Chapter 695: Information delivered to Imamura’s small classroom
Wuhan eventually fell.
Cheng Qianfan's heart was surrounded by pain and sadness.
Following the battle to defend Nanjing, Wuhan fell again. Cheng Qianfan could fully imagine the huge blow the fall of Wuhan had on the morale of the Chinese people.
Wuhan has been known as the "thorough of nine states" since ancient times. It connects Jiangsu and Anhui to the east, Guizhou and Shu to the west, Hunan and Guangdong to the south, Henan and Hebei to the north, the Yangtze River and the Han River, and the Ping-Han Railway and the Guangdong-Han Railway intersect here. It is the most important transportation hub in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Especially after the fall of Nanjing, the national capital, Wuhan became the center of the Anti-Japanese War in China.
Defend Wuhan!
has been the loudest anti-war slogan in the past few months!
The "Japanese Locust Army" conquered Wuhan, which was great news. Naturally, Kentaro Miyazaki and his teacher immediately responded with joy.
Cheng Qianfan ordered Li Hao to drive Bai Ruolan to school to pick up Xiaobao, and was also responsible for sending the two girls home. He himself got into another car and went to the Japanese Embassy area in Hongkou District under the **** of the remaining security vehicle.
Along the way, Mr. Cheng’s motorcade crossed the bridge and passed through traffic jams. Even when it entered the British and American Concessions, it did not stop all the way. When the patrol officer in the British and American Concessions saw Mr. Cheng’s license plate, he quickly raised the railing to let them pass.
Citizens along the way saw this and pointed secretly. They were also amazed at Mr. Xiao Cheng’s majesty and power in Shanghai.
“You guys wait for me outside.” Cheng Qianfan straightened his suit and said in a deep voice.
"yes."
“It’s a great honor to have Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng here.” Kogoro Imamura came out in person to greet the Deputy Chief Inspector of the Central District Patrol Room of the French Concession.
“Is Mr. Imamura at home?” Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly.
"I just came back. Deputy Inspector Cheng came by chance." Kogoro Imamura nodded, smiled and said, "Please."
Cheng Qianfan was led up the stairs by Imamura Kogoro and came to the door of the study.
Just as Imamura Kogoro was about to knock on the door, Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said, "I'll do it myself."
After speaking, he straightened his clothes, then walked forward and knocked on the door.
“Kogoro, is that you?” Imamura Hyoutarou’s voice came from inside.
“Teacher, it’s me.” Cheng Qianfan said.
“Kentaro is here, come in.” Hyoutaro Imamura said.
"yes!"
Cheng Qianfan pushed the door open and nodded his thanks to Imamura Kogoro before closing the study door.
"Why are you here at this time?" Imamura Hyōtaro was reviewing documents. He looked up at Kentaro Miyazaki and asked, "If I remember correctly, Shimizu-kun made an appointment with you today."
“Mr. Qingshui contacted me later and changed the time to tomorrow morning because he had something to do.” Cheng Qianfan said.
"That's it." Hyōtaro Imamura nodded. He looked at Kentaro Miyazaki and saw the joy that could not be concealed in Kentaro's eyes, so he asked with a smile, "Why are you so happy? You are getting rich again. ?”
“In the eyes of sir, are students so vulgar and full of the smell of copper?” Cheng Qianfan smiled bitterly.
“You don’t like money anymore?” Imamura Hyotarō asked.
"Uh-" Cheng Qianfan couldn't laugh or cry, and then he took out the newspaper from his body, "Teacher, the students just saw the news that the empire occupied Wuhan and were very excited. All they wanted to think about was to come and share this joy with the teacher."
As he spoke, he smiled and shook his head, "The flame of excitement in the student's chest has now dissipated a lot due to these few words from you, teacher."
"I knew you were here for this matter." Imamura Hyoutarou showed the slightest satisfaction that it was indeed the case and that "everything was as expected."
"So the teacher has known about this news for a long time?" Cheng Qianfan said in surprise, and then he smiled himself, "Yes, the teacher must be better informed than the newspaper."
“What I just said was intended to distract and ease your excitement.” Hyoutarou Imamura said, “The occupation of Wuhan is certainly worthy of celebration, but we cannot be dazzled by victory.”
“Hai.” Cheng Qianfan stood at attention with a solemn expression and said.
"Of course, don't be so serious. After all, this is Wuhan." Hyōtaro Imamura saw Kentaro Miyazaki's serious look and smiled and said, "You can celebrate or be excited, but you must always be vigilant."
He looked at Miyazaki Kentaro, "Occupying Wuhan, or even occupying the whole of China, is just a small step for the empire to conquer the entire world."
"Hayi, the students are too complacent." Cheng Qianfan's eyes were filled with hot, crazy light, "The future of the empire is the entire world, and the humble nation will become the noblest nation on the entire earth!"
…
“The empire occupied Wuhan and severely damaged the Chinese government. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is studying, analyzing, and summarizing the war in Wuhan.” Hyoutaro Imamura looked at Cheng Qianfan, “I will also give you a task.”
“Teacher, please give me your instructions, students must complete them seriously.” Cheng Qianfan said respectfully.
Hyoutaro Imamura nodded, very satisfied with Kentaro Miyazaki's attitude.
He knew that although his student was very smart, capable and talented, he would be a little lazy sometimes and his energy would be affected by the 'smell of copper'.
However, when it comes to the things he orders, the tasks assigned, or the "assessment assignments" he assigns, Kentaro Miyazaki's attitude has always been upright, without any shirk or carelessness.
"I have some information and information about the war in Wuhan here. You can study it and write a research report and give it to me." Hyōtaro Imamura said.
“Hai.” Cheng Qianfan took the document bag respectfully with both hands.
Hyoutaro Imamura lowered his head to review the documents again. After a few minutes, he raised his head with a look of surprise, "Why are you still here?"
"The teacher didn't say anything, how could the students..." Cheng Qianfan said.
"I'm busy." Imamura Hyōtaro smiled, "Go ahead, you are my student, why are you still so reserved in front of me?"
“It’s not about being formal, it’s about respecting the teacher.” Cheng Qianfan defended.
“You, you.” Imamura Hyoutarou waved his hand.
Cheng Qianfan bowed respectfully, walked back to the door, turned around, opened the door and left, closing the door gently.
A few minutes later, Imamura Hyōtaro raised his head and saw the newspaper that Miyazaki Kentaro had forgotten. He stood up and picked it up and looked at it. He saw that some parts of the newspaper seemed to have been wet before and were now dry again.
Hyoutaro Imamura couldn't help but shake his head and sighed softly, "Kentaro really has a pure heart for the empire!"
…
Return to Yendli's residence.
Cheng Qianfan was just in time to accompany Bai Ruolan and Xiaobao to dinner.
“What’s wrong? My little baby is not in a good mood.” Cheng Qianfan tapped Xiaobao’s little head with chopsticks.
“Xiao Ming hasn’t come to school for two days.” Xiao Bao sighed softly.
“You said that Lu Xiaoming bullies other students, don’t you like to play with this classmate?” Cheng Qianfan asked with a smile.
"Xiaoming didn't come to school, and I didn't hit him for two days..." Xiaobao said smoothly, and covered his mouth with an ouch.
Hearing this, Cheng Qianfan couldn't help but feel dumbfounded.
"I didn't dare when I was here. When I was away, he still bullied other classmates." Xiaobao was a little distressed, holding his chin with his hands, "I don't know what to do."
“So you beat Xiaoming every day?” Cheng Qianfan laughed, and then he said with a slightly serious expression, “If you bully other classmates, my brother will definitely be angry.”
Xiaobao raised his head and looked at him.
Cheng Qianfan continued, "However, for Lu Xiaoming who bullies his classmates, my brother specifically allows you to beat him."
“Really?” Xiaobao’s eyes lit up.
“Of course.” Cheng Qianfan nodded.
Amidst Xiaobao's cheers, Cheng Qianfan got up and went back to the study on the second floor. Bai Ruolan's voice "teaching" Xiaobao came from behind.
Words like ‘can’t fight’, ‘fighting is not good’ floated into his ears.
Xiaobao seemed to have said a few bad things about how Lu Xiaoming bullied his classmates.
Cheng Qianfan listened secretly and heard Bai Ruolan say:
You dare not tell the teacher, Lu Xiaoming, if you are capable of beating him. If the teacher doesn’t come to me, I will ignore him.
Cheng Qianfan couldn’t help laughing.
After closing the door of the study room, Cheng Qianfan had a serious expression on his face:
Lv Xiaoming hasn’t come to school for two days?
what reason?
What happened to his family?
…
Cheng Qianfan carefully studied the information and information given by Hyotaro Imamura.
To be precise, this should be Imamura Hyoutaro’s own preliminary research and analysis of the war in Wuhan.
"this-"
Cheng Qianfan looked shocked and ecstatic because the information and information provided by Hyoutarou Imamura was very detailed, and some of the information was even classified.
Although it may not necessarily be highly confidential information, it is difficult to actually access it.
It can be said that without the teacher-student relationship of Hyōtaro Imamura, it would have been very difficult, even almost impossible, for Cheng Qianfan to obtain these intelligence materials.
After Cheng Qianfan carefully studied these information, he had already summarized and sorted out the important information, information, or what he personally thought was very valuable.
Afterwards, he made a rough draft in his mind and began to write furiously:
“After the Battle of Xuzhou, there was a heated discussion at the Tokyo Base Camp on whether to continue marching into Wuhan.
The Tokyo Base Camp has estimated that if we further attack Wuhan, we will need to increase military expenditure by at least 2.1 billion yen.
In addition, given that the Japanese army was extremely exhausted after the Battle of Xuzhou, the base camp needed to deploy an additional 300,000 to 400,000 troops to the Wuhan battlefield.
Huge military expenditures and the scale of the increase in troops have made the Japanese cabinet actually have inconsistent and even contradictory ideas about attacking Wuhan.
However, the Japanese navy and army were very eager to occupy Wuhan.
The Japanese army and navy generally believe that if they can finally successfully capture Wuhan, they will maximize the speed of occupying all of China.
One of the most important points of view of the Japanese Army is that occupying Wuhan will deal a huge blow to Chongqing and help force Chongqing to surrender.
The Japanese base camp believes that the capture of Wuhan is of great political, military and economic significance:
On the one hand, this can destroy China’s anti-war center;
On the other hand, the government lost Nanjing and Wuhan successively, which will also directly affect the prestige of the government and force Chongqing to surrender and sue for peace.
“Even if Chongqing does not give in and loses Wuhan, it also means losing Hunan, the granary of Hubei, and the only economic center in mainland China.
Not only will the National Government lose its ability to be economically self-sufficient, it will also cut off the weapons transportation channel - the Guangdong-Hankou Railway. "
After thinking about it, Cheng Qianfan crossed out this paragraph. He believed that both the teacher and Comrade Xiangwu had already seen this very clearly and there was no need for him to say anything more.
However, he later added it. This was what he obtained from the intelligence, and he tried to maximize the restoration of the intelligence content.
Among them, the Japanese military base camp’s estimate of military expenditures and military strength for the Wuhan war, in Cheng Qianfan’s view, has a strong reference value for Japan’s national strength and military mobilization capabilities.
In addition, according to data and intelligence, when formulating the strategy for attacking Wuhan, the Japanese base camp actually did not directly determine the current military plan to capture Wuhan, but was constantly adjusting and changing it.
The Japanese base camp once formulated a plan on how to capture Wuhan.
The military strategy of the North China Front. Specifically, the Japanese North China Front planned to go south along the Ping-Han Railway and fight all the way until it reached Hankou.
The Japanese army in North China analyzed the advantages and disadvantages after intense discussions.
The advantages of this military march strategy are that the roads are smooth and plain operations are suitable for mechanized troops.
For the national army with a very low degree of mechanization, the Japanese army can completely use its mechanized army to form a huge combat advantage.
However, the shortcomings of this plan are also obvious. It must pass through China's first, fifth, and ninth theaters, and most importantly, it must be harassed by the Eighth Route Army from behind.
Hence, this military advance plan was ultimately rejected after intense discussion.
The second plan of the Japanese base camp is to outflank Wuhan from the south of the Huaihe River and across the Dabie Mountains. It is best to be able to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army.
The advantage of this marching strategy is that it is the closest and can shorten the marching distance to the maximum extent.
The disadvantage is that the complex terrain of the Dabie Mountains is not conducive to the march of mechanized troops, which will also directly affect the Japanese supply line.
After the Yellow River Huayuankou burst its banks, this plan no longer needed to be discussed and was directly abandoned by the Japanese base camp.
The third plan of the Japanese base camp is to go up the Yangtze River and attack Wuhan.
The advantage of this plan is that the Japanese army can take the initiative, use the sea, land and air forces to cooperate in operations, and the attack distance is moderate.
More importantly, the Chinese army’s defense along the Yangtze River defense line is extremely weak.
Of course, there are also disadvantages. The Yangtze River waterway is complicated and is not conducive to the march of mechanized troops.
After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army had to carry out large-scale mobilization over long distances. In addition, for this plan to be realized, there was another extremely important key point, which was that Jiujiang must be occupied as soon as possible.
In addition, this military strategy will most likely only expel the Chinese army, but it will be difficult to annihilate it.
The Japanese army finally adopted the third strategy when they occupied Wuhan.
Cheng Qianfan secretly went to the safe house on Desdelang Road that night and sent a streamlined but still extremely long telegram to the northwest headquarters.
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(End of this chapter)