After returning to Beijing by plane, Shimoda Murori drove directly to the headquarters of the North China Front Army and asked to see the commander, General Toshiichi Terauchi. Vertices M. updates the fastest

It was the evening of June 10, the day after the Japanese captured Texas.

It's still a red sun in the morning, and it's hot at noon and in the afternoon. In the evening, God's face changed, the clouds were thick, the wind was fierce, and then there was lightning and thunder, and the raindrops of beans fell on the land of North China, into the city of Beiping, on the courtyard of the North China Front, and on the window outside the wide office of General Shouichi Terauchi.

General Toshiichi Terauchi, commander of the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China, sat behind that antique desk with a grim expression, as if he was complaining that God did not open his eyes, how could he say that it would rain when it rained?

Historically, after Jiang Zaixin's Eighth Division was ordered by the First Theater Commander's Department to open the Huayuankou, because of this heavy rain, the water volume of the Yellow River increased sharply, resulting in further flooding, expanding the Yellow Flood Area, destroying more villages and market towns, causing greater casualties and property losses.

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs!

Because Xiao Siming led the eastward advance detachment to capture Dezhou, the Japanese army was finally forced to transfer the 5th Division and the 16th Division back to North China to participate in the battle to seize Dezhou and eliminate the eastward detachment of the Eighth Route Army. Coupled with the supply difficulties of the 14th Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, and the 13th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, the little devils had to temporarily stop their frantic attack to the west, and confronted each other on the Kaifeng and Zhoukou fronts and the First and Fifth Theaters. Vertex. Fastest updates

The great tragedy in history when the national * army opened the entrance to the garden did not happen, and it may not happen for the time being!

Naturally, it was impossible for Shouichi Terauchi to know all this, he was just resentful that the sky was not beautiful, and it affected the actions of the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division to sweep the Jilu border!

Shimoda Murori is standing at Terauchi Shouichi's desk, his head hanging down, and his legs are standing straight and straight!

After a while, General Terauchi Shouichi withdrew his gaze, glanced at Shimoda Murori, and said "um", signaling that he could report.

Shimoda Muroli said "Hai", raised his face, looked at General Terauchi respectfully, and reported in detail his work ideas and measures to be taken.

Shimoda Muroli has really put in a lot of effort, but he hasn't even bothered to get a good night's sleep, and his face is full of tiredness from lack of sleep.

After hearing this, Terauchi Shou stood up from his desk, said "Yo Sai" to Shimoda Murori, and then encouraged: "Shimoda-kun, there is nothing in the world that cannot be done, it just depends on whether you really do it with all your heart!" Yours is a great idea! The first step is to do a good job of road traffic to Jinan, so that troops and supplies can easily pass through the Yellow River! In the second step, to realize the opening of Jinpu Road to Luokou, the Luokou wharf can be expanded, and a few more ferries can be transferred to transfer the materials transported by the railway through ferries. Vertex. The fastest third step of the update is to seize the time to repair the Luokou Bridge, and make sure that the Luokou Bridge is completed and put into use as soon as possible! ”

This time, Terauchi Shouichi did not mention the completion of the Luokou Bridge and the opening of Jinpu Road in July, nor did he threaten to send Shimoda Murori to a military court!

Shimoda Muroliden thought that if there is a pay, there will be a reward, and without his own hard work from yesterday to today, there would be no change in the attitude of His Excellency the Commander towards himself!

On the side of the Yellow River at the head of the Luokou Bridge, he still scolded the Shimoda Muroli of the temple Shouichi in his heart that "one general is incompetent, exhausting the three armies", at this moment, his mind is full of the gratitude of the general of the temple Shouyi, and he is flattered!

After receiving the affirmation of His Excellency the Commander, Major General Shimoda Muroli was confident and courageous, and then proposed to General Terauchi Shouichi that the puppet North China Political Commissar Committee and the puppet Shandong Provincial Office should be ordered to seize the time to equip Dezhou, Pingyuan, Yucheng, and Qihe with cadres to restore the local power of the imperial army, and they should be responsible for dispatching enough people to assist the imperial army in building roads. Including the sand and gravel needed to build the road, the local government must be responsible for the preparation!

This kind of suggestion, Shouichi Terauchi must have approved without hesitation!

General Terauchi sat down, wrote a warrant on the spot, and handed it to Shimoda Muroli, asking him to go to Wang Kemin, the chairman of the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee, and talk to him in detail. Vertex. The fastest update, including the problem of the Longhai Road repair project and the future construction of the Deshi Railway, was discussed with Wang Kemin, so that he could concentrate his energy, financial resources, material resources, and manpower to cooperate.

Shouichi Terauchi is now the Emperor of North China, and his warrant, in Wang Kemin's place, is similar to the holy decree of the past, and Wang Kemin will definitely spare no effort to carry it out!

After thinking about it, Terauchi Shouichi confessed again: "Tell Wang Kemin that not only along Jinpu Road and Longhai Road will be recruited and requisitioned, but also in the entire Pingjin region, eastern Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong, and large-scale road repair will be recruited." It is necessary to implement the task to each county and district, and if the task is not completed, it will all be dead! ”

Shimoda Murori immediately replied extremely loudly, "Hay! ”

After saying what should be said, General Shouichi Terauchi waved his hand to let Shimoda Muroli go, but I didn't expect Shimoda Murori's words to be finished!

Shimoda Murori then reported that the local government alone was too slow to recruit people, and suggested that His Excellency the Commander order the Fifth Division, the Sixteenth Division, the Third Independent Mixed Brigade, and the Third Railway Wing, including the units of the First Army and the Second Army, to pay attention to the capture of more prisoners and young and middle-aged people when carrying out combat missions, and send them to the construction sites of Jinpu Road and Longhai Road to work with coolies!

It's also a good idea!

Terauchi Shouichi agreed, and even instructed Shimono to say that he could take flexible measures to set up recruitment points in various places, and put up signboards to give money and manage food, so as to attract those young people who had no money to spend and no food to eat, and automatically participated in road construction. Vertex. Fastest updates

At this time, the shrewd Shimoda Muroli had a water in his head, and he shook his head again and again, saying that the North China Front Army and the Ministry of Railways did not have the funds to pay the coolies, no, absolutely not!

At this time, he completely annoyed Terauchi Shouichi, stood up from the chair, scolded "Yaga", and walked directly to Shimoda Muroli, and gave him a slap in the face when he crackled, and scolded him for being kicked in the head by a donkey, which was a big stupidity!

Major General Shimoda Murori, who was dizzy, didn't know how to open his brain, and finally figured it out: the people of China are all low-grade people, how can the imperial army pay them? When the road construction is over, these coolies will be loaded into stuffy tank trucks and sent to the Northeast to open mines, repair fortifications, and even send them back to Japan to continue working as coolies! And, the most important thing is that if you send a coolie to the Northeast or the mainland, you can also make money, at least one coolie can earn a dollar!

If those coolies are disobedient and riot when they can't get paid in the end, it's very simple, the machine gun fire of the Imperial Army is very strong, and they will all die!

Major General Shimoda Murori, who had figured it out, suddenly felt that his cheeks were not hot and painful, his eyes lit up, and he bowed respectfully to General Terauchi Shouichi, Hai, and left happily.

After Shimoda Murori left, General Terauchi Shouichi sighed, rang the table bell, and asked the guards to inform the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, the head of the Special Service, Major General Kita Seiichi, and the commander of the Provisional Air Corps, Lieutenant General Kawayotoshi, to see him.

Outside the storm, Terauchi Shouichi asked these people to come to see him, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo in the headquarters said, Kita Seiichi and Kawa Yoshitoshi, who worked outside the headquarters, I don't know what will happen in my heart, maybe I have to quietly greet the women of the three generations of the ancestors of the Terauchi Shou family!

Major General Shozo Kawabe, deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, flew to Nanjing this morning to take up his post as chief of staff of the Central China Dispatch Army.

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe did arrive soon, and as soon as he entered the door, he said worriedly: "Your Excellency, Commander, this heavy rain has come at an inopportune time, restricting the movement of the mechanized Fifth Division!" ”

The Fifth Division, the Sixteenth Division, and the Third Independent Mixed Brigade captured Texas yesterday and are still receiving airborne supplies in Texas today, but they have only sent search units to search around Texas. This rain, I don't know when the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division will be able to press towards the Jilu side!

Terauchi Shouichi said lightly: "It's rainstorm in summer, and it comes and goes quickly, and as soon as the sun comes out tomorrow, the dirt road will be dried in one day, and it won't affect the combat of the troops!" ”

Naosaburo Okabe nodded and said I hope so!

Shouichi Terauchi asked Naosaburo Okabe, Seiichi Kita, and Yoshitoshi Kawa to come and discuss important matters. Because he had received a secret telegram from the base camp, in order to cooperate with the Battle of Wuhan, the Provisional Aviation Regiment of the North China Front Army was to be transferred to the command of the Central China Dispatch Army, and the base camp planned to transfer 500 fighters to form a powerful aviation regiment to seize air supremacy in the Battle of Wuhan, destroy the remnants of the Chinese Air Force, and cover the ground forces in the operation.

As soon as the Provisional Air Corps was transferred, the air strength of the North China Front Army was greatly weakened, whether it was the Eighth Route Army, the Central Army Wei Lihuang Department and the Jin Sui Army in Shanxi, they were bound to seize the gap to counterattack, and Terauchi Shouichi had to take precautions and study countermeasures in advance!

A Xiao Siming and the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army have already made the Japanese army anxious, and if the squadron in the entire North China takes advantage of the situation to counterattack, it will indeed be a problem.

Terauchi Shouichi told Okabe Naosaburo that the base camp's determination to carry out the Battle of Wuhan was correct, and it was also necessary to transfer the Provisional Air Corps, and that the North China Front Army could not delay the Battle of Wuhan, and that it was necessary to order the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division to speed up their actions, quickly encircle the Hebei and Shandong borders, seize Xiao Siming and his Eighth Route Army's eastward advance detachment, and annihilate them. In this way, the North China Front can safely move south to participate in the Battle of Wuhan!

There is no need for Terauchi Shouichi to say this reason, Okabe Naosaburo knows it well, the problem is that because the Eighth Route Army seized Dezhou and blew up the Luokou Bridge, the supply of the Japanese troops was difficult, and the supply was not in place for a while, and the troops could not act!

Not only did the 5th Division and the 16th Division have supply difficulties, but it was even more difficult to form the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade in Kaifeng!

The arrogant Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe suddenly gave birth to a sense of powerlessness! (To be continued.) )