August 7th. At about six o'clock in the morning, at the residence of Shigeru Sawada in the Hainan Land Command Headquarters of Changjiang City, he sat at his desk after washing, and looked seriously at the commendation telegram sent by the base camp yesterday, and the more he looked at it, the more strange the look on his face became. Reporting to the base camp to capture Changjiang and defending Baisha with heavy troops is actually to repay His Excellency Sakagaki's kindness, so that the bigwigs in the base camp can believe that Sakagaki's proposal to establish a Hainan land command is forward-looking. It's just that I didn't expect the base camp to really take it seriously. Thinking of the telegram sent by Isoroku Yamamoto yesterday, he pondered the possibility of the Combined Fleet withdrawing alone, and the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became.

Sawada Shigeru didn't want to leave Hainan as soon as possible, just because he had just received a commendation, and because the soldiers could barely fill their stomachs for several days, it was now a problem to walk, and they could not complete the assembly and evacuation within the specified time, so he replied to such a telegram.

"With Yamamoto's character, he would never really abandon us, maybe he was too worried," he was comforting himself like this, when his nose twitched twice, and he couldn't help but stand up with a puzzled expression. After sniffing deeply twice, he said to himself, "Strange, this fragrance? ”

"Chuan Sheng!" He suddenly shouted.

"Your Excellency!" His adjutant Katsuda Ta immediately walked out of a nearby room.

"What's going on in the kitchen, it's so smelly, you can go and see it."

"Hay!"

As Yamamoto became more and more disagreeable, and supplies became scarce, Shigeru Sawada, who was sympathetic to the soldiers, also cut back on his own use. Of course, he can't cut it, because there are no good ingredients in the food supplied by the Combined Fleet. As for "collecting" from the local area, Sawada Shigeru had this idea at first, however, after discovering that it was just a futile effort, the soldier who could not bear to be hungry had to pay extra physical strength for his appetite, and he terminated the project.

In the past few days, I have been drinking porridge, eating canned food and biscuits, and this stomach is not sensitive to natural fragrance, so in the kitchen three meters away, chef Hikoichi Kobayashi poured peanuts into oil, and Sawada Shigeru moved his index finger.

Chuan Sheng quickly returned: "Your Excellency, Xiao Lin is frying peanuts." You smell the scent of peanuts. ”

"Peanuts?" Sawada Shigeru swallowed his saliva very covertly and said, "Did the Combined Fleet provide peanuts yesterday?" Ah, I haven't eaten peanuts in a while. ”

This peanut is naturally Tamura Haosheng's filial piety, and Chuan Sheng, who privately received his five catties of peanuts, has been waiting for the opportunity to pay for it, he hurriedly said: "The peanuts were sent by Captain Tamura early in the morning, saying that the commander has worked hard this time and wants to improve your food." ”

"Wasn't it rationed by the Combined Fleet?" Sawada Shigeru was stunned.

"Those Navy guys are going to detain us even for cookies, how can they be so kind. Anyway, in their minds, we're just a bunch of wretched—"

"Enough!" Shigeru Sawada's face had changed, and he suddenly yelled.

Chuan Sheng was startled, and quickly stood up respectfully with his head bowed.

Shigeru Sawada's face changed uncertainly, and after a few seconds, he asked Katsu, "Where did he get the peanuts sent by Tamura?" In the nearby villages, didn't the people of China empty everything? ”

"I don't know. Your Excellency, I went to the station of the 20th Wing yesterday and found something strange. ”

"Huh?"

"The soldiers of the 20th Wing don't seem to be affected by the supply cuts, they are all alive and kicking one by one."

"What? Is that really the case? ”

"Yes."

Sawada's eyes narrowed, he thought for a moment and said, "Well, you go and send a telegram to the 20th Wing and ask Tamura to come and see me." ”

"Hay!"

The 20th Wing was stationed in the town of Qifang, 20 kilometers away, and more than two hours later, Tamura arrived in an ox cart under the escort of a small group of soldiers.

The devil standing guard at the door saw the cow pulling the cart, drooling and drooling, and his eyes were green.

Xu sensed that something was wrong in their eyes, and Tamura asked his men to drive the ox cart all the way to the gate of the headquarters. Sawada happened to walk out of the headquarters at this time, surrounded by several junior officers, and he met Tamura and the others at the door, and when he saw the ox cart, his eyes became strange.

When Tamura saw him, he immediately ordered to stop, then jumped out of the car and ran over, bowed respectfully, and said, "Your Excellency, you are looking for me." ”

Sawada first looked at the cow meaningfully, then turned his gaze to Tamura and said meaningfully: "Tamura-kun, you did a good job!" ”

Tamura pretended not to understand, smiled hehehe, and said, "Everything depends on the commander's command. ”

"Let's go in and bring the cow in."

"Hay."

Sawada brought Tamura into the conference room, asked Tamura to sit down, and said, "Tamura-kun, I heard Kawakatsu say that the soldiers of your wing are all in good spirits. Well? Did you find the grain warehouse of the people of China in Qifang Town? ”

Tamura was surprised, and quickly shook his hand: "No, no, His Excellency the commander said with a smile." ”

"What's going on here?" Sawada's eyes narrowed. Although he has no way to change the status quo of the army because of the lack of accountability and the problems left over from history, this does not mean that he will tolerate his subordinates doing some small actions behind his back.

Tamura obviously understood this, and his expression became respectful, and he stood up and bowed again, and said, "Your Excellency, this is the ......"

Tamura can be the position of wing commander, and naturally knows what to say and what not to say in this situation, and after his modification and processing, Kuroda Seiichiro and the Shina people do business, which is not a personal act at all, but has become a self-help method that he came up with on the fly in order to solve the existential crisis of the troops. As for his meeting with Lang Yuntouren, he would never mention it.

Eight out of Tamura's ten sentences are true, so although Sawada thinks that things will not be so simple, he can only choose to believe it. When Tamura finished speaking, he snorted coldly and said, "The invading army is doing business with the locals in the occupied areas? Tamura, what a surprise you have done. ”

When Tamura heard him say this, he said with a pale face: "Your Excellency, hasn't His Majesty the Emperor always advocated the common prosperity of Greater East Asia? By doing this, I fully understood the Emperor's painstaking efforts to change the face of our Imperial Army in the minds of the people of China. The attempt proved to be successful. Your Excellency, the Hainan Raiders were originally initiated by those guys from the Navy, but what do you see what they have done now? Your Excellency, when it comes to fighting, our Osaka Division may not be able to do it. But when it comes to governing the occupied territories, we still have an innate advantage. ”

Sawada sneered: "Innate advantage? Do you mean being a vendor? ”

"This—" Tamura blushed.

"Your understanding of Greater East Asia Co-prosperity may be correct, but please note that we and the Chinese have always been enemies, so please use your brains more when satisfying your appetite, and the Chinese will agree to make a deal with you. Do you think that the people of China will clapp their hands and line up to welcome the arrival of the imperial army? ”