For the emperor, this matter was a bigger blow than the Kwantung Army forcing him to appoint the crown prince. After all, although he was unwilling to do so, his safety was still guaranteed for the time being, but at the moment This incident caused His Majesty the Emperor to panic immediately.
In his eyes, the Kwantung Army, which had always been invincible, was actually beaten to this point. Even the headquarters of the Kwantung Army was bombed. For him, it was more panic. The current Manchu Empire, although he There is almost no place where he can make the decision, but in his eyes, it represents the only opportunity to revive the ancestral foundation, and it also represents the safety and guarantee of his own life.
If the Kwantung Army were defeated, the hope of reviving the ancestral foundation would be completely ruined, and his own life would probably be difficult to guarantee. Thinking of this, he even felt a chill in his heart, but he did not get the approval of the Kwantung Army to open this gate. He can't get out, but he has no choice but to face the critical moment. He is extremely frightened. The only thing he can rely on now is that when the Kwantung Army retreats, he must not forget himself.
Emperor Kant, who was helped up from the carpet by his attendants, lost interest in venting his anger at this time. He threw the crime tools in his hands on the ground, returned to his bedroom with a pale face, and closed the door tightly. Only a few attendants were left standing there, looking at each other at a loss.
The Kwantung Army Headquarters naturally had no intention of taking care of what the emperor was thinking at this time. As a military commanding agency, the Kwantung Army Headquarters showed extremely high efficiency when faced with danger. By the third day of the bombing, the first batch of secret departments directly under the Kwantung Army Headquarters had already boarded the train and headed south to Fengtian.
And after waiting a week, when the ministers of various puppet Manchukuo ministries, who had always been regarded as memorial tablets, were still kept in the dark and knew nothing about the Kwantung Army transfer plan, came to work in the morning, they found that the masters around them The powerful Japanese deputy with all the documents has long since disappeared. Among the extremely impressive office buildings built by various ministries, only the so-called Manchurian personnel remain.
All Japanese officials who hold real power have disappeared. Even many Japanese officials who came from Taiwan have disappeared. Along with these Japanese officials, there are also missing documents that were originally stored in the Central Bank of Manchukuo. A large amount of gold, silver, foreign currency and diamonds and other priceless precious materials,
The Kwantung Army, who was familiar with the process of plucking geese, naturally would not let go of these wealth. In addition to all the gold and silver reserves of the entire Puppet Manchukuo Central Bank, large quantities of banknotes were also transferred to Fengtian. After the intense work, the so-called The strongest treasury in Asia is empty except for some small denomination coins that are too heavy to move easily.
To put it bluntly, if the Japanese senior officials of the Puppet Manchukuo Central Bank who have moved to Fengtian do not allocate funds from Fengtian, all the senior Puppet Manchukuo officials in Xinjing will be hungry, because at this time the Puppet Manchukuo Central Bank The little money left in his treasury is not even enough for half a month's salary.
Along with these officials and valuable materials, there were also Manchuria Railway and other corporate headquarters that controlled the economic destiny of the Puppet Manchukuo. After more than a week of intense work, all the Japanese in high positions in Xinjing, except for a few Except for the soldiers, all have gone south to Fengtian,
A week later, in the entire new capital city, except for the ministers of various puppet Manchukuo ministries who stayed with the Kwantung Army and advanced and retreated together, the once luxurious and majestic office buildings of various ministries were already empty, and the Kwantung Army was kept in the dark. The ministers of various ministries were at a loss for a long time facing the empty office building before they remembered to question Tadayuki Kokai, the deputy director of the General Affairs Department of the State Council who was staying in Xinjing, but did not receive any response.
Tadayuki Kokai was disappointed, and he really didn’t have the courage to question the puppet Manchukuo ministers at the Kwantung Army Headquarters. He could only go into the palace to get some news from the emperor, but he didn’t expect that there wasn’t even a gate to the palace. When I entered, I was blocked back by Yasunao Yoshioka, the imperial officer who had just returned from a meeting at the Kwantung Army Headquarters.
After Yoshioka Yasuo read out the so-called edict of His Majesty the Emperor to appoint the Crown Prince to these puppet Manchukuo ministers, and announced an order from the Kwantung Army Headquarters to strictly prohibit these people from leaving Xinjing, he sent them all home. , and the emperor’s face was not allowed to be seen by them at all.
In order to prevent these people who cherish their own lives from leaving Xinjing without authorization, the imperial minister also sent the military police stationed at the palace to confiscate all their cars in the name of military needs, and each of them was given a temporary car from the street. The conscripted rickshaws were in trouble. As for what these puppet Manchukuo ministers would think in their hearts, that was not something that Yoshioka Yasuo should consider.
Compared with the despair of others, Zang Shiyi, the former chairman of Liaoning Province, who was the chairman of the Puppet Manchukuo Senate, fell silent when he saw that the streets were filled with Japanese military police under martial law. The Manchu army had all been transferred out of the city long ago and was guarded by the Japanese army. Even the Imperial Guards of Emperor Kant were not spared. They were all transferred out of the city.
The original puppet Manchu troops in Xinjing City were the same as most of the puppet Manchu troops in the Japanese-occupied areas at this time. Except for a few troops organized by Koreans and led by Japanese officers, most of them had been disarmed by the Kwantung Army. A few were considered Reliable troops were converted into unarmed engineers and brought to the front to be guarded by the Kwantung Army to build fortifications.
In addition to the remaining people being imprisoned in the military camp and not allowed to come out even half a step, a considerable number of them were transferred to the Jehol area to serve as security guards, and to Hebei and Shandong areas in the pass to cooperate with the Japanese army in clearing up the local areas. As for the anti-Japanese armed forces, in fact, all security in Manchuria is currently handled by the Kwantung Army.
The reason why some of the puppet Manchukuo troops who were considered loyal and reliable were transferred to the Kwantung Army was because the Kwantung Army believed that these people were frightened out of fighting with the well-equipped Anti-Japanese Alliance, so they were transferred to wipe out the 18th Group Army with poor equipment and insufficient ammunition. The troops are still good. In addition, the puppet army in North China is not strong in combat effectiveness. Compared with the puppet Manchu army, the people's hearts are extremely unstable.
Although these pseudo-North China security forces supported by the Japanese invaders had a large establishment, their combat effectiveness was extremely low. They had become an important source of weapons and ammunition for the Eighteenth Group Army in Guannei. Although the Japanese army was very angry about this, in view of the lack of troops, they still I need the help of these people so I have to endure it.
Although various methods have been adopted to strengthen the control of these security forces, especially on ammunition and equipment, the control has become increasingly tight. However, in addition to their enthusiasm when cooperating with the Japanese army in their sweeps, their combat effectiveness in real battles has been reduced. But they could never get up, and they were often annihilated in groups and battalions. Weapons and ammunition had become an important source of troops for the 18th Army.
The puppet Manchukuo army performed poorly in last year's battle. The entire regiment even collapsed and surrendered as soon as they came into contact. This made the Kwantung Army extremely angry with this unit that they had trained by themselves. After disbanding, they were worried about these people who had completed the training. Will defect to the Anti-Japanese Alliance,
The Kwantung Army simply selected some die-hard elements from the puppet Manchukuo army, which had been frightened by the strong firepower and combat effectiveness of the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the Northeast battlefield and could not be put to great use, and transferred them to the Kwantung to supplement the North China Security Army. It was used to fight against the Eighteenth Army in the North China battlefield, so as to free up the Japanese troops in North China to deal with other battlefields.
Although the Kwantung Army operates these things secretly and the old traitors at the top of the Puppet Manchukuo Army have no idea at all, Zang Shiyi, as an old man in the Northeast Army and who still has some old subordinates in the Puppet Manchukuo Army, is quite aware of this. , he tasted an unusual meaning from it,
Moreover, Zang Shiyi also knew that the Kwantung Army had begun to recruit a large number of Koreans from the Manchu Island Province and Mongolians from the Xing'an Provinces, and gradually began to replace the Manchus who were already very unreliable in their hearts. These people, especially Compared with the Han people in the puppet Manchukuo army, Koreans would be more reliable for the Japanese army. After all, Korea had been occupied by the Japanese army for decades, and the so-called degree of naturalization was quite high.
Looking at the densely packed Japanese military police on the streets and the several Korean troops transferred into Xinjing by the Kwantung Army, Zang Shiyi took a long time to tell the man next to him wearing the uniform of a Puppet Manchukuo second lieutenant, and after telling him what happened today, Said: "At this time, the Kwantung Army will evacuate all the deputy ministers who hold real power from Xinjing. I am afraid that there may be major operations in the near future. Go back and tell your superiors so that they can prepare as soon as possible just in case."
"A few days ago, there was an explosion on the Mengjiatun line south of Beijing. The Japanese said that the explosion was caused by improper operation of the ammunition depot and a fire. However, the Japanese's excuses can only deceive the ordinary people. They want to deceive me. They The measurement is still a little off."
"Although I served as the chairman of Liaoning Province for two years when I was a young marshal, I was also a graduate of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and served as the Lieutenant General Chief of Staff of the Northeast Security Command. Although I have no choice but to do so now Traitor, but my eyes are not blind yet, I can still hear the difference between bombs in air raids and explosions in ammunition depots."
Having said this, Zang Shiyi turned his head and looked at the second lieutenant and said: "I just want to know whether those planes are flown by your own pilots or Soviet pilots. What do you use to communicate with those planes by Soviet or Russian pilots?" What the Americans got in exchange for it, did they sell out the rights and interests of the Northeast?"
"I have been the chairman of Liaoning Province for two years. Although I have not made many achievements, I still have a good understanding of the situation in the entire Northeast. Although the North Manchuria region is rich in resources and has a vast territory, its industry is far inferior to that of the former commander-in-chief. South Manchuria, managed with great effort by Shuai and the Japanese.”
"Furthermore, the population of Northern Manchuria is far less than that of Southern Manchuria, and the terrain is dominated by deep mountains and old forests, undeveloped wastelands, and swamps. Relying solely on the population of Northern Manchuria and its previous industrial base, at least within five to ten years , if there were no special circumstances, you would not be able to build an airplane at all.
"Back then, my conditions were much better than yours. However, I relied on the financial resources of the entire Northeast for many years to achieve self-sufficiency in light weapons and ammunition. However, your current conditions are far inferior to those of yours. If you want to
It may be difficult to achieve self-sufficiency in the military industry."