The battle in Urawa City extended to the outskirts, and the 72nd Brigade supporting the military headquarters was blocked outside the city by thousands of armed civilians, and if it was an enemy, the Japanese brigade commander could easily break through the blockade of more than 1,000 people. But the other party is a civilian of his own country, and he is also afraid that after killing these civilians, he will be thrown out of the black pot in the future. Most of the soldiers of the 72nd Brigade are from the vicinity of Urawa, and among the civilians blocking them are people they know, even family members, how can they do it?

The civilians who stood in their way threw away their weapons, and hundreds of people knelt in front of the soldiers and committed suicide, shouting slogans such as "end the war" and "surrender to China" before they died, which moved the soldiers. In view of the general trend, the 72nd Brigade even directly abandoned entering the city, announcing that it would refuse the orders of the military headquarters and obey the command of the constitutionalists. More than a dozen resolute officers were killed by the soldiers, and another unit broke away from the control of the military headquarters.

In the city, more and more Japanese soldiers broke away from the military headquarters, and the power of the surrendering faction became stronger and stronger, and by the time the chaos continued into the evening of the same day, the surrendering faction had already controlled more troops than the military headquarters. On top of that, the 21st Division, which supported the surrender faction, arrived in the eastern suburbs of Urawa, and the surrender faction was about to take full control of the city.

"General, let's go, let's go to the north, there are still two divisions in Sendai that they have announced their support for us, there is no point in continuing to stay here, we have failed!" Rihachiro Sakanishi said bitterly to Hasegawa. After the death of Naotoshi Osako and other high-ranking officials, Hasegawa Yoshimichi, who had led troops to fight abroad, returned to Urawa and took on the important task of leading the military headquarters and integrating the senior generals of the army.

"Sakanishi-kun is right, general, time is running out, most of the troops under our control have surrendered to the surrender faction, the situation is very unfavorable for us, although this place has not been discovered yet, but we cannot sit idly by. We can go to Sendai, Aota, or even go directly to Hokkaido, and wait until the United States, Britain and Russia take the initiative to attack China, and we will have a chance to counterattack back! Oshima said that he also had a cavalry brigade in his hand, which could send these more than 30 senior generals of the military headquarters to the safety of the north.

"I'm willing to take people to stay in Urawa to buy time for your departure, and I hope to take out those consortium families and admirals, who at first swore that they were on our side, and when they saw something bad, they immediately threw themselves into the arms of the enemy. Even if they all die, kill those shameless! Katsuka Tsukamoto gritted his teeth and said that many people believed that the failure of the military department was due to the betrayal of the consortium and the admirals, rather than the loss of people's hearts.

Tsukamoto Katsuka's words resonated with many generals, but the hustle and bustle that had just begun was suppressed by Hasegawa Yoshimichi. He walked to the window, outside which were densely guarded soldiers, and outside the yard there were machine-gun bunkers. This is a temple in the western suburbs of Urawa, and the command center of the military headquarters was often moved during this time in order to avoid targeted killings by the Chinese air force. It's just that every time they move to one place, it won't be long before the Chinese army's nasty long-range high-altitude bombers will appear on their heads, and after throwing away the bombs, the dive bombers will come to replenish the round, and after several bombings, eleven generals have been killed, and more soldiers and staff members have been killed and wounded.

The bombing did not stop until they hid in this temple, not because the Chinese army did not dare to disturb the purity of the Buddhist gate, but because the Japanese stopped using radio equipment to give orders. Sensing that Chinese agents were using dense radio signals to find the command center, they turned to cavalry to relay information. Although this ensured the safety of the command headquarters, it made the command system inefficient, and many troops fell into the arms of the surrender faction because they could not receive orders from the military headquarters, and the troops in Urawa City were also eaten by the troops controlled by the surrender faction because of the poor command.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we don't have to deceive ourselves, there is no need to continue fighting, it will only bring more suffering to the Great Japanese Empire. The Americans are not coming back, they are too busy to take care of themselves, and they will not attack rashly until their forces and navy have the strength to challenge the Chinese army, and Europe has also held back most of their energy. Britain was even more difficult to protect itself, the Germans had already defeated France, and there was only a narrow channel to cut off England, and no one knew whether Wilhelm II would order a landing in England. As for the Russians, they had to pray for the Buddha to protect the Chinese army from taking the initiative to attack, and there was absolutely no possibility of provoking the Chinese state. ”

Perhaps because of the temple, Hasegawa Yoshimichi actually calmed down and thought about it, and with the reference of the information provided by Rihachiro Sakanishi, Hasegawa Yoshimichi came to the above conclusion. What they thought was a lifesaver was nothing more than a flash in the pan, which made him completely hopeless.

There was silence in the room, and Katsuka Tsukamoto and the others wanted to refute Hasegawa's analysis, but they didn't speak, because they knew it was the truth.

"So what are we going to do?" Someone asked, of course you can't commit suicide by disembowelment, it's a thing to fool the low-level soldiers and civilians, the so-called bushido spirit and militaristic ideas are political tools. And these upper echelons, adhering to their own interests and their own safety, will never stupidly send a katana into their abdomen, especially after the demise of the royal family.

"Let's go to Hokkaido and leave on an American merchant ship, this is the only way to ensure your safety!" There was no need for Hasegawa to explain, these people had already calculated the escape route in their hearts, and when he finished speaking, the house quickly became empty, only Hasegawa Yoshimichi, Tsukamoto Katsuka, Sakanishi Rihachiro and a few cronies did not leave.

The eyes of several people became firm, they understood what each other meant, and Rihachiro Sakanishi said with a smile: "Let's destroy together with the Great Japanese Empire, long live the Yamato nation!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a bomb fell more than a hundred meters outside the manor, and the dull sound of the explosion meant that the Chinese planes had finally discovered the place. The generals who tried to flee ran to the position of the cavalry brigade, but they did not run faster than the speed at which the bombs fell.

Ten B25 bombers appeared over the manor, dropping a large number of bombs in a short period of time, including a large bomb of 700 pounds, which hit the core of the manor. Ten minutes later, the fifteen dreadnought dive bombers that had come to supplement the bombing aimed at the screaming crowd and dropped the bombs in the crowded place.

The search for the Japanese command center has always been one of the most important tasks of the Investigation Bureau, and their insider, Annosuke Sato, is also here, and when he arrives at the estate with Rihachiro Sakanishi, it is difficult to convey information due to the tight lockdown. It was only to this day that the exact location was reported to the Investigation Bureau because the signal corpsman who conveyed the instructions to the troops in Urawa City was his man.

There were certainly people who survived the aerial bombardment, but the disappearance of the military headquarters was a foregone conclusion, and after learning of the death of the military headquarters command and most of the generals, the Japanese troops at the front began to surrender en masse. The attacking 3rd Panzer Corps advanced more than 100 kilometers in one day, and most of the grenadiers were used to receive the Japanese prisoners who were guarding it, and they took control of Nagoya with only 55 tanks, 17 armored vehicles, and 20 trucks, and the more than 70,000 Japanese soldiers guarding it all surrendered.

The large-scale surrender was also due to the surrender faction, and the fighting in Urawa City gradually stopped, and Inukai and others, who controlled the overall situation, immediately announced the establishment of a provisional government and obtained all the rights of Japan. The proclamation of the Provisional Government was recognized by most of the forces, and only a part of the army in the northern Sendai region refused to obey the orders of the Provisional Government.

Immediately afterwards, the Provisional Government demanded that all Japanese soldiers stop resisting, lay down their arms, and surrender to the Chinese soldiers. The Provisional Government sent Yasuya Uchida to negotiate with China to negotiate an armistice between the two countries.

The rest of the process went very smoothly, with Yasuya Uchida taking a transport plane from the Chinese army to Wuhan, and Inukai Yi anxious to return the power to the central government, divide the ministers, and divide the benefits of gaining power with the consortium and the big landlords. The Chinese army advanced rapidly, and by the time negotiations in Wuhan began, the Third Panzer Army had already reached the periphery of Urawa.

In addition, the 3rd Mechanized Division of the 2nd Panzer Corps, relying on the Japanese railway system, reached the area south of Sendai in an attempt to annihilate the last resistance force on the Japanese archipelago. A large number of Chinese soldiers began to take over the whole of Japan, and Chinese soldiers appeared in remote villages, even if it was only a symbolic appearance, to let the Japanese know that their master was Huaguo.

Before the negotiations were concluded, many things could not be decided, and the control of the provisional government was average, so at this time Japan was under the control of the Chinese army, and everything was decided by the Chinese army. In other words, the Japanese archipelago was in fact in a state of unconditional surrender to China.

According to preliminary statistics, there were about 3.3 million Japanese soldiers in the prisoner-of-war camps of the Chinese army, of which about 2.1 million had just laid down their arms, and about 110,000 were still resolutely resisting.

It is impossible for all of these 5 million Japanese soldiers to be dismissed, they are a rare labor force, and their handling involves the post-war arrangements for the whole of Japan, so they cannot be hastily carried out. However, the detention of so many prisoners of war also consumed the food of the Chinese army, the cost of transportation, and the energy of the Chinese army.

After Uchida Yasuya arrived in Wuhan, he did not even meet Lu Liang in person, and the negotiators sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed him a proclamation demanding Japan's unconditional surrender. In fact, the so-called negotiations were only superficial things, and Uchida's main task was to ask for power from the new master, to discuss the division of interests in post-war Japan, and to see how much benefit the provisional government could achieve. (To be continued.) )