Chapter 240 Japan declared war

The Qianmen incident has become a major event that shocked the international community. It is only 1,000 meters away from the Japanese Consulate General in Yanjing. The military cultural exchange group was killed and injured six times and seven injured in Yanjing Qianmen East Street.

It is said that the whole country is in an uproar, and it angrily demands that China shoots the murderer, demands that China ban the Chinese National Art Federation, and compensates Japan and publicly apologizes.

On November 17, the two consulates-general in Shanghai and Yanjing withdrew from China, interrupted all normal exchanges with China, and interrupted the economic and trade exchanges between the two sides. Noo Oshima, an intelligence officer of the Japanese Army Department, served as a special commissioner and arrived in Yanjing to negotiate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As a means of persecution, China has finally begun formal military mobilization, expanding its forces to 770,000 people, claiming that if China does not apologize and does not compensate, it will declare war at all costs.

The situation is always so unpredictable, far beyond everyone's expectations. It was originally thought that a large-scale military conflict would first break out on the western front, but now it seems that the eastern front is the most critical.

At present, the Japanese version has expanded to 33 divisions, with a total of 18 main divisions, called A divisions, with a membership of about 28,200 people, and 15 divisions of B, with a membership of about 23,000 people.

Due to the implementation of the military system for nearly 20 years, it is not difficult to expand the force to this extent in a short period of time.

With the opening of the railway from Yingkou to Pyongyang and Seoul, it is very likely to change its strategy and land directly in North Korea. However, under the condition that China firmly controls Jeju Island, this strategic policy is very risky.

There is no doubt that China will repeat the old tricks and quickly shrink its forces to Pyongyang.

Unlike ten years ago, the North Korean army has a certain combat strength, with a total of six divisions, three of which are concentrated in Pyongyang, and the fortifications around Pyongyang are very reliable.

As long as you attack Pyongyang, the Qingxu Corps will go south to support and try its best to intercept the opponent's offensive in the area of Pyongyang.

Will it attack North Korea?

Is this really a question?

In the past few days, Hu Chuyuan has held many joint meetings of the army in a row. Through the intelligence network of the General Administration of National Intelligence in the Japan Branch and the Jiangnan Translation Agency in the Japan Secret Office and the China League Association, he has continuously collected the military trends of Japan and analyzed the first link that Japan is most likely to break through.

At the same time, Hu Chuyuan is also paying attention to the attitudes of France and Russia.

France doesn't really want to participate in the war. There is no doubt about this. It's just that under the Allied agreement led by it, it has no choice but to declare war officially. It's hard to say how to fight and how much effort it will make.

Russia is eager to continue to increase its military deployment on the northwest front. Since the Far East Railway has been paved to the Manzhouli area, they are also very likely to send troops from Manchuria to attack Harbin across the Greater Khingan Mountains.

Hu Chuyuan's judgment is very simple. If Japan must attack North Korea, Jeju Island is the first link they must seize.

Jeju Island is currently part of China's territory and is also the southernmost jurisdiction of the Beiyang Navy. If you attack from Jeju Island, the Beiyang Fleet can always easily attack the transport ship between Japan and North Korea.

The war is finally coming.

That night, Hu Chuyuan, Chen Shanyuan, Lu Guangzuan, Lv Han, Lan Jianshu and others gathered again. More and more intelligence was constantly confirming Hu Chuyuan's judgment that he was going to attack Jeju Island.

Before this, the Beiyang Fleet had strengthened its military deployment in Jeju Port, stationing more than 20 defense ships and gunboats, closely relying on land forts to defend. Jeju County also has a naval battalion of the Beiyang Fleet, with a staff of more than 7,000 people.

The light in the conference room was gray. Hu Chuyuan sat in a large black chair and silently looked at the latest information.

There was a whistling cold wind outside the window. Yesterday, Yanjing finally snowed the first snow of the year. It rained slowly for two days without stopping for a moment.

After reading the information in his hand, Hu Chuyuan closed the information book, closed his eyes, pinched his forehead, and continued to think in his heart.

He is convinced that he will never wait for the official declaration of war. This kind of insidious tactical speculators will definitely choose a raid declaration of war, and the first battle will try its best to cause great damage to China.

Japan's naval strength is not strong, and the total drainage tonnage is less than 250,000 tons. The key is that the number of small ships is very large, and the navy's idea is also defense first, based on the use of Japan's excellent port conditions for offshore defense.

In this case, it is a little difficult to attack the Jeju Military Port, which has been painstakingly operated by the Beiyang Navy for ten years.

The war has finally come.

Although Hu Chuyuan has been preparing for this for a long time and waiting for a long time, he was still extremely nervous at the moment when the war was really coming.

All the data is only on paper. These data can have a major and sudden change of surnames at any time. Therefore, no one can predict the outcome before the war really starts.

In the Battle of Red Cliff, how could Cao Shen expect that he would lose?

There is no reason. Shouldn't we lose at all?

However, there are always accidents in history.

He can't figure out the first step he might have taken. Others can't figure it out. Everyone has their own opinions, but no one can be sure.

Chen Shanyuan was a little anxious and said to Hu Chuyuan, "Prime Minister, we might as well risk it and attack Japan directly. Let's raid their Nagasaki military port first."

Lv Han's eyes lit up and said, "This is a good way. Let's take the initiative in our own hands."

Hu Chuyuan thought about it seriously, and then waved his hand and said, "The strategic advantage of attacking Nagasaki is not great. On the contrary, it is not good for us to let the deployment of troops and supply lines cross the long sea area. What's more, the hearts of the people are better than anything else. The Chinese people are used to being stable and comfortable. They have to be beaten first to anger everyone, which will be conducive to us according to the original plan... Concentrate all forces to defeat the opponent.

Lu Guangzuan nodded slightly and said with approval, "Yes, the Prime Minister is right. What we want can't be a small victory. If it's just a small victory, we will really lose money.

These words are said in everyone's hearts. Those who can sit here are very clear about domestic military secrets. In terms of the research and development and accumulation of military technology in China, it has actually surpassed the level of Russia and France.

If you don't make good use of the advantages of the generation gap in the past few years, once the opponent also has the corresponding new technology and equipment, and really fight again, China may not be able to win the Allies.

Everyone is thinking about something, and there is silence in the conference room.

Wait anxiously.

There is a feeling of aggrievedness spreading, and even a feeling of sitting and waiting to be killed, which makes people feel helpless.

Hu Chuyuan is still steading his mind. Yes, for a longer-term plan and goal, sometimes he must learn to be patient. Only by mobilizing the anger of the whole nation can he complete his vision and a larger plan.

Such waiting is also spreading at various military bases in China. Everyone is carefully preparing for war. In case, the most annoying thing is undoubtedly the Beiyang Fleet in Jeju Squadron.

Pang.

The door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and Sun Zongyuan suddenly appeared in front of everyone. He held a message in his hand, and his whole body looked extremely surprised.

Everyone's mind was nervous.

"Your excellency...!"

Sun Zongyuan looked at Hu Chuyuan in surprise. After a few seconds, he continued, "I used to attack the Ryukyu Islands... Zhang Xiluan was in a hurry!!!"

What?

Hu Chuyuan asked himself in surprise, how could it be? Why did he attack the Ryukyu Islands?

Among the four veteran regiments in China, the Fujian and Zhejiang Corps are the only troops that may not participate in the war for a long time. Although there are three divisions, their combat effectiveness is absolutely not bad. What's more, Ye Boqi is in Keelung. The strength of the Pacific Fleet is stronger and can organize a large-scale counterattack at any time.

"How many troops do you have?" Lu Guang Quan asked eagerly.

Sun Zongyuan handed the message to Hu Chuyuan and replied, "There are about 40,000 people, and it is estimated that the two divisions cooperated with the navy to carry out landing operations. Japan's naval strength is also relatively strong, and our troops stationed in Yuntiangang, the big island of Ryukyu, are still difficult to prevent their opponents from making a forced landing.

Chen Shanyuan was surprised and said, "How can this be? The troops gathered in Nagasaki have not been dispatched... Is it the Tokyo headquarters or Kobe's military strength?"

Hu Chuyuan thought for a second and said, "It should be the Yokohama headquarters fleet... There are the six strongest light second-class battleships there. If you want to attack Ryukyu Oshima, you must use these forces. How many ships are there in the squadron we deployed in Yuntian Bay?

Lv Han is the Minister of the Navy. He knew these things best and immediately replied, "The sixth detachment of the Pacific Fleet in Yuntianwan has two cruisers, four defense ships and two destroyers, as well as six small gunboats and two torpedo ships... However, the ship models are relatively old in China. It hasn't been updated every year.

"Hmm!"

Hu Chuyuan didn't say anything. He knew very well that with his ability, now he can basically attack Jeju Island or Ryukyu Island.

In order to avoid heavy physical combat effectiveness in the first wave of raids, the front line is not the key and key in the domestic military deployment.

Of course, the Ryukyu Islands are very important. Hu Chuyuan just didn't consider that the Japanese would raid here. It's completely unreasonable!

He thought about it in his mind. After thinking about it, there was only one conclusion... He intended to attack Taiwan and use Taiwan as a springboard to directly threaten the economic focus of China's southeast coast.

Only in this way, and only by doing this step, can we avoid China from re-adopting a lasting strategy.

The key problem is that the navy is not able to do this step.

In the decisive battle between Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, the core force can only be the navy. What can the navy do?

Is it a false shot to use the Ryukyu Islands issue to share the defensive pressure of the Beiyang region?

Hu Chuyuan didn't believe it.

They don't have to do this. Their goal is very direct... It is to directly attack the economic capital of China's southeast coast and force China to make concessions.

Just when Hu Chuyuan couldn't figure it out, Zhang Jing and Gu Jiaxiang, the chief of the Privy Council, hurried in again. He also took a message and entered the door and said to Hu Chuyuan and others, "First of all, your lords... you have declared war!"

It's very strange.

Hearing this sentence, Hu Chuyuan was not angry, but relieved.

In this era, there can only be one life, one death, one prosperity, one decline, one stepping on another's corpse to climb to the position of the world powers.

This is the inevitability of history.

In the past, the Chinese did not understand this truth, but now, the Chinese understand.

Hu Chuyuan got up silently and took the telegram from the Gu family and took a brief look.

Looking at the message, his heart was particularly strange and complicated. There was some hot tension and congestion in his mind, but his mind was extremely calm. He sneered, hummed, but sighed, and then sneered strangely.

After a while, he seemed to be relieved. Then he looked up at everyone present and said, "Since there has been a war... or in the end, there has been a war... Then, it's up to us to decide how to fight."

After saying this, he folded the message, gave it to Gu Jiaxiang again, and told him, "Give it to the whole country."

On this day, Hu Chuyuan waited for a long time.

Until this moment, he still couldn't say whether China could win the final victory, but he knew... If China really won, it would be a tragedy for the world.

An unprecedented tragedy.

If China really wins, no other country in the world will dare to challenge China.

Whether it is Britain, the United States, Germany, or the possible Soviet Union.

In fact, China can not only say "no" in a low voice, but also say softly... I'm sorry for invading you!

(to be continued)