Of course, at this point in time, Saburo Okabe was not interested in asking the name of the extremely tough Chinese officer in front of him.
There's a big difference in military rank between the two sides! If he asks this, he has to lose the price of a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army!
Therefore, if you are unwilling to drop the price, you will have no choice but to continue to be criticized.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Colonel, I remember there is a saying in China: It's a joy to have friends come from afar. At the invitation of your commander, I worked tirelessly to come from hundreds of kilometers away. I just got off the car.
If you were to drive me away like this, wouldn't it mean that you have lost the etiquette that your Chinese civilization values most?" Okabe Saburo suppressed his anger and stepped forward and said.
I definitely can’t leave, so I can only try to reason with Er Pangzi. Saburo Okabe’s face was so suffocated that he looked a little green.
"Pfft!" Tang Dao bared his teeth in joy.
"General Okabe, first of all I have to correct you. Your research on Chinese culture is really not deep enough. When friends come from afar, the important point is not the distance, but the friends. Don't say that your two countries are at war now.
In the past, do you think it was you, Japan, who regarded me, China, as a friend? Or did I, China, regard you, Japan, as a friend?"
"The friendship between China and Japan still has a long history. The current war is a decision made by the top leaders of the two countries, and is not something that you and I as soldiers can restore. I deeply regret this." Saburo Okabe tried to hold his breath.
His blood pressure rose sharply, causing his blood vessels to burst. He forced a smile and answered.
"The so-called friendship is just your self-righteousness. If you have to force it, it can be regarded as a master-servant friendship. From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, your country, Japan, to China, is just a small island on the coast of the East China Sea. I think
When you are a vassal state, you have to get a certificate of credence, bow three times and kowtow nine times, and it also depends on the mood of the person in power at that time.
Therefore, the use of the word ‘friend’ is too inappropriate, and General Okabe’s use of the word ‘friend’ from afar is extremely wrong.”
"You're talking nonsense." Saburo Okabe almost became angry and vomited blood at the venomous tongue of the guy in front of him.
I dare say that the mighty Japanese Empire has been nothing more than a subordinate country of China since the Tang Dynasty, and it is not enough to be on par with the Chinese.
However, he was unable to refute it, and it seemed that this was the truth.
Not far away, Rostav exhaled a puff of blue smoke, with a deep smile on his face.
The Chinese soldier in front of me is really interesting!
Blindly being tough can only make people think that he is a vulgar warrior, but this man is able to pull out the history of a thousand years ago to respond to the Japanese army lieutenant general's strong words, leaving people speechless and unable to refute.
Not everyone has such courage and wisdom. This young officer must be a strong man carefully selected by the Chinese side.
Anyone who despises him just because of his age is the fool among the fools!
At this time, anyone who is not blind can see that although they have not yet reached the negotiating table, the negotiations have actually started from the moment the Chinese Army Colonel and Saburo Okabe met.
At present, China is completely victorious!
Because of the outstanding performance of the young Chinese officer in front of him, Rostav suddenly became extremely interested in this completely commercial trip.
Gen Sugami asked him to travel hundreds of kilometers to be a witness in the negotiations, but in exchange for giving him a special pass for Krupp's trading firms in China, it was much more convenient for the trading firms to transport goods in the Japanese-occupied areas, otherwise he would
The number one figure of the Krupp Company in the Far East would not be so idle that he would come to this mountain.
"Mr. Colonel, may I ask, is the negotiation plan discussed between your Excellency the Commander and our Excellency the Military General Moto Shimogi, is to let you, Colonel, humiliate our Empire of Japan? If so" Saburo Okabe, who was turning black in front of his eyes.
He actually has a bit of the momentum of a Japanese lieutenant general.
"No, I'm afraid General Okabe misunderstood what I meant. I mean, you should use common sayings like "don't hit someone with a smile" and "don't be surprised if you are polite to others". After all, Chinese culture is too profound and profound.
Even though I have been born and raised here, there is no guarantee that I can understand its essence!" Tang Dao said with a smile on his face and a sigh.
Calm down! Calm down! Calm down again!
Saburo Okabe kept telling himself in his mind that this must be a well-arranged strategy by the Chinese side. They would first send a gangster to make him dizzy, and then gain the upper hand in the subsequent negotiations. This must be the case.
!
"Mr. Colonel, I think it is a waste of time for you and me to bicker here. Let's go to the negotiation table to talk about business first! I think your general in charge of negotiations is already waiting impatiently." Saburo Okabe simply said
Don't talk nonsense with Tang Dao and get straight to the point.
In fact, what the truth means is that you, a little colonel, don’t indulge in talking. It’s not your turn to negotiate. You are just along the way.
"Oh?" Tang Dao glanced at the dark-faced Japanese major general with a half-smile, then stretched out his hand to guide him, "Okay, you can do whatever you want, seeing that General Okabe is so tired that he wants to run so far.
, even if you just sit down and drink the northwest wind, this is the way our army treats guests, please."
I'm going to drink your legs! Saburo Okabe has never wanted to curse like this for a moment. The Chinese officer in front of him may have had a ancestral career in cross talk under the Jincheng overpass! How can this mouth be so loud!
Saburo Okabe, whose head was already swollen, simply did not introduce the two Western bigwigs following him to Tang Dao. He was probably ashamed of being suppressed by the Chinese junior colonel when they first met, and wanted to calm down his emotions first.
Tang Dao also pretended not to see it. He also didn't have a good impression of the group of Westerners who were dominating the Chinese land.
Especially after seeing so many tragedies happening in China, the so-called international community has also become mute, which has brought Tang Dao's attitude towards the Western world to a freezing point.
The negotiation location was actually not far from where we got off the bus. It was a relatively flat area in front of the small village. There was a table and two wooden benches, and judging from the texture, it was basically made of freshly nailed wooden boards.
The entire negotiation venue was extremely crude, coupled with the bad attitude of the Chinese receptionists, it was enough to show how little attention the Chinese side paid, which shocked both Brigadier General Tian and Rostav who were well-informed.
Originally, they thought they would just prepare a small farmyard and make a few cups of tea!
Good guy, what I said earlier about drinking from the northwest wind turned out to be literal!
The cavalry squadron led by Saburo Okabe was waiting around the convoy, but the 100-person special agent team wanted to follow. The Chinese side did not hold back too much, and allowed them to follow until they were 200 meters away from the negotiation position before banning them.
keep going.
They even set aside a 400-meter-wide area for them to guard in their own way. Even if they habitually used individual engineers to dig simple trenches with shovels, no one would care.
Although the stingy old man did not send any senior officials to participate in person, for the sake of the security of this negotiation, the stingy old man was not stingy and directly sent an infantry regiment to set up defenses in the mountainous area 2 miles away from the negotiation site, as well as 4 75mm mountain guns, plus 17
Most of the guard battalions brought by Brigadier Geng of the division can't even dig holes in the ground, let alone simple trenches like the Japanese army!
The guard battalion of the 17th Division had two heavy machine guns and eight light machine guns lined up in an area 150 meters away from the Japanese army. If the Japanese really wanted to take advantage of the fire, the more than 300 elite soldiers of the 17th Division would not waste any of their money.
China and Japan can be regarded as putting the villains first, but in fact, for the two Western witnesses, this is more of a situation than of actual significance.
If the Japanese open fire, they will die. If the Chinese open fire, they are shooting themselves in the foot. It is very likely that the German Empire, which has not yet completely fallen to the Japanese, will be pushed to the Japanese side. The cost is even greater than the loss of a lieutenant general in the Japanese army.
A lot of
In front of the negotiation table, except for the officers involved in the negotiations from both sides, Brigadier General Tian and Rostav, no other soldiers entered.
Taking Shimizu Hidejo and two confidants from the general staff, Saburo Okabe, into the extremely simple negotiation venue, his face couldn't help but change.
It's not that the negotiation venue is crude, but that there is no one at the so-called negotiating table.
"Colonel, what do you mean?" Saburo Okabe asked angrily.
Brigadier General Tian and Rostav, who were originally relatively calm, looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.
There is actually no negotiator of the same level on the Chinese side. This situation really makes people unable to help but think about it.
Is it possible that this is a precursor to tearing up the agreement? Are the names of the Germanic Empire and the Roman Empire so worthless to the Chinese? Hey
Of course, the people who were more panicked than the two Western bosses were the Japanese, and the two major staff officers turned pale on the spot.
It was just a business trip with my boss, but if it turned out that I lost my head, everyone would be afraid, right?
"General Okabe, please. You two please!" Tang Dao stretched out his hand and pointed to the opposite side, signaling to several people: "Please be patient for now."
Saburo Okabe was slightly startled, what does this mean?
"Let me introduce myself. I am Tang Dao, the leader of the Four Corps of the 23rd Group Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. For this negotiation, our theater headquarters appointed me as the deputy leader of the Chinese negotiating team."
Naosaburo Okabe was stunned.
Shimizu Jiro was stunned.
The two major staff officers were also stunned.
This man, after the battle in Southeast Shanxi, his reputation shocked the entire North China Front Army Headquarters!
The battle report sent back to the headquarters by Yamashita clearly stated that the 683rd Brigade of the 80th Group Army of the Chinese side was blocking the path of their second mixed brigade, while the Fourth Army Group was furiously attacking their rear flank.
It is just an infantry regiment, one for attack and one for defense. With almost the same strength, no one would believe that the Fourth Army Regiment could pose a big enough threat to the Second Mixed Brigade. However, the final facts made the senior officials of the Front Army Headquarters
Jaw-dropping, in just one day and one night, the Four Troops completely defeated the rear wing of the Second Mixed Brigade.
That was a defense line composed of 16 mountain cannons, 10 infantry cannons and 4,000 infantry. Under normal circumstances, it could attack a Chinese infantry division, but it failed to prevent the attack of a Chinese infantry regiment!
That almost shows that the one who really defeated the second mixed brigade was not the 683rd Brigade, but the Four Elements Regiment.
How could the name of Tang Dao, the leader of the regiment, not come back into the sight of senior Japanese generals?
"It turns out that you are Tang Dao. I really admire your name for a long time!" Saburo Okabe tried his best to suppress the shock in his heart. "Then, where is the leader of your negotiating team?"
"Sir Geng has been exposed to the mountain wind today and is feeling unwell. He has entrusted me with full responsibility for the negotiations. General Okabe can rest assured that if we can reach an agreement that both you and I agree on, our theater headquarters will also stamp and confirm it. What's more, here,
There are two distinguished guests present, and we, the Chinese side, will never go back on our word easily!" Tang Dao expressed his stance in an extremely formal manner for the first time.
"Okay! General Tian and I believe in Colonel Tang's character and the integrity of the Chinese soldiers. General Okabe, please start!" Rostav suddenly interrupted with a smile.
Saburo Okabe, who originally wanted to argue over the unequal negotiation specifications, saw that Rostav had expressed his position like this, so he could only follow this person's words and introduced Tang Dao by the way: "This is Krupp from the German Empire.
The company’s top executive, Mr. Rostav, is General Tian, the commander of the Roman Empire Concession in Jincheng.”
Krupp Tang Dao narrowed his eyes slightly, and was rarely surprised.
Of course he knows the name of Krupp. With the ambition of the German Empire, this arms dealer will expand into a behemoth in the future. It will have 200,000 employees and can manufacture various light weapons, cannons, armored vehicles, tanks and even submarines.
Super arms manufacturing factory.
Since human history entered the era of thermal weapons, the super artillery weighing 1,400 tons and the shells alone weighed 1 ton was the company's masterpiece.
But these were not the reasons that surprised the tenacious Tang Dao. Instead, the weapons order for the Northeastern Army he held in his hand seemed to belong to Krupp Company.
This is where I meet the boss’s bastard!
Although Okabe Saburo just said that the blue-eyed man holding a pipe and wearing a suit was a senior executive of Krupp Company, but based on the order of his introduction, what kind of commercial company senior executive has a higher status than a concession commander?
Although the Roman Empire performed extremely poorly in World War II, at this time, it was a serious European power, the little brother of the German Empire, and it was still a brother who had not completely put on the same pants.
Tang Dao instantly understood that this Jubi was one of the core members of Krupp Company.
He was originally going to deal with this person in the future, and because this person seemed to be speaking on his side just now, Tang Dao's tone was naturally much gentler. He smiled lightly and stretched out his hand: "Two distinguished guests, please take a seat. Previously, because of Gang
The general talked too much and did not get to know the two distinguished guests. Tang Dao was too careless. Please don't blame me."
Then he turned to greet Xia Dayu who was waiting at the side: "Hurry up and serve tea to these two distinguished guests. Serve good tea! Just use the tea set sent by the commander."
For this negotiation, the stingy old man took a set of exquisite tea sets and a bag of fine tea leaves from his inner palace, so as not to be ridiculed by Westerners as a second war zone bumpkin.
The environment may be worse, but the tea sets must be of higher quality. This is the philosophy of a stingy old man.
Tang Dao had already planned to run away with the tea set after the negotiation, without giving the stingy old man a chance to come back.
Even if you want it, who doesn't throw a few teacups to show their side's anger during negotiations?
Rostav and Brigadier General Tian looked at each other with strange expressions.
That's nothing more than trying to suppress the desire to laugh! Hey
Really, the young Chinese officer in front of them was such a wonderful person! He was different from any Chinese they had ever encountered.
He showed enough respect to both of them without being arrogant or condescending, and he also skillfully and humorously passed the blame to Okabe Saburo, whose face looked as if he had eaten a lump of heat. The word 'talkative' couldn't have been better used.
A group of Japanese headed by Saburo Okabe really wanted to rush up and beat up Tang Dao. They really wanted to talk a lot. Who the hell talks more than you! They kept beeping from the moment they met.
It's like you're afraid that others won't know how awesome you are.
But Tang Dao is really awesome. A man who can't even defeat Fujiwara Senzuo. No matter how powerful the Japanese are, no one dares to test the sword with their own body. At least at this time, if they are angry, they can only hold it in their hearts.
Also, don’t you dare to take advantage of those two people? You don’t even plan to prepare tea?
The Japanese think too much, Tang Dao is not the Chinese they have in mind.
Xia Dayu brought the fragrant Yuqian green tea to the two Westerners, but in front of all the Japanese who were already seated, there was nothing.
What a DER, you are here to negotiate, not to invite them as guests. Tang Tuanzuo never comes here to engage in such nonsense.
The Chinese people really don’t regard bean buns as solid food! Saburo Okabe’s face was almost purple with anger.
"Baga! Colonel Tang, you are going too far." Shimizu Hidejo, who was sitting next to Saburo Okabe, slapped the table and stood up, looking at Tang Dao angrily.
At that moment, the Japanese major's face was a little distorted, perhaps not just because of anger.
But, this slap was so painful, it was like slapping a hedgehog.
He forgot that the wooden board used as the negotiation table was so new that it had not even been planed with a plane, and there were countless burrs on it.
Didn't you see that Tang Tuanzuo is very smart and doesn't need to bang the table to express his displeasure?
These are all prepared for silly guys who like to take pictures of the table.
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