A colorful cloud hovered unscrupulously over the head of the Guards Division, paying attention to the movement of the division and taking pictures of the troops concerned. www.biquge.info For this kind of ultra-long-range reconnaissance plane, which can have a maximum range of more than 5,000 kilometers, if you wish, you can hover from the morning until the sun sets.

The army urgently called in a type of fighter plane of the army aviation to intercept it, but the result was that it could not keep up with the rhythm of the colorful cloud change at all, and whether it was diving or flying level, everything was thrown off by others, and this was not the most annoying, and the most angry thing was that the other party was still playing tricks under the noses of the pilots, and these new army aviation pilots were dumbfounded. Some people were not convinced and wanted to draw a gourd in the same way, but the engine failure directly dropped the plane, and the pilot was forced to parachute.

To be precise, the oft-mentioned Guards Division should be called the 1st Guards Division. Soon after the personnel changes in the Japanese cabinet, the relevant strength and establishment of the Guards Division were also split, and the original Guards Division, which had a full strength of more than 30,000 people, was divided into two, with one part continuing to stay in Tokyo and the other going to fight in the South Seas. The troops left behind were called the First Guards Division, and the troops going to Nanyang were renamed the Second Guards Division, but the army top brass still habitually called the First Guards Division the Guards Division. It is only when the two appear together or are formally written that there is a distinction between the first and the second. After the splitting of the 1st Guards Division, the initial strength was about 2 infantry wings (the 1st Guards Infantry Brigade Regiment), 1 wing each of artillery, engineers, and cavalry, plus the troops directly under the division and regiment headquarters, with a total strength of more than 13,000 people.

After receiving a large number of German supplies, the General Staff Headquarters began to emphasize the mecha transformation of the troops, and the Guards Division, which was already lacking, added the First Guards Tank Brigade for this purpose, and part of the troops were newly recruited, and part of the troops were drawn from the original railway wing of the division headquarters and organized into two tank wings (Note: As mentioned above, although the Japanese infantry and the tank wing are both regiment-level institutions, in terms of scale, the infantry corresponds to the German army at the regimental level, and the combat vehicles are actually only at the battalion level). The total strength was expanded to nearly 16,000, with Major General Takeda as the brigade commander.

Because Takeda was originally an officer of the old Guards Division, he had outstanding combat exploits and actual combat experience in the Indian Dispatch Army, he still had a good teacher on his head, and he also knew the latest combat vehicles and mechanized warfare, and he won the trust of Tanaka Shinichi, and soon after taking office, he vaguely became the second-in-command of the division. Although Major General Shirakawa Tsuneo, the former commander of the second-in-command infantry brigade who was at the same level as him, was not convinced, he had never fought much and did not understand combat vehicles, so he was far inferior to Takeda in the eyes of a group of middle-level officers, especially staff officers. Takeda was usually generous, and his social skills were even more complete after being a businessman, and he soon gained a firm foothold in the Guards Division.

Now there were a bunch of officers talking about it, but Takeda looked up at the sky and was distracted, not knowing what he was thinking.

"This is the Caiyun change that can bring three people, the navy red deer didn't brag this time, it really flew fast!"

"The only way to intercept it is to change the four-style battle wind! Or German fighters, if there is not enough one, there will be many. ”

"Forget it, save some effort, people are just a reconnaissance plane, are you ashamed to bully others with multiple fighter planes?"

But soon the bombers also came: 6 Comets under the escort of 4 Zero Combat Reforms, swooped down on the Guards Division, and the dive speed was still fast, which greatly alarmed the officers and men who had just become accustomed to the slow flight speed of Stuka - the Guards Division actually had not many people who had fought, and it looked mighty when it walked, and its posture was sufficient, and its combat effectiveness was actually far inferior to that of the Sendai Division or the Kumamoto Division.

"Lie down! Lie down! ”

"Hidden! Take cover! ”。

"Anti-aircraft artillery ......"

"Don't move." Takeda stopped the panicked officers of the division and regimental headquarters, and said in a deep voice, "If the rebel army is sober, it will not attack us, and most of the leaflets that are thrown are dropped." ”

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, pieces of white paper spilled down in the air, and the officers and men were immediately relieved when they saw that it was not a bomb, and the officers admired Takeda Attack - worthy of being a commander with outstanding military achievements, his brain was a good one, and he saw through the bluff of the navy red deer at a glance.

"Navy red deer still have brains, and they know that they can't come to fight the army." A group of people laughed and talked about it, quite disdainful.

But Takeda Attack looked at the number in his hand and sighed, he actually knew the content above, and he knew that except for some exaggerations, the rest was true. He has been in contact with the Indian army and navy for so long, can he still not know which ones are true and which ones are false? As a general, under the orders of his mentor, he also fully understands the situation in the upper echelons of the military circles, corruption and misdeeds can be found everywhere, and the army is not a pure land. Yamashita Fengfumi looted a large amount of gold in the Indian dispatch system, and on the one hand, he gave the officers and soldiers the benefits on the one hand, and on the other hand, Bose maintained the Indian government relatively effectively, and the unique deferential attitude of the Indian nation, everyone lived a very prosperous life, how could there be any endless guerrilla warfare?

Yamashita Fengfumi's routines were all learned from Hori Yoshichi, and Yamashita himself was also born in Germany, and was stationed with the German marines, so the relationship with Germany was easy to establish. For Yamashita Fengwen to do this, although Takeda Attack thinks it is necessary, sometimes he can't understand it, and it wasn't until he asked his teacher Toshiro Obata that he fully understood.

"Yamashita led his troops to sweep through Southeast Asia after the war, and he made a lot of achievements, but how did he arrange it in the end? As soon as the battle is over, they will drive people to the Kwantung Army, and there will be a bright rise and a secret surrender, Tojo will have retribution for doing too much of this kind of killing donkeys and unloading the grinding! ”

Of course, in Takeda's view, corruption at the top was not a reason for mutiny or even rebellion, but the rank and file soldiers and middle- and lower-ranking officers did not understand it, and if they believed the information on the leaflets, they could easily agree with the idea of the rebel army, which was very dangerous, and it was likely that the morale of the army would be unstable and demoralized. He expressed his concern in Tanaka's ear, and the latter reacted immediately and immediately ordered the compulsory confiscation of the propaganda materials and the prohibition of anyone reading them.

"Don't look at it! Don't look at ......" The gendarmes tried to collect it hoarsely, and the things in the hands of ordinary soldiers were quickly taken away by the military cao and junior officers, but the backbone forces such as Shao Zuo and Zhong Zuo were still watching, and they were still sighing while watching:

"Dare to bully the king, it is really a national thief!"

"Yes, otherwise why would Admiral Hori rise up and rebel? It's really unbearable, and it's a last resort. ”

"Gentlemen, Hori is a great hero, there must be a hardship in this, and there must be a hidden secret. Of course, rebellion is always wrong. ”

"Needless to say? A national thief can even do such a thing as embezzling pensions, so what else can't he do? It's a pity that Admiral Hori didn't choose the right way. Didn't he get the confession of the thief, and go to His Majesty to complain, Your Majesty will not ignore such corruption and shaking the foundation of the country......"

"Your judgment is not right, you only got the confession after the rebellion."

"Then why don't you disband the team and go back to where they came right now? Your Majesty will surely understand. ”

"I don't know, maybe there are bad people around Your Majesty."

"There must be, isn't Tojo's old dog colluding with the national thief?"

It was under such a tumultuous situation that Shinichi Tanaka convened an emergency military meeting.

"At present, the information we have gathered is that the main force of the rebels is about 6,000 men of the First Marine Brigade and the Second Air Fleet, and there may be about 7,000 officers and men on the fleet, but there are very few landings. After the rebels took control of the city of Tokyo, there were about 4-5,000 new naval officers and men in the Ministry of the Navy, the Military Command Department, the Naval Hospital, the Naval Academy, and other relevant naval institutions, with a total strength of 18,000, of which nearly 10,000 were in the city, and the rest were distributed in the harbor and warships. ”

Everyone gasped, in just one night, the rebels actually gathered such a huge number of troops? The Guards Division was only 16,000 men. However, this judgment is exaggerated, in fact, after the rebel army took control of the naval center, there were less than 2,000 naval officers and men who actually responded and joined. The rest of the people either took advantage of the chaos to hide in their homes or refused to cooperate and were detained. The estimate of 4-5 thousand is taken into account all naval personnel.

"Don't worry, the combat effectiveness of the Navy is very weak, except for the 1st Marine Brigade of Keiji Shibasaki, which is more tricky, the rest are agency personnel, and they have no combat effectiveness." Tanaka Shin saw that everyone was embarrassed, so he cheered them up, "The order issued by the General Staff Headquarters is very clear, we will not move the rebels in the core area of Tokyo City for the time being, just monitor them." The focus is on seizing the other side's control of the broadcasting agencies, news agencies, telegraph offices, police departments, and other key institutions. I want to take the radio and news agencies first today, the rebels' chatter and propaganda are really tiresome, and Your Majesty is even more furious about it. ”

"Can you use heavy artillery?"

Tanaka Shinichi glared at the questioner: "Of course not, do you need to say this?" It's all a national asset, and we want to control it instead of smashing the city of Tokyo...... Your Majesty is still in the city! Besides, there are no heavy artillery in the naval brigades. ”

"But they have heavy cruisers and destroyers." The staff officer who muttered this was selectively ignored by Shinichi Tanaka.

Takeda asked, "Do you have any photos or reconnaissance information about these two naval deployments?" ”

"Yes!" The chief of staff, Major General Suzuki, took out a stack of photos, "This is some reconnaissance information taken by the army aviation aircraft early this morning, but because of the entanglement and drive away by the naval planes, they did not take many things, and their appearance is very blurry......

Everyone picked it up and looked at it, and sure enough, there were very few clear, and most of them were vague.

"Preliminary estimates are that there are 800-1,000 rebels in these two places, with simple barricades and 15-20 tanks, as well as some trucks and jeeps, and no heavy artillery. How many troops do you think we can take? ”

The commander of the Shirakawa Brigade preemptively replied: "An infantry wing is sufficient, if you can assign us a tank brigade, I guarantee to complete the combat mission in 2 hours." ”

"Takeda-kun, what do you see?"

Takeda sighed: "Sir, can I tell the truth?" ”

"Of course." Shinichi Tanaka looked at him strangely, and said in a deep voice, "If you have any concerns, it's okay to say it." ”