February 12, Republic 2765 (1924), Busan, Lelang Province.

The Busan Municipal District of the original plane is equivalent to Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongsangnam-do in the former time and space Korea, as well as Tsushima Island in Japan, with a total area of 11,235 square kilometers. Busan, the seat of the city government, is also home to the 8th Armored Brigade of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Army.

The 8th Armored Brigade is a light armored brigade, with both tracked vehicles and wheeled vehicles, mainly equipped with a tank regiment (a Red Wolf battalion, a Wolverine battalion, 46 vehicles each, and a mechanized infantry battalion), a mechanized infantry regiment (two mechanized infantry battalions, a combat vehicle battalion), a self-propelled artillery battalion and a self-propelled air defense battalion, in addition to the joint logistics battalion (including transportation, supply, maintenance and other units), armored reconnaissance company, engineering company, three defense companies, health companies, communications companies and other brigade headquarters directly under the troops, with a total number of more than 8,600 people.

The main armament is the Red Wolf medium tank and the Wolverine light tank, as well as the "Ocelot" tracked infantry fighting vehicle, the "Pine Sable" tracked universal armored vehicle, and the "Sable" tracked armored personnel carrier. As well as the "Weasel" 25-mm quadruple self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, the "Stone Marten" 40-mm two-unit self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, the "Weasel" 105-mm self-propelled howitzer, the "Jackal" 155-mm self-propelled howitzer, the "Weasel" 160-mm self-propelled mortar, the "Wild Boar" 105-mm armored destroyer and other equipment. In total, there are more than 130 combat vehicles (tanks), more than 140 infantry fighting vehicles, and more than 90 armored vehicles of various types, as well as more than 90 self-propelled guns of various types, in addition to more than 600 vehicles and more than 200 military horses.

There is no doubt that this brigade was placed in Busan, and it must have been on guard against Japan. Since the end of last month, the brigade has been ordered to enter the fourth-level combat readiness state, and on the 7th of this month, it was upgraded to the third-level combat readiness state.

At this time, in the brigade commander's office, several cadres of the brigade headquarters were talking.

Brigadier General Yang Ning, the brigade commander, frowned and said, "What does this mean, do you want to do something to Japan?" But it doesn't look like ...... "Brigade Commander Yang was transferred the year before last, and he has been here for almost two years.

"It's strange that we don't have more troops here, and we don't have pre-war preparations for civilians...... said the chief of staff. "It seems that this is just a response to the current situation in Japan, and now there is a major abnormal situation in Japan, and we have to guard against it. ”

"Is it because of the assassination of Kita Yihui?"

The political commissar said: "Yes, Kita Yihui has a high prestige among the Japanese people, he was assassinated, something will definitely happen in Japan, and we are also guarding against accidents." ”

"How big of a deal will it be?" asked Brigade Commander Yang with great interest.

"I can't tell, who knows. The commissar shook his head.

What Brigadier Yang didn't know was that Japan's chaos this time would be very big, very big, bigger than he imagined.

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Off the coast of Tokyo.

A fleet is returning from the Pacific Ocean, the most notable of which is Japan's newest super dreadnought-class capital ships, the Kii-class battleships, the Kii and Owari. The Kii-class has four triple 410 mm 50 times diameter main guns, and the weapon layout is similar to that of China's Li Jing class (Sun Wu-class overhaul), with a displacement of 48,800 tons and a maximum speed of 29. 5 knots.

At the time of the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, the two super-dreadnoughts were about 60% complete, and they could continue to be built according to the treaty. That is, they count as the last batch of displacement during the naval holiday 4. The capital ship of more than 50,000 tons.

The Japanese also attached great importance to these two super dreadnoughts, but the construction time was from March 1918 to July 1923, which took more than five years to build. The reason why it has dragged on for so long is that, on the one hand, Japan has built such a large warship for the first time, and on the other hand, the main gun is jammed. Originally, they were supposed to be equipped with an unprecedented 460-mm gun (five-seat twin). But it is a pity that the technology of the Japanese is still a little inferior, and the 460-mm naval gun cannot be completed for a long time. In desperation, he had to retreat and continue to use the 410 mm main gun, and in order to compensate for the firepower, the turret was adjusted to four triplets.

It should be said that the luck of these two Kii-class ships was quite good, and at the time of the Tokyo earthquake, they were originally still in Yokosuka, and they happened to be sent out for sea trials outside, and they were shocked less than a week after they went out. They didn't lose a single hair in this horrific natural disaster. The Satsuma and Kashima dreadnoughts, which remained in Sagami Bay at the time, were unlucky, and the Satsuma was pushed into the shallows by the huge waves and ran aground. The Kashima was even more unlucky, it was carried by the huge waves and slapped on the dock, the hull was deformed and twisted, and it was hit with a big hole, which was completely abandoned.

On the bridge of the Kii, several officers were talking. Captain Ozawa Jizaburo frowned and said, "Why did you suddenly let us go back, we haven't finished the sea trials yet......

Intelligence staff officer Inoue Narumi thought for a while and said, "Is it because ......of the Sakurada Gate incident?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other and stopped talking.

The "assassination of Kita Ichiki" is like a fuse, since the news spread, the resentment accumulated by the Japanese people for many years was immediately detonated. Anarchists, socialists, militarists, liberals, and different factions within the Japanese army, navy, and politics were all stirring up.

On the morning of January 31, a group of anarchists and liberals led the masses to besiege the headquarters of the Mitsui Foundation, declaring that "the chaebol is a national thief" and demanding that the chaebol cede its profits to the people at the bottom. Subsequently, they clashed with the guards of the Mitsui consortium. The guards of the Mitsui consortium were violently beaten by the angry crowd, and then these anxious guards opened fire on the crowd.

If it were Japan in the original time and space, then the masses would have to be beaten in vain because of the lack of weapons. After the war, a lot of cheap second-hand weapons flowed into the international market, and a large part of them were bought by some international arms smugglers into the Japanese people, and with the support of some unknown forces, the Japanese people's weapons holdings at this time were already considerable.

As soon as the guards of the Mitsui consortium fired, things were in order. The two sides suddenly became angry, although most of the weapons of the masses were second-hand goods and lacked training, but they could not stand the large number of people. Springfield 1903, Mosin Nagant, Mauser 1898, Enfield, and Japan's own 38 big covers, hundreds of long and short guns, just did it in the Mitsui Foundation headquarters.

In the end, it was the Japanese government that sent troops to quell the incident. The clash left 140 people dead and more than 2,000 injured. The Japanese media called it the "Mitsui Noise Incident".

In the following days, there were a number of armed attacks against chaebols and landlords in various parts of Japan, and in just ten days, the whole of Japan was like returning to the Warring States period, with constant conflicts in various places, causing tens of thousands of casualties. Now the Japanese military and police are already exhausted, ignoring the head and tail, pressing the gourd to float the scoop, which has just been done here, and there is a disturbance over there.

On the morning of February 6, a number of petitioners from all over the country appeared in front of the Imperial Palace, kneeling to see the Emperor and asking him to listen to the voices of the people. In the afternoon, the army took all these people away.

On the morning of 8 February, more civilians and soldiers appeared at the palace gates, kneeling to see the emperor, and this time even some junior officers joined. They demanded. The military police then dispersed the crowd and arrested many more.

Soon rumors spread in Japan that high-ranking officials and magnates had secretly formed a coalition to imprison the emperor and crown prince. Because these people know that if the emperor is in power, he will definitely eliminate violence and peace. If you want the emperor to know the will of the people, you must ask the emperor to come out in person to meet with the representatives of the people. Under such encouragement, many radical forces began to make contact with each other and prepared to petition in front of the palace.

At this stage, the masses are only targeting the chaebol landlords and high-ranking officials and magnates, not the imperial family, and this kind of psychology is similar to China's previous "Qing monarch's side", anti-corrupt officials are not anti-emperor. Even though the prestige of the Imperial Family among the people was greatly damaged due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, most Japanese people still had some hope for the Imperial Family, and they naively believed that the Imperial Family was deceived by traitors and bad people, and as long as the Heavenly Trouble Black Card knew the truth of the people, it would definitely be on their side.

Japan's top brass was bewildered by these changes, and they were first puzzled, and then they became angry. As a result, martial law began in the vicinity of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, and the police began to interrogate those who had come to Tokyo from other places, and those who tried to "illegally petition" were immediately arrested, beaten and then sent back.

Even after such setbacks and blows, rumors among Japanese people show no signs of subsiding. Instead of subsidence, more inflammatory narratives have emerged. "The emperor and the crown prince already know some of the real situation among the people, and they are about to take action to reform it. But the traitors and bad people who deceived the emperor tried to stay in power, so they put the emperor and the crown prince under house arrest, so they did not dare to let the Japanese people come to Tokyo to approach the imperial palace, nor did they dare to let the emperor and the crown prince come out to meet the masses. ”

No matter what country or era, people always want to have a better life. In order to improve their lives, especially when they can't survive, people are still willing to take risks. When the rumors pointed out that as long as they can "clean the monarch's side", they can solve the suffering of the people. The people prefer to believe that this is true, after all, according to Japanese propaganda, the emperor is a living god, and of course he should have boundless power.

In the era of industrialization, the sources of information and knowledge of ordinary people were not comparable to those of the agricultural era, especially in the native plane, and due to the spread of radio and radio, rumors spread at a speed unimaginable in ancient times. Coupled with the encouragement of a few people, these similar rumors have spread throughout Japan at an alarming rate.

Under such rumors, the rest of the story became out of control.

On the morning of 10 February, many officers and men of the 1st Division, who had been ordered to intercept the petitioners, were affected by the rumors that "the imperial family was under house arrest by traitorous officials" and sympathetic to the plight of the people.

The Guards Division, which was originally under martial law near the palace, saw that there were too many people, including army officers and soldiers, so they didn't dare to forcibly stop them, not to mention that many of them also had doubts in their hearts. So the Guards Division retreated to the palace and asked for help from their superiors, and asked Hirohito for instructions. By 12 o'clock, the crowd in front of the palace had exceeded 20,000 people, including many army officers and policemen, who demanded that the emperor and the crown prince meet with the crowd.

At the beginning, Hirohito ordered his attendants to go out and persuade the crowd to leave. As for why he himself did not go out in person, there are many later theories, one is that his subordinates did not let him go out because they thought it might be dangerous. After all, there was a shooting against him only two months ago, and now the composition of the people outside is complicated, and who knows what will happen.

One theory is that Hirohito himself did not want to go out, and he believed that these lower classes were bewitched by others, and he was not obliged to explain. The performance of these masses made him very shameless, as a supreme monarch, how could he compromise with the fart people?

There is also an argument that he has no way to answer those demands, because to agree to the demands of the masses is tantamount to tearing up his face with those chaebol magnates, and this choice is something Hirohito cannot make. If you can't answer those demands, why are you going out? Do you want to tell the truth to those? Isn't that admitting that you're incompetent?

Either way, the end result is that Hirohito didn't come forward in person. Later, many people said that if Hirohito had gone out to talk to the masses at that time, perhaps there would not have been the "Sakurada Gate Incident", but history has no ifs, so tragedy happened.

Obviously, the persuasion of the attendants alone could not satisfy the masses, and everyone traveled thousands of miles to Tokyo in the wind and snow to face the saint, and how could they do without seeing anyone? There was a new rumor among the crowd: "Such a big thing, the sky is noisy and the card does not appear, this is obviously the house arrest of the villain." Don't be cowardly, let's go to the side of Qingjun and save the emperor!"

As a result, the petitioners began to storm the Imperial Palace, and a bloody clash broke out on a great scale near the Sakurada Gate. The Japanese Government said that when the petitioners were arrested, thugs with weapons in possession attacked the military and police first. Sympathists for the petitioners accused the military police of firing directly at the petitioners. But it doesn't matter who fired the first shot.

This time, the petitioners were mixed in with the officers and soldiers of the First Division, and there were many retired veterans, whose combat effectiveness was far from being comparable to that of those young masters of the Guards Division. Chanting slogans such as "Qingjun Side" and "Heavenly Punishment of National Thieves", the petitioners routed the Guards Division guarding the palace gates and stormed the palace. Then street battles began at the Royal Palace and in the Guards Division.

In this case, Hirohito and the members of the imperial family were protected and fled from the palace in embarrassment. Hirohito is really annoyed by these people now. "There are always people who want to harm orphans!"

Hirohito, who had withdrawn to the General Staff, was furious and ordered a crackdown, and then the 2nd Guards Division was dispatched, armed airships drove into Tokyo, and tanks were also on the streets. In order to vent this evil anger, Hirohito personally directed the crackdown on an armored command vehicle, which continued until the next morning.

Anyway, on that snowy day, more than 4,000 people were killed and more than 20,000 were injured, and the "Sakurada Gate Incident" shook the whole of Japan.