The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 9, Rushing, Section 1, Bow Pull

A cold snap from the mainland has dropped the temperature in Tokyo by a few degrees, and the flow of people on the streets is dressed in thick winter clothes. The dark clouds were blown away by the wind of the Pacific Ocean and condensed over Tokyo, and the War Department building was still in a hurry, and the laughter disappeared from this building at some point, and then it never came again, leaving only soldiers with serious faces coming in and out.

Several bicycles sped by, and two young officers jumped out of them, and before they could even stop their bicycles, they threw them off and rushed into the building, rushing into a room on the first floor. In just a few moments, fierce and indignant voices rang out from the room, and soon several officers rushed out, agitating and spreading to all levels of the building. The news from the cabinet was like a pebble turning the already stiff building into a pot of boiling water.

"Can't give up China"

"This is a betrayal, a betrayal of the soldiers on the front line"

"We will not accept it"

"Kill them, get rid of these old and incompetent politicians"

……

Soon nearly 100 officers gathered in the hall of the building, and they were talking and excited, and the news from the joint meeting held at the headquarters of the cabinet was really shocking.

The black Mitsubishi sedan stopped in front of the building, and Sugiyama Motoshi's body came out of the car, looking tired, and staggering up the steps. No one gave the order, and the officers in the hall came around with a cheer.

"Your Excellency, what is the situation? Did it pass? ”

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, has it passed?"

……

Sugiyama Yuan stopped, raised his hand, and said with a smile, "Rest assured, as long as I am still the Minister of War, Ishihara's plan will not pass." ”

There was a burst of cheers all around, and the officers respectfully saluted Sugiyama Moto, and the head of the Personnel Bureau, Kyoji Tominaga, walked up to Sugiyama Moto: "Your Excellency, Ishihara can't be allowed to serve as chief of staff again, he should be ousted from power."

Sugiyama Mototo hummed lightly, a trace of disgust slipped in his eyes, Kyoji Tominaga is Tojo's cronies, there is a trouser belt nicknamed Tojo, Sugiyama Gen clearly remembers how Tojo forced him to resign as chief of staff, but he has not been the Minister of War for a long time, and he has not had time to purge Tojo's cronies.

"Of course, Ishihara's plan is something I absolutely cannot accept." Sugiyama Motomoto smiled heartily, as if he had won a victory. The corners of Kimura Hyotaro's mouth behind him twitched slightly, just now in the cabinet, Sugiyama Moto, under Ishihara's aggressive analysis, had no words to answer at all, just stubbornly insisted, and in the end he could only threaten to resign.

Another sedan drove into the Ministry of War and stopped in front of the General Staff Headquarters building, and Ishihara and Deputy Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe got out of the car. Ishihara's expression was grim, and Tanabe Moritake was expressionless.

As if someone had given an order, two groups of people poured out of the Army Education Building and the General Staff Headquarters Building at the same time, and these young officers directly surrounded Ishihara.

"Chief Ishihara, we can't withdraw our troops from China, it was the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and we must not give up in vain"

"Chief, giving up China is a betrayal"

"If we do not pay reparations and do not recognize Manchuria, we will never withdraw our troops and resolutely fight it"

A young officer angrily rushed in front of Ishihara: "Are you still worthy of being the chief of staff?" Make such a plan why don't you disembowel"

"Enough" Ishihara Waner shouted violently, his eyes sternly glanced at the officers surrounding him, at this time Sugiyama Yuan came out of the Army Province with a group of officers, Ishihara Waner didn't seem to look at them at all, he sternly reprimanded: "This is the Ministry of the Army, the General Staff Headquarters, the Director of Education is not the main street, you are not ordinary people who don't understand anything, they are soldiers, and soldiers must abide by military discipline"

Strict discipline returned to the officers at this point, and no one spoke to the officers, who stared at Ishihara indignantly, surrounded him, and no one left.

"Strategy can be discussed," Sugiyama Yuan happened to arrive, and he immediately opened his mouth to cheer up these young officers: "Ishihara-kun, the whole army has been fighting hard for six years, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers have stained the battlefield with blood, so how can you explain to the people?" ”

"Against the imperial army, you can also defeat the Chinese army again, and the imperial army is invincible in the world"

Ishihara Wan'er stared at Sugiyama Yuan angrily, he didn't expect that the other party would actually mobilize these middle- and lower-level officers to besiege him, and he would be so despicable.

"Didn't you say caesarean section? There is a Sugiyama-kun here who should be disemboweled, shouldn't you be disemboweled? In the eleventh year of the Showa era, you promised Your Majesty at the Imperial Council that the war would end within three months, and now what? Six years have passed, shouldn't you have a caesarean section? ”

Sugiyama Moto's face turned red, and he destroyed Shina in three months, which made him a laughing stock in the Japanese military circles, and also made him lose the trust of the emperor, and he was able to re-serve as the Minister of War, entirely because the Shigechen group wanted to have an obedient and weak Minister of War.

"Shameless" a Shaozo jumped in front of Ishihara Wan'er: "You coward, you didn't dare to go to war in the eleventh year of Showa, and now you are retreating to the people of China, you are going to sell Japan to Britain and the United States and China"

"I'm protecting Japan, you stupid people who have misled the country" Ishihara Waner did not give in at all, and scolded angrily-for-tat: "It is your rash actions that drag Japan to the brink of extinction, hum, you think that being like this fool is patriotic, that only proves that you are as stupid as him"

The anger made Sugiyama Moto get carried away, and he took advantage of Ishihara's turn to swing his old fist, and Ishihara was caught off guard, staggering forward two steps, and propped his hands on the car. Ishihara turned to look at Sugiyama Moto, his heart was chilling, no one around him reached out to stop him, and no one reached out to help him, on the contrary, their faces showed a gloating smile, in this scene, only General Sugiyama Mototo, who could beat him.

"I'm going to duel with you" Sugiyama Moto's angry dealings: "Where's my knife?" ”

"Your Excellency, calm down, calm down" Hyotaro Kimura felt compelled to intervene to stop him, and while giving Tanabe Moritake, he stopped Sugiyama Moto, who was staring at Ishihara fiercely.

Tanabe Shengwu didn't move, Ishihara Wan'er didn't mean to swing his fists at all, he straightened his military uniform, and sneered at Sugiyamamoto: "This represents your ability, you are only worthy of being a private." ”

This evaluation is really not high, Ishihara Waner's evaluation of Tojo is a first-class soldier, and Sugiyama Moto's mouth is worse than Tojo Hideki.

"What are you doing here, what you should doing, what are you going to do?" The figure of the director of education, Yamada Otsuzo, appeared on the periphery of the crowd, he also participated in the joint meeting just now, and as soon as he returned to the Ministry of the Army, he saw this scene, which made him angry: "Ishihara-kun is the chief of staff appointed by His Majesty, and he is proposing a strategic plan according to the battlefield situation, and whether to adopt it or not is decided by the cabinet, what are you doing here?" Siege Chief, do you want to do it again when the country is in danger?"

On the second floor of the Army Building, by a window, two people were watching what was happening downstairs, and both of them looked gloomy, and when they saw Yamada Otozo coming forward, the two of them left the window.

"In fact, Ishihara's strategy is still good, give up Jiangnan and Shanxi, strengthen North China and Mongolia, and strive for peace talks with China."

"Litaka-kun, is this just what General Okamura wants?" The officer faintly pointed out the purpose of Tatsunosuke.

It has been two days since Tatetakanosuke arrived in Tokyo, and his visit to Tokyo this time was mainly due to the strange command system of the Japanese and Chinese dispatch forces, according to the command system, the North China Dispatch Army belonged to the subordinate of the China Dispatch Army, but the North China Dispatch Army was relatively independent, and it also had to undertake the support work of the Mongolian battlefield.

At the end of the Northern Hubei Campaign, Tokyo decided to reinforce seven divisions to the China Battlefield, and after the war, the base camp decided to rebuild the 6th, 13th, and 17th Divisions that had been eliminated in the Northern Hubei Campaign.

In order to revive the confidence of the Japanese army in Jiangnan, the base camp reduced the material quota of the Kwantung Army and the Southern Army, and deducted some of the materials from the navy, and all these materials were sent to Jiangnan to make up for their empty guns due to the Northern Hubei Campaign.

However, this made Okamura Ningji in North China very dissatisfied, and after carrying out a large-scale encirclement and suppression, North China threw himself into the battle to support northern Hubei without resting, and the bullets in the chambers of the soldiers were also running out. Okamura Ninji was unable to get supplies from Nanjing, so he had to send Tatsunosuke to Tokyo to ask for supplies and troops.

Okamura has already realized that the target of the next stage of the Shina Army's attack is likely not Jiangnan, as everyone believes, but North China.

The Battle of Northern Hubei made Ligao Zhisuke's heart bloom, but on the surface he was as heavy as all Japanese generals. He agreed with Okamura's judgment that the next offensive direction of the Shina Army was likely to be to go north along the Pinghan Line and attack Shijiazhuang, and if possible, to cut off the connection between Shanxi and Hebei.

"It's not," Takanosuke said: "The troops dispatched by China are insufficient, defended everywhere, and weak everywhere, so it is better to concentrate troops and decide life and death in a battle." ”

"Give up Jiangnan? I'm afraid that the government over there will collapse before the order is given. ”

"General Muto," Tatsutakanosuke sighed deeply: "Do you feel this way, the situation of the war has been reversed, and now we are defending, the Shina army is attacking, Shina has abundant manpower, if the equipment keeps up, as long as it can reach a casualty ratio of 2:1, the imperial army will not be able to win." ”

"Why are you so pessimistic?" Muto Akira was a little surprised, staring coldly at Tatsunosuke.

"It's not pessimistic, that's what it is. In the North China battlefield, we are often outnumbered, and it is okay to deal with the GC army peacefully, but we can only rely on the imperial army to deal with the government army in China. Tachitakanosuke's tone was low, as if he didn't see Muto Akira's gaze in the slightest.

The room fell silent, and after a long time, Muto Akira sighed: "You're right, the war has changed. ”

Muto Akira is no longer the main battle faction officer who advocated expanding the conflict, after a few years of war, he has quietly transformed into the main peace faction, in his heart, he agrees with Ishihara's strategy, but he also knows that as long as he shows support, he will not be able to gain a foothold in this building.

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