Listening to the sound of gunfire near Lingshi County, the people of the Pingjing Advance Team, who had just arrived next to the truck, judged that the Chinese army that came to harass the county seat and the railway either retreated by themselves or was driven away by the imperial reinforcements dispatched by Wencheng.

Based on this judgment, the entire advance team boarded the truck, wrapped the five looted women, and drove boldly onto the Tongpu Road and galloped back in the direction of Wencheng.

Before leaving, the head of the secret service, Masao Kojima, had specifically warned Hirai Teraichi that if the woman was captured, the advance team must not sexually assault her before transporting her to the Songjiagou comfort women camp. Kojima Masao warned like this, of course, there is a reason, the last time he led the plainclothes of the secret service to travel, and after he captured a woman from China, he sexually assaulted her en masse on the way back, and neglected to supervise her afterwards, resulting in the woman's unbearable* suicide.

Of course, the captain of the island will never tell the captain of the advance team about this scandal under his command.

Hirai Teraichi didn't think much about this warning, and originally in his plan, he wanted to wait until all these unlucky Shina women were safely imprisoned in the Songjiagou comfort women camp, and then follow the established procedure step by step*, and finally make them qualified comfort women who served the frontline warriors of the imperial army.

Sitting in the cab of the truck, Hirai Nakasa no longer felt the cold to the bone, which made his mood improve - although he was frightened and worked hard for most of the night, the booty of the five Shina women he harvested in one fell swoop did give him a lot of surprises. The brigade commander can make another beautiful turnover!

Before dawn, two trucks unnoticedly drove into the makeshift barracks on the southern outskirts of Wencheng (they didn't even use the secret transfer station that had been converted into a farmhouse because of the surprisingly smooth operation). When night fell again, these two trucks set off from the barracks and drove all the way to the west pass of Little Elm Mountain.

From now on, the number of comfort women in the Songjiagou secret camp has risen to nine.

Of course, the happiest about this is the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade. Because of the night battle on Nantongpu Road that had just occurred and the riot in Wencheng City, the brigade commander Major General could be said to be in a hurry and angry. At this time, the unexpected achievements of the Hirai advance team were commendable.

Soon, the brigade commander sent a secret telegram to the North China Front Command in Beiping, and the receiver was Major General Suzuki, a senior staff officer of the headquarters. In addition to informing of the good momentum of the recent arrest of comfort women, the telegram also focused on requesting Major General Suzuki to help coordinate reinforcements from the army secret services in Beiping and Tianjin.

Major General Suzuki quickly replied, saying that the matter would be studied and coordinated by the Front Command. However, in his telegram, he highlighted another situation that surprised Akira Hagiwara -

The first batch of comfort women who were transferred from Shanxi to the front line in Shandong have been put into the army and have begun to serve, and they have been warmly welcomed. However, according to the general reports of the front-line officers and men who have received the comfort women service, the performance of these comfort women in China is not satisfactory, a few people are always in a state of resistance and non-cooperation, and most of the others lack enthusiasm and initiative for the officers and men.

Considering that the Imperial Army in North China had never had the experience of recruiting and training comfort women before, the Front Army Command made the following arrangements:

Relevant professionals from the Manchurian Empire have been immediately recruited from the Manchurian Empire, carrying clothing and accessories, to the Songjiagou comfort women's camp in Shanxi, and in accordance with the customs of Yamato women, the collected comfort women from China have been uniformly trained; In order to satisfy the desire of the front-line officers and soldiers to accept the comfort of native-style women. This is an integral part of the "Wind Plan", and the Shanxi Comfort Women's Secret Camp is requested to be specifically responsible for the arrangements, and the same attention should be paid to strict confidentiality.

After reading this telegram, the nose of the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade was almost not angry: where is there still a trace of the dignity and style of the Imperial Army among these so-called front-line officers and soldiers! Are they marching and fighting, or are they looking for flowers and willows? No wonder the current battlefield of Xuzhou is so embarrassing!

Angry to angry, the brigade commander, Major General, had to accept this embarrassing order. The Manchurian Film Society, a subsidiary of the Manchurian Railway Co., Ltd., was known for its pornographic films and propaganda in the Manchurian Empire. Hagiwara Akira has heard of this for a long time. Let their men come forward to discipline the comfort women,

In view of the action of escorting the relevant people of the Mangying Association to Shanxi, Major General Hagiwara, who was in charge of the Kwantung Army's secret service and was angry and funny, had no choice but to find Masao Kojima, the head of the Bunjo secret service, to give a face-to-face lecture on the "opportune time" of the front army headquarters.

The head of the Kojima Agency, who learned the details, also shook his head at first, but at the same time pointed out that these excessive demands of the officers and men on the front line reflected the necessity of establishing a comfort women system. If we can use this to boost the morale of the troops, it will be of great benefit to the operation.

Major General, the brigade commander who was an old-fashioned soldier, did not want to talk too much about this, and watched that Masao Kojima had finished arranging the docking with the Kwantung Army secret service, so he sent him back to continue to search for the Blue Coat Society and anti-Japanese organizations in the city. The attacks on the train station and the freight yard depot and the disappearance of the officers of the Otsuka Wing Headquarters have not been found, and Hagiwara Akira has put pressure on Masao Kojima to solve the case within a time limit.

However, the brigade commander himself was also under pressure from the top at this time, and Lieutenant General Sena sent the latest telegram from the headquarters of the Yuncheng Division, demanding that Hagiwara Akira immediately thoroughly investigate the remnants of the Shina Army on both sides of the Nantongpu Railway and reassess the public order situation along the railway line to ensure the safety of the rear supply and transportation lines of the main force of the division.

At present, the main energy of Kojima and the secret service is to deal with the implementation and supervision of the "Wind Plan" and the security in Bunjo Castle, and the tasks assigned by Lieutenant General Sena can only be completed by relying on the garrison military.

Hagiwara Akira asked the chief of staff, Kawabe Daisa, to immediately convene a military meeting, and specially transferred the joint commander Kosuke Otsuka, who was seated in the county town of Toyodian, to Wencheng to attend, and the captain of the third brigade of the Otsuka wing, located in the eastern suburbs of the city, Nara Shaosa, and the captain of the second brigade located in the small elm mountain, Aikawa Shaosa, also participated.

This military meeting can be said to be the highest-level military meeting of the Sena Division's Bunjo rear garrison, and almost all the military commanders of brigades, wings, and brigades were present.

Hagiwara first commended Wing Commander Kosuke Otsuka for his outstanding command and coordination skills in this night battle, especially in the emergency situation of suddenly facing a general retreat, he was able to correctly respond to offensive and defensive tactics, and successfully withdrew reinforcements from all walks of life from the battlefield and returned safely to the defense area, which reflected the excellent military quality of professional soldiers of the Imperial Army.

As for the reinforcements sent from Linfen by the brother unit Kato Brigade, the poor performance of its commander Kikuchi Shosa, the Hagiwara Brigade Command will submit an objective and true reflection to the commander of the Kato Brigade; How to deal with it, the other party has its own set of regulations.

Immediately, in response to the latest requirements of the division commander, Lieutenant General Sena, the participants discussed several times and came up with a feasible plan:

First of all, the brigade headquarters will draw a small group of officers and men with reconnaissance experience from each of the three infantry brigades under the command of the Otsuka Wing to form a number of reconnaissance detachments.

Second, each reconnaissance detachment attached a special directive: In the course of the investigation, pay attention to searching for clues about the missing officers and soldiers such as Warrant Officer Takamatsu of the Divisional Cavalry Wing (this is also a task that the North China Front Command has previously assigned to the Sena Division to carry out, but it has never been fruitful).

Third, on the basis of grasping the above-mentioned information, the next step is to form a special clearing and suppression unit, and at the same time request the main force of the division and regiment to send reinforcements to carry out fixed-point sweeping and clearing of the nests of the China Army on both sides of the Nantongpu Railway one by one.

"General, Chief of Staff, Wing Commander," Nara Shaoza, the captain of the Third Brigade, asked respectfully, "Captain Maori is still stranded near Lingshi County, how to dispatch it next?" ”

Captain Maori was the deputy captain of the Nara Brigade, and after the night battle, he still led two infantry squadrons of the brigade to garrison inside and outside the city of Lingshi County. Another squadron of the Nara Brigade had just been transferred by the Chief of Staff to Bunjo Castle to participate in the search for anti-Japanese elements; As a result, Nara Shaoza only had one squadron left at hand, but he had to bear the dual mobile support tasks of taking care of both the east and the west, and he was naturally uneasy.

Everyone was silent for a while, and their eyes looked at the Supreme Commander Brigade Commander Major General. Hagiwara frowned, and his expression was a little painful for a while, and he finally made up his mind and said: Ushijima Squadron immediately returned from the road by car. Captain Maori remained with another squadron of infantry until the situation had calmed down for two days and the ruined columns had been repaired before returning.

The Ushijima Squadron was originally deployed to the newly built temporary barracks in the southern suburbs of Bunjo, and was responsible for providing armed cover for the Hirai Advance Force's operation to capture the women of China; Now it must be returned.

The chief of staff of the river also nodded, believing that after this fierce night battle, the Chinese army in that area would also rest and recuperate, and it was unlikely that Lingshi County and the nearby railway line would be attacked again in a short time. Leaving the Maori captain there with an infantry squadron should be sufficient.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Major General Hagiwara concluded, "the occurrence of this large-scale night battle should remind us that the remnants of the Shina Army here still have considerable combat effectiveness, and if they dare to challenge the dignity of the Imperial Army, they must pay the corresponding price!" Especially the remnants of the Central Army and the Eighth Route Army entrenched in the Great Elm Mountain and Guanmen Mountain, General Sena has already made up his mind to annihilate them with all his might! ”