Major General Kanichiro Ueno, commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade, did not say much. He just glanced coldly at the captain, Horita, and Major Tetsuo Ito, commander of the 18th Infantry Regiment.
"Your Excellency, the division commander, and Commander Matsui Iwane are all paying attention to this battle!"
"But the most important thing is that the foreign powers all over the world are paying attention to the combat performance of our imperial army this time!"
"So if you and your troops can't do it, then I can replace you!"
"Major Ito!"
A moment later, Major General Kanichiro Ueno, the commander of the brigade, held up a military telescope to observe the battle situation on the other side of the four-row warehouse, and spoke very coldly to Major Tetsuo Ito, commander of the 18th Infantry Regiment.
"Hai!"
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander! Give me one more chance!"
"I will definitely capture the Xiasi Cong Warehouse!"
"Situations like this will never happen again!"
When the brigade commander, Major General Kanichiro Ueno, asked him so coldly, the captain of the 18th Infantry Regiment, Major Tetsuo Ito, immediately nodded in agreement.
He didn't want to be immediately replaced with the right to fight after he was defeated.
Because for such behavior, it means that his career as an officer will come to an end.
There will no longer be a possibility of promotion,
Therefore, he would rather get one more chance to fight back and die on the battlefield than be cut off from his promotion path.
"I can only give you one more chance, and I have to bear the pressure from the division commander and Commander Matsui Iwane to give you the chance!"
"So just take care of yourself!"
"If it were a normal battle, I wouldn't treat you so harshly!"
"But as I said just now, all the foreign powers are paying attention to our battle!"
"So we can't afford to lose!"
"Especially when we lose to some Chinese troops who are besieged by our army!"
"This is simply a disgrace to our Imperial Army!"
"For such a shame, I will not be allowed to appear in our 29th Brigade!"
When he saw his subordinate asking for the last chance to fight, after observing the battle lines on the four-row warehouse and the bank side for a while, the brigade commander, Major General Ueno Kanichiro, began to speak.
"Hai!"
"Thank you, Brigade Commander!"
"I will never let you down again!"
Hearing that the brigade commander, Major General Kanichiro Ueno, was willing to give him another fighting chance to make up for his past mistakes, Major Tetsuo Ito, commander of the 18th Infantry Regiment, showed a grateful expression in his eyes and expressed his sincere gratitude.
"Okay! Wait until our aviation force gives the other side some clues to take a look, then you can wait for my next combat instructions!"
"Let's rest and recuperate the troops for the time being!"
"The other thing is to take a look at the corpses of the fallen imperial warriors and see if there is any way to collect them all and process them!"
"Let someone find a way to clean up the battlefield!"
In response to the gratitude of the commander, Major Tetsuo Ito, the commander of the brigade, Major General Kanichiro Ueno, responded with a slightly gentler tone.
"Hai!"
Lieutenant Commander Major Tetsuo Ito quickly responded again.
Then he acted as ordered and asked the Japanese troops under him to clean up the battlefield, while he personally directed his own troops to rest and recuperate.
The brigade commander, Major General Kanichiro Ueno, once again observed the situation at the Sihang Warehouse before leaving.
Third Division Headquarters,
Division commander Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, Chief of Staff Colonel Toshio, and Commander Matsui Iwane.
There are only three of them here, and Major General Katayama Riichiro, the commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade.
"Another loss!" "Now all the foreigners are watching our jokes!"
"Next, tell me how many days it will take to completely capture the Sihang Warehouse!"
"Annihilate all the Chinese troops inside?"
"I don't want something embarrassing like today to be exposed again in all foreign media, as well as the Chinese media!"
"Even your useless fight has been reported by our local media!"
"I'm afraid that all the local citizens will be able to see your cowardly behavior by then!"
"This is a disgrace!"
"The shame of the Third Division is also the shame of me as the commander!"
When the silence inside the headquarters could be heard, Commander Matsui Iwane looked fierce, and he had the intention of killing people, and said coldly.
"Three days, I will let the troops capture the Sihang Warehouse held by the Chinese Army within three days!"
After hearing this, the division commander Lieutenant General Fujita Susumu was also quite embarrassed. His face turned red and he responded to Commander Matsui Iwane.
"Then I'll give you three days!"
"Your Majesty Lieutenant General! If it were an ordinary battle, I would not personally pay attention to such a small-scale battle!"
"But since it is now being observed and reported by all foreign countries, for the sake of the face of our imperial army, I can only put a certain amount of pressure on you! Otherwise, if we continue to fail, it will not only affect us
The morale of the troops will also make people all over the world laugh at us behind our backs!"
"Including those damn China Army and China media!"
"So please, you can achieve the final victory within three days!"
Seeing the response of the determined division commander Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, Commander Matsui Iwane responded very seriously.
"Hai!"
"I understand! Your Excellency, Commander!"
"I will definitely capture the Sihang Warehouse within three days. If we were not able to use heavy artillery and large-scale aviation strikes, I would be able to fully occupy a small Sihang Warehouse within one day.
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Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, the division commander, promised again.
In response, Commander Matsui Iwane nodded slightly in response.
"Then I'll leave it to you to handle. I also need to deal with the media side, because we have lost two battles in a row. Although they are not large-scale battles, such a shame still needs to be dealt with.
We need to deal with it, otherwise we will really let foreigners all over the world laugh at our incompetence behind our backs!"
Then, Commander Matsui Iwane also gave an introduction.
"Yes! Your Excellency, Commander!"
The division commander, Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, the chief of staff, Colonel Toshio Ta, and the brigade commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade, Major General Katayama Riichiro, also agreed in unison.
Commander Matsui Iwane didn't waste any words, but turned around and left.
There are quite a lot of media matters that he needs to deal with.
It also made him very irritable.
After the Japanese 18th Infantry Regiment was defeated by He Feiyang's command, the media in the entire foreign concession really became excited. All foreign reporters, including domestic media reporters, were constantly filming with cameras.
and conducting written reports.
All of a sudden, the citizens of the entire concession could quickly learn about the latest fighting situation in Sihang Warehouse through newspapers.
All the big cities in foreign countries, including those abroad, soon learned the news, including the top leaders of their countries, who also received the battle news that the Japanese army had been defeated again.
As a result, many foreigners began to discuss it heatedly.
Even citizens in some major cities in the country soon received newspapers about the fighting on the Sihang Warehouse side.
Including Nanjing, the capital city where the Nationalist troops were retreating, they soon spread the word about the battle here, and the news spread a lot.
It can be said that this time the Japanese army was defeated again, which really became the focus of all countries.
Of course, the one who was most slapped in the face was the Japanese base camp, and it was also the source of the most rage for the entire Japanese base camp.
Especially their Emperor, Emperor Hirohito, couldn't help but break some things in his study.
Then there were waves of curses,
Just like this, all the high-ranking Japanese people roared one after another in unison.
The major news organizations in the Japanese army and the citizens who heard the news of such an unexpected failure were all excited.
Therefore, the citizens are cursing the national army and the Third Division for being useless and ineffective in fighting.