The telegram sent from the Haitian River arrived at the Military Commission building in Nanjing at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second. On duty at the Military Commission that day was the Minister of Army Bai Chongxi (Wang Junhao was the Acting Minister). Even with the demeanor of this number one general under Chang Ruiqing, he took the telegram from His Excellency, and sat there for a while, unable to speak.

Is this going to fight against the Japanese? It doesn’t go through the National Government, the Legislative Yuan, or the Political Association... With the order of Chang Ruiqing, China is in a state of war with Japan? This is too unruly and too dictatorial, right? It would be fine if it wins, but what if it doesn’t win, how can it step down?

Before Minister Bai could recover, the other three of Chang Ruiqing's four kings, including Prime Minister Pan Yucheng, Director of the Military Intelligence Bureau Ren Yijiang and others, had arrived. The reason they came here was not because of Chang Ruiqing's "war telegram", but because of the report from Tang Jiu, the Military Intelligence Bureau sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau that Japan and the Soviet Union conspired to assassinate Chang. While forwarding the telegram to the cruiser Haitian, the Military Intelligence Bureau also notified the news of the four kings and Premier Pan. As for Hu Hanmin, Mao Zd, Chen Duxiu, and Soong Ching Ling, there was no notification. Ren Yijiang was also a political master. He knew that if Chairman Chang could not escape this disaster, who would get the news first and be prepared, it would be very beneficial! At this time, he must stand clearly on the side of the four kings!

"The Haitian is being bombarded by Japanese ships! But it should be fine..." Bai Chongxi told them the news he had just received without waiting for the rest of the people. Finally, he put the telegram in his hand on the conference table. He spread his hands and said, "The Chairman wants us to start a war immediately. What do you think?"

Upon hearing this news, several Chang Ruiqing's confidant officials took a breath. Before everyone could let go of their original hearts, they raised their throats again. A few people looked at me, and I looked at you, and no one knew how to express their opinions. After a long time, they heard the first speech of the Acting Chief of Staff Zhao Zhen.

"Let's fight! Since Yaoru is going to fight, what else can we hesitate? The little Japan is too much. It doesn't count if the president is hurt first. Now we are going to harm our chairman. How can we do if such a country doesn't teach a lesson?"

Bai Chongxi frowned and said, "There is no problem with the army. Now the 21 armies are fully in full force. There is also civil strife on the other side of the Soviet Union for the time being, so we can't take care of us... But is the navy really leaving the port? The navy has finished fighting with just this little blood..."

"Yes!" Pan Yucheng nodded and echoed: "There has not been formally declared yet. Let's attack their merchant ships and fishing boats...it seems uninformative to international public law, right? This matter is reasonable but it has become unreasonable."

"Or let the army fight?" Wang Junhao also said. "The Hutou Fortress has a battalion of 12 7-inch cannons, which can block the Far East Railway Line as soon as it is opened. This is the seven-inch of the Japanese devils. They can't stand it if they have to keep it."

"But Yaoru's order is to attack the navy!" Wu Shi glanced at Wang Junhao and said, "This capital is his, we must not ignore his orders. I think it makes sense for him to attack the navy. It's better to give orders to the Navy quickly. If you are too late, you'll be afraid that the Japanese will block the port."

This is a bit heartbroken, but it is also the truth. Brothers are only about thirty years old. They are already in the military rank of a dignified general! Didn’t it rely on the promotion of Chairman Chang’s General? At this critical moment, can they not listen to Chang Ruiqing? But the question is how can the navy beat the Japanese? If Chairman Chang’s impulsive orders are gone, it will not be a problem? When several generals were in a dilemma, they heard a sudden sound outside the door and saw the Minister of Navy Cheng Bi Guang Cheng, Mr. Cheng, the Minister of Navy.

They rushed in anxiously. There was a direct telegram contact between their Navy headquarters and the Haitian heavy cruiser. When the Haitian ship was raided by Japanese ships, they sent a telegram to the Navy headquarters. At present, the navy in the Republic of China is not as coquettish as the army. When they heard the war with the Japanese, they were in chaos at that time! Mr. Cheng had no idea and had to come to the Military Commission building in person, not knowing whether they were here to report the message or request instructions. The old man probably ran all the way. When he walked into the house, his head and face were covered in sweat.

Seeing the Navy Minister arrive, the few people in the room knew that the Navy had also received news. Before Cheng Biguang could sit down, Bai Chongxi, who was in charge of the meeting, stood up and nodded to him: "Henggong, you are here just now. Do you know about the attack on the Haitian? "Cheng Biguang nodded, and Bai Chongxi said again: "The commission has just sent a telegram to come over to ask the Navy and Army to launch a counterattack. The navy's mission is to attack Japanese merchant ships and fishing boats. All ships that can go out to the sea must be dispatched. Go to the sea surface of the South, East and Beiyang. When the ships with Japanese flags are captured or sunk, we also notify our ships to return to the port quickly. If we cannot return to China, we must hide in the harbor of the neutral country nearby..."

"This is to learn from Germany to break the war!" Minister Cheng stamped his feet. "Have you asked the great powers what they mean? What did the ambassadors of Britain, France, and the United States say? France should support us, right? I think there is still room for improvement in this incident."

Now diplomacy is under the jurisdiction of the State Council. Premier Pan replied while wiping the sweat on his forehead: "Not yet, I haven't asked the great powers for advice. I just found out."

"Then I can't do this errand. It's too nonsense. The navy is not a pirate..." Minister Cheng's head shaking like a rattle.

Bai Chongxi's face had already sunk. "Henggong! This is the order of the commissioner! It is a military order. The soldiers regard obedience as their duty. Will the Navy disobey the military order?"

Cheng Biguang was stunned for a moment, and the sweat dripped on his forehead dripping downwards. The current national defense force is strict in discipline! But the military leader below cannot tolerate a small-minded person. The crime of disobeying the military order can be in jail for suing, and the worst is that it can be shot and eaten by peanuts! And now it is an extraordinary period. If Chang Ruiqing is really annoyed, he should take someone else, right?

Minister Cheng has been in the officialdom for many years, and he knows that he can't be forced to do anything with his superiors. If he really fails to do anything, it is better than to oppose him explicitly. Besides, the person above has been very generous in the military expenditure of the navy in the past two years. The navy should have shown it... Thinking of this, Cheng Biguang gritted his teeth and focused his attention. "Come on, since it's a military order, the navy must not ignore it... But the navy's ships have gone out to rob, who will guard the various sea ports?"

"Henggong doesn't have to worry about Haikou. He has built many coastal artillery batteries over the years and imported many large-caliber cannons." Zhao Zhen took over the topic and said. "The General Staff has already made plans to defend Haikou, and I believe it can be foolproof."

Can it be foolproof? Cheng Biguang nodded with a wry smile. As soon as he stood up and was about to go back to the Navy to study how to deal with the errands, he saw a colonel staff officer at the headquarters of the Military Commission rushing to push the door and holding a telegram in his hand, shouting: "Good news! Good news! The Haitian sank a Japanese destroyer! The navy won the first battle!"

...

Some people won the first battle, of course some people lost the first battle, and some people were stunned to watch the battle.

Now the battlefield of the initial battle between China and Japan has been moved to the extremely busy water transportation route of the Strait of Malacca. The Haitian heavy cruiser, which had just wasted several tons of ammunition, was finally sinking. The Hiroshima destroyer, is still fleeing desperately, while the Japanese battlecruiser of the King Kong battlecruiser is chasing behind like crazy! Uh. Although the distance between the two is getting farther and farther, the Japanese still refuse to give up. The 356mm-caliber armor-piercing bomb was fired out as if it was not expensive. Although it did not hurt Chang Ruiqing, it scared the merchant ships of various countries passing by and the British gunboats patrolling the Strait of Malacca. A British Royal Navy Lieutenant Colonel named James Tilet described the scene in this way when he was interviewed by a reporter from the Times in the future.

"...This scene is shocking. I have been in the Royal Navy for more than 20 years and have never imagined it. A heavy cruiser drove his horse and rushed into the busiest strait in the actually busiest strait, just like a drunk driving truck breaking into London Oxford Street or France's Champs-Elysées! And there is a tank that was probably driven by a madman chasing behind, chasing while still firing! That was a 14-inch cannon! It was enough to knock down a solid building. At that time, none of the dozens of merchant ships from various countries could withstand the bombardment of such artillery!"

The reporter asked: "James. At that time, several merchant ships passing through the Strait of Malacca were sunk, right?"

"Two ships were sunk, both Japanese merchant ships passing through the Strait of Malacca. They were done by the fleeing Chinese heavy cruiser! It was so terrible and too barbaric. Without any warning, they directly sank with a 7.5-inch main cannon! This is not a war, it is simply a murder... Afterwards, the Chinese actually explained that they received information, and the two merchant ships were filled with ** and were ready to die with the Haitian by impact."

"It seems like there is such a statement."

"The Chinese are lying completely. The two ships are far away from the Haitian. Even if they are full, they cannot threaten the heavy cruiser and the chairman of the China National Committee. I think it should be the Japanese's shameless assassination that angered the Chinese dictator, and then he issued an order to attack the Japanese merchant ships without formal declaration of war!"

"You must have opened fire first? Now there is a saying that this war is a conspiracy of the Chinese."

"That's impossible. The secret appearance of the Japanese battlecruiser and Shimafeng destroyer had proved that this was a Japanese conspiracy. According to convention, they should inform us in advance because it was the British sphere of influence. And there was also a ship of French and German officials who witnessed the scene of Japanese battlecruiser firing at the heavy cruiser of the Chinese. It was an unheard of despicable behavior. Uh, both sides were similar, without any gentlemanly demeanor..."

"I think Asians don't talk about gentlemanly demeanor when fighting, right? Thank you for accepting my visit, Colonel Tiles."

On the evening of June 7, 1923, the Japanese Navy Colonel Guan Gancheng certainly didn't care about the gentleman's demeanor. Because European gentlemen didn't need to cut the stomach to defeat the war, and now he can only explain these things if he does! This naval elite is already a little hysterical, holding a saber in one hand and holding a telescope in the other hand, staring at the heavy cruiser of the Haitian, which is almost turned into a small black dot on the distant sea. He cursed as if he was crazy, and urged his subordinates to speed up the speed of chasing. He wished that this battle cruiser with more than 26,000 tons would fly! But the small dot in the distance became smaller and smaller, and in the end he was completely invisible...

This operation was really a waste of rice. The Chinese dictator's ship was unscathed. The Imperial Japanese Navy brought in a destroyer and more than 100 naval officers and soldiers! What made Colonel Guan even more indignant was that when this Chinese heavy cruiser was fleeing his life, he did not forget to sank the two Japanese merchant ships passing by and make soy sauce! I don't know what it was installed on it? If the machine purchased from Europe at a high price, then this time it would be a big loss. Moreover, there seemed to be many Japanese merchant ships coming in the Indian Ocean. If you don't sink this Chinese heavy cruiser quickly, you still don't know how much it will be sunk? Maybe even the maritime trade between Japan and Europe will be interrupted! This is quite unfavorable for Japan to maintain the war against China!

Just as Guan Gancheng jumped into the bridge of the King Kong to scold a group of dirty naval officers, the imperial envoy sent by Prince Hirohito Kenji Doihara suddenly interrupted loudly: "Colonel Guan! Now is not the time to curse people. This incident must have a reasonable explanation internationally. Otherwise, it will put the empire in a very disadvantageous position in the subsequent negotiations."

"Explanation? How to explain?" Guan Gancheng glared at Kenji Dohihara. Seeing the other person's face with a faint look, the naval colonel wished he could use a samurai knife to chop him! This time the matter was caused by this bastard (Hyukihito cannot blame him). What else can be explained now? It is not that no one has seen the King Kong shelling the Haitian in China. There is also a French cruise ship visiting next to him! Can this matter be said by himself? Besides, it is either an international explanation, or the Navy Command and the Joint Fleet have to explain it! It is okay if the Chinese dictator is killed. Guan Gancheng naturally acts on orders and is a great loyal person.

But now Chang Ruiqing ran away! Three ships were sunk on his side. Can the navy and the cabinet let him go? Can he bit Prince Hirohito out? If not, he would have faked military orders to mobilize warships to murder foreign leaders, but he did not succeed in the end! What else can this not be a sinner of the Japanese Empire? It seems that there is only a dead end. Thinking of this, he breathed heavily and walked out with a saber.

"Kan Jun! Where do you want to go?" Kenji Doihara shouted at Guan Gancheng.

"Go and find a place where no one is secretly separating the stomach!" Guan Gancheng said with a sad face. Things have reached such a point, probably only separatum, and he has to find a place where no one is secretly cut, because his sins are definitely something that cannot be redeemed by a place where no one is killed, and it cannot be fooled by a separatum. The Yasukuni Shrine will definitely not be accepted. It seems that after death, he can only go to Avici Hell.

"Guan Jun. It's not the time to seduce the stomach." Doihara said coldly. "This matter is not that easy to understand. Internationally, it is expected that a joint investigation team will be organized, and domestic cabinet and navy will also conduct investigations, so someone needs to stand up and take responsibility!" As he said that, he bowed deeply at Guan Gancheng and said in a deep voice: "This person who is responsible can only be yours! So please take good care of yourself! Please!"

After hearing Doihara's words, Guan Gan Cheng knew that it would be difficult to die! If something big happens, he always wants a scapegoat. He gritted his teeth and looked at Doihara with resentment. "Dohihara, how should I take responsibility now?"

"First of all, of course, is to report the incident to the Joint Fleet."

“How to say it?”

"Of course, it's true. The battlecruiser of the King Kong and the Shimafeng destroyers were suddenly attacked by the Chinese heavy cruiser during the mission. The Shimafeng was shot and sunk. The Shimafeng launched a counterattack and chased, but it was unable to sink the opponent."

Hearing Doihara's words, everyone gave a thumbs up in their hearts. This person is really able to make up lies, and he doesn't blush at all! Heavy cruisers raid battle cruisers... Can anyone believe this lies internationally?

"How can we explain that the King Kong appeared in the South China Sea? The Joint Fleet has not issued such an order."

"Of course there will be orders!" Doihara said lightly. "The mechanical failure of the King Kong was eliminated shortly after leaving the formation, and then he informed the joint fleet that he requested to continue to carry out the mission of patrolling the waters near Taiwan, and the South China Sea was near Taiwan."

"Can you say this work?" Guan Gancheng asked with a wry smile.
Chapter completed!