"Bring me my coat!" Umezu said to the guard at the door.

After the guard said a word, he walked in and brought in a woolen coat. The guards knew that Umezu Mijiro had a quirk, he seemed to be very cold, and when it was a little cold, he wanted to wrap his coat around himself. However, sometimes in the middle of winter in Northeast Sanjiu, he is just a thin woolen coat.

This was very strange to the guards and the people around them, and it was only later that the guards learned from insiders that Umezu's family was unhappy when he was a child, and that he was often abused and beaten by his drunken stepfather, just to be able to protect himself, and over time it became a habit.

The guard put his coat on, Umezu put it on, expertly buttoned the brass button on his coat, then put up the collar of his coat, wrapped himself tightly, and walked towards the conference room with strong steps.

In the conference room, the officers who were present had already arrived, and when they saw Umezu walk in, they all stood up one after another.

"All gentlemen, please be seated." Umezu walked to the main seat and sat down himself.

Glancing at the officers present, many of them had a slightly tired look on their faces, and seeing that there were still a few vacancies, Umezu asked who had not arrived.

Chief of Staff Yukio Kasawara said to Umezu: "Matsui-kun, Akiyama-kun and others are still on the front line and have not been able to come to the meeting. However, after the meeting, I will pass on the contents of the meeting to them. ”

Umezu Mijiro took a deep breath and pouted his mouth without speaking. He knew very well the current situation, if he couldn't turn the tide immediately, I was afraid that their defeat would be irreversible.

After a while, he said slowly in his gloomy tone: "Gentlemen, I don't think there is much to say about today's situation, you must have already known it. ”

Umezu Mijiro slowly said his opening remarks, and the arrogant and brave officers on the scene were already a little tired at this time, and everyone focused their eyes on him.

"Tokyo has informed me that the Empire is facing a dire situation and that they cannot give us any more support. Manchuria! It is up to you. As he spoke, Umezu stood up and walked back with a few powerful steps, and then he pulled open the large-scale map of the Tohoku region behind him with a bang, and everyone's eyes were focused on the large-scale map from him.

"What did you think of when you saw the map of Manchuria?" Umezu Mijiro asked as he turned to the crowd.

The officer who sat down did not know what he meant by these words, so he looked at each other and could not answer.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Umezu Mijiro took a few steps forward and said, "The first time I set foot on Manchurian soil was when I was young, when I landed at Lushun with General Nogi Noshinori, where we fought the Russian army for several days and finally defeated them. Every time I think back to this time, I feel emotional. ”

"The emperor conscripts millions of prisoners, and the field siege corpses make mountains!" After speaking, he also recited a few lines of Nogi Noshinori's poems written after the Russo-Japanese War.

The officers who sat down listened intently, and it seemed to them that Umezu Mijiro, who had always been taciturn, suddenly had more words today, but these words were all spoken to their hearts.

"Today, this hot land that our ancestors have taken away with all their blood is about to be buried in the hands of me and you, and every time I think of this, it is really heartbreaking!" Umezu said with another look of pain.

"Ha Yi, Your Excellency Commander don't worry, we will do our best!" Lieutenant General Okazaki, the commander of the Sendai Division, stood up, bowed his head, and made a sharp statement. He is an old subordinate of Umezu Mijiro, not long ago the Sendai Division had just suffered a loss on the battlefield in Burma, and now he was transferred to the Northeast and was angry, how could he feel good in his heart?

"I don't doubt your courage and determination." Umezu Mijiro stepped forward and put his hand on Okazaki's shoulder and motioned for him to sit down, "It's just that the situation today is like this for a variety of reasons. The people of China secretly communicate with the enemy army, provide them with information, and help them in battle, which puts us in a very passive situation. I am determined to defend the walls and use special weapons against the Chinese army. ”

"Special weapons?" Everyone was a little puzzled, but when Umezu Mijiro wrote the code name 731 on the table, everyone suddenly understood.

Unit 731 died as a unit established with the support of Umezu Mijiro to specialize in bacteriological warfare. At the beginning of the war, this unit used living people as research objects to develop bacteriological weapons that exterminated human nature

However, a few years ago, for some reason, the secret was leaked, and this unit was attacked by the Chinese army, and the research results and researchers in it were almost wiped out, and the research on germ warfare had to come to an end.

But Umezu Mijiro still remembers Taro Ishii's lobbying for him, "Bacteriological warfare can obtain the greatest military benefits at the lowest cost!" After becoming the commander of the Kwantung Army, he reorganized Unit 731 and set up four detachments to conduct research in different places.

Now, at a critical juncture, Umezu Mijiro has no worries, so he has to use this killer weapon that he has hidden for many years.

Hearing that there were bacteriological weapons again, the faces of the officers present swept away the previous exhaustion and gloom, and they smiled one by one, and a wave of excitement surged up their brows.

They know that under the current offensive, if they do not use this extraordinary weapon to turn the situation around, they are bound to fail.

"What does Your Excellency the Commander mean by the battle policy of the fortified and the wilderness?" A major general stood up and asked.

Umezu Mijiro continued to say in his gloomy tone, "Burn it, kill it, rob it!" The government forces in Rangchina had nowhere to contact. ”

……

The Fifth Army Group began to divide its forces along the railway line in two lines, attacking north and south.

The vast plains of the black earth gave the mechanized corps a chance to show their strength, and the mechanized corps rolled up billowing wolf smoke under the cover of the silver war eagles in the sky, like a torrent of steel, tearing apart the Japanese defense line one by one.

When the Fifth Army Group was sweeping through this rich black land with a devastating momentum, it encountered a thorny problem - the Japanese army used mustard gas bombs.

At the Shenyang front-line headquarters, Lin Zuoda was in a dilemma with the documents that had just arrived, and after thinking about it, he said to the guards beside him: "You go and find General Huang of the Airborne Forces, and say that there is a meeting to be held." ”

Huang Zheng and the others were only responsible for assisting the Fifth Army Group in the battle this time, and they had suffered a lot of casualties in the capture of Shenyang, and they had to make a short repair after that.

Lin Zuoda didn't have the right to transfer them, so he had to say please.

Huang Zheng had just spoken to the Nanjing side at this time, and he reported the problems of the traitors dealt with after the last war, and pointed out some cases of doing bad things in the name of dealing with the traitors, hoping that the Nanjing side could solve them.

His phone was hung up directly to the office of the Central Executive Committee, so naturally it was somewhat effective.

The other party promised to give feedback on the situation, and immediately replied to Huang Zheng after coming up with a solution.

As soon as Huang Zheng hung up the phone, the guard informed him, "Commander Lin has sent someone." ”

"Commander Lin? Okay, let people in. As soon as Huang Zheng went out, the guard came over and explained his intentions.

Although Lin Zuoda said that he was not his direct superior, he was the commander after all, and he said that he had not evacuated now, and he was still under his jurisdiction in name, so Huang Zheng picked up his coat and military hat and said, "Lead the way." ”

As soon as he arrived at the old marshal's mansion, he saw Ji Xingwen and Zhu Jingxing, as well as a cadre from the reserve cadre department also coming over, presumably this was all invited by Commander Lin.

After greeting a few people, they walked in, and at this time Commander Lin had already arrived.

He sat there with a teacup and looked at the papers on the table, his face was gloomy, his brows were furrowed, and his emaciated face showed an ugly look, and it was obvious that something was going wrong with him.

"Commander Lin." Huang Zheng shouted. Commander Lin reacted, he put down the teacup in his hand, stood up and said, "Here, come and sit." ”

Several people came over and sat down. Then, Commander Lin handed them the document he was reading just now.

Huang Zheng opened it and saw that it was written: "On the same day, the 76th Infantry Division of the Fifth Army Group Mechanized Infantry Division outside Siping was attacked by the Japanese mustard bomb at 10:32 a.m. The number of casualties is now 206 and is still increasing......"

After reading this page, Huang Zheng turned to the next page and saw, "On the night of the fifth day, the Japanese army dispatched a military police brigade to attack a town east of Siping, and the Japanese army killed more than 300 people on the pretext of harboring anti-Japanese elements, causing a tragedy!" ”

Bang! After Huang Zheng saw it, he slapped it on the table angrily, "It's so inhuman!" ”

"It's like a beast! I think it's a day of jumping off the wall. Ji Xingwen also scolded angrily.

After everyone talked, Commander Lin came over with a teacup and said, "Don't get excited, everyone, it's just for this matter to call a few people over." In the current situation, the momentum of our offensive is irresistible to the Japanese army, and this is the general trend. But how can we minimize the casualties of our officers and soldiers and civilians? ”

"At the moment, if Umezu Mijiro keeps doing this, when we liberate the entire northeast, I am afraid that our casualties will greatly increase, and the common people will also suffer a lot of crimes. I remember that there was a precedent for bombing the base of Unit 731 before, and this time I came for this purpose. ”

"Okay, yes, we have air supremacy, but the question is how to check the address of Unit 731?" Huang Zheng raised his own questions.

At this time, Commander Lin and a responsible person from the Reserve Cadre Department glanced at each other and said, "Director He, you can talk about it." ”

The man named Director He stepped forward and said, "We have ascertained the address, and we have already mastered the new location of Black Sun 731." ”