The "he" mentioned by the brigade commander Akira Hagiwara is, of course, referring to Masao Kojima, the head of the Bunjo secret service. Now that the sudden exchange of fire from Little Elm Mountain has subsided, and there are no other signs of disturbance, there is no need to send more troops there for the time being; The most important thing is to quickly screen the body of the intruder, determine its identity, and then accurately characterize the emergency. In this regard, Masao Kojima, who was born as a veteran spy chief, is undoubtedly better at winning.

The head of the island office who received the urgent report was also so shocked that he was speechless - he had just made a trip to Little Elm Mountain this day to deploy the comfort women's secret camp to receive the personnel of the "Mantie Pictures". And what made him feel quite ironic at this moment was that he had deliberately used the phone of Hirai Teriichi in Songjiagou today to call Aso, the deputy wing commander of the Otsuka Wing, who commanded the garrison in Little Elm Mountain, and told him to take strict precautions. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked on the front foot, such an incident broke out on the back foot of Little Elm Mountain.

I'm really afraid of something!

Masao Kojima drove out of the east gate of Bunjo with a group of his men and headed straight to the west pass of Little Elm Mountain, where he noticed that the vigilance around the pass was much stricter than when he traveled from here during the day.

A group of bastards - the moment they entered the mountain pass, the head of the secret service secretly cursed in his stomach, and he knew what to do when something happened!

He first rushed to the Songjiagou station, where the perimeter was also more heavily guarded than usual, and the captain of the brigade, Aikawa Shaozo, was personally directing the formation. After a brief understanding of the situation from Aikawa, Kojima entered the comfort women's secret camp, and saw with his own eyes that everything was safe and sound before he hurriedly exited - Hirai Terai, who was in charge of the secret camp, already looked panicked, and it was really an imposter Nakasa!

With disdain for Hirai, Kojima and his party arrived at the place of the exchange of fire under the personal guidance of Deputy Wing Captain Aso, but the anger in the heart of the head of the secret service became more and more intense: this place was less than two miles away from Songjiagou Station!

"Baga!" Kojima grabbed the military uniform on Aso's chest, lowered his voice and scolded: "Nakasa, are your straw bales sleeping?" ”

Ever since Aso Nakasa was assigned to enter Little Elm Mountain and lead the Aikawa Infantry Brigade to guard the area, he had been instructed by Wing Commander Kosuke Otsuka to inform the truth about the comfort women's camp. Therefore, he knew very well what the abandoned Songjiagou coal mine and its station now had a special significance. The brigade commander, the wing commander, and even the head of the Wencheng secret service in front of him have come here more than once to inspect and inspect, and they have all told him more than once to ensure the safety of the blockade area.

"Kojima, please calm your anger," Aso replied in fear, "This should be an accident, and I promise it won't happen again in the future!" ”

Masao Kojima, who was furious, angrily ordered the engineering squadron stationed here to quickly retrieve a movable searchlight, but the firefight was far away from the road in the mountains, and the light from the street lamp could not be borrowed, and the flashlight could not be fully illuminated. Eventually, under the reflection of two large temporarily erected searchlights, the entire firefight site lit up as if it were daylight.

The mutilated body of the intruder, who had killed himself, was now hunched under a stone wall. But it wasn't the corpses that caught Kojima's attention first, but the stone wall — apparently many of the intruders had climbed over one end of the stone wall and fled through the wall after the exchange of fire — a barrier artificially constructed by the sapper squadron, of course, to seal the gap between the left and right ridges.

"What terrain is over the wall?"

The head of the secret service asked Aso Nakasa, but the latter couldn't answer, they were only responsible for the security in the blockade area, and they were also guarding the borders of the blockade area on weekdays, and they had never been to the outside of the blockade area to do patrols and surveys.

Masao Kojima shook his head in disbelief, while the members of his secret service plainclothes team were already looking down to examine the scene of the firefight.

A large number of bullet casings were found.

The bullet casings were not the 6.5 caliber of the rifle machine guns used by the Imperial soldiers, and should have been left behind after the intruder opened fire. When Masao Kojima took one of the bullet casings handed over by his subordinates, his heart immediately moved:

Seven sixty-two! There is no doubt that it was 7.62, and the Chinese army could be called the universal equipment of the Mauser * with ammunition! - But slowly, this situation is so familiar, where has it ever appeared?

The head of the island agency pondered for a moment, and the answer jumped in his mind: In the attack that occurred at the Wencheng Railway Station not long ago, a large number of 7.62 caliber bullets were found at a crossfire scene in the station square, which was repeatedly confirmed by the garrison that they were fired by German-made MP18* held by anti-Japanese elements. Since the * is the same caliber as the Mauser* shell, it is difficult to distinguish it from the shell alone.

So at this moment, the large number of 7.62 caliber shells found under their feet were sent by Mauser* or MP18*?

Kojima immediately ordered the surviving soldiers who had just participated in the exchange of fire, but to his disappointment, the few soldiers who survived that detachment, without exception, were recruits transferred from the supplementary brigade in the previous period, and none of them had any experience in combat, and they did not even know what kind of weapons they looked like (author's note: due to the huge amount of ammunition consumed, the Japanese army of the invading army generally did not use individual equipment*).

At the critical moment, a squad leader of the Aikawa Infantry Brigade provided reliable evidence that he was the first to lead his subordinates to rush to reinforcements after hearing the guns in the firefight, so he was able to hear the last burst of gunfire at close range. This squad leader participated in the tragic Battle of Niangzi Pass with Sena's division last year, and once fought to the death with Sun Lianzhong's troops of the Shina Army, and was deeply impressed by the *MP18* produced by German allies used by some of the soldiers of the Shina Army at that time. The roar of an automatic firearm he had heard just now was the same as the strange gunfire of the MP18* that he remembered vividly.

Masao Kojima, who was desperate for his life, ordered Aso Nakasa to write down the name and rank of the squad leader on the spot - he will be rewarded by the brigade headquarters!

The confirmation of the use of * by the intruder is undoubtedly crucial: this means that the people of China who broke into the military restricted area of Little Elm Hill tonight not only have a military background, but also are very likely to be deeply in collusion with the anti-Japanese organization that attacked the Wencheng railway station, and it is not even ruled out that they are linked!

The conclusion of this conclusion also made Kojima Masao break out in a cold sweat - the thing that he and the brigade commander Major General were most worried about really happened, that is, the anti-Japanese organization active in Bunjo (almost determined to be the Blue Coat Society) is very likely to have noticed the implementation of the "Wind Plan" and is secretly conducting careful tracking and reconnaissance.

With such apprehension, the head of the Japanese secret service ordered the body of the intruder to be transported to the nearest headquarters of Deputy Wing Commander Aso in Little Elm Mountain.

Although the deceased was dressed in civilian clothes, several obvious military characteristics of his body were exposed: there were neat strangulation marks on his forehead with a military cap, and the remaining right hand was found, and his index finger had a hard callus formed by pulling the bolt.

Thinking of an anti-Japanese element who attacked the Bunjo train station and committed suicide after being seriously injured, Masao Kojima has more and more confidence in his heart.

He led people back to Wencheng overnight to report a terrible fact to the brigade commander Major General, who was anxiously looking forward to it.

The mountain beam that Zhao Mutou, the commander of the spy company, climbed on, was about two or three miles away from the direction where Squad Leader Zhang's reconnaissance team broke into just now. Thus, whether it was the initial rifle fire of the Japanese, or the subsequent return fire of the Bergman* of the Spy Company brothers, the sound of gunfire was clearly heard on the mountain beams.

Zhao Mutou immediately judged that one of his reconnaissance teams had been exposed to the Japanese. Soon, from the Japanese camp below the mountain beam, a loud and piercing siren sounded, and with the roar of the siren, the camp, which had still had a lot of lights, gradually dimmed, so that no matter how much the spy company commander adjusted the focus of the telescope, he could no longer see the outline of the camp - it completely blended into the dark night.

"Company commander, what should I do?" A soldier of a spy company beside him said anxiously: "The little devil is on guard now, our reconnaissance is all in vain!" ”

"Sir, run," said the local guide who had a background in medicine picking, "If the Japanese chase them out of the coal kiln, it won't be long before they will surround our beam, and it won't be too late to run!" ”

The spy company commander was upset left and right: he was so unwilling to withdraw his troops in such a hurry! Below the mountain beam, at the site of the former Songjiagou Coal Mine, there is a large camp in Little Japan, although the specific situation is not clear at night, but it may be the target of the beautiful female military commander who is painstakingly and mysteriously tracking.

For a while, Zhao Mutou couldn't help but start cursing the reconnaissance team led by squad leader Zhang in his heart, he didn't know why this Qiu Ba exposed the target so quickly!

However, when he finally had nothing to do and had no choice but to lead the people down the mountain and stumble to the backup site, he immediately regretted and blamed himself for the curse he had just hastily issued, and the dead squad leader Zhang threw his body on the Japanese side, which made the spy company commander feel painful.

Another reconnaissance team, which was searching west along the ridges, was soon withdrawn as well; Until then, they hadn't made any major discoveries.

What to do? Do you just stop and go back to Great Elm Mountain, or do you continue to venture back and find new opportunities?

The guides almost unanimously asked for their lives to flee for their lives, they all had small families in the area, and once they were caught by the Japanese, it was not a matter of risking their lives. And most of the soldiers of the special service company insisted on continuing the investigation—even if it was only for the sake of the brothers who had been martyred—and returned to the regimental headquarters in such a disgraced manner, which was by no means the backbone of the special agent company that had always been iron-blooded!

Zhao Mutou was caught in a dilemma.