blood feud

Fumizaburo Kawagishi led the No.20 Division back to North Korea's old nest, and immediately couldn't wait to send troops to test it out. This is particular.

It turned out that after returning to Seoul, Kawagishi Fumisaburo's butt was not touching the stool, and Nanjiro had already rushed over from the Governor's Mansion in Seoul.

In the past, it was not easy to say clearly in the telegram because Fumisaburo Kawagishi was worried that an enemy would decipher the telegram, so many things were not clearly stated. Now that the two old devils have met, it is natural to whisper.

So, Kawagishi Fumisaburo started from the beginning, how the Sixth Division was broken into pieces, how Shouichi and Tani Hisao were beheaded in the temple, and the entire North China Dispatch Army Headquarters did not leave a single hair, and so on. Say it again.

Regardless of how Nanjiro was in a daze, Kawagishi Fumisaburo was still talking to himself: "As far as I know, great changes have occurred in Jinzhou, Yingkou, Lushun, and Andong. The Fourth Division is likely to repeat the same mistakes and have accidents. change, and was devastated,"

"Before I was ordered to withdraw, the initial order was to let my division go south and attack the Central Plains from the north. Later, the new prime minister specifically ordered me to come back to stabilize the overall situation in North Korea. He also said that North Korea is the last lifeline of the empire."

"Your Excellency, please think about it. Since the Manchuria Incident, the empire has said from top to bottom that Manchuria is the lifeline of the empire, and North Korea is the empire's processing plant. Now it has suddenly reversed. I guess the situation in Manchuria should be very bad."

"I had a telegram exchange with the head of the No.19 division in the north, Kamezo Odaka. According to him, the Yamato Bridge has been blown up. Your Excellency, if you want to completely blow up the Yamato Bridge, you must first take it down. Anton, right?"

"Lushun is very close to Anton, but he didn't rescue Anton. What does it mean? The only explanation is that the situation in Lushun is worse than that of Anton. The fourth division is in Jinzhou, and Anton and Lushun have met. Unprecedented disaster, how could they sit idly by, so I judged that something happened to the Fourth Division, too."

"Now we can calculate it in reverse: to be able to take down an integrated field division and attack Lushun and Anton at the same time, this is definitely not something that an ordinary army can do. I estimate that at least 10 people are needed to do it. Who in southern Liaoning has such great energy,"

Nanjiro trembled when he heard the sound: "Kawagan-kun, do you mean that Chengde's Hakushu is outstanding?"

"Is there any other explanation besides this?" Kawagishi Fumisaburo said with a serious expression, "Assuming that the Fourth Division has been completely destroyed, then the entire southern Liaoning and southern Manchuria are completely dominated by Bai Shujie. It is really going to this point , Manchuria will fall into continuous wars, and has lost the meaning of economic lifeline, "

Nanjiro gritted his teeth and said: "The devil of China, Bai Shujie, is haunted. I came here from the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, and I am still under his shadow. Baga Yalu, it is unreasonable."

"Your Excellency, I still have the worst conjecture. I'm afraid you will be more worried after hearing it." Fumisaburo Kawagishi looked around and said in a low voice, "I'm worried that Bai Shujie will arrange a powerful force to enter North Korea, completely strangled the economic lifeline of the empire, think about it, if he didn’t have a more vicious plan, why would he blow up the Dahe Bridge?”

"I understand, I finally understand," Nanjiro said with a sad expression: "After Bai Shujie's troops enter North Korea, if they don't blow up the Yamato Bridge, they will send heavy troops to guard it, and the long Yalu River will hold back half of his troops. , plus the No.19 Division in the northeast, he can’t do anything,”

"Now the railway is blocked, so I think your judgment is correct. There has been no news from Pyongyang for half a month, which means that Pyongyang has fallen. Kawagishi-kun, if this is the case, what should we do?"

"The current situation is very bad," Kawagishi Fumisaburo said, getting up and walking to the place where the map was hung: "The Korean peninsula is high in the east and low in the west. Now that Bai Shujie is stuck in Pyongyang, the traffic in the west has been completely cut off."

"In this way, although we and the No.19 division are both on the Korean peninsula, one is at the southernmost point, the other is at the northeast corner, and the entire central region is in the hands of Bai Shujie. More vividly speaking, in fact, the current North Korean It has become Bai Shujie's."

"What's even more troublesome is that Russia's big nose on the northeast border is also a confidant of the empire. The No. 19 Division dare not relax a bit. That is to say, we must deal with the damn Bai Shujie independently. Your Excellency, Bai Shujie can Eat up the fourth division in an instant, do you think our No.20 division can destroy him?"

Nanjiro stared at the map and shook his head, moved his mouth for a long time, but he didn't say a word.

Fumisaburo Kawagishi sat down opposite Nanjiro again and said in a low voice: "After the Shanghai Incident, the war situation has been at a stalemate. The base camp was in a deadlock, and four divisions were temporarily dispatched to land in Hangzhou Bay to force back the Jiang government's army. According to reports, the Shanghai one More than [-] troops have been lost in the war,"

"If you count the shattered Sixth Division and the missing Fourth Division, the empire has lost more than 13 people, which is equivalent to four divisions having lost their serial numbers,"

"The current situation is that although Taiyuan was captured last week, the main force of the enemy has not lost the ability to resist, the problem in North China has not been completely resolved, and the problem in the Yangtze River Basin is much more serious than originally imagined. The original idea was three months. The plan to force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender has been completely defeated,"

"What is especially serious is that the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party arrived in North China overnight, and Baoding, Shijiazhuang, Raoyang, Anping, Renqiu, and Hejian all became the Eighth Route Army's world,"

"What's particularly strange is that the Eighth Route Army is all equipped with imperial weapons and equipment, ranging from Type 11 rifles, grenade grenades, Taisho 75th-year light machine guns, Type [-] heavy machine guns, infantry artillery, and [-]mm mountain artillery. If the Eighth Route Army Put on the imperial uniform, that is the most neat field division, "

"The Eighth Route Army is much braver than the Central Army in the south. They will be hit by a grenade at every turn, and then rush forward to fight with bayonets. Their moves are fierce, and they are not afraid of death. Every position will fight to the last man,"

"Especially the Eighth Route Army is best at fighting in small groups. It doesn't fight with you at all. It's hard to find them during the day, and their shadows are everywhere in the middle of the night. They attack in groups of three or four, making the defense troops restless."

"If you have less than one small team, you must never go out for action. After gathering a large group, you can't even find half a person. Once your troops are scattered, the Eighth Route Army will seem to emerge from the ground."

"Unlike in the south, after the occupation of Shanghai, a squad of soldiers actually seized a county town of Wuxi. This is unimaginable in the territory of the Eighth Route Army in Hebei and Shanxi provinces,"

Kawagishi Fumisaburo said so casually, and Minamijiro started to break out in a cold sweat: "Kawagishi-kun, according to your judgment on the front line, what should we do now,"

"Now there is no other way but to increase our troops to capture Nanjing," Kawagishi Fumisaburo said with a bitter smile, "There is turmoil in Manchuria, North Korea is in dire straits, and the empire's economy has lost its last fulcrum. The only way now is to stabilize as soon as possible." The situation in China, and then withdraw some troops to return to Korea and Manchuria to stabilize the rear,”

Just at this moment, the communications adjutant came in and said, "The report is Your Excellency, Commander, an urgent telegram from the base camp,"

Kawagishi Fumisaburo took it over and looked at it, his whole face turned into a pig liver color at that time, waved his hand wordlessly, let the communications adjutant go out, then handed the telegram to Nanjiro and said: "Your Excellency Governor, please take a look, the problem is worse than I just now estimates are even more serious,"

Nanjiro took it and only glanced at it before jumping up from the tatami: "Nani, the Fourth Division and the North China Aviation Corps are all broken, all the industrial facilities in southern Liaoning have collapsed, and one cruiser, two ships have been lost. Destroyers, 700 combat aircraft, and more than [-] cargo ships of various types were lost,"

Kawagishi Fumisaburo waved his hands angrily: "Your Excellency, please be calm and don't be impatient. Keep looking down. It's really unreasonable. A bunch of guys who eat vegetarian meals are just blindly directing,"

"Baga," Nanjiro looked back and immediately raised his voice an octave: "The national mobilization has not been completed in the country. At present, there is no room for sending more troops to North Korea. We are ordered to recruit North Korean soldiers on the spot and form North Korea. The second division, and then eliminate the anti-Japanese elements in the country, restore North Korea's industrial production and food production to support the country, "

"Three years ago, a division was recruited, and all the most loyal young people in North Korea were exhausted. Now it is not easy to recruit a North Korean borrower regiment. North Korea has fallen, and more than 1000 million people have been lost. Where can I find the source of soldiers? , What does Seishiro Sakagaki of the military department do?"

Kawagishi Fumisaburo turned his hands behind his back twice, but there was still nothing he could do: "Even if we can find 2 people who are loyal to the empire, it will take at least a year to form a new army and form a fighting force in the end." Use, are those people in the court all fools?"

"The empire is at stake, it's at stake," Nanjiro sat down on the tatami: "As soldiers of the empire, we can only do what we can, and just be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor."

"As for the recruitment of recruits, I will contact the General Affairs Department of the Governor's Mansion tomorrow and ask them to start working immediately, and strive to complete the recruitment work before the Spring Festival next year,"

"If it doesn't work, pull out the police corps and the gendarmerie. After all, they are different from the domestic police. They are equipped with light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mountain artillery, and field artillery,"

"Then use them as the backbone and expand some recruits to build a general framework. Even if you can't take on the frontline combat missions, you should be able to guard the rear, right?"

"I'm just worried that Bai Shujie won't give us time," Kawagishi Fumisaburo shook his head: "If we can slowly hone in one to two years, we can train a new army."

"According to the news from the front line in Shanghai, soldiers borrowed from North Korea and Taiwan killed the Chinese during the battle. They are as brave as the imperial warriors. They can be used as volunteers (death squads), and the effect is said to be very good,"

"The key question now is to find out whether Bai Shujie will give us a chance. Your Excellency Governor, you have fought against Bai Shujie many times. You should know him well. Is there any good way to deal with the current crisis?"

After all, what happens next, let's see the next chapter to break it down,