Mid to late September.

"Maeda Nakasa?"

North China, a county, a locust barracks, brigade headquarters.

Maeda Jili Nakasa kept looking at a secret letter from his superiors in his hand, his expression was stunned, and he didn't move for a long time, so that the two squadron leaders waiting next to him couldn't help but interrupt.

Didn't you come to call them to a meeting?

What's going on?

As people who ran out of Taiyuan together, the three of them know each other well, they are like grasshoppers on a rope, bound by interests and fate, and will not be as cold and hard as ordinary devils.

"There is a problem with this division."

Putting down the secret letter from his superiors in his hand, Maeda Jiri's tone was affirmative.

"Of course there is something wrong with this division."

The other two seemed to have heard a nonsense, and one of them couldn't help but complain:

"Let's come out of Taiyuan, not only will the official be reinstated, but also promoted, you will be promoted to captain, we will become squadron leaders, can there be no problem?"

When they left Taiyuan, the highest status of the three of them, Maeda Jiri, was only a lieutenant, just a rookie squadron leader who had just been promoted, and all the soldiers under him were recruits.

The combat effectiveness is very weak.

The two of them are even lower, just squad leaders.

The only advantage is probably that the three of them have rich combat experience, have been in the army for more than three years, and have participated in many battles.

And now, Maeda Jili is the captain of the Nakasa Brigade, commanding more than 1,000 locust troops, or the commander of the 15th Brigade and Regiment, Major General Marukawa Daisuke, who belongs to the lineage and is highly valued, and the brigade is equipped with two Type 92 infantry guns and two Type 94 mountain guns.

It's an elite brigade.

One person attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascended to heaven.

The two of them also became squadron leaders, with hundreds of people under them.

They escaped from Taiyuan, peach soldiers! And he has already confessed himself, the evidence is conclusive, and he scolded the locust, but as a result, he was not punished, not to mention, and he was actually promoted.

This strange promotion and attention alone shows that there is definitely something wrong with their 15th Brigade and 125th Division.

Recently, several people who participated in the battle also felt that something was wrong with this division, and those who were shouting for loyalty to the locusts were all sent to the front line.

Participated in the most tragic battles, fighting enemy tanks with Type 4 anti-tank stabbing mines, and basically no one came back alive.

They can see that the top leaders of this division do not want to serve the empire at all, nor do they want to be loyal to the locusts, they just want to survive and live until the day the war ends.

"I know."

Maeda Jili shook his head:

"It's not surprising that our divisions are passively avoiding war."

The situation is unfavorable for the Empire.

Although there was no propaganda for the Empire, the enemy threw leaflets, leaflets with photographs, and Tokyo was bombed by the coalition forces, causing heavy losses and the entire city was reduced to ashes, including the Imperial Palace.

Even though the superiors denied that it was a conspiracy of the enemy, and the locust also publicly refuted the rumors on the radio, and Tokyo and the Imperial Palace were alive, the photos of Ming Huanghuang and some strange details still showed that the matter was largely true.

Coupled with the successive defeats in battles, it is normal to have the idea of passively avoiding war.

Not everyone wants to die.

But this secret letter in his hand made Maeda Jili feel abnormal.

"Look."

After thinking about it, Maeda Jili showed the secret letter in his hand to the other two.

The three of them escaped from Taiyuan together, and before again, these two people were his henchmen, and the three of them all had the same idea, joining the army was to reap the benefits, not to fight for the locusts.

"Expand!"

Seeing the secret letter, the other two were shocked, and one of them was even more shocked.

In the secret letter, the brigade commander Marukawa Daisuke said that in the next two months, their brigade will be expanded into an infantry wing, and it will be a fully equipped infantry wing of the B Division.

One artillery brigade, three standard infantry wings of infantry battalions.

Among them, the wing commander is Maeda Kishi, the group leader is the remaining two, the remaining infantry group leader, and one artillery group leader is directly dispatched by the brigade group.

As for the remaining officers, one-third will be sent and appointed by the brigade headquarters, and the rest will be negotiated by the wing itself, and the list will be handed in within three weeks, and the additional recruits will be replenished in three weeks, and some of the weapons and equipment will be delivered this afternoon, and the rest will arrive with the recruits.

At this time, the two finally understood why Captain Maeda was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that two-thirds of the squadron officers were appointed by the wing commander himself was already a violation of the regulations of the locust army, and it was simply an excellent opportunity for the junior officers to squeeze out their opponents and cultivate their own forces.

Let them completely control the wing in their hands and turn the wing under their command into their own shape.

And this opportunity is directly given by the superiors.

"What are you trying to do?"

One of the devils couldn't help but mumble to himself.

Give them the opportunity to promote their subordinates, and then this wing will be a wing that is insensitive to the locusts and the empire, and is full of troops that are disrespectful to the Japanese Empire.

"I don't know."

Maeda Jili took a deep breath:

"However, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as trying to protect themselves, I'm afraid the division commanders have a bigger conspiracy."

As he spoke, Maeda Jili handed the two another secret letter.

This is a secret letter about the weapons of the new formation.

"Our artillery brigade is so strong?"

Seeing this secret letter, the remaining two were shocked.

What was written in the secret letter was the armament of their infantry wing, a unified 7.7 mm Type 99 rifle, 99 was a light machine gun, grenadiers were popularized to the detachment, a Type 92 heavy machine gun, the squadron was equipped with a 90 mm mortar or a Type 92 infantry gun produced by the Empire, and the brigade was equipped with a separate artillery squadron and was equipped with two Type 95 mountain guns. As for the wing, it is uniformly equipped with 99-type 105 mountain guns.

There is also a special transport squadron, with mules, horses and cars responsible for transporting baggage.

If you follow the above data, then their wing is equipped with an infantry wing comparable to that of the Imperial Division A regiment.

"It can't be."

The two didn't believe it.

The current situation in the empire, can they still be unclear? Under the frantic expansion of the army, the A division is now underequipped, not to mention their new formation, just listen to this thing.

It can't be true.

"Not necessarily."

Maeda Jili shook his head, he remembered the two Type 92 and the two Type 94 mountain cannons in his brigade, these two cannons, although they were designed by the Empire, were common in the Imperial army.

But the quality of those four cannons, he had seen, was much higher than that produced by the Empire, and it seemed to be the same as that of the enemy opposite.

Definitely not produced by the empire itself.

However, Maeda didn't explain much.

The 125th Division is full of weirdness, those No. 4 tanks, 125 howitzers, and he has a premonition in his heart, continue to follow that Marukawa Daisuke, continue to be weird everywhere The 125th Division is absolutely immeasurable! The future is promising.

At this time.

Inside the headquarters of the 125th Division.

Kotaro Ito met with the division commander.

The two sat on the ground, with a tea set in front of them, and the two of them leisurely drank tea and talked about things.

"Prime Minister Minai has come to power, what does Ito Jun think?"

Tanaka Qin threw out the topic first.

The new prime minister, there will definitely be a new imperial strategy, which will have a great influence on them, and if the 125th Division loses its independent strategic position, it will have a great impact on his plans for the expansion of troops.

"There's no need to worry."

Ito was calm.

What about the new prime minister?

Tokyo was burned to ashes, and it was known that the second wave of bombing not long ago had burned the rest of Tokyo to ashes, and no ward would survive.

Not to mention Mitsumasa Mine, even if the locust himself serves as the prime minister, there is nothing he can do.

The difference in strength is here.

Moreover, he knew the 'Zhurong Plan', and when the American pilots arrived, the empire was afraid that it would be ashes. At that time, the powerless Mitsumasa Minechi didn't have to resign and run away?

"It won't be long before the empire will change prime ministers."

Ito quickly changed the subject:

"What we need is to quickly increase our strength, take advantage of the quagmire of war in Europe in the north, avenge the revenge of the Normenkan of the year, and then..."

"Yo Si."

Tanaka nodded frequently.

As long as he can defeat the bear in the north, then he will gain great prestige, and when the time comes, the general will be in sight, and when the domestic situation changes, then he Tanaka will become an important minister.

Just like the important ministers of the empire such as Yama County, Youpeng.

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One day in mid-to-late October.

Tokyo.

Red Cross Hospital.

Although the bombardment was ferocious, two large-scale bombardments by the Allies, no bombs fell here, and because of the special location, the flames did not spread here.

As a result, it became a gathering place for a large number of refugees.

However, the lack of food has led to starvation everywhere, like hell, and even the grass roots have been eaten up.

Suddenly...

Buzz... A violent roar sounded, and the faces of the gathered refugees suddenly changed drastically.

They remember this sound very well, and on the day Tokyo was burned down, there was also such a voice, it was the enemy's bomber unit, and it was the culprit who burned Tokyo.

The devil refugees are taking refuge, there is nowhere to hide here, and the crowd is dense, causing a lot of chaos.

Several huge bombers pierced the clouds.

In the end, it was discovered that it was not bombs that had fallen, but vivid pamphlets.

Above is a group of imperial generals

Although they were neatly dressed in military uniforms, these imperial generals were kneeling on the ground, with shackles on their hands, and behind them, there were shirtless axemen holding machetes.

The next picture is the picture of a group of generals being beheaded.

There is also text at the bottom, which is in Japanese, after all, this is Tokyo, and many of the devil refugees can understand the text.

It is written that the commander of the 1st Marine Division, General Kanda Masa, and a group of wing commanders, brigade commanders, and other 50 imperial soldiers were beheaded for war crimes and because of the invasion of the Republic of China.

This scene immediately shocked the refugees.

The domestic news reported the victory every day, and this Kanda Masashi was hailed as an imperial hero who repelled the American attack.

At this time, it actually ·····

Looking at this brochure and the vivid photos, at this moment, in the hearts of this group of refugees, fear, fear and other emotions began to spread, and together with the distrust of the empire and the locusts.

They were deceived!

At this time, several of the latest planes of the Locust Army in the sky finally arrived, but in the face of the 10-shot 'Dapeng' with the largest throttle, the devil Lu Hang, whose speed was less than 700 kilometers per hour, could only watch the enemy planes leave leisurely.

"Prime Minister."

Soon, the news reached Mitsumasa's ears in Minei.

"Yaga."

Even the veteran Mitsumasa Rice was so angry that he scolded at the first sight of the brochure.

He didn't expect that Li Yunlong not only killed Kanda Zheng, but also used the ancient system, beheading at the noon gate, executing with a knife and axe, and also showed it to the whole world, and the news all over the world was published.

Recalling the great rout of the Southern Army, with more attrition than the two First Armies, Mitsumasa Yonechi almost didn't get over in one breath.

"What should I do?"

The introspection on the side asked in a panic.

"What should I do?"

It's useless to be angry, maybe the enemy is happier... Mitsumasa Yonechi forcibly calmed him down, smoothed the breath in his lungs, and thought about countermeasures in his heart.

But after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't think of a way.

The enemy's plane is too fast and flying too high to be stopped at all, unless the enemy's destination can be known in advance, so that the plane can prepare to intercept in advance, but is this possible?

Today, important cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto have been bombed by the enemy.

Bombardment at low altitude at night, all incendiary.

The major industrial areas suffered heavy losses, and the production capacity was greatly reduced, which led to the suspension of the production of new anti-aircraft guns, new tanks, and new army artillery, and aircraft factories also suffered heavy losses.

It was not much for the Navy to lose.

They didn't have much interest in bombing ports and shipyards.

As a result of this act, Gao's navy and army almost fought directly, with the army scolding the navy for collaborating with the enemy, and the navy scolding the army for being incapable.

From the middle of the project, the bombing became more and more outrageous, and the Allies dispatched more than 300 bombers each time, dropping nearly 10,000 tons of explosives, and they also dropped bombs at high altitudes, directly dropping bombs at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Although the damage effect is poor.

But it also made the whole empire panic.

Above 10,000 meters, fighters can't reach it, and active anti-aircraft guns can't do anything.

In fact, the range of the newly developed 120 anti-aircraft gun is sufficient, and it can deal with bombers at an altitude of 13,000 meters, but just after research, before production began, the factory was bombed.

"What to do..."

Mitsumasa Yonechi sighed faintly.

What could he do?

He couldn't do anything.

The enemy bombers are like no one, they can come and go as they want, the empire has no choice, the airfield is inland, and the army is being pressed and beaten, and it is too late to escape.

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At the same time.

United States.

White House.

"We do not recommend a direct conflict with the Republic of China."

The tone of the military chief who went to the Republic of China before was categorical:

"I've seen him and their army, they are very strong, very strong, and they are rapidly increasing, even if there is no navy, it is expected that it will take about a year for Japan to fail, and if they are pushed to the enemy, it will be very troublesome to bring a threat to the north."

"So."

After a pause, he continued:

"I suggest, continue to maintain the current cooperation, maintain the alliance, we need their technology, they need our talent."

"As for the future."

"We can unite Europe and defeat them through the economy."

"Therefore, we cannot have direct contact with Japan, but only indirectly through countries such as South America."

emmmm····· Keep a low profile and try to save your life.