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Just when the two divisions of the Japanese Army were crossing the Yalu River with great vigor and high spirits, there was a tense and solemn atmosphere on the platform of the Fengcheng County Railway Station. White smoke from the front of the train enveloped the entire platform. Improvised recruits and soldiers were busy unloading their trucks. Boxes of ammunition and baggage, cannons of various calibers, and well-trained and sturdy mules and horses were unloaded from the wagons. On a railroad track temporarily laid by the engineering corps, a military column full of soldiers was parked, and countless Wehrmacht soldiers with loaded guns poured out of the stuffy tank carriages under the command of the officers, and soon discharged a neat formation, running towards the mountains around the county seat of Fengcheng, and soon disappeared from people's sight.

The commander of the Second Army, General Xia Wei, was in the office of the captain of the railway garrison on the platform, and entered the station through the glass, and the well-trained officers and men of the brigade were continuously transported to be attached to his Second Army structure. His face was full of irrepressible excitement, and he smiled at Huang Xuchu, the chief of staff beside him: "It's okay now, our Second Army has a battle, and the timing is just right, if it waits for the Far East to fight well, the Japanese will not dare to come, and their four divisions will always have some trouble guarding Korea." ”

Huang Xuchu, who was beside him, smiled and said: "Yes, eat their two divisions first, and then take advantage of the victory to cross the Yalu River, and this battle will completely turn Japan into an island country!" ”

Xia Wei smiled and said, "Whether you want to make Japan an island country or not, let's not say it." Let's go, let's pick up Brother Jiansheng. Listen to what this chief of staff has to say. ”

Another train of military vehicles slowly stopped, and before the cars could stop steadily, General Bai Chongxi jumped down with a few staff members from the General Staff who had followed. When he saw the busy and chaotic unloading of materials on the platform and the scene of the dispatch of the army, he also nodded with satisfaction. The current national defense force is really much more elite than three years ago, and the hard work of Chang Ruiqing and himself over the years has not been in vain!

On the platform, Xia Wei, who was in a straight uniform, was already waiting for him there. Seeing Bai Chongxi get off the train, he greeted him with a smile and saluted: "Brother Jiansheng." I've finally got you here. ”

There was a whistle at the station, and then countless Wehrmacht officers and men with backpacks, rifles, and submachine guns on their backs got off the train in an orderly manner and quickly left in formation. Now is the time when the big war is approaching, and Bai Chongxi doesn't have so much spare time to talk to Xia Wei. The conversation between the two of them got to the point at the beginning.

"Brother Jiansheng, how is it over there in Shuangcheng? How many days are left to beat down? ”

"There must be three or five days, right? It's a fortress after all. It doesn't need heavy artillery to destroy its strong fortifications, and it can't be filled with human lives. Actually, I would like to see Twin Cities fight for a few more days, but the chairman is not at ease. ”

"How many more days?"

"How nice is this now? The Japanese are ramming into our fortified positions like crazy! Ten thousand Japanese can always be killed every day on the blocking positions north and south of the twin cities, and there are thousands of accounts every day in the Tiger Head Fortress, and two divisions can be eaten in the Yalu River in one eye. It's a little unexpected in the direction of the Songhua River...... I really don't know what Lao Mao's true intentions are? ”

"What other intentions can you have, it is always the doctrine of meditating on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. Will they join the war? ”

As they walked and talked, the two men entered the temporary headquarters in a warehouse at the railway station, where a huge military map had been hung up, which accurately mapped the terrain of the Phoenix Mountain and Xinkailing area, and marked several ideal ambush sites with red markers. Xia Wei pointed to the map and said to Bai Chongxi, "Brother Jiansheng, the time is a little urgent. The little ghost is about to cross the river when he sees it, and the reception banquet can only be made up for you after the battle. ”

"What are you and my brother polite?" Bai Chongxi smiled indifferently. Pointing to the busy train station outside the headquarters, he said, "This is a Manchu county, right?" Is there a Japanese intelligence network? Is your secrecy good? The mobilization of our army should not be under the nose of Japanese spies. ”

"Just because this is a Manchu county, the Japanese spies have no choice." Xia Wei sneered and said, "Do you remember that white peony?" The girl who assassinated Chang Yaoru, what kind of Manchu counter-revolutionary group did she bite...... After our people arrived here, the big families in the county dug three feet into the ground and searched, and even set up a long-wave radio station, dug up a Japanese spy group, and killed more than a dozen Manchu people who worked as spies for the Japanese. After the start of the war, our people searched Fengcheng and Andong counties all over the carpet, but did not find any more hidden radio stations. Brother Jiansheng, you know, the long-wave radio is the boss, and it needs to be equipped with a generator antenna, which is very difficult to get. As long as the Japanese have no way to set up a radio station with us, even if they find out about the build-up and movement of our army, they will not be able to send the information out. The entire Northeast has been under martial law since June 7. ”

In those days, the radios were all long-wave, and the power and size of the radio were so big that they were inconvenient to transport and hide, and the price was also very expensive, not as cheap and high-quality as the short-wave radio stations in the future. For example, the Soviet Union monitored the Chinese institutions in the Soviet Union a while ago, which effectively prevented the leakage of the information of the assassins, and finally Tang Jiu had to instigate a mutiny in order to send this information out! In the same way, although Japan's intelligence network in Northeast China is very strong, they are unable to place too many secret radio stations in China. For one, this thing is too easy to expose; Second, it is too expensive, and if you get too much, the Japanese Army Intelligence Bureau must go bankrupt. Therefore, now that there is martial law here in the northeast, the border is blocked, and the movement of people in various places is restricted, the Japanese intelligence network is also paralyzed.

After talking about the issue of confidentiality work. Xia Wei picked up a baton, pointed to the map and began to introduce the military situation to Bai Chongxi. "I estimate that after the Japanese army breaks through the defense line of the Yalu River, it should advance along the South Manchurian Railway to Liaoyang and Shenyang. This must pass through the mountainous areas around Phoenix Mountain and Xinkailing. My method is very simple, stick to Fengcheng with one piece. One ambushed in the areas of Wulong Mountain, Wangdagou, Nandagou and Shuangling. After the large Japanese army passed, they would close the door and fight the dogs, and use two armies and one division to defeat their two divisions. Then hit the Yalu River in one go! ”

Bai Chongxi smiled noncommittally:

"Brother Xucang, I'm afraid that your Second Army's opponent is more than the four divisions of the North Korean Army!"

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"Your Excellency, in view of the breakthrough that the Korean army has made, the armament building yì gave up the Shanghai operation and assigned the third army to the Korean army, in order to break into the hinterland of Manchuria in one fell swoop and turn the tide of the war and seize Manchuria!"

War Minister Yusaku Uehara tapped the conference table gently, the look on his face full of joy for the rest of his life. In the past few days, the Chinese army has achieved a breakthrough in the southern part of the Far Eastern State. The siege of the Shuangcheng fortress and the advance of Yanpu cut off the logistics and communication lines of the Far Eastern Army, so that the Japanese top brass felt the fear of defeat. It was not until today that the news of the Korean army's breakthrough through the defense line of the Yalu River of the Chinese army came that these bigwigs of the Japanese cabinet and military breathed a sigh of relief. The dream of capturing Manchuria began again.

Tanaka Yoshiichi gave Uehara a cold look, didn't pay attention to him, but asked Foreign Minister Kita Ikki and said, "Kita-kun." Did the ambassadors of Britain, the United States, and France know about the breakthrough of the Imperial Army at the Yalu River? ”

"Xiaguan has already informed the ambassadors of the three countries by phone, and they have expressed their willingness to once again match the peace talks between Japan and China."

"Now is not the time for peace talks!" "The matter of negotiation should be considered after the imperial army captures Shenyang!"

Kita Kazuki's words fell, and Yusaku Uehara and Nakashige jumped up violently and interrupted. Uehara said anxiously and quickly: "Since the start of the war for more than a month, 50,000 soldiers of the Imperial Army have sacrificed their lives for the country, and hundreds of thousands of pioneers have been displaced, and military expenditures have reached hundreds of millions of yen. Such a effort cannot go unrewarded! Otherwise, what will the people do to us? What will happen to us ministers in the palace? ”

"Palace! Isn't it the palace that is causing the current thing! Collusion with Red Russia to start a war without going through the cabinet and without going through the parliament is an act that shakes the national body! And he's not the emperor today! As soon as Tanaka Yoshishi heard the word "palace", he became angry, and he did not back down to Uehara, and Uehara also looked at him fiercely.

"Tanaka-kun! Is this what a minister should say? Are you still a minister of His Majesty the Emperor? Even Maehara Kassei didn't dare to say such a thing! ”

Maehara Kazusei mentioned by Yusaku Uehara is the "former master" of Yoshiichi Tanaka. When Yoshiichi Tanaka was twelve years old, he once followed this Maehara Isei to make the Meiji Emperor's rebellion. After the defeat of Maehara's army, Tanaka was exonerated because he was young and ignorant, but this matter was always a thorn in the head of Tanaka. Now Uehara is deliberately exposing his shortcomings.

"Uehara!" Tanaka gritted his teeth and stared at Yusaku Uehara viciously. "You are an army general, not an ignorant child, you don't know what the current battle situation is like? The Chinese army is now only half of its strength at most, and the imperial army has already invested a full seventeen divisions! If the last three divisions are also thrown into Manchuria, then the other half of the main force of the Chinese army will lose its containment, and they can join the Manchurian battlefield at any time, can we win? Do you have a brain as a war minister? ”

"So now is the time to immediately throw the Third Army into the Manchurian theater! The action must be fast, and it is necessary to seize Shenyang before the main force of the Chinese army goes north to lay the victory. Even if you want to negotiate, you should wait until the imperial army captures Shenyang! This is the meaning of the army, and it is also the meaning of the palace! ”

Tanaka sighed gloomily, and he felt that there was really nothing more to say about the imperial lady who was already like a red-eyed gambler. The war in the Far East and Manchuria was already on the verge of defeat, and the fall of the twin cities was a matter of these two days. Then the Second Army on the front line of the Ussuri River will face annihilation! As soon as the Second Army is finished, there will be no available troops in the entire Far Eastern State! As long as the Chinese army captures Boli, which is empty, then the First Army, which has penetrated deep into the front line of the Songhua River, will have no way to retreat...... It was precisely because of this critical situation that the base camp desperately ordered the Far Eastern Army and the Korean Army to launch a fierce attack in three directions, and also prepared to carry out the Shanghai operation, and at the same time invited Britain, the United States and France to intervene in the war. The breakthrough made by the North Korean army on the Yalu River now is a good opportunity to reach a decent peace in Tanaka.

But the prince in the palace turned the breakthrough of the Korean army into an opportunity to save the tide of the war, defeat China, and even occupy Manchuria! Completely ignoring the crisis of the Far Eastern Army, ignoring the blow suffered by the interruption of the local industrial production due to the interruption of the source of raw materials, and even the fact that the domestic grain reserves have been reduced to a very dangerous level - now the grain supply of the Japanese mainland depends on the great granary of the Far East for a great extent, and it is the fertile land on the edge of the Ussuri River and the Xingkai Lake that has enabled the Japanese people to live a life of abundance and food in the past two years! However, Japan's domestic grain production has shrunk sharply because the cost is too high and the competition for grain from the Far East is not enough. If the war cannot be ended before the autumn harvest in the Far East, then next year, Japan itself will face a severe shortage of food!

Thinking of this, Tanaka Yoshiichi glanced coldly at the Minister of War and said calmly: "The Shina army is now ravaging the subjects of His Majesty the Emperor on the land of the Imperial Kingdom!" In the event of such a disaster, will no one in the Army stand up and take responsibility? Uehara-kun, now that Kawai-kun is trapped in Twin Castles and has difficulty fulfilling his responsibilities as a commander, I hope you can go to Shioura. ”

Yusaku Uehara was stunned, he knew that Tanaka was going to take the opportunity to remove his Minister of War, and then send himself as a scapegoat to Yanpu, as long as the Far Eastern Army suffered any more setbacks, he was afraid that he would be transferred to the reserves.

"And who will be the Minister of War?" Uehara gritted his teeth and asked.

"It's up to the official!" Yoshiichi Tanaka. "I'm also a general in the Army, and I also served as Secretary of the Army." He ignored Uehara, and instead asked Tian Zhonghua again: "The military department won't have any opinions, right?" ”

Tian Zhongzhong was born in Satsuma, and he was in the same group as Yusaku Uehara. But at this time, there was nothing he could do, because Tanaka Yoshiichi was the prime minister elected by the parliament and had the power to appoint and dismiss the Minister of War. Moreover, now the Minister of the Army and Navy does not need to be an active military attaché, and it is not wrong for Tanaka Yoshiichi to appoint a civilian official to be the Minister of War, let alone Tanaka Yoshiichi, a hero who captured the Far Eastern State, to concurrently serve as the minister?

"The lower official has no opinion." Tian Zhonghua glanced at Uehara, whose face was pale, and said: "But the commander of the Far Eastern Army should be the commander of the Second Army, General Yamanashi Hanzo, and the Second Army Command should be upgraded to the Far East Army Command, and the Second Army should be abolished at the same time, and all troops should be directly under the jurisdiction of the Far Eastern Army." ”