This is a small reception room of the Legation in Dongjiaomin Lane, a narrow room, exquisite furniture, a style of arrangement, and a little smell of incense lingers in the room. A small movie screen is now pulled up on top of the tatami mat, and a projector is placed on the other side of the room, and the black and white image is projected onto the screen, and the content is also the film and television materials of the Cangxi Battle.

Not far from the front of the screen, kneeling there are several short men wearing khaki military uniforms, one of whom is gray-haired, polite, and looks quite kind, the little old man is a lieutenant general, he is the military attache of the Legation in China, Rihachiro Sakanishi. His military career was basically as a military attache and military adviser in China, and he had a very close relationship with every supreme ruler of China, known as the "Seven Generations of Rise and Fall Tumbler", and now he also serves as Zhang Zuolin's chief military adviser. Therefore, as soon as Zhang Zuolin got the film materials sent by the Kuomintang, he immediately copied them to Rihachiro Sakanishi.

"Itagaki-kun." Rihachiro Sakanishi smiled slightly, looked at the disciple next to him, Deputy Military Attache Seishiro Itagaki, and said with a smile: "How is the Kuomintang army in Shina performing?" How about the imperial army of the Empire? ”

Itagaki is a little man, because he was too short, so he was almost eliminated when he was admitted to the junior military academy, and it would be a good thing if that was the case. This little man has a bald head and an ugly mustache that is the standard of a soldier, but what impresses him the most is the small eyes that reveal a cold gaze, combined with the slightly curved mouth, which gives people a sense of firmness, coldness and audacity.

Itagaki bent down slightly to his teacher Sakanishi Rihachiro: "Teacher, the performance of the Chinese army is indeed somewhat unexpected, not only the defense of the Kuomintang army is almost impeccable, but even the attack of the Sichuan army is also clear-sighted, although it is far inferior to the imperial army of our empire, but it seems to be much stronger than Zhang Zuolin's Feng army." ”

A hint of appreciation slipped in Banxi's eyes, he was very optimistic about this disciple of himself, and thought that he was the most potential young Zhuang officer in the army. In particular, Itagaki has a very strong observation ability and a thorough analysis of things.

At this time, Kenji Dohihara, who was sitting on the other side of Banxi, suddenly couldn't help but interject: "Teacher, the people of Shina have always been brave in internal fighting and timid in external wars. The fact that the film material is only a civil war does not mean that they can also behave in the face of the Imperial Army. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army was still far stronger than that of the Kuomintang Army. ”

"Itagaki, what do you think? Does Tu Feiyuan's words make sense? Sakanishi stood up from the tatami mat, put his hands behind his back, and said as he paced: "The Shina people are indeed a nation that has the courage to fight inwardly, but their land, population, and resources are too much larger than the empire, as long as they achieve unification, they will definitely be the empire's henchmen in less than ten years!" ”

Itagaki Seishiro felt a pang in his heart that he could not allow the reunification of China to be the national policy of the Republic of China, but now he had encountered a problem, half of China had been unified by the Kuomintang, and they seemed to have no interest in the north. Could such a unified half of China be able to cope with it? He shook his head slightly in his heart, but replied: "The current combat effectiveness of the imperial army is about three times that of the Kuomintang army in the film, more than seven times that of the Sichuan army, and it is probably more than ten times weaker than Zhang Zuolin's Feng army." ”

Rihachiro Sakanishi stared at Itagaki and nodded: "The Feng army is not to worry, they are supported by the empire, and the empire can destroy them in the shortest possible time." However, today's northern China is not only the world of Feng, Zhi, Anhui, and Jin, but also a red army in Suiyuan and northern Shaanxi, and their impact on the special rights and interests of the empire in North China is very great, what kind of countermeasures do you think the empire should take? ”

The focus of the development of the GCD in this time and space was shifted in advance to the north, and not only in Suiyuan and northern Shaanxi, with a strong Red Army. He also opened up a few small red base areas in the Taihang Mountains, and mobilized workers and students in Yanjing, Tianjin, Qingdao and other big cities in the north to boycott the goods and propagandize against them, resulting in the fact that after the commodities suffered heavy losses in the southern Chinese market, even the northern market was said to have shrunk. Now he has instructed the Legation in China to urgently find countermeasures to suppress the GC forces in the north.

Itagaki Seishiro thought for a while, but there was no good countermeasure, and he said in his heart that if that think tank Ishihara Waner was in China, he would definitely be able to find a way. And what I'm best at is the good way to execute Ishihara. Itagaki's brows furrowed slightly, and he said, "The disciple thinks that in order to suppress the GC forces in the north, it is necessary to unify the north first, at least the military and political forces in North China, and only in this way can we concentrate our forces to deal with the GCD." And now the Zhi, Anhui, and Jin families have formed an alliance to resist the Feng system, and their forces contain each other, and they are powerless to suppress the GC forces. ”

"What do you think of Tu Feiyuan?" Banxi turned to look at his eldest disciple and asked.

Kenji Dohihara sighed softly and said: "Now the most potential political forces in China are the Kuomintang and the GCD, if they can make the two of them fight, the situation of the empire in China will be reversed immediately, but now the two parties of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are still maintaining an alliance relationship, one of them is in the south and the other is in the north, which is too far away." If---" Tu Feiyuan wanted to say that if the GCD could be allowed to occupy North China, then the conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party would be inevitable, and the empire would naturally be able to profit from it. But in the end, this was not spoken.

"For today's plan, it is still necessary to unify the military and government in North China first, and then whether to suppress G or go south, and then it will depend on the situation." Rihachiro Sakanishi understood what his disciple wanted to say, he stared at the battle screen on the movie screen, and said slowly: "After all, the empire still has the absolute advantage now, but the potential of Shina cannot be ignored, especially since the southern branch has now restored peace and used trickery to regain tariff independence. Now their industry is developing rapidly, and if this situation is allowed to continue, it will be difficult for us to defeat them in ten years' time. Now the focus of our work is not on the GCISM of the Northern Branch, but on trying to interfere with the construction of the Southern Branch. ”

This was not an instruction from Masamoto but an order of Sakanishi Rihachiro on his own initiative, and although he always maintained the mask of goodwill on the surface, he strongly advocated the annexation of China in his report to the country. For the heavy industry construction that began in the south, Banxi felt a great threat.

Seeing that the teacher did not ignore the threat of the Kuomintang, Tu Feiyuan sighed softly: "The disciple thinks that the best way to interfere with the construction of the south is to destroy their peaceful and stable environment, which is far more effective than sending a few agents to sabotage. And the best way to undermine stability in the south is to set the Kuomintang and the Communist Party against each other. The second is to help Zhang Zuolin unify North China and then wave his army south, as long as the war starts, capital will naturally choose to flee. "Indeed, destroying the environment for economic development is more effective than destroying heavily guarded factories, and the king of a generation of spies is truly extraordinary.

Itagaki Seishiro stared at Tu Feiyuan, his face full of doubts, he knew what to do to let Fengzhang unify North China, but what should he do if he wanted to set the Kuomintang and the Communist Party apart? GCD doesn't listen to me, even if they give them money, it is estimated that people will not do anything for you if they receive it, and the threat will definitely not work. What should I do?

Seeing Itagaki's doubts, Sakanishi Rihachiro smiled slightly and nodded: "Itagaki, I will arrange for you to act as Zhang Zuolin's military adviser, and you will be responsible for how to assist him in unifying North China." Whether it is asking for weapons and equipment, or asking the imperial army to secretly help in the war, you can promise him. ”

Then Banxi walked up to Kenji Dohihara again, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "The task of provoking the conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will be entrusted to you, do it well, I know you have a way." ”