Mr. Sato smiled and nodded to him, indicating that he was very good.
Soon, people coming to the meeting arrived one after another. There were Takahashi and Shigeru Kawahara. Both of them had participated in the previous meeting. The person who came in later was Matsui Iwane, which surprised Mr. Sato.
The impact of the Nanjing Massacre was extremely bad and affected the whole world! Even the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters could not bear it!
In March last year, Matsui Iwane and some of his important generals were recalled to the country by the Army Staff Nishi and were dismissed from their posts! Chief Matsui currently serves as a counselor of the Japanese Cabinet.
You can imagine what a boring job it is to have an army general who once commanded the "Songhu Battle" and served as the commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force as a cabinet counselor!
At this time, Mr. Matsui walked in wearing casual clothes, smiled and shook hands with Mr. Sato and others.
Mr. Sato was even more surprised by the two people who came in later. One was Major General Jianichi Tsugawa, the head of the Intelligence Department of the Army General Staff Headquarters, and the other one turned out to be Major General Taichi Fujii, the head of the Intelligence Department of the Navy General Headquarters.
It is a very strange thing for these two people to appear anywhere at the same time! It is even impossible!
In addition, they all have "一" in their names, which is also a wonderful thing!
Although they came in at the same time, they shook hands with the people in the conference room separately and then sat down on both sides of the conference table.
Mr. Sato had to restrain the evil thoughts in his heart, showed a respectful smile on his face, and shook hands with Minister Taichi Fujii!
The last person to come in surprised Mr. Sato even more! He turned out to be Army General Hisao Nishio, the Commander-in-Chief of the China Expeditionary Force and Commander of the Thirteenth Army!
Takahashi whispered in Mr. Sato's ear: "Commander Nishio just took office at the beginning of this month."
13-9
After Commander Nishio shook hands with everyone present and exchanged greetings, the meeting began.
There was only one topic in this meeting, which was the implementation and implementation of the "Barrel Plan". The meeting was chaired by Minister Jinchuan of the Army.
Since Commander-in-Chief Nishio had just taken office and did not know the details of the "Barrel Plan", Takahashi first introduced the original intention and implementation status of the "Barrel Plan" to Commander Nishio.
Generally speaking, the "Barrel Plan" is divided into three steps.
In the first step, thanks to the joint efforts of Takahashi and Sato, they succeeded, prompting Wang Jingwei and others to defect!
Takahashi's introduction to the second step showed an obvious tone of regret.
The result of this step was that the military commanders sent out their best killers, and their actions were extremely accurate. However, during the assassination process, a little accident occurred that no one could have imagined. On the night of March 20, Wang Jingwei accidentally met Zeng Zhongming.
I changed rooms and escaped the disaster!
Mr. Sato was shocked when he heard this! Takahashi didn't report the real situation to his superiors! Why!
Next, following Takahashi's prompts, Mr. Sato will report on the implementation of the third step of the "Barrel Plan"!
Mr. Sato had to restrain the doubts in his heart that gradually turned into anger, and briefly and clearly introduced the implementation of the third step in Chongqing.
He explained from Yang Shangzhou, the commander of the 26th Army, to Chu Dongping, the first director of the Military Commission Secretariat, to the "Sichuan Army Rectification Plan" in Chu Dongping's diary! Finally, he said that the situation at that time had developed to this point.
, as long as a small spark is wiped out, it will trigger a civil war! However, the success fell short! Chiang finally adopted a soft policy towards the powerful warlords in various places!
Afterwards, he briefly introduced various orders issued by the Chinese Military Command.
"All orders are to calm the doubts of China's local army! Therefore, they failed to trigger a civil war!"
After his introduction, the officers present began to discuss. They all regretted that such a precise operation did not succeed.
At this time, Mr. Sato folded his hands and placed them on the table, looking down at the notebook in front of him.
But in his heart, the anger was about to explode!
There are only three steps in the "Barrel Plan". The first step was implemented by Takahashi and Sato, and it was successful! The second step, Takahashi was in charge, failed only because of a small accident! The third step, Sato was in charge, but failed completely!
Mr. Sato thought again in his mind, what does this bastard Takahashi mean? Do I want to tell the truth? The navy and the army have no friendship in the first place! What's the big deal if I attack that bastard again!
He slowly raised his head and raised his cold eyes, only to see Takahashi staring at him and shaking his head slightly, as if he had guessed what he was thinking!
Sato hesitated for a moment and decided to wait and see!
13-10
After Mr. Sato’s introduction, Minister Fujii of the Navy suddenly said: “What’s going on? The ‘Barrel Project’ is just over! Is that so?”
Everyone in the conference room looked at him, seeming to guess what he meant.
Fujii continued: "What is the core goal of the 'Barrel Project'! What is it! Don't you understand! It's that hoop! Let's break that hoop! It's broken! We will succeed!"
Army Chief Jinchuan stared at him, "What else can we do?"
Fujii said loudly: "Let's aim at the hoop and hit it again! Until it breaks! Isn't it the same!"
Mr. Sato remained calm, only squinting at his immediate boss from the corner of his eyes! He felt contempt in his heart to the extreme! The "Barrel Plan" has failed! If it fails, you must admit it!
Couldn't stupid Fujii see that those military orders issued by Chiang showed that he had seen everything clearly! They must have been prepared! Continuing to dwell on this matter will only cause greater losses! Sacrifice those excellent agents in this operation
, is stupid! It is unforgivable stupidity!
But Fujii continued: "What do you think? We don't need to use any twists and turns! Take direct action and break the hoop! Isn't it more direct? I think it is more effective!"
Army Minister Jinchuan stared at him calmly for a moment, then said softly: "I don't have any objections. I don't know what the senior officers think."
Everyone in the conference room looked back at Commander-in-Chief Nishio.
Unexpectedly, Commander-in-Chief Nishio was a very shrewd commander. He pointed at Takahashi and Sato and said: "You two are specifically responsible for this plan! Are you not? So, what are your opinions? Say it directly!"
Sato suppressed the anger in his heart, slowly turned around and stared at Takahashi on the other side of the table!
Takahashi also looked at him. Takahashi's eyes were calm, even cold! But there was a smile on his cold face, and he even nodded to Mr. Sato, as if there was some tacit understanding between them.
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Mr. Sato instantly understood that everything in front of him was a trick played by Takahashi!
Fujii is an idiot! Incompetent and ignorant! The suggestions he made were actually the ideas given to him by Takahashi!
Last night, Takahashi introduced the process of the failed assassination attempt in Kawachi in such detail just to arouse my anger! Let me comply with Minister Fujii’s suggestion!
After all, the "Barrel Plan" was formulated by Takahashi! The failure of the "Barrel Plan" is his failure!
For the sake of his future career, he wants to tie me into this last crazy action! He also hopes that the "Barrel Plan" will achieve final success! This is his purpose!
However, I cannot object! How could I object to the suggestion made by idiot Fujii! He is my immediate superior! How could I object in front of these superiors! Whoever objects will not end well!
After thinking about all this, Mr. Sato said softly and gently: "Takahashi-kun, I want to hear your opinion."
Takahashi seemed to be waiting for him to ask! He smiled and said, "I agree. But the premise is that a feasible plan can be formulated!"
Mr. Sato has reached this point and has no way out!
He said softly: "Very good, I have the same idea! The premise is that there is a reliable and feasible plan!"
13-11
At almost twelve o'clock at noon, a young officer came in and invited the officers to eat in the restaurant downstairs.
Mr. Sato and Takahashi both stood up and respectfully waited for the superiors to go out first. They finally walked out of the conference room.
Takahashi asked Mr. Sato to go out first, and at the same time said: "Sato-kun, please take a step to speak."
They walked forward one after another, but did not go downstairs. Instead, they turned around the corner and continued up the stairs. They exited a small door and reached the top of the building.
13-12
The wind was strong on the roof, but it was not cool. The sun was particularly bright, hanging above their heads like a fireball.
Takahashi found a narrow shady spot behind the door, then looked back at Mr. Sato.
"Mr. Sato, thank you for supporting me!" Takahashi said with a smile.
"Can't you just tell me what you have in mind? You have to do these little tricks!" Mr. Sato glared at him.
"I can tell you directly. But how can I tell the officer directly!"
"What do you mean!"
"I don't know what Minister Fujii thinks! Yesterday morning, I visited him so respectfully. I didn't tell him my thoughts until I was happy chatting with him! I don't want to hit a wall, and I don't want you to run into a wall either! I'm sorry, sir.
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"Besides these, is there anything else you can tell me? What else are you hiding from me?"
"Sir, please listen to me. We still have one last chance! That's what Minister Fujii said! If we have one last attack, maybe we will succeed!"
"The success you are talking about may be just a bottomless pit! All our best agents will be buried in it!"
"You're right! It's possible! But I want to tell you one last thing!"
"What's up!"
"Ishida, you know."
"I know! He is very proud!"
"All capable people are arrogant! Take Mr. Sato for example! Do you dare to say that you are not arrogant?"
"Let's get down to business!"
"I have been in close contact with Ishida! Ishida got a piece of news from Bai Chongxin about Zhao Shifu's loss of a large amount of funds! Sir, this is a surprising situation! Bai Chongxin firmly believes that the funds were stolen by Chen Zifeng and his gang
Taken away! And handed it over to Zhai Zhenchuan! Therefore, Ishida and I took some measures. To put it bluntly, we prompted their Military Justice Department to investigate Chen Zifeng and those people! It was not an ordinary investigation! In legal terms, it was a lawsuit.