Age of Conquest Reborn

A cold door cut off the outside world. Umezu Meijiro looked at the departing figure of General Nanjiro with a sense of sadness. His eyes were filled with sadness and his heart was filled with despair. He knew that his life had come to an end, even if His Majesty the Emperor forgives him.

I will spend the rest of my life in darkness and painful self-blame. That earth-shattering memorial is just an inducement.

What really broke Yoshijiro Umezu's spirit was Emperor Hirohito's assertion in the memorial, "His heart can be punished, and his people can be killed!" He looked at the Western Manchurian battle plan in his hand, smiled silently, and drank a glass of wine.

Go down...

Then, he bit off his finger and wrote a line on the Western Manchurian battle plan, "I have no ambition, I am unable to serve the country, and I am unwilling to give up! Nanjiro abandoned my true knowledge and insights for his own selfish interests. This person is a traitor to the country."

, in the future, the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan will definitely be lost at the hands of this person!"

After finishing writing, I drank another glass of wine, chuckled silently, slowly took out the command knife, wiped it carefully, then poured a glass of sake on Leng Sensen's blade, and sang an elegy to myself...

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After General Nanjiro left the quiet room, he stood quietly in front of the door for a moment. A hoarse voice came from the quiet room, singing in a tearful voice, "My emperor has been prosperous for thousands of generations; the gravel has become a rock and is covered with moss.

"Long-term peace and stability will bring prosperity to the country and prosperity to the people!"

"Kiminoyo!" Umezu Yoshijiro sang the national anthem of the Empire of Japan. However, in the ears of General Nanjiro, it sounded like the painful wail of a dying person, the despair of having no hope for life. He sighed,

I know that Umezu Meijiro has already thought about death. Maybe this is the best choice!

In the corridor far away from the quiet room, the lights were dim, and Lieutenant General Matsuda Kenjiro was wandering anxiously. The two giants were talking secretly, maybe they would be needed at some point, and they did not dare to go far. When they saw General Nanjiro coming out, they hurriedly greeted him.

He asked tentatively: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, General Umezu...?"

Nanjiro waved his hand, with a somewhat lonely expression, and ordered: "Matsuda-kun, don't ask anymore, arrange two guards outside the quiet room. Whatever Umezu-kun needs, we will satisfy him unconditionally!"

Lieutenant General Matsuda's heart suddenly tightened and he shuddered violently. He was stunned for a moment and blurted out: "Commander-in-Chief, why don't you persuade him? We are not in a desperate situation!"

General Nanjiro glanced at Lieutenant General Matsuda with a cold look, and left without looking back. The flustered Chief of Staff Matsuda was left behind. It took him a long time to wake up, waved two guards over, and whispered a few instructions.

Then, after looking at the door of the quiet room for a long time, he dragged his heavy steps away.

General Nanjiro returned to the resting place. For some reason, he had no appetite at all. Although he was exhausted, he was not sleepy at all. He seemed to be waiting for something?

More than an hour later, Chief of Staff Matsuda knocked on his door. After entering, he said in a hoarse voice: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, General Umezu committed suicide by caesarean section. He ended his life in the most dignified manner in the manner of an Imperial samurai."

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"Yes!" General Nanjiro responded lightly, and suddenly there was an indescribable feeling of relief in his heart, "Matsuda-kun, send a telegram to the base camp. The former commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Yoshijiro, feels deeply guilty.

I am deeply willing to take full responsibility for today's war situation in Manchuria and to commit suicide by committing suicide to express my sins to His Majesty the Emperor and the people of the Empire of Japan!"

After pondering for a while, he added: "General Umezu Yoshijiro did not have no achievements when he was in charge of the overall military situation in Manchuria. He is also regarded as a famous general of our Imperial Japanese Army. However, the Kwantung Army was in a quagmire in the Manchurian War. The China Devil

Tang Qiu was in great power, and he was unable to recover. It was not his fault. Therefore, I suggest that his body should be returned to the homeland for burial with the ceremony of martyring the country!"

I don’t know why, but after listening to General Nanjiro’s words, Chief of Staff Matsuda felt a sad feeling in his heart. An accomplished Imperial Army general just disappeared into thin air, leaving a bloody corpse lying lonely in the house.

Here, if General Nanjiro had tried to persuade him, maybe it would not have ended like this. However, the old officer's words sounded like he was trying to sell his good boy!

However, despite being panicked, Lieutenant General Matsuda could not say anything. He took out the copy of Umezu Yoshijiro's battle plan and silently handed it to General Nanjiro. After taking it, the line of handwriting written in blood on the front page was tattooed.

The goal is presented in front of us, "I have no ambition, I am unable to serve the country, and I am unwilling to give up! For his own selfish interests, Nanjiro abandoned my true knowledge and insights. This person is a traitor to the country. In the future, the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan will definitely lose this person."

hands!

General Nanjiro smiled contemptuously. This man wanted to bite him before he died. He really deserved his death. The last bit of guilt in his heart no longer existed. He was not even in the mood to open this battle plan.

When a match was struck, a plume of smoke rose up, and several pages of paper turned into ashes.

Although in my heart, I have no sympathy at all for the death of Umezu Yoshijiro, I still have to do a job that is honorable and show it to my military colleagues at home that I, Nanjiro, am not a ruthless person.

The order came: "Matsuda-kun, please do not spread the news about Umezu-kun's death within the headquarters. You arrange for several senior staff officers to escort Umezu-kun's body back to the country. Treat him with the courtesy of a soldier who sacrificed his life for his country!"

General Yoshijiro Umezu, a famous general of the Japanese Army, quietly committed suicide by caesarean section. When he came to Manchuria, he was full of confidence, high-spirited, and heroic. He had great ambitions to serve Emperor Hirohito and gain fame. Unexpectedly,

, just a few months later, he reached the end of his rope and returned to China as a corpse.

Looking at the cause of Umezu Yoshijiro's death, the victory of the independent division commanded by Tang Qiuli in the Northeast battlefield has been determined. The collapse of the Northeast Kwantung Army is imminent. These are superficial factors, but if we look deeper, we can see the intrigue between Japan's military and political circles, factional strife, and coldness.

The cruel and ruthless political struggle was the decisive factor in his death. The army general Umezu Yoshijiro, who claimed to stay away from politics and did not join any faction, was destined to end up like this after he came to Manchuria unarmed.

The news of Umezu Yoshijiro's death was kept secret. Tang Qiuli, who had already rushed to Jinzhou, naturally did not know that such a thing had happened. The intelligence network of the Independent Division Intelligence Office in Fengtian had not received the news for the time being. Tang Qiuli did not know that his opponent had another

He was replaced by his defeated general——Nanjiro!

In accordance with the requirements of the battle mobilization order issued by the division commander, in addition to the troops cleaning up the periphery in Harbin, Fengtian, and Xinjing, more than one million independent division troops on the battlefields of Northeast Liaoxi and Western Manchuria have stopped military operations.

, turned to battlefield rest, the Independent Division troops did not attack, and the Kwantung Army soldiers in the encirclement naturally did not dare to take the initiative. The two sides were in peace for the time being, and the sound of gunfire that had echoed on the battlefield for several months temporarily subsided!

However, the Northeastern Battlefield Joint Service Department headquartered in Peiping began to get busy. Long lines of independent division transport troop convoys were lined up on several main roads leading from Pingjin and other places to outside the customs, passing massive amounts of ammunition and supplies.

Shanhaiguan was transported to the battlefield in western Liaoning. On the sea, a huge transport fleet unloaded tens of thousands of tons of ammunition and supplies at the Anton port dock. The frontline combat troops were resting and the rear service departments were busy!

Major General Zhou Yushan, deputy director of the Logistics Department of the Independent Division and commander of the Peking Joint Service Department, is based in Peiping to coordinate this unprecedented scale of frontline supplies. He sleeps less than three hours a day, but he knows in his heart that the decisive battle on the Northeast battlefield is about to begin.

It’s about to begin!

Compared with Zhou Yushan, who was too busy to sleep, Tang Qiuli, the commander of the independent division who arrived at the front line in Jinzhou, was very leisurely. He established two theater headquarters. The specific combat command was handled by several corps commanders.

and Western Manchuria, the encirclement of the Kwantung Army was unbreakable. There was nothing that worried him, and he was happy to let it go. He only paid a little attention to the Far East battlefield and the Korean Peninsula battlefield.

On the Korean Peninsula battlefield, Ma Chaoyang's Southeast Mobile Corps is the main force. Lieutenant General Tang Qiuquan, commander of the independent division's naval fleet, still adopts the old method and uses superior ground, sea and air firepower to slowly consume the Japanese and Korean garrison troops.

The troops fought vigorously, but the battle line was always fixed at the Mokpo line.

General Tanaka Shinichi, the commander of the Japanese-Korean garrison who was confused about the route of the independent division, had to painfully and continuously deploy elite troops to the Mokpo defense line in order to stop the independent division from attacking the front lines of Gwangju and Busan.

Thousands of casualties were sustained to maintain the stability of the Mokpo defense line. The Mokpo line became a flesh-and-blood mill for the Japanese army.

Seeing the depletion of troops, General Tanaka was almost driven crazy. He sent several urgent telegrams a day, asking for more reinforcements from the mainland. However, Japan's domestic troops were already on the verge of depletion. Even on the Northeast battlefield, more than one million Kwantung Army troops were killed.

Even if they are divided and surrounded, they are unable to send out rescue troops. The battlefield on the Korean Peninsula that can maintain the status quo is naturally not a top priority!

On the Far East battlefield, Lieutenant General Liu Tiehan, deputy commander of the Independent Division and commander of the East Point Force, used more than 700,000 troops to suppress the Japanese Far East Expeditionary Force's more than 500,000 troops. More than 1 million soldiers from both sides were deployed in the Far East.

Bloody battles were carried out in the vast land west of the Leya Mountains. Small-scale attacks by independent division troops occurred thousands of times a day, making it impossible for the Japanese troops in the Far East to escape.

Liu Tiehan commanded the troops in similar offensive methods. He first bombarded the Japanese positions with ferocious artillery fire. In the sky, the bomber group and fighter group of the Northern Aviation Group's Outer Mongolia cruise area dropped thousands of heavy bombs on the Japanese army.

above the soldiers' heads, and then, with a large number of tanks as the lead, they attacked the Japanese positions. After breaking through, they killed a large number of Japanese soldiers, but did not occupy and consolidate them, and retreated to the original starting point of the attack.

The next day, if Liu Tiehan's tactics were repeated again, Prince Zai Ren, the chief of general staff of the Japanese base camp and commander-in-chief of the Far East Expeditionary Force, would go crazy with torture!

(To be continued)