Kitashirakawaro angrily roared at Ito, Taro Aso and other Japanese officers. The Japanese's successive defeats had caused him to lose the self-restraint that a prince should maintain.
Kitashirakawa cherishes his status as a prince very much. Whenever he talks to others, whether he is happy or angry, he always has a warm smile on his lips, even if he wants to kill the other person.
But today, he was angry. He took out his prince's sword from the guard on the side and was about to chop Ito.
At this time, when everyone sees this, is this okay? Itouchi is the commander-in-chief of the Ito Regiment. If he is killed at this time, it will definitely affect morale even more.
So Taro Aso and several senior military officers risked their lives to hug Kitashirakawa.
Kitashirakawa roared angrily: "Let me go, otherwise you will all die."
Taro Aso hurriedly said: "Senior, senior, listen to me, Ito-kun cannot die yet. The imperial army suffered heavy losses in this battle, and its morale has also dropped. Once you kill Ito-kun at this time, you will be in the middle of the Dragon Boat Festival."
It's a trick. He hopes that the morale of our imperial army will be low, and then he will annihilate us in one fell swoop.
Senior, if you think about our plan, based on the current time, the 10th Division will arrive at Bengbu City in four hours. And by that time, Dragon Boat Festival will not be able to escape."
Kitashirakawa gradually calmed down and slowly let go of the knife in his hand. The staff officer on the side quickly took the knife away and handed it back to the previous guard.
Taro Aso and others also let go of Kitashirakawa's hand.
"call!"
Kitashirakawa exhaled heavily, and his expression returned to its original state. He chuckled and said with a smile on his face: "Haha, I was so angry with that Dragon Boat Festival that I lost my mind. Hahaha, Ito-kun, you were shocked."
Ito quickly said: "Your Excellency, it was my mistake that led to the defeat of the imperial army. Any punishment you impose on me is justified."
Taro Aso sat down and talked as a peacemaker: "Ito-kun has commanded very well. This is all because that Dragon Boat Festival is too cunning. No, I think this is all a trick of that Dragon Boat Festival. He just wants to see us all...
The morale of the Japanese Imperial Army was low."
Kitashirakawa borrowed the advice from Donkey Poxia: "Yes, yes, this is all a trick of that Dragon Boat Festival. We must not let his conspiracy succeed."
Speaking of this, Kitashirakawa asked: "How are the casualties of the imperial army? Do you know the casualties of the enemy?"
Ito quickly stepped forward and replied: "Your Excellency, although the imperial army suffered some losses in this battle, I believe that our enemy's losses will never be smaller than ours. The imperial army guarding the city reported to me,
Our enemy, at least on the city wall, would have killed nearly a regiment of troops. On the frontal battlefield, at least nearly 500 of the enemy would have died under the gunfire of the imperial army.
If calculated based on this battle loss, the battle loss between us and the enemy is equivalent to one to one. It can be regarded as a tie.
And so far, although we have lost some of the defenses in the east of the city, the defenses in the north and west of the city have become more stable.
As for the strength of our army, it is still being calculated, but my preliminary estimate is that including the baggage troops, there should be more than 3,000 people in the imperial army."
"Shao Ge, it seems that there are not many troops left in Dragon Boat Festival. Didn't anyone say before that he only has three regiments of troops? If calculated this way, Dragon Boat Festival should only have about 1,500 troops now. We are the ones who fight
I’m so passive, hahaha!”
Kitashirakawa laughed again, his temper was really hard to predict.
But fortunately, Kitashirakawa was happy at this time, otherwise I don't know how many heads would have fallen to the ground.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a communications soldier appeared at an inappropriate time and knocked on the door.
At this time, almost all the Japanese officers had no smiles on their faces. They had some urge to bite the signal soldier to death.
The communication soldier also realized it, but at this time he had knocked on the door, could he still leave as if nothing was wrong?
What's more, how could Kitashirakawa let him leave?
The smile on Kitashirakawa's face also disappeared, and he greeted: "Hey, come in."
At this time, the little devil's communications soldier was even more afraid to leave. He quickly stepped forward and reported: "Your Excellency, there is a call from the 10th Regiment of the 10th Division. Their two squadrons of imperial troops are not far away from Bengbu.
A ridge of ten kilometers was attacked. The troops suffered heavy casualties and were temporarily unable to break through the enemy's defense line."
"Baga, how many people are there in the Dragon Boat Festival? How come there is an ambush at a ridge?"
Kitashirakawa frowned, and then looked at Ito. Because all the information was fed back by the reconnaissance team of Ito's team.
Ito's heart suddenly rose to his throat again.
At this time, Taro Aso quickly said: "Senior, I think we were deceived by that Dragon Boat Festival. He deliberately exposed only a small number of troops in front of us, but in fact, he hid part of the troops.
This can be regarded as a trump card he left for himself!
Fortunately, although the two imperial army squadrons of the 10th Regiment of the 10th Division failed to go to Bengbu to support, they gave us important feedback. This Dragon Boat Festival is very cunning. In the Bengbu area, we already have
The capital to compete with our Imperial Japanese Army.
And I think the Chinese troops in the city are far beyond our imagination, otherwise the Ito unit would not have suffered such heavy casualties."
Ito wiped his sweat on the side and secretly gave Taro Aso a thumbs up. He thought to himself: "Aso-kun, you are so mean. As long as I don't die today, I will definitely repay you well in the future."
Of course, this was Ito's innermost thoughts. He didn't dare to say it on the surface, otherwise Kitashirakawa would hear it. Even if he didn't want to die, he would die today.
At the same time, Kitashirakawa Ai was nodding. He thought Kitashirakawa Ai was right. That Dragon Boat Festival had been hiding its troops. Otherwise, why had it been fighting for so long and there was still no sign of depletion of troops in Dragon Boat Festival? Moreover, there were still troops fortified at a ridge.
?
Kitashirakawa thought for a moment and said, "Aso-kun, what do you think?"
Taro Aso echoed: "Senior, the enemy situation is unknown now, and I guess that the 10th Regiment of the 10th Division will not be able to come to encircle the Dragon Boat Festival so easily, and if the 63rd Regiment cannot arrive in time, then we
The situation will be very dangerous. So I think we should do this, this, and then this, and this, what do you think?"
Kitashirakawa thought for a while, nodded and said: "I'll do it as you want. I want to see what the hell the Dragon Boat Festival is planning? And I'm afraid that Dragon Boat Festival can't think of it, right? This will be a big battle.
I don’t believe that during the Dragon Boat Festival, everything can be predicted in front of us, hehehehe! Hahahaha!”