Chapter 397: The Emperor's Troubles
Less than an hour after the implementation of the torch plan, the Japanese army had already received an order to completely withdraw from Nanjing, and several soldiers had drilled out of the triangular fortresses in the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army.
One by one, they quickly joined forces with the Nationalist troops in the ruins around them, and then, under the leadership of General Cai Tingkai, they took advantage of the gap when all the Japanese troops around them had withdrawn, and immediately passed through the place where they had not been blown up by incendiary bombs.
One by one, the soldiers wore gas masks and goggles, and quickly evacuated in the east and west directions amid the poisonous smoke billowing from the city of Nanjing. They went all the way to Cihu Town to join the Independent Regiment, and the other went to the Wulongshan Fort to join the Magical First Regiment.
Then the two armies will leave the Nanjing theater and then withdraw to Chongqing. In Chongqing, Li Tie and Liu Xiang had already prepared barracks for the 30,000-strong army. From then on, they will be responsible for defending Huaxing's industrial zone in Chongqing.
Just when Commander Cai had just evacuated Nanjing with the Hainan Guards and part of the Nationalist Army, those incomparably strong triangular steel fortresses suddenly exploded from the inside in the defense area of the Hainan Guards in Nanjing.
First, the fortress was blown into countless small steel blocks, and then countless machine-gun bullets began to fire in all directions. The entire defense area of the Hainan Escort Army was littered with bullets after explosions, and they seemed to be welcoming the departure of the Hainan Escort Army like fireworks.
With 10,000 Hainan guards and 10,000 Nationalist soldiers leaving Nanjing, the Battle of Nanjing ended. Three-quarters of this historic city in China, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, was burned down in a fire in Li Tie.
All the Japanese garrisons in the city of Nanjing were burned in the raging fire for a day and a night, and almost all the places that were attacked were burned to the ground, and the fire was slowly extinguished.
When tens of thousands of Japanese troops outside the city entered the city of Nanjing again, although they often burned, killed and looted, they were still stunned by the tragic scene in front of them.
The corpses of countless Japanese soldiers were burned in all directions, and many of the corpses had only one obvious burn, but the whole person of the burned soldiers was distorted, and it can be seen that these soldiers had experienced great pain before they died.
All kinds of military supplies on the position were burned to the ground, and even the heavy equipment such as artillery, armored vehicles, and automobiles were burned to the point that they could no longer be used.
On the way to the Hainan Guards, they could often see soldiers who had been frightened running around. At the same time, on both sides of the road, in the ditches, and in the ruins, there were burned dead Japanese corpses.
When the soldiers finally cleaned up the corpses, they finally came to the defense area of the Hainan Guards, and they found that the defense area of the Hainan Guards was still intact, except for the steel fortress parts scattered all over the ground, they did not see a single corpse of Chinese soldiers.
At this time, the fool also knew that those cunning Chinese soldiers must have quietly fled while the city of Nanjing was on fire, but what the Japanese army did not understand was how the Chinese army slipped out of everyone's noses.
The sky cleared, and the Japanese troops who had re-entered the city began to count the casualties, and they all shuddered when they remembered the bombing last night. They had never seen such a Molotov cocktail, it was a hell of a fire.
It cannot be extinguished in any case, and even if you lie on the ground and roll, you will not be able to extinguish the fire, but it will cause the whole body to catch fire because of rolling.
When it took a day for the Japanese troops in the city to properly count the casualties, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke and several division commanders in charge of attacking Nanjing almost committed suicide by seppuku.
Because when they counted the number of people, they found that more than 20,000 of the 80,000 Japanese troops in their city were burned to death in an air raid yesterday, and if they hadn't seen the opportunity early, they immediately ordered the whole army to withdraw from Nanjing, and only with the poisonous smoke released by those incendiary bombs, more Japanese casualties would have been caused.
However, the tens of thousands of dead and wounded did not make a few of them think of suicide, and the reason for thinking of suicide was that their temporary headquarters was severely damaged again, and dozens of generals and staff officers died in front of the open space of the church.
And what really made them think of suicide was that the commander-in-chief of their Shanghai Central China Front, and the current highest commander of the Japanese dispatch army in China, General Matsui Ishine, was killed.
While the Japanese army was counting the casualties in Nanjing, the Japanese emperor was in the palace watching the best geisha show in Tokyo, called Sakura.
It is a very good performance team that has just risen in the Japanese folk in recent years, and all the geisha in their team are as beautiful as flowers, especially the popular top geisha Misako, who is even more beautiful in the country.
His Majesty the Emperor has been coveting the geisha Misako who leads the performance for many days, but unfortunately the queen has been too strict and has never given herself a separate chance to get close to the beauty.
It just so happened that the queen went back to her parents' house today and couldn't come back for three or five days, so he took the opportunity to call the best geisha team in Tokyo into the palace to perform a show.
Although the emperor showed his admiration all the time, he was actually still thinking about how to keep the performance team after the show was over, and how to seduce Misako.
It's a good idea to ask them to stay for a meal, but what if Misako refuses? That would make the emperor very faceless. And what if Misako agrees to stay for dinner, and then she will be drugged? Or is it a hard bow as an overlord as an emperor? Alas, that's a real problem.
Thinking that he is the emperor of a country, he does have a fierce woman in his family, and he has to sneak in if he wants to get some wild food, for his future sexual well-being, should he ask the killer of the Black Dragon Society to come forward secretly and click the queen on the way back?
The emperor, who was thinking about killing people and selling goods, lost his mind a little. Suddenly, an Imperial Guard rushed in and handed over a telegram.
The emperor's face was a little unhappy, and how many times had he told them not to disturb himself when he was admiring art.
Don't you know that you are a great emperor with a strong artistic chest and an eye for art?
Although reluctantly, the Emperor nodded slightly to Misako and threw another appreciative look, while Misako was performing a show and observing the handsome Emperor.
He tried all kinds of temptations to attract the attention of the emperor, and as long as he could stay for the night tonight, he would have a way to seduce the emperor, and as long as he could drink even a glass of wine with the emperor, the emperor would bow down under his skirt.
From now on, she is the golden phoenix that flies on the branches, and she no longer has to get up early and practice her dancing skills every day, so as to live a happy life of stretching out her hands with her clothes and opening her mouth with food.
So when Misako saw the emperor signaling to her, she immediately responded positively, and threw her eyes at the emperor one by one.
The Emperor, who had received his suggestion, understood what he meant, and he impatiently looked down at the telegram, as if he wanted to quickly send the guard away, and then have an unforgettable night with him.
But when Misako found that His Majesty the Emperor was looking at the telegram, she was stunned at first, and then she became extremely angry, and he yelled at himself who was performing, "Get out, get out." ”
Looking at the emperor's hideous face, Misako was startled, is this still the emperor's majesty who is usually gentle and elegant, with a smile on his face? His distorted face was as if he had a deep hatred for someone.
"Hmph, get out, the old lady won't come in the future, it turns out that the emperor's appearance of appreciating art performances is all pretended, he is no different from those vulgar people in the market, and he is not as good as the gossip Matsumoto staff officer of the Admiralty.
Although every time he came to him to vent his animal desires, he was very gentle with himself and gave a lot of rewards. Forget it, I'd better go find him. "Misako and the performance team left the palace because of the emperor's anger.
She went straight to Matsumoto's counselor, and she wanted to tell Matsumoto about the emperor's abnormal behavior today, and Matsumoto, who loved to listen to gossip news, would be very happy.
His Majesty the Emperor saw the battle report in his hand, and the Japanese army, which was already in sight of victory, was heavily bombed by the Chinese air force yesterday afternoon.
In this bombing, the Chinese Air Force used a new type of incendiary bomb, which not only did the usual fire extinguishing methods not work, but even the steel could be melted.
Attacked by such a strong incendiary bomb, the Central China Front suffered heavy losses, and in just one day, more than 20,000 imperial soldiers gave their lives for it.
There are thousands of soldiers who have passed out from the pain, and they have to accept the fate of amputation, it turns out that this kind of incendiary bomb contains a huge poison, and every soldier who is burned to the point that he does not die, the wound is all suppurated, and no medicine can be cured.
Apart from amputation, there is no effective way to control the spread of toxins.
His Majesty the Emperor felt distressed at the thought of sacrificing more than 20,000 outstanding soldiers of the empire at one time, knowing that these were veterans who had been trained for many years.
The soldiers of the Sixth Division are known as the strongest divisions in Japan, and even they have lost nearly 10,000 men and horses, which shows how tragic the bombing of Nanjing City was.
The most infuriating thing is that General Matsui Ishine was killed, and it was not a big deal to sacrifice an imperial general who was about to die, after all, they had been assassinated in Shanghai a few years ago.
However, at such an important moment in capturing the capital of the Republic of China, the loss of the supreme commander on our side was a heavy blow to all Japanese troops.
In the battle to capture the city of Nanjing, the Japanese side had already sacrificed nearly 50,000 troops. accounted for one-third of the 150,000 troops attacking Nanjing.
The Chinese defenders of Nanjing had only 80,000 men, and they only lost more than 40,000 in total. In this way, the battle ratio between the two sides is 1 to 1.
This will be great and exciting news for the Chinese people, who have 400 million people. In particular, capturing an empty city even if the attacking side is losing its troops will greatly reduce the importance of capturing the Chinese capital.
For the Japanese, with a population of only 70 million, the Battle of Shanghai suffered 80,000 casualties, and now the Battle of Nanjing has suffered 50,000 casualties, although more Chinese were killed, but the population base of both sides is not at all on the same order of magnitude.
Therefore, although Nanjing won this time, due to the heavy casualties and the death of Commander-in-Chief Matsui Ishine, it was actually a victory and a defeat.
The Chinese army also lost more than 40,000 people and 50,000 people in Nanjing, but with such backward equipment, it was able to produce such great results, and in the end it retreated in its entirety, and it was indeed victorious despite defeat.
The emperor knew that the battle between China and Japan had only just begun, and that he had to find a way to quickly defeat the determination of the Chinese to resist.
Looking at the angry battle report in front of him, the emperor really wanted to pull Matsui Ishine out of hell and ask what kind of battle he, the imperial general, was fighting, and once such a bad battle report spread, they Japanese trouble would come.