"Since the establishment of the Empire, the Empire of Japan has never had its front troops surrender all at once. Since the establishment of the Empire of Japan, there has never been a situation where soldiers who took off their clothes and surrendered wearing only crotch cloth..."

Hirohito, who was sitting on the throne, suddenly grabbed the tea cup next to him and threw it hard on Tojo Hideki's forehead.

There was a sound of "Bang!", and the teacup broke into pieces. Immediately, the tea and blood mixed into a ball, and flowed down Tojo Hideki's forehead...

"Your Majesty, please calm down..." Everyone leaned on the ground and loudly consoled him.

"How do you want me to calm down? The empire has been humiliated like this. As the emperor, I still need to calm down?!" Hirohito's voice was very calm, but his trembling hands already showed how angry he was now.

North Korea is gone, and the US fleet is approaching Iwo Jima. More than 2,000 sorties of National Defense Force fighter jets have kept him awake all night in North Korea. Now the entire royal family is forced to move into air-raid shelters.

No matter whether it was the navy or the army, Wu Lu no longer dared to say anything about the war to himself. Five of the chamberlains were beaten to death for accidentally mentioning the war.

Besieged on all sides, this word is more suitable to describe Japan's situation now. The battlefield in China was lost, and the battlefield in Southeast Asia was also lost.

North Korea is gone, as is Wake Island, and Guam. From the South China Sea to the Pacific Ocean, Japan, a country with a long and narrow land area, is surrounded by enemies on all sides.

"My ministers, you always say that you are fighting for the empire. So, where are you at this time?!" Hirohito looked at the ministers below, using his originally vague but now extremely precise royal family.

Said in Japanese.

"On one front, more than 58,000 people surrendered. Those who were organized surrendered their flags and sabers. They even took off their clothes and trousers in order to survive and surrendered to the enemy wearing crotch cloth!"

"Are these the soldiers of our Empire of Japan?!" Hirohito said. A convulsive smile appeared on his face: "Maybe, these are the soldiers of our empire..."

"Your Majesty, be careful!" Saionji suddenly stood up after hearing this and bowed: "Your Majesty, all soldiers of the Empire are warriors! Not to mention, countless emperors have sacrificed their lives for the Empire since the Meiji Restoration!"

"How can your Majesty use the behavior of some soldiers to deny the belief that our imperial warriors are serving their lives?!" Saionji knew better than anyone else that at this time, caring for the troops was more important than anything else.

If the morale of the military is not kept in check, Japan may end up in chaos without China and the United States attacking it. In fact, chaos is already beginning to appear.

Strikes, underground rallies and other problems began to occur in arsenals all over the country, and the entire Japanese people were panicked. Gangsters and gangsters were rampant everywhere. Due to the shortage of resources, signs of rebellion gradually appeared in many places.

If Mitsuru Toyama hadn't used his prestige and power in the gray area to help the police and the government settle these matters, perhaps war would be raging all over Japan now.

"My words may be too extreme, but ask yourselves, aren't you ashamed of being a soldier?!" Hirohito quickly understood this point, but as the emperor, it was absolutely impossible for him to admit his mistakes.

"Now the country is in a mess, and the war is about to break out on the mainland of the empire. I hope to hear your constructive opinions - should we surrender, or should we continue to fight?!"

"Wow~" When Hirohito said this last sentence, everyone was in an uproar. They did not expect that Hirohito would surrender on this occasion and under such circumstances!

"Your Majesty! I firmly oppose surrender! We have not failed yet. We still have the empire, a naval fleet, and millions of troops! Why should we surrender?!"

"Your Majesty! You must not do this..."

"His Majesty!……"

After the shock, there were waves of opposition. No one agreed to the proposal, and Saionji was simply dumbfounded. He did not expect that Hirohito would suddenly propose surrender at the imperial meeting.

Although Hirohito once hinted to himself, surrender is not impossible. If it comes to the last step, then in order to preserve the status of the royal family in Japan, even surrender will be necessary.

The interests of the royal family come first, and the rest is the rest.

"Stop arguing! If we only lose the Chinese battlefield, I will continue to fight. Even if we lose the Southeast Asian battlefield together, I will allow you to continue fighting!"

"If there were no losses in the navy, even if North Korea lost me, I would not object to continuing the war. However, after we have lost millions of troops, the navy has suffered heavy losses, and all resources have been exhausted, what do you think I should do?

Can you support the continuation of the war?!"

"The cloud of war has threatened the mainland, and what we are facing now is the disaster of national subjugation!" Hirohito said to these cabinet members sadly: "If you still have the confidence to win the war and can come up with a plan that can win. Then.

I will support you as always..."

"If not, then the cabinet will draft a candidate to go to North Korea to seek peace talks..."

After saying that, Hirohito threw away his hands and left without looking at the faces of these important cabinet ministers, leaving everyone looking at each other in silence. They were a little at a loss now.

Hirohito's approach was beyond their expectations, which resulted in everyone being dumbfounded and not knowing what to do for a while.

In the silence, the blood on his forehead had gradually dried up. Tojo Hideki stood up without saying a word and with a sullen face. He bowed deeply to everyone and then left the imperial meeting.

The rest of the people looked at Tojo Hideki's back with complicated expressions. They knew that Tojo Hideki's future was over. He would have no future, either politically or in the military.

The huge losses in North Korea and the surrender of an entire front army required someone to take responsibility. And Hirohito's proposal of "either putting forward a feasible combat plan or drafting candidates to go to peace talks" was a mess that killed Hideki Tojo.

Tojo Hideki couldn't come up with this, and who in the entire Army Department could come up with such a plan?! If there was a plan to win, the base camp would have done it long ago.

Because they didn't have any, they were forced to die here now.

"I can understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts..." Ishihara Wanji said with a deep bow to Hanyuan Palace in the courtyard of Zai Ren's house in Hanyuan Palace.

"Since the Meiji Restoration, our Empire of Japan has made a lot of achievements. Especially a lot of industrial achievements. These are the foundation of our Empire of Japan..."

"If these foundations are not destroyed, our empire will have the opportunity to rise again." After a pause, Ishihara Wanji continued to the Hanyuan Palace: "If we choose peace talks, then we still have the opportunity to keep these..."

"Even if part of it is taken away, we can still secretly retain our most important industrial base. But if the National Defense Forces invade, then all of them will definitely be destroyed..."

"If these foundations are gone, the empire will really fall in the future..." Ishihara Wanji did not bring up the embarrassing word "surrender", he preferred to use the word "peace talks".

"Ishihara, what you are saying is that His Majesty does not want the empire to be destroyed. But His Majesty's idea is that even if he surrenders, he must keep the hope of the Empire's final rise, is that true?!"

Hanyin Gong Zairen pondered for a while and asked Ishihara with a smile.

"Your Highness, although I don't want to admit it, we must see that it is impossible for us to win this war..." Ishihara smiled and sighed: "The only way to protect ourselves is to surrender..."

"Of course, we also have a choice in who we surrender to." Ishihara Wan paused and whispered a few words quietly into Hanyuan Palace's ear.

After listening to Ishihara Wanji's words, Hanyuan Palace remained silent for a while.

"Your Highness, this is our best choice at the moment. Only in this way can we protect ourselves..." Ishihara paused and said: "Only they don't care about our industrial base, they want ours

We can give them a copy of the design drawings..."

"And in order to contain it, I believe they are also willing to retain our army. Even if the army cannot be retained, as long as we retain our industrial base since the Meiji Restoration, the empire will still have a chance to rise again!"

Kanin Gong Zaijin pressed his palms on the table and said nothing. After a while, he looked up at Ishihara and said with a smile: "What about Tojo?! He and his radical officers will not be so easy.

The surrender..."

Ishihara smiled, leaned down and whispered: "They will make the right choice. If they can't make it, then only we will help them make it..."

"This is for the benefit of all the subjects of the entire empire, and when sacrifices are needed, some sacrifices are inevitable..."

North Korea, Seoul. In the headquarters of the National Defense Forces, Tu Mengben is resting. Since the beginning of the Third Korean War, he has hardly slept in a cell.

Occasionally he would close his eyes and squint for a while, and then he would get up soon. The battlefield was changing rapidly, and he couldn't help but rest. He also had no intention of resting.

Only at this time can he have a good sleep.

And Su Zongzhe held the telegram, hesitating whether to wake up his commander. No one knew better than him the hard work of slaughtering Mengben during this period. In order to completely win the Korean War, he spent almost all his food and accommodation on the staff.

spent in the ministry.

After the battle began, he went to the front line in person for fear of missing any detail.

"Uncle Qi Liu, come in when you are here..." Just where Su Zongzhe hesitated, Tu Mengben woke up. Su Zongzhe looked at his commander apologetically and said: "I see you are sleeping so soundly, I can't bear to disturb you."

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"We can't slack off until the national humiliation is over!" Tu Mengben said with a smile: "After Japan has been conquered, it is not too late to have a good rest after the war." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.

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