Chapter 239: The Great Fire (5)
"My lord, it's all ready." A gendarme, Shaozo, walked up to the black Nissan limousine and bowed to the rear window to report. The thirty-centimeter-thick bulletproof window was slowly lowered, and the gendarme in the back seat nodded his head, then turned his head to look at Matsuoka Yoyo beside him.
"Your Excellency, the troops are in place." Nakasa said in a deep voice.
"Quartet, I don't know if you have heard of an old saying in China, called "the tail is too big to fall". Matsuoka said with his eyes closed and his face expressionless.
"I've heard of it, Your Excellency." Nakasa bowed slightly to Matsuoka, and then grabbed the handle of the door.
"Then I'll go first, Your Excellency... Yes... For those who belong to the "chrysanthemum agency", will it be disposed of as well? As if he suddenly remembered something, he turned his head again and asked respectfully.
"Quartet, the base camp sent you here this time, not for you to ask questions." Matsuoka opened his eyes and replied with some dissatisfaction.
"Hah! Your Excellency, I was rude! Quartet Zhongzuo hurriedly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.
If you want to ask the most powerful Japanese official outside the country today, I am afraid that it is the foreign minister Matsuoka in front of him. In order to deal with the diplomatic incident in Shanghai, Matsuoka received the highest authority from the cabinet, and Hirohito specially issued an imperial decree to him, unless some people made up their minds to be "national thieves", no one in the Japanese army or navy dared to play anything with this person at this critical juncture.
"Sifang, I know what you're worried about, that person greeted you before you came to Shanghai." Matsuoka took a deep breath and sat up straight in the back seat.
"Before leaving Tokyo, Lieutenant General Dohi did meet with me, but he only briefed me on the situation of Shanghai's intelligence network and did not talk about other issues." Gendarmerie Nakasa eagerly explained.
"Tu Feiyuan is a shrewd guy, and the responsibility he needs to bear, naturally someone will investigate it, so don't get involved, it won't do you any good." Matsuoka raised his hand and waved it, and he continued: "The malfeasance of the Shanghai Military Police Command is shocking, and it is so shocking that the Nanking intelligence agency has been allowed to swell to such a size, and now someone must come forward to take up this responsibility. When the 76th really develops to the point where the "tail is too big to fall", how should the headquarters of the Central Branch Dispatch Army deal with itself? How can the authority of the imperial army be guaranteed? Isn't there a single person in the entire Army General Staff Headquarters who has thought of these problems?! Matsuoka's tone was quite stern, and a cold sweat couldn't help but break out on the forehead of the Quartet.
"Hah! Your Excellency, I understand, and now I will go to the scene and direct the operation. "Quartet's head hadn't been lifted since just now, and if it weren't for the lack of space in the back seat of the carriage, he would have sat down in front of Matsuoka.
"Remember, only take care of our own business, and do not try to interfere with the actions of the Germans." After speaking, Matsuoka waved his hand and signaled that the other party could leave.
"Huh!" Quartet bowed again, then reached out and opened the door.
The assistant military attache sent by the base camp to assist Matsuoka in his work was the head of the Second Section (Police Division) of the Japanese Military Police Command and the person in charge of the special high school affairs.
The so-called special high-tech business is in charge of the cooperation between the gendarmerie and the special high police, because in many cases the military police have a larger scope of authority than the special high-tech police, and the armed level of the military police is also higher than that of the police, so when the Japanese special high-tech department deals with difficult cases, the metropolitan will seek military assistance from the gendarmerie, especially in the Japanese occupation zone in China, in order to deal with the endless underground anti-Japanese forces, the two sides have carried out quite close cooperation.
This time in the Shanghai incident, Tegaoke was naturally involved, but for this group of secret police, it was a completely unwarranted disaster. When the mutinous troops crossed the Baidu Bridge, the men and horses of the special high-tech department were scattered in the Hongkou and Zhabei areas, looking around for clues to the assassins, but when the secret police figured out what was happening, the dust had already settled on the Bund, even the dancers on Hongkou Hotel Street, I am afraid that the news was known earlier than them.
In this incident, the German marshal and the Japanese foreign minister were assassinated by "agents assigned by Chongqing" in front of the whole of Shanghai, and the special high section chief in charge of public security and espionage work, Gudu Police Department, was of course the best scapegoat; it is said that the 47-year-old police department was slapped more than a dozen times by Major General Maeda, who served as the headquarters of the 13 th Army, and then threw him on the earliest passenger ship of the day and transferred back to China to be investigated by the organization.
If nothing else, Gu Du's fate can already be determined, he will probably be transferred to a rural police station, serving as a public security policeman for a lifetime, and if he is unlucky, he may be transferred to a small island to spend the rest of his life with a group of vulgar fishermen.
However, the evidence presented by the Germans also proved that some police officers in the special high department were indeed involved in this conspiracy. In this way, Gu Du is not too wronged, although he did not directly participate in the planning of the conspiracy, but he also knows nothing about this matter, which is enough to prove his dereliction of duty and incompetence.
In addition to cleaning up the mess left by the Shanghai gendarmerie, the Quartet was mainly responsible for the military police business related to the special high police, not to mention that the Japanese military police do not look down on these black-skinned people on weekdays, but in the follow-up handling of this incident, they must rely on and rely on the ability of the special high school, especially in dealing with problems related to Japanese expatriates, which has always been the strong point of this group of special high police.
It should be mentioned here that the uniforms of the Japanese police are pure black, and when the national police were first established, many high-level police officers learned policing in Japan, so the police of the Republic of China also wore black uniforms. During the period of the Wang puppet regime, the subordinate police uniforms also continued the design of the national government, with black uniforms, black large-brimmed hats and white collar badges, leggings and white hat walls, which has become a classic image of the police of the Republic of China. In the early anti-Japanese films and television, people often mistakenly thought that they were puppet soldiers, but in fact these people were local security police.
"Are they all in place?" Don't look at the Quartet Nakasa behaved like a pet dog in front of Matsuoka, but when he arrived in front of his subordinates, he immediately turned back into the famous Quartet Shura in the gendarmerie system.
"It's all in place, my lord." The adjutant bowed to the four sides and presented the folder with both hands.
"Who is the commander in charge on the German side?" Quartet flipped through the folder and raised his hand to take the pen handed by the adjutant.
"It's Count Stauffenberg, the German Army's junior officer." The adjutant replied.
"Count?" Quartet looked up.
"Yes, judging by the information given by the German side, he is still a special observer sent by the German High Command."
"Is it an intelligence officer?" The Quartet signed their names on the signature column of the document, "It doesn't look like it at the moment, it should be a regular army officer." The adjutant took the folder signed by his superior.
"Don't worry about this for now, is Zuo Zuo Dazuo of the Eighty-fifth Wing in the house?" The four squares sorted out their sabers, and strode towards a house on the side of the road with the scabbard in hand. The house had been requisitioned by the personnel of the 85th Wing at this time, and an Army Rising Sun Flag was diagonally planted on the air window at the top of the door.
In order to accomplish this operation, Major General Masashi Maeda, the current acting commander of the 13th Army, issued a death order, and at the time of the accident, Maeda was the commander of the 13th Army Corps, and he belonged to the chief officer, and his actual position was the head of the Shanghai secret service. Now the army commander and chief of staff have been dragged out of the tank, but the acting commander knows very well that sooner or later this pot will be deducted from his head, in order to save the future of himself and his family, he can only find a way to make meritorious contributions, otherwise he may be like those unlucky people in the headquarters of the Southern Branch Dispatch Army, who were not only forcibly discharged but also deprived of their military rank and reputation.
For the sake of the secrecy of this operation, Maeda did not use the army troops stationed in Shanghai, not only because the shit on the buttocks of these troops has not been wiped off, but also because these people and all the forces in Shanghai have a deep or shallow friendship.
The acting commander was really anxious now, and even said something like, "If you don't succeed, everyone will become Buddhas", and those present at the time looked at Maeda Nakatsu's bloodshot eyes, and it was obvious that he was not joking with everyone.
In order to ensure that the news of the operation would not leak out, he did not mobilize military trains until the night before the plan began, and transferred four infantry squadrons under the 85th Wing of the Japanese Army stationed at West Lake from Hangzhou overnight.
"Captain Zozo." Quartet walked into the door and stood up and saluted neatly.
This is the guest hall of the private house, and there is a table of eight immortals for eating in the middle, and at this time, the pillar of Sasa's true pillar, Dasamasa, and several staff officers in the wing, gathered around the table to check the map spread on the table.
"You've come just in time, Quartet Chief." Captain Zuo Zuo returned the salute with a smile, and then said: "The troops have been in place according to the plan, what to do next, the command command, said that you are fully responsible." ”
Before he became the commander of the 85th Wing, he was engaged in technical, communications, teaching, staff and personnel work. Historically, this Sasa Shinnosuke finally became the commander of the 39th Division Lieutenant General, but was captured by the Soviet army in the northeast, and was extradited to the people's government by the Soviet side after the founding of the country.
Judging from his confession, this is a war criminal whose hands are stained with the blood of anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, because he has a better attitude of admitting guilt, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison, but he did not return to his hometown in Japan alive, in 1959 Sasa Shinnosuke died of cancer in the Fushun War Criminals Management Center, he was also the only Japanese war criminal who died in prison, and the other 44 Japanese war criminals all survived to the amnesty of 63 years.
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