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Chapter 751 Hide from the sky and cross the sea

The autumn of the 21st year of the Republic of China was an eventful one. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After several months of brutal fighting, the balance of forces between the two sides gradually underwent a qualitative change, the consumption of each base area was huge, and the situation of the workers' and peasants' Red Army deteriorated rapidly, and the situation became even more difficult.

After Japan reached a secret agreement with Soviet Russia, there were no worries, and the sporadic military provocations that began in August gradually escalated: On 25 August, Japanese Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida filed a motion demanding the recognition of "Manchukuo"; on 26 August, the new Plenipotentiary in Manchuria and commander of the Kwantung Army, Muto Nobuyoshi, and the new chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Kuniaki Koiso, arrived in Shenyang. The Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai and their intelligence agencies suddenly intensified their activities, and while using public opinion to split China, they also stepped up their efforts to bribe and lure celebrities from all walks of life and even generals in the armed forces.

On 6 September, the Japanese finally made substantial progress in their intensive preparations for war: the Soviet Foreign Minister officially announced the sale of the Eastern Railway to Japan, and on the same day, the Japanese cabinet telegraphed the whole world to recognize the puppet state of Manchukuo formed by the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

On 15 September, Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo Nobuyoshi Muto and puppet Premier Zheng Xiaoxu signed the "Japan-Manchukuo Protocol" in Changchun, under which the puppet state of Manchukuo recognized all of Japan's rights and interests, and Japan could station troops in Manchuria. As a result, as many as 120,000 Japanese troops forcibly entrenched themselves in Northeast China's barbaric acts, which have since had a "legal basis." The next day, the Kuomintang Nanjing Government lodged a strong protest and sent a note to the envoys in China of the nine signatories to the international conventions of Europe and the United States, criticizing Japan's barbaric aggression and asking the governments of the nine countries to uphold justice. As usual, the ministers of the Nine Kingdoms issued an ambiguous statement as they did during the Songhu War, and then forgot their morality and watched coldly.

At a time when the whole of China, from the government to the people, was angrily denouncing the Japanese invaders and demanding that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan, Han Fuqu, a warlord who had been entrenched in Shandong for several years, suddenly launched an attack on Liu Zhennian, commander of the 21st Division of the National Revolutionary Army stationed in 22 counties in Jiaodong, in order to dominate Shandong.

Xinjiang and the Ganqing warlords once again launched a mutual conquest to seize territory due to the eastward transfer of the Central Army's garrison to suppress the Communists, armed insurrections initiated by local organizations in southern Fujian and the Chaomei region of Guangdong were frequently launched, and the anti-Japanese war of the anti-Japanese volunteers in the northeastern provinces was surging, and it entered an extremely critical and extremely difficult period.

Since then, the entire suffering China has been plunged into war from south to north and from east to west.

At this critical juncture when the country was torn apart and suffering from internal and external troubles, Song Ziwen, vice president of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, finally took a tough stance and announced to the world the "Declaration" of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China on the blockade of the Northeast Customs, and announced the method of relocating taxes to land and levying taxes.

At this time, the three-day military confrontation exercise organized by the Kuomintang Central Military Commission was held in a high-profile manner, and the envoys and military attaches of nine international treaty countries and seven countries were invited to observe the exercises, but they refused the repeated requests of the Japanese to observe the exercises.

In the first five days of the exercise, more than 80,000 officers and men of various units stationed in Beijing and divisions in the surrounding areas imposed strict martial law on the exercise area, and the second and fourth departments of the General Staff Headquarters, the Investigation Bureau of the Central Party Department, the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission, and the Military Police Headquarters dispatched more than 80 special teams to various villages and towns around the exercise site to arrest and interrogate all suspicious persons. Killed nine intelligence spies who resisted after being discovered.

In Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai, and even Ningbo and Haizhou, the local governments and garrisons also immediately took action after receiving urgent orders from the General Staff Headquarters, and worked closely with the special teams of the Central Military Commission's intelligence agencies to take unified action and launch a large-scale search and arrest that shocked the whole country and caused heavy losses to the Japanese intelligence organs.

Before the three-day exercise ended, more than 1,400 suspected spies were arrested in various provinces and municipalities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, more than 30 gangs and gangs that sought glory for profit and betrayed the country, and seven Japanese puppet intelligence stations under various names, such as commercial liaison offices, guild associations, fellow villagers' associations, and even cultural research associations, were destroyed.

It was only at this time that the generals and colonels of various armies and departments, other than the core members of the leading group for the exercise, suddenly discovered that the main purpose of the major operation called the "military confrontation exercise" was actually a large-scale and very sudden "spy elimination operation" against the five provinces and autonomous regions in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

On the afternoon of 30 September, Xu Enzeng, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, came to Chiang Kai-shek with a large pile of briefings and internal briefings from the Fourth Department of the General Staff Headquarters, and sincerely sighed to Chiang Kai-shek:

Under the unified order of the commission, all departments were able to accept the command of the exercise team and act in concert, and the hidden dangers dug up and the results achieved surprised the subordinates but also filled them with emotion, and the Japanese, who had suffered heavy losses, were afraid that it would be difficult for them to restore their intelligence agencies and espionage capabilities to half the level before the operation for a long time to come.

"What shocked my subordinates and colleagues even more was that there were as many as seven Japanese spies hidden in several important departments within the party and government of our Central Committee.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at Xu Enzeng, who was deeply touched and guilty, nodded with satisfaction, and said kindly: "You finally see An Yi's outstanding strengths in the field of intelligence, right?" Not to mention you, when I received the secret report submitted by An Yi in early July, I was amazed by his whimsical ideas and a series of specific implementation measures, but according to An Yi's strong request, I didn't show you this report, not only your investigation bureau, Dai Yunong's Military Command Bureau, and Gu Jichang's military police headquarters did not receive notice, and the entire plan and action plan were only known to me, General He Guiyan of the Training Director Department, and An Yi's core team, and on the second day of the operation, Gu Mosan was the first to call me from Suzhou to ask, You are the second person to see the ultimate purpose of this military exercise, and you can also give An Yi and his fourth hall strong cooperation like Gu Mosan, Gu Jichang, and Dai Yunong, which is very good.

"Maybe you don't know that An Yi has been preparing for this rape operation for more than half a year. As early as the beginning of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War at the beginning of the year, feeling the pervasive intelligence espionage ability and the ability to plot rebellion and division, An Yi had already made up his mind, and promptly organized a special working group to carry out secret investigation and investigation operations. You, Yunong, and the middle and senior cadres of your two departments must take this as an example and spur yourself on at all times! ”

"Thank you for the suggestion, I will work hard and live up to expectations!"

Xu En wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and replied respectfully.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded with a smile: "I feel that the departments under your jurisdiction are still a little lacking in the distribution of functions, with the current limited manpower and material resources of the Party Investigation Bureau, you should focus on the supervision and investigation of party affairs, organizational structure, and administrative officials. It is much less guarded and resisted than you are subjected to.

"An Yi has done a good job in this regard, his fourth hall has never monitored and infiltrated the army, divisions and governments at all levels, but he can carry out independent supervision and investigation from the other side, and he can ask for instructions in time on matters beyond the scope of military and political affairs, or directly transfer the case to your investigation bureau and Yunong's military control bureau, and never act lightly and exonerate any party, so that few people in their fourth hall have not realized their existence so far. However, they were able to sit at the headquarters in Nanjing, command the anti-Japanese military operations in the northeast thousands of miles away, and detect a large amount of intelligence on the Japanese puppet organs and local garrisons in the northeast and north China. For example, one of the important reasons why Zhang Yuejun (Zhang Qun) rushed to Taiyuan to discuss Suiyuan and North China affairs with Yan Baichuan was that An Yi's Shenyang intelligence station detected that the two chief and deputy division commanders of the Suiyuan Fourth Garrison Division under Yan Baichuan's command were in frequent contact with the Japanese intelligence officers, and they secretly went to Shenyang twice to meet with the Japanese chieftain of the Kwantung Army Headquarters.

"From this point of view, An Yi's advantages are worth learning from, and you should also cooperate and exchange with An Yi as much as possible in all aspects, especially in terms of action ability, you and Yunong are not as good as An Yi's fourth hall, and it is the right thing to learn from each other's strengths and improve step by step."

Xu En once bowed his head and replied: "Bearing in mind the teachings of the commission, the affairs of the department will be adjusted in the near future, and those that should be divided will be separated, and those that should be strengthened will be strengthened immediately...... Due to factors such as command and time, it is difficult for the incumbent to recruit cadres throughout the whole country like Brother Yunong, and after screening, they will be selected and sent to the special classes of General An's non-commissioned officer school, telecommunications, and special specialties to receive long-term professional training. ”

Chiang Kai-shek thought about it for a while and readily agreed: "Yes, with your friendship with Zu Yan and others and An Yi, he will give you this face, you can just go to him to discuss, if not, I will send him a telegram." ”

Xu Enzeng happily thanked: "Thank you!" He remembered that General An had deliberately or unintentionally transmitted the contents of the exercises through major newspapers for more than half a month, and had skillfully captured the attention of the intelligence agencies and military attaches of various countries stationed in China. ”

Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand: "You can rest assured of this, although An Yi's purpose in launching the exercise is mainly to hoe the rape plan, but even if he does not pass the opportunity of the exercise, he will find another time to carry out it in time, it can be said that he chose this opportunity after careful consideration and is also very ingenious, and it can not only make outsiders unable to guess the strength of his fourth hall, but also convey the clear position of the army to all walks of life at home and abroad through confrontation exercises."

"As for the exercise itself, I believe that An Yi will not disappoint, not to mention that the two units participating in the confrontation are the elite aces of our army, only judging from An Yi's unique training effect, combat methods and the four new weapons on display, not only will it not disappoint, I am afraid it can also play an unexpected role."

"Subordinates understood!"

Xu Enzeng smiled and saluted and said goodbye respectfully.

Chiang Kai-shek opened the documents left by Xu Enzeng, read the interrogation confessions of the arrested central government spies for a while, shook his head and closed the documents, and sighed.

Chiang Kai-shek greatly appreciated An Yi's large-scale operation as fast as thunder, and was quite satisfied with the results achieved, but soon thought of the offensive and suppression operation that had entered a critical period, and could not help but sigh regretfully again.