Xianning, the headquarters of the Central China Front of the Japanese Army, the headquarters of Okamura Ninji.

"Your Excellency Commander, a battle report came from the front line, the commander of the Chinese army, Xue Yue, did not retreat, but asked the Chinese army in the southern Hunan region to speed up the march to northern Hunan, at the same time, the 6th Division of our empire, the younger 101st division reported that the offensive of the Chinese army has increased significantly in recent days, and in two days, under the attack of the Chinese army at any cost, the cumulative losses of the two divisions in two days have exceeded the previous week, the battle situation is precarious, and the battlefield changes hands at any time, Your Excellency the commander of the two divisions requests His Excellency the commander to increase reinforcements!"

"Your Excellency, Commander, there is a telegram from the air force, the resistance of the Chinese air force is very strong, although the number of enemy fighters is very good, and the fighters are also very backward, but the opponent's will to resist is very strong, they often choose the move of ending up together, so that our air force has suffered great losses, in two days, more than 30 fighters have been lost, but the only good news is that the opponent's fighters are already less than a dozen, and it is not far from mastering air supremacy!"

"Your Excellency Commander, a telegram has been sent from the locality, urging Your Excellency the Commander to open the situation as soon as possible, this is the seventh telegram in more than half a month, and its meaning is mostly the same, but the words are becoming more and more intense, the most recent one, His Excellency Prince Hatohiko of the Asakanomiya also sent a message in person, asking our Central China Front Army to give an explanation......"

"Your Excellency the Commander......"

One telegram after another came to Okamura Ninji, and most of them were bad news, especially the telegrams in the base camp area, although he didn't care much about it in the mainland, but after all, it was a telegram from the base camp, and the impact was extraordinary, although he didn't care much, but it didn't mean that he didn't care.

But the other party asked him to open the situation one by one and give an explanation, which made Okamura Ninji in this situation feel physically and mentally exhausted.

Open the situation? How do I open it?

Give an account? How to explain?

The current situation is that they have fallen into an irreparable disadvantage in Central China, and this disadvantage is not just simply at a disadvantage, but has reached the point of difficulty, in this case, how can you call Okamura Ningji to open the situation?

How do you tell him to give an account?

To tell the truth, it won't work at all, and if you deceive, you can't deceive, because the battle is here, and when it ends, if there is a deviation, it will be a monstrous disaster.

He can't open the situation at all, and he can't explain it!

He could only put it aside for the time being.

But...... The base camp is pressing step by step, but it makes him physically and mentally exhausted.

More importantly, the battle situation still showed no signs of turning, and he mobilized 50,000 troops just desperately to force Xue Yue, his original intention was not to break out a decisive battle so soon.

But who would have thought that Xue Yue would be like a stunned person, so strong, there was no room for turning, and he would directly choose the hard top!

As a result, all of a sudden, Okamura Ningji was numb!

He didn't know what to do!

Could it be that a decisive battle with Xue Yue broke out directly?

Don't look at the fact that they now have an army of 80,000, it seems that compared to Xue Yue's army of more than 200,000, they are purely based on their combat effectiveness, and they are not inferior at all!

But that's not the case!

Okamura Ningji believed that if a decisive battle broke out at this time, they would definitely lose, and there would be no accident or the slightest possibility of struggle, and they would be directly beaten to death by Xue Yue with a stick!

Because don't look at the fact that they now have 80,000 people, but the 30,000 people of the 6th Division and the 101st Division cannot be counted at all, and most of the 50,000 people he mobilized are pieced together, and their combat effectiveness is completely different from that of regular first-class divisions.

Even if these 50,000 troops are all soldiers of regular first-class divisions, so what?

Gathering an army of 100,000 before was still a complete defeat, so what is the use of another 50,000?

After all, it was a failure!

Okamura Ninji sat down in a chair dejectedly, with a sluggish look on his face, looking a little out of energy.

His brows furrowed, and he sat there without saying a word, his mind constantly haunting the battle situation during this time, trying to find a way out of it, but ......

How can this be so easy?

The more I thought about it, the more irritable I became, and soon it was a mess, and I couldn't help but get more and more irritable, and I couldn't help but stand up and walk around the headquarters, and the sound of impatient footsteps kept ringing, which seemed very chaotic, and it highlighted the entanglement and boredom in Okamura Ninji's heart.

The staff officers next to him, looking at the actions of their commanders, all showed a worried look.

This worry was not only because of Okamura Ninji, but also because of the fate of their empire.

At this point, anyone can see that their situation is very dangerous.

To put it mildly, they're pretty much on the edge of the cliff by now, no, more precisely, they've fallen off the cliff, but they're just holding on to a dead vine.

There was no way to borrow from the side, they could only watch their survival ancient vines make a rotten sound under the tugging of their heavy bodies, gradually collapsing and gradually breaking.

And during this period, they couldn't do anything, they could only watch, and experience the despair gradually spreading from the deepest part of their hearts, gradually covering their whole body.

Despair is contagious, and his rate of contagion is even more terrible than the plague.

After all, no one can guess the complexity of people's hearts.

No one can control the growth of their inner thoughts, and when they find that their hearts are desperate, they have to believe and must believe, although they do not want to believe it.

Because despair is contagious.

When you see that the people around you are listless and desperate, especially the people you trust and respect the most, there is nothing you can do, and despair will spread like weeds.

Can't suppress it.

Command is finished.

These Japanese soldiers have no choice at all, they can't do anything now, and they can watch despair devour them, and there is nothing left to swallow them.

Okamura Ninji watched all this, but he couldn't do anything.

He was the commander, he was the commander of the Central China Front, and he was one of the most powerful people on the mainland, but there was nothing he could do in the face of such a general trend that could not be reversed by manpower.

Nothing can be done!

A sense of decadence arises spontaneously.

Okamura Ninji felt this thought and emotion, which made him even more depressed and bitter at the same time: "When, I, Okamura Ninji, have also fallen to such a state?" ”

(End of chapter)