7.55 Tokyo and Xuzhou

Although Han Fuqu was executed by the Military Commission, Han Fuqu's old Third Army was still active on the battlefield in Xuzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Naturally, the highest authorities do not want this formidable military force to continue to exist. Therefore, under the instruction of the highest authorities, the Military Commission has been trying to find the fault of the Third Army and to divide and disintegrate this force.

Sun Tongxuan, who had no choice but to take over Han Fuqu's position, was an extremely cautious general, and he was extremely sensitive to every move of the Military Commission. Even during the battle, Sun Tongxuan would rather the Third Army lose more men and horses than let the Military Commission seize the handle to embarrass him. After several efforts turned into useless efforts, Minister He could only suggest that the supreme authorities change their methods and let the Third Army fight more vicious battles, thus achieving the goal of "killing people with a knife."

Such a result is naturally undesirable to the highest authorities, and the highest authorities feel that they should quickly cut through the mess when dealing with these old departments of Han Fuqu.

So when the highest authorities learned that Huang Haoran had swallowed one of the main forces of Sun Tongxuan's group so easily, they praised Huang Haoran several times in front of Lin Wei! In order to reward Huang Haoran for his outstanding performance, the highest authority personally issued an order to the Ministry of Military Affairs to transfer some of the Soviet aid materials that had just arrived to Huang Haoran.

Huang Haoran didn't expect that he would get an unexpected "dividend" when he left Cao Fulin's military headquarters.

Holding the list of "Soviet aid" materials issued by the Military Commission to the 25th Group Army, Huang Haoran could only shake his head and smile bitterly, he really didn't know whether he should feel happy or helpless now!

The 99th Army was born and died in the defense of Nanjing, and made great achievements, and the Military Commission only gave Huang Haoran a batch of ballasted "foreign aid materials", but did not use the expensive "Soviet aid" at hand. Now the highest authorities have specially sent "Soviet aid" as a reward because Huang Haoran's 25th Group Army annexed the 55th Army, a friendly army that is also an anti-Japanese armed force! What a twisted idea of the highest authorities!

What is "the outside must first be at home"? It's simply the logic of bastards!

In order to maximize the chances of victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, Chief Li once again got up and went to Zhengzhou to borrow Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps from the highest authorities, and the 5th Theater was accumulating strength for the next big war.

Before Chief Li left Xuzhou, he repeatedly told Xu Zuyi and Wang Hongshao to help Huang Haoran well, and before he returned from Zhengzhou, Huang Haoran was temporarily in charge of the military affairs of the 5th Theater.

Huang Haoran placed his 25th Army in Tongshan, behind Sun Lianzhong's Second Army Defense Area.

Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army marched to the ancient city near Linyi in advance to assist Pang Bingxun's Third Army in defending Linyi against the attack of the Japanese enemy division.

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The contradictions between the Japanese Navy and the Army have a long history. Since Japan's withdrawal from the Washington Naval Treaty, the Japanese Navy has entered a period of no-treaty.

Since Japan is an island country surrounded by the sea, Emperor Hirohito attached great importance to the construction of the navy. He successively made three large additional appropriations for the development of the navy. This aroused the jealousy of the Army. With the launching of warships into the sea and the transfer of planes in batches, the navy has become increasingly large, and its ambitions have swelled much faster than the development of the navy itself. They no longer wanted to be subordinate to the army, and began to exert their influence in the cabinet, in the military department, in the Privy Council, in all important departments, and fought against the army. This is where the contradictions develop.

At the end of 1937, the Japanese army launched the Qingdao landing battle. The headquarters of the base camp originally planned to coordinate the land and navy and make a joint landing, but the navy, which was eager to compete for merit, landed alone in the shallow sea around Shilao and occupied Qingdao without waiting for the arrival of the army. The army that arrived afterwards was annoyed and angry, and marched towards the city without greeting them, and as a result, the two sides saw each other with swords and fought fiercely. The looming contradictions between the army and navy have finally come to the fore.

Later, the navy was ordered to land on the coast, and the army was supposed to assist in the attack from the ground. However, when the army learned that the Chinese regular army was stationed in the area where the navy landed, it chose not to move, and did not send a single soldier in the direction of Lianyungang, but stood in the distance to watch the jokes of the navy. As a result, after the Marines went ashore, they could not see the shadow of the army for a long time, and they could only fight hard alone without heavy equipment. Although the Chinese defenders were repulsed afterwards, the navy's elite marines suffered heavy casualties. After Mi Nei Haixiang learned the inside story, he actually scolded Lu Xiang Sugiyama Yuan!

The serious antagonism between the army and navy soon spread to the lower echelons of the Japanese army. A few days ago, when a group of young officers of the Tokyo Guards Division were drinking bitterly at a bar in the "Kikucho" in the downtown area, they heard several naval officers say that "the army is greedy for life and afraid of death," so they immediately rushed up and started fighting. As a result, a Navy captain was killed on the spot in the brawl. The news spread, and there was a lot of discussion on the streets of Tokyo.

Emperor Hirohito felt that this chaotic situation in Tokyo could not continue!

He decided to convene a meeting to properly resolve the problems between the military department, the cabinet, and the army and navy......

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In Tokyo, Prime Minister Fumima Konoe, who had just returned from a walk in the woods, took off his civilian clothes and changed into a sophisticated uniform. This heir of the Fujiwara family has been specially cultivated since he was a child.

After Emperor Hirohito's regency, Fumima Konoe often represented Emperor Hirohito in dealing with all sorts of troublemakers. Emperor Hirohito trusted Fumima Konoe and supported Fumima's cabinet. Fumima Konoe also needed Hirohito, who needed the protection of the Japanese emperor.

Before the outbreak of a full-scale war between China and Japan, Fumima Konoe agreed to military action in China in exchange for allowing him to implement reforms at home. However, in the past six months or so, Konoe has made almost no progress in reforming, and the military's military operations on the Chinese battlefield have repeatedly escalated. Fumima Konoe finally understood that without the support of the military, Japan's domestic reforms would only be empty talk!

Fumima Konoe eventually chose to change his position. Instead, he supported the military's war against China, hoping that the military would end the war in China at an early date, and then the cabinet would be able to focus on domestic affairs.

But Fumima Konoe soon discovers that he has made another mistake. Not only has the military failed to solve China's military problems, but the domestic contradictions are still expanding day by day! In desperation, Fumima Konoe is like a gambler who has lost his eyes, pinning all his hopes on bigger bets.

Xuzhou! Taking Xuzhou should make the Wuhan government feel pain, right? Once the Japanese army occupies Xuzhou, it can launch an attack on Wuhan at any time, does the highest authority really have the determination to fight the war of resistance to the end?

Fumima Konoe expressed great skepticism......

"The army is really a rice bucket, whoever expects them is unlucky." After feeling a little emotional, Konoe called his entourage: "Prepare the car, I'm going to see the emperor!" ”

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