Chapter 236 Information delivered to Imamura’s small classroom
Wuhan finally fell.
Cheng Qianfan's heart was surrounded by pain and sadness.
Following the battle to defend Nanjing, Wuhan fell again. Cheng Qianfan could fully imagine the huge blow the fall of Wuhan would have on the morale of the Chinese people.
Wuhan has been known as the "thorough of nine states" since ancient times. It connects Jiangsu and Anhui to the east, Guizhou and Shu to the west, Hunan and Guangdong to the south, Henan and Hebei to the north, the Yangtze River and the Han River, the Pinghan-Hankou Railway and the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, all intersect here.
It is the most important transportation hub in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Especially after the fall of Nanjing, the national capital, Wuhan became the center of the Anti-Japanese War in China.
Defend Wuhan!
This has been the loudest anti-war slogan in the past few months!
The "Japanese Locust Army" conquered Wuhan, which was great news. Naturally, Kentaro Miyazaki and his teacher immediately responded with joy.
Cheng Qianfan ordered Li Hao to drive Bai Ruolan to school to pick up Xiaobao, and was also responsible for sending the two girls home. He himself got into another car and was escorted by the remaining security vehicle to the Japanese Embassy area in Hongkou District.
Along the way, Mr. Cheng's motorcade crossed the bridge and passed through traffic jams. Even when it entered the British and American Concessions, it did not stop all the way. When the patrol officer in the British and American Concessions saw Mr. Cheng's license plate, he quickly raised the railing to let them pass.
When the citizens along the way saw this, they pointed secretly and marveled at Mr. Cheng's majesty and power in Shanghai.
"Wait for me outside here." Cheng Qianfan straightened his suit and said in a deep voice.
"yes."
"It's a great honor for Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng to be here." Kogoro Imamura came out in person to greet the Deputy Chief Inspector of the Patrol Room of the Central District of the French Concession.
"Is Mr. Imamura at home?" Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly.
"I just came back. Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng came by chance." Kogoro Imamura nodded and said with a smile, "Please."
Cheng Qianfan was led up the stairs by Imamura Kogoro and came to the door of the study.
Imamura Kogoro was about to knock on the door when Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said, "I'll do it myself."
After saying that, he straightened his clothes, then walked forward and knocked on the door.
"Kogoro, is that you?" Imamura Hyoutarou's voice came from inside.
"Teacher, it's me." Cheng Qianfan said.
"Kentaro is here, come in." Hyoutaro Imamura said.
"yes!"
Cheng Qianfan pushed the door open and nodded his thanks to Imamura Kogoro before closing the study door.
"Why are you here at this time?" Hyōtaro Imamura was reviewing documents. He looked up at Kentaro Miyazaki and asked, "If I remember correctly, Mr. Shimizu made an appointment with you today."
"Mr. Qingshui contacted me later. He changed the time to tomorrow morning because of something unexpected." Cheng Qianfan said.
"That's it." Hyōtaro Imamura nodded. He looked at Kentaro Miyazaki and saw the joy that could not be concealed in Kentaro's eyes, so he asked with a smile, "Why are you so happy? You are rich again.
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"In Mr.'s eyes, are students so vulgar and full of the smell of copper?" Cheng Qianfan smiled bitterly.
"You don't like money anymore?" Hyōtaro Imamura asked.
"Uh--" Cheng Qianfan couldn't laugh or cry, and then he took out the newspaper from his body, "Teacher, the students just saw the news that the empire occupied Wuhan. They were very excited. All they wanted to think about was to come and share this joy with the teacher."
As he spoke, he shook his head with a smile, "The flame of excitement in the student's chest that was triggered by your words, teacher, has now dissipated a lot."
"I knew you came here for this matter." Imamura Hyoutarou showed the slightest satisfaction that it was indeed the case and that "everything was as I expected."
"So the teacher has known about this news for a long time?" Cheng Qianfan said in surprise, and then he also laughed, "Yes, the teacher must be better informed than the newspaper."
"What I just said was intended to distract and ease your excitement." Hyoutaro Imamura said, "The occupation of Wuhan is certainly worthy of celebration, but we cannot be dazzled by victory."
"Hai." Cheng Qianfan said with a solemn expression, standing at attention.
"Of course, don't be so serious. After all, this is Wuhan." Hyōtaro Imamura saw Kentaro Miyazaki's serious look and smiled and said, "You can celebrate or be excited, but you must always be vigilant."
He looked at Miyazaki Kentaro, "Occupying Wuhan, or even occupying the whole of China, is just a small step for the empire to conquer the entire world."
"Hai, the students are too complacent." Cheng Qianfan's eyes were filled with hot, crazy light, "The future of the empire is the entire world, and the ethnic minority will become the most noble nation on the entire earth!"
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"The empire occupied Wuhan and severely defeated the Chinese government. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is studying and analyzing and summarizing the war in Wuhan." Hyōtaro Imamura looked at Cheng Qianfan, "I will also give you a task."
"Teacher, please give me your instructions. Students must complete them seriously." Cheng Qianfan said respectfully.
Imamura Hyōtaro nodded, very satisfied with Miyazaki Kentaro's attitude.
He knew that although his student was very smart, capable and talented, he was sometimes a little lazy and his energy was affected by the 'smell of copper'.
However, Kentaro Miyazaki's attitude has always been upright, without any shirk or carelessness, no matter what he ordered, assigned work, or assigned 'assessment homework'.
"I have some information and information about the war in Wuhan here. You can study it and write a research report and give it to me." Hyōtaro Imamura said.
"Hai." Cheng Qianfan respectfully took the document bag with both hands.
Hyōtaro Imamura lowered his head to review the documents again. After a few minutes, he raised his head with a look of surprise, "Why are you still here?"
"The teacher didn't say anything, how could the students..." Cheng Qianfan said.
"I'm busy." Hyōtaro Imamura smiled, "Go ahead, you are my student, why are you still so reserved in front of me?"
"It's not about being cautious, it's about respecting the teacher." Cheng Qianfan defended.
"You, you." Hyōtaro Imamura waved his hand.
Cheng Qianfan bowed respectfully, walked back to the door, turned around, opened the door and left, closing the door gently.
A few minutes later, Imamura Hyōtaro raised his head and saw the newspaper that Kentaro Miyazaki had forgotten. He stood up and picked it up and looked at it. He saw that some parts of the newspaper seemed to have been wet before and were now dry again.
Imamura Hyoutaro couldn't help but shake his head and sighed softly, "Kentaro has a pure and pure heart for the empire!"
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Return to Yendli's residence.
Cheng Qianfan was just in time to accompany Bai Ruolan and Xiaobao to dinner.
"What's wrong? My little baby is not in a good mood." Cheng Qianfan tapped Xiaobao's little head with a kuai.
"Xiao Ming hasn't come to school for two days." Xiao Bao sighed softly.
"Didn't you say that Lu Xiaoming bullied other students? Don't you like playing with this classmate?" Cheng Qianfan asked with a smile.
"Xiao Ming didn't come to school, so I didn't hit him for two days..." Xiaobao said smoothly, and covered his mouth with an ouch.
When Cheng Qianfan heard this, he couldn't help but dumbfounded.
"Has classmate Lu Xiaoming bullied other students recently?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"I didn't dare when I was here. When I was away, he still bullied other classmates." Xiaobao was a little distressed, holding his chin with his hands, "I don't know what to do."
"So you hit Xiaoming every day?" Cheng Qianfan laughed, and then he said with a slightly serious expression, "If you bully other classmates, my brother will definitely be angry."
Xiaobao raised his head and looked at him.
Cheng Qianfan continued, "However, for Lu Xiaoming who bullies his classmates, my brother specifically allows you to beat him."
"Really?" Xiaobao's eyes lit up.
"Of course." Cheng Qianfan nodded.
Amid Xiaobao's cheers, Cheng Qianfan got up and went back to the study on the second floor. Bai Ruolan's voice 'teaching' Xiaobao came from behind.
Words like 'can't fight', 'fighting is not good' floated into his ears.
Xiaobao seemed to have told a few bad things about how Lu Xiaoming bullied his classmates.
Cheng Qianfan listened secretly and heard Bai Ruolan say:
You dare not tell the teacher, Lu Xiaoming, if you are capable of beating him. If the teacher doesn’t come to me, I will ignore him.
Cheng Qianfan couldn't help laughing.
After closing the study door, Cheng Qianfan had a serious expression on his face:
Lu Xiaoming hasn't come to school for two days?
what reason?
What happened to his family?
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Cheng Qianfan carefully studied the information and information given by Hyōtaro Imamura.
To be precise, this should be Hyōtaro Imamura's own preliminary research and analysis of the war in Wuhan.
"this--"
Cheng Qianfan looked shocked and ecstatic, because the information and information provided by Imamura Hyoutarou was very detailed, and even some of the information was classified.
Although it may not necessarily be highly confidential information, it is difficult to actually access it.
It can be said that without the teacher-student relationship of Hyoutarou Imamura, it would have been very difficult, even almost impossible, for Cheng Qianfan to obtain these intelligence materials.
After Cheng Qianfan carefully studied these information, he had already summarized and sorted out the important information, information, or what he personally thought was very valuable.
Then, after making a mental draft, he began to write furiously:
“After the Battle of Xuzhou, there was a heated discussion at the Tokyo base camp on whether to continue marching into Wuhan.
The Tokyo base camp has estimated that if we further attack Wuhan, we will need to increase military expenditure by at least 2.1 billion yen.
In addition, given that the Japanese army was extremely exhausted after the Battle of Xuzhou, the base camp needed to deploy an additional 300 to 400,000 troops to the Wuhan battlefield.
The huge military expenditure and the scale of the increase in troops made the Japanese cabinet actually have inconsistent and even contradictory ideas about attacking Wuhan.
However, the Japanese navy and army were very eager to occupy Wuhan.
The Japanese army and navy generally believe that if they can finally successfully occupy Wuhan, they will maximize the speed of occupying all of China.
One of the most important points of view of the Japanese Army is that occupying Wuhan will deal a huge blow to Chongqing and help force Chongqing to surrender.
The Japanese base camp believes that the capture of Wuhan is of great political, military and economic significance:
On the one hand, this can destroy China's anti-war center;
On the other hand, the government lost Nanjing and Wuhan successively, which will also directly affect the prestige of the government and force Chongqing to surrender and sue for peace.
"Even if Chongqing does not give in, losing Wuhan also means losing Hunan, the granary of Hubei, and the only economic center in mainland China.
Not only will the National Government lose its ability to be economically self-sufficient, it will also cut off the weapons transportation channel - the Guangdong-Hankou Railway."
After thinking about it, Cheng Qianfan crossed out this paragraph. He believed that both the teacher and Comrade Xiang Wu had already seen this very clearly and there was no need for him to say anything more.
However, later, he added it. This was what he obtained from the intelligence and tried to restore the intelligence content to the maximum extent.
Among them, the Japanese base camp’s estimates of military expenditures and military strength for the Wuhan war, in Cheng Qianfan’s view, have strong reference value for Japan’s national strength and military mobilization capabilities.
In addition, according to data and intelligence, when the Japanese base camp was formulating a strategy to attack Wuhan, it actually did not directly determine the current military plan to capture Wuhan, but was constantly adjusting and changing it.
The Japanese base camp once formulated a plan on how to capture Wuhan.
The military strategy of the North China Front, specifically, the Japanese North China Front planned to go south along the Ping-Han Railway and fight all the way until it reached Hankou.
After intense discussions, the Japanese troops in North China analyzed the advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage of this military march strategy is that the roads are smooth, plain operations are suitable for mechanized troops.
For the national army, which has a very low degree of mechanization, the Japanese army can completely form a huge combat advantage with its mechanized army.
However, the shortcomings of this plan are also obvious. It must pass through China's first, fifth, and ninth theaters, and most importantly, it must be harassed by the Eighth Route Army from behind.
Therefore, this military advance plan was finally rejected after intense discussions.
The second plan of the Japanese base camp was to outflank Wuhan from the south of the Huaihe River, across the Dabie Mountains, and ideally to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army.
The advantage of this marching strategy is that it is the closest and can shorten the marching distance to the greatest extent.
The disadvantage is that the complex terrain of the Dabie Mountains is not conducive to the march of mechanized troops, which will also directly affect the Japanese supply line.
After the Yellow River Huayuankou burst its banks, this plan no longer needed to be discussed and was directly abandoned by the Japanese base camp.
The third plan of the Japanese base camp was to go up the Shuojiang River along the Yangtze River and attack Wuhan.
The advantage of this plan is that the Japanese army can take the initiative, use the sea, land and air forces to cooperate in operations, and the attack distance is moderate.
More importantly, the Chinese army's defense along the Yangtze River defense line is extremely weak.
Of course, there are also shortcomings. The Yangtze River waterway is complicated and is not conducive to the march of mechanized troops.
After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army had to carry out large-scale mobilization over long distances. In addition, for this plan to be realized, there was another extremely important key point, which was that Jiujiang must be occupied as soon as possible.
In addition, this military strategy will most likely only expel the Chinese army and will be difficult to annihilate.
It was the third strategy adopted by the Japanese army in the final occupation of Wuhan.
Cheng Qianfan secretly went to the safe house on Desilang Road that night and sent a streamlined but still extremely long telegram to the northwest headquarters.
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