Chapter 20: The Secret War
The attack of the 55th Division became more and more intense, almost to the point of madness, and often one broken squadron had not completely withdrawn, and the other squadron shouted to launch a new round of attack. In the face of such an intense attack of the 55th Division, the British troops stationed in Mandalay were dumbfounded, in fact, the equipment of the British army was not weaker than that of the Japanese army, but the Japanese army's way of fighting had already made many British soldiers on the verge of collapse.
When the British army first entered Mandalay, there were still nearly 10,000 British troops, but only half of the British troops stationed in Mandalay could continue to fight. Watching their companions or friends drown in artillery fire was a torment for the British soldiers, and some were even calculating when it would be their turn to die under Japanese fire.
The three lines of defense placed by the British on the outskirts of Mandalay were not as impregnable as they claimed, and by the time the Independence Army arrived on the outskirts of Mandalay, the 55th Division had already broken through the first line of defense of the British army. If it weren't for the fact that the scouts of the 1st Independent Division attacked the artillery wing of the 55th Division, the 55th Division, which was eager to shrink its strength, would not have given up the defensive line that had already been in hand, but now, the 55th Division, which had made a comeback, broke out with strong combat power, and in only three days, it would have broken through the two lines of defense of the British army in a row.
Only the last line of defense remained, and Mandalay was exposed in front of the Japanese army like a woman stripped naked, and the anxious British army immediately came to the rescue of the 1st Independent Division, but Chen Geng and others always had a reason to refuse the British army's request for help. The U.S. government's decision to join the Allies in advance had completely disrupted Zhuo Fei's follow-up plan, and for now, Zhuo Fei had no choice but to order the Independence Army troops to avoid a confrontation with the Japanese army as much as possible and delay time, and he was still waiting for a reply from Chongqing.
The Japanese intelligence department once arranged and bought a large number of agents and traitors in the high-level in Chongqing, and it was only because of the appearance of Zhuo Fei that the military commander cracked a large number of agents and traitors who worked for the Japanese intelligence department. In the same way, the military command has never relaxed its efforts to send agents to the Japanese mainland, and although the military command's operational strength is not as efficient as that of the Japanese intelligence services, under Dai Li's instructions, the military command has also had several senior agents settle down in the Japanese mainland.
"Wind Chime" is only a code name mentioned in the classified materials of the military commandery, and no one except Dai Li himself knows that this wind chime is actually the highest-ranking person in the military commander's base camp of the hidden Japanese army. Kogura Kenji is the name of the wind chime in Japan, and the married Kogura Kenji looks as inconspicuous as many staff officers in the Japanese army base camp, and no one knows that the weak wife in Ogura Shaosa's family is actually a sleeper of the military commander, and the two of them have been lurking in Japan for more than four years.
Every evening, Kenji Ogura always turns on the radio on time, and others have always thought that Kokura Shaoza likes to listen to the news, but when the signal and radio frequency band of the secret radio finally come from the radio, Kenji Ogura and his wife cry with joy. For a long time, Kenji Ogura was looking forward to receiving instructions from the Military Command Headquarters, but four years have passed, and the Military Headquarters seems to have forgotten that there are still two of them, and now, the order has finally arrived.
Almost trembling and sending out a message, while waiting for a reply from the other end of the radio, Kenji Ogura finally couldn't help but take a sip of sake. "Qing'er, the headquarters has not forgotten us, and the country has not forgotten us." Kenji Kokura, whose face was full of tears, opened his arms and hugged his fragile wife tightly in his arms, who was already in tears. The radio finally replied, and when Kenji Ogura read the translated message, his frown suddenly relaxed.
The day after Kenji Ogura and his wife used the radio to contact the headquarters of the military command, a guest came to his house, Kurokawa, who was also wearing a military uniform and wearing the rank of junior savior, came to visit. Like Kenji Kokura, Kurokawa was also an operational staff officer in the Japanese base camp, the only difference was that Kenji Ogura was part of the army, while Kurokawa was part of the navy. After checking according to the joint code, Kenji Ogura stretched out his hand and held Kurokawa tightly, although they belonged to different camps before, but after the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, they already belonged to the same family.
"I really didn't expect that Kurokawa-kun would be a member of the CCP." Kenji Ogura sighed as he poured tea for Kurokawa. When I was in the military headquarters, I traveled opposite Kurokawa countless times, and I always thought that I was the only lurker hiding in the Japanese army base camp, but what I didn't expect was that the CCP also arranged the lurker in the Japanese army base camp.
Compared with Kenji Kokura, the older Kurokawa seems a little wooden, but when Kenji Kokura mentions the task, Kurokawa immediately seems to be a different person. "Ogura-kun, the mission I received is basically the same as yours, the U.S. government has announced that it will join the side of the Allies, and the headquarters analyzes that the Americans will soon enter the war. The U.S. government had already drawn up a comprehensive plan, but the U.S. government's sudden decision disrupted the domestic plan, and the headquarters asked us to do everything possible to push the Japanese Navy to attack Pearl Harbor and occupy Hawaii, so as to delay or prevent the U.S. military from entering South Asia. ”
Kurokawa received the same task as Kokura Kenji, and when he first received this task, as Kurokawa behaved at the moment, Kogura Kenji actually didn't know the bottom of his heart. However, after exchanging information with Kurokawa now, Kenji Ogura, who is good at analysis, finds that this task does not seem to be very difficult to complete. After careful deliberation with Kurokawa, the two men immediately split up, and the success of the Japanese war in China made most of the officers and men of the army have the idea of occupying all of Asia and getting involved in Central Asia.
Kokura Kenji, who seized the opportunity, took the opportunity to secretly link up with the low-level officers of the army, and timely mentioned the rich resources of South Asia and his concerns about the imminent entry of the United States into the war, and always mentioned in his words that the Philippines was the sphere of influence of the United States. The arrogance in the bones of the Japanese will be revealed as soon as it is provoked, and under the deliberate instigation of Kenji Ogura, more and more of the many low-ranking officers in the Japanese base camp began to preach the slogan of attacking South Asia.
Kurokawa also duly joined forces with naval officers, and in a naval tactical exercise, he not only regarded Hawaii as his false target, but also publicized the importance of the Pacific Ocean to Japan. Kurokawa was so radical that there was naturally no good fruit to eat, but his arguments not only spread among many naval officers, but also won the admiration of Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet at the time.
In fact, while the navy was actively training, Yamamoto Isoroku had been plotting an opportunity for the navy to go out, and Kurokawa's argument was exactly what Yamamoto Isoroku wanted. Kurokawa, who was imprisoned, was not even confined before the confinement period arrived, so he was ordered to be released from confinement by Yamamoto Fifty-six, and not only was promoted to a rank to become a lieutenant, but also transferred to Yamamoto Fifty-six.
With the opportunity to get close to Yamamoto Isoroku, Kurokawa did not dare to waste this opportunity in vain, and while continuing to maintain contact with Kokura Kenji, he tried his best to persuade Yamamoto Isoroku to launch an attack on Hawaii. Yamamoto Isoroku was very interested in Kurokawa's plan, but he did not express his position for a long time, Japan and Germany were allies, although the German army had forced France to surrender and was actively attacking the British mainland, but Yamamoto Isoroku was still waiting for the news that the United States was indeed going to join the Allies.
A week later, definite news came that the US government was about to make a decision to join the side of the Allies and intended to send a fleet to the Philippines to protect American interests in South Asia. Just when Yamamoto Isoroku was already shaken, the news that a large number of officers in the Army Headquarters had asked the Army to transfer troops to take over the whole of South Asia and seize resources, and the news came one after another, and after learning that the Army was already making a plan to seize the whole of South Asia, Yamamoto Isoroku immediately ordered the Navy Headquarters to begin formulating an operational plan for attacking Hawaii.
Knowing that the Japanese Navy had begun to formulate a plan to attack Hawaii, Zhuo Fei sent the entire process of the Japanese attack on Hawaii that he knew in history to Kurokawa through the radio, and Kurokawa subtly added these things that Zhuo Fei told himself to the navy's plan through the convenience of his position. The only thing that is different from the history that Zhuo Fei is familiar with, there is a second part of Kurokawa's attack plan, which is the complete occupation of Hawaii by the Combined Army.
Yamamoto Isoroku was very satisfied with Kurokawa's plan for the attack, and after negotiating with the army, an agreement was reached between the navy, which had always been in the same position for the first time, and the army. The Navy's Combined Fleet will undertake sneak attacks and attacks on U.S. naval bases in Hawaii, while the Army will take on the task of controlling and rebuilding Hawaii's defenses after the war.
"Great, let's let them go dog-eat-dog first, let's just make a lot of money in silence, once Hawaii is occupied by the Japanese army, it will be the beginning of our major counteroffensive." Zhuo Fei, who received the information, was overjoyed, in order to wait for the arrival of the big counteroffensive, he had already paid too much on the domestic battlefield, if it were not for the hard support of sufficient logistics supplies, the troops on the front line who confronted the Japanese army would have collapsed many times.
The time for the Japanese navy to make a specific attack has not yet been obtained, but the Ruili training camp has already begun to carry out various preparations before the major counteroffensive, and a large number of ammunition and supplies have been transported to Shanxi and Shaanxi in batches. Units of the New Army, which had already entered the two places in batches, also began to move frequently, and as soon as there was a change in the situation of the war, they would enter the theater of operations as soon as possible.