Chapter 975: Conspiracy
Kenji Dohihara did not die, for the Japanese army, at least it was a fig leaf, but this fig leaf was taken out to show off. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
It depends on the timing, at least for now, the attention of China and Japan is not great.
Speculation is rife about Kenji Dohihara's disappearance or death in battle, but a defeated general, in addition to the people he cares, is actually more of a kind of forgotten.
This speed of forgetting is too fast, and people are dying every minute of the war, even if Kenji Dohihara was famous in the past, what if he is famous after he dies?
Okamura Ninji arranged for Kenji Dohihara to appear at this confidential military meeting, which was to use his mouth to draw strong attention to the northern Henan region and the new First Army of Leng Feng.
He himself also roughly studied the consistent battle examples of Leng Feng and the New First Army, and very much agreed with Kenji Dohihara's judgment.
To say that among the Chinese J generals who were fighting, there were originally a few generals he paid attention to, such as Tang Keqin in the Battle of Nankou, Chen Cixiu of the Civil Engineering Department of the Central Army, Li Delin of the Gui Department and others.
These are all things that can be seen as adversaries, and these people can stand out in China's chaotic situation, which would never have been possible without their own outstanding ability.
As for the younger generation of generals, Okamura Ninji does not pay much attention to them, because there are only a few young generals who have come forward, and they have very few records, so they cannot make accurate judgments.
But as for "Leng Feng", whether he heard rumors about the "devil army" in the northeast, or after a long conversation late at night with Kenji Dohihara, he came to a conclusion.
The most terrifying Chinese J general on the Chinese battlefield is this person.
Young, strong-willed, and extremely anti-Japanese.
This is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing is that he has an elite army under his command, and it is getting stronger and stronger, and it has become the ace army in China's J.
His development must be curbed, otherwise he will become a big trouble after he sits big.
At that time, Kenji Dohihara told him that "if you want to seize Wuhan, occupy northern Henan first", he felt that Kenji Dohihara was a little extreme.
Can an army still influence the overall strategy of the empire?
Kenji Dohihara told him with certainty that other Chinese J troops might not be able to do it, but Leng Feng and his new 1st army could.
Kenji Dohihara knew very well that in Luxi and Yudong, his real opponents were Leng Feng and the New First Army and the new 38th Division attached to him.
Xue Boling is very powerful, but he commands a patchwork force, which limits his ability, and Leng Feng needs to contain him in the early stage, and at the most critical time in the later stage, Leng Feng sent elite armored troops and infantry to strike at him.
If he hadn't had the New First Army to participate in the war, he wouldn't have lost so badly in Guide, so he escaped with more than a dozen generals, and almost all of them were wounded.
Such a fiasco, not to mention that he had not experienced it in his personal military career, was unique in the history of the Great Day Army.
"Your Excellency Commander, regarding the establishment of the 11th Army, I intend to use the 6th Division, the 101st Division, the 106th Division, and the 116th Division as the main force, plus the Potian Brigade, with a total of about 100,000 people as the first attack echelon of the Southern Front, and the Second Army with the 16th Division, the 109th Division, the 14th Division, and the 5th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Division, and the 1st Division of the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army, to form the Northern Front Attack Group......"
The core of Okamura's plan did not change much from the base camp, and the three attack routes, except for the northern line, the route and tactical approach of the attack along the Yangtze River remained unchanged.
What has changed is that in the execution of this plan, the first hand of strategic deception is added.
When the Sino-Japanese war broke out, the Chinese side had actually been entrusting the German side to mediate, and of course, Japan and Ben were still dealing with it on the surface because of their alliance with Germany.
The Chinese side wants to get a respite through a short-term truce, and the Japanese side obviously has its own considerations, especially when the forces supporting the non-expansion faction still have a certain advantage, and there is still a little hope for peace talks.
But now, the land minister has been replaced by Seishiro Sakagaki, and his deputy has become Hideki Tojo, a madman who advocates war, and the young Zhuang faction who supports the war has come to power.
The political basis for the so-called "peaceful" settlement of the China issue no longer exists in Japan and Japan.
However, it's still okay to install it.
How can you fool your opponents?
That is not a matter for the Central China Army, and the entire decision-making body of Japan must be involved, otherwise, how can the Chinese be convinced?
This "strategic deception" was the idea that Kenji Dohihara gave Okamura Ninji, and when Okamura heard it, he was amazed, and the person who could think of this idea must be extremely smart.
Kenji Tsuchihara is such a smart person.
Learning from opponents, this is the consistent style of the Japanese himself, and Kenji Dohihara's move is actually learned from Leng Feng.
Leng Feng and the 1st Division of Honor put on a show in Wuhan and deceived the Japanese army, and the main force did not withdraw to the rear to rest at all, hiding on Weishan Lake, it was precisely because of his existence that the Japanese army was defeated in Xuzhou, and he himself almost lost his life.
This revenge is painful to the bone marrow, and he must avenge it.
"Leng Feng is thoughtful, has a high psychological quality, has a strong sense of purpose in doing things, and has a broader strategic thinking than ordinary people, he is the calmest, most cunning, and most difficult to fathom Chinese J general I have ever seen, and now he has tens of thousands of elites, and has become a big problem for the Da Ri Ben Empire."
"To be able to get such a high evaluation from Tufei Yuanjun, this Leng Feng is really not an ordinary person."
"I've fought against him and I've barely won, can such a person not be scary?"
Kenji Dohihara is not an incompetent, an incompetent person, and he would not have made so many credits for the empire in the past, are those credits all fake?
Anyone who is familiar with him knows that Kenji Dohihara is definitely smart even if he is a little lacking in military command and is not very particular about himself.
"In addition to releasing rumors and creating momentum, everything must be in accordance with the truth, otherwise it is difficult to hide from the other party's eyes." Kenji Dohihara said, "Moreover, he is also quite familiar with the intelligence of our army, and he can predict some top-secret operations in advance, which is incredible." ā
"Could it be that we have internal problems?" Shunroku Hata was taken aback.
"Maybe it's just my guess, maybe it's not what we thought it was." Kenji Dohihara frowned, a guess always lingering in his mind, but he didn't dare to say it, because if he said it, he would be responsible.
"Tu Fei Yuan-kun, just say it, do you suspect that the problem is?" Okamura asked.
"I suspect there's a problem with our cipher communications."
"What, secret telecommunications, are you saying that our messages may have been deciphered by the Chinese?" This inference frightened the Japanese generals in the room into a cold sweat, this is Nanjing in June.
"I'm not very sure, and they don't always prejudge our actions, but on a few occasions, they were ahead of us at the most critical juncture, and Isoya-kun was captured, and I began to wonder if the Chinese had mastered my secret telecommunications, or if it was just a coincidence."
"Although the Empire's cipher communication technology is not the most advanced, it is by no means something that the Chinese can crack, and they simply do not have this kind of deciphering experts, the most advanced cipher telegraphs all require special encryption, and the Chinese do not have such technology!" Takeo Imai, who served as the head of intelligence of the staff office of the Central China Dispatch Army, was well aware of this.
"Chinese can't buy a cipher machine if they want to, how they can crack our cipher is simply fantastic."
"I'm just guessing, and I don't have any evidence to back it up."
"Tufeiyuan-kun, don't be alarmist with your random speculation, the Chinese want to decipher the communication code of the empire, wait another hundred years!" A Japanese general said very confidently.
"If the other party can grasp our actions based on analysis and judgment alone, wouldn't it be even more terrifying, just ask, who in the empire has such ability?"
"Maybe it's just a coincidence, or for reasons we don't know yet, deciphering ciphercode, the Chinese can't do it." Okamura Ninji also didn't quite believe Kenji Dohihara's speculation.
Kenji Dohihara didn't want to believe it either, but he couldn't find any evidence to prove it, and he also hoped that it was just a coincidence, just an accident.
"There is no need to argue about this issue, since Tu Feiyuanjun raised it, then we should not be careless, apply to the base camp to replace the cipher code, at least if the new cipher code is used, even if the Chinese have the ability to decipher, it will take time." Toshiroku Hata, the plan for the Battle of Wuhan this time must be cautious and foolproof, which is related to the fate of the empire and his own future and fate.
"Hay!"
"That's all for today, adjournment!"
Kenji Dohihara returned to his residence with Okamura Ninji.
"Northern Henan, the current situation is that it is difficult for our intelligence personnel to penetrate, their anti-espionage system is very powerful, our plainclothes will be identified as soon as they enter, only a few can enter, but they do not dare to move, Leng Feng's troops have a very strong sense of secrecy, which is difficult for even us to do." "However, I have left a lot of intelligence officers in northern Henan, although I have not specifically explained, I hope they can judge the situation and lurk, this is the best situation." ā
"Tu Fei Yuanjun, from now on, collect all military and political information related to northern Henan, I ask the base camp for approval, you temporarily stay in the Eleventh Army, as my special adviser, responsible for intelligence work." Okamura Ninji said solemnly.
"Thank you Okamura-kun for your willingness to help."
"This plan of yours is a genius type, I think the base camp will definitely approve it, the Chinese will definitely not think of it, as for the news of your survival, I think you need to hide it for a while, don't you mind?" Okamura Ninji didn't want the news of Kenji Dohihara's survival to be known to the outside world too early.
"I understand that this is a good time to take a break." Kenji Dohihara said, "By the way, Okamura-kun, Takahashi-kun, how do you arrange it?" ā
"How about having him captain my guard first?"
"It's fine."