Tojo Hideki's mind was spinning rapidly, but he didn't know what to say for a moment. In desperation, he suddenly thought of a poem, so he quickly said: "Your Majesty, although I do not have deep literary attainments, I am very good at it."
I love poetry. When I saw this scene today, I couldn't help but think of a poem."
"Oh!" Hirohito paused and glanced at him, with a faint smile on his lips: "I really didn't know that Aiqing actually liked poetry. I was really overjoyed when Aiqing said this.
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Tojo Hideki's old face turned red. It is said that his own family knows his own affairs. He himself knows the level of his literary attainments best. His former friend Ishihara Kanji, who has been brought back to his hometown to rest on his laurels, once ridiculed him, saying that he
His arithmetic level was enough to control ten machine guns, but he couldn't manage more, so becoming a superior soldier was his limit.
Although Ishihara Wanji's words are a bit exaggerated, they also reflect from the side that Tojo Hideki's cultural quality has deteriorated to the point where even good friends can't stand it, and such a person actually wants to discuss poetry and poetry with others.
This made Hirohito feel funny.
Seeing the sarcastic smile on the corner of Hirohito's mouth, Tojo Hideki's wrinkled old face turned redder. But at this time, he had no way out, so he could only bite the bullet and said: "I remember this poem is like this
It was written: The warrior values righteousness and does not hesitate to think of you when you died in the army. In the Jingguo Temple, you will worship your loyal soul and protect the emperor's foundation forever."
Hirohito glanced at Tojo Hideki with some surprise and said: "This is "The Lin Yasukuni Shrine Grand Festival has its works" written by the late emperor in the fourth year of Taisho. I didn't expect that Ai Qing would still remember it!"
"Of course I remember it." Tojo Hideki said respectfully: "Although I can't recite poems and compose poems, I admire the late emperor's literary talents, and this is my favorite poem. Today I
I am the one who is doing everything in my power in front of His Majesty."
Hirohito's father, Emperor Taisho, suffered from meningitis when he was young and had some brain abnormalities. One of his problems was that he liked to write poetry, and his output was very high. According to statistics, he wrote more than 1,300 poems in his lifetime.
.Although the quality of these poems is not very good, the number of them is overwhelming. This is something that all the high-ranking people in Japan highly appreciate. Of course, Hirohito’s son is even more proud of his father.
"It's rare for love to have a heart." Hirohito sighed with some emotion. His eyes looking at Tojo Hideki couldn't help but become much kinder, "If you have anything to say, it doesn't matter. I am not a person who cannot listen to advice."
"This..." Tojo Hideki hesitated for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, I dare to ask you what your Majesty's true views are on the situation of the war in China."
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Hirohito couldn't help but look at Tojo Hideki and his eyes became serious, and his face became stiff.
As soon as Tojo Hideki saw Hirohito, his mood began to deteriorate again. A cold sweat broke out on his back. In this era, the emperor is supreme to the Japanese. Asking the emperor's opinion without authorization is an act of treason.
Even he, the Prime Minister, was no exception. Seeing Hirohito express his dissatisfaction with him, Tojo Hideki quickly bowed to him at 90 degrees. He said loudly: "I'm really sorry, I'm rude, but I'm really
I don’t want to see the empire’s Greater East Asia strategy affected!”
Emperor Hirohito did not answer, and continued walking for a while. He came to a flower bed nearby, stretched out his hand and broke a plum blossom and said softly: "Tojo Aikyō is afraid that I will change my strategy towards China, right?"
"I am sincerely afraid!" Tojo Hideki bowed again.
Hirohito pondered for a long time before softly chanting: "We are all brothers in the four seas. Why is the world so troubled by wind and rain?"
After finishing reciting, Hirohito continued to recite it several times. Finally he explained to Tojo Hideki: "Tojo Aikyō, this is a poem written by Emperor Meiji, and it is also my favorite poem. Can you understand
What’s on my mind?”
Tojo Hideki was startled, and he quickly bowed and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I understand what you mean. I also understand that Your Majesty has a kind heart and was originally unwilling to use weapons rashly, but the Chinese government did not appreciate it and dared to do so.
Those who brazenly resisted the imperial soldiers will be severely punished by the base camp!"
"Yo Xi!" Hirohito nodded, and then shouted sternly with a fierce look: "Tojo Aiki, you have to telegraph Okamura Neiji that you must defeat that Suri this time, otherwise the empire will be in the Greater East Asia of Asia.
The co-prosperity policy will be seriously affected, you know?”
"Hai!" Tojo Hideki made a 180-degree bow this time, almost breaking his waist.
Tojo Hideki, who returned to the War Department, did not dare to neglect, and quickly sent an urgent telegram to Okamura Neiji, instructing Okamura Neiji to defeat the Chinese army in Fujian and Shanxi as soon as possible, otherwise the military would be in trouble.
The telegram soon arrived in the hands of Okamura Neiji, but at this time, Okamura Neiji was no longer in the mood to pay attention to the telegram, because now Okamura Neiji had been angered by the telegram sent by Sonobe and Ichiro.
Lungs.
"Bagaya Lu, what does Sonobe and Ichiro want to do? Three divisions with nearly 90,000 troops want to retreat without even fighting a decent battle. Does he know that doing so will put us in an unpredictable situation?
Are there any consequences?" Neji Okamura, who was standing in the combat hall, waved the troop withdrawal request just sent by Sonobe and Ichiro in his hand, and the beard on his lips trembled with anger. This man who is not easily angered today
I was outraged by a telegram.
Okamura is not a person who gets angry easily, so when he gets angry, everyone in the combat hall is frightened. Dozens of staff officers in the huge combat hall all remain silent and dare not say a word.
After a long time, Chief of Staff Miyamoto Ichiro stepped forward and whispered softly: "Your Excellency, Commander, the Thirty-ninth Division of the 11th Army has just been severely damaged. Lord Sonobe will be a little rude in this difficult situation, and he is Lord Nishio's subordinate."
My dear general, you don’t have to be too harsh on him.”
"My beloved general?" Neji Okamura sneered: "Am I going to swallow my anger just because he is Lord Nishio's beloved general? Can he be a shameful deserter? Go...give it to Sonobe and Ichiro immediately.
Send a telegram, if he doesn’t send troops as planned, I will send him to a military court!”
Okamura Neji was very rare to lose his composure. In fact, you can't blame Okamura Neji for being angry. One day ago, after the 39th Division and the 15th Division who came for reinforcements were severely damaged, Sonobe and Ichiro were beaten and frightened.
. He immediately ordered the Sixth Division and the Thirteenth Division, which were marching towards Susong County, to stop their advance and move closer to each other, forming a dichotomy to prevent a surprise attack by the Chinese army.
Not only that, he also sent a telegram to Okamura Neiji, claiming that a large number of Chinese troops were found in front of them rushing towards them. In order to avoid encounters with the troops in the fourth theater, he requested to withdraw to the original defense area for defense.
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To be honest, even the Eleventh Army's own telegraph operator felt ashamed when such a spineless telegram was sent, let alone Neji Okamura who received the telegram. Although Okamura wanted to get a machine gun at this moment.
This guy Sonobe and Ichiro were shocked, but this guy was the confidant of the commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces, General Nishio Hiszo. Even though Okamura Neji was so angry that his blood vessels were about to burst, he still had nothing to do with this guy. Thinking of this
Okamura felt an overwhelming anger rising from the bottom of his heart.
Okamura said seriously: "Miyamoto-kun, please immediately send another telegram to Sonobe and Ichiro, telling him that if he dares to withdraw his troops without permission, then I will report the matter to the base camp and ask him to consider it himself.
."
"Hai!"
After following Okamura Neji for so long, Miyamoto Ichiro knew that Okamura Neji was really angry this time and was quite angry. He didn't dare to say anything more, so he quickly agreed and hurried out...
Just when Okamura Neiji was annoyed that Sonobe and Ichiro were planning to withdraw their troops, the 1st Armored Division, which had severely damaged the 39th Division and then turned around to deal with the 6th Division, also officially joined the fire with the 6th Division.
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The Sixth Division can be regarded as Su Rui's old rival. From the Battle of Nanjing to the Battle of Wuhan, and now the Sixth Division can be regarded as one of the troops that has fought the most with Su Rui's troops. Therefore, how to
I gained some experience in fighting an enemy with absolutely superior firepower.
Although Machijiri Yuki just took over the position of commander of the Sixth Division from Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro at the beginning of this year, he is not an arrogant person. Since he took over the position of commander of the Sixth Division
Later, he took the initiative to study the situation of the troops under Su Rui's command. He found that the organization of Su Rui's troops was very different from the general troops of the National Government. Su Rui's troops had basically abolished the brigade-level organization, and divided the division into divisions.
The first-level troops do not have brigades, but consist of three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, an air defense regiment, and several other self-reliant logistics units.
But don’t think that a division with only three infantry regiments is a small B division. On the contrary, the division-level troops under Su Rui are large divisions. Each of his infantry regiments is about 4,000.
There are many people, plus the air defense regiment, artillery regiment, cavalry battalion, guard battalion, engineer battalion, etc., the total number of the entire division is more than 18,000.
Moreover, after careful research by Machijiri Yuki, he came to a conclusion that even surprised him, that is, if the Sixth Division suddenly encountered an infantry division of the opponent, the two sides would most likely be evenly matched. This conclusion made
Very surprised.
You must know that the Japanese army has always used a regiment or even a brigade to deal with a division of the Chinese army when formulating a battle plan. But now this habit has been overturned by himself. This conclusion makes him very sad.
It's hard to accept.
But Machijiri Yuki's discomfort did not last long, because just today this conclusion was overturned by himself...
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