Kenji Doihara is a famous Chinese expert in the Japanese spy system. Since he came to China in the year of the Republic of China, he has been in China for 25 years. He can not only speak fluent Mandarin, but also speak several dialects such as Shandong and Shanxi. Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he even had the reputation of being generous and righteous in China.

When talking about Kenji Doihara, the first reaction of the Chinese people was the spy leader, but they didn't know that this old devil was actually a member of the "Glory 16th Period". He and the notorious Okamura Yasuji and Seishiro Sakagaki were both classmates of Lu Shi's same period. By the way, Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan was actually also Kenji Doihara.

Kenji Dohirahara's second division was in Sakashiri Rihararo, and he was indeed notorious in the intelligence industry, but because he was too outstanding in intelligence work and because he spent too long in China, his military promotion was affected. Ten years after graduating from the Mainland University, Okamura, Sakagaki and others became colonels one after another, but Dohirahara was always in the prime minister.

When Okamura Yasuji became famous among the encirclement and suppression of the Northeast Volunteers, when Seishiro Sakagaki led the Liutiao Lake incident, and when other Lu Shi and Lu Da classmates all emerged in the military, Kenji Doihara stayed in the Sakagi Mansion as his adjutant, because of the special nature of intelligence work, he always seemed to be unknown.

Kenji Doihara was assured on the surface, but in fact he was holding his breath in his heart. He never thought he was worse than Seishiro Sakagaki and Neji Okamura. The full outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War gave Kenji Doihara the opportunity to prove himself. The 14th Division landed in Tanggu and advanced rapidly, conquering Baoding, Zhengding, Shimen, Xingtai, Handan, Cixian and other places, and was advocated by Japanese media as a star on the battlefield in North China.

However, compared with Seishiro Sakagaki who had the same record in the Battle of Xinkou, Kenji Dohihara's record was still much inferior. Therefore, this time, when Kenji Dohihara got the top secret information about the Kuomintang army stocking up a large amount of war materials in Shangqiu from the General Staff of the Lth Army, he ordered the 14th Division to go south from Heze and go straight to Lanfeng without hesitation.

Kenji Doihara doesn't want to lose to Seishiro Sakagaki. He also wants to achieve a magical record in the eastern Henan battlefield. Didn't you, Seishiro Sakagaki, defeat the Central Army and the 30th division of the Jinsui Army with half a division? Then Kenji Doihara, relying on one division to directly destroy the war potential of the national army and clear the obstacles for the next battle in Wuhan.

A few days ago, before the 74th Army launched an attack on the Japanese army in Fengxian County, an infantry corps of the 14th Division had actually reached the old Kaocheng. One of the cavalry squadrons even approached the vicinity of Lanfeng and fought a battle with the Longmuhan DR Division stationed in Lanfeng. As a result, a squadron defeated a regiment of the DR Division.

It should be noted that this RR division has no longer had any relationship with the RR division that participated in the 128th Shanghai War of Resistance. Sun Yuanliang was tried and imprisoned for abandoning his army and fleeing. The army was also revoked, but the number of the RR division was not revoked, but gave it to Long Muhan's preparation.

Last time, Kenji Doihara did not act rashly because of the risk and the return. However, this time, the war materials hoarded in hundreds of cars in Shangqiu were enough for people to take risks. No one could calm down in the face of huge temptation, let alone Kenji Doihara who was eager to make contributions and to achieve a magical record?

Sano Nakayoshi hurried to Kenji Doihara with the telegram just sent from Peking, and reported: "The division commander, the secret service agency has investigated clearly. The commander of the Chinese army in eastern Henan is Xue Yue. The division commander has been in China for more than 20 years. It should be known that Xue Yue is the most powerful among the few generals in China who can fight. So is the main force of our division temporarily suspending its southward journey? At least we have to wait until the 4th Brigade arrives at the designated position before heading south."

As the chief of staff of the 14th Division, Sano Nakayoshi was right to have some concerns, because at this time the front line between the Kuomintang and the Japanese army was intertwined on the entire eastern Henan battlefield. There were Japanese troops behind the Kuomintang, and there were also national troops behind the Japanese army. Once the 14th Division went too deep, it was very likely to be surrounded by heavy troops of the Kuomintang army.

The 10th Division is not far away from the Da Pei regiment, and Sano Nakayoshi does not want the 14th Division to repeat the same mistakes.

Kenji Doihara didn't take this matter seriously, and immediately followed the topic of Sano Nakayoshi: "Xue Yue is indeed the best among the few senior Chinese generals who can fight tough battles, but compared to Zhang Zhizhong, Tang Shengzhi, Hu Zongnan, Tang Enbo, etc., he is limited in strength. He is not enough to face the Great Japanese Imperial Army."

"But the division commander, no matter what, the entire eastern Henan has assembled dozens of Chinese troops, and the dozens of elite divisions that can be fought most among the Chinese troops. Behind our division, there are two other Chinese troops. Once the main force of our division goes deeper, it is very likely to fall into a siege." Sano Nakayoshi still faithfully fulfilled the obligation of the Chief of Staff.

Kenji Doihara was a little impatient and said, "Sano Sano, as the chief of staff, it is right that you have this concern, but you have fulfilled your obligation as the chief of staff. Next, let's hand over everything to me. Why don't we make a bet? I dare to assert that as long as the Imperial Army appears under Lanfeng City, the Chinese army will flee without a fight."

Sano Nakayoshi shook his head and whispered: "The division commander is really optimistic."

"Optimistic? No." Kenji Doihara shook his head, then turned around. On the road from Haze to Lanfeng, a convoy of dozens of armored vehicles, hundreds of trucks and hundreds of mules and horses rolled in iron. He was heading south, and the smoke and dust that was rising from the road almost covered the entire sky.

Many trucks were dragging cannons of various caliber at the back. On both sides of the convoy, there were fully armed Japanese soldiers lined up in four columns and followed up. Looking at the huge convoy and the infantry queue that followed, Kenji Doihara suddenly felt a sense of heroism in his heart and said loudly, "Sano Sano, this is called self-confidence."

Gui Yongqing likes to play mahjong. He doesn't care about when or on what occasion, he must play a few laps. He woke up early that morning and Gui Yongqing's mahjong addiction was recurring. He had to pull Li Shusen and Long Muhan fight fiercely. Because of the lack of corners, he had to pull Qiu Qingquan over. Qiu Qingquan was not as good as Gui Yongqing's life and death, so he had to pull the adjutant to make up the number.

After the army was defeated in Dangshan and fled to Lanfeng, Gui Yongqing did not order the construction of fortifications. He planned to make a fuss in Lanfeng. When the time came, he led his troops to Wuhan and everything would be fine. However, Zhou Zhenqiang, deputy commander of the 46th Division, and Ma Weilong, commander of the 138th Brigade, were still very dedicated and spontaneously organized the troops to arrange two lines of defense.

Early in the morning, Ma Weilong received an urgent report from the frontline positions, saying that Kaocheng was attacked by the Japanese army, and that the Japanese army attacking Kaocheng even had 10m-caliber field howitzers. All signs indicate that the main force of the Japanese 14th Division, which appeared near Heze a few days ago, had already gone south, and it was obviously for Lanfeng.

Ma Weilong immediately reported this situation to the deputy division commander Zhou Zhenqiang. Zhou Zhenqiang hurried to the military headquarters to find Gui Yongqing to make an idea. However, when he walked into the war room, he saw Qiu Qingquan sitting there angry, and asked, "Brother Yu'an, where are our military seats?"

Qiu Qingquan slapped his mouth in the middle and said angrily: "It's really like playing mahjong inside. It's true. I didn't do anything early in the morning, but I asked someone to play mahjong. What's this called?"

Zhou Zhenqiang didn't care about angering Gui Yongqing, and immediately pushed open the closed door and walked in. Seeing Zhou Zhenqiang coming in panting, Li Shusen and Long Muhan both turned around and Gui Yongqing's adjutant stood up, because only by Zhou Zhenqiang's appearance, you knew that something big happened, and it was probably because of the little Japanese who called him.

Gui Yongqing held the card and used his right thumb to touch the card and shouted, "Don't move, don't move, I touched it myself, all of them are one dragon, haha, take the money." Gui Yongqing said while pushing down the mahjong card in front of him. It turned out that the twigs were all with one dragon, the sixteenth beard.

"Master" saw that Gui Yongqing was so unreasonable, Zhou Zhenqiang couldn't help but increase his tone and shouted, "Young Japanese have already played in the city."

"Kaocheng? Didn't the little Japanese come here a few days ago?" Gui Yongqing said and looked at Long Muhan. A cavalry squadron of the little Japanese defeated a regiment of the RR Division and did not say this. He asked Zhou Zhenqiang again, "How many troops have come this time? Is a squadron or a brigade? Is it a cavalry or an infantry?"

Zhou Zhenqiang stomped his feet and said with a wry smile: "Teacher, Heze's 14th Division has gone south."

"What did you say? Heze's 14th Division went south?" Gui Yongqing was really shocked. He jumped up from the chair and didn't care about calculating the gambling funds with Li Shusen. While taking the military cap from the adjutant and tucking it on his head, he asked Zhou Zhenqiang, "How is this possible? Is it crazy? Sun Tongxuan's army and Shang Zhen's army, but after Xiao Ri himself, are they not afraid of being intercepted in the back?"

"Brother straight, don't say these nonsense now." Qiu Qingquan followed in and said with a hunched face, "You might as well call the heads of various departments to meet and deploy the battle quickly. If it's late, you'll fight to Lanfeng." Only Qiu Qingquan dared to talk to Gui Yongqing like this. If Gui Yong turned against him early in the morning.
Chapter completed!