Chapter 81: Shocked And Boiling Shanghai
Kwantung Army, Iwane Matsui’s camp,
“Baka Yarou! What! Yoshiko Kawashima was captured by a mysterious team?”
“Are you all idiots?”
After Iwane Matsui received the news that Yoshiko Kawashima was captured by someone in the middle of the night,
he immediately became furious and roared.
He also immediately tore the telegram in his hand to shreds.
Because he couldn’t imagine that just after one night, Yoshiko Kawashima, on whom he had placed some hope, was actually captured by someone,
And what angered him the most was that Major Ryūkichi Tanaka, who was cooperating with Yoshiko Kawashima,
was actually completely unaware of this matter,
which really made him extremely furious,
So after Iwane Matsui obtained the bad news of Yoshiko Kawashima’s capture from the Special Higher Police,
he immediately angrily sent a telegram of questioning and reprimand directly to Major Ryūkichi Tanaka,
After viciously cursing Major Ryūkichi Tanaka,
Iwane Matsui also immediately went to Masao Okamura for an urgent discussion.
Because the current situation completely exceeded Iwane Matsui’s expectations.
“What do you say we should do now? Yoshiko Kawashima was actually captured by someone in the middle of the night, and even the more than ten elite agents in her villa were all dealt with by someone!”
“This matter is very wrong!”
“Could it be that the mastermind behind this counterattack against all our planned operations is really National Revolutionary Army troops?”
“Otherwise, ordinary forces would never dare to be so blatant here in Shanghai, dealing with our agents and capturing Yoshiko Kawashima from the villa!”
“But if it was the Chinese Army that acted, then they will bear the consequences of our fury!”
As soon as Iwane Matsui arrived at Masao Okamura’s place,
he immediately spoke incessantly in a bad mood.
“It shouldn’t be the Chinese Army that acted, they don’t have the guts!”
“And most importantly, they don’t want to go to war with us now, because they need a period of peace to develop their army strength, so their leader absolutely won’t allow them to conflict and go to war with us so easily!”
“Otherwise, I would be delighted to see the Chinese Army act to deal with our action teams, wouldn’t that play right into our strategy? I would be more than happy!”
“But with the Chinese Army’s cowardly character, they absolutely won’t risk starting a war to do the stupid thing of capturing Yoshiko Kawashima and killing our agents!”
“We all know the Chinese Army’s character well, Mr. Matsui, don’t let anger disturb your thinking!”
“This matter is obviously not done by those Chinese Army, I think it’s definitely someone else operating behind the scenes, wanting to carry out some unknown conspiracy!”
“But no matter what these Chinese people are up to, we must destroy all their plans!”
“And we can also use this incident to ignite the war we want to provoke!”
“Since they captured our Yoshiko Kawashima and killed more than ten agents around her, then use this matter to expand the incident and ignite the war we’ve always wanted!”
“In other words, we can actually turn Yoshiko Kawashima’s capture into the good thing we want, isn’t that right? Mr. Matsui?”
In complete contrast to Iwane Matsui’s furious mood, Masao Okamura was in a very good mood and proposed with a smile.
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Iwane Matsui.
Upon hearing this, he was also slightly stunned,
Then, his eyes suddenly lit up,
“So desu ne! Yoroshii! Yoroshii!”
“Mr. Okamura is really too clever!”
“You’re absolutely right! Such a wonderful idea was thought of by you!”
“I was really too stupid just now, always thinking this was a bad thing, but actually we can turn this bad news into the good thing we’ve always wanted, so I’ll follow your proposal, Mr. Okamura, and carry out expanded promotion of Yoshiko Kawashima’s capture and the killing of those agent teams under her!”
“After expanding this matter, we can definitely ignite the war in Shanghai, even better and more ingenious than the operation of setting fire to the Sanyou Industrial Company Towel General Factory at night!”
Then, Commander Iwane Matsui also immediately became extremely excited and gesticulated wildly,
He was emotionally agitated and extremely excited, speaking incessantly,
Because he was really opened to a new line of thinking by Masao Okamura, making his mind suddenly completely clear,
Letting him know how to deploy his operation plan next, how to deploy the action to ignite the Shanghai Operation.
Of course, the most important thing was that Masao Okamura woke him up, so he didn’t need to continue complaining and cursing Yoshiko Kawashima’s stupidity, Major Ryūkichi Tanaka’s incompetence, and He Feiyang’s cunning.
As for Masao Okamura, he silently watched the extremely excited Iwane Matsui.
And listened to his endless praise, as well as the latest combat deployment plan and action.
That afternoon,
Iwane Matsui and Masao Okamura discussed how to fully publish in newspapers and promote Yoshiko Kawashima’s capture and the killing of those Japanese agents,
And it was large-scale promotion,
Letting all military and civilians in the whole Shanghai, including the Foreign Concession, know this explosive news.
“Selling newspapers! Selling newspapers! Explosive news! Famous Japanese female spy Yoshiko Kawashima was captured by National Revolutionary Army troops in her villa, and also killed more than ten Japanese Army agents, now the Japanese Army is extremely shocked and demands the National Revolutionary Army 19th Route Army to respond and compensate!”
“Big incident! Big incident, Yoshiko Kawashima disappeared in her villa, many Japanese agents died, Japanese Army Headquarters is furious, demanding our army to compensate and apologize, and discuss follow-up handling matters!”
“Kwantung Army is furious, they accuse the 19th Route Army of dispatching troops to capture Yoshiko Kawashima in the middle of the night, demanding they give a reasonable explanation, otherwise war will break out, whole city explosive big news! Buy now!”
“Explosive news, Japanese Army prepares to start a war to avenge the dead Japanese agents and the captured Yoshiko Kawashima! Want to know the details? Buy the newspaper now, only fifty cents each!”
Foreign Concession and all streets big and small in the whole Shanghai suddenly had many newsboys appearing, shouting themselves hoarse to sell the latest published newspapers.
And this time’s front-page headline news was all content planned by Iwane Matsui and Masao Okamura.
Thus, after this afternoon,
All sectors in the whole Shanghai, including the high-level of the 19th Army, were immediately shocked and boiling over.
