In the end, it was Tanaka Yoshiichi himself who became famous, and on the grounds that Akiyama Yoshiko was already in his sixties and had hidden dangers due to his accumulated work in the Russo-Japanese War, he appointed his confidant, Lieutenant General Ugaki Kazunari, who had never commanded a battle, as the commander of the Imperial Shandong Dispatch Army. It is said that when Akiyama Yoshiko heard the news, he angrily pulled out his katana to find Tanaka Yoshiichi, and claimed that he must use Tanaka's despicable blood to wash away his samurai shame, and it is not known whether Akiyama Yoshiko wants to wash his shame or lice.

With the manager decided, the next step is to play the players.

Although Ugaki Kazunari has never led troops to fight, he also knows that the Shina army is by no means what Sadao Araki said can be defeated with 30 million bamboo guns, so with the support of Tanaka Yoshiichi, of course he picked the elite to fight.

At this time, there was indeed a certain risk for Japan to send troops to Shandong, and due to the relationship between sending troops to Siberia, Japan's 3rd, 7th, and 12th Divisions arrived in Siberia in the first batch. However, in February 1919, the Russian Red Army partisans with a force of 2,000 men took advantage of the cold winter to successfully ambush Tanaka's brigade, killing 310 Japanese soldiers. Japan, which originally thought that the war was over, then transferred the 5th, 14th, and 16th divisions from the country to Siberia, so that six of the seventeen standing divisions were transferred to Siberia. Among the remaining eleven divisions, the first division is an existence that cannot be mobilized. In other words, Ugaki Kazunari can only choose people from ten divisions now.

The second division is naturally the first choice, in the words of Ugaki Kazunari, even without the second division of the imperial army can defeat the Shina people, but if the second division can participate, then Shandong's victory will be more guaranteed.

At that time, the commander of the Second Division was Kawachi Reizou, and it stands to reason that he should not have changed generals on the spot, but considering that Ugaki Issei did not have actual combat merits to suppress these old soldiers in Hanoi, Tanaka Yoshiichi did not hesitate to remove the division commander and appointed Major General Nakajima Masatake as the division commander. Combat units under the 2nd Division:

3rd Infantry Brigade: including 4th Infantry Wing, 29th Infantry Wing;

15th Infantry Brigade: including 16th Infantry Wing, 30th Infantry Wing;

The 2nd Cavalry Wing, the 2nd Mountain Artillery Wing, the 2nd Engineer Wing, the 2nd Baggage Corps.

The second was the 9th Division, and the commander of the division was Lieutenant General Matsuura Kanwei, who was also the division commander who was temporarily transferred by Tanaka. Subordinate Combat Units:

6th Infantry Brigade: including 7th Infantry Wing, 35th Infantry Wing;

18th Infantry Brigade: including 18th Infantry Wing, 36th Infantry Wing;

The 9th Cavalry Wing, the 9th Mountain Artillery Wing, the 9th Engineer Wing, the 9th Baggage Corps.

Finally, there is the 11th Division, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Shigeru Honjo, and subordinate combat units:

The 10th Infantry Brigade: including the 12th Infantry Wing and the 22nd Infantry Wing;

22nd Infantry Brigade: including the 43rd Infantry Wing and the 44th Infantry Wing;

The 11th Cavalry Wing, the 11th Mountain Artillery Wing, the 11th Engineer Wing, the 11th Baggage Corps.

Tanaka Yoshiichi seemed to be a little uneasy about Ugaki Kazunari and was cautious, and he also mobilized Nishikawa Torajiro's 13th Division and Lieutenant General Takayama Komitsu's 18th Division to Kyushu to stand by and attack at any time according to the battle situation.

However, the sharpening of the knife is the sharpening of the sword, and the war will not be fought for a while and a half, because there is a very funny situation now.

Zhang Zuolin thought he had a plan, and thought that Wang Zhenyu and the Japanese would be counted into the Shandong bureau. But the Japanese and Wang Zhenyu actually knew about the existence of this bureau, and they were both using this bureau to calculate each other, so they both pretended not to know.

But the war is actually about the right time, the right place and the right people, and the hot summer is obviously not a good opportunity for a decisive battle in Shandong, so first of all, Wang Zhenyu will not trigger it here. If the youth army does not move, Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu coalition army naturally can't move, and it can't be that the nominal allies don't have half a move, and they are stupid to shout that they want to fight against the water, which is not the same as blowing up the old bottom.

And Wang Zhenyu is naturally not in a hurry, and it will take time to implement the new secret weapons such as tanks, airplanes, and submarines if they want to play the maximum role on the battlefield.

As a result, the situation in Shandong escalated on June 28 when Chinese representative Gu Weijun refused to sign, but it was not detonated for a long time.

At the same time, Japan did not abandon its efforts to resolve South China through peaceful means. Tou Shanman, Sun Wen's old friend, came to Nanjing at this time......

"Sun Wenjun, when can we go to see the cherry blossoms together again?" Tou Shanman and Sun Wen are old friends, and many things don't need to go straight to the topic.

"Alas, state affairs are busy, recently our national government has been in several provinces to carry out new rural pilot projects, no, I just came back from the inspection of the pilot area in Guangdong, if you come a few days later, I will go to Henan again to take a look" Sun Wen is honest with Tou Shanman, a Japanese friend who used to support his anti-Manchurian struggle.

"Do you need a big man like you to ask about such a trivial matter?" Tou Shanman asked curiously.

This is Song Qingling personally carrying the tea up, Tou Shanman hurriedly got up to take the tea, Song Qingling and Sun Wen smiled at each other and left.

Sun Wen took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "This is a normal thing, we are now on the road of politics than you have to go farther, your Prime Minister Yuan Jing is strictly the first democratically elected prime minister, and my national government has been supervised and constrained by the National Assembly two years ago." So if you don't work hard, you may not know, my term of office as the chairman of the national government will expire in October next year, and it is estimated that I will have to be re-elected at that time. ”

Tou Shanman picked up the teacup and tasted it slowly, which was his usual habit and kept it mysterious.

Sun Wen also seemed to know his habit, and waited with Wang Jingwei, who was sitting beside him, to be full of heads, and was not in a hurry.

After a long time, Toushan Mancai said: "Good tea, Sun Wenjun, I came here this time for peace between China and Japan, maybe you don't know that in Japan, the troops of ten divisions have been mobilized by order. ”

Sun Wen and Wang Jingwei glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but be horrified in their eyes.

Sun Wen tried to keep his calm and asked, "Mr. Toushan, what happened?" Why haven't we received any information, and why haven't we received any representations from your diplomatic service? What the hell is going on? ”

Tou Shanman pretended to be surprised: "Sun Wenjun, don't you know that Wang Zhenyu, chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, is secretly negotiating with Zhang Zongchang, the overseer of Shandong appointed by the central government in Beijing?" ”

Sun Wen was horrified, shook his head and said: "This Wang Wenzheng is a person in charge of the military commission under the leadership of the Nationalist Government, but in fact he is no longer a revolutionary, he has already transformed into a new warlord, and he even launched a military coup the year before last, so that I had to go to Shanghai to take a period of medical leave." ”

"And this thing, I heard a little about it at the time, but I was busy with the affairs of the Black Dragon Society and ignored it, sin, sin" Tou Shan Man started acting again.

Sun Wen waved his hand and said: "The chaos of the country in power by the warriors is the root cause of the current chaos in our country, there is Zhang Zuolin in the north, and Wang Wenzheng in the south, alas. However, fortunately, my national government is currently on the track, and in terms of civil affairs alone, this person does not interfere much, and the government has limited access to military supplies. Anyway, it's okay! ”

Tou Shan looked at Sun Wen blankly, and suddenly burst into tears and said: "Sun Sang, you are still such a simple person, have you forgotten Yuan Shikai's experience." In terms of contribution to China, who can compare with you, Sun Sang? He, Wang Zhenyu, is obviously not famous enough, so he hangs the brand of the National Government, how can Sun Sang sit back and wait for him to become strong. There has never been any peaceful coexistence in politics, the leader is the leader, and it can only be one, Sun Sang. ”

Speaking of this, Tou Shanman paused and wiped his tears and said: "I know that Sun Sang may not be able to listen to my words, but many things can be done in two, Sun Sang, if there is another military coup, go directly from Shanghai Hongkou, and I will arrange for someone to pick you up there and go to Japan to take refuge." ”

Sun Wen was completely confused now: "Toushanjun, I'm confused for you to say this now, what's wrong?" ”

Tou Shanman bowed his head and said, "Sun Sang, are you really covered in your bones?" Your titular subordinate Wang Zhenyu has gone mad, and in order to realize his dream of military reunification and the vanity of a national hero, he actually wants to directly meet the Japanese Empire in Shandong. Don't you know that 250,000 troops of the Nationalist Government are stationed along the Yellow River? Nearly 300,000 imperial troops will be sent to Shandong to punish this provocative practice, don't you know? ”

Sun Wen and Wang Jingwei were immediately shocked, and after a long time, Wang Jingwei suddenly slapped the table and said: "Sir, I know that this Wang Wen is the ambition of the wolf, and the situation of partial peaceful development that we have finally created through the Protectorate War is about to be buried in his hands, sir." ”

At this time, Sun Wen was also in turmoil, he was not a political idiot, so naturally he would not let Toushan fool with a few words. But Japan's strength is there, and there are the British in it, and it is obviously extremely dangerous to fight a war with such an opponent. And Wang Zhenyu is obviously going to do such a dangerous thing now, Sun Wen is very contradictory.

On the one hand, he hoped that Wang Zhenyu would fail, after all, the Youth Army was strictly a branch of the people's army system during the Xinhai Revolution, and once the young Wang Zhenyu fell, his subordinates were not enough to control the whole situation, and at this time he could naturally come out as a revolutionary leader to clean up the situation; But on the other hand, Sun Wen did not want Wang Zhenyu to fail, because the youth army is the foundation of the current good development situation, once this army is defeated by the Japanese, it is likely that the northern army will go south, then all these years of hard work will be in vain, and even make a wedding dress for others.

Thinking of this, Sun Wen picked up the bell on the table and shook it, and the secretary pushed the door in: "Chairman, what do you command?" ”

Sun Wen nodded and said kindly: "Go and invite Mr. Hu Hanmin and Mr. Liao Zhongkai to discuss important matters......