The deputy chief of staff, Mamoru Iinuma, also persuaded: "General, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff is reasonable, please don't act impulsively!" ”

Matsui Shigen said very unhappily: "Then is it just sitting back and watching Hangzhou being captured by the Independent Brigade and indifferent?" How to explain to the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor? ”

"General, now the 13th Division and the Chongto Detachment have successfully broken through the Jiangyin defense line of the Zhina, of which the Chongto Detachment has captured Zhenjiang and is preparing to cross the Yangtze River north and capture Yangzhou and other important towns in the north of the Yangtze River.

The Kunisaki detachment has also begun to cross the river from the Dangtu area to the north, and the 1st Division, the 9th and 11th Divisions, and the main forces of the 13th Division are steadily advancing towards Nanjing.

We only need to wait another week or two at most, and the Imperial Army will surely be able to capture Nanking and force the Nationalist Government to surrender.

After accomplishing this set strategic goal, we can transfer back the hundreds of thousands of main elite troops used to attack Nanjing, and if the independent brigade is still in Hangzhou, we can crush and annihilate it with absolute strength. "Iinuma Morido.

"Do you mean that I should sit back and watch the Independent Brigade capture Hangzhou and take no action?" Matsui Ishine looked at Mamoru Iinuma in some surprise, and his words were full of displeasure.

Iinuma Mamoru didn't notice it at all, and nodded directly: "Yes, general, the Battle of Songhu has ended, and for the time being, the main combat direction of our army is Nanjing, as for Hangzhou, it is dispensable!"

As long as we capture Nanjing, we can recapture Hangzhou and other places in the blink of an eye.

For now, we only need to take a defensive position, ensure the security of the Shanghai area, and ensure the logistics supply lines of the imperial army at the front. ”

Without waiting for Matsui Ishine to get angry, Chief of Staff Tsukada Tsukasa took the lead and said: "General, I think what His Excellency the Deputy Chief of Staff said is reasonable, we are now at a critical moment in the attack on Nanjing, and we must focus on the overall situation.

Moreover, the base camp has prepared additional troops and supplies for the 6th Division, the 3rd Division and other troops, and is already on the way to arrive.

I believe that it will not be long before we will be able to rebuild the 6th and 16th Divisions and other troops, and at that time, even if we do not mobilize the troops on the front line, we can easily wipe out the independent brigade with only the strength of the troops in the Shanghai area, so please calm down. ”

"Ga, then the loss of Hangzhou, you have to give an explanation to the base camp, right?" Matsui Ishine saw that his two major staff chiefs were persuading him like this, and it was not easy to offend the anger of the public.

The most important thing is that after gradually calming down, he also understands that the advice of his subordinates is undoubtedly correct.

Tsukada Tsukashi and Iinuma Mamoru glanced at each other, and Mamoru Iinuma suggested to Matsui Ishine with a gloomy face: "General, Hangzhou is the territory of the 10th Army, and for its loss, the commander of the 10th Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, is fully responsible for this!"

So, you don't need to explain to the base camp, what really needs to be explained is him Yanagawa Heisuke! ”

As the commander of the 10th Army, which is at the same level as the original Shanghai Dispatch Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, has always been unfamiliar with Matsui Ishone, who has been promoted from the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army to the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army.

has always listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement, and the yang and the yin were violated.

The Central China Dispatch Army Command, led by Matsui Ishine and Tsukada Tsukasa, knew this, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Because although they are nominally the superior of the 10th Army, they have no right to interfere in the personnel appointment of the 10th Army, especially the commander Yanagawa Heisuke, who can only be transferred by the base camp.

Now that Hangzhou has been lost, and the overall situation must be taken first, Iinuma Mamoru and Tsukada Tsukashi naturally don't mind boosting Yanagawa Ping out as a shield.

Matsui Ishine tacitly understood the intention behind Mamoru Iinuma's suggestion, and immediately nodded solemnly: "Well, Yanagawa Heisuke, as the commander of the 10th Army, has poor command, which has led to the loss of Hangzhou, and it is necessary to explain the reason for this to the base camp." ”

Tsukada Tsukashi and Iinuma Mamoru glanced at each other again, smiled slightly, and bowed their heads to receive orders: "The general is wise." ”

……

It is said that Yanagawa Heisuke took a naval transport ship and had just withdrawn from Hangzhou Bay to the vicinity of the Shanghai Naval Port, and was about to enter the port and go ashore.

An accompanying signal soldier suddenly ran over in a hurry and saluted Yanagawa Heisuke Limasa: "Your Excellency General, I have just received a telegram from the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters. ”

"Read." Yanagawa Heisuke is now depressed, and naturally he is not in the mood to receive the message.

It was only after the signal soldier hesitated for a moment that he stubbornly read: "The dispatch army headquarters has sent a telegram order, in view of the importance of the loss of Hangzhou, you need to personally report to the base camp to explain this matter, general." ”

Yanagawa Heisuke was so smart that he immediately heard the intention of this, and couldn't help but be furious: "Ga Ya Lu! Headquarters, bastards! ”

The signal soldier was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head, handed over the message respectfully with both hands, and did not even dare to breathe.

Yanagawa Heisuke snatched the message and hurriedly glanced at it, and immediately tore the message to pieces in a rage, and scolded Matsui Ishine and Tsukada in succession: "Ga, despicable, shameless!" ”

The staff officer next to him waited for him to vent his anger before cautiously taking the initiative to ask, "General, then shall we go ashore to join them?" ”

Yanagawa Heisuke snorted coldly angrily: "a fart!" The transport ship was ordered to anchor and anchor, and we will temporarily set up the headquarters of the 10th Army here. ”

"Hay!"

……

It was almost Yanagawa Heisuke's transport ship, which had just finished anchoring, and Xu Wen and Zhao Shoutian, and the two U-shaped submarines commanded by Wu Yongqiang, also arrived in the nearby waters.

When there were still twenty kilometers away, Xu Wen's system suddenly sent out a prompt: "Ding Dong, this system has discovered that the commander of the Japanese 10th Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, is now activating a new random task - decapitating the enemy chief."

The task required that Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 10th Army of the Japanese invasion of China, be killed within three hours.

Task rewards, successful kills, you can get 1 million exchange points reward! ”

"? The commander of the 10th Army, Heisuke Yanagawa? Xu Wen was also taken aback, and said in his heart: "This fucking is really stepping on iron shoes and nowhere to find it, and it doesn't take any effort to get it!" In Hangzhou, the old devil ran fast and let him escape.

I didn't expect to meet it in Shanghai in a blink of an eye, and since you did, then you were unlucky. ”

Immediately, Xu Wen immediately commanded the two U-boats to dive forward according to the direction prompted by the system.

Soon, they spotted the Japanese transport, and after making sure that there were no other Japanese underwater and surface ships around.

Xu Wen commanded two U-boats to quietly approach the Japanese transport ship, and only after a distance of 200 meters did he give the order to fire a torpedo.

With two muffled sounds, two powerful torpedoes shot out from the torpedo tubes of the two U-boats, breaking through the waves underwater at an astonishing speed, heading towards Yanagawa Heisuke's transport ship.