The head of the secret service also had to admit in his heart that there were many drawbacks of his whim proposal just now that he had not considered it - that day, because of the dispute between the captain of the special service team under his command and the officers of the imperial army in the brothel, he set foot in the Fengyue place in Wencheng for the first time; Based on his observations at the time, he felt that the brothel called Yihong Mansion had nearly twenty or thirty prostitutes; In addition, it is reported that there is another smaller brothel in Wencheng. In this way, the total number of prostitutes in the two Fengyue places should be no less than forty, which is close to or even exceeds the number of comfort women secretly sent to the front line in Shandong.

At that time, Masao Kojima had the idea of using these prostitutes as comfort women. As for the way, it is also very simple, let the new Wencheng city government that is about to be established take the lead and close the two brothels in the name of immorality, and the prostitutes will be imprisoned; Then let Hirai Teriichi, the fake Nakasa (the head of the Kojima organ commented on the new rank of the military police captain) take his gendarmes and train them in the Songjiagou secret camp. It is believed that comfort women born as prostitutes are far easier to domesticate than women forcibly recruited from the market.

But at this moment, after Hirai Teraichi's rebuttal, the head of the Kojima Agency has dismissed this seemingly good idea—it seems that the impostor Nakasa, who is sitting across the table, is not a complete straw bag—especially the risk of disease transmission, which obviously must be strictly guarded against.

Hirai Teriichi, who was secretly ridiculed by Masao Kojima as an imposter Nakasa, was also in a bad mood at this time: the clever plan was easily rejected by the scheming secret service commander and brigade commander Major General, which made him a little flustered. After all, the promotion of himself, a little-known quartermaster, to this fantastic rank and position was due to the factor of comfort women who served the Imperial Army. The woman in Fengdian is now not allowed to be touched without permission, so Wencheng seems to be the most suitable target.

But it was Wencheng who gave the captain of the gendarmerie a headache.

The iron hooves of the imperial army marched into Wencheng only after trampling Fengdian; Unlike the stubborn resistance of the Shina army at Fengdian, the warriors of the Otsuka Wing almost completely occupied the castle without blood—without the invasion of war, the intensity of the soldiers' sexual assault on the residents was also not high. What's more, when the massacre occurred in Toydian, the brigade commander, Major General, immediately stopped another collective sexual assault that Kosuke Otsuka had not yet had time to initiate*. This means that there are not so many women who have been sexually assaulted in Wencheng – at least not there have been too many public cases of sexual assault of residents by Imperial soldiers – and the same practice in Taiyuan cannot be applied here.

At present, the new Wencheng city government is about to emerge, and as the conqueror and ruler, whether it is the head of the Kojima secret service in charge of local security, or the general Hagiwara who is in charge of the overall command here, it is obvious that they want to see the appearance of a peaceful and prosperous railway line city. So under the peace and prosperity, where does the secret conscription of comfort women begin?!

Hagiwara Akira, who was sitting at one end of the conference table, sipped the tea that his subordinates had just served, and a few shallow Japanese dishes were filled with delicate pastries. Major General Brigade Commander looked left and right at these two figures who were crucial to the "Wind Plan" for the forced conscription of comfort women, as if the two of them had lost their previous opinions under the questioning he had just asked.

After a moment of silence, Masao Kojima suddenly spoke:

"General, since Captain Hirai can't come up with an immediate plan for the time being, in my opinion, I might as well think about it in the long run."

Hagiwara couldn't hear the point, and he just picked up a piece of pastry, staring at the head of the secret service with a pair of eyes. The other party continued to talk about his theory:

"Obviously, the next area of origin of the comfort women should not be beyond the control of our forces, and the focus will also be on the towns along the Nantongpu Road with Wencheng as the core. And the most certain thing is undoubtedly here-" The head of the island office said as he stretched out his hand and pointed out the window: "Wencheng has a population of nearly 100,000, and I estimate that there should be no less than 10,000 women of appropriate age." We can start with the registration of good people, and the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Yang Yaokang, is now the maintenance president, and he has been actively running as the new mayor of the city, so they might as well organize a registration survey of the city's population by their municipal government; Then, from that investigation file, the Shina woman who was suitable for being a comfort woman was made a separate case and handed it over to Captain Hirai. As for how to operate next, it depends on the wisdom of our captain. ”

Hagiwara listened intently and thought it was a good idea, but I was afraid that the time would be too long. After all, the new city government has not yet been established:

"I don't think we have to wait for the city government to be formed, we can let the maintenance committee come forward to get the population registration up first. Time waits for no one! ”

"The registration is complete, I got the book of the woman in Wenchengzhi, and then what should I do?" Hirai Teruichi finally opened his mouth: "Is the arrest still going to be carried out in secret?" ”

"Of course!" Masao Kojima's tone became tough again, and he was also reaching for the pastry on the plate: "The Wind Project has been top secret throughout, and any action related to the recruitment of comfort women must be carried out in strict secrecy. At this point, you must always keep a clear head and a high degree of vigilance. ”

Hagiwara Akira suddenly interjected: "Major General Suzuki of the North China Front Army called later, saying that the military column escorting the comfort women on their side had arrived not far from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and was on standby; However, on the way to the Xuzhou front, the military column was attacked by a large force of the Chinese army, but fortunately the nearby imperial army garrison arrived to relieve the siege. It is estimated that it may be that the Central Army of China, which was wandering near the railway line, broke out and wanted to hijack the train to get baggage. If it weren't for the timely appearance of our reinforcements, the consequences would be unimaginable. For this reason, General Suzuki once again conveyed to our division that in the future, all actions related to comfort women, whether they are recruited, detained, or transferred, must be safeguarded. ”

Hiraiji kept looking at these two people who were talking eloquently, and he was speechless for a while. The captain of the gendarmerie thought of the action taken to eliminate the relatives of all the comfort women after he had collected them in Taiyuan, and felt a little uncomfortable: he had nothing to asent to recruiting women to serve as comfort women in China (since Japan itself, including Korea, is recruiting and mobilizing women of appropriate age to go to China to comfort the army, then why should the women themselves not be comfort women?). It's just that the large-scale killing of the relatives of these women made this new Zhongzuo feel a little uneasy - the people who were killed were too much! Although the last time in Taiyuan was the death penalty of the Otsuka United, in any case, those who died were lost because of the comfort women in their hands.

Will there be any retribution?

Hirai Tera remembered his wife and daughter who were far away in Japan, and he had faithfully served His Majesty the Emperor and the Imperial Army in exchange for a generous salary and treatment that would have been decisive in changing the quality of life of mothers and daughters in a small fishing port on the mainland. It's just that whenever he thinks of his wife and daughter, the head of the gendarmerie can't help but think of the relatives of the comfort women who were secretly executed in the mountains west of Taiyuan en masse.

"Nakasa! You didn't hear my words? ”

A question from General Hagiwara brought the thought-provoking Hirai Temple back to reality, and he suddenly realized that when he was distracted just now, the brigade commander Major General asked him something.

"General, this ...... I-"

Hiraiji blushed for a moment, and tried to find an excuse to cover it up.

"Let me ask you, what is the mood of the gendarmes in the Songjiagou secret camp and do they have any complaints?" The commander of the Hagiwara Brigade repeated the question with dissatisfaction.

"I beg your pardon, General," replied the captain of the gendarmerie in a hurry, adjusting his train of thought, "I was thinking about something just now. Well, rest assured, the discipline of the gendarmerie has always been strict under my restraint, and the gendarmes are full of emotions. ”

The reason why Hagiwara asked such a question was because out of the need for secrecy in the "Wind Project", the military police under Hirai Temple were not allowed to leave the secret camp on weekdays. The brigade commander feared that in the long run, some people would be unable to bear the loneliness.

At this time, Masao Kojima stood up from the conference table, as if he wanted to stretch his sedentary body, and he began to pace on one side of the table, while talking to himself without worry: "How long can the act of arranging for comfort women to accompany the army keep the secret?" Among the troops on the front line, the word may spread quickly. ”

In fact, this worry of his was also something that Akira Hagiwara himself and even the division commander, Lieutenant General Sena, were very worried about. Obviously, the secret forced recruitment of comfort women can be carried out, and the subsequent detention and transfer are basically within a controllable and safe range; It's just that as soon as it is transported to the front-line troops and begins to comfort, the truth will spread among the officers and soldiers.

"We can't take care of that much," the brigade commander, Major General sighed, "If the comfort activities leak out of the front-line army, I and you don't need to be responsible." Our task is to ensure that the Wind Plan and its actions in our hands do not leak the slightest rumor. ”

Hearing this, the head of the secret service suddenly remembered something. On the way to Niangzi Pass with the comfort women's train, he took the opportunity to get off the bus in Taiyuan and go to his original office to pick up some personal belongings; During this period, I heard people from the Taiyuan secret service mention that they had just cracked the Lanyi Society organization operating in the area from Datong to Taiyuan, and learned from it that the Shanxi Station of the Military Statistics Bureau of the China Government (also known as the Lanyi Society) had sent an intelligence group to specifically target the Sena Division fighting along the Nantongpu Road.

"Blue Coat Society?" Hagiwara's brows couldn't help but furrow, he had heard about the military secret service under the Shina government: "How big is this intelligence group?" Are they only campaigning against my division? ”

Kojima Masao looked at Hirai Teruichi, who was sitting there blankly, and pondered for a moment before replying: "I'm still investigating the specific content, and there are too few clues." However, the people of the Blue Coat Society have always been well-trained and have extremely strong detection capabilities for espionage work. I'm a little worried about whether their activities in this area will threaten the safety of Project Wind. ”

As soon as these words came out, the brigade commander and the gendarmerie captain couldn't help but get nervous, and their bodies in the chairs suddenly sat up straight