Chapter 475: Compromise
Once upon a time, the Japanese always used the Shina people to refer to the Chinese, and the disdainful tone in the words jumped out, but now on the streets of Tokyo, the faces of those Japanese people who are in a hurry are invariably full of an expression called worry, because at about 5:10 a.m. today, the Chinese dropped the second batch of ** bombs in Fukuoka, and many people were injured in this attack.
Anger began to spread among the people, and they couldn't understand why there were so many casualties in the blessed country, which claimed to never be attacked by foreign forces, in just three days, more than 300,000 people died, and more than 100,000 people were injured.
This sentiment was even more acute for those who had relatives and friends in Fukuoka, and there was a lot of talk in the streets about why the Imperial Air Force, which had been put up at great expense, was useless, and even the Japanese troops who remained on the mainland began to spread the gossip.
"Where is our air force, and why can the people of China bomb our cities with impunity."
"Today is Fukuoka, where is tomorrow?"
As long as the people in power can control the situation, then it is a fart, but it is not right to say that it is not important, and when the voice of public opinion reaches a certain level, the ruling foundation of those in power is likely to be shaken.
In the face of this emergency, the members of the base camp and the cabinet naturally did not dare to ignore it, and Hirohito was carried back to the palace to rest by the maids because of his anger, and now Empress Ryoko is taking care of him.
Although the emperor is not there, the meeting still has to be held, and Nobuyuki Abe, who is the prime minister of the cabinet, can only continue to preside over the meeting, looking at the lifeless conference room, he looked at the generals below who bowed their heads and said silently, and sneered: "Gentlemen, His Majesty the Emperor is in good health, this meeting is temporarily presided over by me, now I want to ask you, the Shina people have issued a statement, if we don't hand over Tani Shoufu, they will continue such an attack until we agree, I don't know if you have any good suggestions?" ”
"The people of China are dreaming." Koiso Kuniaki still insisted on his point of view, "The Japanese Empire will never give in, since he wants to continue throwing poison gas bombs, let him throw it, we can evacuate all the people of Fukuoka to the countryside, I want to see what it can do?" ”
"What if the Shina people stopped attacking Fukuoka and attacked other cities instead? What about Oban, Hiroshima, Nagoya or even Tokyo? Is it possible that we need to evacuate all the people in all the big cities of Japan to the countryside? "The sea phase Yonechi Mitsumasa Mori said.
"Then set up anti-aircraft guns around important cities, and as long as the plane dares to come, we will shoot it down!"
"Koiso-kun, we can't accurately hit the invading Shina bombers in the dark, so this method is not feasible." Yan Junliu on the side poured another basin of cold water.
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what do we do? Surrender directly? Koiso Kuniaki sat down angrily.
Seeing the silence in the conference room, Nobuyuki Abe hesitated for a moment and said, "Perhaps...... I said yes, maybe we can try another way. Just now, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Joseph Grussen, approached me, and he offered me some of his suggestions, such as that we could recall Gu Shoufu to his homeland in the name of an investigation, and then accidentally die on the ship, so that we would both have steps down, and he could guarantee that the butcher of China would cease his attacks on the enemy mainland and civilians. We can take this opportunity to strengthen the Empire's homeland air defenses, what do you think? ”
"This ......"
"Hmph...... The Americans' approach, though clumsy, is not the most feasible at the moment. ”
"Since the Americans have promised so, we might as well try, otherwise if it continues, the people of Tokyo will riot, and if something happens again, it will be difficult to clean up."
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but feel a little moved. They all understand that if Su Jin is allowed to continue to plague like this, I am afraid that the whole of Japan will be in chaos in less than half a month, and no one can predict what the panicked people will do under extreme anger. Thinking of this, even the most stubborn Koiso Kuniaki was silent.
Seeing that these generals with heavy troops were silent, Abe Nobuyuki knew that these guys had acquiesced. He nodded: "Okay, then this matter is settled, Xiao Iso-kun, this matter will be entrusted to you, I will ask you to send a military police in the name of the Ministry of War to bring Gu Shoufu back by plane, please remember not to let him arrive in Japan!" ”
"I ......" Koiso Kuniaki's lips moved, seeing that the people around him looked like an old god, he could only acquiesce in his reluctance.
At this time, Gu Shoufu, who had already run to Huzhou and was desperately mobilizing troops in an attempt to summon the field back, had no idea that his fate had been decided by those bigwigs who were sitting in the office and drinking tea leisurely......
At noon on 17 November, a news suddenly appeared in the newspapers of Tokyo, Japan, that Lieutenant General Tani Shofu, commander of the 23 rd Army of the Imperial Japanese Empire in China, died of a sudden illness at the age of 57 on his way back to Japan to report on his work.
After seeing this news, many people gasped, this Su Jin is really ruthless enough, and he can force the Japanese government to kill a lieutenant general, although nominally Gu Shoufu died of a sudden illness, but no one is a fool, what the truth of the matter is, everyone still doesn't understand, but the Japanese are really poisonous enough, and a lieutenant general said that he would abandon it.
And Su Jin also said what he said, and as soon as Gu Shoufu died, he also announced the cessation of the poison gas attack on Japan and published an article in the newspaper. In the article, he stated that he was forced to bomb Japan by poison gas out of desperation, and expressed his sincere apologies to the Japanese people who died under the poison gas.
As soon as this report came out, everyone's understanding of Su Jin deepened again, it seems that this is not only ruthless for the poisonous gas general, but also very brazen, the front foot just killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, and the back foot he can express regret with an apologetic face, this shamelessness is afraid that even the Japanese are dumbfounded.
It was under these circumstances that Bai Chongxi came to Hangzhou...... (To be continued.) )