As the prime minister of the Imperial Empire, Konoe Fumiro is a typical aristocratic politician of the Zoben, the promoter of the fascist invasion politics, due to the origin of the family and the emperor, Konoe Fumiro has been deeply influenced by the strict family education and training of the Imperial Emperor since he was a child, and his grandmother has taken him to visit the imperial family since he was three years old, and the feudal ethics of respecting the emperor and being loyal to him have left a deep impression in his heart, but this does not prevent Konoe Fumiro from putting forward his own opinions, and Konoe Fumiro, who has formed a cabinet three times in history, can be said to be a great impetus to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China.

Emperor Hirohito's proposal for an armistice was tantamount to the collapse of his Konoe cabinet, and the subsequent international political deception was tantamount to declaring that Konoe was a discredited guy internationally, and how could a guy without credibility represent a country? At this moment, Konoe Fumi's mood was extremely complicated.

However, Emperor Hirohito can not feel the entanglement of Konoe Fumiro, in his opinion, his subordinates should do whatever he and the empire do, Emperor Hirohito has put himself on the altar, but the key is that Konoe Fumiro does not regard him as a god, Konoe Fumiro respects the emperor's doctrine, which is essentially different from the simple spirit of bushido, it can be said that Konoe Fumiro is equivalent to seeing the essence through the surface, and Konoe Fumiro and Emperor Hirohito still have a deep personal relationship, Therefore, it is even more unlikely that Fumiro Konoe will worship this special friend of his as a god.

For Emperor Hirohito's arrangement, Konoe Fumiro was full of complaints and suffering, and in the end Konoe Fumiro could only shake his head helplessly, after all, the Nanjing war situation has undergone such a great change, even Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace has become a headless lonely ghost, this battle is persistently fought, I am afraid that in the end, the Central Branch Dispatch Army will be completely disabled, taking advantage of the strategic initiative of the war situation to negotiate a pretended truce, mobilize troops to hoard ammunition and materials, paralyze the enemy with politics, and then give the enemy a hard blow? However, Konoe Fumiro knew very well that the beginning of the Imperial Army's attack on Xuzhou was the fall of his cabinet, because he deceived the entire international community, the collapse of the cabinet was the only choice, and it was really not easy to give up the power in his hands! Konoe Fumiro smiled helplessly.

Emperor Hirohito instructed Prince Zaihito, who acted as a special envoy, that the premise of Nanjing becoming a demilitarized zone armistice was to return the head of Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, which was a prescient condition for opening armistice negotiations.

After the night crit brigade blew up the last section of the West Water Gate, the remaining nearly 100 Chinese defenders carried out a fearless assault to the death, and the Chinese soldiers who ran out of ammunition and food finally fell on the way to the charge.

Regardless of the dissuasion of his subordinates, Tada Jun changed into the clothes of a non-commissioned officer and carried a bag of dry food on his back, like a man who delivered food, and personally went to inspect this position, and said that the decisive spirit of the imperial army of the empire was first defeated in Chengde, and then suffered a crushing defeat in Nanjing, most of the more than 100 Chinese soldiers had bandages on their bodies, and it can be concluded that they were wounded, and even the wounded were organized into battle, indicating that Zhang Xuewu had reached the point of exhaustion, even so, the city of Nanjing was like a black hole that devoured the lives of imperial officers and soldiers.

Every street and every building in Nanjing, until where it was bombed into ruins and razed to the ground, otherwise there are soldiers in the middle of the city where to resist stubbornly, Nanjing's complex streets and strong buildings in the city make the attacking troops of the army can only attack little by little like ants gnawing bones, just like the Engineer School, Jinling Patriotic Girls' Middle School, and the 13th Street Building are all operated by the Chinese [***] as fortresses, even if the fierce bombing and artillery bombardment cannot completely destroy it, It was only possible to rely on the infantry to attack layer by layer, and it was difficult to hold on to the counterattack of the Chinese defenders at night under the counterattack of the Chinese defenders, and a building or a line of defense often had to change hands more than a dozen times.

Although, with the cooperation of the bombing, the main force of the tank unit of the [***] was annihilated, and the sporadic tank troops of the medium [***] were no longer enough to suffer, but the large number of automatic weapons and anti-tank rifles and grenades equipped by the [***] made the imperial tank troops that invaded the city of Nanjing suffer serious losses, and the entire jade shatter of the second tank wing and the fourth tank wing made Tada Jun annoyed, and the two fools Yoshikawa and Tada, wouldn't they leave a few chariots? Do you have to fight for a fine light? Bear the notoriety of the annihilation of the whole army?

As of 19 o'clock, the 9th Division, the 101st Division, and the 114th Division cooperated with the 38th Reading Mixed Brigade to capture the first-line positions of Zhima Camp and Confucius Temple.

The death of Prince Hatohiko of the Central Branch can be said to have put a lot of pressure on him, the former acting commander of the Central Branch Front Prince Hatohiko of the Central Branch actually died in his own headquarters, and dozens of military staff officers of the entire Central Branch Dispatch Army Headquarters were all killed, and this loss was so great that Tada Jun was in pain as soon as he closed his eyes. In the end, the staff officers assigned to the headquarters of the dispatch army were all elites who graduated from Lu University and had a promising future, and they were trained by the key points, and more than 50 people were lost at once, and it was no wonder that Tada Jun was not heartbroken!

Moreover, for the ghost army in [***], Tada Jun has a feeling that it is difficult to defend against night and night? How do you let the enemy in a well-defended camp? Laying mines everywhere? Dynamite? Sniper raid? Finally snatched his own boat and walked away? Your own headquarters is like a girl in a cheap kiln on the street? Who wants to touch it all?

Tada Jun knew that Tokyo had already made a decision at this moment, so he was not in a hurry, because even if Nanjing was captured at this moment, what could he do? What the empire needs is the absolute strategic initiative, and if the battle of Nanjing lasts for a month, then it is very likely that the empire will lose the strategic initiative that has been tightly held in its hands.

After the end of the day, Tada Jun finally waited for the telegram from Tokyo, the headquarters of the Imperial Council resolution, ordering a formal armistice at 0:00 on June 30, 1937, the abolition of the Central Branch Dispatch Army, General Toshiro Hata as the commander-in-chief of the China Dispatch Army, subordinate to the Central China Front Army and the North China Front, Prince Zaihito as the representative of the armistice plenipotentiary envoy, not to say that he would arrive in Shanghai and negotiate with the Chinese political axe, the telegram attached an overall plan of cooperation, ordering Tada Jun to cooperate with Prince Zaihito to complete the mission.

The telegram slipped to the ground in Tadajun's hand, burning and flying in the residual fire that fell to the side as the evening breeze blew, and several staff officers on the side looked at Tada Jun in surprise.

You must know that after the headquarters was attacked by the Chinese [***], the staff headquarters of the base camp instructed that it would immediately send capable personnel to assist, as far as possible not to destroy the scene, because many sets of code books were seized by the [***], now the three sets of codes and spare codes at the level of the army division and regiment are all invalid, waiting for the local staff headquarters to send the spare password, the only thing that can be used is this set of code that is directly connected with the base camp, and each time the report is excerpted, a special standard paper must be used. In order to show respect for the resolutions of the Imperial Council and respect for the royal family of the Great Empire.

But at this moment, Tada Jun has long been in that mood, the position of the commander of the Chinese dispatch army should have been his, Emperor Hirohito, for the so-called honor of the imperial family, first let Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, a stupid pig, replace Matsui Ishine, the old horseman, after the battle situation was unfavorable and lost the flag of the infantry wing, he had obviously recalled Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, but he once again ordered him to share the honor that should have belonged to him in Nanjing? As a result, I didn't expect this hapless fool to be killed in his own command by the [***] attack team?

In Tada's view, this time the base camp decided to use the 24th, 25th, 36th, 37th, and 40th Divisions of Okamura Ninji's Fifth Army with the 6th Tank Brigade and the 7th Heavy Artillery Brigade as the main force of the Central China Front to attack and advance along the southern section of the Jinpu Road, and the 51st, 55th, and 56th Divisions of the Umezu Mijiro Eighth Army with the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade to respond to the Itagaki Seishiro troops that landed in Qingdao, and flank the main force of Han Fuyu's headquarters in ShandongAfter the Central Branch Dispatch Army was merged into the North China Front, the Third Division, the Sixth Division, the Ninth Division, and the 101st Division were attached to the Second Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, and the strength of 12 divisions went hand in hand, breaking through the Longhai Line on the fifth route, and then directly breaking through the blocking attack of Zhong[***] with the Fifth Army of Okamura Ningci as the main force to attack Xuzhou.

Xuzhou was known as the key to the north and the gateway to the south in ancient China, and has always been a battleground for soldiers! In Tadajun's view, those fools in the base camp have finally opened their minds, and the occupation of Nanjing is just a political show-off, which is essentially different from the strategic significance of the capture of Xuzhou, and the comparison between the two can be described as worlds of difference.

It's not too late to change it now, but for himself, it's the first time that Tada Jun feels helpless and indignant that his future is so bleak, and it seems that fate has played a huge joke on him!

Looking at Nanjing City, where the gunfire seemed to be getting more and more intense, Tada Jun waved his hand very tiredly and said: "The armistice order will be fully implemented at twenty-four o'clock, and before that, let them fire as much ammunition as they like!" ”

In the extremely surprised eyes of the division commanders and brigade commanders, Tada Jun turned around and said, "I want to rest for a while!" Don't bother me! ”

(To be continued)