NCCnovel Chapter 897 Mutiny
Chapter 897 Mutiny
At twelve o'clock in the evening on October 1945, 10, three unpainted transport planes landed at Narita Airport in Tokyo, and about a hundred well-equipped soldiers walked off the planes.
The leader among them was a tall man. He walked up to the captain of the Tianhuang guards who came to greet him.
"I am Wang Ming, a Chinese soldier. I have been ordered to protect the safety of your people and the Prime Minister. Please cooperate with us fully!"
"Hayi, please follow me!"
Wang Ming assembled his team, got into ten cars, and sped towards Tianhuang's bedroom.
Wang Ming had never been to Japan before he traveled through time, so he looked around, but the Japanese capital was particularly quiet after being baptized by incendiary bombs.
About an hour later, Wang Ming arrived at Tianhuang's bedroom. After studying the map in detail, he deployed his troops around the bedroom and the meeting hall.
"Captain of the Guards, tell Tian Huang that if he doesn't want to be kidnapped by the pro-war faction and become cannon fodder, he should stay inside obediently. Also, let Suzuki Kotaro stay within our sight, and we will escort him to the airport tomorrow!"
"Hayi!"
According to the agreement reached between Wang Meng and Suzuki Kotaro, in order to prevent the surrender from being disrupted by the pro-war faction, they temporarily sent the Mandrill Special Forces to strengthen the defense around the imperial palace and sent a small team to closely protect the ministers.
At 1945 a.m. on October 10, 26, Emperor Hirohito convened the last imperial conference to discuss the uncertain future of Japan.
The Japanese pro-war representatives, Chief of the National General Staff Soetake Toyoda and Chief of the General Staff Yoshijiro Umezu, were instigated by the ousted Tojo Hideki and said in tears that unless there were conditional surrenders, they would "continue fighting and fight to the death."
Emperor Hirohito wiped the tears from his cheeks with white gloves from time to time.
Everyone understood what was going on and the time for showdown was approaching.
At the last moment, Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki stood up and walked directly to the Emperor to ask for the "holy decision."
Hirohito thought of his tragic fate and wiped his face with a white handkerchief while saying with difficulty:
"After thoroughly studying the current state of the world and the domestic situation, I believe that it is impossible to continue the war... In the end, our country will be completely turned into a scorched earth, and the entire people will suffer even greater hardships... Compared with the result of complete national destruction, as long as some seeds are left, there will be hope for revival in the future..."
Seeing Tianhuang's grief-stricken appearance, the ministers in the room began to cry loudly.
Some people slid down from their chairs and knelt on the carpet, while others collapsed on the ground and burst into tears. The originally solemn and quiet Imperial Library was filled with ghosts howling and wolves howling, and it was in chaos.
That evening, the Emperor recorded the "Gyokuon-pan" of the "Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War" with an extremely heavy heart, intending to broadcast it to the world at noon the next day.
He also ordered Suzuki Kotaro to board a plane the next morning to go to Quzhou, Zhejiang, to sign a surrender agreement.
That night, the originally airtight meeting before the emperor became like an old woman's teeth, with leaks everywhere.
Rumors are flying all over the place!
Reliable information has been reported that China's fleet will enter the Wojing Bay tomorrow morning, disarm the local people, arrest war criminals, and bring them to a military court.
As soon as the news came out, those young military officers were completely panicked. The hands of these people were more or less stained with the blood of Chinese people. If they were really brought to a military court, they would only have one way out, and that was death.
The "younger" faction headed by Kenji Hatanaka of the Army Ministry's Military Affairs Section, Jiro Shiizaki, an official of the Army Ministry, and Sadakichi Ishihara, a staff officer of the Imperial Guard Division, were unwilling to let the situation end like this and had to give it a try.
They were preparing to launch a mutiny, eliminate the "peace faction", force Army Minister Anami Korechika to surrender his military power, establish a new government by the military, and then launch a "decisive battle on the home front" and resist to the end.
If the mutiny is to be successful, the most important thing is to deal with the Imperial Guard Division responsible for the security of the Imperial Palace.
Jiro Shiizaki and his men broke into the office of Lieutenant General Mori Takeshi, commander of the Imperial Guard Division, and demanded that he participate in the coup.
These people even shamelessly used China as an example and enthusiastically encouraged Mori Tsao:
"Paraguay, a small country in South America, lost 80% of its population in five years of war... and so did our enemy China. Your Excellency, I will say nothing more. We must rise up and take back the beautiful Japanese spirit. The Imperial Guards Division should play a central role at this time. Please make the decision, Your Excellency."
Sen Zheng didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing. They were about to surrender, so why bother with this?
He, Senji, has been staying in Wojing all this time, and he is in charge of the imperial palace. He was not directly involved in the killing of Chinese people, so he should not die. But if he messes around with you, will there be any good consequences in the end?
Mori Takeshi pursed his lips, looking as if he had lost all sense of righteousness, and said that the Emperor had already made a "holy decision" and that he would "obey the order with all due respect."
After being rejected, the crazy Kenji Hatanaka took out a pistol and shot Mori Takeshi to death.
The accompanying officers seemed to be infected by the passion. They drew their swords and hacked to death Mori Takeshi's brother-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel Shiraishi, the Second General Army's Chief of Staff, who was present.
Next, they drafted a combat order in the name of the division commander Mori Takeshi, intending to blockade the inside and outside of the imperial palace and occupy the Wojing Broadcasting Station in the name of "clearing the imperial court."
After receiving the "order", the commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guards Division, Heijiro Haga, who was kept in the dark, immediately mobilized his troops and set out.
The 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guards Division approached the Imperial Palace, directly disarmed the palace guards, and blocked all entrances and exits, cutting off communication between the palace and the outside world.
At the same time, the Imperial Guards also occupied the Broadcasting Association building and controlled the media. Hatanaka Kenji knew that the Emperor had completed the recording of the surrender edict, so he ordered a search to find and destroy the recording tape.
Inside the besieged imperial palace, the chief guard stood nervously in front of Hirohito's bedroom, holding the Nambu XIV in his hand, while Wang Ming was leisurely eating a rice ball.
"Captain of the Guards, don't be so nervous. They don't dare to do anything to the one inside. Besides, we are here. If they come in one by one, we will kill them one by one. If they come in in pairs, we will kill them both!"
Before Wang Ming had swallowed the rice ball, he heard two gunshots outside.
"what happened?"
"Report to the captain, two reckless Japanese approached the cordon and have been sniped and killed!"
"Oh! Be alert!"
After Wang Ming finished speaking, he spread his hands towards the captain of the guards.
“The whole thing is controllable!”
Controlling the Imperial Palace was only the first step in the rebel uprising. They also found Army Minister Anami Korechika and persuaded him to join the action.
But now Anami Korechika has lost all hope. He understands the situation in Japan better than anyone else. If he launches a mutiny now, he will only live a few more days and drag more people to his death.
After learning that the Imperial Guards Division Commander Mori Takeshi had died, he chose to commit suicide by seppuku, and the suicide note he left behind read:
"One death is the apology for a great sin."