Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Chapter 173 North China vs. Doihara

Yang Dengying was a little confused. He thought to himself, "You're Japanese. The Doihara Organization is obviously a Japanese organization just by its name. How can you expect me, a Chinese person, to lead your Japanese organization against another Japanese organization? And you're doing it so openly and confidently!"

"Why is that? The Doihara Organization—just from the name, it sounds like a Japanese organization."

"Yes, it's a Japanese organization. Doihara is nominally Aoki's senior. But he's always been at odds with Aoki, constantly spreading dirt on him behind his back. Even if Aoki doesn't fight back, he thinks Aoki is afraid of him!"

"What you need to do is to quickly build up your forces in North China. I will have Watanabe Watari give you enough manpower. You are familiar with the students who graduated from the second special class of the academy. I will send them all to you to go to North China with you. Funds will be provided in full."

"I only have one request: whatever the Doihara Organization does, you must disrupt and sabotage it, and help Aoki defeat him! Please."
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In July, the situation across the country, from south to north, had deteriorated rapidly. However, Chiang Kai-shek did not think about resolving the issue of the Provisional Government in Guangzhou in the south as soon as possible. Instead, he stubbornly continued to deploy troops to "suppress the Communists."

Bald Head mobilized 30 troops, including 10 elite Central Army soldiers, and headed straight for Jiangxi, intending to quickly resolve the "major threat" and then "take advantage of the situation" to deal with the problem in Guangzhou.

Unfortunately, he thought too simply.
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In the north, Shi Yousan of Hebei officially issued a telegram in mid-July denouncing Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xiaoliu, and marched northward.

Shi Yousan only had 60,000 troops. His first defection was influenced by many factors, the most important of which was the “absolutely certain” news from the Japanese that Zhang Xiaoliu was “seriously ill and possibly incurable.”

If a person develops a pustule, and an examination reveals a tendency to develop into a carbuncle, Traditional Chinese Medicine might consider addressing the underlying cause and gradually reducing the risk of the pustule turning into a carbuncle over a longer period.

However, in Western medicine, Chen Jiehua's idea was to directly cut open the wound to drain the pus, and then treat it with some anti-inflammatory drugs.

Shi Yousan is the one with the "pus head." The original history of this place is not well recorded or disseminated here. Chen Jiehua did not learn about it and is not sure if this pus head had burst.

Therefore, Chen Jiehua could only analyze the situation based on his own abilities. This abscess was both a focal point and a breakthrough.

Assuming we let him explode in September, what if the bald guy is defeated by the Central Soviet Area by then? Of course, defeat is inevitable; it just depends on the extent of the defeat.

At that time, the Guangzhou Provisional Government seized the opportunity to send troops north, and with Yan Xishan in Shanxi and Han Fuqu in Shandong joining forces, the whole of China would be in chaos. By September, the Japanese Kwantung Army would launch an attack in Northeast China, and they would truly be lawless.

Therefore, Chen Jiehua sent a telegram to his senior sister, Sakanishi Keiko, in the name of his junior brother, reminding her to pay attention to the news of Zhang Xiaoliu's serious illness and to encourage Shi Yousan to launch the operation ahead of schedule.

By starting early, Keiko Sakanishi is the knife that cuts open the pustules, and Zhang Xiaoliu's prepared trap is the anti-inflammatory medicine.

In less than a month, Shi Yousan's 60,000 "inflammations" were completely eradicated, and the crisis in North China also disappeared without a trace.
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Yang Dengying accepted the mission and, under the protection of a small group of agents from the East Asia Tongwen Academy, arrived in Beiping to establish the Beiping "Qingmu Agency".

In Chen Jiehua's plan, Yang Dengying and Jirei formed a dual-line network of agents in North China, one visible and one hidden. Yang Dengying's mission was clearly defined: to oppose the Doihara Organization. Yang Dengying would undoubtedly have doubts and, at the appropriate time, would try to contact his section chief for clarification. His section chief would certainly support him, telling him to follow Aoki's instructions, not to harm his fellow countrymen, not to disrupt the organization's intelligence network, and that opposing the Doihara Organization was perfectly acceptable.

In Japan, things are easy to explain in the end. Who came first and who came last? Who can really say for sure? Everyone has their own version of events.

However, it is an indisputable fact that Kenji Doihara started the trouble first. Aoki is young and willful, so what can you do about it? Doihara has a background in the army, and Aoki has a background in the navy as well. It is in line with the national conditions of Japan for the navy and the army to oppose each other.

The key point is that there was also the Bansai Mansion in Beiping. Aoki did not oppose the Bansai Mansion, and the Bansai Mansion can testify to this.

Therefore, after much thought, Chen Jiehua concluded that this job could be done openly and blatantly, but only Yang Dengying could do this dirty work, and his identity and background could withstand investigation by the Japanese headquarters.

Yang Dengying was born for this job. On his first day in Beiping, he seized the opportunity and found a breakthrough in Shi Yousan, achieving three goals at once: cooperating with the Banxi Mansion to complete Shi Yousan's work, fulfilling Chen Jiehua's request to "explode the pustules", and making the Doihara Agency suffer in silence, ending up with nothing.

The second showdown between the "Aoki Agency" and the "Doihara Agency" in Beiping came just as quickly, with both sides exchanging blows and fighting fiercely over the Yan Xishan incident in Shanxi.
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In late July, Zhu Huiwu's Qing Teng Group radio station received an unexpected secret telegram from Northeast Qing Teng Qi.

The gist of Aoto Nana's telegram was: she had already joined the Fengtian Group of the Doihara Organization, but hoped to return to the Aoto Group and secretly serve Ms. Mio and Mr. Aoki.

Along with the request to return, a secret intelligence pledge was attached: at the end of July, Doihara would secretly dispatch aircraft to escort Yan Xishan back to Shanxi from Lushun.

After receiving and translating the telegram, Zhu Huiwu, the wagtail, dared not make a decision and forwarded the telegram to Chen Jiehua.

I let you go, and now you're flirting with me? That's really strange. Chen Jiehua was a bit confused. At the time, they didn't use torture at home; they just asked a few simple questions and, after confirming that she wasn't one of Kenji Doihara's people, they let her go.

At the time, the consideration was that anyone who dared to send spies into the prince's household was definitely not a good person, so they didn't dare to kill them to silence them. After all, they already had enough enemies, and there was no need to make more.

The problem now is that he actually knows how to contact the Green Vine Group, which means she wasn't completely unaware of what was going on at home!
The second question is, why did she end up in Doihara's organization? Her identity shouldn't be a secret; Doihara could easily find out. Why wouldn't he conduct a desensitization test on the maid I, Aoki, released?
So here comes the third question: Was Aoto Nana's request to join the Aoto Group voluntary, or was it at Doihara's behest? Was it a trick?
If this is a trick, it's too crude and doesn't fit Doihara's style at all. Is this bug starting to imitate me?

If this was spontaneous and voluntary, it's still very strange. Did she suddenly have a change of heart and feel that Mio and I were good to her, so she wanted to repay us? Damn it, I'd rather believe that pigs can fly.

However, this intelligence about Yan Xishan is most likely true, as it's easy to verify. Or perhaps, this is a desensitization test for Doihara, to see if anyone will sabotage it and bring down Yan Xishan.

After all, Yan Xishan's influence in Shanxi was deeply entrenched, and neither Jiang Guangtou nor Zhang Xiaoliu wanted him to go back.

(End of this chapter)