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After Aoki Shigesei saw the order, he didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly reported it to Seishiro Itagaki.

"What? Dispatch an infantry brigade to Jiangwan by air to strengthen the defense of Jiangwan? Seishiro Itagaki looked at Shigesei Aoki with a cannibalistic gaze, his face full of disbelief.

Yaga, which idiot ordered this?

Aoki Shigesei smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency Commander, this is the battle order just issued by the base camp. ”

"Yaga!" Seishiro Itagaki said in annoyance, "What are the bureaucrats in the base camp going to do? ”

"They have a very good reason." Aoki Shigesei handed over the telegram in his hand and said with a wry smile, "They said that if Jiangwan is held, it can be used as a fulcrum for the future attack on Shanghai, and if Jiangwan is lost, then after the 7th and 20th Divisions rush to Shanghai, they must return to the old path of the first Battle of Songhu and seize the beach from the Lion Forest." ”

"What does it matter if you grab the beach from the Lion Forest?" Itagaki Seishiro's forehead jumped with green tendons, but he didn't go to answer the telegram handed by Aoki Shigesei, but waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "After all, this is not the Battle of Songhu, the National Army had a hundred divisions during the Battle of Songhu, and they could be fully deployed along the Yangtze River, but the patrol battalion did not have this strength at all, they were only 20,000 people at best, and the defense line could not be extended to the riverside at all!" Landing on the beach is not a difficult task, it is nothing more than a little harder. ”

After a pause, Seishiro Itagaki said worriedly: "What's worse is that in order to hold Jiangwan, it will inevitably lead to the entire battle plan having to be adjusted, and the 20th Division will have to reach Shanghai before the 7th Division, and it will also launch an attack before the 7th Division arrives in Shanghai, isn't this just a tactic of adding fuel?" ”

"yes." Aoki Shigecheng muttered, "The patrol battalion originally needed to face the two-sided attack of the 7th Division and the 20th Division at the same time, but now, at least in seven days, they only need to face the attack of the 20th Division, if it is someone else, there is no problem, but this time the opponent is Xu Rui!" ”

Aoki Shigesei still didn't say a word: the 20th Division arrived in Shanghai seven days before the 7th Division, didn't this give Xu Rui a chance to break through? Don't think that Xu Rui will not be able to defeat the 20th Division, I think that when he swept Dameishan for the first time, no one believed that Xu Rui could defeat the 10th Division, but in the end?

In the end, Xu Rui really defeated the 10th Division, and it was completely annihilated!

"Stupid, simply stupid!" Itagaki Seishiro said hatefully, "These bureaucrats in the base camp have never been able to talk on paper, and they have never known how to fight, so we can't listen to them about this!" ”

Seishiro Itagaki almost said directly that Hideki Tojo would only talk on paper.

Seishiro Itagaki immediately ordered Shigesei Aoki to send a telegram back to the base camp, refusing to carry out this order!

This time, but it angered Hideki Tojo, Hideki Tojo is old-fashioned, and what he hates most in his life is to act beyond the rules, so he is very unaccustomed to Ishihara Wanji, who has always liked to break the rules, and Ishihara Waner is also not used to Tojo Hideki, and often calls Tojo Hideki a senior soldier in public, which means that with Tojo Hideki's ability, he is only worthy of being a senior soldier.

After the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the division commanders of various divisions and regiments on the front line also repeatedly violated the operational orders of the base camp and repeatedly broke through the bottom line of the base camp.

Hideki Tojo immediately took the telegram of the Twelfth Army and found Kanin Miyajihito.

Because Hirohito is not in good health, he has been taken to the Tenkuyama Hot Springs by the Empress Dowager Sadaaki to recuperate, and all the affairs of the army are entrusted to the Chief of the Army General Staff Kanin Miyazaihito and the Navy Military Commander Fushimi Palace Hiroko, Tojo Hideki If he wants to establish his authority, he must first seek the consent of Kanin Miyazahito.

"Your Royal Highness, the minister thinks that this wind will not last!" Tojo Hideki said in an impassioned tone, "Gu Yun, military orders are like mountains, which means that military orders are as unshakable as mountains, but some officers of the imperial army believe that they are favored by the emperor and always disobey the military orders of their superiors. ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen hesitated a little: "However, it is also taboo to change commanders before the battle." ”

Hideki Tojo said very toughly: "It's better to change the commander than to make a big mess, if this kind of crooked atmosphere in the army can't be ruthlessly braked, sooner or later it will cause chaos, Your Royal Highness the Prince, have you forgotten the lesson of the 226 incident?" If Seishiro Itagaki can't be severely punished this time, the ominous incident of the emperor is very likely to be repeated! ”

"Tojo-kun is cautious!" Hearing this, Xianyuan Gong Zairen's face suddenly changed slightly, and he stretched out his hand to stop it.

The 226 incident, also known as the 226 mutiny, was a mutiny by the imperial army of young strong officers, trying to seize power by force, and they shouted in the name of maintaining the authority of the emperor, but in fact they wanted to establish a military dictatorship.

At that moment, Xianyuan Gong Zairen said again: "It is really necessary to disobey orders on the battlefield, and it is good to withdraw Itagaki Seishiro, but do you have a suitable replacement?" ”

Hideki Tojo replied, "There is one, Kawagishi Fumizaburo." ”

"Yo Si." Xianyuan Gong Zairen said, "That's him." ”

"Hello!" After obtaining the approval of the palace Zaihito, Tojo Hideki immediately left in a hurry, and then quickly issued a dismissal order to the headquarters of the 12th Army, relieved the former commander Itagaki Seishiro from his position, and at the same time ordered Kawagishi Bunzaburo, who was idle at home, to fly to Nanjing urgently to take up his post.

Kawagishi Bunzaburo's ability is mediocre, and the only record he can get is that during the Battle of Xinkou, the flank attack on Niangzi Pass caused the collapse of the 30 divisions of the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army in front of Xinkou, but that battle actually had nothing to do with Kawagishi Bunzaburo, the division commander, and was independently commanded by the commanders of the two brigades under his command.

But Kawagishi Bunzaburo, the old devil, has a good hand of sycophants.

The reason why Hideki Tojo nominated Kawagishi Bunzaburo to replace Seishiro Itagaki as the twelfth commander this time is because Kawagishi Bunzaburo gave Hideki Tojo a heavy gift!

Kawagishi Bunzaburo knew how he got this opportunity, and he also knew why Seishiro Itagaki was dismissed, so after receiving the appointment order, he was still far away in Japan, so he gave an order to Aoki Shigesei, chief of staff of the 12th Army, ordering Aoki Shigesei to strictly implement the combat orders under the base camp without any discount.

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When Shigesei Aoki hurried to Seishiro Itagaki's apartment, Seishiro Itagaki was already packing.

The dismissal order of the base camp was officially written half an hour ago, and Itagaki Seishiro had been relieved of his position as commander of the 12th Army, but the telegram did not mention his new position, but Itagaki Seishiro didn't care anymore, the new position was nothing more than the defense commander of a certain fortress, and he might even be transferred to the reserve.

Seeing Itagaki Seishiro packing his luggage there, Aoki Shigesei paused and said, "Your Excellency Commander, why don't you look for the Higashikure Palace?" Maybe there's still a chance to reverse it! ”

For Itagaki Seishiro, Aoki Shigesei still admires it very much, in Aoki Shigesei's opinion, Itagaki Seishiro may be the most courageous among the senior generals of the Japanese army!

The courage of Itagaki, the wisdom of Ishihara, this sentence is not nonsense!

Itagaki Seishiro waved his hand and said, "Aoki-kun, I'm no longer a commander. ”

"Hello!" Aoki Shigesei paused and said, "Itagaki-kun, if it's inconvenient for you to speak, I can go to the Higashikure Palace for you, Your Highness still values you very much, as long as Your Highness helps you say a word in front of the Xianyuan Palace, Tojo Hideki can only take back your fate, then, you can still stay." ”

Itagaki Seishiro shook his head with a smile and said, "Aoki-kun, the wood is already in the boat, so you don't have to work hard." ”

After a pause, Seishiro Itagaki patted Aoki's shoulder again, smiled and said, "Next, it's up to you." ”

"Hello." Aoki Shigecheng paused heavily, and said with a serious expression, "I will definitely follow Your Excellency's train of thought and resolutely resist the chaos of the base camp, not only will I not send troops to Jiangwan, but I will ......"

"No, Aoki-kun, I didn't mean that." Seishiro Itagaki waved his hand and said, "And I don't think it's a good idea. ”

Aoki Shigesei said, "Is it up to them to mess around?" ”

Itagaki Seishiro said: "It's because you can't let them mess around, so you can't disobey!" ”

After a slight pause, Seishiro Itagaki then said: "Although I have been dismissed, you are still there, Aoki-kun, you are a soldier and can slowly influence Kawagishi Bunzaburo, but if you also disobey the order, the base camp will definitely be replaced with you, and then there will be a guy who can only talk on paper, then it will be really troublesome!" So, you have to stay! In order to stay here, you must resolutely carry out the orders of the base camp! ”

"Hello!" Aoki nodded heavily, "I understand." ”

Seeing that Aoki Shigesei was a little depressed, Itagaki Seishiro stopped what he was doing, stepped forward and patted Aoki Shigesei on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Aoki-kun, it doesn't have to be like this, maybe in a few months, I'll be back again, things are ever-changing in this world, who can say for sure?" ”

"Hello!" When Aoki Shigesei heard this, he immediately perked up and said happily, "With the ability of His Excellency the General, it will be a matter of time before he is re-employed, and I firmly believe that this day will come!" ”

"Aoki-kun, then I'll take your good words." While speaking, Itagaki Seishiro packed his luggage, and then handed the suitcase to his adjutant, who had been the commander of the Twelfth Army for more than half a year, and when he left, Itagaki Seishiro only had one box of luggage, unlike some senior generals, when they were transferred back to China, they were all big bags and small bags.