The aforementioned Chen Xianzhou is a bit interesting, it is worth mentioning that Chen Xianzhou is a famous "Xiahoudun" in the military command, whether it is in front of the Japanese or the Communist Party, he has performed the adventure script of first preferring to die and not yielding, and then surviving in death, zuihou good luck to escape, the legend is like a movie, but it's a pity that no one has discovered such a haode theme to make a movie or TV series.

On the other hand, Dai Lisa mobilized 28 North China spies who had completed training such as Ma Kedi, and used their local connections to supplement the underground stations in North China to rebuild Beiping and Tianjin.

The military commander came for the emperor's envoy this time, just to use the assassination envoy to revive the morale of the northern region, and also to save some of the face lost by Wang Tianmu and others due to the rebellion of Wang Tianmu and others.

The reason why they did not choose the emperor's envoy to Tianjin, the first stop in China, was that when they received the news, these two devils had already arrived in Beiping, and when they arrived in Beiping, they were going to deploy assassination operations, and they found that the devils' protection work was very strict and they could not start.

Only then did he chase all the way to Baoding, and Dai Li also gave an order, be sure to make this operation in Baoding, and if it doesn't succeed, it will become a benevolent!

Aren't they just two envoys, and they still use so much strength to chase from Tianjin to Baoding? In addition to the reason why the military commanders wanted to get a big goal to boost the morale of the subordinates, it was not until many years later that the information was declassified and there was another hidden secret.

Unlike Prince Mikasawara, who was captured by Yang Bangzi, the prince's envoy was not actually called a special envoy, but a consolation envoy, and under the banner of the emperor, he assumed the identity of the emperor's own brother, and came to China to express his condolences to the emperor in a high-profile manner among the soldiers and ordinary people. To the soldiers, it is to express the emperor's condolences. As for the Chinese people, they are pretending to preach the Great East Asian Holy War. This one has an element of acting and showmanship.

However, the two envoys who came to China this time were different, they came to China in secret, and they only saw some high-ranking generals, and it is said that they did not even see the high-ranking officials of the puppet regime supported by the Japanese army. Do you still want to help the emperor to mend the rift between the Okamura Ninji faction? Actually, yes and no!

What is the right thing is that there is really such a mission brought by these two envoys, but what is wrong is that these two envoys have another mission that absolutely cannot see the light, what is the situation? Listen to me.

According to Japanese historical sources. The reason for the Emperor's special envoy was that the Emperor needed to express his support to Okamura Ninji, then commander-in-chief of the North China Front.

At that time, the Japanese army had occupied the major cities of North China for four years, but from August 1940, the Eighth Route Army launched the "Battle of the Hundred Regiments", which lasted for several months of fierce attacks and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army in North China. The Japanese government and the public, who were hurt, exclaimed in amazement, unable to understand that North China, which had been occupied for many years, could not understand that there was such a powerful anti-Japanese liliang in North China.

At that time, the commander-in-chief of the North China Garrison Army, Tada Jun, was greatly criticized, and Tada Jun also defended himself, claiming that the attack of the Eighth Route Army was only a temporary event. And suffered huge losses, the situation in North China has been stabilized. The garrison was beyond reproach, and asked the emperor to send personnel to inspect North China.

By the middle of 1941, Japan could no longer tolerate Tadajun's incompetence, so he was promoted to general (considered to give face) and sent back to China, and was transferred to Okamura Ninji, who was called "the most cunning" by Marshal Peng Dehuai, as the commander-in-chief of the North China garrison. Okamura Ninji was much more flexible than Tada, and the May Day Sweep and a series of subsequent operations launched by him with heavy troops inflicted huge losses on the Eighth Route Army.

Because of Tada's past military exploits, in the end, Japan decided not to pursue him. Since he was not held accountable, he had to show his trust in him, and he also had to appease these old ministers in North China who had commanded Tada Jun for more than three years.

Therefore, the emperor decided through the discussion of the Japanese parliament to send two special envoys, Junzaburo Kojima and Hayakawa Shinbei, to North China to "Xuanfu" to express his encouragement to Tada Jun's old department and his support for Okamura Ninji.

In fact, there was something wrong with this decision, Tada Jun was an old-style soldier, good at regular operations, and he was really unable to deal with the tactically flexible Eighth Route Army, and during his tenure as commander of the North China Garrison Army, he never had any good way to deal with the Eighth Route Army, and the overall strength of the Eighth Route Army became stronger and stronger.

Okamura Ninji was an authentic China expert, who had been studying the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party since the early thirties, and it can be said that the new sweeping methods he used when he arrived in North China were indeed the right medicine, but our party and the Eighth Route Army were more flexible and tenacious than him, and although they suffered losses, they still retained the main force.

This is the mission of the two envoys, and what cannot be disclosed is that the two envoys also have other secret missions.

Regarding these two envoys of the emperor, the current Chinese sources are not clear, only mentioning that both are members of the House of Lords of the Japanese Parliament, and both have the rank of army lieutenant. In fact, after Junzaburo Kojima was killed, "Tejin" was Osa, so Junzaburo Kojima is called "Ojima Daisa" in Japanese sources.

And Hayakawa Shinbei because he was not killed, naturally there was no special advance, he was not killed in this assassination, he was wounded and disabled, and he was no longer suitable for the front-line troops, and was transferred to the Army Non-commissioned Officer School as the chief of the general affairs section, this idle position affected his promotion, so until the defeat of Japan, Hayakawa was always a lieutenant.

In fact, these two are famous figures in the Japanese Army, especially Junzaburo Kojima, who has the noble title of baron, and has a special nickname, called "Sakura of Latvia".

What is the origin of these two "Emperor's envoys"?

Junzaburo Kojima, a native of Shimane Prefecture, graduated from the 33rd class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School in the tenth year of Taisho. At the time of graduation, he was ranked first among the students of the class and was awarded a silver watch by the Emperor.

There is a bit of confusion here, it is said that the first place in the non-commissioned officer school is traditionally given a short sword, why is it a silver watch this time? It may be that in the third issue, Jiang Baili took the first place and brought the emperor's sword back to China, and the emperor had no guys, so he had to give something else.

Not many of the cadets in this period became high-ranking generals in the war, firstly, because of their age and qualifications, and secondly, because they paid more attention to the direction of training during their time at the school, focusing on cultivating diplomatic and military talents.

After graduating, Kojima was once sent to serve in the Korean army, and because of his outstanding performance, he was sponsored by the Ministry of War to enter the 44th phase of the Army University, focusing on the strategy against the Soviet Union, and graduated in the seventh year of Showa (1932), this time he still had excellent grades, and won the second place with honors after Morihiko Hanamoto among the 49 students.

When Japan was defeated, this class of Lu University graduates was exceptionally promoted to major general by Prince Haruhito of the Imperial Family, and the highest military rank was Dasa. Ironically, after Kojima's assassination, "Tejin" became the first graduate of the 44th class of Lu University to reach this military rank, and I believe that no one is willing to compete with him for this honor.

Hayakawa Shinbei, who was assassinated at the same time as Kojima, was born in Saga aristocracy, and was a classmate of the 33rd class of his Lushi, and after graduation, he also served in the Korean army, but his way was peculiar, and he mixed into the upper echelons at once, and his experience was very different from Kojima. The advantage of this is that Hayakawa's promotion is relatively fast, but he did not get the opportunity to study at Lu University, and he lost an advanced diploma.

After graduating from the University, Kojima was assigned to Europe as a midshipman military attaché, and in 1934 he became a military attaché at the Japanese Embassy in Latvia. After the collapse of Russia in World War I, the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania took the opportunity to become independent.

In order to avoid being annexed by the Soviet Union, these small countries joined the alliance with France, known as the "Little Entente", and Riga, the capital of Latvia, became an important base for external Shijie to collect Soviet intelligence.

The US military attache in Latvia, Pires, is a master in this regard, and the small islands that are mainly attacking the Soviet Union are naturally at ease here, and they have provided important information about the Soviet Union to Japan on many occasions. During this time, Kojima wrote letters to friends in Japan, often referring to himself as "the cherry blossoms of Latvia". (In Japan's old military, graduates of military academies often boasted of cherry blossoms, expressing their appreciation for the quality of cherry blossoms that "withered in splendor" and were not afraid of death in battle.) (To be continued......)