August 1937.

The "Battle of Songhu", which Meng Shaoyuan was familiar with, is getting closer and closer to him.

Meng Shaoyuan decided to wait quietly for this moment to come.

It will be an earth-shattering and tragic war.

Whether the Nationalist Government took the initiative to seek a decisive battle in Shanghai or not was correct, later generations have always had different opinions.

Meng Shaoyuan was a staunch supporter of the decisive battle in Shanghai.

The arguments of the Chinese army's poor mobility, the abandonment of the decisive battle in North China, and the decisive decisive battle in East China have been discussed and verified by countless experts.

Meng Shaoyuan had only one thought:

In the Northeast, the Japanese made the first move; In Peiping, the Japanese made the first move. Do you have to passively wait for the Japanese to do it in Shanghai?

It's like two boxers on the ring, one heavyweight and the other lightweight, and the lightweight one is always just a passive defense, and there is no doubt about defeat.

Take the initiative and maybe find a glimmer of life.

My thoughts may not be right, but if something is bound to happen, why should I have so many concerns?

Shanghai will be lost, but at least the Nationalist Government has completed a major evacuation to the southwest.

And on the land of Shanghai, he also bit off a piece of Japanese meat.

If you want to fight, then fight!

The pace of war is approaching.

The chairman of the committee began to move troops frequently.

Target:

Hongkou!

The 523rd Regiment of the 88th Division changed into a security uniform and entered the Wuqiao area of Zhabei to secretly station, arm, and build fortifications in advance.

On August 9, the 523rd Regiment of the 88th Division stationed in Wuxi disguised itself as a security team and sneaked to Zhabei in Shanghai, rented houses in the Zhabei area, and built reinforced concrete bunkers indoors.

There will be more Chinese troops entering Shanghai.

At this point, war is inevitable.

Whether China and Japan are willing to fight or not, are they ready or not......

August 9th.

Meng Shaoyuan had dinner early in the morning.

Just like the day of the Lugou Bridge Incident, if a person knows what is going to happen, it is actually a kind of torment for him.

His eyes were fixed on the phone on his desk.

His psychology at this time was a little complicated, knowing that the phone would definitely ring in a while, but he didn't want it to ring.

Meng Shaoyuan looked at the time.

5 points.

That Yuo Oyama and Yozo Saito have already set off, right?

Anything can be imagined the other way around.

Although the Yuo Oyama incident found an excuse for the Japanese, why didn't it find an excuse for the Chinese?

The clock ticks by.

5:45 a.m.

The phone on the desk rang at last.

Meng Shaoyuan, who was still a little nervous just now, was inexplicably relaxed when he heard the phone ringing.

He picked up the phone: "I'm Meng Shaoyuan." ”

"Director Meng, something is wrong." Zhou Weilong's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Just now, at half past five......

Meng Shaoyuan didn't need to say anything to the other party, and he clearly knew what was going on.

Two Japanese were killed.

At half past five o'clock in the afternoon of August 9, 1937, Yuo Oyama, the commander of the western dispatch squadron of the Marine Corps stationed at the Toyota Yarn Factory in Japan, and Saito and Kurazo drove their cars to various sections of the Shanghai Public Concession to investigate the movements of the Chinese regular army.

The two of them walked through the cross-border Baili South Road, Bias Road, Archway Road, and Hongqiao Road to the entrance of Hongqiao Airport.

When the airport guards saw that Japanese soldiers were approaching, they fired their guns and killed Oyama in the car, Saito turned around sharply and drove along the same road, and the airport guards continued to shoot, Saito abandoned the car and took refuge in the field, and was finally killed.

After killing Oyama and Saito, the airport garrison found that the Japanese side had no follow-up troops, so they hurriedly called and reported to Zhang Zhizhong of the garrison headquarters, and Zhang Zhizhong sent Zhu Xia, chief of the staff office, to immediately drive to deal with it.

Zhu Xia immediately instructed to move Dashan and Saito's car 300 meters to the vicinity of the entrance of Hongqiao Airport to create a second scene.

"Got it." Meng Shaoyuan replied calmly.

"Director Meng, it's a big deal, are you still so calm?" Zhou Weilong's somewhat helpless voice came from the other end of the phone: "On the order of the peak, Meng Shaoyuan immediately joined the Chinese investigation team and immediately rushed to the Songhu Garrison Headquarters to report. ”

"Understood."

Meng Shaoyuan walked out calmly: "Prepare the car." ”

"Director Meng, where are you going?"

"Don't ask, prepare the car." Meng Shaoyuan's tone had never been so harsh: "Let the brothers outside be on standby at any time." ”

At this moment, he seemed to have smelled the smoke of gunfire......

When Meng Shaoyuan arrived at the garrison headquarters, it was extremely chaotic.

Zhu Xia, chief of staff of the garrison command, was appointed by General Zhang Zhizhong as the head of the Chinese investigation team.

Although Meng Shaoyuan had never met Zhu Xia, but the matter was serious, no one dared to slack off, and when they met, Zhu Xia did not greet him: "Director Meng, you came just in time, and it is specifically stated above that you have experience in dealing with this aspect of things." You know what happened, right? ”

"Got it." Meng Shaoyuan nodded: "What is Director Zhu going to do?" ”

"I faked a scene." Zhu Xia called Meng Shaoyuan aside, lowered his voice and said: "Moreover, I also secretly sent someone to find a death row prisoner named Shi Jingzhe, asked him to change into the clothes of the gendarmerie, killed him at Hongqiao Airport, and then made a fake scene where the Japanese army shot and killed our gendarmes when they forcibly broke into the airport, and then our gendarmes fought back." ”

Meng Shaoyuan knew the whole story too well, and pretended to frown: "Death row prisoner? Director Zhu, if you get a death row prisoner to pretend to be a military policeman, there will be many flaws. Once the Japanese find out, I'm afraid the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"I know, but it's urgent." Zhu Xia's tone was hurried: "The advance team of the Japanese investigation team is almost here." I'm all set. It happened too suddenly, the Japanese were killed by regular soldiers pretending to be military police, and they had no experience in dealing with Japanese scouts. ”

At the time of his death, Yuo Oyama was wearing a military uniform, wearing a military cap, white gloves, a saber, and long military boots, and did not wear a pistol.

According to the recollections of Yuo Oyama's unit of Ryohei Murata and Miyazaki, among others:

"At that time, it was common for the squad leader (sic) to wear civilian clothes and go out with a corporal. On that day, he was wearing a military uniform and a long sword, and only two people went out to inspect with the driver...... Usually I go out in civilian clothes outside the concession, and I will talk about it wherever I go, but I didn't say anything that day. Maybe I wore a military uniform to the headquarters, but I didn't ask. When asked the chief of health behind him, he said that he would inspect outside the concession. I want to wear a military uniform to go there." ”

Meng Shaoyuan said very calmly: "Wearing a military uniform? What do these Japanese want to do? Director Zhu, if there is anything you need me to do, please feel free to give me orders. ”

Zhu Xia nodded: "My subordinates have no experience in doing this kind of thing, you immediately rush to the scene I arranged, see if there are any flaws, according to our agreement with the Japanese, their advance team will still be there an hour to arrive." ”

"I see, I'll go right away."

Meng Shaoyuan raised his wrist to look at the time again

The scene arranged by Zhu Xia was extremely busy.

All three bodies have already been arranged.

In charge here is Ji Zhangjian, the head of the Shanghai Security Corps.

At this time, not only here, but also the whole of Shanghai and the entire Nationalist Government began to get busy.

Shanghai Mayor Yu Hongjun and Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government Zhou Jue respectively spoke to the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai and the Japanese Navy.

At 10 o'clock that night, Yu Hongjun negotiated with the Consulate General in Japan and recounted the incident, advocating a diplomatic solution to avoid the escalation of the situation, and the Japanese side also agreed.

And this Sino-Japanese joint investigation team will also become the key to the key.

"Director Meng, hurry up and take a look." Ji Zhangjian was so busy that he didn't even have a respite, and when he saw Meng Shao's original, it was as if he had seen a savior:

"The two bodies of Japan are here, the death row inmate...... No, members of my security team...... Shi Jingzhe, his body is there, can you go and see if there are any flaws? ”

Meng Shao originally inspected the bodies of two Japanese, and after looking at them for a short time, he shook his head:

"Mr. Ji, the bullet is shot into the head and abdomen from the rear of the Japanese and explodes in the body, this is the official warhead, which is also known internationally as the dum bullet. A security team, where did the dummy bomb come from? Doesn't this make it clear to tell the Japanese that we have violated the 'Sino-Japanese Songhu Armistice Agreement' by transferring the regular army to Shanghai? Also, you see that these two corpses have traces of being injured by knives and blunt objects, these are all flaws. ”

"What then?" Ji Zhangjian suddenly became nervous.

Meng Shaoyuan thought for a moment: "If you bite the bullet and don't let go, let's just say that your security team has some dummy bullets found in the Siming Mansion and Songbaili Street in the 21st year of the Republic of China...... No, in the formal warhead...... That batch of warheads was not completely destroyed...... As for the secondary injuries on the corpse, you say that your subordinates were angry at the Lugou Bridge incident. ”

After speaking, he also made a special explanation: "In addition, you have to bite to the death, Yuo Oyama and Saito and Kura are wearing military uniforms and weapons, and forcibly attack the security team checkpoint." Fuck, in fact, it's not a lie, they're not carrying a saber? Sabre is not a weapon? Damn it! ”

After a few "fuck" sounds, Ji Zhangjian suddenly felt that this spy leader had a big appetite for himself.

It's not as gloomy as it seems.

"Cheng, then Director Meng, let's go and see Shi Jingzhe's corpse together to see if there are any flaws."

Shi Jingzhe's corpse?

What's so nice about that?

Meng Shaoyuan didn't need to look at it at all to be sure that Shi Jingzhe's body was full of flaws.

The Japanese are not stupid, so how can there be no discovery of the fake scene and fake corpses created in a hurry?

Before he could speak, an officer had hurried in, panting

"Oh no, the Japanese, those people from the Japanese investigation team have already arrived in advance!"