At 5 p.m. on 9 August, an open-top military car suddenly drove out of the Japanese Marine Corps barracks at the Toyota Yarn Factory in Zhabei City, Shanghai, driven by Japanese Marine Corps Private First Class Saito Yozo and sitting next to Lieutenant Yuo Oyama.

The reason why the Japanese army dispatched was also because the security regiment of Hongqiao Airport quietly changed guards with the Second Independent Brigade of the Second Infantry Division of the Jinling Government, and the commander of the independent brigade, Major General Zhong Song, commanded the troops to change into the clothing of the security regiment and implement a guard at Hongqiao Airport.

The Central Military Commission ordered General Zhang Wenbai to be the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison and to command the 87th, 88th, and 36th Divisions stationed on the Suzhou and Songjiang lines.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from seizing the Hongqiao military airfield in the event of a conflict, as early as 24 July, Zhang Wenbai ordered the officers and men of the 2nd Independent Brigade to change into the uniforms of the Shanghai Security Corps, and led by brigade commander Zhong Song, to rush to Shanghai by train from Suzhou overnight to take over the defense of the airport and nearby areas.

Hongqiao Airport Cordon.

Seeing that he could not directly break into the airport, Yuo Oyama turned right and drove north along the barbed wire fence on the east side of the airport, intending to continue to watch and take pictures.

At this time, the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade had already entered the fortifications behind the barbed wire fence and, having received an order from the battalion commander, immediately opened fire on the car that had broken into the cordon.

After a burst of gunfire, the car drove crookedly for several meters and slowly stopped, killing Yuo Oyama instantly. Saito jumped out of the car and ran madly towards the vegetable fields to the northeast, when several more gunshots rang out, and he was shot and killed.

Han Lin was the first to receive the news, and came to the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai at about 10 o'clock in the evening, he was the commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai, and this matter must have involved diplomacy, and he had to come forward.

"Takagi-kun, you tell me the truth, did the Marines drive to the vicinity of Hongqiao Airport to spy on the military situation?" Han Lin asked Tomohou Takagi in the office.

"No, I called the Marine Corps command just now, and said that no one was out." Takagi Yuhou pretended to be confused in a serious manner.

"Really? You're going to hide it from me? In two days at most, you will take advantage of this to force the airport security team to evacuate and dismantle the fortifications. Do you really think I don't know that the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet is sending more troops to Shanghai? Han Lin didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he stood up and prepared to leave.

It's really worthy of being an international intelligence expert who got the second important part!

"Han Jun, please stay! I can admit to you verbally that the incident of Yuo Oyama's trespassing on the Hongqiao Airport was indeed an action planned by some officers of the Marine Corps, but I will not admit it to anyone else. Tomohou Takagi said.

The countermeasure that Han Lin just mentioned was the method that Okamoto Jizheng discussed with him, and it also came from the Japanese Navy, which was to take advantage of the war in North China to provoke the Jinling government in Shanghai. The army occupied the Pingjin area, and the navy was not far behind, so it had to make some trouble.

Han Lin's insight and logical thinking ability in international current affairs, powerful intelligence channels, and the military department composed of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of War are very important, and it is accurate as if they are changing according to Han Lin's command.

While Han Lin was talking with the people of the Japanese Consulate General in a deceitful manner, all the Japanese warships and merchant ships anchored in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the nearly 30,000 overseas Chinese stranded in various ports suddenly received an order to evacuate urgently, and they took a ship and galloped to the Wusong area at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Zhou Bingqing of Hankou was surprised to find that the Japanese expatriates were holding a large banquet and that consulate and naval officers were all present.

"Director, you have been sent telegrams from all over the country, and the Japanese expatriates in Hankou, Jiujiang and other places, taking merchant ships and warships, evacuated their places of residence last night, and the retreat was very hasty, and a large number of bulky belongings were all abandoned." Li Peiyue looked at Han Lin, who only returned home in the early hours of the morning, and said.

"Where's Jinling?" Han Lin asked.

With full speed ahead, it took three and a half to four days for a freighter to travel from Hankou to Jinling.

"I called and asked Section Chief Shen Mingfeng, there is no abnormality in the expatriates and merchant ships in Jinling for the time being, and our people are watching." Li Peiyue said.

"Send a telegram to the attendant's room, tell me about the situation, I guess this matter will cause considerable alarm." Han Lin nodded and said.

Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, who was organizing exercises on Taiwan Island, received a telegram about the incident at the Hongqiao Airport and immediately ordered the Navy's Eighth Sentai Squadron, No. 1 Mine Squadron, No. 1 Air Force, Sasebo Town Guard Prefecture No. 1 Sea Shofu Special Marine Corps, and Kure Town Shoufu No. 2 Marine Special Marine Corps, which were on standby at Sasebo Port on the Japanese mainland, to immediately make preparations for dispatch, while Hasegawa Kiyoshi took the "Izumo," the flagship of the Third Fleet, to return to Shanghai.

At 1:15 p.m. on 10 August, Hasegawa Kiyoden ordered the above-mentioned troops to march immediately to Shanghai.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 11th, the city government, the Songhu Garrison Command, the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, and the Japanese Marine Corps Command held negotiations on the Hongqiao Airport incident.

The Japanese consul general in Shanghai, Okamoto Kimasa, took a tough attitude, believing that this was a bad act of killing officers and men of the Imperial Navy, and demanded that the Jinling government withdraw its troops from the Hongqiao airport and withdraw all fortifications in the streets. Yu Hongjun refuted Japan's argument on the spot, saying that this incident was Japan's first sabotage of the agreement, and the Chinese army had absolute freedom of movement.

The committee sent a telegram to General Zhang Wenbai, ordering the 87th and 88th Divisions and supplementary brigades of the German Armament Division to be advanced to the Zhenru and Zhabei lines in the urban area of Shanghai to form the Ninth Group Army to prepare for self-defense.

On the evening of the 11th, the Japanese units arrived one after another, and 2,500 marines landed and were placed under the command of Major General Okawa Uchidenshi, commander of the Japanese Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai.

When the situation was suddenly tense, the moth appeared.

On the morning of 11 July, all the Japanese expatriates in Jinling boarded the ship and left, and the naval fleet of the Jinling Government only intercepted six Japanese freighters, a dozen barges, and a group of Japanese expatriates.

This result made him dumbfounded, I specially reported it to you in advance, are the people in the attendant room all fools and blind?

(End of chapter)