Chapter 295 Zhou Weihan was offered a reward by Okamura Neji
Beiping, Iron Lion Alley, North China Front Headquarters.
Various units of the Eighth Route Army retreated one after another, and the Japanese troops in North China finally had a chance to breathe.
North China Front Commander Okamura Neiji held an emergency meeting. The meeting was attended by Japanese First Army Commander Yoshio Shinozuka, division commanders and brigade commanders under the First Army, and Sanmu, commander of the 110th Division directly under the Front Army.
Chongming, acting commander of the 35th Division, Taijiro Iida, commander of the First Independent and Eighth Composite Brigade.
In the headquarters conference room.
Okamura Neji is in the first place, the First Army is headed by Shinozuka Yoshio on the left side of the mahogany table, Chiefs of Staff Tanabe Moritake and Kuwaki Takaaki, and Iida Taijiro are on the right side.
The little devils working there were all officers above the rank of major general, but at this time, they all bowed their heads and said nothing, waiting for Neji Okamura to make a speech.
"Gentlemen!"
"Hi!" A group of Japanese officers stood up.
Okamura Neji waved his hands and motioned for everyone to sit down.
"Please take a look at the documents in the report folder in front of you. These are the recent statistics on the casualties and material losses of the imperial army!"
"The Eighth Route Army called it the Hundred Regiment War, and announced to the outside world that there were 110 regiments. I would like to ask you, how many people were there at the beginning of the Eighth Route Army's eastward crossing of the Yellow River?" Okamura Neiji looked at everyone present and asked.
"When the Eighth Route Army was reorganized, there were a total of 46,000 people in three divisions and several directly affiliated units. Later, 37,000 people crossed the Yellow River to participate in the battle!" Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake said without hesitation when he saw that no one was speaking.
"Yes, how did the Eighth Route Army, which had less than 50,000 men at the beginning, develop 110 regiments with more than 200,000 men in North China in just over two years? This does not include the Eighth Route Army in Shandong and Jiangnan. Who can tell
Why me?" Okamura Neji's voice became louder little by little, and the suppressed anger in his chest was directly vented.
"I'm very curious about how many people the Imperial Japanese Army needs to deploy to maintain security in the rear. Do we have to transfer elite Class A divisions from the front?"
"Those red deer in the Navy are probably watching the joke right now. You have disgraced the entire Army!"
For some reason, when Neji Okamura mentioned the Japanese Navy, the little devils here seemed to suddenly become energetic, as if they had been given a shot of blood.
"On the Zhengtai Line, Niangziguan fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army twice, the Jingjing Coal Mine was lost, the garrison was wiped out, and a large amount of supplies were taken away. In addition to Shouyang and Yangquan, many stations, bridges and more than a hundred strongholds were captured by the Eighth Route Army.
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"Tongpu Railway, Baijin Railway, Lintun Highway, Handan-Changchang Highway, Shide Highway, and Handi-Ji Highway are all signs of destruction by the Eighth Route Army!"
"There was also the Ping-Han Railway that was most severely damaged by the Eighth Route Army. The railway from Handan to Cixian was completely pulled out by the Eighth Route Army. The city of Handan was captured by the Eighth Route Army. The brigade commander Kumidi was on the fourth floor, and the chief of staff Yumi Onodera was shattered.
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"Two lines of reinforcements were completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and five entire infantry brigades of warriors died in a foreign country!"
"In less than ten days, more than 20,000 soldiers were shattered and more than 15,000 soldiers were injured. This is a loss that the Imperial Japanese Army has never suffered since the beginning of the war!"
Okamura Neji mentioned the casualties of Japanese soldiers, but in his eyes the puppet troops were nothing more than cannon fodder.
At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka stood up and interrupted: "General, I bear the main responsibility!"
"Yusi, Shinozuka-kun, I appreciate your attitude of taking the initiative to take responsibility, but this matter is not your responsibility alone, everyone here is responsible!"
"The Army Headquarters has recently replenished some of its divisions and brigades. I hope you will remember your mission of loyalty to the Emperor!"
"Hi!" The little devils were relieved and stood up again.
"Xia Yuanjun, do you know which unit of the Eighth Route Army is attacking Handan this time?" Okamura Neiji asked.
"My subordinates are incompetent!"
"You are indeed incompetent, Chief of Staff, introduce it to them!"
Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake said at this time: "This Eighth Route Army is designated as an independent detachment. It first appeared in the battle with the Shiyou Tribe in southern Hebei, and then participated in the military operation to drive away Zhu Huaibing's tribe in Tainan, near Handan
It was this independent detachment that was active, and the reinforcements of the 35th Division were annihilated by it in Zhanghe River!"
"Through the information obtained by our mole within the National Government, the chief of this department is called Zhou Weihan. He was born in the third year of the Republic of China. He was a student at Yenching University. He participated in the student movement in his early years and participated in the 29th Military Academy Corps. He served in the South
Yuan survived and later joined the Eighth Route Army!"
"It's a pity that the archives of the 29th Army have been burned long ago, and the Yenching University in China has moved south. So far, no photos of him as an adult have been found, only a family photo of him when he was a child!" Tanabe Shengwu said with regret.
An enlarged black and white photo hangs on the wall.
This photo was taken in the 18th year of the Republic of China. When Zhou Weihan was fifteen years old, his eldest brother was going home to visit relatives. His second brother was going to study abroad, so he took this photo.
In the photo, Zhou Weihan's father and mother are sitting in the front, and his three brothers are standing behind them.
The eldest brother Zhou Weiguo is on the left wearing a military uniform, the second brother Zhou Weimin is in the middle wearing a robe, and Zhou Weihan is on the right.
Fifteen-year-old Zhou Weihan looks a little immature, his body bones have not yet grown, and he is very different from his current appearance.
"This is Zhou Weihan. His family background is not simple. His father traveled east to the empire in his early years. He graduated from the Army Sergeant School and is a veteran of the Tongmenghui. He has a profound influence on today's National Government!"
"The eldest brother is Zhou Weiguo. He graduated from the third phase of Huangpu. He is now the deputy commander-in-chief of the 34th Group Army of the Central Army and the commander of the First Army. He is deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek and Hu Jintao!"
"My second brother, Zhou Weimin, went out to study in his early years and his whereabouts are unknown!"
Tanabe Moritake introduced them one by one. It can be said that the Japanese army thoroughly investigated Zhou Weihan himself and his family background.
"This person and the so-called independent detachment must be eliminated to comfort the spirits of the shattered warriors of the Japanese Empire!"
"Hi!" Xia Yuanmi Xiong nodded and responded.
After the meeting, Shimomoto Yaxiong returned to the execution platform with Zhou Weihan's photo, and immediately summoned the spy leader Terai Koichi, and the two had a detailed discussion.
"There is a huge reward for the traces of this man. If he is caught alive, he will be rewarded 400,000 yuan!" said Mi Xiong.
"Four hundred thousand yuan?" Terai Chaoichi said in surprise.
"Yes, this is what General Gangcun meant. I hope you will personally supervise this matter and make sure to find his traces!"
"Hi!" Terai Chaoichi glanced at Zhou Weihan in the photo.
Although these 400,000 yuan are counterfeit coins, their value is not small.
Among the many generals of the Eighth Route Army, in terms of the amount of bounties offered by the Japanese army alone, Zhou Weihan was ranked ahead of the brigade commander with 500,000 yuan.
At this time, Zhou Weihan, who was in Yamawang Mountain, did not know that he was being noticed by senior generals of the Japanese army.
Subsequently, photos of Zhou Weihan when he was fifteen were quickly distributed to various Japanese military strongholds and plainclothes hands.
Many plainclothes and puppet soldiers worked hard and searched around Handan like crazy, as if they wanted to search the entire area around Handan.