074 Dawn of Victory
Everything was ready, and Hideki Tojo came to Tokyo Radio, where he was sitting at the moment, ready to inform the whole population of the mutiny.
Boom! A loud noise came, and Hideki Tojo stood up from his chair in surprise and said, "What the hell is going on?" β
An attendant ran over in a panic and said, "Your Excellency, the enemy has started an air raid, please follow me to the basement immediately to hide!" β
"No, if you don't broadcast it again, I'm afraid there will be no chance." Hideki Tojo knew that this would be his last chance, and if it was delayed, then this coup would most likely be strangled in the cradle.
The Allied air raids continued, the radio room shook a little, and the cement on the walls began to peel off. But Hideki Tojo still sat there, his eyes like a torch.
"Help me open the operation, I'm going to speak now." Hideki Tojo said sharply.
The radio station began to help him adjust the equipment, and after a few moments, the equipment began to function normally, at this time, Hideki Tojo sat in front of the broadcaster, and whispered to the microphone in front of him.
The sound was good, he was satisfied, he took a deep breath, ready to speak.
"Subjects and soldiers of the Empire ......" As soon as the words came out, a shrill and sharp noise came from the earphones, and Tojo took off the headphones and asked angrily, "What's going on?" β
A member of the broadcasting association ran in and said in frustration: "Your Excellency, the radio station has lost a lot of equipment in the air raid and cannot broadcast for the time being......
"......" Tojo threw away the headphones in his hand, slumped in his chair, and said with a long sigh, "It's all over!" β
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At this time, the besieged emperor in the palace contacted the naval command through a secret route, ordering them to immediately lead an army to quell the rebellion.
Shizuichi Tanaka, commander of the military district, received a notice from the Naval Command Department that the Guards Division had besieged the Imperial Palace and had mutinied, and he was well aware of the serious consequences of this incident. He immediately counted the troops and personally led his troops into the headquarters of the Guards Division.
At this time, the headquarters of the Guards Division was heavily guarded, as if facing a great enemy, soldiers wearing steel helmets stood in rows, and the Type 92 heavy machine guns in the machine gun holes were aimed outside.
With a creak, Shizuichi Tanaka's special car stopped, and the military police in the truck behind him jumped out of the car to form a team, and for a while, the sound of footsteps, the sound of the whole team, and the sound of passwords were endless.
Shizuichi Tanaka's attendant opened the car door, and Tanaka got out of the car with * in his backhand, and then walked forward.
"Please stop!" The second lieutenant at the door stretched out his hand to stop him. The officers and soldiers behind him were like facing a great enemy, and the sound of pulling the bolts of their guns came and went.
"Yaga! Commander Tanaka personally inspected, do you want to disobey orders? Tanaka's adjutant stepped forward and gave the second lieutenant two big ear scrapers, and the second lieutenant was beaten on the head, but he still stood upright.
"Hayi!" The second lieutenant stood upright, but there was still no tendency to give in.
Behind Tanaka, dozens of military policemen stood in a line with guns and confronted each other.
"Open the door, do you want to disobey the orders of your superiors?" The adjutant stepped forward and scolded sharply.
The lieutenant wavered, but his body remained unmoved.
"This is an order I have just received from His Majesty the Emperor from the Imperial Palace, and by doing so, you have violated His Majesty's order and attempted to force the Imperial Palace. Now that you have been deceived and posed a great threat to the safety of Your Majesty's life, do you have bad intentions towards His Majesty the Emperor? Shizuichi Tanaka stepped forward, speaking in a small but stern tone.
The second lieutenant was greatly surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect that he would be rude to the emperor, the second lieutenant couldn't believe it, and the other officers and soldiers didn't dare to believe it, he waved his hand and said, "Get out of the way!" Quick, get out of the way! β
Tanaka led a large group of men and horses into the headquarters, only to find that Commander Mori had been killed, and it was Hatanaka Shaosa who was commanding there.
"Hatanaka, do you know what you're doing?" Shizuichi Tanaka stepped forward, and a wave of gendarmes surrounded them with guns.
When Hatanaka saw that Shizuichi Tanaka had arrived, he knew that he was powerless to return to the sky at this time, and after he laughed, he immediately took out the pistol on his waist, and when everyone thought he was going to fight to the death, he aimed the muzzle of the gun at his jaw, and with a bang, his * and blood sprayed a wall behind him.
"It's dead." The adjutant stepped forward to check.
Shizuichi Tanaka sighed softly and said, "Find an undertaker and clean it up." β
During the time of Hatanaka, all the cadres of the headquarters were taken, and Tanaka Shizuichi took over the command of the Guards Division, and after taking command, he immediately led his troops to the Imperial Palace and ordered all troops to withdraw from the Imperial Palace.
At this point, the coup ended in a farce.
And those officers of the Young Zhuang faction, after seeing that the coup d'Γ©tat was fruitless, knew that the emperor was about to issue a surrender edict, so they committed suicide one after another.
And the initiator of the coup, Hideki Tojo, did not commit suicide, which surprised many people, but Shizuichi Tanaka, who knew him, sneered: "If Tojo commits suicide, then no one in Japan will not dare to commit suicide." β
At noon on the same day, Hirohito's recording was found and sent to Tokyo Radio, where NHK Radio broadcast "Tamain" to the whole country, which was the first time that the Japanese people heard the emperor's voice:
"In view of the general situation of the world and the current situation of the empire, I want to take extraordinary measures to clean up the situation, and I hereby tell my subjects to ...... Now I command our people to lay down their arms and indeed carry out all the conditions......"
For the first time, the voice of the emperor was heard throughout Japan, including the millions of Japanese troops fighting overseas.
The whole of Japan is in a state of madness.
Outside the palace, in the square paved with fine pebbles, more than 100,000 people knelt in black, and the sound of weeping enveloped the verdant moat and the dark city wall for a long time.
In the Japanese and overseas armies, from time to time, some people shoot themselves, many of them commit suicide by disembowelment, and some even kill their families by three generations...... The country is in a frenzy.
The news of Japan's surrender reached China, and China was boiling.
After years of arduous struggle, the invaders were finally defeated!
The streets and alleys were full of colorful flags and firecrackers, and some people even ran to the streets and shouted excitedly, and the whole of China was boiling!
At this time, the Chinese side and the United States were urgently negotiating the matter of accepting the surrender of the Japanese army, and according to the prior agreement, the Japanese navy would be taken over by the Chinese side, and the Chinese and American forces would be stationed on the Japanese mainland.
The only Chinese army on the front line was Sun Liren's Expeditionary 1st Army, which has now been expanded and reorganized to more than 100,000 people, and these troops will be stationed in Japan.
A number of matters are being discussed in detail, among which the issue of the trial of war criminals is particularly important.
The Chinese side proposed that all war criminals must be tried, especially Emperor Hirohito, the initiator of the war. At this point, the United States, out of consideration for Japan's national stability and other factors, believes that the emperor can be abolished, but not tried, otherwise there will be great turmoil in Japan.
The two sides quarreled over this and broke up unhappily for a while.
The matter was reported to Huang Ke in Nanjing, and after hearing this, he said: "The emperor is a war criminal and must be tried. However, the Japanese are extremely stubborn in their reverence for the emperor, and we understand this. In this way, a secret agreement was reached between China and the United States, and Emperor Hirohito could suspend the trial, but the trial would definitely take place within ten years. β
This move was accepted by the Americans by retreating into advance, and as a result, China and the United States reached a basic framework agreement after holding emergency consultations.
Huang Ke also pointed out that the trial of war is not only for soldiers, but also for those newspapers in Japan that preach war all day long and fool the intelligence of the common people.
On this point, the US side said that it has no objection.
The Chinese and American armies began to receive Japanese surrenders in their respective areas, and at the same time, the Chinese and American armies formed a strong delegation and landed in Japan to receive the Japanese surrender.
Millions of Japanese troops laid down their arms, and the Japanese Navy delivered all its warships to China. Navy Commander Chen Shaokuan personally went to Japan to receive the warships.
Although they are all old goods, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the remaining warships of the Japanese Navy are still a lot of wealth for the fledgling Chinese Navy.
A week later, the Japanese representatives formally signed the surrender agreement.
The Japanese representatives boarded the cruiser USS Missouri and bowed to China and the United States to sign the surrender.
Japan announced its surrender to China, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.
Subsequently, two generals, MacArthur and Sun Liren, landed in Japan with hundreds of thousands of troops.
As war reparations, many industrial facilities in Japan were dismantled and brought back to China to restore domestic production. Huang Ke personally instructed that no matter what, so the factories, locomotives, and even railroad tracks in Japan were dismantled and shipped back to China.
After the war, these industrial equipment played a significant role as an important pillar of China's domestic economic development.
China and the United States reached an agreement on the partition and occupation of Japan, and the next step was for the gendarmes to begin to arrest the corresponding war criminals according to the map.
The United States mainly arrested war criminals who attacked Pearl Harbor and fought against the US military, while China arrested war criminals who had invaded China and committed atrocities against the Chinese people during the war since the Northeast Incident of September 18.
China's list is so large that Japan's prisons cannot be closed for a while.
Later, Sun Liren ordered that the less culpable prisoners be exempted from trial and that each person be exempted, but this did not mean that they were not guilty, but that they were sentenced to one to two years of labor service.
As a result, many Japanese soldiers returned to Chinese soil, only this time they were no longer invaders, but served as prisoners.
For the Chinese, this victory did not come easily. It is precisely because of the arduous efforts of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that they have established the status of the five major countries in the world.
Soon after, the United Nations was founded, with China as one of the founding members of the Security Council.
At that time, China had troops stationed in Southeast Asia, the Indochinese Peninsula, the Korean Peninsula, Japan itself, and even Europe, and China had become a veritable power.