NCCnovel Chapter 288: The Heart-to-Heart Connection Between Old Classmates
Chapter 288: The Heart-to-Heart Connection Between Old Classmates
I've already dressed myself up as a country girl, is this still showing off?
"After the encirclement and suppression in Hutoushan, some young women were captured by the Japanese army, and some are still in the forest. Yangcun, as the base of the independent regiment, was hit the hardest. You are wearing a floral headscarf, but it can't hide your appearance. Moreover, most of the country girls are edematous and obese due to hunger. You can't find a slim girl like you in Yangcun, let alone in several villages. You are showing off."
It seems so.
Tian Jing looked at her figure carefully. Even if Liu Yuan was praising her, she hummed and walked up to Liu Yuan. "Are you catching me?"
Liu Yuan shook his head; "If I wanted to catch you, I wouldn't be here alone, but I don't understand why my brother would kill Zhang Renjie."
Tian Jing tilted his neck and thought for a moment; "I don't know the details, but it should be for the relationship between Hutou Mountain and Qingfeng Village. After all, if he is here, the gap between Qingfeng Village and Hutou Mountain cannot be eliminated. It is better to kill him."
Liu Yuan nodded and said, "He is right. Zhang Renjie's presence will indeed have a great impact on the cooperation between us."
After he understood, Liu Yuan felt relieved. He pointed in the direction of Qingfeng Village and said, "Let's go. I'll go with you to meet him."
If she went there now, she would be scolded to death by the people of Qingfeng Village. However, she had to take responsibility for her mistakes, so Tian Jing couldn't say anything. But she couldn't stand walking like a corpse all the way, so she asked, "What was the loss of Hutou Mountain this time?"
"All together, two-thirds of it has been lost."
In a courtyard outside Nanjing, Takeshita Shun read the telegram handed over by Miyamoto Shigeru and smiled calmly, "This Iseki Takamasa is also a powerful man. In just ten days, he reorganized the 14th Division, which had lost one-third of its troops and more than half of its weapons and ammunition. At the same time, he was given the position of commander-in-chief on the front line, unified the command of the Chahar Command, the Sakai Detachment, and the Seya Detachment that came to support from the Xuzhou direction, with a total of nearly people."
Shigeru Miyamoto explained on the sidelines, "After all, the 14th Division is a veteran division. Although it suffered losses, its foundation and supporters still exist. General Terauchi made him the commander-in-chief this time, which can be regarded as giving them a chance to make amends."
"Should we make amends or send these 70,000 people to hell? This is probably a question mark."
question mark?
"Captain, I don't understand what you mean?"
Takeshita Shun raised his head slightly; "You don't think that Wuhan will really allow these 70,000 people to occupy Lanfeng and Kaifeng, and then let them go south."
"Otherwise, they no longer have the ability..."
"They can easily break the Yellow River." Takeshita Shun interrupted Miyamoto. Seeing Miyamoto's horrified eyes showing disbelief, Takeshita Shun sat next to him; "If we allow these tens of thousands of people to go south, Wuhan will be attacked on two fronts. We just lost Nanjing, and if we lose Wuhan quickly, both the military and the people will suffer huge losses."
Besides, since they had contained the 14th Division's rapid advance, they had time to mobilize their forces. If the opportunity was missed, it would never come back.
"But once the Yellow River is dug, the dozen or so counties downstream will..."
"If the northern army marches south, they will lose more than a dozen counties."
"You only thought of a dozen counties. Why don't you tell us that once this force goes south, we will lose more than a dozen counties. Moreover, most of those places have been occupied by the Japanese army. It will be the autumn harvest in a few months. You are not naive enough to think that these grains can still fall into our hands. Brother, your naivety and kindness must have a limit. Kindness does not control the army, and justice does not control money. Don't you understand this principle?"
Zhou Weiguo wanted to hit someone. When he mentioned that once Kaifeng and Lanfeng were lost, there was a high possibility that the Yellow River would be dug up, his cheap elder brother jumped up and said something ruthless and cold-blooded.
"If I hadn't seen that you were my eldest brother, I would have beaten you half to death just for what you said." Zhou Weiguo glanced at him, then looked at Tian Jing next to him; "We should leave. If we don't leave, I'm afraid the situation will be irreversible."
"Can it be salvaged?" Liu Yuan just talked about the current troop deployment of the Japanese army. He felt vaguely that the long snake formation of the First War Zone might be unstoppable.
Zhou Weiguo smiled bitterly. He had beaten the 14th Division half to death and thought the crisis of the Yellow River bursting its banks would be resolved. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army regrouped and gathered more than troops to make a comeback.
He had to go back quickly. No matter what, he had to do his best to deal with it. He must not let the higher-ups make a decision to break the dam easily. He thought that as long as the Japanese army could not advance, this side would be safe. As long as it really took a few months, it would not matter much to Wuhan whether the Japanese army went south or not. After all, they would have to give up that place in the end.
"If you don't go, isn't it even more irreparable?"
Ever since Shigeru Miyamoto heard from his captain that the other side was very likely to dig up the Yellow River, he would not say that the Wuhan side was cruel and ruthless about this matter. If it were him, perhaps he would make such a decision, otherwise they would suffer greater losses.
But decision-making is one thing, and execution is another. Once they blow up the dam, Wuhan will also be saddled with an indelible stain. No matter what their starting point is, they will not be able to wash it clean.
However, Shigeru Miyamoto was not too worried about the people. He was just thinking that if these 70,000 people were washed away by the flood, it would be an irreparable loss for the empire. The supplies that could not be transported and the soldiers who could not swim would all die.
"Why are you so upset?" Takeshita Shun, who was having dinner with him, saw that Miyamoto Shigeru was absent-minded, so he took a bite of his rice and asked.
Miyamoto Shigeru lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head; "I wonder if they can still save it. In fact, I don't want them to dig it up. It's not that I'm kind, but if they do, our empire will suffer heavy losses."
Miyamoto Shigeru chuckled, "I don't know, but I think my old classmate also knows the truth behind this, and he will definitely try his best to stop this."
"Zhou Weiguo." Shigeru Miyamoto frowned and sighed, "Captain, isn't he in Okayama?"
This time Zhou Weiguo had tortured Tu Feiyuan badly. It was said that his two nieces were found in a brothel and were tortured beyond recognition. In addition, several serial explosions occurred in Gangshan, killing and injuring at least a thousand people. And I don't know if Zhou Weiguo did it on purpose, but these people knew that the reason why Gangshan was dealt with was because the general family they used to respect the most actually captured the people as human shields. Then they came for revenge.
This caused public outrage, and then those people who had suffered family losses smashed Doiyuan's shop and home to pieces. Doiyuan, who had already returned to Tokyo, fainted on the spot when he heard the news. It is said that he is still lying in the hospital and might have a stroke.
"Okayama?" Takeshita Shun chuckled and crossed his arms, looking at Miyamoto Shigeru in front of him; "You don't really think he will be in Okayama, do you?"