Not long after, the fallen soldiers were lifted up one by one, covered with white cloths, and placed in tents. The captain of the garrison introduced the details to Matsui Ishine and Muto Akira.

"General, all these soldiers were shot in the head and killed, and a large part of the bullets hit head-on. And the bodies were hidden, which led to our discovery too late. ”

"Humph!" Muto Zhang snorted coldly and said, "After so many people died, it took so long to find out that your heads were full of?" And you, as a military commander, still want to push it on the enemy, why don't you let those people twist your head off. ”

"Hey! However, I just want to say that these people are very experienced, and they are definitely elites who have been trained to carry out assassination operations. ”

Muto Akira did not continue to speak, but pushed aside the body of the captain of the garrison, lifted the white cloth, and looked at it carefully.

"Did the bullets take out?"

"General, all the bullets have been taken out, and all the bullets are of the same model, which is the 5.6 mm bullet in active service in China. At present, China is the only one in the world that has this caliber bullet. ”

Muto Zhang thought for a moment, and said to Matsui Ishone: "Your Excellency, Commander, could this be that China is playing a psychological war with us, you must know that China's 5.6 caliber bullets are all standard weapons and are rarely exported. Even if there were exports, they were sold to the Germans, and they did not appear in Southeast Asia at all. ”

Hearing Muto Zhang's words, Matsui Shigen nodded, but he did not make up his mind, as before, such a conclusion is too unsafe, and it is very likely to fall into the scheme if he is not careful, but the real murderer is hidden in the shadows, watching China and the Japanese army fight to the death. But he also spoke his mind.

"There are still a lot of doubts about this, and the one you just said is not true. Just because they can't buy it doesn't mean they can't make it. It is not difficult to build a few 5.6 caliber weapons. And if China had done it, perhaps we wouldn't have seen any traces of what China had done now. Because as long as all traces are destroyed, we will definitely not think that China did it, but will target the British and French allies. Therefore, we cannot say anything about this matter without conclusive evidence to prove that China did it.

But now we still have something to do, try our best to catch the murderers, they will definitely not get far. To the east is the sea, and it is a dead end to run anywhere, and I think those people have fled to the western jungle. No matter how much they escape, they are definitely within our encirclement now. Command all the troops within a radius of 50 kilometers to immediately send troops to me to encircle and suppress all the surrounding places, even if they dig three feet into the ground, they must find out for me. ”

"Hey! I'll do it right away. After Muto Akira finished speaking, he immediately walked out of the tent and went to carry out Matsui Ishone's order.

"As for you, I hope you can have a chance to die honorably, you personally lead the team to search for it, if you can't catch anyone, you go directly to the military court to report, the loser is not qualified to apologize." Matsui Ishine said to the captain of the garrison wing that he didn't give him a few slaps, and now the main task is to find the murderer.

Matsui did not stay here any longer, and he had to report the situation here to the Tokyo base camp. This kind of thing must be faced by him, and he is ready to accept any punishment in his heart.

At the Tokyo base camp, Hideki Tojo was woken up by the sound of a hurried phone. In a daze, when he listened to the content of the call, he was instantly sobered up.

There was no time to eat breakfast, and when he came to the battle base camp, Hirohito sat on the main seat with a black face, and the other members of the base camp were as quiet as cicadas, with their heads down, looking at their toes.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I have heard about the matter, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to mourn and change. The military will definitely give the royal family an explanation and execute the murderer to comfort the prince's soul in heaven. Hideki Tojo walked up to Hirohito, bent down and saluted.

"Prime Minister Tojo, who do you say did this, is it really China who did it?" Hirohito even waived the honorific title at the moment, and directly called Prime Minister Tojo, which was the first time Hirohito called him this after Hideki Tojo came to power.

When Hideki Tojo heard Hirohito say this, he knew very well that Hirohito was really angry this time. On the way to the base camp, Hideki Tojo had already learned the details of this matter, sorted out his thoughts, and said:

"Your Majesty, according to the information of the Southeast Asian Dispatch Command, all the evidence on the surface points to China. However, if China had done this, it would have been difficult for us to find so much evidence against China. According to my view, there is a third party who deliberately blames China for dividing our relationship with China and achieving the result that the third party expects. ”

In fact, even if this matter was done by China, Hideki Tojo would not say it, because no matter who did it, the spearhead cannot be pointed at China now, which is not in line with Japan's grand strategic direction, and it is very likely that the current victory will be ruined. Japan is unilaterally unable to confront China at all. Therefore, Hideki Tojo had no choice but to put the murderer on the allies, after all, they had the most motives. What's more, it is impossible to conclude who did this matter.

"You say that the allies assassinated King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, and let us think that China did it, and sit back and watch our relationship with China break down, and take advantage of it." Hirohito is not a fool, and he immediately thought of the meaning of Hideki Tojo's words.

"Yes, this matter is so suspicious, I can't think of anyone other than the Allies who would do such a thing." Hideki Tojo said.

Just as Hideki Tojo and Hirohito were talking, another piece of information came from the base camp attendant's room.

The intelligence was directly in the hands of Hideki Tojo, and when the Japanese prime minister read it, he looked murderous and said: "The latest briefing from the Southeast Asian Dispatch Force Command has found the murderer, and it was the Allied forces and the Vietnamese locals who did it. It seems that our prediction was correct, and this is indeed a fault of the Allies, but fortunately we were not fooled. ”

"Oh, did you elaborate on that?" Hirohito Road.

"Yes, according to the report, the Southeast Asian dispatch army immediately launched a region-wide search and arrest operation after the death of the prince, and it quickly became effective. They sent a small force with two British soldiers and eight Vietchinans. Possess elite weapons, four of which are exactly 5.6mm in caliber, specially built sniper rifles, and also equipped with mufflers. The Southeast Asian Dispatch Force Command has identified them as the murderers and is making every effort to contain them. ”

"So it seems that the real Allies did it. To send a telegram to the army in Southeast Asia, all those murderers must be caught, and no one should be missing, otherwise Matsui Shigen will be called back to retire. Hirohito said.

Just after Hirohito gave this order, a major general of the army in the base camp came out of the ranks, bowed to Hirohito, and saluted: "Your Majesty the Emperor, King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya cannot die in vain, since there are Eshishi people involved, I implore Southeast Asia to send troops to take revenge on the Eshishi people, in order to comfort the Prince's spirit in heaven." ”

Hearing the words of this major general, all the hearts in the base camp were shocked, revenge action!

Hirohito didn't speak, but glanced at Hideki Tojo, who nodded knowingly and said, "I'll talk about this later, but now the main task is to formulate a reasonable plan and report this matter to the people." ”

"Hey!" The Major General nodded, and then returned to his place, but there was an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth.

This matter could not be concealed, and the Japanese side soon informed the whole country of the incident.

The Prince of Japan, on behalf of the Emperor, was assassinated by an Allied detachment when he sent troops to Southeast Asia. When this news appeared in the reports of Japan's major media, it immediately made those right-wing forces in Japan seem to have been beaten with blood. Many people of the Japanese right-wing forces took to the streets, holding up slogans of "revenge" and vowing to make the people of Vietchina pay the price. And this momentum is still spreading at a very fast speed, and more and more Japanese people are joining in, as if there is an invisible hand behind it.

Dusk falls at the mansion of Okamura Ninji.

"Jun Shanjun, I don't understand why you have to stand up and say those words in the morning base camp meeting." Okamura Ninji picked up the teapot, filled the empty teacup in front of Jun Shan Yi, and said puzzled.

"Okamura-kun, there are still some things that have been said, and this matter must be explained to the people. His Majesty the Emperor and the Prime Minister are not fit to say such things, but only to us. Jun Shan Yi tasted the fragrant tea and said slowly.

"No, Jun Shan-kun, this doesn't look like your character. Jun Shanjun I understand is not a person who loves to kill, and Jun Shanjun also knows what kind of consequences will lead to once such an order is given. At that time, the whole of Southeast Asia will be full of mourning. Okamura shook his head.

"Okamura-kun, don't you know? When the War Department introduced the strategy of feeding the war with war, French Indochina was already full of mourning at this moment. And I have also heard that the 'Golden Lily' plan is about to begin, and that will be the real time of disaster in French Indochina. I'm afraid that by then, there won't even be a complete Buddha statue in sight. I'm just adding to it, and if I don't say that, the result will be the same. Jun Shanyi said lightly.

"Alas! Don't talk about this, Jun Shanjun is still as calm as ever, it's a pity, why Jun Shanjun has always been reluctant to join the combat army, but has been a staff officer in the base camp. Okamura shook his head again, he was puzzled by what this good friend was doing. According to his understanding, this friend who was released from China is very calm in handling things, and his military command ability is also very strong, and being a staff officer is really too condescending, and leading the troops to fight is the place where he can play, and he cannot be buried there.

Jun Shanyi smiled mysteriously and said very calmly: "Okamura-kun, everyone has their own destiny, you like to lead troops to fight, I like the position of staff officer, if the day comes when I really need to lead troops to fight, I will not refuse, and I hope that Okamura-kun will give me a good position when the time comes." Now let's be a good staff officer! ”

(To be continued)