The plan for transporting the secretly forcibly conscripted comfort women was finally decided after several secret discussions between the head of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade and the head of the secret service stationed in Bunjo, Masao Kojima, and made deductions.

This delivery plan can be described as extremely meticulous. In the process of implementation, all parties are very well connected.

The military train at the Taiyuan Railway Station was sealed with wooden planks at midnight, and it drove out of Taiyuan Station at dawn - this is also the reason why the female major of the military commander lost her target after only leaving the monitoring point for an hour - the military column carrying an infantry squadron of the Otsuka Wing went all the way to the south, stopping on the wasteland between Taiyuan and Taigu County, and the whole squadron got off the train to be on alert; Within a radius of ten miles of the parking place, it has been completely blocked in advance by the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army to which the Otsuka Wing belongs.

As soon as the military train left the Taiyuan Railway Station, 38 forcibly recruited Chinese comfort women were loaded onto four military trucks at the original site of the barracks of the Sena Division Headquarters in Taiyuan City; In order to hide their eyes, the comfort women were dressed in the military uniforms of the Sena Division, with cotton coats covering their figures, cotton military caps covering their hair, and each of them having towels in their mouths and their hands tied from behind. Each truck carried between nine and ten comfort women, each of whom was guarded by a soldier from the Hiraiji No. 1 gendarmerie.

In addition to these four vehicles, there were several other trucks loaded with other soldiers of the gendarmerie, as well as a squadron led by Aso Nakasa, deputy commander of the Otsuka Wing, who had just returned from a secret mission to bury the families of the comfort women, and this mighty car convoy, led by Major General Hagiwara Akira, drove out of the barracks, all the way out of the Yingze Gate south of Taiyuan City, along the road parallel to the Tongpu Railway Line, into the blockade circle of the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment, and drove straight to the side of the military column.

The comfort women were transferred from the carriage to a closed military train, and the commander of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade and Captain Hirai Temple led the entire gendarmerie to board the train; Deputy Wing Commander Aso led two squadrons of infantry in trucks. Hagiwara Akira gave an order, and the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army took the lead in setting off along the highway and galloped forward as a sharp soldier to open the way; After that, the military train was launched; After that, the truck team started the palace.

In this way, this special task force composed of war horses, trains, and trucks went south from Tongpu Road, crossing Taigu, Qixian, and Junling; Starting from Junling, the military columns and truck teams continued to move south along the railway line, while the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army completed its task, and under the leadership of the cavalry commander and deputy commander of Aso, they turned east onto the road from Junling to Fengdian, and after they arrived at Fengdian, they would be stationed together with the Futian Brigade of the Otsuka Wing there, and the deputy wing commander Aso served as the commander. Ten days ago, the main force of the Otsuka United Army captured the county seat of Fengdian along this route.

The comfort women's military column and truck convoy drove all the way to the northern outskirts of Wencheng.

The Tongpu Railway is in the northern suburbs of Wencheng, extending a small branch line to the east, which crosses from the northern suburbs of Wencheng, and then slightly turns into the eastern suburbs of Wencheng, and then goes straight to the Songjiagou station in Xiaoyushu Mountain.

At this moment, the military train left the main line of Tongpu Road and turned into the branch line leading to Songjiagou, and the soldiers of the two squadrons of the Nara Brigade of the Otsuka Wing carried by the truck team also completed the escort task at this time and entered Wencheng to rebuild.

As a result, the comfort women's troops, escorted by only the first gendarmerie of Pingjing Temple, drove along the branch line to Songjiagou Station and stopped at the renovated platform. At this point, an important step in the implementation of the "Wind Plan" was completed, and the comfort women's secret camp was officially opened.

Song Jiagou had been deployed before this. The mountain passes leading to Bunjo in Little Elm Mountain, and the mountain passes leading to Toyoden, have been barricaded and fortified by engineers, and are guarded by two squads of the Iwata Cavalry Squadron; Two 75 mountain guns transferred from the Independent Mountain Artillery Wing of the North China Front have just been added to the fortifications, and one is equipped with one for each mountain pass.

Standing on the platform in the cold wind, Major General Hagiwara Akira watched as Hirai Tereichi's men escorted thirty-eight comfort women into the camp. The camp was on a large open field behind the platform, with five rows of barracks, already fenced with barbed wire.

Hirai divided the 150 members of his gendarmerie into three squads, the first of which guarded the comfort women in the camp, the second who guarded the platforms and guarded the military columns, and the third who patrolled the ravine.

Major General Hagiwara Akira, the commander of the brigade, was satisfied: it seemed that they - he and the division commander - had not chosen the wrong person, and so far the Hirai Temple pair had clearly been very competent for this task. After admonishing and encouraging Hirai Shaozuo, Hagiwara Akira left Songjiagou and went to Wencheng.

From this day on, Major General Hagiwara will lead the brigade headquarters to sit in Bunjo and command Captain Kotsuka Kosuke Otsuka and Masao Kojima to continue the implementation of the "Wind Plan."

Lieutenant General Sena was very pleased that the "Wind Plan" was implemented as scheduled, and from secret collection to secret transfer, it was done seamlessly. Today, Songjiagou, where the comfort women's secret camp is located, is not only heavily guarded, but also Wencheng and Fengdian at the front and rear ends of the camp have also completed the deployment of troops, which is equivalent to closing two strong doors for the secret camp. In the afternoon, he telegraphed this major development to the North China Front Command, and the next step was to wait for the next instructions from the Front Command.

"General, when will the full-scale attack on the southwest and south of Jin begin?" Major General Akira Hagiwara drank a lot of sake tonight and seemed extremely excited at the moment; Now that the "Wind Plan" he was in charge of had peace of mind, he turned his attention to the battlefield of attacking the remnants of the Chinese army.

Unexpectedly, when talking about this matter, Lieutenant General Sena's face became solemn: "Now it seems that the battle situation in Shanxi may become very delicate."

Hagiwara was stunned: "What, is it the enemy situation that has changed?" ”

"No, it's our side that has changed," Lieutenant General Sena lit a cigarette: "The base camp has just rebuilt the command system of the southern battlefield, and the original headquarters of the Central China Front, the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the 10th Army have all been abolished!" The original commanders, such as General Matsui Ishine, were dismissed, and the only Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters was newly established, with full and unified command of the southern battlefield, and the commander was General Shunroku Hata! ”

Hagiwara gasped: "General Matsui Ishine has been dismissed?!" Basecamp, what does this mean? Do you really want to make peace with the government of China? ”

Masaki Sena took a puff of cigarette and did not answer immediately. Both generals knew that the current base camp of the Emperor advocated not to expand the all-out war against China, but to use the victory that had been achieved so far to force Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China government to surrender and cooperate.

"Of course," said Lieutenant General Sena lightly, "Admiral Matsui's subordinates, this time in the capital of the Shina people, have gone a little too far, and the number of murders and rapes of women has greatly exceeded the norm, and the public has been outraged in the world; The base camp took him down, perhaps to calm the tide of public condemnation. ”

"Doesn't there smell of suppressing the main battle faction?" Hagiwara asked, shaking his head in disbelief.

"However, it is said that the attitude of the senior general in the temple is still tough!" Masaki Sena was still very careful not to comment on the affairs of the base camp in front of his subordinates, and the senior general Terauchi he mentioned was Terauchi Shouichi, who was the supreme commander of the North China Front at the time, and he was a hawkish figure who advocated a major attack in the war against China: "It has been learned that Senior General Terauchi has recently successively suggested to the General Staff Headquarters that our North China Front Army should go south to attack Xuzhou and seek a battle with the Chinese Army there."

"Then is our offensive in Shanxi still going on as scheduled?" Hagiwara Akira was also a hawkish general, eagerly awaiting the expulsion of the remnants of Yan Xishan from Shanxi.

"Yes, not only will it be carried out as scheduled, but the tasks of our division and the Shangang division may be aggravated."

Hearing what the division commander said, Hagiwara Akira couldn't help but get excited, but soon he found that Lieutenant General Sena, who was sitting opposite, had a little worry on his face.

It turned out that the North China Front Headquarters, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, commander of the First Army, had just orally conveyed two revised orders for this offensive to the two divisions stationed in Shanxi: First, the Shangang Division stationed in Tunjinzhong should strengthen the dispatch of a part of its troops, and while attacking the northwest of Shanxi, it would join the harem division of the Kwantung Army stationed in Datong to attack the rear of the Eighth Route Army in Yan'an on the other side of the Yellow River; Secondly, the Sena Division attacking Jinnan should also consider striving to cross the Yellow River (the Yellow River bend area at the junction of Shanxi and Henan), enter Henan to intercept the Longhai Railway, and support the Battle of Xuzhou on the flank.

Hearing the words of the division commander, Major General Hagiwara Akira, who was originally eager to try, also became silent all of a sudden: The revised task handed over to the First Army by the Front Army is indeed too heavy, so heavy that it may crush these two divisions!

At present, the North China Front Army is divided into two armies, and the First Army has four divisions under its jurisdiction, namely the Sena Division, the Yamaoka Division, the Tohihara Division, and the Shimoto Division; The latter two divisions have been deployed in the direction of Shandong, preparing to jointly launch the Battle of Xuzhou with the Second Army of the North China Front Army (under the jurisdiction of the Itagaki Division and the Isogu Division). The two divisions remaining in Shanxi not only had to complete the original task of expelling the remnants of the Chinese Army in the country, but now they had to cross the Yellow River separately and enter Shaanxi and Henan!

Even as a hawk, Major General Hagiwara Akira inevitably gasped.

"General, will the Front Army and the First Army consider adding troops to us?" Hagiwara asked fancifully.

"Reinforcements? That is impossible, the general of the temple has already made up his mind to concentrate heavy troops in Xuzhou for a decisive battle, and it is impossible for either the front army or the headquarters of the first army to send a single soldier to Shanxi. ”

Lieutenant General Sena's answer made Hagiwara's expression show a hint of sadness. He finally understood why his immediate boss had been so depressed just now.

"You know what? What I'm most worried about now is not whether I can enter Henan," Lieutenant General Sena lowered his voice: "It's that once there is an emptiness in our rear, will it threaten the safety of the Songjiagou comfort women camp!" After the Nanjing incident, the base camp was very troubled by the discipline of the army, so there was the introduction of the wind plan in the northern battlefield; Now Matsui Ishine in the southern battlefield has obviously lost his job because of this......"

Sena Masaki couldn't go on, and Hagiwara Akira's eyes looked at him in a daze-the division commander was obviously thinking more deeply: Songjiagou secret camp!

Yes, if the Shangang Division, which was responsible for defending the *Central Line (the line from Taiyuan to Junling), had to transfer troops to attack Shaanxi, and the main force of the Sena Division had to enter Henan in one go, then the rear and front of the Wencheng-Songjiagou-Fengdian line would become extremely empty; With just one Otsuka wing and the little strength attached to it, can we always ensure the safety of the comfort women camp?!