Lu Ming immediately ordered an alert to be sent to all agents, using various contact methods of course, some directly using the radio, some requiring sending letters, and some requiring other methods.
For example, using people to send messages, or marking specific symbols in specific places, etc.
The contact information of each agent was agreed upon in advance, and some agents changed their contact information based on the actual situation after entering the destination. Anyway, all available methods were used.
Lu Ming requires all agents to send back their own safety signals according to their level, whether they are absolutely safe, sub-safe, or in a dangerous state.
In the next week, Lu Ming spent the whole time in fear. Every time he received a safety signal from an agent, he felt relieved.
A week later, more than a dozen agents still failed to send back their safety signals on time.
Lu Ming felt a little panicked. He only sent more than fifty agents to Japan. If something happened to all these ten agents, that would be one fifth.
"Sir, they may not be able to send the safety signal on time due to other reasons. It may not be an accident." Liu Qiwen comforted Lu Ming.
"I know, but with so many people unable to send back safety signals on time, something must have happened to someone among them." Lu Ming was so anxious that his hands were sweating.
Another day later, Agent No. 46 sent back a telegram, saying that Agent No. 49 Ye Yiming suspected of discovering the whereabouts of Du Juan. He risked his own life to send the telegram despite being under the surveillance of the Metropolitan Police, and was arrested.
Agent No. 46 explained that he did not know whether the intelligence discovered by Agent No. 49 was true or false and could not confirm it.
"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, is there really any result?" Huang Yanning picked at the words of the telegram, but still couldn't believe that there was really something happening.
After learning that Du Juan had been kidnapped and might be transferred to Japan, almost all the agents received secret investigation instructions from Lu Ming, asking them to do their best to find Du Juan's whereabouts, but there has been no progress.
"Is it true that Du Juan was hidden somewhere in Tokyo?" Huang Yanning guessed.
Agent No. 49 has been operating in Tokyo, but he is not the group that cooperates with the Kenta family.
There are only five people working with the Qiantian family, forming a team. The other agents are all under the command of the Intelligence Department, that is, Lu Ming himself.
There is no superior-subordinate relationship among the agents in Tokyo, and there is little horizontal communication. They are all loners.
"Not necessarily, I think it is unlikely that he will be hidden in Tokyo." Lu Ming shook his head.
"Anyway, there is a breakthrough, so we will let No. 46 continue the investigation." Huang Yanning said excitedly.
"Forget it, don't let them continue the investigation. You can't endanger the safety of the agents because of personal matters. Let's consider this matter in the long run." Lu Ming said.
"Master Lu, Miss Du Juan is a Chinese citizen and was kidnapped by the Japanese. Her matter is our matter and the country's matter. How can it be said to be your personal matter?" Huang Yanning retorted.
"That's right, Du Juan is not your family member. Her identity is the same as ours, both Chinese. When you negotiated with the Japanese Embassy in China, didn't you also say that the Chinese citizen Du Juan was kidnapped...
..." Liu Qiwen immediately stood on Huang Yanning's side and criticized Lu Ming.
Lu Ming smiled helplessly. He also agreed with Huang Yanning's statement. Although Liu Qiwen's sentence "not your family member" was full of resentment, it was also true.
However, Lu Ming still felt a little unexplainable guilt in his heart.
After thinking for a while, Lu Ming personally drafted a telegram and sent it to Agent 46.
The full text is as follows: Please be sure to carry out activities under the premise of ensuring your own safety. If you find any danger, stop the activity immediately and remember to take care.
Lu Ming accepted Huang Yanning's suggestion that he should still investigate but stop all risky actions.
Subsequently, Huang Yanning followed Lu Ming's instructions and sent information to other agents through various channels.
Lu Ming also figured it out. This matter is actually not complicated. As long as the whereabouts of Du Juan are found, the future problems will be solved.
If Du Juan is really in Japan, Lu Ming believes that Sheng Youde must have a way to rescue her, because Du Juan is just a substitute and there is not much value in staying in Japan.
A week later, the entire process of the Tokyo Mutiny in Japan finally had a complete picture. After comparing all aspects of the intelligence, Lu Ming came up with a complete puzzle.
He originally thought that the Japanese army did not have enough control over the army, which was certainly one of the main reasons. However, after he figured out the entire incident, he couldn't help but be surprised by the strong combat effectiveness of the First Division.
A team of only 1,500 people not only assassinated high-ranking officials including two former prime ministers and the emperor's chief of bodyguards in one morning, but also occupied the Ministry of War, General Staff Headquarters, and the Metropolitan Police Department building.
This was not over yet. They then surrounded the official residence of the Minister of War and occupied a hotel as a temporary headquarters. The only thing they failed to accomplish was to occupy the palace.
Lu Ming felt that this was because the rebels did not regard the palace as their primary target. If the rebels launched an attack on the palace as soon as possible, they would probably succeed.
Japan's Imperialism education is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Those soldiers are loyal to the Emperor from the bottom of their hearts. If they are asked to attack the Imperial Palace, they may not be willing to obey the order, and there may be internal divisions as a result.
In the evening, Lu Ming invited the bearded Peter and Andre to dinner, mainly because he wanted to discuss with them what impact the Japanese mutiny would have on international affairs.
Although he was very familiar with these experts from the secret service school, the only two people he could consider as friends were Peter and Andre.
"What do you think of this Japanese First Division mutiny? Have you studied it carefully?" Lu Ming asked these two people after sitting down in a Moscow restaurant.
"What's good to study here is that we don't have enough control over the grassroots troops, especially the lack of understanding of the ideological state of the grassroots officers and soldiers. This kind of thing will not happen in our Red Army. Once any unstable state occurs, we will take it.
If you strangle it in the cradle, you can't let it grow." Andre said with a smile.
His smile did not hide his contempt for the Japanese army.
"In fact, this danger also existed in the army of the Republic of China. The senior generals did not understand the middle level, and the middle level did not understand the bottom level. They just drove the soldiers to fight, but did not pay attention to their ideological trends and did not provide ideological education. In the end, this evil result would be born."
Peter said.
Lu Ming nodded repeatedly, thinking that Peter's words were very reasonable. When he opened the secret service school, he paid great attention to the students' ideological condition and did not dare to be careless at all.
"On the contrary, the approach of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Communist Party of China is effective. They have carried out ideological and political work directly to the class level and set up party organizations at the company level. They have done it more thoroughly than our Soviet Red Army." Andrei said.
Lu Ming was a little confused. He really didn't know much about the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, not as much as he knew about the Soviet Red Army.
"You two have digressed. I just want to hear your opinions on whether this mutiny will have any impact on the future movements of the Japanese army, and if so, what kind of changes it will be." Lu Ming brought the topic back.
"You still can't tell it now. In fact, mutiny is a normal thing. During our civil war, mutiny was a common occurrence. Some troops were white troops in the morning and red troops in the evening, and vice versa." Peter laughed.
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"You are talking about that special period, but since Japan established a new army during the Meiji Restoration, such a large-scale mutiny has never happened. This will definitely affect the morale of the military." Lu Ming said.
"Lu, what are you worried about?" Peter asked.
"I am indeed a little worried that this mutiny by the Japanese army will trigger risky actions by young soldiers from the middle and lower classes. Aren't you worried that the Kwantung Army will take risky actions and launch a sudden attack on the Far East of the Soviet Union?" Lu Ming asked
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"If they want to do this, we welcome them. Our Far East Military Region has been well prepared for a long time. If they dare to risk launching an attack, we will let them understand what it means to attack a stone with an egg." Andre said with a smile.
Lu Ming smiled bitterly. This may be the confidence of a powerful military country.
At least China does not have the confidence to wait for the Japanese army to attack, and of course it does not have the ability to take the initiative to launch an attack, so it may have a fear of the Japanese army.
The reason why the Soviet Union has this confidence is that, first, it is a strong national power, and its comprehensive national strength far exceeds that of Japan. Second, it surpasses Japan in strategic depth and depth. The two countries are not at the same level at all.
Japan has a small territory and few resources, while the Soviet Union has a vast territory and abundant resources.
Although Tsarist Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, there were many reasons for this. Japan devoted all its national strength and risked its national destiny to fight the war, and only won the war with the secret help of the British and Chinese governments.
For Tsarist Russia, it was just a regional dispute, and the failure of the Russo-Japanese War only caused them to lose their interests in Northeast China.
Although the defeat of the Russo-Japanese War was not a small loss for Russia, at least they could afford this loss.
If Japan loses the war, it may be the pain of national subjugation.
From that time on, Japan and Russia became mortal enemies. During World War I, the Japanese army took advantage of the civil war in the Soviet Union and sent two divisions to occupy part of Siberia.
As a result, the Japanese army had to withdraw from the Far East in disgrace due to the prevalence of the disease.
In terms of national strategy, the Soviet Union has always regarded Japan as the main threat in the Far East, so it also attaches great importance to it and stationed heavy troops in the Far East to prepare for it.
But from a tactical level, the Soviet army looked down upon the Japanese army at all.
This is also easy to understand. In terms of military construction and equipment, the Soviet army was striding ahead of the Japanese army. Whether it was individual equipment or tanks and artillery, the Soviet army was more than one level stronger than the Japanese army.
The Japanese army is basically still at the level of the First World War. This is also the consequence that Japan has to bear as it fully develops its navy.
But the strange thing is that the Japanese Army is very proud of its individual combat capabilities and the power of active attack. It believes that as long as its fighting will is strong enough, it can defeat enemies with superior equipment with inferior equipment.