Chapter 53: Into the Tiger's Den and Exploring the Railway Station
In the blink of an eye, it was March 1941.
In order to realize his operational plan of "Poyang Lake Sweeping Battle", the commander of the 11th Army, Kazuichiro Enbe, instructed Chief of Staff Isamu Kinoshita to personally command and frequently mobilize troops for pre-war deployment. The original strength of the army in northern Jiangxi was about 50,000 people, and its 33rd Division was stationed along the Nanxun Railway. The 34th Division was stationed in Anyi, Wuning and its nearby highways, and the division commander was Dahe Shige; The 14th Mixed Brigade of Reading Li was stationed in the north of the Nanxun Line and Jiujiang. In mid-February 1941, the 20th Mixed Brigade under the command of Naozo Ikeda and the 3rd Flying Regiment under the command of Saburo Endo were transferred. By early March, the Naval Air Force had been brought in to prepare for the battle, and by this time the number of troops had reached more than 65,000, and the troops had basically been deployed in place.
As the war approached, Xiao Xiong's work became more and more arduous, and new information was sent to the theater command almost every day, and new tasks were constantly assigned to them from the theater command. The latest order is to find a way to find out the specific deployment of the devil's troops, the situation of the troops, the battle plan, and so on in the near future.
In order to better reconnoiter the enemy's situation, Ma Changyong, Li Minghua and Liu Junshan led a part of the team to enter the Jiujiang puppet county political axe and puppet police station. After Ma Changyong's work, some of the policemen who had a good relationship with Ma Changyong had already turned to the Einsatzgruppen, and the few people who had bowed to Ma Changyong and recognized their brothers had secretly joined the Einsatzgruppen.
In the pseudo-county political axe, the members of the Einsatzgruppen basically control all the key departments of the political axe, such as the confidential section, the inspection team and the security team, etc., and all the documents exchanged between the devils and them must pass through the hands of the Einsatzgruppen members, and all the phone calls to and from them are answered by them. Even, the Einsatzgruppen has set up a radio station in the pseudo-county political axe.
All of this is Xiao Xiong's careful deployment. It turned out that Xiao Xiong thought that putting Peng Fugui and Liu Huanteng's families under house arrest in Pengjiahe was conducive to controlling the two. But as the war became more and more tense, Xiao Xiong discussed with everyone, afraid of long nights and dreams. If the Devil and Han Jian save the families of the two people, then our team members inside the enemy will face great danger. In order to ensure that the overall situation is safe and foolproof, the Einsatzgruppen contacted the Kuomintang Military Command Action Group hidden in Jiujiang through the theater headquarters, secretly transferred the families of Peng Fugui and Liu Junshan to Changsha, and prepared to continue to send them to Yucheng.
In this way, it is equivalent to completely taking the family members of the Peng and Liu families hostage, so they can't help but think about it anymore. They can only have a chance to survive if they are determined to work for the Einsatzgruppen.
On the afternoon of March 5, Ma Changyong and a few policemen patrolled to Jiujiang Railway Station as usual.
Since the end of last year, this humble and small train station has been extremely busy. In order to strengthen its rule over North China, the army continued to launch large-scale sweeps in the region, so it drew a lot of troops from various occupied areas to North China, so it obviously felt that the attack on the [***] Ninth Theater south of the Yangtze River was insufficient. Therefore, for a long time after the end of the First Battle of Changsha, they did not launch another large-scale military offensive, and the two armies were temporarily in a state of confrontation and stalemate in the northwestern Jiangxi region, the northeastern Hunan region, and the southern Hunan.
In order to launch a campaign aimed at seizing the Ninth Theater and the 19th Army's heavy land before the 33rd Division was transferred to North China, the army formulated the plan of "Poyang Lake Sweeping Battle". After the plan was decided, a large number of troops from other battlefields were transferred into Jiangxi. Most of them first came to Jiujiang by boat from Wuhan and Nanjing, and then took a train from Jiujiang Railway Station to Nanchang via the Nanxun Railway, and then deployed to the front line. Therefore, Xiao Xiong thinks that maybe through the dispatch of the devils at Jiujiang Railway Station, he can at least know some basic information about the troops transferred from here.
Ma Changyong led several team members into the platform. At this time, the platform is very busy, and there are devils everywhere. The small three-month platform was filled with all kinds of military supplies. The devils are urging Chinese porters to load supplies onto the train.
From time to time, a locomotive spews white gas, constantly busy going back and forth on several railways in the station, pulling the wagons full of supplies to the freight yard for a while, and sending the empty wagons of the freight yard to the edge of the platform to continue loading.
After Ma Changyong and the others inspected the platform, they found that there was only one devil in the station dispatch room, and he was busy copying and writing something for a while, answering and making phone calls for a while, and making this mark on the small blackboard hanging on the wall.
Ma Changyong looked around to see that there was no one, so he quietly ordered the two team members around him to stand outside the door to let out the wind, and led the other two team members into the dispatch room.
The devil inside dispatched, heard the sound of them coming in, and saw that it was a few policemen, he just glanced up, Ma Changyong made a gesture of drinking water, the devil nodded, ignored them, and just buried himself in his own business.
Ma Changyong picked up a few water glasses placed on the table and poured a few glasses of water from the boiling water bottle on the table. The two team members got up and sat on the bench in the room and drank slowly. Ma Changyong also picked up the cup, paced, and looked inside the room.
This dispatch room is about thirty or forty square meters, and there are three tables and two benches in it. There was a small door inside, and a smell of urine wafted from inside. I guess it's a toilet.
Suddenly, he found that the small blackboard hanging on the wall was full of numbers, the first column on the left seemed to be written about the date, and the second column was written on the numbers 33rd, 34th, 20th, etc., he felt as if these numbers were the numbers of the army, and there were a lot of numbers written in the back columns, and there were some other words that he could not understand. Ma Changyong immediately became excited, maybe these numbers or something, they are what the commander needs.
Next to the small blackboard, there are several notebooks for note-taking, one of which seems to be a duty record, and the other seems to be a station scheduling plan. Both of these are really good things, and they must have the information we need.
But how do you get your hands on it? Ma Changyong walked outside the door with two glasses of water, handed them to the two brothers outside, and looked around, the entire platform was still full of people coming and going, chaotic.
He quickly returned to the house, and saw that the kettle on the stove was steaming white, and the sound of gurgling water was boiling inside. He quickly picked up the kettle on the stove and filled several boiling water bottles on the table. Then he walked up to the devil who was busy, opened the teacup in front of him, and saw that it was empty, so he filled it with boiling water. The devil may have been thirsty too, so he picked up the teacup and blew it, carefully taking a few sips. He stretched out his thumb to Ma Changyong and kept saying "Yo Xi Yo Xi".
Ma Changyong smiled and walked to the briquette stove and saw that the coal in the stove was almost burned. So he took the dustpan and tongs that were leaning against the door, and went outside. He saw a basket full of briquettes outside, filled a pinch full of briquettes, and walked in.
He used an iron hook to poke the ash from under the briquette stove, and then added briquettes to the stove. Then go outside to the pool and fill the kettle with the faucet, bring it in and put it on top of the briquette stove.
The devil who was drinking water dispatched, happily kept giving a thumbs up, praising Ma Changyong, and he took out a cigarette from his pocket. Ma Changyong hurriedly took out his own cigarette, which was from the Hademen brand, tore open the seal, took out one from it and handed it to the devil, and then lit it with a match. Seeing the devil's eyes looking at the cigarette in his hand, Ma Changyong hurriedly handed the cigarette up and put it in the devil's pocket.
The devil dispatched very happily, "Bell-," the self-striking bell on the wall rang, and he looked at the clock hanging on the wall, and the time was already half past five in the afternoon. According to the time, he will be off work in half an hour. The devil suddenly covered his stomach, he pointed to Ma Changyong at the door, and then pointed to the toilet behind him, picked up the newspaper on the table and rushed into the toilet.
Here's your chance! Ma Changyong motioned to the team members around him, one immediately stood by the toilet, and the other stood in front of the window. Ma Changyong immediately walked to the devil's desk, he gently opened the devil's drawer, found two blank duty records and scheduling plans in the bottom drawer, tore off the cover, and stuffed it in his trouser pocket. He dug out some paste from the paste bottle on the table and smeared it on it, quickly walked to the wall, took down the duty record and scheduling plan hanging on the wall, carefully tore off the cover, and put the notebook into his clothes. Then he carefully pasted the torn cover on two new books, smoothed it vigorously, and hung it back on the wall.
As soon as he was done, the devil had finished his hands, opened the door and walked out with his pants. All of this happened in just a minute or two, and I didn't know it.
The devil dispatched to the table, picked up the teacup, and drank the tea slowly, it seemed that his work for today had been completed, and he was waiting to get off work.
Ma Changyong nodded and said goodbye to the devil dispatcher, and then quickly walked out of the train station. Instead of going back to the police station, they quickly came to the small hotel on Sanma Road.
In order to quickly obtain information on the devil's actions, Xiao Xiong has been squatting in the hotel on Sanma Road for the past few days. He took the duty record and scheduling plan of the devil station handed over by Ma Changyong, and looked at it carefully.
While looking at the duty record, he read in his mouth:
"On February 15, the 20th Mixed Brigade Arms Box XX; On February 16, the third flight regiment had xx barrels of gasoline; On February 23, the 33rd Brigade was ...... with xx quilts"
Xiao Xiong exclaimed excitedly: "Good thing! That's a good thing! ”
He picked up the devil's scheduling plan again and looked at it carefully. While watching, he couldn't help but excitedly punch Ma Changyong, who was standing next to him, stupidly.
"Okay, you big brother, I really have you. It's something better. We will immediately send a report to the Theater Commander's Headquarters and report this information to them. ”