Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

As for why he didn't hit the chest, which was a better target, but instead went to the trouble of hitting the opponent's lower abdomen, he tried his best to make the opponent suffer the greatest pain before dying.

This is not because Ma Liang is a mentally twisted pervert. Psychopaths cannot be agents, let alone top agents.

The reason why Ma Liang chose such a seemingly perverted method was because in Ma Liang's mind, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda were not considered human beings at all, not even enemies, but two beasts.

If Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda had really killed more than a hundred Chinese soldiers in a real battle on the battlefield, Ma Liang would have shot at them without hesitation.

However, he would shoot his opponent directly in the chest, killing him with one shot, to express his respect for his opponent.

Just like Hans the Red Baron in World War I, he was very good at shooting down enemy planes in battle, but once the enemy pilots parachuted, he would never attack the unprotected parachuting pilots according to the spirit of chivalry.

He even covered the forced landing of an enemy plane that had been injured and had lost its attack capability.

During his combat career, he shot down 80 enemy aircraft and inevitably killed many enemy pilots.

But he still received unanimous respect from both warring parties. After he was shot down, England held a grand funeral for him. His body was transported back to Hans after the war and buried with great honor!

However, the "records of killing hundreds of people" by these two demons, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, were all achieved through massacres, killing prisoners of war who had laid down their arms and innocent civilians who had no ability to resist.

Such people cannot even be called human beings. They are worse than animals. At least animals will not kill prey for fun without feeling hungry.

Ma Liang can only retaliate in the most vicious way to eliminate the hatred he had in his heart as a new-age soldier.

Back at the Army Headquarters in Shanghai, after a brief discussion, Major General Jiro Suzuki, who was participating in the investigation today, stood up and put forward his own guess.

"Gentlemen, perhaps you are concerned about the wrong thing. What you should be more concerned about now is who is behind the attackers."

“Whether it was the 7.62mm Mosin-Nagant bullets unique to the Great Mao left at the scene, or the two bullets with extremely high processing precision, or the world-class top sniper who could accurately shoot twice at a distance of 675 meters.”

"Can such things be possessed by a poor agricultural country like China?"

"All of this evidence points to our real enemy - the Russians in the north!"

As soon as Major General Jiro Suzuki presented the results of his analysis, the generals present nodded in agreement and began to express their own opinions.

"What Major General Suzuki Jiro said makes a lot of sense. Right now, our Kwantung Army and the Russian Far East Military Region are facing each other from afar. Each regards the other as the biggest potential enemy. The Russians are most likely trying to provoke a larger-scale war between us and China and transfer the Kwantung Army away from the Northeast and go south to join the war."

"Since the other party wants to provoke a larger-scale war between us and the Celestial Empire, why don't they just attack Field Marshal Tian Junliu? If we succeed in killing Field Marshal Tian Junliu, we will definitely be at war with the Celestial Empire. Only one of us can survive. Why should we sacrifice the main thing and kill two insignificant lieutenants?"

A wise lieutenant general still couldn't understand why the Russians targeted two junior lieutenants, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, if they wanted to provoke a larger-scale war?

Yup!

This doesn't make sense!

The problem has gone around in circles and returned to where it started.

Why wasn’t it Army Marshal Tian Shunroku who died?

The Japanese generals fell into deep thought again.

Suddenly a majestic voice sounded:

"The reason is very simple. Once I am killed by the Celestial Empire, even the most cowardly opposition in the country will no longer have any reason to continue to obstruct the Empire from launching a full mobilization and launching a full-scale war. Once a full-scale war is launched, the locust army will surely win. The Russians definitely don't want to see a powerful empire that swallowed up the Celestial Empire confronting them."

"It is more beneficial for the Russians to maintain the current stalemate between the two sides. This is why they are providing huge assistance to the National Government, almost like selling their blood."

"The government is now trying to negotiate peace with the locust army. In order not to affect the morale of the soldiers on the front line, this news is top secret for the time being and will only be announced within a small circle. None of you present here will know about it."

"The National Government is trying to negotiate peace with the Empire. Once the battle in China ends in a short period of time, the Empire can focus on resolving the century-old feud between the Empire and the Russians. This is not in the national interest of the Russians. At this time, it is most urgent for them to properly provoke conflicts between us and the National Government and continue the war."

"For example, the two models, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, who were set up by the Locust Army and killed two of them in public during the Tencho Festival, are very appropriate in terms of scale."

Tian Junliu, who was in a higher position, knew more.

"Sodesne! We must not be fooled, the Kwantung Army must not move!"

"Don't be fooled!"

"The Maozi has evil intentions!"

These words were like a revelation, providing a reasonable explanation for everyone's doubts, and many generals who lived a simple life couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Knock the sack! The person who spoke, why does this voice sound so familiar?

Everyone turned around and realized that it was the voice of Army Marshal Tian Junliu.

Thinking about the fact that he and others had just been discussing in front of Army Marshal Tian Shunroku why he was not the one who died, this was simply unforgivable for the Japanese army with its strict internal hierarchy.

The Japanese generals present stood up collectively with a bang, as if someone had given an order, knocking over their stools.

There was already the sound of guards running outside the meeting room, but the guards had received strict orders beforehand not to enter without permission.

Otherwise, the personal guards of these Japanese generals would have rushed in.

However, no one cared about what was happening outside the meeting room at this time. All the Japanese generals had their heads bent down to their knees.

His head was covered in sweat from fear, and he loudly apologized to Field Marshal Tian Shunroku:

"I am so sorry, Your Excellency Marshal!"

Under normal circumstances, Tian Junliu would have to punish these rude subordinates who wished him dead.

However, after everyone's discussion just now, Tian Junliu also realized the seriousness of the current situation. He raised his hand and said loudly:

"This is about the future of the Locust Nation, please speak freely! Don't worry about me~"

"Thank you, Marshal, for your generosity!" There was another burst of uniform shouts.

It took several minutes of excitement before the meeting returned to normal order, but after this incident, everyone finally paid more attention to their words.

Kenji Doihara, who had already strongly suspected that the Russians were responsible, took out the case analysis report on the quarry and showed it to everyone after hearing everyone's discussion.

"What? A shooter who can shoot a target's head at 300 meters at night?"

"impossible!"

Soon the authenticity of this report aroused doubts from Japanese generals with combat experience.

But Doi-Yuan Kenji said:

"After repeated appraisals by a team of criminal investigation experts transferred from China, this is true!"

Without waiting for anyone to ask, Kenji continued:

"In fact, before this incident happened today, I had a premonition that the Russians were going to sabotage it, so I insisted on increasing the defense measures for the Tianchang Festival regardless of everything I could do to stop them, but I still failed to prevent it."

"However, judging from the fact that the other party actually risked their lives to save a communist who was about to be executed before the Tianchang Festival, it is highly likely that the other party is also a communist. This also indirectly proves that the one who disrupted the Tianchang Festival was a Maozi who was also a communist."

With the additional evidence provided by Kenji Doi, everyone now believes that the force that attacked Tenchojie was the Russians.

Soon, the top-secret meeting minutes and conclusions of that night were urgently transmitted back to the Japanese military headquarters that night for use in top-level decision-making.