Just when the 11th Army of the Dispatch Army temporarily stopped attacking Hengzhou, the Battle of the Mariana Islands entered a white heat, defeating the U.S. Navy, the main force of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, and began to turn around to support the Marines and Army in the attack on the Mariana Islands.

In such a situation, the first to come under great pressure was Saipan, whose defenders were gradually compressed to a corner and were dying.

Amid the lively sound of firecrackers, the Shanghai Higher Police School of the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior held a graduation ceremony for the first batch of graduates, Chen Mingxiang and the three deputy directors of the Police Department, and the directors and deputy directors of the Shanghai No. 1 and No. 2 Police Stations.

To this end, the Minister of the Interior, Mei Siping, specially attended the ceremony on behalf of the senior level of the Jinling government, and made a speech to the graduates on behalf of Chen Gongbo, and the secretary-general of the municipal government brought the senior leaders to congratulate.

In North China, Lieutenant General Kato Hajiro, commander of the Gendarmerie Headquarters, and Men Qingyuan, superintendent of the General Administration of Public Security of the North China Political Affairs Committee, were present to congratulate them.

On the Shanghai side of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Kenshiro Shibayama, head of the Mei Agency, Major General Kinoshita Eichi of the Gendarmerie Headquarters, Major General Yoshitaro Kawamoto, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Dispatch Army, Major General Ichiro Ohno of the Marine Corps Headquarters, and Yujo Horiuchi, Consul General of the Shanghai Army, attended the ceremony.

It's a July day, the temperature is quite high, and Chen Mingxiang didn't make it too cumbersome, so I don't know if these graduates will faint from heat stroke.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Kenshiro Shibayama spoke first, followed by Major General Kinoshita Eichi and Mei Jiping, who made a final summary as the chief of police and the principal, and then reviewed the phalanx of cadets and issued graduation certificates, which lasted about two hours, and then announced the end of the graduation ceremony.

Chen Mingxiang held a grand banquet in Wang Baohe Restaurant to entertain all the forces participating in the graduation ceremony, which was also a rare and lively scene.

"Gangcun-kun, I really want to congratulate you this time, the intelligence station in the suburbs of Shanghai that has lasted the longest time in Shanghai will be put to an end, and this will deal a heavy blow to the forces of the Military Command Bureau in Shanghai, which is of great significance to stabilizing the situation in Shanghai, and can be called a great achievement." Chen Mingxiang was on the side of the rostrum and said to Gangmura Zhongzuo with a smile.

"In fact, from finding clues to tracking and surveillance, and then deploying arrests, this is all the credit of Wanlilang, I just assisted from the side, but no matter what, it is always beneficial to the empire, and all the news that came during this time was bad." Gangmura Shizo shook his head and said.

He does not covet the credit of Wanlilang, and as the head of the special high section, as long as it is beneficial to the Japanese side, he will do his best to support it.

"Chen Jun, since I took over as the commander of the gendarmerie in North China, you haven't been there, when will you go to Beiping to sit down, and I will treat you well?" Kato Hajiro said with a smile.

"Isn't this the North China Front at war, I took into account that you have a lot of affairs, so I didn't bother, and when the war stabilizes, I will definitely visit the general." Chen Mingxiang said.

"Director Chen, I am Men Qingyuan, and I welcome you to North China to inspect police affairs in the future." Men Qingyuan said.

The police system in North China is under the jurisdiction of the General Administration of Public Security, and Men Qingyuan is the highest-level leader, but in fact, he should be regarded as Chen Mingxiang's subordinate, because nominally, North China also belongs to the area ruled by Wang's puppet government.

Seeing that Chen Mingxiang was so familiar with Lieutenant General Kato Hajiro, the commander of the North China Military Police, he was also secretly lucky in his heart, but fortunately he did not object to the police department arranging personnel for the police station in North China, otherwise he would have been unlucky.

Chen Mingxiang has a close relationship with the former commander, Major General Otozaburo Yano, which he knows, but he didn't expect that the successor headquarters is also an old relationship, and the boss of the police system is really hand-eyed.

"After a while, I will go to Beiping, this time the Higher Police Academy will distribute personnel to the major police stations in North China, and I will also ask the door supervisor to take care of it and implement the distribution requirements." Chen Mingxiang said.

"Please rest assured about this, I am in charge of this work, there will be no problem in implementing it, besides, this is also a good thing, the students are all trained by imperial experts, and they must have real skills." Men Qingyuan said with some flattery.

One after another, the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau forwarded to Chen Mingxiang the combat situation of the US Navy and Army attacking the Mariana Islands, and on the whole the process was relatively smooth.

On July 6, the 33rd year of the Republic of China, the Battle of Saipan came to an end, and Vice Admiral Saito Yoshiji, commander of the 43rd Division of the Japanese Army, and Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi, commander of the Navy's Central Pacific Fleet, sent a final farewell telegram to the Tokyo base camp.

Then the supreme commander of the navy and army gathered the remaining 5,000 officers and soldiers on the island and deployed a final decisive attack. That night, Lieutenant General Yoshiji Saito committed suicide by disembowelment with a katana, and Lieutenant General Nagumo Tadaichi ended his life with a pistol.

Lieutenant General Smith, commander of the US Fifth Army, was very familiar with the habits of the Japanese army, and expected that the other side would definitely carry out a suicide attack before the final defeat, so he went to the division headquarters of the 27th Division of the Army and told his subordinates to strengthen their vigilance and strictly guard against the Japanese army's suicide charge.

However, the officers of the 27 th Division of the Army did not think so, and they were paralyzed and careless in their thinking, because they had never seen such a scene, so they lacked the necessary preparations to meet the battle, and there was even a large gap of nearly 3,300 meters wide between the two battalions of the US army.

At 4:45 a.m. on 7 July, more than 5,000 Japanese troops suddenly launched a decisive charge, with officers brandishing sabers and leading the charge in the front; some of the soldiers with guns and those without guns were armed with bayonets and clubs, and even the wounded with bandages on their heads and crutches on their hands also limped up, completely ignoring the shooting of the American troops.

The Japanese broke through the gap between the two battalions of the 27th Division of the US Army, and one battalion of the 105th Regiment was immediately dispersed under the frantic charge of the Japanese army, and the other two battalions suffered heavy losses from their own artillery fire.

After the battle lasted for several hours, the 27th Division even incorporated the rear handymen into the combat unit to crush the attack, and this decisive charge alone caused the American casualties to reach as many as 2,000, while the Japanese killed more than 4,000.

On 9 July, U.S. forces advanced to the northernmost tip of Saipan and basically occupied the entire island. In the Saipan landing campaign, more than 3,400 US troops were killed and more than 13,000 were wounded.

Of the Japanese garrisons on land and sea on Saipan, including those who were attacked on the way to reinforcements, a total of 41,000 people were killed. Among them, there were more than 26,000 on the army side, more than 15,000 on the navy side, and more than 2,000 prisoners.