This night, Liu Yimin had a very comfortable time. He slept for a while in the afternoon, his mental and physical strength had recovered, and with such a smooth occupation of Tianjin, Liu Yimin's mood was indeed very happy.

Yoshiko Kawashima is still honestly writing her confession materials, this witch, now probably knowing that her fate is doomed, behaved very calmly, and even wrote at length, constantly calling the guards and soldiers on guard to bring her paper and ink.

Liu Yimin took a look and saw that Kawashima Yoshiko wrote very seriously, and wrote very carefully in the language and Chinese, knowing that the Chinese language of this spy flower was not as good as the language, and when the words did not reach the meaning, he involuntarily wrote the language.

After reading a few pages of the confession materials written by Yoshiko Kawashima, Liu Yimin sneered in his heart, this witch is dying, and the words are still full of nostalgia for Yueben culture, as if she has become Yue herself in her bones, as if the Manchu Qing Dynasty or herself should rule China. She started from why Prince Su sent her to the book, as if everything she did was to restore the glory of her ancestors.

Liu Yimin snorted in his nose, shook his hand and left, and went directly to the task force.

To say that at this time, the Western Front Group and the second echelon of the instructor were fighting, and Liu Yimin should not leave the command position, however, Liu Yimin was very relieved about the war, because no one knew how empty it was between Jidong and Beijing and Tianjin at this time, and with the strength of his own troops, no force could stop the advance of the troops for the time being.

At this time, the airport guards had been handed over to the air defense headquarters of Li Yimo and Han Qianjian, and the special operations group, sniper group, and a special detachment formed by a regiment were resting in the area of Beidaguan.

When Liu Yimin arrived, the soldiers were having dinner at the garrisons of various units. Seeing that the division commander came to visit the troops, Li Lingfeng, Wang Dahu, and Wang Tongsheng were about to assemble the troops, Liu Yimin stopped them, went directly to the cooking class of the first company, filled a bowl of rice, dug a bowl of vegetables, and squatted on the ground like the soldiers, and ate it in a big gulp.

After eating, he led Wang Dahu, Wang Xinyun, Li Lingfeng, and Wang Tongsheng to all companies of the first regiment, the special operations brigade, and the squadrons of the sniper brigade for a circle, and met with all the soldiers. Then he asked each company and squadron to select and send study notes, and he had to review them.

Needless to say, the special operations brigade and the sniper brigade had a relatively high level of education when selecting people, and after three years of study, the members with the lowest cultural level at the time had now reached the level of high school graduation, which can be seen from the chemistry, physics, and math study problems and experiences recorded in the notes. Some fighters even began to discuss various modes of conducting special operations against the Chinese army in their notes. It was the soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 1st regiment, and most of them had also reached the level of graduating from primary school. Under the great joy, Liu Yimin did not hesitate to praise the words, and wrote down in the soldiers' homework books: "Knowledge is the foundation of revolutionary soldiers", "Keep in mind the glorious tradition of the Red Army that it is particularly capable of fighting and learning", "Learn war in war", "With a gun in one hand and a pen in the other, revolutionary soldiers are not only combat teams, but also work teams, propaganda teams, and production teams", and so on. Let me take back the study notes that have not been corrected, continue to review them tomorrow night, and then take the car back to the division headquarters.

After reading the battle reports of Zeng Zhongsheng and Liu Jianli, Liu Yimin did not give too much explanation, but only ordered them to seize the time to rest and reorganize their troops and proceed according to the original combat deployment.

After sending the telegram, Luo Ronghuan urged Liu Yimin to go back and rest, and tomorrow he and Cai Zhong will be responsible for organizing the work team to mobilize the masses, and the division commander can calm down and think about the next step of the operation, especially how to prevent the enemy from besieging and dealing with the retaliatory bombing.

Liu Yimin thought about it, there was really nothing to do tonight, and it was estimated that the old devil in the temple should be busy, so he went back to his room to rest.

When I went to the living room, I saw that the child was already asleep, and Tang Xingying was guiding Chen Meisheng to read.

Since leaving Taiyuan and going north, Tang Xingying has led her son to act with Chen Meisheng and Chen Yaoguang with the logistics headquarters, and the husband and wife have not met. Seeing Liu Yimin coming back, Tang Xingying immediately raised her head and asked happily, "Are you back?" ”

Liu Yimin nodded, took the book Chen Meisheng was reading and saw that it was a college mathematics textbook of this era, so he nodded, reached out and touched Chen Meisheng's head, and told her that no matter how intense her work was, she should use the gap between battles and marches to study, so as to contribute to the construction of New China in the future.

Chen Meisheng has a good family education, and he has been going to school, and the foundation itself is good, since following Tang Xingying, Tang Xingying felt that this little girl was a talent that could be created, and wanted to send her back to Xi'an to study, but the troops moved too fast, and felt that Chen Jingtang meant to let his grandson and granddaughter follow Liu Yimin, so he took him all the way to Tianjin, and after preparing to conduct basic military training for her, he sent her to Qian Zhuangfei to learn radio technology with Deputy Chief of Staff Qian.

Seeing that Liu Yimin liked this little girl very much, Tang Xingying said: "Yimin, you can get Mei Sheng a small pistol, I want her to learn to shoot and have a little self-protection ability." ”

Liu Yimin immediately called Huang Wenhu over, asked him to get a pistol for Chen Meisheng, and taught Chen Meisheng how to shoot and throw bombs.

Chen Meisheng gave birth to the little girl's surname, and immediately said sweetly "Thank you, uncle", and went out with Huang Wenhu.

Liu Yimin looked at Tang Xingying, he hadn't seen her for half a month, he felt that Tang Xingying seemed to be thin, and he was very distressed, so he hugged her and kissed her.

Tang Xingying blushed, and whispered in Liu Yimin's ear: "I thought you were going to be a monk, but it turned out that you were still so anxious." ”

As soon as Liu Yimin heard this, the fire in his heart lit with a bang, stretched out his hand to extinguish the light, picked up his wife and went to bed.

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe led several staff officers to work all night and finally came up with a battle plan. After reading it in the end, Okabe Naosaburo felt very satisfied, so he named it "Dragon Capture Project", which means to concentrate all his efforts and capture the wild dragon of the Mentor who brought many disasters to the Imperial Army in one fell swoop.

At dawn, Okabe Naosaburo woke up General Shouichi Terauchi with red eyes.

After a night's rest, Shouichi Terauchi improved his spirits. After a brief wash, General Terauchi took the battle plan and looked at it carefully.

It should be said that Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo had a painstaking plan, and he planned to let the three divisions of the southward corps of the Kwantung Army in Taiyuan set off from Taiyuan, transport them to Shijiazhuang, and then go north to Zhuoxian, recapture Langfang, and block the passage from Tianjin to Beiping. The Second Army left the 3rd and 4th Brigades to defend the Shandong occupation area, and the 10th Division and the 108th Division under the command of Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo assembled in Jinan, quickly went north to Cangxian, and blocked Tianjin's southward passage. The 11th Brigade stationed in Beiping and the Reading Force Mixed Brigade of the Garrison Army led Qi Kuiyuan's North China Public Security Army to blockade the front line of Tongxian, Sanhe, and Jixian with all their might. Please send the elite of the Kwantung Army to the south, cross the Lingwu Mountains, and block the northbound passage of Tianjin. The Navy is requested to send an aircraft carrier group to block the sea passage of Tianjin and bomb Tianjin with naval aviation. The 6th Division, the 16th Division, and the Guoqi Detachment quietly transported Qingdao from Nanjing to land, and then rushed to Cangxian by train to block the passage between Tianjin and Jizhong. In this way, it is to gather the full strength of the North China Front, the Kwantung Army, and the Navy to form a four-sided encirclement of Tianjin. After the encirclement was formed, the Guoqi detachment quickly returned to the formation of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division, so that the Kwantung Army's southward corps, the 10th Division of the 2nd Army, the 108th Division, and the 6th and 16th Divisions, the 5th Division, and the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division advanced in parallel, and the 200,000-strong army besieged Tianjin, compressing the instructors who had attacked and occupied Tianjin in the direction of eastern Hebei, and drove them to the seashore until they gathered and annihilated them.

After seeing it, General Terauchi was very satisfied. Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe is worthy of his background as a staff officer, and even the marching routes, control points, and firepower distribution of various units are clearly marked. General Terauchi Shouichi patted Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo on the shoulder, said a few words, asked Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo to go to rest first, called the confidential staff officer, and asked him to immediately send the battle plan to the base camp.

After receiving a telegram from General Shouichi Terauchi last night, Lu Xiangshanyuan's hands trembled, and the fluttering telegram could not hold it, and it fell straight to the ground, so that General Shanshanyuan had to bend down three times.

The Chief of Staff, Prince Zaihito Miyaji, was already a 72-year-old marshal at this time. This is a scheming fellow who kills without seeing blood. When he was young, he liked to charge into battle, and when he participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, he rode a horse and braved the rain of bullets and bullets of the Qing Dynasty army to convey orders, and was known as the "prince herald" by the army. Later, this person started from the captain of the cavalry brigade and rose all the way up, not only became a marshal, but also received the Grand Order Chrysanthemum Medal Necklace. Now, he has become the most powerful man in the army. In addition to being reprimanded by the emperor in the 26 incident, even the prime minister had to look at his face. Historically, the reason why his two nephews dared to launch the Nanjing Massacre was because of his connivance and encouragement.

Seeing that Shanshan Yuan was so out of shape, the old bastard Prince Zairen of the palace straightened Li Huabai's mustache, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of contemptuous ridicule, so that the deputy chief of staff, Sawada Shigeru, took the telegram, read it carefully, and said: "Very good, very good, Earl Terauchi Shouichi seems to have been more unlucky recently, he has just lost the 21st Brigade and the Chahar Dispatch Corps in Taiyuan, and this Tianjin has been lost again." It seems that Shouichi Terauchi can become the first unlucky guy in the history of the Imperial Army! ”

Even the emperor couldn't guess the thoughts of Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace, in fact, he had been suppressing the imperial faction in the army, and the commander of the Central China Front, General Matsui Ishone, had suffered his losses. Terauchi Shouichi is not an imperial sect, his identity is detached, and he is in the two. In the 26th Incident, he served as the prime minister of the land, served as the heavy task of suppressing the army, and fought against the imperial faction, which should be very good for Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace. Therefore, as soon as he heard Prince Zaihito of the Idle Courtyard say that Terauchi Shouichi was the first unlucky egg in the history of the imperial army, the corners of Shanshan Yuan's eyes flashed, and he hung his head and was silent.

Sawada Shigeru didn't see the light in the corner of Shanshan Yuan's eyes, and said to himself: "Tianjin has always been an important base of the Imperial Army, and the reason why the North China Incident was able to succeed quickly is inseparable from the empire's persistent management of Tianjin. There are not only our concessions, barracks, and diaspora, but also a huge number of strategic materials. If Tianjin is not recaptured, the empire will suffer huge losses, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the North China Front will immediately face supply difficulties, and the military department will not be able to account for His Majesty the Emperor. If those who have an opinion on jihad are made known, they will inevitably accuse the military ministry of dragging the country into the trap of war. Therefore, Tianjin must be recaptured as soon as possible. ”

Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace touched his white mustache again, and asked Lu Xiangshan Shanyuan quietly: "What does Your Excellency Lu Xiang think?" ”

Shanshan Yuan didn't raise his head, and said in a low voice: "When General Ming said that the temple is completely clear about the situation, I will petition His Majesty for a holy judgment!" ”

Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace raised his eyebrows, endured it, and said with a smile: "Okay, I would like to ask Prime Minister Lu to tell Prime Minister Konoe, and ask him to urgently meet His Majesty the Emperor early tomorrow morning, and convene a pre-imperial meeting to discuss the issue of increasing troops in North China again." ”

Then, Prince Zaihito asked Sawada Shigeru to immediately convene his staff officers to deduce the situation in North China and prepare to draw up a plan for the expansion of the army and a plan for recapturing Tianjin.

After dawn, General Terauchi Shouichi sent a battle plan, which was reviewed by Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace, Sugimoto of the Land Minister, and Shigeru Sawada, the deputy chief of staff, and thought that it was basically feasible. Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Gong further proposed that four divisions should be expanded on the mainland, and they should land on Qinhuangdao by sea, and surprise troops should make a surprise attack to completely eliminate this strong force that was making trouble with the imperial army, and quickly recover Tianjin.

This idea made both Shanshan Yuan and Sawada Shigeru feel that the old marshal was really old and strong, and the plan he proposed was more daring and ruthless.

So, the three of them pulled Prime Minister Konoe and went into the palace together to meet the emperor.

Emperor Hirohito didn't have a good night's rest last night, and his face was a little sallow. The reason is that after the capture of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, the imperial army regained Taiyuan, and the battle situation was good. General Terauchi also contributed to the establishment of the provisional political axe of the Republic of China, and it is conceivable that soon North China and even all of China will become the second Manchukuo. Emperor Hirohito was overjoyed, so he went to visit a princess selected by Count Mitsuken Tanaka of the Imperial Household Province.

Emperor Hirohito and Empress Ryoko have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and they have a good relationship, so they didn't need to accept a side room, but since Empress Ryoko gave birth to four princesses in a row, the call for the emperor to accept a side concubine has risen in the imperial family. After Empress Ryoko had a miscarriage, Count Mitsuken Tanaka selected ten princesses, and three of them were selected by the emperor. Hirohito originally wanted to keep all of them, but after looking at Empress Ryoko's face, only one of the most beautiful ones was left. Later, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Ryoko played cards with this princess once, and for some reason, they never cared about this princess again.

It was not until 1933, when Empress Ryoko gave birth to Prince Akihito, that the call for the emperor to take a concubine subsided in the imperial family. Emperor Hirohito also pretended to tell his subjects that he advertised monogamy and would not take concubines. Poor that beautiful princess was left out in the cold.

Last night, on a whim, Emperor Hirohito remembered that white and tender face, so he carried Empress Ryoko behind his back and secretly went to the princess. Unexpectedly, this side had just entered the port, and she was having fun, and Queen Liangzi over there didn't know where she got the news, so she came crying and making trouble, and she scared the dignified emperor into weakness, and got up from the princess in a panic, and accompanied Queen Liangzi back to the palace with persuasion.

As soon as the day dawned, the female official reported that the princess had become a monk and practiced under shame.

Emperor Hirohito was shocked and angry, and his eyes turned like knives when he saw Empress Ryoko. Helplessly, Empress Ryoko was coquettish and stupid, and called her daughter and son over and pestered Emperor Hirohito. Emperor Hirohito collapsed and couldn't lift his spirits.

Seeing Prime Minister Konoe's urgent request to see him, Emperor Hirohito was a little annoyed and didn't want to pay attention to these old guys. In order to divert her husband's attention, Empress Ryoko tried all kinds of persuasion and promised him that he would change his posture at night so that he could completely relax and have fun, and Emperor Hirohito summoned several ministers.

As soon as he heard that Tianjin was lost, all the troops stationed in Tianjin were shattered, all the strategic materials fell into the hands of the Central [***] team, and the North China Air Corps lost its combat effectiveness, Emperor Hirohito's sallow face became blue, and after a while, it became waxy white again, and finally a few traces of flushing poured out.

Swallowing his saliva, Emperor Hirohito asked coldly: "Terauchi Shouichi has just recovered Taiyuan, why did he let the Shina army run to Tianjin?" Itagaki Seishiro apologized for losing Taiyuan by disembowelment, why is Earl Terauchi Shouichi so thick-skinned, and he still has the face to send telegrams for planes, supplies, and reinforcements? ”

As soon as he said this, Prime Minister Konoe, Sugi Moto, and Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace were all dumbfounded, dumbfounded, and unable to answer.

Prime Minister Konoe felt that as the prime minister of the cabinet, he still needed to consider the overall situation, so he replied: "This branch of the army is the Shaanxi instructor of the Shaanxi sect who attacked Taiyuan and caused the main force of the Fifth Division and the Chahar Corps to be shattered. In this reconquest of Taiyuan, the main goal of General Terauchi Shouichi was to destroy this army and avenge the warriors of Jade Shatter. As a result, this army successfully escaped, and while the main force of our army was moving south, it made a long-distance attack on Tianjin. Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff of the North China Front, reported that General Terauchi Shoichi had determined that this unit had attacked Tianjin after learning of the attack on the airfield. It is a pity that the main force of the North China Front is fighting on the Jinpu line, the Pinghan line and Shanxi, and the belly is empty, and there are no troops to adjust. General Terauchi Shouichi vomited blood from his mouth and fell unconscious, but he was rescued by military doctors before he woke up. He had already drawn up a battle plan and respectfully invited the emperor to take a look at it. ”

Emperor Hirohito's face looked a little better, he took the battle plan and read it, and asked coldly: "What do you think?" ”

Only then did Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace play: "The ministers believe that the situation in North China is extremely dangerous, and if reinforcements are slow, the North China Front Army will fall into an embarrassing situation of shortage of food and ammunition, and the combat strength of the Imperial Army will gradually be depleted, and the Chinese army and civil resistance forces will take advantage of the situation, and when the time comes, the hundreds of thousands of troops are likely to collapse, and the prospects are worrying." The ministers and others decided to implement the operational plan of the North China Front, transfer the 6th Division, the 16th Division, and the Guoqi Detachment to be rebuilt, and send a combined naval fleet to blockade the Bohai Bay and bomb Tianjin. In addition, considering that the main forces of the Kwantung Army were to move south, it would be easy to create a Manchurian emptiness. The ministers respectfully ask Your Majesty to approve the expansion of the army again, the formation of four divisions of the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, and the transfer of a brigade to the Fifth Division, so that the Fifth Division can be completely organized. The above-mentioned troops were transported by local ships to North China, landed at Qinhuangdao, and penetrated directly into Tianjin, completely encircling and annihilating this Chinese army. After the battle, the three divisions of the Kwantung Army Southward Corps could be returned to the Kwantung Army formation. ”

Emperor Hirohito was silent for a long time after hearing this, and when Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace saw that the emperor was silent, he said again: "Your Majesty clearly sees that the imperial army is invincible in China, invincible, and invincible, and Chiang Kai-shek's political axe army in China is not our opponent at all. According to the report of the intelligence agency, this unit was originally a regiment that was defeated in Xiangjiang, Hunan when it was transferred from Jiangxi, and later, under the leadership of Liu Yimin, it successively defeated the Kuomintang He Jianbu, Xue Yuebu, Liu Xiangbu, and Hu Zongnan, and the army expanded into a corps. This unit has attacked Chengdu, Xi'an, Taiyuan, and now Tianjin. The people of China called Liu Yimin, the commander of this army, the god of war, and it is said that Chiang Kai-shek once offered a reward of 1 million silver dollars for Liu Yimin's head. When the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, this unit was reorganized into a tutor. The minister thought that this army was the henchmen of the Imperial Army, and it must be besieged heavily in order to completely eliminate it. In particular, this Liu Yimin, who held press conferences many times, preached resistance, and instigated the Chinese people to rise up and kill the imperial army, is really a heinous saboteur. This time, we must capture him alive and behead him for public display. Otherwise, if it is allowed to develop, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Seeing that Prime Minister Konoe and Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace of Kanyuan were both advocating the expansion of the army, Shanshan Mototo was naturally unwilling, and immediately said: "Tianjin has the most advanced industry in North China, as well as the financial institutions and expatriates of the Great Empire, and the baggage supplies of the North China Front Army are stored, if Tianjin is not recaptured and these materials fall into the hands of the Chinese army, they will soon pull up tens of thousands of well-equipped troops, and the situation in North China will be even more dangerous." Your Majesty, it's not that General Shouyi Terauchi is incompetent, but that this Liu Yimin is too cunning. Earl Shouyi in the temple is just more unlucky, and when he encounters this murderous and cunning Liu Yimin, he always starts in unexpected places. If the Chinese army had been like this army, the Manchurian Incident, the North China Incident, and the Shanghai Incident would not have happened. ”

Emperor Hirohito then said, "It's not that I disagree with your battle plan, but I'm thinking about how to recover Tianjin more quickly. You have come up with a detailed plan for the expansion of the armed forces and implemented it immediately. As for the brigade that lacked the Fifth Division, troops were drawn from the Guards Division to form a mixed brigade and join the Fifth Division. Candidates for commanders of various units shall be nominated by the General Staff Headquarters and submitted to the General Staff for approval. Anyway, be quick, and start today. I hope that Tianjin will be able to return to the arms of the Empire in a very short time. The bombing of Tianjin should be considered and the enterprises should be preserved as much as possible. The empire did not have that much money to restore the economy of Tianjin. ”

At this moment, the faces of several culprits who invaded China were full of joy, and they praised His Majesty the Emperor for his wisdom.

Emperor Hirohito waved his hand impatiently, drove away a few ministers, and went back to face Empress Ryoko's face, which was already a little tired of seeing.

(To be continued)