Tianlu led his own team to set off.

  The Imperial Guard Division is a first-rate division, with one brigade equipped with 3,800 men, and has three infantry battalions and an artillery battalion. There's a joke that the Imperial Guard eats the best, dresses the best, and has the best equipment, but fights the worst.

  The Imperial Guard is the direct guard of the Emperor, and its equipment and treatment are naturally the best. It also faces battles very rarely, so its combat effectiveness is naturally lower than that of field troops. However, it is still an army.

  In the General Staff Office, Yoshijiro Umezu already knew what had just happened at the Cabinet meeting. Sugiyama Gen was arrested on the spot. It seemed that Kiichiro Higashikuni really took action. He still couldn't understand why Kiichiro Higashikuni dared to take direct action against the Imperial Army Ministry, was he really crazy?

  Maezono Kojirō had seen his fair share of power struggles and rights disputes, but the Japanese political scene was a muddy swamp where every official who managed to climb up did so by trampling on others' corpses. Yet, there was always a certain baseline and rules to follow. However, he had never encountered a politician like Kojima Kunisaburō, who didn't play by conventional logic. Didn't he know the Imperial Army's strength? It was impossible; after all, Kojima was also from the army and held the rank of general in the Empire. How could he not know the army's weight in today's Empire? Yet, he had done it, and so directly, without any room for maneuver, completely disregarding artistry, to the point where his actions could be described as simple and brutal.

  In fact, Muyang just grasped the card of Nakamura Masao, and then used the contradictions between the navy and the army, as well as the current imperial family's fear of the army to plot, drawing them all in and isolating the Japanese army.

  They say that a chaotic fist can kill the master, and Mu Yang doesn't care about the bottom line of political struggles. He just wants to create chaos, the more chaotic the better, the more chaotic Japan is, the better for China. So Mu Yang directly inserted the stick into the dye vat and stirred it up randomly.

  The door to Umezawa's room was pushed open, interrupting his thoughts. He looked up to see his secretary standing there and immediately flew into a rage: "You idiot, don't you know to knock? This is completely unprofessional."

  The secretary was anxious and said: "Your Excellency, the General Staff is surrounded, what should we do?"

  Umezu Minoru was shocked by these words, "Surrounded, who surrounded the General Staff Office."

  "It's the Imperial Guard."

  At this moment, someone outside shouted through a loudspeaker: "People inside, listen! We command you to surrender immediately. If there is any resistance, we will shoot and kill directly."

  Umezu Yoshijirō slammed his fist on the table and stood up, shouting: "Bastards, what does the Imperial Guard Division want to do? Does Kojima Kiyoshi still want to bathe the General Staff in blood?"

  Then he said to the secretary, "Notify the guard squad, under no circumstances are soldiers from the Imperial Guard Regiment allowed to enter the headquarters. I'll contact the higher-ups now and have them hold their ground. How many people did the Imperial Guard Regiment bring?"

  "I see it's Lieutenant General Taro Ito leading them, they should be a brigade," said the secretary.

  Umezu Yoshijirō felt a lump in his throat, what the hell, his own battalion was defending here, and they actually sent a brigade to attack, how could he defend it. To know that a brigade has 3,800 people, while a battalion only has about 250 people, the difference is too great.

  "Attention, people inside. We order you to surrender immediately. If there is any resistance, we will shoot on the spot. You have only 5 minutes to comply. Once time is up, we will launch an attack."

  The loudspeaker outside shouted again, making Mei Zhenmei Lang angry. As the imperial general, he had led tens of thousands of troops in person and had never been treated like this before.

  "Go outside and tell the guard squad, they must be stopped, under no circumstances can they be allowed in. Alright, go inform them." said Mei Shinjiro.

  The secretary looked at Meizumi Yoshitaro but saw that he had already picked up the phone and didn't dare say anything else, so she went out to inform others.

  "Zi zi zi, 'Hello, hello, connect me with the Army Department.'"

  "Zi zi zi, 'Hello, hello, connect me to the residence of Minister Inoue Kaoru.'"

  Sizzling, "Wow wow wow.................."

  Umezu Yoshijirō shook the telephone vigorously, but all that came through was a series of clicks, with no one answering.

  He only then realized that the telephone line of the general staff had been cut off, and now he could not contact anyone. He put down the phone in dismay, sitting weakly on the chair.

  Tan Lujun glanced at his watch, 5 minutes had passed, but the staff headquarters did not send anyone to respond. The guard soldiers at the door even set up machine guns, which made Tan Lujun somewhat annoyed.

  "The first battalion is entering the headquarters to capture people. If anyone blocks us, attack directly." Tian Lu Chao shouted at his subordinates.

  The soldiers of the first battalion began to charge towards the headquarters with guns, but as they approached the entrance of the headquarters, they were met with a hail of machine gun bullets, and instantly the soldiers at the forefront of the first battalion were killed or wounded in large numbers.

  "Bastard, dare to resist, attack, start attacking."

  The soldiers of the First Division began to fire inward, and the machine gunners also set up their machine guns. Both sides started a real fight, and for a time, the sound of gunfire was loud, echoing throughout Tokyo.

  Although the Third Battalion of Tanaka's troops was numerous, due to the narrowness of the attacking surface, there was only one entrance to the staff department, so both sides opened fire at the entrance. A small entrance had two machine guns set up, and for a time, the First Battalion could not take down the guard company defending the staff headquarters.

  Two charges were made, and more than 40 men of the first battalion were killed; for a time the advance was checked.

  "Idiots, set up the mortar, take out those two machine gun nests for me!" The commander of the first battalion yelled at his subordinates.

  Two grenade launcher squads came out, each with three grenade launchers. Six grenades were fired simultaneously, "Boom boom boom..." As it turned out, the Japanese soldiers were quite accurate with their grenade launchers. In one round, both machine gun positions were completely destroyed, and the staff department was temporarily suppressed.

  It's too ruthless, daring to use a grenade launcher in the city, and the General Staff Guard Squadron was stunned for a while.

  "Keep pushing forward, charge in."

  The captain of the first battalion roared, and Japanese soldiers started charging forward again with their guns. Although there were still shots fired from inside, without the suppression of machine guns, they were soon rushed into the yard by the first battalion.

  "Attack, attack, kill anyone who resists." The company commander saw that they had already charged in and shouted at the soldiers behind him. In an instant, nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers rushed into the headquarters.

  Umezu Mitsuru stood at the window on the fourth floor, looking down to see his Imperial soldiers charging into the General Staff Office with such bravery. A sense of powerlessness swept over him, and he knew that his good days were over.