Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 1082 Turning Point

1942 passed by in a flurry of activity.

Time soon came to 1943.

That year, a major event occurred in the O region: Italy, a member of the Axis powers, surrendered decisively after being held back by Hitler for several years.

October of the same year.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Chinese Army stationed in India launched a counter-offensive against the Japanese in northern Burma and western Yunnan.

They have all achieved considerable results.

In later historical circles, 1943 is generally defined as the strategic counter-offensive phase of China's war against Japan.

By November, the leaders of China, the United States, and the United Kingdom had gathered in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Following the meeting and consultations, the three leaders jointly issued the Cairo Declaration.

They demanded that after the war, the Japanese must return all the Chinese territory they had occupied.

Until December 1943.

Due to the rapid decline in the quality of reserve troops, the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army was no longer able to go out to fight.

They were forced to retreat to major cities and railway lines in North China.

There were even instances where newly recruited Japanese soldiers, in order to survive, traded their weapons and equipment for supplies and food from the Chinese people, seeking refuge.

Really?

These are all documented in historical records.

It is evident that the Japanese army at that time was already facing a severe shortage of manpower.

They were already extremely weak.

They also truly realized that with their meager national strength, they were simply unable to support the losses inflicted by fighting on two fronts.

It can be said that by this point, the defeat and surrender of the Japanese was inevitable.

It has almost become a matter of public business for everyone.

Within Japan, the financial cliques began to exploit the poor and weak even more ruthlessly. In the occupied territories of China, mid- to high-ranking Japanese officers were also plundering wealth on a massive scale.

It has reached a point of utter depravity.

Ye Shaohong had tried it before.

A high-ranking undercover intelligence agent from the Military Intelligence Bureau was arrested by the Special Higher Police in Shanghai. After paying a large sum of money, the agent was released on ransom.

This shows the extent to which public opinion had turned against them. When April 1944 arrived, the Japanese, unwilling to accept defeat, launched a desperate last stand.

They mobilized 12 divisions, assembling a massive force of 41 men, to launch the Henan-Hunan-Guangxi Campaign in China.

This refers to "Operation Number One".

The Japanese attempted to use large-scale military operations to completely open up the transportation lines of the Chinese mainland, connecting the land routes from Manchuria through North China, South China, and Southwest China with the transportation lines of the Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asia.

This was intended to alleviate the setbacks in the Pacific theater.

This battle lasted for more than eight months, and the Japanese won.

The Nationalist government suffered its second major defeat after the Battle of Shanghai.

Four provincial capitals and 146 cities were lost during World War I.

20 square kilometers of territory were lost.

During the Battle of Central Henan, the city suffered a crushing defeat, losing 38 cities in just 37 days.

But the Japanese didn't win either.

Although we lost the battle, the Japanese also suffered heavy losses. After the battle, they were powerless to defend the vast territories they had occupied.

Not only did they fail to achieve their initial strategic goal of linking the Chinese mainland with the battlefields of the Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asia, their heavy losses actually accelerated the Japanese defeat.

This also signifies the complete failure of the Japanese army's long-term war plan.

September of the same year.

General Wei commanded the Chinese Expeditionary Force to cross the Nu River and launch the Yunnan-Burma Campaign. They successively captured Songshan and other places that were heavily defended by the Japanese, which became the turning point for the Japanese defeat in China.

1944 October.

Good news came from the Nanjing area. After years of close surveillance and assassination attempts, the traitor Wang Jingwei finally could not escape the sanctions of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

The illness is already serious and incurable.

He was urgently transported to Japan by plane by a high-ranking Japanese official in Shanghai for medical treatment.

There are many conflicting accounts of the truth behind Wang Ni's incurable illness.

Simply put, there are three interpretations.

The first.

Wang Jingwei was once assassinated by members of the Iron-Blooded Anti-Traitor Corps dispatched by Wang Yaqiao, the king of assassinations during the Republic of China era.

Although Wang Ni narrowly escaped death, a lead bullet remained in his body forever.

It was not removed.

Later generations all know that lead is poisonous.

Moreover, it was highly poisonous. With a lead bullet lodged in his body for years, it's understandable that Wang Jingwei ultimately met such an end.

The second theory is that the Japanese devils sent someone to commit the murder.

This is a prior offense.

Wasn't Li Qun poisoned to death in 1943 when he was invited to dinner at the home of a group leader from the Special Higher Police in Shanghai?

However, Wang Ni's descendants denied this.

It's difficult to tell whether it's real or fake.

There is also a third explanation.

It was said that the Kuomintang Military Intelligence Bureau had arranged for someone to carry out the operation. Since they couldn't find an opportunity to kill Wang Jingwei, they bribed Wang Jingwei's cook with a large sum of money.

A slow-acting poison was added to Wang Ni's food and drinks.

The whole affair took more than two years, but the mission was finally accomplished, and the task of eliminating traitors for the country was successfully completed.

Ye Shaohong also couldn't determine the reason why Wang Jingwei was taken to the Japanese mainland after falling into a coma due to a serious illness.

All he knew was that if the course of history didn't change this time, Wang Jingwei would be doomed.

To verify the authenticity of the information, Ye Shaohong also spent a lot of money through special channels of the Military Intelligence Bureau to take a photo of Wang Jingwei at a local Japanese hospital.

When the photos were sent back to China, Ye Shaohong almost didn't recognize him.

At this moment, Wang Ni was in dire straits.

Skin and bones, with a deathly pallor.

Where is the former elegance of the four young masters of the Republic of China, as previously rumored?

Upon receiving the photograph, Ye Shaohong immediately went to meet Dai Yunong and explained the whole story. Dai Yunong was greatly encouraged. He immediately took Ye Shaohong with him to the Chiang Kai-shek's residence.

Report this matter directly to higher authorities.

After seeing the photo, the bald-headed chairman sat there in a daze for a moment, and then burst into loud laughter.

It's not his fault.

Because at a certain stage in history, Wang Jingwei was indeed Chiang Kai-shek's number one rival.

Both of them founded the Republic of China government.

Then the Ninghan Campaign broke out.

At one point in history, the Nationalist government controlled by Chiang Kai-shek was almost defeated and completely swallowed up by the Nationalist government controlled by Wang Jingwei.

Finally, it is unclear who brokered the deal or what conditions were agreed upon by both sides, but the Ning-Han merger came about.

That led to the later, overt unification by the Nationalist government.

Of course. There are costs involved.

After the Ning-Han merger, the new Nationalist government was reorganized, and Wang Jingwei became the Premier of the Executive Yuan.

Vice President.

He is now undoubtedly the number two.

Even so, this brief collaboration did not change the fact that the two continued their open and covert struggles afterward.

Now, seeing his old rival in such a miserable state, not far from death, the bald-headed chairman was filled with emotion.

He left behind that photograph and passed it down to posterity.

Even in the 21st century, traces can still be found online.

Simultaneously.

The bald-headed chairman also commended Dai Yunong and Ye Shaohong.

There will be kneeling statues erected later.

The act of digging up graves reveals just how heinous and despicable the crimes he committed throughout his life were, too numerous to recount…