Looking at the picture transmitted by the drone, the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood flashed inside, which made Chen Changming's face a little pale.

This is the first time Chen Changming has seen the cruelty of war, "Sure enough, looking at the corpse of a human being and looking at the corpse of a monster are completely two different feelings." ”

He poured a sip of hot water, suppressed the desire to roll in his chest, slowed down a drone, kept the cruel image firmly in his mind, and told himself, "This is war, it has nothing to do with justice, it has nothing to do with right or wrong, and it has nothing to do with weakness!" It's original sin! ”

Before the 918 Incident, the Japanese army's home base camp did not in fact make up its mind to wage war against China.

And all this is inseparable from a character named Ishihara Waner.

Ishihara once said, "If we enter a state of war, it will be a long-term and protracted war...... China has a high degree of civilization since ancient times, and its material life is extremely primitive, and various localities have a high degree of self-sufficiency, all of which have become extremely favorable conditions for protracted warfare. If there is a war, it is possible to force China to fight a decisive battle, but whether it will turn into a protracted war depends mainly on China's intentions. ”

During a trip in July 1929, Ishihara first published his "Theory of the Final War" and "Theory of the Absence of Ownership of the Land of Manchuria" to his colleagues in the Kwantung Army.

Later, with Seishiro Itagaki, Masashi Hanaya, and Shintaro Imada, he specialized in the question of plotting the occupation and domination of Manchuria.

Although Ishihara's theory of "the final war in the world" resonated with many high-ranking officers, the idea of Ishihara was vetoed by the military department, and the military department at that time was wary of the interference of the Western powers, and still remembered the "three-country joint intervention" after the First Sino-Japanese War to force Japan to hand over the Liaodong Peninsula, which had already been in hand.

This was opposed by the majority of the people, on the grounds that they were afraid of the intervention of the United States, Soviet Russia or the Nationalist Government, so they vetoed it.

However, in Ishihara's judgment, the United States would not directly intervene, and the criterion for Ishihara's judgment was the fear of the entire Western society at that time for the export of Soviet communism.

As long as he does not directly turn against Britain and the United States and other countries, Ishihara believes that Britain and the United States will acquiesce in the existence of "Manchukuo", because the Soviet Union has three routes to the south, namely Northeast China, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.

However, because of geographical factors, the Soviets would definitely abandon the latter two and choose the Northeast, so a Northeast controlled by the Japanese just eliminated the worries of the southward movement of communism for Britain and the United States.

And what about the Nationalist Government at that time? Needless to say, he was busy "suppressing bandits", and Ishihara concluded that Chiang Kai-shek would definitely choose to stand by and watch.

Because Chiang Kai-shek wholeheartedly adhered to the idea of "the outside must first settle the inside", the degree of dislike for dissidents was not much better than for the communists.

This time, the Japanese helped to exterminate the Feng warlords, and Chiang Kai-shek was too late to be happy, so how could he oppose it?

After that, the first of the so-called "Shimokasami" incident of the Showa warlords occurred in history: the "Manchurian Incident" planned by Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro.

It should be said that the "Manchurian Incident" prepared by Ishihara and Itagaki Seishiro was a big gamble in the eyes of many people in the Japanese military department.

In the end, Ishihara faced Zhang Xueliang's 230,000 Northeast Army with a mere 10,000 Kwantung Army, but the result was to occupy the Northeast, which was three times the size of the Japanese mainland.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese military department was divided into two factions on how to handle the situation, and there was a sharp contradiction between the non-expansion faction headed by Ishihara Waner, director of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters, and the main battle faction headed by Lu Xiang, Sugiyama Moto.

At the outbreak of the incident, he suggested to the then Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumima that "China and Japan cooperate", "withdraw the Japanese troops in North China to Shanhaiguan, and then you will personally fly to Nanjing to meet with Chiang Kai-shek, so as to express your intention not to fight, and Ishihara is willing to accompany you." ”

After the "Lugou Bridge Incident," Kenkichi Ueda, commander of the Kwantung Army, Hideki Tojo, chief of staff, Nanjiro, governor of the DPRK, and Kuniaaki Koiso, commander of the DPRK Army, wrote one after another, demanding that the military headquarters "make a quick decision."

The Kwantung Army also sent Masanobu Tsuji and Takayoshi Tanaka to the front line to cheer up the Japanese soldiers.

Ishihara, who was then the chief of operations of the General Staff Headquarters, immediately decided to take control of the situation.

The Chief of Staff, Kanin Palace, also gave instructions to the army not to expand, and the Konoe Cabinet also made a decision not to expand at the cabinet meeting.

However, the situation at this time was no longer out of their control.

Since then, the "Lugou Bridge Incident" has opened the prelude to a large-scale war between China and Japan.

After the July 7 Incident, Ishihara was worried that a full-scale invasion of China would plunge Japan into a quagmire of war and could not extricate itself, and advocated the gradual occupation of China, forming a sharp contradiction with the radicals headed by Sugiyama Mototo and Hideki Tojo.

In Ishihara's blueprint, the "Manchukuo" was established in preparation for the "final war" with the United States.

Ishihara wanted to build this "Manchukuo" into a large rear blood supply base that could be self-sufficient and had a complete industrial system.

He also believes that the conflict of the future world is the clash of Eastern civilizations and Western civilizations.

In his heart, Japan, as the representative of the Eastern civilization at that time, would inevitably have to fight a so-called "final war" with the United States, which was the representative of the Western civilization, in order to determine the direction of human society.

In this contest of the "final war," Japan was at a disadvantage in terms of its lack of strategic position.

In the course of this protracted war, Japan must have a stable and reliable rear base, and this base is the northeast, and this is what Japan calls the "Manchurian and Mongolian lifeline theory."

However, for most short-sighted Japanese, "Manchukuo" represents only three Chinese characters.

Historically, on December 8, 1941, the Tojo Cabinet launched the Pacific War.

In this regard, Ishihara Wanji commented: "If this war needs 10,000 yuan, Britain and the United States actually have 1 million yuan, while Japan only has 1,000 yuan. ”

But at this time, Ishihara Wanji had been relieved of all his duties, and his nemesis Hideki Tojo was the prime minister, and it was impossible for anyone to listen to Ishihara Waner.

Later, the course of the war confirmed Ishihara's statement step by step, so that many of the gendarmes who were ordered to spy on him eventually became his admirers.

However, this rare strategist in Japanese history was unable to save Japan's crazy carriage in the end.

He died on August 15, 1949 on August 15, 1949 when he was stabbed in the crotch by his own saber, resulting in a tear in the urethra, and long-term blood in the urine caused bladder cancer.