found Ouyang Hui's office, Wang Maocai knocked on the door and entered.

When he entered, he hung his top hat on the coat rack at the door and sat down on the leather sofa in front of him.

"There's a reply from there, and everything else is good, but the location of the negotiation feels inappropriate, so let them find a new place." Wang Maocai struck a match, lit a cigarette, and spat out a smoke ring casually.

Ouyang Hui pursed her lips and walked over with her arms in her arms, "Why?" ”

"I said that I didn't want to negotiate in the Japanese-occupied area, but there was no reason. Do I think the Japanese-occupied area is unsafe? Hehe, don't mind, I'm afraid I don't think it's faceless to come to the Japanese-occupied area, after all, Shanghai was once the largest metropolis in the Far East under the Nanjing government. Wang Maocai also replied.

Ouyang Hui sneered: "It's really ridiculous. A country that loses a war is still qualified to save face? ”

Wang Maocai saw her attitude, and suddenly felt unhappy in his heart, he put out the cigarette he had just smoked a few puffs in the ashtray, "Miss Huizi, I can remind you, I am just a middleman, but your attitude is definitely not negotiable." ”

Seeing that Wang Maocai was a little nervous, Ouyang Hui snorted coldly again.

Wang Maocai leaned back, yawned and said, "How can you talk about it without taking a single step?" I wondered, is it just a place for negotiation, as for so entangled? Nanjing is entangled and entangled, and you are also entangled and entangled, both sides can stop the planes bombing each other, why can't they talk about a place for negotiation? ”

"Where do they want to be?"

Wang Maocai thought for a while: "I didn't say this, but I should want to talk about it in the place they occupied." ”

"......" Ouyang Hui thought for a moment, and then she changed her slightly soothing tone and said, "This is a big matter, I still need to ask my superiors." ”

"Okay, are you asking for advice now? Or will you wait until I get back and ask for advice? Wang Maocai's lazy appearance seemed to be reluctant to run again.

"You wait outside, I'll ask for instructions now." After speaking, Ouyang Hui stood up and walked straight to the desk. Wang Maocai knew that he was not interested, so he had to get up and walk out of the door. In fact, Wang Mao knew that the person Ouyang Hui wanted to ask for instructions was in this building, and he wanted to make it so mysterious, so he had to scold this in his heart.

Ouyang Hui is fully responsible for this matter, and many things before the negotiation can be decided. However, in terms of the location of negotiations, especially when the other side asks to negotiate in the areas occupied by the Wehrmacht, I am afraid that she will not be able to call the shots. After all, she is responsible for the safety of her negotiators.

Picking up the phone in front of him, Ouyang Hui didn't dial the number, and directly asked the operator to take the office of the army general, the Japanese intelligence chief Tohi Yuan.

Enji Tohi made a special trip from Tokyo to Shanghai not long ago for the purpose of negotiations between China and Japan. Because of the Tokyo base camp and the emperor's holy decree, Tohi Yuan was warmly welcomed by the Japanese military after coming to Shanghai. And a large office was specially prepared for him.

However, on the grounds of "cost-consuming and convenient office", Tu Feiyuan moved out of the big office and went directly to this small office in the headquarters building of the East China Front Army.

In this negotiation with China, Kenji Dohihara, as the person directly in charge, led the negotiation. Like the Chinese side, they have a temporary office that has no specific name and is made up of the Tokyo Base Camp General Staff, the Intelligence Department, and the War Department, which are directly accountable to Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

It is ridiculous that there is no Japanese government figure in the negotiations between the governments, but a group of Japanese soldiers are allowed to take the lead, and I am afraid that this is also a unique political phenomenon in Japan.

After listening to Ouyang Hui's report, Kenji Dohihara thought for a moment, and after a moment he said to Ouyang Hui: "You can give up negotiating in the Japanese-occupied area, but the place of negotiation cannot be in the Nanjing occupation area. Choose a neutral zone so that everyone can accept it. ”

"Hayi, I will convey the general's opinion to the government of China." Ouyang Hui said.

"Well, Huizi, please remember that in the process of negotiation and negotiation, do not use the word 'zhina' again, so as not to cause displeasure in Nanjing because of these subsections, there is a saying in China that 'if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan', and you must not cause a total loss because of a small mistake." Kenji Dohihara reminded on the other end of the phone.

"Hayi, I remember! Thank you, General, for your advice. Ouyang Hui secretly exclaimed in her heart, Kenji Dohihara is really the king of agents, and he can notice such a small detail, it seems that he has a lot to learn from him.

Kenji Dohihara continued: "At present, the empire is making good progress in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, but the Far East battlefield has been delayed because of China's resistance, and the empire has invested too many troops in the Chinese battlefield. So if this negotiation can get a temporary truce between China and Japan for a year, it will be a huge opportunity for the empire, you understand? ”

Ouyang Hui stood up suddenly, held the phone in his heel and bowed, "Hayi, Huizi understands." ”

"We must bear the burden of humiliation, and His Majesty the Emperor also has expectations for this meeting, so let's work together!" Kenji Dohihara made an impassioned speech and hung up the phone.

After ending the call, Ouyang Hui called Wang Maocai outside the door in.

Wang Mao only saw Ouyang Hui's cold expression and knew that this matter must have come to pass. He scolded in his heart, "The Japanese are not stupid, how can they be confused about this little thing?" ”

"How? Miss Keiko, what did Chief Tu Fei Yuan say? Wang Maocai leaned over and asked with a smile on his face.

Ouyang Hui didn't answer his words directly, but looked at him suspiciously, "Wang Sang, I didn't expect you to be so enthusiastic about the cause of the empire. I was impressed. ”

Wang Maocai smiled, "Isn't that right?" The Great Japanese Empire is the motherland to which I am allegiated, and the Emperor is also a person I respect, oh no! God, is God. ”

Ouyang Hui didn't bother to listen to his shameless remarks, so he simply told all the results of the instructions he had just asked, "General Tu Feiyuan said, 'Negotiations can not be held in Shanghai or the Japanese-occupied area, but it cannot be in the occupation area of Nanjing. ’”

Saying this, Wang Mao made a difficulty, "I said, you ...... Aren't you looking for trouble? If you look at the entire Far East now, it is either the Japanese occupation zone or the Chinese occupation zone, where is there any neutral zone? Are you going to go to that hellish place in Siberia to negotiate? That's not good, and people won't want to. ”

Ouyang Hui shook his head and said to Wang Maocai in a contemptuous tone: "Wang Sang, after you pass this information to the Chinese side, they will definitely agree. As for the choice of location, China is so big, can't it find a vacuum of power on both sides? ”

"Why do you think Nanjing will agree?" Wang Maocai was also suspicious.

Ouyang Hui pointed to her pink face, "This, face!" Nanjing said that it was unwilling to negotiate in Shanghai, but not for the sake of face? Now that we have given them face, it is not so important where to negotiate. ”

Wang Maocai suddenly realized, and flattered again and again: "High! It's really high! ”

……

In the end, the two sides negotiated and finalized, and the negotiations were held in an ancient town in Huzhou, Zhejiang.

The choice here is mainly because Huzhou, close to Anhui and other places, is the border of the occupied areas of the two sides, so it can be said that they are not subordinate to each other. There are also not many troops stationed in the vicinity of either side, and it is relatively quiet; Finally, the environment here is good and relatively hidden, and the transportation is convenient, so it is suitable as a place for negotiations.

After the negotiations were finalized, China and Japan began to take the lead in many details of the negotiations. Compared with Nanjing, the Japanese side seems to lag behind in communication, and many questions need to be asked from Shanghai to Tokyo, and only after receiving answers can they proceed to the next step.

Fortunately, however, there are still two or three days to go, and the issues that were originally planned for negotiation have already been worked out, and all that is needed is to continue to use the radio to send them to Tokyo.

……

The high-frequency telegraph exchange from Shanghai to Tokyo attracted the attention of many intelligence services.

The first is the "Chinese black room" that is specially responsible for deciphering intelligence against Japan.

This group, which gathers the world's top deciphering geniuses, has found that the frequency of recent intensive telegrams between the East China Front and Tokyo is even higher than that of the Sino-Japanese Songhu Battle.

The frequency of large-scale telegram transmission can only indicate one thing, and that is that the East China Front is preparing for a large-scale military operation.

The person in charge of the "Chinese Black Room" was Chi Buzhou, who had returned from Japan, and after learning of these circumstances, he did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately organized personnel to decipher the telegram overnight.

After a day and a night of hard work, they finally deciphered a small part of the telegraph.

But after reading the content, they were very puzzled, because many of the contents of the telegram were related to the ceasefire such as "stop the offensive" and "military identification zone between the two sides", and there was no specific military deployment?

Experts in the deciphering of the "Chinese black room", who have long been exposed to the code, feel that this is a kind of plaintext code of the Japanese, and in this way it represents some kind of military action, such as "stop the attack" is likely to represent "some kind of military attack".

This aspect has nothing to do with decipherment, and it is necessary for the Military Staff to synthesize these ciphers with the existing Japanese military dynamics, and then compare and decipher.

After Chi Buzhou and the deciphering experts sorted out the materials, they prepared to report the information to the intelligence department of the Ministry of National Defense, which specializes in military intelligence.

It is worth mentioning that at this time the "Chinese black room" had already moved to Wuhan as a whole before the war, while their superior military intelligence office remained in Nanjing, but the superior military staff of the military intelligence office was relocated to Wuhan.

This barrier between the two places leads to communication difficulties. Chi Buzhou had no choice but to report to the Military Intelligence Department and the Military Staff in Wuhan at the same time.

Because of the distance, the Military Staff received this intelligence report earlier than the Military Intelligence Service. This intelligence analysis was sent to the case of He Yingqin of the Military General Staff.

After glancing at it, He Yingqin's brows furrowed, and he hurriedly picked up the phone and said, "Hey, help me connect with Minister Jiang of the War Department." ”