At around 14:45 on October 9, 1922, the Japanese Navy Province received the last telegram from the Kanto Army, and all the officers who learned about the content of the telegram were stunned.

Starting from 9 a.m. on October 7, the local military provinces and Navy provinces in Japan left an emergency telegram channel for the Kanto Army. From the first 30 minutes of one telegram to the 10 minutes of one on the 9th, the entire Japanese military invested the greatest force to try to save the war in Kanto.

Now, the Kanto Army's telegram text remains elegant, but the content is undoubtedly declaring to the Japanese Army and Navy that the Kanto Army is over.

The Kwantung Army is an elite rank in Japan, including 40,000 Japanese troops stationed in the Japanese concessions in Northeast China. The Kwantung Army, composed of 40,000 Japanese troops, was fully equipped and had several lines of defense that could be fully utilized. However, it was completely annihilated within 54 hours. Even if the Northeast Army took a sneak attack, it was still beyond the imagination of the Japanese army.

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The current Navy Minister is also appointed by Cabinet Prime Minister Tomosaburo Kato. The Navy general stood up from the seat in the war room and ordered with a dark face, "General Gentaro Yamashita and Lieutenant General Takeshita, come to my office!"

As he said that, General Kato Tosaburo took a staggering step and left the war room. The general's face turned dark because he was really sick. General Kato Tosaburo himself did not know that during the physical examination, the Imperial Doctor's Office had confirmed that he had colorectal cancer. But this news was not told to Tosaburo Kato and the cabinet.

The Japanese cabinet departments include the Ministry of Army and Navy. The Japanese Navy is under the control of the Imperial Navy. The highest-class cadres are called the "Three Chiefs" (the Three Chiefs of the Japanese Navy), namely the Minister of the Navy, the Chief of the Military Command and the Commander of the Joint Fleet.

Prime Minister Tosaburo Kato also serves as Minister of the Navy, Chief of the Military Command is General Gentaro Yamashita, and Commander of the Joint Fleet is Lieutenant General Takeshita. The "Three Chiefs" entered the Office of the Navy Minister, and General Tosaburo Kato was already angry and shouted, "The department responsible for collecting Northeast Army intelligence has dereliction of duty to this extent! It is really unheard of!"

This angry shout made General Tomosaburo Kato feel abdominal pain like a tampon, and he could only hold the table and sit slowly in his seat.

Both Yamashita Gentaro and Takeshita Yuki didn't know what to say. From the morning of October 7th to the present, Kato Tomosaburo turned down all cabinet meetings and personally took charge of the command of the Navy. He almost never sleeped for 54 hours. Not only the Navy Ministers were working so hard, but almost the entire Navy was like this.

Lieutenant General Takeshita wanted to say something, but after he spoke, he couldn't make a sound. In these 54 hours, he issued at least a few hundred orders to inquire about the situation of the fleet, ships, and ports. He also had to contact the Army Province for a meeting, asking how many troops the Army Province needed to send to reinforcements, the reinforcements had to mobilize, how much equipment, how large the troops the reinforcements had to mobilize, and the logistics supplies were supplied from those places and transported there for temporary storage.

In normal times, the generals can hand over the work to the staff department. In an emergency, it is the generals who will directly supervise the operation of the troops. However, the time is too urgent, and the navy can only send a fleet of Marines to set off. It has not been able to catch up with the war at all. So Lieutenant General Takeshita finally decided not to say anything.

Chief of the Military Command, Yamashita Gentaro, said, "Your Excellency, since the situation is at this point, let's order the fleet to return."

"Well," Tomosaburo Kato responded dullly, then stood up with his strength to support the table, "You will start planning your plans for the Northeast now. You will also ask the Army Province what they will do next and when will they hold a meeting with the Navy Province to coordinate transportation and combat plans."

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After saying that, Kato Tomosaburo stepped out and General Gentaro Yamashita hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to hold a cabinet meeting. Maybe it's better to hold a parliamentary meeting." Kato Tomosaburo said as he walked, and he was about to reach the door. The Japanese Prime Minister said a little fiercely: "Those damn elected parliamentarians are ignorant and make all kinds of nonsense to incite the public's emotions. This time, we must let the public know the truth and never let people criticize the Ministry of Navy and the Ministry of Army."

"Yes!" Chief of the Military Command, Gentaro Yamashita, bowed and responded. Although Lieutenant General Takeshita could not speak, he bowed and bowed to him and respectfully gave him Tomosaburo Kato.

Tomosaburo Kato took a bus to the cabinet, and all the cabinet members who had received the call were arrived. Tomosaburo Kato and the Minister of Army Yoshiichi Tanaka looked at each other and saw the fatigue of each other. As the Minister of Army Yoshiichi Tanaka, Yoshiichi Tanaka was only busy with Tomosaburo Kato.

Most of Kato Tomosaburo's cabinet is composed of affairs officials. The cabinet members are proficient in government affairs. They did not show surprise or panic in the face of such an impact. Yoshiichi Tanaka first informed the cabinet members of the latest battle situation, "... the Kanto Army has been broken. I just received a report from the Northeast Army stationed in North Korea. Now the Army Department and the North Korean Army stationed in North Korea have maintained a radio report once every 20 minutes. The Army Department can grasp the latest battle situation on the front line, and the Army Department requested the Prime Minister to implement Class B mobilization."

Speaking of this, Tanaka Yoshichi looked at the Minister of the Takahashi Takahashi Kiyoshi. Whether it was Harashi Takahashi or Takahashi Takahashi or Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi Takahashi

After Tanaka Yoshiichi finished speaking, Kato Tomosaburo directly asked Takahashi how to be the Qing, "Minister Takahashi, can the Ministry of Finance take action as soon as possible and prepare to review the war funds?"

Takahashi Shiqing's voice was not loud, "The capital of Dazang is ready as soon as possible."

Now the Japanese cabinet is divided into the "five prime ministers". Prime Minister: Prime Minister of the Cabinet. Foreign Minister: Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mainland Prime Minister: Cabinet Minister of Army. Maritime Prime Minister: Cabinet Minister of Navy. Tibetan Prime Minister: Cabinet Minister of Finance. Hearing that the Minister of the Teachings did not refuse, the cabinet members who advocated a fight were relieved.

In other words, the five ministers have reached a consensus on this matter.

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At this time, Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida asked a question, "This time the imperial war targeted the Northeast Army of China, and there is no way to formally declare war. In terms of war, I wonder what suggestions do you have?"

Tomosaburo Kato did not interfere with the matter and replied: "The characterization of the war will be drafted by Minister Uchida. Judging from the current situation, the Northeast Army is a very powerful opponent, so I suggest forming a base camp."

The other three ministers had no objection. Prime Minister Kato reported this proposal to Emperor Taisho.

At the end of the meeting, Tomosaru Kato and Yoshiichi Tanaka sat down on the sofa in the prime minister's office. Yoshiichi Tanaka took the initiative to say: "Your Excellency, now the army's active troops have 21 divisions, and if they are fully equipped, there will be 490,000, and the real force is only 290,000. The Kwantung Army has broken 40,000, and the two divisions stationed in the Korean Army have 50,000 troops. At this stage, the latest meeting of the Ministry of Army discusses, and believes that it is still believed that northern North Korea has been lost. The imperial army should take southern North Korea as the starting point to fight the Northeast Army."

Prime Minister Kato agreed with this view and asked: "Did anyone in the Army Department make suggestions to expand the war?"

Yoshiichi Tanaka thought for a moment, but still shook his head.

In fact, some stupid school officials in the Army Department did make suggestions to march into Shandong, China, and such suggestions were immediately scolded. Among the generals and officers of the Army Department and the General Staff Headquarters, except for the real "Red Deer" hardliners like Uehara, the other generals felt very difficult about this war.

He Rui chose a very good opportunity. During the European War, Japan did not have any military pressure, so the number of troops actually decreased. In those years, job opportunities increased a lot, and many Japanese citizens did not want to join the army and eat food.

After the war, Japan's economy immediately declined, and the number of people who wanted to join the army increased. The Japanese army, which had experienced the European war, was not in a hurry to expand, but instead formulated new recruitment standards.

Before, as long as the people were healthy and were not sinners, the Japanese Army would recruit them. Now the Japanese Army began to make requirements for academic qualifications. Illiterate people should recruit less if they can, and if they can, they should not recruit. Graduation from elementary school is the standard, and graduation from middle school is the best. Non-commissioned officers must graduate from junior high school, while officers should graduate from high school. In this kind of entanglement, the Japanese Army's strength remained at around 290,000.

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He Rui's Northeast Army has a total of 300,000. The Japanese Army believes that this is a newly formed army, so it is inevitable to underestimate He Rui. He Rui just took this opportunity to launch a raid. Now the Kwantung Army has been destroyed, and the Japanese army has only 250,000 left in service.

It will take at least two months to restore the full 490,000 troops from 250,000 people to 490,000 troops.

Just as Tanaka Yoshiichi was considering this matter, Kato spoke, "Secretary Tanaka, do you think the troops stationed in North Korea can defend North Korea? He Rui's troops seem to be more than 300,000."

"Why do you think so?" Tanaka Yoshiichi didn't understand how Navy Secretary Tomosaburo Kato spoke like this about the Army.

"I heard from Nagata Jun's judgment. Nagata Jun believes that He Rui did not seek quick victory this time, but wanted to hold the empire in the war. Then, by the time the war was in progress, the number of imperial army might reach 700,000 or even more. In order to deal with such a situation, He Rui's troops might reach 1 million."

Since Kato said this, Tanaka Yoshiichi immediately raised the question of the Army Department, "Can the Admiralty begin to formulate a plan for landing operations?"

"How large is the landing operation that the Army Department hopes to be?" asked the Navy Secretary Kato.

"Before setting off in North Korea, the Army Department reminded the Korean troops to be careful of being ambushed during the march. Before I came, the Army Department sent another telegram to the Korean troops stationed in Korea to be careful of fighting. If a landing war can be carried out in Dalian or Yingkou, He Rui may fall into a situation of fighting on both sides. The General Staff Headquarters is conducting calculations. They roughly believe that if a landing war is launched, a unit of at least five divisions is needed. As for the location, Dalian may be a good choice. Of course, if the Navy can occupy Liugong Island, it will be a good location."

Liugong Island is located at the mouth of Weihai Bay Bay at the eastern end of Shandong Peninsula in eastern China. The island covers an area of ​​315 square kilometers and the island coastline is 1,495 kilometers. It is a natural sea barrier in Weihai City and plays an extremely important position in national defense. It is known as the "East Jing Pingxian" and "unsinkable warship". Many maritime wars occurred here from the Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty to liberation, especially the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

The Navy Minister Kato sneered, "Hmph, I think Liugong Island is not as good as Dagukou."

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Dagukou is named after it lies at the mouth of the Dagu River (now Haihe River). It is located 50 kilometers southeast of Tianjin City, and a fort was installed here in the Ming Dynasty.

During the Second Opium War, the Qing army and the British and French coalition forces fought near Dagukou, Tianjin. Three battles occurred in total, and finally ended with the Dagu Fort being captured and the Qing army failed. 40 years later, in 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded and attacked Dagukou for the fourth time, capturing it again.

Of course, the Navy Secretary Kato did not really support doing this, but was mocking the Army Department or showing the fox tail that expanded the war.

But Tanaka Yoshiichi did not feel unhappy because of this. "Your Excellency, Lushun is an important military port that can block the Bohai Strait. He Rui captured Lushun and greatly shortened the coastline that he would be attacked. Judging from his current performance, the Northeast Army was not the Qing army, but had a strong fighting will. The Empire fought against the Northeast Army in the mountains of northern North Korea, and it could not be very fast. During the stalemate, it was only possible to break through the navy. The Northeast Army did not care about fighting a long-term battle with the Empire."

At this time, Kato felt his mind a little confused and his abdomen was painful, so he couldn't concentrate on thinking. He could only say, "Let's wait for the battle situation of the troops stationed in Korea first. I'm going to meet His Majesty the Emperor, and I'll talk about this first today."

Tanaka Yoshimitsu said goodbye together. He did not return to the Army Department and went directly to the General Staff Headquarters. General Uehara Yuzuka was greeted by Yoshiichi Tanaka at the door. He said with a serious expression: "I just received the news that the Northeast Army divided into two groups and advanced south along the Tokaido and the West Sea. Now the North Korean army heading along the West Sea Department was attacked by the Northeast Army."

Yoshichi Tanaka was not surprised. The Northeast Army still had strategic initiatives until now, and it was normal to take the initiative to attack. He ran to the Navy Minister and told the Navy that it was entirely to reverse the Northeast Army's strategic initiative as soon as possible. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese army relied on the naval advantage to open up the situation.

So Tanaka Yoshiichi said: "Humahara, how much progress is there when sending three divisions to North Korea?"

"The Kumamoto Division, Sendai Division, and Nagoya Division are ready. The Navy has not yet given a complete response. Once the boarding date is determined, the troops will land in Busan and go north to reinforce from Busan. At this stage, the North Korean army must drag down the Northeast Army."

After Uehara Yuki finished speaking, he hesitated for a while. Tanaka Yoshiichi felt that he could understand such hesitation and could hold the Northeast Army. When the three divisions arrived, he could damage the Northeast Army that attacked North Korea in one fell swoop. But it was not easy to hold on. At least judging from the combat effectiveness shown by the Northeast Army, they had the strength to smash the Japanese heavy army group.

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Such thoughts can only be kept in mind. Tanaka Yoshiichi said: "Since that's the case, I will go back to the Ministry of Army and continue to contact the Ministry of Navy."

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