Rising to Fame After Graduating from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University

Brigade Commander: “You’ll be the regiment commander. I like fresh recruits like you, full of energy!” Zhang Jiashu: “I like bold superiors like you, too!” Brigade Commander: “But you’ll only have three hundred men, and I won’t give you any supplies. I’ll even take a portion of whatever you capture!” Zhang Jiashu: “Brigade Commander, that’s downright rigged!” Yoshio Shinozuka: “For the Imperial Army to be defeated like this is to lose every last shred of ‘martial fortune’! Look at those commanders. How many regimental and divisional commanders have been replaced, one after another? Has anything changed? No! Same old wine in a new bottle! Even Ningji Okamura has a point. What sort of troops did I command back then? The elite Kwantung Army! And what kind of people are these you want me to lead? What level is the Imperial Army at now? With just a few lousy rifles, you expect the likes of Watanabe to lead the charge. Can he charge? He can’t! He just doesn’t have what it takes, understand? Keep this up and the Eighth Route Army guerrillas will beat us black and blue! We lost in Shanxi, then we lost in Jinsui and Chahar. Soon there’ll be nowhere left to go! On the other hand, the Imperial Army was the first to prepare for the ‘Greater East Asia Holy War’! Oh, thank goodness! Heh. I’ve already said it: you people haven’t made proper plans for these operations! Can you guarantee he’ll win the next decisive battle? Be realistic! Be realistic! I advise you to first get a handle on your tactical command and your whole approach to warfare! Tadaharu Tada was doing a fine job. Why did you sack him? Tell me! You suffered a disastrous defeat in North China. Go on, tell me how you’re going to explain that! You’ve got no shame!”