As Trotsky, the great leader of the world revolution, pointed out at the same time, the Japanese Revolution of 1923 was a very incomplete revolution, the product of the combination of the Japanese feudal forces and the progressive force of Japan under the external threat of Chinese aggression. Moreover, due to the extreme stubbornness and reactionary nature of the Japanese counter-revolutionary samurai class, and the compromise line that the Japanese had to adopt in the face of external invasions, the special national conditions of Red Japan were created, which was a peculiar country with one foot in feudal society and one foot in socialist society.

In this peculiar country, there are strange systems and phenomena that make the Soviet GCD and the GC International laugh at each other, such as...... People's Commissar (Ministerial) level monk! Well, it is not uncommon for monks who are all empty to have official positions, but in a socialist country under the leadership of the so-called godless GCD, there will be a great monk at the same level as the People's Commissar (minister), and he is also a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Japan! The oldest temple in Kyoto, Japan, the largest monk in Japan, the presiding officer of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Nagata Kiyoshinsai, or Kiyomizudera Seishinsai, can also be called.

The residence of the monk minister is located in a small elegantly furnished courtyard in Kiyomizu-dera Temple. In the midst of the revolutionary atmosphere in which the whole country was in a frenzy, Kyoto, a city with a particularly large number of monks and priests, remained largely reactionary. Although the quaint temples, palaces and aristocratic residences in the city are somewhat dilapidated, they have not become the "four olds" and have been destroyed by the Kyoto Municipal Party Committee. The reason is said to be because many leaders of the Japanese and Japanese Red Army often come here to burn incense and pray for the blessings of the whole Japanese people! Well, there are such altruistic national leaders. I was so touched by the Japanese people......

On the Kiyomizu Stage, which is 50 meters above the ground, the most famous "Kiyomizu Stage" supported by 139 wooden pillars, the head of the monk, Nagata Kiyoshinsai, meditates in front of a statue of Kannon. There he muttered the scriptures. Every time I finished reading it, I drew a red circle on the yellow paper scripture book in front of me, which looked quite like that. However, there was no trace of peace on the monk's face, but his face was gloomy, and his eyebrows were tightly locked, as if he was preoccupied.

Sitting next to the senior monk was an old man dressed neatly in the uniform of a senior Japanese army officer, who was also silently chanting sutras. Judging by the way he looks, it seems that he has been studying here for a long time. This old man is now a member of the Japanese GCD Political Bureau. Vice Chairman of the Japanese Revolutionary Military Council, People's Commissar for the Defense of Labor of Japan, Nobuyoshi Muto. Now he is the de facto commander-in-chief of the Japanese Red Army, which numbered as many as 3 or 4 million, and every day there are countless big and small affairs waiting for him to deal with, but he did not expect that he would still have time to go to Kyoto to recite sutras and worship the Buddha.

The two of them chanted together like this. I don't know how long I've been reading it. Only then did I hear Nagata Kiyoshinsai sigh: "Your Excellency Muto! As far as I know, the United States does not have much ill will toward Japan......

Muto Nobuyoshi slowly looked up at him, and said with a wry smile: "Nagata-kun, Japan has already boarded the ship of the Soviet Union, and it is not possible to come down if you want to...... We can only grit our teeth and fight to the end! He lowered his head. He bowed to the statue of Guanyin in front of him before standing up. Pacing on the "Shimizu Stage".

Nagata Kiyoshinsai looked up at Muto seriously, with a puzzled expression on his face, as if he didn't quite understand what the other party meant: "Why can you only grit your teeth and fight to the end?" I know it's hard to win...... Just Britain, Germany, and China have already made it difficult for us and the Soviet Union to deal with it, and now that the United States is ready to join, what are our chances of winning? Wouldn't it be nice to take refuge in the United States now that we can at least preserve Japan's existing interests and that the people will not have to live so hard? ”

Muto's expression was faint, with a little indescribable bitterness: "Nagata-kun, the current Japan is no longer the Japan of 1923, and it has been almost 10 years since the Japanese GCD came to power...... The power of the Japanese has long penetrated into all aspects of Japanese society, and even in the army, all the political cadres and the vast majority of the lower-level officers are also members of the Japanese and Japanese cadres, and after the defeat in the Korean War, a large number of unreliable old officers have been removed and replaced with loyal GCD members, whose interests are closely integrated with the GCD. Without GCD, they would not have what they are now, and the United States would never allow the Japanese to continue to exercise dictatorship in Japan, so as long as there is still a little hope, the Japanese Red Army will choose to fight, I think you can understand this, right? After speaking, he stood firm and looked straight at the ministerial-level monk Nagata Qingxinzhai, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth. Besides, Japan is now at the head of a national crisis, and only 60 million people can unite to get through it, and if there is another civil strife, I am afraid that the country will really be destroyed. ”

For a long time, Nagata Kiyoshinsai didn't speak, and gusts of winter cold wind blew into the Shimizu stage and swept past the two of them. Nagata Qingxinsai finally sighed: "What are the chances of 60 million people uniting? Even if it is a lucky victory, I am afraid it will be a victory for the Soviet Union, not a victory for Japan! Do they want to take the country to the end of the road for the sake of their own glory? If the country is gone, the glory of the Japanese g is not a rootless wanderer? Doesn't Takeda understand this truth? ”

"Although Shinhiro is the chairman of the Japanese GCD, he does not have full control over the whole party, the influence of the Soviet Union is very great, Trotsky can remove Katayama to support Shinhiro, or he can remove Shinhyung and support someone else to come to power......"

Nagata Kiyoshinsai's eyes were deep, and he looked directly at Muto Nobuyoshi: "In this way, isn't the Japanese puppet of the Soviet Union?" Wasn't Japan kidnapped by the Soviet Union to be used as cannon fodder? ”

Muto Nobuyoshi looked up at the roof of the Shimizu Stage, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "The Japanese cannot be said to be a puppet of the Soviet Union, because it has its own will, and Trotsky's instructions will only be effective if they conform to its will, so it is not the Soviet Union that kidnaps Japan now, but the Japanese GCD that will think and seek advantages and avoid disadvantages!" Nagata-kun, you don't have to worry that the Japanese GCD will bring Japan to a dead end, they are all human spirits, if the ship is really going to sink. They will not be stupid to die, they will find the most advantageous way out...... But before you do that, always do your best to fight! ”

Nagata looked at Muto Nobuyoshi. And the old man looked back at him earnestly. After a while, Nagata exhaled: "I will do my best to mediate for the future of Japan, but I have one condition, and I want to contact more than just the Chinese government." ”

Muto Nobuyoshi nodded and said in an inaudible voice, "Go ahead, just go and give it a try, even if it doesn't work, it's nothing." Anyway, I tried it......"

……

"Premier Chang has arrived, and everyone is upright!"

In the war conference room of the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing, the loud voice of the password sounded again. Chang Ruiqing strode into the conference room with Adjutant Chancellor Chen Xinrui. Including Chief of General Staff Wang Junhao, Army Commander-in-Chief Zhao Zhen, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Yang Xianyi, and Navy Commander-in-Chief Chen Shaokuan. In addition, Bai Chongxi, commander-in-chief of the Northwest Front Army, and Wu Shi, commander-in-chief of the Northern Front Army, who had just flown back to Nanjing, and more than a dozen other high-ranking generals stood up collectively.

Chang Ruiqing sat down on the seat at the top of the conference table and waved his hand at the generals below: "Sit, sit down." Brother Jiansheng. How is the situation there in the northwest? I read the war report with trepidation. 500,000 beats 1.5 million! Only you can fight such a hard battle, and if I go to it, I will definitely defeat Frunze. ”

"It's not all our Wehrmacht officers and soldiers who use their lives and are well-armed, if you talk about military strategy, my brother may not be as good as Frunze, but his Red Army can't beat us, what's the use of strategy?"

Bai Chongxi's words were an understatement, but none of the generals of the National Defense Forces present did not know how difficult the Central Asian Three Xinjiang Conference was fought.

Chang Ruiqing saw Bai Chongxi's humble appearance, and smiled secretly in his heart. My brother probably hasn't gotten out of the feudal monarchy, right? I know that I have no official to be rewarded, so I simply don't take credit. The province has a high degree of merit, and the Lord will not end well in the future. Thinking of this, he stopped putting on a high hat for Bai Chongxi, reached out and took a copy of the text from Chen Xinrui, spread it out on the conference table, and said: "Okay, now let's get down to business, it's February 1933, the weather in the northwest is about to get warmer, and in two months at most, a new round of war should begin." Three days ago, the Soviet Middle East Front launched an offensive against the British troops entrenched in Transjordan, and last night it reached the city of Amman, the capital of Transjordan, and it is estimated that it will be able to reach the east bank of the Suez Canal by the end of this month. At this point, with the exception of the port of Jeddah, which was controlled by French Syria, Turkey and the expeditionary force, the whole of the Middle East would be completely controlled by the Soviet Union. The Great Battle in the Middle East will also come to an end, so that at least 500,000 Soviet troops, including 9 tank armies, will be liberated, and some of them will be transferred to the Central Asian theater!

According to intelligence, the Soviet Union adjusted the research and development ideas of armored vehicles after the Kuwait campaign in July last year, and began to pay attention to the visual armor and firepower of tanks, and at the end of last year, a strong attack gun codenamed SU76 was developed. It is reported that this kind of high-hitting artillery will be the product of a combination of 76.2mm anti-aircraft guns and 90mm frontal armor, which is enough to fight our Chaser tank destroyers! At present, the tank factories of the USSR have stopped the production of T28 and T26 and are fully switching to the production of these Su76 types, and in 2 months we will probably have to face this kind of combat vehicle on the battlefield in Central Asia!

In addition, the Soviet army also captured some British Hurricane fighters during the Iraqi campaign in July last year, and has now completed the imitation work and produced an Iraq-16 fighter that is enough to compete with our J-2 fighters. However, our J-4 fighter with a 1,000-horsepower liquid 12 engine has been mass-produced at the end of last year, and it should still maintain a certain advantage over the Yi-16.

On the whole, however, our superiority in weaponry and equipment technology with the Soviet Union is getting closer, and it will be difficult to maintain our absolute superiority in weaponry performance in future operations. Therefore, in the upcoming spring campaign, we must be mentally prepared to fight a hard battle and a tough battle! ”

After Chang Ruiqing finished speaking, Chen Xinrui asked the staff officer to clip the documents stamped with the words top secret one by one to the hands of all the officers present. Then Wang Junhao, chief of the General Staff, got up and walked to the wall, the velvet curtain on the wall was slowly opened, and a map of the three frontiers of Central Asia appeared in everyone's sight. Wang Junhao picked up the whip and pointed falsely: "Although the main battlefield of this battle is in the three regions of Central Asia. However, the air force of the Northern Front, the naval aviation, and the Heilongjiang detachment of the navy all have coordinated combat missions, and the preliminary combat plans are all in the text. Let me begin with a general outline of the main goals and plans. The first was to relieve the siege of Almaty and start a decisive battle with the main forces of the Central Asian Front of the Soviet Army that invaded the outer frontier. Strive to defeat the enemy's main force and recover all the lost territory. After that, the Northwest Front will turn to a counteroffensive, and the main direction of attack will be at the southern foot of the Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan in the northwest of the Pamirs, and other places, in an effort to open up the liaison between the Northwest Front and Afghanistan.

At the same time, the Northern Front will launch a diversionary offensive against Chita and the Baikal region, on the one hand, to deplete the living forces of the Soviet army, and on the other hand, to attract Soviet reinforcements to the Far East and the Baikal region.

If the North-Western Front could accomplish the operational objectives of the capture of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in the summer of 1933. Then, starting in the autumn of 1933, the main battlefield would be shifted to Afghanistan and northwestern India. To this end, a mountain army group, mainly composed of mountain divisions and infantry divisions, has been formed and is now moving towards the southern Xinjiang region. At that time, we will have this mountain army group as the core. Formation of the Afghan Front......

The North-Western Front, on the other hand, was to go on the defensive after completing operational missions to capture Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and the Soviet Red Army was expected to launch a counteroffensive in the autumn or winter of 1933. The Northwest Front must adopt flexible defensive tactics and maximize the casualties of the enemy's counterattacking forces.

According to the estimates of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, from April 1933 until November 1933, before the onset of winter in Central Asia. Large-scale operations in the three regions of Central Asia will not stop. In other words, the battle will continue for more than 8 months. All ministries must be fully mentally prepared! Moreover, it should be noted that the Northwest Front's weapons and ammunition reserves are not particularly sufficient, and it is difficult for the logistics and transportation lines to meet the high-intensity combat consumption of 800,000 regular troops and 1.5 million National People's Police. In addition, as our troops enter enemy territory to fight, we must be vigilant enough against the local pro-Soviet population, although most of the local MSLs will be on our side. However, we can't underestimate the role of Su G's long-term brainwashing education!

Finally, on behalf of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, I would like to remind you again. This world war has just begun, and there are countless bitter battles waiting for us in the future! Everyone must be prepared to fight a protracted war and a war of attrition, and we must come up with jīngshén who is not afraid of sacrifice and hardship!

Okay, now if there's anything you don't understand, you can ask questions. ”

The military meeting lasted almost six hours, and after the meeting, Chang Ruiqing invited Bai Chongxi, Wu Shi, Wang Junhao, and Zhao Zhen to the premier's official residence for dinner. However, when the few of them walked into the hall of the official residence, Chang Ruiqing's wife Wang Ruonan, mistress Sun Yuexun, Okamura Ningji and Bei Yihui were already waiting in the living room.

Wang Ruonan is 32 years old this year, and she has become a beautiful woman with a noble temperament, she has given birth to a pair of children to Chang Ruiqing over the years, and she has also managed a family business in an orderly manner, and several children (including those born to Chang Ruiqing's other wives and concubines) are also well-behaved under her education, and she looks like a good wife and mother.

Sun Yuexun, who was born in 1906, is no longer the Lori of the year, but the mother of Chang Ruiqing's 2 daughters and 1 son, although she gave birth to three children, but her figure is still very good, the plump place is plump, and the slender place is also passable, especially the upper circumference is a little full, plus a cute baby face, which always reminds Chang Ruiqing of the words "Tongyan**".

Compared with Sun Yuexun, who is more charming than back then, Kita Yihui and Okamura Ningji are no longer what they used to be, both of them have gray hair, a slightly bent back, and listless faces. In this way, it seems that it will not be many years before the small party of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association will become Sun Yuexun's territory.

"Sir, Mr. Kita and Mr. Okamura have important matters that I would like to talk to you alone for a while." After greeting Bai Chongxi and the four of them, Sun Yuexun came to Chang Ruiqing and whispered to Bei Yihui and Okamura Ningji.

"Ruonan, help me greet Brother Jiansheng, Yu Xun, Zi Introspection and Youlin." After Chang Ruiqing instructed his wife to entertain his brothers, he went to the study on the second floor with Bei Yihui, Okamura Ningji, Sun Yuexun, Chen Xinrui, Gao Xiaowen and others, and also ordered Gao Xiaowen and Chen Xinrui to bring refreshments. Kita Ikki and Okamura Ninji got straight to the point and made their intentions clear. It turned out that Nagata Kiyoshinsai Tongguo, the highest-ranking monk in Japan at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, had a secret channel to China, and now lives in Honganji Temple in Shanghai (because it was too reactionary, so he fled to China in 1924), and also contacted the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, wanting to meet with Chang Ruiqing to discuss the possibility of Sino-Japanese friendship.