Okamura Neiji still didn't quite believe what Shinta Kono said. He thought it was just an excuse made by Shinta Kono to cover up the truth or shirk responsibility for the failure...
After all, how could there be a bomb with a range of 200 kilometers in this world?
Especially the Eighth Route Army was the one who developed this kind of bomb!
Especially the Eighth Route Army is more advanced than Hans... This is impossible!
At this time, the Japanese generally had the idea of "leaving Asia and joining Europe."
This idea is not just an idea, but also a change of civilization and even belief.
To put it simply, the Japs used to believe in Chinese culture and the Confucian cultural circle. Now they no longer believe in China but Europe, so they must completely abandon Chinese culture, because only in this way can "Westernization" be achieved.
This is one of the reasons why the Japanese always carry out massacres in China. What they want to destroy is the Chinese civilization, so their intention is to exterminate the Chinese people. However, they know that there are too many Chinese people. If they go too far at the beginning It will cause backlash and make it difficult to proceed further, so a policy of one hand being hard and one hand being soft is adopted to proceed step by step.
Okamura Neiji also firmly believes in this truth. He believes that in order for the empire to undergo a baptism of rebirth from the inside out, it must cut itself off from China, trample it severely under its feet, despise it, spurn it, and completely defeat it.
But now...
Not only did the Eighth Route Army defeat his army, Shinta Kono also told Neji Okamura word for word: "China's 'special bomb' is more advanced than Hans"!
The power of these words probably shocked him even more than the Eighth Route Army's repeated destruction of Okamura Neji's air force.
Because...how could the Eighth Route Army be more advanced than Hans?
Does that mean the Empire was on the wrong track from the start?
If there is a way out for Chinese civilization, such as using "special bombs" to change the rules of war like the Eighth Route Army, can China stand at the top of the world again?
So, doesn’t this just prove that Chinese civilization is an advanced civilization and not backward as they imagined?
Shouldn’t the empire continue to follow the path of Confucian culture instead of “leaving Asia and joining Europe”?
This idea made Okamura Neji almost crazy with anger. He used all the intelligence units at his disposal to collect intelligence and try to prove that Kono Shinta's statement was wrong.
But a piece of information was sent back, proving that the direction was completely opposite to that of Okamura Neji. They all pointed to the original airport:
"There is no sign of any launch from the 'special bomb' launch base!"
"There was a 'special bomb' launched at the original airport, but it's not sure whether it was headed to a temporary airport!"
"Our army's engineers east of the Yellow River discovered a 'special bomb' and flew to the east, but it is not sure whether it flew to the temporary airport!"
"Our army's scouts discovered a 'special bomb' in Liuzhuang and flew to the east...
"The 21st Division discovered a 'special bomb' in Zhangjiaba!"
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Although all units are "uncertain whether they are flying to a temporary airport." However, as long as the locations where each unit discovered the "special bomb" are marked on the map, a straight line can be clearly seen... to be precise. Two straight lines.
These two straight lines depart from the original airport, and then one batch flies to temporary airport No. 1, and the other batch flies to temporary airport No. 2.
So needless to say, this must be a "special bomb" launched by the Eighth Route Army from Yuanchang Airport.
Okamura Neji slumped on his chair like a cabbage beaten by frost, looking painfully at the two straight lines on the ground in front of him.
If we say that before, the Eighth Route Army only defeated this imperial general tactically and militarily.
Now, he has defeated this arrogant imperial general strategically and ideologically.
At this moment, he finally realized that the empire would never be better than China, and the so-called theory of racial superiority was actually all nonsense.
Otherwise, there should not be such a disastrous defeat for the Empire today.
Kono Shinta didn't know how to explain it to Okamura Neji, because this battle was actually commanded by him, and such a disastrous defeat was completely beyond his expectation.
Shinta Kono thought... even if he could not defeat the Eighth Route Army and destroy the Eighth Route Army's air force this time, he could at least capture a few "special bombs" or x1 for Hans to study.
But in the end there was nothing.
While Okamura Neji was in a daze, Kono Shinta used the radio to report the battle process to Hans in detail.
Hans couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's incredible that the Chinese Eighth Route Army... has actually used this equipment in actual combat, and also created a series of tactics based on this equipment!"
Then Hans fell into ecstasy: "If the Chinese Eighth Route Army can do this, why can't we do this?"
So the next second, Hans immediately put the development of short-range missiles based on rocket engines on the agenda. In addition, he began to study the possibility of using missiles for air combat. He also considered using v1 missiles for military operations instead of bombing London...
If the enemy can be defeated militarily, why aimlessly bomb a city in the hope that it will force the enemy to the negotiating table?
Hans's order to Kono Shinta was: "Record the process of each battle. It is best to interview the participating commanders to learn the details. In addition, we can achieve a certain degree of cooperation with the empire..."
This gave Kono Shinta some comfort. He immediately returned to the headquarters and said to Okamura Neiji: "Your Excellency, General, I have received instructions from Hans. They hope to cooperate with your army on the Eighth Route Army's 'special bomb'!"
Okamura Neiji weakly replied: "Cooperation? How to cooperate? Aren't we just cooperating now?"
It’s no wonder that Okamura Neji has little interest in so-called “collaboration”.
If Hans was bordering the Empire at this time, then the significance of this cooperation would be extraordinary.
But now, the areas controlled by the two countries are cut off at the middle, and communication with each other relies on submarines. What kind of cooperation can there be?
Kono Shinta said: "What Hans means is that I hope that the general will collect the fragments of the 'special bomb' as much as possible. If you can find the unexploded wreckage or even capture one, that would be the best. As for us, on the one hand,
We can try our best to provide you, the general, with the technology related to the 'special bomb'. On the other hand, we can also provide your army with the most advanced tank technology!"
Hearing this, Neji Okamura's eyes couldn't help but light up.
Both of these are what Neji Okamura hopes for.
The former almost determines whether Okamura Neiji can find the weakness of the "special bomb".
The latter is what the empire has dreamed of for many years... The reason why most of the empire's tanks are thin-skinned tanks is not only because insufficient resources are used by the navy to build warships, but also because the empire's technology on tanks is different from that of Europe, especially