In 1939, Japan drew up two operational orientations, namely "southward" and "northern" operational plans. At first, Japan valued the abundant war resources of the Soviet Union and planned to invade the Soviet Union and occupy Siberia.

From May to September 1939, Japan launched a large-scale exploratory strategic offensive against the Soviet-Mongolian forces in the Normenhan area, 200 kilometers south of Hailar on the Sino-Mongolian border. The two sides mobilized hundreds of thousands of elite troops and advanced military equipment to engage in a fierce confrontation that lasted for more than four months on a wasteland overgrown with weeds and rolling sand dunes. Due to its backwardness in military thinking and tactical technology, Japan suffered its first and worst defeat since the Russo-Japanese War.

After the defeat of the "northward march", the dream of attacking the Soviet Union and occupying Siberia came to naught, so they turned around and planned to "go south" to seize greater war resources (oil) and so on, so as to annex the world's reserve and subsequent resources in the future.

Nanyang, at that time, there were British, Dutch, and American colonies, which added difficulties to Japan's plans to go south. At the same time, because Japan and the United States pursue a completely antagonistic East Asian policy, Japan and the United States will inevitably have a collision of interests in East Asia, probably because of some changes brought about by Meng Qingshan, which has caused the Germans and the Japanese to be more closely connected, so that Japan has decided to continue to use the plan to advance northward, after all, Siberia is relatively close, not to mention that it is right next to Manchukuo, which is convenient for the transfer of troops.

However, if you want to continue to advance northward, you must deal with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, so when Umezu Mijiro learned the domestic information, he immediately summoned Muto Akira to try to solve the cancer of the Anti-Japanese Alliance at the end of this year, and was ready for war, and when the allies Germans attacked the Soviet Union, they could take the opportunity to seize Siberia.

After Akira Muto came to the Ministry of Secret Services, he summoned the Minister of Secret Services, Tokuzo Komai, and the head of the Harbin Secret Service of the Kwantung Army, Qin Yan Saburo Osasa. and transferred Meng Qingshan's file. After studying it carefully, Muto Akira beat the drum in his heart, feeling that he had made a serious mistake and should not boast in front of the commander.

This Meng Qingshan and his troops are completely different from the government army in China, and he occupies every place. First of all, the secret services of the imperial army were cleaned up, and they never left a living. Sun Wu is like this, and Murgen is even more like this, the Great Japanese Empire has spent so much money and experience to train excellent agents, but none of them have been able to escape. What does this mean? It shows that this Meng Qingshan attaches great importance to the secret services of the Great Japanese Empire, and the first person to solve it every time is the imperial intelligence personnel.

This is difficult to do, although he knows that Meng Qingshan's headquarters is set up in Mergen, there are no more imperial agents in the city of Murgen. In the past few months, the agents sent by the Empire have not been able to infiltrate the city to complete the mission. You must enter the county.

It is not impossible to infiltrate the county seat, even if Meng Qingshan's troops are strictly defended, Muto Zhang believes that there is no doubt that the first-class agents trained by the Great Japanese Empire want to infiltrate a small county town.

However, the new people had to be familiar with Morgan, otherwise, the people sent there would not be familiar with the place. Where to find Meng Qingshan? Once the exposed assassination plan made Meng Qingshan vigilant, it would be troublesome.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this task was not easy to complete. Meng Qingshan, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, was like the sea, unfathomable.

But the commander's order has been given, and this task must be completed. Besides, if he can really kill Meng Qingshan, a guy who is specifically hostile to the empire, then he can go down in history. That can also add a lot to your own military achievements.

After re-reading the several assassination cases of the early empire recorded in the case file, Muto Zhang understood that it was not that the team members sent were not strong, but that Meng Qingshan's luck was too good, and the good ones made people jealous. The first time the person sent there turned out to be in the wrong place, and the agents in charge of the operation were all broken. The second time I arrived, I found the right place, but before I could get closer, I lost contact, and I thought that it was unlucky, and this time the operation must be well prepared, if it fails, it will be very difficult to continue the operation.

Muto Akira put the file in his hand on the table and said, "Komai Tokusan-kun and Qin Hiko Saburo-kun, as the intelligence elite of the empire, I don't know if you have any better suggestions for this operation?" ”

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, I think it is possible to use agents hidden within the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, and set up the "Mashiko Advance Team" to disguise the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army to go deep into the villages and mountains to find the location of the headquarters of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and at the same time, send a number of wings, brigades and Jing'an Army and other troops to strike at the base areas of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, mobilize the strength of the Chinese people, and make them empty inside, so as to create opportunities for the Mashiko Advance Team. Minister of Secret Services Tokusa Komai said.

"Komai Desanjun, your idea is very good, but according to the information in our hands, Meng Qingshan is now setting up a new production and construction corps, dividing the people into several companies and military units to build production, and their vigilance is very high, many of our agents have been sacrificed, and the remaining agents have also been scattered by them and followed their own troops to various places, scattered and lost contact, it is difficult to gather them, and it is easy to expose the target, and once we use a large army, it will definitely make them vigilant, Our actions are easily exposed. ”

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, in addition to transferring killers and activating special high classes to collect intelligence, we can recruit a group of young students and Manchurian women from various schools in Manchuria, train them to become agents of the empire, and find opportunities to penetrate their interiors and cooperate with our actions." Qin Yan Saburo, head of the Harbin secret service of the Kwantung Army, said.

"This idea is also very good, but we don't have so much time, seeing that the Anti-Japanese Federation is getting stronger and stronger, and it is becoming more and more dangerous for our Kwantung Army, just now His Excellency the Commander ordered me to successfully solve Meng Qingshan within a month, I wonder if there is a faster way for the two imperial masters?"

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Muto Zhang raised his head helplessly, stood quietly in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking out of the window in a daze, what method should be used to assassinate Meng Qingshan successfully, because he knew that the empire needed a stable rear, and once there was a problem in the rear, all the previous plans would come to naught.

After a long time, the phone on the table rang, and after Muto Akira picked up the phone, his originally somewhat sad face suddenly relaxed, rang the electric bell on the table, and said to the spy who came in after hearing the sound: "Please Mr. Kawashima and Miss Nanzo come to see me." ”

It didn't take long for Yoshiko Kawashima, who was dressed in a suit, and Yunko Nanzo, who was dressed in a kimono, came to Akira Muto's office.

Yoshiko Kawashima successively served as the puppet Manchukuo "Commander-in-Chief of the Anguo Army" and "Commander-in-Chief of the North China People's Self-Defense Army" and other important positions, and successively participated in secret military operations such as the Huanggutun Incident, the 918 Incident, and the Manchurian Independence Movement, and personally directed the Shanghai 128 Incident that shocked China and the rest of the world. stirred up trouble in Shanghai and instigated the 128 Incident; Successfully smuggled Wanrong to Dalian to assist in the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo. Yoshiko Kawashima was praised by the Japanese army as "worthy of an elite armored division".

At a young age, she was already proficient in shooting, horseback riding, singing and dancing. At the age of 13, Nanzo Yunzi was sent back to Kobe Spy School in Japan to study, learning Chinese, English, shooting, explosives, makeup, poisoning and other secret agent techniques. During this period, Kenji Dohihara, the leader of the spies invading China, appreciated her very much and specially trained her. Four years later, Nanzo Yunzi graduated and was sent to China. In 1929, Nanzao Yunzi was transferred to Nanjing, under the pseudonym "Liao Yaquan", as a cover for a young man out of school, and entered the Tangshan Hot Spring Guest House of the Ministry of Defense of the Kuomintang Government as an usher. Nanzao Yunzi was good at singing and dancing, seduced a group of high-ranking Kuomintang officers with her hue, and stole a lot of important military information from the Chinese side: she stole the report of the military installation of the expanded fort from the Wusong headquarters in Shanghai to the Ministry of National Defense, and later when the Japanese attacked Shanghai, she quickly used this information to destroy the fortress.

Yoshiko Kawashima and Yunko Minamizo can be said to be the first and second spies of the Japanese Empire, known as the two most shining pearls in the imperial intelligence department, and many male intelligence officers have been overwhelmed, even Kenji Dohihara has praised the two many times, this time it is also Kenji Dohihara's suggestion, she has completed the tasks assigned by the empire many times, this time seeing that the empire sent them here in order to solve Meng Qingshan, Muto Zhang did not talk nonsense, took out the collected Meng Qingshan's intelligence materials, and let the two of them study carefully.

After the two of them finished reading it, they were familiar with Meng Qingshan's photo, and then Muto Zhang said: "Kawashima-kun, Miss Yunzi, this Meng Qingshan has now become a nightmare in the eyes of the Kwantung Army, and as soon as he makes a move, he will bring great harm to the Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire. Please, go to Beiman immediately, carry out the orders of General Umezu Mijiro, find Meng Qingshan, and kill him! Please! After saying that, Muto Akira bowed deeply to Yoshiko Kawashima and Yunko Minamizo.

Bowing to Muto Zhang, Yoshiko Kawashima and Nanzo Yunzi did not return the salute, but asked Muto Zhang to carefully study where Meng Qingshan's headquarters might be located in Mergen, and in the end, the five people could not judge where Meng Qingshan's headquarters was located, so they could only think of reconnaissance after arriving in Mergen. If you really can't do it, you can go to the place and ask the intelligence officers in the county, and they should know a little clue.

After Yoshiko Kawashima and Yunko Nanzo left, Akira Muto's heart relaxed a little, looking out the window and muttering: "The land of Manchuria is really rich, full of fruitful grain, since the empire occupies here, it is the empire's living standard that has improved a lot, and we can't let that damn mob destroy the construction of the empire." Meng Qingshan, Meng Qingshan, I don't believe that your luck is comparable to Zhang Zuolin. (To be continued.) )