Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Sleepless Night

After the Sino-Soviet Tongjiang War ended, the Central Plains War broke out in the pass. In the past, Chiang Kai-shek was fighting with two fists (Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang), but now he is fighting with four enemies (Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, Tang Shengzhi). Seeing that it is getting more and more difficult. At the most critical moment, Zhang Xueliang chose to stand with his brother Meng. On September 18, 1930, Zhang Xueliang issued a telegram supporting Jiang, saying that he would send troops to carry out armed mediation. It sounds like persuasion, but the elbow is clearly turned to Chiang Kai-shek.

The main force of the 100,000 Northeast Army entered the pass, and Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan in North China were attacked by the enemy, and they were immediately beaten and paralyzed.As soon as they paralyzed, Chiang Kai-shek became the overlord of the Central Plains. The story of life is a circle of grievances and hatreds.These people were once sworn brothers to Jinlan, and then became sworn enemies one by one. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang, the last pair of allied brothers finally won, unfortunately it was in the civil war. Externally, there is actually no one who is not a loser.After a large-scale civil war, all parties participating in the war suffered "terrible casualties". The original veterans almost changed, and Zhang Xueliang moved to the pass, which provided an opportunity for outsiders to covet the Northeast.

At this time, if there is still a real winner, it would be better to say that it is Japan 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. A huge conspiracy is brewing, and an earthquake-like change is coming, because of its appearance, China will never have peace from now on. Remember Mr. Kawamoto, the chief planner and producer of the "Huanggutun Incident" (Muraoka, commander of the Kwantung Army, can only be regarded as a sponsor)?

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. It is actually very appreciative that the senior staff of the Kwantung Army can make such a big movement in the Northeast with their own efforts.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 his classmates of Lu Daxin: Colonel Seishiro Itagaki and Lieutenant Commander Ishihara Waner.

In addition to Doihara, the so-called "Three Heroes of the Kwantung Army" are now on stage together. Checking personal resumes, Doihara, Kawamoto, Itagaki, and Ishihara are all alumni of Luda University. Their college entrance examination experience is almost exactly the same. They have all gone through the triple jump stages of juvenile school, army non-commissioned officer school, and army university.Interestingly, the number of graduates of the four (Lu University) also increased step by step, and they all skipped two levels in the middle, starting from Dohihara, and they were Lu University 24th, 26th, 28th, and 30th.

I have said long ago that Japan has its own way of cloning human beings. The first three can be regarded as typical representatives of Japanese military officers of that era, 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 once-in-a-century genius and geek among Japanese soldiers. To expect great 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 the soil, environment and conditions suitable for their growth.But in the Japanese military circles, these things are actually not available. Some people say that what the college entrance examination system really harms is not the present, but the future. I take it for granted. Similar to the college entrance examination, the training and education system for Japanese military officers is basically completely closed, and it is more based on scores. The scores in school can even be with you for the rest of your life.

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 returned from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school usually walked with their nostrils facing the sky (the Northeast Army even created a special "non-commissioned officer department", see Mr. Yang Yuting Yang 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 will find a lot of them. If you want to find a few geniuses and geeks who are different from other people, it is almost equivalent to the Arabian Nights. But I said almost. In the desert where not even a blade of grass grows, 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.

For example, Akashi Genjiro we mentioned earlier. As a graduate of the fifth batch of Lu University, he is the predecessor of Doihara and the others.Compared with his later "outstanding achievements", his school grades (referring to Lu University) are actually not very good.However, the entrance examination to the mainland university is the same as the entrance examination to our domestic universities. The pre-examination conditions are harsh. Once you enter the door, you will be your own family. You don't have to worry about being expelled from the school because of the popularity of the school. In addition to poor grades, this person is also extremely lazy, and he is simply a must in this respect.First, he doesn't like to take a bath, and second, he doesn't like to change clothes. His body exudes a special smell over the years, and he belongs to the type that strangers should not get close to.It is said that once a superior came to talk to him, the leader was talking, and when he lowered his head, he suddenly found that his shoes were damp and smelled bad.On closer inspection, it actually splashed out from Akashi-kun's crotch! What's even more astonishing is that the sloppy king not only didn't blush and his heart beat, but also maintained a completely calm attitude, saying that he did feel anxious at the time, but because he was too involved in the conversation, he didn't want to go to the toilet. He pissed while talking. Compared with Akashi, those children who accidentally wet the bed and blush are simply too civilized. But it turns out that Akashi is indeed a genius in the field of espionage. Twenty years after Akashi, the Japanese Army University finally produced another genius in the field of pure military combat. This person is Ishihara Wanji. Like Akashi, Ishihara has also achieved "informality" and resolutely implemented this tradition of weirdos who don't like bathing and don't care about their appearance. There is some truth to the saying that there are geeks who have geeks. Unlike Akashi, Ishihara has shown greater creativity in the sloppy performance art circle. If you don't take a bath, you will be covered in lice, which is almost a certainty.When other people have lice, they will become angry with embarrassment and want to kill them quickly.Shi principle is otherwise, he does not kill lice. Of course, Shi Yuan, who grew up in a military den since he was a child, has neither the kindness of a woman nor a member of an animal protection organization.He keeps lice only because he comes up with something new to have fun with. The man numbered all the lice he caught, and shouted: Get ready, run. Then see which louse is leading and which louse is lagging behind, rewarding the good and punishing the bad, which is very enjoyable. Not to mention, there are quite a lot of people watching this perverted game.Later, a casino was simply opened, and everyone bet according to the number, making it as lively as Hong Kong people betting on horses. Drawing has always been a basic homework in military academies.It's as if the "Sun Honglei" in it was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy by relying on his drawing skills, and was appreciated by the instructors. The same is true for military academies in Japan, where students are required to submit drawing assignments every week, and free questions are allowed.But one day the instructor of the military academy was completely overwhelmed by a drawing of a "free proposition". In fact, there is nothing earth-shattering in the painting. If there is no written description, it looks like a very ordinary small stick. Subject: My baby. Author: Ishihara Wanji. Location: toilet. Time: a certain day of the month. It turned out to be Ishihara-kun's own precious penis! Basically realistic, maybe a little exaggerated. From then on, everyone gave Shi Yuan a name: No. 7. If you don't explain it, you think it's the secret agent code name for lurking.In fact, it refers to the seventh building of a hospital in Japan, where all mental patients live.Everyone thinks that it is especially suitable for Shi Yuan to live there. Drawing pictures can draw to the great state of entering a mental hospital, and he is also the first person in ancient and modern times. Life is a mess, and I don't work hard at school. Everyone else is studying hard, but this buddy doesn't take it seriously.In addition to catching lice and drawing my own penis, my biggest hobby 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 military affairs.Shi Principle is different. He has a wide range of reading, covering all kinds of books on human geography, and he also has a lot of experience. This may be the basis for his later ability to engage in "theoretical research". Even so, those classmates who worked ten times harder than him still couldn't pass him in the exam, and "No. 7" always came out on top every time. The so-called geeks usually refer to such a type of people: neurotic, but the brain is particularly good, as if acupuncture points have been tapped by aliens. Akashi is like this, and so is Ishihara.The two psychopaths seemed to have no trouble, and both were admitted to the Japanese Army University, which is impossible for normal people to squeeze their heads. On the campus back then, Shi Yuan-kun was quite famous. Entering the mainland is equivalent to entering the safe of a high-ranking officer. If you go out, you will be a general. No matter how bad you are, you can be a general, so everyone is full of posture, and they like to show off with a knife on their waist wherever they go. Show off. Among them, the most attractive one is Shi Yuan who doesn't even wear a piece of clothing properly. Because his knife is really awesome.In terms of length, it is longer than other knives and can be dragged all the way to the ground. It belongs to the extended version of Japanese knives, and people are chasing it wherever they go. Ishihara also got another even better knife when he graduated. This is the Imperial Sword bestowed by the Emperor. In mainland China, those who rank among the top six in graduation are called the "saber group". Not only will they receive a saber bestowed by the emperor, but they will also be able to study abroad.In the later period, the high-level Japanese army was almost completely monopolized by the "saber group".Muraoka, who was transferred to the reserve after the "Huanggutun Incident", was once a member of the "Saber Team". For the Japanese Army, the "Saber Group" is synonymous with prosperity, and all the people are riding rockets to rise. But Shi Yuan is a geek, different from normal people, so he is not in this case. Because of his notoriety early on, he couldn't even get into the agency.The military department sent him to the mainland of China to experience the road that every "China hand" has traveled, that is, "tourism" and stealing maps. There, he met his future "golden file"-Seishiro Itagaki, a former student of Luda University and his immediate boss. Before joining the Kwantung Army, Ishihara had already fully enjoyed the special treatment of the "saber group" going abroad. After visiting Germany, he was working as an instructor in mainland China. Heben chose Ishihara to complete his "unfinished business" in Northeast China with a certain vision. Because the eccentric Ishihara Wanji not only possesses the same madness and ferocity, but more importantly, he is also one of the few "thinkers" in the Japanese army who can explain the strategy of aggression against China clearly and logically. It is said that very few people in Japan can really understand Clausewitz's "On War". Even their foreign teachers and German instructors at the Army University are secretive about this majestic masterpiece. 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 Ishihara 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". War is the continuation of politics. - Clausewitz, On War Like the legendary Western seer Zarathustra, Ishihara also made a fortune for Japan. He said that Japan and the United States will fight a "final war" sooner or later (it is quite accurate). If it wants to fight, Japan will suffer a lot strategically, mainly because the country has no depth and lacks strategic resources (it later came true). Therefore, we must have a rear base, which is "Manchuria" (the conclusion of immorality 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, there are indeed many doubts about the hands of 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 viewpoints of the Tanaka Memorial come from the "final war theory". As soon as Ishihara's 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 Northeast leaders this time.They want to play with a big one and swallow the "manmeng" 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 prophesied 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. Ishihara is more terrifying than Kawamoto and the others because he is not only arrogant, but also calm, not ordinary calm, but extraordinary calm. For an action plan, it took Shi Yuan 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. After running around for a while, Ishihara has installed a full set of GPS navigation for the Kwantung Army to occupy "Manchuria". Next, all he needs to wait for is the most suitable opportunity to make a move in his opinion. At this time, where is Zhang Xueliang, whom Shi Yuan called "can be dealt with with a bamboo knife"? He is in Peking. Because of his participation in the Central Plains War, Young Marshal Zhang gained control of North China in addition to the Northeast. He owns as many territories as the Nanjing government. No local princes in the country can compare with it. Gradually, he seemed to have forgotten the place behind him full of soybeans and sorghum, where his father's foundation was. In fact, there were a lot of things happening in Northeast China in those two years, and most of them were related to the provocations of the Japanese. In North Korea, the appalling anti-Chinese movement even broke out. But none of these attracted Zhang Xueliang's attention. In order to fight against the rebellious Shi Yousan, he once again dispatched 80,000 main forces of the Northeast Army to enter the customs. These elite troops never returned to the Northeast after suppressing the rebellion. The Northeast is already in crisis, but he can't hear or see it. In this turbulent world, no one can really rest easy.Ishihara finally sharpened the "Bamboo Knife". At first, his idea was to recruit a group of ronin, let these grandsons wear the uniforms of the Northeast Army, and then launch an attack on the Japanese Consulate General and the Kwantung Army garrison to provoke trouble. Later it felt inappropriate.Because of this, there are too many people involved, and those ronin who run the rivers and lakes have not received professional training. In this way, it went back to the old routine of planning the "Huanggutun Incident", changing to a very small number of people carrying out blasting on the railway, and then blaming others. The time was originally set for September 28, but because the news was accidentally discovered by the government (the Japanese government), it had to be moved forward 10 days and changed to September 18. The Kwantung Army was so busy jumping up and down that it was a joy, but the Northeast Army continued to "respond to all changes with the same" as always. It should be said that there was no trace of the Japanese launching the "September 18th" incident. On the afternoon of September 18, the details of two Japanese soldiers cutting the telephone line of Beidaying were also captured by the Chinese side. However, judging from the reaction afterwards, it is clear that the Northeast authorities were seriously inadequate in terms of prevention.Could it be that they thought the Kwantung Army around them was the legendary Hello Kitty? In this regard, I also feel very depressed.People set fires in front of your house, but you said that you couldn't smell the smoke, and didn't even make the most basic preparations. Who would believe this? One detail in the historical materials caught my attention. After the "September 18th" Incident, the Kwantung Army broke into Zhang Xueliang's mansion in Shenyang, and found a large number of receipts from his safe. The officers didn't look at You Ke, but their eyes widened.Because the payees of these receipts are all Japanese, and they are not ordinary Japanese, all of them are dignitaries in Japanese politics. Click a little bit, there are a total of 53 pieces, and there are thousands of yuan to say the least.The largest number is 500,000, and the payee is Fukji Takejiro. This time Takejiro is a well-known figure in Japanese politics. He is the main cadre of the Political Friends Association, one of the two major parties in Japan.Later, Inuyang Takeshi of the Political Friends Association came to power to form a cabinet, and he also served as the cabinet minister of railways. Why did Zhuji Takejiro get the most money? Because at that time, Zhang Ci wanted to run for the prime minister and needed election funds, Zhang Xueliang bet his treasure on him, hoping to help him get into power smoothly by providing "political donations". Zhang Xueliang, as the young marshal of the Northeast, naturally has money.But then again, no one has too much money.Naturally, the money spent will be put to good use. According to the tradition of taking relationships, the money thrown out generally has three uses: first, to win over the other party.Second, speak for me.Third, do things for me. Now that the receipts have been taken, it means that the purpose must have been achieved, and the unspoken rules of Chinese politics will also apply after being moved to Fusang.Therefore, I guess that the young marshal did not take any defensive actions at all as some people imagined. 53 receipts, that means 53 favors, 53 information channels, 53 letters of guarantee. Indeed, at that time, although quite a few Japanese politicians clamored to use their fists, they were actually forced by the situation and had to sing high-profile and show their attitude in front of domestic voters.If you really want to use force immediately, few people will agree. Perhaps, it was precisely based on the judgment that Japan would not use force in a short period of time that Zhang Xueliang did not make any serious preparations before the incident. Of course, the above are just my guesses. As for why the Northeast Army was so lax in its defenses before the incident (tolerance and defense should be two different things), the real thoughts and reasons can only be asked by themselves.