The commander of the Central China Faction's regular army, Hata Junroku, looked at the blue arrows on the map that were smashing into the periphery of Xuzhou to instigate a counterattack, and muttered: "This Chairman Jiang also thinks too much of me, and even let the Fifth War Zone, which has become tired, take the initiative to come out and send him to death. Well, let's see how powerful our Imperial Warriors are! "Command! The 6th Division began to counterattack from Xiaoxian this afternoon, the 9th Division inserted into the rear of Xuzhou from Zaozhuang, and the 101st, 11th, and 13th Divisions stopped retreating and immediately built fortifications on the spot. The 3rd Division and the 8th Division immediately came to support the Xuzhou front, and I want Chiang Kai-shek to see that even if the Japanese Empire was temporarily defeated, he could not handle it at will. ”

Under the command of Shunroku Hatata, the Japanese army, which was originally somewhat sloppy, gradually stabilized its position and began to instigate a local counterattack, and the Fifth War Zone, which had just finished the Battle of Taierzhuang and had not had time to make up for the rest of the weapons, ammunition and personnel and equipment, was gradually pressed back to Xuzhou by the Japanese army after losing the sharpness of the first few days.

In the courtyard of the Japanese headquarters, one after another electric wires stretched out like spiders from here to all directions. The antenna stand of the radio station stretched out into the sky from the tall trees in the courtyard, the northwest wind slowly shook these crystallized fruits of modern science in the dark night, and one battle command after another was transmitted with the "ticking sound in the invisible and untouchable notes, and a kind of pre-war tension air was enveloped in this dark night sky." , General Yan Junliu, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, took a hot bath and came to the living room.

His confidential secretary Kazuko Ikeda is planting chrysanthemums, and Kazuko Ikeda, who has taken off her military uniform, shows the charm of a woman, and the short men's hair adds a boyish cunning and innocence to her charm. Yan Junliu likes the sound of flowers and young women around him.

Kazuko had the freshness of the freshness of the bath and the bitter fragrance of chrysanthemums wafting from her body, and walked over to put the stack of materials that Yan Junliu needed on the warm table. Yan Junliu flipped through it and pulled out a speech issued by Wang Jingwei last year, "Everyone must be honest and everyone must be responsible."

In this article, Wang Jingwei "and, it will be a loss, so he honestly recognizes the loss, and asks for compensation after the loss." The battle is the ............ that will defeat the battle", seeing this, Yan Junliu smiled and said to Kazuko Ikeda: "Sister Hezi, look at how interesting these people are, they are very clever, but they put all the cleverness in another place, it is really sighing!" Kazuko Ikeda pursed his lips and smiled: "You have read this information more than ten times, is this article really so well written?" Worth pondering so often? ”

Yan Junliu smiled: "The people of China have two most painful words: one is Zheng Guo: "The minister is the life of Han Yan for several years, and then it will be the benefit of Qin and all generations." "Knowing that he couldn't save Han's death, he wanted to prolong his life for several years; This kind of ginseng soup to prolong the last breath is not an example. One is Zhang Yi: "When Wu died, no one died, and it was humiliating?" ", knowing that he couldn't save Wu's death, but only wanted to die to kill himself; However, when he thought that after he died, the undead would be slaves, so how could he turn a blind eye to it? Yan Junliu paused and then said: "Now China has actually been divided into two governments, one is the Chongqing government, and the other is the Chahar government. In the face of the invincible situation of the Chahar government, the Chongqing government headed by Chiang was naturally unwilling to let the prestige and popular support of its own government be taken away by the Chahar government. ”

Just as Yanjun Rokuike was explaining the current situation to Kazuko Ikeda, there was a knock at the door. Kazuko Ikeda stood up and opened the door and came in to report: "Kagesa Zhenzhao Osaku has arrived!" ”

Yan Jun bowed his head at six o'clock, "Let him wait for me in the living room of the living room!" This is Yan Junliu's important meeting this evening. Placed in the living room, it confesses its informality and has a mild atmosphere.

Kagesa Zhenzhao is the head of the Huaxia Strategy Section of the Japanese Advisory Headquarters, which is a scientific research unit similar to the later Huaxia Institute of Strategic Studies.

However, this Kagesa Zhenzhao is not an innocent book idiot, he was originally in charge of the Sendai Division's co-captain Lu Gouqiao as soon as the incident broke out, and he was recalled to the advisory headquarters. Kagesa's unique opinion is that the Japanese-Chinese Incident has spread from North China to Central China, and if it is not stopped immediately on the line south of Nanjing, the Japanese and Chinese nations will always be in endless suffering......", at that time, Yan Junliu turned his nose up at this method, but the facts proved that Kagesa's method was correct, and now the Sino-Japanese War has lost control and the Japanese have become difficult to stop riding tigers.

As the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Central China and the general of the Japanese Army, Yan Junliu knew very well how difficult this war was. The war has reached the present, don't occupy the whole of China, even the Kwantung Army has been driven to Korea, and from the current situation, as long as one of the two countries does not fall, this war will be fought endlessly.

By June 1938, only the Japanese regular infantry remained in the country today, one Guards Division was in Tokyo, and the remaining dozens of divisions were all used in the Chinese battlefield. In the Manchurian campaign alone, the Japanese army suffered nearly hundreds of thousands of casualties. The country's military resources are already insufficient, and weapons, equipment, supply and demand, and energy are already scarce. However, Germany and the United States were stimulated by Chahar's victory like lions in estrus, and US Secretary of State Hull decided to ask Japan to withdraw its troops from the entire territory of China.

The anger of Yan Junliu and the Japanese government is indescribable, and the feeling is like "being slapped by a good friend in the face." ”

But in addition to being angry, Yan Junliu did not refrain from disapproving that if there was no major improvement in Japan's war in China at this time, it would only be able to support eight months to a year at most, and if it crossed this time, Japan's own economy would not be able to hold on, so this is also the reason why Yan Junliu was looking for Shadow Zuo Zhen Zhao Dazuo to come over today.

Kagesa Zhenzhao walked into the living room of Commander Yan Junliu, Yan Junliu was very gentle, and asked Kagesa some trivial things in Tokyo, such as the weather, market supplies, and so on. And then naturally it turns to the topic.

"Kagesa-kun is really young and promising, even Tokyo is awarding outstanding wisdom and bravery, and I still hear those words last time before returning home, but unfortunately no one listened to it at the beginning!" At the beginning, Yan Junliu praised Kagezo Zhenzhao very much.

Ying Zuo Zhenzhao didn't dare to be satisfied and forgetful, and still sat aside in a regular manner and bowed his head and thanked: "Your Excellency Commander's lowly graffiti work in the award has alarmed Your Excellency, and your humble duty is terrified!" ”

At this time, Kazuko Ikeda walked in gently, offered a cup of tea to the two of them, and then bowed and withdrew.

Yan Junliu took a sip and asked, "Kagesa-kun" What does "Kage-kun" think of the current war between Japan and China? ”

After moving for a while, Ying Zuo Zhenzhao Dazuo resolutely said: "At present, our empire is at a disadvantage, if we don't hurry up and try to turn the situation around, the fate of my empire is worrying." ”

After that, Shadow Zuo Zhenzhao looked at Yan Junliu with some trepidation, looking forward to seeing the thunderous anger from the commander. Who knows that Yan Junliu also nodded after sighing: "Ying Zuo is right, the current situation in the empire is really worrying, the Chahar government can send troops to North China at any time to propose an attack, and General Sugiyama Yuan has sent several reports to the base camp to transfer troops from my Central China" But I refused. Any idea why this is? ”

Ying Zuozhen said: "I understand, naturally because our Central China dispatch army is insufficient. Yan Junliu shook his head, "Not only that, but we also want to link up with the Chongqing government as a deterrent." If we do not resist the deterrent effect of the Chungking government, then we will be passive when they lose all their troops to us. ”

Kagesa, Zhenzhao, bowed, "Hello! Teachable! ”

"I'm here today because of something to do." Yan Junliu came here and saw that Ying Zuo Zhenzhao's face was still calm, nodded behind his back and said: "Now we need the anti-Chiang forces of the Congress Party very much, secretly go to Chongqing, and tell Wang Jingwei that our empire has no intention of encroaching on their territory, and it is really a helpless move in the past" and Chiang's army repeatedly innocently provoked disputes, so our department had to fight back, I hope they will forgive me. ”

Ying Zuo Zhenzhao calmed down, "Is Your Excellency the Commander trying to let the Chongqing government fight?" ”

"Yes!" Yan Jun bowed his head at six o'clock. "The people of China are very clever, but they are too clever, so they are not willing to be subordinate, so the history of thousands of years of war in China is almost a history of infighting." As long as Wang can fight with Jiang and the last profit, we will be the ones who will profit, Di understand? ”

"Hello! Please rest assured, Your Excellency, that I have already contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chongqing Government, and they will be coming in two days. Kagesa replied loudly.

"Oh!" Yan Junliu asked with interest, "Who are they?" ”

"Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping."

"It's them!" Yan Junliu shook his head slowly, "I don't dare to be interested in diplomatic negotiations, let's do it myself!" ”

Kagezo Zhenzhao seemed to want to cheer up Yan Junliu and said: "Diplomatic negotiations are very interesting, and if you are not careful, it will become a joke for the ages." Two years ago, the vice minister of foreign affairs of Huaxia made a joke that he said that Manchuria was like Huaxia's wife, "and now Japan has a relationship with her and lures her to run away from home." It's really unpleasant to be a husband, but I don't have the heart to recover my wife who has changed her mind. At the same time, the other man is good at fighting", which is very troublesome. The husband has no manner, and has been patient, "Seeing this shameless relationship, I pretended not to see it." But now Japan has taken advantage of the husband's weakness to hold a public marriage ceremony with Manchuria recently, and has proposed that China must also attend, which China will not tolerate in any case. ”

Yan Junliu couldn't hold back his laughter anymore and laughed.

After a long time, he said, "Okay, I'll meet them in person in two days." "Thank you for your trust, Commander! Knowing that it was time to take his leave, Kagesa stood up, bowed deeply, and said, "Thanks to the Commander's love tonight, I have taken up so much time, and I am very uneasy, so I will take my leave." ”

Yan Junliu still smiled: "Ying Zuo-kun can rest assured, tonight's conversation is only known to the two of us." We can borrow a phrase from Chiang Kai-shek: politics is secret, secret is politics, and what a politician does with his left hand does not need to be known by his right hand. Well done and I appreciate the straightforwardness! ”

Kagesa Zhenzhao bowed deeply again and turned to leave.

As soon as Kagesa had left, Kazuko Ikeda walked in and whispered, "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, the commander of the 15th Division, Yoshio Iwamatsu, has arrived, and is waiting outside for your summons. ”

"Oh." Yan Junliu paced a few laps before saying, "Please let him in." ”

As soon as Iwamatsu Yoshio entered the living room, Yan Junliu handed him a copy of the "Japanese Base Camp's Judgment of the Situation after the Capture of Xuzhou" operational outline.

Iwamatsu Yoshio's eyes first came into contact with a passage sketched with a red pen: "The quality of the war against China belongs to a protracted war, and instead of insisting on using force to pursue the Chiang regime, which has been reduced to a local government, it is better to connect with the necessary force and move towards the construction of a new China." If we base ourselves purely on warfare, further seek out the enemy's weak points and attack them, or hope to partially usurp strategic points, there is some hope, but in view of the fact that the gains in such operations often outweigh the losses. Therefore, it is most advisable to ensure the safety of the occupied area. ”

Iwamatsu Yoshio said suspiciously: "Your Excellency Commander, this operational outline is not the same as last year's outline?" ”

Yan Junliu pulled out a chrysanthemum from the jade bottle, smelled it, threw it aside, looked at Iwamatsu Yoshio, and sneered: "When the war first started last year, someone solved this war in three months, how about now?" Even Manchuria was lost. How much longer are we going to hold out? I don't think anyone has a bottom in their hearts. Commander of the Iwamatsu Division, are you mentally prepared to fight a protracted battle? ”

Yoshio Iwamatsu didn't know how to answer.

"The task now is to consolidate our occupied areas, to have a good relationship with the local old people, and to refrain from using Matsui Shigen's style anymore. To restrain the soldiers, not to refrain from burning and looting at will, let alone to rape women at will to arouse public anger, the 11th Army has a plan I think it's very good, let's see for yourself. ”

After that, Kazuko Ikeda walked over and handed a document to Yoshio Iwamatsu.

This is an account of the need for comfort women.

The 11th Army had more than 2,000 officers, including 56 generals, each of whom needed to be given a comfort woman for a long time, and 56 were needed; 800 officers above the rank of Shaozuo, with one comfort woman for every two people, 400; There were more than 1,200 lieutenants, one comfort woman for every five, and 250 for every one: more than 310,000 soldiers, one comfort woman for every 100 people, and 3,100. A total of 3,800 comfort women were needed.