Maeda Ritsu said coldly: "Otake-kun, are you testing me?"
"No, no, no, no, I just wanted to discuss it with the chief of staff."
"After all, the chief of staff is a top student who graduated from the Munich Special Forces School."
Otake Shigeo said that he didn't mean to test you, but even a blind person could see that he just wanted to make Maeda Ritsu embarrassed.
Kotaro Yoshida and Kiyoshi Hasegawa did not stop them either.
Because the overall atmosphere of the Japanese Navy is like this, those who seize high positions without learning or skills should be ridiculed.
However, Otake Shigeo obviously provoked the wrong target.
Maeda Ritsudao: "As far as I know, the total population of Songhu City before the Songhu Battle began was about 3.5 million. It was an international metropolis second only to Tokyo in terms of population in the entire Far East and even Asia. The populations of the two major concessions were About 1 million."
"But after the Battle of Songhu broke out, most of the people fled Songhu."
"Some of them fled into the two concessions, so the population of the two concessions has increased instead of decreasing compared to before the war. There are currently about 1.5 million people."
"As for the number of young men of the right age, there are about 500,000!"
Otake Shigeo said suddenly: "500,000 young men, even if calculated at a ratio of one-tenth, that is a full 50,000. Chief of Staff, is the number 50,000 not an exaggeration?"
"It's not an exaggeration." Ritsu Maeda shook his head and said, "I even think that the Songhu Independent Group has the ability to mobilize more than 100,000 young men to join them."
"Of course, the premise is that they have to guard the Sihang Warehouse."
"Only by guarding Sihang Warehouse can they have the opportunity to inspire the youth of the two concessions through consecutive victories, and more young people will join them."
"No, just 50,000." Otake Shigeo said suddenly, "According to the tactics you proposed, Chief of Staff, how long will it take for endless outpost warfare to exhaust all 50,000 young men? One year. Or three years? Can His Majesty the General tolerate it? Can His Highness the Prince tolerate it? And can His Majesty the Emperor tolerate it too?"
"As I said just now, there must be a prerequisite for this." Ritsu Maeda said solemnly.
"What the Chief of Staff said is that they have to defend the Four Lines Warehouse?" Otake Shigeo said suddenly, "But forgive me for being stupid, I really can't think of how the endless outpost warfare advocated by the Chief of Staff can help us capture the fortified Four Lines Warehouse. A warehouse?"
"That's why I said you should go to the front lines more often instead of sitting in the office drinking tea and chatting all day long." Ritsu Maeda said coldly, "If you had gone to Zhabei last night, you would never have said such stupid things. .”
Otake Shigeo said with a dark face: "Please ask the Chief of Staff to clarify my doubts."
"Then you listen to me." Maeda Ritsu said in a deep voice, "Endless outpost warfare cannot help us capture the Sihang Warehouse, but it can help us kill all the soldiers in the Songhu Independent Regiment within a month or so. veteran."
"What do you mean?" Otake Shigeo didn't understand at first, "What do you mean by killing all the veterans?"
But Kotaro Yoshida understood and asked: "Maeda-kun, are you saying that each combat group used by the Japanese army for outpost operations is led by veterans? And what our combat team has to do is to prioritize hunting these veterans? Yes. Does this mean?"
"Your Excellency, Commander, is wise." Maeda Ritsu said, "The number of veterans in the Songhu Independent Regiment is limited, only more than 300 at most. As long as these more than 300 veterans are killed, Sihang Warehouse and Bank of Communications The warehouse will become an undefended target."
Kotaro Yoshida asked again: "Are you sure every combat team is led by veterans?"
Maeda Ritsu didn't explain much, he just shouted to the door: "Kishida Nishi-kun, you can come in now."
There was a shout outside the door, and then a stocky corpsman came in with bow-legged steps.
Ritsu Maeda waved his hand and said, "Tell everyone what happened to your team. Try to talk as little nonsense as possible that has nothing to do with the topic, and just talk about the key points."
"Hai." Kishida Nishijin said after a while, "It was probably just after ten o'clock at night. Sakurai-kun got up and peed. I heard a rustling sound and thought it was raining. I got up and took a look. But I found out that it was Sakurai-kun who was peeing while standing..."
"Baga!" Otake Shigeo said angrily, "Don't talk nonsense like peeing, talk about the important point!"
"Hai!" Nishijin Kishida paused again, then continued, "When Sakurai-kun came back, I found that the four members of Kuroda's team were no longer there, so I quickly asked Kamei-kun what time it was at that time, and Kamei-kun replied , His Roman watch fell into the toilet and got stained with feces, so he didn’t want it anymore..."
"Bagagaru, don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense!" Kotaro Yoshida couldn't hold back and yelled, "Let's get to the point!"
"Hai!" Nishijin Kishida paused for the third time and said, "Fukuda-kun said that Ono-kun and the others had left for less than ten minutes, so it should have been ten minutes past ten. But Sekiya-kun said that he farted. Ono-kun and the others had left at least For more than a quarter of an hour..."
"Baga!" Even Hasegawa Kiyoshi couldn't hold back at this moment and cursed angrily, "Don't you know anything else besides shit and piss? Let's get to the point! Let's get straight to the point!"
There are also three black lines appearing on Maeda Ritsu's forehead. It's really too much nonsense.
"Hai!" After the fourth pause, Kishida Nishijin finally got to the point, "I led Sakurai-kun and the four of them just rushed out of the Shikumen, and met three soldiers head-on. Although this encounter was unexpected, But I still reacted immediately and fired decisively. Sakurai-kun and the others also fired in time, killing two of the soldiers on the spot, but the other soldier was very cunning and reacted extremely quickly. , threw a grenade over..."
"That's enough, Nishi-kun Kishida, you can go out." After driving the chattering Nishijin Kishida out of the small conference room, Ritsu Maeda continued, "The three soldiers they encountered with Nishi-kun Kishida were obviously veterans. With the combination of two recruits, other outpost units encountered the same army. This supported my previous judgment from the side. Each combat group of the Songhu Independent Regiment had one veteran leading two recruits. This is Training."
"Yoshi." Kotaro Yoshida said with a sinister smile, "In this case, we must meet their request!"
"Since it is an endless outpost battle, there is no need to use too many troops. We can select the marines with the best marksmanship from each detachment and form multiple hunting teams, specifically responsible for hunting down the veterans of the army during the day. .”
"I also heard that the Ministry of Munitions and Supplies successfully developed a sniper rifle not long ago, and named it the Type 97 sniper rifle. The Ministry of Commerce and Supplies will give us priority in providing us with a batch of sniper rifles. It is best to use long-range bombers to urgently transport them."
"We have the best shooters, and with the addition of the Type 97 sniper rifle, the efficiency of hunting down that veteran will be greatly improved." Kotaro Yoshida became more and more happy as he spoke, and added, "It won't even take the month that Maeda-kun said. Half a month is enough to deal with that army."
Ritsu Maeda was not so optimistic, but he did not argue with Kotaro Yoshida.
"Your Majesty Commander, if you want to be a good shooter, you have actually already chosen one."
