[Volume 3] Section 22: Chapter 9 Ambition in Nanjing (2)

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In the meeting that the Japanese on the Izumo considered to be luxurious and luxurious, the special envoy of the base camp, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asaka, the Commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, General Matsui Iwane, the Deputy Chief of Staff Headquarters, Kanji Ishihara, and the Commander of the Tenth Army

Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke and Commander of the 11th Division Lieutenant General Sotake Yamamuro, Chief of Staff Katamura Shihachi, Commander of the 18th Division Lieutenant General Nakajima Sadao, Chief of Staff Colonel Megumi Kodō, Third Division

Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Masaki Ito, Commander of the 101st Division, Colonel Fukutaro Nishiyama, Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, Commander of the 6th Division, Staff Officer

Nagashimono Ichijo, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu, commander of the 114th Division, Chief of Staff Saburo Isoda, Major General Shigeto Chiaki, commander of the Shigeto detachment, Major General Tadashi Hega, commander of the Third Flying Division of the Army Aviation Corps, and others.

Get together.

In the entire conference room that was filled with a thick smell of smoke, flattering words were also everywhere. Almost all the Japanese generals were expressing their so-called heartfelt congratulations to King Asaka Palace Hatohiko and Matsui Iwane. Although the war ahead

It was extremely unsatisfactory, but the surprise attack by the two divisions that hit the enemy's weak spot from the Jinshanwei landing side in Hangzhou Bay was effective. After three months of hard fighting, the Chinese army was obviously struggling to hold on.

Among all the people present, only Ishihara Kanji, the deputy chief of the staff headquarters, acted very calmly. Ishihara Kanji looked around, suddenly his eyes lit up, he looked at Colonel Tetsuo Tonomiya not far away and smiled slightly: "Tetsuo-kun

Have you always been good? I was very surprised to hear that you were transferred from the Kwantung Army to the Shanghai Expeditionary Army!" Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice Mountains and Rivers 22

Tetsuo Tonomiya hurriedly saluted and said with tears of gratitude: "Thank you for your concern, Your Excellency, Deputy Minister. Everything is fine in my job. It's just that I can't adapt to the horrible weather in the south. I really miss Manchuria! I even want to go back to my hometown of Hokkaido to take a breath.

That hometown air.”

The commander of the 11th Division, Yamamuro Munetake, who was standing not far from Ishihara Wanji and Tonomiya Tetsuo, glanced at Ishihara Wanji sideways and muttered with some dissatisfaction to his chief of staff, Katamura Shipachi: "Ishihara

This guy is getting more and more arrogant now. I said a few words to him, but his domineering look made people irritated. Who is the colonel standing over Ishihara? I think there seems to be a lot of tension between them.

Familiar look?”

The Chief of Staff of the Eleventh Division, Colonel Katamura Yoshihachi, glanced at Tetsuo Tonomiya, recalled it, and suddenly realized: "Don't you know, Sir, Division Commander? That guy is Tetsuo Tonomiya, who is famous in Manchuria.

Ah! When Colonel Kawamoto personally planned the Huanggutun incident, it was this guy who personally pressed the detonator knob and killed Zhang Zuolin. He was also an extremely famous radical! But after the February 26 Incident, these radicals also became honest.

Many of them, if it weren't for Tojo Hideki's covert protection in name, these people would have been purged by the military together with them."

Ishihara Wanji looked at the energetic and ambitious generals, and sighed helplessly to Tetsuo Tonomiya: "Look at these guys! In fact, many of them don't know what they are doing. In fact, most of them don't know what they are doing."

The difficulty is not how to start a war. The excuse for starting a war is actually not important. What is really important is that we know how to end a war. To use an old saying from the Communist Party, we should just give up when it is good. The Imperial General Staff Headquarters in the Strategy

The purpose of despising the empire is to boost the morale of the domestic military and the people. After all, the empire is too big for the empire. We cannot swallow it in one bite. Cannibalization is our only effective strategy, but our generals

He is so stupid that he even despises others in terms of tactics."

Tetsuo Tonomiya hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Excellency, Deputy Minister Ishihara, this time our Imperial Japanese Army has mobilized a total of nine divisions, four infantry brigades, two artillery brigades, and the Shanghai Special Marine Corps, a total of more than 280,000 people.

We have more than 120 people, more than 120 warships, more than 500 aircraft, and are equipped with more than 300 of the latest types of tanks. Isn’t it easy to deal with the Japanese army with backward and crude equipment?"

Ishihara Wanji put down the wine glass in his hand. To be honest, he was really not used to drinking when he got up early in the morning. He shook his head and smiled slightly: "Donggong-kun! Let me ask you a question. If the infantry regiment under your command arrives in Nanjing,

What will you do when the city is under attack?"

Tonomiya Tetsuo was stunned for a moment by Ishihara Kanji's question. He thought for a moment and said excitedly: "If it were me, of course I would attack immediately. The capital of the Japanese Empire is the only one I have ever conquered in the past two thousand years."

What a glorious achievement! Even if I defy orders and attack the city alone and die under the city, I will die without regrets to strengthen the military might of our Imperial Japanese Army! I will die without regrets without regrets under the city walls of Nanjing, and I will die in a worthy death!"

Ishihara snorted disdainfully, and immediately said coldly: "Now the Shanghai Expeditionary Force has invested five divisions in the city, and deployed three more divisions to hit the weak spot on the side of the Jinshan Guard landing in Hangzhou Bay.

If my estimate is correct, this protracted and brutal war is probably coming to an end! There is also a Chinese defense line, the Wu-Fu Line, between Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, but this so-called defense line is not worth mentioning.

, it can be said that once the Imperial Army defeated the main force of the Japanese army in the Shanghai area, Nanjing, the capital of Japan, will be completely exposed in front of us. The most urgent thing for our army at present is to take time to complete the transportation and material deployment of the entire dispatched army.

, because we have achieved the purpose of using the Battle of Songhu to consume a large amount of the elite direct descendants of the Nanjing Central Government. To destroy the determination of the Japanese people to resist is to destroy their elite direct descendants, such as focusing on attacking their 30th

The Sixth Division, the Eighty-seventh Division, the Eighty-eighth Division and the teaching corps."

Tetsuo Tonomiya nodded in surprise and said: "It is said that the Japanese army performed very bravely and fearlessly in the Battle of Shanghai. Even if they were within the three-dimensional firepower of our naval guns, they held on tenaciously. Our army could only be completely wiped out by the enemy."

The position can only be occupied under certain circumstances. The Songhu area is a zone with many water networks. In such a narrow combat area, so many troops are invested in a strategically decisive battle of a large corps. I am afraid that it will also leave a very strong mark in the history of world war.
Chapter completed!