Guo Bingxun's estimate was correct. Zhang Ting's sacrifice was not a simple accident. It was the Kwantung Army's intelligence chief, Colonel Takeryo Isomura, and the director of special intelligence, Colonel Okubo Shunjiro.
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Hattori Takushiro tried to use this kind of assassination to disrupt the sanity of the opponent's top commander and cause a certain degree of confusion in the combat deployment, so as to create a good opportunity for the Kwantung Army and strive to defeat this group of fierce anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements in one go.
A clean annihilation.
Even though Hattori Takushiro is just a lieutenant at the moment, he has to admit that this guy has a forward-thinking vision. The psychological warfare and decapitation tactics that became popular only decades later 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 head of special intelligence, Colonel Okubo Shunjiro, activated the most senior and only nail hidden within the opponent, he could not find the opponent.
Where exactly is the headquarters, and the pattern of its actions cannot be found.
In desperation, they could only target Zhang Ting, who was the fiancée of their opponent's supreme commander and also a high-level official, and tried to use other means to attack and weaken his command ability.
Some time ago, although the Kwantung Army had been adopting tactics of blockade and squeezing against Yang Zhen's troops due to the Nomenhan War, but had not launched a large-scale suppression campaign, its intelligence department had never given up, and had been sparing no effort to suppress the troops.
Find ways to take advantage of your opponent's opportunity to recruit troops and expand their troops, and do everything you can to infiltrate your opponent's troops.
The Kwantung Army's intelligence department took advantage of the fact that it had fully occupied the Northeast for eight years and had fully penetrated the Northeast for almost half a century. It indeed placed many people in Yang Zhen's headquarters. The Japanese have always attached great importance to intelligence work. In this regard,
It was indeed a lot of hard work.
Before the July 7th Incident, the intelligence of their squadron had allowed every officer above the rank of major general to have an astonishing understanding of what he ate, what he did every day, his temper, temperament, command ability, and even which woman he slept with at night.
**A detailed file has also been established for each division's troop strength, equipment, and combat effectiveness.
Although Yang Zhen's unit was born out of nowhere, its rise can be said to be very sudden. However, its strength in the Vietnam War and its growing speed of development have also allowed the Kwantung Army's intelligence department to go from being dismissive at the beginning to now being on par with the Soviet intelligence work.
In order to grasp the detailed information of the opponent as soon as possible, the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department made great efforts.
It's just that although there are spies in the opponent's troops, whether it is combat troops, local troops, or logistics departments, the opponent is still very wary despite his lack of counterintelligence experience.
Moreover, the main force of the army is mainly rescued laborers. It is difficult for those agents who break into the opponent's camp to penetrate into the top management. Very few even become officers, and most of them are in insignificant departments. Most of the student soldiers who later joined the army were sent to
Go to the Political Department and wait for some places that Lieutenant Colonel Hattori Takushirō thinks are useless.
As for the local people who joined the army, due to time constraints, most of them were still playing in the new corps before the battle broke out. As for the staff, the most important part of the combat force, the selection was extremely strict and could even be said to be meticulous.
If selected, none of them can be entered.
This time, if the intelligence department hadn't put in a lot of effort to instigate a person in the opponent's logistics department who has a low-level but very important position, we would have been able to figure out the movements and whereabouts of that guy's fiancée, and give the opponent a logistical solution.
Caused a lot of trouble.
Judging from the reports from Jiangbei that the guy was so sad that he vomited blood and fell into a coma, Lieutenant Colonel Hattori Takushirō felt that his tactics had been quite successful. Although his troops had not yet fallen into chaos, one of the troops had lost the man who once led them.
Towards a glorious commander-in-chief means that the opponent's psychological defense will eventually be torn apart.
Although Lieutenant Colonel Hattori Takushirō is not a China expert like many people, he is known as the Three Feathered Birds of the Army, which is enough to show his talent. He still has a certain understanding of the Chinese *** Team. He knows that in the Chinese *** Team
, in many cases an army will only obey the orders of its founder. 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 with a background in China say that the Chinese use geographical boundaries as boundaries and have fierce internal strife. Even within a province, they habitually form gangs based on their place of origin. Even in the army, this is the case.
Their internal small groups are very powerful. Once they lose their leader, they may start to cause trouble within themselves without even having to take action themselves.
Hattori Takushiro has painstakingly studied his opponents. Compared with his previous colleagues, he has a different research direction for the current Kwantung Army, which can be called the toughest opponent. His colleagues are more concerned with studying its troops, equipment and operations.
Style, usual strategies, tactics.
But he saw some problems from the composition of this unit. This unit was first composed of prisoners of war from the Kuomintang and the Communist Party who rushed out from the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply. As for other workers, they joined later. In other words, the earliest ones
Prisoners of war are the foundation of this army.
Hattori Takushiro once specially retrieved the files of this group of people from the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and he discovered that this group, which is now called the Anti-Union Armed Forces under the leadership of the Communist Party, actually started out as a group of former Nationalist Government soldiers.
The vast majority of prisoners of war. In other words, the backbone of them are ex-Japanese prisoners of war.
Due to the different tactics and strategies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the scale of the battle with the Japanese army was different. Among these prisoners of war, there were not many prisoners of war from the 18th Group Army under the leadership of ***, but the number was not large. Most of their backbones were from the China government army.
mainly prisoners of war.
After carefully reviewing all the intelligence about this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force, Hattori Takushiro came to a conclusion that seemed to be nonsense to the rest of the Kwantung Army. Can these two groups fight before the China Incident broke out in full?
The reason why people who are fighting each other to the death can be united now, and there is no one who starts to fight before starting to fight, is because of this guy named Yang Zhen.
In Hattori Takushiro's view, there is no doubt that this man is a lion. Not only is he extremely capable of commanding, he is also quite brave and good at fighting. It was he who organized the scattered prisoners of war into a brave and good fighting army. Although they still seemed
Very immature, but this immature but energetic army repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the suppressing Kwantung Army.
And the reason why they are still closely united and have no internal disputes, apart from the environment, is that this person played a great role. It was because of him that the scattered prisoners of war were firmly gathered together.
.In Hattori Takushiro's view, in order to completely wipe out this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force, we must use all bright and dirty means to get rid of their leader.
Only by completely annihilating this man physically and depriving the opponent of the leading lion can he be completely annihilated. Hattori Takushiro, who has always admired Napoleon, always believed that a flock led by a lion would definitely defeat a sheep.
A pride of lions led by sheep. In Hattori Takushiro's view, the so-called glorious victory of the imperial army in China has proved this point.
Hattori Takushiro not only believes that eliminating the opponent's leader will weaken the opponent's will to fight to the greatest extent, but will also seriously weaken the opponent's internal unity. Without the leader who can hold them together, according to the Chinese habit of fighting among themselves,
, this army with its extremely complicated origins will fall apart on its own.
It should be convinced that Be Takushiro is still very discerning and his focus is also very accurate. However, he has committed an inherent problem that Japanese people have when looking at Chinese people, that is, they are used to looking at and evaluating some new things based on past experience. In his
It seems that since other Chinese troops prefer internal fighting, this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force also composed of Chinese people should also have similar problems.
Due to the emergence of Chen Shaobin, the Kwantung Army's intelligence system was almost fully aware of the disputes within the original Anti-Resistance Alliance. Although the Kwantung Army believed that the Anti-Resistance Alliance was well-organized, far from being comparable to the original loose volunteer army. But in their view, even with the same
There were complex political struggles within the Anti-Japanese Alliance, not to mention the complicated origins of Yang Zhen's headquarters.
It was precisely in order to use other means to obtain something that could not be obtained on the battlefield that Takushiro Hattori persuaded the Kwantung Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Iimura Rang to formulate such an assassination plan. And judging from the intelligence fed back from Jiangbei,
This plan seems to have been executed successfully.
After receiving the news from Jiangbei, Lieutenant Colonel Hattori Takushirō did not dare to delay, and immediately found the 24th Division who was on the battlefield. Almost the entire army was wiped out, and he also took the 25th Division with him.
The losses were heavy. Two of the three regiments were gone, and General Umezu Yoshijiro was in a rage.
After listening to Lieutenant Colonel Hattori Takushiro's report, General Umezu Yoshijiro, who knew that he had such a plan, frowned for a long time before he said doubtfully: "Hattori-kun, are you sure this information is reliable? What kind of commander are they?
Because of this incident, he vomited blood and fell into coma, so the other party has lost unified command?"
Regarding General Umezu's doubts, Hattori Takushiro said firmly: "Your Excellency, Commander, I can confirm that this information is absolutely true. In order to implement this plan, the Kwantung Army Special Intelligence Department and the Intelligence Department launched our painstaking efforts to
A very important piece to insert into their team.”
"Although this person is not of high rank, his position is extremely important. The Special Intelligence Department spent a lot of effort to get a handle on him before turning him around. He provided a lot of our important information."
"It was based on the accurate information provided by this person that we killed his fiancée. If the gang leader knew the true cause of his fiancée's death, I think he would never spare the person who betrayed the intelligence. This is why we
I know, and that person obviously knows."
"He knows that he has no way back now. Apart from completely surrendering to the empire and serving the empire, he has no other way out. Therefore, we can trust the information conveyed by the Commander."
"Although our opponents have always been cautious and alert, they are extremely immature when it comes to counter-espionage and other tasks. Their methods and abilities cannot be compared with the empire. Even their fishing nets are everywhere.
Compared with the meshy China government, it is far inferior."
"It's just that the core organizations are the so-called old backbones who have been selected to break through with them, and based on the importance of the department and the level of alertness, it is difficult for us to get involved. But in some places, we use them to attract
The intellectuals' urgency to improve the quality of the troops took the opportunity to deploy a lot of agents."
"These people did not send any abnormal intelligence, and based on the comprehensive analysis of the performance of their troops afterwards, we can confirm that they are no longer able to directly command the troops in combat due to physical reasons. Your Excellency, Commander, you should trust these Imperial Shino
The elite intelligence analysis skills cultivated by the school.”
"The superior intelligence collection capabilities of the Imperial Intelligence Agency made a huge contribution to the Holy War. It was precisely because of the efforts of the Imperial Intelligence Agency that the Empire was able to give full play to its advantages in the war against China. It was also the strength of the Kwantung Army Intelligence Agency
With its outstanding performance, 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 campaign last autumn."
After listening to Hattori Takushiro's explanation, Umezu Yoshijiro was not in a hurry to express his position. Instead, he stood up and walked to the window, which was rare since taking office, and walked to the window. He pushed open the window and let the rising autumn wind hit his face.
Hattori Takushiro understood that the reason why the always steady Umezu Yoshijiro was so anxious must be related to the current unfavorable war situation in the Songhua River with the North Pole. At the beginning of the campaign, when faced with this cunning and treacherous opponent, even though there were already
Be mentally prepared for greater losses.
But no one expected that two divisions and a large number of Manchurian troops were specially mobilized this time. Their force was the largest in the history of encirclement and suppression of anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements in Manchuria. This would lead to the current situation. The Manchurians who participated in the suppression
Most of the ** were lost, and most of its elite Jing'an Army mutinied.
The two newly formed divisions of the Kwantung Army specially mobilized by General Umezu Yoshijiro, the six reorganized regiments, except for the 14th Regiment that was still on the line of the Holiang River and the 14th Regiment that almost lost everything. After returning to the south of the Yangtze River, the remaining troops were insufficient.
Except for the 22nd Regiment of a large group, the rest of the troops were either reduced to nothing, or they left and never came back.
The losses in this campaign almost exceeded the losses in most of the battles with the Chinese national government forces on the battlefield in China. Facing a local armed force with a guerrilla nature, they would actually pay such huge losses. Without a reasonable
The reason is probably difficult for General Yoshijiro Umezu to explain to the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters and the Army Ministry.
Hattori Takushiro could understand why General Umezu Yoshijiro was so anxious. But he believed that now was an extremely rare opportunity to defeat the anti-Manchu armed forces in one fell swoop. If he missed it, he would wait until the bandit leader resumed command of the troops.
It may be difficult to find this opportunity.
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