The Assault on Jinan - The Matrix Games version of Rising Sun

The Assualt on Jinan, 8-11 May 1928, The Jinan incident (formerly romanised Tsinan) or 3 May Tragedy (simplified Chinese: Pinyin; traditional Chinese: Wusan Can'àn) Jinan, China [H2H][HISB][Curt Cabbage] began as a 3 May 1928 dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Japanese soldiers and civilians in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in China, which then escalated into an armed conflict between the NRA and the Imperial Japanese Army. This was the first time, of very many, that the Japanese Army in China, began to operate outside of the national civilian government authority and provoke reactions from the Chinese authorities. Japanese soldiers had been deployed to Shandong province to protect Japanese commercial interests in the province, which were threatened by the advance of Chiang's Northern Expedition to reunite China under a Kuomintang government. When the NRA approached Jinan, the Beiyang government-aligned army of Sun Chuanfang withdrew from the area, allowing for the peaceful capture of the city by the NRA. NRA forces initially managed to coexist with Japanese troops stationed around the Japanese consulate and businesses, and Chiang Kai-shek arrived to negotiate their withdrawal on 2 May. This peace was broken the following morning, however, when a dispute between the Chinese and Japanese resulted in the deaths of 13-16 Japanese civilians. Responding to a request from General Fukuda, Prime Minister Tanaka ordered the dispatch of reinforcements from Korea and Manchuria in the "Third Shandong Expedition" (Dai-san Santo Shuppei), which began arriving in Jinan on 7 May. With his forces bolstered, General Fukuda issued a set of demands to the Chinese, to be met within twelve hours. These were: punishment of responsible Chinese officers, the disarming of responsible Chinese troops before the Japanese army, evacuation of two military barracks near Jinan, prohibition of all anti-Japanese propaganda, and withdrawal of all Chinese troops beyond 10km on both sides of the Qingdao-Jinan railway. The Japanese knew that the Chinese would not be able to fulfil their demands within the stated timeframe. Instead, their issuance was designed to raise the morale of Japanese troops, cow the Chinese, and demonstrate the "determination" of the Japanese military to foreigners. As expected, the demands were viewed as humiliating and unacceptable by the Chinese. In response, Chiang, who had left the area, sent a courier to the Japanese garrison, stating that he would meet some, but not all of the stated demands. Fukuda, who deemed that his demands had not been met, launched a full-scale attack on the Chinese in Jinan in the afternoon of 8 May. The civilian population of the old city were not warned in advance of the Japanese bombardment, which is thought to have resulted in many casualties. The resulting conflict resulted in thousands of casualties on the NRA side, which fled the area to continue northwards toward Beijing. The final group of Chinese soldiers escaped under the cover of night on 10-11 May. By morning, the Japanese had gained full control of Jinan, and took up positions in the walled city. The city would remain under Japanese occupation until March 1929, when an agreement to settle the dispute over Jinan was reached. The period of occupation was defined by oppression, with freedom of the press and assembly proscribed, postal correspondence censored, and residents killed for alleged sympathies with the KMT.