funbook-pk Chapter 324 True and False News
Chapter 324 True and False News
The press conference that day was very successful. There were also artillery sounds around the press conference. They were all artillery sounds from the exercise. However, the reporters on the scene did not know that the soldiers kept them all in the city for safety reasons. This made many European and American reporters somewhat unconvinced that a real fighting had broken out.
Many Japanese reporters were like you gave them a shot of adrenaline, taking photos as hard as they could on the battlefield. They came here one after another to attend a press conference, as if they were fighting in the war themselves.
When the newspaper was published, people from all walks of life in Japan believed that victory was imminent. The reason why Li Shaoyi won before was simply because we were too careless and underestimated Li Shaoyi's fighting ability, which allowed Li Shaoyi to win.
Now that several of our divisions have gone there, we will definitely be able to easily annihilate the 72nd Division. No Dragon Country army will be able to show off in front of us.
Dozens of newspapers supported by the Japanese carried out propaganda in major cities in the mainland and Northeast China. Li Shaoyi also got this information, but he was confused at the time. This Gu Ben Zhengxiong said that he had defeated part of our team. Which part did you defeat?
"Is everything confirmed?"
At the division headquarters in Chengde, Li Shaoyi asked his combat staff to confirm with each unit to see which unit had fought with the Japanese.
"Reporting to the division commander, all our troops in the field have been confirmed twice, and no troops have engaged the Japanese."
Wang Manli said with a bitter face that they had made two calls for things that should be confirmed and things that should not be confirmed. This made some local leaders unhappy, as if they were lying.
"The Japanese are playing this trick on us. They are being ridiculous."
Ma Leizi said in disbelief. In his opinion, the Japanese are becoming more and more shameless, even doing such things out of nothing.
"How can you say they're talking nonsense? Immediately forward the news in the Japanese newspapers to reporters who are on good terms with us, and have them quote these Japanese newspapers and publish them on the front page. Since the Japanese want to embarrass themselves, then I will make them embarrass themselves properly."
Li Shaoyi rolled his eyes and did not think about really exposing the Japanese lies, but was preparing to blow up the balloon bigger.
"Commander, the Japanese are unlucky enough to have run into you."
Wang Manli stuck out her tongue and immediately contacted some good reporters here, as well as some European and American reporters. Since they wanted to do this, they had to do it on a bigger scale.
We are constantly winning on the battlefield, and off the battlefield, if you Japanese play a news war, we will make you embarrassed.
In the next few days, many newspapers in Peiping and Pujiang published this news, but unlike some battle reports published by Li Shaoyi, this one only contained text descriptions and no photos.
You know, before Li Shaoyi published the battle report, all the troops liked to exaggerate in the newspapers, and there were not many photos, only one or two occasionally.
But when Li Shaoyi published the battle report, photos were a must, so that people like you wouldn't believe it.
According to the Japanese, only part of the 1st Division had defeated a security regiment under the 72nd Division, captured more than a thousand people, and killed more than 900 people.
All major Japanese media outlets were boasting about this news and also published the Japanese's steps, which stated that in the next half month, the entire 72nd Division would be wiped out and Chengde would be reoccupied.
According to Masao Tanimoto, the troops of two divisions have arrived and are slowly surrounding Chengde. Li Shaoyi's army has begun to retreat to Chengde, and the land previously occupied is slowly being relinquished.
For a time, there was some panic all over the country. After all, all they had heard before was news of victory, and suddenly they heard such news, which was a little hard for everyone to accept.
A teahouse in Peking
"Is it really not possible? It's just a flash in the pan. Compared to the Japanese, our Commander Li is still a little bit inferior. He can only defeat small Japanese forces. When the main force of the Kwantung Army arrives, no matter whether it is the 72nd Brigade or the 72nd Division, it still can't hold out."
A fake foreigner in a suit said this while reading a newspaper.
This guy works in a Japanese trading company and doesn't want the Japanese to lose the war. If the Japanese lose, he's afraid he'll lose his job.
The Japanese trading companies were engaged in forced transactions, relying on the support of the Japanese troops outside the city. Now that the Japanese troops outside the city have been cleared out, their profits have dropped by more than 60%.
Everyone in the business was looking forward to the return of the Japanese army, otherwise, according to the current downward trend, they would soon have to close down.
"We only defeated one security group. Do you know how many security groups Marshal Li has under his command? There are dozens of them. Besides, I don't think the news from Japan is true."
A young student said righteously.
"Young man, come and take a look at these newspapers. If one newspaper is not true, do you think all of them are not true?"
The fake foreigner shook the newspapers in his hands as if his tail had been stepped on.
The others also nodded and basically acquiesced. They also hoped that Li Shaoyi could win, but the problem was that so far, Li Shaoyi had not expressed his position at all.
"When Commander Li appeared in the newspapers before, there were always photos next to him. They were either Japanese corpses or captured Japanese weapons. But now the Japanese say they have won. Have you seen anything else besides this one press release? Although this press release appeared in more than a dozen newspapers, except for the Japanese newspapers, all other newspapers quoted it, which means it was copied in full pages."
The young student expressed his doubts. No one doubted it at first, but after he finished speaking, the guests at other tables were also flipping through the newspapers, and they found that it was exactly the same as he said.
Is there some other meaning here?
"Stop talking nonsense here. A defeat is a defeat. There's such a huge gap between us and Japan. It's not that easy to defeat them. The victories won by the 72nd Brigade in the past were all due to trickery."
The fake foreign devils didn't want the 72nd Brigade to win from the bottom of their hearts.
"You are really evil-hearted. You want to cling to the Japanese and be a traitor."
"You fucking deserve a beating..."
The fake foreigner hated hearing the word "traitor" the most, so he immediately picked up the teapot and smashed it over. The young student was not to be outdone, and the two sides immediately started fighting in the teahouse...