On Wednesday, January 17, 1940, at Basuo Port in the southwestern part of Qiongzhou, when the Japanese from Kuroda and his party from the Secretariat came ashore from an armed merchant ship of more than 3,000 tons, their colleagues from the Secretariat who came specially to greet them first cheered. , then they hesitated. Kuroda was getting closer and closer to them, and their emotions became uneasy. "Are they Kuroda-kun and the others? Why have they changed so much?" Someone raised a question, and everyone looked at it more carefully. , when Kuroda and the others got closer, they finally concluded that the people approaching them were indeed colleagues from the Affairs Department who had gone back to Japan to ask for supplies. But for some reason, each of them seemed to have lost a lot of weight. Kuroda was originally round. The pig-headed face turned into a long horse face, and Kawashita, who originally weighed more than 150 kilograms, miraculously turned into a ponytail. The contrast between before and after was so great that it was hard for anyone to Anyone who sees it will inevitably have daydreams about what happened to them.
There were no big shots who came to greet Kuroda. The one with the highest position was a captain named Ichikawa Sahei. Ichikawa was originally Kuroda's squadron leader, but as Kuroda became the head of the affairs department, Ichikawa followed him and became He became the captain of a newly established logistics brigade affiliated with the Ministry of Affairs.
Ichikawa was more calm than the others. He went up to him first, bowed to Kuroda respectfully, and said, "Minister Kuroda, welcome back."
Kuroda's mood at this time was very complicated. In fact, after being summoned by Yamamoto to accept the admonishment from him and Koizumi Minichiro, he gave up the idea of promotion and making a fortune, and wanted to stay in Japan wholeheartedly. No matter how much money he made, he would No matter how high you are promoted, if you have no life to live with it, you might as well just be a soldier. But that doesn't work. Yamamoto and Koizumi just took a fancy to him. They were both affectionate and rational towards him, and they couldn't help it. If he doesn't agree, he will have no choice but to return to Hainan, and he will be put on a heavy burden.
Yamamoto's words are very nice: "Kuroda-kun, please give full play to your expertise and do business with the Chinese people. As long as it is something that the empire does not have, you have to find a way to buy it back. Money is not a problem, your personal reward is We will also consider that after the TV station is built, you will be the second largest shareholder. As for Commander Sawada, I will say hello to him. I believe that with his consciousness, he will never hinder this kind of benefit to the imperial military. Regarding the development, Kuroda-kun, please leave everything to me."
After the assassination of the "Kaga" aircraft carrier, Yamamoto carried out a purge of the Navy. Anyone who was inconsistent with his current philosophy was either transferred to the second-line unit or transferred back to Tokyo. The current Navy, especially the United The fleet is actually Yamamoto's yintang. Kuroda has heard about this, so he will not be fooled by his appearance. The more courteous Yamamoto is to him, the more frightened he becomes. He doesn't know how big a hole Yamamoto has dug. Waiting for myself to jump,
This trip to Nagasaki was definitely a nightmare-like experience for Kuroda and others. The powerful attack by Jiang Yonggang and others on the "Kaga" not only made Yamamoto realize the strength of the cadet army again, This strengthened his determination to give priority to attacking the cadet army. At the same time, it also gave Kuroda a new understanding of the combat power of the cadet army. He finally realized that it was a miracle that the Osaka Division could gain a foothold in Qiongnan. The dream of getting rich faded away,
Hainan is now a devil's cave. Sooner or later, the Xuebing Army will eat up the Osaka Division. He will die by then and he doesn't know how. He really doesn't want to go back, but he has no choice. He has been bumpy on the sea for nearly ten days. In these ten days, he has eaten I couldn't sleep well, so I couldn't gain back the weight I had lost due to the abuse by the Combined Fleet Military Police.
Kuroda and the others were as skinny as monkeys, but Ichikawa and the others basically remained the same. This made Kuroda sigh, sometimes it is better to be ignorant. He sighed heavily in his heart and dismissed many unrealistic things. Putting aside the thought, with a smile on his face, he returned the military salute to Ichikawa and others, and said: "Major Ichikawa, thank you for your hard work, please come and greet us."
"Kuroda-kun, how are you? Is everything going well for the Nagasaki delegation?" Ichikawa asked, looking past Kuroda to the rear, where a group of Japanese troops dressed as military police were coming down.
Kuroda smiled, turned around and introduced to him: "That's the joint fleet military police escorting supplies." Then, he looked at the dock and asked: "Didn't you drive a truck here?"
"Are there any supplies? That's great. Ah, the fuel has been exchanged with the Chinese for food. The trucks can't drive here at all. Are there a lot of supplies?"
"It's enough to last the division for a month."
"That's really great. Then, then, is there any military spending?"
"have."
Because there was a large amount of money in the supplies, Yamamoto specifically asked Masafumi Arima to select a small team of Great White Shark special forces to participate in the escort. At this time, this group of Japanese soldiers, under the command of a second lieutenant named Samurai Goto, was walking down the stairs. The merchant ship was on guard duty. Kuroda introduced Ichikawa to Goto. Goto heard that Ichikawa was just a major captain, so he said coldly: "Ichikawa-kun, this batch of money and goods was designated by Commander Yamamoto." It must be accepted by Commander Sawada personally, please notify Commander Sawada immediately to come and claim it."
Did Goto make it clear that he looked down on Yoko Ichikawa? This severely hit the latter's self-esteem. When he saw that the other party only had about thirty people, but he had brought more than three hundred people over, he immediately responded unceremoniously. Said: "What, just the money and goods of such a ship need to use our commander, Second Lieutenant Goto, are you making too much of a fuss?"
Goto said coldly: "Although the money and goods are not much, it is for our combined fleet to support your department, so Lieutenant General Sawada must come to accept it in person. This is what Mr. Yamamoto has repeatedly asked, please do it." After finishing speaking, , he waved his hand, and his men lined up on the pier and blocked the trestle.
"Ba Ge, this is too much." Ichikawa cursed angrily, and then asked Kuroda in a low voice: "Isn't it the supplies allocated by the military?"
Kuroda nodded: "Yes, I couldn't go to Tokyo at all, so this batch of money and supplies are supported by the combined fleet. Ichikawa-kun, please do as you please."
"Then you go back with me. Your Excellency, the Commander, has a bad temper recently. I, I'm a little afraid of him."
"Okay." Kuroda agreed and said to Goto: "Goto-kun, I will personally report the matter to Commander Sawada. Please be patient."
"good."
Kuroda left the dock under the leadership of Ichikawa and others, and walked out for more than 100 meters. Ichikawa asked Kuroda: "Mr. Kuroda, have those been sold?"
"They were all taken over by the United Fleet."
"ah."
"But the extra money they gave me is quite reasonable."
"You guys, why are you so thin?"
"Well, we are losing weight recently."
Losing weight, Ichikawa naturally didn't believe it, but he looked at the people behind Kuroda and found that they all had extremely cold expressions. After thinking about it, he didn't continue to ask.