Chapter 128 The Japanese chief predicts that the imperial army will be defeated

The county seat of Lin'an County. The headquarters of the Japanese army in the Fangjia compound. Front yard main house.

"Absolutely. The two countries and armies of Japan and China, especially the Eighth Route Army, cannot be compared at all, and our Imperial Army has absolutely advanced and powerful military superiority. However, this does not mean that the imperial army will definitely be able to defeat and exterminate the backward and weak Eighth Route Army. This has been proven in recent years......"

"Zong Hanjun, I want to know why?"

"Nakagawa-kun, you should know why."

"Maybe. However, I would like to know whether Zong Hanjun's views are similar or consistent with mine. ”

"Why? The fundamental reason is that the Communist Party proposed to implement the all-people war of resistance and all the people are soldiers. ”

"I've known this for a long time. Zong Hanjun, can you be more specific. ”

"Well, I'll be more specific. Nakagawa-kun, our Imperial Army has aircraft, artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, cavalry, telephones, radios, advanced and fast communication equipment, which is very powerful, and the Eighth Route Army does not have it. However, they have thousands of people who give their full support and sacrifice their lives to cover up. ”

"Huh? What's the use of that? The Chinese people are poor, backward, ignorant, and of little use. ”

"Not much? Nakagawa-kun, this view of yours is wrong and very dangerous, and it may lead to the fiasco of any of your actions. ”

"Huh? Is it that serious? ”

"Of course it's serious. Tens of millions of Chinese people were scouts and correspondents of the Eighth Route Army, and they were definitely not obedient people under the rule of the imperial army, who seemed timid and afraid of death on the surface. Among them, there may be people who do things in our imperial army on the surface, but they are actually the Eighth Route Army that spies and collects intelligence on our army. ”

"Yes. I believe that there must be such people. Zong Hanjun, can you be more specific? ”

"Good. I will not talk about weapons and equipment, but about the communication between the two armies. ”

"Zong Hanjun, can the Eighth Route Army and our Imperial Army be put together in terms of communication equipment and means? It's too far off. ”

"Yes, it's too big to compare. Nothing and any action of the Imperial Army could not do without telephone calls and telegrams. However, you should not underestimate the Eighth Route Army, the communications of their troops below the regiment level not only rely on the two legs of the signal corps or cavalry, they also use carrier pigeons, message trees, fireworks, and even kite flying methods to transmit information over long distances. These means of communication were certainly not as fast as telephone telegraphs, but they were much faster than the trucks and cavalry used by the Imperial Army when they were dispatched. These means of communication may seem primitive and outdated, but they are very practical and sometimes even miraculous. And it is precisely the ordinary and inconspicuous people who use these means of communication. ”

"Hmm. Zong Hanjun, hearing you say this, the Chinese people are indeed powerful, and they cannot be taken lightly. ”

"The Chinese people not only gave information to the Eighth Route Army, but they also directly participated in military operations, even involving women and children of the elderly."

"Huh? Old and young, women and children? Will there be such a thing? ”

"Yes, indeed. In the summer of more than a year ago, I sent troops out of the city to the countryside to collect grain. The soldiers of the two squads were divided into groups of eight or nine people, and they went to a dozen villages separately, and one squad was concentrated and ready to maneuver, ready to deal with possible battles at any time. One of the nine soldiers was driving the wagon to a village four or five miles away when they met a woman in her fifties with two girls of twelve or thirteen years old who were collecting dung on the road. When they saw the Imperial soldiers approaching, they not only showed no fear, but also waved the small Japanese flag. Our soldiers went forward and searched strictly and carefully, but did not find anything suspicious, but did not search the stinking cow dung and horse manure in the dung baskets, so they walked towards the village. However, when they were thirty meters away, the woman and the two girls simultaneously took out a grenade from the stinking dung and threw it, and the nine unsuspecting soldiers fell to the ground on the spot, and none of them survived. When the mobile team heard the explosion and arrived quickly, eight soldiers were shattered, and one seriously injured soldier was rescued, and he died five days later. Nakagawa-kun, you say, how can our Imperial Army defeat an army like the Eighth Route Army and such a people? ”

"Well, it's hard. Zong Hanjun, let's no longer talk about the war in North China. Could you please analyze and predict what the final outcome of this war will be on the entire Chinese battlefield? ”

"Alas! Nakagawa-kun, there is no need to analyze it anymore, with all due respect, the ending is becoming more and more obvious, and it is coming to us step by step. The outcome is: Japan will lose, China will win. ”

"Huh? Zong Hanjun, are you so sure? ”

"Yes. This is not just my opinion, there are a few middle- and lower-ranking officers in my imperial army who privately predict and judge in this way. ”

"Zong Hanjun, those middle- and lower-level officers you told you about have such predictions and judgments, this is a betrayal of the empire and the imperial army."

"Betrayal? No. We never thought of betrayal, much less betrayal. However, this kind of prediction is becoming more and more obvious and true, and it is very likely that it will appear irreversibly and irreversibly in a few years. ”

"Well, we'll have time to talk about that later. Zong Hanjun, when are you going to leave for China? ”

"The Army General Staff Headquarters ordered me to return to Tokyo as soon as possible, and I replied to the telegram requesting that I should go back as soon as I found my daughter, and the General Staff Headquarters approved my vacation for one month, and whether I found my daughter or not, I must return to Tokyo in a month."

"yes, that's great. Zong Hanjun, don't go anywhere this month, just stay with me, and I will mobilize all my connections and strength to help you find your daughter, Miss Hanako. During this month, you and I will have a more in-depth analysis and discussion, and I will ask Zong Hanjun to help me with a lot of advice. ”

"I can't talk about advice and help, but I have some experience of defeat, which can be told to Nakagawa-kun to learn from, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past."

"Zong Hanjun, you're too pessimistic, aren't you? Am I not going to win? What should you do if you change it? ”

"Maybe I'm a little pessimistic, I can't predict whether you can win or not, but failure is inevitable. I don't know what to do? It seems that Nakagawa-kun is still keen on the bloody killings of war. ”

"No, no. Zong Hanjun, it is necessary for me to make it clear to you on this issue. I also hated this war and didn't want to fight it anymore. However, I am not capable of ending this war, and the most effective way to end the war at an early date is to completely eliminate all anti-Japanese forces as soon as possible. I am an imperial soldier loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, a warrior of the Yamato nation, and I must obey unconditionally, carry out orders to the letter, fight without stopping if I can't win, and sacrifice my life in order to achieve victory, even if I die in battle, I must die with pride and generosity, and even more so, I must maintain the dignity and honor that an officer of the Imperial Japanese Imperial Army should have. ”

"Alas! Nakagawa-kun, what you said is very helpless, and it is a little tragic. If we continue to fight, we will only be able to prove the fundamental mistake of launching this war with one defeat after another, and show how absurd and stupid it is to start this war with the loss of thousands of young and fresh lives of Japan. Those who repeat their failures and do not accept the lessons are the real fools in the world, and they are even more pathetic to a country and nation. ”