Chapter 240: Kenkichi Ueda's Conspiracy
As soon as Vice Admiral Ueda's telegram asking for help reached the Japanese Admiralty, there was another uproar in the country. "Is there any mistake? With the same strength of 20,000 or 30,000 people, the Kwantung Army can achieve a big victory.
Why was it a defeat under their Admiralty? "Because of the glorious achievements of the Japanese army in the Northeast Incident, the current Japanese military circles are full of arrogant thoughts.
In the current Japanese military circles, there is a common idea that if the Japanese army cannot defeat the Chinese ** people with one block of ten, it will be regarded as its own defeat.
Fortunately, the third commander was the division commander of the 9th Division of the Army, Ueda Kenkichi was also defeated, otherwise the Admiralty Kobayashi Takuzo had the heart to kill Yuki Shiozawa and Nomura Kichizaburo.
However, the battle in Shanghai was like this, and the Japanese were not willing to gain nothing, so they simply made a ruthless decision and sent reinforcements to Shanghai again.
In addition, the reinforced troops merged with the marines and navy and air force in Shanghai to form the Shanghai Dispatch Force, with Admiral Yoshinori Shirakawa, the former Minister of Land in the Tanaka Cabinet, as commander-in-chief.
In order to settle this war once and for all, Japan has made a lot of money this time, and not only is the Minister of War Shirakawa Yoshinori personally in charge.
The 11th Division was sent again, and the 14th Division, with a total of more than 40,000 troops from two full-fledged divisions, reinforced Shanghai at one time.
If this increase goes well, in a week's time, the total strength of the Japanese army in Shanghai will reach 90,000, including 80 warships, 300 planes, 100 tanks, and 15 artillery units of various types.
With such a strong force, if it had been a few months before the Northeast incident, they would have thought that the occupation of all of China would be enough, but now their demands are simple.
To win the battle of Shanghai, even if they can't occupy Shanghai, they just want to win and win back face for them and Japan. Get enough leverage for future negotiations.
While Japanese reinforcements were still gathering in China, the Shanghai Concession returned to its former calm, and this time the warring sides completely ceased fire.
The 19th Route Army and the Fifth Route Army were only allowed to counterattack on the spot, not to take the initiative to provoke a war, let alone take the opportunity to expand the results of the war, so as not to provoke the Japanese army and cause a national war.
The current Nationalist Government is in a difficult situation both internally and externally, the North has just lost the Northeast, the Red Bandits in the South are in full swing, and the Central Plains has just experienced floods, and the current Nationalist Government's treasury is empty, and there is no money left to continue this war.
However, just as the soldiers of the two sides were confronting, Commander Ueda summoned a special person in the Japanese mansion in the concession.
"Hachiro Yanagi, the military department is very recognizable to you for leading the Koga ninja to attack Huaxing Airlines, and to achieve the record of blowing up 300 military planes and injuring 500 pilots. Please accept the award. ”
After Ueda finished speaking, he took out a gift box from the table next to him, opened it and saw that it was a Japanese national second-class hero medal.
"I'm sorry Your Excellency Commander, we just killed one hundred and sixty-eight fighters, killed more than 30 pilots, killed and wounded more than 30 people, and the battle report you said was not done by us, so I can't accept this medal."
Hachiro Yanagi was dissatisfied with the fact that his achievements had been exaggerated, and although he wanted the National Hero Medal very much, the pride of being a ninja made him refuse to accept the medal.
Commander Ueda was also helpless, this Sakura agent group was subordinate to the Emperor's Guard. This time, in order to sneak attack the Huaxing Aviation Military Academy, Rear Admiral Shiozawa Yuki's family paid a lot of money to hire fifty agents from the Emperor's Guard.
I heard that they also sacrificed ten agents in the last attack mission, and these agents are almost all ninjas of the Yagyu Sect of the Japanese Koga faction, and they directly obey the emperor's orders.
So although Ueda is the commander, he doesn't have the authority to order them directly, but he knows Yagyu Hachiro's temperament, so he deliberately exaggerated his achievements just now, in order to let Yagyu Hachiro help him perform unnecessary tasks.
Sure enough, seeing that Hachiro Yanagi really gave up this medal, he thought about it.
"And this kind of thing? I must investigate this matter thoroughly when I go back, who lied about his exploits? But even according to the military exploits you said, it is enough for you to accept this medal. After saying that, he pushed the medal in front of Hachiro Yanagi.
Although Hachiro Yanagi wanted it desperately, he still hardened his mind and refused.
Commander Kenkichi Ueda seemed to suddenly think of a solution: "Mr. Tsushi, don't you want to postpone it?" Can the lack of combat achievements be made up for by other military exploits?
You see, Shanghai now has no extra planes to bomb. However, Jiang Guangnai, the commander-in-chief of Shanghai, and Cai Tingkai, the commander of the 19th Route Army, were the number one enemies of the empire.
If you can kill one of them, it will be no less than half the combat power of the Chinese defenders. Not to mention accepting this second-class hero medal, it is more than enough to receive another first-class hero medal.
Hearing Commander Ueda's advice, Hachiro Yagyu's eyes lit up. It just so happens that there is still some time before the day of returning home, so why don't you help Commander Ueda Kenkichi to complete this deal.
Yagyu Hachiro immediately asked Commander Ueda for information on Jiang Guangnai and Commander Cai, and he promised to kill them within a week, before Japanese reinforcements arrived.
At the same time, in the Golden Tiger Club, Li Tie, who had just gotten some respite because of the temporary truce between China and Japan, was sitting in the office of the thousand-tailed scorpion, diligently pouring tea for the middle-aged man on the sofa in front of him.
Li Tie's face was full of flattery, I don't know if people will think that Li Tie owes a lot of money to others, but Li Tie is recognized as the richest man in the world, who will he owe?
"Big brother, I know you must have gotten some clues, don't be dumb anymore, who doesn't know that Shanghai is the world of your Axe Gang, a needle fell on the ground, you all know where the eye of the needle is facing, and it will take so long to find a few people?
Just tell my brother-in-law, I have a lot of capable people, and I'm going to kill these little devils myself. "Now the one who can make Li Tie call his eldest brother is Wang Yaqiao.
Li Tie nodded and begged Wang Yaqiao, and poured the tea in the cup for Wang Yaqiao again.
"Brother-in-law, it's not that I didn't tell you, since your Huaxing Airlines airport was attacked, this group of people has disappeared without a trace, and our Axe Gang has almost searched Shanghai Beach and has not found out where this group of people went.
If it weren't for the fact that they seemed to have taken another action recently, and took the initiative to show up, I suspect that they might have escaped from Shanghai.
However, as long as they show up and let our people grab the tail, they will naturally not be able to run again. I just don't do it now because I don't want to move them until I find out what they're doing.
When we find out what they are doing, it's natural for us to take action. Wang Yaqiao said lightly.
"Big brother, can you let me kill them personally?" Li Tie still wanted the people of their Huaxing Escort Team to take revenge.
Who doesn't know that Li Tie's Huaxing Airlines has suffered a loss. If it weren't for the strong military strength of Huaxing in the next Anti-Japanese War, the force of the 3,000 Huaxing guards would be off the charts. I'm afraid the gossip has long been flying on the beach.
"No, you don't know the details of this group, the dead soldiers selected from the Japanese Royal Guard, although the strength of each of them is not high, but they are not afraid of death.
Don't say that your people can't deal with it, and even if they do, they will suffer a lot of casualties. And although my Axe Gang has many masters, they have dozens of dead soldiers this time.
Even if I want to kill them unscathed, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to kill them unscathed, and these people are very well hidden, so far we haven't figured out how many of them there are, and what their latest action goals are, so we must plan well.
I've heard from my sister that you have a lot of ideas, so I can let you join our meeting and we can help each other if there's something going on. Wang Yaqiao still pulled Li Tie into his chariot.
"Okay, thank you big brother for mentioning it." Li Tie was very happy, in the past half a month of contact with Wang Yaqiao, Li Tie found that Wang Yaqiao was worthy of a generation masterpiece, and it was no wonder that he was called the world assassination king in the previous life.
He seems to be an assassin by nature, just a few days ago he just learned that in April last year, Wang Yaqiao sent people to Lushan to assassinate Commander Jiang, and sent people to the station to assassinate Song Ziwen.
The one who went to assassinate Commander Chiang failed to hit Commander Chiang because the gunman's pistol malfunctioned, and was killed on the spot by Commander Chiang's guards.
The assassin of Song Ziwen was because Song Ziwen's adjutant was wearing a white suit with him, but the assassin recognized the wrong person and shot his adjutant more than a dozen times. The last few gunmen threw smoke grenades at the station and evacuated safely.
Now the Nationalist Government is still all over the world to catch the real culprit, but who knows, this real culprit is now sitting in front of Li Tie and is working with him to make a contribution to the Shanghai War of Resistance.
Li Tie and Wang Yaqiao had just reached a consensus on future concerted action, and two middle-aged men with ordinary appearances came into the office.
The person who came directly to Wang Yaqiao did not say a word. Wang Yaqiao told them that this was his brother-in-law Li Tie, not an outsider, and he could report directly if he had anything to say.
A handsome middle-aged man said, "The group we've been eyeing has been hiding in the Japanese Marine Corps station. They never go out, but in the past few days, a few of them have frequently appeared near the Shanghai Municipal Government and the headquarters of the 19th Route Army. We suspect that they were acting against the Shanghai Municipal Government or the headquarters of the 19th Route Army. ”
Wang Yaqiao heard the report of the rat bird hall and was silent in thought. Another middle-aged man, who looked very old, continued to report.
"Our group has been in charge of observing at the gate of the Japanese Concession Command. During these three days, only three strangers entered and exited the command of the Japanese Marine Corps.
One of the most suspicious was that he was well-behaved, that he was a trainer at first glance, and most importantly, that we followed him into the Marine Corps station.
It was also after he entered the naval corps that the marines began to frequently appear strangers to the Shanghai Municipal Government and the 19th Route Army garrison in the past few days. If we are not bad, they must have ulterior motives for these two places.
It's just that Shanghai is now in a state of Sino-Japanese warfare, and both the Shanghai Municipal Government and the 19th Route Army are heavily guarded, and they are located in our defense of the interior, so it is really not suitable for a surprise attack by troops. ”
After listening to the reports of the two disciples of the Mouse Bird Hall, Li Tie also thought that Little Japan was not at ease, otherwise they would not have sent people to reconnoiter these two important places for no reason.
After Wang Yaqiao listened to the report, he said in a very positive tone: "The goal of the Japanese is not these two places, but the highest chief executive of these two places.
Considering that it was the time of war between China and Japan, and that the two leaders of the political and military forces who were most resolutely resisting in Shanghai were none other than Jiang Guangnai, the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese War, and Cai Jun, the commander of the 19th Route Army, I am sure that they would soon assassinate the two of them. ”
As soon as everyone in the office heard Wang Yaqiao's analysis, they immediately understood that what Wang Yaqiao said was the enemy's true thoughts.
Everyone immediately realized the seriousness of this discovery, and Wang Yaqiao immediately ordered: "Flying Mouse, you immediately notify the people of the Bird Hall to secretly protect Jiang Guangnai, your Mouse Hall is responsible for protecting Commander Cai, Li Tie will lend me your strongest manpower in Huaxing, it seems that I will go to find trouble with their Japanese again." ”