Chapter 898: Pulling the Whistle (Medium)
Philippines, eastern Paternaugan Island, Japanese Army Type B Electrical Reconnaissance Base, 79th Electrical Reconnaissance Squadron, Radio Room. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Chief Nakata, we have continuously intercepted the ultra-high frequency signal of unknown identity, which is completely different from the conventional radio communication signal, and we cannot decipher it. The Japanese operator with headphones reported to his superior officer.
"Show me!" The short officer with a Japanese-style mustache and a Japanese army captain's epaulette took the printed radio signal recording paper from the operator's hand, looked at it with a frown for a while, and decisively ordered: "Immediately contact the No. 149 listening station, activate the dual-base direction finding program, and once the accurate location of the signal source is determined, immediately implement full-band blocking interference!" ā
"Hay!" The operator quickly wrote down a series of numbers on a piece of scratch paper, then got up and walked over to the other non-commissioned officer, "Kojima-kun, please send a message to Listening Post 149 and ask them to immediately conduct direction finding on the radio signal of this frequency, we urgently need direction finding data, please!" ā
The non-commissioned officer solemnly took the scratch paper: "Understood. ā
"As soon as there is a result, immediately come to the call detection control room to find me." Captain Nakata said with a straight face.
The two task-takers stood up together: "Hail! ā
Nakata exhaled heavily like an angry bull and walked out of the radio room with a pair of red eyes. At this time, he regretted a little in his heart, if he hadn't been too involved in drinking and chatting with Lieutenant Kimura at night, his head would never be as dizzy as it is now, and less than two hours of sleep was obviously not enough for him to cope with such a situation that was close to actual combat.
The Yankees really want to help the Filipinos come out this time? Or were they determined to use another war to regain what they had lost when they signed the armistice?
Damn the Yankees! Nakata scolded fiercely in his heart, don't these fools understand that the behemoth that rules Europe is the common enemy of the Asia-Pacific countries? Soviet Russia fought one round, and the United States came up to fight another round, and it really knocked Japan down, will Soviet Russia and the United States have a good life? Stupid!
Nakata stood outside and took a few deep breaths, and after midnight, there was a coolness in the air outside, which made his head clear a lot. The Germans basically expelled the Russian power from Europe through the First World War, and then expelled the American power out of the Atlantic through the Second World War......
As soon as the worried guy pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, he saw a non-commissioned officer in a khaki uniform push the door open and come out of the surveillance room with a panicked face, as if a man-eating monster had suddenly appeared inside.
"Chief Nakata......"
"Bastard, what's the panic? As an Imperial soldier, you must be calm when you encounter anything, otherwise you are not qualified to stand here at all! Nakata reprimanded unceremoniously.
The non-commissioned officer was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly apologized: "Yes, Chief Nakata, it was indeed me who was too reckless just now, and I beg your understanding." ā
Nakata glanced at him and shook out a cigarette unhurriedly: "Found hundreds of enemy planes again?" ā
The non-commissioned officer swallowed: "Yes, sir, our electric detectors show hundreds of planes flying 200 kilometers to the southeast, and this time we found two planes at the edge of the detection range before a large number of enemy planes appeared. ā
Nakata pulled out his lighter and was about to hit it, when a dangerous instinct caused him to stop what he was doing and quickly glance at the dark field. The first line of warning against guerrilla attacks is a minefield laid 400 meters outside the barbed wire fence, and the anti-personnel range of rifles is usually more than 600 meters, which means that the enemy may snipe and kill the personnel in the base outside the minefield.
Seeing Nakata's posture, the non-commissioned officer was shocked, after all, Paternaugan Island is not a paradise, there are not many residents on the island, but there have long been resistance activities, for this reason, their squadron leader Okawa Shaozo had applied to his superiors to carry out a "complete cleanup" of this island, and those who could work were taken to hard labor, and the old and weak women and children who had no labor force were all killed, so as to ensure the "absolute safety" of the electric reconnaissance base, but his application was not approved by the Philippine military governor, Okawa Shaozo was very annoyed by this, He took the opportunity of the National Day event to return to his homeland, presumably hoping to gain the support of the top through personal connections, and did not want to encounter the Tokyo explosion and end up permanently missing, so the cautious Nakata became the acting commander of the radar base.
"Chief Nakata, have you found the enemy?" The non-commissioned officer asked in a whisper.
Nakata shook his head and replied in a low voice, "No, it's just a feeling of uneasiness, as if someone is being watched, but maybe it's my delusion." ā
The non-commissioned officer looked around, and although the weather was clear, the sky was full of stars, and the distant skyline could be seen at the sea, on land, it would take an owl's vision to see a figure from a distance of 100 meters.
"Do you want the guard to turn on the searchlights to see what's going on?"
Nakata pondered for a few seconds: "No, the enemy's submarine may be lurking nearby, turning on the searchlight is equivalent to actively exposing one's position to the enemy, so it's better not to do that kind of stupid thing." As for the disgusting partisans, let them roam outside the minefields, and anyway with their equipment they don't want to storm our station. ā
With that, he put the cigarette case and lighter in his pocket, put the cigarette under his nose and smelled it, then put it in his jacket pocket, looked vigilantly at the field in the distance, and pulled the non-commissioned officer into the electric investigation room, which was placed in a solid concrete fortress with the main body below the ground, and the entrance was folded and equipped with a double three-proof door, so that even at night, personnel would enter and exit without casting light.
Walking into the electric investigation room, a unique smell emitted by the intensive operation of electrical equipment came to my nose, mixed with various body odors of men. Nakata wrinkled his nose: "What did Takeshita-kun just say?" ā
The non-commissioned officer hurriedly repeated the report just now.
"First two planes, then hundreds?" Nakata had an epiphany, "I understand, the hundreds of planes behind are illusions created by taking advantage of some kind of weakness in the electronic reconnaissance equipment, and what really appeared in that position were only two enemy planes." But what is the purpose of the enemy? Let's make the wrong judgment? And then what? Launching a real attack while we're not ready? If I were the enemy's commander, I would never use this kind of interference for no reason, because the opponent will definitely find a way to crack it after using it too often, so I will only use it before the attack is launched, so ......"
Seeing Nakata's frowning, the non-commissioned officer didn't dare to breathe, let alone make any suggestions.
"Takeshita-kun, please record and send a report to the garrison headquarters: Since yesterday, our electronic reconnaissance equipment has made three wrong judgments in succession, and it is the enemy's use of some kind of airborne equipment to carry out technical interference, and there is no way to crack it at present. Since the enemy has resorted to blindfolds one after another, and a large-scale attack is probably imminent, I ask Your Excellency the Commander to take precautions as soon as possible, and if possible, speed up the dispatch of electronic reconnaissance experts to study countermeasures......
After saying that, Nakata subconsciously took the cigarette out of his jacket pocket and lit it while thinking, while a note prohibiting smoking in the electric investigation room was pasted on the wall opposite him. Smelling the smoke, many people looked at Nakata curiously, is this acting commander going to break the rules and regulations set by his predecessor?
Nakata ignored people's gazes, and after reading the draft of the telegram recorded by the non-commissioned officer, he revised and supplemented some of the contents, and considered the wording again before the non-commissioned officer photographed it.
Soon after, the non-commissioned officer on duty in the radio room came to report to Nakata that they had determined that the location of the continuous signal was about 10 kilometers to the west, which meant that there was a radio on the island that was constantly emitting some kind of strange signal.
At first, Nakata wanted his subordinates to lead a team to go, but after some thought, he decided to transfer two teams and personally lead the team, so as to eliminate this terrible hidden danger as soon as possible. At this time, he had no idea what kind of change this choice would bring to his fate -- just after Nakata led his troops to set off, the base suddenly became chaotic, because they received an urgent telegram from the garrison headquarters: At 14 o'clock local time, the US Secretary of State summoned the Japanese ambassador to the United States and handed him a declaration of war.
Within a quarter of an hour of receiving the urgent telegram from the headquarters, the electrical reconnaissance equipment of this Japanese radar station detected a rapid attack by enemy planes from a distance of several tens of kilometers, which had not happened in the previous two false alarms. The officers who remained on duty hurriedly sent a report to the garrison headquarters, and at the same time contacted Nakata, who led the attack, and ordered the base garrison personnel to be upgraded to a higher level of combat readiness. Just a few minutes later, the roar of airplanes could be heard in the sky. In view of the strict light control of the entire radar station, and there was no obvious light guidance nearby, the Japanese officer on duty ordered everyone not to open fire without authorization, he thought that this would allow the radar station to avoid disaster, but he ignored the theoretical fact that radar waves can be monitored and traced by enemy equipment while detecting enemy targets, and that the fact that the Japanese troops and their secret collaborators did not master the radar countermeasure technology does not mean that their opponents have not mastered it. After a while, two warplanes whizzed by, and when several aerial bombs were dropped in the air, the Japanese officers and men in the radar base were shocked by the close landing point......
Hearing a violent explosion coming from behind him, Nakata hurriedly ordered the troops to stop advancing and turn off the lights and stand by. Standing on the roof of an armored car, watching the radar station being bombed by enemy aircraft, he was dumbfounded and could not say a word for a long time.
(End of chapter)