General Shouichi Terauchi has been basically complacent lately.

On the morning of March 26, after getting up, Terauchi Shou washed up briefly and had breakfast. He walked into the office with brisk steps, sat down in a chair and began to read the war reports, intelligence, and reports sent by various departments of the front army.

During this period, the construction of the provisional political axe of the puppet Republic of China was basically on track. Wang Kemin, an old pervert and an old smoker, does have a hand, not to mention other places, at least the economy of the Pingjin area has improved a little. Whether it was robbery, fraud, or fraud, Wang Kemin did raise some money, and really bought some equipment and raw materials from Yueben, so that several factories in Tianjin could start. Of course, Terauchi Shouichi also knows that if Tianjin wants to restore its original industrial level, I am afraid that it will not be possible in ten or eight years. Because Liu Yimin's broom cleaned Tianjin too cleanly, the technicians alone could not be made up in a few years.

Qi Kuiyuan's construction of the North China Public Security Army has also yielded results, military academies have been held normally, officer training has been carried out normally, and the number of soldiers has also increased considerably. Some of the troops formed in advance have been pushed onto the battlefield to cooperate with the imperial army to carry out law and order operations and defend major communication routes. Terauchi Shouichi believes that after a period of time, the North China Public Security Army will be largely completed, assume the responsibility for the management of public security in North China, and be optimistic about the backyard of the Great Say.

Although the 10th Division on the Jinpu Line paid a heavy price in casualties, it finally marched all the way and took Xuzhou directly, but encountered a small setback in the small Taierzhuang. However, the problem is not big, Tengxian has been taken, Lincheng has been taken, how can Taierzhuang in the land of projectiles stop the southward advance of the powerful Great Yueben Imperial Army? What's more, there is also the Fifth Division, which has the reputation of "Steel Army" and "Flower of the Army", in southwest Lu to contain China's First Theater and the Third Army of the former Han Fuqu, the 16th Division, the Sixth Brigade of the Reading Force, and the 39th Wing of the Fifth Division to contain the eastern front troops of the [***] team in the direction of Linyi, and the main force of the 10th Division to capture Xuzhou is naturally expected. It is ridiculous that Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, did not know the art of war, could not see through the strategic mysteries of the imperial army, regarded the imperial army's deliberate weakness in the direction of Linyi as a setback, and kept moving troops there, and did not want to think about whether those ragtag armies would run away and throw away all their shoes if the powerful 16th Division made a force. It's a laughing death!

The situation on the battlefield in Shanxi is even more gratifying, Xiangyue Qingsi really has a set of this guy, usually wilting a few, always emphasizing stability, stability and stability, the result turned out to be as fierce as a wolf when encountering a fighter, and successfully drove Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army away from the mountains of western Jin, and now he is attacking the communication line from Xinkou to Datong with a heavy army group, and it seems that meeting with Datong's southbound troops is also a matter of waiting.

The only hateful is the Eighth Route Army of [***].

This gang of dirt and eight roads is simply seamless. Shanxi finally drove them to the Taihang Mountains, and did not want Xiangyue Qingsi's heavy army group to attack Jinxi, so these guys made a comeback, infiltrating, sneak attacking, ambushing, and doing everything they could, making the defense of the 109th Division and the 25th Division complain again and again, although later they added reading power to mix into the 8th and 9th Brigades, which finally stabilized the defensive line, but it was obvious that the Tuba Road was like a plaster, sticking to the imperial army. These guys are much more difficult to deal with than the regular army in China, and they are especially good at fooling and inciting the people, and in the long run, the law and order situation in the areas occupied by the imperial army will be greatly confused. It seems that after Xiangyue Qingsi opens up the northern section of the Tongpu Railway, before returning to the division to capture southern Jinnan, it is necessary to conduct another concentrated sweep of the Tuba Road base area.

There is also Liu Yimin, who is making trouble in southern Hebei, central Hebei, Luxi and the imperial army, he has not carried out any major operations recently, but he always sends small troops to constantly attack and harass, and he runs away after a fight, and the defenders of the Jinpu line, Pinghan line, and Baoda Road defense line are exhausted. All units called one after another, demanding that the army be mobilized to completely extinguish Liu Yimin's troops in central Hebei, southern Hebei, and Luxi.

Thinking of Liu Yimin, Shouichi Terauchi, who was reading the report, felt like he had been pricked by a needle in his heart again. This feeling has been experienced several times, he feels that he can't think about the three words Liu Yimin, as soon as he mentions these three words, there are always countless corpses of the imperial army in front of him, so he can only close his eyes and wait quietly for this tide-like feeling to slowly subside.

After the pain slowly subsided, Shouichi Terauchi stood up from his chair and slowly walked to the window, crossed his hands on his hips, and looked out of the window. I saw that the flowers and plants in the yard have been infiltrated by the spring breeze and spring rain, and the green is fresh and tender, and the red is dazzling. Especially the old willow tree, last year there was a bad mood, let people cut down all her branches, unexpectedly the spring breeze blows, it actually grows vigorously a tree of willow, swaying in the wind, rendering endless spring.

Shouichi in the temple involuntarily recited the famous poem "Yongliu" by He Zhizhang, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty in China who had memorized it since he was a child:

"Jasper is made up of a tree high, and ten thousand green silk threads hang down. I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors. ”

After chanting, Terauchi Shouichi was crazy for a while, as if he had returned to his childhood, and his father, Earl Terauchi Masatsuki, held his hand and strolled in his own mansion to teach himself to recite Tang poems. At that time, I longed for the Chinese civilization!

When did he begin to despise the weakness of the Chinese kingdom and call it the sick man of East Asia? When did he go from a handsome young man to a soldier bent on conquering China? When did he change from a soldier who was eager for military exploits to a fierce general Yuan Rong who was ambitious and eager to slaughter?

The more I thought about it, the farther I thought about it, and how many of Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds came to mind. Even the shy appearance of his wife when he first met him returned to Shouichi Terauchi's mind. Thinking about it deeper, I found that the beautiful and amorous wife who was beautiful and amorous back then gradually transformed from a girl to a young woman into the old woman who leaned on her husband with a bitter face in her wealthy mansion. The old woman transformed into the face of the 16-year-old beautiful girl in Kyoto, the eyes of Miss Masako, who changed from smart to panicked, and the boxes of gold jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings sent by various troops and Wang Kemin and Qi Kuiyuan, and transformed into a vast land full of spring fragrance. Shouichi Terauchi finally figured out that what East Asia co-prosperity, what is goodwill, what is loyal to the emperor, and what is serving the Great Empire, it is all fucking nonsense! The reason why he is willing to expand the war of aggression against China is that he is greedy at the root, and he is to snatch and occupy those beautiful things that do not belong to him.

The more Shouichi Terauchi thought about it, the more stupid he became, he couldn't help himself, humming a small tune in his mouth, wandering around the room.

It wasn't until the chief of staff, Naosaburo Okabe, walked in with the reconnaissance report of the aviation corps that Terauchi Shouichi was startled, shook his head, walked back to his desk, sat down, picked up the telegram and read it.

At this look, Shouichi Terauchi was furious, slapped the table directly, and blurted out a sentence of baga!

The telegram was very simple, and the air force reported that this morning, because the fighters carrying out the bombing mission on the Xuzhou front line did not dispatch on time, the 10 th Division directly sent a telegram to the flight group to ask questions, and it was unable to get in touch with the Dawenkou airfield, so the flight group sent a reconnaissance plane to the Dawenkou airfield to check the situation. The commander was asked to instruct the Second Army to send the defenders of Tai'an to the airfield as soon as possible to ascertain the situation.

Terauchi Shouichi had just finished scolding, and before he had time to take measures, a telegram from Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo of the Second Army arrived, saying that a train had derailed near Beijipo on Jinpu Road, and that the defenders of Beijipo, Dawenkou, and Ciyao Town could not be contacted, and the specific situation was unknown. The 10th Brigade and the 114th Division in Yanzhou were ordered to be mixed into the Tai'an Reading Force, and troops were dispatched to the accident site to ascertain the situation.

Terauchi Shou couldn't figure it out, this Nishio Shouzo is a veteran in the army, why can't he even protect a railway? There have been two incidents in the area near Tai'an on Jinpu Road, why haven't you learned a lesson and had an accident again!

On the one hand, General Terauchi Shouichi asked Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo to send a report to the Second Army, and strictly ordered Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo to quickly ascertain the situation; At the same time, he called Major General Seiichi Kita, head of the secret service, to ask if there had been any abnormal situation in Shandong recently.

As soon as Kita Seichi entered, he first saluted General Terauchi Shouichi, and then stood there dignified, waiting for His Excellency the Commander to give a lecture.

General Shouichi Terauchi is a smart person, and when he saw Kita Chengyi doing this, he knew that this guy was scared by his last slap, and he no longer spoke rashly.

Stood up, left the desk, walked to Major General Kita Seiichi, took his hand and let him sit down, and ordered the orderly to pour tea.

Since Kita Seiichi was slapped last time, although he has not hated General Terauchi Shouichi, he has continued to do his job well, but in his heart he is really afraid of being humiliated again if he does not say the right word, so he made up his mind and asked the commander to speak less. Seeing that General Terauchi Shouichi asked so diligently, Major General Kita Seiichi hurriedly stood up and saluted, and only after the salute did he say that he did not dare to worry about the labor commander, and that he had received a letter from home, and that he and his family were fine.

Seeing that Major General Kita Seiichi was still so reserved, General Terauchi Shouichi was clearly a little afraid in his heart, and he didn't bother to ramble with him anymore, so he directly asked him if there was any information about the abnormal situation in Shandong recently.

Kita Seiichi then reported that, according to intelligence, [***] had repeatedly organized uprisings in Shandong, formed guerrilla units, disrupted communications, and attacked the imperial army. Especially in recent times, it seems that there is information on guerrilla activities in various parts of Shandong, but unfortunately the information is not comprehensive, and it seems that many of the friends who provided intelligence to the imperial army have disappeared recently, and there is something wrong with the source of information. The head of the government stationed in Jinan, Hidemitsu Nakano, is sending more personnel to rebuild the intelligence network.

General Terauchi asked again how the investigation of the Shaanxi Eighth Route Army airfield was going and whether there was any progress.

As soon as this question was raised, Major General Kita Seiichi felt a little powerless, and the report said that the espionage work in Shaanxi was the most difficult to carry out, and all the original intelligence personnel had disappeared, and now it was very difficult to find new intelligence personnel, and he could not get in touch with the core secrets. Tubalu is also extremely cunning and good at camouflage, and the airfields discovered by the air force on several occasions have been proved to be fake after bombing. According to him, the Eighth Route Army in Shaanxi not only has an airfield, but also a military factory, which is roughly located in the Qinling Mountains, but he is not very clear about the exact location. According to the analysis of the spy personnel, this guy must know that he is just a strange commodity to live in, and he just wants to ask for more golden tickets.

Terauchi Shouichi became interested in this, and immediately praised Kita Seiichi for his incomparable loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor, and then asked Kita Seiichi to intensify his work, and gave a large golden ticket, and it was best to send spies to sneak back to the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province with the idea of the bandit leader, find the airfield and arsenal of Tuba Road, indicate the target for the air force, and completely destroy the airfield and arsenal of Tuba Road. Then, as soon as Shouichi Terauchi changed his words, he began to ask how far the intelligence work against Liu Yimin's troops had been carried out.

Major General Seiichi Kita is most annoyed by others asking this question, because several of his excellent agents have gone and never returned, no one alive, no corpse, and disappeared without a trace. However, this temple Shouyi General Bu is someone else, his own commander, and he has to answer his questions.

After thinking for a while, Major General Kita Seiichi carefully said: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, there has been no progress in the intelligence work of Liu Yimin's department, and the spy personnel we sent will not be able to enter the defense area of Liu Yimin's troops, except for the Shangang Kazuo and Shangang Keiko brothers and sisters in Tianjin, who are fortunate to fight Liu Yimin. He seems to have a special agency for spies, and all the good agents we sent are gone. Due to the great losses, in fact this work is now at a standstill. ”

When General Terauchi heard this, he was about to have a seizure, so he stood up with a snort, and stretched out his hand to incitement Kita Seiichi's face.

Major General Kita Seiichi knew that he was going to be unlucky again, and closed his eyes in despair, waiting for a loud slap to sound.

Just when the slap was about to fan Kita Seiichi's face, General Terauchi Shouichi saw Kita Seiichi's desperate face, and his heart was suddenly shocked, and he forcibly withdrew his hand, and his face flushed.

After taking a breath and calming his mind, General Shouichi Terauchi sat down again and asked playfully, "Kita-kun, why are you closing your eyes?" ”

Kita Seiichi never dreamed that he would be able to escape this catastrophe, and after listening to the question of General Terauchi Shouichi, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Shoichi Terauchi with frightened eyes. Seeing that His Excellency the Commander was looking at himself playfully, Kita Seiichi thought that he had just run away and had a dream, so he shook his head and calmed down before replying, "I'm sorry for letting His Excellency the Commander smile." ”

General Terauchi Shouichi still smiled and said: "Nishita-kun, don't panic, this commander has always cared about his subordinates and will not easily punish his subordinates." However, it is still necessary to pay close attention to the espionage work of Liu Yimin's department. They are also human beings, and there will be flaws. For example, when they recruit troops, can they send people to blend in, and for example, if they take away so many technicians from Tianjin, there must be people who have returned from studying in the Great Yueben Empire, and can they find someone to mobilize them to serve the imperial army. Also, they took away many female students and female artists from Tianjin, and there must be particularly beautiful among these people, even if Liu Yimin does not entangle with them, the officers under Liu Yimin will definitely target them. The parents of these women must still live in Tianjin, you have to look carefully, what to do after you find it, you don't need me to tell you, right? ”

At this point, Major General Xi Duocheng felt a little ashamed, his work was too meticulous, why didn't he think of going to Tianjin to investigate carefully, and see what kind of girls followed Liu Yimin's troops? There must be girls from wealthy families or bureaucratic families in Tianjin, these girls are all well-educated, and some are still beautiful women. You must know that when these girls followed Liu Yimin's troops, they were all innocent students, and it was not easy to arouse suspicion, and Liu Yimin's officers not only did not reject them, but they probably pursued them actively. As long as you find the right person, wouldn't you soon be able to place an eyeliner in Liu Yimin's troops?

Thinking of this, Major General Kita Seiichi stood up and respectfully saluted General Shouichi Terauchi, thanking His Excellency the Commander for his enlightenment and making him pause. He wants to go to Tianjin in person, that is, to dig three feet into the ground, but also to find a famous lady in Liu Yimin's army, and the idea of developing into a spy officer will install an eye for the imperial army to monitor Liu Yimin's troops.

Seeing that Major General Kita Seiichi understood his instructions, General Terauchi Shouichi had a smile on his face, stood up and patted him on the shoulder and said yo Xi, and said hypocritically, "Nishita-kun has worked hard, please!" ”

After Major General Kita Seiichi left, General Shouichi Terauchi called Miss Masako and asked her to rub her shoulders for herself.

During this time, Masako had recovered from the initial shock, accepted her fate, and became supple. After coming in, he lowered his eyebrows and rubbed the shoulders of General Shouichi Terauchi and massaged him.

General Shouichi Terauchi was very comfortable physically and mentally, so he asked Masako if she had received a letter from home.

Actually, Shouichi Terauchi is pretending to be confused, and he knows very well whether Masako has a family letter or not. Yesterday, Masako received a letter from her father and wrote a reply. It's a pity that this letter that has been handed over to the postman is now sleeping in the drawer of Shouichi in the temple!

Masako replied in a whisper that she had received a letter from her father and had already written a reply.

Shouichi Terauchi asked how the reply was written, and what did it say?

Masako was originally Bingxue smart, and when she heard Terauchi Shouichi ask if she had received the letter, she knew that everything about herself was under the control of this old pervert. After thinking about it, she said that she told her father that she worked in the North China Front Headquarters, and her main task was to serve General Terauchi Shouichi. I asked my father to write a letter to General Shouichi Terauchi, and Masako had learned the true meaning of the Great East Asian Holy War, and her heart was tired and wanted to go back to her mother to visit her.

Saying this, Terauchi Shouichi's anger rose, and he endured it and said: "Masako, you should tell your father like this, you have a good life in the North China Front, and your main job is to take care of the wounded in the field hospital. During this time, you listened to the heroic stories of many soldiers of the Imperial Army, and you were very moved and determined to make meritorious contributions during your service. When he made a great contribution, he was demobilized and returned to his parents to reunite with him. ”

After listening to the words of General Shouichi Terauchi, Masako, who was originally submissive, became more and more submissive, and her little hands kept beating Shouichi Terauchi's shoulder, but she didn't speak anymore.

Terauchi Shouichi enjoyed it, then he stood up and pulled Masako into his arms, and said viciously: "Little girl, reply to your father according to what I said, otherwise, he will never receive your letter." I haven't enjoyed it enough yet, so I'll let you go back when I've had enough. ”

After saying that, he ordered the guards to come in and take Masako away.

At one o'clock at noon, as soon as General Terauchi Shouichi finished eating, he received a telegram from Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo of the Second Army, saying that the railway between Beijipo on Jinpu Road and Ciyao Town had been completely destroyed, the tracks and sleepers had been stripped away by the Zhina people, and the Wenhe Railway Bridge had also been damaged. The railway garrison stationed in Dawenkou, Ciyao Town, and Beijipo, the soldiers of a brigade of the 10th Brigade and the Dawenkou Military Police were all shattered, and the airport garrison was all shattered, and the planes were missing. Apart from dismantling the tower navigation equipment and stealing fuel and ammunition, the Chinese did not damage other facilities at the airport. After careful searching, it was determined that it was the Third Army and the Special Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army that attacked Jinpu Road this time that were the former Han Fuqu.

At the end of the telegram, Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo asked the Front Army to quickly transport steel rails and sleepers, so that the engineers of the Second Army could quickly repair the damaged section of the Jinpu Road and restore traffic. Otherwise, supplies could not be transported, and the operation on the southern front of Jinpu Road would not be possible.

After reading the telegram, Terauchi Shouichi climbed in front of the map and carefully looked at the locations of Beijipo, Dawenkou, and Ciyao Town, and asked Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe to find the report of Major General Morita Masaho of the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade on the Battle of Jinpu Road, and read it carefully several times before he said to Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe: "Why is it Dawenkou again?" When did Han Fuqu's troops, who collapsed without a fight, have such courage? And this Einsatzgruppen Corps, what kind of team is it, and why can this team successfully attack the elite Imperial Army without the Imperial Army even having a chance to call for help? Chief of Staff, what do you think about this? ”

Okabe Naosaburo also felt strange, so he said: "It is understandable that the Third Army attacked Jinpu Road, since Han Fuqu was shot by Chiang Kai-shek, this army has often troubled the imperial army, they once attacked Jining, but were repulsed. Now their main force is entangled with the Fifth Division, with the aim of preventing the Fifth Division from moving south. Li Zongren asked them to attack the Jinpu Railway and contain the imperial army from fighting southward, which is entirely possible. But it is strange that all the planes at the airport were taken away, could it be that Li Zongren's Guijun pilots did it? Or did Chiang Kai-shek's pilots do it? If this is the case, it means that in the operation in the direction of Xuzhou, the [***] team has a complete set of combat plans, and the 10th Division must be reminded to pay attention, don't fall for the people of Zhina! ”

General Shouichi Terauchi was silent, looking at the report and falling into deep thought.

(To be continued)