Chapter 063: Destroying the Corpse and Destroying the Traces
After the main force of Kosuke Otsuka's wing occupied Bunjo without bloodshed, it focused on controlling the railway station, long-distance bus station, telephone and telegraph office, money village and other key parts of the city.
The population of Wencheng is nearly 200,000, and the number of people brought by Otsuka is less than 3,000, and the wing captain has never had the experience of occupying the city. Fortunately, the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade arrived in time with the head of the Taiyuan secret service, and Kojima Masao once had a resume as the head of the secret service in the city of the Manchurian Empire, so he naturally knew how to control a city with a small number of troops. Under the strong recommendation of the head of the Hagiwara Brigade, Kojima was also immediately reappointed as the head of the Taiyuan Secret Service, and took care of the affairs of Fengdian.
Hagiwara divided the work between Kosuke Otsuka and Masao Kojima, with the former in charge of military garrisons and military clearance, and the latter in charge of intelligence gathering and law and order.
Since then, the "three points and one line" involved in the "Wind Plan" has officially begun military deployment with the Otsuka Wing as the main force, and its plan is as follows:
- Bunjo, Captain Kosuke Otsuka led the wing headquarters to station, under the jurisdiction of the Aikawa Infantry Brigade and the Nara Infantry Brigade;
- Fengdian, commanded by Aso Nakasa, deputy captain of the Otsuka Wing, under the jurisdiction of the Futian Infantry Brigade and the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment;
- Song Jiagou, commanded by Hirai Teraichi, captain of the gendarmerie of the Sena Division, under the jurisdiction of the gendarmerie, with cavalry squadrons, engineer squadrons, and field artillery brigades;
Among them, Deputy Wing Captain Aso led the two squadrons of the Nara Brigade and the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment, which are still stationed in Junling, and will soon go to Wencheng and Fengdian; The field artillery brigade is about to be reorganized and returned to the division, and a mountain artillery squadron will be coordinated to change the defense.
This troop plan was formulated by Hagiwara Akira after returning to Taiyuan from Wencheng, together with the commander of the Sena Division and the chief of staff of the division, and at the same time reported to the North China Front Headquarters in Beiping; Also reported was the first batch of secret plans for the forced conscription of comfort women by Hirai Temple.
The "Wind Plan" is in full swing.
At the same time, the aftermath of the Fengdian massacre was carried out relatively slowly.
This is because on the day of the end of the massacre, Kosuke Otsuka pulled all the main forces of the wing to Wencheng, thinking that there would be another battle there. Those who remained in Fengdian were only one squadron each of the Futian Brigade and the Xiangchuan Brigade, and most of them were wounded soldiers; The commander who remained behind was also Captain Fukudaoka, who was wounded during the attack on Toyoden.
When the head of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade and the head of the Kojima Office suddenly visited Toyoden and discovered that the Otsuka Wing had carried out a massacre here, Fukudaoka, who was reprimanded, hurriedly urged his wounded soldiers to force the people in the city to collect the corpses and pile them up near the east and west gates; After the city is opened, it will be pulled to the wasteland outside the city to be destroyed.
At the behest of the head of the Kojima secret service, Fukudaoka hastily organized a temporary maintenance committee of several dozen people, all of whom were from Toyden, and they came forward to visit the women who had been raped and the families who had been robbed, and warned them not to make a public statement, otherwise they would be killed.
Akira Hagiwara and Masao Kojima finally decided to continue to close the gate of Fengdian for the time being, and it is strictly forbidden to enter and exit: first, the traces of the massacre still exist, and it is easy to be noticed by the outside world; Second, once the people in the city flee from the city, the news will spread quickly; Third, according to Fukudaoka, the 391st Regiment of the Shina Army was strong, and it was only after several bloody battles that it withdrew from the city and hid in the Great Elm Mountain in the east of the city, and it was necessary to guard against their comeback.
Therefore, it was not until the dust settled on Otsuka's occupation of Wencheng and the three squadrons of the Fukuda Brigade were sent back to Fengdian to garrison that the Japanese army selectively opened the west and east gates of Fengdian and escorted the people to transport the corpses out of the city for burning and burying.
The couple of agents from the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command from Taiyuan, and Zhao Mutou, the commander of the special service company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army from Da Yushu Mountain, approached the Fengdian county seat for the rest of their lives at almost the same time.
When the 391st Regiment was still stationed in Fengdian, Zhao Mutou's spy company often sent people to Junling to inquire about the movements of the Japanese army there, and the spies often disguised themselves as beef sellers to enter and leave Junling City. Junling beef was quite famous as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties; Now in the Republic of China, Junling beef has been exported to Beiping, Tianjin and Xi'an, and the rich and noble class regard it as the best for banquets. In autumn and winter, beef dealers from near and far come in an endless stream; Therefore, the soldiers of the special service company disguised themselves as beef sellers to enter and leave Junling City, which was logical and not easy to attract the suspicion of the Japanese army.
But this time it was different, they didn't want to enter Junling, but they wanted to pretend to be dealers who had just bought beef from Junling and came to Fengdian to resell it. The 391st Regiment specially overturned a cow in the mountains for this purpose, cut a lot of meat, packed it, and put it on the backs of two donkeys. At the scene of the cattle slaughter, Qin Zhongxiao, the head of the regiment who had seen the world, once said worriedly: Junling beef is extremely unique in terms of color and meat quality, and it is by no means something that ordinary goods can pretend to be.
Zhao Mutou took three of his subordinates, drove two donkeys, went around to the north of Fengdian, and then, pretending to have just rushed along the road from Junling to Fengdian, entered the city through the north gate of Fengdian.
The commander of the spy company didn't know that this was actually the first day after the fall of Fengdian and the opening of the city gate to allow free entry and exit.
The day before, the Japanese troops defending the city had taken some of the young men in the city, and the corpses of nearly 1,000 innocent civilians were transported out of the east and west gates, stacked in piles, surrounded by firewood, and then poured gasoline on them and burned them; After incineration, a pit is dug on the spot and buried.
After this so-called "aftermath" operation ended, there were no more corpses in the streets and alleys of the city, and the captain of the brigade, Fukudaoka, ordered the opening of the city, and to maintain the posting of notices, the city gate was opened at 9 o'clock in the morning and closed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; And only the north and south gates of the city were opened by road.
Zhao Mutou and his entourage were inspected and searched by Japanese soldiers at the gate of Beicheng, and it was expected that there would be such a pass, so the four officers and soldiers did not carry firearms, and a few sharp knives and machetes that dissolved flesh became weapons when they encountered an accident.
After entering the city, they went directly to a beef and mutton shop in Xiguan. During the garrison of Fengdian, one of Zhao Mutou's subordinates who repeatedly went to Junling to reconnoiter really brought beef from Junling for the shopkeeper of this beef and mutton shop. However, when they came to the door of this butcher's shop, what they saw was no longer the thriving business of the past, the doors and windows were smashed, and the contents of the store were looted; There was only one young man, sitting blankly in the dilapidated shop, stunned.
This shop is actually the front store and the back house, and the shopkeeper's home is at the back of the store; Zhao Mutou tied the donkey containing the beef to the door of the store, and the spy company commander and the subordinate who were familiar with the shopkeeper passed through the back door of the store and entered the shopkeeper's house. The shop is run by the two husbands, the widower is in his fifties, the son is in his early thirties, and he just married his daughter-in-law last year. But at this time, Zhao Mutou and the others were in his home, but they only saw the lonely old shopkeeper.
The old shopkeeper recognized it for a long time before he recognized the soldier of the 391st Regiment Special Service Company in disguise, and immediately grabbed the other party's arm, choked up, and burst into tears.
On the afternoon of the day the Japanese army broke through the city, the barrage began. Towards evening, a group of Japanese soldiers came and smashed the butcher's shop that had been put on the board, and soon they broke down the door and began to loot money and meat; Immediately they found the young daughter-in-law of the old shopkeeper and grabbed her to take her away, but the young shopkeeper picked up a machete and fought desperately with the Japanese soldiers, and was killed by a burst of random shooting. Next, the group of beast soldiers forced the old shopkeeper with bayonets, and in front of him, stripped his daughter-in-law naked and pressed her to the kang for several hours; It wasn't until it got dark that the Japanese soldiers left with their looted belongings.
The daughter-in-law, who lost her husband and suffered miserably, committed suicide by slitting her throat with a sharp knife that night. In the blink of an eye, a happy family at the end of the house was ruined.
"Baby, why did you come back at this time?! It's too late, the county has already let the little Japanese son trample on it! There were thousands of corpses transported out of the city, and they were not even allowed to dig up graves, they were all poured with gasoline and burned...... "The old shopkeeper understood the hidden identity of the soldiers of the spy company, and desperately suppressed his cry of grief and indignation.
At this moment, Fengdian City, where the corpses and blood stains were gone, under the peace of the surface, behind the closed doors and windows of every household, there were more cries like this than could be counted.
"Company commander, let's go out at night and kill these little devils with knives!" Zhao Mutou's subordinates, after a few months of relationship with the young shopkeeper, have a good relationship, seeing this family flying into trouble, he wiped his tears vigorously and became angry from his heart.
"Take a knife, how many can you do with a knife!?" Zhao Mutou said viciously, panting heavily; After calming down for a moment, he turned to ask the old shopkeeper: "Uncle, where do the devils in the city probably live, do you know it?" ”
The old shopkeeper shook his head: "Now everyone is hiding in the house and dare not go out, they are too beastly!" I heard from the people who picked up the corpses that the army of devils had left the south gate, and there were not many devils left in the city. ”
The commander of the spy company was stunned: This is undoubtedly important news!
After withdrawing into Da Yushu Mountain, at the regimental headquarters of Xiaozhai, Qin Tuanzuo and the chief of staff once led a battalion and company commander to review the offensive and defensive battles of Fengdian several times, and finally determined that the total strength of the Japanese army participating in the siege was about 2,000, and counting the field artillery and cavalry, there was actually a wing.
And if the Japanese army of this scale is stationed in Fengdian, with the current strength of the 391st Regiment, there is no possibility of fighting back.
But now it's different! If what the old shopkeeper said is true, then the opportunity for revenge is imminent!
Zhao Mutou decided to temporarily rest and hide at the old shopkeeper's house, and then several people went to various places in the city to secretly investigate. And what he wants to go to most now is the former regiment headquarters and the home of Xia Lily's master and servant - the tragic experience of the old shopkeeper's daughter-in-law made Zhao Mutou have a strong sense of foreboding - thinking of the beautiful appearance of Xia Lily and his sweetheart Sun Nier, the heart of the spy company commander beat violently and uneasily.