"Thank you for your cooperation, Miss Japanese Spy! I announce that at 3 p.m. today, you and your men will all be executed! Chen Tian put away the ridicule on his face and made a serious judgment.

"You ......" Li Gang wanted to stand up, but immediately heard the sound of bullets loading behind him, and Rainey's muzzle was already aimed at her forehead.

"No matter how fast you are, you can't beat our bullets!"

Chen Tian was very satisfied with the speed at which his guards drew their guns.

Li had to sit back in her chair honestly, in order not to leave a plausible excuse for the other party, she didn't carry any weapons today, and even if she did, she wouldn't be able to pass the extremely strict inspection before meeting Chentian.

Seeing that the other party did not intend to torture to extract a confession, she felt that she did not need to take measures to commit suicide for the time being.

All this is exactly what Chen Tian wants.

"This decision doesn't change depending on whether you give us everything or offer to work with us. You must die this afternoon! I think you should thank me, after all, I gave you a chance to end it happily! Chen Tian sat back in his chair with a relaxed face, in fact, he didn't want to know what happened at all, but in his impression, this kind of Japanese spy would rather die than speak, swallowing poison, biting his tongue, and forcing them is definitely not the best policy.

"Then we have to thank you, Your Royal Highness!" Li knew very well that he had just made an unforgivable mistake and lost himself in the other party's utterly counterintuitive words. When he completely lost control of the conversation, he made an instinctive rebuttal to Chentian's words.

Now, she had lost all hope and was only waiting for the afternoon shooting.

"If you have to thank me, I hope you'll satisfy my curiosity a little. You can tell us about your past without revealing confidentiality, and I don't think that's too much to ask! Chen Tian said lightly, "What you want to say is completely voluntary, you can take it as your last words, otherwise it will really be a little unclear!" ”

Not only her, but even Thomas was extremely surprised by Chentian's words.

She was silent.

"Can you tell me the real name of this woman I've been a friend and ally of all five years?" From her words, Chen Tian already clearly knew that she was not the so-called Korean princess, and she must be Japanese.

"Sakurako, Sakurako Yukino!"

"What a nice name!" Chen Tian said lightly, but in fact, there was a burst of joy in his heart, because this Japanese spy had gradually given up his psychological defense.

"Thank you!" Out of politeness, Sakurako whispered.

Chen Tian had already put away his previous tough tone, and the question at this time seemed a little careless.

"So the real Korean princess Lee Hyun-woon is dead?"

After thinking for a few seconds, Sakurako replied, "Military prostitute! ”

Chen Tian was not surprised, and he didn't even frown.

Poor Koreans, hateful Japanese! This is the case in the world of the jungle, where it is useless to rely on the sympathy of others.

"When I met you at Tokugawa's secret base five years ago, you were caught spying on the Tokugawa family!"

The oppressive atmosphere in the room was gone, and the cool autumn breeze blew in through the window and gently stroked Sakurako's beautiful hair.

"Yes! My superiors found out that the Tokugawa family was moving around very often in the shadows, so they sent me to investigate. It was that Nohara, the last shinobi of the legendary Iga, who captured me. A few days later, I met you, a German prince who claimed to be a German musician! ”

"But after Nohara put down Rainey that night, you hid behind me like a weak woman......" Tatsuten remembered the night that almost killed him, thanks to the sniper sent by Thomas. Now that I think about it, the escape experience that night was incredible.

"First, I'm far from being the opponent of the upper ninja, and second, it's you who want to stand in front of me!" Sakurako thinks for a few seconds before answering each question, and this question is the only one that can be answered without thinking.

Chen Tian smiled bitterly in his heart.

"But how did you infiltrate the Korean underground resistance and use your identity as a Korean princess?"

"Yes! As for the process of infiltrating them, sorry, this is our secret! ”

Chen Tian nodded, "I'm afraid some of the people you brought are real revolutionary fighters, but it's a pity that they all die in vain!" But that's how cruel the world is, isn't it? ”

"I have no comment on that!" Sakurako refused to answer all of these tentative questions, and Tatsuten had to give up similar efforts.

"The Japanese Army has developed a tank, and I think the relevant information was transmitted back from you!"

"Yes!" Sakurako replied calmly.

"But I think it's very strange that there are still many weapons in our army that the Japanese army does not have, so why are you only interested in tanks?"

Sakurako glanced at Chentian coldly, "No comment!" ”

"I guess as a good spy, you shouldn't miss a new weapon! So, did your military department screen them? Tatsuten still doesn't give up, this is actually the question he wants to know the most, because he can learn about the Japanese Army's weapons thinking from it.

Sakurako thought silently, Tatsuten's heart was also hanging in the air, he didn't want to hear the other party give an answer without comment.

After a while, Sakurako gave a satisfactory reply: "Your Royal Highness, you are a very shrewd person!" I did pass on everything I saw back to Japan, including all the new weapons and the training and tactical patterns of your army. As for how the Japanese army chooses, it's not a matter of concern to me! ”

"It's a pity that you didn't get close to our planes and battleships!" Chen Tian changed another question, these questions are not particularly confidential in the eyes of spies, but as a commander, these questions contain a lot of things.

"You're glad you don't think you're happy, aren't you?" Sakurako replied with a sneer, "When I was in Korea, those damned North Koreans were particularly interested in your Mauser rifles, and the Korean Resistance ordered me to take someone to the German munitions factory in Qingdao to get a batch of Mauser rifles, so I had to do so so in order not to arouse their suspicion, and I ended up being caught by your people there!" After reporting to my superiors and getting approval, I followed you to Germany and then to your military school, all this was a very unexpected opportunity for me and my organization! The organization just asked us to spy on the strength of your army, and did not give any specific instructions. ”

"After entering your military school, I had to stay in this prison-like place all day, barely able to sneak out for a few hours at night. You've put me and all the people I've brought with me in the Army class, and we haven't even seen a damn plane a few times in the past 5 years, let alone your ships! How could I know the power of things I haven't seen before! What's more, Japan has already imported aircraft technology from the British, and our navy has defeated Russia, which is known as a European naval power, in naval battles, so we are only focusing on your army weapons! ”

Chen Tian couldn't help but feel a little lucky, he thought that the Korean resistance group would not have the opportunity to own planes and ships in a short period of time, so he did not arrange for them to learn aviation and seamanship; After the expansion of the military academy, the flight academy and the naval academy also moved away from the army academy, so it is indeed difficult for these people to see the aircraft except for artillery school firing practice.

"Last question, when did you send the intelligence of the tank back to Japan?"

"A year and a half ago!"

This answer surprised Chen Tian very much, and at the same time felt embarrassed. It took the Japanese a full year and a half to come up with such a primitive tank, and they never revealed this information to their so-called British allies. Aside from being stupid and insidious, Tatsuten couldn't find a better word to describe the Japanese military department.

"General, do you have any other questions?" Chen Tian finally remembered that Thomas, the intelligence chief, was still sitting next to him.

"Sakurako-san, for professional reasons, I'd love to know why you became a spy? Hope you won't mind this question from me! ”

Sakurako thought about it for about half a minute before deciding to answer the question: "I don't know who my biological parents are, I spent time in an orphanage in Kyoto until I was 4 years old, until my organization brought me back. After more than a dozen years of rigorous and terrible training, I became a spy, a spy in the service of Japan! ”

Thomas shook his head.

Chen Tian coldly ordered: "Okay, take her down!" Prepare a hearty lunch for her and her companions at noon, and execute them according to my orders in the afternoon! ”

Sakurako took one last look at Tatsuten and left expressionlessly.

"It's all over!" Chen Tian suddenly felt relaxed all over.

"Your Highness, judging from her experience, it is entirely possible that she will be of our use, that is, to become a double spy!" Thomas suggested from the sidelines, and it seemed that he had some pity for the good spy.

"General, what she said is true or false, and we can't believe it all! If she is a pure, fanatical patriot, then recruiting her as our spy is a trap for her, and we cannot afford to take that risk! ”

Looking at Chen Tian's very resolute expression, Thomas deeply felt that he had changed dramatically compared to before, and it seemed that war was indeed a very wonderful thing.

However, Chen Tian was still a little sad in his heart, after all, he had a good impression of Sakurako's straightforwardness at the beginning, but she didn't have a very fixed personality as a spy, and she could change her image according to the needs of the environment. Just think, how many people would associate a straightforward and wayward person with a spy?

"Really execute the execution, not a single one?" Thomas finally asked again, saying that all the energy they had spent on the Koreans over the years would be in vain, and that they would lose the resistance that Germany had cultivated in Korea.

"Yes! Without the Koreans, we can still bulldoze Japan! Despite what he said, Tatsuten knew very well how difficult it would be to move his army directly to Japan. At present, Germany's center of gravity is still on the European battlefield, and for a long time, the Japanese can still run amok in the Far East and even Asia with impunity.

Eighteen months ago, it was a drizzling night.

Sakurako Yukino climbed out of the walls of the Königsberg Military Academy alone, waded through the fields with no feet in stagnant water, spent 17 minutes walking to the city of Königsberg, turned left and right, came to the house, handed a package of tarpaulin, and watched them unwrap it and hide a thin stack of papers inside a table clock.

Half a month later, the clock came to the Japanese Army General Staff.

In a secret conference room of the General Staff, several powerful figures of the War Department and the main researchers of the Army's weapons gathered in front of them, and in front of them were pages and pages of brief introductions and structural sketches of various weapons.

"It seems to me that the best German weapons are the rifles made by the Mauser factory and the cannons of the Krupp factory, and here they are all strange things, and I don't think they are worth it in real combat!" A dwarf army general just glanced at the documents and made his own judgment without care.

"Tanaka-kun, how do you say that these Germans studied such boring things, did they forget all about bayonets and courage? You see, the whole person is hiding in this kind of iron-wrapped truck to fight, where is this like a soldier to do? The other general who spoke looked to be about forty years old, and if the Army veterans who had died in the coup d'état a few years ago were still around, he might not have climbed to such a high position so quickly, and he probably wouldn't have spoken here.

However, the current Japanese Army is already in the hands of these young Zhuang officers, and everything in the army is decided by them.

"The performance of these weapons looks good, and they can greatly reduce the casualties of our soldiers on the battlefield!" A researcher in his fifties or sixties helped his eyes, and in his other hand he held the sketch of the armored vehicle and was reluctant to put it down.

The old researcher's words were quickly refuted by the other generals, "No, if we produce such weapons, it will only make our soldiers lose their fighting spirit and, by extension, our precious bushido spirit." Only an army that is not afraid of sacrifice is the most powerful and terrifying! ”

Another researcher was interested in the design of the "Firebird", "This machine gun design also looks very ingenious, it is not much different from the Danish Madsen light machine gun in terms of structure, but it is characterized by a chain feed and a replaceable barrel, and the continuous firing ability is greatly increased!" With a rate of fire of 400 rounds per minute, it is not inferior to heavy machine guns, and I think this is a promising weapon! ”

"400 rounds per minute! What an extremely wasteful weapon! An army lieutenant general said indignantly that for a resource-poor country like Japan, most of the strategic resources have to be bought or looted from other places, so every bullet is very precious to them.

"But for the enemy's infantry charge, they are very lethal!" The researcher was dissatisfied.

"We could completely replace it with 50 infantrymen, and the hit rate was countless times higher than it! Our well-trained soldiers can do it with a single bullet to destroy an enemy! "The lieutenant general of the army did not budge.

In the end, the critical voices in the room far prevailed.

"This kind of thing called mortars, we can completely replace it with mortars and howitzers with larger calibers, and they are much more powerful! A small shell with 10 mortars against enemy trenches and forts is not as good as a heavy howitzer shell! ”

"This armored car with tires, the enemy only needs to use nails to stop it! It's so useless! Its shell can only block ordinary bullets either! ”

"That's right, our cannon can blow up its thin iron sheets! Then the dozen or so soldiers inside were all scrapped at once! ”

"It's ridiculous, motorcycles that waste gasoline and machine guns that waste bullets, I really don't understand what these Germans are thinking, are their resources so rich that they can squander them at will?"

"They are really incompetent losers, their colonies in Asia and Oceania will fall into our hands sooner or later!"

"Is this weapon, called a tank, really capable of moving at a speed of more than a dozen kilometers? It looks like a big turtle no matter how it looks, and by the time it crawls to the battlefield, our soldiers will have already cleaned up the enemy! ”

"Yes, Kameda-kun, you're so right! If the enemy uses this weapon, then we only need to dig some big holes in front of the position, and they will only have the share of being a live target for artillery! Hahaha! ”

In the end, the arrogant Japanese military department was not interested in any of these weapons. However, at the researchers' insistence, they agreed to approve the research budget for only one of the weapons.

So the researchers got together and put it together:

"Machine guns, the Danes have ready-made ones, except for a slower rate of fire, there is not much difference in other performance!"

"Armored cars, just modify the truck, there is no point in researching!"

"A motorcycle is the same as an armored car, and it has weaker protection!"

"Mortars, they don't have the power of mortars, and they don't have the range of howitzers, so let's give up!"

The only weapon left in front of the researchers was the tank.

After consultation, the generals of the War Department approved a budget for the study of four tanks.

Without the attention of the War Department, the Japanese Army Weapons Research Institute began a difficult road of tank research.

Sakurako Yukino initially provided only the appearance and general performance of the tank, and even the internal structure and various parts were not provided. At first, the Japanese researchers only made a riveted iron shell with the appearance of a "stone" based on a gourd drawing scoop, and then installed the iron shell on the site of the car, and then forcibly mounted the iron tracks on the chassis of the car, and the results can be imagined. The four did not seem to have just staggered forward for dozens of meters, and the tracks fell off, and even the axles on the chassis of the car were crushed by the weight of the iron shell.

Later, the Japanese bought three more tractors from the British, and they barely had a makeshift tank chassis, but the iron shell mounted on this chassis was shaken off during the first test firing of the artillery.

Because of the slow progress, the Japanese Army Weapons Research Institute was severely reprimanded by the War Department, and the tank research project was suspended for a time. According to the Institute's request, the War Department ordered Sakurako Yukino and his subordinates, who were lurking in Germany, to find out the internal structure and technical data of the German tank as soon as possible, but Sakurako Yukino and his subordinates were rejected several times to enter the Armored Academy. Visiting the tank factory at night was fruitless, and the tank armored research institute was too heavily guarded, so Sakurako had no choice but to hook up with an officer of the German armored forces. Under the temptation of love and the coercion of force, the German officer had to do something for Sakurako that harmed the interests of the country. He gave Sakurako some of the tank's repair drawings and parts, and the Japanese were able to learn more about the tank's structure.

Shortly after the Japanese researchers' tank development project was relaunched, the war in Europe broke out. While the Japanese Army was actively preparing to attack the German troops stationed in Qingdao, it was also actively observing the weapons used by various countries on the European battlefield. In the Battle of East Prussia at the end of August, Germany used tanks and armored forces for the first time, but because most of the Russian officers and soldiers who were able to flee the battlefield were deserters, the German armored forces failed to attract the attention of the Russian military, and the Allies did not receive effective information in this regard. It was only after the Battle of Verdun that German armoured power was noted, and the Battle of Paris terrified these weapons.

The Japanese War Office finally realized the power of tanks, and at their repeated urging, imperfect Japanese tanks were rushed into battle, while machine guns, armored vehicles, and combat motorcycles, which they insisted were merely wasted ammunition, were never mass-produced.

In the words of Sakurako Yukino, she is just a spy, and the decision on what kind of weapons to develop rests with Japan.

At 3 p.m. that day, Sakurako Yukino and 16 other trainees from North Korea closed their eyes forever.

Many years later, people have gradually forgotten about these people, and no one has investigated how many innocent people are among them. If there are really a number of North Koreans who died in vain, then they can only blame themselves for being born at the wrong time.