On November 26, the Chinese army fully occupied Kyushu Island, except for a small half of the Japanese troops on Kyushu Island who fled to Honshu Island, the others were either annihilated or chose to surrender, and the Chinese army only took more than 20 days to fully occupy Kyushu Island, and the speed of this attack can be called terrifying.

At first, the Japanese top brass thought that by virtue of the Japanese army's martial bravery and bushido spirit and the geographical advantage of fighting on the mainland, it could occupy advantages in many aspects, and as long as it fought well, it was completely possible to keep the attacking Chinese army in Japan; after less than a month of fighting, the Japanese troops who were still very energetic turned into frosted eggplants, and the Japanese troops who fled to Honshu Island transmitted their fear and despair to other Japanese troops, and in a very short period of time, the myth of the invincibility of the Chinese army spread throughout Japan.

As a result, some changes have also taken place in the hearts of the Japanese high-level people, who were not monolithic, and the Japanese cabinet and military have gradually divided into two factions, one is the main battle faction, headed by Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake, and the backbone is Togo Heihachiro, Asada Nobuyo, Kamio Mitsutomi, Oi Narumoto and others, while the other faction is the main peace faction, headed by Saionji Konobo, and the backbone is the older generation of retired army generals such as Osako Naotoshi, Kawamura Keiaki, Sameshima Shigeo, and Ueda Arisawa.

However, before Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was coerced by Terauchi Zhengyi and others, the main and faction led by Xiyuan Temple Gongwang had no military power, although he opposed the main battle faction, but there was no way, but now the situation is different, the Japanese army's fiasco on Kyushu Island made the main peace faction led by Xiyuan Temple Gongwang see hope, and they began to secretly contact the generals in the army, in the hope of obtaining military power. Their efforts were not in vain.

Some are clear-headed, and can see clearly. And the Japanese generals who didn't want to be buried for those diehards such as Terauchi Masayi accepted the olive branch extended by Saionji Gongwang and others, and secretly formed an alliance with them. They began to dig into the corners of the stubborn main battle faction, and the main battle faction's army was tight at the front, and they were tight at the rear.

After the Chinese army occupied Kyushu Island, the fighting stopped temporarily, the casualties of the troops needed to be replenished, the war materials and ammunition also needed to be replenished, and the soldiers also needed to rest, the most important thing was that Xu Shaozhen needed to wait for Xiao Zhenlei's order, and only when Xiao Zhenlei issued an order could he launch the second phase of the offensive.

The ground offensive was stopped, though. However, Xu Shaozhen did not sit idle, and let the troops rest and recuperate, often inspecting the rest and recuperation of the troops every day, and at the same time directing the military intelligence department to cooperate with the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau to carry out reconnaissance and surveys in various parts of Japan's Honshu Island and Shikoku Island, and a large number of Chinese agents and intelligence personnel mixed with the fleeing Japanese civilians to enter Honshu Island and Shikoku Island to conduct topographic surveys and collect information on the deployment of the defenders, especially the topographical reconnaissance of various cities and dangerous places.

The Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau itself has an extremely developed intelligence system in Japan, and although the war in Japan has only been going on for more than a year, the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau has not had time to conduct detailed exploration and reconnaissance of the terrain of the Japanese mainland before the war. However, in the more than a year since the beginning of the war, the intelligence system has been well developed, and now there are intelligence officers of the Iron Investigation Bureau in various cities and even villages in Japan, but it is known that the army will soon launch an attack on the islands of Honshu and Shikoku in the next stage. So the intelligence officers hiding there immediately began to collect information about the Japanese army frequently, and for a time a large amount of information related to the Japanese army was transmitted to Xu Shaozhen's desk.

Xu Shaozhen ordered the information sent over every day to be sorted out and archived, so that it could be used in future attacks on Honshu Island and Shikoku Island. And some of the information has to be updated in real time to ensure that it is not outdated.

On November 28, Xu Shaozhen received a telegram from the capital. The contents of the telegram were top secret, and when the telegram was delivered to him, it was still a series of numbers. And it was not deciphered into specific contents, not because the telecommunications personnel were lazy, but because the telegram could only be deciphered by him himself.

He took out a codebook from his close-knit place, and then deciphered a series of numbers on the telegram against the codebook, and after eight hours of decipherment, the whole telegram was completed, and after looking at the contents of the telegram written on the new paper, his face changed several times in succession, and then he returned to normal, and he quickly took out a lighter and burned both the original text and the deciphered text.

The content of this telegram was for him to order the army to drive all the Japanese from the island of Kyushu and rush to the island of Honshu, where no Japanese civilians were left except for Japanese prisoners. The difficulty of this task is not ordinarily great, you must know that although a large part of the Japanese civilians on the entire Kyushu Island have fled to Honshu Island and Shikoku Island, but there are still some people who remain here, not to mention five or six million, two or three million are absolutely there, to drive so many Japanese civilians to Kyushu Island, it is necessary to use force, everyone knows that it is difficult to leave the homeland, do not use force, how can those Japanese civilians obediently leave here and go to Honshu Island?

But once the force is used to forcibly expel them, then there will inevitably be a Japanese resistance, if only one or two people have not resisted, they are afraid of causing a large-scale resistance by the Japanese, how to deal with it at that time? Shoot and kill? Once shots were fired, the death toll was definitely not a small number.

The forcible eviction of millions of people for relocation was not a trivial matter, it was so big that he shuddered when he saw the telegram, and after burning it, he sat in his office chair and smoked silently.

This order was not sent through the normal channels, but a secret order, since it was a secret order, then the person who sent the telegram would definitely not be responsible, but he was a soldier, and he could not fail to carry out this order, and if he did not carry out the order, he could not afford the consequences, and any soldier who disobeyed the military order would be a stain on his own glory.

He sat in his office all night. The next morning, when the adjutant came to clean his office, he found him sitting here all night, and immediately was shocked: "Commander, you, why did you spend the night here?" ”

"Don't make a fuss!" Xu Shaozhen turned around and waved his hand, and said, "There is no need to clean up here for the time being, you go and send a message to the generals and ask them to come over for a meeting before three o'clock in the afternoon!" ”

The adjutant was stunned, but still agreed: "Okay, commander!" ”

In the morning, Xu Shaozhen worked as usual, took a nap for two hours after lunch at noon, and when he got up, it was already half past two in the afternoon, and the adjutant just came to report: "Commander, the generals are all here, just wait for you to pass!" ”

"Good!" Xu Shaozhen put on his clothes and hurriedly washed up, and with the help of the adjutant, put on his military uniform and walked to the conference room.

After coming to the conference room, the army commander and the division commander all stood up, Xu Shaozhen walked to the main seat and pressed his hand, and after everyone sat down, he didn't talk nonsense, and said directly and solemnly: "Call you over today, mainly to issue a military order, three days later, each division will gather all the Japanese in the area where they are stationed and drive them to Honshu Island, whether he is men, women, children, old and weak, women and children, or old, weak, sick, disabled and young, all of them will be driven to Honshu Island, and three days later, a notice will be issued to the Japanese in all parts of Kyushu Island and cities, so that they can prepare their bags and food, give them two days to prepare, let them go after five days, and if they do not cooperate, the army will forcibly drive away! ”

"What?" As soon as the words fell, the army commanders and division commanders in the conference room exclaimed, this order was so outrageous that the generals did not react for a while.

The generals were well aware that although many Japanese had fled to Honshu Island during the war some time ago, there were still a considerable number of Japanese who could not leave and stayed, and there were millions of Japanese left, not to mention millions.

Even if all these millions of people cooperated, it would not be easy to organize their migration, not to mention that those Japanese would definitely not cooperate, and it would be too much work to move them all to Honshu Island without the cooperation of millions of people.

A division commander was surprised: "Commander, this, this, how could such an order be issued, this order came from above, right?" Who gave this order? We are soldiers, but how can a soldier do such a thing? ”

Another division commander shouted: "Commander, who do you say gave such an order?" What kind of bastard is this, dizzy! ”

Xu Shaozhen's face changed when he heard this, he picked up his fist and hammered the table and said sharply: "Presumptuous, every order is issued after careful consideration, don't guess, this order was issued by me, this is a military order, you understand to implement it, if you don't understand it, you must implement it, and then criticize the decision of the peak, and punish it according to disobeying the military order!" ”

There was a sudden silence in the conference room, no one dared to carry the charge of disobeying military orders, and bearing such the first charge was not only a matter of dismissal and investigation, but also a matter of one's own military honor.

After a long time, a division commander sighed: "Commander, have you thought about the consequences of this matter?" It would be better if the Japanese cooperated, everyone would be fine, and it would be over if they moved away, but do you think the Japanese would honestly cooperate with us? There will definitely be people who refuse to cooperate, and not only will they refuse to cooperate, but they will also resist, and it will be a large-scale riot, and at that time, what are we going to do? Compromise is impossible, only force repression can solve the problem, no one will criticize the killing of the enemy on the battlefield, but the killing of prisoners will cause widespread condemnation, let alone the use of force against ordinary people, once this order is carried out, then our military is likely to be greatly criticized, and bear the charge of massacring innocent civilians, not to mention how foreign governments react, only those stubborn and old-fashioned moral defenders at home will lash out at us, and this matter will have little impact on us. Because we are only the executors of orders, and you are the supreme commander, you will have a lot to do with it, and you will probably bear the blame for this when the time comes! ”

Xu Shaozhen stretched out his trembling hand and took out the cigarette, and lit the cigarette several times in a row, he smoked, the smoke kept rising, everyone looked at him, and the conference room was terrifyingly quiet.

After a long time, he extinguished his cigarette butt and stood up and said solemnly: "I gave this order, I am the supreme commander of the war against Japan, here, I have the right to issue any order, you only need to carry out the order, any consequences, all the consequences are borne by me alone, if anyone dares to disobey the military order, the consequences will be borne by themselves!" The meeting was adjourned". (To be continued......)