The regimental headquarters of the Sena Division in Taiyuan once again welcomed an important figure of the North China Front today: Major General Suzuki, senior staff officer of the Front Army Headquarters.

This is the second time in a week that Major General Suzuki has flown from Peking to Taiyuan. On the last occasion, he accompanied Lieutenant General Sakai of the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters, who was visiting from the mainland, to deploy a top-secret mission related to the establishment of a local comfort women camp.

Today, this top-secret mission is being carried out with great vigour. The complete plan, named after the "Wind Plan", has been approved by the senior management of the base camp and officially approved for implementation. Major General Suzuki's visit to Taiyuan was to inspect the launch of the "Wind Plan" on the orders of the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters.

The situation is truly satisfactory.

The night before Major General Suzuki arrived in Taiyuan, the Otsuka Wing of the Sena Division sent a telegram: The main force of the wing from Fengdian had entered the small station of Songjiagou in the mountains, and was sending cavalry to search and reconnoiter along the railway branch line from Songjiagou to Wencheng, while the engineer squadron began to check the state of the tracks. The wing will move to the outskirts of Wencheng the next day and launch an attack at an opportune time.

When Major General Suzuki, who arrived in Taiyuan, learned of this, he immediately asked the commander of the Sena Division and the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade to convey congratulations to the Otsuka Wing and encourage the Captain Otsuka to lead the team to establish a new meritorious service for His Majesty the Emperor.

Major General Hagiwara combined the map and gave Major General Suzuki a detailed report on the basis of the decision to select the location of the comfort women's secret camp:

Considering that in the future, the main battlefield of the Imperial Army's conquest of northern China will focus on the areas of Henan and Shandong, and the comfort women organizations under planning will definitely concentrate on those two fronts. Therefore, the Tongpu railway from Taiyuan to Fenglingdu in Puzhou Town (located at the junction of Shanxi and Henan) will become the main route for delivery.

Songjiagou is a small abandoned coal mine station, located in the mountains between Fengdian and Wencheng, sparsely populated and extremely hidden. What's more advantageous is that this small station in the mountains is only 20 miles away from Wencheng, a big station on the Tongpu Railway Line, and the railroad tracks between the two are quite complete.

It can be completely hidden in the mountains, but also can run on the railway nearby, Songjiagou Station, which can be called an excellent choice for the secret camp of comfort women.

At present, Fengdian County and Songjiagou Station have been occupied, and soon the Otsuka United Army will conquer Wencheng and garrison it with heavy troops. Wencheng, Fengdian and Songjiagou will form a tight defensive circle from now on to ensure that the comfort women's secret camp is safe and sound.

After listening to Akira Hagiwara's introduction, Major General Suzuki was very excited, and at the small conference table with the map spread out, he stood up and bowed forcefully to the commander of Sena's division:

"General, on behalf of Your Excellency the Commander, allow me to express my deep respect for the fruitful work of you and your subordinates!"

The commander he was talking about was General Terauchi Shouichi, who was the supreme head of the North China Front at the time.

The head of Sena sat in his seat, smiled and returned the salute. He was a lieutenant general and was entitled to receive a salute from the other side. Hagiwara hurriedly stood up and returned Suzuki with an equally powerful bow, although the two of them were both of the rank of major general, Hagiwara was only a brigade commander, and Major General Suzuki was a senior staff officer of the front. Senior Staff Officer of the Japanese Army is a title of considerable status, which often indicates that this person will have a strong promotion prospect in the future. For example, the Itagaki Division, which has now become the first main force of the North China Front, and its division commander, Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro, was a senior staff officer in the Kwantung Army in his early years.

The "Wind Plan" was a top-secret mission assigned by the Tokyo base camp and the Japanese army headquarters, and it was entrusted to the North China Front to carry out, and the fact that the Front Army was able to entrust this important task to Major General Suzuki was also a sign of the position of this senior staff officer in the eyes of Commander Terauchi Shouichi.

"Thank you, General Suzuki, for your compliment!" Hagiwara said, "On behalf of the commander of the Sena Division, I would like to assure the general that our department will do its best to ensure the safe and secure operation and implementation of the Wind Plan!" ”

Next, they summoned the head of the Taiyuan secret service, Masao Kojima.

The main mission of the head of the Kojima Agency in the "Wind Plan" is to provide information on the activities of the Shina Army for the implementation of the plan, so as to ensure that the Shina Army will not suddenly appear in Songjiagou, Wencheng, and Fengdian vicinity, endangering the safety of the comfort women camp. Since Songjiagou was located in the south of Jin, close to Jinzhong, Kojima focused on introducing the enemy military situation in that area to Major General Suzuki:

It has been ascertained that the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, which was previously stationed in Fengdian County, was routed by the Otsuka Wing a few days ago, and according to the report of the Wing Commander, the remnants of the 391st Regiment were about several hundred people, who fled into the mountainous area east of Fengdian, and their whereabouts are currently unknown. The Otsuka Wing reported that this branch of the army had strong combat effectiveness, but they were obviously not equipped with artillery, and the rest of the heavy weapons were basically destroyed by the Otsuka Wing in Fengdian. The threat to the Songjiagou secret camp will not be too great.

Another branch of the Zhina Army stationed in Fengdian was a regiment of the 12th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Jin Army, which fled to the Wencheng Brigade Headquarters at the time of the Fengdian War, and should now join the main force of the brigade to assist in the defense of Wencheng. The overall strength of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army was weak, and compared with the Otsuka Wing, it was at a disadvantage in terms of strength and firepower. It is estimated that after the Otsuka Wing captured Wencheng, the remnants of the brigade may flee south along Tongpu Road, and the possibility of returning to the Songjiagou secret camp in the future is very small.

Speaking of this, Captain Kojima glanced at the head of the Sena Division who was sitting at the conference table, and then said cautiously:

"It is necessary to be vigilant that the cavalry assigned to the Otsuka Wing, a few days ago, west of Fengdian, had been ambushed by the Eighth Route Army of the Shina Army, and the enemy was said to have thousands of troops. However, according to my information, at present, the Eighth Route Army is active in Jinnan, and there is only one brigade of the 115th Division, and it is entrenched in the Hongdong and Zhaocheng areas of the Tongpu Line, which is still far from Fengdian. ”

"This should be an exaggeration by the subordinates of the Guigong Wing!" Lieutenant General Sena interjected with some disdain, the Guigong Wing he was talking about was the cavalry wing directly under his division, and the wing commander was Katsura Palace Fuyi Daisa: "Those sons and brothers who are riding on war horses must be frightened and regard the stones on the mountain beams of Shanxi as the Eighth Route Army." ”

Major General Suzuki was the first to laugh, and Hagiwara also showed a knowing smile. As army officers, they were dissatisfied with the special status of cavalry, which was mostly from aristocratic background, in the army.

Masao Kojima didn't laugh either.

Ever since the head of the secret service entered Shanxi with the army, he has been working hard to collect intelligence information from various branches of the army; In his opinion, since last year, although the Eighth Route Army has not frequently confronted the imperial army like the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army, the few shots have left a deep imprint on people. Kojima vaguely felt that this army, which had been reorganized by the Communist Party to the government of China, had a hidden evil spirit in its cunning, and they might become a major hidden danger to the imperial army. Kojima Masao has always been conceited about his instincts, but few high-ranking officers in Shanxi's military are convinced by this view.

Major General Suzuki laughed enough, and said to Kojima: "The front army headquarters in Beiping pays more attention to Yan Xishan's men and horses, after all, according to the people of China, they belong to the head snake. At present, these local snakes are shrinking in the southwest and northwest of Shanxi, and the front army has a comprehensive plan to encircle and suppress them. As for the Eighth Route Army, it was just some grass cowards who had surrendered, and it was not enough to cause trouble. ”

"Yes," Kojima said respectfully to Major General Suzuki, who was well aware of the weight of this senior staff officer in the front army, "I also agree with the division commander that the one who appeared near Fengdian should only be a small group of Eighth Route Army Youyong." ”

Unexpectedly, Suzuki changed his words: "However, it should also be paid attention to, you must know that the Songjiagou secret camp is very important, and no negligence can be allowed to appear there!" ”

Everyone nodded yes.

The meeting concluded with a discussion on the core issue of the establishment of secret comfort women camps: the origin of comfort women.

Lieutenant General Sena had heard that after the capture of Taiyuan in November last year, the Itagaki Division that had entered the city had captured a number of women in the city for the enjoyment of the officers and men, but the Itagaki Division was then transferred to Baoding, Hebei, and when they handed over the Taiyuan defense area to the Shangang Division, the captured women were either killed or released. Otherwise, with the number of women in China at that time, they could have directly served as the first batch of comfort women.

At this moment, the commander of the Sena Division told Major General Suzuki that it had been decided to hand over a gendarmerie unit assigned to the division by the Front Army, which would take charge of the arrest of the first batch of comfort women.

This gendarmerie corps, consisting of 70 men, was originally one of the gendarmerie units dispatched by the North China Front Command to various divisions and regiments under its jurisdiction, and its main duties were to restrain law enforcement and maintain military discipline within the divisions and regiments, and it had no combat mission. However, due to the fact that there were only 70 men and fearing that its strength would be insufficient, Lieutenant General Sena was going to ask the commander of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade to transfer an infantry squad from the Saijo Wing under his command to strengthen the gendarmerie and unify it under the command of the captain of the gendarmerie.

The captain of the gendarmerie, Teriichi Hirai, with the rank of captain, has a civilian background, and so far has no combat experience.

Hearing this statement from the commander of the Sena Division, Major General Suzuki couldn't help but nod frequently: "Well, Your Excellency General, I have sincere admiration for your genius design - it is only fitting that the gendarmerie is in charge of this matter." The gendarmes are used to restrain soldiers, such as the repeated prohibition of rape in the garrisons of various defense zones, and the gendarmes should come forward to stop and punish them-"

Lieutenant General Sena took over the conversation proudly: "But there should always be a solution to the soldiers' sexuality problem, they are all young people with strong blood, and it is normal to have this need." Then the gendarmes should provide them with a solution-"

"That's why the gendarmes came to recruit comfort women!" This time, it was Major General Hagiwara Akira who hurriedly said something.

The three generals in straight uniforms glanced at each other, and then laughed at the same time.