Guo Bingxun's estimate was not wrong. Zhang Ting's sacrifice was not a simple accident. It was jointly created by Isomura Takeliang Osa, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army's intelligence chief, and Okubo Shunjiro Osa, director of special intelligence, under the auspices of Hattori Takushiro Nakasa, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army.

Hattori Takushiro tried to disrupt the mind of the opponent's supreme commander through guò assassination, so that there would be a certain amount of confusion in the operational deployment, so as to create a good fighter for the Kwantung Army, and strive to completely annihilate this fierce anti-Manchu anti-Japanese element in one go.

Don't look at Hattori Takushiro, although he is just a Nakasa at the moment, he has to admit that this guy's vision is ahead of his time. The psychological warfare and decapitation tactics that became popular decades later in later generations were actually advanced by him to thirty-nine years.

Originally, his target was Yang Zhen, or other important senior commanders of the opponent. But even if the Minister of Special Intelligence, Shunjiro Okubo, activated the highest and only nail hidden within the opponent, it was impossible to find out where the opponent's command was and the pattern of his actions.

In desperation, they could only target Zhang Ting, who was the fiancée of the opponent's supreme commander and also belonged to the high-level. Attempts to attack and weaken its command capabilities through other means.

Some time ago, although the Kwantung Army had been using blockade and squeezing tactics against Yang Zhen's troops because of the Normenhan War, it did not carry out large-scale attacks. However, its intelligence department has never given up, and has been sparing no effort to find ways to use the opponent's recruitment and expand the opportunities of the troops, and try every means to infiltrate the opponent's troops.

The intelligence department of the Kwantung Army took advantage of the fact that it had occupied the northeast for eight years and had penetrated the northeast for nearly half a century, and indeed planted a lot of people in Yang Zhen's headquarters. The Japanese have always attached great importance to intelligence work, and they have indeed made great efforts in this regard.

Before the July 7 Incident, the intelligence of their Chinese army had made it possible for every officer above the rank of major general to have an astonishing understanding of what to eat, what to do, temperament, temperament, command ability, and even which woman to sleep with at night. A detailed file has also been established on the troops, equipment, and combat effectiveness of each division of the National Army in Guannai.

Although Yang Zhen's department was born out of nowhere, the rise can be described as very sudden. However, the stronger it became and the stronger it became, and the growing speed of development also made the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army disdain from the beginning to the same attention as the Soviet intelligence work. In order to grasp the detailed information of the opponent as much as possible, the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army can be said to have put great painstaking efforts.

However, at present, among the opponent's troops, whether it is combat units, local troops, or logistics departments, there are eyeliners. However, although the opponent lacks experience in counter-espionage, he is still very vigilant.

Moreover, the main force of the army is mainly rescued laborers, and it is difficult for those agents who break into the opponent's camp to infiltrate the upper echelons, and even very few even become officers, and most of them are some irrelevant departments. After joining the army, most of the student soldiers were sent to some places such as the political department, which was useless in the eyes of Hattori Takushiro Nakasa.

The locals who joined the army, due to time reasons, were mostly still in the new regiment before the outbreak of the battle. As for the most important staff department selected for the combat unit, none of them were able to enter because the opponent's selection was extremely strict, and it could even be said that they were carefully selected.

This time, if it weren't for the great painstaking efforts of the intelligence department, they would have turned against a figure in the opponent's logistics department, who had a very important position although his position was not high. was able to find out the movements and whereabouts of that guy's fiancée, and created a lot of logistical trouble for the opponent.

After the incident came from Jiangbei, the guy was so sad that he vomited blood and fell into a coma, and Hattori Takushiro Nakasa felt that his tactics had been quite successful. Its troops, though, have not yet fallen into disarray. But the loss of the commander who led them to glory means that the opponent's psychological defenses will eventually be torn apart.

Although Hattori Takushiro Nakasa is not from a Chinese background like many people, he is known as the Three Feathered Birds of the Army, which is enough to show that he still has a certain understanding of the Chinese army. He knew that in the Chinese army, in many cases, an army would only obey the orders of its founders. Once this person is lost, it is generally difficult for his successor to control the army unless he is extremely capable.

He once heard a colleague from China who was born in China say that Chinese is very infighting based on geographical boundaries. Even in a province, there are habitual gangs based on different places of origin. This is true even in the military, where small groups within it are very powerful. Once they lose the leader, or even have to do it themselves, they risk getting into trouble within themselves.

Takushiro Hattori has painstakingly studied his opponent. Compared with his previous colleagues, he has a different direction of research on what can be called the most tough opponent of the Kwantung Army at the moment. His colleagues are more interested in studying their troops, equipment, fighting style, and customary strategies and tactics.

And he saw something wrong with this composition. This force was initially composed of prisoners of war from the Kuomintang and the Communist Party who had been washed out of the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply, and the rest of the laborers joined later. That is to say, the earliest prisoners of war were the foundation of this force.

Hattori Takushiro once obtained the files of this group of people from the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and he found out that this group of people, who now claim to be the anti-coalition armed forces under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, started with a group of prisoners of war who were overwhelmingly soldiers of the former Nationalist Government. In other words, the backbone of it is mainly the former national army.

Due to the different tactics and strategies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the scale of the battles fought with the Japanese army was different. Among this batch of prisoners of war, there are not no prisoners of war from the 18th Group Army under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, but the number is not large. Most of its cadres are still prisoners of war from the government army in China.

After a detailed review of all the information about this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese army, Hattori Takushiro came to a conclusion that seemed to be nonsense in the rest of the Kwantung Army. The reason why these two groups of people who were still beating you to the death before the full-scale outbreak of the Zhina Incident is that they can unite now, and they are not pinched together before they start fighting, is because of this guy named Yang Zhen.

In Hattori's eyes, there is no doubt that this man is a lion. Not only is the commander extremely capable, but also quite brave and good at fighting. It was he who reorganized the scattered prisoners of war into a brave and warlike army. Although they still look very immature, it is this immature but energetic army that has repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the advancing Kwantung Army.

And the reason why they are still closely united and there are no internal strife is that this person has played a great role in addition to the environment. It was with him that a plate of scattered prisoners of war was firmly brought together. In Hattori's view, in order to completely exterminate this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force, it is necessary to take a bright and unbright means to eliminate their leader.

Only by completely destroying this person physically, and making the opponent lose the leader, can he completely annihilate him. Takushiro Hattori, who has always admired Napoleon, always believed that a flock led by a lion would definitely defeat a flock led by a sheep. In Hattori's view, the so-called brilliant victory of the Imperial Army in Shina has proved this.

Hattori Takushiro not only believed that eliminating the opponent's leader would weaken the opponent's will to fight to the greatest extent, but also severely weaken the opponent's internal unity. Without a leader who can pinch them together, according to the Chinese's habit of infighting, this army, which itself has extremely complex origins, will fall apart by itself.

It should be persuaded that Takushiro is still very discerning, and his focus is also very accurate. However, he made a mistake inherent in the Japanese view of Chinese, that is, they are accustomed to viewing and evaluating some new things based on past experience. In his opinion, since other Chinese armies prefer infighting, the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force, also composed of Chinese, should have similar problems.

Due to the appearance of Chen Shaobin, the intelligence system of the Kwantung Army was almost completely aware of the internal disputes within the former Anti-Japanese Federation. Although the Kwantung Army believed that the Anti-Japanese Union was tightly organized, it was far from being comparable to the original loose volunteer army. But in their opinion, even the anti-Japanese federation that came out of the same door had a complicated political struggle, not to mention the complicated source of Yang Zhen's department.

It was precisely in order to use other means to obtain something that could not be obtained on the battlefield that Hattori Takushiro persuaded the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Iimura, to formulate such an assassination plan. And judging from the intelligence fed back from Jiangbei, this plan seems to have been successfully implemented.

After receiving the news from Jiangbei, Hattori Zhuoshiro Nakasa did not dare to delay, and immediately found that the 24th Division was in decline on the battlefield, and almost the entire army did not say anything, and the 25th Division suffered heavy losses. The three wings have gone to the second of the shapes, and General Umezu Mijiro is in a rage.

Listening to Hattori Zhuoshiro Nakasa's report, General Umezu Mijiro, who knew that he had such a plan, frowned for a while before he said with some doubts: "Hattori-kun, are you sure that this information is reliable?" What kind of commander did they vomit blood and fell into a coma because of this incident, and the other party has lost its unified command? ”

In response to General Umezu's questioning, Hattori Takushiro said firmly: "Your Excellency Commander, I can be sure that this information is absolutely true. In order to carry out this plan, the Special Intelligence Department and the Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army activated a very important chess piece that we had painstakingly inserted into their ranks. ”

"This person is not of a high level, but his position is extremely important. It took a lot of effort for the Special Intelligence Department to catch him and turn him around. He provided us with a lot of important information. ”

"It was on the basis of accurate information from this person that we killed this person's fiancée. If the bandit leader knew the true cause of his fiancée's death, I don't think he would have spared the betrayer. We know this, and the person clearly knows it. ”

"He knew there was no turning back. He has no way out of the way except to completely surrender to the empire and serve the empire. Therefore, we can trust the information passed back by His Excellency the Commander. ”

"The opponent has always been cautious and alert. But for counter-espionage and other work, it is extremely immature. Neither its means nor its capabilities can be compared with the Empire. Even their fishing nets, which are full of nets, are far inferior to the government of China. ”

"It's just that its core organization, because they are all selected so-called old backbones who break through with them, and according to the importance of the department, the level of vigilance, it is difficult for us to intervene. However, in some places, we have taken advantage of the urgency of attracting intellectuals to increase the morale of the troops, and we have taken the opportunity to install quite a few special agents. ”

"These people did not send any unusual information, and from the comprehensive analysis of the appearance of their troops afterwards, we can confirm that they were no longer able to directly command the troops in battle due to physical reasons. Your Excellency, Commander, you should trust the intelligence analysis skills of the elites cultivated by these Imperial Shino schools. ”

"The Imperial Intelligence Agency's superior intelligence-gathering capabilities have made a tremendous contribution to the Holy War. It was also thanks to the efforts of the Imperial Intelligence Agency that the Empire was able to exert its advantages in the war against China. It was precisely because of the excellent example of the intelligence agencies of the Kwantung Army that the Kwantung Army was able to inflict heavy losses on the anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements in Manchuria during the great encirclement and suppression carried out last autumn. ”

Listening to Hattori Takushiro's explanation, Umezu Mijiro was not in a hurry to express his position. On the contrary, after the table xiàn took office, he rarely stood up and walked to the window with some anxiety, and pushed open the window and let the rising autumn wind hit his face.

Takushiro Hattori understands that the fact that Mijiro, who has always been steady, can be so anxious must have something to do with the current situation in which the Arctic is unfavorable in the Songhua River. When the attack began, when facing this cunning and treacherous opponent, although he was already mentally prepared for a large loss.

However, no one expected that the two divisions and a large number of Manchukuo troops would be specially mobilized this time, and their strength would be brought into account for the encirclement and suppression of the crown of anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements in Manchuria. Most of the Manchukuo troops that participated in the attack were lost, and most of its elite Jing'an troops mutinied.

Except for the 14th Wing, which was still in ink on the front line of the Haoliang River, and the 22nd Wing, which had almost lost all of its strength and had less than one brigade after retreating to Jiangnan, the rest of the troops were either empty or never returned.

The losses of this offensive almost exceeded the losses on the battlefield of Kannei China, most of which were fought with the Nationalist government army in China. In the face of a local armed force that is no more than a guerrilla force, it will pay such a large loss. Without a reasonable reason, it would be difficult for Senior General Umezu Yoshijiro to explain to the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of War.

For General Umezu Mijiro to be so anxious, Hattori Takushiro is understandable. However, he believed that the present was an extremely rare opportunity to defeat this anti-Manchurian armed force in one fell swoop. If he misses it, it will be difficult to find this opportunity again when the bandit leader regains command of the troops.