On October 9, 1937, the battle for the defense of Baoding was in full swing, at the most blazing time.

Baoding is far away from Beiping, about 160 kilometers, if you take the train Shunping-Han Railway to the south, it takes about four or five hours (the speed of the Republic of China is slower), this place has always been the governor of Zhili, after the Xinhai Revolution and became the provincial capital of Hebei, but also the Japanese army must take place.

In order to capture Baoding, the Japanese army dispatched four standing divisions, two heavy artillery brigades, and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's aviation regiment, which was advertised as "90,000 troops", but in fact, it had already evacuated the Pingjin area, and all the mobile troops, except for a very few key points, were still guarded by the Japanese army, and many other checkpoints had already been replaced by the puppet army of the "North China Provisional Government".

Of course, the huge city of Beiping is no exception.

When the sun was approaching dusk, a group of more than ten Japanese soldiers, under the leadership of a young man, drove two cars, one large and one small, and hurriedly arrived at the Assorted Garden in Beiping, which is located on the edge of the inner city of Beiping, close to the Lama Temple and Xizhimen, which is the suitable garden where Wu Peifu lived.

These devil soldiers are some rough people, regardless of the elegance of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and regardless of who lives inside, holding the butt of the 38 big cover, they slammed into the Zhumen, and scared the people in No. 23 Assorted Garden Hutong into panic, and closed their doors one after another.

It was half a ring before an old servant answered the door.

Although the servant is old, he is a veteran of Beiyang, and he doesn't seem to be very afraid in the face of bright bayonets and menacing devil soldiers.

The old servant bowed slightly, and asked calmly, "I don't know if you princes, what do you think about coming here?" Our master is sleeping now, so please come back another day, how about it? ”

This Japanese soldier Shaozuo is shorter, but his body is very stout, with a horizontal face, he is an authentic Japanese Imperial Army, he doesn't look good, and his temper is not very good, he stretched out his hand and gave a slap, and he also took out the command knife, wanting to give the old servant a dismount.

I saw this guy scolding viciously, "Baga, it is Your Excellency Takagi who has invited you, Wu Peifu, don't excuse yourself, otherwise, you will all die."

The old servant's fire rose at once, but he also knew that Beiping was the world of the Japanese army, and no matter how good his skills were, he could not withstand thousands of Japanese soldiers.

He had no choice but to hold back his anger and snort in a low voice, "Taijun, if that's not the case, please wait here, let me report it first."

"Yo West", the Japanese army Shaozo only needs half a sentence is enough.

Then he didn't bother to pay attention to the old servant, but kicked the door open, and at the sound of an order, the remaining Japanese soldiers rushed into the Wu courtyard like locusts.

The first thing I saw was a photo wall, which reads "Guotai Min'an".

When a group of Japanese soldiers bypassed the wall, they arrived in the courtyard, surrounded by a bungalow, in the center of two or three old pine trees, the ground is some flowers and green grass, next to a stone table, a few stone benches, but before Shao Zuo could go crazy, Wu Peifu, who was wearing a homespun robe, had already come out.

After all, Mr. Wu is a general of the Republic of China, and he has also commanded millions of troops, almost unified the whole of China, and is a big man in the Republic of China, and he is not very afraid of the arrival of the Japanese army.

Wu Peifu is of medium stature, with a slightly gray beard, but his eyes are bright, looking confident and resolute, even if he stands there quietly, he has a majesty.

As soon as the Japanese soldier Shaozo saw that the main lord had arrived, he immediately became polite.

This guy immediately took out a wooden invitation, handed it over respectfully, and invited very politely, "Ziyujun, the contemptible person is Kawashima Kiyohara, and now he is the adjutant of General Takagi, His Excellency the general will hold a banquet in Beiyuan outside Beiping City tonight, please come on time, please."

The general of the Japanese army invited him to the banquet, and Wu Peifu was also stunned, and asked in some surprise, "You are from the 20th Division, aren't you stationed in the Shanhaiguan area, how did you come to Beiyuan in Beiping?" And how can I, with your generals, have never known each other in our lives, invite me to a banquet? ”

Kawashima Shaozo replied very respectfully, "Ziyujun, this was originally a military secret, but you are a friend of our Imperial Japanese Army, and it doesn't hurt to tell you, due to the urgency of the war on the front line, there is a gap in the strength of Beiping, so the headquarters is secretly stationed in the northern suburbs of Beiping."

"Our general, deeply like the Chinese civilization, is an authentic Chinese expert, in the past with the karate master Funakoshi Yoshizhen, have learned some boxing and martial arts, please come to the banquet tonight, one is to exchange oriental culture, and you become friends, the other is to ask your Excellency about the current situation in China."

This makes sense.

Since Sun Chuanfang was invited by Lao Jiang to Nanjing, and Mr. Wu stayed in Beiping alone, even after the fall of Pingjin, he still stayed in Beiping City, plus his old department Qi Xieyuan and others, is the big red man in front of the Japanese army, so the Japanese puppet enemy especially thought that he had the heart to vote for Japan, for a while, all kinds of lobbyists were endless, and it was not surprising that General Takagi Yoshito wanted to get acquainted with him.

Although Wu Peifu boasted of Yue Fei, he once scolded the big traitor Jiang Chaozong who came to lobby, "being old and not dying is a thief", saying that Qi Xieyuan would "die without a place to be buried", and later reprimanded Wang Jingwei as a "famous traitor" and "shameless and cheap", but the Japanese still often came to persuade him to surrender, of course, the Japanese puppet army has been busy invading Baoding in the past few days, and there is no time to pay attention to this old thing for the time being.

Therefore, the commander of the 39th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Yoshito Takagi, wanted to entertain Wu Lao, and it was logical that Mr. Wu couldn't twist his arms and thighs, so he had to go with Kawashima Shaoza.

However, the Japanese spies who specialize in spying on Kure have a different view.

As soon as they saw that Wu Peifu was about to be taken away by others, they didn't care about hiding, and immediately got out of all the dark corners, and stopped in front of this group of Japanese soldiers in a daze, the number was a little small, there were only three or four spies, and one of them was a traitor in civilian clothes.

Seeing the flickering bayonets in the cold light, the spies were also a little weak-hearted.

The spies led by the leader bowed again and again, and while hurriedly taking out their documents, they shouted loudly in Japanese, "Ladies and gentlemen, please don't misunderstand, we are all our own people, we are people from the special high-tech department of the Imperial Japanese Army, we belong to the North China Intelligence Agency, and our boss is Araki Daisa."

Kawashima Shaosa has been working in North Korea all the year round, his personality is extremely rough and savage, and his temper is not very good, he only knows that these people are hindering him from doing things, so he does not answer, and he is a sideways gift, and the spies led by him are kicked unconscious, and the others have to look at each other, and they are like cicadas for a while.

When Shao Zuo's murderous mistake passed, a soldier with the team came to talk, probably afraid of retaliation, very politely handed the spies some military tickets, let them take the wounded to heal, in case they were really kicked to death, it would be a big trouble in the future.

Jun Cao explained very kindly, "I'm sorry, our Kawashima chief, when Manchuria exterminated the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, was attacked by the Chinese guerrillas, and there were still a few shrapnel in his head that were not taken out, and his personality was a little irritable, but General Takagi took care of him very much, so he was rude."

"Nani, Sogasne, Kawashima Shaosa turned out to be imperial heroes, oops, we were rude", these spies nodded their heads and kept apologizing, while looking back at the lonely and lonely Kawashima Kiyohara, all admired for a while, they really deserved to be the warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army.

However, they had a task on their side, and they had to inquire one or two more, and a small spy asked with a flattering smile, "By the way, you are General Takagi's subordinates, right?" Aren't you stationed near Shanhaiguan? ”

The young Jun Cao was about to say a few more words, but Kawashima Shaoza was already too lazy to wait.

I only heard this guy roar, "Baga, the car has started, come here, hurry up-".

Don't say that one thing overcomes one thing, wild things descend monsters.

Kawashima Shaosa's loud shout made these spies shrink their heads uncontrollably, and they no longer dared to ask questions, and hurriedly sent the team of Imperial Japanese troops away.

Fortunately, the general situation, they have already figured it out, as for the rest of the things, they only need to ask the servants in the Wu Mansion again, and they can report to the special high-tech headquarters, as for other things, they can't take care of it, and they just have a good time.

This group of spies reported through layers and reached Kenji Dohihara's ears, almost two hours had passed, and the sky was already dark.

Although Tu Feiyuan is the head of the secret service, he is supervising the army in Dingxing County at this time, commanding his 14th Division, together with other Japanese troops, to attack the Baoding city wall, and he has no time to deal with these at this time, but Wu Peifu's matter is very important, so he has to call Takagi Yoshito in person.

Yoshito Takagi and his 39th Brigade were indeed stationed near Beiping at this time.

Since Tu Fei Yuan has been dry for a long time, he is more accustomed to talking around when he speaks, so he did not explain the reasons one by one, but asked him if he had arrived in Beiyuan, and if there was a banquet tonight, it was best to pay more attention to safety issues.

And Yoshito Takagi is also a little confused.

I thought that Tu Feiyuan had taken a fancy to him and hoped that he could participate in the Baoding Operation, so Major General Takagi replied very respectfully, he had prepared a banquet and waited for the news of the victory of the imperial army at any time, of course, he hoped to go to the front line immediately and fight side by side with his predecessors.

For some uncultivated, Kenji Dohihara didn't want to listen to it, and after a few perfunctory words, he ended the call with confidence, and then called the secret service in Beiping, asking them to wait near Beiyuan, and as soon as Wu Peifu returned home, he immediately "protected" it strictly.

On October 10, the Japanese army broke through the walls of Baoding.

Pingjin and its mainland Japan began to celebrate the "great victory of Baoding", especially ordinary Japanese people, and spontaneously organized lantern parades, but Tu Feiyuan was anxious, because the number one object of the intelligence department, Wu Peifu, mysteriously disappeared.

When the intelligence headquarters of the Japanese army in North China questioned Major General Yoshito Takagi and asked him for Wu Peifu and Kawashima Kiyohara Major Sa, this guy asked the east and the west, and he didn't know anything.

This guy has also repeatedly stated that his subordinates do not have such a person as Kawashima Kiyohara at all.

However, a small group of his subordinates did suddenly disappear when they were secretly on duty on October 9, and because the 39th Brigade was secretly driven into the suburbs of Beiping, even if something happened to him, he did not dare to launch a large-scale search, and Takagi Yoshito also wanted to find the secret service in Beiping, or the garrison in the Pingjin area to help find someone.

However, the agents are very suspicious people.

The first object of suspicion was Major General Yoshito Takagi, and it was too difficult for this guy to justify himself, not only did there happen to be a small group of troops on duty, but also the spies near the Wu Mansion also said that they were "attacked by the imperial army that knew karate".

In Japan before World War II, "karate" was not popular, because kendo was more popular at that time, and only by practicing kendo could you kill enemies faster and help them achieve success.

When the spies briefly described it, Kenji Dohihara immediately locked on the apprentice and grandson of Funakoshi Yoshizhen, Takagi Yoshito is Funakoshi's proud protégé, so even if this guy is not the mastermind, he will definitely not be able to get out of the relationship, so he was invited to prison that night, and a group of spies will serve him well.

Where is Wu Peifu?

He is exploring the way in the Taihang Mountains with Major General Liu Yicheng.

Needless to say, the person who took him away was not the Japanese army at all, but Shang Qing'er's "Ryukyu Restoration Army".

These people were originally from the genuine Japanese army, and now they have reappeared as Japanese soldiers, and they don't need any makeup at all, but Major General Liu was a little troublesome, so he had to be wronged to be a military Cao.

This group of "Japanese troops" is indeed quite bold.

Fortunately, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in North China were busy invading Baoding, the capital of Hebei, and the soldiers were relatively tight, and all kinds of security measures were not so strict.

There is no doubt that the Takagi Brigade is one of the hardest hit areas.