V. Conspiracy to Win Over Wu Peifu
After the Lugouqiao Incident, the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders wreaked havoc everywhere and quickly occupied a large area of land in North China, Central China, and South China. At the same time, Japan also supported the traitors Wang Kemin, Liang Hongzhi, etc., established puppet regime in Peiping and Nanjing, and supported Demuchukdong Lupu to establish the puppet Mengjiang Joint Committee in Zhang Jiakou. The Japanese fascist government planned to unify these scattered political powers and launch a "central government" headed by Wu Peifu. In order to plan this matter, the Japanese military once again pushed Dohihara Kenji to the forefront. Prior to this, Dohihara had been transferred back to China in March 1936 as the commander of the 1st division. In March 1937, he was appointed as the commander of the 14th division of Utsunomiya. After the July 7 Incident, Tufei Yuan was ordered to lead troops to North China. After the Tufei Yuan Corps arrived in Peiping in mid-late August, they began to move south after a short rest. After conquering Baoding, they invaded along the lines of Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Handan, Ci County, Daming, Anyang, and Xinxiang, reaching the Yellow River Ferry. Because of the "rapid march", Dohihara was touted by the Japanese newspapers as "a star in the North China battlefield".
In May 1938, the Tufei Yuan Corps crossed the Yellow River from Changyuan and entered the Longhai Road area, preparing to invade Zhengzhou. The situation of the war at that time was very dangerous for the Chinese army. Once Zhengzhou was lost, the Japanese army could go south along the Pinghan Road. In this way, the situation in Wu Han would be precarious. In this situation, Jiang then decided to burn his bridges and blow up the Yellow River embankment to prevent the Japanese army from advancing. On June 9th, the Guomindang army blew up the levees at Huayuankou. In an instant, the eastern part of Henan fell into a sea of Wang Yang. At this moment, the Tufei Yuan Corps happened to be surrounded. He could only lead his troops to the railway embankment or higher terrain to escape. The Doheihara Corps was trapped by the flood for more than a month before they were rescued by the Japanese engineering team. After that, Dohihara was recalled to the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters. The experience at the entrance of the Shuhua Garden made Tufei Yuan terrified. He realized that his " battlefield " was not a face-to-face melee, but a stage of " strategy " to scheme and plot. Therefore, when he received the order from the military, Tufei Yuan gladly went. According to the plan of the Japanese cabinet meeting, a "Special Committee on China" was set up, with a leading group consisting of Kenji Doihara, Tsuba Shizuka, and Banshi Rihachi, representing the Army, Navy, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The soil-fertilizer principle was appointed as the person in charge because he was "young, strong, and experienced". Later on, the committee was called the "Tufei Yuan Organization" because of this. The committee's office was located in a villa near Hongkou Park in Shanghai. This was also the residence of Tufei Yuan, and he named it "Chongguang Hall".
From then on, the Dohihara Agency had become the largest and most authoritative secret agency in Japan. Through Tanaka Takayoshi, Kagesa Sadaki, Takeo Imai, and other trusted aides, Dohihara had set up many branches. Thousands of spies under him were spread all over the country, and they began a large-scale " luring and assassination work." The first goal determined by Koutu Feiyuan was to try to lure Jin Yunpeng, Tang Shaoyi, and Wu Peifu out of the mountain. At the same time, he also instructed the branches to carry out the "Tong Work" and "Watanabe Work" with Jiang Jieshi's ruling center and Wang Jingwei as the main targets. For a time, the "Tufei Yuan Organization" spread a huge net among the political figures of the Kuomingtang. Feiyuan's work with Jin Yunpeng and Tang Shaoyi was not progressing smoothly. Jin Yunpeng was originally a pro-Japanese faction in the Beiyang government, but after he stepped down in 1921, he first cooperated with the Japanese tycoons to run an industry for a period of time. Later, he cut his hair and became a monk. He no longer cared about government affairs and responded coldly to the proposal of the "Tufei Yuan Organization" to invite him out of the mountain.
Originally, the Tufei Plain organization had already begun to work on Tang Shaoyi. Tufei Plain had personally lobbied Tang in September 1938, but not long after, Tang was killed by the military secret agents sent by Dai Li, causing all the early work in Tufei Plain to be aborted. Then, the only one left was Wu Peifu, which was also the initial focus of the Tufei Plain Agency. Wu Peifu used to be one of the leaders of the direct line and had a lot of influence among the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. At this time, he lived in seclusion in Shijing Garden in Beiping for a long time. After the war began, Wu Peifu's private house became very lively. Other than some of his old subordinates who often visited, the spies under Tufei Yuan became frequent visitors. However, Wu Peifu never relented to the people of Tufei Plain. He often talked about other things with them, such as karma in religion. On the key issue of leaving the mountain, Wu Peifu's price was to establish his own army and government. And this was a condition that the Tufei Plains organization would never accept. Otherwise, it would be meaningless to pull Wu out of the mountain. In contrast to the slow progress in the north, the work in the south was smooth sailing. Codenamed "Watanabe Work", the work of luring Wang Jingwei to surrender had made great progress. Wang Jingwei was not only willing to set up another government and cut off his relationship with Jiang Jieshi, but also sent representatives to actively contact the core figures of the "Dohei Hara Organization", Yingzuo Zhenzhao and Imai Takeo, to formulate a detailed action plan. The fact that Wang Jingwei was so easily roped in by Tuoba made Dohihara Kenji very excited. He began to plan again. If Wang Jingwei could set up a separate central government to fight against Jiang Jieshi, and at the same time do a good job in Wu Peifu's work, then the military and political power would be in his hands. A "government" that obeyed Japan would be realized in the hands of my Dohihara. This would be an outstanding meritorious service to the Japanese Empire. Kenji Doihara, this name will definitely be remembered in the history of the Japanese Empire…
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