"The information Colonel Ono revealed to you is the Eleventh Army's logistics plan. Whether his prediction of the battle is accurate still needs to be verified by Army intelligence."
"Compared with the ongoing battlefield in Henan Province, the upcoming battlefield in Central China is more critical. This is a battle that threatens the rear. Boss Dai has already generated power twice in a row and requires you and the direct station to go all out to collect relevant intelligence."
"In view of the fact that the First Theater Command did not listen to the intelligence from the directly affiliated station, causing it to fall into a passive position, Commander Xue of the Ninth Theater Command continuously sent messages to the headquarters to inquire about the collected Japanese military movements. The Military Commission also asked Boss Dai to sort out the information every day.
Make a special report on the information." Wang Zhen said.
Was the defeat in the first theater really caused by intelligence misjudgment?
Wrong, of course the answer is no. The key is that the theater headquarters has no determination to fight to the death with the enemy. The large Japanese army is squatting in front of Shangdu Gate, with a division and a brigade on the side. Under such circumstances, they are still shouting:
Why is Meng Jin so anxious? Isn’t this nonsense?
However, the accuracy of the intelligence from the Military Command Bureau was valued by the commanders of all theaters. The performance of the Military Intelligence Department under the First Theater Command was so poor that these theater bosses no longer dared to believe that their intelligence personnel were still from the Military Command Bureau.
The agents are more professional and they are now cooperating with the US Navy!
What Boss Dai likes to see the most is that the Military Command Bureau is valued by the military. This makes it much smoother for the Military Command Bureau to insert their eyes and ears into the army. It also fulfills the old man's instructions that the military is the main foundation for maintaining the mountain city government.
"I know that this matter is of great importance and must be treated with caution. This is how intelligence work is, but I can tell that the Navy is frustrated now. Coupled with my long-standing relationship with them, I have no regard for the so-called principle of intelligence confidentiality.
I have selectively forgotten it.”
"What Colonel Ono said is quite credible. The logistics transportation plan is the most critical part of a battle. Since he said the deadline is May 23, it can basically be determined that this is a long time before the attack.
The day is approaching."
"I will check with the Army for confirmation. This time I have established a relationship with the two division commanders. When the time is right, I will go for a walk. I believe there will be good results." Chen Mingxiang said.
He "gifted" a batch of cigarettes and cane sugar to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Divisions under the Thirteenth Army. This incident would naturally be thanked by the division commander. In a period when supplies were scarce, Chen Mingxiang
His actions were nothing less than providing help in times of need, and his conversation was naturally much more intimate.
The Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Expeditionary Force, the Shanghai Army Minister and the Secret Service Chief of the Thirteenth Army, Major General Yoshitaro Kawamoto, gave even more information.
This time it was not Chen Mingxiang who took the initiative to ask him to meet, but he took the initiative to invite Chen Mingxiang to dinner. He was accompanied by a Japanese lieutenant general, the division commander of the Japanese 70th Division stationed in Hangzhou, Uchida Takayuki, and his chief of staff.
Army Colonel Nakagawa Shunji.
"Chen Jun, this time the Sixty-fourth Division and the Sixty-fifth Division of our Thirteenth Army each transferred a brigade to Anhui Province to participate in military operations. You gave a batch of condolences and got the imperial army
The officers and soldiers spoke highly of it, and cigarettes and cane sugar are all supplies that are in short supply right now."
"General Uchida came to the Shanghai headquarters this time to coordinate the transportation of combat supplies. He specifically asked Chen Jun to support the 70th Division with a batch of cigarettes and cane sugar. I also find it difficult to say it, but General Uchida will soon go to the front line to fight.
Well, as the deputy chief of staff and the Shanghai Army Minister, I can only ask my brother to come over and have a chat, and support me if I can."
"Of course, I won't let my old friend of the empire pay in vain. After all, you have been serving the imperial army. I will specifically order the China Reserve Bank to allocate special funds to you for this supply. Minister Zhou will come to Shanghai in a few days.
I'll leave it to him to handle it," Kawamoto Yoshitaro said.
Cigarettes and cane sugar are the most urgently needed items for the Japanese army. Currently, most of the combat troops have stopped supplying them. The inferior cigarettes distributed by Japan are not used to smoking by the Japanese army themselves, and they cannot be compared with the cigarettes from Chen Mingxiang Tobacco Factory.
, the taste is too bad, bitter and astringent, and it really chokes the eyes.
As for cane sugar, it was of a relatively high grade and was given priority by Japanese military officers. Moreover, the raw material for cane sugar in central China could not be transported from Southeast Asia, and the southwest was often out of stock, resulting in higher and higher costs.
Although these two items are not considered combat supplies, they are very important necessities. Cigarettes can refresh you, and sucrose can replenish energy for the human body.
But to Chen Mingxiang, this matter is just some cigarettes and cane sugar. The cigarettes are produced by his own cigarette factory, and the cane sugar is sent by the bureau headquarters. He doesn't care about these. What he cares about is that the 70th Division
When did the regiment's military operations begin and how large was it?
"My tobacco factory basically gets tobacco leaves from Xuchang. All generals should know that, but Xuchang is at war now. There is a problem with the supply of tobacco leaves. If I want to meet the needs of the 70th Division, I have to intercept the tobacco leaves.
Goods from North China and outside the customs."
"General Uchida, may I ask where your division will set off from this time, how many people there will be, and when will it arrive at the latest?" Chen Mingxiang said.
Of course Uchida Takayuki knew that Xuchang was fighting. The Japanese troops in the North China Front's Twelfth Army's combat sequence chased the troops of the Yamacheng Government's First Theater Command everywhere. They claimed to conquer a city in one day. Although Xuchang had not been captured yet, the main force had already
After advancing to the vicinity of Xuchang, the war started in just two days.
"This time to assist the Eleventh Army in combat, the Thirteenth Army Headquarters will mobilize four brigades from the 62nd Brigade, two brigades from the 61st Brigade, and the 60th Division's 60th Division stationed in Suzhou.
The Sixty-fifth Brigade will allocate two brigades, plus engineers, baggage and artillery, etc., and you will prepare according to the number of 10,000 people."
"As for time, there is still plenty of time. Just send it to Jinhua before June 5th. More than a month of preparation should be enough. We are going to attack Quzhou this time. In fact, we are not stationed there permanently. From now on, our division's life will be
We need to ask Chen Jun for more supplies." Uchida Takayuki said.
It's not that he doesn't have a confidentiality policy, but Chen Mingxiang's identity is here, and Youtaro Kawamoto introduced him, so it's more casual.
"I tried every means to send 100,000 packs of cigarettes to the 70th Division. According to the standard of 2 taels per person, I gave a ton of sucrose. In addition, I gave the division headquarters a box of high-quality cigarettes, 100 kilograms of high-grade fine sucrose, and another
One hundred catties of Biluochun tea, it's not that I don't want to give it, but the production of cigarettes is limited, so I will give more in the future."
"In addition, I also have to make a request. I need the headquarters to provide some gasoline. Transportation of the fleet is a troublesome. Without oil, it is just scrap metal." Chen Mingxiang said.
