"Have you found Sakamoto Yulin?" Li Wei looked at Fang Xueming and then asked softly.
"Yes, this old devil has been missing for two days. He finally showed up today, but after he returned to the East Asia Hotel, he never came out again. He must have been resting."
"Lao Yang and other brothers have taken strict measures against the East Asia Hotel. As long as this person appears, he will not be able to escape our eyes." Fang Xueming thought for a while, and then replied softly to Li Wei.
"Yes." Li Wei then nodded slightly. He still trusted the abilities of Yang Zhenggang and his intelligence personnel.
In that case, just wait!
"Sir, Chen Xuan just sent a message to Lao Yang. Since Lao Yang wanted to monitor the East Asia Hotel, he asked me to bring a message back." Fang Xueming thought for a while, and then continued to speak to Li Wei.
"Oh, did something happen to Chen Xuan?" After hearing Fang Xueming's words, Li Wei paused slightly, and then asked softly.
"Chen Xuan sent a letter back, saying that the intelligence brokers in Shanghai had a piece of information about the Soviet Union and the Japanese in the Northeast and Inner Mongolia. He bought it. It seemed that there was new news on the Soviet side, so he asked Mr.
Look." Fang Xueming replied immediately without hesitation.
"Oh, is that so?" Li Wei also paused slightly after hearing Fang Xueming's words.
"Okay, please make arrangements and we'll go back in the evening." Before Fang Xueming could speak, Li Wei continued to talk to Fang Xueming.
"Okay, sir." After Fang Xueming heard Li Wei's words, he agreed immediately without hesitation, and then turned around and left Li Wei's office without saying anything else.
Levi, on the other hand, sat on a chair and started thinking.
Li Wei was quite concerned about the information Chen Xuan mentioned. Of course, not only Li Wei was concerned about this matter, but the entire Chinese people were also very concerned about it.
Because recently, a serious military conflict broke out between the Japanese and the Soviet Union.
Due to geopolitical conflicts, Japan and the Soviet Union have gone to war many times in these years. As early as 1904, the two countries broke out in a full-scale Russo-Japanese War in Northeast China.
However, the Japanese won a complete victory in this war, so Northeast China fell within the Japanese sphere of influence, and the Soviet Union was forced to cede the southern part of Sakhalin Island to Japan.
Subsequently, the world situation continued to undergo drastic changes. In 1921, China's Outer Mongolia declared independence. In 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched the September 18th Incident and fully occupied the three northeastern provinces of China. In 1932, the puppet Manchukuo State was established under Japan's orders.
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The Puppet Manchukuo and Mongolia are neighbors, and there are Japanese and Soviet troops stationed respectively. Therefore, the two sides have border disputes in many areas.
Since 1935, the Japanese Kwantung Army in Hailar and the Xing'an Cavalry have used the "border" issue left over from history as an excuse to continuously carry out provocations in the Sino-Mongolian border area to test the military strength of the Soviet Union and Mongolia.
Moreover, from January 1935 to October 1938, there were many military conflicts, and their scale gradually escalated.
On March 30, 1936, 1,500 people from the Shibuya detachment of the Japanese Kwantung Army in 50 cars, 12 armored vehicles, and 4 tanks invaded the Adagdolan area in Mongolia and were defeated by the Soviet-Mongolian army. On March 12 of the same year
Japan, the Soviet Union and Mongolia signed a mutual assistance agreement.
In July 1938, the 23rd Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army entered Hailar. In October of the same year, the 57th Special Forces of the Soviet and Mongolian Far Eastern Army entered Mongolia to garrison. The two sides negotiated an armistice agreement.
According to the information currently available, starting in May this year, another "Manchu" incident that shocked the world broke out in the Nomonhanbride area of the New Barhu Left Banner and on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Halaha River in Mongolia.
The Mongolian Border War was a large-scale military conflict between Japan and the puppet Manchukuo and the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic.
In May, the Japanese Kwantung Army decided to first attack the Mongolian People's Republic in the Nomonhan area and occupy its eastern territory, the Halaha area, as a springboard for its subsequent invasion of the Soviet Far East, and then realize the long-planned "Northward Advance Plan"
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Therefore, on May 11, the Mongolian Army's 24th Border Guard Corps waded from the west bank of Shanxi to the area east of the Halaha River to graze their cattle. A group of soldiers from the 3rd Company of the Puppet Hinggan Guard Cavalry stationed at the Taolagai post in Xilin immediately opened fire
Intercepted and mounted their horses to pursue them, driving the Mongolian army's herdsmen and horses back to the west bank. More than 50 cavalrymen from the 7th Border Post of the Mongolian Army captured the Puppet Manchukuo Xilin Taolaigai Post located in the disputed area.
This phase of the war lasted until May 28. At dawn on May 28, the 1st Section of the 64th Regiment, commanded by Colonel Takemitsu Yamagata, had about 1,058 people, Lieutenant Colonel Higashibabaizo's search team of about 200 people and the puppet
One section each of the 1st, 2nd, and 8th Manxing'an Cavalry Regiments besieged the Mongolian army in three directions, but was defeated by the Soviet and Mongolian troops. 115 people of the Japanese search team were killed and 81 were missing. Almost the entire army was wiped out. Dongbabaizang
I was also shot dead; while the Japanese Yamaxian troops lost 151 people in battle, and 92 people were still alive or dead, with a casualty rate of 20%.
With the end of this stage of the war, the two sides continued to work intensively on the border, constantly dispatching troops and engaging in various aspects of games.
However, judging from the current situation, Japan and the Soviet Union should be preparing to launch the second phase of the campaign.
Of course, Li Wei knew about this, but he would not tell it. Everything depends on Chen Xuan's information.
However, the fact that the Soviet Union and the Japanese went to war was a very exciting event for China and the Kuomintang. To put it bluntly, the eyes of the entire world are now focused on Japan and the Soviet Union.
Even the pace of the Japanese invasion of China is slowing down, and they are going all out to face the Soviet Union.
Because everyone knows that if Japan and the Soviet Union really go to war this time, the world situation may undergo earth-shaking changes.
China, on the other hand, most hopes that these two countries will go to war, because in this way, China can breathe a little easier and even survive in the cracks.
Therefore, all political parties and intelligence organizations in China are now paying great attention to this matter.
Because Li Wei's intelligence team could provide timely intelligence to the military commander every time, Dai Li naturally asked Li Wei to pay attention to collecting intelligence in this area.
That's why Chen Xuan would purchase this information.
Of course, for this time the Soviet Union and the Japanese went to war, Li Wei guessed the specific reasons, maybe he didn't want to make it clear.
It’s not even the Japanese who are actively provoking!