Chapter 101: Sakurada Gate's assassination of the Emperor

Jin Zhao hurriedly left the regiment headquarters and rushed to the 156 Brigade headquarters to find Weng Zhaoyuan and Qiu Guozhen, and several people talked for several hours. Weng Zhaoyuan was very dissatisfied with the fact that the political axe wanted to negotiate peace with the little devil, but he didn't say anything because of his identity, but Jin Zhao could see that Weng Zhaoyuan was very disappointed with the weakness of the current political axe.

It was not until the afternoon that Jin Zhao left Weng Zhaoyuan's brigade headquarters. However, I was holding back my anger, and I was going to go to the hospital to have a look, but in the end I lost interest. Jin Zhao, who was holding his breath, desperately wanted to find a person to vent, after Jin Zhao returned to his residence, he locked himself in the room alone, and after thinking for a long time, his eyes suddenly lit up, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Little devils! Wait! Grandpa will make you pay even more! ”

In the negotiations between the two countries, there were many points of contention between the two sides, and the issue of the time and place of the retreat of the Chinese army was particularly intense. On March 27, Lampson proposed five compromises to each paragraph. From the 28th to the 30th, the two sides continued to discuss without results, and the meeting came to a standstill. Hua Xia then referred the above issue to the Special Committee of the League of Nations for resolution. On 19 April, the Special Committee of the League of Nations adopted Article 14 of the draft resolution, but the Army held that Article 11 of the Joint Committee's functions and powers had violated the power of the Commander-in-Chief and expressed firm opposition to the proposal. After Lampson's mediation, a compromise was proposed, and the representative acquiesced by abstaining from voting at the time of voting.

At the same time, Jin Zhao temporarily handed over the reading force group to the chief of staff Xie Jinyuan, and secretly sneaked back to Shanghai with Ding Li, Xu Wenqiang and a few others. Under the recommendation of Ding Li's master, Wang Yaqiao, Jin Zhao was able to meet Jin Jiu, the leader of the Korean Patriotic League.

Jin Jiu, No. Bai Fan, Benguan Anton Jin. He is a legendary figure in Korean history, a famous Korean reading athlete, and is known as the "Father of the Korean Nation". In 1928, he organized the Korean Reading Party with Lee Si-young, Lee Dong-nyong and others, and served as its president. In the same year, the Korean Patriotic Group, a secret society, was formed, and began to use force and terror to carry out anti-Japanese activities.

Jin Zhao and Jin Jiu chatted for a long time after they met, Jin Zhao vigorously praised Jin Jiu and others for their reading exercises, and said that Huaxia and North Korea have a common enemy, that is, Yue Ben, in order to deal with Yue Ben, Jin Zhao offered to give Jin Jiu and others the help they could.

Jin Zhao put down the teacup in his hand and said with a smile, "I heard that Mr. Jin once planned to assassinate Emperor Momoto at the beginning of this year. ”

Hearing Jin Zhao mention the assassination of the emperor, Jin Jiu was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily and said, "Yes!" Unfortunately, it failed in the end! ”

The assassination of the emperor mentioned by Jin Zhao is the assassination of the emperor by Sakurada Gate. In order to win over the North Korean readers, Kim Koo sent an assassin, Lee Bong-chang, then 32-year-old (an angry young man) who was a member of the Korean Reading Party, to assassinate Emperor Yomoto.

On December 16, 1931, Lee Bong-chang was ready and sewed two military bombs into his underwear and went to Tokyo. In Tokyo, Lee Bong-chang lived at the Nishikicho Hotel under the name of Kinoshita Province. After many days of reconnaissance around the Imperial Palace, Lee Bong-chang chose the vicinity of the police station outside the Imperial Palace's Sakurada Gate (the place where a group of royalists assassinated the shogunate boss Ii Naobi) as the ambush location. One is because Emperor Hirohito often enters and exits through this gate, and the other is because the road outside Sakurada Gate is winding, especially at the police station, and the emperor must slow down when the emperor's motorcade passes by, so that he can take advantage of the opportunity to throw grenades.

But it's not easy to get close there. According to the regulations, people are allowed to go there only on January 2 and April 29 every year. And in normal times, if you think of it, you must have a certificate of nobility. Before Li Fengchang left Shanghai, in the name of visiting the imperial palace, he asked a noble lady who had been in love with him to make a certificate for him. The certificate uses another name - Asayama Taro (rippling beautiful man).

On January 8, 1932, Emperor Hirohito inspected the Army's 9th Division at the Yoyogi Training Ground on the outskirts of Tokyo. It was also at this military parade that he read out the edict praising the Kwantung Army's invasion of northeastern China. After the review, Emperor Hirohito led a large group of people and horses back to the palace. At this time, Li Fengchang had successfully arrived near the Sakurada Gate, ready to wait for an opportunity to attack.

Emperor Hirohito rode in a four-seater horse-drawn carriage. In order to prevent the assassination, in addition to arranging a large number of police forces to support the Kwantung Army and the secret police who had been airlifted to the Kwantung Army from "Manchuria" to assist, they also specially arranged a carriage with the same decoration and vigilance behind the emperor's carriage, which was called a "auxiliary car," which mainly played the role of camouflage and confusion. Since the assassination of the emperor in 1923, police officers on both sides of the road have stood with their backs to the streets, their eyes fixed on the crowd. According to historical tradition, the crowd is on its knees. When the emperor's motorcade came to the turn in front of the police station outside Sakurada Gate, the carriage slowed down, and Lee Bong-chang, who was mixed in with the crowd, took the opportunity to knock the grenade into the fire and threw it (it is said that the grenade is a pressure type, and the fuse needs to be hit on the steel helmet before throwing it). Unexpectedly, Li Fengchang mistook the deputy car for the emperor's car (at this level, he is still an assassin, go home and play more Assassin's Creed), and with a loud bang, the driver of the auxiliary car was killed immediately, but the people in the car survived. Emperor Hirohito, who was sitting in the carriage in front, heard the explosion, panicked and almost fell out of the car. Seeing this, the driving horse immediately whipped the horse and pulled the emperor straight to the Sakurada Gate.

Lee Bong-chang, who failed to assassinate Hirohito, was arrested on the spot and taken to the police station. He refused to answer the police's questions, but repeatedly asked, "Is Hirohito injured?" When he learned that Hirohito was safe and sound, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "The big thing has not been done!" ”

Immediately after the failure of the assassination of the emperor, Jin Jiu issued a statement through the Nanyang newspaper, warning that he must not kill Li Fengchang, otherwise he would face greater retaliation. However, the court sentenced Lee Bong-chang to death in September of that year, and trumpeted that the prisoner had repented.

Of course, at this time, Li Fengchang was still locked up in the prison and was not executed.

Seeing Jin Jiu's gloomy expression, Jin Zhao couldn't help but say comfortingly, "Mr. Jin doesn't have to be disappointed, although the plan to assassinate Emperor Yumoto failed, we still have a chance in the future." There are so many people in your country who are willing to fight for the nation's reading power, and I believe that Mr. One Day's wish will finally come true. ”

Listening to Jin Zhao's words, Jin Jiu nodded and said with a smile, "Although it is a pity that we failed to kill Emperor Yumoto, I always believe that as long as we continue to struggle, one day we will realize our wishes." During this period, the peoples of your two countries should work closely together and help each other, because as Regiment Commander Kim just said, we have a common enemy, and that is the Ben. ”

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