Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 529 Rzhev's Othello Chapter Thirteen
Yamamoto Heisaku had just finished taking over with Mikhailov.Mikhailov handed him the information he had received from the consulates of the northern powers.

Yamamoto Hirasaku immediately rushed back to the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army to hand over the information.

Now, every intelligence information handed in by Heisaku Yamamoto will be subject to very strict verification.

It has been more than four years since Hirasaku Yamamoto has mastered the intelligence line of the Hart spies, and a steady stream of intelligence materials from the consulates of major northern countries have been sent to the Japanese.

Most of these intelligence materials are accurate, and some of them are of considerable intelligence value.

But this has aroused the vigilance of the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army.

This intelligence line has been running smoothly for more than four years without any mistakes.The intelligence agencies of the northern powers are not fools either. Didn't they even arouse the intelligence agencies of the northern powers to notice it at all?

The radio operator in the Harbin consulate of a big northern country bought by Mikhailov has not been transferred for more than four years, and has remained in the Harbin consulate like a nail.This is unusual, as other people in the consulate have come and gone several times.

However, after such a long period of testing, the intelligence information obtained from the consulates of the big northern countries has been proved to be reliable and accurate.

When Lieutenant Ogasawara, who was in charge of intelligence analysis, did not leave, he thought carefully that some of the intelligence had been edited. The organization was too clear, but there was no problem with its accuracy.

Since there is no problem with the accuracy, of course this information line must continue to be used, even if it costs [-] yen a month, it is worth it.

There is no doubt that the intelligence materials submitted by Yamamoto Heisaku this time will be carefully checked in the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army immediately.

The information sent this time is actually about the US Navy’s Lexington aircraft carrier having completed refitting at the Qianshui Shipyard in San Francisco, and is now heading to Pearl Harbor. After a few days of repairs at Pearl Harbor, it is about to rush to the waters near Australia to participate in the war. .

"The intelligence says that the four twin-mounted 203mm naval guns on the front and rear decks of the USS Lexington have all been dismantled and replaced with anti-aircraft guns," said Lieutenant Kawakami, who is now in charge of intelligence analysis after Ogasawara left.

During the Washington Conference in [-], the five naval powers of the United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy signed the "Naval Arms Limitation Treaty" and the "Washington Treaty" to limit the tonnage and main gun caliber of capital ships.

This is equivalent to directly pronouncing the death penalty for the capital ships being built by these countries.

Therefore, these countries had to transform these warships into aircraft carriers, thus speeding up the pace of aircraft carriers entering the stage of history.

The USS Lexington aircraft carrier was refitted from a battlecruiser.

However, at that time, the naval leaders of various countries still believed in the doctrine of giant ship cannons, so the original cannons were retained on the refitted aircraft carriers without exception.

Such an aircraft carrier can fight against heavy cruisers or even battleships without relying on carrier-based aircraft.

But now all the 203mm cannons on the Lexington have been dismantled.

"Does this mean that the Americans believe that it is enough for the aircraft carrier to have carrier-based aircraft to attack? The aircraft carrier should increase its anti-aircraft firepower." Yanagida Motozo asked.

"It seems so," Lieutenant Kawakami replied.

"This information is transferred from the base to the navy. Remember to specify that this information is for reference only!" Yanagida Motozo said.

The 203mm cannon was removed from the Lexington, and now Qian Xiaobao is also facing a 203mm cannon shell.

On the military transport plane, Qian Xiaobao and Chida Bingwei sat facing each other, and at the foot between the two of them was a shell of a Soviet B4 heavy howitzer.

This shell weighs sixty to seventy kilograms, and it is not known how the intelligence personnel lurking in the big northern country got it from the Ussuri River.

Qian Xiaobao and Chida Bingwei received the order to take the transport plane to Fujin to transport the shell back.

Qian Xiaobao really couldn't think of the use of transporting this shell to the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army.

As soon as the military transport plane landed at Majiagou Airport, the shells were loaded into a car and pulled to an open space outside Harbin.The technicians who had been waiting there immediately began to disassemble the shells.

One hour later, the head of the agency Yanagida Motozo got a report: the shells of the Soviet B4 heavy howitzer were filled with ammonium nitrate explosives instead of TNT.

"The main raw material for the production of TNT is toluene, and the production of toluene in the big northern country relies on refining coal tar. But now the main coal production areas in the big northern country, such as the Donbass, are in the hands of the Germans, so there is no way for them to do so now. Ammonium nitrate explosives can be used now," said Ono Tahiro.

This information is very important, which shows that at least the Far East Front, a major northern country, has had to use ammonium nitrate explosives.Compared with TNT explosives, the explosive power is much weaker.

Yanagida Genzo fell into deep thought

Ogasawara's arrogant guy has been driven away by him.I heard reports from my subordinates that the chief of the Kwantung Army's intelligence department, Ogasawara, almost scolded him.

Stupid pig, idiot, trash, in Ogasawara's eyes, there is almost no one in the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army that he likes.Among the more than 400 people in the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, they only heard that he had a good relationship with Qian Xiaobao's special agent Cao Zhang.

Commander of the Kwantung Army Umezu Yoshijiro was scolded by Ogasawara, and Commander Tojo was also scolded by Ogasawara. It is said that Ogasawara complained about His Majesty the Emperor in private.

However, Yanagida Motozo also admitted that many of Ogasawara's opinions were correct.

If the Kwantung Army now goes northward and the Germans attack the northern powers from east to west, there should be no problem.

Now a large number of American fleets swagger across the Pacific Ocean with the flag of the great northern country, unload in Vladivostok, and then send the urgently needed supplies of the Red Army to the front line along the Siberian Railway.

The Japanese know this, and so do the Germans.Even the people of the big northern countries and the Americans know that the Japanese know about it.So now the Germans are very dissatisfied with Japan.

But now Japan's southward policy has the upper hand, and most of its resources are used in the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia.The Chinese side can't escape, so it is simply unable to attack the northern powers.

The water in Schultz's knees had cleared, and Hannah helped him out of bed and walked up and down the floor.

A woman in her 40s came in, changed the quilt cover and sheets, and walked out of the ward with a urinal.

Neither Schultz nor Hannah paid attention to the woman, and as long as she did not touch the telegraph hidden under the hospital bed they had nothing to worry about.

The woman cleaned from ward to ward, and then began to clean the infirmary.

Seeing that there was no one in the infirmary, the woman put the water basin at the door and walked to the front of the shelf, quickly found Schultz's diagnosis case, looked through it carefully, and put it back where it was.

(End of this chapter)