Matsui Yuya is dead.
His death did not cause much disturbance, and all his colleagues only expressed symbolic sadness and anger.
Symbolic.
After all, they didn't have any good impression of this "Yuya Umeyama".
Arrogant, arrogant, and looking down on his colleagues.
If such a person dies, then he will die.
Except for Kage Sasaki.
He could not imagine that Matsui Yuya was actually dead.
That was the beloved nephew of his close comrade Matsui Iwane.
Matsui Iwane returned to China and specially arranged for his nephew to be sent to Shanghai in order to ask him to take care of him.
It's over now.
Kage Sasaki knew very well that with Matsui Iwane's personality, he would never give up so easily.
The friendship between them will be greatly impacted.
Sure enough, Matsui Iwane did not express any dissatisfaction in public with the death of his nephew.
However, a special fund of 500,000 yen that had been approved suddenly went wrong.
As for where the problem lies?
It’s not mentioned above either.
Yingzuo Zhenzhao did not ask further questions.
Because he knew too well that Matsui Iwane must have used his influence to retaliate against Shanghai and himself.
Without the support of Matsui Iwane, it will probably be very difficult in the future.
This is what troubles Yingzuo Zhenzhao the most.
But in the short term, he had no solution at all.
He could only watch helplessly as this happened.
And what made him most helpless was the helplessness shown by his colleagues in Shanghai over the death of Matsui Yuya.
However, he can't focus on this at the moment.
The full investigation representative of Sonobe Kazuichiro, commander of the Imperial 11th Army, has arrived in Shanghai.
As the successor of former commander Okamura Neiji, Sonobe and Ichiro immediately organized an attack on Yichang after taking office.
The 11th Army is a super-large field group with 230,000 troops, equipped with aircraft, tanks, armored vehicles, mountain artillery, field artillery and other heavy weapons. It is the pride of the Japanese invaders.
Although Yichang was occupied this time, the military deployment and force distribution of the 11th Army were leaked in advance and were controlled by the Communist Party, causing the 11th Army to suffer undue casualties.
According to the testimony of a Japanese intelligence analyst captured afterwards, the 11th Army intelligence they obtained came from Shanghai.
absurd.
Yingzuo Zhenzhao felt ridiculous to the extreme.
Your 11th Army was in Yichang. When the intelligence was leaked, you didn't look for the reasons yourself, but you went all the way to Shanghai to raise troops to question the charges?
What's the point?
But Yingzuo Zhenzhao also knew that this was a method that Japanese officers had always used.
Shift the responsibility to others.
Especially the 11th Army always likes to do this.
The attack on Changsha failed, Commander Okamura Neiji shirks responsibility in various ways, why the intelligence work is not good, China spies are everywhere, the cooperation and support system is incomplete, etc.
In short, the credit is all yours and the responsibility is all others'.
His successor, Lieutenant General Sonobe Kazuichiro, was even worse.
Although the Battle of Yichang was successful, the Japanese fought miserably and suffered too many casualties. They actually went to Shanghai to find a scapegoat?
And also sent two heavyweights:
Major General Yoshimo Daigo, Chief of the Intelligence Section of the Japanese 11th Army, and Colonel Ogawa Tsuhei, Director of the Counterintelligence Department!
The counter-intelligence department of the Japanese army was inconspicuous, but it played a huge role in the war.
The counter-intelligence work of the Japanese army made it extremely difficult for the national workers to collect intelligence on the Japanese army.
At the current stage of the Anti-Japanese War, neither the Kuomintang nor the Workers' and Peasants' Party has a complete understanding of the Japanese army's department numbers, divisions, independent brigade commanders at all levels, and combat areas.
There may even be accidents such as "55D", which was supposed to appear on the Central China battlefield, but ended up being the North China battlefield number.
Among the lists of Japanese commanders at all levels in the possession of both the state and the labor industry, those whose names and positions match up completely do not match at all, while those whose names are correct and the date of taking office with an error of more than one year account for more than two years. People who don't understand the situation will say that since the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, even the Japanese commanders have made such mistakes. How can they be embarrassed?
But this is the power of the Japanese counterintelligence department.
This also proves from another aspect how important an intelligence with the complete combat sequence of the Japanese army and the list of commanders at all levels is!
Just like the Japanese combat order information provided by Tai Shiwei to Meng Shaoyuan, it is simply a treasure.
Major General Yoshimo Daigo and Colonel Ogawa Tsuhei have served in the military for a long time. The two are a perfect pair. Not only do they cooperate extremely well at work, but they are also good friends in life.
This time Sonobe and Ichiro sent two people to Shanghai at once, which also shows how seriously he attaches importance to intelligence leaks.
Although Yingzuo Zhenzhao was dissatisfied, he was not particularly worried.
A so-called investigation like this is nothing more than a formality.
Investigation after investigation will yield no results at all.
But at least he could show his attitude to his superiors, how much he attached importance to this matter, and sent out the two powerful generals himself.
If an intelligence leak occurs in the future, it will have nothing to do with me.
Kage Sasaki personally received Major General Yoshimo Daigo and Colonel Ogawa Tsuhei.
Yoshimo Daigo didn't talk much, and Colonel Ogawa Tsuhei basically did all the talking.
And it can be seen that Yoshimo Daigo has great trust in his companions and never interrupts Ogawa Tsuhei's communication.
Even when Kage Sasaki asked him, Yoshimo Daigo always said:
"Please listen to Ogawa-kun's opinion."
It seems that the relationship between the two people is not superior and subordinate at all.
After asking the routine questions, Daigo Yoshimo finally made his request to meet the main spy chiefs at all levels of the Japanese intelligence department in Shanghai.
"Where are No. 76 and the Intelligence Headquarters? Do you want to meet with them?" Yingzuo Zhenzhao asked.
"No need." Ogawa Jihei rejected such a suggestion: "We are not interested in Chinese spies. This is not under our jurisdiction. Whether they have Chinese spies lurking among them is the responsibility of Shanghai. We are only responsible for our People are interested. And we don’t want too many people to know that we are in Shanghai.”
Secret service leaders at all levels, including Koichi Hahara, Kojiro Kawamoto, Hiroshi Nagashima and others, were summoned by them.
Yoshimo Daigo did not tell his true identity, but as an investigator, he asked Ogawa Tsuhei to have a three-hour conversation with them.
"There is no suspicious person." This is what Ogawa Tsuhei told Kage Sasaki after the meeting: "However, I found that the person named Hahara Koichi is very capable. I suggest that the head of the agency focus on training him."
"Ah, yes."
Kage Sasaki was also a little surprised. Could he discover the strengths of Koichi Hahara just through a simple conversation?
Moreover, during the conversation, I did not see that they paid any special attention to Hahara Koichi.
