In the evening, the guard held a briefing from the political, financial and critical circles in the Prime Minister's residence, and named the incident "the Northern Branch Incident", which showed the tough stance in handling this incident and asked everyone present to cooperate. The next day, Tibetan Prime Minister He Wuye Xing Xuan and Interior Prime Minister Ying Yi spoke in the newspaper, advocating a tough attitude towards China. Ironically, at that time, in Peiping, Taihei Matsui, head of the secret service, was signing an armistice agreement with Qin Dechun, deputy commander of the 29th Army. This tough attitude of sending more troops will inevitably lead to the tough policy of the China administration. The Central Army of the National Government quickly moved northward, and war was imminent. At this time, he also planned to hold summit talks with Chiang Kai-shek and tried to send emissaries to the National Government to explore the road to peace. But I'm worried that this may damage Japan's international image. In fact, Japanese imperialism has been planning the war of aggression against China for a long time, and the guards have repeatedly put forward the significance of "developing the economy of North China" to Japan. Driven by the Japanese government, the war of aggression against China has been expanding. At the end of July, Pingjin fell, and Tong, the vice commander of the 29th Army, died. On August 7th, the Cabinet of the Guards held four meetings, and decided that "Jicha District and Shanghai are the main areas for the mainland to use force". On August 13, China army began to besiege the Japanese Marine Corps in Shanghai. At the request of the navy, the army sent two more divisions to Shanghai. On August 6th, 5438+05, the guards issued a statement, actually giving up the original "no expansion" policy. The plane began to bomb over the ocean. In order to ensure the war of aggression, the Guards Cabinet strengthened the domestic fascist rule. On September 3rd, the guards renamed the Northern Branch Incident the zhina Incident. Carry out the "national spirit mobilization" campaign and instill fascist ideas such as "loyalty to the country" and "conquest of the world" into the people. In June+10, 5438, the Planning Institute was established to promote the militarization of the national economy, and laws such as the Law on Control of Important Industries and the Law on Mobilization of Munitions Industries were enacted to urge the entire national economy to serve the war. 10 year 10 month 15 day, the guards selected 10 most influential figures from industrial and commercial giants, military personnel and parliamentary political parties as members of the provisional cabinet-the Senate. 165438+1October 22nd, formed a base camp to guide the war, including the Prime Minister.
Although the praetorian guard flaunts national unity, it is actually difficult for him to be consistent with the cabinet. With the brilliant achievements of the Japanese army on the battlefield, the military strength has become more and more rampant, which often makes the guards feel that they have been shelved. He once complained to Xiong Xiong Harada, the secretary of the army, "Sugiyama Zhao is unreliable, and sometimes he laughed at himself to the emperor:' People like me are completely like fashion models, but I don't know anything, just being led by the nose. This is really embarrassing. I'm really sorry. "The guards intend to woo the military and financial bigwigs to highlight the leading role of the cabinet, but with little effect. Before the invasion of Nanjing, the guards tried to force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender and mediated by Todd through the German ambassador to China. Because the conditions are not harsh, they just expanded the unarmed zones in North China and Shanghai. After listening to the report of the military general, Chiang Kai-shek told the German ambassador and announced his acceptance of Japan's terms. It may be cruel to just blame the guards. There is a problem of the commander-in-chief's power behind tolerating the military department's arbitrariness. According to Von Praetorian Guard, a former registrar of the praetorian guard, the praetorian guard once came up with various schemes to interfere with the power of the commander-in-chief. If it can be realized, it is the best choice to "establish the cabinet system of commander-in-chief and state affairs" through constitutional amendment, but it is impossible to change the "indelible ceremony" of Meiji Constitution. The second option is to demote the cabinet except land and sea to provincial governors, and the Prime Minister will appoint several people with certain prestige at home and abroad to serve. However, the plan was put on hold because the guards were not confident to find competent talents. The third method is to establish a base camp with the participation of the Prime Minister. Due to the opposition of the army, some compromises were made, and finally it was recognized by the army in the name of setting up a liaison meeting between the base camp and the cabinet. 1937165438+1October 20th, a base camp was set up in the palace. In this process, the guards and people around them deliberately let the wind out that the guards were going to resign, but the army suggested that "it is not easy for the guards to resign now." This is also a means for him to gain the intervention right of the commander-in-chief. However, the idea that "politics and war are consistent" is somewhat unrealistic.
1938 After the occupation of Xuzhou in May, the guards responded to the military pressure and expelled the hardline leader Lv Xiang Zhaoshanshan and foreign minister Hirota from the cabinet, and used the influential Banyuan Seijiro as Lv Xiang, Kazushige Ugaki as the foreign minister and the wild guards at Tawei Station in Sadao Araki Night of barren hills Tawei station Wild Bodyguard Red Dead Redemption Wild Pursuit Solitary in wilderness Wilderness survival Into The Wild Hunting in wilderness Steppenwolf Brilliant green Royal Prime Minister's Palace Emperor Waltz Hwang Bo Hye Jung The name of Huang Fu Splendid palace Pearls on the Crown Royal Albert Hall Royal Ontario Museum. The pursuers of the red undead were alone in the wilderness. Into the Wild went into the wilderness to hunt the wild wolf, the splendid green palace of the royal prime minister, the waltz of the emperor Hwang Bo Hye Jung Huang Fu, the pearl on the crown of the splendid palace, and the Royal Albert Hall Royal Ontario Museum as Wen Xiang. Tried to restore the leadership of the cabinet, but none of them were pacifists. For the Japanese army, the successive victories of the war further stimulated the army's contempt for China and its enthusiasm for force. As early as the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese base camp began to study the so-called "invasion of Hankou." The suggestion of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Japanese Army to capture Wuhan is: Historically, as long as Wuhan is captured, China can be dominated, and through the Wuhan Battle, most of the China Incident can be solved by force. As long as Wuhan is controlled, the Jiang regime can be expelled from the Central Plains and "reduced to a local regime". On March 3 1938 and March 3 1 day, the Cabinet of the Guards promulgated the wartime law "National General Mobilization Law" to mobilize the national manpower and material resources to serve the fascist war as a whole. 1938 As soon as the battle of Xuzhou ended in May, Japan decided to hold the "Battle of Hankou" in the autumn of that year: all the troops fighting in Chinese mainland stopped returning to China to mobilize, and the country continued to send 400,000 more troops, with a budget of 3.25 billion yen. Another purpose of the Japanese large-scale "Hankou Battle", as Emperor Hirohito of Japan said at the command meeting before the Wuhan Battle, was to force China to surrender, so as to give the national government a final fatal blow. He didn't want to see "the emperor lion is subject to China" again. To this end, Japan's "army has put all its strength into Hankou and has no spare capacity to respond." Even the 10 division, which was used to attack Wuhan, began to expand that year. According to the documents discovered by the Japanese army after the war, even a garrison division left by Japan is on standby to reinforce the Wuhan battle at any time.
"The people and government of China were bullied and oppressed to the extreme by the Japanese invaders." Chiang Kai-shek then delivered a speech on China Central Radio, vowing that "China's army is determined to fight to the death with the Japanese army in Wuhan for the survival of the nation." The National Government mobilized all the naval, air force and army 120 divisions, with a total strength of about 165438+ 10,000, and Chiang Kai-shek personally took over Wuhan for direct command. However, unlike the battles in Shanghai and Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek said in "Conditions and Elements for Winning the Anti-Japanese War" published in February 1938: "This time, the war of resistance was fought against the enemy with vast land; Is to fight a populous enemy. ..... Since we are at war with the enemy, we must buy time. We just want to stick to the vast space for a long time, extend the anti-Japanese war time with the vast space, consume the enemy's strength, and strive for the final victory. "
Yu Yuan, president of Xingya Hospital, was excluded by the military and suddenly resigned at the end of September. The goal of the Guards to control the military department by reorganizing the cabinet failed. The guards began to seriously consider the resignation of the general. In June+10 of the same year, after the Japanese army occupied Guangzhou and Wuhan, the Sino-Japanese war turned into a stalemate, and the Japanese dream of a quick victory went bankrupt. Therefore, on June 3rd, 165438+, the guards issued the second statement to China, changing the strategy of attacking the Kuomintang government to give priority to political inducement and surrender, supplemented by military strikes, and inducing surrender to the Kuomintang with slogans such as "* * * against * * *" and "establishing a new order in East Asia". On February 1938, Wang Jingwei, who opposed Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Japan. 1On February 22nd, 938, the guards issued their third statement to China, and put forward the famous "Three Principles of Guards", namely "Goodwill and Friendship, * * * Cooperation and Defense, * *, and Economic Cooperation". On the grounds that "the situation has entered a new stage", the Guard offered its general speech on1939 65438+1October 4. His resignation can be said to be because he was disliked, because he felt that his leadership ability had reached the limit, and because he resigned irresponsibly. The first guard cabinet, which was expected by the general public to break the boring political atmosphere, was out before it was completely burned. The escort who resigned as prime minister exchanged seats with the new prime minister Ichiro Hiranuma and became the speaker of the Privy Council.