"Your Majesty has taken a firm stand on this incident, and the Earl can rest easy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoHowever, it is better to find a way to fight another campaign and cooperate more with the commander of the Kwantung Army so as not to provoke criticism. ”

This is a secret letter sent by Koichi Kido of Japan to Count Yoshida. Kido Koichi is a marquis, and his position in the government is the Minister of the Interior, and at the same time, this person is an important adviser and even a stand-in for Emperor Showa, and he has a very good personal relationship with Count Yoshida.

Fearing that the imperial court would punish him, Yoshida sent a telegram asking his friend Koichi Kido to help him find out the news in the military department and the government, and also find an opportunity to help him say something good in front of the emperor. Today, after Yoshino received a call back from the Marquis of Kido, he closed the door and began to ponder.

MeSign doesn't have many words, but there are several contents. His Majesty is the emperor, and his firm stance means that the emperor does not blame him, and with Kido Koichi in the court, he is basically not afraid of slander and slander by dissidents. It's easy to fight another battle, as long as you can win once, the previous defeat can be completely covered up. As for the last sentence, it is more intriguing.

Collaborate more with the commander of the Kwantung Army? Who is the Kwantung Army commander referring to? They are certainly not the front-line commanders on the battlefield, they are the most responsible for losing the battle, and they are the ones who are not able to give their lives on the battlefield. Therefore, the front-line commanders are certainly the ones who want to win the battle the most. Collaborate or not, they will do their best.

If it is not a grassroots commander, it must be the top of the Kwantung Army. There are many people in the upper echelons who can be called the commander of the Kwantung Army, but if you are serious, only Umezu Mijiro is the commander in the true sense, and he is the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army.

Following this line of thought, Count Yoshida's eyes suddenly brightened! Kido Koichi's meaning is already very clear, that is, let him have a good relationship with General Umezu and strive to organize another large-scale campaign against the New Ninth Army as soon as possible.

To have a good relationship with Commander Umezu, it is best to involve Umezu Mijiro as well! At that time, even if he loses the battle again, Umezu Mijiro should come forward to help him settle it. At that time, he Lieutenant General Yoshida will really be invincible! If he wins, the credit is his; Defeated, there is Commander Umezu in front of him.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was the case, so Yoshida put on his military uniform and called the guards to ride to Shinkyo Special City to meet Umezu Mijiro. It's just to see you, this time you must lower your posture! Yoshida reminded himself secretly.

Umezu Mijiro had just attended a meeting, returned to his office, washed his face and poured a glass of wine, and was about to relax when the staff officer came to report: Lieutenant General Yoshida had come to visit. Umezu laughed when he heard this.

The old guy is an old fox, Yoshida lost the battle this time, and he has already guessed what the reaction of the DPRK will be. Therefore, as soon as the battle was over, he immediately wrote a report to the military headquarters, and put all the responsibility for the defeat on Yoshida. Anyway, old Yoshida has a backstage, and no matter how big the disaster is, it can't affect him. There must be different voices in the DPRK and China, but with the emperor, who can turn the sky upside down?

Umezu Mijiro's position is high enough, but there are still too few connections from the senators, imperial relatives and nobles. His roots in the upper layer are not deep enough.

As soon as Yoshida came to Manchuria, Umezu Mijiro set his sights on him, but first, he was too busy, and second, his identity did not allow it. There was a general commander who took the initiative to flatter and show courtesy to the lieutenant general and inspector. Now that Yoshida has taken the initiative to visit him, then everything will not be a problem!

Umezu Mijiro received old Yoshida in his living room. The two men closed the door and talked for two and a half hours, and when only the orderly came in and brought water in the middle, no one else went in. No one knew what the two men were talking about, but according to the commander's orderly, after Count Yoshida left, Admiral Umezu was in a good mood for a week.

The next two weeks were uneventful. Ren Laifeng reorganized his troops during these two months. The Chongqing side issued a series of letters of appointment, appointing Gao Guixun as commander of the New Tenth Army and Ren Laifeng as commander-in-chief of the 49th Group Army and commander of the New Ninth Army, still holding the rank of lieutenant general. The 49th Group Army has two armies, the New Ninth Army and the New Tenth Army, as well as a mechanized Flying Tiger Battalion at the brigade level.

Ren Laifeng's title has also changed, in the past, the officers and soldiers called him the military seat, but now it has been changed to the general seat.

"Report to the general seat, the latest military information!" The intelligence staff officer of the group army headquarters took a document and handed it to Ren Laifeng.

Ren Laifeng took it and hurriedly glanced at it, his face suddenly changed, and he turned his face and ordered the adjutant next to him: "Notify the brigade commander and above to come to the meeting!" With that, he hurriedly approached the office with his papers.

The staff officers exchanged glances with each other, what is the big deal again?

In the conference room of the headquarters of the 49th Group Army, a room full of people will be star-studded. More than half of the people on the left are talking and laughing, and basically a quarter of the people on the right rarely speak, and even if they occasionally speak, they lower their voices and whisper to each other.

"It's always here!" As the guard at the door shouted, dozens of people in the conference room stood up in an uproar, and looked up at the door one by one.

Ren Laifeng came in and saw this scene with a slight flurry, and then walked up to the rostrum steadily, "Brothers, please sit down." ”

"Whoa!" The voices were uniform, and the generals present sat down at the same time as if they had rehearsed, without even a little noise. Ren Laile was happy, "What are you doing?" We're not outside, we're all our own brothers, so we don't need this form, right? ”

"People don't walk without heads, birds don't fly without heads!" Fu Erchong didn't know where he learned the words, but they sounded quite reasonable, "We are always treated as brothers." However, the state-owned and French army has military regulations, and since our 49th Group Army is a regular army of the revolutionary army with the name of the country, there should be rules for everything it does......"

"Okay, we're not talking about rules today." Ren Laifeng raised his hand and interrupted Fu Erchong. This guy must have put in the effort to study it carefully, otherwise he wouldn't have known so much. I don't know if this Fu Erchong is fine, what is he doing researching these? Ren Laifeng summoned everyone to discuss major matters today, and of course he refused to waste time on any rules.

"I have a piece of information here, which has been transmitted by the military commanders. It is said that Count Yoshida, the inspector of the Japanese Kwantung Army, has said that the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, intends to dispatch 50,000 Japanese puppet troops to launch the Second Battle of Aooka. The goal is to defeat our New Ninth Army! Now, of course, their goal should have been changed to defeat the 49th Army. ”

The conference room was silent, and there was no excitement or chaos as Ren Laifeng had imagined.