He had always felt that Umezu Sagami was very steady and he admired him very much among the young generals.
However, the appearance of Umezu Sagami at this time disappointed him.
"Your Excellency, Commander, you will know after you go in and take a look." Umezu Sagami said in a low voice.
Junichiro Ikechi glanced around and could see the broken corpses of Imperial soldiers outside the hotel. It was roughly estimated that there were at least seven or eight corpses.
His heart sank. The soldiers on guard outside looked like they were all broken. This was enough to show how bad the situation inside the hotel was.
…
miserable!
Too bad!
The facilities on the first and second floors of Pukou Hotel were almost destroyed in the explosion and crossfire, and the power was also cut off.
The Japanese soldiers urgently pulled out a wire and set up a searchlight so they could see clearly what was going on in the store.
The store could be described as littered with corpses.
There are corpses everywhere.
Some were shot and died.
Some were killed by grenades.
Many others were trampled to death.
These people looked like they were Chinese people attending a birthday banquet. They were all neatly dressed and looked to be of good status. Some of them were wearing police uniforms and should be officials from the Shanghai Municipal Government Police Department.
Of course, no matter how neatly dressed, the state of death at this time is not good-looking.
The most eye-catching thing among them is a row of Japanese officers and soldiers' corpses, arranged in a fan shape, which can even be described as neat.
"The initial suspicion is that the enemy used a heavy fire weapon to shoot to death." Umezu Sagami said.
"Do you think the imperial soldiers are fools? Stand neatly and wait for them to shoot." Junichiro Ikeuchi glared at Sanami Umesumi.
Umezu Sagami pointed at the corpse and said, "During the daytime operation at Saimin Hospital, the enemy used a powerful light weapon. It has now been identified as a Thompson submachine gun from Citigroup, and Saimin Hospital tried to attack
The military commanders who carried out the assassination of General Gangcun also used a large number of explosives including grenades."
"Do you suspect that the attack here was also carried out by military commanders?" Junichiro Ikeuchi said in a deep voice.
"Judging from the firepower configuration used by the enemy, my subordinates highly suspect that it is related to the Shanghai Special Situation Office of the military command." Umezu Sagami said.
"So, you want to say that they gathered a large number of people to launch an attack at Qimin Hospital during the day, and when they were surrounded by the empire and suffered heavy losses, they carried out this attack at Pukou Hotel at night?" Jun Ikeuchi
Ichiro asked with a gloomy face.
Umezu Sagami didn't say anything. He understood what the commander meant. It was impossible for the enemy to instigate the operation of Qimin Hospital, and to suffer heavy losses from an ambush by the empire. Instead of thinking of escaping and hiding, they actually
In the evening, they attacked General Toda Seiichiro's birthday banquet at the Uguchi Hotel.
This is unreasonable.
In addition, if this speculation is confirmed, it will also mean that the trap and roundup operation set up by the Military Police Headquarters and the Special High School Section at Qimin Hospital was a failure and did not inflict heavy damage on the enemy. At the same time, our own side suffered instead.
There was a heavy loss, which means that Qimin Hospital's actions not only failed, but could even be described as a major failure.
Despite various considerations, Umezu Sagami's intuition told him that the attack on the Pukou Hotel was closely related to the military command, especially Xiao Mian's Shanghai Special Situation Office.
However, he currently has no substantial evidence.
…
Umezu Sagami guided Ikeuchi Junichiro to the VIP table.
This is the true meaning of what he used the word "terrible" to describe.
The dining table where General Toda Seiichiro sat was separated from the ordinary guests. Here was a raised hall table with two Eight Immortals tables.
Based on the two Eight Immortals tables, it presents a divergent shape, and guests are presented to the audience in various states of life.
Some of them must be Chinese based on their clothes.
These should be the elites in the various political systems of the empire in Shanghai. Because of their higher status, they were able to attend the meal here.
There were also some people wearing imperial kimonos, scattered and dead.
These should be imperial people who are close to the brigade commander Seiichiro Toda.
Among them was a familiar face from Umezu Sagami.
For example, Sanami Umezu saw the deceased more than ten meters to his left, a chief of the Imperial Military Department in the countryside, named Ueno Ichimae, a native of Nagasaki.
Ueno Ichimai was shot in the head and in the calf. Judging from the way he died, it looked more like he was shot in the calf and unable to escape, and was killed by the enemy with a pistol held to his head in an execution style.
At the far end, there is another familiar face. This person is Kentaro Erpin, the detective of the Imperial Bureau of Industry in the Shanghai Public Concession.
Because the military police often need to negotiate with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau of the public settlement and enter the public settlement to arrest anti-Japanese elements, Umezu Sagami and Kentaro Futababe are quite familiar with each other. The two of them drank together in an izakaya a few days ago. Unexpectedly, they met again.
Such a miserable sight.
The cause of Kentaro Nipin's death was probably the shrapnel from the grenade explosion. A piece of his scalp was cut off by the shrapnel. There were many wounds on his body, especially his abdomen, which were probably caused by the shrapnel from the grenade.
The most eye-catching ones were several corpses wearing the uniforms of imperial officers. After these heroic officers of the empire were unfortunately broken into pieces, the murderers even deliberately surrounded the corpses in a circle.
In the center of the circle is a corpse that is different from other corpses because this corpse is wearing the uniform of an imperial general. The most important thing is that this person has no head on his body!
Judging from the bloody wound on the neck, the head of this corpse must have been cut off by the enemy with a sharp blade and taken away!
…
"Judging from the military uniform on the body, the owner of this body should be Brigade Commander Seiichiro Toda." Umezuzumi Sagami said.
Junichiro Ikeuchi looked gloomy, and he bent down to check the condition of the body.
"Judging from the marks on the general's uniform, General Toda should have been wearing a medal. Now the medal has been torn off by the enemy. In addition, the general's epaulette star on the general's uniform has also been torn off by the enemy and taken away." Umezu Sagami.
He said.
Because it can basically be inferred that this corpse is General Toda Seiichiro, commander of the Empire's new reserve fifth brigade, he has already conducted a more detailed examination of this corpse.
"Bag duck down!" Junichiro Ikeuchi's face was gloomy and scary.
The dignified imperial major general brigade commander was attacked and assassinated by the enemy. Not only the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but even the brigade commander was killed by the enemy. Even the head, epaulette medals, etc. were taken away by the enemy as trophies. This is
The great humiliation of the Imperial Locust Army.
It was even the greatest shame after the empire occupied Shanghai!
"Your Excellency, Commander." A military police officer came over with a military doctor.
"Your Excellency, Commander!" Military doctor Ainosuke Kawanishi saluted Junichiro Ikeuchi.
"Let's work." Junichiro Ikechi said calmly.
"This is General Toda Seiichiro of the new fifth reserve brigade of the Empire." Sanami Umezuzumi reminded, "Please be sure to retain your last dignity for Your Majesty the General."
"Hai!" Kawanishi Airosuke said. He glanced at the headless corpse and shook his head in his heart. There was no dignity left in this situation.
He put down the medical kit and began to examine Toda Seiichiro's body.
I saw him groping and searching the headless body of Seiichiro Toda. Suddenly, Ainosuke Kawanishi showed a strange expression.
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