The immediate expression of approval was the Minister of Military Command, Nagano. Historically, the Navy has not embraced the Army's views in its entirety, but today, they seem to have reached the greatest consensus. The Americans are relying on the noose of oil sanctions to strangle Japan, but the Japanese principals are still hesitating, thinking that they can solve the problem through negotiations.

"It is not only Britain and the United States that covet our country, but also the Soviet Union. The series of espionage activities that have recently been uncovered is very revealing. It is an indisputable fact that since the intervention of the three countries to return Liao, the white countries have regarded us as an outlier and have always wanted to strangle Japan. Not only did they interfere with our privileges in China, but they also forced us to accept a naval treaty, and the empire made compromises in exchange for their step-by-step pressing. ”

Tojo triumphant, and his remarks began to rise unscrupulously, and he talked about Soviet spies somewhat as if he were going to the guards. And everyone else is careful to avoid the topic.

The remarks about the arrest of Tojo's implicated Oki made the scene cold, and in the ambiguous Japanese officialdom, this is almost a direct provocation. In his opinion, surrounded by foreign spies, the indecisive guy in his bones simply cannot lead the country out of the predicament.

After a long while, it was the former Privy Council Speaker Yuan Jiadao who coughed a few times and broke the sinking, he was an old minister specially invited by Emperor Hirohito to attend the meeting, and it was suitable to sell his old face to save the scene at this kind of time when the smell was too strong. He cleared his throat and turned to Army Chief of Staff Shan Shan.

"I heard that Major General Kagesa of your army has found a few people who can predict the good luck and evil in the future, I wonder if the chief of staff of the Shan Shan knows about this? Or, the Army has been working on such secret research. ”

It just so happened that he was also the only person on the scene who had been to the Military Medical University and had seen Makino and the other three with his own eyes. When Asano made a big fuss at the venue, he sat behind the deputy chief of the intelligence bureau Okumura, who felt humiliated, and felt that it must be a farce directed by the army, so he left the table angrily. But then I heard that Asano's accusations against Ozi were confirmed, and Ozi was really a spy, and the old man's curiosity was aroused again. I was anxious to save the scene just now, so I thought of this topic and asked Shan Shan.

"The Army has never spent money on such boring research." Shishan Yuan extinguished the cigarette and said disdainfully, it was just that some people in the intelligence community had the clues of the spies, so they were just making a mistake.

"I see?"

"Historically, there have been many people who want to use oracles to interfere in decision-making, but in the 20th century, it was too uncreative to use such a method."

On the side, the obese Nagano said with his hands crossed, he seemed to have heard about what Kagezo had done.

"Speaking of which, can you really solve all problems with a single battle? It must be taken into account that the United States still surpasses us too much in national power. ”

Umi and Kawa have pulled the topic back from the nonsense of the prognosticator in Tokyo, and back to the reality of the U.S.-Japan relationship. It seems to have a little bit of sanity.

"The United States will only fear the strong and bully the weak. The reason why they united with the Soviet Union, which they had previously regarded as their enemy, did not have the courage to fight Germany directly, is telling. Their assistance to the Chongqing government is to use ignorant Chinese to oppose us. And hide behind the scenes, you don't have to shed blood. As soon as we show our determination to resist, I believe that the United States will retreat in the face of difficulties, and the logic of white people is mercenary, and they have never had the consciousness to die calmly for noble purposes. I believe that once the war starts, our army can be renewed throughout Asia, so that those uncivilized Southeast Asian people can join us in resisting. ”

Tojo's bizarre rhetoric drew the nods of the ministers again, and the prime minister remained silent, feeling more like some street demagogue who had infiltrated the palace and was giving an empty speech, especially about the awakening of East Asian nations. Tojo seems to take those nonsense used to paralyze others seriously. But the crowd is still nodding their heads, and even the most sensible decision-makers in Japan now tend to speak with one voice.

Konoe himself still favored a diplomatic solution, and Secretary of State Hull set the tone for the negotiations on June 15, with two main points: the abolition of the Triple Alliance and the withdrawal of troops from China. After July, the demand for the withdrawal of troops from Indochina was increased. In his view, the Triple Alliance was not difficult to solve, and after Germany did not inform Japan of its declaration of war on the Soviet Union, Japan had no obligation to continue to cooperate with Germany, and could unilaterally explain the Triple Alliance. The withdrawal of troops from Indochina is also acceptable, and it is nothing more than the transfer of troops from the south to the north.

The difficulty in bridging the differences between the United States and Japan lies in the withdrawal of troops from China, which is obviously unacceptable to the Army, and now the Navy is also becoming belligerent after the Americans stopped oil supplies. He sometimes even thinks that the real purpose of the Americans is to induce Japan to cross the red line step by step. Roosevelt just wanted the Japanese to do something that was inconvenient for him to do.

The Minister of the Interior, Koichi Kito, walked into the lounge.

"Your Majesty is ready, please prepare all the ministers and ministers to face the saint."

Everyone immediately sorted out their clothes, and then walked down the corridor one by one, heading towards the palace venue. For Konoe, war with the United States was only the last option, he knew that it was a big gamble, and the odds of winning were not big, like a roulette wheel with five bullets in six*. But the soldiers are anxious to participate in the gambling game, the cabinet has no counterbalance force to rely on, and the incident of Ozi has made his situation even worse, and now the only thing he can rely on is the Holy Judgment. The emperor should be a person who understands.

2 p.m. Inside the No. 419 submarine, Qin Xiaosu was listening to various telegrams, in order to determine two things, one is whether the Japanese Imperial Council is still following the original historical trend, and the other is the good luck of the deputy captain.

According to the fuel calculation of the Kawanishi boat, it is time to land at this time. The last destination of the seaplane tracked by the radar was very southward, obviously not to Chongqing, considering that Ouyang Shou's bomber also ran south after dropping bombs last time, it can be considered that this is some kind of established strategy.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the first to monitor the movement of the Associated Press in Chongqing, the telegram asked to send reporters to quickly contact the Kunming reporters to find out what happened and take pictures of the seaplane; The telegram specifically demanded that non-members should not be provided with first-hand information, and that the report must be made independently ahead of other news units. Then TASS sent a similar message, asking to find out the type of aircraft, as well as random personnel.

Forty minutes later, the Central News Agency also sent a telegram to reporters stationed in Yunnan. Qin Xiaosu's intuition told him that it might be related to the deputy captain. Because the telegram mentions airplanes.

Lin appeared behind Qin Xiaosu in time like a fairy, casually flipped through his records, and quickly knew what was going on. He spread out the map to study the distance from Shanghai to Kunming, and for a long-range seaplane, it seemed that a one-way trip would not be a problem.

"I'll just say they'll be fine," he said that Chu Aiyun landed on the water, "I hope he won't disturb history too much." ”

In this day and age, the interception of information by radio is, of course, not comprehensive. They didn't know that at this moment, there was already a lot of noise in Kunming.

Chu Aiyun was wearing red and hanging colors, sitting on a sedan chair carried by eight people, escorted by the guards, slowly squeezing through the crowd. He kept signaling to the tens of thousands of people around him, like Wu Song coming down from Jingyanggang. In fact, it was not only Wu Song, but the passers-by excitedly spread his deeds, and the most outrageous version said that he killed seven or eight Japanese with a pair of fists, and then snatched a plane from the Japanese and flew back.

After the plane landed, the Central Army and the Yunnan Army stationed in Yunnan both made some moves, and finally Long Yun was quick and rushed to get the two people on the seaplane before the gendarmerie of the 200th Division of the Central Army arrived and blocked the lakeside. The captain pilot was so badly injured that he had to be sent to the army hospital, leaving this little white face who looked healthy, and used it to parade through the streets for propaganda; He struck first in order to prevent the chairman from skipping him and grabbing all his attention.

Although after figuring out the ins and outs, Long Yun found that this incident did not seem to have much to do with him (the only relationship was that Ouyang Shou had been trained at the Wujiaba Aviation School in Yunnan for 3 months), but as a warlord of a town, his political sensitivity told him that making good use of this incident to let the West know the existence of his power would be of great benefit to the future and take advantage of the convenience of Yunnan's proximity to the water to receive US aid.

Surrounded by the crowd of blowing, blowing and beating, Chu Aiyun walked all the way to the lecture hall in the city center, and someone pulled out a huge banner in front of him, with four big characters on it that had not yet dried the ink of "Anti-Japanese Heroes". He has only been in this era for 2 months, and he still can't afford these words anyway, but others still can't help but say that they have given him such a name. Female students in blue cloth cheongsams flocked to him, trying to squeeze to the front to shake his hand. When the spotlight on the side of the street flickered, he felt a wave of dizziness, a feeling of being in a different world.

The shrill air raid sirens suddenly sounded, waking him up from this trance. He immediately came to his senses, and this was obviously the first round of counterattack launched by the Japanese in order to destroy the evidence.

The crowd on the street began to flee in all directions, and Chu Aiyun jumped out of the sedan chair and hid in a shop on the street under the escort of a company commander. After a while, the crowd on the street ran away, and only a few shoes were left.

When he looked up, he saw nine twin-engine bombers, flying due north in a dense formation, and the enemy plane group did not pass through the city, but went straight to the lake, and did not see the escort fighters. Soon a loud sound of anti-aircraft artillery fire was heard in the distance.

The Japanese acted too hastily and quite expectedly. In the clouds, two P40 planes, which had been prepared for a long time, suddenly appeared and launched an attack on the Japanese bomber formation. Captain Boynton swooped down and, with his 6 machine guns, harvested the first $500 check.

Before the Japanese 96 Army Attack Formation could get close to the seaplane, it was beaten down by 5 planes from various fires. The aircraft used clumsy, low-altitude level flight in formation, perhaps to provide accuracy in bomb delivery. They slowly passed in front of the anti-aircraft positions of the 598 regiment, all enveloped in a net of fire. None of them were able to get close and drop bombs.