"Nani!"

"What!"

Hearing the words of Prince Mahiko of Asakanomiya, the people present were immediately shocked.

His voice was not loud, but in the ears of these people, it was no less than a thunderclap on the ground, which rang in their ears, and in an instant, they were dizzy and their brains were blank.

"How is this possible!"

Nobuyuki Abe looked incredulous, almost exclaiming.

"I can't believe it either! But...... That's the truth! Prince Mahiko Asakanomiya handed over the telegram in his hand and said with a wry smile: "This is the telegram sent by Okamura Ninji himself, and the description on it is very detailed and clear, it is a farewell message!" ”

"When has the situation on the mainland deteriorated to such an extent?" Nobuyuki Abe hurriedly took the message over and looked at it carefully, the message was not long, he read it quickly, but after reading it, he was lost and lonely, obviously a little unbelievable of this fact.

"This ...... It's also too ...... This is too unbelievable, isn't it? Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace also said in disbelief: "This news is really unbelievable!" ”

"The situation on the mainland has deteriorated to the point that even the commander of one of the front armies has been forced to send a farewell message.

"Didn't you say that my empire sent 100,000 troops to attack Changsha? Why did it fall to such a point? He said in disbelief.

Hearing this, Prince Mahiko Chao Xianggong shook his head and said: "Having said that, the actual situation is that the 100,000 imperial troops attacking Changsha were all defeated by Xue Yue, the temporary governor of the Ninth Theater of China, and two of the four divisions were annihilated by the China Army, and the other two were also surrounded by them, in order to rescue these other two divisions, Okamura Ninji was forced to mobilize all the imperial imperial troops in Central China and gathered 50,000 last soldiers, but I didn't expect it, His 50,000 soldiers were blocked and could not advance an inch in the area north of Changsha, and those two divisions could not be rescued, and finally because they ran out of ammunition and food, they were all wiped out by the Chinese army! ”

"The 100,000 army was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the 50,000 army of Okamura Ninji was also pinned down and couldn't leave! Later, the main force of China turned its guns to besiege Okamura Ningji's 50,000 army, and the Central China Front came to the last moment! Okamura Ninji couldn't see any hope, so he could only advance and retreat with the entire front army, so he sent this farewell message......"

There was silence in the room, and for a moment only Prince Mahiko's voice sounded.

Hearing what he said, everyone was silent.

Although Prince Mahiko is very bland when he speaks, anyone can hear the thrill contained in it, and how dangerous the situation is.

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable! ”

I don't know how long it took for Prime Minister Nobuyuki Abe to say with a heart full of shock.

His voice trembled a little, enough to express the horror in his heart.

The same goes for others.

All of them had a look of surprise on their faces.

Obviously, they didn't expect this ending.

Even Emperor Hirohito couldn't believe it.

All along, the news given to him by the cabinet is that the mainland is going well, but now it seems that this is going well? This is clearly the moment of life and death!

After a long time, Emperor Hirohito said: "The Central China Front is in such a crisis, if these 50,000 troops are annihilated by the Chinese army, what will happen to it?" ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but glance at each other, and no one dared to speak.

Only Nobuyuki Abe was about to vomit, and sighed: "If these 50,000 troops are annihilated by the Shina army, then our imperial army in Central China will be empty, and the Shina army will not encounter the slightest help to invade Central China, and then threaten North China, or even ...... It may not even be possible to keep North China! ”

"Once North China is also lost, then we will only have three provinces left on the mainland, and at that time, we will lose such a big strategic maneuver, and we will suffer from the enemy on our backs, maybe even the three provinces and regions will be lost...... By that time......"

What will happen at that time, Nobuyuki Abe did not say, but whoever it is, knows what the outcome will be.

Once the three provinces are also lost, their Japanese army will have to withdraw from the mainland, so that they will continue to retreat on this small island, and they will no longer have the strength to invade Asia, and then compete with the great powers!

In other words, if they lose the three provinces, it will be equivalent to being crippled, and they will no longer be able to touch the mainland!

They didn't say, and Emperor Hirohito didn't ask.

Because as long as he looks at the faces of these people here, he knows that this end is definitely very bad!

He couldn't help sighing, and was silent for a moment, and then asked a little unwillingly, "Is there no other way?" ”

"It's hard!" Prince Mahiko of Asaka Palace sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the current situation in Central China has deteriorated to this point, and if you want to save it, it is tantamount to ascending to the sky!" What's more, we have no way to de-escalate the situation at this time! ”

"A few months ago, in accordance with the plan of the cabinet meeting, the Kwantung Army sent elite divisions to launch a large-scale exploratory strategic offensive against the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces in the Nomenhan area, 200 kilometers south of Hailar on the border of China and Belgium, and we used the strength of several elite divisions to engage the Russian army, and fought a fierce battle for more than 4 months on the overgrown and undulating wasteland with sand dunes, but because the Russian army was well-equipped, we beckoned the first and most painful defeat since the war. Our imperial army has suffered countless losses, so that the Kwantung Army, which has the most spare strength now, cannot send a single soldier at all! ”

"And North China has suffered a lot of losses in the previous Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan, and now it can only protect itself under the front of the Chinese Army, how can there be extra troops to support Okamura Ningji, as for our expeditionary force...... It was also the fall of each of them and the setbacks one after another, and they couldn't draw the slightest force at all......"

Hearing the words of Prince Mahiko of Asakanomiya, Emperor Hirohito's face was blue and white.

His heart fluctuated extremely, as if it contained great anger.

"Smack!"

Emperor Hirohito slapped the desk on the table and said angrily: "Why? Why don't I know all this? Could it be that if Okamura Ninji hadn't had this incident, you would have planned to hide it from me for the rest of your life? ”

He glared angrily at all the high-ranking generals present, whether it was the Ministry of War or the Ministry of the Navy, and these people, under his angry gaze, bowed their heads and did not dare to look at them.

As Emperor Hirohito said, if it weren't for the sudden occurrence of this incident, which caused the situation to deteriorate to a point that they could not even imagine, Emperor Hirohito would probably not know about these things until he died.

(End of chapter)