[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 792: The Mysterious Guest (Subscription Requested!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Okamura Ninji was a China expert, and in August 1914, Okamura Ninji was transferred by his boss to work in the Foreign War History Division of the General Staff Headquarters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In July of the same year, World War I broke out in Europe, and Japan seized the opportunity to seize Qingdao, Shandong, Germany's sphere of influence in China. In February of the following year, in order to compile the history of the war between Japan and Germany, the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army sent Okamura Ninji and others to Qingdao to collect information, and Okamura Ninji set foot on Chinese soil for the first time.

Soon after Okamura went to Qingdao, he was transferred to Beijing by Lieutenant General Aoki Xuanchun, who was then an adviser to President Li Yuanhong, and was mainly responsible for foreign liaison and document writing. In this way, Okamura worked at Beijing Aoki Consulting for more than 4 years.

In July 1919, Okamura finally returned to Japan. In his new position, he was a member of the press team of the Army's Military Investigation Department, where he was mainly engaged in communicating the "feelings" between the military and the people and handling the military's propaganda affairs to the domestic public. In his new post, Okamura spared no effort to raise his voice for the Army's so-called "right to survival" and "right to development."

After that, Okamura Ninji was once again appointed as the Shanghai military attache of the General Staff Headquarters in China, and was subsequently transferred to Shanghai. After the strike of textile workers in Shanghai and the shooting of Gu Zhenghong by a Japanese manufacturer, Okamura skillfully used the British imperialists to take the lead in creating the May Day Massacre and the Shaji Massacre, so that the anti-imperialist spearhead of the Chinese people was suddenly concentrated in Britain.

As a result, in 1925, Japan's total exports to China increased by 12 percent over the previous year, rather than falling under the influence of the anti-imperialist patriotic movement. Okamura's "outstanding" intelligence, strategy, and negotiation coordination skills in the process of dismantling and sabotaging the May Day Movement impressed and won the admiration of officials of the General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

So, later came across something like negotiating the Tanggu Agreement. He was always appointed by the Army Headquarters to preside over military and diplomatic issues such as the Shanghai Incident and the Armistice Agreement. When the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War broke out, he sent military spies to the armies of both sides as advisers, and he became the chief director of the war.

Later, it was only Sun Chuanfang's troops in Fujian who suddenly sent troops and attacked Lu Yongxiang that disrupted his plan. He went to be Sun Chuanfang's adviser, watched this small army quickly expand into a five-province coalition army, and was defeated by the National Revolutionary Army of the Northern Expedition, in the chaos, he stole Sun Chuanfang's military map and hid in the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet, and was rewarded with a large sum of money.

On August 19, 1932, Okamura Ninji had a new "place of use", and he was ordered to transfer to the northeast to serve as deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army. After Okamura Ninji came to the Kwantung Army to take office, he was faced with the difficult situation of the so-called "rampant banditry." The "bandits" in his mouth actually refer to the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in various parts of our northeast. Therefore, Okamura made the issue of "public order" a top priority.

To this end, Okamura first sent a report to the military headquarters, requesting that additional reinforcements be sent, and then through the "Manchukuo" regime, he strengthened the so-called "legal system" and the building of local armed forces, bribed bandits, recruited puppet troops, and established so-called "strategic troops" to serve as cannon fodder for the Japanese army.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Okamura Ninji won the trust of the Japanese army base camp and was appointed commander of the 11th Army, and stayed in this important position for two years.

It may be difficult to say who among the generals of the Japanese army invading China is the best at fighting, but if you want to say who knows China best, then this person is Okamura Ninji.

After fighting with the Chinese army for nearly three years, Okamura Ninji was very aware of the habits of the Chinese army, and if it were not for the last resort, the Chinese army would not have fought to the death with the elite of the empire, let alone take the initiative to launch a large-scale attack, but now the frequent attacks of the Chinese army can only show one truth, that is, they have a consensus -- the combat effectiveness of the imperial soldiers has declined.

This discovery made Okamura Ningji very worried, others may not know, but how can Okamura Ningji, who has been fighting on the front line, not feel the changes in the troops, to say that the 37-year-old Imperial Japanese Army is as invincible and unstoppable as a lion on the African grassland, then the imperial troops at this time are elderly lions, and even local dogs like the Eighth Route Army dare to fight with the Imperial Japanese Army head-on.

Okamura Ninji obviously felt that the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Japanese Army had declined, and the decline was very large, and he also tried to analyze the reasons for the decline in combat effectiveness, the loss of veterans was only one aspect, on the other hand, the Chinese army had made great progress, and its combat effectiveness and field combat capability had been significantly enhanced.

In view of the fact that the Shina army would not give the front army time to rest and recuperate in the short term, Okamura Ninji ordered the troops in each defense area not to have a large-scale clash with the Shina troops in the short term, and to try to control the battle within a certain range.

At the same time, Okamura Ninji, in the name of the supreme commander of the North China Front Command, sent three urgent telegrams to the top brass of the military headquarters, and the content of the telegrams was only one thing, that is, the reinforcements must arrive at the port of Tianjin before 10 March, otherwise the situation in North China would inevitably deteriorate further.

In addition, Okamura Ninji, Kasawara Yukio and others met again at Mingyue Sanso to discuss a sweep of the Chinese resistance in the security area.

On 5 March, the North China Front Command issued an operational order, in view of the presence of a large number of armed forces in the security zone. In response to the increasing danger to the Imperial Japanese Army, the Front Army decided to carry out a large-scale sweep of eastern Hebei, western Luxi, southern Lunan and the periphery of Pingjin a week later, codenamed "Spring Rain".

In this sweep, the Front Army Headquarters decided to transfer one of the 21st Division, the 32nd Division, and the 10th Brigade of the 12th Army, and to mobilize all of the 36th and 37th Divisions under the jurisdiction of the 1st Army and one of the Fifth Division directly under the Front Army, and to cooperate with five brigades of the puppet army, totaling 150,000 people.

In addition, Okamura Ninji also transferred Hattori's special operations wing and Hihara Eiichi's intelligence unit to assist in the sweep force.

The North China Front kept this operation strictly secret, and only the divisional and regimental headquarters had detailed operational plans, and none of the following were clear. In addition, the Japanese army frequently dispatched troops to conduct large-scale training during this period, so neither the troops of the Nationalist Government nor the Eighth Route Army were defenseless against the Japanese.

Surprisingly, however, the front headquarters had just sent out its battle plan to the divisions when it received an urgent telegram from the base camp, asking the North China Front to suspend all military operations and wait for the arrival of a mysterious guest.

After receiving the telegram from the base camp, Okamura Ninji was naturally extremely depressed, it was like spending a good night with a beautiful woman, this foreplay was done, but the girl said that she couldn't do it, and the result was undoubtedly tragic.

Although he was very unhappy in his heart, Okamura Ninji was a soldier, and he knew very well what the duty of a soldier was, that is, to obey orders, unconditionally obey orders. No matter how important one's emotions are, they can't override military orders, that's a taboo for a general in command, and obviously Okamura Ninji would not make such a mistake.

Although Okamura Ninji did follow the will of the base camp and ordered the troops to stop all military operations, he was still very puzzled in his heart, who was this mysterious guest who was about to arrive in North China? Is it Tojo Rikusho or someone else, why does the base camp attach so much importance to it.

More importantly, what is this mysterious guest going to do in North China, and will his arrival have a bad impact on the actions of the front army? These are all things that Okamura Ninji has to think about now.

After thinking about it, Okamura Ninji didn't have a clue in his heart, mainly because the information given by the base camp was too vague, and there was no way to infer it even if he wanted to. In desperation, Okamura Ninji had no choice but to send a telegram to his top boss Yan Junliu, asking for instructions, and Yan Junliu obviously knew the inside story of the matter, and he told Okamura Ningji to cooperate with this mysterious guest, whether it was to dispatch troops or transfer materials, unconditional cooperation and obedience. (To be continued.) )