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The enemy does not move, I do not move, such a strange situation made Li Guodong, who originally wanted to start a tentative attack, unable to make up his mind, and then gave up the idea of taking the lead first, Li Guodong planned to calm down and wait for the order of the headquarters. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Sure enough, a few minutes later, Li Guodong waited for the command headquarters to order them to follow the order not moving. According to the order of the headquarters, while leaving three tanks to monitor the Japanese troops outside the palace, Li Guodong ordered the other tanks and armored vehicles to retreat several hundred meters to find a suitable position and open up a suitable site for the helicopter unit to take off and land.

Half an hour passed quickly, and more than 2o armed helicopters also appeared over Li Guodong and others, but Li Guodong and others did not come with ammunition and supplies to replenish them, but more than 5o sappers and a large number of equipment. Since 7 o'clock in the morning, all the participating troops have been fighting continuously for a whole day, and although they have successfully eliminated and dispersed more than a million Japanese troops and the resistance forces in the city, the physical strength of the participating troops has been exhausted to the extreme.

He was already 100% sure that it would be impossible to end the battle before dark, so after Zhuo Fei learned that there had been a surprise attack on the periphery of the palace by troops entering the city, the first decision he made was to use the sapper troops to use a large number of equipment to blockade the area.

In the face of the overwhelming offensive of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the Emperor's Palace at night is certainly the safest place for the current Tokyo City. During the hours-long fighting, not a single shell from the Chinese Expeditionary Force fell into the palace. However, the rumbling sound of cannons getting closer and closer to the palace has reached the ears of everyone in the palace. Whether it was the lowest-ranking attendant in the palace, or the highest-ranking official, even Muto Akira himself, they couldn't help but show a deep look of fear in the face of the rumbling cannons.

In less than two days, in the face of tremendous pressure, Muto Akira seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant. Staring at a pair of colorless eyes, he asked his subordinates who were at a loss, "Yaga, why don't you speak?" Aren't you all very good at talking about it, but now that it's really a critical moment, how have you all become dumb... They all speak..."Standing in the hall full of officers, the roar of Muto Akira echoed.

After a while, Muto Zhang, who had a gloomy face, asked directly at his chief of staff, Yamashita Kui, "Yamashita-kun, how many soldiers do we have left in the entire Tokyo City now?" ”

"Your Excellency, Commander... Three hours ago, we had lost contact with all the positions on the outskirts of the city, and most of our street fighting troops scattered in the city had been divided and surrounded by the Chinese army. So, so far, all we have left is the three infantry wings guarding the perimeter of the palace and one guard at your own disposal... The total number of troops will not exceed the size of 12ooo. Yamashita Kui replied to Muto Akira.

"In other words, the total number of troops we can use at the moment is just over 10,000 people?" Muto asked with a solemn face. However, what Muto Zhang didn't expect was that it was the last of the more than 10,000 troops, along with the beginning of a new round of offensive by the Chinese Expeditionary Force, that the three infantry wings deployed around the palace were wiped out in just an instant. As soon as Muto Akira's words fell, a series of deafening shell explosions began to sound around the palace.

"Oh no... Something happened...", a Japanese officer rushed into the main hall in a panic, panting and reporting. "Attack, the Chinese Expeditionary Force has begun to attack our troops deployed outside the palace." The young officer, with a pale face, reported incoherently to Muto Akira.

Although the three infantry wings deployed by Muto Akira outside the palace were all elite members of the 2nd Guards Division, they could not dig trenches with their backs to the palace, so they could only completely expose the surface of the position, and only use sandbags to hide in the barricades to prepare for battle. The Japanese army was so defended in the face of the shells of the attacking troops of the expeditionary force, and there was only the fate of being slaughtered. After waiting all night, the attacking troops of the expeditionary force mobilized tank guns, field guns, mountain artillery, infantry guns, individual rocket launchers, and a large number of captured Japanese grenadiers, and in less than five minutes, poured thousands of shells of various calibers on the Japanese defensive positions outside the palace.

Coupled with the fact that there were no trenches and bunkers around the palace that could allow Japanese soldiers to hide, thousands of shells were wielded with their maximum power in an instant. Although the attacking troops of the expeditionary force that opened the cannon consciously avoided the palace behind the Japanese defense line according to Zhuo Fei's order, but even so, less than half of the thousands of soldiers of the three Japanese elite infantry wings managed to survive under the ravages of these thousands of shells.

Knowing the battle situation, everyone in the main hall, including Muto Akira, couldn't help but gasp, and some even began to imagine themselves struggling with the sound of cannonballs exploding. After a short silence, it was Muto Akira who was the first to speak, "Gentlemen, the situation outside is already clear to everyone, everyone will talk about it, what should we do next?" In the face of Muto Zhang's question, the Japanese officers in the main hall were speechless, and everyone was silent except for silence.

At this moment, a commotion came from outside the main hall..., and just as everyone was looking at the outside of the hall with suspicious eyes, a Japanese soldier of the 2nd Guards Division strode into the main hall. "Division commander, the Chinese suddenly stopped the offensive and sent a negotiator, and the negotiator sent by the Chinese Expeditionary Force asked to meet with the division commander."

"Nani? Does the Chinese army want me to surrender to them? No, I will never agree, immediately kill the negotiators sent by the Shina Army, the Great Japanese Empire only has warriors who died in battle, and there are no cowards who surrendered..."Muto Akira in a rage didn't think much about it at all, and directly ordered with an iron face.

However, what puzzled Muto Akira and the officers present was that in the face of his own orders, the soldiers of the 2nd Guards Division made any movement. Instead, he opened his mouth and said, "Division commander, the negotiator sent by the Shina people is not Chinese, but Japanese... And ......"

"Yaga, don't say it" Hearing the three words of the Japanese, the anger in Muto Zhang's heart was even stronger, and he directly interrupted the soldier's answer. "Just because he is Japanese, then he should be killed, I don't have such a citizen in the Japanese Empire, he is simply a disgrace to the empire, a disgrace to ......," Muto Akira roared hysterically.

In the face of Muto Akira's roar, the young soldier who was glared at by everyone replied softly, "But, division commander, he is not an ordinary Japanese, he is the commander of the Iijima Kamesan Third Division of the Iijima Division. The name Kamezo Iijima was like a thunderclap, which stunned everyone in the main hall, especially Muto Zhang, who was almost out of breath.

After a full minute, Muto Akira tentatively asked, "What did you say?" The envoy sent by the people of Waishina was Kamezo Iijima? After getting a definite answer from the other party, Muto Akira didn't know whether to be happy or angry. Iijima Kamezo was originally part of the 2nd Guards Division, like Muto Akira, and after Muto Akira took over as commander of the Home Defense, Iijima Kamezo was appointed commander of a native division and was ordered to garrison the Setagaya Ward, and of all the Japanese positions on the outskirts of Tokyo, the Iijima Division was the first to lose contact with the Tokyo Command. Everyone thought that Iijima Kamezo had been shattered in the position, but no one would have thought that this thing was not only alive, but also became an envoy of the Shina Army.

Soon, Iijima Kamizo, whose neck and left hand were wrapped in gauze bandages, staggered into the main hall, looking at the scarred Iijima Kamizo in front of him, Muto Akira asked directly after a short silence. "Iijima-kun, I'm sure you should have something else to do when you come back, right? Say, if you have anything to say, I would like to know what the people of China want to say to me. ”

Iijima Kamezo, who was questioned by Muto Akira, did not show the panic and embarrassment that Muto Akira wanted to see, but after organizing the language a little, Iijima Kamezo said his purpose straightforwardly. "Division Commander, I have been ordered to come this time to persuade the Division Commander that you can give up your order to give up resistance, negotiate with the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and resolve this war that can be resolved through negotiations..."

"Give up resistance? Iijima-kun, do you know that if we choose to give up resistance, it will mean bowing our heads and surrendering to the people of Shina outside. Iijima-kun, are you still a warrior of the Great Japanese Empire? How can such a thing be said? The Great Japanese Empire had only samurai killed in battle, not cowards who surrendered. Muto Akira roared loudly.

Looking at Muto Akira in front of him, who was full of anger and no longer spoke, Iijima Kamezo smiled strangely at Muto Akira who had a solemn face in front of him, "Division Commander, I came here to tell you a fact. With the squadron's combat effectiveness, if we choose to negotiate, the local population may be able to survive. However, if we choose to continue to resist, I can guarantee that the Great Japanese Empire will completely disappear from the world. You know better than I do about the losses in the city of Tokyo, and if every city in the mainland is attacked on such a scale, can you think about it, is there any hope for the empire itself to stand up again? Therefore, I implore everyone, for the sake of the people of the empire itself, to take the initiative to give up resistance and negotiate with the squadron."

After saying what he wanted to say, the calm-faced Iijima Kamezo knelt down on the main hall and stopped making a sound, and everyone's eyes shifted from Iijima Kamezo's body to Muto Akira's body. What Iijima Kamezo just said, these people in the main hall, including Muto Zhang, know that the battle has been fought to this extent, Tokyo has actually fallen into the control of the squadron, and Muto Zhang's bloody battle to the end is just a manifestation of powerlessness.