But Su Zongzhe didn't know that Tu Qianjun's plan was not the end! He even wanted to swallow the raided Japanese Third Division and turn around to annihilate the 6th Division! It was with this plan that he repeatedly let his artillery soldiers endure. Until now, the artillery position on Qianfoshan had not been fired! And he didn't know how many troops he had, even if he died.

If Saito Liu knew from the beginning that Tu Qianjun had more than 10,000 troops and dozens of artillery pieces, he might have been cautious in positional warfare and dared not launch an attack at will. But unfortunately, he had no internal support and had no idea how many people this army had and how strong the firepower was. But Tu Qianjun had already learned about the current Japanese army's forces during the interrogation of the prisoners, and concluded that Fukuda Hikasuke would never attack him personally, so he made a series of plans to completely wipe out the Saito Liu brigade that was rushing to attack! []

After nearly two thousand casualties, Tu Qianjun finally achieved his tactical purpose. He wiped out the Saito Brigade in one fell swoop in the suburbs of Jinan, and even exceeded the results of seizing Saito Brigade flag, radio stations, documents and other spoils. At this moment, a noise suddenly came out from the Third Division on the opposite side! Tu Qianjun's pupils shrank on the top of the city. It seemed that the Third Legion finally received news that Saito Liu had been wiped out! Tu Qianjun immediately ordered with a sneer: "Except for leaving a few observation posts, everyone else entered the anti-cannon hole! Waiting for the order!"

Qi Mudeng is now in charge of this front. When he heard Tu Qianjun's order Qi Mudeng stood at attention and said loudly: "Yes!" Then Tu Qianjun and Su Zongzhe got off the city and returned to his headquarters. At this time, A Ban's second battlefield report also passed Tu Qianjun and his telegram to the United States. This follow-up report caused a sensation again! Because A Ban mentioned in this report that the Japanese army actually coerced civilians to attack the position as a cover for flesh shields, which was almost a horrifying thing in European and American society! International shocked for a moment! But the Japanese cabinet was in a panic!

"Death is damaged! (Damn it!)" Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka suddenly smashed the tea bowl in his hand with a "ping-pong!" and knelt beside him. Japanese Army Minister Yoshino Shirakawa, Minister of Internal Affairs Kisaburo Suzuki, Minister of Navy Keisuke Okada and Minister of Takasabu Mito.

Since the newly built Prime Minister's residence has not been completed, the current Japanese Prime Minister's residence is still in the Prime Minister's residence, which is converted from the Prime Minister's residence of the Prime Minister. This is a Western-style two-story wooden building with a full Japanese style interior decoration, while in Tanaka Yoichi's secret conference room, tatami is installed according to the Japanese customs. However, it should be emphasized that the "official residence" here is completely different in meaning from what we call "official residence". The Prime Minister only works here and does not live here.

Therefore, the Prime Minister's residence is just the office of the Prime Minister. It is similar to the later State Council, and the residence of the Prime Minister is called the "Prime Minister's residence" and is located next to the official residence.

At this time, Tanaka Yoshiichi was so naughty that he handed the newspaper in his hand to the secretary beside him, while the other cabinet officials had a translated original newspaper of the New York Times. The eye-catching title and the first page of Aban's report were also seen. The Japanese cabinet members also looked quite bad! Kissaburo Suzuki said coldly with a gloomy face: "It's okay if Sakai's documents were seized, after all, Britain and the United States have not yet obtained these documents, but how could Saito drive out civilians to make meat shields?! Is his mind so watered?! Where did this happen if this happens?! Don't this idiot know how big a diplomatic crisis the empire would face if he does this?!!たわけももの(blut)!!”

However, the Minister of Army Yoshihiro Shirakawa Yoshino heard the angry scolding of Kissaburo Suzuki, but he didn't say a word, because Saito Liu was a general under his command. He was the chief of such a thing, but in fact, Yoshino Shirakawa also knew why this situation happened. Isn't it just that a group of people constantly instilled in the army that "strong women do it, plunder is a necessary means to increase morale"?! Even if they do it, plunder, so it is not surprising that civilians should be hijacked as flesh shields to attack the enemy's positions.

In fact, it would be fine if Saito Rio won. Shirakawa Yoshino might still fight for him for the sake of achieving success, but Saito Rio, a fool, actually hijacked civilians to attack and failed! What else can he say? So he could only remain silent in the face of Suzuki Kissaburo's scolding. And Tadao Minister Mito Tadzusaki saw that Shirakawa Yoshino was actually very angry now, so he hurriedly said: "Suzuki, it is not the time to hold people accountable! The first thing we should solve is how to reduce our losses and restore the face of the empire. After all, the impact of this incident this time is too bad! Britain and the United States have sent us diplomatic notes to us, expressing us their serious concerns about the Jinan incident! If this matter is not handled well, then it is impossible for Britain and the United States to turn to China and work with them to further reduce the interests of the empire in China!"

After hearing the words of Tadakasaki Santu, all the important officials of the cabinet were silent. They actually knew that Tadakasaki Santu was polite! The American ambassador and the British ambassador came together to express their respective governments' serious concerns about the Jinan incident to Tanaka Yoshiichi! Especially the consulates and civilians who stayed in Jinan, and even directly threatened that if the matter continued to worsen, they might consider sending troops to Jinan to end the incident!

The important officials of the cabinet finally saw the UK and the US’s extremely tough attitude. If it were just a threat from Britain, Japan might not care too much. But if it was a threat from the US, then the Japanese would have to face it! Because the United States has sent an entire Marine Brigade in Tianjin, with more than 4,000 officers and soldiers!

This unit was made by Smedley Butler (smedleybutle)

) Brigadier General. At this time, Butler was well-equipped because his troops were well-equipped, equipped with tanks and field artillery. What's more, he actually had his own air force, with a number of twenty aircraft! This force was unique among all foreign military commanders stationed in North China. In addition to the Marines, the United States also stationed the 15th Infantry Regiment in Tianjin for many years, and in Beijing, there was a six hundred-man Marine contingent who guarded the US Embassy in full-time!
Chapter completed!