On 25 and 26 July, Senior General Umezu Yoshijiro, chief of the General Staff of the Army General Staff Headquarters, and Senior General Shiro Kawako, chief of the Naval Command Department, summoned important operational staff officers of the Southern Army, the Taiwan Island Garrison, the Dispatch Army, and the Home Defense Forces of the Japanese Navy and Army to Tokyo for a secret meeting.

The meeting was to announce orders to the General Headquarters of the Japanese Home Defense Forces under the command of King Minoru Higashikuremiya in Japan, the General Headquarters of the Southern Army under Marshal Toshiichi Terauchi in Manila, the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army under Marshal Shunroku Hatata, and the General Headquarters of the Kwantung Army under General Otozo Yamada, as well as the units directly under the headquarters of the base camp.

The base camp's latest decision was to hold the Philippines, Taijima, the Ryukyu Islands, and the mainland, and the new operational policy had been approved by the Emperor, codenamed Operation Jie.

"Jie-1" represents the Philippine Lubin operation, "Jie-2" represents the operation for Taiwan and Okinawa, and "Jie-3" represents the operation of the mainland; The Jet-4 fought for Hokkaido.

Shoichi Amano, senior operational staff officer of the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army, who attended this important meeting, reported the contents of the meeting to the principal generals after returning from Tokyo, and Major General Yoshitaro Kawamoto, who was also deputy chief of the General Staff, was naturally qualified to attend as an observer.

As deputy chief of the general staff, he was responsible for the procurement of materials in Shanghai by the troops under the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army on the one hand, and the special agency in charge of the 13 th Army on the other hand.

When he came back from the meeting, Yoshitaro Kawamoto specially went to Chen Mingxiang to chat and drink tea, the purpose was originally to talk about the material transaction, but he just talked about it by the way.

Now that the Eleventh Army's third attack on Hengzhou has begun, even if the content of this conversation is a leak, it will not cause any serious consequences.

At this time, Chen Mingxiang also completed the enrollment of the second batch of students of the Shanghai Higher Police School of the Police Division, and this time it involved the enrollment of 300 latent personnel from the bureau headquarters, and he did not make it too grand, he only invited Major General Kinoshita Sakae to speak, he gave a lecture, and the entrance ceremony was over.

"I've heard before that the 11th Army Headquarters has an extremely powerful code interception and deciphering agency, but I didn't expect that even the top-secret military orders of the Shancheng Government Military Commission could be deciphered, since I already know the content of the rescue operation of the Shancheng Government Army, then the Eleventh Army will definitely be able to occupy Hengzhou this time." Chen Mingxiang had to say two nonsense words.

The Japanese army besieged Hengzhou and launched three strong attacks in a row, and the situation of the 10th Army was very bad.

However, the Military Commission could never have imagined that the directives issued to the participating units would be deciphered by the intelligence agencies of the Japanese army, and this would bring a catastrophe to the Tenth Army.

The reinforcements could not arrive in Hengzhou for a long time, and the will of the Tenth Army to fight hard for more than a month was bound to be seriously affected, and it can be seen from the two battles that the troops of the Tenth Army were all good, they were not afraid of fighting, and they were not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice!

But the question is, when there is no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, how can this battle be fought? Hungry for war? Fighting with bare hands?

"I'll tell you one thing in advance, according to the instructions of the base camp, Shibayama Kaneshiro, the top military adviser of the Jinling government, is going to get out of the way, and going to the Ministry of War as a deputy official should be regarded as a high promotion to work in the central department."

"During the period when he took over as the top military adviser, the imperial military's management of the Jinling government was basically a waste of energy, and the base camp asked the Jinling government to provide war materials for the war, but you see, everything was a mess."

"The empire shipped a large amount of gold to buy cotton cloth and cotton yarn in Shanghai for military use and in exchange for scarce materials, but the merchants in Shanghai sold a large amount of cotton cloth in private, and also smuggled cotton cloth and cotton yarn into the national control area, and such behavior was not punished."

"More importantly, the grain collection work is in a difficult situation, and one-third of the imperial army troops in central and northern China are not fully fed, which also greatly reduces the combat effectiveness."

"After the meeting, Marshal Shunroku Hata had dinner with us, and he expressed strong dissatisfaction with the work of Kaneshiro Shibayama, if it weren't for the current situation, coupled with the preservation of the face of the empire, he would have wanted to transfer Lieutenant General Kagesa Akira back to take charge of the Mei agency a long time ago." Yoshitaro Kawamoto said.

In all fairness, Kaneshiro Shibayama did not make any outstanding achievements in the post of head of the Mei Agency, which is also related to the gradual deterioration of the general situation, and the traitors of Wang's puppet government are not unwilling to work hard for their masters, but they are really incompetent.

The behavior of killing chickens and eggs for eggs has led to the exhaustion of the resources that can be used at the moment, and when the army is in chaos, where can so many materials and food be provided to the Japanese army?

Their own government officials, puppet army troops, and police still need food relief! In between, of course, he took care of himself first, anyway, he didn't, and if he had the ability, he would revoke the Wang puppet government!

"Since General Shibayama has been promoted to the Ministry of War as a deputy officer, who is the new head of the Mei Agency? How's the personality? Chen Mingxiang asked.

From his point of view, Shibayama Kaneshiro will not have much impact on him if he continues to remain as the head of the agency, but it is also a good thing that he is gone, and Kitazawa Taira's biggest strength comes from the trust of Shibayama Kanshiro, his old superior.

"It is Lieutenant General Yazaki Kanten, who was just promoted on June 27, he is a member of the 36th class of the Imperial Army University, served as the head of the secret service of Guangdong Province, and was promoted to major general, and then served as the head of the General Affairs Department of the Port City Governor's Office in the 31st year of the Republic of China, and according to the arrangement, he will take over the post of head of the office of Kanshiro Shibayama at the end of the month."

"As for his personality, he is not as ruthless as Shibayama Kaneshiro, after all, he is also a person who is about to retire, and this time the position of head of the agency, I guess it should be a transition, and it will not have any impact on you."

"Kaneshiro Shibayama threw a mess, and Chairman Wang's situation in Japan is not good, and it is already the greatest hope to maintain the current situation." Yoshitaro Kawamoto said.

In the face of Chen Gongbo and Zhou Gaohai of the Wang puppet government, it is estimated that the Japanese side has also lost confidence, and it is estimated that the Japanese side has also lost confidence, and if they can take care of themselves without dragging Japan down, even if they are burning high incense, the mainland is facing the attack of the US military, and it seems that they will have time to take care of themselves, how can they have spare time to deal with this group of traitors in the Wang puppet government?

After Yoshitaro Kawamoto left, Chen Mingxiang immediately asked Wang Zhen to convey the news to the bureau headquarters as soon as possible, and the Military Commission issued a telegram order for military operations to rescue the 10th Army, which had been deciphered by the Special Intelligence Division of the 11th Army Headquarters of the Japanese Army, and the rescue operation would be intercepted by the Japanese army.