On 15 July, the chief culprit who launched the July 7 Incident, former commander of the Japanese North China Garrison Army, Tashiro Wanichiro, died in the hospital, escaping the trial of him after Japan's defeat in the war.

"Commissioned Jun Jian, I got top-secret news that Japan sent the Kwantung Army to be independently mixed into the first brigade, the independent mixed into the eleventh brigade, and the twentieth division of the Goryeo Army to North China, and the Kwantung Army was transferred to the second brigade of the Kwantung Army to rush to Jincheng, and the war was about to break out!"

Han Lin sent urgent messages to the attendant room and Boss Dai respectively, reminding the high-level officials of the Jinling government to pay attention and be mentally prepared. Knowing that history is the way it goes, he still wants to take a fight and see if he can change something a little.

However, the next development made everyone feel extremely helpless, and the commander of the Song army, who was stationed in the Pingjin area, refused to allow the Central Army to arrive in Beiping. He believes that at present, the Japanese are not ready to launch an all-out war against China, and as long as they make concessions, there is still room for "peace talks" to solve the problem.

What is unbelievable is that he gave an order to the army of the 29th Army to which he belonged, which could only resist and not attack, and even asked the troops to demolish the fortifications of Beiping City, open all the closed city gates, give up all vigilance, shelve all battle plans, etc., this series of absurd orders made everyone dumbfounded, why was it so stupid?

After the underground party issued a nationwide telegram after the July 7 Incident, Chiang issued the famous "Solemn Statement on the Lugou Bridge Incident" in Lushan.

He pointed out that at present, China "has no chance of compromise, and if it gives up its land and sovereignty, it will be a sinner of the Chinese nation through the ages", and that "if the war starts, it will be that there is no distinction between the north and the south, and there is no distinction between the old and the young. Only by sacrificing to the end, fighting to the end, and only with the determination to sacrifice can we win the final victory."

On 22 July, the commissioner personally sent a telegram to Commander Song, severely criticizing his act of withdrawing all the city's defense forces and fortifications from Beiping without the permission of the central authorities.

On the 23rd, the 29th Army found that the Japanese army at Lugou Bridge refused to retreat, and the retreating army hurried back to the original defense area.

On the 24th, the Jinling government began to reinforce North China, trying to compress the war north of the Yellow River to settle the war, but by this time, the Japanese had already completed their military deployment before the attack.

On the 25th, the Japanese invaders launched an attack on Langfang, and on the 26th, the Chinese defenders withdrew from Langfang, and on the same day, the commander of the Japanese army stationed in North China, Kazuki Kiyoji, presented an ultimatum to the commander of the Song army to withdraw the troops in Beiping within a time limit.

However, his previous fantasies and wrong behaviors made the battle to defend Pingjin miss the best time to respond, and the reinforcements could not arrive in time.

On the morning of the 28th, the Japanese invaders suddenly launched a general attack on the defenders of Beiping, and the officers and men of the 29th Army, who were not prepared for battle at all, were caught off guard; although they fought bravely, they were unable to support the Japanese army with excellent weapons and firepower, and the reinforcements could not arrive in time, and the traitors betrayed their operational secrets, and suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Japanese invaders, with more than 5,000 casualties that day.

General Tong Linge, deputy commander of the army, and General Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, died heroically in Nanyuan, Beiping.

The Shanghai Special Intelligence Group is stationed.

Han Lin held a small-scale meeting to plan the work during the Battle of Songhu, although the main force of the Jinling government had not yet left for Shanghai, he knew that it was a matter of ten days and a half months. The meeting was attended by seven captains of the commando team and core members of the special intelligence team.

"Director, Beiping and Jincheng are the most important municipalities under the jurisdiction of the Jinling government in the north, can the 29th Army hold out until reinforcements from all walks of life arrive and keep the Pingjin area?" Xu Yinzheng asked.

"Don't have such illusions, if the support units of the Central Army are put into the Pingjin area in advance, actively meet the battle and build fortifications, and be vigilant against the actions of the Japanese army, even if they lose, they will not lose a single defeat, and now the 29th Army has no ability to protect the Pingjin area, and next, the cities in the entire North China region will also fall one after another."

"It is said that success is in the people and the things are in the sky, this time it is definitely a human problem, to such a situation, we will not consider the war in North China for the time being, and then, the main force of the Jinling government will continue to go to Shanghai, a tragic war that shakes the world is about to start in the largest international city in the Far East, we have to do something within our ability."

"Two tasks, one is your special team, which needs to dig out the Japanese spies and traitors who sabotaged the Anti-Japanese War, and the other is the commando, to eradicate these destructive forces as quickly as possible when the Anti-Japanese War breaks out, and assist our army in fighting against the Japanese invaders, how is the situation of reconnaissance." Han Lin asked.

Since receiving Chiyo Hoshino's information, he handed over the investigation to Xu Yinzheng, although Chiyo Hoshino's intelligence is not so accurate, but Xu Yinzheng's rich experience is fully capable of dealing with the investigation.

"After receiving the information you gave, we conducted a rigorous investigation of the Japanese expatriates in Shanghai, the ronins and gang members of the Black Dragon Society according to the map, and unexpectedly found that a large number of Japanese expatriates secretly joined the Japanese Marine Corps and assisted the Japanese army in building more fortifications."

"More than 200 Japanese ronins from the Black Dragon Society disguised themselves and sneaked into Songhu, Chuanshakou, Lion Forest and other places, formed more than a dozen teams, hid and waited for the opportunity. Several Japanese spy groups of the special services stationed in Shanghai also went to these places, contacted the ruffians and hooligans who had been bought for a long time, and transported a batch of guns, ammunition, and other materials. Xu Yinzheng said.

"These people are all hidden dangers during our war with the Japanese army, don't look at the small number, the destructive power can be terrible, then according to your investigation, contact the commando, and prepare in the near future, arrange a residence around their stronghold to hide and secretly monitor, and set up a contact point and radio station in the suburbs of Shanghai."

"When the gunfire between our army and the Japanese army rings out, you will immediately start acting, I have only one request, kill all these bitches, and not one of them will be allowed to slip through the net!" Han Lin said.

"Please rest assured that the brothers have long wanted to do something to the Japanese, but they dare not act because of the situation, once the war starts, we can attack and kill the Japanese openly, this is a wish that I have been dreaming of!" Xu Yinzheng said in a resolute tone.

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