Indeed, this has always been a strange thing for Iwabuchi three times.

He and Seijiro enlisted in the army at the same time.

It stands to reason that not only does the navy pay far better than the army, but promotions are also relatively faster.

In addition, Seijiro was born in a prestigious school and is brave and resourceful. How come he is still just a left-of-centre person?

He is already a major general.

"You want to know why?"

However, Seijiro didn't feel anything about his slow promotion. Instead, he said with a smile: "Originally, I could have been promoted to the left a few years ago.

Well, by now, I should be like you and be a shining general, but my career was all ruined in Shanghai."

"Shanghai?"

Iwabuchi frowned three times.

Yes, although he and Seijiro haven't seen each other for so many years, they usually exchange letters.

He knew that Seijiro had stayed in Shanghai for a long time and was engaged in naval intelligence work.

Before the Battle of Shanghai broke out, Seijiro's letters were always high-spirited and full of fighting spirit.

However, I don’t know since when, his letters became less and less.

Even when I wrote a letter to myself, I just briefly talked about my life and didn't talk about other things.

"Before the war broke out, I had been engaged in intelligence work in Shanghai." Seijiro said slowly: "Have you heard of the Three Imperial Tigers who were famous in Shanghai at that time?"

Iwabuchi nodded three times: "Chiyuki Akagi from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nitsugi Matsumoto from the Army, and Michio Tanishigehara from our Navy!"

"Yes, the three tigers of the empire were so prosperous back then, but now they are all dead." Seijiro smiled bitterly: "And at that time, I was working under Tanishihara Michio Daizuo. Do you know how Tanishihara Daizuo died?

"

"I seem to have heard about it." Iwabuchi hesitated three times: "I heard that his son died in the battle in Xuzhou. Gu Fan had mental problems and eventually shot his colleagues and committed suicide."

"Mental problem? Shoot your colleagues?" Seijiro sighed: "This is a rhetoric to the outside world, to cover up the scandal within the Navy. Do you know who the so-called colleagues are? That is the captain of the Imperial Scientific Research Team and a chemical weapons expert Qiao

This belongs to me.

At that time, the "sneeze agent" researched by Hashimoto and I had reached a critical stage and was originally planned to be used in the Battle of Changsha. However, when Hashimoto and I died, the entire research on sneeze agents came to a standstill.

Two years, we wasted a full two years, otherwise, the imperial army would not have suffered such heavy casualties in Changsha, and even fought several times without defeat!"

Iwabuchi was shocked for the third time: "Isn't Tanishige crazy, but Hashimoto who deliberately assassinated Hashimoto? He, he is?"

"Gu Fan, it is very likely that he is a Chinese spy."

When Narijiro said these words, Iwabuchi was shocked for the third time and couldn't believe what he heard!

How could a navy chief, an intelligence elite of the empire, be a Chinese spy?

This is really a huge scandal!

"Whether Gu Fan was instigated to rebel after arriving in Shanghai or was a Chinese spy before, we had no idea at the time."

Seijiro continued: "We fabricated the cause of Tanishige's death externally, and also launched a secret investigation internally. As a result, we found some clues that the Chinese may have planted a spy network in the empire a long time ago.

But we knew nothing about this spy network. Unfortunately, because I was also working under Gu Fan at the time and participated in many important operations he formulated, I was also implicated.

I have been secretly investigated for half a year, Mr. Jumen, do you still remember that I seemed to have disappeared during that half a year?"

Iwabuchi nodded three times: "Yes, I have never been able to contact you. I thought you were on some secret mission."

"I was under investigation for a full half a year." Seijiro said with a bitter look on his face: "Not only me, but everyone around Tanishige was also implicated. I was released after half a year.

Although I was released, the suspicion on me was still not cleared. After that, I began to be responsible for some clerical work, and my path to promotion was blocked.

After Pearl Harbor, the Empire was in urgent need of manpower, so I had the opportunity to return to the army. But my luck was really bad. Soon after I returned to the combat unit, the Imperial Navy suffered a series of setbacks!"

Iwabuchi finally figured out the reason three times.

"Compared to my colleagues, I am relatively lucky. At least I can still stay in the army."

Seijiro drank the wine in the glass in one gulp: "Tanishige's assistant, I'm sure he didn't know the inside story at all, but in the end, he was directly transferred back to the country because he was Tanishige's assistant.

I heard that he encountered serious unfair treatment in China, and he died in depression the year before last."

"Damn it, is there still no progress in the investigation so far?" Iwabuchi said angrily three times.

"There is no progress at all." Seijiro shook his head: "Do you remember the Three Tigers of the Empire? Their deaths are all related to one person."

"who?"

"Meng Shaoyuan!"

"Meng Shaoyuan?"

"You are a pure soldier. You may have never heard of his name, but this man is unknown to everyone in Shanghai and in the entire Japanese and Chinese intelligence community." Seijiro said word by word:

"Japan's public enemy, the most powerful agent on the surface, Meng Shaoyuan!"

He let out a long breath: "He has many nicknames, Shadow Agent, Imperial Tiger, he, the Imperial Tiger, killed three tigers with just one tiger!

Chiyuki Akagi of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was designed to be killed by him. Nitsugi Matsumoto of the Ministry of War, and his granddaughter Manoko actually became Meng Shaoyuan's woman. As a result, Nitsugi Matsumoto committed suicide to apologize.

As for Michio Tanishigehara? After his death, we discovered that the chemical warfare expert and Hashimoto Kazugo’s assistant Yukiu Someya also disappeared. It was only a long time later that we received information that Yukiu Someya had appeared in Chongqing!

There is no doubt that Meng Shaoyuan made the trip from Shanghai to Chongqing."

"Meng Shaoyuan!" Iwayuan read the name three times: "Can't there be so many people in the empire in Shanghai that they can't deal with him alone?"

"We can't deal with it, there is absolutely no way." Seijiro said in frustration: "Even after we entered the public concession, Meng Shaoyuan still existed like a demon.

There were several opportunities to catch him, but he escaped calmly several times. In the imperial intelligence community, there is a saying, 'If there is really a way to kill Meng Shaoyuan in this world, what is this way?'

"

This statement sounds ridiculous, but it expresses the helplessness of Japanese intelligence personnel.

"This is the nightmare of all our intelligence officers, even though I am no longer engaged in intelligence work." Seijiro laughed at himself:
Chapter completed!