Okamura Ninji has a similar experience to Kenji Dohihara, who has been engaged in espionage work in China for a long time, and the famous Japanese spy Yoshiko Kawashima is his subordinate.

During the warlord war, he often sent his military spies to the warlord team as advisers, and later he himself went to Sun Chuanfang as a military adviser, and when Sun Chuanfang fell, he took advantage of the chaos to steal Sun Chuanfang's military map. After the 918 Incident, in order to divert the attention of the international community from the Northeast, Okamura Ninji sent Yoshiko Kawashima and Takayoshi Tanaka to provoke the 128 Incident in Shanghai and send troops to Shanghai, China.

It can be said that Okamura Ninji is no less than Kenji Dohihara's "China expert", and in incidents such as espionage and invasion of China, he has even done a better job than Tohihara. In terms of China policy, he opposed the establishment of the Wang Ching-wei regime, believing that this would provoke the Kuomintang regime in Chongqing and force it to embark on the road of desperate resistance to the war. He opposed the Japanese serving as officials at all levels in the occupied areas, and advocated using China to control China and give "dignity" to the Chinese. He put forward the slogan of "currying favor with Chiang and Aimin," constantly divided the anti-Japanese forces, and advocated concentrating forces to eliminate the "central army" and plotting against the "local miscellaneous army." At that time, he learned that there had been a rape case in the Japanese army, and the military judge defended the soldier who committed the crime on the grounds of insufficient evidence and the fact that the other party had not reported it.

According to his diary in his later years, when he was a commander in North China, he put forward the policy of "no killing, no robbery, and no prostitution." In fact, this "three noes" are more powerful than the "three lights"; on the surface, he restrained the Japanese army's war behavior, but in fact he wanted to buy people's hearts and achieve the goal of occupying China for a long time. The Kuomintang army could not stand the pressure, and more than 400,000 surrendered alone.

Fortunately, there were many high-ranking arrogant warriors in the Japanese army at that time who contradicted him, and the low-level soldiers were used to killing and robbing again, so his policy did not play much role, otherwise it is really hard to say what the outcome would be.

Straight to the point.

Listening to the words of the chief of staff, Okamura Ninji spoke: "The firepower of the Anqing defenders is so fierce..."

Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Sadachi: "According to intelligence, the defense of Anqing is the Yang Sen Department of the 27th Group Army of the Sichuan Army, which is a miscellaneous army in the Zhina area, and it stands to reason that there should not be such a strong firepower offensive, and it only sank several of our ships in a short period of time..."

Okamura Ninji nodded and said, "Yoshimoto-kun, please go and bring me the information of the Anqing Defense Army and the information of the regiment directly under the Shina Military Police." ”

Soon, two documents were placed on Okamura's desk. Yoshimoto Zhenyi: "Your Excellency Commander, do you suspect that the regiment stationed in Anqing will be directly under the Gendarmerie of China?" ”

Okamura Ninji flipped through the information and looked at it, pointed to one of the paragraphs, and said to Yoshimoto: "Yoshimoto-kun, look at this paragraph, does it seem familiar?" ”

Yoshimoto Sadachi picked it up and looked at it, and said with a surprised face: "During the Battle of Songhu, this unit did sink two warships of the Navy in the Huangpu River, and the attack methods were also very similar, but aren't they in the Lanfeng area?" ”

Okamura said: "They have been recalled to Wuhan a few days ago. The Army General Staff Headquarters had issued an order to kill their regiment commander Bai Fei, and then the Mei Agency used the members of the Black Dragon Society lurking in Wuhan to organize an assassination operation against him on the same day, but unfortunately, in the end, the matter was unsuccessful. ”

"Searched for silk." It suddenly dawned on Yoshimoto that his official position was not enough to access these insiders.

Yoshimoto Sadachi said again: "Your Excellency Commander, since it has been confirmed that this unit is now in Anqing, it seems that we are ready to fight a tough battle." ”

Okamura Ninji nodded and said: "You are right, immediately order the Hatian detachment to abandon the ship and land, and after dawn, lead the rest of the army to advance from the land to Anqing, and order the Itai Division and the Hatian detachment to join and attack Anqing together, and at the same time order the 106th Division to move closer to Anqing, and the 5th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery to follow." ”

Yoshimoto Sadachi was surprised: "Your Excellency Commander, in this way, there are only 20,000 people left in our troops in Jiangnan..."

Okamura Ninji said with a solemn face: "There is no vanity under the fame, and against the regiment directly under the military police of China, we must do a good job of treating me completely, and we must not take it lightly." Order the 101st Division to go to the opposite side of the Anqing River to stand by, and this time I will complete the battle. ”

"Hey!"

……

After dawn, the commander of the Japanese Taiwanese detachment, Shigeichi Hata, who had already landed, in accordance with the orders of the headquarters, put the team together and prepared to leave for Anqing.

Last night's attack caused his Pota detachment to lose nearly half of its strength and was almost disabled. At this time, most of the remaining more than 4,000 people were also wounded, and they were like defeated roosters, dejected and demoralized.

The staff officer said on the side: "Your Excellency the detachment commander, the morale of the soldiers is low, if you don't encourage it, this battle will not be able to be fought." ”

Ha Tian Shigeichi gritted his teeth, and said loudly with a brutal face: "Listen, everyone, last night we were attacked by the despicable and shameless Shina people, today we want to take revenge back, not far in front of the Zongyang county town of Zhina, I order you to arrive there quickly, bloody county, there are countless flower girls and gold and silver treasures waiting for you to rob, don't miss the opportunity!" ”

With the encouragement of Hakata Shigeichi, the morale of the soldiers really rose, and one by one they showed greedy and lewd eyes, and shouted excitedly. Seeing this, Hakuda Shigeichi immediately gave the order to march.

Zongyang County is not close to Laozhou Town, not to mention forty or fifty kilometers away, Ha Tian Shigeichi led the troops all the way to march quickly, and when they ran to Zongyang, they didn't even find a ghost in the city, it turned out that the residents here had already ordered Bai Fei to evacuate.

At this time, the soldiers of the Hatian detachment ran for most of the day, not only tired and hungry, but also did not find the flower girl who said good, and they were full of complaints. Seeing this, Hatada Shigeichi had no choice but to order the troops to rest in Zongyang.

At 12 o'clock in the night, the county seat of Zongyang suddenly became agitated, and Ha Tian Shigeichi was nervous for several days, and he couldn't sleep at all, so he woke up immediately when there was a stir. I only heard the direction of the gate of Zongyang County, and there were fierce gunfire and shouts, as if the enemy had already attacked.

Ha Tian Shigeichi was shocked, and was about to call the attendant officer for questioning, but at this moment, the staff officer came over with an anxious face and reported: "Your Excellency Detachment Commander, the Chinese army suddenly besieged us at night, their artillery fire is too fierce, it seems that it is the regiment directly under the Chinese military police that attacked us last night, and now the city gates on the east, west and south sides are already in danger, let's quickly withdraw from the city..."

Shigeichi Harata suffered a heavy blow yesterday, and at first he couldn't even figure out who the opponent who attacked them was, but he only learned from reading the telegram from the headquarters that the other party turned out to be his "dream" opponent ------ the regiment directly under the gendarmerie. It's ridiculous that he also expressed his feelings before, hoping to fight with him, but when he heard the other party's name, he immediately panicked, and hurriedly said: "Quick, order the troops to quickly withdraw from Zongyang County." ”