Chapter 265 The Demilitarized Zone of the Nanjing Defense War (2)
As the Prime Minister of the Japanese Empire, Fumiyoshi Konoe was a typical Japanese aristocratic remedialator and a promoter of fascist dictatorial invasion politics. Due to the family and the emperor, Fumiyoshi Konoe was deeply educated and trained by the Emperor since childhood. Since he was three years old, his grandmother brought him to visit the royal family and the feudal ethics of honoring the emperor and loyalty to him made a deep impression on him. However, this did not prevent Fumiyoshi Konoe from making his own opinions. Fumiyoshi Konoe, who had formed a cabinet three times in history, can be said to be a great boost to launching a full-scale war of aggression against China.
Emperor Hirohito proposed a ceasefire to be the fall of his Guards cabinet, and then the international political deception was equivalent to an international declaration that he was a guy without credibility, and how could a guy without credibility represent a country? At this moment, Konoe Wenpai's mood was extremely complicated.[]
However, Emperor Hirohito could not feel the entanglement of Koebe Fumi. In his opinion, no matter what his subordinates do for him and the Japanese Empire, he should have done it. Emperor Hirohito has placed himself on the altar, but the key is that Koebe Fumika did not regard him as a god. Koebe Fumika respects imperialism, which is essentially different from the simple Bushido spirit. It can be said that Koebe Fumika is equivalent to looking at the essence from the surface. In addition, Koebe Fumika has a deep personal relationship with Emperor Hirohito, so Koebe Fumika is even more unlikely to worship his special friend as a god.
Regarding Emperor Hirohito's arrangement, Kouai Funcai was full of complaints and had difficulty speaking. In the end, Kouai Funcai could only shake his head helplessly. After all, the situation in Nanjing had undergone such a huge change. Even Prince Hatsuhiko Asakamiya became a headless ghost. If this battle continues, I am afraid that the Central Branch's dispatched troops will be completely destroyed. While the battle is still on the ground, they will negotiate a false ceasefire, mobilize troops to hoard bullet and medicine, paralyze the enemy with politics, and then give the enemy a severe blow? However, Kouai Funcai was very clear that the beginning of the Imperial Army's attack on Xuzhou was the day when his cabinet fell. Because he deceived the entire international community, the cabinet's downfall was the only choice. It was really not easy to give up the power he got! Kouai Funcai smiled helplessly.
Emperor Hirohito instructed Prince Zairen to act as a special envoy. The prerequisite for Nanjing to become a truce in the non-armed area is to return the head of Prince Hatsuhiko Asakamiya. This is a premonition for the start of the truce negotiations. In order to paralyze China, Army Minister Sugiyama Moto also proposed clauses such as North China Autonomy and military expenditure compensation, so that the Zhonglong State Government's government will believe in the negotiations. After all, negotiations are a matter of asking for a lot of money to be paid.
Tada Jun stood in the setting sun, looking at the dilapidated Nanjing City, the sound of gunfire was still ringing. After the night flight's critical aircraft brigade blew up the last barrier-like wall fort in Xishuimen, nearly a hundred remaining Chinese defenders carried out a fearless decisive assault. The Chinese soldiers who had run out of ammunition and food eventually fell on the way to charge.
Despite the dissuasion of his subordinates, Tada Jun changed into the ancient officials' clothes and carried a dry food bag. He went to inspect the position personally like a chef delivering food. The decisive spirit of the Japanese Imperial Army of the Great Dragon was first defeated in Chengde, and then suffered a defeat in Nanjing. Most of the more than 100 Chinese soldiers had bandages on their bodies. It can be concluded that they were wounded, and even the wounded organized to fight, indicating that Zhang Xuewu had reached the end of his life. Even so, Nanjing City was like a black hole that devoured the lives of imperial officers and soldiers.
Every street and every building in Nanjing is until it is bombed into ruins and razed to the ground. Otherwise, there will be Chinese soldiers resisting wherever they are. The complex streets and the solid buildings in Nanjing have made the Japanese offensive troops attack little by little like ants gnawing bones. Locations like the Engineer School, Jinling Patriot Women's Middle School, and Thirteenth Street Building have been operated as fortresses by the Chinese army. Even violent bombing and artillery can not be completely destroyed. They can only rely on the attack of infantry layer by layer. The positions captured during the day are difficult to hold on to the counterattack of the Chinese defenders at night. A building or a line of defense often changes hands more than ten times. The officers and soldiers of the Chinese and Japanese armies can be said to have abandoned corpses in the city.
Although the main force of the Chinese army's chariot troops was wiped out with the cooperation of bombing, and the sporadic Chinese army's chariot troops were no longer a problem, the large number of automatic weapons, anti-tank insurgent guns and magnetic grenades equipped by the Chinese army caused serious losses to the Imperial chariot troops that were attacking Nanjing's urban area. The entire shattering of the Independent Second Chariot Regiment and the Fourth Chariot Regiment made Tada Jun very upset. Couldn't Yoshikawa and Tada leave behind a few chariots? They have to fight for nothing? They have to bear the reputation of being wiped out by themselves?
As of 19:00, the 9th Division, the 101st Division, and the 4th Division, cooperated with the 38th Independent Mixed Brigade to capture the Jimaying and Confucius Temple's front-line positions. The two main captures and occupations did not make Tada Jun feel a little happy?
The death of Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya can be said to have put a lot of pressure on him. The former acting commander of the female front army, Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya, died in his own command. Dozens of military staff from the entire Central Branch Expeditionary Army were all killed. The great loss made Tada Jung painful as soon as he closed his eyes. You should know that the Japanese Army from Lu Xiao to Lu Shi to Lu University, all of them were stereotyped to train exactly the same talents. They could enter the General Staff Headquarters with the rank of assistant officers and were eventually assigned to the Dispatch Army Headquarters. They were all elites with a high prospect of graduation from Lu University, and they lost more than 50 people at once. It would be strange if Tada Jung was not heartbroken!
Furthermore, for the ghost troops of the Chinese army, Tada Jun felt that he could not be injured day and night? How did he get in the camp with strict defenses and get in the enemy? Landmines were buried everywhere? Doraemons were blown up? Snipers were raided? Finally, he snatched his own boat and left. His own headquarters was like a prostitute in a cheap kiln on the street? Who would have tried to touch it?
Tada Jun knew that Tokyo had made some decisions at this moment, so he was not in a hurry, because what would happen if he captured Nanjing at this moment? What the empire needs is absolute strategic initiative. If the Nanjing battle lasts for a month, then the Japanese Empire will most likely lose the strategic initiative that has been tightly held in its hands.
After sunset, Tada Jun finally waited for a telegram from Tokyo. The headquarters imperial prefecture meeting decided to order a formal truce at 0:00 on June 30, 1, and abolish the Zhongzhi Expeditionary Army. Six generals of Hoshitsun served as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Army. They were subordinate to the Central China Front Army and the North China Front Army. Prince Zai Ren, as the representative of the truce truce truce, will arrive in Shanghai soon and negotiate with the Zhongzhi Administration. The telegram was accompanied by an overall plan of cooperation and ordered Tada Jun to cooperate with Prince Zai Ren to complete his mission.
The telegram slid to the ground in Tada Jun's hand, and burned and flew in the remaining fire that fell on the side as the evening breeze blew. Several staff members on the side looked at Tada Jun in surprise. The important decision of the headquarters imperial meeting, the telegram translation with the chrysanthemum logo was actually thrown away at will?
You should know that after the headquarters was attacked by the Chinese army, the General Staff Headquarters of the Base Camp instructed to immediately send effective personnel to assist, and do not destroy the scene as much as possible. Since multiple sets of codebooks were seized by the Chinese army, the three sets of telephone codes and backup codes of the Central Branch's military division level were now invalidated, waiting for the local General Staff Headquarters to send backup passwords. The only thing that can be used is this set of telephone codes that are directly contacted with the Base Camp. Each excerpt of the newspaper must be used in a special standard paper to show respect for the resolutions of the Imperial Conference and respect for the imperial family of the Great Japanese Empire.
However, at this moment, Tada Jun had long lost the mood. Originally, the commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Army should have been his. For the so-called honor of the royal family, Emperor Hirohito first asked Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya, the stupid pig, to replace the old man Matsui Ishione. The battle situation was unfavorable. After losing the infantry gang flag, he had already recalled Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya, but he issued another order to let him share his honor in Nanjing. Unexpectedly, this unlucky fool was beaten to death by the Chinese army's attack team in his command center?
In Tada Jun's view, this base camp decided to use the 24th Division, the 25th Division, the 36th Division, the 37th Division, the 40th Division, the 6th Brigade of the chariots and the 7th Brigade of the Heavy Artillery, as the main force of the Central China Front Army, to attack along the southern section of the Jinpu Road. The 51st Division, the 55th Division, and the 56th Division were assigned to the 5th Division of the Eighth Army of Meijiro, and the 56th Division were assigned to the 5th Division of the Itagaki Seishiro who supported the landing in Qingdao. The main force of the Chinese army in Shandong, the Han Fujutsu, the Central Branch dispatched troops merged into the North China Front Army, and the Third Division, the Sixth Division, the Ninth Division, and the 101th Division were assigned to the Second Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, and the 12th Division advanced together with the twelve divisions. The five routes broke through the Longhai Line, and then directly broke through the Chinese army's blocking attack on Xuzhou with the main force of the Okamura Yanji's Fifth Army.
Xuzhou was known as the key to the northern country and the gateway to the southern country in ancient China. It has always been a place for military strategists to fight for! In Tada Jun’s opinion, the idiots in the base camp finally got enlightened. Occupy Nanjing was just a political show-off, and it was essentially different from the strategic significance of capturing Xuzhou. Compared with the two, it was a difference between heaven and wild.
It’s not too late to change it now, but for me, Tada Jun felt helpless and indignant for the first time that his future was so bleak, as if fate played a huge joke on him!
Looking at the Nanjing City where the sound of gunfire seemed to be getting more and more intense, Tada Jun waved his hand exhaustedly and said, "Implement the armistice order at 24 o'clock. Before that, let them fire the elbow medicine to their heart's content!"
Chapter completed!