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7.13 Anqing Street

"Your Excellency, the Emperor's decree is clearly aimed at maintaining the non-enlargement faction in the government. In such a sensitive period as the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info, the base camp will definitely keep a low profile! The heavy losses suffered by the Imperial Army in the battles of Songhu and Nanking had made the Emperor no longer optimistic about the prospects of this war! I don't doubt anything, but I feel very unwilling! Luck! Compared to Matsui Ishone's Central China Front, our poor luck is just luck!! If the decisive battle can be carried out in the Hebei region according to the original plan of the base camp, I am afraid that the empire has now crushed China! ”

Major General Okabe Naosaburo told General Terauchi Shouichi what he thought, and in the opinion of Chief of Staff Okabe Naosaburo, if the North China Front wants to attack Xuzhou, it has to break through a series of resistance!

The opposition of the government, the imperial decree of the emperor, and the bastards of the navy, it seems that the whole of Japan did not want the North China Front to be able to establish meritorious service on the Chinese battlefield!

This is all the trouble that the incompetent Matsui Shigen has brought to the North China Front! It was because of Matsui Ishone's failed performance on the battlefield in East China that Tokyo became so hesitant!

"Okabe-kun! Pay attention to attitude! Admiral Matsui's rank is much higher than yours! Don't say that again! You should put all your energy into the battlefield! Xuzhou! It will surely become the trophy of the empire! The base camp will be ...... through our program"

Inferior remarks made by a junior officer to a superior officer is a taboo in the Japanese army!

Although General Terauchi Shouichi did not look down on Matsui Ishone's "clumsy" performance in his heart, he felt that what Chief of Staff Okabe said was the truth. But on such a public occasion, he had to stand up and criticize Naosaburo Okabe, and General Terauchi was not doing this to preserve Matsui Ishine, but to preserve the traditions of the Japanese army!

Chief of Staff Okabe realized that he had just said the wrong thing, so he followed the words of General Toshiichi Terauchi and turned the subject back to the battlefield of Xuzhou.

According to the idea of General Terauchi Shouichi, the North China Front would become the main force in this battle of Xuzhou.

First of all, the 10th Division of Isoya Ryosuke in the northern section of the Jinpu Road set out from Jinan, Tai'an, and Yanzhou and advanced towards Jining. At the same time, the Seya detachment advanced to the Zou County area with three infantry wings, cavalry, artillery, engineer and tank units as the lead. Itagaki Seishiro's 5th Division would land in Qingdao and attack on the Jiaoji Road, and attack Xuzhou from the Tai (Taierzhuang) Wei (Weixian) Highway to the south.

The Central China Front Army in the southern section of the Jinpu Road only needed to actively cooperate with the actions of the North China Front Army and transfer a few units with combat effectiveness from the direction of Nanjing to carry out the northward advance.

The Japanese troops in the north and south directions were like a huge pair of pincers. The ultimate goal of General Terauchi Shouichi is to complete the collection of this plier on the Longhai railway line, gather and annihilate all the Chinese troops in the Xuzhou area, and give the Wuhan government a "fatal blow"!

In the opinion of General Terauchi Shouichi, as long as Japan still has the ambition to dominate the mainland, the base camp has no reason to stop the actions of the North China Front! The Emperor's will is not irreversible.

General Terauchi knew Emperor Hirohito very well, and this seemingly gentle man lived in this careerist! The Emperor's desire for the mainland is probably even stronger than that of the Japanese generals in the base camp!

Matsui Ishone's situation after returning to Japan is a good mirror! This mirror reflects the emperor's true thoughts!

After the news of the Nanjing Massacre was revealed, Matsui Ishine, the culprit who connived at his subordinates to carry out the massacre, was strongly condemned by international public opinion. In order to maintain Japan's image in the international community, the base camp was forced to recall Matsui Ishine back to Japan.

According to common sense, what awaits Matsui Ishine will be trial and imprisonment. But in fact, Matsui Ishone did not receive any punishment after returning to Japan, all because Emperor Hirohito remembered Matsui Ishone's exploits!

Hirohito didn't care how many Chinese died in the massacre, he cared more about the fact that Matsui Ishine took the capital of China for him!

As long as it can bring huge benefits and large areas of land to Japan, Emperor Hirohito will not care about the "small mistakes" made by the Japanese generals......

"Still haven't you received a telegram from the base camp?"

Chief of Staff Okabe was quiet for only a moment, and then began to think about Tokyo's attitude again, and he would repeat the same question to the staff officers around him every ten minutes, which made General Terauchi very impatient.

The performance of the chief of staff of Okabe made General Terauchi Shouichi couldn't help but shake his head slightly, Okabe Naosaburo, the youngest son of Okabe Eijiro, there is still a big gap compared to his father......

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Anqing.

The recruitment of the 25 Army did not go well at the beginning stage.

In two days' work, the dozens of recruiting stations scattered by various units actually brought back less than 500 recruits for Huang Haoran! If it continues at this rate, I am afraid that the 25th Army will not be able to get together even a new regiment before it starts again! Seeing that the number reported by the training office every day is getting smaller and smaller, Huang Haoran feels a little unhappy!

It's been a long time since I've encountered such a difficult conscription situation!

Since the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Haoran's troops have become more and more famous! It has long become the first choice for young people to join the army!

Since the time when he retreated from the Songhu battlefield to Changshu, Huang Haoran has never worried about recruiting new soldiers! Every time Huang Haoran's troops are stationed, a large number of young people will come to join the army, and several times Huang Haoran's training director almost tore up the young men who failed to pass the screening!

Why did you change the world all of a sudden after you arrived in Anqing?

If it is said that the subordinate units of the Nanjing Garrison are still in Anqing, this situation is still excusable! At that time, all the units of the Nanjing Garrison that had just withdrawn to Anqing were seriously short of personnel, and the recruitment points under various banners were dotted throughout Anqing City, from the streets to the end of the streets, and every young and middle-aged man who passed by became the target of competition among the various troops.

In the current Anqing area, Huang Haoran's 25th Group Army is dominant, and it should be easier to recruit soldiers than during the "war for people". But the actual situation is that the number of young and middle-aged people who come to Huang Haoran's army to join the army is decreasing sharply every day!!

Could it be that the young and middle-aged people in the Anqing area have been looted by the army that drove away? Huang Haoran even had such suspicions! However, he quickly overturned his idea.

Anhui has always been China's most populous province, and the Anqing area has not experienced any wars over the years, so it should be prosperous.

If a few armies of the Nanjing Garrison could be looted by staying in Anqing for a few days, then the population of Anhui in 1938 was too small, right?

Huang Haoran decided to go to the recruiting shop in Anqing City to see what was going on, of course, he had to change his outfit in advance.

"Battalion Commander Xu! You take a few people out for a walk with me, change into the clothes of the people, and let's have a private visit to Weifu! ”

Xu Zilong answered and went down to prepare, and with the upgrading of the 99th Army Special Service Battalion to the Special Service Regiment directly under the 25th Group Army, Xu Zilong, the company commander, also became the lieutenant colonel battalion commander.

There are still many people in the 25th Group Army who were promoted with Xu Zilong......

After the new unit was officially established, the first thing Huang Haoran did in addition to recruitment and training was to ask for official titles from the Ministry of Military Affairs for his subordinates. The list of officers requested to be promoted by the 25th Group Army to the Ministry of Military Affairs was more than a dozen pages! Minister He doesn't have a headache when he sees it!

Later, the Ministry of Military Affairs gave Huang Haoran an authorization, giving Huang Haoran the power to appoint and dismiss officers below the rank of lieutenant colonel within the 25 th Group Army, and only needed to report to the Ministry of Military Affairs afterwards.

The rank of lieutenant colonel on Xu Zilong's collar is the letter of appointment issued by Huang Haoran himself, and as for the military ranks of Fan Jie, Wang Shankui and Shen Laoer, they still need to be reported to the Ministry of Military Affairs for approval.

When Xu Zilong came back, he was holding several sets of winter coats and shoes and hats, and behind him, Wang Huanzhi and Fan Jie had already changed their outfits.

"Commander! This is not something I intended to betray you! According to the rules set by Deputy Commander Wang and Director Xu, if you want to make a private visit, you must notify Chief of Staff Fan or Deputy Commander Wang......"

Xu Zilong was afraid that Huang Haoran would sprinkle the fire on his head, so he hurriedly moved out Wang Huanzhi and Xu Xinghua first to clear his responsibility.

Huang Haoran really doesn't know when Wang Huanzhi and Xu Xinghua came up with such a set of rules, according to the time calculation, Xu Xinghua should have made it up before going to Wuhan.

"I don't bother to take care of the work of Deputy Army Commander Wang and Director Xu! Let's go! It will be troublesome for Shen Lao Er to go together after a while! ”

Huang Haoran said angrily, he understood that Wang Huanzhi and Xu Xinghua were doing this for his safety, but the feeling of being deprived of freedom was really uncomfortable.

"Which fucking old robe is this little white face wearing? A smell of fat powder! This guy must be a color embryo who walks around the kiln all day! ”

As soon as Huang Haoran finished speaking, Shen Yuanlong walked in scolding, the clothes he put on his body were obviously a little small, Shen Lao Er wore it like this, and he really wore a bit of tights!

Fan Jie and Wang Huanzhi grinned at the same time, Huang Haoran glared at Shen Laoer, and then walked quickly past him. Shen Yuanlong didn't hear what Huang Haoran said before, and thought that he had offended Huang Haoran somewhere, so he didn't bother to tidy up his clothes, so he chased him out in three steps and two steps. Fan Jie and Wang Huan followed, while Xu Zilong threw the clothes in his hand to several of Huang Haoran's guards, and then quickly ran to Huang Haoran's side and whispered.

"Commander! Commander! Your clothes! I forgot to change it! ”

After Xu Zilong's reminder, Huang Haoran suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to change his clothes, and if he walked on the street like this, it would be a wonder. might as well imagine that Huang Haoran, who is in a straight military uniform, is standing next to Shen Lao Er in tights, plus Fan Jie, who is dressed like a fortune teller, the effect is definitely a comedy.

Huang Haoran took off the general's uniform, casually took a set of clothes with a suitable figure and put it on his body, and then led everyone from the back door of the headquarters to the street of Anqing City.

"Aren't all the streets full of the right people? Why does the director of the training department always say that he can't find anyone all day long? How did you become the chief manager? Could it be that our 25th Group Army still has to assign tasks and ask local officials to help pull out Zhuangding? ”

Wang Huanzhi has always believed that the recruitment of the 25th Group Army is a matter of being captured, and he has been busy on the black market in the past few days to exchange equipment for the 25th Group Army and sell the Japanese military materials captured by the troops.

After several major battles between the Chinese army and the Japanese army, the warehouse of the Ministry of Military Affairs was already starving to death. Between the fact that the Soviet Union's military aid was not all in place, Minister He could only play karate with the generals who were short of guns and ammunition, and repeated them all day long: "Insist on persistence!" "Dial now!"

In Wang Huanzhi's words, he only heard the sound of the stairs and didn't see anyone coming down!

Wang Huanzhi has always been worried that the 25th Group Army does not have enough weapons to arm recruits, but he never thought that this time the situation would be reversed, and recruits would be even more difficult than weapons!

"Maybe it's because these young men don't want to join the army, right? Not far ahead, there is a recruiting point for our 25th Group Army, so you should be able to see something......"

Huang Haoran nodded, secretly quickened his pace, and walked towards the recruitment point that Wang Huanzhi said.

Far away, Huang Haoran saw the big platform set up at the conscription point, this street is the most prosperous street in Anqing City, there are a lot of people passing by on the street, but few people are willing to go to the conscription point, occasionally a few young people come over, and they simply say two sentences and turn around and leave, such a low popularity, the officers of the urgent recruitment point are sweating profusely!

Huang Haoran led everyone to a food stall diagonally opposite the recruitment point and sat down, he wanted to take a good look at what was going on!

"What would you like to eat, sir?"

The stall owner is a very good old man, and the old woman who is busy cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks at the table next to him should be his wife.

Huang Haoran sat down, and the officers and soldiers of the special service group, the guard regiment and the guard group who had been following him in civilian clothes came over with a hula, and the few small tables of the old couple were suddenly crowded.

Seeing that there is a large amount of business coming to the door, the old man is naturally smiling, but this person who does small business also has the rules of doing small business, the old man found Huang Haoran who first walked to his stall at a glance from the people at these several tables, in the old man's opinion, it was because Huang Haoran's arrival brought him such a good popularity, so he had to greet Huang Haoran first.

"It's such a cold weather, it's good to have a warm mouth! Shopkeeper, what's in that little barrel? It smells weird! ”

Huang Haoran's eyes kept staring at the recruitment point of the 25th Group Army diagonally opposite, and Fan Jie took the initiative to pick it up.

The old man smiled innocently, then turned his face to Fan Jie and said:

"The two of you sat down one after the other, and I really didn't see that you were together, how offended! Small business, can't afford to be the shopkeeper, the pot is boiling firewood small chaos, a bowl of eight big sons, two bowls of two? ”

Hearing the price of the eight eldest sons, Huang Haoran turned his gaze back.

He hadn't been to the street for a long time, and he had never eaten less firewood before, and he remembered that the price should be two big boys.

The Anti-Japanese War has been fought for more than five months, and everything on the market is expensive, this is still in Anqing, which has not encountered the war, if it is in Xuzhou or the Japanese-occupied area in the war, these eight eldest sons don't know if they can still buy a bowl of chaos soup.

It is better to be a peaceful dog than to be a troubled person.

The people who suffer the most in the war are still the common people......

"There are all at this table, one bowl per person, this is money, take it well, old man!"

In addition to sighing, Huang Haoran wanted to help the old couple, but he reached into his arms to take out the money as he spoke, but only grabbed a handful of air. At this time, Huang Haoran remembered that the clothes he was wearing were not his own, Xu Zilong's reaction was extremely fast, he quickly took out the money and stuffed it from under the table into Huang Haoran's hand, Huang Haoran didn't count it after taking it, and gave it all to the old stall owner.

The old man took the money and looked down, and there were as many as twenty or thirty yuan! He hurriedly stuffed the money into Huang Haoran's hand, and said in a loud voice:

"Too much! Too much! You're a teacher, and it's not easy! No matter how difficult these days are, you still have to live, and sooner or later you will get out! ”

Huang Haoran listened to the old stall owner's words and wondered very much, how could he look like a teacher? He looked down at the clothes on his body, a blue gown, a black scarf, and a fountain pen in his pocket.

A teacher suddenly took out a huge sum of money to invite a group of people he didn't know to dinner, plus Huang Haoran looked directly at the soldiers opposite just now, no wonder the old stall owner thought that Huang Haoran had seen everything and wanted to kill himself!

What a misunderstanding!

If someone spreads it, it may affect the career!

"Sir! You can't listen to this fortune teller! The old man has lived for more than sixty years, and he has never seen a fortune teller who does not deceive! ”

After persuading Huang Haoran, the old stall owner pointed the finger at Fan Jie, who made Fan Jie admit that he and Huang Haoran were companions just now, the old stall owner looked at Fan Jie, who looked like a magic stick, and directly picked up a stool!

Seeing that Fan Jie's appearance was not as good as his own, Huang Haoran's heart suddenly felt a lot more comfortable......

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Wuhan.

On January 16, Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe suddenly issued a statement, the full text of which is as follows:

"After the capture of Nanjing, the imperial government waited until now in order to still give the Wuhan government a final chance to reconsider. However, the Wuhan government did not understand the true intentions of the empire, and even instigated the war of resistance, ignoring the suffering of the people internally and ignoring the peace of East Asia as a whole. Therefore, the Imperial Government will not regard the Wuhan Government as an adversary in the future, but will look forward to the establishment and development of a new Chinese regime that can really cooperate with the Empire, and will adjust diplomatic relations between the two countries with this new regime to help build a rejuvenated New China. The Imperial Government's policy of respecting China's territory and sovereignty and the rights and interests of all countries in China has of course remained unchanged. Now, the empire is increasingly responsible for peace in East Asia. The Government expects the people to be more motivated to accomplish this important task. ”

Although the Japanese were anxious to end the war in China, they thought they were well equipped with the Wuhan government, the supreme authority. Therefore, after the supreme authorities rejected Japan's conditions for peace talks, Fumima Konoe hastily threw out this statement, which was later recognized as stupid by Japanese diplomatic and military circles.

When Konoe Fumima issued this statement, he ignored the most important point, that is, the supreme authority himself is a stubborn man who eats soft rather than hard! After reading this statement by Konoe Fumima, the highest authorities sneered! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )