Hideki Tojo walked into the office of Zairen of the Idle Courtyard Palace, and immediately retracted his feet and said, "His Royal Highness." ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen glanced at Hideki Tojo coldly and asked, "Tojo-kun, don't you have anything to explain?" ”

"Hello." Hideki Tojo bowed his head abruptly and said, "The matter of the collective jade fragmentation of the First Army Corps stationed in Shanxi is unshirkable, and it should be sanctioned by a military court." ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen snorted and didn't continue to say anything.

In fact, the collective jade fragmentation of the First Army Corps stationed in Shanxi is indeed not to blame on the nose of Hideki Tojo, because when Hideki Tojo was transferred from the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army to the Minister of War, the Battle of Wuhan had already broken out in full swing, and the main force of the North China Front Army had already been transferred to the frontal battlefield.

Thinking of Shanshan Yuan, anger suddenly rose in the chest of Xianyuan Gong Zairen.

The Wuhan Battle Plan, which almost exhausted the national strength and military strength of the empire, was jointly promoted by the two fools Shanshan Yuan and Ishihara Wan'er, and the Battle of Wuhan has been fought until now, and neither the original two major strategic goals have been achieved, nor have they been able to destroy the [***] main force, let alone destroy the determination of the Chinese political axe to resist.

In fact, the army not only failed to achieve the original goal, but diluted the precious troops because of the elongation of the battle line!

The reason why the situation in North China has been repeated, and the reason why the First Army Corps stationed in Shanxi is collectively broken, is because the Battle of Wuhan gathered almost all the imperial troops, which led to the emptiness of the entire North China garrison, and when the First Army was besieged by the [***] team, the empire could not find a capable force to rush to reinforcements!

Seeing that Xianyuan Gong Zairen's face was pale, but he never reprimanded himself, Tojo Hideki roughly guessed his thoughts, and said immediately: "Your Royal Highness, I humbly believe that the reason why the First Army Corps is collectively broken is directly related to the erroneous command of General Shanshanyuan, the commander of the North China Front, and he should be responsible for this. ”

"Hmm." Xianyuan Gong Zairen nodded coldly and said, "You can do this thing." ”

Hideki Tojo thought for a while, and then said: "Your Royal Highness, if Shanshan Yuan is transferred to the reserve, who do you think is more suitable to be the commander of the North China Front?" ”

"That's your business." Xianyuan Gong Zairen waved his hand and said coldly, "Don't come to ask me." ”

"Hello." Hideki Tojo was secretly happy when he heard this, and he suddenly bowed his head at the moment, and then turned around and walked away.

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Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Front.

Like a trapped beast that had been wounded, Shanshan Yuan was pacing back and forth in the office restlessly.

While pacing, Shanshan Yuan was still roaring: "Kazuki Kiyoji, this idiot, bastard, idiot! What does he eat, and how does he command? The more than 40,000 people of the First Army actually let the Zhina army be wiped out in less than ten hours, even if 40,000 pigs were released for the Zhina people to catch, it was impossible to catch them within ten hours! ”

Yukio Kasawara and Akira Muto looked at each other, and His Excellency the General had lost his mind because of anger.

The First Army almost did not have a decent field artillery group, most of the soldiers were supplementary soldiers, and the logistics support was completely cut off by the Chinese, and in this way, they still held out for seven full days under the fierce siege of the 500,000 [***] team, until all the peripheral positions were lost, and finally the collective jade was broken, which is almost the limit!

In my heart, the command of the commander of the First Army Corps, Kiyoji Kazuki, was already impeccable.

"And you two idiots." Sugi Sugimoto, who had lost his mind, quickly transferred his anger to Kasahara Yukio and Muto Akira, and continued to roar, "As the chief of staff and the deputy chief of staff, why didn't you discover the potential dangerous situation in Shanxi? Why didn't you make a timely suggestion to me to increase the number of troops in Shanxi? ”

Yukio Kasawara and Akira Muto smiled bitterly at each other, and could only bow their heads to endure Sugimoto's roar.

After less than two sentences, the anger in Shanshanyuan's heart rushed up again, and when he was about to step forward and slap the two, the door of the office was pushed open from the outside, and when Shanshanyuan looked back in a hurry, he saw that the commander of the Fourth Army, Tada Jun, had already strode in with a saber.

"Tada-kun!?" Shanshan Yuan frowned and said, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Shanshan-kun." Tada Jun responded coldly, "You're old, it's time to go back to China to rest." ”

"What do you mean?" Shanshan Yuan said awe-inspiringly, "Tada Jun, what are you talking nonsense?" ”

Tada Jun waved his hand, and Fujimoto Toshihide, who was accompanying him, had already walked to Sugi Yuan with a telegram, Sugi Sugimoto took the telegram and read it in a hurry, and the whole person immediately sat down on the chair, but this telegram was a letter of appointment issued by the General Staff of the Army in the base camp to Tada Jun.

From now on, Tada Jun has officially succeeded Shanshan Yuan as the commander of the North China Front.

Shanshanyuan, on the other hand, was directly transferred back to Yuben by the Army General Staff of the base camp and transferred to the reserve.

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Taiyuan, Yan Mansion.

Chief Yan was holding a feast to celebrate the victory of Xinkou.

Whether it was the Central Army, the Jinsui Army, or the Eighth Route Army, almost all the officers above the division commander level in the entire Second Theater rushed here, and even General Wei Lihuang set out from Zhongtiao Mountain early, rode hundreds of miles to Taiyuan, and when he arrived in Taiyuan, General Wei Lihuang's inner thigh was worn and bleeding.

General Wei Lihuang can't come if he doesn't come, because Chairman Jiang has given a strict order.

The Zhujie meeting convened by Chief Yan was nominally to celebrate the victory of Xinkou, but in fact it was a meeting to share the spoils.

In this battle, not only the 39th Group Army, but also the Central Army, the Jinsui Army, and the Eighth Route Army also made great efforts.

The Xinkou victory wiped out more than 40,000 people of the First Army Corps stationed in Shanxi, and the entire Shanxi has been fully recovered except for the Datong area north of the Great Wall, which is not a small area, but nearly a hundred county seats! How to divide so many counties is a very serious problem.

In addition, what to do with the more than 20,000 prisoners of war who were captured?

How to distribute the large amount of weapons and equipment seized and ammunition?

These are all problems, and Chairman Chiang cannot come to Shanxi in person because of security concerns, but General Wei Lihuang, as the supreme commander of the Central Army of the Second Theater, must attend this meeting to congratulate the victory, and Chairman Chiang will not give up an inch of the equipment and interests he deserves, especially the territory, and this is a matter of principle.

The entire Yan Mansion was already crowded and lively.

However, on the chairman of the mansion hall, there were only four Liao Liao.

These four people are the landlord Yan Changguan, Yue Weihan, Wei Lihuang and Zhu Lao.

Chief Yan's interest was very high, and he pulled Mr. Zhu to talk about the east and west, and the topic was pulled out tens of thousands of miles away, but the interest of Yue Weihan and General Wei Lihuang was obviously not very high, one looked gloomy, and the other seemed to be unconscious.

Yue Weihan's mood at this time was indeed a little gloomy.

According to Yue Weihan's original intention, it is definitely not the time to celebrate the victory, after the victory of Xinkou, [***] should take advantage of the great victory, wave the army to continue to the north, over the Luliang Mountain and take Datong, if the army can be expelled from the Great Wall, it will undoubtedly greatly improve the security situation in Shanxi!

Although it is said that most of Shanxi in central and southern Jinxi has been recovered, the northern tongs of Jinbei are still under the control of the Yue army after all.

Once the army finishes the offensive on the frontal battlefield and transfers the main force back to the rear, it can launch an offensive against Shanxi from the four directions of Datong, Bauhinia Pass, Tumen Pass and Zhongtiao Mountain.

Therefore, if we want to ensure the safety of the whole Shanxi, we must pull out the nail of Datong.

However, Yue Weihan's suggestion was ultimately rejected by Chief Yan, who patted Yue Weihan on the shoulder and said: "Brother, it's good that this battle can be fought like this, Russian Lao Yan is already very satisfied, it is too difficult to fight Datong, and besides, the casualties of the troops are very large, and the continuous combat is very hard, so it is time to rest and recuperate." ”

Without the support of the Jin Sui Army, it would be too difficult for the 39th Group to recover Datong alone.

Because Datong is too far away from Jingcheng Pass, if the labor division goes on an expedition, logistics support is a big problem, and if the 39th Group Army comes out, it will inevitably completely expose its flank to the Jin Sui Army, but Yue Weihan can't trust Chief Yan, in case Chief Yan does something behind his back, the 39th Group Army will have a hard time returning.

General Wei Lihuang's mood was similar to that of Yue Weihan, and he also advocated going north to recover Datong.

However, Chairman Chiang did even more than Commander Yan, not only strictly ordering General Wei Lihuang not to lead his troops north without authorization, but also secretly instructed Hu Zongnan, commander of the First Army, to set aside General Wei Lihuang.

What made General Wei Lihuang even more depressed was that he actually became the negotiator used by Chairman Jiang to bargain with the Jin Suijun and the Eighth Route Army. General Wei Lihuang has even decided to withdraw from the military circles, and after attending this Zhujie meeting, he plans to return to Yucheng as a public servant due to illness.

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Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Front.

Tada Junzheng, who had just been promoted to general and promoted to commander of the North China Front, summoned officers such as Yukio Kasahara, Toshihide Fujimoto, Akira Muto, and Yunko Minamizo to discuss how to retaliate against the Chinese political axe. Where is the military prestige of this imperial army?

However, Yukio Kasawara and others obviously had no good way, and the main force of the front army was still far away from the battlefield in Central China, and it would take at least two months before they could be transferred back, and a large-scale sweeping operation was undoubtedly unrealistic.

Only Tada Jun, an old devil, said word by word: "Immediately implement the three-light policy in North China!" ”

"Isn't China's political axe clamoring to resist to the end and never be conquered?" Tada Jun said in a cruel voice, "Then burn me, kill me, rob me, and kill until the Chinese completely lose the will to resist!" ”

(To be continued)