Taro Okabe hasn't sent a report for a few days. These days, there are a lot www.biquge.info of people who learn radio, and they are all urgent short courses, all of which are oral lectures, theoretical knowledge, and no machines.

It was easy to send them away and resume normal classes. These people love to learn too much.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the cadets to debug the machine and practice, he sent a telegram: the Soviet armored warfare general Zhukov will go to the Manchurian-Mongolian border to command. He is the nemesis of the Imperial Army. He is about to arrive in Moscow.

The telegram was sent plainly, that is, in class. There was no reaction from the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation. The people who sent telegrams were cadets, and they practiced sending telegrams on one old telegraph machine, and the older group practiced receiving telegrams on another. The content of the contact is given by the teacher of the post department, and it is all some numbers. No one knew that the numbers they sent were actually meaningful.

The Kwantung Army had already had a tacit understanding with him and turned on the plane for him twenty-four hours a day. Any time a call is called, there is an answer. They were used to this way of receiving telegrams.

After receiving this information, the General Staff Headquarters of the Kwantung Army immediately felt that this was a strategic piece of information, and the Soviet Union had deployed generals on the Soviet-Manchurian border. Well, the USSR must have been deploying troops on the Soviet-Manchurian border. As for this Zhukov, since it is so important, contact the embassy in the USSR and, if necessary, kill him.

On the morning of May 30, the Japanese Embassy in the Soviet Union sent a telegram back, confirming that Zhukov would go to the Manchurian-Mongolian border and that his position was undecided. Zhukov, the current acting commander of the Belarusian Military District, is one of the few outstanding generals in existence.

The embassy did not specify in the message the reliability of the information, but only in a very positive tone. In fact, they obtained this information from several sources, including the German embassy in the Soviet Union, and it has already been verified.

Why Acting Commander? Because the commander was purged.

It is true that he was an ardent supporter of the new theory of armored warfare, but he was of cavalry origin. He is the most famous of the new generation of generals, characterized by a focus on detailed battle plans, strict requirements for discipline, emphasis on armored warfare, bravery and toughness.

Another point is that Zhukov has inspected the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield and knows something about the Japanese army.

The Kwantung Army Command immediately sent a telegram asking the embassy to get rid of Zhukov, at least not to let him come to the Manchurian-Mongolian front.

At this point, the Kwantung Army Command devoted almost all its attention to the Manchurian-Mongolian border. The calm of Manchuria made them feel better gradually. Gradually, they came to believe that the allied forces in Manchuria were no longer to be worried, just like the Volunteers of the past.

May 30, Moscow, local time.

Receiving a telegram, the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union handed over the errand to the military attache Akio Doi to arrange.

The USSR and Japan have not now torn their faces and have not broken diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level. The Japanese Embassy in the Soviet Union undertook a large number of tasks to collect political, economic, and military intelligence on the Soviet Union, and was the core of the Japanese spy network in Moscow.

Akio Doi is a native of Kochi Prefecture. When I was young, I wanted to be a horse thief. When the horse thief's volunteer was very strange, when he traveled in the northern branch of Manchuria, he knew that there were many horse thieves in Mongolia and other places. He believed that horse thieves were a force that could be harnessed, and so he had this great ideal.

Akio Doi graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School in 1917. He graduated from the Army University in 1927. In 1938, he was appointed military attaché at the embassy in the Soviet Union. At that time, the military rank was Dasa.

He was a sensitive and sensible intelligence analyst. He sensed the attitude of the Soviet Union towards the Manchurian-Mongolian border conflict, as if it was about to move seriously. Why?

At the time of the Zhang Gufeng incident, a large number of Soviets protested outside the Japanese embassy every day. However, when it came to the Nomenkan conflict, the Soviets did not come to protest and were quiet.

It's not right, it's bad, the USSR is going to fight a big war. Akio Toi knew that the protests of the Soviets were organized by the government, specifically by the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Why didn't you organize a protest this time?

Doi was a man who knew the actual military and national strength of the Soviet Union very well, and he had repeatedly called for the attention of the Soviet Union's military strength, but no one in Japan listened to him at all.

This time, he was going to return to China, and he received this task before returning home. Of course, this task could not be carried out by him himself.

After leaving the embassy, he went around the Tretyakov Art Museum and the Pushkin Art Museum, bought a book on Russian art at a bookstore, returned to the embassy, packed his bags, and took the train through Siberia to Manchuria and then to Japan.

Along with Akio Doi, he took the train back to Japan with Miyama Kazo. The reason why they take the train is because they have a mission and a purpose.

The task was to observe the train traffic along the route, with the aim of judging the Soviet preparations for the Manchurian-Mongolian border. Along the way, two people took turns sleeping, observing the state of railway transportation of the Soviet troops, paying special attention to the situation at various stations.

What he saw along the way further confirmed his judgment that the Soviet Union was sending troops and various war materiel to the Far East in large quantities. Just by seeing it with my own eyes, there were at least two mechanized divisions. Akio Doi decided that when he returned to Manchuria, he must go to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army and warn Commander Kenkichi Ueda that he must reinforce tanks and planes from the interior, otherwise the battle will be difficult.

Did Akio Doi arrange an assassination mission?

Before he got on the train, Akio Doi had already handed over the task at the Tretyakov Art Museum.

The mission was carried out by a Japanese ronin, whose Russian name was Ivan, dressed like an artist, and at a cold glance, he couldn't tell that he was Japanese, and even Akio Doi didn't know his real name. Ivan got the note with the task written on it, read it carefully, and ate it.

The task was clear, to assassinate Zhukov and not to leave Moscow.

This task is difficult, because the other party is a high-ranking general, and his whereabouts are not clear, and there is no one to help him. The artist Ivan has not been used since he was invisible. Now that it was activated, he knew that it would be difficult, and that it could only be done with the determination to die.

He made a few phone calls, walked a few places, and by the afternoon knew Zhukov's whereabouts. After receiving the news, he issued a retreat order, telling the few people who had just contacted him to evacuate.

Zhukov has not yet arrived in Moscow, but it has been found that he will arrive in Moscow by train on June 2, and the next itinerary is unknown.

It is impossible to assassinate on the train, because the train is now dozens of kilometers away.

The artist Ivan was a smart man, he knew that such a high-ranking officer as Zhukov, he went to only a limited number of places, most likely, to the military reception room, or to the People's Commissariat of State Defense, and in any case, he would come out of the station.

He drove his car across from the train station, just in front of the VIP exit of the train station. Sure enough, after only an hour of waiting, a sedan came out. This is a special car for high-ranking officers of the army. Seeing the direction in which the sedan was going, he knew that Zhukov had gone to the People's Commissariat of Defense.

Ivan was very familiar with the roads in Moscow, took a shortcut and drove the car to the vicinity of the People's Commissariat of Defense, and as soon as he arrived at the gate of the People's Commissariat of Defense, he saw the high-end car arrive and slowly drove into the gate.

Ivan was nervously thinking, where would Zhukov go? Where is the best place to start? According to Akio Doi, Zhukov was likely to go to the Far East. To go to the Far East, it is impossible to take a train, take a plane! Is it a military aircraft or a civilian aircraft?

Ivan found a public phone on a secluded street, dialed one, and said: "Is the general's plane ready?" "It's a tentative call, and if the other person says they have doubts about their identity, then they have a plane ready. If there is a doubt about the problem, then the plane is not prepared.

The other party replied, "Four o'clock in the afternoon will do." When will the general arrive? ”

Ivan said: "I'm just going to make sure." The arrival time will have to wait for the notice. Will be notified in time. Good bye. He put down the phone.

Ivan smiled, he hit the Vnukovo airport. Vnukovo Airport was approved for construction in 1937 and has just been put into use, and the vast majority of people do not know about it. There is also a military airfield in Moscow. Ivan lived in Moscow for a long time, and he knew that the new airfield was put into service, and the old one was under repair. So, he was sure that Zhukov was going to take the new airfield.

Now, it's a few hours until four o'clock in the afternoon. Enough to observe the terrain.

Ivan was ready to strike on the way to the airfield. He drove a section on the way to the airport and returned to the city of Moscow.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, a high-ranking officer's car drove onto the road to the central airport. It's early afternoon, and there aren't many cars on the road, because in this day and age, after all, there aren't many cars going to the airport.

This car was none other than Zhukov's, which Ivan had seen once at the railway station.

Zhukov sat in the car, bowed his head and pondered.

Zhukov was born on December 2, 1896 in a poor family in the village of Strelkovka, Kaluga Oblast. The teenager was apprenticed in Moscow and in 1915 he was called into the cavalry regiment of the Tsarist army and fought in World War I.

During the First World War, Zhukov was twice awarded the St. George Cross. Joined the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. In one encounter, he fought 100 men against 2,000 men and held his ground for seven hours. Appreciated by Stalin.

In 1918-1920 he took part in the Civil War of Soviet Russia. In 1923 Zhukov became the head of the regiment. In 1930 he was promoted to brigade commander.

Now, for Zhukov, what he always has to be careful about is to rebel.

Many people call it the Great Purge, but in fact, this is the way it is said by Westerners, and the official name is the meaning of purging rebellion and purging counter-revolution. The army purge began in 1937 and did not end in 1939.

Zhukov's respected advocate of armored warfare, Tukhachevsky, was shot, but he was lucky enough to escape the purge and went on to rise through the ranks. I don't know when it will be my turn.

When Zhukov received the order this time, he was very worried, thinking that it was his turn to rebel, because how many people never returned after receiving such an order. He even made a final confession to his family.

But when he arrived in Moscow, he saw that he was Marshal Voroshilov. The marshal's smile was that he knew that this was not a dangerous rebellion, but an opportunity.

Not afraid, he began to study the task assigned by the marshal.

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1. Akio Doi's resume after 1939: In 1940, he served as the chief of the Asian Section and the chief of the Operations Section of the General Staff Headquarters. Later, he served as the head of the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army and the head of the Harbin Special High School. In 1941, he was promoted to major general. In 1945, he was promoted to lieutenant general and served as chief of staff of the 13th Army in Shanghai. After the war, he served as an adviser to the Ministry of National Defense of the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, and Masanobu Tsuji was also one of them. After returning to Japan, he served as an advisor to the "Nippaka Agency".