ACT214: Truce

Like Isoroku Yamamoto, who was on the front line in the colonies, Hiroki Hirota, who was on the mainland, was worried about the same problem. Victory can bring joy, but joy can also easily get carried away!

Their Showa Emperor Hirohito was not a calm master in his own right, and if it hadn't been for this open-mouthedness, even if that meeting could not reach an alliance with the Tang State, it would not have caused a war to meet. But it was such a moody bear child, but the group of stupid × in the army thought that they could see the "shadow" of Emperor Meiji in him.

Some young military officers even believe that the reason why Japan is getting worse and worse is because there are a group of "traitors" around the emperor who are influencing his performance. As everyone knows, it was these "traitors" who were busy wiping their buttocks that did not make Japan worse. As a result, after the "226 Mutiny", almost all of these moderate factions were killed as "traitors" by a group of angry young soldiers.

It is worth mentioning that Hirota Hiroki was also one of the targets that the rebels wanted to kill in that incident, but he was the only one who survived unharmed, and afterwards he commented on the incident and the army in private and with his cronies.

"The army is like an untamed wild horse, if you stand in front of him and stop him from running, you will be kicked to death by it, and the only hope is to jump on the horse from the side and ride it while keeping him running."

Hirota is not much of a pacifist, he is also a complete militarist at heart, except that he has more brains. After Hirota came to power, he hoped to cooperate with the military department to indirectly control this fierce horse, but after all, he was a weak civilian official, and many times just because of Hirota's clear mind could cause all kinds of contradictions between him and the emperor and the militants in the military department.

Let's say now! The front line had just won a big victory, and Hirota thought that he should accept it as soon as he saw it, and immediately returned to the negotiating table with the Tang Dynasty and signed an armistice agreement as much as possible. However, the emperor and the War Department demanded to take advantage of the victory to pursue and strive to "destroy the withering and decaying" general defeat of the Tang army. Annexation of this vast empire.

Hirota complained in his heart, your mouth is so big, don't your jaws hurt?

Others don't know what's going on, but Hirota Hiroki understands it all in his heart!

The Tang Emperor just wanted to use their Japanese hands to clear out some dissidents (at least Hirota thought so), and the victory at the front was not so much a result of the Japanese themselves as a deliberate release of water from the other side. The secret agreement he signed with the Tang Emperor is now locked in the safe of the Prime Minister's Office, and if he beats them again, he will "break the contract"!

Everyone knows the danger of seeking skin with the tiger, but the tiger master has to buy and sell strongly, and Guangtian is helpless.

Or fight with Datang. Do your best to destroy the country in the end, or fake a fight with Datang and accept the victory of the other party's almsgiving. Although there are two options in front of Hirota, he knows which one to choose as long as he is not crazy.

"Alas~! I'm really not a human being inside and out! ”

Hirota, who was quite troubled by the excitement of the whole people in the country, could not help but sigh in his office, and at this time his secretary sent him the latest report on the battle situation at the front. He picked it up and looked at it twice, it was all a report of Europa and Europa encircling and suppressing the ground forces of the Tang Army.

Interestingly, the report was sent to him by the Navy and the Army, and the Army was full of good news. praised the unparalleled combat power of the Imperial Japanese Army, but the combat power listed was basically "victories" with countless slots such as "the XX Division successfully annihilated a battalion of the enemy army in OO". And their own losses are either only "weak" or simply not mentioned.

In comparison, this one of the Navy is much more "real"!

After all, the discord between the Japanese navy and army has been going on for a long time, and Yamamoto 56 does not feel that he has an obligation to help those arrogant turtles to cover up their shame. He let the destroyers go to the aid of the war. What you see is what you write on the report. Hirota Hirota Tong Guò This report, which is so objective that it can be called a "high-level black", has a fairly intuitive understanding of the battle situation on the front line.

It is no exaggeration to say that without the help of the navy, the Japanese army might have been encircled and suppressed by now. Let the encircled and suppressed Tang army troops be defeated!

Unlike the Japanese Navy, which was built by the country, the status of the Japanese Army can be described in a more apt sentence, that is, "a doll sent by a stepmother to charge the phone bill". How hard it is, how hard it is! Even in the First Division, the soldier's main weapon is a bolt-action Type 38 rifle, and there are only a few light and heavy machine guns for automatic weapons, and there are no submachine guns at all.

At the beginning of the plain war, the gap in equipment was not so obvious, but when the Tang army retreated into the mountainous area made up by the jungle, the combat distance was reduced to 50~100 meters, and these problems were quickly magnified.

The Don Army was armed with semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, which allowed them to easily suppress enemies several times their size in battle. It was not until later that the ammunition of the Tang Army began to run out, and coupled with the fire support of the Navy, the army gradually improved.

So far, the Japanese army has eliminated more than 300,000 Tang troops on the front line, with its own losses of 110,000 and the army of the client state 520,000. However, among the enemy forces annihilated, about 70 percent were the results of the navy, and the actual battle loss ratio of the army was as high as 7:1, which is not a shame, then the army can indeed boast of being "the best in the world"!

After reading these two reports, Hirota Hiroki pondered for a moment and said to his secretary.

"Truce the war! There is no need to ask the emperor, and ignore the voices of those army fools, and directly make representations to Chang'an in the name of the prime minister. However, this wording needs to be paid attention to, it can be appropriately a little tougher, and I believe that the Tang Emperor will make a wise move. ”

Directly bypassing the Emperor and the War Department, which always liked to dictate to the Prime Minister's Cabinet, Hirota Hiroki negotiated with the Tang Emperor in accordance with the secret agreement, and proposed an armistice to the other side by telegram. Soon the Tang Dynasty responded, willing to hold peace talks with the Japanese side, and the tone of the telegram was soft, completely devoid of the domineering arrogance before the war. The other side even took the initiative to say that it was willing to make some compensation to the Japanese side.

After reading this telegram, Hirota Hongyi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, at least Lingzong kept his promise and was still acting according to the written "script". In order to find out before Emperor Hirohito found out, Hirota hurriedly sent a second telegram to Chang'an, hoping to set the date for the peace talks as soon as possible.

Therefore, the two sides decided that three days later, the Tang side would send an ambassador to Tokyo for peace talks.

At this point, the war under this "conspiracy" between Tang and Japan is coming to an end, but for another, more massive plan, this is just the first step that has just begun! (To be continued......)

PS: Prime Minister Hirota's bento is warming up......