flstandardbreds Chapter 505 3-Izumi Yanagida Prepares to Rebel Against the Heavenly Gang
Chapter 505 3-Izumi Yanagida Prepares to Rebel Against the Heavenly Gang
After having dinner with her aunt, Bai Luo returned to her bedroom.
However, he didn't go to bed to rest; he needed to sort out the information he had received from his aunt.
According to his aunt, when the Japanese soldiers at the northern fortress learned that the gold intended as war reparations had been robbed, they were furious, and several Japanese officers even committed seppuku because of it.
But it was just impotent rage; the problem still needed to be solved, so he went to the Bear Kingdom to discuss whether they could grant him some more time.
Upon learning this news, the Xiong Kingdom immediately changed the compensation to 100 million units of steel and some rare metals as a substitute.
This made the already impoverished Northern Province Fortress even worse off, according to news from Aunt's informant hidden inside the Northern Province Fortress.
The Japanese soldiers at the North Province fortress had already paid a batch of steel as compensation. They planned to take the rest and then make compensation in Ershi.
I guess they're afraid of being kidnapped again.
After all, it would be virtually impossible to transport so much steel by air alone.
Bai Luo also confirmed the authenticity of the news with Belena.
Not only that, Bai Luo also learned another piece of news from Bellena.
That is, the Xiong Kingdom only gave the Japanese 10 days. The Japanese agreed.
In other words, the Japanese troops at the fortress in the northern province will definitely attack Ershi within 10 days.
It might not even take ten days.
In addition, Bai Xiumei told him some news: Mitsui Yanagida, the former commander of the North Province Fortress who was originally supposed to take the blame for the Japanese defeat, has now been reinstated.
The reason for this outcome is very likely that the Japanese locusts were hijacked.
After gathering all this information, Bai Luo immediately prepared to head to Er City.
He wanted to discuss a strategy with Zhang Qing and Jiang Qing.
Meanwhile, inside the Japanese fortress in the northern province.
Mitsui Yanagida was standing at the window of his office, staring blankly at the scenery outside.
He was clearly thinking about something.
However, at this moment, Mitsui Yanagita's face did not show any joy at being reinstated; instead, it was filled with a deep gloom, making him appear very worried.
The reason why Mitsui Yanagida looks so worried now is that when he received the news from the Imperial Headquarters that he had been reinstated, he also received a private, top-secret letter from Lord Zhong Tiaoyingli.
The letter contained very little information, less than a page long.
But the content above made Mitsui Yanagida's smile instantly fade away.
The letter contained two things, one of which was that their beloved Emperor Tianhuang had been captured.
Moreover, the person who captured their Emperor Tianhuang was, without a doubt, a person from the Dragon Kingdom.
It's unclear whether it was the KMT or the DPP who made the move.
After receiving the letter, Mitsui Yanagida silently added another suspect to his list: the group in Ichi City.
During his time away from his post, he did not remain depressed.
Instead, he kept shuttling back and forth between the intelligence room and his own rest room in the Northern Province Fortress.
The purpose was to understand this enemy force that was nominally funded by the Xiong Kingdom and occupied Er City.
Through these days of meticulous research and from past intelligence, he increasingly sensed that this group of enemies was extraordinary.
Furthermore, by probing the attitude of the Xiong Kingdom, Mitsui Yanagida also confirmed one thing: the enemies of Ershi City were not under the command of the Xiong Kingdom, but simply had a cooperative relationship.
To verify the authenticity of the news, he even used his old connections to contact the spies lurking in the Xiong Kingdom, and from there he confirmed the news's veracity.
After confirming this news, Mitsui Yanagida became even more concerned about the enemies in Er City, but having been dismissed from his post, he was now unable to send spies towards Er City.
Therefore, after receiving Zhong Tiaoyingli's letter, Mitsui Yanagida immediately added Ershi to the list of suspects.
At the same time, they also contacted SWAT intelligence personnel to infiltrate and investigate Er City.
But the information we received was that we couldn't get in at all, or rather, we lost contact as soon as we got in.
However, what terrified Mitsui Yanagida even more was the second thing written in the letter.
That is, Lord Zhong Tiaoyingli's letter was not to ask him to save Emperor Tianhuang, but to ask him to find out the current location of Emperor Tianhuang and then kill him directly.
Ideally, it would look like he died at the hands of the Chinese.
When Mitsui Yanagida saw this place, he was completely startled.
But immediately afterward, Mitsui Yanagida dismissed his guards, wanting to personally contact Nakatori Hidetsu at headquarters.
Zhong Tiaoyingli seemed to have guessed that Mitsui Yanagida would come looking for him.
Therefore, after Mitsui Yanagida sent the message, Zhong Tiaoyingli quickly replied.
Only then did Mitsui Yanagida learn the reason why Zhong Tiaoyingli had given this order.
It turns out that due to years of war, the people of the empire are now filled with war-weariness.
Even conscription has become a major problem. To address this, His Majesty the Emperor has given numerous speeches in the imperial capital and other domestic cities, promoting the benefits of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
But the results are minimal.
Therefore, what the country desperately needs now is an inspiring event to quell the anti-war sentiment among the people.
Imagine if, at this moment, their beloved Heavenly Locust were killed by the people of the Dragon Kingdom. Once this news reached their homeland, the grievances among the people would surely turn into a raging inferno.
Anti-war sentiment among the people can also turn into flames of revenge.
It must be said that Zhong Tiaoyingli is quite good at calculating.
But Mitsui Yanagida was still somewhat hesitant when he heard this.
But the message that Zhong Tiaoyingli sent next ignited a fierce anger in Mitsui Yanagida's heart.
When Mitsui Yanagida finished translating the letter he had just received, he saw that it said the mastermind behind shifting the blame onto him was none other than the Japanese devil Tenko.
Mitsui Yanagida actually knew about this, and as someone who had always received militaristic education, he could accept it.
Whether it was a mistake on His Majesty the Emperor's part in issuing the order to attack the Bear Kingdom or some other reason, he was indeed defeated.
But what followed was something that Mitsui Yanagida found somewhat unacceptable.
It turns out that not only did the Japanese shogunate make him take the blame, but they also expelled Mitsui Yanagita from the shogunate after he married Mitsui Minako, the sister of a shogunate prince, under the pretext that the empire's shogunate could not have the stain of defeat.
Mitsui Yanagida, who is currently stationed at the fortress in the northern province, is still unaware of this news.
After hearing Zhong Tiaoyingli's news, Mitsui Yanagida, who was initially hesitant, began to lean towards Zhong Tiaoyingli's side.
However, Zhong Tiaoyingli did not force Mitsui Yanagida to give an immediate answer, but instead gave him some time to consider it.
8:15pm.
As a biting cold wind blew by, Mitsui Yanagita, who had been standing by the office window for who knows how long, couldn't help but shiver from the cold wind.
At the same time, his previously somewhat dull eyes were quickly filled with gloom and resentment.
At this moment, Mitsui Yanagida had already made his choice in his heart; he decided to obey Zhong Tiaoyingli's orders.
Find your beloved Emperor and then kill him.
With this in mind, Mitsui Yanagida immediately left his office and went to the telegraph room.
He was going to contact Zhong Tiaoyingli and request that a group of skilled fighters be sent over.
First, he went to Er City to gather information, because compared to the Blue Party or the Red Party, Mitsui Yanagida felt that the kidnapping of his own Sky Locust was more likely something that enemies in Er City could do.
In particular, there were poison gas bombs and shells with flames at the tail, as mentioned by Zhong Tiaoyingli.
This made Mitsui Yanagida even more suspicious that the locusts were hijacked by enemies in the city.