Wei Wu immediately sent the battle report to the base camp.
The battle report focused on how Moukou disobeyed the orders of the theater commander, attacked without authorization, and fell into an eight-pronged ambush, which ultimately led to the tragedy of annihilating all the 50,000-strong army.
All the blame was put on Mou Kou.
Mou Kou couldn't reply anyway. The other witnesses were either dead or atone for their sins in the labor camp. What is the specific situation? It's not just what they say?
As for Shinozuka Kazuo, he is an alternative after Mouguchi cannot take the blame. If he can use it or not, he will not use it for the time being.
In addition to placing the blame on Mou Kou, the telegram also requested authorization from the base camp to send out all fighter planes under his command to support the frontline battle.
Although the fighter planes were taken away by Wei Wu, the establishment was still at the base camp.
Wei Wu needed a chance to settle his accounts.
What could be better than a war?
Anything can happen on the battlefield.
It makes sense to have two planes shot down by enemy pistols today, right?
Because of the weather tomorrow, it makes sense that two planes will get lost, right?
The day after tomorrow, due to the high frequency of sorties and serious wear and tear of parts, it is reasonable that the fighter plane was damaged and unable to take off, right?
As long as the rhythm is controlled, these aircraft can perfectly balance the accounts.
And it’s not just airplanes.
All kinds of guns, ammunition, vehicles, food, artillery, and even the nearly one million troops that only exist on the books can all be reasonably written off in this way.
Wei Wu estimated that it would only take two months to exhaust the millions of paper troops in the southeast theater, the land of several provinces, and countless strategic resources.
At that time, the Japanese army was fully deployed in Southeast Asia.
Or busy grabbing territory.
Either they are busy attacking the remaining troops in Europe and the United States.
We must also be busy building an absolute defensive circle.
There is no way to mobilize troops for reinforcements.
We can only acquiesce in the established fact that the southeast theater has fallen.
Sugiyama Yuan was woken up from the bed.
"Chief of the General Staff, urgent call to the southeast theater, highest encryption."
The orderly delivered a telegram to Sugiyama Gen.
Hearing that it was the highest encryption, Sugiyama Gen, who was still sleepy at first, suddenly became energetic.
Highest encryption is not always available.
Once activated, it means a life-or-death moment.
Sugiyama Gen was puzzled. It was clear that everything was fine in the southeast theater and was even in the active offensive stage.
Even a large number of factories have just been moved there.
Logistics lines have been shortened.
Why did it suddenly reach the point of enabling the highest level of encrypted communication?
He really couldn't imagine what would happen that would cause the Southeast War Zone to activate the highest encryption.
"Could it be that the encryption personnel were confused and made a mistake?"
Sugiyama Yuan opened the telegram in confusion.
Then, he was shocked and speechless by the contents of the telegram.
The contents of the telegram were really explosive.
A full 50,000 organized Japanese troops were annihilated.
The last time it suffered such a disastrous defeat was during the Russo-Japanese War.
Sugiyama Gen can imagine what kind of uproar it will cause if this battle report is released.
The angry people will tear them apart.
"This damn Moukou!"
Sugiyama Gen's fist hardened.
If it weren't for thousands of miles away, he would have wanted to tear Mou Kou into pieces right away.
Sugiyama Gen finally understood why the southeast theater had to enable maximum encryption.
If this thing is leaked, it will be a bomb that will blow everyone around to pieces.
"No, you can't let this bomb explode in my hands."
Sugiyama Gen made up his mind that he would never take responsibility.
"Prepare the car and go to the Imperial Palace."
Sugiyama Gen immediately took a car to the Imperial Palace.
Yuren was very angry.
Anyone who is taken out of bed at night will not be in a good mood.
But facing his ministers, he still had to maintain his manners.
I can only endure it and not have an attack.
He just looked at Sugiyama Yuan with such indifference.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the Southeast War Zone. Lieutenant General Mou Kou did not obey the orders of the war zone, attacked without authorization, and fell into an ambush by the Communist army. Although the imperial soldiers fought bravely, they were outnumbered and eventually all were broken."
"hiss--"
Hearing Sugiyama Yuan's report, Yu Ren almost couldn't hold his nerve.
"How many?"
Yuren thought he heard wrongly.
"Fifty thousand soldiers, all broken into pieces."
Sugiyama Yuan lowered his head, not daring to look at Yu Ren.
"idiot!"
Yuren stood up.
"How on earth did this damn guy Mou Kou lead his troops?"
Yuren was so angry that he was going crazy.
Never since he had come to power had he suffered such a failure.
A total of 50,000 people, two integrated divisions, plus a mixed brigade, a directly subordinate artillery regiment, a directly subordinate engineering regiment, plus a transport regiment.
It's all over.
"Shame, shame, shame!"
Yuren turned into a desktop organizer and swept everything on the table to the floor.
The attendants around him all knelt down in fear and did not dare to say a word.
"Where is Moukou now?"
Yuren asked.
"The telegram didn't mention it. He must be dead."
Sugiyama Gen said.
"Don't think that if he dies, you can get rid of his guilt. Let me arrest his whole family and send them to Iwo Jima!"
Yuren roared angrily.
That small island, nearly a thousand kilometers away from Japan, is now almost a place where prisoners are exiled.
Currently, thousands of family members of criminals are imprisoned.
But in fact, more than a thousand family members of prisoners are sent there every year.
The population there has not grown over the years.
You can imagine what the environment is like there.
Almost no one sent there survived more than a year.
After sending Moukou's family away, Yuren's anger subsided a little.
"How is the situation on the front line now?"
Yuren asked.
"Other troops have been mobilized to fill the gap, and they have requested aircraft to support the front line."
"Agree, let them stabilize the front line. Whoever loses the front line will commit suicide."
Yuren said coldly.
"Hey, I'll tell them."
Sugiyama Gen carefully left the imperial palace, feeling very happy.
This means that he has no responsibility for this incident.
What he wants now is to have no responsibility and retire peacefully.
After returning to the base camp, Sugiyama Yuan sent a reply to Wei Wu, allowing the deployment of aircraft to support the front line, and demanding that the land must be taken back.
Wei Wu provided a detailed attack plan.
According to the plan, a huge offensive will be launched in the southeast theater.
A total of 12 divisions participated in the offensive, with a total of 300,000 men.
The troops are divided into three groups and attack together to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army and eliminate them.
The campaign lasted a total of three months.
The expected goal is to capture Changsha and march to Chongqing.
Sugiyama Gen is very satisfied with this plan.
If it can be fully realized, not only will he not be at fault, he will also be able to take some credit.
There is even the possibility of taking a step up, being promoted to marshal and then retiring.
Overjoyed, Sugiyama Yuan directly approved the offensive plan.
However, what he didn't know was that the troops in this offensive plan were just a bunch of numbers on paper.
The real Japanese soldiers were growing potatoes in labor camps.
