About an hour later, the Chinese station of Phoenix Radio broadcast news that the Chinese troops had formed a formation to annihilate the 150th Wing of the Japanese Army in the area of Pinghu on the Zhajia Line, killed more than 4,000 people under Wing Commander Yamamoto Shigetsu Nakasa, captured a wing flag, and countless guns and ammunition.

The fears were confirmed, and the Japanese Tenth Army headquarters finally became noisy.

"Yamamoto Shigetsu damn it"

"Curse Yamamoto to go down to the eighteen layers of hell, go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pot ......"

"His crimes should be made public, so that his family will be spurned for the rest of his life"

"It is also necessary to hold others accountable, especially the ...... of the 114th Division"

"All eight teeth are shut up"

Yanagawa Heisuke turned around with a sinister face, his face was pale, and he looked at the generals in the room, the temperature in the command cabin seemed to have dropped by more than ten degrees, and as far as his eyes could see, many people couldn't help but shudder.

The commander of the 114th Division, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, and the chief of staff, Saburo Isata, who were standing in front of the window, hurriedly lowered their heads.

However, dodging is not the way to go

"Commander, the loss of the flag of the 150th Wing is a shame for our division, and even more so for the Imperial Japanese Army" Shigeji Suematsu, the commander of the 114th Division, came to Yanagawa Heisuke, bowed deeply to the commander, and said with deep affection: "Your Excellency, please let me cut my stomach for this!"

The capture of the 150th Wing's flag by the new 2nd Division is a breakthrough that will surely alarm the Tokyo base camp, and it may not necessarily disturb His Majesty the Emperor. Someone must be held accountable for this, and now that Yamamoto Shigetsu is dead, the 114th Division will also be severely punished.

In this incident, Shigetsu Yamamoto, who insisted on pursuing, was the first person responsible, and the commander of the 128th Brigade, Major General Obaof, was still on the way, so Shigeharu Suematsu would be the second person responsible, but he didn't want to cut his abdomen, so he came to an attitude of advancing and retreating, testing Yanagawa Heisuke.

Sure enough, Shigeharu Suematsu's request made Yanagawa Heisuke feel very satisfied, after all, this is a responsible and rigorous style. Yanagawa Heisuke did not intend to let Shigeharu Suematsu cut his own belly, and the follow-up forces of the 114th Division were arriving in a steady stream to be commanded by Shigeharu Suematsu.

Moreover, the 114th Division is a newly formed division, and if the division commander is rashly allowed to cut himself, it will make the 114th Division, which already feels extremely humiliated, even worse, and will not be conducive to the subsequent operations.

At the end of the day, Shigeharu Suematsu was the commander of the lieutenant general's division, and he was equal in rank to the commander Yanagawa Heisuke, and the sanction of a division commander was to let the emperor personally order it, except for his own request. Shigeharu Suematsu can become a lieutenant general of the empire, in addition to his own ability, there is an intertwined network of relationships behind him, as the backbone of the imperial faction, Yanagawa Heisuke, who was once dismissed at home, does not want to have too much trouble with the commander of the faction.

His gaze swept over Shigeharu Suematsu, and Yanagawa Heisuke's gaze focused on the chief of staff of the 114th Division, Saburo Isoda.

Isoda Saburo's face was pale, cold sweat trickled down, and he bowed deeply to Yanagawa Heisuke from a distance, and said in fear: "Commander, I am willing to take responsibility for this, please let me judge myself"

"Hmph"

Yanagawa Heisuke sneered, his eyes shot a cold light, and there was no emotion in his tone, as if he was talking to a dead man:

As the chief of staff of the division, Isoda-kun was responsible for the formulation and implementation of the operational plan of the entire division. Now that your division has suffered an unprecedented defeat, Isata-kun, you should indeed bravely take responsibility and prove your loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor with your saber and boiling blood."

"Huh?"

Isoda Saburo's face was pale, without a trace of blood, he looked at Major General Tian Dao Shengwu, chief of staff of the Tenth Army, for help, and he didn't want Tian Dao Shengwu to take the initiative to twist his head away, and his heart was suddenly cold.

In the Japanese army, the military administration and military orders were completely separated from the dual system, and the chief of staff could only be the chief of staff at the higher level, and now Tado Shengwu took the initiative to put aside the relationship with his subordinates, and Isoda Saburo could only accept a tragic fate

Under the sad gaze of either mockery or the dead fox, Isoda Daisa walked towards the door with difficulty.

Yanagawa Heisuke looked at the lonely back of Saburo Isoda, and said in a low voice, "Isata-kun, go all the way."

Shigeharu Suematsu breathed a long sigh of relief, someone under his command had already been responsible for the loss of the military flag, and the matter could be put to an end for the time being, and the next step was to wait for the ruling of the headquarters and His Majesty the Emperor. However, Shigeharu Suematsu didn't dare to be too calm, and bowed to Yanagawa Heisuke again:

"Commander, please allow me to disembowelment and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor."

Yanagawa Heisuke waved his hand, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Since Isota-kun has already cut himself, Suematsu-kun's responsibility will be noted for the time being." If Suematsu-kun still does not perform well in the rest of the battle, then I will have to ask Suematsu-kun to prove your loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor with blood."

Major General Tanabe Moritake, chief of staff of the Tenth Army, had other ideas, took Yanagawa Heisuke's hand, and said in a voice as low as a gnat: "Commander, since Suematsu-kun wants to be responsible for this, why not fulfill him?" ”

In Tanabe's view, the report of the loss of the wing flag of the 114th Division to Tokyo would inevitably cause a huge earthquake, and the generals of the base camp would drown the 10th Army even with spittle. But if Shigeharu Suematsu also chooses to adjudicate himself, then Yanagawa Heisuke and his responsibility are much smaller.

Seeing Tanabe Moritake's worried expression, Yanagawa Heisuke shook his head. The political strategy of his chief of staff is still a little worse, and the smell of temptation is very strong when Shigeji Suematsu says this, and if he agrees, it may not be like this

Although Tanabe Moritake's voice was very low, Shigeharu Suematsu still heard it, he raised his body slightly, cast a hateful gaze at the chief of staff, and then bowed deeply in disguise, and his tone was even lower:

"The two brigade headquarters and two fully formed wings under the jurisdiction of our division, as well as the 118th Cavalry Brigade, the 120th Field Artillery Wing, and the 114th Engineer Wing are about to arrive.

After pushing Isoda Saburo out of the body to be a substitute for the dead ghost, Yanagawa Heisuke's mood also calmed down, and he looked at Shigeji Suematsu with a smile:

"As the commander of the 10th Army, I am also very responsible for the loss of the flag, and I will report my mistakes to His Majesty the Emperor and to the Tokyo Base Camp. However, I don't know if you have considered why we will fail? Under the bombardment of our superior fleet artillery and aircraft, a main wing will be annihilated for nothing......"

There was silence in the Command.

"Food for thought"

Yanagawa Heisuke sighed, and then said slowly: "There is a saying in the Chinese people, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, but the key is to learn lessons from it丨This time we were too careless, originally I thought that the combat effectiveness of the new second division in front of me was at most equal to the German armament division of the Central Army of the Chinese army, but now it seems that the combat effectiveness of this new second division will definitely exceed that of the German armament division, and their commander Wu Ming is not simple."

"Your Excellency, Commander, our opponents are so cunning that they dare to deceive us right under our noses, which is unbearable."

Shigeru Suematsu's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Commander, our division must go all out to eliminate Wu Ming and his new second division."

Yanagawa Heisuke's eyes were like torches, his gaze shrouded Suematsu Shigeji, and his tone was gloomy: "I repeat, failure is not terrible, what is terrible is that you can't learn from failure Bu Mo Matsukun, if you don't have the courage to suffer defeat, I really doubt that you have the ability to command a division."

Shigeji Suematsu raised his head and looked at Yanagawa Heisuke in bewilderment.

Yanagawa Heisuke strode to the side of the command cabin, looked at the large map hanging on the wall, reached out and took the baton from the staff officer, pointed to the fortifications east of Dushantang in the northeastern part of Kowloon Mountain, and said to the generals

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, the fortifications of this line of the army are complete and strong, why would they quickly rout after a while?"

Without waiting for everyone to answer, Yanagawa Heisuke pointed to the location of the No. 1 high ground, and continued: "No one thought that this small mound, which is only fifty or sixty meters above sea level, would be effectively used by the Chinese army to block our line of sight, cut off the attack of the fleet artillery group, and hit a perfect ambush for the 150th Wing. ”

Yanagawa Heisuke snorted coldly, glanced at everyone, and said sharply: "Shouldn't you study the essence of tactics in it?" China is an ancient civilization with a history of 5,000 years, and their culture is broad and profound, and a book of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" hundreds of years ago reflected a lot of military wisdom...... The destruction of Yamamoto's wing is still valuable, and we must not underestimate the Shina army, especially the current new 2nd Division and their commander Wu Ming"

"Hail"

The generals nodded in unison, and although some of the diehards did not agree with Yanagawa Heisuke's evaluation, they had to be sure that the new 2nd Division had adopted excellent tactics.

Yanagawa Heisuke waved his hand to the attendant officer next to him, who knowingly turned on the radio fixed to the cabinet. There was a burst of melodious music from the radio speaker, followed by a beautiful female voice in Japanese

"My dear compatriots, my name is Ashin, I am a victim of war, four years ago, my eldest brother was sent by the military department to carry out a mission in the Manchu and Mongolian regions of China, and after the last day, he died in Beiping in order to obtain information about the people of China, but the military department did not inform our family...... A year ago, I fled to China to find him......"

There was a burst of women's crying on the radio, crying so many times that people burst into tears, and then the choked female voice continued:

"My sister-in-law is very beautiful and a well-known beauty in the village. Once, when she was washing clothes, she was seen by General Yanagawa, the former commander of the 1st Division, who directly led people to my home and insulted my sister-in-law in my stove room...... My five-year-old nephew tried to fight the bad guy who insulted his mother, but General Yanagawa hacked him to death with a saber. ”

"General Yanagawa, fearing that the matter would be exposed, ordered someone to rape and kill my forty-six-year-old mother, who was bedridden, and then kill everyone in the family...... I escaped my life by hiding in the cellar where my sweet potatoes were stored at home, and I went to the police station to report to the police, but I was imprisoned in a mental hospital as a madman, and it wasn't until the Kwantung Army recruited comfort women that I was lucky enough to escape from the clutches of the devil and come to the land of China."

A woman's sobs were heard, and a Japanese male voice appeared on the radio:

"My dear compatriots, my name is Shigeru Oshima, I am from Tokyo, and I am also a victim of the war...... My eldest brother and I came to Manchuria two years ago for the great cause of the empire, and on several occasions we were almost killed while encircling and suppressing the guerrillas. But what do we get? My sister-in-law was taken by the son-in-law of the division commander and humiliated to death, and my fiancée was sent to Nanyang to become a prostitute who earned foreign exchange for the country. We fight in a foreign land, and what do we get but to satisfy the desire for conquest of the powerful with our own lives and blood? ”

The choked voice of a woman came from the loudspeaker: "My dearest compatriots, soldiers, we all have parents, brothers and sisters, and children, but what has the war given us, we have nothing but the bad luck of our parents being killed, our wives being raped, our sisters being sold, and our children being left uncared for."

Immediately afterwards, two voices came together and said, "Every one of us Japanese, don't fight, let this damn war game, let the magnates play it themselves."

"Yaga"

Shigeharu Suematsu was furious, and the other generals were also indignant, threatening to arrest a man and a woman who betrayed the empire on the radio, and use the most vicious punishment to make their lives worse than death.

"Enough"

Yanagawa Heisuke slapped the wall heavily and swept away his cold eyes: "Even I, the slandered party, are not angry, why are you so angry?" According to the monitoring of our intelligence personnel, this radio station is transmitted from the territory of China, and the only radio stations that can radiate the entire territory of China are Nanjing and Quzhou, and our intelligence agency in Quzhou was destroyed by Wu Ming's new Second Division, and the intelligence department judged that this radio station is now very likely to be Wu Ming's ghost, so you must be careful of this Wu Ming and the new Second Division under his command."

Yanagawa Heisuke served as the commander of the 1st Division three years ago, so he has this to say.

Yanagawa Heisuke raised his voice: "Last night, when I was inspecting the cabin, I actually saw the officer on duty listening to the program of this mysterious radio station, and secretly wiped his tears, you should now know how much this radio station has hit the morale of our Imperial Japanese Army, I think the reason why there are shameful soldiers who surrendered today has something to do with it."

Speaking of this, Yanagawa Heisuke's face was solemn, and his tone became more severe: "I order, the whole army, no one is allowed to listen to the radio, and let the officers confiscate all the radios."

Hearing Yanagawa Heisuke's order, the generals showed a trace of embarrassment on their faces, especially the navy.

After all, the Japanese army was far away from home and came to China to fight, and listening to the radio in their spare time could regulate their nervousness and pass the time of boredom. If all the radios were to be handed over, it would be even more difficult for ordinary soldiers, especially sailors, to endure the long nights, and perhaps cause a series of unnecessary confusion.

At this time, news came from the 66th Wing that the wing commander Tsuneta Nakasa, Yamada, was unable to rescue and died on the way back to the army. At present, the 66th Wing has withdrawn to Qiuwei Village under the leadership of the chief of staff and is moving towards Longhu Town.

Yanagawa Heisuke almost went crazy when he heard the bad news, and his blood-red eyes stared at the generals in the headquarters

"Hay—"

At this point, where do the generals dare to have noise, hurry up and stand upright, and the sound should be in unison.