Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 606: Japanese Army Changes Generals

The banditry and anarchic chaos sweeping across Shandong have seriously affected Tang Qiuli's strategic plan to open up the Shandong base. If the banditry is not eliminated, various construction projects cannot be carried out. He will not hesitate to mobilize all the forces he can mobilize to complete the project in the shortest possible time.

, completely eradicating banditry in Shandong and establishing a stable rear area. This arduous task was handed over to Tang Qiuquan, the captain of the special operations detachment of the ** Division and his cousin, giving him full command responsibilities.--%.net

Qiuquan accepted the task of presiding over the suppression of bandits in Shandong, although he knew that this task was much more difficult than killing a regiment of the Japanese army. Just considering the nature of the bandits and local armed forces, it was very complicated. There were several generations of bandits.

Some of the habitual bandits are local self-organized armed forces, and some have complex backgrounds similar to political armed forces, such as Chen Tiannan. In addition, the troops have just arrived in Shandong and are not familiar with the terrain and people's sentiments. These have brought practical difficulties to the suppression of bandits.

Still accept it happily.

However, there was one thing Qiuquan would never agree to, which was to transfer the division's security brigade to Shandong. Protecting Tang Qiuli was much more important than suppressing bandits in Shandong. He could not let Tang Qiuli be in any danger. Tang Qiuli

Li couldn't resist Qiuquan, so he had to revoke the order. Looking at Qiuquan's leaving figure, he felt much quieter in his heart. His cousin had shouldered so many burdens for him. Perhaps, even Tang Qiuli himself could not help it.

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The convoy returned to Dingbian in the evening. Tang Qiuli didn't have time to go home, so he went directly to the Dingbian Security Command War Room. There were more things for him to deal with. There was a big mess on the front line.

Two preparations must be made. The current calm of the Japanese army in North China is absolutely abnormal. According to historical records of Okamura Neiji, as soon as this guy arrived in North China, he planned many attacks against the Chinese armed forces in North China.

The high-power radio in the telecommunications room of the Dingbian Garrison Command sent orders one after another to various places. The three cavalry brigades that received the order assembled in the direction of Xuzhou as quickly as possible. Qiuquan was on the way to Xuzhou.

Judging from the location where Tang Qiuli ordered his troops to assemble, his preferred target was the Liu Motou bandits entrenched in the Yimeng Mountain area in southwestern Shandong.

The order was conveyed to the ** Division Air Force, but something went wrong. Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang looked at each other, looking at the order signed by the division commander Tang Qiuli, doubting their own eyes. Was it really signed by the division commander? Let the air force go fight the bandits.

, is that correct? The technical aspects of this job include

The quantity is too low. Just send infantry to a few bandits. Do you need to use aircraft? The heads of those bandits are not worth as much as an aerial bomb. On the surface, they say they are overqualified, but secretly, the division commander has not paid attention to the aviation force.

In my eyes, I don’t realize my own value.

The two murmured for a long time. It happened that the division commander was in Dingbian. Let's go find the division commander. If the air force wanted to do something big, do it, such as bombing Jinzhou or Shenyang. The two drove to the Dingbian Security Headquarters. The sentry checked the documents and released them.

They went directly to the war room, where Tang Qiuli was in front of a large map, concentrating on his thoughts.

When he saw the two baby bumps, he smiled and asked them if they were ready for the air force to go to Shandong. After hearing their opinions, Tang Qiuli's face immediately darkened and he slapped the table, frightened.

Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang jumped up from their chairs and stood at attention again.

Tang Qiuli told them that orders are orders and there is no room for bargaining. Don't underestimate these bandits. Underestimating the enemy will bring fatal consequences. The use of air power is carefully considered. Go back and execute it immediately. You must choose the best one. The pilots came to carry out this mission. At the end, they were warned not to let the bandits’ machine guns shoot down your plane.

After a violent training, Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang did not dare to express their anger. This was the first time they saw their teacher get so angry, and they also realized the importance of this mission. Otherwise, the teacher would not take it so seriously and got a beating. The two people who had been beaten suddenly left the security headquarters with slumped heads and went back to make serious preparations.

Looking at the backs of Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang, Tang Qiuli realized a serious problem, which was the common mentality of underestimating the enemy in the troops. This kind of thinking should also exist in the three cavalry brigades. The root cause was to look down on the bandit armed forces. He immediately gave Qiuquan sent a telegram to remind him to pay attention to the mood of the troops and strengthen education in this regard.

Tang Qiuli stepped up his deployment and mobilized troops, striving to solve the bandit problem in Shandong before the Japanese army in North China launched the next round of offensive. Major personnel changes also occurred in the top management of the Japanese army in North China, which objectively created a powerful time for Tang Qiuli , perhaps, this is something the Japanese base camp never expected.

The commander of Japan's North China Expeditionary Force, Army General Seiji Kozuki, locked himself in a room and looked at the base camp order he had read countless times in his hand. Ever since he saw this order, he had lost time. The concept of the sun outside in winter has nothing to do with him. Xiangyue Qingji's heart is dark and cold.

Although he already had a premonition, when did this premonition occur? Maybe it was the day of the July 7th Incident, maybe it was the moment when all the Yamaguchi troops were shattered, maybe it was when Isotani Rensuke's first army was destroyed at the gate of Xuzhou City, he also I can't tell how high-spirited and confident I was when I first took charge of North China's military affairs. I was able to make achievements and show my ambitions.

Eight months, just eight months, a series of failures, like a fierce boxer, constantly beating his body and spirit, back and forth, the emperor lost in his own hands The number of troops has exceeded hundreds of thousands, and there have been several battles without any victory. Thinking of this, Xiangyue Seiji is so painful that his heart is bleeding. However, he is unwilling to give up, but there is no reason for failure. With the powerful national power and strength of the Japanese Empire, The military should not suffer such a defeat.

Only in this way did Xiangyue Qingji feel even more painful. The contrast between his inner hope and reality made him dare not recall the battles he had experienced during his eight months in North China. Every time he recalled it, his heart felt as if he had been stabbed by a knife. It stings. When Amiichiro Tashiro left sadly, he looked down on this military senior who was older and more senior than himself. Now, it is his turn to become the laughing stock of the bureaucrats in Tokyo, following in Tashiro's footsteps. , left sadly.

Everything was given by one person, the person who made Xiangyue Qingsi hate him to the bone, the demon Tang Qiuli. Xiangyue Qingsi stretched his hands into the air nervously, as if he was strangling Tang Qiuli's neck. , strangled his throat and tore him into pieces. He let out a beast-like moan from his throat, and his eyes flashed with cold light.

Tang Qiuli's blurry figure disappeared in front of his eyes. What he caught was only air, fantasy and reality. At the same time, Xiangyue Qingsi was disappointed. The order from the base camp made him almost collapse. This order ruined his future in the army and

Ambition destroyed his dream of establishing a career in China and revitalizing his family, and also destroyed his pure heart of loyalty to the emperor.

“Since the Empire of Japan started the war against China in North China, the former Commander of the Expeditionary Forces, Kozuki Kiyoshi, made mistakes in command and misjudged the situation of the China army, which resulted in the failure of many battles and the loss of hundreds of thousands of loyal and brave soldiers of our Empire of Japan.

He undermined the authority of our emperor, ruined the war situation in North China, and made the situation in the war in China worrying, and failed to live up to His Majesty the Emperor's high expectations."

"In compliance with His Majesty the Emperor's imperial edict, the base camp removed me from the post of Commander of the North China Expedition Force of the Empire of Japan and from all the concurrent posts I held. I was ordered to withdraw from the military and be escorted back to the homeland for strict inspection. From the moment I received the order, I was immediately handed over to each other.

For military affairs, return to the homeland as soon as possible without any excuses for delay."

Every word pierced Xiangzuki Seiji's heart like a knife. This meant that he had finished his career in the military and was abandoned by the emperor like a pair of stinky socks. Seeing it once, Xiangyue Qingji felt cold.

Once, I wanted to cry but had no tears, and no one was there yet

When he left, the tea was already cold. His old friend, the chief of the general staff of the base camp, Prince Hanin Gong Zairen, was avoiding me like the god of plague. Not to mention visiting him, he even didn't answer his phone calls. He was doomed.

He is an abandoned person.

Kozuki Seiji was blaming others and feeling sorry for himself in the dark room. In fact, he had wrongly blamed Prince Zain. Zain was in dire straits now, and the Mud Bodhisattva could not save himself when he crossed the river. Regarding the heavy losses and successive defeats in North China, Japan was in a state of confusion.

There were calls for crusade and public dissatisfaction arose, demanding that the top commander of the North China Expeditionary Force be held accountable, as well as the plenipotentiary representative of the base camp stationed in North China be jointly and severally held accountable.

Zai Ren knew where this wind came from. He was his mortal enemy, the current Minister of War, Sugiyama Gen. Without him fanning the flames, the local reaction would not have been so strong. He directly attacked him. Due to his identity, Sugiyama Gen.

It was too blatant and explicit, so Kozuki Seiji became the main target.

The Japanese Army is not monolithic, and there are many internal factions, but it is surprisingly consistent in the goal of invading China. This may be Japan's unique political landscape. Xiangzuki Seiji is a person on the line of Zai Ren.

, to move him down would also be to move Zai Ren himself. At the very least, Zai Ren would be disgraced.

Therefore, Sugiyama Gen and others took advantage of the military defeat in North China to make a big fuss. Zain was too busy to take care of himself and could not save Xiang Yue Qiuji. He could only save his troops and throw Xiang Yue Qiuji out, so that he could escape unscathed. He also had to face the

His brother Emperor Hirohito's questioning made Zai Ren extremely uncomfortable.

In the incident, the current Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yoneuchi was on the sidelines, secretly helping Bin Sanwon. The Navy and the Army have never peed in the same pot, but this time, their butts were sitting on the same bench. Is it possible that the relationship between these two politicians

Some kind of compromise was reached in order to oust himself from the position of chief of general staff?

Zai Ren's mood was not much better than that of Xiang Yue Qingji. He was also extremely depressed. He was facing pressure from many parties and could only regard his old friend as a scapegoat and put all the responsibility for the defeat of the North China War on Xiang Yue Qingji.

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While Zai Ren was drafting a memorial to his brother, Emperor Hirohito, to explain the war in North China at the base camp, he was secretly cursing the two old foxes, Mitsumasa Yonei and Yuan Binshan. He also had to comfort himself, Xiangyue-kun, I'm sorry, Zai Ren is having a hard time.

(To be continued)