Chapter 208: Japan Sues for Peace

E: There was a problem with the genesis system last night, and I couldn't get in the background. Wood has a way, ()

April 1o, Republic 254 (1913), Tokyo.

At a time when the whole country of China was celebrating its victory in the East China Sea, Japan was in a mess, and everyone from the prime minister to the civilian population was shocked by the bad news that "the United Fleet was completely annihilated."

At this time, the press control in Japan was not very strict, and it was far from being comparable to the World War II period in the original time and space. The most important thing is that there is now a newer medium - the radio station - than at the same time in the original time and space. Since the Ming radio, this kind of thing and supporting radio stations have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and now the major powers have purchased relevant patents and licenses from Xingke Group to establish their own radio stations.

But Japan is different, they are a silk power, and they really have a little money to do these things. However, don't worry, there are still a lot of enthusiastic people in this world. It doesn't matter if you don't have money in Japan, we have it, and we'll run a radio station

It doesn't matter that the Japanese people are too poor to afford a terminal device like a radio. Chinese companies are conscientious enterprises and are the most considerate of users.

In order to meet the growing needs of the Japanese people for spiritual civilization and to take care of the Japanese people's living standards, which are not yet rich, China's major electronics manufacturing companies have launched a low-cost version of the radio in a way that is anxious about the difficulties of the Japanese people and what the Japanese people think. The shell of the plywood zuò, the amplifier is the cheapest carton type, and the contents are also cheap and used, and the cost price is only 6 yuan. In recent years, China has exported a large number of these cheap radios to Japan, and the price on the market is less than 1o yen, and major merchants have advertised "only 9 yuan and 8 yuan, and the cute radio will be taken home". And there are a lot of smuggled goods in it, and the price is even lower, about seven or eight yen to buy one.

In order to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the Japanese people, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Science and Technology Socialist Party has also cooperated with the China International Broadcasting Corporation to open several Japanese-language channels. Of course, the American Zenith Consortium also has a role in this kind of thing, and they have also established a Japanese channel in Hawaii. The most excessive is that Britain's newly emerging Godzilla consortium took advantage of the Anglo-Japanese alliance to directly invest in the establishment of the "Japan Broadcasting Corporation" in Tokyo.

This Godzilla consortium knows it as soon as it looks at its name, and it must be inseparable from Mr. Wen. In other words, the radio stations that can be heard by the Japanese now have basically been controlled by China or Xingke's vest companies. In other words, what the Japanese people are hearing on the radio now is what Buntokutsu wants them to hear.

However, the Japanese government has not yet taken any precautions against such a new thing as broadcasting, and is completely laissez-faire, and even their high-ranking officials are listening to these broadcasts, of course, the radios they use are certainly not the kind of cheap goods used by the Japanese at the bottom, but high-end luxury radios made in China.

It is precisely because after they learned the news of the defeat of the combined fleet, although they immediately sued the newspapers and periodicals, they still did not cover up because of the storage of the broadcast. At noon that day, it was basically known to the whole country. Even some high-ranking bigwigs of the Japanese government only learned about this incident through the broadcast. Because the Military Command Department couldn't believe it at all, when the news was broadcast, they were still repeatedly confirming this information, and they didn't have time to report it to the bigwigs.

"What, the combined fleet is completely destroyed? Is this impossible? Is your intelligence confirmed?" Admiral Heihachiro, the veteran of the Navy, was losing his temper at the Navy Ministry. He had been waiting at home for the good news of the victory, but learned the bad news from the noon radio. Of course, he did not believe it, so he immediately rushed to the Navy Province.

"Your Excellency Marshal, the information has been repeatedly confirmed, and it is true...... "The Minister of the Navy, Minoru Saito, collapsed in his seat in frustration and said with a sad face: "Your Excellency, we have been defeated, and the Combined Fleet is gone......"

His lieutenant, Mitsumasa Yonechi, handed a telegram to Heihachiro Togo.

"Really defeated......" Heihachiro Togo was stupid after reading it, and the telegram slipped out of his hand. "Combined Fleet...... My Combined Fleet ......" When Heihachiro Togo came out of the Navy Province in despair, the whole person seemed to be twenty years old.

Not long after Heihachiro Togo went out, an officer rushed in.

"Your Excellency, it's not good. There are rebel troops besieging the Navy Province ......"

Soon, there were gunshots outside, and there was a faint shout of "heavenly punishment". Minoru Saito felt like he had lost his soul, and he didn't react at all, and Mitsumasa Yonechi hurriedly ran to the window to see the situation.

I saw that at the gate of the Navy Province, the guards were fighting fiercely with a group of chaotic troops. These rebel armies are storming the Navy Province under the banner of "Tenju" and shouting slogans such as "Tenju Saito", "Tenjuku Ijiin", and "Tenjuku Yamamoto". The rebels were very fierce, and even dragged out a few infantry guns, and the guards of the Navy Province were almost overwhelmed. Because these guards are more dependent on nature, and they don't have any heavy equipment, it's okay to guard against thieves in normal times, but when they encounter this situation, they will be numb.

"Yaga, it's the bastards of the 6th Army, are they trying to fall into the well now?" After just a few glances, Mitsumasa Minai scolded. Although the rebels did not wear military uniforms, it can be seen from their equipment and combat methods that these are all horse dung of the 6th Army.

"Your Excellency Saito, it was the 6th Army Red Deer who started a riot, let's leave quickly, and immediately mobilize the 6th Navy Sentai to come over......" Mitsumasa Yonechi hurriedly beckoned to the guards, set up Minoru Saito and ran to the back door.

"Bastard, do the guys from the 6th Army want to rebel?" Sure enough, as soon as he heard that the 6th Army was making trouble, Minoru Saito immediately regained his spirits. "Let's go to the port immediately and mobilize the 6th team to come and suppress it"

In fact, not only the Ministry of the Navy, but also the Military Command Department and the Prime Minister's Mansion were also besieged by the chaotic army, and this farce was tossed until the evening, and the 6th Army and the 6th Navy worked together to suppress it, and it was considered to be over.

The Imperial Council that night naturally became a meeting of the 6 navies quarreling again.

In fact, the minister of the 6th Army and several other bigwigs of the 6th Army also felt wronged, and they did not know about this farce in advance. Even if they are unhappy with the navy, they will not be so stupid. This matter was all done privately by a few junior and second-class junior officers. However, in Japan's 6th Army, this kind of "walking alone" is too common, and it has to be done once in a while, and it can be said that it is a reserved program loved by the people in Japanese politics.

However, because of this kind of thing, their plan to take the opportunity to impeach the Navy had to be suspended. There is no way, this matter is really unreasonable, so that the bigwigs of the 6th Army who are ready to make a fuss are a little weaker.

However, just when the 6th Army was having difficulty in preparation, it was interrupted by a sudden bad news.

An attendant hurried in and handed a telegram to Gonbei Aiyamamoto.

Gonbei Yamamoto looked at the telegram and read it expressionlessly: "Taipei and Kaohsiung have fallen, the 13th and 19th divisions have almost been wiped out, and now there are no more troops available in Taiwan...... It seems that Taiwan will not be able to save ......"

As far as Japan is concerned, after the combined fleet is completely destroyed, Taiwan will definitely not be able to keep it. So this news did not provoke much reaction, after all, the news of the total destruction of the combined fleet at noon had already prepared them mentally.

However, Chief of Staff Hasegawa Yoshimichi was still ready to block the navy, and he slapped the table and said angrily: "Hmph, if it weren't for the incompetence of the navy, how could the situation in Taiwan be like this? But since the beginning of the war, we have not increased a single soldier, and although the Imperial soldiers are loyal and tenacious, they cannot stop the endless Chinese army......"

The Minister of Military Orders, Ijiin Goro, said with a cold face: "Hmph, as far as I know, the 13th Division was beaten by half of the 7th Division in China, and if they hadn't retreated in the streets of Taipei, they would have been annihilated long ago, and the 19th Division was even more a nest, and they couldn't even hold the defensive position that had been operating for many years, and they were completely defeated by the 13th Division of China, and they actually fled shamefully, turning their backs towards the enemy......

Hasegawa retorted, "Bastard, that's because the Shina people used a new type of armored chariot, a chariot that could run like a ship at sea. That kind of tank washed straight up on the beach, our soldiers had never seen anything like this, and there was no corresponding means of countering. A momentary defeat is also forgivable."

"Enough is enough, don't quarrel" Although Yamamoto Gonbei was overwhelmed by one bad news after another, the most important thing at this time was not to quarrel, but how to deal with the aftermath. Even when I received the news that Navy veteran Heihachiro had committed suicide by seppuku, he didn't care about sending someone to comfort his family.

"After the defeat of the Combined Fleet, now China has launched a full-scale offensive. This morning, the 6th division of the Chinese army was in Okinawa, and they also had a battleship to assist, and the defenders of Okinawa were not many in the first place, only a mixed brigade, and now they are almost unable to hold the Kanto Prefecture, and now the Chinese are deliberately not attacking, and have been bombing with airships, and the 8th and 17th divisions have suffered heavy losses. According to today's report, of the original 660,000 defenders, there are now less than 20,000 still fighting ......"

“...... The situation in Korea is also very bad, and at present the army of China has entered North Korea with four divisions, and according to reliable information, there are still two divisions and one brigade in preparation. Now that Pyongyang has been lost, the Shina army is advancing towards Seoul. And the rebel armies in Korea have always been very active, and after the war, they have made even more trouble, and these rebel armies have involved a large number of troops......"

Yamamoto Gonbei's face turned pale, and he said slowly: "Now the situation is extremely critical, and the 6 naval monarchs must unite sincerely to let the empire tide over this difficulty......"

The Minister of the Interior, Hara Kei, said: "Your Excellency, I think it is better to ask Britain to intervene, even if they are unwilling to enter the war, but if the empire is completely defeated, it will not be good for them......

"I went to the British embassy early in the morning, and their reply was that they were negotiating with the government of China to mediate, but the ambassador also said that this time because of our ugly situation, the people of China will definitely open ......their mouths widely," Foreign Minister Nobuno Makino said in a dark voice.

The Minister of the 6th Army, Kikoshi Anzuna, asked: "What conditions will the people of the China probably put forward?" The 6th Army is now suffering one after another fiasco, and the number of dead people is at least ten times greater than that of the Navy.

Makino Nobuxian said bitterly: "Taiwan and Kwantung Prefecture, as well as the Manchurian Railway, will definitely not be able to keep it, this is what China ceded before, and they will definitely take it back." Even if we don't, they take it themselves. ”

He thought for a while and said, "We can only try our best to keep North Korea and Okinawa now, and I am ready to ......"

At this moment, the squire just now ran in again. Holding a telegram in his hand, he said with a pale face: "Naha is lost, and all the jade of the Okinawa mixed brigade is broken......"

"Bang dang ......" the Minister of Finance Takahashi is teacup fell off in his hand.

There was a sudden silence in the conference room, everyone look at me, I look at you.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open again, and a figure stumbled in. Nobuaki Makino looked at it, but it was his own vice minister for foreign affairs. He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Your Excellency, just now the British Embassy conveyed an urgent information that the China Pacific Combined Fleet and the Shanghai Temporary Task Force are ...... Heading towards our country, the destination may be Tokyo ......"

"What?" At this moment, even Yamamoto Gonbei couldn't sit still.

At present, the Japanese Navy still has dozens of old ships and a bunch of small boats left, and if those capital ships of the Chinese Navy sail over, these goods will not be able to stop them at all. The Chinese Navy does not need to board 6 at all, it only needs to fire a few artillery shots at important cities such as Tokyo, and things will be in order.

"If this doesn't work, if the battleships of Shina shell the Imperial Palace, we will all be sinners" Yamamoto Gonbei also panicked, and he hurriedly ordered: "Immediately mine several important waterways such as Tokyo Bay and the Seto Inland Sea, and all shore defense artillery will also enter the first level of combat readiness, and all ships that can fight will immediately assemble in Tokyo, and no matter what, they cannot be allowed to shell the Imperial Palace."

"The 6th Army is also immediately ready for battle, and the remaining units such as the Guards Division and the 1st Division are all in first-level combat readiness, and the reserve forces are immediately mobilized ......"

After arranging the military affairs, Yamamoto Gonbei immediately said to Nobuaki Makino: "Foreign Minister, please make sure that Britain comes forward to mediate, even if you make more concessions, please......"

Gonbei Yamamoto knew very well that Japan was an island country, and once the navy hiccuped, this battle would no longer be able to continue. If you continue to die, you will die even worse, and you won't even speak to the arrogant 6th Army.

"Yes, I just have to do my best......" Nobu Makino's face was extremely ugly. Once the army is defeated, if he wants to demand peace, he will only have to hemorrhage, especially in the old feud between China and Japan, and he can fully imagine how harsh China's conditions will be. He couldn't help but think of Li Hongzhang, who signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" back then, and presumably he would be regarded as a "traitor" this time......

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