After inspecting the Luokou battlefield, Ando Toshiyoshi returned to Jinan City without stopping for a moment, and personally drafted a secret telegram to General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, and the base camp, reporting in detail the situation of the Battle of Luokou and the casualties of the 21st Infantry Wing of the 21st Brigade and Regiment. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The 5th Division, the most elite of the Japanese army, actually lost a wing in the Battle of Luokou!

The headquarters of the North China Front and the base camp of the Japanese army were shaken again.

In fact, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando is exaggerating a little, the 21st Wing was not completely annihilated, but only suffered heavy losses!

The 21st Wing was ordered to attack and occupy the Luokou Bridge. From the wing to the three brigades, the baggage team did not accompany them, and they still stayed in the city of Jinan, preparing to wait for the wing to occupy the Luokou Bridge and then rush to Luokou to join the main force.

Moreover, the main force of the 21st Wing was really killed or injured by the machine gun fire of the Eighth Route Army, the fire of infantry artillery, and the explosion of the Luokou Bridge and fell into the Yellow River, at best, a thousand men of an infantry brigade, most of whom were inhaled after being shrouded in the smoke of poison gas bombs. Some of the officers and men who inhaled poison gas suffocated to death on the spot, while others were rescued and could have been saved. It's just that it is unknown whether these people will be able to return to the battlefield after being rescued, and whether they will become unable to take care of themselves.

Anyway, it is impossible for the 21st Wing to be drawn into the battlefield in the short term, and it will no longer be able to do the work they often do - to act as a vanguard!

General Terauchi Toshiichi, commander of the North China Front, and Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff, looked forward to the return of the Fifth Division, feeling that it was all right, not only that there was no problem with Jinan, but also that there was no problem in recapturing Dezhou and opening up the Jinpu Road. With the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division, there was no problem in destroying the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, the Fifth Division would not be called the "Flower of the Army".

Because of their extreme trust in the combat effectiveness of the 5th Division, the first main force of the Japanese army, General Terauchi Shouichi and Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo set their sights on the Battle of Lanfeng in the Eastern Henan Battlefield, where one of their elite divisions was encircled by the Chinese army. That's a whole division, and even if Terauchi Shouichi is a noble earl or a giant of the Japanese army, he can't afford to bear the responsibility of a division being wiped out.

Because of their trust in the Fifth Division and because they were concerned about the safety of the 14th Division, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo were negligent and misjudged, and they even thought that the Eighth Route Army was still on the periphery of Jinan and tried to take advantage of the situation to capture Jinan, just like the commander of the Second Infantry Wing of the mixed brigade of the Japanese North China Garrison Army stationed in Jinan.

There are two bases for this miscalculation, one is that the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army is still patrolling and watching around Jinan, and the other is that the Eighth Route Army did not destroy the Luokou Bridge and retained the passage to withdraw to the Lubei Plain.

Where could Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo have thought that the Eighth Route Army actually used the Luokou Bridge as bait and installed so many high explosives under the bridge, waiting for the Japanese army to explode when they crossed the bridge!

Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo, the two culprits of the all-out invasion of China, may not understand one thing, soldiers, treacherous ways! For the Chinese military and civilians, the mountains and rivers of the whole of China can be used as an anti-Japanese battlefield and can bury little devils. No matter how precious the Luokou Yellow River Bridge is, in order to eliminate the devils, it can be blown up! It is also possible to let the little devils be buried for the bridge to be blown up!

I was looking forward to the victory and invincibility of the Fifth Division after returning to Jinan, but what I didn't expect was the bad news that the 21st Wing of the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division was heavily damaged by the Eighth Route Army and lost its combat effectiveness!

Shouichi in the old devil's temple, who received the report, sat in the spacious office of the North China Front Headquarters and said nothing, as if an old monk had settled down.

Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, Chief of Staff, Major General Shozo Kawabe, Deputy Chief of Staff, who flew back from Jinan, and Major General Seiichi Kita, Minister of Special Affairs, all stood at Terauchi Shouichi's desk with their hands down, and they didn't dare to make a sound, for fear that they would say the wrong thing, causing His Excellency the Commander to explode into a thunderous rage!

After a long time, General Terauchi opened his eyes and said something that made Okabe Naosaburo, Kawabe Shozo, and Kita Seiichi feel inexplicable: "The commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Seiji, will not escape the blame!" ”

Obviously, the Fifth Division suffered a dumb loss, and what happened to the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji!

Without waiting for Okabe Naosaburo and the others to react, General Terauchi Shouichi slowly said: "Send a report to the base camp!" ”

Naosaburo Okabe and Shozo Kawabe no longer wondered what the words of the Terauchi General meant, and immediately began to record.

I heard General Terauchi Shouichi say slowly: "The commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, is old and mediocre, repeatedly disobeys the orders of the front army, and has ineffective command, resulting in the First Army being attacked by the Chinese army many times in the Shanxi battlefield, resulting in the loss of combat effectiveness of the 119th Wing of Ishida Kanazo Daisa, the destruction of 48 fighters at Taiyuan Airport, and the collective crushing of the 20th Cavalry Wing. After the Battle of Xuzhou began, Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki once again violated the order of the Front Army that the 14th Division should capture Guide (Shangqiu) and cut off the retreat route of the main force of the Chinese Fifth Theater, and ordered the 14th Division to attack in the direction of Kaifeng to the west, causing the 14th Division to fall into a heavy encirclement, letting go of the 500,000 troops of the Chinese Fifth Theater retreating from Xuzhou, and frustrating the plan for the Battle of Xuzhou, the base camp. In order to strictly enforce military discipline, the commander of the Front Army decided to dismiss the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki! I beg His Majesty the Emperor for approval to transfer Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki back to the General Staff Headquarters and arrange for him to be transferred to the reserves! ”

The 14th Division of the First Army is fighting fiercely with the Chinese army in the Lanfeng area, and at this critical moment, General Terauchi Shouichi wants to change generals, isn't this a taboo for soldiers?

However, Okabe Naosaburo and Kawabe Shozo and Kita Seiichi didn't think so, they listened to a stirring in their minds, and immediately realized that Jiang was still old and spicy, and the commander was the commander, and the Earl of Terauchi deserved to be an earl, high! High! It's just the height of Gaojiazhuang!

General Terauchi Shouichi wants to make Lieutenant General Seiji Kazuki a scapegoat and take the blame for a series of unfortunate incidents of the North China Front!

Since the discovery of the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield, the First Army has indeed fought a relatively poor battle. The eight-way siege of Jinchaji was over; The nine-way siege of southeast Jin was also overpowered; The siege of the northwest of Jin is also over. In addition to seizing a lot of territory from the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army, the First Army has fought to the present, fighting back and forth, and the result is that the northwest of Shanxi, Jinchaji, and southeast of Shanxi have become the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, so that the Eighth Route Army will become stronger and stronger and more fighting!

The most hateful thing is that the Eighth Route Army also created a series of vicious incidents that made the Japanese Army lose face!

The destruction of Taiyuan Airport resulted in the destruction of all 48 fighters and the killing of all pilots and ground crews.

The 109th Division suffered successive blows in Yuxian and Shouyang, and the commander of the 118th Wing of the 119th Brigade Regiment was killed.

In the Battle of Mafang, the 20th Wing of the Cavalry of the elite 16th Division was completely annihilated, creating a bad example of a wing of the Japanese army being completely annihilated, and also carrying the accompanying infantry brigade with heavy losses, which also requires someone to be responsible and apologize!

Although there are only a few hundred people in the 20th Cavalry Wing, it is a cavalry unit, which is a cavalry unit cultivated by the Japanese Empire with so much energy, financial resources, and material resources.

In addition, the Eighth Route Army attacked and occupied Lianzhen, causing a brigade of the 114th Division to collectively shatter and lose a whole column of weapons and equipment carried by the army.

In addition, the Eighth Route Army's capture of Dezhou led to the collective destruction of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Wing of the North China Garrison Army, the 4th Brigade and the 5th Brigade of the Railway Independence Army, and the loss of so many munitions and materials stored in Dezhou.

The most unacceptable thing is that today, the 21st Infantry Wing of the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division was beaten by the Eighth Route Army and lost its combat effectiveness!

The 21st Wing, that is the vanguard of Seishiro Itagaki who dared to make a detour and launch the Battle of Taiyuan, and it is the most elite wing of the entire Japanese Army, and it was actually disabled by the Eighth Route Army with machine guns, cannons, high explosives, and poison gas bombs produced by the Japanese Empire!

If this matter is spread out, it will make the Japanese Empire lose face in the international community, and someone must be responsible!

At a critical time, General Terauchi Shouichi threw out Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji and put all the blame on his head, which is good, and others no longer have to worry about whether they should apologize for their sins!

I think that Lieutenant General Kazuki Seiji, like a loyal dog, worked day and night for the great cause of His Majesty the Emperor, acting as the vanguard of the invasion of China, but in the end, he was still thrown away like a broken rag by General Terauchi Shouichi, who had always looked at him unpleasantly!

Offending the dignified Japanese army giant and army general Terauchi Shouichi, Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki is bound to have such an ending!

As for the vacancy left by Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji after his dismissal, General Terauchi Toshiichi paused and said slowly: "Since Prime Minister Konoe doesn't like Sugiyama Mototo and Umezu Mijiro, let Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro replace Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji as commander of the First Army!" Please send a decree to Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro to immediately resign, fly to North China, and command the First Army to fight! ”

It turned out that General Terauchi Shouichi had already thought deeply about it, and he was going to transfer Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, who had single-handedly introduced himself into the army center, to his side!

Terauchi Shouichi has the grace of knowing Umezu Mijiro, and they all belong to the quick victory faction and the invasion and expansion faction!

If Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro becomes the commander of the First Army, he will definitely resolutely carry out the orders of General Terauchi Shouichi, and will no longer be like Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, who thinks he is superior and does his own thing!

As for whether Emperor Hirohito and the base camp will approve it, Terauchi Shouichi knows very well and knows that it will definitely be approved. The reason is very simple, do you still want to be responsible for this series of unlucky events?

Terauchi Shouichi even raised himself very magnanimously, and did not kill Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji and forced him to apologize!

Okabe Naosaburo and Kawabe Shozo checked the transcript, and after confirming that it was correct, they asked General Terauchi Shouichi to sign it, and Deputy Chief of Staff Kawabe Shozo took it and sent the report.

At this time, Xi Duocheng's mind is turning over the river and the sea, and the five flavors are mixed!

Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki, a dignified lieutenant general of the Japanese Army and commander of the First Army, said that he would be dismissed, and this is what happened to him when he offended General Terauchi Shouichi!

Kita Seiichi even thought that if Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki was not dismissed, there should be hope that he would be awarded the rank of general, right? This is considered the end, and Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji's military career came to an abrupt end, and he could only be transferred to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant general! (To be continued.) )