Spy Wars: I am the Captain of the Military Police

These military police were like leeches attached to his bones. When he was in the most difficult time, instead of helping him to defeat the enemy, they created trouble everywhere, spread rumors, and shook the morale of the army!

He wanted to send people to arrest Banjing and Nakamura and shoot them immediately, but he knew that he could not touch these two people.

He is of noble status, and standing behind him is the Tianjin gendarmerie commander Takuto Takazaki. Behind Takuto Takazaki, there seems to be a deeper shadow.

All these made Matsui Iwane afraid to act rashly, and he couldn't even express his dissatisfaction loudly outside, which made him so frustrated that he almost vomited blood.

At the same time, the situation of the 10th Army, which was responsible for the main attack on the front line of the Xicheng defense line, was even worse.

Army Commander Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke had an even harder time than Matsui Iwane.

His troops' morale was damaged when they landed at Jinshanwei, and now they suffered heavy losses in front of the strong fortifications of the Xicheng defense line.

The soldiers were exhausted, suffered heavy casualties, and were already tired and frightened of the continuous and brutal attacks.

And at this critical moment, the military police battalion led by Yusuke Ichijo, like a ghost, tightly entangled the Tenth Army.

Yusuke Ichijo intensified his efforts to find fault in the name of "rectifying the military discipline that had been weakened due to the defeat."

He led the military police directly into the logistics warehouse of the 10th Army, and in the name of "checking the loss of war preparedness materials", he rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, delaying the delivery of materials.

He intercepted the wounded troops retreating from the front line and conducted lengthy "identity verification" and "investigation of the cause of injury", even causing many seriously injured soldiers to die due to lack of timely medical treatment.

He even forcibly demanded to check the personal belongings of the officers attending a division-level combat meeting outside the meeting on the grounds of "suspected risk of leakage", and had a fierce physical conflict with Yanagawa Heisuke's trusted guards, which almost led to a gunfight.

What’s even more fatal is that Yusuke Ichijo keeps bringing up the “problems” encountered by the Tenth Army.

Whether it was the inevitable lax military discipline after a defeat, or the "situation" he exaggerated or even fabricated, he wrote a report with exaggeration and sent it directly to the General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo.

In the report, he directly attributed the 10th Army's offensive failure in Xicheng to "lax military discipline, low morale, and incompetent commanders."

When the reports of blood and corpses on the Xicheng front and the discord between generals and commanders were placed on the desks of the Tokyo headquarters together with the endless stream of "accusation" reports from the gendarmerie system, the shock they caused can be imagined.

The first was a sternly worded telegram sent directly to Matsui Iwane: "I am shocked to learn that the Central China Expeditionary Army's offensive on the Yuxicheng front has suffered setbacks and heavy casualties. What is the reason?

I hope you will report in detail and submit the next battle plan as soon as possible.

The headquarters is deeply concerned about the command and morale of the frontline troops."

This telegram was like a heavy slap in the face of Matsui Iwane.

He could almost imagine the questioning and dissatisfied looks of the bureaucrats in the General Staff Headquarters.

However, this is not over yet.

Almost at the same time, another telegram that frightened Yanagawa Heisuke even more arrived at the Tenth Army Headquarters: "It is reported that the discipline of the Tenth Army is in urgent need of rectification, and morale is particularly worrying. Is this directly related to the setback at Jinshanwei and the current ineffective offensive?

The headquarters will send an investigation team to verify the situation immediately. We hope you will receive them appropriately and fully cooperate with the investigation."

The three words "investigation team" were like a preview before a death sentence, making Yanagawa Heisuke's face turn pale in an instant.

He knew that once the investigation team confirmed the contents of the military police report, his military career would probably come to an end, and he might even be sent to a military court!

The instigator of all this was the military police captain, Yusuke Ichijo, who was biting him like a mad dog! And behind Yusuke Ichijo was obviously Takuto Takazaki, who was far away in Tianjin but had extended his hand to the battlefield in central China!

At this moment, Yanagawa Heisuke wanted to send someone to Tianjin in person to beg the young master of the Takazaki family. No matter what the cost, he asked the other party to let him go and transfer Ichijou away!

In the Central China Expeditionary Army Headquarters in Nanjing, Matsui Iwane was exhausted, furious but helpless in the face of questioning telegrams from Tokyo and constant harassment from internal military police.

The deadlock on the front line needs to be broken, the fire in the backyard needs to be put out, and the tight ring around the head needs to be lifted...

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In the military police headquarters in Tianjin, Zhou Zhengqing was calmly reading the secret reports from Shanghai and Songjiang.

The tragic battle on the Xicheng defense line, Matsui Iwane's fury, Yanagawa Heisuke's panic, and the questioning from the Tokyo headquarters...

Everything was going as he expected, even smoother than he expected.

He picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Outside the window, the northern sky was gloomy, as if a bigger storm was brewing.

He knew that Xicheng's iron wall not only blocked the Japanese army's iron hoofs, but also successfully intensified the contradictions within the Japanese army.

This "troublemaker" of his has successfully plunged the Central China Expeditionary Force into unprecedented internal and external difficulties.

Explosion, in the next moment...

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The secret room of the Central China Expeditionary Army Headquarters.

There was a gloomy sky outside the window, just like Matsui Iwane's mood at the moment.

The piles of Japanese corpses in front of the Xicheng defense line, the stern interrogation telegrams from the Tokyo headquarters, and the two nightmare-like faces of Itai Yudai and Nakamura Shunsuke...

All this bit at his nerves like a poisonous snake.

He felt like he was being tightly entangled in an invisible net. The more he struggled, the tighter he became.

In addition to the tenacious Chinese army, the people who wove this network were also "their own people" who were constantly stabbing them in the back, the military police system under the command of Takuto Ao Takazaki.

Can't wait any longer!

This deadlock must be broken, otherwise not only will the war be lost, but Matsui Iwane's political life and even his physical life may end here.

He dismissed all the staff and stayed alone in the communication room with the best sound insulation. He took a deep breath and answered the dedicated line to the Tenth Army Headquarters.

There was a crackling sound of electricity coming from the receiver, and each sound struck his anxious heart.

The call was quickly connected, and Yanagawa Heisuke's slightly tired and hoarse voice came: "Moshimoshi, this is the Tenth Army Headquarters, Yanagawa Heisuke."

"Yanagawa-kun, it's me, Matsui." Matsui Iwane's voice was deliberately kept calm, but there was a barely perceptible tremor in the ending tone.

"General!" Yanagawa Heisuke's tone immediately became respectful, but the sense of fatigue remained. "What are your instructions? The fighting on the front lines is tense. I am planning the next attack..."

"The war... I know everything." Matsui Iwane interrupted him, his tone heavy: "Yanagawa-kun, the difficulties on the Xicheng front are beyond your and my expectations.

The Chinese army, relying on fortifications, put up an exceptionally tenacious resistance." He did not directly mention the heavy casualties, but both sides were well aware of them.