The status of the Japanese Emperor in Japan is equivalent to that of the Emperor Liu from the Western Han Dynasty to modern times. Although there were many ups and downs in the inheritance of the throne during this period, he did not dare to change dynasties even when the shogunate was in power.
In the eyes of the Japanese people, the Emperor of Japan is a sacred representative, but in the eyes of the Japanese powerful and plutocrats, the Emperor of Japan is a representative of interest groups, a lever that leverages the entire country, and a slogan that calls on the people to respond.
A puppet who asks questions about the world.
When the opinions are the same, the entire national machine runs at high speed, and the cost is that the people at the bottom become consumables. But when the opinions are different, the idea of the Japanese Emperor is not that important.
The Guards Division was recalled to Japan on the pretext of participating in domestic counterinsurgency and protecting Tokyo. In fact, the Japanese Emperor himself felt threatened and tried to use the Guards Division to strengthen his own defense force. However, the base camp was dropped when the Guards Division was on its way back.
An order was issued for it to dock at Haizhou Bay.
The root of the conflict in Japan today is actually the dispute between the Emperor's Road faction and the ruling faction. However, both are factions within the Japanese army. Their core views are the same. They both demand military dictatorship at home and aggressive wars abroad. However, the composition of the
They come from different classes.
Most of the Kodo faction came from the bottom of the society. They were not military college graduates and most of them were middle- and lower-level officers. It was difficult for them to get promoted in the army. They advocated "respecting the emperor" and clearing the emperor's side. They demanded that the Japanese emperor rule personally, overthrow the powerful and big capitalists, and rely on force to bring down the subordinates.
and carry out transformation.
The ruling faction is mostly from the elite class. Most of them graduated from mainland China and are middle- and upper-level military officers. They advocate maintaining the current political system internally, especially maintaining the dominance of the military, abandoning violent revolution, and implementing reforms from top to bottom.
The fundamental difference between the two lies in their different class positions. The slogan shouted by the Kodo faction is that the emperor is the greatest, but the emperor needs to support the soldiers, and those who are disobedient will be killed. The slogan of the ruling faction is that the military is the largest in the world, and even the military is the largest.
The emperor must also respect the military and transfer anyone who disobeys.
So in 1935, a young officer from the Kodo faction openly walked into the office of Nagata Tetsuyama, the then director of the Military Affairs Bureau, who was the representative of the ruling faction, and nailed him to the door with a knife.
In 1936, at the urging of some people behind the scenes, the commander of the First Division was ordered to be transferred to Manchuria. Therefore, the middle and lower-level officers of the First Division stationed in Tokyo believed that this was the Tongtong faction's attempt to eliminate the influence of the Emperor's faction, and eventually
He planned a mutiny and began to kill the "bad guys" around the emperor.
However, the dispute between the Emperor's faction and the ruling faction is not the mainstream of the Japanese army. The real conflict is the dispute between the Choshu clan and the Satsuma clan, and the army and the navy. Therefore, in the 226 mutiny, only one senior army officer was killed, and the others
The deceased were all high-ranking members of the Navy.
The success of the mutiny depended on the attitude of the Japanese Emperor, but Emperor Hirohito did not buy it. Firstly, the officers and soldiers who participated in the mutiny destroyed the bottom line. Secondly, although the officers and soldiers used the slogan of "respecting the emperor" and Qingjun, they made a second plan.
Invite Emperor Hirohito's younger brother to Tokyo.
Finally, the naval fleet arrived in Tokyo Bay, and with the joint efforts of the army and navy, the officers and soldiers who participated in the mutiny were suppressed.
One of them must be mentioned, Okamura Neiji was born into a declining samurai family. He was a member of the Imperial Way faction in the early days, and later switched to the Control faction. He was eventually promoted after suppressing the officers and soldiers during the February 26th Mutiny.
In fact, Okamura Neiji is regarded as the idol of the Imperial Way faction's counterattack. After Okamura Neiji's plane crashed through the Eighth Route Army base area, the Imperial Way faction's power in the Japanese army completely declined.
It was not until Emperor Hirohito felt that his rule was threatened that he thought of the Imperial Way Sect. However, it was too late at this time. Without the permission of the military department, Hirohito's orders could not leave the palace.
At this time, the commander of the Japanese Southern Army, Hisashi Terauchi, proposed to the base camp to increase troops, requesting to send 2 additional ground divisions to Burma, 1 division to Malaya, and additional troops to other regions. In addition, he also urgently called for
Expand Myanmar's 15th Army into a front army.
In response to the current situation, the Japanese military is determined to abandon its previous strategic intention of focusing on achieving military control and security in the occupied areas, and instead focus mainly on preparations and operations to repel the Allied counterattack, focusing its defense on Burma and major areas.
Resource origin.
As a result, the military headquarters ordered the establishment of the Myanmar Front Army, which has jurisdiction over the 15th Army, including the 18th, 33rd, 55th, and 56th Divisions, as well as the 15th Division and the 31st Division that will be added soon.
At the same time, the commander of the First Front Army of the Kwantung Army, Yamashita Tomofumi, led the 12th, 14th, 57th, and 71st Divisions, the 3rd Tank Brigade and related directly affiliated troops to enter the pass southward. The 12th and 71st Divisions marched along Bac Ninh
The railway reached Peiping, and then fought on both sides of the Ping-Han Line.
The Front Army Headquarters led the 14th and 57th Divisions and the 3rd Tank Brigade southward from Jinmen along the Jinpu Line and joined the Guards Division in Xuzhou. The goal was to eliminate the Eighth Route Army troops entrenched on both sides of the Longhai Line.
Previously, the Kwantung Army originally had 14 infantry divisions, 3 tank divisions, 1 tank teaching brigade, 1 cavalry brigade, 9 independent garrison teams and several directly affiliated teams, totaling approximately 700,000 people.
Due to the rise of the insurrectionary forces in Japan, the 1st, 9th, and 24th divisions were transferred back to Japan to counter the rebellion. Together with the troops mobilized this time, seven infantry divisions and one tank brigade were reduced.
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The Japanese military headquarters mobilized Kwantung Army soldiers to fight in the Pacific region in the name of reinforcing the Southern Army. Except for a few senior generals, the officers and soldiers below were basically kept in the dark.
There were many family members of the soldiers in the puppet Manchukuo, so the news quickly spread like wildfire. The National Government and our party's intelligence personnel lurking outside the customs learned of the news one after another, but they did not know the specific troop mobilization.
What followed was a series of chain reactions. Old Chiang Kai-shek did not know at this time that the Japanese army stationed in Burma had not only been upgraded to a front army, but had also dispatched two additional infantry divisions specifically to deal with the expeditionary force.
Because the Americans intended to support the Communist Party's policy of checks and balances, Chiang Kai-shek was greatly dissatisfied, so when he learned the information about the Japanese army's reinforcements in Southeast Asia, he even gloated a little.
Of course, Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to make the donor look bad, but wanted to see what the Eighth Route Army would do next. Although the previous investigation actions did not confirm the aid agreement between our party and the Americans, this rumor has been spreading.
When the Americans learned about this, they were shocked and contacted the Eighth Route Army through telegrams many times. Even Zhou Weihan received a telegram from Stilwell.
"Commander, military region telegram, asking you to go back to the meeting immediately!"
"okay, I get it!"
On the other hand, Zhou Weihan was relieved. Before leaving, he explained carefully and then returned to Heze with the guards.