"The more chaotic Yunnan is, the better, and the more chaotic it is, the better it will be for the empire."

Nanking.

Shouichi Terauchi and Kenji Dohihara have become less and less presence. Although the army under their command still occupies most of China's territory, they really feel more and more that they have lost their weight...... Even Zhou Fohai can pull away tens of thousands of horses under their noses, what face do they have to say that they have the ability?

For a while, they even had the illusion that it was not China that was invaded, but Japan. Because the Chinese planes flew to the Japanese mainland to drop bombs.

Since the beginning of recorded Japan, there has never been an attack on the mainland. And now the Chinese have finally broken this record. It's unexpected, but it seems to make sense.

Isn't Japan's biggest imaginary enemy China all along? It's just that the Chinese have not been able to cross the ocean, so Japan has been saved. And now the other party just lightly came to them, although the losses were heavy, and even the Yawata Iron Works, the pride of the empire, were affected, but it was much lighter than the disaster of destroying the country, right? What's more, they are still attacking China and occupying most of China's territory. The Chinese's bombing is only a small retaliation that can only be used once.

"Ando-kun, do you have confidence?"

Shouichi Terauchi was surprised that he would ask such a thing. But when he glanced at the crowd, he saw that no one seemed to be surprised by his question. This made him feel a little relieved and at the same time couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness: when did the imperial soldiers become so unconfident? Their opponents are cowardly Chinese.

"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief," Ando Toshikichi looked solemn, "the Chinese have a group army in Guangxi, as well as their most elite Fifth Army, and although I am confident that I can defeat them on the battlefield, I need cover from the air." At least there must be no massive strikes from the air. ”

"The Chinese always have accurate information about us, and I would love to know what this is for?" The commander of the Shanghai garrison, Fujita Jin, glanced around with a cold gaze, and finally put his attention on Kage Zuo Zhenzhao, who was sitting under Tu Feiyuan: "Kage Sa-kun, the recent work of the Mei agency is very uneasy. ”

"Fujita-kun, this matter has nothing to do with Kagesa-kun. When he presided over the Mei Agency, it was the time when the Mei Agency had the best results. Tu Feiyuan said on the side.

"But after he left, Mei's intelligence network became almost a sieve for rural Chinese women." Fujita Jin snorted coldly, "And I don't understand, Ying Zuojun has been following Wang Jingwei's side, why didn't he even notice such a big thing as Zhou Fohai's rebellion?" ”

"It was so sudden." Shadow Zuo Zhenzhao said in a deep voice.

"Suddenly?" Fujita snorted coldly. "With a figure like Zhou Fohai, if you want him to rebel, it will take at least a few months of contact to make him make a decision, or even longer. But during this time, Mei didn't even get a little bit of news. That's failure. ”

"So what do you mean, General? Do you want me to apologize? Shibayama Kanshiro, who was on the side of Kagesa Zhenzhao, couldn't help but say angrily. Zhou Fohai betrayed Wang Jingwei and took tens of thousands of troops with him. There is also an elite counterfeit tax police regiment among them. This happened when he was in charge of the Mei Agency. For this. He had to step down from the position of head of the Mei Agency and become the deputy of Kagesa Zhenzhao. This incident was a great shame for him, but it made him extremely aggrieved. Because Zhou Fohai's rebellion really had no signs at all. And they never expected that guy to be so bold and do things so desperately...... He left with tens of thousands of troops. Although Sun Liangcheng's so-called front army had only 30,000 or 40,000 men, it was the most capable of fighting in the Northwest Army, and in terms of the degree of elite, it was by no means inferior to the several subordinate units of the Central Army. Otherwise, Sun Liangcheng would not be one of the "Five Tiger Generals" under Feng Yuxiang. The impact of such an elite army on the entire puppet army system is unimaginable. Most importantly, the phrase "the Japanese have run out of momentum" is rapidly spreading throughout the occupied territories, reminiscent of several recent defeats of the Japanese army. Several large puppet armies have also wavered to varying degrees. To prevent this. The Japanese army had to send more officers and supervision troops, but the increasingly strict supervision made these puppet soldiers more and more disgusted with them, and even occasionally clashed. And many blamed him for these things...... He has had a hard time in the past few months, and if it weren't for the fact that Dohihara and Kagesa Zhenzhao have been firmly protecting him, he would have been questioned a long time ago. But I didn't expect that at today's meeting, Fujita Jin talked about this again, although that guy's target was Kagesa Zhenzhao, but he always felt that he was targeting himself.

"I didn't talk to you." Fujita Susumu glanced at Shibayama Kanshiro with contempt, "I'm just concerned about the operation of the Imperial Intelligence Agency. In fact, we all know very well that these battles are, in the final analysis, all mistakes in intelligence. ”

"Why don't you take charge of the Mei Agency, Fujita-kun? If you still can't satisfy you, I can report to the base camp and hand over the bamboo organs, orchid organs, and chrysanthemum organs to you to manage. Tu Feiyuan said in a dark voice. Qin Wei's men made a series of troubles in Shanghai, and although they had always been the main targets of Mei and No. 76, Fujita Jin, as the commander of the Shanghai garrison, was also criticized by the Tokyo side for this. Obviously, Fujita Jin has long been holding back the fire in his belly. But Tu Feiyuan didn't intend to be considerate of this guy at all...... He is considerate of Fujita Jin, who can understand him?

"Everyone here is an important member of the empire in China. The dispatch force has suffered major setbacks one after another, and it is necessary for everyone to work together to tide over the difficulties...... So, I don't want to hear any more bickering. Shouichi Terauchi looked at Fujita Shin with a dark face. He was also angry at this guy's way of looking for trouble regardless of the overall situation. Because he always felt that Fujita Jin was pointing at Sang and scolding Huai...... Why did Zhou Fohai dare to rebel? Isn't it because they always lose battles? If they can win, give Zhou Fohai ten dares and dare not betray.

"The Chinese think that bombing the empire itself can arouse the confidence of their common people to confront us and change the current situation, but unfortunately that is just a dream." Glancing at everyone again, Shouichi Terauchi said in a deep voice: "Now, we have conquered Ningbo and carried out a large-scale sweep in Fujian, but this cannot be regarded as revenge at all. His Majesty the Emperor would never agree to let the Chinese go so easily. ”

"However, the empire has just gone through several major wars, and we have to guard against a possible counteroffensive by the Soviets, so we can only choose one target to attack. …… In this battle, the empire will win. ”

"The turmoil in Yunnan has given us an opportunity." "While the Chinese government's attention is focused on Yunnan, we will concentrate our forces, together with the cooperation of the navy, to completely cut off the Chinese government's international access to Guangxi," he added. ”

"Everyone knows how important the road from Guangxi to Vietnam is to China, especially since Chongqing and Yunnan have recently had some bad relations. The importance of this road to Chongqing will become even more prominent. Therefore, cutting off this path would indicate a huge weakening of the Chinese government's ability to fight back. Moreover, if Guangxi is conquered, our air force will be able to directly bomb Yunnan, Guizhou and other places...... The importance of this battle will be second only to the capture of Chongqing. ”

"The target was very good, but there was still a problem." Fujita Jin seems to be trying to go against Dohihara today, "Intelligence! How can we be sure that the information of this battle will not be leaked? You know, almost every defeat we have lost is related to intelligence leaks. ”

"All of you here are the most loyal elites to the Empire, who will leak the secret?" Shouichi Terauchi asked rhetorically.

"The previous campaigns were also very well done in terms of secrecy, but the end result was still unacceptable." "We have lost a lot of people, and we can no longer use the limited soldiers of the empire as a gavel for luck. ”

"Fujita-kun thinks we're trying our luck?" Tu Feiyuan snorted coldly.

"In terms of intelligence, we did have some mistakes, such as the Battle of Nanchang, it can be said that it was the mistakes in intelligence that led to the defeat of the 11th Army, as well as several air battles, all of which were the same. But we've improved a lot since then. For example, in the Battle of Changsha, we did not have too many intelligence losses, and the reason why we failed to conquer Changsha in one fell swoop can be said to be that Xue Yue's tactics and the Chinese army's will to resist played the greatest role. That is, the enemy is not as strong as he thinks, and he is not as omniscient as he thinks. And if I have to define the previous battles, I can only say that the luck of the Chinese is better than ours. Before Fujita could reply, Kagesa replied first.

"Then how can you be sure that this time our luck will be better than that of the Chinese?" Fujita asked rhetorically.

"No general will be 100% sure of the final outcome of the war. This time, we all know exactly what the Chinese can use against our troops, and their cards have been exhausted. And we have an absolute advantage. If this battle still can't be won, then I have nothing to say, I'd rather have a disembowelment. Kagesa replied.

"Don't take it so seriously, Kagesa-kun." "This time we will definitely win." Because, even if we cannot win on the battlefield, we will inevitably achieve a great victory in the enemy's rear......"

"Your Excellency, Chief of the General Staff, you seem to be very confident?" Fujita asked.

"The proud army will be defeated! This is the iron training of the Chinese art of war! Tu Feiyuan snorted coldly, "Especially a person, you can't be too proud." Because too much pride often means that life is in danger. (To be continued......)