[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 794: Questioning (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, at the request of Seishiro Itagaki, a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, he immediately instructed Shiozawa Koichi, commander of the 1st Foreign Fleet, to cooperate with Japanese spies to create the January 28 Shanghai Incident in Shanghai. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, under the courageous resistance of the Chinese defenders in Shanghai, they suffered heavy losses and were forced to take a truce for 3 days. Taking advantage of the truce, Nagano sent an additional 3rd Fleet to Shanghai, and replaced Shiozawa with Vice Admiral Nomura Kichizaburo to launch a new attack on the Chinese defenders. As a result of the incident, more than 34,000 Chinese military and civilians were killed or wounded, property losses amounted to 1.6 billion yuan, and 5.6 million people in Zhabei were left homeless.

Out of his understanding of China and China's national defense forces, General Nagano Shusei was very dissatisfied with the progress of the Japanese army stationed in China, so the first thing he said when he got up was: "Ladies and gentlemen, His Majesty the Emperor is very dissatisfied with the performance of the North China Front, and I myself am also very dissatisfied with the performance of the North China Front. Is it that the people of China are too cunning and powerful, or has the Northern China Front lost the bravery of the imperial warriors? ”

General Nagano Xiu's words immediately shocked everyone present, everyone knew that the arrival of this inspection team was definitely not a good thing, and they were here to provoke, but no one thought that His Excellency the general would be so direct.

"Do you think my words are harsh and uncomfortable, and you don't understand your distress at all?"

Seeing that no one answered, Nagano Xiushen continued: "Gentlemen, I am also an officer myself, and I am also a commander who has fought against the Shina army, I know the combat effectiveness of the Shina army, although their courage makes me admire, most of them can be called warriors. But they're still a bunch of farmers with rudimentary and primitive weapons, and I... It is impossible to believe that such a group of peasants would crush the warriors of the most heroic division of the Empire ... Or even annihilation! ”

"This question is not only incomprehensible to me, but also many veterans of the empire and even His Majesty the Emperor can't understand it, so the Northern China Front must give an explanation to those seniors in the country, an explanation of the past!"

All the senior officers of the North China Front present were shocked, Your Excellency the general was really too unkind, this is here to ask the entire North China Front Army for guilt, it is too hateful.

However, thinking about the performance of the front army in the past two years, they themselves feel blushing, the brilliant achievements of the imperial army in the first year are obvious to all, they occupied Beiping, occupied Tianjin, they forcibly occupied Hebei, Shandong, Chahar, Suiyuan and most of Shanxi, and invaded Henan.

But this kind of prestige only lasted less than a year, from the beginning of the 13th year of the Showa, the North China Front encountered an opponent, so far it quickly went downhill, first the headquarters of the army in Mongolia was broken by the Chinese people, lost a general commander and a large number of generals, and lost the entire Suiyuan.

Then the headquarters of the garrison in Mongolia, which was newly built by Houguan Chun, was broken again, this time not only losing a general-commander promoted to the line of fire and a large number of senior officers, but also causing the front army to lose control of the entire steppe and the entire Chahar.

In less than a month, they almost made the entire front passive, losing more than 100,000 people but failing to achieve the set strategic goals, and even the old nest of Beiping was almost taken by others, which is too embarrassing, and this is no longer a shame that can be described by two words. So as angry as they are now, they are more ashamed.

In fact, many officers of the North China Front Army also want to know the answer to this question raised by Nagano Xiushen, because they have been fighting too aggrieved and too sloppy for more than a year, and many people think that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army has improved, but some people think that the quality of the imperial soldiers has declined, which eventually led to the decline of the combat effectiveness of the troops.

However, this issue has been debated within the North China Front for some time, but no one can convince the other side, and they all feel that their views are the most correct, and the other side's views are only one-sided, or simply wrong.

The question raised by General Nagano Shuseki was too acute, and Okamura Ninji had only been the commander of the North China Front for more than a month, and he still lacked sufficient understanding of the situation in North China as a whole and the army under his command, so this question really stumped Okamura Ninji.

If it were someone else, Okamura Ningji was confident that he could get away with his incorruptible tongue, after all, he had been an instructor at the Army University in Beiping three times, and it can be said that he was an authentic national general.

But now it was General Nagano Shushen who asked him, but he knew that His Excellency the Emperor's chief of guard knew no less about the country than him, and the most important thing was that His Excellency the chief of the guard had also commanded the army to fight a large-scale local war with the government army in Shanghai, and if he didn't tell the truth, it would be easy to be debunked on the spot.

Xu saw Okamura Ningji's predicament, and General Kasahara Yukio, chief of staff of the North China Front, stood up and said: "Your Excellency, the chief of staff of the North China Front is Yukio Kasahara, now please allow me to tell you about the self-defense of our North China Front!" ”

"Self-justification? Although there is no reason for the defeat, I still want to hear what your Northern Front thinks about the successive defeats and the reasons for the failures, you can say! Nagano said loudly.

"Hay! Your Excellency, the Chief of the Guard, as an officer of the Imperial Japanese Army, especially a high-ranking officer, is very ashamed of his humble position. A soldier is a soldier who takes obedience to orders as his duty, and a soldier who takes victory as the highest honor, but even under our command, the front army has been repeatedly hit hard by the Chinese army, and from this point of view, it is true that a lowly officer is not a qualified officer, or even a qualified soldier. ”

Speaking of this, Yukio Kasawara paused, and he looked up at the senior officers of the North China Front who were listening with their heads down in the conference room. He knew that all the officers present must have been bitter and ashamed in their hearts, but he knew better that there were some things that had to be explained. If everyone has doubts about the enemy, then the result of continuing to fight will not be much better than now.

"As the chief of staff of all campaigns, I believe that the command of the front army should bear the most important responsibility for the repeated failures of the front army, and it has nothing to do with the troops below." Yukio Kasahara said in surprise again.

"Oh, tell me why, don't think that Tada Jun bastard is dead, you can just throw dirty water on him!" Nagano self-cultivation road.

"I don't dare to be lowly, and I don't want to pour dirty water on His Excellency Tada, there is a basis for his humble position!" Yukio Kasahara said hurriedly.

"Then talk about your so-called basis, if you can't convince me, then you are smearing Tada Jun, and you should understand the end!" Nagano said with an unkind face.

Kasawara Yukio's head suddenly appeared a white sweat, as we all know, Tada Jun and the head of the navy, Mitsumasa Yonechi and Inoue Misei are good friends, and Nagano Shusei has always served in the navy, and even served as the principal of the naval school, and his prestige in the navy is very high, so naturally he has a very good relationship with Inoue Misei and others.

There are even rumors that His Excellency Tada Jun should not have died this time, including Mitsumasa Yonechi, Misunari Inoue and His Excellency Nagano Shusei in front of him were all interceding for His Excellency Tada Jun, but they couldn't stand the insistence of Tojo Riku and others, and were finally ordered to commit suicide.

When he heard what he said just now, it was clear that he was using Tada Jun, a dead man, to shirk responsibility, and it was no wonder that Nagano Xiu was so angry. If I really can't say why, I'm afraid the future will really be difficult.

Thinking of this, Yukio Kasahara couldn't help but feel depressed, who did he recruit to provoke someone, and he provoked a general before he said anything, it's really a dog! (To be continued.) )