Chapter 38
Lieutenant General Yanagawa gave Lieutenant General Yoshizumi a strange look before saying softly,""What Momatsu-kun and Niushima-kun said makes sense. We have to ensure the safety of the prince. There was only one Prince, and only one chance, but there were plenty of opportunities to eliminate the Chinese army in the future.
There was no need to let the prince lose his life in order to restore the honor of the Empire's soldiers.”
To Lieutenant General Liu Chuan, Prince Asaka was alive, and Zhang Wenbin had run away. It did not affect him. Because Prince Chao Xiang would be the one to take the blame in the end. However, if Prince Chao Xiang died, he would have to bear some responsibility. Although it was not a big responsibility, he was not happy and did not want to bear this responsibility.
He didn't do anything wrong. Why should he take responsibility?
He was the commander of the 10th army, Prince Chao Xiang. Nominally, he was the commander of the army dispatched by Shanghai. The two of them were of the same rank. It was only because Commander Matsui was sick that Prince Asaka was appointed as the temporary frontline commander to command the frontline army.
In fact, there were also the 6th Regiment Commander Lieutenant General Tanishou and the 16th Regiment Commander Lieutenant General Nakajima who had such thoughts. They didn't do anything wrong and didn't want to be blamed. In any case, as long as Prince Chao Xiang survived, there would only be two people to take the blame.
The first was Prince Asaka himself, and the second was Lieutenant General Yoshizumi. This was because the Yu 1st Regiment had escaped from the encirclement of the 9th Regiment, and they had fought with the 9th Regiment in the beginning. It was the incompetence of the 9th Regiment that had caused the Yu 1st Regiment to escape and even did so many things.
To them, as long as Prince Chao Xiang survived, they wouldn't have to take the blame. In any case, they had a big black pot to bear!
It had to be said that where there were people, there would be martial arts!
These major generals were all smart people. They had just made a contribution, and they were unwilling to let the 9th division take the blame for their incompetence.
Just as everyone was discussing, an advisor rushed in.
"Report! The Chinese Army sent out a clear message, requesting our army to immediately release the Chinese captives in Xiaguan and hand them over to them, and open the city gates to allow the people to leave.
After they crossed the river, they would release Prince Asaka, Major General Yamada, and return the flag of the 35th regiment to Chuzhou.”
When the lieutenants heard this, they all had their own thoughts.
However, the first to speak was Lieutenant General Liu Chuan.
He glanced at everyone present and said,"I think we can agree to this condition. Those 100,000 Chinese captives are useless to the empire. Our army just searched the granary, but there was not a single grain inside.
Right now, the dynasty's army was in dire need of supplies, and food was a big problem. It was useless to lock up these captives, as they would waste the dynasty's precious food and ammunition. It was better to hand it over to them.
" As for the Chinese civilians in the city, let them go. There aren't many people left in the Chinese capital to begin with. Let the warriors temporarily stop their revelry. After that, we'll conquer another city for them to celebrate.”
Lieutenant General Liu Chuan's suggestion was first approved by the 18th and 114th divisions, followed by the 16th and 6th divisions.
Just like that, Zhang Wenbin's request was met by the Japanese.
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The gates of Jinling were opened, and the Japanese who surrounded the citizens dispersed. Without the Japanese's blockade at the gates, the citizens rushed out of the city like they had seen a life-saving straw!
People! He just didn't believe it!
Before Jinling fell, they didn't run because they thought the Japanese wouldn't do anything to them. Jinling had fallen, and the Japanese had entered the city. Only then did they realize how ridiculous their previous thoughts were.
The Japanese didn't touch them? This was impossible!
Thus, they wanted to run away and leave this hell, but they realized that they could not. They could only be slaughtered in the city!
If it wasn't for Zhang Wenbin's existence in this time and space, if Zhang Wenbin hadn't captured Prince Chao Xiang and obtained this trump card, they would have died at the hands of the Japanese just like the tragedies in history.
However, the number would drop by a lot. The historical number in another time and space finally stopped at the number of 340,000. In this time and space, perhaps only 100,000 corpses could be found.
However, they were lucky. The city gate was wide open, and they frantically escaped from this hell.
The 100,000 captives were also being escorted by the Japanese, and they walked out of the city weakly.
Today was the 15th. From yesterday until now, which was the 14th, the Japanese had completely occupied the entire city. The captives had only eaten a steamed bun and some porridge. This was only the beginning. The Japanese did not know that there was no more food in the granary.
At that time, the Japanese were still thinking of using these captives as free labor. They wanted to give them some food to eat so that they would have the strength to work for them.
However, since last night, the Japanese had been searching the entire city. After discovering that there was not a single grain in the granaries, the Japanese had not given them anything to eat. The Japanese were even prepared to kill them.
Therefore, these captives were so hungry that they could not even walk.
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At this moment, Zhang Wenbin held a bowl of hot porridge in his hand and slowly drank it. He held half a piece of dry food in his hand before slowly chewing and swallowing it.
In the past few days, they could finally drink a bowl of warm food. Previously, they did not dare to start a fire at all for fear of exposing their target. They had been eating dry food all this time.
Now that she was not afraid, she started a fire, scattered some rice, and cooked some porridge that was so clear that she could see her figure.
It was already good enough to be able to drink something warm now. Who cared if the porridge was thick or not!
Zhang Wenbin ate half a piece of dry food happily. After finishing the porridge, he slowly lit a cigarette.
"Guild Leader, we don't have much food left! Now, the brothers only had one and a half days 'worth of rations left. There was not much food left in the logistics department, so he estimated that he could cook porridge like this twice.”
Sun Ming, the head of the logistics department, walked over and said with some worry. Fortunately, they had gone to the logistics department to get more food supplies. Otherwise, they would have run out of food long ago.
Jinling had fallen on the morning of the 13th, and after the 14th, today was the 15th. They had to eat steadily and could last until the 16th. By the 17th, they would lose their last bit of food.
"I'm fine! Chuzhou had not fallen yet. Chuzhou has the Jinpu railway line. We can board the train from Chuzhou and head to Xuzhou. Besides, there are so many cities along the way. We can go and ask the landowners and rich people there for food.”
Zhang Wenbin said calmly. He knew that food was actually not a problem. The real problem was the upcoming war.
They wanted to leave, but it wasn't that easy!
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Today's chapter 5 has been updated to 10,000 words!
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