The best way to tell if Yuyuki Hamaguchi is in an area is based on how the lights change at night.

Just after 12 o'clock in the evening of August 12, when Li Mao found that the lights in the direction of Hamaguchi Yuyuki's office were out, he knew that Hamaguchi Yuyuki was ready to go back to sleep, and immediately ordered all the snipers to concentrate fire on the corridor of the official residence.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Thirteen PZB18 large-caliber anti-tank sniper rifles opened fire at the same time, and the high-powered point-50 caliber armor-piercing blasting rounds were concentrated in the corridor of the prime minister's official residence.

It was an enclosed corridor, but it was all made of wood, and it couldn't stop the anti-tank sniper bullets.

Especially at this time, the bullet is no longer the ordinary armor-piercing blasting bullet used by Zhang Meng back then, but the 50-caliber special gun bullet for special forces specially produced by Haines Arms Company, which is several times more powerful than before.

In an instant, splinters of wood flew sideways, flesh and blood were splashed, and the planks on both sides of the three-meter-long corridor area were suddenly shattered by high-powered special sniper shells.

Yuyuki Hamaguchi's left leg was shot, and in that moment, his entire left leg was gone, and sticky crimson blood spurted wildly. Several bodyguards around him were also caught off guard and were shot and killed, all of them were torn apart and flesh and blood were flying.

The gunshots were heard three seconds later, which immediately alarmed nearby Japanese security guards.

They rushed to the corridor as soon as possible, confirming Li Mao's judgment that Hamaguchi Yuyuki must be in the corridor.

"Three rounds of rapid fire!"

Li Mao gave an order, and at the same time pulled the trigger, and the muzzle of the gun trembled again and sprayed a dazzling fire.

In just one minute, the corridor area of the Prime Minister's official residence was completely razed to the ground, and more than a dozen Japanese security guards who rushed to reinforce were all killed, and their bodies were torn apart everywhere.

Seeing the flickering firelight in the distance, several experienced bodyguards understood that their pistols could not reach each other at all, so they could only notify the army reinforcements. But Yuyuki Hamaguchi is bleeding non-stop, and he must lead the other party away as soon as possible. So several bodyguards took on the costumes of Yuyuki Hamaguchi and fled from different directions.

Sure enough, the two snipers who were lying in ambush nearby did not hesitate to open fire and kill them.

They then sent out a successful signal flare, and Li Mao knew that it was not advisable to stay here for a long time, and killing the Japanese prime minister would be tantamount to provoking the entire Japanese government, so he immediately ordered a retreat, and directly withdrew all the commandos from Tokyo overnight.

In fact, Yuyuki Hamaguchi died of blood loss within a minute of being shot.

However, the Japanese military and government sides who arrived later unanimously chose to block the news, and the next day it was announced that Hamaguchi Yuyuki was injured and hospitalized, which made Li Mao and others who received the news very annoyed.

The clock went back to three hours ago.

Zhang Cheng, the consul general of the Tang Empire in China, was in charge of the entire Greater China region, and he had been following Zhang Meng's orders to recruit talents from all walks of life from Chinese mainland to the Tang Empire on a large scale.

With the outbreak of the Tang-Japanese War, Zhang Cheng had a new task, that is, to pay close attention to all movements in the Northeast.

The time has entered August 1931, the situation in the Northeast is becoming increasingly unstable, and the friction between the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Northeast Army garrison is continuous, and the saber rattling is tense. With the Nakamura Incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army began to conduct large-scale military exercises near the various headquarters of the Northeast Army in Shenyang, and each time the Northeast Army guarding there felt a lot of pressure.

Because the elite main forces of the Northeast Army were all in the Guannei to help Jiang Zhongzheng fight the Central Plains War, so the left-behind troops in the Northeast were not opponents of the Japanese army at all, Zhang Xueliang ordered the left-behind Northeast Army to "not resist, not allowed to move, put the gun in the warehouse, stand to die, everyone becomes benevolent, sacrifice for the country", no matter how the Japanese army provokes, the Northeast Army must endure.

Zhang Xueliang was short-sighted and did not see clearly the real purpose of the Japanese Jihua's annexation of Northeast China, he thought that as long as he did not resist and did not provoke the Japanese, he could avoid war, and finally proved him wrong, and it was a big mistake, and he gave the three eastern provinces to the Japanese and became a sinner for the ages.

The Northeast Army's family background can be described as thick, and Zhang Meng is currently unable to prevent the Japanese from annexing the Northeast, but he is not happy to see Zhang Xueliang, a loser, give all the rich family wealth left to him by Zhang Zuolin to the Japanese. If Zhang Xiaozi knew something, he would definitely jump out of the coffin and scold Zhang Xiaoliuzi and beat him.

Zhang Cheng has always maintained close contact with the senior officials and generals of the Northeast Army under Zhang Meng's special secret order.

The strength of the Northeast Army is very strong. In particular, after Guo Songling's reorganization, the Northeast Army eliminated most of the bandit habits, built a new type of army, navy, and air force units, purchased planes, tanks, and artillery, and set up military academies to train talents, so that its combat effectiveness rose sharply, and this was also the key factor for the Northeast Army to be able to win the Zhifeng War. After Zhang Xueliang took over the Northeast Army, he still inherited Guo Songling's idea of army building, so that the strength of the Northeast Army could be preserved and not weakened, and his family base could continue to expand.

If we talk about the family background alone, it can be said that the family background of the Northeast Army is thicker than that of the Central Army, and the army, navy, and air force are not comparable to Jiang Zhongzheng, who has just risen from the Central Plains War, in terms of equipment, combat personnel, logistical support, and the training of reserve personnel.

But what Zhang Meng values most is not the weapons and equipment and industrial facilities of the Northeast Army, because he knows that those things are difficult to obtain, so Zhang Meng is staring at the naval and air force combat units within the Northeast Army, as well as the former Guo Songling's old department in the army, which has no banditry, and the students of the various departments and martial arts halls of the army, navy and air force established by the Northeast Army.

The Tang Empire now needs to be equipped with equipment, money, and food, but there is a shortage of people, especially trained naval and air force talents. The training of personnel in the Northeast Army began in 1922, when Zhang Zuolin learned from the painful defeat in the First Zhifeng War and began to open various schools of the army, navy and air force on a large scale to cultivate outstanding command and combat talents, so by 1931, there were more than 10,000 outstanding command and combat talents in the army, navy and air force in the Northeast Army, and as many as 100,000 talents were being trained in the school, and these people were what Zhang Meng really needed.

Among these talents in the Northeast Army, some of them jumped to the Tang Empire under the temptation of money and super high treatment, and some of them were in a state of vacillation, but most of them were unwilling to turn their backs on the Northeast Army or leave the Northeast.

Zhang Meng knew that there was no political party in the Northeast Army, and the officers and men did not have a clear program of struggle, and the only thing that supported them to stay there was because their homes were in the northeast, and no one wanted to leave their hometowns. Another factor is the word "righteousness" in the hearts of the Northeast people, it is very shameful to be treacherous and treacherous to seek glory, since the era of Zhang Zuolin, the word righteousness in the rivers and lakes has taken root in the Northeast Army.

treats such people, Zhang Meng appreciates them.

Zhang Meng was not in a hurry, because he knew that the Japanese were in a greater hurry than him. After the Japanese invaded the three northeastern provinces, these persistent officers and soldiers in the northeast had to leave their homeland, and when they repeatedly received orders not to resist, Zhang Meng believed that they would eventually give up following Zhang Xueliang and find a new lord who would support them in resisting Japan and recovering their homeland.

Looking at the whole Shijie, the only one who dared to fight the Japanese head-on was Zhang Meng and his Tang Empire, so Zhang Meng believed that one day these Northeast troops he fancied would be used by him.

It's just that before this, Zhang Cheng was ordered by Zhang Meng not to force the talents in the Northeast Army who were temporarily unwilling to come to the Tang Empire to serve, as well as the students of the major military academies in the Northeast, but to try to have a good relationship with them, so that if they plan to leave the Northeast Army and leave the Northeast in the future, they will be the first to think of going to the Tang Empire.

Zhang Cheng also did things in strict accordance with Zhang Meng's orders. Although he didn't know that Zhang Meng asked him to prepare thousands of ships and transport ships, and they were all placed on the front line of Yingkou, Jinzhou and other Bohai Bays.

Is something big going to happen in the Northeast?

Zhang Cheng has thought this more than once, in his eyes Zhang Meng is a person who is becoming more and more impenetrable, which makes him a little nervous, for fear that a person who accidentally messes things up will make Zhang Meng unhappy, after all, he is a person with a 'criminal record'.

It was precisely because Zhang Cheng was particularly concerned about what was happening in the northeast that a part of the intelligence personnel under his command quickly reported to him a shocking secret, that is, the Kwantung Army Command had secretly issued an order to attack Shenyang by force, because Japanese Prime Minister Hama Kouxiong had been assassinated, and there was no one to restrain the Kwantung Army before the new government was formed.

Zhang Cheng repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the news, so he immediately sent back an urgent secret message to the Ministry of Defense of the Tang Empire.

It was precisely because of Zhang Cheng's secret telegram that Zhang Meng confirmed that the Blue Fox Special Service had successfully assassinated Yuyuki Hamaguchi three days ago, and the Japanese Kwantung Army dared to take action because they knew the news that Yuyuki Hamaguchi had died.

Ninety-one-eight, it looks like it's going to be sooner than expected.