Age of Rebirth

A cold door cut off the outside world. Umezu Yoshijiro looked at the back of Admiral Nanjiro's departure with regret, his eyes were full of sadness, and his heart was ashamed. He knew that his life had come to an end, even if His Majesty forgives him. I, my second half of my life, will also be spent in bleakness and painful self-blame. That earth-shattering memorial is just an inducement.

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

Then, he bit his finger and wrote a line on the Ximan battle plan, "I have no ambitions, but I have no strength to serve the country, and I am unwilling! Nanjiro, for his own self-interest, abandons my true knowledge and insight. This person is a national thief." , In the future, the Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire will definitely be lost at the hands of this person!"

After finishing writing, he drank another glass of wine, laughed silently, slowly pulled out the command knife, wiped it carefully, and then poured a glass of sake on Leng Sensen's blade, and sang a funeral dirge for himself. . . . . .

After General Nanjiro left the quiet room, he stood quietly in front of the door for a while. A hoarse voice came from the quiet room, singing like weeping, "My emperor is in a prosperous age, and it will last forever; sand and gravel are like rocks, covered with moss. ;Long-term peace and stability, the country is rich and the people are peaceful!"

"Kimijiro!" Umezu Yoshijiro sang the national anthem of the Great Japanese Empire, but in the ears of General Nanjiro, it was like the pain and wail of a dying person, and the despair of life, and he sighed, I know, Umezu Yoshijiro has already thought of death.Perhaps, this is the best choice!

In the corridor far away from the quiet room, the lights were dim, and General Matsuda Kenjiro was wandering anxiously.The two giants were talking in secret, they might need me at any time, they didn't dare to go far, saw General Nanjiro coming out, hurriedly greeted him, and asked tentatively: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, General Umetsu...?"

Nanjiro waved his hands, his expression was a little lonely, and he ordered: "Matsuda-kun, don't ask, arrange two guards outside the door of the quiet room, what does Umetsu-kun need. Satisfy him unconditionally!"

General Matsuda's heart suddenly tightened, and he shivered suddenly. He was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "Commander-in-Chief, why didn't you persuade him? It's not at the point of desperation!"

General Nanjiro gave General Matsuda a cold look, and left without looking back.The flustered Chief of Staff Matsuda was left behind, and it took a long time before he came to his senses, beckoned two guards over, gave a few instructions in a low voice, and then, staring at the door of the quiet room for a long time, left with heavy steps.

General Nanjiro returned to the place where he was resting. For some reason, he had no appetite at all.Although he was tired to death, he didn't feel sleepy at all, as if he was waiting for something?

More than an hour later, Chief of Staff Matsuda knocked on his door and entered.He said in a hoarse voice: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, General Meijin cut himself open, and ended his life in the most honorable way of an imperial warrior!"

"En!" General Nanjiro responded lightly, and suddenly felt an indescribable sense 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, deeply feels guilty Seriously, I am willing to take full responsibility for today's Manchurian war situation, and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor and the people of the Empire of Japan by cutting open my stomach!"

After pondering for a while, he added: "General Umezu Yoshijiro did not fail to accomplish anything during his presidency of the military situation in Manchuria. Tang Qiuli is powerful, and he is unable to return to heaven, not because he is incompetent, so I suggest that, with the ceremony of martyrdom, please welcome his body back to the native land for burial!"

I don't know why, but after listening to General Nanjiro's words, Chief of Staff Matsuda felt a sense of sadness in his heart. An outstanding general of the Imperial Army disappeared in smoke, and a bloody corpse lay lonely in the house. Here, if General Nanjiro tried to persuade him, perhaps, it would not end like this. The words of the old chief, no matter how you listen to them, are all intended to be good!

However, despite being panicked in his heart, General Matsuda could not say anything. He took out the battle plan of Umezu Yoshijiro and silently handed it to General Nanjiro. Presented in front of my eyes, "I have no ambition, but I have no energy to serve the country, and I am unwilling! Nanjiro abandoned my true knowledge and insight for his own self-interest. This person is a national traitor. In the future, the Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire will definitely be defeated by this person." hand!

General Nanjiro smiled contemptuously. Before he died, he wanted to bite himself. He really deserved to die. The last bit of guilt in his heart no longer exists. He didn't even have the mood to open this battle plan. As I struck the match, a wisp of blue smoke rose, and several pages were reduced to ashes.

Although I have no sympathy for Meizu Meijiro's death in my heart, I have to do a good job on the surface and show my colleagues in the military circles in China. I, Nanjiro, am not a ruthless person. He ordered: "Matsuda-kun, don't spread the news of Meijin-kun's death within the headquarters. You arrange several senior staff officers to escort Meijin-kun's body back to the country, and treat him as a soldier who died for the country!"

General Umezu Yoshijiro, a famous general of the Japanese Army, cut himself open so silently. When he came to Manchuria, he was full of confidence, high spirits, and high spirits. After a few short months, he came to a dead end and returned home as a corpse.

Looking at the cause of Meizu Meijiro's death, Tang Qiuli commanded the Japanese Army Division. The victory in the Northeast battlefield has been decided. The Northeast Kwantung Army's fall is imminent. The ruthless political struggle was the decisive factor of his death. The army general Yoshijiro Umezu, who claimed to stay away from politics and did not join any faction, came to Manchuria with bare hands, and he was destined to end up in this way.

The news of Meizu Meijiro's death was kept secret. Tang Qiuli, who had already arrived in Jinzhou, naturally didn't know what happened. It was replaced by his defeated opponent - Nanjiro!

In accordance with the requirements of the campaign mobilization order issued by the division commander, except for the troops in Harbin, Fengtian, and Xinjing who cleaned up the outer areas, on the battlefields of Northeast Liaoxi and Ximan, more than one million troops of the ** Division stopped fighting. The action turned to rest on the battlefield. The ** Division troops did not attack, and the soldiers of the Kwantung Army in the encirclement naturally did not dare to take the initiative to take action.

However, the Joint Service Department of the Northeast Battlefield, headquartered in Beiping, began to get busy. From Pingjin and other places, on several main roads leading to the outside of the customs, there was a long line of army transport troop convoys, transporting a large amount of ammunition and supplies, After passing through Shanhaiguan, it 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 on the wharf of Andong port. The frontline combat troops were resting, and the rear service department should be busy with all their feet!

Major General Zhou Yushan, deputy director of the logistics department of the ** Division and commander of the Beiping Joint Service Department, is based in Beiping to coordinate this unprecedented front-line supply. He sleeps less than three hours a day, but he knows in his heart that the decisive battle in the Northeast battlefield will soon It's about to start!

Compared with Zhou Yushan, who was too busy to sleep, Tang Qiuli, the commander of the ** division who had arrived at the front line in Jinzhou, was quite free. He set up two theater headquarters. The encirclement circle of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning and Ximan was unbreakable. He had nothing to worry about, and he was happy to let it go. He just paid a little attention to the battlefields of the Far East and the Korean Peninsula.

On the battlefield of the Korean peninsula, Ma Chaoyang's Southeast Mobile Corps is the main force, and Tang Qiuquan, commander of the Navy Fleet of the First Division, will be in charge. The troops fought vigorously, but the battle line was always fixed on the front line of Mokpo.

General Tian Shin, the commander of the Japanese and Korean garrison troops who couldn't figure out the number of troops of the Japanese Division, had to painfully continue to put elite troops into the Mokpo defense line in order to prevent the troops of the Japanese Army from attacking the front line of Gwangju and Busan. With thousands of casualties every day, the stability of the Mokpo defense line was maintained, and the Mokpo line became a flesh and blood mill for the Japanese army.

Seeing the depletion of troops, General Tian was almost driven crazy. He sent several urgent telegrams a day, asking for more reinforcements from the mainland. However, the number of soldiers in Japan was already on the verge of exhaustion. Even on the Northeast battlefield, more than 100 million Kwantung Army were divided. Surrounded, even unable to send rescue troops, the Korean Peninsula battlefield that can maintain the status quo is naturally not the top priority!

On the battlefield in the Far East, General Liu Tiehan, the deputy commander of the ** Division and the commander of the East Pointing Force, with more than 100 troops, suppressed the Japanese Far East Dispatched Army with more than [-] troops. More than [-] million soldiers from both sides were deployed in the Far East. On the vast land to the west of the Yashan Mountains, bloody fights were carried out, and the small-scale attacks of the Japanese division troops were carried out thousands of times a day, making it impossible for the Japanese troops in the Far East to get rid of them.

Liu Tiehan commanded the troops to attack in the same way. First, they bombarded the Japanese positions with fierce artillery fire. In the sky, the bombers and fighter jets of the Northern Aviation Group of the Aviation Corps in the patrol area of ​​Outer Mongolia dropped thousands of heavy bombs on the Japanese troops. Above the soldiers' heads, and then, led by a large number of tanks, assaulted the Japanese positions. After breaking through and killing a large number of Japanese soldiers, they did not occupy and consolidate, and withdrew to the original attack starting point.

The next day, repeating this again, Liu Tiehan's style of play almost tortured Prince Zairen, the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Base Camp and Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Dispatch Army, to the point of madness!

(To be continued)