Yoshiichi Tanaka glanced at Yusaku Uehara coldly, and did not speak, but handed over the copy of the telegram in his hand. Yusaku Uehara took the telegram, squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, and was silent for a long time before he said: "General Kawai Cao has already gone to Shuangchengzi to supervise the battle, maybe things are not so bad, let's wait for Kawai-kun's further report." ”

Tanaka Yoshiichi sneered: "If the situation wasn't so bad, Kawai-kun wouldn't have sent such a telegram!" I still know him as a person. "Kawai Cao is a classmate of Yoshiichi Tanaka, and the personal relationship between the two has always been good, and this time he can be the commander of this unlucky Far East Army, which is also what Yoshiichi Tanaka means. 【】The novel chapters are updated the fastest

Uehara stood up suddenly. "This time, it was Hehe Cao who made things worse, and he didn't expect the Chinese army to raid Shuangchengzi! Such an idiot is no longer worthy to be the commander of the Far Eastern Army! ”

Yoshiichi Tanaka snorted. "Uehara-kun thinks that Kawai Cao can't be the commander, does he? Then why don't you let Uehara-kun go out in person? You are the predecessor of Lu Shi, and you have served as the Minister of War and the Chief of Staff Headquarters, you will definitely be able to turn the tide! ”

"Tanaka!" Uehara glared at Tanaka fiercely, but didn't know how to refute him. You can't say: "The battle in the Far East has already been fought like this, and this commander, can still be a flower!" "If you do that, won't you admit that the war is hopeless? Of course, it is absolutely impossible to take over this hot commander, who knows if this Yanpu fortress will fall soon? At that time, as the commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Army, he will not be able to die with the city? ""Novel chapters are updated the fastest

The Prime Minister and the War Minister looked at each other fiercely. The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely low. Kita Yihui saw that the scene was a bit bad, so he hurriedly glanced at the Minister of the Navy. Katen-Yuzaburo nodded, opened his mouth and said, "Tanaka-kun." Uehara-kun, let's listen to the construction of the navy first. ”

Tanaka nodded and said, "Garten-kun, please speak." Yusaku Uehara sat down silently.

"The Navy means that Britain and the United States might as well come forward to mediate. If there is a ceasefire in China...... The Imperial Army could retreat from Manchuria first, and at the same time strengthen the defenses of Shuangchengzi, so that such an invincible situation could always be maintained. ”

"China will not cease fire." Yusaku Uehara gritted his teeth. "They are not stupid, if they want a ceasefire, they will definitely stop after the twin cities are laid, and then the empire may not have a decent armistice condition!"

Katen Yuzaburo was silent for a moment. Asked: "If the twin cities can't be defended, how can the army prepare to clean up the mess in the Far East?" ”

Yusaku Uehara and Tian Zhonghua glanced at each other again, Shuangchengzi must not be lost! If you don't lose it, there are steps to go down. If you lose it, you have to pay compensation for the land! But who would dare to sign the peace agreement for the land cession compensation? Whoever signs it and doesn't become a national thief is waiting to be punished by God! Tian Zhonghua thought about it for a long time, and then pondered: "The opinion of the military department is that Shuangchengzi must be defended, at any cost!" In order to alleviate the pressure on the front line of the twin cities. The First Army could be ordered to speed up the pace of its advance. Occupy Jiamusi; The Second Army intensified its assault on the Tiger Head Fortress...... In addition, the North Korean army should also attack north of the Yalu River to threaten the rear of the Manchurian Army in China! Meantime...... The raid on Shanghai should also have started early! ”

Yoshiichi Tanaka snorted. "Are you going to fight with Shina?" He looked at Yuzaburo Garten. "What does the Navy mean? Do you want to fight it? ”

Katenyuzaburo frowned, and said in his heart: "What else can you do if you don't fight?" Now ask for peace, at least you have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars! Don't the people regard everyone in this room as a national thief? The cabinet can't do this unless the palace guy nods. He smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, what do you mean...... It is best to consult the palace for the matter of summing. ”

Tanaka shook his head and said, "The palace will definitely not agree!" He took a deep breath, as if he had made a big determination. Beijun, you go and contact the British and American ambassadors. They were asked to come forward and make contact with the Chinese side to express the Empire's desire for peace. ”

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" "I can't make peace!" The two army generals immediately jumped to their feet. This war is basically Japan's last fight for hegemony on the East Asian continent! If you lose like that. In the future, the army will really become a vassal of the navy. So they just know that they can't do it, and they don't just want to give up.

"The two army generals are not impatient." Tanaka slowly turned his gaze to Yusaku Uehara and Nakashige Ada, and said lightly: "I still have to fight for my life!" The Great Japanese Empire could not just give up! Don't say that you are unwilling, even I, who is the prime minister, am also unwilling! ”

He paused, and then said, "Now we have to make three preparations!" The first is to seek an honorable end to the war, without reparations or land cession, and for both sides to withdraw from each other's territory and restore the pre-war status. The second is to prepare for a decisive battle with China! Both the Far Eastern Army and the Korean Army were to fight with all their might, and at the same time the Third Army was formed for the Shanghai operation, with Lieutenant General Suzuki Shoroku as its commander. The third is to prepare a rear route for the Far Eastern Army...... What is the Army's opinion on this? ”

Yusaku Uehara frowned and thought for a while, and said: "If Shuangchengzi falls, the Far Eastern Railway will be completely interrupted, and the supply of the Far Eastern Army will have to go by water, and supplies will be transported by ship from the Amur River. He looked at the Lord of the Navy. "The Navy will find a way to solve it, but there can be no more problems along the Amur River," said Katen. ”

"The Far Eastern Army will learn its lesson." Yusaku Uehara bowed slightly to show his gratitude. Then he turned his head to look at Yoshiichi Tanaka.

"So be it!" Tanaka glanced coldly at several generals of the army and navy, stood up and announced the end of the meeting, and then hurriedly left the conference room and entered his office. At the door of his office, the head of the Japanese Army Intelligence, Major General Okamura Ninji, had been waiting for him for a long time.

Seeing Yoshiichi Tanaka coming over with a blue face, Okamura hurriedly stood up and saluted, and then bent down and bowed again. "Your Excellency Prime Minister, the matter you want to handle has already been seen."

Yoshiichi Tanaka looked around, and seeing no one else present, pushed open the office door, beckoned Okamura in, and invited him to sit down on a sofa, almost slumped himself in the high-backed armchair behind his desk.

"Got in touch with her?" Tanaka asked.

"Not yet, but I've found a way to contact her."

"Nope. But we found Tomiko Miyagawa's younger sister. ”

Tanaka was stunned. "Her sister?"

Okamura Ninji smiled and said, "Yes, the name is Miyagawa Yunko, and it was found in the Army Nakano School. I'm only 16 years old this year and I'm very beautiful. ”

……

On the night of July 7, 1923, the army of the brigade was rolling eastward. The sound of people shouting and neighing. In the hilly areas on both sides of the northwest side of Shuangchengzi, several Chinese armies had broken through the thin defenses of the Japanese army, and combined with heavy artillery to complete the siege of the Shuangchengzi fortress before the Japanese reinforcements arrived. After the daytime fighting on July 7. The command of the Fifth Army of the Wehrmacht has already discovered that there are many fewer Japanese troops in front of them than expected! According to the analysis of the captured 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army, there was a huge loophole in the deployment of the Japanese Far East Army. Their defenses on the front line of Shuangchengzi were quite weak, with only one division! And one of the brigades has already been completely annihilated.

The main forces of the entire Fifth Army were ordered to march forward in a hurry, and they marched in three separate routes from Jixi, Suifenhe, and Dongning in China to the Japanese Far East at the same time. The Second and Fourth Armies of the Northern Front moved from Jixi to the south, after breaking through the hilly terrain north of Shuangchengzi. The soldiers were divided into two ways. The Second Army moved east along the southern shore of the Hingkai Lake. Trying to cut off the Far Eastern Railway before the Japanese reinforcements went south, and cut off the logistics line of the main force of the Japanese Far Eastern Army. The Fourth Army continued southward, joining forces with the other two armies of the Fifth Army advancing eastward under the fortress of Shuangchengzi.

After annihilating the main force of the Japanese 33rd Brigade and Regiment on the central front, the Third Army and the Fifth Army marched southeast along the Eastern Railway, which had been destroyed by Yan Zhan, and went straight to the city of Shuangchengzi Fortress. After converging with the Fourth Army moving south, the siege of Shuangchengzi Fortress was completed, and the Shuangchengzi Fortress was launched after waiting for the heavy artillery group movement of Suifenhe to be in place.

The Sixth Army on the Southern Front attacked from Dongning and, after breaking through the weak defenses set up by the Japanese on the border, penetrated directly between Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok. The army would then attack the entrance to the Amursky Peninsula with a forceful force, pressing the Japanese garrison there. Make a gesture that you are going to capture the fortress of Vladivostok. Trying to force the Japanese to ship Korean forces to Vladivostok in order to create more favorable conditions for the next attack on Korea.

Under the stars in the Far Eastern summer months. The main force of the Fifth Army, which won the first battle. Mighty forward and forward. Behind the five armies plus the twenty-five or sixty-thousand-strong army of the eight ** artillery regiments, there is also a busy Eastern Railway and hundreds of thousands of people! Chang Ruiqing's revisionist rural line finally showed its strong mobilization and organizational ability at this time. Dongning, Suifenhe, Jixi, Mudanjiang and other counties, which can be regarded as desolate in the northeast, have mobilized more than 500,000 former migrant workers in a short period of time. It was these men, wagons, and mules that transported a large amount of supplies from the China Eastern Railway to the front line, and now this transportation line, with Chinese peasants as the main force, has extended to the territory of the Japanese Far East.

The commander of the Fifth Army, General Wu Shi, sat in an armored car converted from a Ford truck and worked with the staff officers of the army headquarters to discredit the advance. The face of this general commander, who had never fought any major battles, was full of excited smiles that could not be concealed. The Japanese defense line, which was thought to be broken through after a hard battle, was easily taken down like this! The marching column of his headquarters was surrounded by brigades of infantry marching with their heads shut, and carriages dragging light artillery. Along the way, you can also see sappers who are working shirtless overnight to repair the railway. In addition to the sound of marching troops in the night, officers can be heard from time to time cheering up their troop mobilization.

"Let's go to recover Vladivostok and copy the back path of the little devil! Let's work hard, we must rush to Shuangchengzi tomorrow morning! ”

"The little devil was caught off guard by us, and now he is defeated! As long as we win Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok, we will be able to win this battle and open up territory! ”

"Brothers, work harder, Chairman Chang and tens of thousands of compatriots in China are waiting for our good news! The chairman said that if this battle is won, China will become a world power, and no one will dare to bully us anymore! ”

The queue rang out with echoes of various accents. "That's right! China is a world power! "It's a strong country!"

At present, most of the grassroots infantry of the Wehrmacht have received two or three years of compulsory education in rural primary schools, although they do not recognize many characters. But he was brainwashed on a certain course! He is particularly keen on turning China into a world power. After entering the army, in addition to receiving strict military training, it is endless brainwashing ideological education! Our chairman of the Standing Committee is one of the founding leaders of China's GCD in this time and space! Of course, he is better at brainwashing and god-making. At present, there are also political and combat officers in the Chinese National Defense Forces who are specifically responsible for brainwashing. There is also a special brainwashing department under the director of education of the National Defense Force, uh, the political department. In short, the current Chinese National Defense Force has both sophisticated weapons and equipment, as well as powerful spiritual armament, and is absolutely invincible in Asia!

In the darkness of the night, a cavalry messenger came galloping on horseback and exchanged orders with the guards of the headquarters column. ran towards Wu Shi's car. The car stopped, and the cavalry communicator reined in his horse, saluted and shouted into the rolled down window: "Report to the military headquarters of the Sixth Army." The vanguard of the Sixth Army had arrived near the Far Eastern Railway line between Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi at about 2:30 a.m. this morning, and was now engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese defenders! ”

A flash of excitement flashed across Wu Shi's face. He knows what it means to cut off the Far Eastern railway line! He pushed the door open, jumped down, and beckoned backwards. Chief of Staff Qian Dajun and senior staff officers of several group army headquarters immediately surrounded him.

"The vanguard of the Sixth Army is already in place. Fighting the Japanese army fiercely! Convey the news to the military headquarters of the other four armies. If they don't want the Sixth Army to take the lead, speed it up for me! Be sure to arrive at your designated location by 8am today! ”

……

The Far Eastern Railway, which runs south from Shuangchengzi, was built along the Suifen River all the way to the Amur Bay, and then along the coastline into the Amursky Peninsula to Vladivostok. However, the two infantry regiments of the 16th Division, which was the vanguard of the Sixth Army, broke through the hilly area west of the Suifen River and broke through into the Suifen River valley in the early morning of July 8. Their opponents were a railway garrison brigade of the Japanese army, as well as pioneers from dozens of nearby Japanese villages, who had just been called up, a large number of men, women, and children, and were not armed or organized.

The officers and men of the Japanese railway garrison brigade were busy grouping them into points. The Chinese mountain artillery and mortars came over, because most of these Japanese pioneers carried torches and lanterns in their hands. In the darkness of the early hours of the morning, it became the best target. The shells exploded in the crowd, sending the unsuspecting Japanese to a squeak. They all ran around with their heads in their hands. These people were not the elite regular army of the Japanese army in the first place, and even the officers and soldiers of the railway garrison brigade were all soldiers in the Far East Prefecture. In the past month, this area has also been very calm, and the news from above is also that the imperial army has been frequently reported, and Manchuria will soon become their imperial paradise! No one was mentally prepared for a bloody battle with the squadron that came to their home. When the pioneers were summoned here, they thought they had some good news to tell them! Who knew that the Chinese shells fell like raindrops, drowning the camp of the Japanese railway garrison brigade in a cloud of fire. Their simple field fortifications were shattered. Everywhere there were Japanese pioneers fleeing with their heads in their arms, screams, screams, and gunfire, and the whole thing was in chaos.

The headquarters of this Japanese brigade was also bombed at the first time, and their captain didn't even have time to make an urgent call to Yanpu when he was sent to Amaterasu with a 75mm mountain artillery shell! After a short but fierce artillery bombardment, more than 4,000 infantry of the two infantry regiments of the 16th Division of the Chinese Army rushed down from the hills west of the Suifen River Valley and charged forward under the extended fire of machine guns and artillery. At this time, the commander of the Japanese Far East Army, General Kawai Cao, was inspecting the Shuangchengzi Fortress.

"Your Excellency, Commander! The Far Eastern Railway Garrison Command reported that the vanguard of the Chinese army appeared in the area of the Suifen Valley! One of their railway garrison brigades has lost contact, and the railway line has most likely been cut off by the Chinese army! The chief of staff of the temple asked for instructions, whether to defend Shuangchengzi to the death, or to use the forces of Shuangchengzi to Yanpu Fortress? ”

Nagata Tetsuyama Osa stood in front of Kawai Cao, with a panicked look on his face. Now half of the garrison troops in Yanpu City have been transferred to Shuangchengzi, and the remaining troops are no longer enough to defend the huge Yanpu Fortress! If you can't transfer troops from Shuangchengzi in time to send reinforcements, then Yanpu is very likely to be captured by the Chinese army! Once the Chinese army gets this first fortress in the Far East, I am afraid that there will be no force to drive them away from there again.

Kawai Cao just glanced at him, turned his head and asked Ugaki Issei, who was lying on the map: "Ugaki-kun, what do you think?" Ugaki's spirit was a little sluggish, and he replied with a wry smile: "The number of troops in Shuangchengzi City is only about 28,000, and more than 10,000 of them are improvised teams, and they can hold out for a while in the Shuangchengzi Fortress." If you want to transfer your troops, once you are pursued by the Chinese army, I am afraid that the consequences are unimaginable! ”

"But Yanpu is empty!" Nagata Tieshan is dying, and Yanpu is lost, do they, the high-ranking members of the Far East Army Command, still have the face to return to Japan? I'm afraid I'll have to find a place where no one is to secretly cut my stomach!

Ugaki Kazunari gritted his teeth: "You can let Terauchi-kun organize the forces in Yanpu City to counterattack the Chinese army in the Suifen River Valley area!" We know that Yanpu is empty, but the Chinese army doesn't know! (To be continued.) )