Chapter 068: War Machine

At the dining table, the female major of the military commander waved a shiny knife and fork, and the words she said were very imposing.

Li Yan, who was sitting diagonally opposite him, looked at Wang Suihua's face in the soft light, but his thoughts were deserted, and the female boss at this moment was more like an ordinary woman than a ruthless female agent. For Wang Suihua's ruthlessness, Li Yan's subordinates have heard of it, legend has it that when he was in the Qingpu class in Shanghai, Wang Suihua once had a close relationship with a male instructor, but he died without a problem; Later, there were people around her skirt who kept harassing her, but she was forced to send them one by one; Although the Shanxi Station of the Military Command is not a large station, the total number of personnel has reached more than 20 people, and the subordinates know a little about the background of the station commander and several team leaders.

Femme fatale? Li Yan thought of this word for a while, but in his heart he shook his head and gave a negative denial: he just didn't believe that this beautiful and fashionable woman sitting a few feet away would be a hard-hearted person who had no emotions and six desires, and only knew how to kill the killer.

"Li Yan!"

Wang Suihua was calling his name, his face was a little displeased, the lieutenant of the military commander knew that he was distracted, and hurriedly put down the goblet in his hand to cover up, he heard in a trance that the team leader was arranging the following actions just now, and mentioned Wencheng, so he followed a sentence on the donkey to prove that he had been listening carefully:

"No problem, I can continue to keep an eye on Wencheng."

Wang Suihua was really deceived by her subordinates, and her expression when she was about to have a seizure eased down.

She was indeed deploying surveillance and reconnaissance of Fengdian, Wencheng, and the southern line of Tongpu Road. The Shanxi station has instructed an intelligence group to focus on monitoring the movements of the Shangang Division, including the distribution of Japanese troops stationed in Taiyuan and other places; And Wang Suihua's intelligence group 2 focused all its attention on the Sena Division.

The military commanders of the Shanxi Station and the Northwest Region unanimously agreed that the two divisions of the Japanese North China Front stationed in Shanxi were about to launch a large-scale offensive, and their primary target was the remnants of the Second World War Zone in the southwest and south of Shanxi. To this end, the Northwest District has urgently telegraphed to the World War II District Commandant's Department.

In accordance with the instructions of Shanxi Station, Wang Suihua made the following arrangements: Fang Moshu went to Fengdian again, Zhou Yi went to Junling, Li Yan went to Wencheng again, and Wang Suihua himself kept an eye on the regimental headquarters of Sena Division and maneuvered with him; The deaf stayed in Taiyuan. There is a telephone in Wang Suihua's company, which is actually the external contact phone of the second intelligence group, and the deaf person is on duty next to the phone. All agents on duty in the field are allowed to maintain contact with the team by dialing this number, and the relevant call code language is prescribed.

The meeting was dismissed, and Fang Moshu and Zhou Yi cleaned up the mess at home; Walking out of the couple's house, Li Yan took away the deaf first, but he offered to give Wang Suihua a ride; The female major of the military commander, who had drunk some red wine, looked at this smiling subordinate vigilantly and did not agree.

The information of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command was generally accurate, and at this moment, the two divisions of the Japanese North China Front in Shanxi had indeed begun to attack.

This offensive was carried out against the backdrop of the fact that the main forces of the North China Front were about to hold the Battle of Xuzhou in Shandong. The headquarters of the front army telegraphed to the commanders of the two divisions, Masaki Sena and Shigehou Yamaoka, that Shanxi, as the rear of the front army, should take this opportunity to wipe out the remnants of the Chinese army in the territory, including the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army, and the Eighth Route Army. For this reason, the headquarters of the front army specially transferred an independent mountain artillery wing from Hebei to them, with 24 75 mountain guns, to strengthen the attack; An independent railway corps wing to strengthen the mobile forces of the Tongpu Railway.

In view of the firm determination of the Front Command, the commanders of the two divisions, Sena and Yamaoka, temporarily consulted and coordinated, and readjusted the overall battle plan.

The offensive will be divided into two directions: Jinnan and Shanxi.

In the southern direction of Jinnan, the troops were deployed as all two infantry wings of the Kato Brigade of the Sena Division, all of the field artillery wings and one cavalry wing directly under the division and regimental headquarters were strengthened, and all the independent railway corps wings that had just been attached to the front army were strengthened; Along the Tongpu railway line, go south, attack Lingshi, Huoxian, and Hongdong in turn, and directly take Linfen, where the headquarters of the commander of the Second War Zone of the China Army is located. In consideration of the importance of seizing important towns along the Dongpu Railway and facilitating the opening of the entire Dongpu Road to traffic at an early date, the attack in the southern direction of Jinnan was personally supervised by the commander of the Sena Division and commanded by the commander of the Kato Brigade.

In the southwest of Jin, the forces were deployed as all two infantry wings of the Motokawa Brigade of the Yamaoka Division, as well as the Saijo Infantry Wing of the Hagiwara Brigade of the Sena Division, and the independent mountain artillery wing that had just been attached to the North China Front Army; Starting from Fenyang and Xiaoyi along the highway, attack the main force of the Jin Sui army remaining in the southwest of Shanxi. It was commanded by the commander of the 3rd Brigade of Benchuan Province.

The commander of the Yamaoka Heavy Division sat in Taiyuan and was responsible for coordinating the entire battle situation; The Guto Brigade of the Shangang Division is responsible for the garrison in the area of Jinzhong, and is commanded by the commander of the Guto Changying Brigade.

In addition, the Otsuka Wing of the Hagiwara Brigade of the Sena Division continued to carry out the established tasks, and the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade was under the command of Bunjo.

In this way, the two divisions of the North China Front of the Japanese Army in Shanxi launched a huge war machine on February 14, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938) and the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Lieutenant General Sena and his entourage took a small train and drove into Bunjo Station. The commander of the garrison army, Kosuke Otsuka, and the new head of the Bunjo secret service, Masao Kojima, greeted them on the platform.

This day is the Lantern Festival of the Chinese lunar calendar, and despite the fall of the city, the city still exudes a festive atmosphere, with many homes hanging traditional red lanterns and daring children setting off firecrackers in the streets and alleys. Lieutenant General Sena, who had inspected the city in a car, saw all this with satisfaction, and he knew that this was due to the slaughtering style of the Otsuka Wing in time by the division and brigade headquarters, and also to the hard work of the commander of the Kojima Agency.

The first thing Masao Kojima did after taking office was to urgently convene the original leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Fumijo to form a temporary law and order maintenance association; Since the mayor of the Kuomintang has fled south with the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, and the city government has also existed in name only, this law and order maintenance committee has played the role of acting government; On behalf of the garrison army, Masao Kojima promised that the army would only guard the city defense and the railway, and would not harass the citizens, and asked the maintenance association to organize a dragon lantern procession on the streets on the day of the Lantern Festival to stir up the festive atmosphere.

Lieutenant General Sena set up the temporary division headquarters in a small building next to the Bunjo Railway Station, and the vanguard of the Kato Brigade he led this time had already crossed Bunjo and advanced to a village near the southern railway line, and sent scouts in the direction of the county town of Lingseok, which was about to be attacked. The follow-up troops were taking the train and marching from Jiaocheng and Taiyuan to Wencheng one after another. The division commander demanded that the main force complete its assembly at Wencheng by 18 February, and move south on the same day.

In the evening, the head of the Kojima office held a small banquet in the former city hall to welcome the division commander and celebrate the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival. Considering that Wencheng had just been occupied, the public security situation was still unclear, and Masao Kojima's secret service was not yet fully staffed, and the security was not certain, so the banquet was not held in the restaurant restaurant in the city. Previously, Yang Yaokang, the chairman of the maintenance committee, had suggested that Lieutenant General Sena should be invited to the city's most famous Baoyuan restaurant to taste authentic Shannan Road cuisine, but Kojima finally rejected it after weighing it repeatedly. The big war is coming, and the head of the secret service doesn't want an accident on his own ground.

Since there are no Japanese chefs, the dishes at the dinner are purely Chinese, and the wine served is also the local specialty Fenjiu. Lieutenant General Sena spoke highly of Kojima's fruitful work and hoped that under his rule, Bunjo would become a strong fortress on the Tongpu Road.

Kosuke Otsuka's heart was quite uncomfortable: his own practice of allowing the wing to slaughter the city in Fengdian had already been reprimanded by the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade, and the division commander was obviously a little cold to himself when he came. However, the head of the secret service in front of him, who was wearing the robes of the Zhina, was out of the limelight. The Wing Commander thought sullenly that, according to the certain disciplines which the island had agreed upon for the garrison, he and his men would probably lose much of the pleasures in the future, especially those pleasures which were gained on the carcasses of the women of China; Life in the garrison will become boring and boring - by the way, the mysterious "Wind Project", I don't know where it has been? What would the legendary comfort women look like?

The banquet was very lively, and in addition to Lieutenant General Sena Division, Commander of the Division, and Major General Kato, Brigade Commander, the attendees were all officers who were about to embark on the expedition: two infantry wings, one cavalry commander, and one field artillery wing. Kosuke Otsuka looked at these colleagues who were eager to try, and his sense of loss could no longer be concealed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I propose that we all toast Otsuka-kun together!"

It was Lieutenant General Sena who spoke and raised his glass, and Kosuke Otsuka hurriedly stood up and stood upright, holding the wine glass in both hands.

"After the main force of our division moves south and west, Wencheng will become an important supply town in the rear, and I hope that Otsuka-kun will fulfill his duties and ensure that the lifeline of the division is unimpeded!"

Everyone chimed in and raised their glasses to Kosuke Otsuka, who respectfully drank it all.

Until this time, most of the middle-level officers in the banquet really thought that the task of the Otsuka Wing was to occupy this hub city on the Tongpu Road communication line. And out of absolute secrecy, Lieutenant General Sena did not mention anything about the comfort women's camp to Otsuka at the banquet. He just said a general but meaningful sentence to Kosuke Otsuka and Masao Kojima:

"The two of you have an important mission, and we should continue to unite sincerely and live up to expectations!"

"Hey!"

The two people who were instructed saluted forcefully, then glanced at each other and tacitly picked up the wine glasses.