The Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters in Bunjo successively received reports that reinforcements from all walks of life had jointly narrowed the encirclement. At this moment, on the sand table of Major General Hagiwara, the situation of the encirclement can already be clearly marked.

The chief of staff of the brigade, Osa Kawabe, came to Akira Hagiwara's war room again; During this sleepless night, he had traveled back and forth between the brigade headquarters and the railway station several times. At this moment, he had several telegrams about the front line in his hand, and while reviewing them, he personally corrected the markings on the sand table until he himself believed that they were accurate.

"General, it is now certain that the encirclement of the Chinese army has been preliminarily completed." Looking at Akira Hagiwara, who had just approached the sand table, Kawabe Osa said excitedly.

The veteran brigade commander, Major General, stared intently at the small flags of the enemy and us on the sand table, without saying a word, and after a while, he turned his gaze to his chief of staff: "The night is very dark, and the two squadrons that rushed from Linfen are not familiar with the terrain, can you determine the accuracy of their assault position?" ”

The chief of staff of the river side hesitated, he understood that the core of the brigade commander's concern - Kikuchi Shaoza, who led the reinforcements from Linfen, had previously reported that he had successfully wedged in and cut off the retreat of the Chinese army; Soon after, however, his troops were flanked by the Chinese army. This made the entire brigade headquarters question whether the reinforcements from Linfen were in place.

"General, I think that since Captain Otsuka has taken over the command of the battlefield, and the Fengdian reinforcements led by him have opened up contact with the Kikuchi Division, it should be possible to make corrections and transfer the Linfen reinforcements to the outer line."

Hagiwara Akira finally nodded: After all, Kosuke Otsuka is familiar with the terrain within a radius of 100 miles, and his actions to outflank the Shina army from the direction of Fengdian County, if it has been matched with the Linfen reinforcements, it is still worth looking forward to and convincing.

"Tell Otsuka that there is no need to rush to launch a general attack on the Shina army in the encirclement, and first make sure that it does not break through;" Major General Brigade, the commander of the brigade, gave an order: "The Linfen reinforcements quickly jumped to the outside line to fight, strengthened the horizontal liaison between the two units with Captain Otsuka and Deputy Captain Maori, determined each other's positions, and hurried to make up for the loopholes and gaps in the encirclement; If you can confront each other until dawn and then attack, it is the best policy! ”

Hagiwara had been fighting in China for many years, and he was well aware of the enemy's huge disadvantage in terms of firepower and equipment and mobile troop transport, and this disadvantage would be magnified exponentially if there was no longer the support of mountains, rivers, and jungles. Tonight, his troops had succeeded in encircling the Shina army in the wilderness of Yima Pingchuan, and once the day dawned, the opponent would be completely exposed to the muzzle of the imperial army, thus making the encirclement even easier.

Major General Hagiwara's order was quickly conveyed. After that, the entire brigade headquarters was immersed in an atmosphere of excitement, and everyone was full of confidence looking forward to the fruitful results that would be achieved in this siege and annihilation battle. However, two major events that broke out in Wencheng and on the Nam Tongpu railway line finally changed the course of the battle.

The female major of the military commander who was lurking in Wencheng City obtained the accurate time of the joint attack of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army and the Second Battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army through the radio. This battle plan, codenamed "Mountain Eagle", was also telegraphed by her to the Shanxi Station of the Military Command in Taiyuan as soon as possible.

Of course, Wang Suihua's motive for asking the colonel of the Central Army for the battle plan was not as simple as informing her superiors. When she received a telegram from the headquarters of the 391st Regiment, there were still eight or nine hours before the start of the battle at 11 o'clock that night, and the second intelligence group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command launched a prelude to the attack on the inside of the Japanese base camp in Wencheng.

The six people who were supported by the special service company of the 391st regiment to Wang Suihua had all entered Wencheng City that morning, except for two who continued to work in the south freight yard of the railway station during the day, and Zhao Mutou, the commander of the special service company, personally led three subordinates to gather in the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane to stand by.

The first thing the female major of the military commander had to do was to adjust the original course of action. Qin Zhongxiao led his troops to start on the railway line at 11 o'clock at midnight, which surprised Wang Suihua. She had deduced that the "Mountain Eagle" operation must have started after dark, but the time of 11 a.m. was still much more than she expected. At this hour, even a prosperous area such as a railway station is already inaccessible; At that time, the female major of the military commander planned to send eight people, including herself, to the south freight yard of the railway station (that is, the military station where the Sena Division's baggage wing was responsible for operation) and near the station and inside and outside the station, to jointly carry out the task of blasting the Japanese army's baggage munitions. The appearance of eight people, together with a car, at the midnight station, where the lights were already dimmed, was very easy to attract the attention and suspicion of the Japanese soldiers standing guard and patrolling, not to mention the plainclothes eyes of the Japanese puppet secret services that had been arranged in this area day and night.

"Team leader, if you want me to see it, we really can't send eight people to participate in the operation at the same time, it's not good, Company Commander Zhao and they haven't sent * into the South Freight Yard yet, and the people we left outside may be surrounded and interrogated by the Japanese."

It was Li Yan, the male lieutenant of the military commander, who spoke, in fact, he was worried about his female boss organizing such a large-scale attack long before this, and now with this reason, Li Yan of course wants to block and oppose again.

Wang Suihua frowned and nervously thought about how to deal with it. Li Yan, the bastard, is right, but he can't just give up his actions. Now it seems that the overall number of people arriving at the railway station to participate in the attack must be adjusted first, and the plan of Zhao Mutou and a special service company soldier disguised as Japanese soldiers and carrying * into the south freight yard remains unchanged; The original plan of three soldiers of the special service company to parade inside and outside the railway station disguised as Japanese soldiers, and Li Yan's plan to disguise himself as a tourist to ambush at the box office at the railway station were all cancelled. Because after 11 o'clock in the morning, there are not many people on the platform, box office, and small square in front of the station, and it is impossible to hide in the flow of people as during the day.

The female major of the military commander finally decided that the original plan for her to take a soldier of the special service company into the small square in front of the railway station in a Chevrolet sedan was now changed to carry two people in the same car, and still strengthen the Bergman* of the special service company. Once the two Zhao Mutou who infiltrated the South Freight Yard had an accident, the two soldiers in the car would immediately get out of the car to answer them. At the same time, the other two soldiers of the special service company, who worked as porters in the north freight yard of the railway station, returned to their rented houses to stand by for support, which was only less than a mile away from the railway station, and if they ran at full speed, they were expected to reach the area around the south freight yard of the railway station in a few minutes. Li Yan no longer carried out on-site tasks, but stayed with the elder of the radio station Liu in the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane.

The lieutenant did not disagree with this. In view of the fact that the operation time was delayed until midnight, the armed personnel who arrived at the scene to carry out the response may not have to make any action on the premise that the operation is smooth, and in the event of an accident, all the responders must fight to the death with real knives and guns, which is obviously not the specialty of the male lieutenant of the military commander.

It should be said that the danger of this operation has increased exponentially, and the possibility of those who come to the scene being forced to reveal their identities has also increased significantly. Soon after Wang Suihua reported the action plan to the Shanxi station, he received a personal reply from the station commander for approval, but at the same time stressed that the second intelligence group should do its best to ensure the personal safety of the comrades in the operation.

The only gratifying thing is that the adjustment of the plan has invisibly alleviated a pressure: the people who originally planned to lead the special service company by Zhao Mutou secretly killed five devils in one go and changed into their military uniforms; However, this must be done under the noses of the brigade headquarters and wing headquarters of the Japanese army, and the difficulty can be imagined; Moreover, this operation should not start too early, so as not to trigger the alarm of the Japanese army due to the loss of many officers and soldiers at once.

Now, the revised course of action only needs to obtain two sets of military uniforms for Zhao Mutou and one of his subordinates to change outfits. Wang Suihua demanded that one of the two sets of military uniforms must be the color of an officer's uniform, so as to facilitate Zhao Mutou to be unimpeded in the Japanese military station after blending into the South Freight Yard.

Li Yan took the lead in proposing a method that he thought was extremely wise, asking the people of the special service company to go to the baths that the Japanese officers and soldiers liked to go to, and pretend to be bathers and take the opportunity to steal the military uniforms of the Japanese soldiers.

But this was categorically rejected by the female major of the military commander. Wang Suihua mocked her male subordinates with her usual contemptuous attitude:

"Do you really think that Japanese people whose clothes have been stolen will stay naked and honestly in the bathhouse and remain motionless? As soon as the news spread, the streets would immediately search for Chinese wearing Japanese uniforms; Are you camouflage, or are you tipping off the Japanese army?! ”

Zhao Mutou and the others on the side grinned approvingly, and they all teased the military commander's method of being brainless and unintentional.

Li Yan was ridiculed again, but he was not angry. When the female boss said the words "naked", his mind couldn't help but desert again, a pair of eyes turned around on Wang Suihua's body, and his heart smacked the other party's "naked" charming style, and he was a little stupid for a while.

The female major of the military commander had long since put this unscrupulous male subordinate aside, and seriously discussed with the commander of the special service company how to quietly kill the two Japanese officers and soldiers. In the end, they chose to ambush and wait for an opportunity to attack the Japanese officers and soldiers who had eaten in the tavern after dinner at a Japanese tavern: Kansai Ryokei.

Previously, Wang Suihua had visited the Kansai Cuisine Tavern several times, and knew that many officials of the Hagiwara Brigade Department liked to go there to enjoy the pure flavor of their homeland, and they especially had to drink heartily at dinnertime, and every time they came out of the tavern after the dinner, they were already slightly drunk or even drunk. In this case, it will be easy to make a surprise move against the lone person who is left behind, and it will not arouse suspicion for a short time.

The commander of the special service company deeply agreed, but only proposed one point: When using a rope to strangle the throat, avoid using a knife, in order to prevent the uniform from being torn and stained with blood. At the same time, it is necessary to choose a place to hide the corpse to prevent early exposure to the news.

Wang Suihua calculated the time - the Japanese used to enter the Kansai cuisine for dinner at about five o'clock in the evening, and then people arrived at six or seven o'clock. Usually the first people to finish dinner leave early at about seven or eight o'clock. That's the perfect time to do it.

"The operation was carried out by three members of the spy company, and I drove to pick them up nearby, and if necessary, I could get the Japanese into the car, take them to a remote place, and then dump the corpses!"

The female major of the military commander, who had already moved to kill, had a cold light in her eyes.