"Lord Earl!" Sasaki, the commander of the 138th Division, took a step forward and looked at Count Yoshida with burning eyes, "I want to ask, why did you write secret letters to Shiro Yamaguchi and Takeo Miyamoto?" Do you know how Miyamoto and Yamaguchi's troops are doing now? ”

"Sasaki, are you talking to me?" Count Yoshida can't do anything about it, but it doesn't mean that anyone can be presumptuous in front of him. Pen~Fun~Earl www.biquge.info Pavilion turned his face and reminded Commander Sasaki in an arrogant and elegant voice exclusive to nobles: "Before talking to the Count of the Empire, you forgot to salute first, right?" ”

The difference in status between commoners and nobles is huge, even if Sasaki, the commander of the 138th Division, has become a lieutenant general, he is still a commoner in front of the hereditary nobleman Count Yoshida. Hearing the Earl's words, Lieutenant General Sasaki couldn't help but bend down and salute in a proper manner, "Lord Earl." ”

Lieutenant General Suzuki, who came to ask the teacher to ask for the guilt, saw that Sasaki's momentum was suppressed by Lord Earl, and he took two steps forward, intending to support his companion, "Lord Earl, Yoshio Watanabe and Saburo Maeda both said that they received your own letter, so they led the troops to change their plan of action. Why do you give them orders? ”

He should have asked Count Yoshida why he wrote to the two co-captains, but as soon as he said it, he said why he gave the order? Earl Yoshida was annoyed when he heard this, "Suzuki, do you think I don't have the right to give orders to the troops?" ”

"Don't dare." As soon as Count Yoshida became angry, Lieutenant General Suzuki knew that he had said the wrong thing, and his heart was full of remorse, and his tone immediately softened. He bowed and took a step back, standing with Sasaki.

The Earl picked up the handkerchief and blew his nose again, and this time, the ** temperament he had finally created disappeared immediately, and the Earl once again became a patient with a severe cold.

Sasaki and Suzuki, the two woods, looked at each other, bowed at the same time, and turned to leave Yoshida's headquarters. On the stall, such a boss who is accustomed to stretching out his hand blindly to command, but also has a noble status that they can't afford to provoke, even if these two people are possessed by Susanoo, they can't change the huge gap between them and Count Yoshida's identity.

The two of them couldn't mess with Count Yoshida, but they were not willing to watch the troops suffer defeat because of their blind command. So, Sasaki and Lieutenant General Suzuki discussed, we can't afford to mess with you, but we can petition, and we can report the situation to someone who can control you!

The two division commanders returned to the headquarters of the 138th Division together. When he entered the division headquarters, he did not enter the office of the division commander, but went directly to the telecommunications office and drove out all the irrelevant personnel, leaving only one telecommunications director in the telecommunications office.

"Send a report to the Kwantung Army Command!" The division commander Sasaki gave the order majestically. At this point, he had the final say, and he said that he would send the telegram, and the director of telecommunications would not dare not send it even if he was afraid.

It is of course impossible to say that the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Yamada Otozo, did not pay attention to the battle situation in Qiqihar, because the two divisions and brigades that participated in the war were all units of the Kwantung Army, and if there were losses, they would be the losses of the Kwantung Army. However, Commander Yamada was reluctant to pay too much attention. The reason for this is because of Count Yoshida.

The old guy is the emperor's favorite general, and he has a bad temper, and he has been angry with it a few times. Therefore, after allocating troops to Yoshida, at least on the surface, Yamada Otozo does not care about the situation on the Western Front. In fact, every day someone reports to him about the battle situation on the front line, but he doesn't know about it.

On this day, Yamada Otozo was having afternoon tea when the adjutant came in and handed him a telegram. General Yamada picked it up and looked at it, "Smack!" "Suddenly, he threw the tea bowl away." Eight grid tooth road! Yoshida, you old immortal, idiot! You're confused, aren't you? ”

The telegram detailed that because of Count Yoshida's blind command, the front-line troops suffered heavy losses, and the whole army was in danger of being wiped out at any time! Can Otozo Yamada not be annoyed? That's two divisions and two brigades with tens of thousands of people, and if they all die on the western front, Yoshida will certainly be unlucky, and he Yamada Otozo will inevitably be implicated. Who wants to take that responsibility?

Yamada Otozo snorted and walked back and forth in the office a few times, and as soon as he raised his hand, he ordered someone to call Yukio Kasawara, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army.

"Kasawara-kun, look, what should I do?" As soon as Lieutenant General Kasawara came in, General Yamada threw a telegram at him.

Yukio Kasahara shuddered, and said in his heart, isn't it that he embezzled public funds to wrap Xiaomi? Chief of Staff Kasahara didn't dare to look at Commander Yamada, and he trembled and unfolded the piece of paper to see what it was, whew, I'm scared to death! It wasn't those things that were exposed, but it scared me.

"Your Excellency, I suggest that you immediately give an order to Lieutenant General Yoshida in the name of the commander of the Kwantung Army, ordering him to withdraw his troops immediately! Before formulating a detailed battle plan for the next step, it is not allowed to launch an attack without authorization! At the same time, you should also report the battle situation in Qiqihar to His Majesty the Emperor, and ask His Majesty to adjudicate it! ”

The chief of staff of the Kwantung Army really had something in his stomach, and he came up with a perfect plan without rolling his eyes. And people still have a rhetoric, "Yoshida is the earl of the empire, we can't do anything to punish him, but we should report his performance to Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty can also see Lieutenant General Yoshida's ability to command battles!" ”

"Report to Your Majesty?" Yamada Otozo shook his head slowly, "No, you don't have to report it to Your Majesty. It is right to order him to withdraw his troops, but it is not appropriate to disturb His Majesty easily. What needs to be known, Your Majesty will naturally know, and what Your Majesty does not want to know, we will not make Your Majesty unhappy. ”

How well this is said, it seems that Yamada Otozo is thinking about His Majesty the Emperor everywhere. In fact, where is he taking care of the emperor's emotions, he is afraid of a lawsuit before the emperor. In case the emperor hadn't punished Yoshida on the spot, but had summoned Yoshida back to the palace to ask him about the situation in person, Yoshida would have said it upside down. Do you think the emperor would trust Count Yoshida, his favored retainer in front of him? Or do you believe him, the commander of the Kwantung Army?

Will the emperor recall Yoshida back to the Imperial Palace for questioning? That's a given. As the most trusted favored courtier, the probability of the emperor disposing of him on the spot is almost zero. Therefore, Yamada Otozo didn't want to take risks, and he didn't want to go to court in front of the emperor with Yoshida.

In this way, the withdrawal of troops from the front line will become inevitable. Thus, the order issued from the command of the Kwantung Army reached the hands of Lieutenant General Yoshida on the Qiqiharzh front.