Chapter 287: Spring Demon
The captain of the gendarmerie, Hirai Temple, finally walked out of Little Elm Mountain again, where the Songjiagou comfort women camp had long since lost the figure of the comfort women, and now, the military police captain with a top-secret mission will launch his own actions in order to re-make the comfort women secret camp worthy of its name.
On this trip, Hirai Teichi selected two detachments from among the officers and men of the military police squadron with a total of 26 people, many of whom looked like Chinese and could speak some Chinese. In order to hide people's eyes, they took two trucks and set off from Songjiagou after midnight and drove directly into a barracks on the southern outskirts of Wencheng. This newly completed barracks is currently home to an infantry squadron of the Nara Brigade of the Otsuka Wing, which has been deployed to deal with emergencies during the implementation of the "Wind Plan"; For this purpose, not only a number of trucks are equipped, but also a large number of three-wheeled military motorcycles are on standby. Commander of the Hagiwara Brigade and Masao Kojima's secret service both believed that the mobility of the three-wheeled motorcycle was more suitable for covering and responding to the small groups that carried out the "Wind Plan", and it was not as ostentatious and eye-catching as the trucks.
After arriving at the barracks, Hirai Tereichi first met with Captain Ikeda, the deputy commander of the Nara Brigade, who had arranged for the deputy commander to personally sit in the barracks to command the infantry squadron. On the other hand, out of secrecy, even Deputy Captain Ikeda himself was not informed of the true contents of the "Wind Project". The task they were assigned by Shangfeng was to cooperate with and cover the special secret operation led by the Hirai Temple No. 1 Nakasa.
The Japanese officers and men of the entire barracks noticed that Hirai Nakasa and his subordinates were not wearing military uniforms, but were all civilian clothes, and the means of transportation they were equipped with were not military vehicles, but horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and even donkey carts, some of which were equipped with shed roofs. This strange group of people did not live in the barracks of the barracks, but were all stationed in a corner and worked alone.
The day after he moved into the barracks, Hirai Teraichi took a few of his subordinates and quietly left in a carriage. They made a winding journey south, and finally arrived at a farmhouse compound surrounded by several fields of farmland, where they were waiting for none other than Masao Kojima, the head of the Japanese military secret service in Bunjo.
The farmhouse compound is now completely controlled by Masao Kojima's men, except for a young mother and son who are the original owners, the rest are capable agents of the plainclothes team of the Japanese military secret service in Wencheng, one of whom pretends to be the woman's husband and ostensibly operates as the male owner, and the other plainclothes are pretending to be his relatives and employees. To outsiders who don't know the truth, this farmhouse compound seems to be quiet and peaceful, but in fact, it has become a secret transit point for the execution of the evil "Wind Plan".
Masao Kojima handed over and explained to Hirai Temple, and then prepared to return to Bunjo. In the future, Hirai will use this place as a temporary command center, and the members of the plainclothes team of the secret service who remain will also be under his full leadership. Masao Kojima secretly expects to say: This fake Nakasa, it's best not to mess up all the things he has carefully set up!
In fact, in Hirai Teriichi's mind, this large area of undensely populated countryside south of Bunjo was not the best place to recruit comfort women. To this day, Wencheng is still an ideal place for recruitment, not only is it densely populated, but the conditions of the women of China are obviously much better than those of the women in this area. However, in view of the fact that the timing of the secret collection in Wencheng has yet to be developed, and the battle of Xuzhou is imminent, the operation of the front army headquarters to collect and transport the second batch of comfort women has become urgent. Therefore, Hirai Terarichi can only accept the current reality.
Seeing off the head of the secret service, the captain of the gendarmerie in Songjiagou secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He is well aware of Masao Kojima's disdain, so he has always been jealous of the other party. What's more, Chief Kojima has been promoted to Dazuo, and his military rank is one level higher than himself, so there is really no need to have friction and disputes with him. What he is anxious to do at the moment is not to immediately go to the homes of ordinary people in the countryside and arrest young women, he must first reconnoiter the environment and find out the distribution of women in China within a radius of dozens of miles, and then he can carry out arrests in a targeted manner.
Standing in the courtyard of a farmhouse under the warm sun of early spring, Hiraiji Temple took a look at everything around him. On the cultivated land outside the yard, there are still dots of residual snow that have not melted clean; The buds of the two peach trees in the yard have partially bloomed; The smell of the earth, which had been frozen for a winter, greeted my nose. It's really a cozy idyllic spring.
At this time, the three-year-old young son of the family ran out of the house, and he did not understand what was going on, and he still did not realize that his family had suffered a catastrophe. Running out after him was the hostess, whose face had turned pale with the fright and fear she had been subjected to for days. What the young peasant woman was told was that her husband and mother-in-law had gone to Wencheng to enjoy their happiness, and as long as she stayed and actively cooperated, it would not be long before the imperial army would send their mother and son to the prosperous Wencheng to reunite with their relatives.
The suspicious hostess had neither the strength to fight nor the way to escape, so she had to guard her little son day and night, and live like a year. No one told her what she was staying to cooperate with, and these fierce and vicious Japanese, although they were wearing ordinary people's clothes, had cold short guns and short knives pinned to their waists, which made this innocent Chinese woman shudder and obey.
Hiraiji looked at the mother and son playing in the courtyard with a fascination. His eyes deliberately lingered on the young mother's face for a long time, and the Japanese soldier Nakasa, who also had a wife and children, did not feel guilty at this moment; He was even wondering if he could put the young woman on his list of comfort women. Suddenly, he remembered a sentence that Masao Kojima had mentioned before leaving, intentionally or unintentionally, that the head of the secret service wanted him, the commander who took over, to take care of all the subordinates in the mansion and not let them casually contact and violate the young hostess, so as not to attract resistance and non-cooperation, which would ruin a big deal.
From Masao Kojima's confession, the head of the gendarmerie could not tell whether the plainclothes had sexually assaulted the young hostess. But he felt it was necessary to further strengthen the command, telling them not to lose too little.
After secretly repeating this order, Hirai Teraichi took his men from the gendarmerie and drove away in a carriage. He had mainly come to find out the location of this transit station today, and the rest of the time, he was going to turn south, feel the situation, and then rush back to the barracks on the southern outskirts of Wencheng. At the transfer station, when the "Wind Plan" operation has not started, it is not easy to stop too many people, vehicles and horses, so as to avoid being noticed by people in the surrounding area or passing by.
Masao Kojima, the head of the secret service agency, who left the secret transfer station first, hurried back to Bunjo and went directly to Hagiwara's brigade headquarters. First, he reported on the handover with the commander of the gendarmerie, and second, the brigade commander, Major General, also wanted to continue to discuss with him the Shenmikyina Army, which had just appeared near the county town of Fengdian.
At this time, Major General Hagiwara was not only anxious to let Hirai Teraichi carry out the "Wind Plan", but also worried that this "Wind Plan" would be attacked by the Shinmykyina Army. According to the news from Toydian, several teams sent by Captain Otsuka focused on searching for Little Elm Mountain, but so far no trace of the Shina Army has been found.
On the desk of the brigade commander, there is a topographic map that has just been drawn, which is the whole map of Little Elm Mountain drawn by the engineer squadron attached to the division and regiment after a recent field survey. On this map, it can be clearly seen that the simple road that runs through the entire Little Elm Mountain centered on Songjiagou is actually located in the southerly direction of the whole mountain, with a mountain pass at each end of the east and west, and is now completely controlled by the imperial army. In addition to these two passes, there are six or seven obvious or hidden access passes in the middle and north of Little Elm Mountain; Among them, there is a mountain pass corresponding to the west gate of Fengdian County, from where you can enter the middle of Little Elm Mountain, and there is a relatively wide and flat dirt road between the canyons. According to memory, that area included the area of the Iwata Cavalry Squadron of the Eighth Route Army's ambush division: Dawangyu.
As for the mountain pass, the dirt road in the mountains, and Dawangyu, after conquering and occupying the county seat of Fengdian, the Otsuka Wing sent troops back to clean up the battlefield, but they did not search deeper at that time. This time, the division's engineer squadron explored the area again and found that there were at least two trails from there that led to the mountain road centered on Songjiagou - which was undoubtedly a huge hidden danger for the comfort women camp.
"General, the people of the Otsuka Wing, did they focus on searching the place called Dawangyu? Can they confirm that there is no trace of the Myitkyina Army there? Masao Kojima's eyes were fixed on the map marked with Dawangyu, and at the same time he scanned the straight-line distance from Dawangyu to Songjiagou: it should be no more than five miles away!
Hagiwara Akira nodded, and said with a solemn expression: "I'm also worried about this, and I specially asked the people of Otsuka to search carefully repeatedly, but the answers I got were the same. The mysterious Shina Army is not in that area - where are they hiding?! ”
"In my opinion, the most important thing at the moment is not to track the movements of the Chinese army, but to plug the loopholes in the interior of Little Elm Mountain from the ground. In the area of Dawangyu, you can order the Otsuka Wing to send cavalry to patrol every day. If conditions permit, consider placing troops on that pass and imposing a blockade. ”
Before the head of the secret service could finish speaking, Hagiwara slammed the table and shouted, "You reminded me!" The small elm mountain pass outside the west gate of Fengdian must be closed immediately! It was decided, and I informed Otsuka to execute it immediately. ”
Unexpectedly, the phone from the brigade commander had not yet been called, but the phone from Fengdian County had called first, and the caller was Captain Otsuka himself. He reported: In the course of leading his troops out of the city to search today, Captain Nomura unexpectedly interrogated the peasant households living at the foot of the Great Elm Mountain about the movements of the Shina Army that had mysteriously disappeared that day. According to the confessions of several peasant households, the group of people dressed in common people's clothes and carrying guns all walked down the road that day and entered the Great Elm Mountain Pass on the side of the road, and they have not been seen out since. Based on this, Kosuke Otsuka judged that the army of the branch should have hidden into the Great Elm Mountain from there.
It was only at this time that Masao Kojima, who was standing beside the brigade commander, suddenly woke up: Could the so-called Shenmikyina Army be the 391st Regiment of the Central Army hiding in the Great Elm Mountain?!
In the previous period, in order to investigate the suspicious "Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army's attack on Fengdian", the head of the small island office himself once visited Fengdian in person and entered the valley where Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army set up an ambush in the Great Elm Mountain. It later turned out that the ambushed Zhina Army was the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, which claimed to be Fu Zuoyi's department.
According to this analysis, the Shenmikyina Army, which first shelled Junling County and exchanged fire with the defenders of Fengdian on the highway a few days ago, is very likely to be the 391st Regiment in disguise, and only they can hide from the mountain pass into the Great Elm Mountain and never come out again.
Yaga! After listening to Masao Kojima's analysis, the commander of the Japanese brigade was so angry that he couldn't help himself: This remnant of the Central Army is too arrogant! Dare to come and go freely on the highway that is nearly 100 miles long, and provoke the imperial army!