'broken' in the end, their faces have been lost. In this case, it is better to simply surrender, anyway, I have already lost my face, and I am not afraid to do something even more humiliating.

As for looking for the support of ministers from various countries, and then bargaining or something?

With such a thing here, not to mention the benefits of the day, even Okuma Shigenobu doesn't have the face to ask for help.

So almost as quickly as possible, the Okuma cabinet agreed to this agreement, and Yamaguchi Aritomo was said to be seriously ill because of the excessive stimulation, and he couldn't be a council member at the moment, so the whole thing basically didn't interfere at all.

It seemed that he saw that Ri Zhiyi didn't intend to speak, Gu Weijun didn't say anything, just smiled at Ri Zhiyi, and then lowered his head and signed his name on the treaty...

At this point, this war, which lasted for almost two months, finally came to an end... (To be continued......)