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Nishijima stood next to him after handing the written battle plan to Isamu Yokoyama.

"Okay," Isamu Yokoyama patted the table as he looked at the plan. Flipping the plan in his hand, he said, "This is a good suggestion, and I think the base camp will definitely support it." The fight for ships can provide us with strong conditions for fighting in the lake area. ”

Nishijima: "Then wait for the general's order." ”

Isamu Yokoyama: "Okay, you go back, and I'll discuss it with the island when I get back." ”

Nishijima gave a military salute, turned around and walked out of the house, Yokoyama looked at his departing back, with an appreciative smile on his face, and at the same time his heart was filled with a hint of happiness, as if the troubles of the past few days no longer existed.

He shook the phone on the table: "Island-kun?" Please come to me right away. Hanging up the phone, he scrutinized the military map hanging on the wall.

Soon the island came, and they began to discuss, and agreed that the plan of the West Island was good, and summoned the people of the General Staff, and after revising and perfecting it, they sent people to secretly report the plan back to the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, and put it into practice as soon as the instructions were completed. Yokoyama told the island to let him take a special plane to Nanjing.

2 Nishijima had nothing to do, and he wore a Chinese costume and came to Sakurako's class alone.

Outside the gate, you can hear the children reading along. Nishijima was about to go in, but was stopped by the gatekeeper, he smiled kindly, showed understanding, and saw that Sakurako was teaching in the classroom, didn't say much, turned around and walked out of the door.

Isn't this Nishijima-kun? When I put on a Chinese costume, I almost didn't recognize it. A woman's voice came. When Nishijima heard the sound, it turned out to be Junko. When he was in Japan with Sakurako in school, he chased Junko, Junko didn't like him, but liked a Chinese kid, seven or eight years older than Junko, named Yang Binglian. Although Nishijima was unhappy and helpless, he soon got along with Sakurako Girl. This time, Sakurako and Junko came to Wuhan together. They're all here to teach. Nishijima greeted her with a smile and asked her if she had come here to look for Sakurako. Junko replied yes. Nishijima said, "Please tell Sakurako that I may have to come home late in the evening, don't wait for me to eat." Nishijima finished speaking, smiled and glanced at Junko and left.

Junko didn't go to the classroom to look for Sakurako. She wondered if Nishijima would wear a Zhongshan suit to see Sakurako today, and she heard Sakurako say that he never wore Chinese clothes, so what happened today. She didn't understand. At this time, after class, Sakurako walked out of the class, saw Junko, and was very happy. Junko told Sakurako what Nishijima had said about the arrival. Sakurako was disappointed when she heard that Nishijima had just left, so she looked into the distance and saw no trace of Nishijima, so the two walked to a nearby restaurant.

Eating a snack, the two started the conversation.

"Junko, what are you busy with these days?"

"I'm not busy, look at the scenery, hey, what about you? Is it deep in love and can't extricate yourself? ”

"you. You see, I'm not in class, these Chinese kids are so cute. Innocent and lively. ”

"If you miss a child, if you miss a child, tell Nishijima-kun to have one."

"He didn't want to, he said he was going to wait until the war was over, then he would get married, and then he would have children, hey, whether he would have a boy or a girl, he said he wanted a boy, I wanted a girl."

Junko laughed and said, this ask me, I can call the shots, but you are not young, it is better to have one as soon as possible. What is your husband doing recently, I ran into him just now, his complexion is not very good, but he should pay attention to his body, otherwise the child born will not be too healthy.

Speaking of this, it hooked up the topic of Sakura again, she said, Nishijima is very busy these days, I don't know what he's doing, once he went out, when he was doing cleaning, he found a draft on the table, she looked at it, what is the battle plan. She didn't care about a woman's family, this was a man's business, and she didn't ask much, as if there was going to be a war.

When Junko heard Sakurako's words, she was secretly shocked in her heart, could there really be such a thing. After breaking up with Sakurako ashore at the dock that day, she contacts an underground traffic officer. Judging from the frequent movement of people entering and leaving the command department in the past few days, there may be a situation. They gave her a task to find out the devil's intentions. Unexpectedly, there has been no progress for a long time, but I got a little information here. Her excitement was not revealed, and she wanted to confirm that she must not give up this opportunity. She smiled and said, "Do you want me to accompany you for one night, it's been a long time, and you haven't chatted together for a long time, are you welcome?" "Sakurako is happy, what is not welcome, okay, come to my house tonight. Otherwise, I'll make Japanese food for you.

During the conversation, Nishijima came in unknowingly, and Sakurako asked strangely, "Nishijima-kun, didn't Junko say that you had something to do?" Why did you come here? "Nishijima said that the matter was done, and he came back to pick you up, and the old man who was guarding the door said that you were eating here, so he came in. In fact, he was sitting in the corner of a café opposite the restaurant, drinking coffee, and when he saw them enter the restaurant, he asked for another cup of coffee, and after drinking it, he paid the bill and came to them. After Nishijima finished talking to Sakurako, he turned to stare at the smile and asked Junko, isn't it welcome? Junko hurriedly moved her body and laughed, saying how could it be? Nishijima stared at Junko's face, and Junko was a little embarrassed to see it. Seeing Nishijima-kun's demeanor, Sakurako gently kicked him with her foot under the table, pretending to be okay and drinking soup. Nishijima came back to his senses.

"Did you find that Chinese boyfriend?" Nishijima pretended to ask Junko casually. Junko didn't notice that he would ask this question, and her heart shook slightly. Soon, she replied with a calm smile: "We broke up a long time ago, and you don't know, didn't Sakurako tell you?" He said goodbye to me, and I heard that he was against us, joined the New Fourth Army, and was an enemy of our Great Japanese Empire, what reason should I have to go to him, Nishijima-kun, what do you say? ”

"Miss Junko, when you were in the country, you weren't like this, didn't you oppose us at that time, and didn't advocate the emperor's holy war? How did your attitude change so quickly when you arrived in China? Nishijima asked Junko closely.

"Do you need to explain this, it was too naïve to be young at that time. Don't forget that I, like you, am also a descendant of the Yamato nation, and it is the responsibility of each of us to serve the emperor, and you men are fighting in the north and south, shedding blood and sacrificing, what else do we women have to say, although war is your men's business, but women should also support the cause of you men, so ....... Before Junko could finish speaking, Sakurako picked up: "So, you changed your attitude and supported the emperor's holy war, didn't you?" Junko pursed her lips and smiled and didn't answer.

"Your former boyfriend was very bad and abandoned you, this is a great disloyalty to our Japanese Empire, dare to go against us, if he is still alive, I will never spare him, I will personally send him to you and let you dispose of it." Nishijima said half-jokingly, half-seriously to Junko. Junko took over his topic with a smile: "Then there is Lawsy Island-kun who can meet him, but don't bring him to me, I don't want to see him, if you really catch him, please lend your hand, and you can do what you like." ”

Their words made Sakurako feel a little wrong, and quickly changed the topic and told Nishijima-kun to invite Junko to eat Japanese food at their place another day. Nishijima agreed, settled the bill and Sakurako left. Seeing them leaving, Junko went to a newsstand, bought a magazine, and walked to the riverside pier.

3 Yang Binglian has been in Wuhan for many days, but he still hasn't found the person he wants to pick up. He was in contact with a colleague of the anti-war coalition sent by Japan, and he was also tasked with taking over a local guerrilla unit along the Yangtze River.

According to the instructions of his superiors, he quickly found the No. 56 coachman of the underground party trafficker, and at this time he was anxiously waiting for news from the coachman at the driver's house. However, the driver didn't know who the man from Japan was. Before he could catch his head, according to Lao Yang's instructions, he waited for someone to sign him while picking up passengers at the dock, and there was no movement for a few days. Lao Yang couldn't sit still and wanted to try it himself, so he took to the street.

Driver No. 56 was still waiting by the dock for the Japanese to come. When he lit a cigarette and looked around, he suddenly saw a woman walking back and forth by the dock with a magazine, and he was secretly happy. Could it be that she is the one who wants to pick it up? A woman? Regardless of him, there was no hesitation, he hurriedly went up and asked her if she wanted a car. The woman said no. The coachman looked at her and said, "How sad can you be?" When the woman heard this, she scolded: "You are insane!" After saying that, he glanced away and saw a young man running towards her with a bouquet of flowers, and the coachman realized that she was dating a young man.

The coachman was bored and laughed self-deprecatingly. It turned out to be a couple on a tryst. Someone came to take a taxi, he waved his hand again and again, and said in a bad mood: "Don't go, don't go, don't you see that I haven't finished smoking?" The man had to stand there stupidly waiting for another rickshaw.

Holding the magazine behind him with both hands, Junko walked leisurely, with short black hair and a delicate face, dignified and generous. The coachman found that she had a magazine in her hand, and he muttered: All the women in this world are cultural people, and they hold books at every turn. He didn't want to care about her, and after smoking, when he was about to greet the man waiting for the car to get into the car, he thought about it, no, he would rather make a mistake than let it go. He pulled the rickshaw and walked towards her. The man who wanted to ride in the car looked at the driver and scolded hatefully: "Damn, it turned out to be a pervert."

The coachman stared at Junko and read softly: "How sad can you be?"

At first, Junko was stunned, and then a burst of joy, looking at the coachman in front of her, she didn't answer immediately, got into the car by herself, and then rolled the magazine into a tube, patted it on the palm of her hand a few times, and said: "It's like a river flowing eastward."

The coachman was secretly happy, pulled up the car and left.

Just as the coachman was running towards an alley with Shunzi, Yang Binglian had already arrived at the dock. I didn't see the coachman in sight, and the people on the dock were so lively. He cautiously looked around at the flow of people around him, keeping an eye out for the person holding the magazine in his hand. Several times he found someone with a magazine, and before he could open his mouth, they hurried away. He decided to ignore the people with the magazines and looked around for the coachman. At this moment, several motorcycles carrying devils passed in front of him, and he carefully dodged and did not notice Nishijima in the car. This often happens in Wuhan, either to arrest those anti-Japanese elements, or to arrest students who have posted slogans. When he once again set his eyes on the direction where the devil was running, his heart couldn't help but tighten, could it be that the coachman had an accident, and he didn't see him at the dock, was it that he had an accident, and many years of underground experience told him that he could not tolerate the slightest relaxation and carelessness, and decided to return to the coachman's house to find out.

Just as he was walking back to the alley of the coachman's house, suddenly the coachman stopped him and said, "Quick, get in the car."

"Tell me what's going on, tell me quickly." Yang Binglian couldn't wait to ask.

"Something happened, my house is surrounded by devils." The coachman pulled Yang Binglian and said as he ran.

Yang Bing hurriedly asked what was going on? The driver ran all the way, stopped at the mouth of another deserted alley, wiped his sweat, and carefully recounted what had just happened.

It turned out that when he was pulling Junko to his house, suddenly, there was a sound of motorcycles behind him, he squinted at the Nishijima convoy passing by, and pulled the car forward unhurriedly, just when he turned the corner of an alley and was about to reach the door of his house, he stopped the car suddenly, and he saw several devils standing at the door of the house with guns.

He said badly and said to Junzi, come down quickly, the devil is in my house. Junzi also saw it, hurriedly got out of the car, and asked, "Will the comrades from the base area be arrested, it's really urgent." The coachman said: "At this time, that comrade should be fine, not at home, otherwise the devil would have arrested him a long time ago." Junko was right when she heard it, and her hanging heart was put down at this time.

"What are we going to do now?" Junko asked.

"I'm going to find him, if he comes back, there will be a big problem, you can't meet today, ah, you go back first." The driver became worried, worried that Mr. Yang would run into the muzzle of the devil's gun if he didn't know what was going on.

Junko thought for a moment and said, "No, I'm going to go and see what the hell is going on?"

"When is it, let's get out of here quickly." The coachman urged.

Junko said: "Wait, I always think things are a little strange, could it be that someone is informant and a traitor?" When the driver heard this, he thought it was not impossible.

"So, I still have to go and see, so let's go and find that comrade, I'll go over there to find out the situation, don't worry, nothing will happen." Junko stopped the coachman from stopping her movements: "That's it, you go." After speaking, he stuffed a note to the coachman and said, "Let him come to me."

The driver had no choice but to do so, and quickly pulled the empty car back. I didn't expect to really meet Yang Binglian in this alley.

After Yang Binglian listened to the ins and outs of the coachman's matter, he asked the coachman in his first sentence if he had picked up the head, and the coachman nodded and said, "The situation is not good, something happened." He said to the coachman, "You can't go back, you quickly find a way to cross the river to hide, and I'll take care of the affairs here." Oh, by the way, who else knows about my coming here?"

The driver said he told the traffic officer who was in one-way contact with him. Speaking of this, he asked Lao Yang: "Could it be that he told the secret?" He didn't believe it would be him, Yang Binglian said that he wasn't sure for the time being, if there was something wrong with him, but he had to guard against it. After hearing this, the coachman took out the note that the woman gave him and gave it to Yang Binglian, and when he was about to leave after saying a word of taking care, he suddenly remembered something, and then returned to Yang Binglian and said: "I know what to do, Mr. Yang, get out of here quickly, you can't stay here for a long time, you better find the lady according to the address on the note, otherwise, you won't be in a hurry." Yang Binglian instructed him to act at the opportunity and left in a hurry.

The driver went to a toilet on the side of the street, took off his numbered vest, and when he came to the vicinity of the traffic officer's house and looked that way, he saw a familiar person coming out of the door. This man was a plainclothes man in the city, he often took his rickshaw to his lover's for recreation, and then saw a few strangers sitting in the surrounding tea stalls, and from experience he expected that the traffic officers had rebelled and were controlled by them, and he made up his mind to cross the river first, and then cross the river again at night to destroy him. Without further ado, he turned around and left to the pier, bought a ticket and got on the ferry.

Just when the ferry boat arrived in the middle of the river, I met the patrol boat of the devil. It was a coincidence, when the coachman looked at the boat, the traffic officer was on the devil's motorboat, and when he saw this, he knew that he had become a traitor, and gritted his teeth: "Traitor of dog days!"

The devils on the motorboat shouted loudly at the ferry, meaning to stop the ferry for inspection. The ferry stopped, and the devil and the traitor got on the ferry, and one by one they were interrogated and confessed. The coachman was in a hurry, and when the traitor had not yet come to him, he slowly turned his body and moved towards the side of the boat, and he was about to jump into the river and escape. The traitor came up to him with the devil and patted him on the back. In an instant, the coachman changed his mind to escape by jumping into the river, turned around, and shouted, "You traitor, die." Holding the traitor, he jumped into the river. The sudden change stunned everyone on board. By the time the devil reacted, a big wave had already bloomed on the river. The devil hurriedly fired a gun around the waves in the river, and after a burst of random shooting, blood stained the river red, and after a while, two corpses floated on the surface of the river. The leader of the devil squad angrily waved the gun in his hand and shouted: "Drive all these pigs back, and no one is allowed to cross the river."

Yang Binglian heard the gunshots and rushed to the river. At this time, there were many people standing on the riverside, and the devil motorboat and the ferry boat that was carried by the devil were heading towards the pier. After docking, two bodies lay straight on the motorboat. He could see clearly that one of them was the coachman. Yang Binglian was stunned, it was not something he expected that would happen so quickly. He pulled over an old man who had just passed by the devil and walked down from the boat and asked about the situation. The old man said "a strong man, a traitor" a few times and left the dock. Looking at the body of the coachman who was still bubbling with blood bubbling out, Yang Binglian lowered his head and quietly looked sad, silently saluted the heroic sacrifice of the coachman in his heart, and then disappeared into the street with the flow of people.

Lao Yang clearly knew that he could not stay here for a long time, but the death of the traitor seemed to have given Yang Binglian a shot in the arm, he was not so anxious, no one knew that he was here anymore, and the security issue was temporarily guaranteed, but he knew in his heart that he had a long night and many dreams, and he must immediately get in touch with the Japanese and complete the task assigned by his superiors. When he went to the toilet where the driver had taken off his number coat and pretended to urinate to read the note, he found the yellow number coat left by the driver and choked in his throat again. After a long time, he took out the folded note from his pocket, glanced at it quickly, and then threw it in the urinal and turned on the faucet and washed it away.

4 After waiting for the coachman to leave, Junko calmed down his emotions, sorted out his thoughts, and pretended to go shopping leisurely in the direction of the coachman's house.

As she walked, she casually watched from the stalls of the various shops, but her two eyes watched the movements in front of the coachman's door from time to time. Slowly coming to the door near the coachman's house, she stopped, pretending to pick something in a nearby shop, but her mind was anxiously thinking about how to find out what was going on here. Could it really be a traitor? Or do you know that the people sent above live in the coachman's house? Is it really such a coincidence? Junko wasn't sure how she was going to the coachman's house under what excuse she was thinking about when she saw Nishijima come out of it, and she pretended not to see it and was busy picking out the jewelry and the like on the shop in the store.

"Miss Junko, why do you have the leisure to look at jewelry here?" Nishijima, who was about to get on the motorcycle, saw her, got out of the car again, and asked behind her.

Junko pretended to be taken aback and turned around: "Nishijima-kun, why are you here?"

"There's no way, just eat this meal. When I arrived in China, let me do this, and not let me go to the battlefield to kill the Chinese people, it's really not a taste. Nishijima said helplessly: "I don't know when I will really go to the battlefield, completely wipe out all the Chinese army, avenge my parents, and sacrifice their spirits in the sky." A sigh.

"So, Nishijima-kun, what are you doing here today? Is it arresting? Listen to Sakurako say that you specialize in catching Chinese. Junko looked up at Nishijima and pretended to inadvertently divert the topic, this kind of topic she had heard Nishijima often talk about when she was in China, and she was disgusted when she heard that Nishijima wanted to kill someone.

Nishijima didn't think much about it, and said: "Smart, I'm here to arrest people today, but unfortunately I'm not there, it is said that there is a figure from the New Fourth Army." Let me tell you the truth, there is a traffic officer here who was drunk today, and he said it inadvertently in the tavern, and it was heard by our people, and he was brought to the gendarmerie, and he was recruited at once, saying that the person who was sent lived here, and he did not expect to pounce on him. The seductive spirit of the New Fourth Army is really a lucky pig. ”

"Why didn't that traffic officer come together to recognize someone?" Junko asked casually.

Nishijima said: "I didn't let him come, I was worried that the person was on the ferry or on the boat on the way to Wuhan, so I let him get on the motorboat and go to the river to recognize the person, and if he recognized him, he was caught, and I wanted to interrogate him fiercely, make him confess his accomplices, and then chop them up with a knife and throw them into the river to feed the fish." Junko scolded fiercely in her heart, and Nishijima was really black-hearted. Seeing him like this, Junko had no choice but to keep silent and said, "Nishijima-kun, I'm tired today, can you send me back?"

Nishijima said of course it can. At this time, a devil ran over.

"Report, we killed one anti-Japanese element." Junko was shocked when she heard this.

"What's going on? Is it the New Fourth Army?" Nishijima asked, sitting in the car and holding a saber.

"I don't know. And the traffic officer caught today is also dead. The devil replied. Junko's heart tightened when she heard it, are they two people? Is it the coachman or the guy from above? She grieved in her heart for the sacrifice of her comrades.

"What the hell is going on?" Nishijima asked exasperatedly.

The devil continued to report: "When the probationed traffic officer took us to the ferry, a man on the ferry jumped into the river with him, and we shot both of them."

"Eight Ga Ya Road." Nishijima scolded hatefully. Seeing this, Junko said to Nishijima, no need to send it, since you have official business, I won't bother you. Nishijima listened and said, I'm sorry, goodbye. In a very unhappy mood, he sailed towards the dock.

Junko hurried to her residence. She thought about what had happened today all the way as she straightened out her thoughts. The traffic officer said by the devil must be a traitor, which confirmed her guess, the traitor is dead and deserves it! Warriors who have died, great! However, what she was worried about was that if the coachman died and did not meet anyone from the New Fourth Army, then the note she gave him was still on the coachman, what if it was searched by the devil? If the person from the New Fourth Army is sacrificed, and the coachman gives the note to that person, will the note fall into the hands of the devil? Thinking of this, Junko gasped in her heart. Without delay, she had to go to the docks to see what was going on.

She quickened her pace, changed direction and ran to the docks, and by the time she got there, Nishijima had already left the docks, and there were only a few plainclothes people wandering around the river, interrogating the people passing by the ferry.

Junko left the dock and walked slowly through the streets. The wind blew at her face and pulled her hair. At this point, she seemed to be sober a little. She thought that if the note was found on the deceased's body, Nishijima would definitely look for it according to the contents of the paper after knowing it, but the direction Nishijima drove to was not the direction of her address, indicating that it was unnecessary to worry. She calmed down and called a rickshaw, urging the driver to speed up all the way.

Not far from her residence, she saw a man knocking on her door. There weren't many pedestrians in the alley. She motioned for the driver to slow down, and looked at the figure in the car, unable to believe her eyes, which seemed a little incredible, and felt very kind after seeing it. What a familiar figure it was, and when she was in Japan, this figure had long been remembered by her, and had even melted into the marrow of her bones. No matter where you are, as long as you close your eyes, you will see this figure, and you can't wave it. Isn't this the Ah Bing who thinks about it every day? Could it be that he is the person sent by the New Fourth Army to contact him? If this is the case, the coachman's note must have been handed over to him, otherwise her Ah Bing would not have found it.

Suppressing the tears that were about to well-rise, she told the driver to stop, paid the money, and trotted away at the person she had been longing for.

Yang Binglian seemed to find that someone was walking towards him, he found that he had been here for too long, there was no movement in it for a long time, for the sake of prudence, he straightened his shirt and lowered his hat, and left the door in front of the door to prepare to leave.

"Ah Bing?!" Shunzi ran a few steps and called softly to Yang Binglian's back.

Yang Binglian stopped, how familiar this voice was. With a shock in my heart, this voice seemed to come from the sky across time and space. Is it a straight? Could it really be her? His veins began to expand, and when he turned around and looked at the woman in front of him, who was only less than five meters away, his small eyes became a straight line, and he exclaimed in surprise: "Junko?!"

"Ah Bing, it's really you!" Junko was full of joy and sorrow, she ran forward, her former lover was in front of her, how could she not let her burst into tears. Ah Bing, who is looking forward to it day and night, is right in front of her, how she hopes that he will come forward and hug her. However, Yang Binglian did not do this, and said lightly: "How sad can you be?" Junzi smiled with tears: "It's just like a river flowing eastward." Ah Bing, let's go in. ”

After entering the door and closing the door, Junzi couldn't wait to hug Yang Binglian and kiss her.

Holding Yang Binglian, tears of happiness swirled in his eyes.

Junko told Yang Binglian one thing, that is, the last time she talked to Sakurako, she heard about the plan, as if the devil had some big combat action. Yang Binglian said that the New Fourth Army is also clear about this, and the Nationalist Army also knows that it does not know the specific time, and even if the New Fourth Army knows, it will be difficult to help, and the far water will not be able to save the near fire, so it can only wait for the development of the situation, and I hope that the Nationalist Army can withstand the impact of small Japan.

Yang Binglian said that the purpose of his visit this time was to pick her up to take over the affairs of a local guerrilla force, and that he had to leave immediately. But he was worried that what happened today would definitely make the devils strengthen their vigilance and strictly guard against interrogation, and it would be very difficult to get out. Junko said that it was up to her to arrange the matter of leaving the river, and she went to Sakurako to try it. Junzi said to Teacher Yang, don't go anywhere, just stay here.

After dinner, she went to Sakurako's residence, Nishijima was not there, and Sakurako said that he went to the gendarmerie. Junko said that he met Yang Binglian. Sakurako was overjoyed and said why she didn't let him come with her. Shunzi said that Yang Binglian and her wanted to cross the river and then go back to his hometown to his wife. He also said that the dock is now tightly checked, and he is afraid of encountering obstacles. Sakurako said happily that there was no problem, just look for Nishijima-kun, Junzi quickly said no-no, and asked Sakurako not to mention Yang Binglian's matter, Nishijima-kun doesn't like Yang Binglian, everything is looking for his fork, you can't find him, as soon as you look for him, Yang Binglian will not be able to leave, that's not good. Sakurako said that there was another way.

The next day, Sakurako went to the office of Nishijima, and while Nishijima-kun went out for a meeting, she quietly got two passes and handed them to Junko, who boarded the ferry overnight and crossed the river.

5 In the headquarters of the 11th Army, the atmosphere was particularly tense and solemn. Isamu Yokoyama looked at the officers from various divisions with a stern expression, cleared his throat, and began to speak: "Everyone. Isamu Yokoyama motioned for the island to begin the battle arrangement.

The island proudly drew a half-circle in the air with the indicator stick in his hand, and then handed the stick to Nishijima-kun beside him: "This is Nishijima-kun." I'm sure you all have an impression of him, and most of the battle plan this time was his suggestion, and he did a good job and won the approval of the base camp. The Great Japanese Empire needs such a samurai, and in this operation, General Isamu Yokoyama specially transferred him from the gendarmerie, which is to let him hone in the battle and become a real invincible general of the Great Japanese Empire. ”

Nishijima took the baton from the island, bowed, and said, "Your Excellency General Isamu Yokoyama, your Excellency Generals, you're welcome." After speaking, he came to a huge Jiangnan battle map hanging on the wall.

"Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the enemy's submarines have seriously damaged our ships, the number of ships transporting troops and strategic materials has been extremely reduced, and the raw materials for the production of military supplies and materials used in the country have also been affected by the weakness of the ship's transportation force. He pointed to the map and continued: "Although we have 11 ships of more than 10,000 tons here, because Sun Zhonglian's defenders are still stationed on the right bank of the Yangtze River from Yichang to Yueyang, these ships are blocked in inland waterway transportation, and in fact they do not play any role in the development of our Japanese Empire, and they cannot be navigated, which means that these ships are actually a pile of scrap metal." In view of this situation, in order to change the current status quo, it is necessary to break through the defenders on the right bank of the Yangtze River and clear the obstacles, and once successful, they can concentrate superior forces on the south of the Yangtze River to launch a sweep against the New Fourth Army and directly approach Chiang Kai-shek's old nest, Chongqing. With that, he handed the baton to the island.

His explanation received a round of applause from below, and Isamu Yokoyama gave him an approving look. In fact, it is impossible for Nishijima to speak on such an occasion, and Yokoyama Yuyuki asked him to speak in order to let him exercise his intelligence.

The island took the baton and began to make specific arrangements for this operation.

He said: "This operation, in fact, is under the guise of acquiring a large number of ships, and the ultimate goal is to destroy the enemy's field army. The victory of the Jiangbei Annihilation War, we occupied Shashi and Shishou, as well as the Huarong area, and the enemy counterattacked many times and we were beaten back, which shows how important these places are to them. This is a brilliant victory for us and a victory for General Isamu Yokoyama's wise decision, and we must not limit ourselves to this, we must have the determination of the Imperial Japanese Army to pursue the victory by taking advantage of the victory, we must maintain the results of the battle, make persistent efforts, continue to expand the results of the battle, and have the determination to fight to the death with the enemy's field army and advance to Chongqing. ”

The island then pointed to the map and said: "According to the information we have obtained, the enemy currently has the 73rd Army and the 44th Army exchanging defenses and taking on the frontal defense of Huarong, and the 44th Army, as the second line of corps, is gathering troops to make strategic moves to Changde and Anxiang. Two divisions of the 67th Army are also assembling near Anxiang and Jinshi, one of them, the 161st Division, is heading towards Nanxian, and there is also the main force of the two divisions of the 87th Army in front of the mouth of the couple, and there is also a main division of the 99th Army south of Nanxian. ”

A report was made outside the door, and the devil signal corps handed over a telegram, and Yokoyama Yong took the sign and handed it to the signal corps and said: Continue to reconnoitre, and then said to the officers: "I just received information that the 79th Army, a unit stationed in Ningxiang, is moving in the direction north of Changde, and the purpose is unknown. However, this army is only less than 100 kilometers away from Changde. This time the acting commander of the battle was Sun Zhonglian, the opponent of the Battle of Taierzhuang, and we must show our courage to fight a beautiful battle of encirclement and annihilation, fight for the emperor, and win for the emperor. ”

After Isamu Yokoyama's slogan of "Fight for the Emperor, Win for the Emperor," some officers could not sit still, stood up and said, "General, you can give the order."

Nishijima stood up: "General, I am willing to lead a force to fight bravely to kill the enemy, be loyal to the emperor, and avenge my parents."

Yokoyama had a smile on his face, his subordinates had such a fighting face, why was he worried? He motioned for them to sit down and let the island continue.

"This operational build-up must be completed in the area under command on May 4," the island said. On May 5, the official attack began. The 3rd Division attacked the enemy in Anxiang and the area to the west; The 17th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade attacked Anxiang and the enemy on its eastern flank; The Xidao detachment crossed the Tuojiang River to attack the enemy near Nanxian, and then the divisions and regiments worked hard to converge and wipe out all the field forces of the Nationalist Army on the shores of Dongting Lake......"

The generals were ordered to return to their garrisons for pre-war deployment.

A cruel battle is about to begin, a bloody massacre is coming, and disasters are about to appear in front of the Chinese people like devils, devouring the flesh and blood of the Chinese, raping the souls of the Chinese, ravaging the homeland of the Chinese, the barbarism is full of cruelty and ferocity, and the smoke of war that exterminates humanity is about to spread in this beautiful land.

Sad and sad! Angry and hateful!