The Bourne Counterattack

Chapter 564 Postscript ()

1941 12 Month 7 Day.

A top-secret telegram was sent, and Japan finally made up its mind to go to war with the Americans.

Secret negotiations began in February, and on April 2, the United States proposed the "U.S.-Japan Reconciliation Plan," which the Japanese rejected.

The negotiations between the two countries entered a stalemate.

Japan then decided to take action against the United States because the United States would not give Japan favorable conditions, and if it could not get something at the negotiating table, it would have to take it with its own hands.

While conducting pressure-intensive negotiations and dragging the United States to the negotiating table to test the other side's bottom line, they were also stepping up preparations for war and even organizing a "special performance" in Manchuria.

Although the Kwantung Army also wanted to take real action during the holiday and launch a full-scale war against the Soviet Union, it was in line with Japan's domestic false moves to deceive the Americans.

I was about to take action against the Soviet Union. I was absolutely sincere in my negotiations with the United States, and my intention to deceive the Americans was very obvious.

Cheng Mo provided all this information and analytical judgments to his two superiors.

As for the exact information, it was the top-secret information that Nakamura got for him on the eve of Japan's attack on the Americans.

Of course, there are some other intelligence evidence, such as the Japanese army training for landing combat drills, and some troops secretly dispatched intelligence personnel to Southeast Asia to spy on intelligence and collect key information such as geography, water temperature and climate.

Takeo Takeda is one of them.

Of course, Cheng Mo knew that even without his own intelligence, the secret of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor could not be concealed.

As for whether the United States will be successfully attacked by the Japanese, it depends on President Roosevelt's wishes. If he still wants to use a "bitter trick" to unify domestic understanding, the United States will join the war.

This price is actually acceptable.

If the United States had not been hurt, the isolationist trend in the country would not have been broken or changed. Even if Roosevelt was president, he did not have the power to start a war. This was determined by their system.

In fact, Cheng Mo secretly hoped that the Japanese would give the Americans a hard time, and even hoped that they could sink one or two American aircraft carriers.

Of course, this cannot change the final outcome of the war. If more American blood could be shed, perhaps one more "little boy" could be sent to Japan in the future.

He could only think about these in his mind.

As soon as the news of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor came, Cheng Mo knew that the day when the Japanese army would enter and occupy the International Settlement was coming.

He started to take action.

First, they protected the isolated army camp. In fact, except for some officers, most of the soldiers had already left.

Both the Japanese and the Wang Puppet regime knew this. Cheng Mo expanded the Chinese team in the International Volunteer Corps and promoted McCain to the position of commander of the Volunteer Corps, as well as Androv as deputy commander, and a new Chinese deputy commander, Xu Qinghe. Lei Gang was also transferred to the International Merchant Corps to serve as captain of the Chinese team.

The Chinese team expanded to 1,500 people within a year, while the volunteer teams of other countries were either disbanded or simply retained. Except for the officers, all the soldiers were Chinese.

The British acquiesced and the Japanese did not stop it, so the Wang Puppet regime simply did not have the ability to do so.

Both sides understood it tacitly.

Once Japan declares war on Europe and the United States, as long as Japan guarantees that the safety and interests of all Westerners in the concession will not be harmed.

The Municipal Council will smoothly transfer power to the Wang Puppet regime.

These are secret agreements and cannot be recorded in writing, and the Japanese side does not want a large-scale conflict to occur.

After all, fighting is a blind act and people will die. The whole thing was facilitated by the Consulate General in Shanghai. Once the concession was peacefully taken, it would be the achievement of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs put all its efforts into this matter and rejected all the weak conditions proposed by the Navy and the Army.

Chongqing will definitely destroy it.

If you don't do something, you won't be able to show your existence.

Therefore, Cheng Mo directly ordered a "curfew" in the concession, and used strong means to take complete control of the concession.

This was also to show the Wang Puppet Regime and the Japanese side that he had absolute control over the concessions, and that he could even complete the "change of flag" without the need for Japanese troops to enter the concessions.

Cheng Mo received the support of the pseudo-SH mayor Zhou Fuhai and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Iwai Eiichi, so he naturally blocked all the open and secret attacks.

On December 12, the International Settlement "changed its flag" and the Wang Puppet Regime announced that it would take back the concession without bloodshed and abolish all privileges related to the concession.

Originally, the Japanese army would occupy the concessions and plunder them, but now they were able to do so in one go, and the International Settlement was subsequently designated as the First District.

The police station was renamed the First Police Station, and the first police chief was Japanese Akagi Kiyoyuki, while Cheng Mo served as deputy chief.

However, Cheng Mo also held several positions, including deputy director of the Economic Committee of the pseudo-SH Municipal Government, and was elected as a substitute member of the Central Committee, etc.

A year later, Lin Shiqun was poisoned by Zhou Fuhai and the Japanese.

Cheng Mo helped Zhou Fuhai find the secret telegram that almost revealed their secret murder of Lin Shiqun, and the relationship between the two became closer.

While accompanying his wife to the hospital for a prenatal checkup, Kiyoyuki Akagi was assassinated by the Blue Shirts Society's action team.

After the death of Kiyoyuki Akagi.

In the First Police Station, Cheng Mo was the only one in charge. Originally, the Japanese wanted to send another Japanese to serve as the director, but ultimately failed to do so.

Cheng Mo then served as acting director.

The acting director worked for half a year before being promoted to the position.

Two years later, the war situation became increasingly clear and Japan's defeat was irreversible. Zhou Fuhai found Cheng Mo and made clear his secret cooperation with Chongqing.

At that time, Chen Gongbo was the mayor of Shanghai, and the two were competing for power in the Executive Yuan. He hoped that Cheng Mo would support him so that when the day came when everything would be settled, he would have a good future.

Cheng Mo agreed.

Later, under Zhou Fuhai's operation, Cheng Mo served as the deputy mayor of Shanghai and the chief of the police station. Except for the Japanese, the military and police in Shanghai were basically under his control.

At this time, the Military Control Commission no longer needed to show up in Shanghai. They had all the intelligence they needed, and they only had to come out occasionally to make their presence felt.

Of course, there are even more people in the organization, but Cheng Mo is still very cautious. He knows that Zhou Fuhai does not completely trust him. In order to "control" him, he will definitely investigate him secretly in order to find something to hold against him.

What he didn't know was that he had always been from Chongqing.

It was not until just before Japan surrendered that Cheng Mo changed into the uniform of the National Army and appeared in front of Zhou Fuhai as a receiving official.

Zhou Fuhai then discovered that the man had long been from Chongqing and had made great contributions.

He is the receiving official and you are the one being received, is this not something you understand?
(End of this chapter)