The airport was infiltrated by Langya, and an expensive Type 96 land bomber was stolen. What's more serious is that Langya also used the stolen Type 96 land bomber to bomb the Caochangmen arsenal, leading to hoarding
More than 5,000 tons of arms in the arsenal were reduced to nothing. This matter was too big to cover even if we wanted to.
Soon, the Central China Dispatch Army Staff Headquarters formed a detailed report and submitted it to the base camp.
After receiving the report, Army Chief Juichi Terauchi and Army Deputy Chief Hideki Tojo at the base camp were a little dumbfounded. Then they took the report to the Imperial Palace and urgently asked for an audience with Emperor Hirohito.
Before the arrival of Terauchi Juichi and Tojo Hideki, Hirohito was still in a pretty good mood. Although news of the defeat in the Central China battlefield had not stopped, good news came from the Manchuria battlefield. After Kanji Ishihara took office as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he quickly
Several anti-Japanese coalition forces in northern Manchuria were wiped out, and now the banditry in Manchuria has been basically eliminated.
This also means that the security situation in Manchuria will soon improve. Soon, Manchuria will become the war base of the Empire of Japan. When Manchuria's industrial potential is fully developed, the Empire of Japan's steel, coal, wood, etc.
Strategic resources will no longer be controlled by Western countries.
The only thing that worried Hirohito was that there was no oil in Manchuria!
Oil can be said to be the blood of modern industry. Without oil, the warships of the Imperial Navy would not be able to drive, the tanks of the Imperial Army would not be able to run, and the aircraft of the aviation force would not be able to fly into the sky. The oil industry is important to modern industry and modern society.
The importance of war cannot be overstated.
Hirohito originally had high hopes for Manchuria.
Hirohito felt that in such a large area of Manchuria, how could one find an oil field?
However, the exploration team led by experts from the Department of Geology of Imperial University has been searching in Manchuria for nearly six years. They have drilled countless oil wells, but none of them has produced crude oil! So much so that experts from the Department of Geology of Imperial University came to the conclusion that,
There are no oil reserves in the Manchurian Plain, so there is no need to waste any more time.
However, the new chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Kanji Ishihara, raised objections.
Ishihara Kanji suggested that we should not rush to the conclusion that there is no oil in the Manchuria Plain. Instead, we should import deep well drilling equipment of more than 1,500 meters from the United States, and then use the deep well equipment to re-drill the Manchuria Plain. Ishihara Kanji insisted that the Manchuria Plain is so
It is impossible for a large alluvial plain to be without oil reserves.
Hirohito approved Ishihara Kanji's report yesterday and authorized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to purchase deep well drilling equipment from the United States.
But no matter what, because the banditry in Manchuria was finally substantively resolved, Hirohito was still in a pretty good mood.
However, Hirohito's good mood was quickly shattered by the report brought by Juichi Terauchi and Hideki Tojo.
After reading the report, Hirohito felt bad all over. His face turned blue, his lips turned purple, his eyes were straight, his hands holding the report kept shaking, and his whole body was trembling, as if he might collapse at any time!
Terauchi Juichi and Tojo Hideki exchanged glances. Both of them looked at each other with a look of horror, because Emperor Hirohito at this time reminded them of Emperor Taisho. This situation often occurred with Emperor Taisho.
, once when making a New Year's notice, Emperor Taisho felt bad reading the manuscript.
Finally, Emperor Taisho handed over the imperial power to Hirohito before he died.
Terauchi Juichi and Tojo Hideki looked at each other again, thinking that Emperor Hirohito would not become the second Emperor Taisho, right?
Fortunately, Emperor Hirohito quickly returned to normal, and the anger he had held in his chest finally vented. He waved the report and shouted at Juichi Terauchi and Hideki Tojo: "Because the national treasury is tight,
I had no money to purchase weapons and ammunition, so I donated all my food expenses and only ate meat once a month. All the ministers and staff also donated all the belongings at home. It was not easy to finally get it together.
Qi’s military expenditures purchased 5,000 tons of arms!”
After pausing for a while, Hirohito slapped the report on the case again and continued to roar: "But they were lucky, they just casually said that they were bombed, and the five thousand tons of arms were gone immediately! What is this called? Together.
I have eaten the boiled cabbage for half a month in vain? Along with all the belongings of the ministers and staff, have I donated them all in vain?"
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
Seeing that Hirohito's lips started to turn blue again, Terauchi Juichi and Tojo Hideki quickly tried to comfort him.
Temple Shouichi said: "If the military budget is gone, we can still raise it. If the arms are gone, we can still buy it. The big deal is that the raid on Damei Mountain will be postponed for one month. In one month, it is not a big deal anyway. Damei Mountain will be independent."
It's impossible for a regiment to expand into an army within a month, right?"
Tojo Hideki also said: "Yes, it is not worth it to make His Majesty angry."
"Okay, I'm not angry." Hirohito sighed, slumped back on his chair, and added, "Terauchi-san, Tojo-san, what kind of person do you think this Xu Rui is? I really doubt it now.
Is there anything in this world that he can't do? This guy is really capable of anything!"
Terauchi Juichi and Tojo Hideki looked at each other, speechless.
To be honest, Terauchi Juichi and Tojo Hideki were also confused. Why is this Xu Rui so scary? And why is his Wolf Fang unit so powerful? They crippled Ogahara Jun's special forces team and severely damaged Himeji in the Damei Mountain.
Not to mention the division, now they can actually sneak into Ziyuan Airport without anyone noticing and steal their bombers!
Hirohito said sadly: "There are also Wolf Fang troops. Is it true that the empire does not have a single force that can deal with them?"
"This is still available." Tojo Hideki's mind immediately thought of Ogawara Junsi coming to see him this morning. He was still hesitant about how to mention this to Hirohito, but now it was a good opportunity.
Then he said, "I just saw a report this morning about the recruitment of ninjas to form a ninja special force. The person who submitted the report was Colonel Ogawara Junsi who once studied in Germany."
"Toshimi from the Okahara family?" Hirohito interrupted, "I know that he is still my cousin. I remember that he once studied in Germany, and it seems to be called the Brandenburg Special Forces Training Camp, right?
"
"Hai, your Majesty is aware of this." Tojo Hideki paused and said, "Okahara-san believes that the reason why the Wolf Fang Force is so powerful is because Xu Rui creatively perfectly combined modern special operations theory with ancient Chinese martial arts.
Together, if you want to create an elite special forces force that can compete with it, you must recruit domestic ninjas and form a ninja special force composed of all ninjas."
"Yoshi." Hirohito nodded happily and said, "This idea is right, let's set it up."
"But." Tojo Hideki said again, "After Okahara-san posted the recruitment notice, no ninja from dozens of ninja villages applied, so Okahara-san submitted a report to the base camp, hoping that the base camp could
To intervene, it would be even better if His Majesty could come forward and issue an edict to order ninjas to recruit."
"Yo Xi." Hirohito said happily, "I will issue an edict."
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Dabie Mountain, Tiantang Village.
Speaking of this Paradise Hall, it is really famous. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang launched a rebel army to fight against the Yuan Dynasty. Tiantangzhai was once the base camp of the Jiangnan anti-Yuan rebels. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, various rebel armies emerged, and the Red Scarf Army once met in Tiantangzhai.
In the late Ming Dynasty, Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong fought fiercely with the inspector Sun Daqi in Tiantangzhai for many years.
During the Qing Dynasty, Tiantangzhai was once the home base of the White Lotus Sect.
When it came to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Tiantangzhai was one of the important military towns that the Taiping Army and the Qing Army fought for repeatedly!
But now, Tiantangzhai is the headquarters of the 32nd Army Group of the National Army. Although the Japanese army occupied most of Central China, North China, and East China, in fact, the Japanese army only ruled at the county level, and the vast towns below it
But it is still controlled by the gentry or the National Army, let alone mountainous areas like the Dabie Mountains.
In the current historical time and space, the affiliations of the 21st Group Army and the 32nd Group Army have been swapped. Therefore, the troops stationed in the Dabie Mountains have also been replaced by Liao Lei's 21st Group Army and the newly formed 30th Group Army.
Second Army. However, as the commander-in-chief of the 32nd Army, Wan Xiangyun is quite satisfied with this s
After arriving in the Dabie Mountains, because it was close to Wanzhong and only separated from Xu Rui's Dameishan base by Feicheng, Wan Xiangyun paid close attention to every move of the Dameishan Independent Regiment and the Japanese troops in Wanchong, whether it was the Japanese or the Dameishan Independent
Wan Xiangyun did not dare to provoke the regiment easily, but if the Dameishan Independent Regiment fought with the Japs and both sides would suffer losses, there might be something to gain. Commander-in-Chief Wan still had a very clear understanding of this.
To this end, Wan Xiangyun even ordered Chief of Staff Li Motang, who had also just arrived, to form a special intelligence team responsible for collecting military intelligence on the Dameishan Independent Regiment and the Japanese army in Central Anhui.
Then, this newly established intelligence team quickly produced results.
Early that morning, Wan Xiangyun had just gotten up to have breakfast, but Chief of Staff Li Motang hurried in and reported to him: "Chief Officer, we just got the news that Xu Rui's Langya troops just bombed Nanjing."
The Caochangmen arsenal was completely blown up with more than 5,000 tons of arms stored by the Japanese."
"Wait, what did you just say?" Wan Xiangyun suspected that his ear was broken and asked with a frown, "You said that Xu Rui's Langya troops bombed the Caochangmen Arsenal? Xu Rui's Langya troops should be
Infantry, right? How to bomb the arsenal? Is it possible that this wolf fang can still get wings and fly into the sky? "
"Chief, I didn't make it clear just now." Li Motang realized that he hadn't made it clear just now. He quickly explained, "The thing is like this. The Langya troops first attacked Nanjing's Ziyuan Airport and robbed a long-range Japanese military aircraft in Central China.
bomber, and then used this bomber to bomb the Caochangmen Arsenal."
