Han Lin received the news of the incident in Anhui Province, this time the stubborn faction of the Shancheng government acted perversely, in addition to the anger in his heart, he was also helpless, and he couldn't affect such a situation.

Moreover, as for the details of this operation, he has made a timely report to the organization, and it involves all kinds of complex reasons, and this result still appeared.

On 15 January, the Anti-Smuggling Division of the Ministry of Finance was formally established, and Han Lin, as the director of the Division, did the first thing he did was to reorganize the anti-smuggling force, and the sooner it was completed, the sooner the scope of its authority would be expanded. Heartache is heartache, he still has to continue to develop in the Shancheng government, and emotions can't be brought to work.

On 17 July, Shao Lizi, the ambassador of the Yamashiro government stationed in the Soviet Union, took up his post, and at the first reception banquet held, the Soviet foreign minister was rarely absent, which was a rather rare move. In this way, the Soviet side also expressed its dissatisfaction with the Yamashiro government's attack on the underground party army.

At this time, after Wang Jingwei, a traitor who was far away in Jinling, heard the news, he said a famous sentence: Jiang has not done a good thing for several years, but this time he is still a good person.

On the 18th, the underground party Shancheng Office, under many obstacles, skillfully evaded the news censorship of the Shancheng government and announced the truth of the Anhui Provincial Incident, and public opinion immediately condemned the Shancheng government

Office of the Director of the Anti-Smuggling Division of the Ministry of Finance.

"Boss, there are secret instructions from above, asking our inspection department to pay close attention to the major newspapers in Shancheng, and all news related to the incident in Anhui Province can only be based on the content of the Central News Agency." Gao Rui'an found Han Lin and reported.

"Isn't that the job of the Press Censorship? When will it be our turn to take care of such a thing? Han Lin asked.

"The underground party's newspaper actually published the content of the incident in Anhui Province, and the above was greatly annoyed by this, and severely reprimanded the Military Command Bureau and the Central Command Bureau, and our inspection department did not participate in the work of the press censorship department, so the general office issued an order to assist the press censorship department in blocking the news." Gao Ruian said.

"What's the use of blocking the news now, the underground party's newspapers have published it in advance, and public opinion is already impossible to suppress, and if such measures are taken again, isn't it trying to cover it up? I look at these people in the Propaganda Department, they are all fools! ”

"Since there are instructions, you should do what you are told, I am not worried about the domestic side, but the United States, American journalists will not be restrained by the mountain city government, and it is estimated that it will soon cause an uproar in the United States." Han Lin said with a sneer.

It is futile that President Chiang and the Shancheng government are still blocking news in an attempt to control public opinion and smear the underground party for such a big matter, and this is a completely inappropriate matter of the professional ability and ethics of those foreign journalists, and the facts cannot be erased.

On 22 July, the Yamashiro Government Embassy in the United States informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that American journalist Snow had taken the lead in publishing a commentary on China's current affairs in the New York Herald Tribune, exposing the truth about the "Anhui Provincial Incident."

After that, Strong, another well-known American journalist, also returned to the United States and published a large number of materials on the suppression of the underground party by the Yamashiro government, which also made the military and political circles in the United States understand the real situation.

The Yamashiro government was powerless to take any measures against the behavior of the American reporters, and when he heard that the American side was dissatisfied with the Yamashiro government because of the reporters' reports, President Chiang hurriedly telegraphed Song Ziwen to ask him to give an explanation and eliminate the adverse impact on the Yamashiro government.

While they were in a hurry, someone came forward to criticize the actions of the Yamashiro government.

Carlson, a former U.S. Marine Corps major who learned about the situation in southern China, made a sharp-tongued speech in Hawaii on his way back to China about the Anhui incident, openly criticizing the Shancheng government's behavior of provoking internal strife and creating conflict.

As a U.S. Marine Corps, he served in China for many years and served as a commander in the personal guard of U.S. President Roosevelt, and had an unusually close relationship with President Roosevelt, who trusted him very much.

A month after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Carlson returned to China as a naval observer.

In his book "China's Twin Stars," published last year, Carlson greatly praised the spiritual outlook and organizational ability of the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines led by the underground party, and spoke highly of the anti-Japanese guerrilla tactics led by the underground party.

During his visit to the Kokudo, Carlson felt deeply about the corruption and dictatorship of the Mt. Castle government, and criticized many reports to President Roosevelt and other U.S. government officials.

However, Carlson also believes that in the current political situation, the United States can only count on the Shancheng government, the official government of Chinese mainland, to lead the resistance against Japan, so he deliberately rarely makes public criticism in meetings and speeches with many important members of the Shancheng government, including President Chiang himself.

With the outbreak of the Anhui Provincial Incident, Carlson finally broke the convention, and his conversation was also unexpected by President Chiang and the Shancheng government.

January 24, office on the second floor of Huangshan Mansion.

"I just received a report from the Fifth Theater Command that the Japanese Eleventh Army mobilized its main force and suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Second Army and the Thirty-first Army of the Shancheng Government Army in southern Henan. This time, I'm afraid that no one will dare to say that you are still inexperienced and lack the ability to grasp the situation. Chen Yanji's expression seemed a little strange when he spoke.

The large-scale operation launched by the Japanese army was commanded by Kazuichiro Sonobe, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, and the troops of seven divisions, one independent cavalry brigade, three independent tank wings, and one independent field artillery wing were mobilized.

There were about 150,000 infantrymen, more than 8,000 cavalry, more than 550 artillery pieces of various types, more than 300 combat vehicles, more than 200 armored vehicles, and about 100 planes dispatched by the army aviation units to launch an encirclement and suppression campaign against the two group armies of the Shancheng government.

Of course, it was not a strange thing for the Japanese army to go to war with the Yamashiro government troops, but the problem was that these two group armies were transferred to Anhui Province by the Yamashiro government's military command department with the intention of encircling and suppressing the underground party army, but they did not expect that the Japanese side would not only "appreciate" it, but would launch an attack on the Yamashiro government army.

Sure enough, Han Lin said that the Japanese army's actions were diametrically opposed to what was predicted in advance, which was equivalent to giving President Jiang and a group of military officers a hard slap, and their mood at the moment was estimated to be more bitter than eating Coptis chinensis.

The two directors of the chamberlain have always attached great importance to Han Lin's report, which also stems from the long-term impact of his 100% correct intelligence. Director He of the First Division submitted this report to the Military Commission as a reference for action, and those high-ranking and powerful generals read it, but they did not pay much attention to it.

On the contrary, the participants at the meeting all held in no uncertain terms that the Japanese side was absolutely "happy to see the Yamashiro government's encirclement and suppression of the underground party's army," and the greatest possibility was that it would also take action to eliminate the underground party by taking this opportunity.

"Director, my personal honor and disgrace are not worth mentioning, but I want to be able to fulfill my duties, and I am worried that Japan will never allow the underground party's troops south of the Yellow River to enter North China, which will undermine their strategy for North China, therefore. The military campaign against our mountain city government may continue. Han Lin said.

(End of chapter)