Chapter 70: The Cunning Chinese Section 3 Section 3 The Butterfly Effect
One is a prisoner, the other is a prisoner of his own volition, neither of them has an identity tag, nor does he have an officer ID, the devil Nakasa is a dumb man without saying a word, and the lieutenant is a name, Tahara Shinzo, after this situation was reported to the military region, Yang Bangzi stayed by the radio and waited for a callback.
An hour later, the military region called back and told Director Cheng and Yang Bangzi that they must be strictly guarded, and the identities of the two prisoners were being investigated.
The old regiment also sent a telegram, from Laiyuan and Bauhinia Pass to Yinfang Town, a large number of devils, cavalry, infantry, chariots, etc., there must be thousands! It turned out that all the devils stationed in Yinfang Town were loaded into cars and pulled back to Laiyuan.
In the east, they have arrived at Liushugou Village, not far from Guojiabaozi, and the third battalion of the old third regiment has also arrived at the periphery of Guojiabaozi.
Yang Bangzi called back to the old third regiment, and learned that Liu Da Ass had already taken a battalion to the outskirts of Xingtang County, so he simply telegraphed the third battalion of the old third regiment and the big ones in the name of the 11th Army Division, and chose the opportunity to break the devil's encirclement of Guojiabao and rescue the villagers.
A large number of devils appeared in the north, and the east has not stopped, and there is also information about the abnormal movement of devils from the west and south.
The 36th Division of the Japanese Army on the line from Tang County to the Dasha River in the south gathered about 5,000 troops in Lingshan Town, and the forward had approached Langjiazhuang from the southwest, and the 110th Division of Tang County also sent a wing of troops to slowly advance towards Langjiazhuang from the southeast.
The biggest move was the independent Fourth Mixed Brigade in the west, which had retreated to Xiaguan and other places since they had fought with Yang Bangzi at Chai Piling. More than 1,000 troops were suddenly dispatched at noon today. Before the attack, he went out to the village of Langyakou. Less than 30 miles from Nanmazhuang, the guerrillas there transmitted the information by means of a Turkish telegraph.
It's kind of interesting! On the map spread out on the table, all the information about the devils obtained, according to the direction of the cluster and the expected direction of attack, you can see the devil troops in all directions, which is to use Kawaguchi Town as the center of the attack.
Looks like this guy is really a big fish! The devil gathered more than 10,000 troops in less than a day, and wanted to encircle the 11th subdivision of the small Jinchaji Military Region from four sides.
I'm discussing how to deal with these devils, and the telegram has arrived again! This time it's awesome! From Yan'an! The message was written in two lines: "After investigation." The Japanese army captured by your department is indeed the younger brother of the Japanese emperor, Prince Takahito of Mikasa Palace, who has recently served as the emperor's consolation envoy, and will be strictly protected from damage! Another Cha Tahara Shinzo, the infantry captain of the Japanese Sixth Division, died in battle in 1938! ”
O Prince! And the emperor is a mother! After reading these two lines, Yang Bangzi's hands trembled! I'm a dear mother! As soon as Lao Tzu saw this kid, he felt that it was unusual! My ancestral grave is smoking! The prince who caught a little devil! How many machine guns and cannons do you have to get back!
Not to mention that this Yang stick is full of small peasant consciousness! You know that if you change the machine gun cannon, you can't have a little mood! Changing planes or something!
Now it's time to play a big deal! Both the military region and Yan'an have given instructions to take good care of people at all costs. Moreover, the news had to be tightly sealed, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and Yan'an each sent "high-level" cadres to this small place in northwest Hebei.
The closest is the military district. Across the Shenfu Highway along the Dasha River, Director Shu of the Political Department was already on the road with a team.
It would be a mistake to think that it would be just such a small movement and such a small wave! A butterfly in South America is said to have a chain reaction that can cause a tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean when it has nothing to do when it is full and has nothing to do.
Yang stick hit the big luck and caught a Japanese prince, but the typhoon effect is much more amazing than the butterfly fan!
First of all, the news of the capture of Prince Takahito Mikasa Palace was informed by his elder brother, Prince Chichibu Palace Yonghito, two people, General Okamura Ninji and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Prince Yonghito Chichibu asked the Prime Minister to tell the Emperor Bixia, but although Hideki Tojo agreed, he did not do it.
The prime minister immediately summoned several top officials of the War Department and the General Staff Headquarters, held an emergency meeting of 20 minutes, and then issued three orders to Okamura Ninji.
The first is to send Prince Yoshihito Chichibu to treat his injuries and cut off all contact with the outside world.
Second, all the relevant personnel who were captured at the scene of His Royal Highness the Prince's capture that day were taken away and locked up in solitary confinement.
Third, immediately draw up two copies of jihua to assess how likely it is that His Royal Highness the Prince can be rescued? And if he can't save Jihua, who will let His Royal Highness the Prince "die in battle".
The emperor's prime minister, Weishenme, will do this? Bushido's loyalty is often used as a weapon! Maintaining the reputation of the Emperor and the Empire is much more important than the lives of one or a few Imperial Families!
Hideki Tojo was the leader of the Nanjin faction, and it was precisely the imperial family that he tried his best to defend was a consistent supporter of the mainland faction, and the attack in Southeast Asia was already ready to be attacked, and the emperor's ambiguous attitude towards the military department's plan of action is very telling.
In particular, the two younger brothers of Emperor Bixia in the army, the so-called Jihua who moved the capital to Beiping, basically wanted to lead the entire empire into the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield.
The struggle between the mainland faction and the southward faction was the mainland faction that prevailed in 1937, and the operation of the northeast gave the empire great benefits, so the military department was a call to take the whole of China at that time, and after the all-out war in 37 years, it was unexpectedly met with stubborn resistance from the Chinese military and civilians, which gave the mainland faction a heavy slap!
Hopes for Outer Mongolia and Siberia were also shattered, and after the all-out war with China, the economic sanctions imposed on Japan by Britain and the United States and other countries made the empire's war machine increasingly difficult.
This struggle lasted for more than four years, and it was not until Hideki Tojo came to power to form a cabinet that a plan for southward expansion was finalized, and the mainland faction, represented by the two princes, was still exerting influence on the emperor.
Getting rid of the leaders of the mainland faction with the hand of the Eighth Route can not only arouse hatred for China in Japan, but also make the emperor turn to fully support Jihua who is advancing southward, and this is how Prime Minister Tojo's calculation is played! Loyalty to the Emperor and loyalty to the Japanese Empire are the same thing! It is worth sacrificing one or two princes to achieve victory in the Great East Asian Holy War!
Therefore, Okamura Ninji is now mobilizing heavy troops from the periphery to encircle and suppress the area where His Royal Highness the Prince may be, and the Japanese intelligence services, special high-tech departments, etc., are working at full speed, and are making all preparations to see people die or see corpses.
This is something that Yang Bangzi doesn't know, this is still close! On the same day that he captured this prince, in the trenches of Leningrad, thousands of miles away on the European battlefield, Zhukov received an appointment from Stalin to call him back to Moscow to serve as the commander of the Soviet army against the German "Typhoon" Jihua.
At this time, the Soviet army had just experienced a crushing defeat in the Battle of Kiev, and from the war that began in the summer to this time, the Soviet army lost nearly 7 million troops! And in the face of the "Typhoon" operation launched by the German army aimed at taking Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, Stalin had no troops to send!
In the face of the Moscow defense line of more than 1.5 million German troops, there were only more than 300,000 people in the four armies, and Zhukov was also a big head when he came!
Fortunately, the autumn rain began to fall continuously, and the march of the German Panzer Army was greatly slowed down by the mud, and Zhukov, after analyzing the situation in the Far East, made a bet that the Japanese Army would not have any more major military operations in Outer Mongolia and Siberia.
Twenty-five of the most elite infantry divisions and sixteen armored brigades began to rush to the battlefield in Moscow, does this have anything to do with Yang Bangzi catching a Japanese prince? Yes! Great!
The two princes are representatives of the mainland faction, not only are they hot-headed to move the capital, they have been staring at the steppes of Outer Mongolia and the ice-free port of Vladivostok!
In particular, Prince Chichibu Miyayahito has been planning another attack on the Soviet army in the Far East, and he himself has a high prestige among the generals of the Kwantung Army, and the Kwantung Army wants to avenge the Nomenkan!
After Prince Mikasa Mikasa Takahito was captured, his brother was placed under house arrest, and the mainland faction had no leader, and Prime Minister Tojo used this incident to comprehensively suppress and attack the mainland faction in the army, so that no one dared to mention Jihua who fought against the Soviet army, and all the armed forces of the empire were preparing to fight in Southeast Asia, so that the Soviet army dared to transfer all the elites of the Far East to the Moscow front.
In this way, did Yang Bangzi's arrest of a prince indirectly support the Soviet Union's Battle of Moscow? More than 10,000 miles away, this is a typical butterfly effect! (To be continued......)