In the building complex in the south of the city, there are now more than a dozen officers at or above the rank of rank, including Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsuma, Lieutenant General Naka, Lieutenant General Kenta Shima, and the remaining three wing commanders.

Listening to the rumbling cannon outside, looking at the officers with gray faces, Kusaba Tatsumi clutched the command knife tightly in his hand, and his lips were tightly closed. The 40,000 Japanese troops in Chengde City are now completely lost" The remaining 1,000 or so Japanese troops are almost all concentrated in this complex, and it is now the final moment.

Kusaba Tatsumi glanced around at the surrounding officers and said slowly: "Gentlemen, now that the people of China have surrounded us, let's talk about what to do!" ”

Kenta Nakajima laughed miserably, his hands were stained with too much blood of the Chinese people, and if he fell into the hands of the Chahar army, it would definitely be worse than death.

"What else" The soldiers have been killed, and now it is time for us to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Kusaba Tatsumi looked at the rest of the officers and asked, "Do you think the same way?" ”

"I wish to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!" The remaining dozen officers shouted in unison.

A smile appeared on Kusama Tatsumi's pale face: "Good! He is worthy of being a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor, and I believe that His Majesty the Emperor can also see the loyalty and courage of your lords. Now let's invite all the military flags out to say goodbye to the military flags! ”

The military flag of the Japanese army is also known as the "Imperial Flag of the Army". It evolved from the national flag of the sun, the sun flag, with 16 blood-red rays of light, also known as the "Rising Sun Flag". And the three sides of the army flag are decorated with purple sè tassels, and the top of the wooden lacquered flag well has a three-sided gilded flag crown, and on three sides are the 16-petal chrysanthemum huā embossed family emblem pattern of the Japanese Imperial Family. The military flag was given by the emperor himself, and it is "only possessed by the formed infantry wing and cavalry wing", so it is also called the wing flag.

According to the regulations of the Army, "if the military flag is present, it will be prepared", and if the military flag is lost, it will be sanctioned.

Therefore, this military flag can not be walked away, "two years ago, the Japanese army was still a regiment commander Zeng Li'an captured a military flag of the 77th Wing," the number of the 77th Wing was naturally revoked, and disappeared forever.

The three captains of the squadron each took out the military flag they had brought with them, and after Xiǎo rolled it up, he gave it to Kusaba Tatsumi.

Kusaba Tatsumi took the flag and respectfully put it into a makeshift box made of artillery shells that had been prepared long ago, and removed gasoline from it. After doing all this, Kusaba Tatsumi took a torch and prepared to light it. At this time, suddenly a big Zuo knelt down and cried bitterly.

"Division commander, is this the end of our 36th Wing? If you burn it like this, "The Thirty-Sixth Wing will never exist!" ”

"Baga, stand up!" , Kusaba Tatsumi walked over, and the big Zora got up and shouted: "Although the thirty-sixth wing is gone, there are hundreds of other wings in our empire, naturally someone will avenge us, why are you crying!" After Kusaba Tatsumi finished scolding, he lit the box with a torch, and at this time all the Japanese soldiers saluted the military flag until it was burned to ashes before putting their hands down.

"Boom"

As soon as the flag was burned, a mortar shell fell outside the house, humming the walls and windows.

Kuada Tatsumi's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Okay" Zhujun "Now is the time for us to serve the country in seven lives, Zhujun, are you ready?" "Hey! Seven lives to serve the country! ”

"Alright, let's find a place for His Majesty the Emperor." Kusaba Tatsumi waved weakly at the people present.

"Hey!"

For a while, all the officers immediately dispersed, and each found a place to go on the road.

About half a time later, when the besieging forces stormed the complex, "only corpses were found everywhere."

After carefully examining the corpse, the company commander in charge stretched out his foot and kicked the dead corpse on the ground, spitting on the ground. Saliva said: "Correspondent, report to the headquarters, and say that all the Japanese officers led by Kusaba Tatsumi have committed suicide. ”

"Nickname Outside! The Seventh Theater successively recovered Beiping and Rehe" Commander Su declared that if the Japanese did not withdraw from China, he would fight until he withdrew. "Outside the name! Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi, commander of the Chengde garrison, committed suicide! ”

The Seventh Theater first drove the Japanese army out of Beiping, and then recovered Rehe, and for a time it was in the limelight.

Nanjing Leader's Residence" Commission, now the people's anti-Japanese sentiment is high! They all demanded that we launch a counteroffensive as soon as possible to "drive the Japanese out of China!" ”

Chen Buleixing hurriedly rushed to the chairman's office with the newspaper and said excitedly to Chairman Jiang, who was discussing matters with He Yingqin, Chen Cheng, Yang Yongtai, and others.

The chairman scolded angrily: "Hmph! Niang Xipi, what do they know" one by one shouted a counterattack and counterattack, "what kind of counterattack do we take?" Just a few slogans? Or rely on Su Tong's seventh war zone? ”

The chairman's words made Chen Bui, who had been in a hurry, feel like he was poured a basin of cold water from his head to his feet, and he realized that the current Seventh War Zone had become a behemoth, and it was no longer something that the Central Committee could control.

What the chairman of the committee was thinking about at this time was not the recovery of Rehe, but that this Su Tong's territory had expanded a little more, and it would be more difficult to deal with him in the future.

At this time, Chen Chengjin next to him said: "Chairman of the National People's Congress, now that the Japanese government has increased our troops to China by more than 400,000, and the Japanese army in China has reached more than 800,000, our pressure will be even greater. ”

"Yes, the pressure of the day himself is pressed on us, but the ear Su Tong is eating ready-made meals in the back. As soon as the 29th Army retreated from Beiping on the front foot, he occupied Beiping on the back foot, and let him take all the good deeds. He Yingqin on the side couldn't help complaining.

"That's enough, don't talk about that." The chairman waved his hand and said with some irritation: "Now that I am making trouble in Shanghai again, what do you think?" Yang Yongtai was solemn: "Shanghai is our Chinese tax center, and I have long been eyeing it, but this time they are not good!" ”

Chairman Jiang sighed tiredly before he sighed: "The ambitions of the Japanese themselves are very big, their goal is the whole of China, and Shanghai is only one of their goals.

Chen Cheng also said with a solemn face at this time: "Shanghai's fiscal revenue is our foundation, we can't give up lightly, Shanghai must be kept." ”

"En" has come to the time to have a good fight with the "Day" himself, otherwise half a month has passed since the declaration of war" But we still have nothing to do, wouldn't it be for the people of the whole country to scold us for not acting? "Regarding the affairs of Shanghai", Yang Yongtai's attitude is the same as Chen Cheng's.

"Okay, let's first order Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison, to lead the 87th and 88th divisions to Shanghai Yangshupu and north of Hongkou to deploy defenses," and the air force should also assemble from North China to Shanghai. "Shanghai is the chairman's money bag, and the chairman is reluctant to give it up easily.

The defeat of the Beiping War in the Tokyo base camp and the loss of Rehe shook the entire Japanese government and the opposition, and the Japanese and Japanese news daily said: This is a disgrace for the entire Yamato nation, and the annihilation of the 27th and 28th divisions and regiments has pushed the entire Japanese army to the top of the wind. The headquarters of Japan, which was anxious to wash away its shame, held an emergency meeting today to discuss the issue of China policy, and the entire meeting was presided over by Prince Zaihito Miyaji, chief of staff of the army.

Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace of the Imperial Palace has a very bad face today, because of the successive losses of Rehe and Beiping, "Emperor Hirohito has summoned him twice in a row to ask about the war against China. At the same time, he also ordered him to regain the confidence and support of the people in China as soon as possible.

Present at the meeting were a series of important army ministers, including Vice Minister of the Army, Mijiro Umezu, Senior General Ishine Matsui, Minister of War Totoshi Terauchi, and Minister of the Army, Sugiyama Mototo.

In 1935, after the assassination of Nagata Tetsuyama, the soul of the unification faction and the chief of the military affairs bureau known as the first brain of Japan, Matsui was forced to resign and withdraw from the military because he was suspected of this incident.

After retiring from the military circles, he lobbied around China to support him, and although he did not succeed, he also aroused the appreciation of the "77 Incident, and after the occurrence of the 77 Incident, he was re-conscripted into the army" and served as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army.

Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace was not in the mood to be polite to everyone, so he went directly to the topic: "Gentlemen, now that Beiping and Rehe have been lost one after another, the government and the opposition are shaken, I don't know what good strategies you have to save the confidence of the people?" ”

This question had been carefully considered before the meeting, and Umezu Yoshijiro said without hesitation: "It's very simple, occupy Shanghai, hit the morale of the national government of China, and then send a large army to attack China" to force the government to surrender. ”

In Umezu Mijiro's view, this battle of Chengde was a big failure at all, and the Kwantung Army did not dare to attack because of its abundant forces, but only sent a division and a chariot brigade as if it were coping. He was also killed and injured by an airplane, which was really embarrassing and thrown to his grandmother's house. It's just that now the opportunity has been lost, and there is nothing to be done.

Matsui Ishine, however, has great confidence in the upcoming battle in Shanghai: "Now that the 3rd and 11th Divisions have left for Shanghai, I believe that it will be of great help to the upcoming war in Shanghai." ”

Lu Xiang Sugiyama Yuan asked, "The battle in Shanghai is related to whether the empire can regain its prestige, Matsui-kun, are you sure?" ”

Matsui Ishine thought for a moment and replied: "With the current strength of the Chinese government in Shanghai, two divisions are enough to defeat them, but it is difficult to guarantee that the Nanjing government will not send additional reinforcements, so the empire must also make corresponding preparations." ”

Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace on the side also said: "Well, you can rest assured that as long as you can conquer Shanghai, the base camp's support for you will not change." ”

"Hey! Thank you for your concern, Matsui will go to Nanjing no matter what! Matsui Ishine swore and promised