Chapter Thirty-Six: Protecting the Sword with Life
In Mr. Zhao's narration, my father Huang Weiguo seemed to listen very carefully. Mr. Zhao said, in fact, the backup system is the customary name of Tek, and the so-called Sword of the Protector plan is actually about the backup system, the content is that we want to store a secret national force, and the time point of opening is that it must be opened when the country is in danger, and the person in charge and implementer of the plan is C and Huang Weiguo's father Huang Kexing. Despite the high degree of secrecy, the plan became known to the Japanese Kagesa secret service. That was in the winter of 1937.
The winter of 1937 was one of the coldest in China, and on December 31, 1937, the Japanese army carried out the Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing. The sky in Nanjing is not full of winter snow, but the blood of the Chinese. From the sky of Nanjing to the Yangtze River, there is blood. Those souls who have nowhere to return make the night in Nanjing full of coldness, sadness, and fear, but this is only the beginning of suffering.
The Japanese claimed to have destroyed China in three months, and this massacre was an attempt by Japan to take the opportunity to completely destroy the will of the Chinese and achieve the goal of destroying China by destroying their hearts.
In the face of the perils of the country and the nation, on the one hand, the organization put forward the strategic decision of fighting a protracted war, and on the other hand, it actively promoted the anti-Japanese national united front to resist Japanese aggression. However, in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's hesitation to fight or not, Tekko proposed a plan to establish a secret army to deal with the extreme danger of the country and the nation, and this plan was approved by the organization, and named "The Sword of Protecting the Country", with the rank of the organization's top secret. The leader of the program is C, and my grandfather Huang Kexing is the specific implementer of the program. As for the specific content and implementation rules of the plan, in addition to the old K, it is C and my grandfather Huang Kexing. There is no record of the "Sword of Protection" scheme, which they are accustomed to calling "backup system".
From 1937 to 1945, my grandfather constantly went to Yan'an from the Southwest Associated University in Kunming, Yunnan Province, to develop young intellectuals, and also sent young people with special talents from various ethnic minorities to Yan'an. In Yan'an, this secret army was directly led by Lao K alone, and no one knew who Lao K was. The school exists independently, does not have any contact with any other unit, has no number, does not have any files, except for special talents, only young people who have a bachelor's degree and are politically completely reliable and qualified by the organization are qualified to enter this group, and the comrades who receive training are all individual individuals, and comrades cannot have any contact with each other, and each of them must have the ability to fight independently, survive alone, and complete tasks alone. It can be said that the existence of each of them is a sharp sword and steel knife, so it is called the sword of protecting the country. Therefore, the existence of the sword of the protector is also a non-existence. That's why it's called a backup system. The purpose of the "backup system" is to open it when the country and the nation are in the most difficult times, so as to assume the responsibility of protecting the country.
But this secret was still known to the Japanese secret services.
Shanghai, China, autumn 1940.
The Japanese Shadow Organ Shadow Sasa Akira said to Yoshiko Kawashima: "Tell me what kind of woman a woman like C is?" It seems that all our torture can't make her speak, and she is not a god, is there no pain in her body? In the face of torture, everyone, as long as he is an animal, then his strength to endure and support is limited after all, and if he exceeds the limit, he will collapse. I've been thinking about the question, is she still human or not? But can she not be human? She's human. β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Yoshiaki, "If a person has the will not to be afraid of death, then we have nothing to do with her." For example, I can do anything to get revenge. βγ
Kagesa Zhenzhao felt a chill in his heart, and said to Yoshiko Kawashima, "What you told me is not the same thing. Being able to do anything and being able to endure anything are two different things. I can honestly say that torture is a form of violence in the first place, so why do we use it? Because it is most powerful for human beings. No matter who you are, you are helpless in the face of torture, what will, loyalty, faith? They are vulnerable to torture. For example, Miss Yoshiko, can you stand it? I can't stand it. I asked myself, and I couldn't stand it either. Who isn't afraid of death? The fear is that you will have to endure terrible pain that is more than a hundred times a thousand times greater than death. In our experience, the raison d'Γͺtre of torture, no matter what kind of hero you are, what kind of iron will you have, you have to kneel in the face of torture. So, I'm interested in what kind of person this C really is. I'm wondering, if any of their swords of protection are like this, what are we going to do to defeat them? β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Zhenaki: "Chief, torture only brings physical pain, and what the Chinese are best at is not torture."
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima, "What's that?"
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Akira Kagesa Zhenzhao, "Punish the heart."
Kage Satsuaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima: "I understand what you said, what the Chinese pay attention to is attacking the city and attacking the heart, is this what it means?" How can you attack the heart when torture can't do it? β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Akira Kagesaki, "I found a weapon for the head of the agency to deal with C."
Kagesa Zhenzhao said to Yoshiko Kawashima, "What kind of sharp weapon?"
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Akira Kagesa Zhenzhao: According to our investigation, this C is indeed an important figure in the Central Special Branch. Her original name was Zhou Qiaoshui, which means to attack the weakest in the world and the strongest in the world. Water is probably the weakest thing, but it can wash away everything, or rather, it means to overcome rigidity with softness. It was her father who gave her the name, her father's name was Zhou Qiangjian, this person was a well-known capitalist in Shanghai, and her mother's name was Lin Ruoqin. This Zhou Xiaoshui, named C, is the only daughter of the Zhou family. C went to Yan'an after studying in the Soviet Union. Participated in the Long March of the Red Army.
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima, "Are you sure? β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Zhenzhao: Of course, I have already arrested them.
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima, "You mean to use her parents as a deal to force C to compromise?" β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Akira Kagesa Zhenaki, "Yes." I'm sure it will work. β
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima: Then, just try.
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Zhenaki: "People, I have already brought it, and we will start now."
Yoshiko Kawashima asked someone to bring C's father, Zhou Qiangjian and Lin Ruoqin, in.
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima: Are they really C's father and mother?
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Zhenaki: When we get to the interrogation room, we will know everything.
Zhou Qiangjian and Lin Ruoqin were brought to the interrogation room C, and when they saw C, Lin Ruoqin fainted on the spot and was carried out of the interrogation room.
C said: Dad, I didn't expect to meet you in such a place, my daughter is not filial.
Zhou Qiangjian said to Shadow Showa and Yoshiko Kawashima: What do you need? If only you can spare my daughter, I will give you all my possessions.
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Zhou Qiangjian: Your daughter committed the crime of killing her head. We don't want your property, as long as she is willing to tell the Sword of Protector plan, we can let her live.
C faced his father: Still didn't say anything.
Yoshiko Kawashima took out a gun and shot Zhou Qiangjian's left leg, and C saw his father kneeling on the ground with one foot, bleeding all over the ground.
C's pain and struggle cannot be described in the words of the world.
At this time, Yoshiko Kawashima drew her sword and stabbed it into Zhou Qiangjian's chest, the terrible thing was that her sword did not pierce the fatal place, but it was enough to make the old man groan.
C said, "I cannot find the words to curse you, traitor, and you will be judged justly."
Yoshiko Kawashima: I'm not Han, so I'm not a traitor.
Kagesa sat next to him as if watching a play that had nothing to do with him. He wants to see how Yoshiko Kawashima punishes his heart.
Yoshiko Kawashima said: My performance today is just to kill your father, and tomorrow I will kill your mother. I just want to see how long you can hold out, as long as you say the Sword of Protector plan, this scene can be over, otherwise, after killing your mother, I will continue to kill, I will bring all the family members related to you to you, and let you see me kill them one by one. Only if you tell the Sword of Protector plan can you stop my butcher's knife.
C's body is as weak as a page of paper shaken in the wind, Kawashima Yoshiko uses torture to control C's body, so that C only has the strength to speak, but he doesn't have the strength to bite off his tongue, C said in a low voice like a mosquito, if you are a slave to the country, death is the best ending, you live, your traitor experience will be an eternal shame for your family, your butcher's knife is nothing, isn't Nanjing slaughtered by you? The result is a force for good. It's just my body that hurts, but you dog-like living soul, in the dark night, I'm sure you're going to curse yourself, because you know that you're just a Japanese dog.
Kawashima Yoshiko said: I'll let you see, is your mouth powerful, or my sword is powerful, as she spoke, another sword stabbed into Zhou Qiangjian's body.
Zhou Qiangjian groaned and said: Isn't the war you are waging to plunder the wealth of the Chinese? I will give you all the family business created by the Zhou family for several generations.
Yoshiko Kawashima said: The empire's hundreds of years of forbearance is to get China, your little wealth is just a drop of water in the Yangtze River, what we need is your daughter to tell the secret she knows.
Zhou Qiangjian didn't know the power that came from, and suddenly snatched the sword in Kawashima Yoshiko's hand and stabbed it at Kawashima Yoshiko, Kawashima Yoshiko quickly avoided it, Zhou Qiangjian stabbed the sword into his heart with his backhand, he used all his strength to die by himself, blood gushed out of his body, and hateful eyes looked at Kawashima Yoshiko and said: You will all go to hell.
Yoshiko Kawashima shot Zhou Qiangjian's body and said: You will go to hell first.
C looked at her father who had fallen to the ground, the tears that flowed and the blood that flowed out were mixed, and she was in pain that she couldn't even kneel down to see her father off.
Yoshiko Kawashima said to C: It's too late for you to compromise now, otherwise, tomorrow will be your mother's death. You see, they all died because of you.
C said to Yoshiko Kawashima: I don't know any plan to protect the country, you are just looking for a reason to kill.
Back to the office.
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Yoshiaki: "General, as far as I know, maybe this so-called "sword to protect the country" is a legend."
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima: "Even if it is a legend, we must find out the origin of this legend, and the essence of information is not to prove the truth, but to prove a lie." Because too much information is a lie, and the real truth lies behind the lie."
Yoshiko Kawashima said flatteringly to Kage Satsuaki: "The general really understands the Chinese better than the Chinese. β
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima: "I have been studying China for many years, and to be honest, I don't really understand China. Perhaps we in the Great Japanese Empire were too optimistic about this war, but I don't think so. Why don't we care so much about Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and focus too much on the study of Yan'an? Because Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang did not have a firm will and faith, Yan'an was different, they had a firm will and faith, and will and faith were the truly invincible force. So we have to find out what kind of plan the "Sword of Nation" plan is. Otherwise, even if our Great Japanese Empire defeated the Kuomintang, it would definitely fail, do you know what I mean? β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Zhenzhao: "It's still a general. β
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima, "What's the use of my mastery? Those fanatical soldiers did not think so, and they all thought that they would soon be able to occupy China, which was a foolish idea. β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Yoshiaki, "The general thinks very far. β
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima, "Can you do it if you don't want to go far?" War is only a violent revolutionary means, and our purpose in destroying this country is to gain it. β
Yoshiko Kawashima flattered Kasa Zhenaki and said, "The general is really a genius. β
Kagesa said to Yoshiko Kawashima: "I'm not a genius, I know myself, I'm just a rational and calm person, I want to make an accurate judgment for the empire, and the rest is not my business." β
The reason why Kage Zuo Zhenzhao has great curiosity about the "Sword of Protecting the Country" is because many pro-Japanese traitors and Japanese officers have died in unexplained assassinations, but Kage Zuo Zhenzhao's secret service does not know what force these people who carried out the assassination belong to at all, through investigation, these people are not the Kuomintang military commanders, nor Wang Jingwei's No. 76, and they have nothing to do with Yan'an, except that there is a unified sword logo on their arms, they don't know anything, and Kage Zuo Zhenzhao even suspects that these people belong to the civil anti-Japanese forcesBut what kind of non-governmental anti-Japanese organization can cultivate such a strong will and a belief in death? So he was terrified. Are these people related to some "sword to protect the country"? The secret services did not find any evidence, and it was this shadow of existence and nothingness that magnified Kagesa's fears step by step. Who can catch the air? The air is empty and real. In a fit of rage, Kage sent more than 30 suspected Chinese to the special forces for human experiments. Even so, there is still no knowledge of the so-called "sword of national protection".
Kagesa Yoshiaki said to Yoshiko Kawashima: "We have caught the important person C, and there are many people who are related to the so-called national defense plan, but no one can say clearly what the so-called national defense sword is all about, and the more this is the case, the more it shows that this plan really exists." There is also our system to detect that there is an openly called radio station in the Yunnan region, it is completely different from all the radio stations that exist now, we can monitor it, but we can't analyze and identify it at all, I speculate that its existence is related to the sword of national protection, we have the most advanced intelligence identification system in the world, but we can't identify an existing station, this is a potential threat to the empire, since we can't identify it, we will find it, destroy it. So your trip to Yunnan this time is shouldering the sacred mission of the empire, if you can't complete the task, you should know what to do? β
Yoshiko Kawashima said to Kagesa Yoshiaki, "Yoshiko will definitely be loyal to the emperor to the death. β
Kagesa said to Yoshiko Kawashima: "Death is the easiest thing in the world, death is for a better life, war is the same, the original meaning of war is not to slaughter, just like Nanjing, the purpose of our massacre is to destroy the heart, to completely destroy the will and faith of the Chinese, only in this way, can we completely destroy this country." Kage Zuo said as if to himself: "But we still underestimated or made a wrong judgment, and the firm will and faith in death displayed by the entire resistance force shown by the Chinese in the war made me see the future and outcome of this war. β
Yoshiko Kawashima said: I didn't expect this woman to be so decisive.