Indeed, this has always been a strange thing for Iwabuchi three times. He and Seijiro enlisted in the army at the same time.
It stands to reason that the navy not only pays far better than the army, but also gets promoted relatively quickly. In addition, Seijiro is from a prestigious school and is brave and resourceful. Why is he still just a left-of-centre person?
He is already a major general.
"Do you want to know why?" Seijiro didn't feel anything about his slow promotion. Instead, he said with a smile: "Originally, I could have been promoted to the left a few years ago. Well, if by now, I Like you, I should have become a shining general, but my career was all ruined in Shanghai."
"Shanghai?" Iwabuchi frowned three times. Yes, although he and Seijiro haven't seen each other for so many years, they usually exchange letters.
He knew that Seijiro had stayed in Shanghai for a long time and was engaged in naval intelligence work. Before the Battle of Shanghai broke out, Seijiro's letters were always high-spirited and full of fighting spirit.
However, I don’t know since when, his letters became less and less. Even when he wrote to himself, he only briefly talked about his life and did not talk about other things.
"Before the war broke out, I had been engaged in intelligence work in Shanghai." Seijiro said slowly: "At that time, have you heard of the Three Imperial Tigers who were famous in Shanghai?" Iwabuchi nodded three times: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chiyuki Akagi, Nitsugi Matsumoto of the Army, and Michio Tanishihara of our Navy!"
"Yes, the three tigers of the empire were so prosperous back then, but now they are all dead." Seijiro smiled bitterly: "And at that time, I was working under Tanishihara Michio Daizuo. Do you know how Tanishige Daizuo died? "
"I seem to have heard about it." Iwabuchi hesitated three times: "I heard that his son died in the battle in Xuzhou. Gu Fan had mental problems and eventually committed suicide after shooting his colleagues."
"A mental problem? Shoot a colleague?" Seijiro sighed: "This is a rhetoric to the outside world, to cover up the scandal within the navy. Do you know who the so-called colleague is? That is the captain of the Imperial Scientific Research Team and a chemical weapons expert Qiao Ben and I. At that time, the 'sneeze agent' researched by Hashimoto and I had reached a critical stage and was originally planned to be used in the Battle of Changsha. However, when Hashimoto and I died, the entire research on sneeze agents came to a standstill. The two of them Year, we wasted a full two years, otherwise, in Changsha, the imperial army would not have suffered such heavy casualties, and even fought several times without defeat!" Iwabuchi was shocked for three times: "Isn't Gu Shimo crazy? , but Hashimoto who deliberately assassinated? He, he was? "
"Tanishige, it is very likely that he is a spy for the Shina people." When Narijiro said these words, Iwabuchi was shocked three times and couldn't believe what he heard!
How could a navy chief, an intelligence elite of the empire, be a Chinese spy? This is really a huge scandal!
"We had no idea at the time whether Tanishige was incited to rebel after arriving in Shanghai, or he was a Chinese spy before." Seijiro continued: "We fabricated the cause of Tanishige's death to the outside world, and also launched a secret investigation internally. As a result, we discovered We have found some clues that the Chinese may have planted a spy network in the empire a long time ago. But we know nothing about this spy network. Unfortunately, because I was also working under Gu Fan at the time and participated in Among the many important actions he made, I was also implicated. I was secretly investigated for half a year, Kikumonro, do you still remember that I seemed to be missing during those half a year?" Iwabuchi nodded three times: "Yes. Yeah, I still can't contact you, I thought you were on some secret mission."
"I was under investigation for a full half a year." Seijiro said with a bitter look on his face: "Not only me, but everyone around Tanishige was also implicated. I was released after half a year. Although I was released, there was still a lot of traces on me. The suspicion was still not cleared. After that, I began to be responsible for some clerical work, and the road to promotion was blocked. After Pearl Harbor, the empire was in urgent need of employees, so I had the opportunity to return to the army. But I Your luck is really bad. Soon after returning to the combat unit, the Imperial Navy suffered a series of setbacks!" Iwabuchi finally figured out the reason three times.
"Compared to my colleagues, I'm relatively lucky. At least I can still stay in the army." Narijiro drank all the wine in the cup: "Tanishige's assistant, I'm sure he doesn't know the inside story at all. As a result, because he was Gu Fan's assistant, he was directly transferred back to China. I heard that he encountered serious unfair treatment in China, and he died in depression the year before last."
"Damn it, is there still no progress in the investigation so far?" Iwabuchi said angrily three times.
"There is no progress at all." Seijiro shook his head: "Do you remember the Three Tigers of the Empire? Their deaths are all related to one person."
"who?"
"Meng Shaoyuan!"
"Meng Shaoyuan?"
"You are a pure soldier. You may not have heard of his name, but this man is unknown to everyone in Shanghai and in the entire Japanese-Chinese intelligence community." Seijiro said word by word: "Japan's public enemy , the strongest agent on the surface, Meng Shaoyuan!" He let out a long breath: "He has many nicknames, Shadow Agent, Imperial Tiger, he, the Imperial Tiger, killed three tigers with one tiger! Chiyuki Akagi of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was killed by his design. Nitsugi Matsumoto of the Ministry of War, and his granddaughter Manoko actually became Meng Shaoyuan's woman. As a result, Nitsugi Matsumoto committed suicide to apologize. As for Michio Tanishihara? After his death Later, we discovered that the expert on chemical warfare and Hashimoto Kazugo’s assistant, Yukio Sometani, was also missing. It was only a long time later that we got the information that Yukiu Sometani had appeared in Chongqing! There is no doubt that it was Meng Shaoyuan who traveled from Shanghai to Chongqing. made."
"Meng Shaoyuan!" Yanyuan read the name three times: "Can it be that with so many people in Shanghai, the empire can't deal with him alone?"
"We can't deal with it, there is absolutely no way." Seijiro said in frustration: "Even after we entered the public concession, Meng Shaoyuan still existed like a demon. There were several opportunities to catch him, but he escaped calmly several times. In There is a saying circulating in the imperial intelligence community, 'If there is really a way to kill Meng Shaoyuan in this world, what is this way?'" This statement sounds ridiculous, but it speaks volumes to Japanese intelligence personnel. The helplessness.
"This is a nightmare for all our intelligence officers, even though I am no longer engaged in intelligence work." Seijiro laughed at himself: "At least in Manila, I have to face those hateful Americans, not this one. We can’t even sleep well guys!”
