In 1938, at the request of the Japanese Government, Japanese military attachés from various European countries held a joint meeting in Paris to jointly draft an analysis of the international military situation and the Soviet Union's war against China. Present at the meeting were Akio Doi (Osa), military attache stationed in the Soviet Union, Torushiro Kawabe (major general), military attache stationed in Germany, and Yuyi Tsuchihashi (major general), military attache stationed in France.

Akio Doi and Kojima were in charge of formulating their views on the Soviet issue, and their opinion was that it was unlikely that the Soviet Union would take the initiative to intervene in the Chinese issue, and that it was necessary to take a resolute attack, first to break China's resistance, not to provoke the Soviet Union, and to avoid war with the Soviet Union as much as possible. Both Doi and Kojima had a good understanding of the Soviet Union's war potential and knew that Japan's military strength was not enough to challenge the Soviet Union.

Although the report, compiled by military attachés in Europe, was not fully convinced by the Army, Kojima's talent was valued by the Ministry of the Army, and in the same year he was promoted to Nakasa, transferred back to Japan, and served as the head of the combat squad in the Operations Division of the Ministry of the Army, focusing on operational guidance in the Chinese theater. He strongly advocated a "comprehensive victory" over China, but opposed the policy of northward expansion and supported southward expansion.

During this period, Kojima, as one of the main leaders, also participated in the command of the Shiyan operation (Ningbo) of the bacteriological warfare against China, and was one of the five-member teams that directed the bacteriological warfare against China (the team leader was Okada Shigeichi Sa, the head of the combat section), and it is worth mentioning that on November 25, 1940, Takatsuki had left the combat division for China.

Continental Order No. 169 issued by the Japanese Ministry of War ordered the suspension of bacteriological warfare in Ningbo Jinhua and other places to test the results of the war. The island was killed by the military commander in Baoding. It can be said that retribution comes quickly.

August 28, 1940. The Japanese military department convened a coordination meeting of the army and navy to draw up a future combat strategy and plan a policy of southward expansion, on the grounds that Britain was too busy fighting against Germany in Europe and could not afford to take care of it in the South Seas, and the United States was concentrating its attention on Europe, but at the same time it adopted an embargo against Japan, resulting in a shortage of imperial strategic materials. At the meeting, five scenarios (three good opportunities and two forced ones) in which a southward advance could be launched were worked out for this meeting. It is believed to have been the origin of the Pearl Harbor Incident, which erupted a year later. Kojima was one of the three Army representatives who attended the meeting.

Sending Kojima as a special envoy to "proclaim" the North China garrison is important, but he and Hayakawa have another mission. After Xiaodao arrived in North China, he was scheduled not to return, and was transferred to the staff officer of the North China Front.

At this time, Japan was making all-out efforts to fight in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and among the Japanese troops stationed in China, there were still not a few generals who admired the northward advance to attack the Soviet Union, and Kojima was one of the few Soviet experts in Japan, and he went to North China to persuade the generals to send the northward advance in order to enhance the understanding and support of the Japanese troops stationed in China for the southward expansion policy.

Hayakawa and Kojima were classmates of Lu Shi who had long focused on Korean colonial affairs. Prior to his arrival in China, he served as a tactical instructor at the Army Non-commissioned Officers School and a staff officer to the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Army. The position of the brigade commander's attendant staff officer is very strange. And it was unique in the Japanese army, and the fundamental reason for this was that the brigade commander of the 1st Brigade of the Army was himself eccentric.

The commander of the lieutenant general's brigade has no real power. But with a noble status, he was the only Korean royal family to be prosecuted as a war criminal after the war – the crown prince of Joseon, Yi Yin.

After Japan annexed Korea, he ordered Koreans to change their surnames to Japanese surnames and use the Japanese language (roughly what would have been the result if China had not fought for eight years of resistance), and at the same time, sent a large number of children of the Korean royal family (the only family that was allowed to use Korean surnames) to Japan for education and intermarriage.

Li Yin was personally inquired by Hirobumi Ito and sent to Japan to receive all the education from elementary school. This gave Hayakawa Shinbei a chance to develop – Hayakawa happened to be Li Yin's elementary school classmate, and Li Yin's wife, Rihonnomiya Fangko (who was once the first alternate for the Showa Imperial Concubine), and he were both from Saga and related.

Li Yin was fanatical and pro-Japanese all his life, and was awarded the title of Li Wangyin of Changde Palace by Japan, and served as the commander of the 59th Wing of the Army, the commander of the First Brigade, the commander of the First Air Force, and other positions.

Although Li Yin was very pro-Japanese, the Japanese side never felt at ease with him, and he put a lot of effort into monitoring and control. Hayakawa Shinbei was one such attendant staff officer, and he had considerable "merit" in consolidating Japanese colonial rule in Korea.

However, because of his classmate relationship with Li Yin, and Li Yin is indeed extremely loyal to Japan, the job of Chengji is not too difficult, and he is not always by Li Yin's side. When Li Yin visited the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, Hayakawa was in charge of receiving the guide and gave a demonstration class.

Hayakawa was sent to China because of his colonial experience, which could provide a very important reference for Okamura Ninji and other officials

As far as the Japanese army was concerned, it was unfortunate that the two high-ranking officers, who could be regarded as talented in the Japanese Army, had not had time to play their role, and they became the targets of the military commander's agents in Baodingfu.

You see, these two envoys came with four missions, one on behalf of the emperor to pacify the Japanese generals in North China. Second, persuade the mainlanders to wholeheartedly support the southward faction. Sanjihua used bacteriological warfare against the base areas of the Eighth Route Army. Fourth, strengthen colonial rule over the occupied territories.

As the old saying goes, you can't live if you do your own evil, and it is clear that you are negligent and not leaky, and how good it is to do your job of propaganda and communication, if you have to come with such a mission as germ warfare and strengthening colonial rule, then you should be unlucky, but this will not be the time for them to finish.

The emperor's envoys and a number of high-ranking generals of the Japanese army were taken to the garrison headquarters to pick up the wind and dust, and the experts sent by the military commander were also sent by the liaison in Baoding City to the church opened by the Germans next to the General's Temple, which was their secret contact point and the reserve base for the launch of the operation.

After having dinner at Shuiliantou, several cadres of our party listened to Zhang Chong's brief report and immediately moved to a safer barbarian camp. At this time, the curfew had already begun, the city gate was closed, and Zhang Chong decided to enter the city early tomorrow morning to deal with things.

Shan said that Zhang Dazhong, before the city gate was closed, returned to the city, called a rickshaw, according to the address on the note, before the curfew began, rushed to the east of the Liangjiang Guild Hall, Dafudi, and got off in front of a black lacquered gate with stone drums and horse tie stakes in front of the door.

In the past, it was the vermilion lacquer gate, and there were two sayings, one was the ancestor who had a glorious figure, and the vermilion lacquer gate was prominent when the family was exquisite. Second, the red evil spirits can block the evil spirits of the little ghosts. It is said that there are stone drums and horse-tethered stakes in front of the door, six steps, and a gate with a knocker with the head of the beast, which should be vermilion, but these two gates are black and pitch black.

The strangest thing is that there are two white lanterns hanging in front of the door! In the past, white lanterns were hung at home when there was a funeral!

Don't look at Baoding for half a year, the streets of the city are also full of anecdotes about celebrities, and when they look at the two "Zhu" characters on the lantern, they understand more than half of it.

This old Mr. Zhu has painted the gate black since he occupied Baoding City, and the red lantern at the door has also been replaced with white yarn, which means that the country is like mourning! It is said that after being forced to become the president of the Chamber of Commerce, he didn't go to the Chamber of Commerce all day, except for going to the Qinglou to drink and have fun, that is, he was bored at home to write poems and paint, and the devil and the traitor also looked at it anyway to become the president of the Chamber of Commerce, what you want is your reputation, how to toss if you like, as long as you don't go against the imperial army.

"Bang Bang!" Hand in a row, knocked on the door three times, stopped for a while, there was a sound of footsteps in the door, squeaked, the door opened a crack, a slightly old voice revealed the words, asked who to find?

Zhang Dazhong followed the commissioner's instructions, and asked in a low voice who was Lu Sanye in the door? The door opened a little more, and I could see the face of an old man covered with wrinkles and carved vicissitudes, his eyes looking at the person outside the door under the flickering lantern, and after a while, he said that it was Lu San.

Hearing that it was Lu San, Zhang Dazhong lowered his voice and said, "Old man, I was sent by Xiaolinzi to find Zhu Sanye!" ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, and then pulled Zhang Dazhong into the door as fast as lightning, probed out and looked around for a long time, then closed the door tightly, fell on the latch, turned to Zhang Dazhong and said, "Come with me!" ”

From the gate of the Zhu family, a magnificent anti-Japanese murder drama with ups and downs is the beginning! (To be continued......)