Chapter 31 1. To fight or not to fight is not a question

Unwilling to be a small country, Japan is always thinking about other countries, hoping to use war to invade and annex China, North Korea and other neighboring mainland countries, so as to expand its territory and accelerate its own development.Japan's aggression has its six-step strategy: annex Taiwan; annex Korea; annex Manchuria; annex China; dominate Asia; dominate the world.Japan is like a machine with a program. Once the program is started, it will follow the established route step by step and execute its plan unswervingly. In 1927, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka gave a memorial to the Emperor of Japan (the Japanese do not recognize the existence of this memorial), establishing the aggressive policy of splitting Manchuria from mainland China.At that time, the Japanese military formed a cabinet, which was in conflict with the Japanese civil servants.Tanaka was a general in the army, and the Japanese civil servants were quite knowledgeable. They believed that according to the memorial, Japan's national power was not good enough, which would lead to the demise of the Japanese nation. The two elders in the Meiji period were quite opposed.

Tanaka Yoshiichi said in the memorial, "If our empire wants to conquer the world, it must first conquer China, and if it wants to conquer China, it must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia." belittle.The English name of Japan is JAPAN, and it is not appropriate for China to call it the country of picking pots. The Manchuria and Mongolia that Tanaka wanted to conquer first was the Northeast. Zhang Xueliang vaguely heard that there was such a memorial in Japan, so he sent agents to find an overseas Chinese from Taiwan who had settled in Japan for more than 20 years, and found one of the two elders who opposed Tanaka.The elders hope to have some restrictions on the military, and are willing to let China get a memorial.The elders brought the overseas Chinese into the Japanese imperial palace, took transparent paper, covered the memorial with one stroke, and copied the memorial.Regardless of whether this memorial exists or not, Japan has since followed the path of Tanaka, dreaming of conquering the Northeast first, then China, and finally the world.Conquering the Northeast is the first step.

Japan has long coveted the Northeast.Northeast China was Zhang Zuolin's territory at that time, and he never bought it from anyone.Zhang Zuolin was born in the grass and is quite legendary.It is said that Zhang Zuolin was bold by nature. Every year on Confucius’ birthday, he would take off his military uniform and put on a long robe and mandarin jacket. He went to various schools and bowed to the teachers, saying that he was a big boss and didn’t understand anything.Special thanks to the teachers who educate the next generation.Zhang Zuolin once gave a speech to the graduates in the Northeast Martial Arts Hall. He had memorized the speech written by the staff officer by heart, but suddenly he saw the darkness in the audience and looked at him silently. He was so nervous that he froze for a long time without speaking.Finally, he opened his mouth to curse, then walked off the stage, walked around the graduates, frequently asked the students' names, patted them on the shoulder, and re-entered the podium: "I saw that everyone was so happy that I couldn't remember many things to say. We They are all good boys, good boys have to work hard! After you graduate, you can become a platoon leader. As long as you work hard, you can be promoted to company commander and battalion commander. I can get anything I want, I can give anything I want, but there is only one thing, my wife can't give it!"

Zhang Zuolin has a close relationship with Japan and has received a lot of assistance from Japan, but most of the time he will agree to Japan's request and will not fulfill it.Zhang Zuolin took a non-cooperative attitude towards Japan's demands of making progress.Once, the Japanese army killed a Chinese soldier, and Zhang Zuolin personally negotiated with the Japanese consulate to lodge a protest.The Japanese consul wrote a check for 5,000 yuan in Kanto coupons and handed it to Zhang Zuolin.After Zhang Zuolin came back, he immediately ordered the whole army to have a holiday and kill any Japanese they encountered.It was the middle of the night, and the soldiers killed two Japanese.The Japanese consulate approached Zhang Zuolin in the early morning, and Zhang Zuolin immediately handed over the check from the Japanese consul, and wrote another check for 5,000 yuan to the Japanese consul, retaliation.

Zhang Zuolin's various actions annoyed the Japanese.Zhang Zuolin failed to meet Japan's requirements for building roads, opening mines, setting up factories, renting land, and emigrating in "Manchuria", and he often did some characterful things in front of the Japanese, which the Japanese cabinet could not tolerate. On June 4, 1928, Zhang Zuolin and his entourage were killed by Japanese bombers on the train from Beijing back to Fengtian.Zhang Xueliang, the son of Zhang Zuolin, was full of national hatred and family hatred, abandoned the grievances with the Kuomintang, and resolutely surrendered to the Kuomintang, disrupting Japan's plan to invade the Northeast.

In fact, Japan's determination to aggressively invade China had already been determined. At that time, the world capitalist economic crisis spread to Japan, and the Japanese government attempted to divert domestic attention by launching a war of aggression.A large number of unemployment and layoffs, what should the common people do if they are dissatisfied?Fight a war, incite the patriotism of the angry youth, and unanimously go abroad.If you do this, the chances of success and failure may be half and half. If you succeed, the crisis will be resolved.Just like why Saddam Hussein fought the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War, it was to divert domestic conflicts.So back then, Japan also wanted to launch a foreign war and pass on the contradictions. If you succeed, you can die. If you fail, you will die sooner, and you will die faster. You might as well live like this and find ways to ease the conflicts and reduce the suffering of the people. Don't fight outside at every turn.

Even if the Kuomintang did not encircle and suppress the Red Army, Japan would have an opportunity to invade China.Because China appears to be unified on the surface, but in fact the five factions are fighting in chaos.Under such circumstances, in 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army captured Shenyang and created the "September 18th Incident".In less than half a year, the three eastern provinces fell into the hands of the Japanese army.Regarding the aggression of Japanese imperialism, Chiang Kai-shek once sent a secret message to Zhang Xueliang: "The Japanese army's actions in Shenyang can be regarded as a local incident, hoping to avoid conflicts, so as to avoid the expansion of the situation. All negotiations should be handled by the central government. No matter how the Japanese army provokes the northeast in the future, we should not agree to it." Resist and try to avoid conflict." Chiang Kai-shek publicly put forward the idea of ​​"to fight against the outside world, we must first settle down at home" and non-resistance to Japan, which stimulated the Japanese army to accelerate the pace of annexing the Northeast in an all-round way.Mr. Zhang Xueliang said in his memoirs that he miscalculated Japan's intentions. He did not expect that the Japanese Kwantung Army with more than 10,000 people would dare to attack.At that time, the Northeast Army had 110,000 people inside the customs, 200,000 and 310,000 people outside the customs, and the Northeast Army was the strongest army in China, with better equipment than the Central Army, including aircraft and tanks.