usatvline Chapter 1599 Too miserable
Chapter 1599 Too miserable
Chapter 1599 Too miserable
Junichiro Ikeuchi glared at Umezuchi Saeki.
He always felt that Sakami Umezumi was very steady and was someone he admired quite a bit among the young generals.
However, he was disappointed by Umezumi Sakami's appearance at this time.
"Commander, you will know if you go in and take a look." Saeki Umezumi said in a low voice.
Junichiro Ikeuchi took a quick glance and saw the bodies of the imperial soldiers who had died outside the hotel. He roughly estimated that there were at least seven or eight bodies.
His heart sank. It seemed that all the soldiers on guard outside the hotel had died. This was enough to show how bad the situation inside the hotel was.
……
awful!
That's horrible!
The facilities on the first and second floors of the Pukou Hotel were almost destroyed in the explosion and gunfire, and the power was cut off.
The Japanese soldiers urgently pulled over an electric wire and set up a searchlight so that they could see the situation inside the store clearly.
The store was littered with corpses.
There were corpses everywhere.
Some were shot to death.
Some were killed by grenades.
Many were trampled to death.
Judging from their attire, these people should be Chinese who came to the birthday party. They were all dressed neatly and looked of respectable status. Some of them were wearing police uniforms and should be officials from the Shanghai Municipal Government Police Department.
Of course, no matter how neatly you are dressed, it would not look good to die at this moment.
The most eye-catching thing was a row of corpses of Japanese officers and soldiers, arranged in a fan shape, which could even be described as neat.
"The initial suspicion is that the enemy used a heavy firepower weapon and shot and killed him," said Umezumi Saeaki.
"Do you think the imperial soldiers are fools? Stand in line and wait for them to shoot." Junichiro Ikeuchi glared at Umezuchi Saeki.
Saejo Umezumi pointed at the corpse and said, "During the daytime, the enemy used a powerful light weapon in the operation at Qimin Hospital. It has now been confirmed that it was a Thompson submachine gun from the United States. In addition, the military intelligence personnel who tried to assassinate General Gangcun at Qimin Hospital also used a large number of explosives including grenades."
"Do you suspect that the attack here was also carried out by Military Control Commission personnel?" Junichiro Ikeuchi said in a deep voice.
"Judging from the firepower configuration used by the enemy, I highly suspect that it is related to the Shanghai Special Intelligence Department of the Military Control Commission," said Umezumi Saeki.
"So, what you mean is that they gathered a large number of people to launch an attack on Qimin Hospital during the day, and when they were surrounded and suppressed by the Empire and suffered heavy losses, they carried out this attack on Pukou Hotel at night?" Junichiro Ikeuchi asked with a gloomy face.
Sakami Umezumi did not say anything. He understood what the commander meant. It was impossible that the enemy would not have thought of escaping and hiding after instigating the action at Qimin Hospital and falling into an ambush by the Empire and suffering heavy losses, but would actually attack General Toda Seiichiro's birthday banquet at the Pukou Hotel at night.
This is unreasonable.
In addition, if this speculation is confirmed, it will also explain that the trap and encirclement operation set up by the Military Police Command and the Special High Section at the Qimin Hospital was a failure and did not inflict heavy damage to the enemy. At the same time, their own side suffered heavy losses. This means that the operation at the Qimin Hospital is not just a failure, it can even be described as a major failure.
Despite various considerations, Saeki Umezumi's intuition told him that the attack on the Pukou Hotel was closely related to the Military Control Commission, especially Xiao Mian's Shanghai Special Intelligence Department.
However, he currently has no substantial evidence.
……
Umezumi Saeaki led Junichiro Ikeuchi to the VIP seat.
This is the real reason why he used the word "horrific" to describe it.
The dining table where General Seiichiro Toda sat was separate from that of ordinary guests. It was a raised table with two octagonal tables placed on it.
With two round tables as the basis, the space radiates out, with guests presented to the audience in various states of death.
Some of them should be Chinese judging by their clothes.
These should be the elites in the empire's various political systems in Shanghai. Because of their high status, they are able to attend the meals here.
Some of them died in scattered places, wearing imperial kimonos.
These should be the imperial people who have a close relationship with Brigade Commander Seiichirō Toda.
Among them was a familiar face to Umezumi Saeaki.
For example, Umezumi Saeaki saw that the deceased about ten meters to his left was a director of the Imperial Military Department in the countryside. His name was Ueno Ichimo, and he was from Nagasaki.
Ueno Ichimo was shot in the head and calf. Judging from the way he died, it seems more like he was unable to escape after being shot in the calf, and was killed by the enemy who put a pistol to his head in an execution-style manner.
In the distance, there is a familiar face. This person is Kentaro Nihei, the inspector of the Imperial Municipal Council in the Shanghai International Settlement.
Because the gendarmerie often needed to negotiate with the International Settlement Municipal Council and enter the International Settlement to arrest anti-Japanese elements, Umezumi Saejo and Kentaro Nihei were quite familiar with each other. The two had even drunk together in an izakaya a few days ago, but they did not expect to see such a miserable scene when they met again.
Kentaro Nihei's cause of death was probably shrapnel from a grenade explosion. A piece of his scalp was cut off by shrapnel, and there were many wounds on his body, especially on his abdomen, which were probably caused by grenade shrapnel.
The most eye-catching thing was the corpses of several people dressed in the uniforms of imperial officers. After these brave officers of the empire died tragically, the murderers even deliberately arranged their bodies in a circle.
At the center of the circle was a corpse that was different from the other corpses, because this corpse was wearing the uniform of an imperial general, and most importantly, this person had no head!
Judging from the bloody wound on the neck, the head of this corpse must have been cut off by the enemy with a sharp knife and taken away!
……
"Judging from the military uniform on the body, the owner of this corpse should be Brigade Commander Seiichiro Toda," said Umezumi Saeki.
Junichiro Ikeuchi's face was gloomy. He bent down to check the condition of the body.
"Judging from the marks on the general's uniform, General Toda should have been wearing medals, but now the medals have been torn off by the enemy. In addition, the epaulettes and general stars on the general's uniform were also torn off and taken away by the enemy," said Umezumi Saeaki.
Because it could be basically inferred that the body was General Seiichirō Toda, commander of the Empire's newly formed 5th Reserve Brigade, he had previously conducted a relatively detailed examination of the body.
"Bag duck fall!" Junichiro Ikeuchi's face looked terribly gloomy.
The Imperial Major General Brigade Commander was attacked and assassinated by the enemy. Not only did the officers and soldiers suffer heavy casualties, but even the brigade commander was killed by the enemy. Even his head, epaulettes and medals were taken away by the enemy as trophies. This was a great shame for the Imperial Locust Army.
It was even the greatest humiliation of the empire after it occupied Shanghai!
"Your Excellency, Commander." A military police officer came over with a military doctor.
"Commander!" Military doctor Ainosuke Kawanishi saluted Junichiro Ikeuchi.
"Go to work." Junichiro Ikeuchi said with a sullen face.
"This is General Toda Seiichiro of the Empire's newly formed Fifth Reserve Brigade," Saeki Umezumi reminded, "Please be sure to preserve the general's final dignity."
"Ha!" said Kawanishi Ainosuke. He took one look at the headless corpse and shook his head in his heart. In this situation, how could there be any dignity at all?
He put down the medical box and began to examine Seiichiro Toda's body.
He was seen searching Toda Seiichiro's headless body, and suddenly, Kawanishi Ainosuke showed a strange look.
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