PNB Chapter 406 The scene was in chaos
Chapter 406 The scene was in chaos
Yamashita Tomoyuki looked at his shoulder in disbelief, where blood was flowing.
Nani! ?
When Major General Matsuzaki heard the gunshots, he no longer cared about anything else. In this emergency situation, he directly asked Kitahara Ransuke to put Sugiyama En and Terauchi Hisaichi into a Nissan sedan and drove them to the hospital under escort.
Then several people rushed directly to Yamashita Fengwen, protected him with their bodies, and helped him into the car.
Major General Matsuzaki shouted at the scene, "Don't shoot at random! Don't shoot at random!"
Seeing that many soldiers were still holding their guns nervously, Major General Matsuzaki continued to shout: "Point the muzzles of your guns downwards, and everyone face outside. It's very likely that the gun was discharged accidentally!"
It has to be said that Matsuzaki is an old spy after all. Having been doing counterintelligence work for so many years, he has a deep understanding of things like assassination.
He quickly concluded that this was probably not an assassination but an accident, otherwise Yamashita Tomoyuki would have been standing there and there was no reason for the assailant not to fire a second shot.
Besides, there was martial law within a 200-meter radius, so how could the murderer sneak in?
Soon, the person who fired the shot was found. He was a military policeman who was responsible for protection on the inside. To be precise, it was not him who fired the shot. It was the damn Type 14 Nambu pistol that went off accidentally!
The military policeman was pinned down by several people and tied up in no time. He was so scared that he burst into tears. "It's not my fault! I wanted to save the general, and my pistol went off while I was running!"
Major General Matsuzaki cursed inwardly, wondering what the headquarters was thinking. This kind of gun has been criticized for more than ten years, why is it still in use?
I won't mention here the reasons why the Type 14 Nambu has been criticized. In addition to its extremely unreliable performance and the firing pin always breaking so that a spare one has to be issued with the gun, the gun's design is also full of flaws.
The first and foremost thing is that the accidental discharge rate of this gun is definitely much higher than other firearms. The safety of the Nambu Type 14 is a rotary type, but compared with other firearms that are mostly equipped with rotary springs or have a small rotation range, the way the safety of the Nambu Type 14 is opened is quite strange. It requires the user to turn the safety 180 degrees.
You can imagine the usage scenario of a pistol. By the time you take out the gun, turn the safety 180 degrees, and load the bullet, the enemy will already be dancing on your corpse.
Therefore, whether it is combat or an important security mission like the current one, soldiers generally choose to keep the safety of their pistols on and the bullets loaded in advance.
Logically speaking, even if this is the case, nothing will go wrong if you are careful.
At this point we have to mention the peculiar trigger guard of the Nambu 14 Type. Although the trigger guards of the later batches of Nambu 14 Type have been enlarged a bit, the trigger guard of this pistol produced in the past was surprisingly small and looked like a ring.
It’s okay if you use it with bare hands, but the key is that soldiers need to wear gloves in winter.
This results in soldiers often choosing to put their fingers on the trigger in tense situations, but the overly small trigger guard means that as soon as the soldier's gloved finger is put in, the trigger will be triggered, and an accidental discharge will occur.
It’s just that the victim of today’s accidental firing incident was too special. He was actually the chief of staff of the North China Front Army.
It is foreseeable that the fate of this soldier who accidentally fired the weapon will not be good.
Now, there was no need to prepare any welcome party, the three brothers met directly in the hospital.
The entire city of Peking was on high alert that day and the city gates were closed at one point, making the people in the Red Zone and the Peking Station very nervous, not knowing what was going on.
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Although the headquarters had tried hard to keep the news secret, the news that the three generals were injured at the same time inevitably spread like wildfire.
That's what rumors are like. Even if you have made every possible precaution, these rumors are like air and can be exchanged and transmitted spontaneously.
After a few more days, the news began to change as it spread.
"Hey, have you heard? The three high-ranking officers of the Japanese are all injured, and one of them was shot!"
"I say, keep your voice down, don't you want your head anymore? I finally came out to eat a bowl of wontons, and you're still not quiet."
At a wonton stall, several diners were having an excited discussion.
Now the food supply in the city of Peking has finally stabilized. Because a large number of soldiers of the front army have gone to the south, food consumption has decreased, and the supply of food on the black market has become more sufficient.
Therefore, some small stalls that had previously closed due to lack of raw materials were secretly reopened, and the Japanese turned a blind eye to this. As long as there was no order to crack down, no one wanted to go to the streets to search.
"Grandma! If it weren't for those damn devils, we wouldn't have ended up like this. Eating a bowl of wontons is a rare achievement! Maybe you don't know this, but I have reliable information. They are having an internal conflict!"
"Internal strife? No way, can they fight each other?"
"If it wasn't an internal conflict, why were three high-ranking officials injured at the same time?"
When the people around heard this, they thought it made sense and came over with their bowls in hand.
"Excuse me, could you tell us about it?"
Some even offered bribes directly, "Boss, give this gentleman a portion of fried meatballs, hurry up."
The fried meatballs sold at this kind of stall are mostly radish meatballs, which are not worth much and you can buy one for just a few dollars.
But being treated by others is a kind of recognition.
The man eating wontons felt proud of it. He pulled his collar and said seriously, "I just said it, and you just listened to it. Don't spread it around!"
"That's natural, don't worry."
"That's right, just say it with confidence, whoever spreads it is a grandson!"
"Okay, then I'll reveal a little bit. A high-ranking official of this Japanese had a conflict with another high-ranking official. It didn't matter that they had a conflict. The emperor of the Japanese said, since the two ministers are arguing endlessly, I will send an imperial envoy to mediate. The imperial envoy came. Since the imperial envoy came, the two officials had to go to pick him up even if they didn't get along. But they didn't expect that when they were picking him up at the train station, the two of them started arguing again. It was not enough to just argue, they also had to fight. The Japanese imperial envoy was also unhappy. You two are not giving me face! Well, the three of them just started a full-scale fight! During the fight, the gun went off accidentally, and the imperial envoy's head was almost blown apart!"
Everyone was so excited when they heard it!
"What happened next?" someone asked impatiently.
The man who was happily eating the fried meatballs given to him by others couldn't help feeling a little guilty when he heard this question.
later?
How would I know what happened later?
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"Kitahara-kun, are you okay?"
In Kitahara Ransuke's office, the two were drinking tea and chatting.
Kitahara sighed when he heard this. "Don't mention it. General Terauchi's arm was broken, and General Sugiyama's eyebrow arch was broken. They are now completely disfigured. As for Chief of Staff Yamashita, although he was shot, it's not serious. He will be fine after a period of recuperation. This incident has shocked even the headquarters, and they have repeatedly sent telegrams to ask about it. It's simply a scandal!"
Speaking of this, Kitahara muttered to himself.
Could it be that Sugiyama Yuan was a cursed person? How come such a thing happened to him just after he arrived in Peking?
On second thought, that's not right. It might be that General Terauchi's luck is bad. He just had his butt blown up some time ago, and now he broke his arm.
This is a big deal!
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ps. It’s the winter solstice, are you eating dumplings or drinking mutton soup? Happy winter solstice! I wish you all a warm and cozy winter and continued prosperity!