In the face of the spy organization that has been lurking in Jinling for many years, this time it may be the result of the annihilation of the whole army, but Nobuo Ueno did not burst into a rage. In normal times, even if something went wrong with one of the spy teams, he would not have reacted so calmly.

In fact, the reason is very simple, the loss of a spy team, he can be angry with the head of the local spy organization, but now, there is no one to be angry with, a punch in the air, it is he who is uncomfortable, why should he be unable to get along with himself?

Watanabe Kazuki's spy organization had an accident, which also represented the entire Jinling, and at present, only Liao Yaquan's spy group of the special high school remained, and the most important job of Ueno Nobuo was to send people to Jinling as soon as possible.

"Report, Your Excellency General's urgent telegram!" The interpreter knocked on the door.

Chiyo Hoshino, the "Red Rose" who was sitting in the outhouse, suddenly pricked up his ears, and the telegram sent by Kenji Dohihara must have important information.

"Great, Your Excellency the General informed me that he has received a secret report that the commander of the North China Garrison Army, Lieutenant General Tashiro Wanichiro, has decided to take action against the Jinling government troops tonight, and His Excellency the General has judged that this may lead to a full-scale war between the two countries, so we must adjust the direction of the mission in time."

"Qing Shui-kun, you immediately send someone to rush to Jinling with heavy money to lurk, there are two main tasks, one is to collect the defense situation of Jinling, and the other is to buy the officers who defend the city, according to the comparison of the strength of the two sides, I believe that the imperial army will soon be able to hit Jinling City." Nobuo Ueno said with a smile.

Originally, he was worried that this heavy loss would bring him and the secret service agency stationed in Shanghai to the reproach of the military department and the second department, but with the start of the war in the Pingjin area, no one would care about this matter, and it was not too late to make amends!

On the night of July 7, Han Lin sat at home waiting for the report from Beiping, while Li Peiyue and Wu Yukun, who had been temporarily transferred, guarded two radio stations and kept replying to messages from Boss Dai and the attendants' room.

As soon as he entered July, he sent a copy of the top-secret information to Boss Dai and his attendant office that the Japanese army was about to take military action today and tomorrow, and the special task force stationed in Beiping set up a radio station in Wanping in accordance with his instructions to report the movements of the Japanese army at any time.

At half past eleven o'clock in the evening, as the radio signal light flashed, the first message came.

Sure enough, it was the 8th Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Riverside Brigade conducting an exercise outside Wanping County, and the squadron leader claimed that the Japanese soldiers were missing and asked to enter Wanping City to search, but the defenders refused the news.

"This is the signal of war, a full-scale war between us and the Japanese invaders, which will soon begin! Call back to the secret service team and retreat to a safe place to continue to observe, and the Japanese army will soon use force to shell Wanping City. Han Lin took a sip of the teacup and lit a cigarette.

With such a momentous historical event, it was absolutely impossible for him to sleep tonight.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of 8 July, a second telegram arrived, and at 4:50 a.m., the Japanese shelled the county seat of Wanping.

"The Japanese have begun to use force, you immediately send a telegram to the attendant room, and at the same time telegraph to Boss Dai." Han Lin said.

"Director, our war with the Japanese invaders broke out so easily?" Li Peiyue couldn't believe it.

"No, the real battle is not coming so soon, the Japanese army needs to gather troops, at present, only with the Japanese army stationed in North China, it is not possible to swallow the Pingjin area, the Japanese must first conduct peace negotiations, do strategic deception, and wait for the army to assemble in place before the real large-scale attack." Han Lin said.

"The 29th Army guarding in Pingjin used to participate in the Great Wall War of Resistance and was a brave and good fighting army, can they withstand the attack of the Japanese army?" Lu Manyin, who was sitting with him on the side, asked.

"Commander Song is not him during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Chahar and Suiyuan, Pingjin area, this is his sphere of influence, and the orders of the Jinling government are also perfunctory, always fantasizing about protecting their own territory, hoping to continue to maintain the current situation through peace talks."

"On the other hand, he didn't realize that this incident in Wanping would be a full-scale war for the entire country and nation against the Japanese invaders, and by the time he figured it out, the situation in Pingjin and North China was irreparable."

"Commander Song is a famous anti-Japanese general, and if he hadn't been stationed in Pingjin, these two places would have been occupied by the Japanese army a long time ago, but his vacillating and hesitant attitude is afraid that he will usher in the biggest stain in this life, but regret is useless, and others can't replace him." Han Lin shook his head and said.

This time, Chiang was decisive, first sent the Sixth Division of the Central Army to the north, and strictly ordered the commander of the Pingjin garrison, the commander of the 29th Army, Song, to order the troops to actively build fortifications and prepare for battle.

On the same day, the Japanese Government did make a decision not to expand the incident and to "settle the issue peacefully." The cabinet made such a decision on the same day, and the chief of operations of the General Staff Headquarters, Ishihara Wanji, also gave such an order.

Why? Because it was Emperor Hirohito's idea to wage war against China, it was also the idea of most of the military high-ranking people, and even more so the idea of the chaebols, and they had waited too long for this day, and now they saw that there was an excuse for war, how could a few people be able to stop it?

The reason why Konoe Fumiro opposed the expansion of the war was that it was not rational for him to promote war for the sake of an emergency, considering that the military department habitually shouted to catch the thief, and it was another incident of going down to the top, and he did not want to be led by the nose by the military department, and there was a great risk in the war, so it was irrational for him to promote the war for the sake of an emergency.

As for Ishihara Wan'er, he thought that at this time, Japan's preparations, especially the number of troops, did not yet have the strength to start a full-scale war with China, and it was too risky to rush into war, and this person was the main planner of the September 18 Incident, and it was a big joke that he didn't want to go to war!

On 11 July, the five-phase meeting of the Japanese Cabinet, in view of the pressure from the military department, finally decided to send the Kwantung Army to the 1st Brigade and the 11th Brigade and the 20th Division of the Goryeo Army to North China.

That same afternoon, when War Minister Sugiyama Motoki met with the Emperor, he said the foolish thing that the war would be resolved in a month.

On July 12, Kiyoshi Kazuki arrived at Jincheng by plane and took over the post of commander of the North China garrison, and only needed reinforcements to arrive in Pingjin before the offensive began.

But at this time, the commander of the Song army stationed in Pingjin was still fantasizing about "peace negotiations" with the Japanese army, and he wanted to protect his own territory and avoid this war, and he doubted Chiang's determination to resist Japan.

(End of chapter)