Tamura Yoshitomi watched with cold eyes Major General Maruyama Shun and the staff officers in the division headquarters were in a mess, and sighed secretly in his heart. This Maruyama Shun was thoughtful and a good candidate to be the chief of staff, but he lacked the ability to serve as a unit.
The experience of military chiefs is that as soon as the war situation shows signs of decadence, they immediately get into chaos.
Forget it, let me help him one last time before returning to my homeland. Tamura Yoshitomi thought for a while and said to the two military policemen beside him: "Can I say a few words to Maruyama?"
The two military policemen looked at each other and nodded, "Thank you." Tamura Yoshitomi stood up and walked to Maruyama Jun, and said slowly: "Maruyama Jun, I have something to say to you, are you willing to listen?"
Jun Maruyama was startled, turned around and said solemnly: "Of course, please speak, your Excellency, the division commander."
Tamura Yoshitomi smiled bitterly and said: "I am no longer your division commander, you should call me Tamura."
"Don't dare. You are still our division commander before the order from Tokyo arrives. Now you are only temporarily relieved of your duties." Jun Maruyama said seriously.
Although Tamura Yoshitomi was a little moved after hearing this, he still said calmly on the surface, "Okay, I'll just talk about it, and you just listen to it. If you think it doesn't make sense, you can just pretend that I didn't say it."
Now that the Chinese have captured most of our division's positions, trying to stop the charge of the Chinese armored group on this flat and open terrain is just an act of seeking death. It will only lead our division further into death.
Abyss, so holding on now is meaningless, the only thing we can do now is to retreat."
"Retreat!" Shun Maruyama exclaimed: "Don't you know that Lord Tojo has issued a death order? If we retreat, we will all be sent to a military court."
"That's better than letting the entire 149th Division disappear." Tamura Yoshitomi sneered: "To be honest, what else can that superior soldier do besides being reckless? Do you really believe him now?"
Are those stupid words that make the impossible possible possible? Those words can only be said to the soldiers below, but as senior generals of the empire, can't we distinguish what words can be believed and what words are just slogans?"
"Then where are we going to retreat?" Jun Maruyama asked with a wry smile.
"Withdraw wherever there are our troops." Tamura Yoshitomi's eyes were shining brightly at this time. "It can be seen that the Chinese armored troops are not very many, otherwise our division would have collapsed long ago. Therefore, they
Their mission is not to annihilate us, but to disrupt our army's battle line. Therefore, we still have a chance to retreat now. If we wait until their infantry catches up, we will not be able to leave even if we want to."
"Then why don't we join up with other troops and go together? Then our strength will be greatly enhanced." Jun Maruyama asked in confusion.
"But that will also become the target of the Chinese people's attention." Tamura Yoshitomi waved his hand and said loudly, as if he had become the division commander of the 149th Division at this time: "I can be sure that if we and other troops
If we go together after rendezvous, it won't be long before the Chinese aircraft will appear in front of us. He said: "Order the Second Flying Division to immediately dispatch to support the Tongliao front line. It is necessary to stabilize the front line. Then provide support to all front lines."
The troops ordered everyone to defend the spot and not give up any position."
"Hi" the communications staff member bowed and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute"
At this time, Ishihara Kanji, who had never commented on the battle situation in the past few days, stood up. He came to Tojo Hideki's side and sighed: "Tojo-kun, give up, don't make any more useless struggles. This
We have lost the first round, so you should quickly order all the troops to withdraw as soon as possible, it is not too late to retreat now."
"Nani retreat, are you kidding?" Hideki Tojo jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on, "Do you know what it means to give this order? It means hundreds of thousands of imperial warriors in these two months.
All our efforts were in vain, and the blood of tens of thousands of soldiers was shed in vain.”
Ishihara Kanji grabbed Tojo Hideki's collar and shouted with red eyes: "But if you don't order the retreat, the number of bleeding soldiers will not only be tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even