Major General Noboru Kunizaki sat down at the head of the round conference table with a golden sword, and did not let the standing officers take their seats, but asked, "Clerk, are you all here?" ”。

The clerk was a staff officer of the junior officer, and when he saw His Excellency the brigade commander asking himself, the clerk did not dare to slack off, and immediately stood up and replied: "Report to Your Excellency the brigade commander, according to your request, there should be 46 officers above the rank of Zhongzuo attending this meeting, but there are 37 of them, and 9 of them failed to arrive on time, four of whom went out to perform official duties, one was treated in the hospital, and the remaining four could not be contacted. ”

After the clerk finished speaking, Major General Kunizaki Noboru did not make any comment, but his face was blue and red and he squinted at the officers standing in front of him.

The officers standing in front of the conference table suddenly felt a chill in their hearts, until today, this matter is going to happen. He has been on business with Kunisaki for more than a year, and they still know this brigade commander very well, and his Excellency the brigade commander is very kind in normal times, and the opinions put forward by his subordinates will be adopted as long as they are reasonable, and he is a very good commander. But if he is not in a good mood, he will show this intriguing expression at this moment, and it will explode immediately, and at this time, as long as there is a living object in front of him, he is the object of his anger.

Sure enough, soon Major General Kunizaki Noboru scolded loudly and angrily: "Yaga, is this our officer of the Great Japanese Empire? I didn't even notice anyone at the meeting, what is the staff office doing, Matsui, I'll give you a chance to explain, if your answer doesn't satisfy me, you know the consequences. ”

Jiro Matsui, chief of staff of the Ninth Brigade and chief of staff of the Ninth Brigade, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, compared to others, he knew best the personality of the brigade commander, once he was targeted, he would definitely not end well, even if his military rank was Dasa, only one level short of Kunizaki Deng.

Matsui Jiro calmed down and said: "Report to Your Excellency Brigade Commander, after receiving your notice, our staff office immediately sent all the signal troops to inform, and the troops stationed in the suburbs notified them by telegram and asked the troops to reply. The officers stationed in the city sent signal corps to the unit directly to inform them, but the captain and deputy captain of the 9th Brigade of the 11th Infantry Wing, the deputy captain of the 41st Infantry Wing, and the chief of staff were not in their respective units, and the soldiers sent to look for them did not find these four officers, and the four officers who went to Jiaxing County to perform official duties such as Sakurai Shaozo were not notified. ”

Kunizaki Noboru looked at Jiro Matsui with a grim face, and after a long while, he said, "You did a good job, please sit down Sakurai Shaosa will never receive your notice." The officers who were not in the army were immediately arrested for dereliction of duty and sent home for trial. Alright, all of you, please be seated, and now we will begin the meeting."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and at the same time, they secretly shouted that they were lucky that they were not implicated. As for the few officers who didn't stay in the army, the others actually knew where they went, and there were only two possibilities for not staying in the army at this time, the first was that these guys were staying in the comfort station, playing goblin fighting tricks with those flower girls. Another possibility is that these guys went with the guards to get extra money, and it is likely that they went outside the city, otherwise even their respective subordinates would not be able to find them.

In fact, all the officers here have done this kind of thing, and they have done a lot of it, but today they were caught instead of themselves, which can only be said to be their own luck, and they just escaped by luck, as for those guys, they are too unlucky, and they can catch a little extra money to get to the muzzle. …,

"Ladies and gentlemen, just now the brigade headquarters received a telegram from the Jiaxiang side, it is extremely bad news, Jiaxiang County was attacked by the joint attack of the National Government and the Communist Party of China three hours ago, all the officers above the rank of second lieutenant in Jiaxiang County were killed, and Sakurai Shaosa, who went to perform official duties, was also at the scene of the attack at that time." Major General Kunisaki's voice was low, and his mood was as low as his voice at this time. After speaking, Kunizaki Noboru asked the clerk next to him to pass on the telegram sent by the defenders of Jiaxiang County, and let all the officers present circulate it.

As soon as Kunisaki Deng's voice fell, the hearts of all the officers present rose again, everyone was shocked, and they all knew why His Excellency the Brigade Commander was so annoyed today, it turned out that something happened to Sakurai Shaosa, Sakurai Shaosa is the nephew of His Excellency the Brigade Commander, and the only heir of the Sakurai family, if something happens to him, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Then Kunizaki Noboru said: "Everyone, according to the people who escaped from the scene, it was the Military Command Bureau of the National Government of China and the special combat team led by the Communist Party of China that attacked the banquet site of Mr. Wang Jixian. Moreover, according to the news from Jiaxiang, the bodies of 19 imperial officers and 22 people from China were found at the scene, including Mr. Wang Jixian, the father of Director Wang. However, there is no remains of Sakurai Shaosa, so they judge that Sakurai was captured by the Shina side, so we must act as soon as possible to rescue Sakurai. ”

"Hail"

"Please, Sakurai is my nephew, and the only male in the Sakurai family, and please think about how to save Sakurai, if something happens to him right under my nose, I don't know how to explain it to my poor sister" After speaking, Major General Kunizaki Noboru had a gloomy look on his face.

Matsui Jiro spoke first: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, it is necessary to rescue Sakurai Shaosa, but I think the most important thing we have to do now is not to find Sakurai Shaosa, but to order all units to strengthen their defenses, I think you have all heard of the horror of the special combat team in China, once they are allowed to take advantage of the loophole, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Yaga, what do you mean by working, what do you mean to say that Sakurai is not important" Major General Kunisaki Noboru was furious when he heard Matsui Jiro's words, and Sakurai was the most important thing in Kunisaki's heart at this time.

Although he is also aware of the horror of the special forces of the Chinese army, in his mind, even if the special combat team is strong and good at sneak attack operations, as far as he knows, the number of special combat teams in the Chinese army is extremely small, on the one hand, because the special combat team has extremely strict requirements for soldiers, on the other hand, it costs a lot to train a special forces, even the empire has only trained less than 1,000 people now, and there are only more than 200 people who can complete all the assessments in the past year, but they have almost been wiped out on the battlefield in North China. Moreover, according to the telegram sent back by the defenders of Jiaxiang County, there were not many Chinese troops attacking Jiaxiang, and there were only one or two hundred people when they were full.

Just such a little person can hardly be of much use in a big city except for a sneak attack on a small stronghold and a small county town, and in the heart of Major General Kunisaki Noboru , even ten county towns are not as important as Sakurai.

Matsui Jiro Osa knew that Noboru Kunisaki had misunderstood what he meant, and hurriedly explained: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, please calm your anger, Your Excellency has misunderstood what I meant."

"Misunderstanding? So what do you mean to work, come on."

Matsui Jiro wiped the cold sweat on his head and explained: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, I think that since the branch side cooperated with many parties to attack a small Jiaxiang county town, and sent the most elite troops on both sides, it is not worth such a big move by the branch to Wang Jixian, that is to say, they are not going for Wang Jixian. ”…,

"Then who are they going for, and are they going to Sakurai?" Kunisaki asked hurriedly.

"No, they must be aware of your relationship with Sakurai Shaosa, but Sakurai Shaosa's status at this time is not worth their hands at all, so they are not going for Sakurai Shaosa"

"Then since they weren't going for Sakurai, then who are they coming for, and why are they kidnapping Sakurai, you say quickly" Kunisaki Noboru asked a little impatiently.

Matsui Jiro hurriedly said: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, I humbly judge that those Eighth Layers of the Shina Army are coming for you, and the reason why they want to kidnap Sakurai Shaosa must be to threaten you with Sakurai Shaosa." If you think about it carefully, who is the most effective in the entire Jining area, it must be you, the commander of the Jining Garrison Command and the commander of the 9th Brigade, once they have something or move now, the first thing to consider is your thoughts, so they will kidnap Sakurai Shaosa to threaten you. Therefore, the humble duty judged that Sakurai Shaoza would not be in danger of life for the time being, and the humble duty dared to guarantee that the people of Shina would contact you soon, so the lowly duty thought that we should not be too impatient now, and should first order the troops to strengthen their precautions, not to give the people of China a chance to take advantage of, and also to give the people of China a signal, that is, Sakurai Shaosa is not as important in your mind as they imagined, and when the time comes, we will be able to pay a little less price when we rescue Sakurai Shaosa. ”

Major General Noboru Kunisaki himself is also a rare wise general in the Japanese Army, so his combat command ability is also second to none in the Japanese Army, and he has fought in most of China in just three years, whether it is Shanxi, Shandong, or the Beijing-Tianjin region, or Shanghai and Nanjing, there are Kunizaki Noboru and his troops, whether it is the Battle of Xinkou that Itagaki Seishiro is proud of or the capture of Nanjing that the whole of Japan is boiling, there are Kunizaki Noboru involved, and even the Battle of Taierzhuang has the shadow of the Guoqi detachment led by him. If it weren't for the fact that Ichiro Sakurai was his closest relative, which affected his judgment, how could he not figure out such a superficial truth.

"Matsui, your judgment is greatly correct, yo Xi, we must not only strengthen the defense capability of all troops, but also increase the blow to the resistance forces in China, isn't there a guerrilla force of the Eighth Route Army on the side of Weishan Lake, since they can send a special combat team to attack our county, then we can also send elite troops to attack their station, we will have a good time with those damn China" Speaking of this, Major General Kunizaki Noboru's voice suddenly increased: "Order: All troops to strengthen their precautions, In case of a sneak attack by the special forces of China. At the same time, all units strictly investigated strangers entering and leaving the city, and as long as the origin was unknown and no one testified, they were all locked up, and once it was confirmed that they were Shina spies, they were immediately executed. After discovering the traces of the special combat team in China, it was immediately reported to the headquarters, and all units were strictly forbidden to attack without permission. Order: The 41st Infantry Wing dispatched the main force to attack the China guerrillas operating in the Weishan Lake area and occupy their station, Weishan Island. ”

"Hail"

With the order of the Ninth Brigade being issued step by step, Wang Xiaohu and others obviously felt that the Japanese army's defensive strength would be strengthened in the next few days, and now it was very difficult for the soldiers to enter the city.

However, Wang Xiaohu did not gain anything on the way to Jining, but the three special combat teams sent by Han Yunhua to the northeast, Shanxi, Henan and other places were brilliant, and the most powerful was Li Dingguo's Flying Dragon Special Combat Team, compared to the young phoenix special combat team, which is mainly used for special combat team training, the Flying Dragon Special Operations Brigade is a special unit for combat, and Li Dingguo, the captain of the Flying Dragon Special Operations Brigade, also has experience in commanding large units to fight, and he also pulled up an elite unit when he was in eastern Hebei. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the entire special combat team is the strongest among the four special combat teams of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and even the Cheetah special combat team, which has always been by Han Yunhua's side, is not an opponent. …,

Sending troops to the northeast has always been a dream of the Chinese, especially for those northeast troops who were ordered to withdraw to the Guannei, it is a belief to fight back to their hometown. In order to better accomplish the task, Li Dingguo specially asked Han Yunhua to ask Lu Zhengcao, commander of the Jizhong Military Region, for a platoon of pure northeastern men. And Lu Zhengcao was also interesting enough, and directly sent the platoon with the strongest combat effectiveness in his guard company.

With the help of these more than 30 pure Northeast men, the Feilong Special Combat Team was like a fish in water in the Northeast, and soon surrounded and annihilated a Japanese squadron in Tongliao, and also rebelled against an infantry regiment of the puppet Manchukuo, which attracted the attention of the puppet Manchukuo side. At the same time, the anti-Japanese actions of the Flying Dragon Special Combat Team also attracted the attention of the Northeast Democratic Anti-Japanese Allied Army, which gave a boost to the anti-Japanese organizations that had lost contact with the Party Central Committee for more than three years, thinking that the Party Central Committee had sent troops to support them.

The Cheetah Special Combat Team in northern Henan is the most arrogant, because the situation in Henan and Shandong, Shanxi, especially in Hebei, is different, and there are still quite a few national troops in Henan, and although Cheng Qian, commander of the First Theater, has withdrawn from Henan together with his headquarters, there are still many national troops in Henan. The most important thing is that the strength of the Japanese puppet army in Henan is not too strong, barely stronger than the Kuomintang troops, but it is not yet an overwhelming trend.

Wei Peng and others were the first to arrive at Sun Dianying's territory, because Sun Dianying had long been in contact with the Japanese army, so the Japanese generally did not come to his territory, and Sun Dianying himself was even more jealous of the Japanese army, since the Japanese did not take him as a dish to eat, he was also happy.

However, the arrival of the Cheetah Special Combat Team destroyed such a peaceful situation, and the first battle of the Cheetah Special Operations Brigade was to attack a Japanese transport team, and within three minutes, all the officers above the squad leader of the transport team were sniped, and at the same time several truckloads of ammunition were detonated.

Originally, the Japanese army was very dissatisfied with Sun Dianying's swaying approach to the wall, and the imperial army showed mercy to Sun Dianying's department many times, otherwise his troops would have been surrounded and annihilated as early as Lunan, but this guy is still wavering until now, although he secretly said that he would not go against the imperial army, but in fact, this guy will never be polite when he takes advantage of it.

Although there are still many doubts about the attack on the imperial army's transport team, what the Japanese army wants now is an excuse, an excuse to clean up Sun Dianying's department, so no one has investigated it carefully at all, and an infantry wing directly drove over according to Sun Dianying's defense area. Good guy, that posture can scare Sun Dianying's old boy a lot, on the one hand, mobilize troops to block the Japanese army, and on the other hand, send people to contact the Japanese army in private.

But soon something unexpected happened to Sun Dianying, and in one day, nineteen officers of the infantry wing that attacked Sun Dianying's headquarters were sniped, including the wing commander Takeda Daisa. Now the enmity between Sun Dianying's department and the Japanese army can be regarded as a big one, and there were still people in the Japanese army who opposed the previous matter, but this time I didn't think that Sun Dianying's department interceded, Takeda Dazuo was sniped on the battlefield, and it must have died in the hands of Sun Dianying's department. Soon, the Japanese army attacking Sun Dianying's headquarters increased from a wing to an infantry brigade, and Sun Dianying, who only fought, complained bitterly and had no choice but to send a direct report to the First Theater Headquarters for help.

Cheng Qian was still happy to see the exchange of fire between the Japanese army and Sun Dianying's subordinates, in fact, Sun Dianying and the Japanese army knew about the filthy first war zone, and even Chiang Kai-shek himself had heard about it. However, because Sun Dianying was an old warlord, if the Nationalist Government forced him hard, it was likely to push him directly to the Japanese army, so the Nationalist Government knew that Sun Dianying was suspected of collaborating with the enemy but did not dare to arrest him. At the same time, Sun Dianying is guarding in northern Henan, and the Japanese army will not attack Sun Dianying's department for the time being, so the entire northern Henan is safe, so the military and political department will turn a blind eye to Sun Dianying's department......