Two nights, one day.

Fengdian finally ushered in the second dawn after the fall with difficulty. The sun in the winter breeze makes people feel no warmth. And all morning, the county was still full of slaughter, no chickens and dogs barking, no traces of cooking smoke; There is not even the sporadic gunfire that rang out at this time yesterday.

The disheveled Japanese soldiers, lazily coming out of one house after another, were very close to the noon assembly time announced by their wing commander. Satisfied, carrying the looted things, they appeared in groups in the streets and alleys, greeted each other with joy, and exchanged personal experiences and feelings over the past two nights and a day.

They ignored the corpses of the people of the city everywhere, just as they ignored the hundreds of corpses left behind by the Central Army. Of course, these Japanese soldiers, who indulged in their desires, would also ignore the women who were discarded by them after repeated abuses.

Kosuke Otsuka sat at the county government and patiently waited for the arrival of several captains and squadron leaders under him. These martial artists should be refreshed at this moment. Next, he needs them to get back into battle.

After Otsuka informed the brigade headquarters in Taiyuan of the battle to take Fengdian in less than two days, the commander of the Hagiwara brigade was very happy and conveyed to him the congratulations of the division commander, Lieutenant General Sena. The previous deadline for Otsuka to conquer Toyodian was five days, so when Otsuka Kosuke proposed to the brigade headquarters a request to rest in Toyodian for two days, and then march to Songjiagou and capture Wencheng, Hagiwara Akira happily agreed: The Shina army defending the city of Toyoden fought very tenaciously, and the Otsuka Wing paid a lot of price for this, and they should be given time to adjust and rest.

It's just that the brigade commander, Major General Hagiwara, doesn't know the true meaning of the "rest for two days" mentioned by the wing commander under his command, otherwise, he will at least be cautious to dissuade him.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Otsuka finally had a meeting with his group leaders and squadron leaders. Sure enough, these subordinates were full of spirit and high morale, and before the official meeting, they also exchanged ideas with great interest like the soldiers, especially the details of the young Chinese women, and the rough laughter lingered around the pillars of the old building for a long time.

Immediately, Kosuke Otsuka issued a new combat order. The wing will continue southward, along the highway into the mountains, and occupy a small railway station about thirty miles away: Songjiagou. After resting there for a day, the squadron of engineers and part of the guard were left behind; The main force of the wing, out of the mountains, attacked the important town of Tongpu Road led by the Songjiagou Railway Branch: Wencheng.

The Wing Commander made the following deployments:

The Fukuda Brigade and the Aikawa Brigade each left a squadron including wounded soldiers, led by Fukudaoka, and held Toyoden.

The Iwata Cavalry Squadron was still the first to set off as the spearhead of the whole wing; This was followed by two squadrons of the Nara Brigade, three squadrons of the Aikawa Brigade, followed by the Wing Headquarters, the Engineer Squadron, the Field Artillery Brigade, and finally the three squadrons of the Fukuda Brigade.

Kosuke Otsuka released his words: Occupy Songjiagou in one day, and conquer Wencheng within three days!

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The main force of the Otsuka United team started one after another after lunch. They gathered in the city of Fengdian, and then set out from the south gate in turn.

The news that the devil's army had left soon spread among the people in the city. The people who have experienced the catastrophe only dare to come out and clean up the miserable mess until this moment. There were dead bodies everywhere, some of the Central Army who had died in battle, and some of the ordinary people who had been slaughtered.

The devil did not leave completely, and the four gates remained closed, neither letting the fleeing come back, nor letting the survivors out. The few Japanese soldiers vigilantly guarded the city gates and city walls.

People search for the whereabouts of their loved ones and collect their homes that have been devastated by war and looting. One by one, the cries rang out one after another.

Sun Nier, who was curled up and hiding in the dye vat, first spent a sleepless night, when a large group of orc soldiers were noisy, and they took turns to violence against the woman less than a few feet away from the dye vat, and the swaying of the wooden table in the dye dye shop and the wailing of the woman did not stop throughout the first half of the night.

Later, the Japanese soldiers were probably tired, and they muttered for a while, then grabbed the Chinese woman who had suffered miserably* and left.

There was a deathly silence in the dyehouse. But Suniel was still curled up in the dye vat, not daring to move.

When the day dawned, there were sounds of Japanese soldiers running and shouting from time to time, mixed with the thrilling sound of gunfire. During this period, two or three groups of Japanese soldiers broke into the dye shop and plundered it, but probably the mess in the house made them realize that the place had been looted, so it didn't take long for them to leave hastily.

Hungry and thirsty, Sun Nier, when the evening came again, could not support her vigilance and fell asleep. It wasn't until the middle of the night that she was awakened by the cold invasion of the north wind, and when she heard no movement around her, she dared to climb out of the dye vat, and Sun Nier groped for the water tank in another corner, drank some cold water, and then hid back in the dye vat. The cotton shoes on her feet were already soaked with the dye at the bottom of the tank, but she did not dare to do anything: at the moment, life was more important than anything else; What's more, once caught by these Japanese beast soldiers, it is not only your life that you will lose.

Finally, in this afternoon, Sun Nier heard the voice of the Chinese outside, and although she couldn't hear what people were saying, she was sure that she was her own compatriot. Soon there were cries again, first of the women and then of the men. Sun Nier realized that the Japanese soldiers might be gone.

She curled up vigilantly for a while before she crawled out of the dye vat again, and tentatively walked out of the dye shop into the alley.

She saw that the county town she was familiar with had become a hell on earth.

……

Taiyuan, the regimental headquarters of the North China Front.

Lieutenant General Sena and Masao Kojima, the head of the Taiyuan Secret Service, are studying the next course of action regarding the progress of the attack of the Otsuka Kosuke Wing.

Since the departure of Lieutenant General Sakai, the special envoy of the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters, the Headquarters of the Front Army has asked the Sena Division Headquarters to report on the progress of the "Wind Plan" every day to Major General Suzuki, a senior staff officer of the Front Army, who is in charge of this matter.

The "Wind Plan" is the code name for the operation to establish a secret camp for comfort women in the rear of Shanxi.

At present, in the whole of Shanxi, there are only four people who know the inside story of the "Wind Plan", except for the commander of the Sena Division and the head of the Kojima Organ who are sitting in the small conference room of the division headquarters at the moment, and then the brigade commanders of the two brigades under the jurisdiction of the Sena Division.

"Kojima-kun," Lieutenant General Sena smiled at the head of the Taiyuan secret service while playing with the jade pipe in his hand, "You don't have to worry about the difficulty of conquering Wencheng. According to the report of the captain of the Otsuka Wing, before the loss of Fengdian, the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army defending the city fled ahead of schedule, which is enough to prove the weakness of the Jin army's combat effectiveness. ”

"General, what I'm worried about is not the main force of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army stationed in Wencheng, they should still not be Otsuka's opponents;" Kojima Masao said respectfully but persistently: "But as I said in a piece of information I presented to the general earlier, a main brigade of the 115th Division of the Communist Army is currently cruising in the southwest of Shanxi, and this is a force worthy of vigilance. ”

"Then you insist that it is possible for this guerrilla force of the communist army to leave their preferred mountain rivers and move closer to the cities on the Tongpu railway?"

Kojima saw the incredulous look on the face of the division commander, a professional soldier.

"General, my intelligence sources indicate that the commander of the 2nd Theater of Operations of the Military Council of China is currently squeezing the space for the operation of the brigade of the 115th Division. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the brigade will be forced to turn east of the Tongpu line and move north along the Tongpu road, which will likely encounter the Otsuka Wing. ”

"Squeeze?" Lieutenant General Sena recalled with great interest the words of the head of the secret service: "The people of Shina know how to fight in the nest. However, if the communist army intends to occupy the Tongpu railway line, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for them - the front army headquarters has already drawn up a follow-up battle plan for Shanxi, the main force of our division is about to move westward and south to encircle and suppress Yan Xishan's army, and if the 115th Division dares to move along the railway line at this time, it will be devastated! ”