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A group of staff officers in the General Staff Headquarters of the Kwantung Army Headquarters quarreled.

Staff officers are a unique landscape of the Japanese army, they are always the most energetic and daring. How many great things they pushed forward and, at critical moments, retreated Japan to a different path.

Now the question they are discussing is how to evaluate the military strength of the anti-Japanese coalition forces, whether to suppress the bandits first or destroy the Soviet army first.

The discussion was already a little eyebrow-raising, and a staff officer wearing round glasses said: "I don't think the anti-Japanese coalition forces are not to worry about at all. They are bandits and peasants. According to our intelligence, there were Soviets among them. Without these Soviets, they would have been wiped out like the volunteers in southern Liaoning with a single blow. ”

Another staff officer said: "Impossible, you have to pay attention to the combat strength of the volunteers we just analyzed. They once broke through Harbin, broke through Jiamusi, made trouble in Xinjing, and launched a major uprising in North Korea that shocked North Korea. They are very agitating and combative. ”

The round glasses staff said: "Wrong! There was a certain element of fluke in their victories these times. Think about it, our military is insufficient, and these large cities are in a state of emptiness. In addition, they had new weapons with the assistance of the Soviet Union, so they were surprised and won by luck. If it is really powerful, why take the initiative to run back to the mountains? ”

That staff said.

The round glasses staff said: "Wrong! There was a certain element of fluke in their victories these times. Think about it, our military is insufficient, and these large cities are in a state of emptiness. In addition, they had new weapons with the assistance of the Soviet Union, so they were surprised and won by luck. If it is really powerful, why take the initiative to run back to the mountains? ”

Another staff officer said: "The Soviet army is strong. Our attack on the Soviet forces in Outer Mongolia would create a situation in which the empire would fight on two fronts. This is very disadvantageous. ”

The round glasses staff officer said: "The imperial army has the world's largest combat power due to the spirit of sacrifice for the emperor, and even those divisions and regiments can win victory on the front line of Shanghai, Yangtze River and Wuhan, our Kwantung Army is wrong!" There was a certain element of fluke in their victories these times. Think about it, our military is insufficient, and these large cities are in a state of emptiness. In addition, they had new weapons with the assistance of the Soviet Union, so they were surprised and won by luck. If it is really powerful, why take the initiative to run back to the mountains? ”

The staff officer retorted: "I don't think we can rule out that someone deliberately put out false information to induce us to make mistakes. ”

The round glasses staff said: "What mistakes did you induce us to make?" ”

The staff officer was also very quick in his rebuttal, and said, "For example, induce us not to destroy the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese army." ”

The round glasses staff said: "Excuse me, if it is deliberately inducing us, it must be a strict and delicate plan, right?" ”

The staff officer said, "Not bad. ”

The round glasses staff officer said: "Do you think they are the staff officers of the Imperial Japanese Army?" If they have turned up the wrong information, why do they have all kinds of information that contradict each other? If it's a scam, it's too crude. Such a scam can't even fool children. ”

The staff officer had to refute, but he was speechless.

The Japanese are interesting, they are the best tacticians in the world, and their plans are extremely refined and unparalleled. This can be seen from how many campaign plans.

However, they are extremely lacking in strategists and lack strategic thinking. During the Second World War, many of the major decisions were made by gambling: when a problem was recognized, no action was taken, and instead of a chance victory, it was gambling. Such examples, catch a handful, Pearl Harbor, Normenkan, the Pacific War, and so on.

Naturally, they don't think it's a scam when it's full of loopholes.

The round glasses staff debate prevailed, and said: "As for the false information you said, I also agree, and these pieces of information are." You see, this part talks about how strong the anti-Japanese coalition forces are, how they have a lot of advanced weapons, and this part they have a lot of food. No way. I think this is false information that they put out. Analyzing its purpose, first, the Soviet Union wanted to focus the attention of the Kwantung Army on the anti-Japanese coalition forces, so that we could no longer concentrate enough troops to destroy the Soviet troops on the border. Second, the anti-Japanese coalition forces bluffed in order to curry favor with the Soviet Union and get more aid from the Soviet Union. False information, to deceive us, is so hateful. It's just unbearable. Insult our intelligence! ”

Eloquent.

The others were silent.

Indeed, his evidence is strong. It is said that the anti-union is strong, the numbers and details do not match, and the numbers are very exaggerated. It is said that the anti-union is not good, but there are many reasonable details.

A soldier walked in and said, "Report to Tsuji Shaosa, there is a new telegram, still from X." We have deciphered it. ”

Tsuji Shaoza is called Masanobu Tsuji.

The content is as follows: the road has returned to Yichun and is about to go to the USSR. Fifty Yan'an cadres went to Yichun. Yichun is severely short of food. The number of troops was sharply reduced. There were Soviets in Yichun. Zhao Shangzhi died. The Southern Liaoning Volunteer Army suffered serious attrition. Marshal of the Far Eastern Front of the USSR: Šteln. Blyukhel left office in August 38. The members of the Military Committee of the Far East of the USSR all left their posts in August 38 and are now vacant.

Tsuji stopped arguing with everyone and began to study this piece of information. Soon, the results came in. Other staff officers also participated in the analysis, but the conclusions were very consistent, and the vast majority of them were positive about this information, and only one doubted its authenticity. Tsuji Shaozo said: "This piece of information is very important, and it needs to be reported directly to the chief of staff. ”

The chief of staff, Ryosuke Isoya, got this piece of information, as well as the analysis report of the General Staff Headquarters on this information: "1, the road back to Yichun, is consistent with other intelligence. 2. Cadres from Yan'an. New information, to be verified. 3. The Soviets in Yichun are consistent with other intelligence. 4 Soviet Far Eastern Front: Consistent with other intelligence. 5. Yichun was seriously short of food, and a large number of troops were disabled, which is consistent with other intelligence. 6, Zhao Shangzhi died, to be confirmed. 7. The Liaonan Volunteer Army was sharply reduced, which was consistent with the news of the spread of the plague. The plague is yet to be confirmed. ”

In the past few months, the Kwantung Army has devoted a lot of energy and almost half of its investigation force to whether the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army will be destroyed and how to clear the remnants. The information received is always contradictory and unclear. Almost every half month, there is new and important information, and new information is investigated.

Because of the unclear situation, the determination to clean up the crackdown has been delayed. Every time it is formulated, the situation changes. And so it dragged on until now. However, from March onwards, the Soviet side moved more, which attracted more and more attention from the Kwantung Army.

The Kwantung Army had previously received information that the Soviet Far Eastern Army had indeed undergone a dramatic personnel change. Intelligence says that the Soviet Far Eastern Front: members of the leadership of the Front: Commander: Marshal of the Soviet Union B.K. Blyukhel in July-August 1938, Director of the present in August 1938, Šteln (army rank).

Member of the Military Committee of the Far Eastern Front of the USSR: Mazepov (divisional commissar level) July-August 1938. Currently, this position is vacant.

Ryosuke Isoya has obtained five copies of such information. The source of the intelligence is very strange, but judging from the fact that the password used is the password of the North China Front Army in 37, it should have been sent back by the group of arrested people from the North China Command. The accuracy of all three pieces of information is very high.

The first and second pieces of information were about the Anti-Japanese Union and the reorganization of the advance army. The telegram sent the names of the various columns and the names of the commanders. The telegram was long, so it was sent twice. The General Staff verified that all the information was correct. The so-called correctness means that it is completely consistent with the information from several other channels.

Most importantly, in the process of verifying these two pieces of information, two errors in the previous information were corrected.

The third piece of information was to escort a traitor to Yichun on a certain day. According to this information, the Harbin secret service set up an ambush and snatched the traitor of the Anti-United Nations.

The fourth piece of information is that the anti-coalition forces in various localities are seriously short of food, resulting in riots and even mutinies, and some big figures have disappeared. This one has not been fully verified. The mutiny has been verified, but the missing bigwigs have not been confirmed.

Opinion of the General Staff Headquarters: This source of intelligence is highly reliable. You can refer to. The analysis is that he was a staff officer of the General Staff Headquarters of the North China Army who was arrested the year before last. There are several identification marks in the intelligence, which appear to be miscoded on the surface, but in fact only insiders have mastered this identification method. The North China Front has confirmed that the sender should be Taro Okabe, a former staff officer of the General Staff Headquarters of the North China Front.

According to the base camp's investigation report on Taro Okabe, it is believed that Taro Okabe is credible.

This extremely important source of information alarmed the commander Kenkichi Ueda.

At the moment, Kenkichi Ueda is facing an important action, a major one. He needed more reliable intelligence. Now, with this reliable, intelligence source from within Yichun, this operation can be realized.

It is enough to confirm that the chaotic anti-Manchurian forces of the anti-Japanese advance forces in various places are no longer good and have collapsed.

Ueda Kenkichi, or the Kwantung Army, to be precise, the Kwantung Army's staff officer Masanobu Tsuji is just one chance away.

The opportunity really came a week later.

Masanobu Tsuji now served as an operational staff officer in the Kwantung Army, and he is the negative number one in this volume. His experience was thrilling and thrilling. Looking at the character of the Japanese, he is a good example.

Staff Officer Masanobu Tsuji concluded in his intelligence analysis that Iharu had collapsed without a fight and was no longer the main enemy of the Kwantung Army. We must take action against the Soviet Union in line with the grand strategy of the base camp. The future direction of the empire is in our hands.

Staff Officer Masanobu Tsuji will introduce it later, and now, if you don't know this person, then you should remember his name. If you don't know this Tsuji character, then I tell you, the pronunciation of this character is two hundred and fifty ten ten, food, make, real, are all one pronunciation.

Tsuji, a Japanese kanji meaning crossroads, is the same as Yamada Matsushita and others, and is used as a place name as a family name.

Masanobu Tsuji knew English, and during his studies at Lu University, he learned Chinese and Russian. Looking at his character, I can't say how smart he is, I can only say that he is paranoid and hardworking.

He took Ishihara as an idol and looked at his description of the worship of Ishihara's madman: "The way the seer teacher (referring to Ishihara Waner) observed objects, and the way of thinking about China, Manchuria, and East Asia, made me take a 180-degree turn from the idea of rights and interests to the thought of morality. ”

Not long after graduation, Masanobu Tsuji came to China and participated in the 1.28 incident. Injured in the knee, Masanobu Tsuji received the Order of the Golden Eagle of the 5th degree and returned to Japan.

In 1933, Masanobu Tsuji was active in Lanzhou, Suzhou and other places in Gansu Province for more than a month, conducting the project "Investigation of Soviet Infiltration into Xinjiang".

Masanobu Tsuji's superior is Hideki Tojo. In September 1932, Masanobu Tsuji was transferred to the First Section of the General Affairs Department of the General Staff Headquarters, also known as the Mobilization Establishment Section, and the head of the section was Hideki Tojo. The following year, he was promoted to lieutenant and transferred to the third section of the War Department, that is, the fortress section.

In 1936, after the 2.26 Mutiny, Hideki Tojo wiped out the imperial faction in Manchuria, and Masanobu Tsuji was filled in the Kwantung Army. At this time, there was a turning point in his life. It took Masanobu Tsuji a month to read the relevant materials on the Manchurian Incident, and he was deeply conquered by Ishihara's spirit of "going down and going up." Since then, Ishihara has been his idol and his lifelong belief in "Greater Asianism".

Thanks to the efforts of Masanobu Tsuji, in September 1937, Manchuria Jiankuk University was established in Huanxiling, a southern suburb of Xinjing.

Manchuria Jianguo University, whose campus was later Changchun University. At this university, students are required to board and are free of charge. Food is rationed, and the food varies from one to the other, with the Chinese having sorghum rice, the Koreans sorghum rice plus rice, and the Japanese having all rice.

On June 3, 1937, at the suggestion of Masanobu Tsuji, the Kwantung Army spent 100,000 yuan to bury Zhang Zuolin, who was killed in the early morning of June 4, 1928.

Historically, Masanobu Tsuji's last military rank was only that of Army Commander and Staff Officer, but he was involved in the decision-making of these battles from Lugou Bridge to Singapore, from the Philippines to Kuah Island, from Nomenkan to India and Burma, and also participated in the assassination of King Rama VIII of Thailand.

After the war, he was a Class A, B, and C war criminal wanted by Masanobu Tsuji in Manila, Singapore, and Nanjing. The miracle of war criminals at all levels of the three tribunals was created. Most of his colleagues and superiors were sentenced to death, but he escaped trial.

Masanobu Tsuji returned to Japan in 1948, and in 1952 he was elected to the House of Representatives and later to the Senate with the third-highest number of votes in Japan. and met Zhou Enlai and Nehru.

In 1961, when the situation in Southeast Asia began to be turbulent, Masanobu Tsuji took a 40-day leave from the Senate and traveled to Vietnam, where he has since disappeared.

The most glorious page of his life turned out to be the Battle of Nomenkan. Although this campaign failed and ended in humiliating peace talks, his popularity increased greatly as a result of the campaign.

After studying this information, combined with the outcome of the previous anti-Manchu armed forces in Manchuria that he had studied, he firmly believed that the Northeast Allied Forces had not completely dissipated, and that only a few people were hiding in the mountains of the Little Khing'an Mountains. Most of the troops scattered in various places, and like the volunteers, a few became bandits.

Masanobu Tsuji believed that the strategic task of the Kwantung Army was to deal with the Soviet problem, and the remnants of the Northeast Allied Army were not to be worried.

Dealing with the Soviet question, the next battlefield is the Manchurian-Mongolian border.