Chapter 46: The Tunnel

When the Japanese army was attacking Echeng with all their might, they never expected that behind them, in the direction of Tieshan, suddenly, hundreds of shells were fired, and the shells accurately blew up the Japanese army's offensive formation into a chaotic situation.

Then, behind the three divisions of the Japanese army, which had been exhausted from the long battle, the elite Chinese troops of two armies stormed over.

For this sudden accident, the division commanders of the three divisions of the Japanese army panicked, they did not expect that the Chinese army sent a miracle soldier, falling from the sky, and the number reached more than 60,000 people, they had blocked the retreat of the Japanese army.

Moreover, this army was not like other troops, they were generous, and the shells were bombarded indiscriminately, and the Japanese army finally retreated after the failure of the defense.

But their retreat is only the Yangtze River, and this side of the river is a slaughterhouse, and if they want to survive, they can only swim across the Yangtze River to the opposite side.

So, under the pursuit of the Chinese army, the Japanese soldiers jumped to the Yangtze River like dumplings falling into the water. The river was so fierce that many Japanese soldiers were swallowed by it.

The Japanese troops who were not drowned, but also the officers and men of the two armies on the shore practiced live targets.

When there were no more Japanese soldiers on this side of the river, the commanders of the three divisions who had fled to the other side of the river cried as soon as they counted the numbers.

Of each division and regiment in Pingyuan, only half of the brigade remained, and there were only more than 5,000 people.

The total number of the three divisions was only 15,000, and most of the rest of the Japanese troops died in the Yangtze River. A small number died on the other side of the river.

The fleeing Japanese troops had no heavy weapons and could be eaten by the Chinese army at any time.

They asked the Japanese garrison command for tactical guidance. It is hoped that the Xishui battlefield will be withdrawn as soon as possible.

At this time, the Japanese command was in a mess.

The changes on the battlefield made the Japanese commander panic, how did China's 70,000 elites fly out of Jigong Mountain?

The current situation of the battle was very unfavorable for the Japanese army, and the five divisions were caught in the Xishui battlefield, and it was likely that the whole army would be wiped out.

Xianning's three divisions are also facing difficulties, and China has mobilized five divisions of nearly 60,000 men from Yueyang to support the Xianning battlefield. And the three divisions in Jingzhou are also moving towards this side.

If they do not withdraw, and let the three divisions of Xianning fall into the encirclement of 1780,000 Chinese troops, then the whole situation will be destroyed.

In order to rescue the Japanese troops in the Xishui Battlefield, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the United States, Britain and other countries to work around and put pressure on China to withdraw the Japanese troops in the Xishui Battlefield to Jiujiang and the Japanese troops in the Xianning Outer Battlefield to Tongshan.

Under pressure from several Western countries, the old man finally agreed to the Japanese armistice demands.

The remaining 50,000 Japanese troops on the Xishui battlefield withdrew to Jiujiang, and when they came out, more than 120,000 Japanese troops retreated, and less than half of them retreated.

More than 50,000 Japanese troops on the Xianning battlefield withdrew to Xianning. Only more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers died.

On the Chinese side, more than 50,000 people were killed and wounded on the battlefield of Xianning. More than 40,000 people were killed and wounded on the Xishui battlefield. The Battle of Wuhan, which had been abandoned halfway, ended in only seven days from the beginning of the battle to the armistice.

The Chinese soldiers suffered 100,000 casualties, while the Japanese suffered more than 70,000 casualties.

At this point, neither side had the strength to start a war, and the Battle of Wuhan was declared over.

After the war, military experts from various countries called Wuhan one after another, asking how the First Army and the First Army flew out of the lofty mountains of Jigong Mountain.

At the strong request of various countries, the old man was forced to announce the situation of Jigong Mountain.

It turns out that there is a natural cave at the foot of Jigong Mountain, which runs through the entire Jigong Mountain. When the Xishui front was in an emergency, the * Army and the * * Army marching to the foot of Jigong Mountain rushed through the mountain through the cave in order to rescue, and went straight to the Iron Mountain.

Just as the three divisions of the Japanese army were going all out to besiege the 20,000 men defending China, the *Army and the ** Army attacked from their butts and caught them off guard.

When military experts from various countries got the information, they said one by one: God favored the Chinese and let the Chinese escape.

In fact, after receiving Zhou Lin's information, the old man decided to hide the strange soldiers.

The strange soldier is Jigong Mountain, and only two or three people at the top know about the situation.

When Xue Yue came to accept the order, the old man told Xue Yue about Jigong Mountain.

After he let Xue Yue enter the foot of Jigong Mountain, he stopped advancing.

If the two divisions of the Japanese army went to support Xianning, then Xue Yue would go to support Xianning. If the two divisions of the Japanese army returned to support the Japanese troops on the Xishui front, then Xue Yue led his troops to quickly pass through the ancient cave of Jigong Mountain and stab the enemy in the ass.

Therefore, when Xue Yue's front troops arrived at Jigong Mountain, they blocked the surrounding area for fifty kilometers on the one hand, and contacted the military commanders in the valley on the other.

After the rendezvous, Xue Yue personally walked to the ancient cave.

In fact, it is no longer appropriate to say that the ancient cave, because the cave has been re-expanded and reinforced.

In order to win the battle, the old man gave a large amount of money to the sappers who repaired the caves, so that they could repair the tunnels that had passed through the car cannons.

When the defenders of Echeng were in danger, the old man ordered Xue Yue to cross the cave.

So, the odd soldiers flew out and caught the Japanese by surprise.

The day after the war, intelligence officers from various countries visited Jigong Mountain.

The Japanese also sent an intelligence group of more than a dozen people to try to enter Jigong Mountain.

However, the ancient cave of Jigong Mountain has been placed under martial law and is not allowed to enter or exit.

In the end, it was the representatives of the United States, Britain and Germany who strongly demanded that they be allowed to enter the cave.

The Japanese did not go in, but they found out the information they wanted to know from the mouths of the American, British and German people: there was a hole in the cave of Jigong Mountain with a diameter of 10 meters wide and 10 meters high, and tanks could cross it.

When this information was reported to the headquarters of the Japanese army in China, the Japanese commander was so angry that he wanted to kill people. With such a big loophole, why didn't anyone report it to him in advance?

Examine! Keep checking to the end! Who made a mistake and caused such a big loss to the imperial army.

First of all, why is there no Jigong Mountain in Wuhan's military arrangement plan?

Zhou Lin was called to the military police headquarters and interrogated by the investigation team of the Japanese army headquarters.

"Why is there no Jigong Mountain in the Wuhan plan you bought?" The leader of the investigation team, a Japanese major general, asked.

Zhou Lin replied: "I don't know, the information given to me is not Jigong Mountain." ”

Finally, the leader of the investigation team asked Zhou Lin to telegraph to Wang Jie, why did the information sold not explain the situation of Jigong Mountain?

Dai Li, who received Zhou Lin's telegram, saw between the lines that Zhou Lin was interrogated.

So, a telegram from Wang Jie came back an hour later.

"The Wuhan layout information we gave you is 100% the same as the Wuhan layout plan of the Wuhan base camp. There is no Jigong Mountain in the layout plan of the Wuhan base camp. Here's an inside scoop. The matter concerning the ancient cave of Jigong Mountain was under the personal control of the chairman of the National Military Command Bureau. Before Xue Yue received the order to cross the ancient cave, only the chairman of the committee and the director of the Military Command Bureau knew about the Wuhan side, and the rest of the people who knew the inside story were all detained in Jigong Mountain, and they have not been released yet. So the problem is not with me. ”

After ordering the guards to send Zhou Lin back to the temporary detention room, the head of the investigation team interrogated several people from the intelligence department and came to a conclusion: The person who formulated the battle plan of the Wuhan Military Commission did not formulate Jigongshan. It can be seen from this that the operation of Jigongshan was personally controlled by Jiang in Wuhan and did not belong to the battle plan.

So, Zhou Lin regained his freedom and was released.

Zhou Lin, who was released, expressed his displeasure in front of Yamada and Ozaki for the first time: "Two uncles! Don't let me do this thankless thing again. ”

Ozaki smiled: "Upset? Even we are quarantined and reviewed, what are you unhappy about the review? As long as the problem is cleared up, it proves that you are okay. ”

Zhou Lin thought about it, even Yamada and Ozaki, as well as several senior officials in the war room, were interrogated, so what are they? Hurriedly said: "The trial is healthier!" Trials are healthier! ”

Several people laughed in unison, this guy is a living treasure.

However, this review incident made Zhou Lin targeted by the chief of staff of the Japanese army in China.

In addition to the situation in Jigong Mountain, the information provided by Zhou Lin is very accurate, which shows that the intelligence network in Zhou Lin's hands is very good.

He proposed to Ozaki and Yamada that Zhou Lin give up the intelligence network.

But Yamada and Ozaki disagreed at the same time, because the other party only recognized Zhou Lin alone, and he didn't take any other person's photos.

As a result, the Japanese army stationed in China set up a special group, and the task of this group was to obtain more information through the intelligence network in Zhou Lin's hands.

This group was headed by Ozaki and Yamada. Because they were originally intelligence officers, they also had an indirect relationship with Zhou Lin's grandfather.

The news that the Japanese had set up an independent department for Zhou Lin was spread by the CCP and the personnel from Wuhan who broke into the headquarters of the Japanese army in China.

Both Wuhan and Yan'an received the notice, but their attitudes differed.

Yan'an is worried about Zhou Lin, because Zhou Lin's words and deeds will be monitored by the Japanese, and it is no longer as convenient as before.

Wuhan was happy, because Zhou Lin was valued by the top brass of the Japanese garrison, which was of great help to the future war situation.

And Zhou Lin, who got the news through Li Qiang and Yang Kun, wanted to cry.

This is inconvenient in the future, and it is estimated that someone will pay attention to sleeping. Fortunately, he and Xiangjun really got married, otherwise the Japanese would find out that the two were fake, and the game would be over.

In the future, Li Qiang must not jump over the wall, and Xiangjun must not meet with Li Qiang, so as not to let the enemy get involved.

Yang Kun said that after all, the tea house is a public place, and rich people like it.

But he should also try to avoid contact with Yang Kun alone, so as not to bring danger to Yang Kun.

On June 14, inside the airport of Pearl, Shunichi Yoshikawa personally watched Sakurako board the plane to Japan.

From the thirteenth to the fifteenth of each month, the chief of staff of the Navy will go to the resort to recuperate in the hot springs.

So Yoshikawa and his family in Japan discussed with Sakurako, and on June 14, the family's plan to go to the United States was officially implemented.

Thanks to Smith's help, the Yoshikawa family and Sakurako's family, including Sakurako, have already applied for visas to go to the United States.

And I bought a passenger ferry ticket to the United States at 7 p.m. on June 14.

According to the plan, Yoshikawa personally sent Sakurako into the airport and escorted Sakurako to the plane.

Everything went smoothly, at seven o'clock in the evening of June 14, Sakurako and her two families boarded the American passenger ship, as long as the passenger ship left the Japanese waters, the Japanese side knew that she had escaped and could not stop the ship, this was an American passenger ship.

Before boarding the passenger ship, Sakurako made a phone call to a friend. After that, her friend called Yoshikawa: "The cherry blossoms are blooming!" ”

This is an appointment in advance, which means that Sakurako has safely boarded the ship and left the port.

Yoshikawa relieved himself and thought that he was going to have tea, so he came to his private room.

As soon as I entered the private room, I found Zhou Lin's code.

Yoshikawa went to the dark room and took out the contents of the dark room.

A letter, Yoshikawa burned it immediately after reading it, and there was no hidden danger left.

There is also a beautiful Japanese saber, Yoshikawa knows at a glance: this is a samurai sword worn by the Japanese royal family.

In the letter, Zhou Lin told Yoshikawa that because Yoshikawa had $100,000 in funds all of a sudden, the Japanese would definitely check him.

Zhou Lin told Yoshikawa how to deal with the Japanese military's censorship.

and told Yoshikawa that this contact location could no longer be used, and the new location would be notified to him when Zhou Lin arranged it. As for the method of notification, I will see it in the Pearl Daily.

As long as there is a search for a freckled cousin in the newspaper, it is looking for Yoshikawa.

At that time, we will go to the banquet building to meet according to the time and method in the newspaper.

Yoshikawa sat in the private room and drank tea for a while, then left the tea house with a settled mood and returned to the naval headquarters.

On the evening of June 15, when the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy returned to Sakurako's residence, he found that Sakurako was gone, and after waiting for several hours, Sakurako still did not find anyone.

As a result, the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy ordered a search and notified the police station.

At noon on June 16, the chief of staff got the news that Sakurako had left Mingzhu by plane on the morning of June 14 and went to Japan.

Called Sakurako's house in Japan, no one answered the phone.

The Japanese police were entrusted to help find out, and it turned out that Sakurako's family had taken a passenger ferry to the United States at 7 p.m. on June 14 and went to the United States.

At this time, the chief of staff knew that Sakurako had flown away from the palm of his hand.

The reluctant chief of staff contacted his naval friends in Japan, hoping that they would stop the American passenger liner. He was going to take the woman back and torture her to death.

A few hours later, a friend of the Japanese Navy called back that the American passenger liner had left Japan's territorial waters for thousands of miles, and that there was an American warship escorting it.

The Japanese military did not dare to move, let alone an ordinary Japanese woman, even a criminal wanted by Japan, and it was impossible to intercept it.

The chief of staff of the Japanese Navy, through the police in Japan, found out that Yoshikawa and Sakurako were an unmarried couple, and then realized that he had been tricked.

But although Yoshikawa is a staff officer, he is in charge, and he can find a way to make Yoshikawa die.

But Yoshikawa didn't do anything wrong, and there was no war, so he couldn't find Yoshikawa's fault, so he couldn't deal with Yoshikawa on the surface.

The chief of staff found a few Black Dragon Society people to deal with Yoshikawa, but Yoshikawa just didn't leave the port.

The last few members of the Black Dragon Society couldn't help it and rushed into the port, looking for Shunichi Yoshikawa everywhere.

At this moment, everyone knew about the contradiction between Yoshikawa and the chief of staff.

Yoshikawa took this opportunity and ran to the office of the commander of the Japanese army in China.

"I'm Shunichi Yoshikawa, the fifteenth-generation descendant of the third branch of the Yoshikawa family." As soon as Yoshikawa entered the office, he saluted and reported to his home.

It turned out that the commander was also from the Yoshikawa family, but he was a descendant of the Orthodox.

The commander glanced at Yoshikawa: "What's the matter?" ”

General Yoshikawa spoke out about the conflict with the chief of staff: "I ask His Excellency the Commander to help me maintain the dignity of the Yoshikawa family. ”

As soon as he heard Yoshikawa Shunichi's words, the commander's face turned blue and he scolded: "What kind of Yoshikawa family dignity are you upholding?" The wife has been occupied, but she has swallowed her anger for so long. You are a disgrace to the Yoshikawa family. ”

When Yoshikawa heard this, he scolded loudly: "I'm not wrong! I enlisted in the army and fought for my country! I'm bringing glory to my family. However, who deliberately manipulated me and ruined the reputation of my Yoshikawa family, and even recruited my fiancée. It's shame on them. ”

The commander sighed and comforted Yoshikawa, "Many wives have been drafted!" Besides, you're just a fiancée. There is no place for redress. This is the end of the matter. ”

"But the chief of staff won't stop, today he sent someone from the Black Dragon Society to beat me, and tomorrow he will find an excuse for me to die." Shunichi Yoshikawa said fearfully.