Chapter 9 Chapter 8 No one sleeps tonight

After the "Huanggutun Incident", Heben was ordered to retire.Before leaving, he recommended two successors.One of them has been hailed as a rare genius and genius in the Japanese military circle. He was the one who instigated the "September 18th Incident" that shocked China and the world. After the Great War in the Central Plains, internally, Lao Jiang may have temporarily won, but externally, he was actually a loser as well.After this large-scale civil war, all parties involved in the war suffered "terrible casualties". The original veterans almost changed, and Zhang Xueliang's move to the pass provided an opportunity for outsiders to covet the Northeast.

At this time, if there is still a real winner, it is better to say that it is the Kwantung Army who is preparing to make small moves in the Northeast and the Japanese government across the sea. The current situation is like a chess game. When the Chinese chess player is mentally and physically distracted, his opponent has quietly surrounded the chess pieces in the northeast corner. Although the "Tiger Hall" incident was more due to the internal struggle of the Northeast authorities, the Japanese government interpreted it as Zhang Xueliang's ultimatum to Japan.In order to shirk his responsibility for the failed negotiation, Machino publicized everywhere after he returned, saying that Yang Yuting had told him that the railway issue could be discussed.

Now that this person is dead, it means that the last hope of the "Manchurian New Five Roads" has been shattered.There is no doubt that Zhang Xueliang is an enemy of Japan, worse than his father, and must break with him. Where is Kawamoto?we need you. The decision to deal with Kawamoto was to retire from active service.To put it bluntly, the military department issued the ticket for outsiders to see. In fact, it was very appreciative that a senior staff officer could make such a big commotion in the Northeast by himself.When he was about to be forced to take off his military uniform, someone from above sent someone to ask: After Mr. Heben, who can succeed him?

That means asking, after you go, who else can make trouble like you? Kawamoto recommended two people, both of whom were his classmates in Luda: Colonel Itagaki Seishiro (28th issue of Luda), and Lieutenant Ishihara Waner (30th issue of Luda). Four months after the "Huanggutun Incident", Itagaki officially took over as Kawamoto's senior staff officer, and Shi Principle served as the chief staff officer of the Kwantung Army's operations.With the addition of Doihara, the so-called "Three Heroes of the Kwantung Army" (also known as "Three Feather Crows") are now on stage together.

Checking personal resumes, Doihara, Kawamoto, Itagaki, and Ishihara are all alumni of Lu University, and their study experience is almost exactly the same. They have all gone through the triple jump stage of Army Junior School, Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and Army University (ie Lu University).Interestingly, the number of graduates of the four of them in Luda also increased step by step, and they all skipped 2 levels in the middle, starting from Doihara, and they were 24th, 26th, 28th, and 30th in Luda. The first three people can be regarded as typical representatives of Showa warlords, arrogant, arrogant, self-righteous, eager for quick success, full of impulsiveness, and completely disregarding the consequences.The reason for Doi Fei is that he has a "fascination" with part-time spies, so he often pretends to be gentle. Hua's great career in managing the country is not to mention any foresight.

But Ishihara is an exception.If Japan's human clone production line occasionally goes wrong, Ishihara is one of them. To be precise, Ishihara Wanji is a relatively "thoughtful" Japanese soldier, and he can be called a geek. To expect strange talents to be born is the same as wanting to cultivate exotic flowers. In addition to relying on the help of God, you also need sunshine and rain suitable for their growth.But in the Japanese military circles, these things are actually not available. A Japanese who aspires to join the army has to live in a boarding school since he was a child. He goes to the military elementary school "Army Infant School". They want to do something about these "sick men of East Asia" in China.

As for politics, economy and diplomacy, they neither care about nor study at home and abroad, and basically know nothing about it.Except for courses other than military, students don't want to learn, teachers don't want to teach, and there is no such item in the teaching requirements and examination subjects. As a result, military school students are blinded after they come out, and they don't know anything except fighting.Like Doihara, it seems that the knowledge is quite profound, but in fact, it is not learned in school. It is due to the professional needs of the spy business, and it was made up later by myself, so it is purely patchwork. It can be used to brag and deceive people , Don't count on real knowledge.

At that time, the highest level for Chinese students studying in Japan was to be admitted to the Japanese Academy of Non-commissioned Officers.People who graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school and returned to China usually walked with their nostrils facing the sky (the Northeast Army even created a special "non-commissioned officer department", see Yang Yuting for its excellence).In fact, this can only be said to be a high school in a Japanese military academy, which is far from a university.The ultimate goal of Japanese military students is the Army University.The threshold of this army university is three feet and three feet above the ground. If you are not a top student in the non-commissioned officer school, you will not even be qualified to apply for the exam, let alone pass the exam.Of course the required score is also unusually high.

People who have survived in such an educational model can hardly talk about all-round development, and almost deformed development.In addition, the Japanese character itself is rigid and rigid. If you want to find cloned military cadres, you can find a lot of them. If you want to find a few different ones, they are almost equivalent to Tianfang Yetan. But I'm talking almost here. In the desert where there is no grass to grow, sometimes you can find a few Populus euphratica trees that have survived for thousands of years, so miracles will always appear occasionally at any time and any place.

Ishihara is one of them. In fact, Shi Yuan didn't work hard when he was studying. Everyone else was studying hard, but this buddy didn't take it seriously.In addition to playing, my biggest interest is reading idle books. As I said before, Japanese military schools value scores the most. The exam pressure is very high, and there are a lot of homework. Under normal circumstances, few people are willing to squeeze time to read books other than the prescribed courses.Shi Principle is different. He reads a wide range of books. He reads all kinds of books on human geography, but he rarely reads "serious books".

Even so, those classmates who worked ten times harder than him still couldn't pass him in the exam. Every time he took the exam, this gentleman was always at the top. When Lu University graduated, he even entered the saber group (referring to those who graduated in the top six). The so-called geeks usually refer to such a type of people: neurotic, death is not good, but the brain is particularly good, as if acupuncture points have been tapped by aliens. Facts have proved that Hemoto has a certain vision in choosing Ishihara, a "geek from the mainland", to complete his "uncompetitive career" in the Northeast.Because what the latter is about to set off in the northeast will be a monstrous wave that even he himself cannot imagine. It is said that very few people in Japan can really understand Clausewitz's "On War". Even their foreign teachers, the German instructors hired by the Army University, kept secret about this brilliant work. Probably this book is indeed profound, almost catching up with the level of Einstein's "Theory of Relativity", which is also very few people who really understand it. But Shi Yuan surpassed his patriarch and gnawed down a piece of "On War".Not only that, but he also made some progress, and came up with a new theoretical achievement, namely "Theory of Final War". Clausewitz said in "On War" that war is the continuation of politics.This sentence is quite inspiring to Ishihara.Like the legendary Western seer Zarathustra, he also made a fortune for Japan accordingly. He said that if Japan wants to have a place in the world, sooner or later it will have to fight a "final war" with the United States (it is quite accurate), and if it wants to fight, Japan will suffer a lot strategically, mainly because its territory is not deep. , and lack of strategic resources (it was also fulfilled later), so we must have a rear base, this base is Manmeng (the conclusion of wickedness was derived in this way). In the military court of the Far East after the war, the prosecution used a memorial from the Japanese side as evidence to file criminal charges. This is the famous Tanaka Memorial.The full text is very long, with more than 40,000 characters, but only two sentences are remembered by people.The first sentence: To conquer the world, you must first conquer China. The second sentence: To conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia. The Tanaka Memorial is controversial in the field of historians, and the Japanese have always said that it is a fake book. Judging from the policies implemented by Tanaka when he was in power, it is indeed very suspicious that it came from this person.Because Tanaka's foreign policy toward China has a name, which is called active diplomacy. The so-called active diplomacy is to rely on the leaders of the Fengtian warlords to maintain and expand the "rights and interests of Manchuria and Mongolia."Although it is also a bad idea, it is still a different matter from "conquering Manchuria and Mongolia". In fact, most of the theoretical basis of Tanaka's memorial comes from Ishihara's "final war theory".According to this theory, it is not enough for Japan to "passively" protect the "rights and interests of Manchuria and Mongolia" as in the past - Manchuria is Japan's lifeline, and it should be taken directly, once and for all. As soon as the "Final War Theory" came out, it was regarded as a treasure by the Japanese Army and became the guiding ideology of the Kwantung Army's instigation of the "September 18th" Incident. Everything indicates that the Kwantung Army will not only eliminate the two heads of Northeast China this time. Swallow it in one gulp. In the northeast, Ishihara, Itagaki and others personally observed the actual situation of the Sino-Soviet war.After reading it, Shi Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief, and said this sentence: "I don't even need my family heirloom sword to deal with Zhang Xueliang, the bamboo sword is enough." He predicted again: I dare to conclude that if something happens, the Kwantung Army can occupy Fengtian in less than two days.But from now on, we need to prepare and wait, because the final implementation of the action will take at least two years. What makes Ishihara more terrifying than Kawamoto is that he is not only arrogant, but also calm. After the change of flag, the Northeast became the local government of China, and Zhang Xueliang refused to negotiate directly with Japan on the grounds that diplomacy was returned to the central government. This made it impossible for the Japanese to bypass the Nanjing government. In April of the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), Wakamaki Reijiro formed a new cabinet.On the day when the Wakaku Cabinet was established, Wang Zhengting had an appointment with Shigemitsu Aoi, Japan's acting minister in China. On the big day, Minister Wang did not forget to prepare a congratulatory gift for Mr. Minister, and it was very important. After a long list of gift slips came out, Mamoru Shigemitsu became more and more surprised the more he heard it. From the recovery of the concession to the recovery of the railway and shipping, it was equal to China, and there was nothing like his little Japan. Revolutionary diplomacy is indeed powerful. Before leaving, Wang Zhengting added another sentence: China is also determined to take back Japan's so-called "Manchurian and Mongolian rights". Coming out of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shigemitsu Aoi wiped off a cold sweat, and hurried back to China to report the situation.When the news spread to the Japanese island, it seemed to add a bunch of salary to the already aggressive public opinion and add fuel to the fire. Prior to this, Zhang Xueliang began to independently develop the Northeast Railway by himself while pushing the negotiation of road rights such as the "Manchurian New Fifth Road" to Nanjing.Among them, the self-built and self-operated Taosuo Railway was once one of the "Manchurian-Mongolian New Five-Roads" proposed by Japan, but now he took it over and built it himself.In the eyes of the Japanese, this is obviously to "put Manchurian iron to death gradually, and finally achieve the goal of recovering Manchurian iron." Wang Zhengting's statement is just the best verification of Zhang Xueliang's actions. At this time, the Japanese no longer regard the Nanman Railway as a temporary loan. They think it is their "inherent land", and they have no intention of returning it to you when it is due. What is "Manchurian Rights and Interests"? In the words of "Father of the Japanese Army" Yamagata Aritomo, it was only after "consuming 2 billion in assets and causing more than 200,000 casualties" in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.Once lost, you have to bear "great shame", not to mention, you will have no face to see those "heroic souls of fallen brave generals and martyrs" underground. Now the Chinese are saying that they want to take it back, which is really too much. Both the civilians and the military believe that it is because the government is too weak that the Chinese government behaves so "too much to deceive others". Many people looked back and found the "value" of the little-known Kwantung Army officer Ishihara Zhongzuo again.For a time, the "Manchurian Lifeline" reached the apex of its vigorous advocacy. At this time, there is less than a year left from the two-year deadline set by Shiyuan. So what has this "wizard" been up to so far? Even Westerners are amazed by the Japanese's excellence in micro affairs.Koizumi Yakumo, who has done meticulous research on Japanese culture, once said that there is no better surgeon than the Japanese in this world. Listening to the name, you might think that this is a local Japanese hand, but it is not, this gentleman is a pure British foreigner.Of course, he didn't use this Japanese name at first, but later he settled in Dongying and married a Japanese wife, who changed his surname to Koizumi and Yakumo. This experience should be similar to that of Dashan, a Canadian student who can talk cross talk. Koizumi Yakumo admires Japanese culture very much, and believes that Japanese nature is naturally suitable for preparing and implementing various complex action plans, even if these things seem trivial and complicated to outsiders. Ishihara, known as a strategist, can be regarded as an excellent representative in this regard.An "Action Plan for the Kwantung Army to Occupy Manchuria and Mongolia", it took him more than a year just to complete the plan. For more than a year, he and Itagaki led the team to form a "staff tour group" and ran around the Northeast. The first stop is Changchun.The scope is Jilin Province.Here, Ishihara and others conducted military terrain reconnaissance and cross-river combat research, thus uncovering "the first page of the history of the Manchuria Incident". The second stop is Jinzhou.The scope is Liaoning Province.This time it is mainly to study how to attack Shenyang City, pursue Jinzhou, and attack Jinzhou and the western part of Shanhaiguan. The third stop is Beiman.The scope is Heilongjiang Province.This time, the whole terrain of Beiman (Heilongjiang) was inspected on the spot. After three stops, Ishihara has installed a full set of GPS navigation for the Kwantung Army to occupy Manchuria. Ishihara’s meticulous preparation, in the words of Confucius in China, means “the more you count, the less you can’t win.” If everything is calculated, the chances of winning are great, and this is the same as the theory of the Japanese military strategist Miyamoto Musashi. compatible. There are countless military books in the world, but until now, there are only three books that people value the most, except for our grandson's "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and the German Clausewitz's "War War" that few people can understand. "On" is Miyamoto Musashi's masterpiece "Five Wheels". This Mr. Miyamoto is famous for playing with swords, but "Five Wheels Book" not only talks about swordsmanship, but also talks about the art of war.The most interesting of these is the comparison of warfare to a carpenter building a house. Miyamoto said that building a house is not blind. From the selection of wood to the structure and style of the house, there must be a plan in advance. Only after the plan is correct can you start to build the house. Follow the plan as much as possible so that the house builds well. The era in which Miyamoto Musashi lived was equivalent to the Ming Dynasty in China.Hundreds of years later, his thinking was revived among the talented Japanese of later generations. As far as Shi Yuan is concerned, his house building plan has almost been completed, and what he needs to wait for next is a beam-laying time that he thinks is the most suitable. After the central government announced that it would take back sovereignty over Northeast China, conflicts between the Chinese and Japanese civilians and military began to become extremely frequent. As early as when Zhang Zuolin was the "King of the Northeast", Japan had already begun to immigrate in large numbers to the Northeast.The immigrants at that time were mainly Japanese farmers (also including Korean farmers). There is no way, the Japanese island country is only a small piece of land, and there is not much land to cultivate. After the Meiji Restoration started capitalism, factories were opened and roads were built. How could there be so many lands for farmers to cultivate. Food is very important, no matter how good the machine is, it cannot be eaten as food.This is very simple and materialistic.To feed such a large population, if you don't want to implement family planning, you can only fool the farmers into "going to the east of the Guandong" and go to the northeast to find good land. But Kanto is not so easy to break through. When they came here, they first found out that no one would rent them a house to live in. That's fine, if it doesn't work, just look for the materials yourself and build one temporarily.Anyway, there is plenty of wood for building houses in the Northeast. Even though they have settled down, the problem still cannot be solved: there is no fertile land. The Japanese government is right in saying that there is indeed a lot of land in the Northeast, and it is everywhere in the mountains and plains. The problem is that good land already has owners. In addition to the aborigines, those Han people who came from the mainland of the Central Plains to "break through the Guandong" had already taken a step ahead and became the owners of the remaining fertile land. No one is an idiot. Could it be that they have come all the way to divide the land for these rotten fields that even pigs don't want to eat? Japanese farmers (including North Korean farmers) were quite angry about this.However, they are soft-spoken and unable to settle accounts with the government that fooled them, and they are not reconciled to going back empty-handed, so they can only spread an unknown fire on the Northeast farmers who work as hard as they do but are poor. Conflicts arose in this way, and gradually developed into civil conflicts. The Japanese government, which was in embarrassment, was inspired by the conflict. They realized that their time had come to divert attention and to blame others. Among these large and small conflicts, the most shocking one is the "Wanbaoshan Incident". This Wanbao Mountain is actually not close to the Manchurian Railway, let alone under the jurisdiction of the Japanese.This place is located in Changchun County, Jilin Province, and is completely under the independent jurisdiction of the Chinese government. It all started with Hao Yongde, the magistrate of Changchun County. The county magistrate, that is, the ancient county magistrate, is often called the seventh-rank sesame official.The so-called sesame means that compared with officials above the provincial level, if it is placed on his one-third of an acre of land, the authority is not small. Interestingly, the magistrate Hao is also the manager of the rice field company, which is a typical official businessman. It is estimated that he earns a lot of oil and water on weekdays, so he has a lot of money. This year, he rented 3,000 mu of wasteland in the Wanbaoshan area. Since it is wasteland, it needs to be reclaimed.As the head of a county, Hao Yongde was naturally too lazy to manage this kind of mess, so he sub-leased the right to use the wasteland to the North Korean farmers living around. Subletting requires payment of rent.In order to turn wasteland into fertile land as soon as possible and make money back in the shortest possible time, North Korean farmers decided to open rivers and dig canals to irrigate the fields with water from the Yitong River. Just doing what they said, nearly 200 North Korean farmers fought at night and started a mass production campaign. The Chinese farmers on the side were in a hurry.Because the canal they want to dig is about 20 miles long, with a depth and width of more than 3 feet. May be flooded by river water in the canal. No matter what country the peasants are in, land is their lifeblood. Negotiations with North Korean farmers were ignored. Shedding our sweat, digging our ditches, watering our fields, what does it matter to you? Chinese farmers had no choice but to petition collectively. The government cannot ignore the farmers' complaints. It is estimated that according to this logic and procedure, the county sent people to intervene to dissuade the North Korean farmers and ask them to stop working. At this time, the Japanese Consulate in Changchun began to intervene in this matter.They also sent people to the scene, but these people were not ordinary staff, but Japanese policemen with machine guns. When things got to this point, Hao Yongde and his county government actually pretended to be deaf and dumb, neither reporting to the higher authorities nor taking measures, and they didn't even send more Chinese policemen. Hao Yongde is really neither "good" (Hao) nor "moral". He probably thinks that under such circumstances, he would be at a disadvantage in both ways: after the canal is built, I own the land anyway, and the good land can be taken back when the lease expires, which is only beneficial; No less.I'm afraid of a bird. With armed protection, North Korean farmers were even more confident, digging canals and building dams day and night, and the progress of the project was greatly accelerated. Seeing that the canal was about to be completed, and the attitude of their own county government was so ambiguous, the Chinese farmers couldn't bear it, and were forced to automatically gather to fill the canal. One wanted to fill the canal and the other wanted to open the canal. The two sides refused to give in to each other, and a large-scale conflict immediately broke out. The Japanese police immediately intervened in the conflict and openly opened fire, causing casualties to Chinese farmers, which triggered the "Wanbaoshan Incident". This day is July 2 in the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931). Originally, Japan took advantage of the "Wanbaoshan Incident", but in the end it was the Japanese who shouted the loudest and cried the loudest.Under their propaganda and incitement, the public opinion that "China excludes North Koreans" spread throughout North Korea. Koreans have a strong national consciousness. After they were forced to become a Japanese colony, their anti-Japanese activities never stopped.Japan's conscious shift of disaster to the east this time caused North Korea to transfer its hatred of the Japanese to the Chinese, thus triggering a series of appalling anti-Chinese movements. Within a week, there were countless atrocities against overseas Chinese in North Korea, and countless overseas Chinese were killed or injured.Nine out of ten houses were burned, and even the Chinese Consulate in Seoul was destroyed by rioters. In Japan, the rhetoric of being tough on China has almost formed a one-sided trend.Only three years ago, the Japanese opposition parties made a fuss because the Tanaka cabinet "supported" the assassination of Zhang Zuolin. Three years later, they have changed their course and kept up with the trend of the times. It is implementing a policy of "weak diplomacy". Mori Ke, the boss of the Political Friends Association, also formed a delegation. He personally led the team and went around the Northeast and North Korea. , must find the lost place. Everyone is so revolutionary, Ruoku, who is the prime minister, thinks that if he doesn't show up, he will be fired for being "backward". Boss is "tougher". The military and the Kwantung Army watched what happened with gloating.In their eyes, no matter how the government behaves, it is always four words: weak and incompetent. Only the handle of the knife in their hands can prove everything. The Northeast is full of dangers, but the young marshal has other things that bother him even more in the pass. At this time, what he was concentrating on dealing with was Shi Yousan, a rising star in the rebellion world, the three-surnamed house slave under his account. In the later period of the Central Plains War, Shi Yousan came with a "knowledge of current affairs is a hero", and "timely" took refuge in Zhang Xueliang who came from outside the pass. But it didn't take long for the old problem to occur again. Because Wang Jingwei's "Guangzhou National Government" came to recruit talents. Didn't Wang Jingwei get electrified and go to the field? That's right.But as the saying goes: this moment and that moment.The political climate before and after the Republic of China was like this. For people who eat political food, it is faster to leave the field and come to power even faster than this. And this time, Lao Wang's banner is not for himself, but for his "friends". Friends, the party veteran Hu Hanmin is also. In fact, although Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin were ministers in the same palace and had similar qualifications, they were not "friends".Not only are they not friends, but the relationship is also very bad. I think that when Chiang Kai-shek was fledgling, he engaged in the "separation of Ning and Han", and established a separate national government and the central government in Nanjing (the instigator of the "pseudo-government and central government" was Lao Jiang himself), and insisted on cooperating with the "authentic and time-honored brand" hosted by Wang Jingwei in Wuhan. It is impossible to stand against each other. The signboard is up, but there is no heavyweight to help shout it. Under such circumstances, Lao Jiang invited Hu Hanmin, who was forced to live in Shanghai because of his suspicion of the assassination of Liao, to be the chairman of his national government.Hu Hanmin also knows how to repay his kindness, and has repeatedly helped Lao Jiang at critical moments. In the early years, although Lao Jiang was aggressive in the military, his status and influence in the Kuomintang were far inferior to Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin.In the minds of most Kuomintang people at that time, the brands of the latter two were resounding, and there was even a saying that "Wang and Hu would not form a party without Cantonese" (Both Wang and Hu are Cantonese). For Lao Jiang at that time, pulling Hu Hanmin was not just a matter of supporting the facade.Under the background of the Kuomintang's so-called "ruling the country with the party", Lao Hu has always been an indispensable helper beside Chiang Kai-shek. Without him, it would be difficult for Chiang to compete with Wang politically. Once upon a time, the relationship between Jiang and Hu could be described as "glue like paint". However, people are always changing.The same is true of Lao Jiang. After winning the Central Plains War, the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces began to become domineering, as if he was the only one, and gradually he did not even pay attention to the "old seniors" who had contributed.He wants the party, the government and the army to grasp him. In addition to managing the military, he also needs to manage the party and government, but this is something that his "old partner" Hu Hanmin for many years is unwilling to let go. This old Hu is very capable, and he is really hardworking for Chiang Kai-shek.It is said that when he ran the party and government for Lao Jiang, he usually got up at 4:30 in the morning, and then he would not turn off the lights until 11:00 in the evening before going to bed. . Is it bitter?very bitter.But the old man is happy.He has no other hobbies but this. When the Central Plains War was over, he thought very well, thinking that since the fighting was over, Lao Jiang should let Nanshan go, take his wife around, and leave the party and government to him. For this reason, he also found a ready-made example, saying that in the Turkish revolution, Kemal as the leader was like this. Once the revolution succeeded, he moved his ambition to the alcoholic women. Handed over to his deputy. If you want to say that this old Hu doesn't know if he drank too much foreign ink in the past, so that he is wishful thinking in everything he does. Is it possible to let others rest while you take care of everything?Others dare not say that, anyway, Lao Jiang definitely does not have such a high level of thought. Don't talk about Kemal in Turkey, how about Washington in the United States, people have to be tolerant, have done revolutionary work all their lives, and quit as soon as they say it.But isn't it all in foreign countries? Let's talk about the national conditions, shall we?After all, foreigners are missing a muscle in their minds, how can they compare with us Chinese. It's not a matter of who wants to do more or less work, it's called "right", you know?How could someone like Lao Jiang allow himself to be a head of state in name only? Before the Central Plains War, there was no way. On the one hand, we had to rely on the strength of Lao Hu in the Kuomintang to fight back against the political opponents in the party including Lao Wang. On the other hand, there were many enemies around. Army leaders like Yan Xishan, either from the front or from behind, armed with machetes and small daggers, went into battle continuously, which made Lao Jiang catch his breath and didn't have time to drink a cup of tea, so naturally he had to concentrate on catching them. For the military, leave the party and government to Lao Hu. But it will be different once the Central Plains War is over.In Lao Jiang's eyes, it was not him, but Lao Hu who should walk away knowingly and wisely. When the Kuomintang convened the Fourth Plenary Session of the Third Central Committee, Lao Jiang tried to figure out how to kick Lao Hu away, or at least put him beside him as a vase. Lao Hu is the kind of character who loves to be stubborn. He has been a cow and a horse for Lao Jiang for so many years, but in the end he is willing to be a "meeting machine" or a mud puppet, so he will never give in. He also told a story in front of everyone. According to the story, during World War I, there was an ace pilot in France, who was very old and powerful.Every battle must be won, and the number of planes shot down by the German devils is unknown.After the end of the First World War, he returned to Paris and was naturally regarded as a hero.The Parisians were terrified, and not only lined up along both sides of the road to welcome him, but also sent him a special car, letting him sit in it to look majestic. This pilot has never driven a car, and of course he doesn't have a driver's license, but he has driven a plane, and he thinks there is not much difference between the two (they are both a pair of iron shells with a motor), and it is not fun to sit by the side, so he asked himself Driving, and everyone really let him drive - just like the hero movie starring Schwarzenegger, have you seen what he can't do in it? The result can be imagined, fifty or sixty people were crushed on the spot! When Lao Hu told this story, he naturally meant something.The story of World War I is actually just a prototype. If you move to China, the pilot who caused the catastrophe is exactly the old Jiang who feels good about himself. What Lao Hu means is, you can fly a plane, but I can't, and I can drive a car, but you can't. These words made Lao Jiang, who felt good about himself, anxious, and his brain became hot, and he took out the arrogance of the soldiers, and sent two military police to put Hu Hanmin under house arrest in Tangshan, Nanjing. In this way, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and anti-Chiang elites from all walks of life either lurked or went to the field to take advantage of the situation to make noise. At this time, Wang Jingwei was on Hong Kong Island.There is no one better at talking across the river than Lao Wang.He immediately issued a manifesto, scolding Chiang, comparing his behavior to "kidnapping by robbers," and calling Chiang the biggest "dog official" in history.That article was written so heartily, if it hadn't been for a mistake later, it might not have been as famous and passed down as "living up to the youth". Inspired by the common goal of anti-Chiang, Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin, who were once strangers, finally came together. Wang Jingwei made a comeback and came to Guangzhou from Hong Kong alone to rebuild the new government, and claimed that this time he would hold a group and fight Lao Jiang to the death. The slogan is extremely tragic: "Even if you fail to jump into the sea, you should hug and jump together", which is comparable to the boldness of the assassin king back then. However, just shouting slogans still can't frighten Lao Jiang.To overthrow the "illegal" Nanjing government, Lao Wang has always suffered most from not having a gun. After repeated setbacks, his longing for the barrel of a gun has almost reached the point of fascination.As long as you hear who has a gun in your hand, you basically don't care about the quality, regardless of the composition, and you will pull it when you see it. As soon as you pull it, you will pull that Shi Yousan who is sure to take the bait as long as there is a bait. As a soldier, Shi Yousan was once very good. When he first joined the army, he was just a groom under Feng Yuxiang.More than ten years later, he became the commander of the most elite unit in the Northwest Army. He was as famous as Han Fuju, and also known as "Han Shi". He himself is impeccable in military quality, whether it is bombing or marksmanship, he is the first in the army.In terms of leading troops, it is also a leader in the Northwest Army, which is known for its extremely strict military governance. In the Beiyang period, its troops were once the designated troops visited by foreign ministers, and they were inspected by dignitaries from various countries many times. Today, Shi Yousan's troops are the standard national guard of honor. There is an old saying in China: women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of entering the wrong profession.It stands to reason that Shi Yousan should be good for simply directing the war, but he just likes to mess up in politics. In the various chaotic wars and wars of the year, who to vote for was the biggest political issue. Han Fuju also defected.But after he saw that Lao Jiang was a good boss, he followed the latter with all his heart and never repeated it again. Shi Yousan is different.Perhaps it was because the groom got enlightenment in life at the beginning, thinking that whoever gave the night grass the fattest, the horse should work for him.As far as he himself is concerned, face-changing seems to be a common occurrence, and later it became a nonsensical purely physiological reaction and habit. After joining Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, the treatment can't be said to be unfavorable or unfavorable. The establishment of 6 divisions, with a monthly military salary of 700,000 yuan, is far beyond that of the earliest Northwest Army system or the later Lao Jiang system (in this system, the treatment of the Central Army and miscellaneous brands is very different).You know, Yan Laoxi only offered a one-time price of 800,000 yuan in order to lure him into the "Anti-Jiang League", but in the end he was too reckless to give it, and the one he got was not even half the discount. Wang Jingwei sent someone over to win him over this time. How much is the "remuneration"? 500000.It was 200,000 less than the monthly military salary Zhang Xueliang gave him. But Shi Yousan agreed wholeheartedly. Therefore, once this person's brain lacks oxygen, it is basically an incurable disease. Collect people's money and eliminate disasters for others.Shi Yousan, a cutting-edge "defector expert" still has this professional ethics.After he received the money, he quickly took the lead for Guangzhou. In July of the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), Shi Yousan launched an army in North China and quickly occupied Shijiazhuang, Hebei. But his luck was really bad. Hearing that Shiyou had turned against him three times, Jiang and Zhang teamed up and besieged from all sides, and within a few strokes, Shibu was wiped out. Without the troops, the brainless Shi Yousan has never been able to turn himself around again. However, the bad thing he did that "harmed others and benefited himself" planted a greater hidden danger for the fall of the Northeast. In order to attack Shi Yousan, Zhang Xueliang had to mobilize the main force to enter the pass again, and another 80,000 soldiers from the Northeast Army entered Hebei, which virtually weakened the national defense forces outside the pass. Rewind time to 2 months. On May 28th in the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), Zhang Xueliang, a marshal of the Northeast, was admitted to Peking Union Medical College Hospital for recuperation due to typhoid fever. On this day, he received a report from the Northeast Reclamation Army: four Japanese spies including a Japanese captain were executed. Japan's intelligence and reconnaissance of the Northeast has never been interrupted.Generally used under the guise of tourism or investigation. 最直接的后果是，国民政府交通局没做的工作，日本驴友们全都给做好了，而且做得相当认真和到位。在他们绘制的中国地图上，据说连乡村里的每口井都标注得一清二楚。 后来阎锡山的晋绥军伏击日军，首先抢的不是武器辎重，而是一张张日版的中国军用地图。 要说起来，画地图搞情报这事，在来华的日本人中可谓源远流长，有着悠久的历史传统。反过来，我还就没听说哪位中国留日学生兼职干过这事。鲁迅先生他老人家描绘再怎么仔细，也没想起来要把仙台的地形记录下来，以备日后中国军队登陆使用。 虽然不爽，可你还就真得佩服一下小日本那种把绘图艺术进行到底的耐心和认真劲儿。 这次艺术活动的组办方是日本参谋本部情报课。 领衔主演是该课情报人员中村震太郎大尉。他饰演的角色是农学家。一名退伍返聘人员友情出演。两名向导：一个蒙古人，一个白俄，算是客串。 活动的主要区域是中国东北兴安岭地区。 一路上，他们没怎么顾得上游览兴安岭的大好风光，而是忙着制作各类标记，对所有重要桥梁、涵洞等设施都进行了测绘。 当然，他们最关心的还是兴安区的中国东北屯垦军。 说起来也真不容易，几天下来，这帮人竟然把屯垦军的原始档案都拷贝下来，连将校叫什么名字、营房是否坚固都有详细记录。 由于太过敬业，他们忘了自己在观察屯垦军，屯垦军也在观察他们。毕竟人家屯垦军不是一根根兴安岭的木头，任你们贼头贼脑打量就不生疑。 于是人赃俱获。 这地方是军事禁区，对各国领事馆早有照会：“谢绝参观游历，凡外国人要求入区者一律不发护照”。 四人身上什么都有，有枪，有望远镜，还有早就画好的各种情报，就是没有护照。 逮住这四个小子的是东北屯垦军第三团，团长是关玉衡。 据他回忆，事发时他并不在团部，前期的审讯工作主要是他的一个团副董昆吾负责的。 接报后，关团长连夜赶回进行处理，在确证对方身份的情况下，召集连以上军官开了个会。会议的结果是，大家一致决定按照董昆吾的意见，将四名日谍全部予以秘密处死。 这件事情的处理，虽然当时看来比较解气，但在东北形势如此紧张，日本人做着梦都想找点挑衅借口出来的情况下，无论如何都不能算是谨慎和适当的。 3天后，在北平协和医院养病的张学良，得到了关于这件事的详细报告。 少帅的复电很简单也很迅速，一共四个字：灭迹保密。 本来这个“密”还是有保住的可能的。 在处决中村等四人后，关玉衡当场“约法八章”，就是告诉大家，谁都不准把这事给捅出去，否则的话就不得好死（“凡有泄露者，祸灭九族”）。 除了间谍罪证予以上交外，中村等人的尸首及衣物也均被“灭迹”。 看起来，篱笆扎得很紧。 可还是被日本人发现了。 一种说法，是说这事是由东北屯垦军一个军官的情妇率先给说出去的。 可日本人又是怎么知道的呢？ 原因很简单，这军官的情妇也是个日本人。日本女人跟日本女人咬耳朵，她就把这件事当做一件秘闻告诉了满铁一名雇员的老婆，而雇员从他老婆那里听到了这个消息，又赶紧如获至宝地报告给了关东军特务机关处。 这个说法似乎与关玉衡的“约法八章”相抵触，所以还有另外一种解释—— 秘密的最终暴露，源于一块手表。 中村出发前，本来预定是先在东北兴安岭刺探情报，然后再到吉林洮南，并由当地的日本领事负责接待。 眼看着离约定时间已经过去了二十多天，这个日本领事望穿秋水，还是没等到中村一行，心里就有点着急了。 别是搞情报迷了方向，被熊瞎子给叼走了吧。 中村虽然只是个大尉，但却是京城里的官，领事不敢不重视，便派了人，沿着中村出来的路线一路找过去。 就是在这一趟“寻找之旅”中，他们无意中听到了一个惊人的消息：前不久在兴安岭的军事禁区内，曾抓住几个日本间谍，中间还有一个日本的大官，都被东北屯垦军抓住杀掉了。 消息的来源是一个修铁路的王姓工头。 旁边的人当然不信：还日本大官呢，别是你信口胡吹的吧。 王工头说，他这话绝不是吹牛，因为他有证据。 穿着便装的日本人听到此处，赶紧把耳朵贴上去。 所谓证据就是一块手表，一块牌子叫“三道梁”的手表，而这块手表现在的主人是他的朋友，一个叫李德保的人。 “三道梁”手表为当时的日本军官所流行配置，大致相当于现在的诺基亚，没点档次的人别说戴，就连见都没见过，所以王工头一说，日本人马上心里一动，认定他不是随便乱说的。 再一打听，手表也已不在李德保手上，而是被押在一家当铺里。 日本领事听手下报告此事，当即按图索骥，赶到那家当铺，找出了这块手表，并确认典主正是李德保，李德保的身份非常特殊，他是东北屯垦军第三团团部司务长！ 原来在审讯中村的过程中，他开始还想耍两下武士道，结果被众人打翻在地。就在搏斗的过程中，中村手上所佩带的手表被打飞了，落在门后。 当时在场人等谁也没注意。怎么就那么巧，正好李德保来送夜宵，看到就认为奇货可居，不声不息地拾起藏了起来。 不久，这厮耐不住寂寞，跑到城里去喝花酒，银子不够，便把这块“三道梁”取出来，押在了当铺内。 到此为止，日本人认为他们找到了“中村事件”的铁证。 民国二十年（1931年）8月17日，日本政府以陆军省的名义，公布了“中村事件”的调查情况。 在他们所公布的所谓事件真相中，中村等人进行间谍活动的实情已全部被隐瞒，展示给公众的只是一个到中国来旅游兼考察的四人团，被“暴虐”的东北军“谋财害命”的全过程。 那块“三道梁”牌手表成了关键“物证”。 此事一出，日本国内各大政党和团体，甭管在朝的，还是在野的，一个个唾沫星子乱飞，都纷纷鼓噪要对张学良和东北军予以“膺惩”。 此时的东北大地想不出点事都难了。 自始至终，有一个人一直很兴奋，他用他那狗一样灵敏的鼻子，敏锐地觉察到，自己苦心经营两年的行动计划，即将在眼前实现。 这个人就是关东军作战主任参谋石原莞尔中佐。 在对东三省的军事侦察结束后，他和板垣便在关东军乃至军部内各搭了一个“满蒙行动”的秘密班底。 时间地点也都确定好了。 时间初定于1931年9月28日。 之所以要选这一天，那也是有讲究的。因为此时正是秋熟之后，东北各地的庄稼刚刚收上来。没了青纱帐遮挡，可以保证部队行动的效率。 最初石原的设想是招一批浪人，让这帮孙子穿上东北军军服，然后对日本总领事馆和关东军驻地发动袭击，以此来挑起事端。 后来又觉得不妥，认识到这样一来，牵涉人数太多，加上那些跑江湖的浪人又没有经过专业训练，人多嘴杂，难保不泄密。 这样就又回到了当年策划“皇姑屯事件”的老套路，改为极少数人在铁路上进行爆破，然后再赖在中国军队头上。 石原把这个爆破点选在了南满铁路柳条湖段。 柳条湖位于沈阳北部，距东北军驻地北大营只不过六七百米。六七百米，也就是一里路多上一点，铁轨爆破后，关东军几个冲剌就能杀到北大营。 为什么不能一开始就发动直接进攻，而非要嫁祸于人呢？ 石原考虑的很精细：除了欺骗外界外，还得蒙过军部。 根据规定，关东军司令官在未得到上级命令的情况下，是没有擅动军队的权利的。但有一种情况是例外，那就是发生紧急情况时，可先进行便宜处置，然后再报告。 如果中国军队把铁路都给炸了，情况还不算“紧急”吗？ 为了助石原成事，有人还特地给他送来了大炮。 作为奇才，一般都不太善于搞人际关系。石原也是如此。 但是欣赏他的人倒也不少。参谋本部军事课长永田铁山大佐（陆大23期）就是其中之一。 提起永田铁山，当年可算是一个人物。在巴登巴登泡温泉的狂人里面，这位仁兄是和冈村宁次肩并肩挨在一起吹过老牛的。 民国二十年（1931年）春，永田铁山到满洲视察，发现沈阳城墙比较坚固，一旦攻城还得用上重炮。 回去后就批了个条子，从国内支援两门大炮给关东军。 这两门大炮口径都达到24公分，块头不小，如果堂而皇之运过来，那挑衅打架的姿态就太露骨了。 所以得保密。 大炮首先被拆卸开来，炮身被放进一个好像棺材的大木箱里，然后再搬上船。为了隐蔽身份，这艘装炮的船既不是军舰，也不是货轮，而是一艘货真价实的客船。连负责装卸的士兵，都穿上便衣，扮作了船上拖运行李的苦力。 就这么累死累活，神神秘秘地拖到沈阳附近，却发现了一个事先谁也没有想到的雷人问题——装不起来。 接收大炮的单位是独立守备第2大队，他们平时主要就是负责看守铁路的，大炮运过来后，大家都傻了眼，因为不会装。 想调人来帮忙吧，又怕泄露了机密，只好摸索着自己干。但干也没法好好地干，得偷偷摸摸地干。 说出来很搞笑，他们把装大炮这门活整得像个地下工作一样，除了避中国人外，主要还是为了躲自己人。 尽管运炮的路上小心了又小心，但日本外务省可不是吃素的，探子到处都是，不知怎么让他们听到了风声。 外务省帮军人擦屁股擦怕了。一听关东军有异动就两眼直冒金花，不知道这帮小子又准备惹什么麻烦出来了。 没有确凿证据又不敢跟军部说，他们只好找借口，三天两头派沈阳领事馆的人去守备队驻地附近转悠，就想从中发现一点秘密出来。 这下好了，白天就别想把大炮搬出来装了。 “临时技师们”最佳的工作时段是深夜十二点到凌晨三点，一个个都熬得眼睛通红。 一群人白天睡觉，晚上工作，总得有个理由吧。 正式理由是：打井。 就这样，紧赶慢赶，等两门大炮装到好，也用了两个多月时间。 看到地上一个螺丝都不剩了，大家伙总算松了一口气。这时候巨晕的事情又发生了——没人会操作。 你别看《集结号》里的“谷子地”连长想冒充炮兵似乎很容易，其实满不是那么回事。 炮兵之所以能成为一种独立兵种，那可绝对是一个纯技术活。普通步兵上去填个炮弹可能没问题，但要瞄准就一准得抓瞎。 但既然是领导特意关照给送来的，又费尽周折地装了起来，怎么着也不能再提出来退货，石原只好自我解嘲：反正离得很近，也用不着瞄得太准，只要起到吓人的目的就万事大吉了。 真正对石原的惊天行动起到强有力后援作用的，是他的老前辈、“光荣退休”的河本大作。 “皇姑屯事件”结果不圆满，把事情搞砸了的河本很不甘心，退出现役后，这老小子靠山吃山，傍水喝水，到满洲铁路上去混了。 眼看着石原等一帮“后起之秀”在那里折腾来折腾去，他也心痒难耐，自己不能亲身参与，就出钱赞助。石原“满洲行动”的活动经费几乎都是河本一个人掏的腰包。 Lessons learned from the past, overturned by the latter.石原拿了老前辈的钱，却也没忘记吸取老前辈的教训。那就是坏事要么不做，要做就做绝。这回可不是杀一两个人的问题，而是得把东北军统统干灭，由日本人独霸满洲。 为此，他也给自己和关东军投了一个“保险”，那就是想方设法把日军驻朝鲜军队调至边境，随时准备越境支援。 地点选好了，人马配好了，万事俱备，就等那个预定的日子到来。 离9月28日越来越近。 虽然石原机关算尽，但是他的秘密还是被人发现了。 其实石原的保密工作倒没少做。 石原在关东军中搭建了一个秘密班底，并起用了一个参谋花谷正少佐（陆大34期）。这哥们想在石原手下混，自然要拿点干劲出来。他费了吃奶的劲，终于从沈阳附近的关东军部队里挑选了川岛大尉等几个干将。 挑选的标准除了德智体美劳以外，还有一个重要的方面，就是得有一个严密的口风。 毕竟是干大事嘛，嘴上没把锁那还行。 口风好不好，怎么测法呢？ 总不能拿个测试仪让大家伙去对着吹气吧。 花谷正不愧是天才石原一手选定的准天才，他的办法是喝酒。 看看喝进去的是清酒，吐出来的是不是实话。 于是为了接受组织的考验，选中的人便都交上了好运，被这家伙一个个找去喝酒。 最后，川岛大尉等几个军官就因为酒喝得再多也不吐真言而成为了“幸运儿”。 至于落选的也不亏，甭管怎样，一顿酒总是喝上了。 你说花谷正请这么多客，掏这么多银子，他就一点不肉疼？ 半点也不。 因为他用的是公款。“爱国老前辈”河本给的。不用白不用。 对着石原领导，花谷正拍着胸脯一个个数过来，打包票说这些兄弟绝不会把大事给泄露出去。 可是他数来数去，却忘记了把自己计算在内。 回东京出差的时候，花谷正跑到酒馆去“放松”，几杯马尿一灌，便痛快淋漓地把“满蒙行动”计划都吐露给了那些歌妓们。 军官经常光顾的酒馆，自然也是高官们定期不定期“考察”的重点。歌妓们可没有什么责任和义务要守口如瓶，今天一句，明天一句，调笑之余，便把花谷正的原话都捅了出去。 一传十，十传百，很快传到了外相币原喜重郎的耳朵里。 此前，外务省已经接到过沈阳领事馆发来的报告，都是有关关东军“异动”的：比如北大营旁边的守备队多了两门大口径火炮，又比如关东军一反常态，竟然不事先打招呼就进行演习，而且演习的场所也很蹊跷，别的地方都不去，就喜欢在北大营和沈阳城附近转悠。 不过仅此也不能说明关东军就一定想怎么怎么样。 即使在听到花谷正的话后，币原仍然将信将疑，毕竟对方说的都是酒话，又是在那种地方，要是当真了，没准还会被人拿去当笑话听呢。 但是随后接到的一份密电却让他大惊失色，不能不认真对待了。 这是沈阳日本总领事林久治郎亲自发来的。 林久在电报中说，看来传说中的关东军有军事行动可能还是真的，因为最近他们正在集合军队，而且已经从仓库里开始取武器弹药，气氛那叫一个吓人。 币原顿时害了怕，枪上剌刀，子弹上膛，不是要打仗还会是什么。 要照关东军这么胡搞法，屁股底下的外相位置还能再坐几天？ 他赶紧报告内阁首相若榇。 若榇早就被国内风起云涌的“爱国浪潮”搞得晕头转向，一听关东军还要趁乱起事，这还得了。 可是军人的事，连首相也不敢管。当年的田中那么牛哄哄，到头来还不是自个给自个吃了只大头苍蝇。 这么着，军队的事还只有让军队的人来管。 若榇找到陆军大臣南次郎大将（陆大第17期），认为这件事与政府现有的外交政策相抵触，是不能允许的，并让他负责把这件事给搞定。 南次郎再回过头来和娘家人参谋本部联系。参谋总长金谷范三大将（陆大第15期）在得知关东军有此计划后，总体态度也是不同意。 不是不能打，而是不能今年打。 要想不做“满洲权益”被中国收回的噩梦，最好的办法就是把满洲全部变成日本的“固有国土”，所以打是一定要打，而且这两年正是打的最佳时机——英美自家的麻烦都应付不过来，想不过来；苏联同样在搞国内建设，不能过来；中国自己，则忙于内战而无力对外。 事实上，早在一年前，参谋本部就已采纳了石原的“关东军占领满蒙计划”，并在此基础上，制定了一个三步军事方案：第一步占领，第二步“建国”，第三步吞并，最终把满蒙纳入日本的版图。 金谷的担心主要是，如果今年就打，关东军难以稳操胜券，最好等到明年时机成熟后再发动。 他派作战部部长建川美次少将（陆大21期）前去东北，劝说关东军暂停行动。 但是，军部所不知道的是，在他们内部其实也早就有了一个“满蒙行动”的秘密班底，与石原在关东军中的秘密班底向来都是一个鼻孔出气。 有“挺进将军”之称的建川就是这个秘密班底的重要成员。平日里，他和坂垣的秘电码从没有中断过。 让他去劝说关东军岂非笑话一个？ 当下，建川照样出他的差。通风报信的活交给了俄国班长桥本欣五郎中佐（陆大32期）。 桥本领衔的参谋本部俄国班，被外界称为“第二秘密参谋本部”。从他这个班长开始，几乎都是铁杆的“满蒙行动”秘密班底成员。 桥本一口气给板垣和石原发了3份密电。 第一份内容是：计划已败露。 第二份内容是：已决定派建川前往满洲，因此需及早动手，以免给他添麻烦。 第三份内容是：希望能在建川抵沈阳以前就动手。 建川也是个“有心人”。 从东京到沈阳，坐飞机用不了半天就能到。 但为了给关东军“起事”以充裕的准备时间，建川充分发扬了一下艰苦朴素的工作