Chapter 1269: Falcon
As soon as the shouts of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, "catch the assassins" came out, there was another soft "poof", and a bullet drilled into Yoshimoto's back. Instead of holding the body of General Umezu Mijiro with his hands, Sadachi Yoshimoto threw himself forward and fell to the steps with Umezu Mijiro.
The guards who heard Yoshimoto's shout hurriedly surrounded him, and when they came to take a look, they found that His Excellency the Commander and His Excellency the Chief of Staff had both been shot.
Fortunately, this was at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, and the hospital of the Kwantung Army was nearby, and when Major General Qin Hikozaburo, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, who was making a battle plan, heard the shouts and rushed out, the guards had already carried Senior General Umezu Mijiro and Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi into the car, and when Major General Qin Hikozaburo got into the car, as soon as the driver stepped on the accelerator, the car ran to the hospital in a puff of smoke.
Major General Ryuji Kajizuka, the chief of military medicine of the Kwantung Army, personally took the military doctors to examine him, and after being busy for a while, Major General Ryuji Kajizuka, who was wearing a white coat, came out and said to Major General Qin Hiko Saburo and Lieutenant General Takeuchi Kan, commander of the military police of the Kwantung Army, who had just arrived: "Your Excellency the General was shot in the chest, and the bullet pierced the heart, and he has already sacrificed his life for His Majesty the Emperor; His Excellency the Chief of Staff was shot in the back, the bullet went through the lungs, and he stopped breathing, and he had already given his life for His Majesty the Emperor. Please report to the base camp! ”
Major General Qin Yan Saburo was stunned when he heard this, and it took him half a day to react. The splitter grabbed the white coat of Major General Takashi Kajizuka, the chief of military medicine, and roared with blood-red eyes: "Fuck, work on the rice bucket, hurry up and rescue." Hurry up and rescue! ”
Lieutenant General Takeuchi Kuan, commander of the gendarmerie, knew that Major General Qin Hiko Saburo was in a hurry, and hurriedly persuaded: "Deputy Chief of Staff, Your Excellency Kajizuka has done his best, please calm down!" ”
This statement reminded Major General Qin Yan Saburo, and he didn't care that Takeuchi was a lieutenant general, and let go of Major General Takashi Kajizuka. turned to pull out the ****, pointed at Takeuchi Kuan and shouted: "The rice bucket of the gendarmes of Ling, unexpectedly let the assassins infiltrate Xinjing and assassinate His Excellency the Commander and His Excellency the Chief of Staff!" Dead, dead, dead! Gendarmes, all dead, dead! ”
Seeing that Qin Yan Saburo was very likely to shoot out of control, the staff officers who came then hurriedly hugged him and took away his ****.
Wait until Major General Qin Yan Saburo's mood calmed down a little. Only then did he go in and salute the bodies of Senior General Umezu Mijiro and Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto, and then hurriedly returned to the headquarters to report urgently to the base camp.
The commander of the military police of the Kwantung Army, Takeuchi Kan, knew that his military police commander was at the end of his life, and he would go to a military court. But. It is necessary to find out who and from what exactly shot and killed Senior General Umezu Yoshijiro and Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi. Otherwise, Hirochu Takeuchi would not forgive himself.
When Takeuchi returned to the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters, he saw that his own military police had cordoned off the scene and launched a search in the Kwantung Army Headquarters compound and on Datong Road.
Takeuchi immediately thought of Matsuoka's assassination in Harbin, and looked up. I knew that it must be a sniper from the Eighth Route Army who had infiltrated the military police headquarters opposite the Kwantung Army headquarters, hid on the roof of the building or in a certain room, and found General Umezu Mijiro coming out and decisively shot and sniped.
The Kwantung Army command compound was fenced, and the gate was directly opposite the roundabout, if the snipers were hiding there. It will be blocked by the walls and gates of the Kwantung Army Headquarters compound, and it will not be possible to snipe. The buildings on the opposite side of the roundabout are too far away to exceed the firing range, and only the military police headquarters building on the north side of the roundabout and across the Datong Road from the Kwantung Army Headquarters building can conceal snipers.
Thinking that the snipers of the Eighth Route Army might be hiding in the military police headquarters of the Kwantung Army, Takeuchi's wide spine was cold, and he didn't dare to stay for a moment, so he immediately led the guards and gendarmes of the Kwantung Army Headquarters to surround the military police headquarters, and then ordered all the gendarmes who were still working in the building to come out, line up to report the number, and count the number of people.
As soon as Lieutenant General Takeuchi waved his hand, the guards of the Kwantung Army Headquarters rushed into the building of the Military Police Headquarters, including other buildings in the courtyard, and began to search carefully.
If Takeuchi didn't go to the hospital to see the injuries of Umezu Mijiro and Yoshimoto Sadachi, and directly ordered a search of the gendarmerie headquarters building at the first time, maybe he could meet the snipers of the Eighth Route Army who had completed their sniper mission and hurriedly evacuated. At this time, I remembered to count the number of people and search the gendarmerie headquarters, and the cucumber dishes were cold.
In any case, Takeuchi's measures were still effective, and as soon as the number of people was checked, a problem was discovered, and there was one less new translator.
As soon as Takeuchi heard this, he knew what the problem was, and immediately led several gendarmes to the translator's office.
The office is on the fourth floor, which is actually a converted stairwell of the tower, and the west window is facing the front yard of the Kwantung Army headquarters, so as long as someone comes out of the headquarters building, they can see it clearly from standing here.
Takeuchi's wide eyes swept and he saw a piece of paper on the table with a glass of water, which was written in Japanese: "Little devil, it's too late, go back and wash your forehead, and wait for the bullet to get into your bare forehead"! The inscription is a falcon.
Gyrfalcon is the scientific name of the falcon Haidongqing. As the commander of the military police of the Kwantung Army, Takeuchi knew a lot about the customs and history of Manchuria, so he naturally knew it. Moreover, he also knew that it was this kind of falcon that was praised by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty as "60 out of 300 feather insects, and the most handsome in Haidongqing" was once the fuse of the Liaojin hegemony. In that year, the Liao State regarded itself as a country above the country, and forced the Jurchen Eagle Household to contribute to Haidongqing every year, and did his best to humiliate, arousing the anger of the Jurchen hero Wanyan Aguta, raising troops against Liao, using Haidongqing to investigate the enemy's situation, winning more with less, and destroying the Liao State. In ancient China, death row prisoners exiled to Liaodong. As long as a Haidong Qingjin can be captured and presented to the imperial court, the crime will be exempted.
The sniper of the Eighth Route Army, who killed the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Mijiro, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Sadaichi Yoshimoto, used a lightning-fast spear falcon as a metaphor for himself and took the money, which was appropriate.
Takeuchi howled and turned to draw a command knife from the waist of one of the gendarmes. It slammed down on the table.
The one who shot and sniped Umezu Mijiro and Yoshimoto Sadachi was Lang, the number one sniper method of the Eighth Route Army's northward advance squad.
Duan Lang's ancestral home is Liaoning, and his grandfather was a man of the Qing Dynasty, and later moved his family to Germany due to banditry.
Duan Lang was admitted to the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, majoring in tactical command, and later switched to sniper tactics. After Hiterrand came to power, he engaged in racism, and Duan Lang's family moved to Switzerland. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. Duan Lang, who had all his skills, returned to China to participate in the war, and wanted to infiltrate Tianjin to deal with the Japanese army with sniper tactics, but happened to encounter the instructor who attacked and occupied Tianjin. Duan Lang immediately joined the Eighth Route Army, stood out in the battle, and was selected into the sniper brigade to assist Wang Tongsheng in training. When the squadrons of the sniper brigade were expanded from three squads to five squads, Duan Lang became the squad leader. Zhao Yonggang led the previous team to the northeast, and Duan Lang's team was also incorporated into it. The last time he killed Matsuoka in Harbin was his masterpiece.
Duan Lang has been infiltrating Changchun for some time. His mission is clear. That is, to kill the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, when the main force of our army was advancing to the northeast. However, after arriving in Changchun, Duan Lang found that it was not easy to snipe General Umezu Mijiro. Umezu Mijiro is a very cunning and calm person. In general, travel is very secretive, and it is difficult to get accurate information on his whereabouts. Moreover, the Kwantung Army Headquarters building was facing an urban attraction at the corner of two roads, which the Japanese called a roundabout, and it was too far to establish a sniper position opposite the Kwantung Army headquarters across this roundabout, and it was not feasible. It will not work to infiltrate the Kwantung Army Headquarters to assassinate, Duan Lang has already observed clearly, there are very few people in and out of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, they are all the main officers of the Japanese army, and those guards are very familiar. That's it. You have to show your ID at the gate, and the guards have to call the building to report and verify before they are allowed to let you go. Duan Lang once wanted to use the night to climb over the wall to enter the Kwantung Army compound, but as soon as he jumped on the wall, the military dogs in the courtyard barked, and then the searchlight shone over, almost exposed. No way. Duan Lang had no choice but to choose the sniper point in the office building of the Military Police Headquarters, which was also the Longtan Tiger's Den.
Duan Lang didn't know that the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters, and the annexes of the various headquarters in the coming year were connected by underground passages, and Umezu Mijiro's commander's official residence was located in the backyard of the Kwantung Army Headquarters. When he went to work every day, Umezu Mijiro spent most of his time working in the office in the official residence, and only when there was a war and he needed to go to the war room to consult with the chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, chief of operations, and director of intelligence, Senior General Umezu Mijiro would go to the office in the headquarters building, and usually through an underground passage. Duan Lang: How can they find the target?
After Duan Lang reported his decision to Zhao Yonggang by secret telegram, Zhao Yonggang and Wei Zhengmin rushed to Changchun to find connections to dredge the way into the Japanese military police headquarters. In the end, he used three gold bars to connect with an interpreter surnamed Chen of the Japanese military police headquarters, and took advantage of the opportunity of the military police headquarters to recruit translators, forged documents, infiltrated the military police headquarters as a translator, and followed Chen as a translator for the Japanese military police to interrogate prisoners.
Duan Lang has a high cultural quality, a good foundation in German and English, and a fast learner of Japanese, and has long been a master of camouflaging the Japanese army in the Eighth Route Army. When he arrived at the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters, he was fluent in Japanese and authentic Northeast dialect, and in just a few days, he was adapted to work, and the Japanese military police arranged him into a renovated office in the stairwell on the roof, from which he could see the Kwantung Army Headquarters compound.
After entering the military police headquarters, Duan Lang knew how heavily guarded the Kwantung Army Headquarters and the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters were, and outsiders couldn't enter without permission, and his sniper rifle was sent in by Zhao Yonggang using the night wall with his own skills.
This morning, Duan Lang excused himself to accidentally catch a cold, hid in the office and didn't go out, locked the office to death, assembled the sniper rifle, and waited for Umezu Mijiro. His luck was really good, in the afternoon, the target appeared, Duan Lang shot without hesitation, killed Umezu Mijiro and then quickly shot and killed Yoshimoto Sadachi, and then disassembled the sniper rifle three times five by two, put it in a small suitcase and carried it, left a note on the table, went out, got on a three-wheeled motorcycle in the yard, showed his documents to the guards, and drove the motorcycle towards the train station.
At that time, there was a mess at the entrance of the Kwantung Army Headquarters building, but the military police headquarters was still in the dark!
The reason why Duan Lang left a note was that Zhao Yonggang had the pulse of the Japanese army, and knew that the Japanese army also knew that the northward advance team had been lurking in the northeast, leaving a name, which could avoid the indiscriminate hunting and killing of the Japanese army and reduce the loss of innocent citizens.
Changchun Railway Station is a big station, and there are many trains. After Duan Lang arrived at the train station, he took out his certificate translated by the military police headquarters, didn't even buy a ticket, entered the station directly from the VIP room, got on a train that was about to drive, and drove away.
After waiting for the train, Duan Lang found that he was on the train to Harbin. But it doesn't matter, he just needs to leave Changchun, jump out of the train halfway to hide, and let the little devil follow the railway to investigate! He still has to return to Changchun to meet Zhao Yonggang and Wei Zhengmin, who are still hidden in Changchun!
Half an hour after Duan Lang's train departed, the Japanese military police rushed to the train station with Chen Yi and began to search. Upon learning that an interpreter from the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters had entered the station and boarded the train with his certificate, the Japanese military police immediately contacted the next station and demanded that the train be seized and the interpreter who had defected from the Military Police Headquarters arrested. As a result, they were late, the train had already passed one station, and the Japanese military police had to notify another station to detain the car, and then they got on motorcycles and began to chase the train.
At this time, the speed of the train was not high, except for the high-speed train of Asia, and the devil gendarme drove a motorcycle to chase after it, and it was really able to catch up. It's just that it was in vain for them to catch up with the train, Duan Lang jumped out of the toilet window soon after getting on the train, if the little devil could find him, he would be a ghost!
Duan Lang, who sneaked back to Changchun, went to a bathhouse, met with Zhao Yonggang, who was hiding there, and after completely washing off the smell of his body, when he reappeared on the street, he became a soldier of the puppet Manchurian Defense Army, following Zhao Yonggang, carrying a rifle on his shoulder, walking forward, patrolling the street in a decent manner.
At this time, the two trains of the 1st Column, 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment finally drove into the Shenyang Railway Station one after the other and began to launch a counterattack against the Japanese troops who were attacking the railway station. The main force led by Liu Yimin also entered the front line of Liaoyang and exchanged fire with the troops of the Japanese puppet army stationed in Liaoyang.