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Chapter 70 Military Intelligence: Can control military progress and victory or defeat (2)
On August 1894, 8, the Qing Dynasty and Japan officially declared war.After the Japanese Consulate in Tianjin was withdrawn, Sokata Kotaro disguised himself as a Chinese citizen and traveled between Weihai and Lushun, taking the opportunity to spy on the intelligence of the Chinese Navy. Around mid-August, due to the urgency of the war in Pyongyang, the Qing government decided to send reinforcements to North Korea.Five ships from the China Merchants Group transported 1 people from the 8th Battalion of the Ming Army led by Chief Soldier Liu Shengxiu into North Korea.In order to prevent the Japanese fleet from attacking, Li Hongzhang ordered the main escort of the Beiyang Fleet.6000 Chinese warships including the Zhenyuan, which was moored near Weihai, immediately put into preparation for the expedition after receiving the order from Li Hongzhang.When Munekata Kotaro learned of the departure time of the Beiyang Fleet in Weihai, he immediately telegraphed the specific date for the departure of 14 Chinese warships including the Zhenyuan to North Korea.The Japanese base camp immediately dispatched the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the Japanese Combined Fleet arrived near the mouth of the Dadong River on the Hwanghae Road in North Korea on September 14.At the same time, Ding Ruchang led the Beiyang Fleet to set off from Weihaiwei, and arrived at Dalian Bay on the 9th after passing through Lushun. On the 15th, the fleet safely arrived at Dadonggou near Andong, Chinese infantry landed overnight, and the Beiyang Fleet returned. On the 15th, the returning Beiyang Fleet was ambushed by the Japanese Navy Fleet in the Yellow Sea outside the mouth of the Yalu River. The main force of the Beiyang Fleet was disabled in the Yellow Sea Battle.

It can be said that in the naval battle between the Qing government and the Japanese army, Japanese intelligence personnel played a pivotal role, obtained a large amount of coastal defense intelligence, and made great contributions to the Japanese navy's victory over the Qing navy.However, the struggle of the intelligence personnel was cruel. Later, five of the six intelligence personnel under Nezuichi were captured by the Qing soldiers and executed.

§§§Section [-] "The Mincemeat Project" Blinded Hitler

"In times of war, the truth is so precious that it must be defended with lies." Churchill spoke out about the cruelty of war. The intelligence personnel set up a series of shocking deceptions to protect the truth, and there were thrilling battles between good and evil. The FBI told us about the "mince meat plan" that blinded Hitler.

In the Gulf of Cades, Spain, a cemetery in Huelva, an ancient fish town, has a simple white marble tombstone standing among green pines and cypresses.The words "Tomb of William Martin" are engraved in English on the tombstone. Under this ordinary tombstone, a very secretive and very successful intelligence deception operation in World War II is buried.The success of this event mobilized several elite troops of Nazi Germany, and at the same time saved the precious lives of tens of thousands of British and Americans.

At the beginning of 1943, the war situation of the Second World War had undergone a fundamental change.The Allies had achieved an overwhelming victory in North Africa.The German Supreme Command is also very clear that in the next stage, the Allied forces will land and fight in southern Europe.It's just that what they don't know and what they really want to know is the exact location of the Allied landing operations in the near future.Regarding the landing operations in southern Europe, the Allied forces have decided to use Sicily as the first springboard for landing, and then launch a large-scale attack on the Italian mainland.

In February 1943, Lieutenant Colonel John Beavan of the British Army, nicknamed "Chief of Fraud," chaired a special wartime secret meeting, headed by the Director of the London Supervisory Service. The participants were all British intelligence chiefs and senior generals.At the meeting, John Bevan said: "Everyone knows that the Allied advance to North Africa is on its way to victory. At the Casablanca meeting in January, our British and American commanders had decided to implement Sicily immediately after the Tunisian campaign. In order to clear away the main obstacles on the Mediterranean communication line and force Italy to withdraw from the war. Now the task entrusted to us by the Allied Forces is how to cover this landing operation in Sicily."

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and is a territory of Italy. The entire island is triangular in shape.Due to the very important strategic position of Sicily, Germany and Italy implemented heavy defense on the island. On this island with an area of ​​25700 million square kilometers, 13 main combat divisions and more than 400 aircraft were deployed, with a total force of 36. people.Facing the huge defenders of Sicily, if the Allies attacked Sicily by force, the price would be huge.In view of this, British intelligence believed that it was necessary to try to convince Hitler that the Allied forces were trying to occupy two places next, one was to attack Greece to advance to the Balkans; the other was to attack Sardinia as a springboard to attack southern France.However, this is an extremely difficult task, because as Churchill said: "Everyone but a fool knows that it is Sicily", especially after the Allied forces occupied the small island of Pantale in June 1942. Sicily's intentions are clear.

The meeting fell into silence, and just as everyone was thinking hard, Lieutenant Commander Evan Montague said: "I have a plan: use the corpse!" "Borrow the corpse? What do you mean?" The participants asked one after another.Seeing everyone's expectant and doubtful eyes, Evan Montagu described his plan: "We made a corpse, dressed him as a staff officer, and carried a special high-level document on him, and then sent him to the surface. The coast of Spain, which is neutral but actually pro-German, let the corpses tell the enemy that we are going to attack somewhere." "You are too naive, how can there be such a thing in the world?" The participants questioned one after another.Evan Montague went on: "Gentlemen, there are many advantages to this plan. First, the Germans already knew that Allied officers were often flown by plane along the coast of Spain to North Africa. Those who fell into the sea and died would not arouse suspicion; secondly, the German spy agency has a network of intelligence personnel close to Spain near Huelva. This network of intelligence personnel has always acted recklessly and impetuously. The French officer had some papers on him and was sent directly to Berlin without further investigation. Moreover, Spain is actually pro-German, and if this body floated on Spanish shores, the papers he was carrying would surely have fallen into German hands Of course, this plan also has risks. If Hitler sees through the deception of the Allies, he will realize the truth and then concentrate his forces to defeat the Allies' attack on Sicily."

After repeated, serious, and thorough discussions and studies, Churchill, Eisenhower, and the British-American Joint Staff Headquarters approved the plan.Churchill, in particular, admired the plan, dubbing it the "mincemeat plan" and instructing Evan Montagu to implement it.

The first thing Evan Montague should do after receiving the order is to find a suitable corpse. After asking the doctor, it is best to find a corpse that died of pneumonia or drowning, because the lungs of these two corpses are all dead after autopsy. There is standing water.After several twists and turns, Evan Montagu finally found the body of a man who died of pneumonia and gave him the identity of "Major Martin".Next, is the most critical part, which is to forge Major Martin's secret documents, the most difficult of which is the form and content of the secret documents.The form is inappropriate, the content is not clever, and the enemy will not be credulous, but both are done too far, and it is easy for the enemy to recognize it as a trap.what to do?After repeated arguments, the British intelligence agency decided that Sir Archibald Nye, the deputy chief of the British General Staff, should write a personal letter to General Ward Alexander, the British Expeditionary Command in Tunisia, North Africa.In this way, the German High Command will value this letter as an extremely precious material.And the falsification of the content of the confidential documents should be more cautious.The content of the letter ostensibly says something else, but it secretly reveals some information.How can I pretend to be realistic?After many considerations, it was decided to let the Tunisian army commanded by General Alexander go westward and attack Sardinia; let the Egyptian army commanded by Henry Wilson go eastward, drive straight from Greece, and storm the Balkans.In fact, the Allied forces lacked landing craft at that time, and it was absolutely impossible to fight on multiple fronts.

All details were arranged, every clue was just right, after the last verification of all the items of Major Martin, on April 1943, 4, Major Martin's body was placed in a jar marked "Optical Instruments", It was transported by MI17 trucks to the Scottish coast, where it was loaded onto a submarine and sailed to Malta. On April 4, the submarine reached the seabed at 29 meters in the port of Huelva, on the border between southern Spain and Portugal. In the early hours of April 1500, Major Martin's body was pushed into the water, and then the submarine lowered a rubber raft 4 meters away, with only a lead paddle on it, in order to pretend that time was running short.Everything went according to plan and seamlessly.

In the early hours of April 1943, 4, Major Martin's body was found by local fishermen in the Gulf of Gardes in southern Spain.The body was quickly sent to the Valls Hospital in Spain for an autopsy.Autopsy results: the body fell into the sea alive and drowned, with a small amount of seawater in the lungs. It is estimated that the body drifted at sea for 30 to 3 days.In the afternoon, the British naval attaché in Madrid sent a telegram to the UK to report that they had learned from the British vice-consul in Huelva: "The body of a British officer was found by Spanish fishermen and brought back to shore." He understood immediately, Major Martin arrived at the destination as planned.

After the Spanish Navy Office identified the body, it notified the British Consul in Huelva. However, due to the close relationship between the Spanish authorities and Nazi Germany, the Spaniards notified the British as well as the Germans. Spanish intelligence officers.The quick-moving German intelligence personnel immediately took the first step, and had secretly photographed all the documents on "Major Martin" before the British consul claimed the body.Soon, photocopies of the documents were sent to Berlin, Germany for appraisal.After the Berlin authorities received the report from the Spanish intelligence service, they immediately began to conduct identification, and at the same time instructed their intelligence service representatives to provide more detailed details.

In order to play the scene realistically, Evan Montagu urged the British naval attache, who knew nothing about the plan, to ask the Spaniards for the important documents that Major Martin had with him. On May 5, Major Martin returned to London with his papers.After the British intelligence agency got the document, it immediately tested it with new scientific methods. Finally, from the suspicion that the clip on the paper was dry, it was found that the document had been disassembled and photographed by the Germans using the technical method of softening the paper with salt water.Evan Montagu therefore concluded that the secret documents had been photographed by the German intelligence network and sent to Berlin, and that the plan was going well.

At the request of the British side, the Spanish authorities buried Major Martin in a military funeral.His "fiancée" also sent a wreath for the funeral, and attached a grief-stricken commemorative postcard.

At the same time, at the Casualties Section of the Admiralty Notaries Division in London, the name of Major Martin was routinely published, along with the names of the other dead in action in late April 1943. On June 4, 1943, the London "Times" published a list of casualties in the field, among which Major Martin was also among them.And this list seamlessly proved to the Germans that Martin was completely authentic.

As the British spy agency expected, the German side carefully studied the secret documents and the items carried by "Major Martin" and submitted a report to Hitler.The report claims: The reliability of the document is beyond doubt.Hitler was overjoyed when he got the information, so on May 1943, 5, Hitler held a combat meeting of the Supreme Command.He ordered: "All German military commands related to the defense of the Mediterranean Sea should coordinate quickly and closely, concentrate all forces and weapons, and complete the assembly and deployment of Sardinia and Peloponnese before June 15." According to Hitler's deployment, Marshal Rommel was sent to Greece to organize an army group, and together with the 6st Armored Division transferred from southern France, set up three lines of defense in the Aegean Sea in eastern Greece.Hitler drew two more armored divisions from the Soviet-German battlefield and ordered them to arrive in Greece within 30 days.At the same time, Hitler sent the SS brigade to Sardinia and took armored units from Sicily to strengthen the defense of Corsica.But in Sicily, where the Allies were supposed to land, the defenses were relatively weak.

On July 1943, 7, the Allied forces were preparing to land in Sicily. The weather changed suddenly that day. At night, the Allied forces concentrated their main forces and landed in Sicily. This was absolutely unexpected for the German army. On August 9, the Allied forces successfully landed in Sicily and completely occupied Sicily.In this battle, the German and Italian troops suffered 8 casualties and 17 prisoners. In addition, they lost 3.3 tanks, 13.2 cannons, and 260 aircraft.The "Operation Meat" plan, which was false and genuine, helped the Allied forces successfully capture the strategically significant Sicily, accelerating the pace of world anti-fascist victory.

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