When one's own country is facing an invasion, and the other side is far stronger than oneself, and the resistance is almost unsuccessful, the attitudes of ordinary people, soldiers, military officers, and magnates are obviously very different.

The situation facing the Japanese today is far more desperate than that of the Chinese at the same time in history, because they have no strategic depth at all, and if they choose to resist, the war is doomed from the beginning.

Even if this is hopeless, it does not mean that everyone will choose to give up wisely.

The formation of the 1st Division is in Tokyo, and its code name is "Jade", so it can also be called the Tokyo Division and the Jade Division, and it has the first and second brigades under its jurisdiction.

The 3rd Wing of the 2nd Brigade, stationed in the suburbs, led the mutiny, intending to force the Cabinet to change its attitude and resist resolutely rather than be captured.

The number of officers and soldiers involved in the mutiny exceeded 900, and their original intentions were different.

Some people think that surrendering without resistance is an insult to their integrity as a samurai and a tarnishing of their family's honor. Some people believe that only stubborn resistance can make the Akito face up to the Yamato, so that they can win a better end in the future.

Soon, the Guards Division, which had gone to suppress the mutiny, engaged in an exchange of fire.

The rebels of the 3rd Wing, shouting slogans, even persuaded the Guards Division to intercept them, and even some of them joined them.

The rebels, nearly doubled in number, managed to reach the Capitol and confronted the 4th Guards Wing, who were defending the area.

Although the latter soldiers continued to sneak away, the formation was still there, and five Worsley armored vehicles were in formation.

Lacking heavy weapons, the rebels did not attack, but set up several megaphones and continued to proclaim their claims.

The two sides reached a stalemate, and some of the other units of the Guards Division chose to disobey the order, some chose to grind slowly, and a squadron of the 2nd Guards Wing simply fired into the air.

In this chaotic situation, dozens of rebels disguised as civilians sneaked around the prime minister's residence, and then collectively changed into military uniforms and took out weapons.

They quickly subdued the guards at the official residence and took in Prime Minister Masatoshi Yamane, who had just undergone surgery and was still recuperating at home.

Masatoshi Yamane coughed, waved his hand to his wife back, and then tried to speak, "You... What is the intention? ”

Facing the old man and lady sitting on the tatami mat in front of him, the leader of the young man bowed and said, "Your Excellency Prime Minister, I'm sorry to disturb you so presumptuously, but the situation is so urgent that I have to do this. ”

"Do you want me to agree to defend to the end?"

"For the sake of Japan's future, we must not give up resistance easily, as that will only make the Akito scorn us. We know that we can't win in the end, but fighting will prove our prowess and blood, at least they won't dare to treat us as slaves in the future......"

The emotional Shao Zuo babbled a lot, which was interrupted many times by the prime minister's coughing, but finally let him finish speaking.

There was a long silence in the room, and the shouts of the 2nd Guards Wing, who had come to relieve the siege, demanded that the rebels who had occupied the Prime Minister's residence surrender immediately.

Finally, Yamane Masatoshi let out a long sigh, looked up into Shaoza's eyes, and said calmly, "Children, if you think it's right, then do it." It's just that it can't be officially announced, and the cabinet still has to show obedience, at most acquiesce in their resistance. ”

Several of the other officers in the room were agitated, which clearly failed their purpose.

But Shao Zuo raised his hand to signal them not to be impatient, and then bowed deeply.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, we will do our best." With that, he turned around and walked out of the room, scarry-on his saber.

The gloomy sky finally moved, and there seemed to be a glitter of light in the black-gray clouds.

The thunder was slight, not much louder than the gunfire that had been fired before, and soon a light rain began to fall.

Six hours later, the mutiny finally subsided.

The Japanese court officially responded to the ultimatum of the Ming Dynasty, saying that it would not resist the Ming army and welcomed Wang Shi to Dongying. But at the same time, they also reminded that there are some volunteers who insist on stubbornly resisting, which may cause some trouble for Wang Shi's takeover.

The Guards Division and the 1st Division received a joint order from the Cabinet, the Ministry of the Army, and the General Staff Headquarters - all units gave up any weapons except pistols and sabers, and went to Ashikaga City en masse to stand by and wait for the Ming army to come and take over.

At the same time, they secretly demanded that all troops not punish and arrest deserters. The Metropolitan Police Department also had to acquiesce to the propaganda of "certain people".

In the space of two days, there were as many as 20,000 active-duty officers, retired officers, reservists, reservists, and civilians who volunteered to participate in the resistance, and the number was still increasing at a rate of several hundred per day.

Keigo Kano resigned as Minister of War, asked to be stripped of his military status, and then organized a resistance army in his own name, the Brave Defending Army.

The resistance army was organized into four detachments, each of which directly commanded five infantry brigades and one mountain artillery brigade, as well as an engineer squadron, a search squadron, and a communications squadron, totaling 6,000 men.

Detachments are also called by the surnames of their commanders, which are Matsumoto, Shimizu, Fujiwara, and Takahashi.

Since the Guards Division and the 1st Division were ordered to lay down their weapons and wait for Ashikaga City, the Resistance naturally brought in these weapons and equipment, which allowed them to gather all kinds of weapons.

In fact, the bigger problem facing the Resistance now is the lack of sufficient reserves, not to mention the fact that many people participated in the first two days, but not many people were happy after that.

At least the people who are willing to do so in the Tokyo area have basically come, and if they want to recruit volunteers, they have to go to other prefectures and cities, but it is too late in time - the Ming fleet only needs two and a half days, and the slow is only three days.

It can be said that the resistance army was in a race against time, because of the existence of a public concession in Tokyo, the great powers did not allow the Japanese to build defensive facilities around it, and shore defense batteries, shore defense torpedo launchers, bunkers, permanent fortifications, and so on were not allowed.

Therefore, the resistance had to race against time to dig defensive lines and build fortifications.

There were only a few "high-end" equipment such as bulldozers and excavators in the Guards Division and the 1st Division, which were not enough at all, so the resistance army could only rely on manpower to work day and night.

Dig the dirt, keep digging, dig more dirt!

On the ninth day of March, the Kanto region can be described as a clear and sunny day.

The 107th Special Mission Fleet, which had been temporarily reorganized for this mission, arrived at the Uraga Waterway, which was the only way to enter Tokyo Bay.

Unlike the army units that took cargo ships or landing ships, the Marine Regiment, as the own sons of the navy, naturally had special treatment, and they were directly carried by the battleships and aircraft carriers such as the Yongping, Zhanghe, and Amaichi Sagaki.

At first, like all countries in the world, the Ming people did not realize that the naval battle model would usher in earth-shaking changes, but regarded the aircraft carrier as an experimental new weapon, thinking that the number would not be large.

Therefore, the name given to the aircraft carrier is also very lofty - directly given the name of the star wall, and the carrier fleet carried by it is named after the star under the star wall.

The Tianshiyuan class is the latest one, a total of two, belonging to medium-sized aircraft carriers, double-deck, straight-through flight deck, three elevators, standard displacement of 17,000 tons, six heavy oil boilers and two steam turbines, two-shaft propulsion, maximum output of 62,000 horsepower, maximum speed of 29 knots.

This time, the Tianshi Zuoyuan was assigned to the 107th Special Mission Fleet, and the fighter squadron she carried was codenamed "Song," the torpedo fleet was codenamed "Nanhai," the dive bomber fleet was codenamed "Yan," and the reconnaissance fleet was codenamed "Donghai."

In Zhou Changfeng's view, this is obviously not enough, if the Pacific War is carried out in the future, such a thing as an aircraft carrier will have to be dumpled, where is it enough for a few star walls?

Although the name of Xingyuan is quite compelling, I'm afraid I have to change my thinking, such as turning to the name of Xingguan?

The huge fleet is like entering a no-man's land, and on the way through the Uraga waterway, you can occasionally encounter foreign ships flying various national flags, cruise ships flying the Star-Spangled Banner, and freighters flying the rice flag abound.

"Knock knock—"

The roar of cannon came from not far away, and it was a French destroyer that was not too big to see the excitement firing its cannons.

Along the way, the officers and men of the fleet saw four or five foreign warships, the light cruiser Aurora flying the flag of the Royal Navy, the gunboat Panay flying the flag of the United States Navy, and the destroyer Novick flying the flag of the Tsarist Navy.

Most of the soldiers of the Ming army would not think of empathy, so they naturally didn't feel it, but this situation made Zhou Changfeng feel deeply.

This is the cruel nature of the imperial era - the weak eat the strong, the weak will be divided, and humiliation is inevitable.

After crossing the waterway, the sea ahead suddenly opened up, which meant that the fleet had entered Tokyo Bay.

After sighing for a while, Zhou Changfeng returned to the cabin and called a meeting of the officers of the various departments.

It has been learned that a volunteer unit called the "Brave Defending Army" has suddenly appeared in the local area, and it may resolutely resist the landing of the Ming army.

In order to ensure thoroughness, the Second Army immediately responded, and Nie Quan ordered all divisions to disperse and land according to the predetermined plan.

After the battle arrangements were determined again, everyone chatted a few more words.

Fan Qijin, commander of the third battalion, sighed: "Knowing that we will be defeated, we still choose to resist, in terms of ethics and morality, we deserve respect. ”

"It's to show their blood, so that they won't be called slaves in the future." Zhao Hanfeng, who looked as usual, shrugged his shoulders, "To put it bluntly, this is to prove the value of their national people with their lives." ”

Zhou Changfeng struck a match, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and said: "When I was in Spain, the commander-in-chief said, 'If the war is lost and you still fight to the end, it is to defend your dignity and retain a trace of the will to fight, and if you give up if you don't resist, it means real death.'" ”

There was a brief silence in the cabin, and everyone was savoring the words.

Han Yi, the leader of the reconnaissance team, opened his mouth to break the silence, "Although it is not my race, but the morality is commendable, let's kill them all, in this case, the rest should be obedient." ”

"Shhhh I started to worry about this," Zhu Lixuan shook his head slightly, and said with special disgust: "I'm afraid I'm going to be disturbed by these unwilling resistances." ”

"The expulsion of Western forces is key." Xie Wancheng said with a big grin: "This Dongying Islands really can't be pocketed, who will raise tens of millions of poor eggs?" In my opinion, it's good to continue to divide the town like this. Revolt? Then let's use the Japanese to control the Japanese with the Japanese people. ”

Half an hour later.

The fleet has penetrated deep into Tokyo Bay, with the city of Funabashi in front and the city of Kawasaki on the left.

Four Type 37 carrier-based dive bombers took off from the Tianshi Zuoyuan to carry out reconnaissance missions over the landing area; Freighters and landing ships carrying the 4th and 7th Divisions began to break away from the fleet, and a number of minesweepers and destroyers followed, heading for their respective landing sites.

At 12:37 p.m., the coastline was getting closer and closer, and the city of Tokyo could be clearly seen through the telescope.

Fighting erupts inadvertently, often by a sudden accident that makes people realize that they are in the middle of a war.

Although the old ships were tightly controlled and anchored at the Kawasaki docks, some of the naval officers and sailors who followed the brave Turkish army managed to get a batch of mines, torpedoes, and speedboats.

From the early hours of yesterday morning to the present, they have used civilian ships and speedboats to lay more than 300 large and small mines on the main shipping routes in and out of Kawasaki, with the intention of delaying the landing operations of the Ming army.

Because the weather was clear and the visibility was good, the destroyer Tongling, which was at the forefront of the detachment, noticed something strange on the surface of the sea—a round ball floating shallowly on the surface of the sea with its tentacles sticking out.

"Mine !!"

"Two cars in reverse! The left rudder is full! ”

"Signal light!"

The two three-meter-two, four-bladed propellers, which were originally rotating clockwise, quickly slowed down and then gradually began to rotate in the opposite direction, and the rudder was deflected to the maximum angle.

The Tongling's trajectory drew a graceful arc on the surface of the sea, successfully avoiding the old British-made MkII 2,000-pound mine ahead.

However, the world is unpredictable, and after evading it from a large angle of the channel, the Tongling still hit a twelve-year-old mine produced by the Japanese on the side.

One of the lead tentacles was bent and deformed by the collision, and the glass tube filled with electrolyte shattered, and the electrolyte connected the carbon and zinc rods, thus detonating the electric detonator with a current of about one volt.

"Boom!"

Two hundred and fifty kilograms of TNT explosives were detonated in an instant, and a white wave more than 20 meters high burst out on the sea.

The extremely difficult nature of the water to compress caused the shock wave of the underwater explosion to be much stronger than in the air, and the bow of the Tongling was completely blown off, as if it were a decapitated person.

The bow of the ship sank rapidly as far as the eye could see, and the sailors on the gun emplacements on both sides were doused with cold water from the explosion, and some glass was shattered, and everyone staggered from side to side due to the violent shock.

Haven't you already avoided the mines ahead?! What's going on?!

When they stabilized their bodies and came back to their senses, they found that the bow had disappeared, and only the waves were left. The twisted and deformed steel plates and pipelines at the fractures are showing teeth and claws, and countless debris and debris are floating on the sea.

"Close the watertight door!"

"Damage Management Team!"

(End of chapter)