The fall of Yifeng County is like a fuse, detonating this sudden battle, the Independent Brigade did not stop much after capturing Yifeng County, and rushed towards Gao'an without stopping, although the Japanese army also left a lot of defenders along the way, but the number of garrison troops serving as guard tasks is small and the combat effectiveness is not strong, under the rough attack of the Independent Brigade is like a thin film was pierced, and in three days the five county towns along the way were all taken down by the Independent Brigade, On the afternoon of the fourth day, the vanguard of the Independent Brigade had already reached the city of Gao'an.

In three days, the troops attacked and advanced 180 kilometers and captured five county towns, and such a feat shook the entire headquarters of the 11th Army and also alarmed the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army, and for a time the eyes of the entire North China Front Army were turned to Gao'an.

"What the hell is going on, how the hell is Okamura Ninji doing? Three days...... There are only three days, five county towns have been captured in three days, and at least 4,000 imperial warriors have all been shattered, is this how Okamura Ninji commanded the war? ”

In the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army in Suzhou, Tada Jun was furious in the office, and all the officers in the room were silent. To say that Tada Jun's temper on weekdays is okay, he rarely loses his temper, but when he saw the telegram forwarded by the Eleventh Army today, he couldn't help it, and threw the telegram in his hand on the ground and yelled at the staff officers in front of him.

The staff officers were also looking at each other, and no one dared to come forward to touch this mold at this time, and at this time, a somewhat cynical voice sounded at the door, "Tada-kun, don't worry, just let Okamura Ningji deal with this kind of thing, we just need to urge Okamura to pay attention to this matter, there is no need to make such a big fuss." ”

When everyone looked up, it turned out to be Ishihara Wan'er, who was dressed in military uniforms and dusty and carrying a briefcase in his hand, standing at the door, looking at everyone with a smile.

See Ishihara Waner. The staff officers who were originally silent showed a relieved look on their faces, and this person should be fine when he arrives. Although he had not been in North China for a long time to send troops, everyone knew that Commander Tada trusted him the most.

Seeing Ishihara Wan'er coming, Tada Jun's originally angry eyes instantly showed a hint of joy, and his anger immediately weakened a little, looking at several staff officers standing on the side with their hands hanging down and waved their hands impatiently, these staff officers hurriedly ran away like an amnesty, and then Tada Jun said in a complaining tone: "Ishihara-kun, something big has happened in the past few days when you are away, and the Nanchang area is now about to be turned upside down." ”

"I know." Ishihara walked over to Tada's desk and left his briefcase on the coffee table. He sat on the chair with his ass, raised Erlang's legs very disregardantly of the image, and then lifted the teapot and poured a glass of water and drank it in one gulp, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief: "Alas...... I've been exhausted for the past few days. ”

Seeing Ishihara's lazy appearance, Rao is Tada Jun knew his virtue and couldn't help but be angry and funny: "Ishihara-kun, did you hear me speak?" ”

"I heard you!" Ishihara Wan'er still looked lazy and said: "I heard from the staff officers outside when I came in, didn't I just lose a few county seats, the sky hasn't fallen yet, and the commander Okamura Ningji is not in a hurry." What are you anxious about? Aren't you responding to the words of the emperor that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry. ”

"You ......" Tada Jun was originally so angry that he raised his eyebrows, but soon pointed at Ishihara helplessly: "You...... I found it a mistake to transfer you to North China, and I would have to live at least a few years less to have you as my chief of staff. ”

"That's right, please report to the base camp. Ask to transfer me back to the mainland, anyway, I don't want to go to Manchuria, and it's not interesting to have that Tojo senior soldier when I go back. "Ishihara is still the same indifferent look.

"Aren't you in a hurry when the people launch a counterattack?"

"What am I anxious about?" Ishihara Wan'er said disdainfully: "The counterattack launched by the people of China this time is nothing more than that Nanchang was captured in a hurry, so they must desperately recapture Nanchang." Okamura Ningji still has more than 100,000 troops near Nanchang, how can Nanchang be so easy to lose, I don't understand why you are so anxious to jump like your home is on fire. It's not like your Tada style. ”

Tada Jun said helplessly: "If I usually don't worry, but you also know that this time is different from the past, the two people sent by the base camp are still staying in the headquarters, if they go back and crook their mouths, we won't be able to eat and walk around." ”

"If they want to make a small report, let them do it." Ishihara Wan'er sneered: "Fighting a war is naturally about losing and winning, if you lose a battle, you have to worry about being punished, who dares to command the battle, Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki Seishiro, one of them is the director of education, and the other is the minister of war, so they don't even know such a shallow truth, right?" ”

Tada Jun shook his head and said: "That being said, in just three days, five county towns have been lost, and more than 4,000 warriors have broken jade, this is not a trivial matter, and we will be reprimanded." ”

"Then let them reprimand." Ishihara waved his hand impatiently: "Isn't the jade shatter of more than 4,000 warriors amazing?" It's just a matter of putting up more tablets in the Yasukuni Shrine, don't you even see through this? There are more important things waiting for us to deal with, and it would be nice to leave this little matter to Okamura. ”

"More important?" Tada Jun looked at Ishihara Waner with some doubts.

Ishihara didn't speak, he reached out and took the briefcase from the coffee table, took out a document and handed it to Tada.

Tada Jun took the document and looked at it, but the more he looked at it, the more serious his expression became, and finally frowned: "Ishihara-kun, when did this happen?" ”

"About a week ago, at that time, the special high-tech specially reported to you, but it didn't attract your attention, so I had to make a trip myself."

Although there was no tone of blame in Ishihara's words, Tada Jun already felt a little ashamed, but he quickly put this unnecessary emotion behind him and asked, "Ishihara-kun, what did those cryptographers say after you arrived in Beiping?" ”

Speaking of this, Ishihara's expression also began to become serious, "Those cryptographic experts in the empire said that although the password of the original government of China has changed frequently, it has never changed from it, and the back and forth is nothing more than a few changes, but this time the encryption experts of the empire found that the people of China are using a brand-new coding method that we have never seen before, and the letter frequency analysis method commonly used by experts does not work." The experts told me that although they had received the complete message from Chongqing many times, they had not been able to decipher the message after many experiments, and after more than a week of intense analysis by the experts, they found that the encryption possibility of this kind of cipher was as high as 100 million. ”

"Nani? More than 100 million? ”

Hearing this, Tada Jun couldn't help but be shocked, in this era, such a complex and changeable code means that it is almost impossible to decipher.

"Do you figure out what the hell is going on?" Tada Jun asked nervously.

Ishihara sat up straight and said word by word: "They said that according to the weak scientific and technological capabilities of the Shina government, it is logically impossible to design such a complex password, and the only possibility is that they have external support. ”

"External support? Who is it? Americans, British, or Soviets? Tada frowned.

Ishihara took a deep breath: "Then I made a special trip to Shanghai to visit the head of the Tufeiyuan Agency, he went through an intense investigation, and finally the information that came from below was that Chongqing obtained a brand-new cipher machine more than ten days ago, the origin of this cipher machine is still unknown, but according to the tense investigation of the special high-tech department, the degree of secrecy of this cipher machine is very high. Moreover, this kind of cipher machine is only equipped at the level of the group army and the corps, and no one is allowed to approach it except for the telegraph operators who have been strictly vetted, and our intelligence personnel do not even have the opportunity to get close to this kind of cipher machine. ”

Hearing this, Tada Jun was surprised: "The degree of secrecy is so high? ”

"Yes!" Ishihara continued: "However, Dohira-kun told me that he suspected that this cipher machine was most likely from Germany, and that it was also the most complex and difficult to decipher Enigma cipher machine. ”

"Enigma cipher machine?" Tada Jun couldn't help but gasp, how did he not know this famous cipher machine, but then he couldn't help but shake his head and said: "This is impossible, this kind of cipher machine is Germany's top secret, and the Germans will not allow them to flow outside, because this means that the German team's communication is no longer secret to China." But no one with a modicum of right mind would make such a mistake. ”

"That's why I'm annoyed too!" Ishihara was also very distressed and knocked his head with his hand: "Even elementary school students know the importance of cipher machines, how can the Germans be so stupid." ”

The two looked at each other in distress for a long time, and finally could only look at each other helplessly and shake their heads, and finally had no choice but to give up......

And just when Ishihara Waner and Tada Jun were about to report this matter to the base camp, Okamura Ningji, who was far away in Wuhan, was also in a panic, because he had just received a telegram and learned that the 58th and 60th armies of the national army had suddenly appeared in the direction of Fengxin and Anyi, and were launching a fierce attack on these two places. Okamura's emergency assistant An Yi and the 42nd Brigade of the 16th Division issued a strict order that they must hold on, and sent the 16th Division to rush to the rescue.

It's just that before he could catch his breath, another flash of electricity came from the front, and the 32nd Group Army of the Third Theater suddenly attacked Nanchang from the direction of due south of Nanchang, which immediately caught Okamura Ningji off guard...... (To be continued.) )