The invading Japanese troops trapped in the Songhu trenches suffered two to three thousand casualties almost every day.

How to fill this big hole, the Japanese army's War Department is also running out of donkey skills, what to increase troops and reduce the stove, what to hide from the world, what to doddy, what to lie about the military situation, and so on, but everything that can be thought of, I have thought about it all over again, but unfortunately it is useless, and the total number of people is still decreasing.

Fortunately, the "300,000 elites" in China are also a bit wasted.

Most of them are some new recruits, or second- and third-rate troops temporarily drawn from other miscellaneous units, and they have no combat quality at all, and even the basic combat technology is very rough and stiff; if it were not for the fact that the Japanese navy warships no longer supported it, and the incompetence of the Japanese army and air force, which were unable to gain air supremacy for a long time, these hundreds of thousands of Chinese "elites" would have been defeated by the Japanese devils long ago.

This is another good thing that Major General Liu Yicheng has done.

This guy slandered the Chiang commissar and suggested that the "Songhu round of warfare method" be adopted.

Since the Japanese Navy hoped that the armies of both sides would fight more fiercely, Huaxia simply sent second- and third-line troops to join the Songhu battlefield to try, just using more than 100,000 elite Japanese troops to be free teachers and let all armies take turns to fight.

Now the entire Songhu battlefield is really on fire.

Not only did the Chinese army suffer five or six thousand casualties a day, but the scene was very bloody and cruel, which opened the eyes of Western spies and journalists, and often made all kinds of anti-Japanese war cases in Songhu, China, become the front page headlines of European and American newspapers and periodicals.

By 30 September, the Gui, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Shaanxi armies, as well as powerful local troops, had sent elite troops at the division and brigade level to compete with the Japanese troops in Songhu one by one.

The best record is still Colonel Jia Lian's Sichuan Army.

This guy led the anti-Japanese advance regiment in western Sichuan, in the Baoshan area of Songhu, engaged the main force of the Japanese army, and once defeated the main force of the Japanese 13th Division, that is, the 26th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, and almost captured the commander of the Numata Tokushige Brigade alive, and was exclaimed by the Japanese army as "the first tiger in western Sichuan".

Afterwards, he was also received by Lao Jiang.

When Lao Chiang learned that this guy was Lao Whampoa, he immediately promoted him to major general, renamed his anti-Japanese advance regiment the "First Tiger Regiment", awarded him the white tiger flag on a black background, and suggested that he stay in the Central Army, and in the future, he would use the regiment as the basis and expand it into an integrated brigade.

Major General Jia Lian is not a bun.

After the upheaval in the early years, and after tasting the sweetness in western Sichuan, he also understood a truth of life, whether it was the commander of the integrated brigade or the commander of the integrated division, it was all fake, and only following Chief Liu Yicheng was the right way, not to mention that he was a powerful figure in western Sichuan, and he was in charge of the western Sichuan teaching brigade, and his status was only below Major General Liu.

Therefore, even if Major General Jia is unwise, he will not give up such a good future for the sake of just reorganizing the brigade, which leads to the persuasion of Jiang Weizuo, which is doomed to be in vain, but it also makes Lao Jiang take a look at Liu Yungao, if the pond water in western Sichuan is too shallow, how can he keep such a fierce general.

By the end of September 1937, the Japanese troops trapped in the Songhukou area still made little progress.

Nearly 20 days of hard fighting, so that Huaxia lost nearly 100,000 horses, which was the only harvest of the Japanese army in Songhu, but the total number of Japanese troops that had landed also dropped to 1340,000, if it were not for the special warships every day, continuous replenishment of troops and materials, the total strength would have been less than 100,000.

If this continues, the more than 100,000 Japanese troops trapped in Songhu will be able to hold out for another month at most.

Because when the number of people drops to a certain amount, the Chinese army will definitely launch a large-scale counteroffensive, and at that time, it is not uncommon for these Japanese troops to be driven out to sea.

The cabinets of Prime Minister Konoe, Minister of the Sea of Mine, and Minister of Land Sugiyama have discussed it several times, but they have never come up with a good solution.

What's the point of continuing to fight like this?

Some people suggested that it should be simply open to the emperor and others, and how about the end of the war between China and Japan?

However, among the cabinet members, none of them dared to really speak, and they all hoped that someone else would speak, because the group of madmen in the War Department was not easy to provoke, and what should be done if there was another "226 incident".

At this time, in the thatched cottage of Ishihara Waner, several Japanese generals were also ushered in.

The leaders are none other than Kenji Dohihara and Hideki Tojo.

Strictly speaking, the core figures in the Japanese Army, as well as the actual controllers, have already arrived, but unfortunately Major General Liu Yicheng does not know, otherwise sending a Flying Bear III. bomber to bomb here can save a lot of things.

As everyone knows, Ishihara and Hideki Tojo do not deal with each other.

Ishihara often laughed at Tojo, saying that he was a "Tojo Private", saying that Tojo was a reckless man at all, not to mention commanding soldiers to fight, even if there were problems with commanding machine guns, once the number was more than three, he didn't know how to use it, and he was completely a miner and farmer.

However, Hideki Tojo did not show weakness, and slandered Ishihara Waner on many occasions, saying that this guy was "talented but not virtuous, completely a wall grass, relying on his own thin talent, he simply had no one in his eyes, and even dared to do the will of His Majesty the Emperor, as the emperor's personal soldier, ashamed to be with this person."

Slander is slander, ridicule is ridicule, that is all for outsiders to see.

These two goods are a pair of good friends in private.

In 1931, the "918 Incident" was ostensibly initiated by Hideki Tojo, but in fact the real mastermind was Ishihara Waner himself, these two people can be said to be a real nest of snakes and rats, and the division of labor is clear, one with a fan, the other with a knife and gun.

"The wisdom of Ishihara, the courage of Tojo" is a famous saying in Japanese military circles.

Even after the end of World War II, some Japanese historians privately believed that if it were not for these two individuals, Japan might not have launched the war of aggression against China, and later the Pacific War.

There were a lot of people who came to Ishihara Thatched House this time, but the only ones who could really participate in the secret meeting were Ishihara Waner, Tojo Hideki and Dohihara Kenji, and there were only three of them.

Tojo was the actual controller of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Shi was an old shareholder of the Japanese military department, and Tohi was the chief head of the Japanese army's intelligence department, and he was also the behind-the-scenes boss who advocated "North China Autonomy" and the real commander of the "North China Raider".

The gathering of these three people was just right to delineate the future of the Japanese army and the next battle plan of the Japanese army.

The core of this discussion is how to end the war with China with dignity.

At present, the Songhu battlefield has become a quagmire, and the bold ambition of "ending the war in three months" has become a big international joke.

However, the seemingly vulgar and brainless Tojo senior soldier was bland and free, without the slightest irritability and anger, and Ishihara was even more cultivated at home, and the simple thatched cottage faintly formed a whole, which made Tohihara's heart sink and muttered secretly.

The Songhu battlefield originally didn't have to worry about these three people.

There are many mountains in the Japanese military circles, and each has always sung its own tune.

The 1st Division of the Japanese Army is the emperor's imperial soldier and the representative of Manchuria, and usually does not participate in battles or fights, and the 2nd Division is stationed in Japan itself, and basically does not need to consider the issue of sending troops to China, so it is more delicate from the 3rd Division.

The 3rd and 4th Divisions have long been the private lands of the Japanese aristocracy.

The slight difference is that the Fourth Division is controlled by the economic aristocracy, and when it fights, it is indeed a little weak-legged, and that is because the talents and elites in it have long been absorbed by the naval forces.

As for the third division, it was owned by the Wuxun nobles. Both the division commander, Lieutenant General Fujita Shin, and the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, General Matsui Ishine, are inextricably linked to the Japanese imperial family or the Chinese family (with titles), and in a sense, they represent the faces of princes and nobles.

The 5th and 6th Divisions were the traditional spheres of influence of the former feudal towns. The current actual controller is none other than Kenji Dohihara, who is currently gathering in North China and is the vanguard of Japan's invasion of China.

The predecessors of these six divisions were the six major towns (equivalent to divisions) before the Meiji Restoration.

After that, from the 7th Division to the 20th Division, although most of them were included in the standing divisions, compared with the previous six divisions, they were completely different, either the reserve of the first six divisions and regiments, or the garrison of the tuntian, so they were slightly inferior in terms of status and treatment.

Taking the Japanese Seventh Division as an example, the main source of its soldiers was the remote Hokkaido, which was officially included in the rule of the Japanese Empire after the Meiji Restoration.

Before World War II, even the majority of Japanese people discriminated against the indigenous people of Hokkaido, either calling them "Ezo people" or simply "northern barbarians" or "man-eating savages".

Not long ago, Ishihara and other powerful generals were summoned by the Japanese emperor.

Their emperor told them in ventriloquist that the situation on the Songhu battlefield was not good, and asked them to send elite troops from Manchuria and North China to support the Songhu battlefield, because the war here was sensitive and involved the face of the Japanese Empire in the international community, and if the rescue was successful, he would not hesitate to reward him.

As for what will be rewarded?

Ishihara and others all tacitly agreed, such as the Japanese land minister that Hideki Tojo longed for the most, and the throne of the future prime minister, and Kenji Dohihara deserved to be the commander of the First General Army of the Japanese Army (equivalent to the Front Army), and even could be canonized as a field marshal.

How to solve the dilemma of the Songhu battlefield? Ishihara had already made up his mind.

It's not like Tokyo, Japan in September, the weather is already a little cold, this guy is still there pretending to be elegant, gently shaking the beloved Xiangfei bamboo fan, savoring the big red robe of China, all the elegant things are done, he gestured to Tojo Hideki with his eyes, let this guy throw bricks and lead jade.

In terms of status and strength, Hideki Tojo should indeed be the leader.

This guy was not polite, cleared his throat, and began to talk about his thoughts, "It's still Ishihara-kun's unparalleled wisdom, and it doesn't take a single soldier of the Great Japanese Empire to let the Huaxia Air Force automatically withdraw the cutting-edge fighters, otherwise, the Imperial soldiers who have landed in Songhu have long been driven into the sea by the Air Force in Nanjing, and now the general trend has become a general trend, leading the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, and it depends on the ups and downs of our wait."

These words made Tu Feiyuan feel terrified when he heard it, and he was already secretly bitter in his heart.

The landing force in Songhu fought so miserably, it turned out that they were all the black hands of these two goods, it seems that they still underestimated these two bear children, they are not as simple as they seem, their methods are so vicious and accurate, so that the imperial navy can be in the same stream with them, which is what really worries him.

Japan's navy and army have always had deep grievances.

Can make the noble navy beat, unless it is the powerful bosses of the navy, who have formed an invisible alliance with Ishihara Waner and others, Tsuchihara sighed, it seems that in the future, for a long time, the navy and army will be the world of these people, and for the Japanese ship, I don't know whether it is good or bad.

However, Tufeiyuan is also old, and many things are only hidden in the heart and not exposed.

Tojo was giving a personal speech endlessly.

Ishihara drank tea slowly and methodically, and only occasionally turned his gaze and secretly looked at Tu Feiyuan's reaction.

It wasn't until he felt that it was almost enough that he took over the topic with a smile, "Huaxia is very poor, but the population base is large, and there will always be a group of talented people who know the development of the world situation well.

This is not a casual statement, but a knock on Kenji Dohihara.

The main thing is to let this guy not have any strange thoughts, thinking that he Ishihara and Tojo are some kind of bad people.

They were great loyal ministers, loyal to the Emperor and loyal to the Japanese Empire.

The reason why his carving skills have been recognized by many people, and even actively implemented, is that they just conform to the trend of history, and the enemy of the Japanese Empire is not China at all, but the European and American powers that are approaching step by step.

If you don't make a lot of noise, the European and American powers will not be fooled.

Tojo is not a simple person, he immediately heard the strings and knew what he meant, and quickly changed the topic, "My Kwantung Army claims to be one million, but when it comes to real strength, it is far inferior to the North China Dispatch Army, and at present, only the fourth, seventh, and eighth divisions are available."

"As for the rest of the troops, they are either mixed units, or they have been transferred to form new divisions and regiments."