Chapter 193: Urgent Search of the Whole City
The female major of the military commander was justified in her worries, and the Japanese captain who was stabbed to death by her in the process of venting* was, as written on his ID, a telecommunications staff officer of the brigade headquarters of the Kato Brigade of the Sena Division. And the people of Kato's brigade headquarters immediately reported to the chief of staff of the brigade after discovering that the telecommunications staff officer and his party had not returned from a long time after they had gone out; Soon, the Japanese army launched a large-scale search in Linfen and its suburbs.
In this occupation of Linfen, the headquarters of the Sena Division was set up in the county seat, and the headquarters of the Kato Brigade was set up in a small village in the southern suburbs outside the city. The telecommunications staff officer was ordered to go into the city to deliver several documents to the division commander, Lieutenant General Sena, all of which were related to the Kato Brigade's plan to march southward in the next step.
At that time, the telecommunications staff officer entered the city on a three-wheeled military motorcycle, and he himself sat in the body, accompanied by a driver and a guard, who delivered the documents to the division headquarters near the Dongguan railway station and left. However, after leaving the division headquarters, they did not immediately go out of the city along the original road to report back, and the telecommunications staff instructed the driver to drive around the streets of the county town - I had heard that Linfen was an important town in southern Jinnan and the location of the headquarters of the prefect of the second war zone of the China Army, so it must have been a little prosperous.
As a result, this drive, at the mouth of the alley in the center of the city, bumped into the couple. However, this telecommunications staff officer is lustful, and as early as last year, when he attacked Yuci in the suburbs of Taiyuan with his division, he had the experience of robbing local women for sexual pleasure. At this time, with the help of the motorcycle headlights, he discovered the posture of the woman in China, and suddenly it was difficult to suppress the beast's heart, and immediately let the motorcycle chase into the alley, until he entered the house and sexually assaulted the hostess. It's just that this Japanese captain never dreamed that he would be killed by another woman who suddenly broke in when he was unscrupulously * Zhi Na woman!
It took more than two hours for the people at the Kato Brigade Headquarters to realize the possibility of the disappearance of the telecommunications staff officer -- the troops had just occupied the theater headquarters of the Shina Army, and the enemy troops were fleeing in despair, and the officers and men of the Sena Division were elated, and their mood from top to bottom was relaxed and indulgent. It wasn't until the lights out and bedtime had passed that anyone realized something was wrong; The brigade headquarters directly used the telephone that had just set up the line to inquire about the people at the division headquarters, but they were told that the brigade and regimental staff officers who had sent the documents had already left.
As a result, the entire brigade headquarters suddenly became nervous. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the chief of staff personally reported to Major General Kato, commander of the brigade, and the brigade commander immediately instructed to organize troops to search for the troops from the suburbs to the city along the route taken by the telecommunications staff officer: Although the news from the division headquarters was that the documents had been safely received, the telecommunications staff officer was a backbone officer of the brigade and regiment headquarters, knew the core information of the brigade and even the entire division, and had mastered the telecommunications code of the troops.
Of course, no one in the Sena Division would have thought that this telecommunications staff officer, whom they were worried about, would actually slip away to play with women on the way to carry out military affairs, let alone that this person would be buried in the alleys because of this.
As time goes on, the search intensifies. This time, the Sena Division attacked along the Nantongpu Road, and the Kato Brigade was the main force of the infantry, and their two infantry wings were stationed in the city and the other in the southern suburbs. The chief of staff of the brigade personally ordered six infantry squadrons inside and outside the city to launch a dragnet search. Later, the division headquarters even sent a part of the cavalry wing to join the search procession.
The whole city of Linfen is full of rumors.
The agents of the military command, who had already slept in the hotel, noticed the abnormal movement outside and immediately took secret precautions. Wang Suihua and the others all realized that the large number of Japanese soldiers who suddenly appeared in the streets and alleys at midnight with loaded guns should have come for the slain telecommunications staff officer.
At dawn, a group of Japanese soldiers entered the hotel, apparently, they still found nothing in the previous search, so the devil expanded the search target. Relying on their status as reporters for the newspaper of the traitor regime in Tianjin, the agents of the military command were not suspected, and when they searched their rooms, they only targeted large objects that might hide people, and the short guns and daggers of Wang Suihua and Li Yan were hidden in the subtleties in advance.
But this still made the female major of the military commander feel frightened, and she began to hate Li Yan for being extraneous. During Wang Suihua's agent training, she was taught that she must cause less trouble, and that she must not touch and entangle everything that is not related to the execution of the mission, so as to achieve the goal with the fastest efficiency and strive to protect herself. And Li Yan's impulsive actions at night violated this taboo and led to the imminence of unnecessary danger.
When he successfully blends out of Linfen City in the future, he must be taught some more lessons - people who don't even dare to stab with knives are still stubbornly saying that they want to kill a few Japanese devils, which is really ridiculous and hateful!
However, at this moment, Hooka also began to regret one thing, that is, he directly killed the Japanese captain's staff officer at night: this animal officer turned out to be the telecommunications staff officer of the Kato Brigade; Just now, there were some conversations between the devil officers and soldiers who participated in the search in the hotel, which was overheard by Wang Suihua, and it was already confirmed from their conversations that what they could not find from door to door was the captain Haneda on the certificate.
Wouldn't such a vigorous search overnight just prove the importance of that guy?!
If you had known this, you should not have killed him prematurely, but at least you should have interrogated him, and maybe you would have plucked useful information out of his mouth!
But—the military commander sighed helplessly—it was only after he had killed him that he found out his identity on his papers. At that time, I didn't pay much attention to it, and it wasn't until the Japanese moved all over the city that the value of Captain Haneda's staff officer came to mind.
I blame my male subordinates for being impulsive, but in fact, I am not impulsive!
The military commander female major Kazui lay on the bed in the hotel, blaming herself in chagrin. It is impulsive to rush to rescue a middle-aged couple, and it is also impulsive to kill people rashly after entering the house. At that time, seeing that beast was so savagely and shamelessly helpless hostess, Wang Suihua didn't think about it and fell with a knife in her hand.
If he is captured and then interrogated according to his status as a telecommunications adviser, and if necessary, he can be punished—as a rule, such a womanizer has no backbone—without worrying about getting what he wants. Isn't this a hundred times stronger than the original plan and recklessly turned into the Sena Division's regimental headquarters?!
Wang Suihua slammed her thigh hard, unable to regret it.
It was not until dawn that a small group of Japanese soldiers finally found a military three-wheeled motorcycle tightly covered by two quilts in that alley, and then found the cold bodies of the telecommunications staff officer and his party in the adjacent house.
The chief of staff of the Kato Brigade Headquarters personally went to the scene to conduct an investigation, and the knife marks found on the bodies of the three dead officers and soldiers were determined to be caused by military knives, among which Captain Haneda and the motorcycle driver were both stabbed fatally and professionally in an extremely professional manner, and it was suspected that the veterans of the Shina Army had done it.
Since all the government agencies in Linfen had already fled and disintegrated, the Japanese could not find any information about the owner of the house who had apparently fled, and they judged from the clothes and belongings of many young women in the house, as well as the naked body of Captain Haneda, that it was very likely that the telecommunications staff officer broke into the house and raped the female head of the household, and was accidentally killed.
But the murderers were by no means ordinary residents - whether it was judging from the simultaneous killing of three imperial officers and soldiers, or from the methods of the perpetrators, the murderers obviously had a military background in China and were numerous.
Moreover, the Japanese army could not determine whether Haneda Telecommunications staff officer had leaked any military secrets during his lifetime. The captain of an infantry group who participated in and directed the search for the Kato Brigade even deduced that it was the militants who remained in the castle and secretly discovered the important identity of Haneda's staff officer, who had entered the castle to report documents, and sent the Shina woman* to the house, arrested, interrogated, and then killed people.
Under the suspicion, the command system of the entire Sena Division fell into a state of frenzy, and finally, for the sake of safety, the whole division was forced to urgently replace and activate the backup telecommunications code.
This unexpected episode caused the army of the Sena Division stationed inside and outside Linfen City to be delayed for two more days before resuming its march along the Tongpu Railway.
Lieutenant General Sena, Major General Kato, and high-ranking officers at the division and brigade levels held a military meeting in Linfen City during this period. The latest intelligence shows that the Chinese army, which fled from Linfen City before, has been divided into two routes; The commander of the theater, Yan Xishan, and his Jin army fled westward to Jixian, and it is likely that they will cross the Yellow River west and retreat into Shaanxi; Wei Lihuang, deputy commander, led the remnants of the Central Army to flee along the railway line in the direction of Houma and Yuncheng, and did not rule out the possibility of continuing to retreat into Henan. In this way, it is not surprising that the imperial army will expel all the remnants of the Chinese army from Shanxi in a few days, and completely achieve the pre-war predetermined goal.
At the same time, the Sena Division was also informed that two tank brigades of an independent tank wing dispatched by the North China Front Army Headquarters were marching rapidly along the highway from Handan, Hebei Province to Changzhi, Shanxi, and rushed to join the division along the Nantongpu Road in the starry night to support the Sena Division's next operation, which was also a plan that had been coordinated before.
The conceited Lieutenant General Sena ordered that without waiting for the two tank brigades to arrive, the Kato Brigade immediately mobilized the forward and pursued the enemy along the Namtongpu Road. As soon as it occupies Fenglingdu, it will start the opening of the whole line between Taiyuan and Yuncheng of the Tongpu Railway!
In the same Linfen City, of course, the agents of the military command had no way of knowing these inside stories, and their plan to try to drive out of Linfen City that morning was shelved - in order to prevent the soldiers of the Shina Army who attacked and killed the telecommunications staff from escaping, the Japanese blocked the four gates of the county seat, and only the military personnel of the Sena Division were allowed to enter and exit - fortunately, the Japanese did not suspect the heads of the two men and a woman, and Wang Suihua simply proposed to stay in the hotel and wait and see what happened.
And so on, for several days. The female major of the military commander calculated that there was little time left before the Northwest Region and Shanxi Station explained to her the tracking limit. And the "Wind Plan" that the dragon saw without seeing the end of the dragon was completely devoid of any clues, and the clues were completely interrupted here.
Wang Suihua thought, what kind of punishment will Shangfeng give me?
Penalty salary? Removed? Or is it a prisoner?