After the central government sent a telegram to the whole country expressing resolute resistance to the Japanese invasion, Zhang Xueliang, who was hesitant and indecisive, made the decision to "resolutely resist and recover the country" and sent a telegram to the whole country, expressing his willingness to obey the dispatch of the central government. Subsequently, in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Frontier Army, he declared that the whole army would "reorganize its ranks and regain lost territory."

At the same time, the steppe cavalry stationed in the northern Lin Zuoda, Xue Boling Mechanized Army Group, and Batu were also advancing eastward, and the heavily armored mechanized troops rolled up thick smoke on the black soil and drove towards the fertile black soil and other places in the northeast; Tens of thousands of steppe cavalry also moved to the northeast, and everywhere they went, there was the sound of the hooves of soldiers and horses, and the long line was dozens of miles long; In the Air Force, hundreds of transport planes, bombers, and fighters of various types also flew to the front line, some of them stopped at Beijing Airport, and some of them landed at Jinzhou Field Airport.

Huang Ke took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the northeast to serve as the commander-in-chief of the campaign, but was vetoed by Wang Jingwei, and some Kuomintang veterans said that Huang Ke was the chief of staff of the whole army, and his courage in commanding the front line was commendable, but he still needed to serve as a staff officer for the whole army, so this matter would be left to others. In fact, Wang Jingwei's faction was worried that Huang Ke would once again use this opportunity to win the hearts of the people and gain more military power.

As a result, the Kuomintang advocated that Army Minister Jiang Zhongzheng should be in command and lead the situation in the northeast region, but this opinion was quickly rejected by Liao Zhongkai, Huang Ke and others, and their reasons were equally simple: Jiang Zhongzheng, as the Minister of the Army, needed to command the whole army, and was not suitable to be the commander of one side. After thinking about it, the commander of the Northeast Army reached a stalemate, and some people proposed to simply let Zhang Xueliang, but Huang Ke immediately objected, saying that if the military power was put in Zhang Xueliang's hands, maybe the three eastern provinces would be lost faster. What's more, the central government will not let a warlord control the central army.

In the end, Defense Minister Jiang Xianyun took the initiative to ask Ying to serve as the commander-in-chief of operations in the northeast region, and the two factions agreed to this request after the game. Jiang Xianyun once commanded the Eastern Route Army during the Northern Expedition, and not only did he have familiar subordinates on the northeast front, but he also knew the situation in the northeast region well; moreover, the defense minister should have been the commander-in-chief of military operations, and he could also be convincing if he was also the commander-in-chief of operations in the northeast region.

A few days later, Jiang Xianyun set out from Nanjing to take up his post, he arrived in Jinzhou on a special plane of the air force, and set up a front-line command there, at this time, tens of thousands of troops transferred from all over the country and the northeast frontier troops out of the customs converged, and the army was stationed along the northeast line, and all the troops were ready to regain the lost territory at any time.

When the Northeast battlefield was turbulent, Huang Ke had already left Nanjing and secretly came to Shanghai under the escort of the pre-dry office. At the military conference, Jiang Baili proposed the operational strategic policy of attacking the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai in advance, preventing the Japanese army from cutting off China along the river, and forcing its battle line to the northeast and north China.

Huang Ke deeply believed that Jiang Baili was worthy of being a chief of staff with outstanding vision and insight, and the development of history would also prove that only in this way could victory be achieved in the war against Japan, but he knew that Wang Jingwei's gang would definitely unite against his battle plan, because that would very likely lead to a full-scale war between China and Japan. For an ancient country in the East that has suffered from war, a protracted peace is too precious, but unfortunately peace is not wishful thinking.

Huang Ke knows that this war is inevitable, and the world war in the near future is inevitable, since it is unavoidable, then you can only be prepared to meet it!

At the same time, the Japanese Kwantung Army also urgently reinforced, and the Japanese troops stationed in northern Korea marched into Shenyang and other places to assemble, and there was a great momentum of fighting a full-scale war. At the Kwantung Army headquarters in Lushun, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Shigeru Honjo, was holding an informal meeting.

The address of the meeting was Honjo's residence in Lushun, a Chinese-style building that had been converted to a completely Japanese style, with marble on the floor pried open and tatami mats, fine rosewood tables and chairs removed in favor of some low Japanese-style chairs, intricately carved doors and windows were replaced with Japanese sliding doors, and several Japanese women in kimonos and clogs walked back and forth with their buttocks.

At this time, there were more than a dozen soldiers wearing standing military uniforms sitting on the tatami mats of the reception room, although the weather was hot, but the military uniforms on their bodies were still straight, and the wind and discipline buckles were firmly fastened around their necks, and under a square table were more than a dozen feet wrapped in thick white socks, and the cool sea breeze blew, making the room much less stuffy.

There is no doubt that these people are all close associates of Shigeru Honjo, and his senior staff officers such as Seishiro Itagaki Osa, Ishihara Kanji Nakasa, and Kenji Dohihara are all here, and at the same time, these people are also the decision-making and leading groups of the military stationed in northeastern China, and any decision made in this room may determine the direction of Sino-Japanese relations for many years to come.

Honjo, who had two mustaches, took a sip of the tea in front of him, and his thoughts had drifted into the distance with the wisps of green smoke of the tea. A month earlier, he had arrived in Lushun from Japan to take up the post of commander of the Kwantung Army, and when he set foot on this fertile and fertile black land again, Honjo was already in his fifties. He still remembered that many years ago, when he was appointed as a military attaché in China, he was asked by the warlord Zhang Zuolin to be a staff officer in Tianjin, and he implemented the landing plan at Dagukou in Tianjin, which allowed the empire to realize its vested interests, and at the same time brought him to the attention of the head of the military department, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.

But Honjo's ambitions go far beyond that, he wants not only Northeast China, but all of China, and even East Asia.

After taking office in Lushun for the first time, Honjo Shigeru already knew about the attack plan of Seishiro Sakagaki, Ishihara Wanji and others, and he supported this plan, but he did not dare to openly support it, and if he started a war against a country without asking for instructions, then he would be severely punished by military law.

At the beginning of the plan, he planned that after the Kwantung Army attacked Shenyang, it would also draw troops to seize Yingkou and other places, which could not only prevent reinforcements from the Northeast Army outside the Guan, but also provide a channel for the support of the North Korean garrison, and they even envisaged not attacking Harbin and other places for the time being, so as not to provoke the Soviet Union and other countries, but to his surprise, not only the Soviet Union and other countries did not care about this matter, but even Zhang Xueliang himself did not care about it.

Overnight, except for sporadic resistance, most of the Northeast Army was disarmed, no, to be exact, it should have been disarmed. Because there was no fight at all, the other side handed over the gun.

That night, the officers and men of the Kwantung Army were very happy after smashing open the armory of the Northeast Army, which was full of all kinds of well-maintained equipment, such as broadswords, airplanes, cannons, bullets and guns.

However, just when the Kwantung Army was preparing to reorganize its army and prepare to attack Jinzhou and take Manchuria, it heard that the Nanjing side had reorganized its armaments and decided to regain the lost territory, and now the army had gathered in the Jinzhou area, and the Kwantung Army was also attacking there, and a major battle was inevitable between the two sides.

Honjo had already reported the situation in Manchuria to Tokyo, and Tokyo had not yet given a definite answer, and Honjo knew that it must be those literati who were causing trouble.

Will be subject to the king's life outside! Honjo, who was familiar with Chinese culture, knew he had something to do, and he had gathered these generals here for exactly this purpose. Because there was no reply from Tokyo, Honjo did not choose to hold the meeting at the headquarters, but at his own home.

The time was almost up, everyone had arrived, Honjo put down the purple sand teacup, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the situation of 'Manchuria' has become more and more urgent recently, since the launch of the surprise attack, our army can not be secretly safe for a day, the current army is ready to fight, if Manchuria falls into the hands of the enemy again, the safety of tens of thousands of expatriates and the future of the empire is bleak, the responsibility of our Kwantung Army can really be described as heavy and great." ”

At this time, Ishihara Waner, the commander of the Kwantung Army's Operations Division, who was sitting next to him, said firmly: "Your Excellency, Commander, I foolishly thought that Manchuria was not part of China, and that the entry of the imperial army here was really to bring benefits to the local people. Therefore, in order to serve the interests of the empire, the pro-Japanese regime could be supported here, separated from the China regime, and then protected by the Kwantung Army garrison, so that neither the China nor the Soviets had any reason to intervene. ”

"Hmm!" Honjo nodded, in fact, he did not agree with Ishihara's plan from the bottom of his heart, he meant to directly annex Manchuria into Japanese territory, but that would be too conspicuous, and at the same time it would easily cause international trouble about it; And secretly changing the concept can successfully achieve all this, which makes him have to look at Ishihara Waner in front of him with admiration.

"What Ishihara-kun said is extremely true, we have already made contact with Pu Yi in Tianjin, and he has expressed his willingness to come to Manchuria to establish a state." Kenji Tohihara, the head of the Mukden secret service agency sitting opposite Ishihara Wan'er, was a fat man, he was not as handsome and upright as Ishihara Wan'er, and he didn't have the seriousness of a professional soldier, but the malicious smile on his chubby face was the most threatening.

After listening to the suggestions of the two, Itagaki Seishiro touched his beard and said: "As the monarchs said, it is very good, Zhang Jinghui, the governor of the Harbin Administrative Region, has agreed to support Puyi as the emperor, and when the attack is here, there is no way out, and it is necessary to fight for the fate of the empire." It's just that what should Minister Miji Kenkawa do? He was sent from the Tokyo base camp and was tasked with monitoring military operations. ”

Hearing this, Honjo Fan waved his hand and said: "Jianchuan-kun is supporting the action, but he doesn't want to get involved because of his identity. ”

Speaking of this, everyone nodded happily, Jianchuan Miji was sent to the Kwantung Army, but he deliberately came to Lushun by steamer, and on the day of the incident, he also deliberately got drunk and went back to bed early, these Ishihara Waner They all knew it in their hearts.

It was already afternoon after some discussion, and finally, Honjo Fan stood up and bowed: "I have deep expectations for my job, trust my elite soldiers, and hope to work together to deal with the situation with a spirit of selflessness, and jointly contribute to the development of the country!" ”

"Hello!" The officers below all stood up and bowed.