Chapter 156: The Battle of Jinan (19)
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The amount I gave is very sufficient! They had already arrived in Jinan City yesterday afternoon, but after a night of investigation and reports from the imperial subjects, it had been confirmed that the Saito Brigade sent to Jinan by Lieutenant General Fukuda and the brigade commander Major General Saito Liu, and the more than 2,000 imperial soldiers had all been shattered! ”
Tanaka Yoshiichi's face turned white when he heard the secretary's words, "Hula~" stood up and grabbed the secretary's collar and shouted angrily: "Red Deer Yelang!" Do you know what you're talking about?! How is this possible?! Even if Saito Liu is an idiot, but that's two thousand three hundred elite emperors! How could it be annihilated by that group of waste in China?! ふざけるな! ”
The secretary was carried by Tanaka's collar, but he didn't dare to move, lowered his head and said respectfully: "Your Excellency the Prime Minister! This is indeed true, this telegram was personally taken by Lieutenant General An Manqin I, commander of the 3rd Division, and I dare not slack off and send the telegram quickly! The secretary nodded respectfully, and took the telegram in his hand with both hands. Tanaka Yoshishi let go of the secretary's collar with a blue face, snatched the telegram with one hand, and looked at it carefully.
Several cabinet ministers next to him were obviously taken aback by the news! Even Yoshinori Shirakawa had to jump up and snatch the telegram in Yoshinori Tanaka's hand to read it! And Tanaka Yoshiichi looked at the phone call more and more coldly, until he finally threw the telegram in his hand and collapsed directly on the tatami mat. Seeing this, Shirakawa Yoshinori hurriedly held Tanaka Yoshiichi, and then took the telegram to look at it carefully. I saw that it was neatly written:
Telegram to the Ministers of the Imperial Cabinet and General Staff in Tokyo: Special Express No. 5
May 13, the battle situation
The whole army of our department received a telegram from the cabinet and the general staff and galloped from Qingdao to Jinan. Due to the destruction of most of the railway tracks near Jinan by the Chinese army, our troops had to go on foot, and along the way we were attacked by small unidentified troops. Although it did not cause much loss, it slowed down the speed of our march until the afternoon of the 12th, when our troops arrived in Jinan. However, we did not receive any telegram or communication from the Saito Ministry, and the contact was resumed due to the reconnaissance dispatched by our Ministry.
At night, a subject of the empire, Oda Kirokuro, risked his life to report that the Saito Division had been besieged by the Shina army at noon yesterday, and then the brigade commander, Major General Saito Liu, led his troops to fight back, causing all the 11th Brigade and the supplementary department under his command to be shattered. He was even directly involved in the Sino-Japanese War and later the Russo-Japanese War, in which he accumulated a great deal of military merit and became a senior military commander, because of which he was promoted to commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in 1902. In 1905, Prince Jaehito was promoted to lieutenant general, and in 1906, he directly became the commander of the 1st Division.
In 1911, Prince Jaehito was transferred to the commander of the Guards Division, and in 1912 he was promoted to army general and became a military senator! And in 1919, Prince Zaihito of Kanin Miyajito was directly promoted to the Japanese marshal, which was the youngest field marshal in the Japanese Imperial Army in the history of the Japanese army! Not one of them!
Because it was the old marshal with high prestige in the Japanese army who came in, the originally angry Shirakawa Yoshinori was like a rooster who was choked by the neck, and swallowed the following words with a "cluck~". Xianyuan Gong Zairen's face swept over the cabinet ministers with a gloomy face, and everyone was so numerously covered by him that goosebumps broke out.
"Red Deer Noro!! You idiots! Now the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire are bleeding in Jinan, and you idiots are still here to discuss and discuss! あんた、バガ?! A group of cabinet officials were scolded by Xianyuan Gong Zairen and didn't dare to squeak, so they had to lean over. Xianyuan Gong Zairen relieved his breath at this time, and said in a deep voice to the cabinet members: "I am here to convey the message of His Majesty the Emperor, and His Majesty is very angry when he learns that the two thousand three hundred soldiers of the empire are actually in Jinan Yusha!" Hence the order: whoever does it, he must pay! What is the 3rd Division waiting for outside the city of Jinan?! Do you want me to lead the Guards Division to do it?! ”
Listening to the words of Xianyuan Gong Zairen, the hearts of the cabinets were cold! It seems that His Majesty is really angry, otherwise how could he say such a thing?! So they bowed their heads lower, and did not dare to say a word. Xianyuan Gong Zairen glanced at them coldly, and then said slowly: "Immediately telegraph An Man Qinyi of the Third Division and tell him!" I don't care what method he uses, no matter what means he uses! In short, what I want is for the people of Jinan City to be buried with the two thousand three hundred warriors of my empire! Tell him! If you can't do it within three days, he will cut himself! And you ...... Hum! Explain it to Your Majesty! ”
“はい!” A group of cabinet officials did not dare to slack off and leaned over.
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