"Keep your eyes open and see clearly! Is this the uniform worn by the army that ambushed you? ”

Kosuke Otsuka pinched up a few enlarged photos and angrily shouted at the platoon commanders and soldiers of more than a dozen cavalry regiments of the Mongolian Army, who were the officers and soldiers of the cavalry company captured by the 391st Regiment of the Central Army.

These photographs are intelligence information films about Fu Zuoyi's 35 th Army taken by Japanese spies operating in Suiyuan in recent years, and there are cavalry and infantry, long shots and close-up photos, all of which were brought by Commander Masao Kojima, who had just arrived in Fengdian.

At this moment, these Mongolian officers and soldiers standing in the Fengdian County Government in fear did not know what the Japanese would do to them, and since they were captured and released by the so-called "Fu Zuoyi 35th Army", from the company commander to the soldiers, they were all guarded by the troops sent by Aso Nakasa and Fukuda Shaoza.

The big company commander trembled and reached out to take the photo of the Japanese wing commander Osa who almost poked the tip of his nose, the photo is not clear, and the color of the clothes worn by the soldiers in the black and white photos is difficult to confirm (author's note: color photos were just born at that time, and they were not yet popular); When they were ambushed that day, the other party was condescending, ordering them to lay down their weapons and take off their military coats, dismount and hold their heads and squat in a ball, so they rarely had the opportunity to carefully examine the other party's clothing.

"Poor...... Almost, probably...... Maybe it...... "The big company commander didn't know what kind of unit the soldier in the photo was, he had been in the army for a short time, and he didn't catch up with the Suiyuan War of Resistance commanded by Fu Zuoyi, but belonged to the members of the team that King De reassembled after the fiasco.

Kosuke Otsuka's head was about to be blown up by this gang of foolish soldiers, and he slapped several people in a rage, and angrily took the photo to return to Masao Kojima.

After all, the head of the secret service was much calmer, knowing that the so-called Mongolian Xinjiang Army was nothing more than a rabble with no military qualities, and if it were not for the fact that the Japanese Empire wanted to use King De and Li Shouxin (author's note: the second person in the puppet Mongolian regime) to make independence in Suiyuan and Chahar, the Kwantung Army would definitely not have spent so much financial and material resources to arm such a disgraceful army.

It seems that the real situation cannot be expected to be detected from the mouths of these rabble. So, the mysterious army that suddenly appeared on the outskirts of this county town and attacked the northern city like lightning is not Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army?!

When the Battle of Suiyuan broke out in the 25th year of the Republic of China (author's note: that is, in 1936), Kojima Masao was still serving in Manchuria, and King De and Li Shouxin were beaten by Fu Zuoyi's department to lose their armor and lose their armor, which had great repercussions within the Kwantung Army, because it was the secret service of the Kwantung Army that supported these two guys to establish an independent kingdom; The Kwantung Army not only paid for the king, but even sent him a large number of military advisers. Unexpectedly, in the end, there was a chicken-and-egg fight.

As a lesson to reflect, a number of personnel of the Kwantung Army's secret services, including Masao Kojima, regarded this incident as a negative teaching material and conscientiously summarized and sorted it out. In Kojima's view, underestimating the combat effectiveness of Fu Zuoyi's army was the deep-seated reason for this fiasco.

Kojima Masao didn't communicate much with Kosuke Otsuka, and he thought that the intelligence of this wing captain was not much better than that of the Mongolian officers and soldiers he had just scolded. But there are too few clues, the infantry squad of the Futian Brigade guarding the north city gate, after being attacked by the Shina army, only one senior soldier is still dying, and the rest are all killed, and the senior soldier has not provided anything of value.

Kojima spoke on the phone with the head of the Hagiwara Brigade in Bunjo. He promised the brigade commander general that he would mobilize the forces of the secret service to conduct a thorough investigation of the attack, but before the results were inconclusive, the garrison forces of Wencheng-Songjiagou-Fengdian must increase their vigilance.

Hagiwara, like the head of the secret service, is most worried not about the identity of the attackers, but about their purpose. In this seemingly sudden and despicable attack, is there a more insidious intention of the Chinese army? The Songjiagou comfort women's secret camp that is close at hand, has there been any rumors? Is there a major threat to the security of the camp?

Suddenly, he thought of the Eighth Route Army again!

The Iwata Cavalry Squadron, which was assigned to the Otsuka Wing, was attacked in the valley west of Toyoden by the Eighth Route Army; Now, a company of the Mongolian Frontier Army's cavalry regiment was attacked in the valley north of Fengdian, and the attacker claimed to be Fu Zuoyi's Jin Sui army. How similar to Nell!

Akira Hagiwara and Masao Kojima were originally suspicious of the identity of the attacker's self-reported home; The head of the Kojima Agency, who went to Fengdian to investigate, has not found any evidence of the participation of the 35th Army of the Chinese Army so far. And with such an association, the possibility that the attacker was the Eighth Route Army suddenly increased sharply. The Eighth Route Army, which had killed half of the Iwata Cavalry Squadron, has never shown its head again, could it be that they are the attackers who appeared in the north of Fengdian City this time?

On the backbone of the brigade commander and major general, there was a hint of coolness: If you are really afraid, you will come to anything! What I am most worried about is those Eighth Route Army who are good at attacking behind the so-called enemy lines, and they see the head and the tail when they see the dragon, and when they choose a target, they will make a ruthless attack, and then disappear. In the Pingxingguan, Yangmingbao, and Yanmen Pass in northern Shanxi, the Itagaki Division and the Kwantung Army all suffered a lot of losses. And the Kato Brigade of this division, after attacking Niangzi Pass along Zhengtai Road, on the way to Xiyang and Taiyuan, was also attacked by the Chinese Army on the flank, and it is said that the attacker was the Eighth Route Army.

Yaga! Hagiwara slammed the coffee table in front of him, and his panic slowly turned into anger: these Eighth Route Army rats did not dare to have a face-to-face confrontation with the Imperial Army in a grand manner, and only knew how to hide in the rat hole and release cold arrows. Well, then I'm going to clean those rat holes, get them out of the shadows, and shoot them in the sun!

Hagiwara Akira decided to immediately send a powerful unit to carry out a military search around Toshien, and eliminate it while searching. Even if the remnants of the Eighth Route Army and other branches of the army cannot be gathered and annihilated, at least they must be expelled from this area and the henchmen of the Songjiagou secret camp must be relieved. He called Toyoden and asked the head of the Kojima office to stay there to continue the investigation, and Captain Kosuke Otsuka immediately returned to Bunjo to listen to the order.

Xia Lianshan took two soldiers from the 5th Company of the Second Battalion and returned to Fengdian.

After settling up the camp in the area of Hekou Village, Wu Zijian immediately sent Xia Lianshan back to Fengdian to reconnoiter - of course, it was also to give him more opportunities to find the whereabouts of his sister and his family - and as soon as he arrived in Fengdian, Xia Lianshan felt a completely different atmosphere from the previous times. Fortunately, he and the two soldiers who came with him were guided by Xiao Junping, a staff officer of the Jin Army, in advance, and made modifications and camouflages on the forehead and palms with obvious military characteristics, and brought a large basket of mountain goods, pretending that the nearby mountain people wanted to enter the county seat to sell mountain goods, so they reluctantly mixed into the county seat.

After several investigations, Xia Lianshan finally figured out the origin of the battle in Beicheng and the Mongolian Xinjiang Army from the words narrated by the people. He still hadn't found out about his sister and brother-in-law's house, but the two latest pieces of information prompted him to immediately return to Kawaguchi Village to report.

Xia Lianshan's news is actually very vague. For the battle in the north of the city, what he got was the secret rumor of Fu Zuoyi's cavalry attacking Fengdian by the people; As for the Mongolian army that suddenly entered the country, he got the statement that the Mongolian cavalry came to help the Japanese occupy the county seat, and the leader was a regiment commander.

Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping comprehensively analyzed the news.

At the beginning of September last year, Xiao Junping's 33rd Army of the Jin Sui Army with Sun Chu was the first to engage the Japanese army attacking Shanxi in northern Shanxi, and at that time, the cavalry army of the puppet King of Mondstadt was fighting with the Japanese army. Therefore, after a little pondering, the staff officer of the Jin army determined that the cavalry seen by Deputy Company Commander Xia should be the cavalry army of the puppet king of Mondstadt.

"This German king is determined to be a lackey for the Japanese!" Xiao Junping said angrily: "I actually sent my cavalry to the south of Jinzhong. ”

"What is the combat effectiveness of their cavalry? Compared to the Japanese cavalry? Wu Zijian, who had never heard of the anecdote of King De, asked with great interest.

Xiao Junping shook his head: "I haven't witnessed it with my own eyes, but I heard from the brothers on the front line that the puppet Mongolian cavalry is just talking blindly behind the Japanese soldiers, and they have no real skills." ”

Immediately, the staff officers of the Jin army gave Wu Zijian, Li Tianlin, and Xia Lianshan a lesson: about Fu Zuoyi's defeat of the puppet Mongolian army in Suiyuan.

"So, Fu Zuoyi's cavalry followed the ass of the puppet Mongolian army and chased it to Fengdian?" Li Tianlin asked happily, and the Jin army staff officer's description of the Suiyuan War of Resistance was colorful, which made him very happy to listen to it.

Xiao Junping was stunned for a moment, he looked at Li Tianlin who was tiger-headed, pondering the statement that this tiger general casually came out of.

"It's not impossible that this possibility, after the Fu Department lost Taiyuan last year, it withdrew to the southwest of Taiyuan, and I saw in the headquarters of the 12th Brigade of the Second World War Zone later defense area planning, the 35th Army should be stationed on the line of Lishi and Zhongyang. It may have been that the puppet Mongolian cavalry was fleeing south, so Commander Yan sent their old rival, the 35th Army, to attack them. ”

The Jin army staff unfolded the hand-drawn map, pointing at it while self-righteously analyzing it. The combat ability of the Jin army is average, and there are not many examples worth noting, and although Fu Zuoyi's department belongs to Suiyuan, after all, it is collectively called the Jin Sui Army.

Wu Zijian looked at Xiao Junping, who was extremely excited, but he had a lot of doubts in his heart: The scouts sent recently brought back the news that Wencheng had been lost, the 12th Brigade had fled, and the Japanese army was going to attack along Nantongpu Road.

He couldn't bear to frustrate the pride of the staff officers of the Jin Army, but he had the idea of going to Fengdian to fight a battle: it doesn't matter if he is Fu Zuoyi or not, if they dare to fight the north city, Lao Tzu will dare to fight the south city, and give the little Japanese and the traitor soldiers a north-south attack!

"Lian Shan, aren't you, the future commander of the cavalry company of the second battalion, worried that we don't have enough twenty-five horses?" The eyes of the deputy commander of the second battalion flashed with a cunning light: "Okay, what kind of old thing is King De, he sent us the equipment of a cavalry regiment, do you want to go over and get it?" ”

The staff officers of the Jin army did not hear Wu Zijian's voice, but the two chief and deputy company commanders of the 5th Company widened their eyes in an instant and grinned.