The words of Han Lin and the eldest prince really played a great role, because the losses caused by the Japanese army's strategic bombing were too great, and the high-level meeting that wanted to start discussing the evacuation of citizens, the relocation of schools and factories, and the alleviation of the plight of the mountain city was postponed by President Jiang until August.

On the morning of July 8.

"Boss, take a look, there is a very interesting telegram from the Shanghai Intelligence Station, and the Japanese army has bitten a scandal inside the dog-eat-dog." Li Peiyue and the others walked into the office with a telegram and said with a smile.

In July, Han Lin had no way to leave the mountain city and go to Shanghai for the time being, but the Japanese army in Shanghai broke out a scandal. On July 7, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Army's Dispatch Army, Nishio Toshizo, was almost assassinated at the International Hotel in the Shanghai Public Concession!

The July 7 Incident was a day of national shame for China, and the people's anti-Japanese sentiment was like a suppressed volcano, which could erupt at any time, and it was the most tense time that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Army, General Nishio Toshizo, chose this day to inspect Shanghai, which shows that this person is somewhat arrogant.

Nishio Shouzo arrived in the concession, and when he was invited to a banquet by the consul generals of various countries at the International Hotel, a group of killers appeared around the hotel, which was detected by the US Marines in time, and all of them were captured alive.

"Saburo Miura, the commander of the Japanese military police stationed in Shanghai, has a very bad reputation in Shanghai, not only brutalizing anti-Japanese people and oppressing the common people, but also doing everything he can to lose his conscience, and in order to make money, he even smuggled tobacco and soil to Shanghai, which may be his retribution." Wu Yukun said.

"Retribution, do you think Nishio Shouzo will severely punish Miura Saburo?" Han Lin asked with a smile.

"Nishio Shouzo is a Japanese army general and the commander-in-chief in charge of all Japanese forces in Kannai, and his status is much higher than Miura Saburo, a major general of the military police, and he can be said to represent the face of the military department. Saburo Miura dared to assassinate him, the nature was very bad, and in order to maintain his dignity, Nishio Shouzo would definitely kill him to take revenge. Wu Yimei said.

"You guys think about it too well, Saburo Miura is the military police of the Japanese Army, although he is under the command of Nishio Shouzo, but the disposal power of the Japanese military police is in the hands of the Minister of War of the Ministry of War, Nishio Shouzo is angry, and there is no way to take him."

"Miura Saburo's approach seems to be a despicable act committed by the following, but he wants to exchange Nishio Shouzo's life for Japan's occupation of the Shanghai Public Concession, but this approach is very in line with the wishes of those main combat factions in the military department, at most he will be removed from his post and transferred out of Shanghai, and return to his native post, there will be no more punishment, and he will be reused in the future."

"Judging the direction of a thing, you must first understand the general environment, the Japanese army wants to implement the southward expansion plan, it is almost a certainty, this is the mainstream voice of the military department, whoever conforms to this voice, can run rampant, if you don't believe it, let's wait and see." Han Lin said.

Major General of the Military Police assassinated the commander-in-chief, what the hell is going on with these two people?

Miura Saburo was the first commander of the Japanese Army military police stationed in Shanghai, and he was also the devil of Shanghai, not only smuggling tobacco and soil for huge profits, but also sending Japanese military police to secretly engage in kidnapping, robbery and other shameless acts, wantonly extorting the rich people in Shanghai, it was very ugly, and for this reason he was also reprimanded many times by the commander-in-chief Nishio Shouzo, and the two formed a bond.

Nishio Shouzo prides himself on being a traditional military style, and he doesn't look down on Miura Saburo's bandit style, so he has been looking for an opportunity to deal with Miura Saburo.

And Miura Saburo also looked down on the hypocrisy of Nishio Shouzo, after a secret investigation, he mastered the fact that Nishio Shouzo colluded with Japan's Mitsui, Mitsubishi and other consortia to seek power for profit, in fact, this is also the norm, the Japanese chaebol and the military's senior generals have interests in private, it is not unusual, it is like the rules of the game.

Whenever Nishio Shouzo reprimanded Miura Saburo, the other party often used this to threaten each other, making Nishio Shouzo disgraced, it can be said that the relationship between the two is very bad, and they both want to find an opportunity to clean up each other.

After receiving the news that Nishio Shouzo was going to inspect Shanghai, Miura Saburo spent a lot of money to hire a group of the most ferocious killers in Shanghai, and arranged for Nishio Shouzo to live in the Chinachem Hotel opened by the British in the concession.

On the other hand, he arranged for more than a dozen henchmen plainclothes gendarmes to also infiltrate the banquet scene, and only after the operation was successful, he killed all the killers, and at the same time created chaos on the scene to muddy the waters.

The Japanese army has always had a tradition of going down to the top, and Saburo Miura was also a fanatical warmonger, and he wanted to take advantage of the killing of Nishio Shouzo to send troops to occupy the concession and detonate the war between Japan and Europe and the United States in advance.

However, Nishio did not accept Miura's arrangement that day, and the venue of the banquet was changed from the Chinachem Hotel to the American-run International Hotel, and the U.S. Marine Corps was responsible for security.

Saburo Miura, who received the news temporarily, hurriedly notified the killer and plainclothes gendarmes to rush to the International Hotel, but the hasty action revealed his whereabouts and was discovered and captured by the US Marine Corps.

Nishio Shouzo, who was furious, sent his own guards to surround the military police headquarters and searched Miura Saburo's office, which he still had, but it turned out that the military police headquarters had printed the notice of the people after the occupation of the concession in advance, and the truth of the matter was completely revealed.

But the follow-up development really verified Han Lin's inference, Miura Saburo was transferred back to the mainland by the Ministry of War and served as the principal of the military police school, and the assassination of Nishio Shouzo was not a, it is said that there are bigwigs in the military department who appreciate him very much, and it can be basically determined that it is the backstage of the Japanese military police, Hideki Tojo.

The newly appointed commander of the Japanese Military Police Headquarters in Shanghai is called Nami Toshiro, with the rank of major general of the military police.

On 22 July, because the Japanese military department could not stand the attitude of Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi, who was born in the navy, and opposed the attitude of alliance with Germany and Italy, Prince Zaihito Miyaya, the chief of staff, sent Sawada Shigeru, deputy chief of staff, to find the Minister of War Shunroku Hata in Mitsumasa's cabinet and force him to resign.

According to Japanese regulations, the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War must be on active duty, and after the resignation of Shunroku Hatata, the Army did not send anyone to take over the post of Minister of War, thus forcing the collapse of the Yonechi Mitsumasa cabinet, and Fumiro Konoe became prime minister for the second time.

The Japanese naval air force carried out 11 bombing sorties and flew 843 sorties, and the army carried out three bombing sorties and flew 180 sorties, dropping a total of 672 tons of bombs.

In August, the Japanese bombardment intensity was greatly reduced, and they only bombed once in a few days, and the amount of bombs dropped was not comparable to that of the previous months, and the devastated mountain town was also given a respite.

President Jiang and the military and political dignitaries of the Shancheng government also breathed a sigh of relief, in the end, Han Lin was reliable, and the accuracy rate of the intelligence was 100 percent.

If you start to relocate, and stop halfway, it will be a waste of manpower and material resources, and the government's behavior will be criticized, and you will panic if you can't figure out the situation.

Han Lin secretly arrived in Chang'an and issued two instructions to the Shanghai Intelligence Station, the first was to eliminate Zhang Xiaolin and Fu Shenglan, and the second was to start a plan to sanction Fu Xiao'an.

(End of chapter)