On March 28, 1940, the North China Front Army Headquarters was lit up today, and the city of Beiping entered a state of martial law early, with a patrol team composed of thousands of puppet troops patrolling the streets, and the city was plastered with portraits of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, while the main buildings and the main street were planted with the Japanese Rising Sun flag.

The South Gate of Beiping, since the morning, the South Gate has been taken over by the Japanese soldiers of the brigade, and at the same time a notice was issued that the South Gate is closed to ordinary people today. At about nine o'clock in the morning, the new commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, took the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, and a large number of senior Japanese officers to the south gate of Beiping, as if to greet someone!

On the south gate tower, Tada Jun looked into the distance with a gloomy face, and several generals beside him all knew that His Excellency the Commander of the Dao Dao seemed to be in a very unbeautiful mood today, so they all fell silent, each lowered his head and thought about his own affairs, and the scene was extremely quiet.

"Gangbu-kun, do you think Your Excellency the Chief of the Guard has any special purpose in inspecting our Northern China Front this time?" Tada Jun asked in a deep voice.

As the new commander of the North China Front and the only lieutenant general commander so far, Tada Jun is under tremendous pressure. Compared with the previous two commanders of the North China Front, Tada Jun is far from it in terms of rank and seniority. And the first two commanders of the North China Front Army did not open up a new situation in North China, but were beaten by the people of China to lose their armor, Terauchi Shouichi and Binshan Yuan one was incorporated into the reserve, and the other was directly ordered to retire, it can be said that all of them have broken their wings in North China, and now everyone's eyes are on Tada Jun, how can he be easy.

"Your Excellency, Commander. I can't think of why His Majesty the Emperor wants His Excellency the Chief of the Guard to inspect North China, but I think there will definitely be no more than three reasons, the first is of course because His Majesty the Emperor is very dissatisfied with the current situation in North China, and hopes that His Excellency the Chief of the Guard can inspect North China on the spot, and then formulate corresponding countermeasures, after all, it is very detrimental to the empire to confront the people of China like this. ”

"The second reason should be about the gold, although the Matsumoto incident is full of doubts, but it is certain that Matsumoto Nobuhiro has indeed betrayed the empire, and the loss of 109 tons of gold is the best evidence. The Shina people received a lot of top-secret information from Matsumoto's mouth, and now the branch of the Golden Lily Organization in North China was almost uprooted by the Shina people. The losses are enormous. His Excellency the Chief of Guard, as a close minister of His Majesty the Emperor, is likely to have come to deal with this matter. ”

"The third reason is that he is coming at that mysterious god-level master, Your Excellency the Commander should know what a god-level master means to the empire, it is equivalent to a mid-level killing weapon. If the empire has two god-level masters. Basically already invincible. Once the war is unfavorable, we can send god-level masters to assassinate or force the people of China to negotiate peace with us, and now the war is very unfavorable to the Empire. His Majesty the Emperor probably sent His Excellency the Chief of the Guard to invite that mysterious god-level master. ”

After listening to the lieutenant general's analysis on the desk, Tada Jun sighed and said: "It is worthy of the staff genius that His Excellency Ternachi and His Excellency Binshan fancy at the same time, Gangbe-kun, your analysis is very accurate. Yesterday, His Royal Highness the Prince personally sent me a report saying that His Excellency the Chief of the Guard came here mainly to inspect North China, and that the Empire was now very dissatisfied with the situation in North China, and more importantly, he did not have a clear understanding of the Chinese army on the North China side, so he sent His Excellency the Chief of Guard to visit the field. This time, along with His Excellency the Chief of the Guard, there were also the backbones of various factions, more than 200 people, and it seems that the North China problem has become the biggest problem in the empire. ”

"It's a dead search, the problem of Northern China is really a headache, no wonder the empire is so excited, it seems that we are busy this time!" Okabe Naosaburo said in a deep voice.

"Before, I did think that His Excellency the Chief of the Guard came only to inspect the North China, but after the reminder of Gangbe-kun just now, I now think that the inspection is not the main purpose of His Excellency the Chief of the Guard, and the latter two are the purpose of His Excellency the Chief of the Guard to travel thousands of miles to the North China. After all, if you only inspect a northern branch, it should not be the chief of the guard under His Majesty the Emperor, and so many military senators and seniors in the country are obviously more suitable for this position than His Excellency the chief of the guard. Tada said.

"Hay! Your Excellency Commander's analysis is very reasonable, but whatever Your Excellency of the Guard is here for, we must be careful to deal with it. ”

Without waiting for Tada Jun to answer, a major general's brigade commander reminded him: "Your Excellency Commander, here you are!" ”

Hearing this, Tada Jun and Okabe Naosaburo looked up, only to see that within their line of sight, a huge convoy was galloping in the direction of Beiping, waving billowing smoke and dust.

"Let's go, gentlemen, please come with me to the gate of the city to greet His Excellency the Chief of Guard!" Tada Jun said in a deep voice.

"Hay!"

Ten minutes later, the convoy finally arrived at the city gate, and only then did Tada Jun and others see clearly that there were four new armored vehicles at the front of the convoy, and then several American-made Ford cars in the middle, and a large number of troop carriers in the back. And in the entire convoy, in addition to these vehicles, there are more than 30 light combat vehicles, and the entire convoy can be said to be armed to the teeth.

When he was about to reach the city gate, the Ford car suddenly accelerated, crossed the armored car in front, and came to Tada Jun and others, and then a junior officer sitting in the passenger seat quickly got out of the car, opened the door behind the car, and an officer wearing a general's uniform slowly stepped out of the car.

Tada Jun and others all knew this person, and this person was the chief of the Emperor's bodyguard, Shunroku Hata, and he was much higher than those present in terms of birth and seniority. Tada Jun and others hurriedly greeted them!

"Welcome to the North China Chief!" Tada said respectfully.

"Don't be polite, Tada-kun, your life is here! Hehehe! General Shunroku Hata said with a smile.

"Your Excellency the Chief of the Guard, I have prepared drinks for you and all the members of the inspection team, and I will wash the dust for Your Excellency and your colleagues, Your Excellency the Chief of the Guard, please!" Tada Jun said loudly.

"Yo Xi, on behalf of all the members of the inspection team, I would like to thank Tada-kun for his kindness, but it is only nine o'clock in the morning, and we will hold the reception banquet until noon or evening! Now we will go to the garrison of the North China Front to hold a short meeting and first arrange the tasks of this inspection mission. "The six generals of Hata Shun said.

"Hai, obey Your Excellency's arrangement!" Tada Jun said loudly.

"Yo Xi, lead the way!" Toshi-rikuchi Hata.

Under the leadership of Tada Jun, a group of people quickly rushed to the headquarters of the North China Front.

In the conference room of the North China Front, after all the team leaders of the inspection team and the senior officers of the North China Front were all done in order, Tada Jun, as the master, stood up and said: "Today is the most honorable day for our North China Front, because today we have welcomed an inspection delegation headed by His Excellency Toshishi Hatata, Chief of Bodyguard of His Majesty the Emperor, and this is an honor for our North China Front. Now, I would like to give the floor to His Excellency Toshishi Hatata! ”

The biggest difference between Shunroku Hata and the Japanese officers of this inspection delegation is that this person has been to China before, and he has also dealt with the Nationalist Government, so it can be said that this person is an authentic China expert. Out of his understanding of China and the Chinese army, General Yan Jun was very dissatisfied with the progress of the Japanese army stationed in China, so the first thing he said when he got up was: "Ladies and gentlemen, His Majesty the Emperor is very dissatisfied with the performance of the North China Front, and I myself am also very dissatisfied with the performance of the North China Front. Is it that the people of China are too cunning and powerful, or has the Northern China Front lost the bravery of the imperial warriors? ”

The words of the six generals of Yan Jun suddenly surprised everyone present, and everyone knew that the arrival of this inspection team was definitely not a good thing, and they were here to provoke, but no one thought that His Excellency the general would be so direct.

"Do you feel uncomfortable with my harsh words, and do not understand your distress in the slightest? I am an officer and a commander who has fought against the Chinese army, and I know the fighting power of the Chinese army, although I admire their courage, and most of them can be called warriors. But they were still a group of peasants with rudimentary and primitive weapons, and I couldn't believe that such a group of peasants would crush or even annihilate the warriors of the most heroic division of the Empire! Not only I can't understand it, but many of the emperor's elders and even His Majesty the Emperor can't understand it, so the Northern China Front must give us an explanation, a passable explanation! "Yan Jun six generals said.

All the senior officers of the North China Front present were shocked, Your Excellency the general was really too unkind, this is here to ask the entire North China Front Army for guilt, it is too hateful.

However, thinking about the performance of the front army in the past two years, they themselves feel blushing, the brilliant achievements of the imperial army in the first year are obvious to all, they occupied Beiping, occupied Tianjin, they forcibly occupied Hebei, Shandong, Chahar, Suiyuan and most of Shanxi, and invaded Henan.

But this kind of prestige only lasted less than a year, from the beginning of the Showa 13, the North China Front encountered an opponent, so far it quickly went downhill, first the headquarters of the army in Mongolia was broken by the Chinese people, the loss of a lieutenant general commander and a large number of generals, but also the entire Suiyuan.

Then the newly built headquarters of the Mongolian army was broken again, this time not only losing a general commander who had been promoted to the line of fire and a large number of middle and senior officers, but also causing the front army to lose control of the entire steppe and the entire Chahar.

In less than a month, they almost made the whole line passive, and the two lines of defense that they were proud of were like paper paste, and even the First Army was completely annihilated by the Chinese people, losing the whole of Shanxi and most of Hebei, which was too humiliating, and this is no longer a shame that can be described by two words. So as angry as they are now, they are more ashamed. (To be continued......)

PS: I went back to my hometown yesterday.,No network, no power, no way to upload.,So I'm sorry for the break.,There's only one update today.,Tomorrow to resume the update.,Forgive me!