The Spring Festival of 1941 is coming soon.
This year’s Spring Festival is very early, January 22nd is the first day of the Lunar New Year.
In order to open up the southern section of the Ping-Han Railway and remove the threat from the Chinese army to the Japanese army in Xinyang, the Japanese 11th Army assembled 7 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry brigade, and 3 tank regiments. Under the command of Commander Sonobe Kazuichiro , divided into three corps: left, center and right, divided into three lines, preparing to launch an attack on southern Henan.
Before the attack was launched, the complete offensive road map and troop allocation of the Japanese 11th Army had arrived on the desk of the 31st Group Army Headquarters of the National Army's Fifth Theater Zone.
Tang Enbo, the commander-in-chief of the group army, could not help but sigh:
"Why are those military commanders' spies so powerful? With such detailed intelligence, if our Thirty-first Army cannot win the battle, we will really feel sorry for those spies."
In response to the Japanese military deployment, Tang Enbo, who had detailed intelligence, quickly formulated a strategy to avoid falsehoods and embrace reality. The policy was to divide the main force into two wings and encircle and annihilate the Japanese invaders' scattered troops from both sides and behind.
The Battle of Southern Henan developed in a direction beneficial to the national army from the beginning!
At this time in Shanghai, the situation also had new developments.
With the death of Ishida Hideki, Kage Sasaki has been in a state of pain.
Although Hideki Ishida died in the Japanese Military Police, the person who shot him was also the police section chief of the Military Police.
Yingzuo Zhenzhao can shirk the blame completely.
However, after all, he is his general adviser and a close confidant of Okamura Neji.
Okamura Neji will definitely put this account on his head.
Sure enough, in the new year's funding application, the figure reported by Ying Zuozhenzhao was inexplicably reduced by a large amount of money by his superiors.
This made 1941 just beginning, and the funds for the Japanese army's secret service in Shanghai suddenly became tight.
In Shanghai, money is everything in many things.
Funding, funding!
It takes money to maintain so many agents.
Funding is required to perform tasks.
But what about funding?
He knew that Okamura Neji was behind this.
At the same time, he also lost the support of Matsui Iwane.
Two powerful figures in the military.
However, Ying Zuo Zhenzhao offended two people at the same time.
Yingzuo Zhenzhao had a terrible headache.
He had to turn his attention to drugs again.
After the bombing of Satomi's Hongji Shantang and his death, the Japanese drug business in Shanghai has been paralyzed.
Yingzuo Zhenzhao has been actively preparing to resume this "business".
To this end, he specifically found Satomi's former friend and Wang Jingwei's adviser, Major General Okada Keiji.
The two hit it off almost instantly.
To this end, after careful preparations, the new Hongji Shantang was put into operation again.
Okada Chiefji specially recommended a person to serve as the general manager of Hongji Shantang:
Gu Haiguang, the son of Gu Haizhongzhi, deputy director of the General Affairs Department of the Puppet Manchukuo State.
This person has been engaged in the opium business in the Northeast for many years and has extremely rich experience.
In January 1941, Gu Haiguang arrived in Shanghai and officially took office.
In his plan, there were three main routes for transporting opium to Shanghai:
Opium produced in Mongolia and Northeast China, Persian opium purchased from Iran, and refined drugs from Taiwan.
According to Gu Haideguang's estimate, with Shanghai as the center and transfer station, the amount of opium transported to various occupied areas can reach more than 200 tons a year.
The profit is about 300 million yuan!
This will reach the level of the heyday of the Satomi era.
Three hundred million yuan is equivalent to the financial budget of Wang Jingwei's puppet government for an entire year.
Yingzuo Zhenzhao was excited by this number, and immediately approved the plan without hesitation, and entrusted Gu Haiguang with full authority to take charge.
The only thing he told Gu Haideguang was that the situation in Shanghai was special and very different from Manchuria. He must pay special attention to the trends of military unification and must not be careless and repeat the mistakes of Satomi Fu.
No matter where you go, you need to have at least eight bodyguards with you, fully armed.
Never give the military reunification any chance!
Yingzuo Zhenzhao was really scared.
One after another, important Japanese figures died in Shanghai.
The pressure on his shoulders was already very heavy.
Gu Haiguang, there must be no problems!
Especially that person:
Meng Shaoyuan, Director of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Supervision Division of the Military Unification Bureau and Director of Shanghai District!
For Shanghai's Rite, this person is simply a nightmare!
What Ying Zuo Zhenzhao didn't know was that Meng Shaoyuan had already obtained this information before his new Hongji Shantang was ready to open.
"Another Hongji Shantang? Wasn't it enough to be bombed once?" Meng Shaoyuan said coldly.
"Then let's blow it up again." Wu Jingyi said nonchalantly.
"Blow it up again?" Meng Shaoyuan shook his head: "The Japanese suffered a big loss last time and will be more cautious this time. I'm afraid it won't be that easy to blow it up again."
As he spoke, his brows furrowed tightly:
"Hundreds of tons of opium are transported to the occupied areas every year, killing the people. This year, they have prepared more than 200 tons? Are they planning to poison all the people in the occupied areas?
By using Shanghai as the headquarters and transfer station, do you want Shanghai to turn into a poisonous city? No, I have to think of a way, I have to think of a way. "
Wu Jingyi said what she had said countless times:
"You can always find a way."
Yes, there is always a way.
The problem is that the Japanese suffer losses time and time again and become cautious again and again.
Kage Sasaki will definitely fully ensure the safety of Kokai Hiro.
Where is the breakthrough?
"Let our people closely monitor Hongji Shantang. Zhao Yun will be personally responsible for this matter." Meng Shaoyuan thought for a while and then ordered:
"It's best to find out their delivery routes, escorts, and unloading docks. The more detailed the better."
Sooner or later, this information will be obtained. The question is, what should we do after we get it? The Japanese will definitely escort them with heavy troops, and the place where the goods are stored will definitely be in Japanese-controlled areas.
We can't just start a war, right?
Meng Shaoyuan felt his head hurt again.
He held a cigarette in his hand and played with it repeatedly.
Wu Jingyi knew that Master Meng was using his brain.
Every time he made this move, he didn't twitch, he was just thinking of a solution.
As soon as he starts smoking, it means that a new plan has been formed.
However, this time she was a little disappointed.
For more than half an hour, Meng Shaoyuan never lit the cigarette.
"Don't worry."
Wu Jingyi comforted: "The other party has just started anyway, so take your time."
While he was talking there, Qi Xuezhen walked in: "We just got information that one of our agents named Ye Huotao in the Japanese-controlled area was captured by the Japanese army and was killed."
Meng Shaoyuan said "Oh", this kind of thing happens almost every day, there is nothing strange: "Who is Ye Huotao? Why didn't I know this person before? What important position is he in charge of?"
"He was just a perimeter agent."
Um? Meng Shaoyuan was a little curious. What should he report to him about the death of an outside agent?
However, Qi Xuezhen immediately said: "He is not even fifteen years old this year!"
