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Chapter 84 When something goes wrong, there must be a demon

In the formerly magnificent SH city hall, the familiar blue sky and white sun flag was burned into a pile of black ashes, and the sun flag fluttered on the flagpole above the gate of the city hall, fluttering in the wind full of gunpowder smoke.

At the mayor's desk, the owner has changed at this moment.Kawashima, the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, walked into the gate of the city hall amidst the salute of the guards, and stepped on the floor of the office with his oily leather boots.

"Three months, the coach of Sanyi finally stepped into this office. Ozawa-kun, do you think this is the success or failure of our Great Japanese Imperial Army? Huh?" Kawashima looked at the whole city of Shanghai on the wall with his hands behind his back. The map, the sunlight through the smoke outside the window reflected a star on the collar.

"Your Excellency, before we did not expect that the Chiang authorities would resist tenaciously, and even sent the elite of his central army to the Songhu battlefield, and at the same time mobilized the elite of the local army from various places. In a sense, this has already It is not an offensive and defensive battle of a single city, but more equivalent to a national war launched by the Chiang authorities. All the bets he put on, he lost in the end."

"No, no, no, Jiang failed militarily, but he has already gained the political initiative. The special high-level class reported to me that before the Songhu battle started, the main agencies of the Nationalist government where Jiang worked had begun to move the capital to Chongqing, etc. matters. The reason why the base camp rushed to capture Shanghai was to launch a devastating blow to the Nanjing regime. Only by destroying his regime, then the occupation of China will be just around the corner. Now, hey!"

Kawashima opened the drawers in front of the desk, as if he wanted to see what the previous owner of this office could leave for him.

"Oh, West Lake Longjing." After opening a few drawers, Chuan Dao got a harvest. In the drawer, there were two cans of West Lake Longjing tea that he left in a hurry.Kawashima was about to twist a little and put it in his mouth when he was stopped by Ozawa. To prevent accidents, Ozawa twisted a little and put it in his mouth himself, and stood aside after there was no accident.

Chuan Dao patted Ozawa on the shoulder, obviously satisfied with his subordinates' constant loyalty, and then continued around Chaxiang, "The Chiang regime is currently the legal regime in China, and he and his regime will not be eliminated. It is not what we want to see if we can gain a foothold in the international arena politically, and we can mobilize a steady stream of resistance on this land.”

Ozawa nodded, "No wonder the base camp is eager to capture Shanghai."

Chuan Dao closed the drawer and sat down on the carefully crafted chair in front of the desk. The victor's complacency appeared on his face. Although Chuan Dao said so to his attendants, he seemed very disdainful of the victory It looks like it is, but in fact it is very proud, because winning Shanghai is enough to write down a thick and colorful stroke in one's credit book.

At that moment, Kawashima sat on the office chair, leaned back, raised his index finger and drew a circle towards the ceiling, "Is there anyone familiar with this government building? Show us around too, huh, haha."

Ozawa nodded, "I'll arrange it now!"

"Dong dong dong!" There was a knock on the door, "Your Excellency General, the head of the special high school Kurihara is here, and he said that he has important information."

"Let him come up, I was just about to ask him where the special advanced police class is going to be located?"

After a while, there was the sound of kicking footsteps in the corridor, and a man with a fleshy face walked in with a folder in his hand.

"Your Excellency, I have important information!"

"Come on, sit down, I was just about to ask you where is the location of the special high school?" Kawashima got up and motioned Kurihara to sit on the sofa, "By the way, try the excellent Longjing tea left by the previous owner of this office. .”

"You can drink the tea later, I must report this matter to you immediately."

"Oh? What made our super high class leader so caring? He came here in person? Although we have entered this Shanghai city, there are still sporadic remaining enemies that have not been eliminated. It would be bad if something happened to you on the way Now, I still count on you to be my 'eyes' and 'ears' in Shanghai." Kawashima said while pouring boiling water on the tea set first.

"There is important information, and the situation is more complicated. I will come here to explain clearly to Your Excellency the General. This is the latest news from our intelligence personnel in Nanjing." Kurihara opened the folder, took out a telegram and handed it to Kawashima, " According to information from our solid personnel in Nanjing, the teachers and students of the Central Army Military Academy have packed packages in the past few days. They left after a short stay. We analyzed that this is not a normal cross-country training camp, and there are signs that they will leave Nanjing! And we can be sure that they will not leave Nanjing by ship or train, because this large-scale The transfer of personnel requires special dispatch, and so far our intelligence personnel have not found any ports or train stations."

"Oh?" Kawashima put down his teacup, took the telegram and read it carefully from beginning to end.

"The telegram did not say who led the group of Whampoa teachers and students? When did they leave the city?"

"I'm sorry, General. The surrounding area of ​​the Whampoa Military Academy has suddenly been under martial law in the past few days. Our people can't get close, and we can't confirm the situation inside. This is the judgment made by our surveillance personnel based on the sharp increase in their daily purchases of supplies."

Kawashima stood up from the sofa, holding a teacup, shaking it in his hand and muttering, then raised his index finger and said, "Even if it's off-road training, you don't need the trucks from the military uniform factory, if these trucks from the military uniform factory are here to deliver winter clothes What about it? It’s only mid-November, and according to the Kuomintang’s past habits, it’s too early to release winter clothes now. There’s an old saying in China that goes, ‘When things go wrong, there will always be demons,’ and your analysis is right.”

"So I hope the general can send troops to encircle and suppress!"

"I want to free up my hands to kill these hateful people!" In terms of resentment towards the teachers and students of Whampoa, I am afraid no one can beat the three coaches who attacked Shanghai.It was these Huangpu students who were not afraid of death and took the lead in the charge, causing great casualties to the soldiers under them, and the two coaches were dismissed because of this.This is a situation that I did not encounter at all when I was in the three northeastern provinces and North China.

Even the Japanese army was alarmed by the will to resist shown by the Whampoa students. If this will was allowed to grow, then conquering China would undoubtedly be a joke. Therefore, for the Whampoa Military Academy in Nanjing, the Japanese high-level officials want to destroy it all the time.However, Nanjing is the capital, and the Japanese spies can still infiltrate carefully, and there is no way for large-scale armed personnel to infiltrate, so there is no way to take the Whampoa Military Academy.And every time the plane bombed, the teachers and students of the Whampoa Military Academy could hide in the air-raid shelter in time, and there was nothing they could do.

Kawashima put down his teacup and said with a frown, "Kurihara, you know that we just occupied Shanghai, and there are still remnants of the Kuomintang in the Songhu area that need to be cleared. Our frontline troops are currently in the Sujiahang area. Apart from the air force, the ground troops have nothing to do with Nanjing's evacuation." It's approaching, not to mention that the Central Army and local troops that have withdrawn from the Songhu area have already built a defense line in Nanjing. Therefore, I can't send large-scale ground troops to the Huangpu teachers and students who are missing. There's nothing we can do about it!"

(End of this chapter)