usatvline Chapter 495 New Year
Chapter 495 New Year
January 1st of every year is the Japanese New Year.
On the big bed in the Japanese villa area, Shizuka Fujiwara, like a virtuous wife, prepared clothes and delicious food for her husband on the first day of the new year.
Then, she considerately helped Chen Yang put on his clothes.
Chen Yang said to Fujiwara Shizuka while eating, "Actually, if you feel bored, I can not go to work."
"After all, today is Chinese New Year."
Fujiwara Shizuka shook her head and said, "No need. The war in southern Guangxi has made the senior officers of the expeditionary army very dissatisfied."
"How can we be in the mood to celebrate the New Year?"
"Besides, your supplies are in urgent need recently, so you need to look after them yourself."
"I asked Chiyoko to prepare dinner and come over after get off work."
Chen Yang nodded, stuffed the remaining food into his mouth, took a big gulp of milk, and swallowed the food.
Then he picked up the briefcase handed to him by Chiyoko, kissed Fujiwara Shizuka on the face, and hurriedly left the villa.
Chiyoko covered her mouth and laughed secretly. After sending Chen Yang away, Chiyoko asked while cleaning the table: "Madam, when will you have a child?"
Fujiwara Shizuka was stunned for a moment, and asked absentmindedly: "Chiyoko, why do you ask that?"
Chiyoko said seriously: "My grandmother told me that girls should not be kissed by others, because if they are kissed, they will have children."
The grandmother that Chiyo was referring to was of course not Lee Hyun-sook, but her own grandmother.
"Will there be children?" Shizuka Fujiwara murmured, "I want to, too..."
Shanghai, Meihua Building, Material Transportation Center,
As the new year approaches, the material distribution center is still busy.
The loss of Kunlun Pass was extremely embarrassing for the dispatched troops.
In order to consolidate the occupation of Nanning, the Japanese army re-formulated the "Binyang Battle Guidance Plan" and urgently dispatched the 18th Division and the Mixed Brigade, totaling more than people, to carry out a cleanup operation against the troops around Nanning.
The transportation line that Chen Yang is responsible for is to deliver a series of materials to Nanning as soon as possible to avoid the failure of the plan due to untimely delivery of materials.
"There's no problem with these, arrange them as soon as possible." Chen Yang handed the latest dispatch report in his hand to Higashino Daiki.
Higashino Daiki saluted and hurried out of the office.
Chen Yang stood up and looked out the window with some worry. The Japanese reinforcements numbered more than 38, plus the 5th Division that had stayed in Nanning, the crippled th Division, and the Formosa Mixed Brigade.
The total number of troops has exceeded 50,000.
The Kuomintang's focus is still on the winter offensive. The most troublesome thing is that if you want to fight, you should fight well. Yan Xishan of the Second War Zone did not think about fighting the Japanese, but actually set his sights on the Red Party.
Previously, as the Sacrifice Alliance was growing stronger in western Shanxi, Yan Laoxi had become increasingly dissatisfied with the Red Party.
When the winter offensive began, the fighting in the southeastern two routes of the Second War Zone was fierce.
However, in mid-December, Yan Laoxi instructed Chen Changjie's West Route Army and Zhao Chengshou's North Route Army to launch a surprise attack on the Red Party in western Shanxi.
This is the horrific Shanxi-West Incident.
The Shanxi-West Incident caused the war in the Second War Zone to stagnate, and no significant results were achieved until the end of the winter offensive.
Knock knock knock! A series of knocks on the door interrupted Chen Yang's thoughts, and He Yuehua walked in with a document.
"Sir, this is a document sent from the mainland."
Chen Yang took the document and took a look at it, his expression changed slightly. This was an internal notice about Nobuyuki Abe's resignation and Mitsumasa Yonai's reorganization of the cabinet.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye could see that at this time Mitsumasa Yonai did not want to take over the mess left by Abe.
It was only four and a half months after the Army Ministry promoted Nobuyuki Abe to the cabinet position.
Abe has already messed up mainland Japan.
After Nobuyuki Abe's downfall, no one was willing to take over the position of prime minister.
Because everyone knows that Japan is in a mess right now. Not only is the economy on the verge of collapse, but the foreign wars are also in a real quagmire.
The most important thing is that the military has actually taken control of the country. If the prime minister cannot act in accordance with the wishes of the military, he cannot expect to hold power. In other words, he cannot fundamentally solve the problems facing Japan.
Therefore, even though Hirohito expressed his wish for Mitsumasa Yonai to form a cabinet, Mitsumasa Yonai remained unmoved, as if he had not heard it.
However, Mineki Mitsumasa did not expect that Hirohito would loudly announce at the imperial meeting: "I order you to form a cabinet"...
The emperor is a god, and his will cannot be disobeyed. So, Mitsumasa Yonai had no choice but to become prime minister.
Of course, the Navy Department hopes that Minister Mi will enter the cabinet. Only in this way can they change their combat strategy and take action in Southeast Asia.
Japan, Kyoto.
After seeing the news that Minister Mi was about to reorganize the cabinet, Lee Hyun-sook seemed to relax a lot.
"It seems that those people bet on the wrong horse." Yamamoto Kazuo said to Li Xianshu indifferently: "How could they think that Abe's governing policy would win the support of the whole empire."
"The empire needs stability and a good economy, but Abe can't do that. He only knows how to take money out of people's pockets to feed those people in the military."
Li Xianshu chuckled and said, "But even so, he didn't try to please those people in the Army Department."
"There is a saying in China that heroes are made by the times," Yamamoto Kazuo said calmly, "Sir Abe wanted to do the opposite, so this is the natural outcome."
Li Xianshu nodded and said, "Since they have no more trump cards, when are you going to make your move?"
Yamamoto Kazuo smiled and said, "Those people can't even explain themselves to the Black Dragon Society now, so there's no need for us to take action."
"You want me to act quickly, are you worried that Yamamoto Yoshisaburo might harm your nephew in China?"
Li Xianshu shook her head and said, "Yamamoto Yoshisaburo doesn't have that ability, but His Excellency Terauchi has sent me three telegrams, hoping that I will return to China as soon as possible."
"Hasn't your intelligence work already been handed over?" Yamamoto Kazuo asked in surprise, "What does he need your help with now?"
"This man is a natural warmongerer. If he hadn't been obsessed with expanding his war achievements and occupying the northern part of China, the empire's army wouldn't have been dragged into the quagmire of war by him."
Li Xianshu smiled bitterly and said, "How many people in the Army Department are not warmongers? Senior Sugiyama is still clamoring to destroy China in three months."
"All we can do now is to make up for the shortcomings and prevent accidents from happening to the high-speed running machines."
Yamamoto Kazuo thought for a while and said, "Then at least you should celebrate the New Year. You haven't celebrated the New Year in Japan for many years."
Hearing what Yamamoto Kazuo said, Li Xianshu was suddenly startled, and her eyes involuntarily fell on the wall of the room. The person in the black and white portrait seemed to be looking at her with an expectant look...