August 5, 1941. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Yichun.

With He Wenyuan, a big businessman, the traffic on the road is very convenient, they took the plane of the king of Yunnan to Chongqing, and then took Zhang Xueliang's plane to Yan'an, met Zhao Shangzhi, and flew back to Yichun with dozens of cadres. This time, except for Sister He's family, everyone else came back.

After returning to Yichun, Xiaolu began a series of layouts in Yichun.

In the past few days, the situation in Japan has changed dramatically.

It has been a month since July 7, 1941, when Japanese Land Minister Hideki Tojo officially ordered the implementation of the "Seki Special Performance" plan. A lot has happened in this month.

Guan Special? It is the special exercise of the Kwantung Army, abbreviated. Why this exercise?

On July 26, Japan forced the French Vichy regime to sign a mutual defense agreement between Japan and French Indochina, and on July 29, the Japanese army invaded and occupied southern Indochina. The true purpose of Japan's southward expansion was laid bare.

The USSR saw it, and the United States saw it.

However, Germany, which had close ties with Japan, asked Japan to cooperate with Germany in attacking the Soviet Union in the north. The USSR was flanked and would soon be defeated.

This is wishful thinking on the part of Germany, and Japan's strategy is to move south, not north. After the Battle of Nomenkan, Japan basically formed a consensus that the Soviet Union had strong combat power, and although it was inferior to the Imperial Japanese Army, it would fall into a long-term war if it advanced northward, and Japan could not afford to delay it.

In order to cope with the ally Germany,

With the decline of European powers, the United States has regarded the Asia-Pacific region as its sphere of influence, starting with the Philippines, and the United States intends to get involved in the colonies of France, Britain, and the Netherlands.

Obviously, Japan's action touched Japan's fundamental interests and thus provoked the United States.

The United States reacted sharply immediately. July 2, 1941

On June 6, the United States announced that it would freeze Japan's assets in the United States. On August 1, it announced a ban on the export of oil and other strategic materials to Japan.

In this way, the consequences of the oil embargo, which Japan fears most, will finally come.

The Japanese knew very well that the Japanese navy consumed about 120,000 tons of oil a day, and without the oil supply from the United States, Japan's oil reserves at that time would only be enough for the navy to last for two years. This means that in two years' time, Japan's war machine of foreign aggression will be forced to cease functioning.

In addition, Japan stepped up its activities to lure the Lao Chiang regime to surrender, but it was never fruitful.

Faced with the above situation, the Japanese ruling circles had no choice but to consider new countermeasures.

On August 9, the General Staff Headquarters decided: "Regardless of the evolution of the Soviet-German battlefield, cancel the plan to solve the Northern problem in 1941 and concentrate on the plan to solve the South."

Immediately, Japan drew up the "Imperial Army Operational Guidelines". Its main contents are: (1)

The 16 divisions stationed in North Korea, northeast China, were used to exercise vigilance against the Soviet Union. (2) Continue to fight against China according to the established policy. (3) Prepare for war in the south with the goal of the end of January.

The decision of August 9 was a sign and a turning point, and the Japanese army had given up on carrying out the "Guan Special Exercise".

This was the largest concentration and mobilization of the Japanese Army since the Meiji era, and thus ended hastily.

At this time, the Japanese army in Northeast China had more than 700,000 troops, and a small half of them had been newly mobilized from the Japanese mainland. In addition, a large number of Japanese in Tohoku were also conscripted. If you count the people of the secret service and the armed civilians of the pioneer regiment, the strength of the Kwantung Army has reached one million people.

On the 10th, Xiaolu passed this information to the Soviet Far East.

On the 11th, Koji again transmitted information that the Japanese army began to withdraw the first division from the northeast, because it was still recruiting Japanese armed civilians in the northeast, so the total strength of the Japanese army remained unchanged.

At the same time, Xiaolu also passed these two pieces of information to Yan'an. Many people in Yan'an knew this information and judged that Japan and the Soviet Union would not go to war, and the operation against the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was probably canceled.

However, the preparations of the Northeast were not slackened at all, on the contrary, the Northeast was loosened up and down and tightened inside, and began to prepare for battle.

Soon, several pieces of intelligence were on Stalin's desk.

In the midst of the debate, a piece of information from Tokyo convinced Stalin to resolve.

The collector of the intelligence was Zolga.

During World War II, an espionage team called Ramza operated secretly in Tokyo.

This group is composed of more than 30 intelligence officers from nine countries: the former Soviet Union, Japan, Germany, North Korea, France, Britain, the United States, Slavic, and Poland. At the head of the group was Richard Zolga, a scout of the Fourth Department of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, a correspondent of the German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in Japan, and a press attaché of the German Embassy in Japan.

Another core member is Minoru Ozaki, a Japanese aspirant. He is publicly available as a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, an expert on China, and a private secretary and adviser to Prime Minister Fumima Konoe.

Other key players include the French correspondent in Japan, Max Clausen, and his wife, the correspondent, Anna. Clausen, Japanese collaborators Miyagi Yotoku, Kawai Sadakichi and others. These intelligence agents were all fighters against fascist internationalism.

They struck the hearts of the enemy and spied on the strategic core secrets of the German and Japanese fascist Axis powers on the battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder. They were the first of all the anti-fascist allies to learn of the top-secret information that Germany was going to attack the Soviet Union in late June 1941, the direction of its main attack, the deployment of troops, and sent the information to Moscow in time.

Another significant contribution of the Ramza Group was the analysis of the decision of the Imperial Council of Japan in the summer of 1941 to conclude that Japan's national policy at this time was to advance southward rather than to attack north.

Because of Zorge's status as a German, and his long-sleeved dancing skills in the upper echelons of Japan, he soon obtained this important information in Japanese nobility and diplomatic circles.

He is a strategic intelligence expert, and all the information is not the trivial things such as the itinerary of the troop deployment leader, but the direction of these few evidences, and the important information that governments have made at critical moments that can affect the world pattern.

There is also some important information coming from China. The Chinese government in Chongqing is also inextricably linked to Germany, and there are abundant sources of intelligence. In addition, China's Hong Kong is also a center for information trading between various countries, and the quality of information is very high.

Previous experience has repeatedly shown that Chinese intelligence is reliable.

After intense discussions, Stalin agreed with everyone that Japan had indeed abandoned its plan to advance northward, and the Far East had settled down.

The General Staff, after Stalin's determination, drew up a plan to immediately mobilize troops from the Far East to reinforce the Western Front.

At the critical moment of the Great Patriotic War, hundreds of thousands of troops were transferred from the Eastern Front of Siberia to the battles of Moscow and Dalingrad to concentrate forces against the German army, which brought about a fundamental change in the situation of the war and laid the foundation for the final victory of the anti-fascist war.

The Ramza group was active in Japan for eight years, but unfortunately in October 1941 it was cracked by the Special High Police Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, a Japanese counterintelligence agency, and all key personnel, including Zolge, were arrested.

This was the "Comintern espionage case," that is, the "Zorge-Ozaki incident," which attracted worldwide attention. Subsequently, it gave rise to another so-called "CCP spy group case," in which many intelligence officers of the Shanghai Intelligence Bureau were arrested, including Japanese CCP members Nakanishi Gong and Nishiri Ryufu.

The Soviet side learned of Zorge's arrest only five days later, but for political reasons, the Soviet side remained silent about it.

That's an afterword.