The commander of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade, Abe Shusan, felt that he was wronged because he did say at the brigade combat meeting that he should try to avoid civilian casualties.

At that time, someone asked him that civilian casualties would inevitably occur during the battle, and asked him what to do? His answer at the time was that if the enemy and the people were mixed together and caused casualties in the battle, this was inevitable, but don’t massacre innocent people alone.

Who would have thought that his subordinates would openly disobey the order and create the Meizhuang tragedy. This made Gao Jiu angry, and the supreme commander of his brigade would be responsible.

Abe was 30% afraid. At this time, his wife and children had just come to visit him from Japan. In order to avoid their involvement, he sent people to send them away from Baoding overnight and asked them to return to Japan immediately.

He was at a loss about this matter and discussed it with the Chief of Staff. Although Gao Jiu did not specify that the Chief of Staff should take responsibility, the Chief of Staff was also worried that the fire in the city gate would affect the fish. If Gao Jiu came to kill Abe Rusan, he would stay with Abe Rusan all day and would be very likely to be unlucky.

So the Chief of Staff also used his brains to help Abe Shusan figure out a solution.

After discussion, the two reached a consensus and decided to first disarm all the personnel of the brigade leader Watanabe and Yamamoto Squadron.

The Independent Mixed Brigade reported their handling decision to the North China Expeditionary Force Command for guidance.

As a result, for the sake of face issues, the North China Expeditionary Army scolded Abe Rusan for maintaining the courage of a Japanese soldier and not being afraid of the threat from the enemy. He asked Abe Rusan to release people immediately to avoid affecting the morale of the Huang army.

Asabak Rusan understood that his superiors were going to sacrifice him. He was also anxious and thought about it over and over again, wanting to contact Gao Jiu and explain the situation in the middle. However, there was no connection between him and Gao Jiu, so he told the Chief of Staff what he thought and asked him to help find a solution.

The Chief of Staff analyzed that after the start of the security war in North China, the Japanese army from Shandong did not attack Gao Jiu's Taohua Mountain, which means that they and Gao Jiu should have reached a tacit understanding.

The Chief of Staff suggested that Abe lead San to contact the Japanese army in Shandong and try to contact Gao Jiu through them.

Abe led the third party and the chief of staff of the 8th Division were once classmates and friends, so he sent a telegram to the chief of staff of the 8th Division, hoping that he could help and contact Gao Jiu.

In view of the fact that his former classmates and friends, the Chief of Staff of the 8th Division did not refuse and asked Abe to lead 3 to prepare for 100,000 oceans. He tried to send someone to contact Gao Jiu to explain the whole story and strive to obtain Gao Jiu's understanding.

Abe Rusan is a person who understands the rules. He cannot let his classmates work in vain. He gritted his teeth and took out 150,000 oceans and sent someone to send them to the chief of staff of the 8th Division.

The Chief of Staff of the 8th Division entrusted this matter to the commander of Qiushan Brigade of the 15th Brigade stationed in Tai'an, and gave him 120,000 oceans to help contact Gao Jiu.

The commander of Qiushan Brigade used to pay Gao Jiu. This time, he contacted Gao Jiu and could still earn 20,000 yuan from it. He was in a good mood. So he sent his adjutant to Taohua Mountain.

After Zhang Quan received 100,000 oceans, he sent a telegram to Gao Jiu.

At this time, Gao Jiu was still in Shandong and heading towards Hebei. After receiving the telegram, he immediately replied to Zhang Quan, asking the commander of the Akiyama Brigade to send a message to Abe Shu San, and told Abe Shu San the radio call, so that he could contact him directly.

When Abe Rosan saw a glimmer of hope, he hurriedly reported the whole story to Gao Jiu. In order to show that he had indeed asked his subordinates to not massacre innocent people at will, he also sent the date and content of the meeting minutes at that time to Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu replied with understanding and asked him to kill Captain Watanabe and Yamamoto Squadron, and then he would just put the blame on him. If he could do this, Gao Jiu would send a clear telegram saying that after investigation, he proved that Abe led the commander of the Third Brigade was indeed irrelevant to the massacre of innocent people.

In order to avoid Abe Rusan being held accountable by the top Japanese military, he asked Abe Rusan to provide a superior's name, saying that this person was opposed to dealing with Captain Watanabe and Yamamoto and others. Gao Jiu would directly target this person, so the Japanese military would not have the intention to pursue Abe Rusan.

When Abe Rosan saw that Gao Jiu was considerate, he sent a telegram to Gao Jiu, saying that he would put Watanabe and Yamamoto Squadron alone away from the Japanese camp, so that Gao Jiu could send people to attack. Once the fire broke out between the two sides, the Japanese army responsible for the custody would immediately retreat and hand over Watanabe and Yamamoto Squadron to Gao Jiu and others in disguise. At the same time, he pointed out that when he reported to the North China Expeditionary Army, Sakai's Deputy Chief of Staff forced him to release the people and asked him to fight against Gao Jiu to the end.

Gao Jiu agreed to Abbe Rusan's opinion and agreed to join the second brigade in the independence group and not to violate the river after the matter was over.

Abe Rusan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He sent his confidants to send Captain Watanabe and Yamamoto Squadron outside the city, and temporarily detained him in a place where he could not leave the village and the store behind him.

Three days later, Gao Jiu led his troops to the vicinity of Baoding. He sent Takawa to lead a special forces team from a team to the designated location of Abbe to deal with Watanabe and Yamamoto Squadron.

Abe Rusan really didn't do anything. After Takawa and others arrived at the stronghold mentioned by Abe Rusan, he sent two special forces members to approach the Japanese army and then fired fire at the sky. The Japanese guards also fired at the sky and immediately evacuated.

In order to prevent Captain Watanabe and Captain Yamamoto from committing suicide in advance, the Japanese guards tied up the two of them and held them alone in a room before evacuating.

Takawa and others entered the stronghold, killed all the Japanese soldiers without weapons, and brought back the captain Watanabe and Yamamoto Squadron.

After catching these two people, Gao Jiu contacted the Eighth Route Army troops of the Hebei Central Military Region. The Hebei Central Military Region asked Gao Jiu to hand over the two people to them for disposal, and they would conduct a public trial and execute them in public.

Gao Jiu and others handed Watanabe and Yamamoto to the local Eighth Route Army troops, and they continued to go to Peiping.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from massacring innocent people during the battle, Gao Jiu decided to teach the Japanese army another painful lesson.

Gao Jiu sent out another clear-code telegram, saying in which the Yamamoto Squadron, which participated in the massacre of innocent people in Meizhuang, had been completely wiped out. One of the culprits, Captain Watanabe and Captain Yamamoto Squadron, have been handed over to the Eighth Route Army Hebei Central Military Region, and they will be tried by the people and sentenced to death.

The person who was responsible for the Meizhuang tragedy was the deputy chief of staff of Sakai, the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army. Gao Jiu and the Taohuashan guerrillas were heading to Peiping to capture Sakai.

After Gao Jiu's clear telegram was sent, the vast number of anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in the Dakou and underground party base areas were in full swing, and various newspapers and magazines reported on it.

Everyone felt very relieved and wanted to see what the outcome would be like for Sakai, deputy chief of staff of the North China Expeditionary Force?

Foreign newspapers and magazines also reported this incident, and they were also looking forward to seeing what the outcome would be like for Sakai, a senior Japanese general, understand?

Public opinion is once again in full swing, and everyone is waiting and watching the further development of the matter.

Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai did not expect that Gao Jiuhui pointed his finger at himself. When Abe led San to report his opinions on the handling of the Meizhuang incident to the North China Expeditionary Army Command, it was decided by the commander and chief of staff of the North China Expeditionary Army, and others, asking Abe led San to release the Watanabe Battalion Captain and Yamamoto Squadron. Sakai was just accepting the commission from the North China Expeditionary Army Command to talk to Abe.

Who would have thought that the shit basin would be placed on Sakai's head? He also felt that he was very wronged, a hundred times more wronged than Dou E.

Now, Gao Jiu has clearly said that he was heading towards Beiping. He felt that his death was about to come, and he was immediately panicked.

The reason why Gao Jiu wanted to protect Abe Rusan was because he could not leave the Japanese army with the impression that he would kill people indiscriminately. Only in this way could the senior Japanese generals understand how to do so that they would not touch Gao Jiu's bottom line.

As for why Gao Jiu chose Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai to take the blame, it was because he had to deal with a senior Japanese general this time, otherwise it would not be enough to intimidate those Japanese generals who were lucky.

In fact, Gao Jiu also understood that Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai had no direct contact with this vicious case of massacre of innocent people, and this matter should be under the responsibility of the North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters.

But experience tells Gao Jiu that if everyone in a department is responsible for a certain incident, it means that everyone will not be responsible. Only by targeting one of the specific people can they truly touch their interests and there will be real people responsible.

Not only that, Gao Jiu did have some personal grudges about this Chief of Staff Sakai.

The last time the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on Taohua Mountain, it was led by Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai himself. When the last time he fought in Cang Prefecture, the person responsible for leading the reinforcements to the reinforcements was also the Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai. Therefore, when Gao Jiu heard Abe Shusan say that the person who talked to him was Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai, he made up his mind and attacked Sakai this time.

Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai is a bad guy. This time Gao Jiu wants to use Sakai to use a senior general who will kill one and shock the Japanese army.

Deputy Chief of Staff Sakai had learned about the fate of Watanabe and Yamamoto, and he was almost crying and hurried to find the commander and chief of staff of the North China Expeditionary Force.

When the commander saw Sakai's terrified look, he looked very despised by him and scolded him for being calm and maintaining the demeanor that the soldiers of the Great Japanese Imperial Japanese were supposed to have.

Sakai was very dissatisfied, but he had to wait patiently to listen to his scolding.

After the commander shut up, Sakai said, "Commander, Gao Jiuyan is about to come to Peking. That guy is elusive and can't be guarded. I will leave Peking for the time being and return to Japan to avoid the limelight."

When the commander heard him say this, he immediately became angry again. He said, "As a senior general of the Great Japanese Empire, how can you be scared to this by a small bandit? You cannot leave your post without authorization. Otherwise, I will send you to the military court as per the crime of escaping in the last battle."

As the commander of the North China Expeditionary Army, he naturally had his reasons for doing this. If Sakai really fled back to Japan, the dignified North China Expeditionary Army would definitely lose face. As the commander of the North China Expeditionary Army, he would also be scolded by the Japanese base camp.

Sakai was extremely depressed at this time. He was also anxious when he heard that the commander not only dissatisfied with him, but instead forced him to wait for death here.

Sakai went out and said, "You made the decision that you did not agree to deal with Watanabe, Yamamoto and others. Why did you ask me to take the blame for this matter? Since you don't leave me a way out, I will find a way to tell Gao Jiu about this matter, explain the whole story, and say that you made the decision. Then let Gao Jiu come to you directly at that time."

Although the commander was extremely vicious when he scolded Sakai, when he heard that he was going to take on this responsibility, he was also timid. He didn't want to be the target of Gao Jiu's direct pursuit. Even if he sent heavy troops to protect him every day, he would not be able to live such a thousand-day life to defend against thieves. Besides, Gao Jiu was elusive, even if he sent heavy troops to protect him, he might not be able to save his life.

He was very angry, pointed at Sakai and said, "You, you, you..." He was so angry that he shivered, but he didn't dare to continue talking.

Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Nakao Toh, personally experienced Gao Jiu's power in Henan. He sympathized with Sakai. Seeing the situation stalemate, he hurriedly smoothed out and said, "Commander, Sakai, are all from our own people. Let's not argue, let's calm down and see how to deal with Gao Jiu."

The three of them discussed for a long time and had no good idea. Sakai was unwilling to stay in Peking anymore, so he firmly demanded to return to China for the time being.

Chief of Staff Nakao Tochi said: "Sakura, if you are not the commander, you will not agree to your return to the country, the base camp will definitely not agree to this matter. If you return to the country without authorization, you will probably be held accountable by the base camp. If you make such a fearful move, you will be despised by the Japanese people. At that time, you may not have a place to stay in the country."

Sakai had also considered this, but he couldn't watch Gao Jiu kill him. He said in a crying voice: "This is not OK, that is not OK, so what should I do?"

Several people discussed for a long time but couldn't come up with any good ideas. Chief of Staff Sakai suddenly remembered an expert who dealt with Gao Jiu, so he proposed to send Hamada Yoshihide, the head of the Special High School Section of the Jinan Military Police Command of the 12th Army, to come to Peking to see what he had.

Jinan Military Police Command, Special High School Class.

Hamada Yoshihisa has been on the bench now because his strength is to deal with Gao Jiu. However, now the Japanese troops in Shandong are unwilling to fight with Gao Jiu, and even reach a tacit understanding with Gao Jiu. Hamada Yoshihisa has become a useless person and no one pays attention to him.

Nowadays, Yoshihiko Hamada felt very uncomfortable. He even worried that these Japanese generals would dislike him, which would prevent them from colluding with Gao Jiu from secretly behind their backs, and just finding a chance to kill him. He had already thought of leaving Jinan.

At this moment, he received an order from Peking to report to the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters immediately.
Chapter completed!