Seeing that the three of Tojo were nervous like this, Hirohito smiled miserably. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

With a miserable laugh, Hirohito said, "You don't have to be like this, I'm just joking. ”

"Hello!" Shouichi Terauchi and Mitsumasa Yonechi dared to get up tremblingly, and Hideki Tojo quickly picked up the brush that had fallen on the floor and put it back on the desk.

Hirohito breathed a sigh of relief and said, "So, how should we deal with this matter when we come back to discuss it now?" ”

"Your Majesty, the first thing is to eliminate international influence." Hideki Tojo said, "The minister believes that it is necessary to use the propaganda machine to make it clear to international friends, especially to German and Italian friends, that the destruction of the Third Fleet is not a crime of war, but because of the trickery of the Chinese, it is an undefeated defeat." ”

"In addition to eliminating the impact, take revenge!" "The Empire must prove to the world and to all international friends that the Imperial Navy is capable of upholding its dignity, and that all those who dare to desecrate the dignity of the Imperial Navy will be brutally attacked and will pay the price for their stupidity!" ”

Hirohito frowned and asked, "How do you plan to maintain the dignity of the Imperial Navy?" ”

Mitsumasa Minai said murderously: "The minister thinks that he should immediately form a combined fleet, and then dispatch the combined fleet to carry out a brutal bombardment of Shanghai, including the concession, and blow up the entire Shanghai into a burning hell!" Letting the patrol battalion go to hell with Shanghai is not enough to maintain the dignity of the Imperial Navy. ”

Hirohito said, "Minuchi-kun, you mean that the jade is burned? Don't want the whole of Shanghai? ”

"Hello!" Mitsumasa Minei paused, "The minister thinks that the dignity of the Imperial Navy is above all else!" ”

Hirohito asked, "If Shanghai is bombed, what will happen to the imperial expatriates in the concession and the Western diaspora?" Blown up all together? ”

Hideki Tojo also sneered: "What about the remnants of the Ninth Division that are trapped in Hongkou and Yangshupu? ”

"And international implications!" Shouichi Terauchi also disagreed, saying, "Western countries have major interests in the Public Concession and the French Concession, so how can they sit idly by and watch the Imperial Navy carry out a brutal bombing of Shanghai?" Other national empires can ignore it, even the British Empire can ignore it, but the attitude of the United States, the empire cannot ignore it. ”

Hirohito said: "Yes, the United States is probably not going to sit idly by and watch us bomb the Shanghai Concession. ”

Mitsumasa Minai immediately shut his mouth, the reason why he proposed such an unrealistic plan was just to use up his "opportunity to speak", which means that I made a suggestion anyway, but you didn't adopt it, so it's time for you to come up with your own countermeasures.

Sure enough, seeing that Mitsumasa Yonechi was silent, Hirohito turned his gaze to Hideki Tojo and Shouichi Terauchi.

Shouichi Terauchi just said that other people's heads are the way, but now he wants to come up with a countermeasure, but he is immediately blinded.

In the end, it was Tojo Hideki who said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is better to implement the original plan, although the destruction of the Third Fleet is infuriating, but the impact on the battle situation in Shanghai is actually very limited, because with or without the participation of the navy in the war, the impact on the war situation is not very great, as long as the seventh division and the twentieth division arrive in Shanghai, the patrol camp will not be able to make any waves, even if they hide in the public concession, it is useless, just to provide an excuse for the imperial army to enter the concession!" ”

Hirohito nodded and said abruptly, "It seems that we can only do what Tojo-kun said." ”

After a slight pause, Hirohito said, "Tojo-kun, immediately call the remnants of the Ninth Division and order them to hold out until reinforcements arrive!" ”

"Hello!"

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Hanging over the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was a gloomy mist, but at the same time, the sky over Shanghai was full of joy, or to be more precise, the sky over the Shanghai Concession was a piece of joy, and almost all the citizens who heard the radio rushed to tell each other.

However, after all, there were still a few people who heard the broadcast, and many more people had become accustomed to reading newspapers, and at nearly noon, the additional issues of the newspapers in the concession were finally printed.

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper, the patrol battalion has won a great victory in the naval battle!"

"The newspaper is sold, the newspaper is sold, and the patrol battalion has officially formed a navy!"

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper, patrol the battalion and capture the Japanese admiral, Hasegawa Kiyoshi!"

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, after hearing the news, Japanese Emperor Hirohito was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted!"

At noon, the print media in the Shanghai Concession finally printed the latest issue.

Suddenly, hundreds of newsboys suddenly poured into the streets, shouting shocking news in their immature voices, hearing the sound of the newsboys, pedestrians who were wandering on the street gathered one after another, workers who were about to go home gathered one after another, and students who were organizing donations also ran over.

"Give me a copy!"

"I'll have two!"

"I'll have a copy too!"

"And me, I want a copy too!"

Whether it is a white-collar worker in a suit or a ragged refugee, a sweat-stained worker, or a student-looking child, they all rush to buy today's newspaper from the newsboy, many of whom have already heard about the good news from the morning radio, but they are still willing to pay for it, if nothing else, just to enjoy the pride of being victors.

Since the end of the Battle of Songhu, the Shanghai Concession has completely fallen into an isolated island, plus what I saw in the newspapers and heard on the radio, all of them are bad news, either the battle of so-and-so was lost again, or the city of so-and-so was lost again, they have heard too much bad news, but rarely hear the good news.

Today, however, they finally heard of a great news!

Moreover, this great victory happened in Shanghai, right under their noses, and many citizens even witnessed the explosion that occurred on the Huangpu River last night, and this pride and joy came more and more intensely, and the feeling of raising their eyebrows and puffing up became even stronger.

On the side of the street, an elderly professor carefully read the newspaper word by word, his eyes were already full of tears, since the Battle of Songhu, he has been completely desperate for the whole country, the whole nation, he originally thought that in this life, it is impossible to see the Chinese army fight back to Shanghai, and recover Shanghai.

However, I never thought that in just two years, the Chinese army would fight back to Shanghai!

The Chinese army not only fought back to Shanghai, but also won a big victory!

"There is hope, there is hope for China!" The old professor couldn't help but burst into tears, "There is hope for China again." ”

A beggar in a dirty ragged shirt walked past the old professor, as if he was infected by the crowd around him, looked at the old professor with hopeful eyes, and begged: "Sir, can you read it to me?" ”

"Okay." The old professor agreed, not caring about the smell of the beggar's body, opened the newspaper, pointed to the front page and read it to the beggar word by word, listening to the old professor reading the newspaper there, the beggar's originally gloomy eyes gradually lit up, and a strange look was quietly brewing in his eyes.

In fact, this beggar is also a veteran of the National Army.

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At the same time, in the building of the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession.

Steve, Ferguson, and Jonathan were still gathered, and not only them, but even Police Commissioner Johnson and Colonel Wilson, the military attache of the U.S. Legation in Shanghai, also came together, and the five of them discussed only one focus, that is, the patrol camp to completely annihilate the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet.

"Colonel Wilson, is the news reliable?" Steve asked Wilson again.

Although the patrol camp's war radio station had already broadcast the good news, Steve still didn't believe it, because this matter was too unbelievable, to say that the patrol camp had completely annihilated the remnants of the Japanese Ninth Division trapped in Hongkou and Yangshupu after a night of fierce fighting, they believed it, but to say that the patrol camp could completely annihilate the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet on the Huangpu River, and even sank the Kaga aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Wusong, but killed them!

How is this possible? The army is always the army, and it is impossible to run to the river, let alone to the sea! How could a patrol battalion threaten the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet? Do you really think that with a few sampans or small fishing boats loaded with explosives, you can blow up and sink the ironclad battleships of the Japanese Navy? Dream!

However, to Steve's disappointment, Wilson nodded solemnly.

Wilson nodded solemnly, and then said: "The news is absolutely reliable, because Second Lieutenant Lucas, the engineer of the Cincinnati light cruiser, was in the bow at that time, and witnessed the repeated explosions of various warships of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, and then he also saw the patrol battalion rent more than a dozen tugboats to tow the Japanese battleship that had lost power to Wusongkou and sink itself. ”

"My God." Jonathan kept crossing his chest with his fat hands, and then muttered, "Then the Japanese have suffered a big loss this time!" Although the Third Fleet is not the main fleet of the Japanese Navy, it is also a fleet, especially the aircraft carrier Kaga, which is the absolute main aircraft carrier! ”

Ferguson said: "Presumably, at this time, the emperor of Japan must be mad. ”

Steve said: "Next, the Japanese are bound to launch a crazy retaliation, if there is no accident, the Japanese Admiralty will definitely form a combined fleet again, and then send the combined fleet to Shanghai, or it will not be long before the Huangpu River will be filled with Japanese naval ships, and the sky of Shanghai will also be obscured by the planes of the Japanese naval aviation......"

However, before Steve could speak, Wilson waved his hand and said, "Your Excellency, I'm afraid this situation will not occur, because Wu Songkou is blocked. ”