Chapter 137 Bloody Massacre
Under the anger of Emperor Meiji, Hirofumi Ito and Katsurao stopped arguing. After Emperor Meiji's eyes swept away, Hirofumi Ito quickly lowered his head. He was afraid that Emperor Meiji would blame him for his inaction, so he disbanded the cabinet in advance and asked him to hand over the power in his hands.
Kanetaro also dared not look directly into Emperor Meiji's eyes. He knew in his heart that the reason why he was embarrassed by Hirofumi Ito was simply that he wanted to go to power again and grasp the supreme power of the empire. He knew that Emperor Meiji would definitely be able to see this.
Emperor Meiji sighed slightly and said, "The empire is facing a crisis of survival. I hope you will put aside the past discord and fight against foreign enemies with all your might. The country is about to perish. What's the use of fighting for those meaningless interests? Where will the skin be left untie? So, please think carefully about how to deal with the crisis you are about to face!"
Hirobuki Ito leaned over and said, "His Majesty the Emperor is wise, we must do our best to share the worries of His Majesty the Emperor."
Kanetaro bowed the same way and said, "We will follow the holy metaphor!"
A few tired expressions appeared on Emperor Meiji's face. With the help of the attendant, Emperor Meiji's figure gradually disappeared behind the long corridor.
Emperor Meiji left without saying a word, and the meaning was self-evident.
The military and political ministers in the conference hall breathed a sigh of relief. Emperor Meiji did not punish anyone for the defeat in this local first battle, which made many people secretly take luck. At the same time, they were also worried. Most of them had guessed the reason. At this time, the Great Japanese Empire, both naval and army talents, were almost at a loss, and had almost reached the point where there was no one available.
Hirofumi Ito knew that Emperor Meiji was disappointed at this time. The enemy was in front of him, and the junior high school was still fighting for power. How could this not disappoint people?
Hirobu Ito walked to Kaitaro, stretched out his right hand, and said, "Kei Tae, I think you may know the current situation of the empire than me. It is time for us to reconcile. His Majesty the Emperor has already said very clearly. Where will the skin be attached if there is no hair? If we continue to disagree like this, I think you may not see the day when the reorganization of the cabinet will be restored."
Hirobu Ito's words were sincere, sincere without any pretentiousness.
Kanetaro was stunned for a moment. You know, the two were political enemies and had been fighting each other for at least ten years. There has never been any reconciliation and compromise in any cooperation.
Hirobu Ito said: "I believe you have also seen that Chinese President Tang Jianzhi is in the empire and has no hope of peace talks with China. Since there is no hope of compromise, it is better to concentrate the whole country and defeat the invasion of China."
Kanetaro cannot deny that Ito Hirobuki's words make sense. At the beginning of the war, he sent someone to secretly contact Tang Jian and prepare to discuss the issue of Japan's compromise in detail. However, Tang Jian never intended to negotiate with Japan, so the people he sent were expelled back without accidents every time. Tang Jian never had the intention to negotiate with Japan. As Iito Hirobuki said, Tang Jian wanted the entire Japan.
When the entire Japan fell, Kanetaro had no hope of reorganizing the cabinet.
Kanetaro pondered for a moment, then stretched out his right hand and said, "I hope I can work with Ito-kun to have a happy cooperation!"
The two looked at each other and laughed. Although they did not completely resolve their past grudges, at least they had a high degree of agreement on the issue of China.
Kanetaro asked, "Ito-kun, don't know where Iji-kun's return fleet is now?"
Hirobu Ito sighed and said, "In order to avoid the maritime blockade of the Chinese Pacific Fleet, Yijijun abandoned his established plan to enter the South China Sea from the Strait of Malacca, and then switched to the Indian Ocean, walked through the Alafra Sea in northern Australia, and returned from Oceania to the Pacific Ocean. At this time, they were replenishing supplies in Cape York, Australia. If they wanted to return, they would have at least a few months."
Kanetaro said with a serious expression: "The empire is now the most critical moment. If the return fleet returns home earlier, it will be able to share more military pressure from China. Well, Ito-kun, I will mobilize my staff, raise funds, purchase a large number of weapons from the neutral country Britain, and equip those militias to resist the invasion of the Chinese Army!"
Hirobuki Ito nodded and said, "Thank you, Kaneshiro."
The two looked at each other and smiled. Hirofun Ito grabbed Kashitaro and said, "Let's go to the wartime base camp and see the current situation of the Chinese-Japanese war."
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At this time, the Japanese mainland had already started to mobilize urgently, almost forming a situation where everyone was soldiers. Then, in front of the Chinese assault troops, these militias who had just learned to fire guns but had no combat experience often collapsed at once and had extremely low combat power. Hundreds of Chinese army often drove the militias that were quickly armed, like ducks, running around.
Therefore, the 30,000 assault troops advance very quickly. Often before the Japanese army could react, the assault troops had already crossed the Japanese defense line and penetrated directly into the rear of the Japanese army.
With air fire support, the assault troops took only more than three hours to capture Hiroshima. After destroying Hiroshima's fortifications, the assault troops, which had a truce, marched again in a hurry. At this time, they had already pushed the frontline positions to Kobe, only one step away from Kyoto.
At the same time, Tang Jian led the subsequent army to chase and continuously cleared all the Japanese troops encountered on the road.
Tang Jian personally led this army with a total of 50,000 people, and its main function was to provide support and supplies to the assault troops. At this time, Tang Jian had already led his army to Hiroshima. In Fukuyama, southeast of Hiroshima, there was also a 50,000 army led by Duan Qirui, which formed a horn with the army led by Tang Jian, and invited each other to echo.
In Xiaguan, Nie Shicheng personally led a 100,000 army to land, and the three armies had a total of 200,000 people attacked the Japanese army in the shape of a "哥" and continued to attack the Japanese army's local abdomen.
If the assault force with a strength of 30,000 is a sharp knife that constantly tear apart the fragile defense line of the Japanese army, then the subsequent 200,000 army is like an extremely huge shield. When providing assistance and supplies to the assault force, it also relies on its own powerful combat power to sweep away all the Japanese army encountered.
The elite Japanese troops have basically been completely lost on the Korean battlefield, and most of the people who stay in the local area are the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. How can they resist the elite Chinese army troops that have experienced civil wars and several foreign wars?
Hiroshima.
The smoke of gunpowder was swept by gunpowder, and the bloody smell of gunpowder mixed in the air was slowly fading. Near Hiroshima, a big battle had just been experienced.
A Japanese Class B Division had a total of more than 30,000 people rushing to Hiroshima. Although the Chinese assault troops continued to penetrate the hinterland of Japan after hurriedly occupied Hiroshima, as reinforcements, they still had to block the gap in Hiroshima to prevent the Chinese Army's follow-up troops from continuing to penetrate.
However, the result was that when this B-class division arrived at Hiroshima, it found that the subsequent large troops of China had occupied Hiroshima at an astonishing speed.
So, a war inevitably broke out.
From the comparison of troops, we can see the result of this war. The Japanese B-class division was wiped out in Hiroshima. Tang Jian took less than a day and only twenty hours to wipe out this combat power of the B-class division of the Oshima Division.
At this time, Hiroshima had been ravaged by the assault forces, and now he has passed another battle. The bodies of Japanese troops were everywhere, broken walls and ruins, and the smoke of gunfire was still ringing above Hiroshima. It was Tang Jian's orders to clear out the remaining small number of remaining troops.
"President, all the Japanese remnants have been eliminated, more than 5,000 prisoners were captured and more than 3,000 militiamen were captured." Cao Kun came to Tang Jian and said, after saying that, he wiped some sweat from his forehead.
Tang Jian nodded and said, "The speed is not bad. I will capture all these prisoners and use machine guns to thrust me."
"Ah?" Cao Kun obviously looked puzzled: "President, it's not easy to capture these prisoners. Unification is a strong young man and a very good labor force. Why not escort him to the Northeast?"
Tang Jian shook his head and said, "The situation is different now. We must cooperate with the pace of the assault troops, so the corresponding marching speed must also be increased. It is too time-consuming to catch prisoners. It is not very easy to make all the raids! Don't worry, there will be prisoners and laborers. As long as we quickly capture Tokyo and completely occupy Japan, the laborers will not be as much as we want. Now there is no need to waste energy for such a small thing. Shooting these militias also has a warning effect, that is, if ordinary Japanese people dare to take up weapons and fight against China, it will be the same ending as these militias."
"Yes!" Cao Kun understood at one point, and there was no need for any more explanation.
After a while, the unique clatter of machine guns came from a distance, and nearly ten thousand Japanese prisoners were bloodily executed by Tang Jian on Hiroshima.
"President, what should we do next?" Cao Kun asked.
"Let the soldiers go down and confiscate the food immediately. Each household must bear the three-day ration for an ordinary soldier. If there is any one who refuses or who refuses, shoot and kill them on the spot!" Tang Jian ordered decisively.
Cao Kun has long been adapted to Tang Jian's decisiveness in killing. Tang Jian is always extremely generous to his own people, but he treats the enemy extremely harshly. In Tang Jian's words, the kindness towards the enemy is cruel to himself.
Moreover, when marching and fighting, relying solely on one's own supply line is far from enough, and the rations borne by each household are within the affordable range of ordinary Japanese people.
Tang Jian did not have any extra troops to guard or escort those Japanese prisoners, so he could only execute them on the spot, so as not to let these prisoners go. If they turned around, they would take up weapons to fight against China, which would only increase the casualties of Chinese soldiers, so they would have to die.
The principle that Tang Jian has always adhered to is to treat the Japanese army with bloody massacre!
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