Lost and Spy

Chapter 3000 General Poet
Naoto Matsushiro and Urayo Ishigami have been proven guilty of stealing gold.

In order to minimize the situation, Masaharu Honma did not announce the truth of the matter after careful consideration.

This is also Takuma Shinya's suggestion.

"This is a scandal, one could even say, the biggest scandal since the empire occupied the Philippines."

Takuma Shintani told Masaharu Honma very seriously:
"Will it make us a laughing stock? I'm not in our consideration. The most serious thing is, once the superior knows about this, what attitude will they take towards us?

This will even have an extremely serious impact on the commander's future, and you will lose the trust of your superiors.Also, where is the stolen gold?
Our superiors will order us to immediately recover the stolen Imperial property.As for the exact location of those gold, only Naoto Matsushiro and Puyang Ishigami knew.

Even if we successfully recover it, so what?This serious crime will make us look amateurish and cost us everything. "

Yes, Masaharu Honma admitted that Takuma Shintani was right.

Never before in the history of the Empire has there been such a serious malfeasance.

And as the supreme commander of the Philippines, he must not escape the responsibility.

Everything he got today was all his hard work.

He was an outlier among Japanese officers.

The Japanese are generally short in stature, but his height has reached 1.8 meters, which dwarfs other Japanese officers.

However, many Japanese women flock to him.Naturally, he couldn't resist the temptation because of his romantic nature.

He has been married twice and has affairs with many Japanese actresses, so this has become a topic of conversation among the Japanese army.

He also likes to write poetry, and his foundation is not bad.

Therefore, some people ridiculed him, "Honma, he is a good poet and a talented man, but he just can't lead soldiers to fight."

Probably for this reason, Masaharu Honma has always been unknown in the army, depressed and frustrated.

Until he met Prince Yongren of Chichibu Palace and became his assistant, his fate changed.

This is also due to his "versatile talents". In addition to his love of dancing and writing, Masaharu Honma is also a good player in tennis. Therefore, Prince Chichifather, who loves tennis, often seeks out him for discussion.

It was this kind of "discussion" that opened the way for Masahiro Honma's rapid career advancement.

Afterwards, Prince Yongren liked to take this tall officer with him wherever he went. Masaharu Honma once accompanied Prince Yongren to Germany, where he met with the leaders of the Nazi Party in Nuremberg.

Soon after returning to Japan, Masaharu Homma began to rise step by step.

Masaharu Honma was first appointed as the second head of the Japanese Army's General Staff Headquarters, and was promoted to Lieutenant General only a year later. At this time, Masaharu Honma had shed her position as a general and became a powerful military commander of the Japanese army.

Although his actual combat experience is obviously insufficient, due to the extreme trust of the high-level, he was even once considered one of the four "heroes" of the Japanese army who can be as famous as Yamamoto 56.

However, many senior Japanese military officers were well aware of his abilities and secretly ridiculed him as "General Flatterer".

The implication is self-evident.

Masaharu Honma was also suffocated for this.

In order to prove his ability, he did everything he could on the battlefield.

Poison gas is one of his favorite methods.

Later, Masaharu Honma was transferred to be the commander of the Taiwan Army. While in the army, he still did not forget his literary and artistic creations. The notorious "Song of the Taiwan Dispatch Army" was written by him.

Later, the title of "General Poet" spread wildly throughout the Japanese army.

But his business is not literary creation, but leading troops to fight!

Soon, the Japanese army base camp established the Southern Army to implement the "Southern Aggression Plan", and Masaharu Honma was also appointed as the commander of the No.14 Army.

His subsequent combat mission was to lead the army to attack the Philippines. Despite his extreme lack of actual combat experience, Masahiro Honma bit the bullet and took over the important task of military chief officer.

Actually speaking from the bottom of his heart, Masaharu Homma likes dancing and writing, and he is a bit reluctant to go to war with countries such as Britain and the United States. After all, he especially likes watching Western movies, and he doesn't think his opponent is Japan's enemy in his bones.

But the military order is like a mountain, and it has come, so this battle still has to be fought!

Masaharu Honma was really lucky. As soon as the No. 14 Japanese army landed in Rengain Bay in the northwest of the Philippines, the coalition forces commanded by Major General Wainwright of the United States were vulnerable and soon gave up resistance and moved to the Bataan Peninsula. Direction rout.

Even the Japanese army and Masaharu Homma did not expect the battle to be so smooth.

However, his military talents are really limited.

Especially after the U.S. military retreated, he did not seize a favorable opportunity to destroy the opponent's vital force. The Japanese fighter planes did not blow up the bridges along the way at all. Therefore, the U.S. military was able to escape successfully and saved its strength for the future counterattack against the Philippines.

Therefore, there are many officers in the army who are dissatisfied with him and despise him.

After the crime of stealing gold this time, his competitors are likely to make a big fuss about it, and may even pull him from his position.

Shintani Takuma's words hit his sore spot.

"What should we do?" Masaharu Homma asked thoughtfully, "Should we just pretend that this incident never happened?"

"Yes, it didn't happen."

It never occurred to me that Masaharu Honma just said casually, but Takuma Shinya strongly agreed: "There is no gold stolen, the gold is still in the warehouse.

As for Matsushiro Naoto and Ishigami Puyang, they have long been instigated by the Americans and have been secretly cooperating with the Americans.It is precisely you, Commander, who discovered their plot in time! "

In this way, Masaharu Honma not only has no fault, but has merit.

Homma Masaharu thought about it for a while: "Where is Yamada? He is also one of the insiders."

"Yoshitaro Yamada also doesn't want this kind of thing to happen." Shintani Takuma said with confidence: "His interests are closely related to ours. There, I will persuade him."

"Then, Naoto Matsushiro and Urayoshi Ishigami shouldn't be alive in this world." Masaharu Honma finally made up his mind: "From now on, you will be the commander of the gendarmerie temporarily. Mr. Shintani, I know you are in charge of the Intelligence Section It has been very hard, but I still have to ask you."

"It is my honor to be able to share the worries and worries of your Excellency the commander." Takuma Shintani agreed: "As for the chief of the secret service?"

"I think it will be Shibu Taniguchi." Masaharu Homma already has a candidate: "This person has performed very well in the process of solving the case, and he also has this ability. Moreover, he cannot leave Manila for the time being."

"Yes, Your Excellency." Shintani Takuma said with a smile: "Your Excellency's arrangement is very wise. I believe Shibuya Taniguchi will be qualified for this position!"

(End of this chapter)