We have introduced Ishihara Guan'er before, known as Japan's "first soldier", can be called the first strategist in Japan's modern military circles.
However, Ishihara Also has a boss and mentor, who has more energy than him, that is, Nagata Tetsuyama, known as the "first brain" in the Japanese army.
How bullish is this Nagata Iron Mountain?
Hideki Tojo, right? At first, he was only a small assistant under Nagata Tetsuyama, and he obeyed him.
Itagaki Seishiro, Kenji Doihara, Ninji Okamura, and Ryosuke Isotani, known as the "Four Great China Passes," have committed many crimes in the history of Japan's invasion of China, and their leader behind the scenes is this Nagata Iron Mountain.
However, compared to "star war criminals" such as Hideki Tojo and Ninji Okamura, Nagata Tetsuyama is indeed slightly inferior in terms of popularity. However, there is a saying that "real big guys are often the most low-key", which is the most appropriate way to describe Nagata Iron Mountain. As the representative of the young and strong faction that was able to compete with the conservative faction after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, Nagata Tetsuyama almost played a one-handed role in the era of Emperor Hirohito.
Born in 1884 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, Nagata Tetsuyama studied in Germany for a long time in his youth, and witnessed how the once fragmented Prussia became strong with the help of the dynastic war of "iron and blood", so "war" became his creed and became the only way out for Japan.
After returning to Japan, Nagata Tetsuyama wrote a "General Opinion on National Mobilization", which first established Japan's national mobilization system, and it was under such a system that Japanese militarism and fascism spread rapidly, so it is not unreasonable for some people to later call Nagata Tetsuyama "the initiator of Japanese militarism".
At the same time, due to the early struggle with the domestic conservative forces, Nagata Tetsuyama established a complex network of relations and became the leader of the unification faction, and even the system of decentralization of the three central chiefs (minister of war, chief of staff, and director of education) in Japan at that time was useless in front of him.
After truly establishing Japan as a militarist state, Nagata Tetsuyama embarked on his plan to "trade war for the future." The first thing he did was to plan the 918 Incident and invade northeast China.
Seeing this, is it a little bit of a sudden feeling? Why was is Ishihara Guan'er, who was initially marginalized, sent to northeast China and not somewhere else? In fact, this is part of the Nagata Iron Mountain Plan.
Of course, Ishihara Guan'er is also a powerful character, and really occupied the three eastern provinces shamelessly. Therefore, if Ishihara Guan'er is compared to a Maxima, then Nagata Tetsuyama is his Bole.
Such a calculating guy, naturally, did not live long, and was hacked to death at the age of 51. What's going on here?
(Photo: Nagata Tetsuyama death scene)
As I said just now, Nagata Tetsuyama is a big man of the unification faction, advocating the center of the military department, and the power is even above the emperor. At that time, there was also an imperial taoist faction, represented by Araki Sadao, who advocated that the emperor should be the center and the power of the military department should be limited. It is conceivable that the struggle between these two factions is inevitable.
On August 12, 1935, a Nakasa Seizawa Saburo of the Imperial Daoist Sect secretly sneaked into Nagata Tetsuyama's office with a knife and hacked him to death on the spot, only to live for 51 years.
Nagata Tetsuyama, who single-handedly covered the sky in the Japanese military and political circles, probably would not have thought that he would have died so hastily.
Until the end of World War II, many Japanese believed that if Nagata Tetsuyama had not died prematurely, he would have led World War II, and Japan's end would certainly not have been so tragic.
It seems that the Japanese are really not dead-hearted, and they are completely unaware that under the leadership of a war maniac like Nagata Tetsuyama, it will not only bring disasters to other countries, but also bring Japan itself into the abyss.
In any case, this guy died in 1935, and it was not a blessing for Chinese to wait for the Japanese to invade China in an all-round way.
History Inn Author: Mizuki