Vice Admiral Tani, who was teaching at the Naval University, openly declared that robbery, rape, and robbership were important ways to maintain morale in wartime. Ordinary Japanese people naturally don't know what kind of virtuous person he is, but he still has a deep understanding of Lieutenant General Sadaichi Yoshimoto.

Some of these words are certainly from Yoshimoto's heart. For example, the capture of Lieutenant General Tani Shofu, he believed that it was very likely that the opponent was waging a propaganda war against the Kwantung Army and the Empire. But there are some aspects, such as that Lieutenant General Tani Shoo if he is really captured. Then he said something to defend him, and to be honest, he didn't believe it himself.

Don't look at this guy, he graduated from the 24th saber group of Lu University, and he also studied in the United Kingdom and served as a military representative to the League of Nations. It can be said that he has learned from the East and the West, and he can be regarded as a guy who has seen the world. But this guy is a typical butcher-like character, and he has an extremely greedy personality.

This dude doesn't just talk about robbery and rape as the best way to boost morale. However, as the commander of the lieutenant general division, he has always resolutely played an exemplary and leading role in this regard. It can even be said that in these aspects, it is quite a leading example.

After the incident in China, the Sixth Division became the most daring unit to burn, kill and loot on the North China battlefield as quickly as possible. This Sixth Division was extremely fierce in terms of combat, but in this respect, it made other Japanese divisions and regiments doing the same thing also quite ashamed.

The Sixth Division was indeed fierce and fearless of death, and together with the Second Division, it was called the two divisions with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Imperial Army. However, the division's treatment of civilians was such that even a typical Japanese soldier like Yoshimoto Sadachi, who did not take it for granted to the Japanese army's burning, killing and looting, could only shake his head and remain silent.

Although on the battlefield of China, other Japanese divisions and regiments did not treat the civilians of China much better than this sixth division. But the appearance of this sixth division, even among the Japanese army, which has always been known as the beast army, is too prominent.

Since setting foot on the Chinese mainland, this Sixth Division has always been all the way to kill, rob, and rape. And he, the commander of the division, is even more intransigent and in the lead. In the midst of being transferred to the Songhu battlefield, and the subsequent pursuit and the Battle of Nanjing. In particular, during the pursuit from Shanghai to Nanjing, there were robberies and rapes along the way. And he, the commander of the division, fought bravely to be the first, and obtained a lot of wealth for himself along the way.

After the capture of Nanjing, this old man disregarded the dignity of the dignified division commander, and openly raped the women of China in the street like his own subordinates. That's right, it was done openly on the streets in broad daylight, and there was no taboo in the slightest about having their own subordinates and soldiers around.

The most infuriating thing is that this old man's rape of women on the street was also filmed by Western reporters who think they are righteous. If it weren't for the timely response of the gendarmes, the two Western journalists were captured and the film was forcibly confiscated. The image of his brother raping women in the street with his bare butt may have been famous all over the world.

With the signs of the car ahead, I want to talk about this old man, who was carried out of the bed with his bare buttocks. If he was really captured, then with this guy's usual character and thinking, it is really true that this matter may really be true. So when Sadachi Yoshimoto said this, he was really a little lacking in confidence.

Although Yoshimoto Sadachi does not appreciate Tanibu's personality, he thinks that this guy's behavior on the battlefield of China is really a bit insulting to the identity of the imperial general, and he is too greedy. If it weren't for the insistence of the Minister of War, he would not have agreed to appoint this guy as the commander of the Sixth Army, the supreme commander of the Linsey battlefield.

In the eyes of Yoshimoto Sadachi, you are lustful, and raping a Shina woman is not a big deal. It is not a matter of openly killing prisoners of war, even if your brother has robbed a large amount of money and accumulated a huge amount of wealth for himself on the battlefield of China, as long as there is no embezzlement of military salaries and military supplies, it is not too out of the ordinary.

Although the officers who fought in the battlefield of China, didn't they all do it? Compared with Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, the commander of the 16th Division at that time, Nakajima Imago did even more excessively. His 16th Division killed more people and raped women in Nanjing than the 6th Division.

Even the official residence of the chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government was ransacked by him himself. But what people do is very attentive to the influence, and what they do is hidden or tactful, at least they don't do these things in broad daylight, and the most important thing is that they are not as greedy as you.

It's your own business to be, but you can't do it in the street like those junior officers and soldiers. Your brother is a dignified lieutenant general division commander of the Imperial Army, and it is a bit of a shame to be a little too ashamed of your dignity as a general to openly do such a thing on the street like those low-ranking soldiers.

Is it so difficult to bring those Chinese women to your station? Or does your dude have some special hobby, just a bare ass on the street and openly do that kind of thing for the soldiers to see? Or do you want to prove that you and your troops share blessings and hardships?

But no matter how greedy this Lieutenant General Tani Shoufu is, he is a lieutenant general after all, and he is also designated by the Minister of War as the commander of the Sixth Army. As the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he had to maintain some imperial decency at a certain level.

Not to mention the presence of two people present who were not so much the base camp as the private representatives of the War Secretary, who was now about to take over as Prime Minister. Although Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo's attitude is somewhat ambiguous, some are partial to Umezu Mijiro. But if this matter reaches the ears of the Minister of War, it is not a good thing after all.

You must know that the former chief of staff of the Kwantung Army was not a little narrow-minded. Even if you, Senior General Umezu Mijiro, are his old superiors in the first section of the General Staff Headquarters and serve as the section chief, and they have the grace to promote him. But this guy who turns his face like a flip book doesn't care if you help him or not.

At this time, it's better not to have any conflicts with that guy. Otherwise, it will only bring more trouble to the Kwantung Army and you, General Umezu Mijiro. Moreover, this Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, fortunately, is a classmate of your Army Non-commissioned Officer School of General Umezu Mijiro, so you have to save some face for him.

It's just that if Yoshimoto Sadachi defended Gu Shouo and relieved the embarrassing atmosphere, General Umezu Mijiro didn't appreciate it at all, and sneered: "It's just a propaganda war? Yoshimoto-kun, do you know that the person who confessed these things on our opponent's radio station was Lieutenant General Tani Toshio. ”

"The intelligence staff officer who listened to the radio was the second lieutenant squad leader who had served as him in the Sixth Division for a long time. From the voice on the radio, it was accurately judged that the person who told these things was the Lieutenant General Toshio Tani, whose life and death were unknown at the moment. ”

"As a lieutenant general of the Imperial Army, he was the commander of the army. Not only did he become a prisoner, but he also did such a degrading thing on the enemy's radio station. Even if he died ten thousand times, it would not be enough to eliminate the shame brought to the empire and the Kwantung Army. It is also a shame that will never be washed away to all the graduates of the 15th batch of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School. ”

After Umezu Mijiro said this, the entire venue was as silent as if it had been cleared. Almost all the officers were surprised in their hearts, and they couldn't help but secretly criticize: "It's rare that a lieutenant general commander is taken prisoner, not to mention, and still confesses his own crimes in the enemy's radio station, what kind of imperial army has always been the imperial army that has always been caught and killed?" ”

And this kind of thing, if it is put on an ordinary soldier, it is nothing. Who can guarantee that so many soldiers in the Imperial Army will really instill the spirit of bushido to the end. However, it is too rare for a dignified military commander to make such an insulting incident. This discipline is not as good as even an ordinary imperial soldier.

After a brief silence, the entire conference room became a mess, and everyone was talking to each other. Even Naosaburo Okabe and Shinichi Tanaka, two high-ranking representatives of the base camp, were not immune to whispering together. The brains of these Kwantung Army people in the conference room are gossiping more than those rural women at the moment.

In this case, the entire operational meeting naturally could not be held, but fortunately, most of the resolutions had already been decided. Faced with a chaotic war room that was increasingly suspicious of the vegetable market, Umezu Mijiro, who had lost his patience, simply announced the dissolution of the meeting. As the commander of the Kwantung Army, he really could not tolerate such a situation.

Umezu Mijiro is gone, and the battle meeting naturally can't be held. Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was anxious to transfer back several divisions from the front, naturally would not be idle and continue to gossip with others here, so he left in a hurry with Takei Seitaro and rushed to the war room to draft a telegram.

Both of them know very well that according to the current situation, whether it is the two divisions in the Linxi battlefield or the eighteenth division behind Tongliao. For every hour of delay, there is one more danger. Withdrawing all the divisions and regiments as much as possible is the most important thing for the two of them to do, instead of gossiping like everyone else here.

As for the deputy chief of staff of Ayabe Tachibana, who was in charge of operations, he was directly ignored by Yoshimoto Sadachi. As for the deputy chief of staff of this ambitious and talented major general, Yoshimoto Sadachi was quite dissatisfied from the day he took office. He was the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, but he always did what he should not do, and took the initiative to demote himself to the position of operational staff officer.

After the plan was messed up and the losses were huge, he threw a mess of the mess to Kiyotaro Takei, who was supposed to do this kind of thing, and pushed the responsibility that originally belonged to him to the ground. Compared to that Qin Yan Saburo, he was simply extremely annoying.

Lieutenant General Sadamichi Yoshimoto, who was already extremely unpleasant to this guy at the moment, simply didn't call him, even though this was his real purview. Yoshimoto Sadachi thought that it would be more reliable to leave the retreat to Kiyotaro Takei, who had a clearer mind. And Takei Seitaro's cousin in this retreat did not disappoint him and Umezu Mijiro.

Although he knew that it was a retreat, Kiyotaro Takei, who had a clear idea, did not directly order a retreat. He knew that under the current situation, if he forcibly retreated, the two divisions would be crowded on the narrow line in front of Linxi, and they would be easily cut off by the resistance to the United Nations, which had already seized the territory of the Weng Niute Left Banner.

Moreover, the retreating formation was too dense, which gave the Anti-Japanese Union an advantage in ground-to-air firepower and the opportunity to kill and injure the strength of the two divisions to the greatest extent. Once such a situation occurs, even if the two divisions are withdrawn, I am afraid that they will suffer huge losses. Even under the onslaught of a large number of enemy tanks, it is unknown whether they can safely retreat. So for this retreat, he still put a lot of effort into it.