Chapter 43 False Resignation Attempt to Recruit Additional Troops
After talking to Zhu Wo, he was appointed as the acting director of the National Police Agency, and then a cabinet meeting was held to announce the appointment.
Looking at the sixteen people standing in front of him, he licked the mosquito and said, "Everyone, now that Tokyo is in chaos, our office space has been bombed again and again, but we must show the spirit of the imperial warriors, and we cannot relax in all kinds of work." Zhu Wojun, you must continue to investigate those rebels and strive to arrest them as soon as possible. The rest of you must do your duty and bring the situation of the empire to a complete and stable place as soon as possible. Miscellaneous, you have to think about how you can continue to support the warriors who are fighting, that is the best way for us to get out of this predicament. ”
One licked the mosquito and led the two men into another basement and handed over his resignation to the emperor.
"Yikun, in the current situation, resignation is not the best way for you to deal with it, but you need to continue to work hard to stabilize the domestic situation as soon as possible, and I will not accept your resignation. ”
"I am ashamed of the love of the subjects of the Great Japanese Empire, and I am entrusted by the Emperor, and I need to take full responsibility for the current situation, and I beg Your Majesty to allow me to resign." ”
The Emperor secretly sneered, "Your military is in control of the cabinet, you have sent the Minister of Defense to threaten me, and you have to go through the motions in a mocky manner, do you use this to show that you are responsible?" But do you know why this happened? In just a few months, nearly 190,000 people were killed and wounded, and there were so many planes, ships and tanks. Haven't you spoken to a foreign embassy?"
Licking the mosquito in his heart, he felt a burst of disdain, "What power do you have to command us? Aren't you just a puppet, you can't command the army or the cabinet, as long as I want, you bullshit emperor can step down at any time." But he said in a high-sounding manner, "Gou Danjun has resigned voluntarily because of his ineffective behavior, and now it is Zhu Wojun who leads the police department, and I believe he will find out the truth soon." ”
"Did the cabinet lose any manpower in this explosion?"
"Two cabinet ministers were injured, nine deputy governors from the provinces were killed, and two were maimed by the bombing, and the damage was very large, all of them living in the central area. ”
"Is it possible that the military was too brutal in its foreign campaigns and caused retaliation? I have heard that foreign countries are now very dissatisfied with the Nanjing incident, and some ambassadors have ...... to them."
A lick of the mosquito interrupted the topic, "Since the emperor does not accept my resignation, then I will go back and organize various institutions to arrange and deploy how to stabilize the morale of the imperial army and the people." With that, he turned and left.
Looking at the back of the arrogant departure, Hirohito's face turned blue with anger, his teeth were clenched, but he had no choice but to quietly release his clenched fist and take a few deep breaths to calm his mood.
Licking the mosquito back to the basement, he summoned a meeting of four military generals to discuss how to speed up the war.
"Now we can't send more people or support more weapons, we need the frontline warriors to show the courage to die generously and fight bravely." ”
Lieutenant General Zha Gou, "We now only have two flying groups and two aircraft carrier formations, and we only have about 1.5 million soldiers, if we send them out again, we will be empty internally, and North Korea in the west and the United States in the east may enter our empire." ”
Lieutenant General Goshi, "Now the battlefield in China is going well, they are very disunited internally, they set up mountains with each other, attack each other, and give us the opportunity to break through. ”
"We must connect the battlefield as soon as possible and separate the central, eastern and western regions." We want to mine all the mineral deposits of Korea, the central and eastern parts of China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and other countries back to our Great Japanese Empire, and we want to move back all their valuable things, we are the richest country in the world, and the world's largest power, haha. ”
"We have now opened up from the central part of the country, separated the east and west, and prepared to continue to attack the east part, and the other part to go south by boat to attack the Philippines and other countries, those small countries are vulnerable." It's just that we are now understaffed and need to replenish it, otherwise we won't be able to hold so much territory. ”
Zazhu, "Your Excellency Prime Minister, a few of us have discussed and are preparing to recruit troops again, and the planned number is 600,000. ”
"Our current population is only more than 20 million, and if we levy another 600,000, then our strength will reach more than 4 million, and military aid is very difficult." ”
"We have already given an order that the grain and grass of each army shall be solved by themselves, and in the future the imperial army will not be provided in a unified manner; this will not only save grain and grass, but also save the troops who protect and transport grain and grass, which is equivalent to increasing the number of combatants, and counting them in one fell swoop." ”
Licking the mosquito, "This is a good method, the warriors can travel lightly and do not have to worry about the food and grass in the rear." What's the situation over there?"
"We are bombing Chongqing to destroy their living forces, with the aim of breaking their faith, not to occupy it." We couldn't occupy it, the troops were too scattered, but the allied forces were still very powerful, and Wang Jingwei was also good, which helped us relieve a lot of pressure. ”
Zazhu, "Haha, the people of China are like that, they have always been a plate of loose sand, they only want to be the emperor themselves, and no one obeys anyone when they are not the emperor." Have you studied their history and read the reports of the expeditions? I think that kind of country is the easiest thing to solve. They believe in imperial power, and what they like is imperial power. The Manchus seemed to them to be a foreign people, but they were subdued, and they bowed down obediently. If the Manchus are good, then we will do the same with the nation. ”
"Their former father of the nation asked us to send troops to help fight the Qing government, and there was a person surnamed Kang who also asked for this before, but at that time we did not have the ability to fight overseas, but it also shows that their thinking is narrow-minded." ”
"Then we will unify the central and eastern parts and let Wang Jingwei manage them, and if Manchukuo manages them in the north, our wealth will roll in." They think we're going to help them improve, not knowing that we're only looking at their wealth. They like us and envy us, so let's collect wealth from them well, the Great Japanese Empire needs wealth, haha. ”
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, we currently have only 1.8 million soldiers in China, and the area we occupy is too wide, ten times the size of the empire itself, although we have the help of the allied army to manage it, but the number of troops is obviously insufficient, so we have recruited eighteen civilian transport ships to transport 200,000 soldiers to China, and we are about to set off." ”
"You should be so proactive, I hope you can completely occupy the central and eastern parts of China as soon as possible, and bring back those eighteen transport ships full of gold and silver minerals, and I will personally go to the port to greet you, haha." ”
At this time, eighteen transport ships lined up in the southern port, and the ointment flag on the mast fluttered coldly in the wind. Groups of soldiers, carrying guns and boxes, boarded the ship, and many young and old people were seeing them off outside the harbor. Some rejoice, some sad, but most of them show joy. Soon all the soldiers on board lined up on the ship to look at the pier and salute. The deck was full of soldiers, and it was crowded.
After the horn sounded, the transports set sail one by one, and the people who saw them off waved goodbye. With no pier in sight, some of the soldiers entered the hold, some set up tents on the deck and camped on the spot, and if nothing else, they would arrive at the Chinese port of Qingdao in ten hours. Their task was to go down the coastline, echo the middle route, and occupy eastern China in a solid manner. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and they didn't expect to meet a killer star on the road.
Qian Jin is one person and one boat, and he is not in a hurry to return, sometimes he goes to the sea to catch fish and barbecue on the boat, and sometimes dives into the deepest water he can dive to practice breath-holding kung fu, but now his breath-holding kung fu is very powerful, no longer calculated by a stick of incense, but calculated by one hour, and he has to dive for three hours each time, so that his face is purple before he comes out of the water.
After holding his breath three times, Qian Jinpan sat on the boat, a little luck, and recovered his strength.
The weather on the way back was good, and I didn't encounter strong winds and waves, unlike when I came, I encountered three strong winds and waves, which made me spend a lot of energy.
Looking at the endless sea water around him, he secretly said that he usually didn't talk much, otherwise he would have suffocated himself to death. I don't know how long I've been in Japan, and I haven't said a word to anyone.
He stood up, took a deep breath, and shouted at the West, "I'm coming back, Nian Mei, master, can you hear me? I'm coming back." ”
I don't know how far the voice has traveled, but there will definitely be no response, there is a vast sea of water within a radius of forty or fifty miles, and there is no small island to be seen, not even a stone.
What Qian Jin didn't know was that he had now arrived in the southern waters of North Korea, and in a short time he would be out of this sea area and into the Chinese waters, and if he was going to Qingdao Port, he would have already walked two-thirds of the way.
There are no maps, no charts, only an approximate direction, and you can only continue to follow the vague coastline in the distance.
Suddenly, Qian Jin heard the sound of a whistle in the distance behind him, and looked back from a distance, it should be seventy or eighty miles away, and there were three ships flying the ointment flag coming in his direction.
Not just three, it's four, and no, it's five. Slowly watching the fleet approach, it turned out that there were eighteen ships, all of them flying the ointment flag. "Why are there so many ships? Where are they going? Could it be where to transport something?"
Looking at the first ship that sailed about 300 zhang from the east, Qian Jin didn't see anything abnormal, those soldiers were resting in tents or cabins, and people didn't have such good eyesight as him, so they didn't know about his existence at all, they just shone their searchlights in front and continued to move forward without pause.
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