Chapter 120: Heading Overseas
The Kwantung Army, Iwane Matsui and Masao Okamura also soon received the bad news that Division Commander Ueda had been subjected to air strike bombing by enemy aircraft of unknown origin, leaving his fate uncertain,
“Baka! What’s the situation? Why did an enemy aircraft group suddenly appear?”
“And Division Commander Ueda’s command post, why was it so easily discovered by these enemy aircraft groups? And subjected to air strike bombing?”
“What exactly is the intelligence agency doing? Why hasn’t detailed information been released yet?”
“And now Division Commander Ueda’s life or death is uncertain after being bombed, so who will command the Ninth Division’s operations?”
“The Battle of Shanghai that we finally provoked must not end just like this?”
“The battle has only just begun not long ago!”
“This is really making me anxious!”
“Has the processing result from Imperial General Headquarters come out yet?”
“Did they say who will be dispatched to replace Division Commander Ueda to command the Ninth Division and the Kurume Brigade?”
Upon receiving such terrible bad news,
Iwane Matsui was the first to furiously roar out in anger.
Because he had spent a lot of effort to provoke this Shanghai Operation,
But now the war had only just started not long ago,
Even those Japanese Marine Corps were clamoring to achieve combat victory in the Shanghai Operation within a month,
But not only did they fail to achieve victory, they were beaten by the 19th Route Army to the point of needing a support operation with reinforcements,
The problem is, now it’s even worse because the reinforcements have arrived,
But the reinforcements’ commander, Division Commander Ueda, had not been commanding operations for long before he was bombed with his fate uncertain.
This made Iwane Matsui angry and anxious that the Battle of Shanghai might be halted due to Division Commander Ueda’s injuries.
If it really turned out that way, he would probably feel very unwilling and resentful.
He was even now wanting to personally apply to go to the Shanghai front line to command operations himself.
“Calm down, we can think of a way!”
“Our Empire has so many generals, it’s not just one Ueda!”
“I believe Imperial General Headquarters will surely arrange an even more outstanding commander!”
“The Battle of Shanghai has only just started not long ago, I believe it shouldn’t stop just like this!”
“Our reinforcements have only just arrived there, and there are more reinforcements coming later, so it shouldn’t end this operation so hastily!”
“At the very least, without gaining sufficient benefits beforehand, I believe our Imperial General Headquarters won’t end the battle so quickly. Even if Imperial General Headquarters wants to end it, the Army Department, or even the Navy Department, won’t agree so easily!”
“Otherwise, the account of so many Imperial Warriors lost from the Marine Corps side and our Army Department side would be hard to settle!”
“So calm down, let’s two of us think of a countermeasure properly, which might help the Shanghai Operation continue!”
Masao Okamura was quite calm as he said this to the furious Iwane Matsui.
“This”
Looking at Masao Okamura who was drinking tea,
Iwane Matsui also felt that the other’s words made some sense,
So he sat down somewhat embarrassed,
Began to regain his calm, and started discussing with Masao Okamura how the next battle should be fought.
Especially how to make the upcoming Shanghai Operation continue to proceed smoothly.
And at this time,
Zhou Wenhua had also embarked on his journey leaving Yangcheng. He boarded a cruise ship from his own shipping company and set off toward England overseas, where he would establish his own airline company and airplane research and development company.
