The next day.
The 1st Division stationed in Yokosuka was transferred to Tokyo. When the troops reached the vicinity of Bank Street, they found corpses strewn everywhere and blood flowing like rivers. It was practically a slaughterhouse.
They hurriedly inspected the banks and discovered that all thirty-plus banks, large and small, along the entire Bank Street had been looted clean, including the Bank of Japan. Every vault stood empty.
The men of the 1st Division were stunned. What kind of army had appeared out of nowhere, with combat strength so terrifying that it had wiped out over ten thousand men in a single night?
The Guard Force was an elite unit of the Japanese Army tasked with protecting Tokyo's security.
They had supposedly numbered only seven or eight hundred, yet they had annihilated the entire Guard Force without suffering any casualties of their own, while also making off with so much currency, gold, silver, and countless valuables.
What kind of army was this?
Could they have been divine warriors?
Afterward, they had vanished into thin air. No one knew where they had gone. After slaughtering every Guard Force soldier, they had all disappeared, and the police on the perimeter had found no trace of them leaving.
Upon hearing the report, Japanese Prime Minister Hirota Koki was so shocked that he did not know what to say.
The Emperor was furious.
He summoned the entire cabinet, along with the Army Minister, Chief of the Army General Staff, Inspector General of Military Training, Navy Minister, and others, to the Imperial Palace.
Looking at the gathered ministers, the Emperor demanded angrily:
"What exactly happened? Who can give me an accurate answer right now? Which unit did those bandits who robbed the banks come from? How much did they steal? How great are the