After the commander of the military police, Captain Hiraiji, was dispatched by the North China Front Headquarters to the Sena Division, the most important thing he dealt with every day was the "weathering case" of the soldiers. The so-called "Weathering Case" is very gentle, but it is actually a rape committed by soldiers of the Imperial Army against women in the occupied areas. This kind of behavior is detected almost every day by the gendarmes under his command.

Of course, the gendarmerie is powerless to picket the discipline of the entire division. Sena Division belongs to the horse pulling system (author's note: in the early days of the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army's permanent divisions were divided into two types: the horse pulling system and the pack horse system, the former to deal with plain operations, and the latter to deal with mountain operations), the whole division has more than 20,000 people, and is scattered in four garrisons near Taiyuan, and there are also its division headquarters and a brigade headquarters in Taiyuan City. With such a large force, the gendarmerie in charge of supervising the army has only 70 men, and it is not so much to supervise military discipline as to show off the short cloak that the gendarmes wear on their shoulders in front of the public.

Rao is like this, and there are still many officers and soldiers who have fallen into the frieze and have been seized on the spot.

Most of them are soldiers, and some officers are only middle and lower-ranked. Hirai Temple knew very well in his heart that if the adjutant and above wanted to play with women, they didn't have to break into the house of the Shina people to shoot the bow of the overlord in person, and there would be subordinates who would bring the young and Peugeot Shina women to their territory for them to enjoy, which was both comfortable and safe.

Some of the scum soldiers who were caught were brought to Hirai Temple by the gendarmes to be dealt with, but they were not afraid, and they were careless and talked to the gendarmes and their fellow villagers. For those serious situations (such as not only rape, but also shooting, wounding, and murder), Hirai Teraichi often leads the team to twist the troublesome guy to his team headquarters, but their commander also does not take this seriously, they will admit their mistakes for their subordinates, and then take out some looted cigarettes, alcohol, and food to bribe the gendarmerie captain, saying: These soldiers are still hairy children, too energetic, and now there is no fighting, if they don't let them find women's fun, their bodies will be suffocated; Yunyun. After a lot of talking, things often go away.

If Hiraiji became serious and insisted on arresting and confinement a certain guy who had committed a crime of decorating, then this guy's comrades-in-arms, fellow villagers, and the like would come to the gendarmerie from time to time in groups to make trouble, or grind hard bubbles, or shout, or even verbally abuse and threaten.

Hirai Teruichi, who was helpless, once reported to his boss in charge of his grievances, but the reply he received was: try not to make a big mess, and the others can be appropriately relaxed.

Forty-five-year-old Hirai Teriichi had no idea that he would be sent to Shina to serve. On the mainland, he was just an ordinary quartermaster, and after entering North China with the army, he was soon changed to a military policeman. He and a group of middle-ranking officers received simple training from the veteran gendarmes, and then they were appointed as the captain of a gendarmerie and hurriedly sent to the Sena Division in Shanxi. At present, faced with a dilemma that he has never encountered before, the captain of the gendarmerie is distressed.

Therefore, in the evening, when a staff officer of the division headquarters suddenly came to his gendarmerie and claimed that the commander of the Sena division was going to meet him in person, Hiraiji thought that it was his own report that had played a role, and that the division commander was finally going to personally inquire about the rectification of military discipline.

He happily got into the car sent by the division headquarters to pick him up.

In the headquarters of Sena Division, there is a set of rooms that completely imitate the decoration of the local Japanese style, and it is divided into two rooms: the inside and the outside. When Hirai Temple was led to the door of this room, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then he understood that this was most likely the private residence of the division commander.

After the two sliding doors of the outer room opened, Hirai Tereichi took off his military boots at the door, and when he entered the outer room, he was surprised to find two Japanese women dressed as geishas, standing at the door of the inner room with heavy makeup to greet them. Teriichi's heart pounded, even in his native area, he had never been in contact with a geisha so closely.

In the middle of the room, on a low oak table full of food and drink, sat cross-legged on the tatami mats, all of whom were not wearing military uniforms. There were two people wearing dark kimonos, one of whom Hirai knew, the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade; The other person sitting in the right position should be the head of the Sena Division; The stranger sitting across from Major General Hagiwara was wearing a Chinese-style robe.

"Captain, please come over here!"

Looking at the military police captain in military uniform, standing at the door of the inner room at a loss, Hagiwara Akira, who knew him, raised a hand and beckoned.

Hirai Teraichi walked to the table stiffly and made a jaw salute: "Gendarmerie Hirai Teriichi, come and report!" ”

"Sit down first, I'll introduce you," said the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade, pointing to the only empty seat in front of the low table, "This is the division commander, Lieutenant General Sena." ”

Hirai Terei, who had just sat down, immediately got up again after hearing this: "Your Excellency General, good evening, very honored!" Commander Sena smiled and nodded.

"This is the head of the Taiyuan secret service, Mr. Masao Kojima." Hagiwara saw that Hirai refused to sit down again, so he pointed to the Chinese-robed man opposite.

"Captain Kojima, please take care of me!"

"You may be seated, Mr. Captain." Masao Kojima's face is expressionless like a horse.

The interior is hot, with charcoal braziers placed in the corners of the house, and Edo-style lanterns hanging from the roof of the shed, which reflect the warm colors of the low oak table, and the delicious food and wine on the table will whet people's appetite at this time of dinner.

The dinner began immediately.

There was no opening remark, and there was no mention of any related military affairs, and the two kimono shoguns held delicate sake cups, frequently raised their glasses to give them wine, and then drank it all in one fell swoop. The aroma of sake begins to waft through the room with the power of hot water and charcoal fire.

Hirai Terera held the cup of wine and responded with a restrained response, muttering in his heart, he had no idea that the high-ranking and powerful Shogun Sena, whom he had never met, would summon him, an insignificant captain of the gendarmerie, to drink in such a private place. He didn't have much to drink, but he had to follow the two generals for a few cups, but fortunately, the thin magnetic wine cup was not very large.

The head of the secret service is not very polite, and it seems that he is not very good at drinking, every time he picks up the wine cup with the generals, he just puts it down after taking a sip on his lips, and then picks up the chopsticks and picks up the vegetables, and eats non-stop.

The two generals drank each other, and with great interest pulled up the local home, the division commander's hometown was in Nagano Prefecture, and the brigade commander was a native of Tokyo. Occasionally, the generals would explain a few words to Hirai about the customs of his hometown, and the captain of the gendarmerie would respond cautiously.

"I know all the military discipline problems that you have reported to my chief of staff many times," Finally, the topic at the wine table turned to Hirai Teriichi, the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade was in a drunken mood, and sweat beads were already slightly dripping on his broad and flat forehead, and he patted Hirai's shoulder: "There are some situations that I have also relayed to His Excellency the division commander. ”

Hiraiji bowed his head in fear.

"During this time, it's hard and hard for you," Lieutenant General Sena smiled and held a wine cup to the captain of the gendarmerie: "Hirai-kun, I toast you." ”

Hirai Temple held the wine cup with both hands in fear: "Follow His Excellency the General and serve His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

The head of the island was holding his chopsticks to a plate of smoked fish brought up by the maid, and he sandwiched a piece of swarthy fish, which was just put to his mouth, but suddenly stopped, and asked Hirai Jiichi sideways:

"Mr. Captain, what do you think of the repeated cases of decorating the soldiers of the Imperial Army in this area?"

Hiraiji was taken aback, he didn't expect that this embarrassing question was raised not by two soldiers, but by the head of the secret service. He looked at the division commander and brigade commander opposite, and the two generals were also looking at him with a sly smile.

"Well, this," the captain of the gendarmerie replied with a careful consideration, "Imperial soldiers, it is very hard to garrison, and from time to time you have to clear the remnants of the surrounding Chinese army. It is inevitable that the enforcement of military discipline will be discounted. It's just—"

"You don't have to hide it!" Hagiwara Akira suddenly laughed and stabbed Hirai in the right arm with a punch: "You are doing the right thing, these young martial arts ronins are indeed too unpleasant!" His Excellency the Division Commander was also annoyed by this. ”

Hearing Hagiwara Akira say this, Hiraiji's hanging heart was half relieved. But a sentence from the head of the small island on the side brought him into the cloudy mountain again:

"With the wisdom of Mr. Captain, can we find a thorough and effective solution to the problem of the weathering of the soldiers of the Imperial Army?"

The head of the secret service was obviously very satisfied with the smoked fish dish, and before he had finished chewing a piece of the fish in his mouth, he reached for a second piece in the saucer of the smoked fish.

Hirai Temple was stunned, he looked at Kojima Masao fixedly, and he couldn't understand the true intentions of the foodie next to him.

Finally, the commander of the Sena division on the opposite side relieved him of the siege:

"Hirai Jun, in ancient China, there was a very incisive assertion about the management of floods, that is, it cannot be blocked, but it must be dredged - dredging, which is the meaning of dredging. Your gendarmerie is exhausted in arresting those soldiers who violate discipline, which is equivalent to blocking, which cannot be caught. ”

Hirai Temple lifted his spirits and said to the division commander: "Your Excellency, Hirai is willing to listen to your teachings!" ”

"My division is full of 25,000 men; It is touching that those young soldiers left their homes, abandoned their wives and children, and risked their lives for the sake of the Emperor's holy war," Lieutenant General Sena continued with emotion: "However, they are not stone men and wood men, but they also have children's affections, and they also have seven emotions and six desires. In the face of the soldiers' exuberant sexual-sexual needs, we blindly rely on abstinence and punishment, and there is no way to solve the problem. ”

Hagiwara nodded and took over the topic:

"Of course, the radical connivance of soldiers against women is obviously very detrimental to the long-term peace and stability of the occupied territories. Moreover, the rape incident that occurred in the capital of the people of China at the end of last year has recently been circulating, and it has also had an extremely bad impact on the empire and His Majesty the Emperor internationally. ”

The captain of the gendarmerie had already heard in the army all kinds of rumors of violence by the East China Front after conquering Nanjing, and he was not surprised by this: General Sena's subordinates were still trying to occupy the village women and women in the barbaric and wild countryside of Shanxi, and Matsui Shigen's troops had entered the flowery world in the capital of China, how could they be willing to be lonely?!

It's just that the two generals sitting at the wine table at the moment are talking about this, what are they foreshadowing? Hirai Terii's heart is getting more and more bottomless. But at this moment, the head of the secret service, who was immersed in gluttony, suddenly appeared again, he wiped his wet mouth, and asked Hirai seemingly casually:

"Your Excellency, do you know about comfort women?"