Chapter 059: Being Bullied and Insulted
Taiyuan City.
The faintly lit buildings next to Central Park were now shrouded in night, and the dim street lamps that were far away lit up listlessly reflected the windswept streets.
A truck marked by the Japanese military police stopped in front of a building on the side of the road, and the truck completely turned off the fire, which shows that the people in the car have been in the building for a long time.
Finally, three men dressed in gendarmerie uniforms came out and came to the truck, which could be seen under the street lamp, one of them was an officer, the other two were soldiers, neither of them had weapons with them. The officer pointed to the nearby Central Park and then to the building, apparently reminding his subordinates how to remember the reference next to the building.
They got into the car, and the truck caught fire, whined and drove away, disappearing at the end of the street.
In the cab of the truck, in addition to the driver, there was also the military police officer, the captain of the gendarmerie team of the North China Front Army stationed in Sena, Hirai Terarichi Shosa.
Hirai Teraichi's rank of junior commander had just been promoted from the front army headquarters, and his gendarmerie had just been relieved of all its original duties and tasks, and was transferred to the Sena Division, which was directly under the division headquarters and specialized in carrying out the "Wind Plan" of secretly forcibly recruiting comfort women.
Since the last time he went to a private banquet with the division commander, Hirai Teraichi has already started his new job. The commander of the Hagiwara Brigade transferred another group of soldiers from a wing under his command (according to the meaning of the commander of the Taiyuan secret service, this is a group of soldiers who are fluent in Chinese), about fifty or so, and handed them over to the command of Hirai Teraichi. For reasons of concealment, Hirai asked the division headquarters to continue to operate in the name of the gendarmerie for the time being.
At this moment, Pingjing Siyi, who was sitting in the cab, had just taken two subordinates with two subordinates to visit a family of Taiyuan citizens surnamed Zhang. The results of the visit were satisfactory.
At the beginning of last month, on the way home from school in the evening, Teacher Zhang was seen by several Japanese soldiers wandering the road, forcibly dragged her into the woods of Central Park, and refused to stop until midnight.
The gendarmerie checked the identities of several Japanese soldiers, all of whom were soldiers of the Heavy Infantry Wing of the Sena Division. At that time, Instructor Zhang's family had already dispatched his family and neighbors to search for him along the way because he found that his eldest daughter had not returned in the middle of the night, and the gendarmerie finally attracted his family and neighbors to the scene when they investigated and dealt with the noisy behavior of the heavy soldiers, so they found Instructor Zhang naked and scarred.
This incident has a great repercussion in Taiyuan.
At that time, under the manipulation of the invading Japanese army, the five provinces of North China had just established the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China" ruled by traitors, with the "capital" in Beiping and the "Administrative Office" governing the entire Shanxi Province in Taiyuan. This traitorous government hung up the five-color national flag, which resembled the puppet Manchukuo, and trumpeted the royal paradise of goodwill between Japan and China. And on this so-called royal paradise, there was a horrific tragedy in which the soldiers of the imperial army openly gang-raped the female middle school teacher in the city. Instructor Zhang's colleagues, relatives and friends went to the "administrative office" to protest and demand that the Japanese garrison severely punish the rioters.
This "weathering case" was naturally handed over to their boss, Captain Hirai Teruichi, by the gendarmes who enforced the law at the scene.
Due to the relatively large situation of the situation, Hirai Teraichi reported the case directly to the chief of staff of the Sena Division, and several soldiers of the baggage wing who participated in the gang rape were also sentenced to five days of confinement. Such a punishment is much more severe than the punishment that ordinary "weathering cases" understate for the parties.
As the chief of the gendarmerie who handled the case, Hirai recorded the details of the teacher's family and school. Hirai has about 100 "weathering cases" like this that can find female victims, and the rest are headless cases: female victims are either killed by Imperial soldiers after Xingraku, or abandoned in the wilderness where they cannot be found.
As soon as he accepted the task of secretly forcibly conscripting Shina women to serve as comfort women, Hiraiji immediately thought of the files of these "weathering cases" at hand, which contained the names, ages, occupations, and addresses of the Shina women who had been subjected to the Imperial Army's soldiers*, especially the addresses, which became extremely valuable at this moment.
According to the orders of the division commander, the brigade commander, and the head of the Taiyuan secret service, it is necessary to be particularly cautious and cautious in secretly forcibly recruiting women in Taiyuan City; after all, this is a large city with a population of several hundred thousand, and it is also the seat of the provincial-level office of the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China." Therefore, it is not advisable to arrange for soldiers to arrest the women of China on a large scale, so as to prevent causing a storm and leaking information.
In this case, it is better to show the identity of the gendarmerie of the garrison army, and under the cover of continuing to investigate and appease the victims of the "degrading case", visit those women who have been subjected, and propose conditions for them to be examined, arrange occupations, and pay compensation, so as to induce the other party to be deceived. After they were found and registered, they were taken away at a unified time, and then imprisoned in a barracks outside Taiyuan City, where they were transferred to the secret camp for comfort women that was being established.
By the time his family and friends found out that he was missing, the gendarmerie had already turned into a carabiner and disappeared from Taiyuan City with these women.
Hirai Teraichi's plan won the applause of Lieutenant General Sena and Major General Hagiwara on the spot, and even Masao Kojima, the head of the secret service who had always spoken in a weird manner, had to express his admiration.
The day after that dinner, Hirai Temple was in full swing.
The quartermaster, who had a civilian background, did not feel anything wrong with his new job. He had rediscovered the true meaning of comfort women, and then he understood the mystery of the disappearance of the daughter of his neighbor in his homeland - rather than let the women of Japan take on such an unspeakable mission, it was better to let those women serve as military prostitutes with the army.
That's right, it's a military prostitute! The so-called title of comfort women is nothing more than an illusory and false pretense of warmth, but they are in fact military prostitutes, military prostitutes for His Majesty's military officers and soldiers to vent their desires at will.
In China, women are very particular about honor and chastity, and whether they are married or unmarried, once they are subjected, they will lose their status and dignity. This point, as a half-China expert in Hirai Temple, is well aware; In the past, when he was the head of the gendarmerie and dealt with one "case of demorization", the emotions he came into contact with the families of the women who had been victimized were not anger and grief, but shame and shame.
For example, the family of this female teacher surnamed Zhang of a civilian middle school who had just left, her parents were deeply ashamed of this, and their eldest unmarried daughter was brutalized by many Japanese soldiers*, and it was in the park woods in the cold winter season, and the daughter not only lost her virginity, but also suffered severe frostbite. It is said that this family should never share the sky with the imperial army garrison from now on. However, when Hirai Teriichi proposed to their family that they could treat Teacher Zhang's frostbite free of charge, and that after being cured, they could transfer his entire family to live in Beiping or Tianjin, and that Teacher Zhang could work in a local "government agency", the family not only silently accepted it, but even made Hirai feel that they had a sense of relief.
Like this female teacher surnamed Zhang, Hirai found more than 70 female victims one after another according to the records in the "weathering case" file, and more than half of them agreed to settle the case according to the plan proposed by Hirai.
Of course, this seemingly fair and warm plan cannot really be implemented. Hirai Teraichi knew that what awaited these women was far more unbearable than being subjected to one*.
So what? Anyway, there must be women to act as comfort women, so let them come!
In just three days, Pingjing Temple registered 38 Chinese women who had been raped by soldiers of the imperial army in Taiyuan City, the oldest was 42 years old and the youngest was 15 years old. Of course, during the visit, he also found that many of the female victims' families had been relocated, and even some of the female victims had committed suicide due to their unbearable*.
There were also those who resisted, at least in three families, Hirai and his subordinates were scolded and even driven out by angry family members, and his subordinates once wanted to use force, but were stopped by Hirai. He could not act rashly, and both the division and brigade commanders repeatedly stressed that they should not cause a disturbance in the process so as to provoke people's eyes.
Hirai in the cab, with the help of the street lights outside the car window that came and went from time to time, subconsciously rummaged through a stack of files in his hand, and a tired but relieved smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Finally, he fulfilled his mission and was worthy of the rank of major lieutenant that the front army command had just awarded him.
The thirty-eight women of China, in terms of quantity and quality, can definitely be explained to the division. Hirai noticed that the dozen or so women on the file all had good looks, including housewives, shop employees, female workers in the arsenal, school teachers, and even a female health guard of the Central Army of China who had not had time to evacuate during the Battle of Taiyuan last year.
The female health soldier was hiding in a hospital in Taiyuan at the time, disguised as a nurse, and was searched by the soldiers of the imperial army for the military first-aid kit in her closet, arrested her, and took her to the barracks to play with for half a month, until she was discovered by Hirai's subordinate gendarmes, and then she was sent back to the hospital.
If nothing else, counting the female teachers surnamed Zhang who have just been finalized, these 38 women will become the first batch of comfort women accompanying the army on the North China battlefield and even the entire northern battlefield!
I, Hirai Temple, will make great contributions!