By the time Sophia arrived at Sihang Warehouse, it was already late at night on November 8, and by the time she finished the interview, it was already early the next morning.
"Commander Xie, and Chief of Staff Yan, before ending this impressive interview, can you answer a few questions for me candidly?"
The foreign girl's style is as direct as ever: "Tonight, oh no, that's wrong, it should be the counterattack last night. Whose decision was it made by?"
Yan Yan rushed to answer: "We made the decision together."
"Hey, Chief of Staff, you don't need to help me." Xie Jinyuan shook his head and said, "Last night's counterattack was the Chief of Staff's decision. I don't have the courage."
"Courage? Commander Xie, are you saying that Chief of Staff Yan is very courageous?"
"Miss Sophia, do I need to say this? Haven't you seen it all?"
"Yes, I did see it. I think it was not just me, but millions of Chinese and Western friends in Songhu also saw it. Even the Japanese also saw it." Sophia's beautiful eyes turned serious, and then continued said.
"As far as I know, almost all military observers and military attachés from various countries agree that this is a suicidal counterattack, so making such a decision definitely requires extraordinary courage. Chief of Staff Yan, what kind of sense of mission does it have? What prompted you to make this decision?"
"It's very simple, because we in China have no retreat." Yan Yanyou said, "The entire Chinese nation has no retreat. Even if we know that taking a step forward will lead to an abyss, as a soldier, we can only grit our teeth and jump in. .”
"Understood." Sophia looked solemn and then asked, "Last question, what do you think of the upcoming battle in Songhu?"
Yan Yan subconsciously wanted to refuse to answer.
Because there is no right answer to this question.
But the next second he changed his mind.
Because he found that this might be an opportunity.
Maybe the tragedy in Jinling can be avoided?
Whether it works or not, it never hurts to try.
…
The bridge of the Izumo ship.
Kiyomasa Hasegawa plays against Sototake Toyoda, the commander of the Japanese Navy’s 4th Fleet.
The two old devils are typical people who are addicted to chess. Although their skills are average, the scene is extremely tragic. The two big dragons in the middle game are entangled with each other and may be strangled or counter-killed by the other side at any time.
"Your Excellency General!" The adjutant walked in quickly.
Hasegawa Kiyoshi was taking the long exam and ignored the adjutant.
Deputy Toyoda glanced at Hasegawa Kiyoshi, turned to the adjutant, and asked: "Is there any news from the Special Marines? What's the result?"
"Hai!" the adjutant replied after a pause, "Songhu Special Marine Corps suffered a disastrous defeat in the counterattack last night. More than a hundred marines were shattered on the spot, and nearly 400 marines were missing and their bodies were not recovered. In addition, 16 tanks, several armored vehicles, and three-wheelers were lost, and the commander of the Special Marine Corps, Major General Masasuke Shimomura, also performed a caesarean section five minutes ago to apologize."
"Bah!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi held the chess piece in his right hand and dropped it on the chessboard.
"Nani?" Toyoda's deputy stood up in surprise, "This is impossible!"
"Your Excellency General, I also hope this is not true, but unfortunately, it is a fact!" The adjutant said and handed the telegram to Deputy Attendant Toyota.
Deputy Chief Toyoda read the telegram word by word, and his expression gradually became serious.
"How is that possible?" Deputy Takeru Toyoda frowned and said, "More than 500 marines were lost in just one night. If we include the losses from the attack on the Sixing Warehouse in the previous six days, the Imperial Navy's Songhu Special Marine Corps has already been in the Four Lines The warehouse lost nearly a thousand Marines! This is almost equal to the number of Marines killed in the previous three months!"
"My fault, this is all my fault." Hasegawa Kiyoshi finally recovered from the huge shock and said faintly, "Actually, Maeda-kun has repeatedly reminded me that the Songhu Independent Regiment is a cruel and cunning opponent. Although I agree with him verbally, my subconscious is still full of disdain for this opponent, so I urged the Special Marines to attack violently several times, which led to tonight's disastrous defeat. This is all my fault."
"Hasegawa-kun, now is not the time to talk about this." Toyoda Fudo said, "The top priority is to deal with this opponent as soon as possible. His Royal Highness Prince Fushimigu and His Majesty the Emperor are still waiting for our reply."
"This matter can no longer be rushed! Unless the Ministry of Foreign Affairs makes progress and forces the public concession to allow us to use heavy artillery or heavy aerial bombs, we must not attack again!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi was completely awakened, and he paused and said again , "His Royal Highness the Prince and His Majesty the Emperor, I will explain that you must maintain enough patience to deal with dangerous enemies."
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Ye Daoming got up early for the first time today.
As a celebrity in Shanghai, there are social activities almost every night, so having fun in the song and dance hall until dawn, or playing mahjong with clients and friends until noon the next day are routine operations. Celebrities in Dasonghu spend 5 pm Life in the morning.
Note, it’s from 5 to 9, not from 9 to 5.
But because I have to go to Sihang Warehouse this morning, I have to make some preparations in advance.
Not to mention other things, such as cigarettes, biscuits and cans, etc., you have to prepare several carts.
In any case, he is the chairman of the comfort committee of the Songhu Anti-Enemy Reinforcement Army.
After Ye Daoming finished washing, Wu's mother served breakfast, and Ye Daoming's bodyguard and chief attendant Wu Aqi turned on the radio again.
Before the broadcast last night, Sophia said that she would reveal the detailed results of last night's counterattack this morning, but he had been waiting all night.
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Nanjing, Qilu.
Coincidentally, Chairman Standing Committee was also listening to the radio while eating breakfast.
The radio was playing Sophia's military program - this is Songhu.
Before the program officially started, Chairman Standing turned to the official who was accompanying him for breakfast: "Weizhang, did you listen to the broadcast last night?"
"I don't know which program you are talking about?"
"It's the program produced by France Press's war correspondent. This is Songhu. It's very popular in the two concessions in Songhu."
"As for that show, I happened to have heard of it too."
"Just listen to it. You are a member of the National Defense Commission Chairman's Council and an expert who really understands strategy and tactics. According to your analysis, why can the Songhu Independent Regiment win? Oh, I mean, why can they defeat thousands of people? Surrounded by tens of thousands of Japanese troops, successfully destroyed a detachment headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps? And could it easily disrupt the Japanese counterattack? "
"This... I can't say that I can't say it, because I was not at the scene and could not witness the counterattack up close."
"It can be analyzed even without being there, so just do it boldly."
"If possible, I hope the Ministry of National Defense can publish a booklet to fundamentally analyze the counterattack fought last night, and then promote it to various troops."
Seeing that there was no way to escape, the official could only lower his head and said: "In that case, I'll have the guts to say something. The Japanese army probably didn't expect that the Songhu Independent Regiment would dare to counterattack, so they were caught off guard. A big loss."
"I thought about it with Jiansheng." Chairman Chang said, picking up a hard-boiled egg and handing it over, and asked, "Why don't you eat it?"
"Oh, okay, thank you for your appointment." The official quickly took the egg with both hands.
At this time, the radio program finally got to the point.
"Good morning to the listeners in front of the radio. This is a large-scale military special program of the Far East Branch of Havas News Agency. This is Songhu. I am your good friend, the forever young, beautiful, intellectual and elegant Sophia."
"We had an agreement last night."
"I think everyone has been waiting all night."
"Now is the time to honor this promise."
"Our exclusive news is that in the counterattack last night, at least 500 Japanese soldiers were killed or burned to death by the Songhu Independent Regiment!"
"Because there were more than 400 Japanese corpses collected and cremated by the national army."
"Considering that there are still corpses snatched back by the Japanese army, and those who died of serious injuries, the number of Japanese casualties is at least 500!"
"If you count the injured, there are at least a thousand people!"
Hearing this number, Chairman Standing's chewing muscles couldn't help but tremble.
This number was indeed beyond his expectation. He originally thought that the Songhu Independent Regiment killed and injured more than a hundred Japanese soldiers, but he did not expect that it was thousands of people!
Considering that the Songhu Independent Regiment only numbered more than 300 people, this result was truly brilliant.
Thinking of this, Chairman Standing became even more disappointed. It was a pity that they were a wild army.
