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Chapter 1,246: Returning to the Heart

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    As the saying goes, Japanese women, regardless of their beauty or ugliness, must put on makeup when going out; Japanese politicians, regardless of whether they are good or evil, must put on a show when going abroad.

    The Yamato nation is a nation that is extremely good at acting and cares very much about their image in the eyes of others, and this is even more true for Okamura Neiji, who has climbed from an ordinary civilian to the position of an army general.

    Although Okamura Neiji wanted to rectify military discipline as soon as he took office and pretended to make decisions for the Chinese people, did he really care about the lives and deaths of Chinese people?

    ¡°Obviously not, it¡¯s just because Okamura Neiji is smarter than Terauchi Juichi, Sugiyama Gen, and Tada Jun. He knows how to win over and divide the Chinese.

    In addition, Okamura Neiji is even more aware of the impact of a troop with corrupt military discipline on this war!

    The reason why Okamura Neiji attaches so much importance to the military discipline of his troops is mainly related to some of his experiences. Just after he was promoted to the commander of the 11th Army in Showa 13, he sent Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Sadichi to inspect Koikekou on the other side of Jiujiang during the Wuhan Battle.  In this area, it was found that the discipline of the Harada brigade stationed near Koikekou was corrupt, and rapes and robberies occurred frequently.

    This army even went as far as to seize the clothes of nearby village chiefs when they summoned them because they were easy to wear for rape.

    What¡¯s more, the corruption of military discipline directly caused the 11th Army¡¯s military airport project to come to a halt, resulting in heavy losses.

    The reason is that the airport was originally contracted by a nearby Chinese village chief, but during the construction period, a group of Japanese soldiers broke into the village chief's house and gang-raped the village chief's wife and daughter, causing the airport construction to come to a halt.

    After hearing the news, Okamura Neji was so angry at the time!

    In order to complete the project as soon as possible, they painstakingly recruited a large number of local people and worked nervously on the construction.  But no one expected that because of an atrocity against women, the migrant workers dispersed without a single person left, causing a setback to the project.

    In addition to this incident, there was another incident that forced Okamura Neiji to rectify the military discipline of the army. There was the consulate poisoning incident in Showa 14.

    It happened in mid-June of Showa 14. During a high-level banquet, a Chinese servant of the Consulate General in Nanjing put poison in the wine at the beginning of the banquet and then escaped. As a result, the host and guest died and became ill.

    Afterwards, an investigation revealed that the servant of the Consulate General was named Zhan Changlin, and he was an offline agent developed by the anti-Japanese organization.  It was he who mixed poison into the liquor, which resulted in the poisoning of all the attendees.  Among them, a large number of people including Lieutenant General Yamada Otsuzo, commander of the Kwantung Army, and senior officials of the Wang Puppet Government were poisoned, and even two Japanese secretaries died.

    The servant sent a letter to the Consulate General in Nanjing after escaping to Shanghai and said: "I have been working in the Consulate General for many years and I am very grateful for the kindness and care I received. However, when the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, my relatives and others were raped/  The rape and atrocities made me hate him to the core, so when I found out that a Japanese commander was among the visitors that day, I took revenge."

    " Several consecutive incidents were caused by the serious consequences of the corruption of military discipline in the garrison. This made Okamura Neiji realize that the Japanese army's military discipline has become the key to the survival of this army.

    Because of this, when he first took office as the commander of the North China Front, he did not rush to light the three fires. Instead, he first secretly inspected the garrison situation in Pingjin and other places, as well as Baoding, Zhangjiakou and other places.

    Through three weeks of inspections and private interviews, Okamura Ningji has a deeper understanding of the military style and discipline of the North China Front.

    He found that most of the officers and soldiers of the North China Front still had no major problems in combat, they were still extremely brave, and most of them were still fearless of death.  However, illegal activities such as robbery and rape were ignored by the troops at the Sandow division level, down to the squad commanders.

    Observing the words and deeds of frontline officers and soldiers, military discipline has declined compared to the Russo-Japanese War and the Beiqing Incident.

    Okamura Neiji made a summary of this. Generally speaking, it is reflected in the decline in obedience to superiors, the decline in sexual morality, and the lack of public morality. Many soldiers even abandoned the weapons sent to the repair shop for repair in order to save trouble.  It became common to steal horses from other troops; embezzle the condolences sent to the front, etc.

    ¡°There are also officers who frequently commit embezzlement and bribery crimes in the army, and they even have a barbaric style of killing prisoners under the pretext of dealing with troubles.

    What makes Okamura Neiji even more angry is that the frontline troops are arrogant and unreasonable to the Chinese, and they are also unreasonable to their own people.

    During the inspection, the military horse Okamura Neji was riding on was lost. It is unbelievable to say that when a general commander was inspecting his troops, the war horse was lost. After repeated searches, there was still no whereabouts.

    ??Afterwards, the investigation found that this kind of thing is nothing new. The frontline?It has become a custom for the Japanese army to steal horses from other units at night if their own troops are short of horses.  What's more, they even threatened the horse guarding soldiers with force and took away their horses.

    Even the two horses of His Royal Highness the Prince, Commander of the Second Army Headquarters, were stolen and have not been recovered afterwards. Do you think it is strange or not?

    Okamura Neiji remembered that after the Russo-Japanese War, the American Dr. Lald praised the characteristics of the Japanese people during the war in a speech at the Noble Hall. He believed that the courage of the Japanese people, especially the courage on the home front, was high, and secondly, their respect for the war.  Careful preparation, as well as comprehensive national temperance and a spirit of tolerance towards the enemy.

    Although the nature of the war Japan is currently engaged in is slightly different from that of the Russo-Japanese War, in which the whole country was united, there should not be a big difference if the national spirit is given full play. If we compare the situation between the past and the present, we can see that there is a huge difference.  few.

    All this also strengthened Okamura Neiji's determination to improve military discipline. He also knew that those below would not obey his orders so easily. After all, the officers and soldiers on the front line were already wild beasts that had escaped from their cages and were used to it.  The taste of flesh and blood.

    So Okamura Neiji had already decided to use thunderous means. When he issued the order, he had also secretly given an order to the Military Police Headquarters, asking them to immediately collect information on violations of laws and disciplines committed by the troops stationed in the Pingjin area.

    "The Military Police Headquarters also knew that the new commander wanted to scare the monkeys, so they naturally did not dare to neglect it. With the assistance of the intelligence department, they quickly learned about the disciplinary violations of a large number of officers and soldiers.

    A week after the order to rectify military discipline was issued, Okamura Neiji felt that the time was ripe and immediately ordered the military police to start arresting people.

    Soon, within one day, the North China Front Military Police Headquarters captured more than 300 people from the garrison in the Ping-Tianjin area, including 158 Japanese officers and soldiers and 119 from the Imperial Association Army.

    What is even more unexpected is that this time the front army headquarters was not just a show with big thunder and small rain, but directly held a public trial after arresting these people.

    That day, the city of Beiping was crowded with people and it was so lively!

    The public trial venue was packed with spectators. Everyone wanted to see what the newly appointed Japanese commander wanted to do.

    "However, after a public trial, 71 of the 158 Japanese officers and soldiers on trial were whipped and tortured in public, and each one was beaten to pieces.

    Another 40 people were dismissed from the military, sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, repatriated to Japan, and detained in local prisons.

    The most shocking thing is that all the last 47 people were sentenced to death and executed immediately!

    In addition, the 119 Imperial Army soldiers did not escape punishment. 67 people who committed minor crimes were whipped and sent back to the original army. The remaining 52 people were sentenced to death together with the 47 Japanese soldiers.

    99 people were sentenced to death in one day, and they were executed immediately. This really frightened everyone!

    Especially when gunshots were fired, the 99 officers and soldiers who had seriously violated disciplines fell to the muzzle of the gun. This made Neji Okamura's name spread throughout the Pingjin area, and then expanded to the entire North China region.

    After executing these disciplinary-violating Japanese and puppet troops, the North China Front Army Headquarters immediately reported the situation to the entire army, and the media mouthpieces controlled by the Japanese army also began to trumpet Okamura Neiji's rectification of military discipline.

    ¡°For a time, praises came pouring in from all sides, and even many Chinese people who did not know the truth were full of good impressions of this Japanese commander with a sense of justice.

    Okamura Neiji spent less than a hundred lives to intimidate frontline officers and soldiers, and at the same time won praise from all parties and the favor of some Chinese people. This method was indeed very slippery.

    At the same time, the staff officers and commanders of the North China Front Army Headquarters realized that this commander was not easy to fool, and they admired Okamura from the bottom of their hearts.

    One month after taking office, the entire North China Front army has returned home!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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