Hiraijiichi's eyes widened in disbelief, looking at the gushing head of the secret service, and then turned his gaze to Akira Hagiwara:

"General, is what the head of the island agency said true?"

Hagiwara paced up to Teriichi Hirai, patted the short cloak on the latter's shoulder—the emblematic garb of the Japanese military police—and asked in a calm tone:

"What, what's the difficulty, Shaozuo?"

At this time, the captain of the gendarmerie finally understood that the annoying guy a few steps away was indeed true when he continued to secretly recruit comfort women! He was stunned for a moment, feeling that he couldn't answer Major General Hagiwara, but he was stuck in his throat.

"You know, so far, your work has been very productive," Hagiwara said slowly, "The front army has already proposed a reward to General Sena for this, just wait for the first batch of comfort women to arrive safely in Hebei, Shaozuo, and your epaulettes will be added with another gold star!" ”

Hirai's breathing became difficult: he had not yet recovered from the shock caused by the head of the secret service, and the words of the brigade commander made him feel a pang of excitement.

"Finding it hard to accept, eh?" Hagiwara Akira's tone carried a hint of banter: "I just was promoted from lieutenant to adjutant not long ago, and now I am going to change from a junior to a middle lieutenant, and the speed is amazing." Think about our Kojima-kun, it took many years to go from Shaozuo to Zhongzuo. ”

Hagiwara said as he looked at Masao Kojima, who was standing on the side, not without mockery. At this moment, Hirai Teruichi, who was already smug in his heart, seemed to understand why the head of the secret service always spoke ill of him: In the military world, such a fast promotion path is indeed too easy to be jealous and wary.

"But, General," Hirai Temple swallowed his saliva and said in a trembling voice, "In Taiyuan, after all, I still have the source of recruiting comfort women, and now that I am hidden in this barren mountain range, where are we going to find those women?" ”

"It's not a question you should ask, it's an answer you should be looking for!" The brigade commander, Major General, changed his tone to a positive tone, and his tone became a little tough.

"Hey!" Hiraiji Temple stands with a straight jaw. He thought that there must be a way before the car reaches the mountain, after all, it is not me Hirai who is fighting with the woman of Shina, the entire brigade and even the entire division are my strong backing.

Nakasa, two gold stars!

At this moment, Hirai Tereichi first remembered his wife and daughter who were far away from home, and their hard life in the small fishing port of Songjiang was about to become rich from now on! As a husband and father, he is proud of himself.

"Jingle bell—"

The hurried phone rang suddenly in the gendarmerie team headquarters, and Hirai Teraichi hurriedly put away his reverie, and reached out to grab the phone on the desk close by, but at the moment when he grabbed the phone, he suddenly felt that something was wrong: The brigade commander and the head of the secret service were in Songjiagou's own team headquarters at the moment, so who would make this call?

At present, there is a telephone line between Wencheng and Songjiagou, and between Songjiagou and Fengdian, but for the sake of secrecy, the number of people who are qualified to use the telephone on this line is extremely limited, except for the three people in the room at the moment, and then the co-captain and deputy co-captain of the Otsuka United Team sitting in Wencheng and Fengdian.

Sure enough, the person on the phone directly asked to talk to the head of the Hagiwara Brigade, and the identity he reported was the staff officer of the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters in Wencheng. Hirai Terarichi immediately handed the phone to Akira Hagiwara.

Hagiwara Akira, who also looked surprised, took the phone and only listened to a few words, his face quickly became solemn, he briefly commanded a few words, and then decisively put down the phone, and turned to Hirai Teriichi and Kojima Masao and said:

"A cavalry battalion of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army has just encountered the Eighth Route Army in the area of Guanmen Mountain, and it has suffered heavy losses!"

Hearing this, Hirai Temple was still calm, but Masao Kojima blurted out: "Eighth Route Army?!" Guanmen Mountain?! ”

The secret worries that the head of the secret service had been worried about for a long time finally appeared.

Hirai Teraichi didn't care much about the security situation outside Songjiagou or even Little Elm Mountain, he knew that there was a whole company of infantry guarding his place, not to mention cavalry, artillery, and engineers.

However, Hagiwara Akira and Kojima Masao are always on the lookout for possible threats, and both of them believe that the Eighth Route Army is a threat within a threat.

"Du Dongqiang, a bastard, after being hit by the Eighth Route Army, didn't dare to return to Fengdian by the same route, in a vain attempt to sneak through the defense area of the imperial army from the eastern suburbs of Wencheng! Damn it! ”

The brigade commander, Major General, scolded angrily, and his face became quite ugly.

"Where is he now? Have you figured out the number of the Eighth Route Army? Does Captain Otsuka know about the situation? Masao Kojima asked in a series of hurried questions.

Hagiwara didn't answer, but turned around and walked towards the door, while instructing Masao Kojima: "Call Toyoden immediately and alert Otsuka; Let's go back to Wencheng immediately! ”

Du Dongqiang's cavalry, which had defeated Guanmen Mountain, was discovered by Japanese troops patrolling along the branch line of the Wencheng-Songjiagou Railway while attempting to pass through the wasteland between Wencheng and Xiaoyushu Mountain Pass. The patrolling Japanese army was a detachment of the Nara Brigade of the Otsuka Wing stationed in the eastern part of the city; Nowadays, the area from the east gate of Bunjo to the west pass of Mt. Mt. Mura has become a sensitive area, and the Nara Brigade is ordered to send a small team to patrol the area every day and night to drive people who try to pass through Mt. Mt. Little Elm and stay in the vicinity.

The captain of the Japanese squad leading the team had not received a notice that a neighboring unit had crossed the defense area, but when he was stationed in the Junling, he had seen this strangely dressed cavalry and knew that they were the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Army. Du Dongqiang had been training with the Kwantung Army's troops in Mongolia before, so he knew a few words of Japanese, and he also followed a Japanese translator by his side, so after communicating a few words, he wanted to pass. However, the Japanese squad leader was quite cautious, and he asked Du Dongqiang to lead the team to stand by, while he used a walkie-talkie to contact the captain.

When Captain Nara heard that a Mongolian cavalry outside the city had just been attacked by the Eighth Route Army, he immediately felt that the situation was serious, so he immediately called the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters through the staff officer of the Wing Headquarters, and the people at the Brigade Headquarters knew that Major General Hagiwara had gone to Songjiagou early in the morning, so they called the gendarmerie of Hirai Teraichi.

After such a report, Du Dongqiang was finally ordered to wait in the eastern suburbs of Wencheng. The cavalry commander couldn't help beating a small drum in his heart: a company under his command was captured in the northern suburbs of Fengdian before, resulting in heavy casualties in the attack of the Fengdian Imperial Army, and this matter is not over, and then it was beaten by the Eighth Route Army today and lost its armor. Do the Japanese turn their faces? Why can't you hide from the demon of the Eighth Route Army?! In the north of Jin, he was beaten by the eight roads, and when he arrived in the south of the central and southern Jin, the narrow road of the enemy could still meet the eight roads! Perhaps, his own company was not picked up by Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army at all, and it was also the Eighth Route Army. Grandma's!

Du Dongqiang, who was thinking wildly, finally met the supreme commander here, Major General Hagiwara Akira, on the cold and windy wasteland. Hagiwara Akira and his entourage drove out of Songjiagou in a small car, and not far from the west pass of Little Elm Mountain, they saw a large group of Mongolian cavalry on Mongolian horses.

The brigade commander got out of the car and personally interrogated the commander of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army, and Du Dongqiang, who was beaten to a daze, could only tell the location of the attack and the approximate size of the Eighth Route Army.

"They have a lot of firepower, they have heavy machine guns and artillery."

"Heavy machine guns and artillery?!" was made bizarre by Du Dongqiang's narration, not only Hagiwara Akira, but Kojima Masao was also surprised: "Are you sure that the Eighth Route Army has artillery?" What cannon? ”

Du Dongqiang clearly remembered that he had just been hit by two cannons, one of which disrupted the formation of the cavalry, and the other artillery, and killed his own machine gun position (of course, he didn't dare to say that he had lost three of the four Taisho 11 machine guns, for fear that the imperial army would take this punishment), so he replied exaggeratedly:

"It's a large-caliber cannon, and the shells are fierce."

This made Hagiwara Akira and Kojima Masao feel more and more incredible, according to the information obtained by the head of the secret service, the equipment of the Eighth Route Army (Eighteenth Group Army) was very poor, and their troops could not even meet the needs of one gun per man, how could they suddenly have a "large-caliber cannon"?!

Hagiwara asked the patrols of the Nara Brigade to ride motorcycles into the city to bring their staff officers and maps, and they spread out the maps on the engine covers of the cars to mark the battle just now.

After re-entering the car, the brigade commander said to Masao Kojima, whose nose was red from the cold, with a grim expression: "What you have been worried about all this time seems to be correct; Unexpectedly, in the direction of Guanmen Mountain, there will be the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army, and it may be one of their main forces. ”

"General, I even suspect that the eight-way force that just attacked the cavalry of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army is the same one that attacked the Iwata cavalry squadron in the Little Elm Mountain ten days ago! I've always wondered, how could such a large mass of troops suddenly disappear? This doesn't make sense. If they quietly turned into Guanmen Mountain, which is adjacent to Little Elm Mountain, it would make sense. ”

"Tell Otsuka to immediately send heavy troops to suppress it; On our side, we can send one or two squadrons, including the gang of bastards on horseback outside, to attack from both sides. ”

Unexpectedly, the head of the secret service shook his head vigorously, and he did not advocate the immediate dispatch of troops. The men of the Iwata Cavalry Squadron once claimed that they were attacked by a contingent of "thousands" in the area of Dawangyu on Little Elm Mountain; Although this number inevitably contains water, there should still be eight or nine hundred. Since the enemy's situation is unknown, it is not appropriate to rush to dispatch troops, and it is not too late to stabilize the defensive circle of the "three points and one line" before making a move.

At present, the front army headquarters may order the "Fengzi Military Train" to sail to the Zhengtai Line at any time, so ensuring the safety of the comfort women's secret camp is undoubtedly the first priority!