The tough attitude of the U.S. military made it difficult for Shimada Gonichiro to ride a tiger, he thought that he was much more rational than the army's red deer, and he would not be so crazy and brainless.

At this moment, a car drove behind the Japanese army, and the intelligence chief of the Japanese Navy and Land Command, Ono Kaji Nakasa, hurriedly arrived, pulled Shimada over, and whispered......

Shimada shook his head speechlessly, ordered the large group around him to collect his troops and retreat, and then saluted Major Luke on the other side of the bridge, then turned around and followed Ono to board the car and leave.

Major Luke looked at the situation on the other side, and was a little confused for a moment - was it all over like this?

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Li Junhao, who got the report, was also a little puzzled, what is Little Japan doing? Is it a tired strategy?

At this time, he was in the war room of the headquarters, and Yang Shixiong led several operational staff officers to arrange the sand table of the concession, preparing to simulate the battle situation, but it became useless for a while!

Yang Shixiong motioned for the staff officers to continue, and he followed Li Junhao to the commander's office before he said, "Junhao, this is a little strange!" There should be a special reason for the fact that it was the Japanese marines who came out to find trouble, not the Japanese gendarmerie, which should have come out more often......"

Li Junhao nodded and said: "I also don't think it's right to ...... 'protect the interests of Japanese businessmen'?" This excuse is very interesting, are those Japanese coal merchants or the tobacco dealers of Hongji Shantang? It was able to convince the Japanese marines to come forward! But it was done like a joke...... Is it just to test our reaction? ”

Yang Shixiong believes that it should be the former, because coal needs large-scale shipping, and Japanese coal merchants should have dealt with the navy before, and they must have given benefits, and now that something has happened, it is also very reasonable to ask the navy for help. Of course, this is just speculation.

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This incident was like an offensive and defensive exercise, which happened quickly and ended quickly, and it only took more than an hour before and after, but it made all parties in Shanghai and Haihai see the determination and strength of the concession!

In particular, when the two armies confronted each other, although the number of Japanese troops was larger, both the quality of individual soldiers and weapons and equipment were crushed to death by the US troops, and the Japanese marines who were generally short in stature and their ordinary and ugly sailor uniforms looked very weak in front of the tall, sturdy, well-uniformed US troops.

Although the Japanese army did not dispatch armored vehicles this time, people have long had the impression that their thin-skinned tanks and simple machine-gun trucks like small beans are completely incomparable with the six-wheeled "tanks" that the US military has now driven!

Therefore, all parties unanimously judged that if the two sides went to war at the new garbage bridge before, the Japanese marines of more than 600 people would definitely not be able to defeat the American troops of more than 200 people!

For this judgment, the most unhappy is of course the Japanese army!

Although the Japanese Army and Navy have deep contradictions, the Army still admits that in the two Songhu Wars, the Marine Corps fought well, and its combat effectiveness level was only a little worse than that of the Army, but the current situation shows that there is a big difference in strength with the US Army, which makes them unacceptable!

This surprise action on the part of the Japanese marines was actually unexpected by the army, and they actually had a similar plan, but they had not yet had time to implement it, and now they had to stop.

In the face of the strong anti-Japanese attitude and practices now displayed by the concession authorities, all sides of Japan can only hold another meeting to study countermeasures......

It was still the Japanese Consulate General that took the lead, and the Japanese military police stationed in Shanghai and various secret agencies sent people to participate, but I don't know if it was because of the loss of face, and no one from the navy came, but representatives of the Shanghai office of the Manchurian Railway Co., Ltd., the Huhai branch of the Japanese Mitsubishi Gas Company, and the Hongji Shantang of Central China attended the meeting.

Consul General Yoshiaki Miura presided over the meeting, and after Deputy Consul General and head of Iwai Eichi Iwai first introduced the recent events in the concession, Miura Yoshiaki pointed out: Now that the authorities in the concession have shown obvious anti-Japanese tendencies, they have even cracked down on Japanese enterprises and arrested many "friendly Chinese" who serve Japan.

Then, Mitsubishi Corporation's branch chief Ogiaki Tsering "accused" the Civil Affairs Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau of Industry for not paying attention to business rules, intervening in market behavior by administrative means, sealing up and prohibiting the coal trade association, and forcibly occupying the association's subordinate stores......

In fact, they all understand why, the trade association monopolizes and controls the coal market, manipulates the price of coal to skyrocket, and the concession authorities in order to stabilize the market, let the enterprises under the trade association re-examine and register, which means to admonish, but your trade association ignores it, and it is later seized.

Ogiaki Tsering showed a miserable look on his face and shouted, "Consul General Miura, Minister Harita, you have to call the shots for us!" ”

Miura Yoshiaki had a headache, he had already contacted the military attache of Pan Sen in the concession many times, and he didn't have any good ways to deal with it before, but now that the other party's strength was several times stronger, he was not sure to restrain the other party.

Vice Admiral Shizue Hayata, the head of the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy, frowned, not knowing how to express his position, he is now facing retirement because of his age, and the current ministerial position will soon be handed over. But if you want to manage it, how to manage it?

The other representatives of the various military organs present here all showed disdainful expressions, not only looking down on this profiteer, but also dissatisfied with the fact that he only mentioned the consul general and Lieutenant General Harita just now—well, then you can just ask them to call the shots, and you don't want to care about it yourself!

Kazuming Luno, director of the Huhai Office of the Manchurian Railway Co., Ltd., who attended the meeting, watched coldly, saw the situation, and decided to remain silent. Thinking of the loss of tobacco and soil this time, his heart is also dripping blood, but compared to the Qingbang and Hongji Shantang and others, it is much less!

Kazuming Kazuki looked at the current situation and thought: The Japanese forces in Shanghai have no choice but to control the concession authorities, and the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., which he represents, is a national policy agency led by the imperial family and the government, and the fundamental interests are still in Manchuria, and the muddy waters on the Shanghai side should not be mixed.

Another Japanese businessman who participated in the meeting, Li Ming, the person in charge of the Hongji Shan Tang in Central China (the real identity is the Japanese Satomifu), was full of sadness at this time, and in the previous operation in the concession, not only a large number of tobacco and soil were seized, but also arrested a lot of subordinates, one of whom was his important collaborator Sheng Laosi, which was really a big trouble!

(End of chapter)