Wang Changgeng, chief of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance, walked into Director Qin's office with a nervous mood, and saw several people sitting in the room, in addition to Director Qin, there were two people who did not know, one of the young people looked a little familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was.

"Wang Changgeng, do you know them?" The wooden-faced Director Qin pointed at the two strangers.

"Back to the director's words, I don't know the lowly position."

The bald Director Qin had a cold face, "Wang Changgeng, you have such a big face." Let me introduce you, this is Director Jiang of the State Security Administration, and you must have heard of it. That one is Director Han of the General Administration Headquarters, Han Ce. His department was in charge of counterintelligence. ”

It was like a thunderbolt exploding above Wang Changgeng's head, and his face turned white.

"Scared?" Jiang Yun put down the teacup in his hand, "Since you dare to do it, you should dare to do it." Director Qin, you can get busy. ”

"Shameless thing! The Ministry of Finance has lost all your face! Director Qin stood up, "Answer Director Jiang's question honestly, otherwise, you know the consequences." ”

There was an espionage case in the department, which made Director Qin annoyed. Of course, Director Qin is patriotic and hates the scum who forgets his ancestors. But even more concerned about his future, he already hated Wang Changgeng in his heart. The people of the State Security Bureau are not good people, but the facts of the past few years have proved that this intelligence organ, which has been heard of by officials, rarely has unjust cases. Since the General Administration is eyeing Wang Changgeng, then he has a problem!

The years after the founding of the republic were not strictly peaceful. This kind of unrest is not in the people, but in the officialdom. The main reason is that there is a constant purge of officials because of the assassination of the supreme leader. Because of the political stance and corruption, a large number of officials have been stripped of their black veils. Because the political position may be reversed, Wang Zhaoming, a KMT cadre, did not lose his head when he planned to assassinate the president. With the easing of relations with the KMT, some people have already been released from the Wang case. But when it comes to betraying the country, there is no room for maneuver, and even if the death penalty is not imposed, this life can probably only be spent in prison. The Criminal Code imposes extremely severe sentences for treason, and very few can save lives.

"Say, you know what I'm going to ask you." Jiang Yun said softly.

"I don'......t understand," Wang Changgeng desperately calmed his flustered mood. I felt my heart beating wildly. It seems to be about to pop out of the cavity.

"Okay, show him the picture."

Han Ce took out a few photos from his leather bag and threw them on the table.

Wang Changgeng leaned over to watch and couldn't help but make a sound. The photograph is the scene of a man being tortured, and that person has been unrecognizable. The face is puffy and I can't see my true face at all. There is a close-up of the man's two hands. The hands are secured to the table by steel rings. Half of his fingers were flattened by a hard object.

"This person should always know each other, right?" Han Ce handed over another photo.

"Huh?!" The photo is of his long-term companion Rongfu.

"Didn't he go back to his hometown?" Wang Changgeng was shocked and exclaimed.

"He's going back to his hometown soon." Han Ce said in a flat tone, "Your Changsui is still a little tough, and he didn't speak until my man smashed his fifth finger. What do you think? Can you answer our director's question? ”

Wang Changgeng knelt on the ground with a thud. "My lord, spare my life, spare my life."

"You're dead. But you can choose how to die, and your family can be saved, if you satisfy me. Jiang Yun said slowly, "Say, what did you give to Xiao Cang?" Speak slowly, say it all. ”

The weather has turned cold, but Wang Changgeng's forehead is already full of beads of sweat, "I said, I said." ”

Wang Changgeng explained the process of providing top-secret information such as the budget to Ogura Fuji, the first secretary of the Japanese Embassy. He never expected that the State Security Bureau had already targeted him, and Rong Fu's father's illness seemed to be a trap, Rong Fu had already been ensnared and tortured by the State Security Bureau, and confessed what he knew.

"For traitors, humanity does not apply. Because you have long since despised humanity. Jiang Yun smiled silently, "Three days ago, that is, on September 26th, at the Six Nations Hotel, what did Ogura tell you?" ”

"He asked me to add a detailed account of the budget...... In addition, he asked me to find a way to verify whether the troops stationed in Baoding had been mobilized......"

"How did you answer?"

"I said no. Apart from the two budgets that Congress has already approved, there are no additional budgets, and there are no plans to issue war bonds. As for the army in Baoding......"

"So you went to Baoding, and you also sent your chief to return to his hometown Shimen with Rongfu, and the task is to implement the situation of the military columns," Jiang Yun's tone was still calm, "You are very dedicated to your Japanese master." ”

Another thunderbolt rang out. It is true that Kogura expressed doubts about the information he reported that the front-line troops of the Wehrmacht stationed in Baoding and Shimen had not been mobilized, but he said that there was absolutely no problem, and that it was all grounded......

"If you want a decent ending, you'd better do what I say." Jiang Yun stared at each other with cold eyes. Originally, it was not worthy of his personal interrogation, but when it came to strategic deception against Japan, the five places thought that this person still had use value, so Jiang Yun arranged it himself.

This is a fragment of the secret front. Such a dark war is happening all the time. After the State Security Bureau determined that Wang Changgeng had been bribed by the Japanese Embassy, it launched a deception plan, and with the cooperation of the Ministry of Finance, it provided the Japanese side with several false information about war mobilization. So Jiang Yun decided to close the net, the value of this scum has been squeezed out, and it is useless.

It's hard to trace Japan backwards. However, it is certain that Japan is extremely worried about China's expansion of the war in Shandong, which confirms the judgment of the highest level of the war situation, that is, Japan has no intention of starting a full-scale war, and their target is limited to Shandong.

When the war began, there was an urgent need for Japan's strategic intelligence, but both the National Security Administration and the Military Intelligence Agency could provide very limited valuable information. In addition to verifying the divisions mobilized by Japan, the rest is not worth mentioning. Compared with Japan's deployment in China for many years, China's intelligence network against Japan is much weaker, and this point has stimulated the arrogant Jiang Yun, who vowed to send intelligence agents to Japan's top level. But this is not an immediate fix. Over the past few months, the State Security Administration has cracked a series of Japanese espionage cases, deeply feeling Japan's infiltration into all aspects of the country and the shamelessness of a large number of traitors. Just like this Section Chief Wang, he just received 3,000 Chinese dollars from Japan, and then betrayed the 1914 state budget.

For Japan, the Shandong war situation cannot be said to be unsmooth, nor can it be said to be unsmooth. The north and south lines have landed along the line, and the battle situation is unfolding according to the plan of the base camp, but whether it is Jiaozhou Bay or Longkou. The Chinese side has made careful arrangements. This is a source of deep concern for Japan's front and rear. The main forces of the Chinese army contracted. This made the plan of the Shandong dispatch army to quickly seize the main force of the Chinese army and annihilate it unrealistic. Moreover, due to the complete clearing of the Chinese wall, the Japanese army felt the pressure of logistics, and the first batch of troops to go ashore had already exhausted the food they carried. If it can't be replenished on the spot. More than 100,000 officers and soldiers. Tens of thousands of war horses, without seizing the port of Qingdao, it is unimaginable that the food consumed every day must be transported by the navy.

And. The Navy was heavily attacked by aircraft and submarines. This threat has risen to the strategic level. On 29 September, taking advantage of the good weather, the Chinese army concentrated more than 50 planes and violently bombed the material storage place of the Japanese landing site in Jiaozhou Bay, throwing gasoline bombs and burning a large amount of grain.

On the same day, two transport ships returning to Japan were sunk by submarines 200 nautical miles from Qingdao, and one escort destroyer was damaged and sank before returning to Weihai. Forcing the Navy to send more ships to escort the ship. At the same time, the three fleets aimed at China were strictly ordered to strengthen their anti-submarine forces and eliminate the submarines in China. As a result, the Japanese Navy had to weaken its land support and deploy more ships to deal with the elusive submarines.

The Third Fleet, which reached the periphery of Shanghai, did not engage the Chinese fleet. It has been learned that the main force of the East China Sea Fleet in China has left the Shanghai base before the war, and its whereabouts are unknown, and the Third Fleet is very nervous and desperately searches for the whereabouts of the China Fleet. If the surface ships of China "slip" into the war zone, it will increase the danger of sea transportation lines. The base camp vetoed Rear Admiral Mitsuyoshi Tsuchiya's proposal to cross the Taiwan Strait to attack the South China Sea Fleet in China, and strictly ordered the Third Fleet to blockade Shanghai and not allow a single warship to go north.

Chinese planes and submarines showed great value and disgraced the Japanese Navy. They never imagined that such an unequal force would achieve this result.

In view of the current grim situation, on September 30, when the 3rd Division of the Southern Front was still forcibly crossing the Yanghe River, Senior General Terauchi Masatsuki, commander-in-chief of the Shandong Dispatch Army, reported to the base camp at the temporary headquarters of the battleship Zhoufang, "In view of the fact that China has made sufficient battlefield arrangements, it is no longer realistic to encircle the main force of the Central Military Region of China east of Weifang. The supply problem had become prominent, and the dispatched army decided to capture Qingdao first, and then the main force would advance westward, forcing the Chinese army to fight a decisive battle with our army, and break it in one fell swoop. ”

On October 1, the base camp approved the request for an adjustment of the battle plan in the temple. At the moment, Qingdao can only be taken first, otherwise the supply will be a big problem.

The capture of Qingdao must ensure the safety of the back of the besieging troops. Therefore, the Japanese troops on both the northern and southern fronts stepped up their operations. After a day and a half of bloody battles, the 3rd Division of the Southern Front finally crossed the Yanghe River, defeated the 41st Brigade of the Chinese Army, which was stubbornly resisting, and began to attack Jiaoxian. The 23rd Brigade of the 18th Division of the Northern Front and the 6th Division, which had landed, advanced to Weifang along the Jideng Highway. The meeting point of the north and south roads is Weifang. Another brigade of the 18th Division (the 24th Brigade) turned south and headed towards Qingdao, joining the sequence of attacking Qingdao.

Based on the information already in their possession, the Japanese base camp judged that it was impossible for the Chinese army to abandon Weifang, and as far as Shandong's industrial base was concerned, three areas were roughly formed: the Yiyan region in the south was dominated by iron and steel, chemical industry, and medicine, and about one-third of China's explosives and half of its smokeless gunpowder at the present stage were produced in this area. Steel production accounts for about 40% of the country's total. The central part is centered on Jinan, Qingzhou and Weifang, and in addition to the military industry and automobiles, the region is the largest light industry base in the country, which is not even comparable to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. New industrial zones centered on Texas are being formed in the north, with a focus on textiles and food. More than half of the Chinese army's military canned food production is produced in Texas. Japan judged that China would never give up Weifang, and if Weifang was lost, Qingzhou would be difficult to protect, and Jinan would also be in danger. Therefore, the Chinese army had to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Shandong in Weifang.

The first phase of the campaign ended. All four divisions of the Japanese army had landed, driving out the not very strong resistance of the Chinese army and penetrating deep into the hinterland of Shandong. During this period, the Japanese lost a total of more than 3,500 troops, of which about 500 were drowned, and more than 1,000 were lost in the battle to force the crossing of the Yanghe River. It greatly exceeded the expectations of the temple. In particular, he was distressed by the strategy of shrinking the main forces of the Chinese army, and he privately told the chief of staff of Onishi that this battle would not be easy to fight, and perhaps we could only aim at seizing Qingdao.

The attitude in the temple shocked Major General Onishi. The plan of the base camp is to control the entire line of the Jiaoji line and occupy Jinan. The General Staff Headquarters firmly believed that after the addition of the 9th Division, the dispatch army would occupy Jinan. Jinan is already the industrial center of China, about half of the munitions are produced there, the light industry is more developed, and there is a large-scale automobile industry, and the strategic goal of weakening China can only be achieved by destroying Jinan.

"Please pay attention to the changes in the Shina Army," Terauchi said with a gloomy face, "the Empire underestimates them too much, they are not ten years ago. Please arrange for the headquarters to go ashore, I was upset when I saw the Navy's face. ”

On 2 October, Major General Onishi landed early with a capable staff group, whose task was to find a suitable headquarters for the senior general. In the afternoon of the same day, Major General Onishi arrived at Fengmeng Town on the east bank of the Yanghe River, where the Yanghe River is five miles to the west and Jiaozhou Bay is twelve miles to the north, and there are enough houses to house the headquarters organs. He did not see Lieutenant General Senba Taro of the 3rd Division in the town, but he did see a large number of wounded soldiers of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division. Onishi inquired about the details of the forced crossing of the Yanghe River, and Iwamori Nakasa, the logistics headquarters of the 3rd Division who remained in Fengmeng Town, gave a brief report to the chief of staff on the battle situation, and in the fierce battle of one and a half days, the 3rd Division suffered 342 killed, 744 wounded, and 7 missing. A third of the wounded were seriously injured. The resistance of the Chinese army was extremely stubborn, and there were several white-knuckle fights. However, the 5th Brigade had already broken through the resistance of the Chinese Army, and the main force of the division had crossed the Yanghe River and was advancing towards Jiaoxian.

Iwamori did not care about the casualties of the division, but was distressed by the increasingly tight logistical supply, Iwamori Nakasa reported that the Shina army took a very thorough approach to the fortified wall, they evacuated all the nearby residents, and could not find food and forage, and the captured residents of Shina confessed that they began to move half a month ago, and all the food was transported, "The Shina people have planted a large number of mines, especially a small mine is very annoying, it does not cause death, only blows up the sole of the foot of the person who stepped on it." If you are unfortunate enough to step on it, you are destined to be crippled in this life. This situation has caused panic among the troops, "Iwamori, after recounting the trouble with the mines, mentioned again that the 5th Brigade was already hungry and had to transfer the grain and grass supplied to the 29th Brigade to the 5th Brigade, and asked His Excellency the Chief of Staff to urge the transportation of food and fodder as soon as possible, otherwise the troops would have to stop."

Here, Iwamori concealed the massacre of more than 40 local residents by the 6th Wing of the 5th Brigade Regiment, because they could not find food, livestock, or even clean drinking water, the angry Japanese army killed all the residents who were hiding and unwilling to retreat with bayonets, including minor children. The 5th Brigade concealed the atrocities, which they probably thought were nothing, that the war itself was an act of violence, and that it was inevitable that soldiers would commit violence because of their plight. When Lushun was captured, how many civilians were killed? Who would dare to hold the army accountable? But the Japanese army did not expect that now is not the First Sino-Japanese War, New China is no longer the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which treats everything like a dog, and the atrocities of the Shandong Dispatch Army in Jiaodong will be doubled down.

"Fighting to the west, it is impossible for China to even have a strong wall in Jiaoxian County! Think about it, how could the government of China move hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of residents out of the war zone? That's impossible! At most, they make a fuss near the lines of traffic. On-the-spot supply is a must! Major General Onishi became agitated after listening to Iwamori Nakasa's words, "The 6th Division on the Northern Front has been put into battle, and the commander wants to see the 3rd Division enter Weixian first. ”

Onishi remembered the concern of the commander-in-chief of Terauchi, the opponent 41 Brigade was a unit of the 14th Division, and the predecessor of the 14th Division was the Nanyang Army, not a descendant of the Mengshan Army. A mere miscellaneous brigade actually blocked the elite 5th Brigade in Yanghe for a day and a half, and caused thousands of casualties in the 5th Brigade, if it was replaced by the 6th Division of the Chinese Army, would it drive the 3rd Division into the sea? Major General Onishi, who was once optimistic, really felt the crisis. (To be continued......)