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Chapter 45: The panicked Japanese military leaders

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    Chapter 45: The panicked Japanese military leaders (new book, please watch)

    While Li Guoyao's troops were resting in Wuzhen, there was a huge quarrel in the Tenth Army Headquarters. This morning, the Tenth Army Headquarters received a report from the 18th Division Headquarters on the Huzhou front line, saying that they suddenly and Jiaxing City  Contact with the garrison headquarters was lost.

    After receiving the situation, the Tenth Army Headquarters immediately ordered people to use the radio to contact the Jiaxing City defenders, but also found no response.

    But even so, the Tenth Army Headquarters was not in a hurry. After all, they had determined that the Chinese army had withdrawn from Jiaxing, Jiashan and other places, and those that had not withdrawn were all defeated by the Imperial Japanese Army. According to the situation reported by the reconnaissance plane  It shows that there are no organized Chinese troops in Jiaxing and its vicinity.

    Since there are no enemies, the Jiaxing garrison headquarters obviously cannot be in danger. Therefore, the staff judged that there are two possibilities for this situation. One is that there is a problem with the radio station of the garrison headquarters, and the second is that Tian  Your Excellency, Chief of Staff Bian, moved the headquarters forward, taking all the radio stations and operators with him when he left, and entered a state of radio silence.

    But anyway, something happened after all, so the commander of the Tenth Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, immediately ordered the Corps Headquarters to send a small force to Jiaxing to investigate the situation, and by the way, the communications between Jiaxing, Huzhou and the Corps Headquarters were connected.

    However, when the small unit sent by the Tenth Army Headquarters arrived in Jiaxing, they discovered that something had happened. The smoke had not cleared throughout Jiaxing City. The streets were full of corpses, both Chinese and Japanese.

    Judging from the condition of the corpses, some people have been dead for some time, but some have died recently, and most of these people are Japanese soldiers.

    Then the little Japanese army immediately entered the city for a closer look and found that there was not a single living Japanese soldier in the entire Jiaxing City. The vast majority of the people were killed in the garrison headquarters and prisoner of war camps. They started from Jiaxing City.  More than 600 corpses were found, not counting the number of people who were reduced to ashes in the razed arsenal.

    After being shocked, the little devil immediately reported the situation to the Tenth Army Headquarters!

    After receiving the news from Jiaxing City, the commander of the Tenth Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, was anxious, angry, and incredulous. What happened in Jiaxing City? Seven or eight hundred imperial troops were suddenly and quietly captured.  People were annihilated, who did it?

    Yanagawa Heisuke, 58, was born in Nagasaki Prefecture and was not from a samurai family.  His original surname was Nanmu. When he was a child, he changed his surname when he went out to be a son.

    Yanagawa is an "academic master". He graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School as a member of the "Saber Team", fought in the Russo-Japanese War, and served as an instructor at the Baoding Army School in China.  In 1932, Yanagawa Heisuke served as the Undersecretary of the Army, equivalent to the Deputy Minister of the Army. He can be said to be a rare elite in the Japanese army.

    However, the "February 26th Incident" changed Yanagawa Heisuke's life. With the loss of Sadao Araki in the background, Yanagawa quickly changed from a phoenix to a pheasant, and was eventually incorporated into the reserve service, and was "laid off" in disguise.

    Fortunately, just one year after being depressed, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, which gave Yanagawa the opportunity to regain power.

    In the early days of the Songhu Battle, due to the disunity of opinions within Japan, the Japanese base camp insisted on an all-out war with China, but the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Konoe Fumima held objections. They believed that Japan was not ready for a protracted war with China.  , so now it¡¯s best to just give it up and bite off a bloody piece of meat from China.

    Because of this, the Japanese government has not even formulated a unified plan for a full-scale war. Therefore, the commanders sent by the base camp in the early days of the war were not real elites. Including the supreme commander Matsui Iwane, they were all marginalized and  An officer in the reserve.

    However, it is these frustrated people, the "old" people who have stood aside in the army, who have the strongest "ambition" to make contributions.

    Especially Yanagawa Heisuke, he was 58 years old. This time he was sent to China to fight. He came to "rescue" the situation when Matsui Iwane's battle was unfavorable and he could not win Shanghai for three months. This was his last chance.

    Yanagawa Heisuke knows that this battle is the key to whether he can make further progress. There must be no accidents. He wants to fight hard and let the people in the base camp see whether this old guy can do it!  He wants to establish an unparalleled achievement and completely get rid of the bench. He wants to enter the palace!

    Because of his strong desire to make great achievements, Yanagawa did not follow Matsui Iwane¡¯s order after landing at Kinsanwei. Instead, he followed the Japanese army¡¯s tradition of ¡°down to conquer¡± and went his own way, leading his troops from the Shanghai flank.Carrying out long-distance detours, the Chinese army was forced to retreat across the Shanghai battlefield within a week.

    Of course, in order to boost the morale of the troops, Yanagawa deliberately allowed the troops to burn, kill and loot near Jinshan Guard. In just two days after landing at Jinshan Guard, the Tenth Army caused three tragedies as soon as it landed, massacring 1,015 civilians. It can be described as cruel  Extremely.

    Yanagawa Heisuke, who was originally somewhat complacent, did not expect that he would be slapped hard just when he was most proud. Although losing hundreds of people in such a large-scale battle is nothing, after all, even Matsui Iwane  The old guy also lost tens of thousands of people in Shanghai. In comparison, his hundreds of people are nothing!

    But the problem is that his chief of staff also disappeared in this mysterious incident. Even the soldiers searched the entire Jiaxing City but could not find Tanabe Shengwu, not even his body!

    Was he captured?  Or was he shot dead?

    Tanabe Moritake was neither alive nor dead. This situation made Yanagawa Heisuke a little panicked. You must know that Tanabe Moritake was the chief of staff of their Tenth Army, and his rank was still the Imperial Army. Whether he died in battle or was captured, this  The blow to the Imperial Japanese Army was extremely serious.

    If that were the case, Yanagawa Heisuke would not care in his heart. What does the life and death of others have to do with him? However, the crux of the problem is that Tanabe Moritake is his deputy. If something happens to him, he will be the first to be held accountable.  It was Yanagawa Heisuke.

    In view of this, Yanagawa Heisuke immediately transferred a reinforced squadron from the headquarters to Jiaxing to investigate the matter. At the same time, he sent a large number of reconnaissance planes to conduct carpet searches around Jiaxing to see if there were any organized Chinese troops nearby.

    However, what disappointed Yanagawa Heisuke was that the reconnaissance planes searched the roads around Jiaxing for several hours, but found nothing at all. Not to mention the fully-organized Chinese army, even sporadic broken troops were not found.

    It is certain that something happened to Tanabe Moritake and the Jiaxing garrison, but Yanagawa Heisuke could not imagine who would be responsible, because judging from the current situation, it is impossible for Chinese troops to appear in Jiaxing City.

    Even if there are occasional small-scale rout, it is impossible to cause such serious consequences. After all, if you want to capture Jiaxing City in the hands of the imperial army with an infantry brigade that is not full, it is impossible to do it without five times the strength of the imperial army.

    In desperation, Yanagawa Heisuke had no choice but to report the situation to the Shanghai Dispatch Army Headquarters and Base Camp!

    After learning that Major General Moritake Tanabe, the Chief of Staff of the Tenth Army, was missing, the top Japanese military officials were also panicked. It has been a full four months since the war between China and Japan began. The Imperial Japanese Army has achieved brilliant results on the Chinese battlefield.  Many Chinese generals have been killed and captured, including Tong Linge, Zhao Dengyu, Hao Mengling, Jiang Yuzhen and others. But so far, the highest-ranking Japanese Army officer killed in battle is Captain Dazuo.

    In other words, it has been more than four months since the war began, and not a single Japanese general has died in battle.  The base camp just wanted to maintain this crushing attitude, but they didn't expect that such a thing would suddenly happen.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? What's hard to accept is that they still don't know who did it, and what happened to Major General Moritake Tanabe!

    In order to thoroughly investigate this matter, the base camp ordered the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the Tenth Army Headquarters to seize the time to investigate. At the same time, they also sent a report to the intelligence agency in Shanghai, ordering them to find the missing Major General Moritake Tanabe at all costs.  Come out and never give the Chinese people a chance to make a fuss about it!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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