Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 544: The Prince of Japan -

Chapter 544: The Prince of Japan

Wei Peng and the others also reacted extremely quickly, and immediately began to act after receiving Mo Xingguo's summons. Compared with the battle in the port, the battle in the city is both simple and complicated, simple because the defenders in the city are almost all second-line garrison troops, and the combat effectiveness is pitifully low in peacetime, not to mention at this time, there are only four or five patrols patrolling the streets, and each patrol team is only three or four people, which is far worse than the usual dozen or so people. However, the defenders at the city gate are more cautious than the defenders in other places, but there are also many people who have drunk a lot of wine, although the wine these people drink is not all adulterated, but the phrase drinking and mistaking things will never be outdated, those people are fine when they drink, but the attention of the people who drink is not able to concentrate at all, and more than 50 defenders at the east gate were all solved by the special combat team members in the city with knives in less than ten minutes from beginning to end.

After the city gate was opened, more than 1,000 special combat personnel quickly rushed to their respective targets, and the special combat personnel reacted quickly and had a clear goal, and more than 1,000 people acted together without the slightest panic. Garrison headquarters, barracks, concentration camps, arsenals, oil depots, and grain depots all have a special combat team rushing to attack, and there are also special patrols to clear the streets.

At 12:45, with a red signal bomb lifted into the air, announcing that the entire Weifang county has changed hands, although the Japanese army is not heavily guarded, but it can also be regarded as a well-defended Weifang county has been solved by less than a kilogram of "100 days drunk", a common drug on the rivers and lakes. A total of 1,467 defenders, including the more than 600 marines on the pier outside the city, were all annihilated, except for Prince Fushiminomiya whose identities were exposed, and Osawa Shaosa, commander of the Weifang Garrison Command, who were not immediately executed, all the rest were corrected on the spot without any escape.

After dealing with the Japanese puppet army in the city, Wei Peng, with the help of the local underground party, began to transfer the Allied expatriates and the Chinese imprisoned in the Weifang Ledaoyuan concentration camp, while the underground party in the city organized the people to start looting the Japanese puppet warehouses and the company.

Despite the large number of people, the transfer of hostages and the movement of supplies lasted an hour and a half. At 2:35 a.m. on the 13th, as 10 gunboats opened the way in front, in the middle were 25 large transport ships converted from steamers, in which 2,128 Allied expatriates and Chinese were detained, and in the back were more than 40 large cargo ships loaded with a large number of wooden boxes.

At 4 o'clock sharp, the flotilla joined the two cruisers at the mouth of the Wei River, and then the whole fleet headed north, towards the port of Tianjin. The Beiping Military Sub-district had entered a state of first-class combat readiness as early as the day before, and all the coastal defense units in the port of Tianjin were immediately put into battle, and even the heavy artillery that had been placed in the warehouse was all pushed out, and the only dozens of planes of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were all transferred to the Beiping airfield, ready to support Tianjin at any time.

When Okamura Ninji learned of the accident in Weifang, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th, and when Wei Peng and the others retreated, they did not leave like that, but left a small detachment dressed as Japanese soldiers to continue to maintain order in the city. Last night, before the evacuation, the large army did a simple disposal of all the corpses of the Japanese puppet army, and the large warehouses that originally contained food and weapons were all piled up with the corpses of the Japanese puppet army, so the Japanese fleet did not find anything abnormal after several trips in the morning.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the small detachment that remained behind estimated that the large force had safely arrived at the port of Tianjin and quickly withdrew, and it was only then that the Japanese North China Front realized that something was wrong. The matter was reported one by one, and when it was reported to Okamura Ninji's desk, it was already 1:50 pm on the 13th, and it was about to be 14 o'clock. At this time, the fleet of Wei Peng and others had already anchored and disembarked at the port of Tianjin, and the entire army was organizing the landing of Allied expatriates.

Compared with the small county town of Weifang, the disappearance of Prince Fushimi Palace is what worries Okamura Ninji the most, you must know that this Prince Fushimi Palace is very different from ordinary royal family members. The prince's full name was Fushimi Miya, a Japanese field marshal and admiral. In the Pacific War, he served as the chief of the Japanese Military Command Department, became a naval admiral in 1922, entered the Marshal's Office in 1932, and succeeded the treaty faction Taniguchi Naoma as the chief of naval orders the following year.

Prince Fushiminomiya came to China half a year ago, and he came to China to carry out a secret operation for the Japanese imperial family. Due to the extreme secrecy of this operation, no one except Prince Fushimi Palace and several top commanders of the Chinese Dispatch Army Command knew about it, including Okamura Ninji. Even His Royal Highness's Guards were personally selected by him from among his most trusted Marines.

After learning that His Royal Highness's guards were wiped out and no one survived, and the news of His Royal Highness's disappearance, Okamura Ninji's first feeling was that the sky had fallen, and Okamura Ninji, who had always been honored and disgraced, was really anxious this time. Although His Royal Highness the Prince is 67 years old this year, no one in the entire Japanese military circles dares to underestimate His Royal Highness.

This is not just because he is His Royal Highness, but because of His Royal Highness's personal charm and superhuman abilities. Prince Fushiminomiya was an elite who returned from studying in Germany, participated in the Russo-Japanese War and the Sino-Japanese War and served as a naval commander at the time, and became a naval admiral at the age of 47 in 1922. In 1932, he entered the Marshal's Mansion and became the first pair of marshal father and son in the Japanese army (the second pair was Terauchi Masaki Terauchi and Terauchi Shouichi father and son). During his tenure, he tore up the London Naval Treaty, forced the Minister of the Navy, Otkaku Zensheng, to transfer operational command from the Ministry of the Navy to the Military Command Department, dismissed a large number of naval generals from the treaty faction, promoted Japanese and German naval cooperation, and forced the Navy to agree to war against the United States. Not to mention how His Royal Highness the Prince is, let's just say that his protégés and former officials all over the military circles are an awe-inspiring force, and if he learns that this is an accident for His Royal Highness in North China, then he, the commander of the North China Front, will also be able to do it.

On the one hand, Okamura Ninji sent a report to the Chinese military headquarters and the base camp to report the incident, and on the other hand, he hastened to take remedial measures. The most important thing now is to determine the whereabouts of His Royal Highness, as a high-ranking commander, Okamura Ninji knows how sensitive the identity of a high-ranking officer and member of the imperial family like Fushimi Palace is. The best-case scenario is not that His Royal Highness is still alive, but that he and his guards have been killed by the Shina people. Because a dead prince can only carve one more name on the wall of the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, but a prince, marshal, and general who has been captured by the enemy is a slap in the face of the empire, and his personal life and death gains and losses are small, and the honor and disgrace of the empire are the most important.

"Yamaguchi, where is Yamaguchi, let her come to me immediately!" Okamura Ninji's angry roar came from the office, and at this time, Okamura Ninji was the first person to think of was the head of the intelligence agency, Umeko Yamaguchi.

The guards hadn't seen Okamura Ninji angry for a long time, and replied nervously: "Report to Your Excellency the Commander's Pavilion, Your Excellency Yamaguchi Pavilion is now encircling and suppressing the Zhichina Special Combat Team in the Luxi area, do you want to send a report to her to come back?" ”

"Yaga, then let that bastard Yanagi come to see me, quickly, or else you will die!" Okamura continued to growl.

"Hay! Hail! ”

Soon Yanagi Jiro's voice sounded outside the door: "Report, Yanagi Jiro reports to you!" ”

"Come in, come in!" Okamura Ninji yelled anxiously.

Without waiting for Yanagi Jiro to speak, Okamura Ninji sent the telegram from the troops below ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］