The news of the large-scale torture and killing of Qing prisoners of war reached the Tokyo Military Command Department the next day. The 6th Army Command Department is not doing much, but it is just letting the ideas ahead cover up, and it is not a big deal. And the Naval Command Department soon found out. The navy is different from the Sixth Army, the navy is a high-tech branch of the armed forces, and the high-level people have drunk foreign ink anyway, their thinking is relatively close to that of Europe and the United States, and they look at problems more rationally, unlike the Sixth Army, which is the "soul of Yamato" all day long.

When the navy heard this, it was shocking and immediately realized that the problem was serious. Navy Minister Nagano Shusei and Vice Minister Yamamoto Fifty-six, the two of them went to find Hirota Hiroki together. Hirota Hongyi also felt that it was a problem when he heard this, and called Prince Xuanren, the chief of military orders. Prince Xuanren verbally promised to investigate. But he didn't take it seriously, just asked the commanders of the divisions in front to report on the situation.

Xuanren himself thought that now that the imperial army in front of him was advancing to God, he really didn't have too much energy to take care of the prisoners of war. Now the weather is very cold, and it is normal for prisoners of war to lack food and clothing, and some of them die. And the commanders of the divisions quickly reported the situation. After Xuanren saw it, it was exactly what he wanted. He replied to Hirota that according to the information from the front, there was no deliberate and large-scale massacre of prisoners of war. Some of them were also sporadic incidents, and most of them were coaxed by prisoners of war to flee first, and the imperial army had to shoot as a last resort.

After hearing this, Hirota Hongyi felt that it was inappropriate, and it was estimated that the 6th Army was also an understatement. However, now that the army at the front is winning one after another, it is still important to focus on the great cause of the empire, and it is really not good to criticize the 6th Army too harshly because of the treatment of prisoners of war. But the Navy is very clear-headed.

In particular, Admiralty Vice-Admiralty Isoroku Yamamoto was arguably one of the clearest minds in the Japanese army. He has lived in the United States for a long time, and his thoughts and vision are incomparable to many high-level people in the Japanese army. In his opinion, this is definitely not a trivial matter, especially it may anger the Ming Kingdom again and affect the current cooperation between the two countries. If this matter is not handled well, it will affect Japan's international image at least and lose the right of passage through the Strait of Malacca. In that case, we will not be far from fighting.

Yamamoto Fifty-six is more leng, and he is a person who only admits death. Although he was only a deputy minister in the cabinet and could be regarded as a soft-spoken person, he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and went to the prime minister again to theorize. It just so happened that the Minister of the 6th Army, Shouichi Terauchi, was also there, and the two of them stood up on the spot.

……

As soon as there was such a fuss, the matter leaked out of the high-level week in Japan, and the insiders were no longer those few. On the evening of the 27th, the information reached the headquarters of the Nanjing People's Guard. Xiang Xiaoqiang took the information from the fourteen grids and looked at it, and his head suddenly became bigger.

"Smack!"

He threw the information on the table and scolded:

"Sure enough! These ***s, I expected them to do this kind of thing! You can't have illusions about these ***s! ”

He glanced up at Fourteen Gege, and saw that her face was also gloomy and serious, so he said nothing more. Just said:

"Let people prepare the car, let's go to the headquarters!"

……

In the headquarters, the hall was busy. The 6th Army is busy again. Busy negotiating with the headquarters of the Central Plains Corps, busy stepping up the offensive, busy preparing to receive a large number of prisoners, receiving the Xuzhou area, busy preparing to continue the offensive to the north. On the navy's side, it is also busy assembling a fleet and preparing for an amphibious 6 climb in Shandong.

More than a day after the Japanese attack, the Ming army also relaunched a strong attack on the Xuzhou theater, and the tanks were squeezing inward, and the loudspeaker was broadcasting the latest battle situation in the northeast. The Qing army in Xuzhou was tantamount to being under a double blow. The Ming army is attacking in reality here, and the Japanese army is attacking in everyone's heart.

Most of the Qing officers and soldiers were inclined to believe the broadcasts and leaflets of the Ming army. Because for a long time, the Northern Qing Dynasty has been completely discredited, and every time the court promotes, the officers and soldiers below don't care about anything else, they don't believe it at first. However, the propaganda of the Southern Ming Dynasty was always much more objective, and the officers and soldiers of the Northern Qing Dynasty always listened to it as authoritative news.

Now, even the Qing soldiers who are confused are faintly aware that the Qing Dynasty will not last for a few days. If you continue to fight, it will be a backing for the imperial court. As for whether the imperial court will execute his family members after surrendering, didn't he say it on the Nanming radio, now that the Qing court has sent all the forces it can to fight, there are not so many people to search door to door. Besides, the Qing Dynasty wants 10,000, and now I can see it, and those military and police gendarns in the rear can't see it? Who wouldn't want to leave a trail out for themselves? It is estimated that the emperor's "Zhulian Order" will no longer be able to leave Beijing......

……

When a few old men in the headquarters were busy, Xiang Xiaoqiang came, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, he had to take Zhang Zhao to the conference room first to say a few words. When he arrived in the conference room, he told Xiaoqiang about the matter.

Zhang Zhaoxian's first reaction was to be skeptical. He knew that Xiang Xiaoqiang was a hardcore hawk against Japan, and last time he did not hesitate to fabricate a non-existent "big oil field" for this purpose. …… Besides, the Japanese armed forces have always been known for their strict military discipline, and in the Russo-Japanese War and the World War, they were quite civilized in treating prisoners of war, which is very much in line with the "separation from Asia and entry into Europe" that it has always flaunted. …… Torture and killing of captives? Or is it massive? Not very reliable.

Zhang Zhao pondered for a moment, then looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang and nodded:

"yes, I see. But if this is true, it is more difficult to deal with. This one is more sensitive. Even if we say something, we have to have real evidence. Your security team will do a little more to probe around, but it's ...... It's very good, but for now, we still have to focus more on the war against the Qing Dynasty. Now that the Japanese army is making great progress, our army has such a high degree of motorization, it will not lag behind the Japanese army. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was dumbfounded, and he couldn't say anything for a while. He knew that it must be the after-effects of the last "oil field incident". Now I'm a bit like the kid who shouted "The wolf is coming".

He licked his lips, thought for a moment, and said:

"Ming Gong, if it is confirmed that this information is accurate, then how will we react?"

Zhang Zhaoxian hesitated for a moment and said:

"This should be a matter for the cabinet. This is a political issue. We are not affected militarily in the slightest. Or how to fight, how to fight. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang pressed his temperament and said:

"Ming Gong, since we are now in a state of cooperation with Japan, can we send military observers to the Northeast Battlefield? Human life is at stake, and we should actually see what is born. If this information is accurate, the Japanese army is massacring prisoners of war on a daily scale, and we are indifferent here, then we also have our share in this heinous blood debt, and we will be to blame. We secretly ceded the Northeast to Japan first, and then sat back and watched the Japanese massacred prisoners of war...... Ming Gong, even after the war, in the history books of later generations, we people will carry a heavy moral baggage. Our previous achievements are likely to be erased. ”

Zhang Zhaoxian didn't take this matter seriously, but now that he heard him say such a long paragraph, he couldn't help frowning and pondering again.

After a while, he said:

"Okay, I'll go talk to Shen Ge Lao about this. But first, Japan doesn't necessarily want us to send observers. Second, even if we send it, it will definitely be a lot of precautions, and the battlefield is so big, if you really don't want to hide something from the observers, it will be easy. Third, since it is an observer, it must be a mutual dispatch between the two sides. The Japanese army will also ask to send observers to our troops. ”

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