The two spies sent by Kojima Masao to the village of Kanmenshan Hekou, one Japanese and the other Chinese, all from northeastern China, were Kojima's right-hand men when he was the head of the secret service in several cities of the Manchurian Empire.

Two men disguised themselves as firewood pickers and drove a donkey cart; Nowadays, there are many sparse houses along the Tongpu Railway, and the people there often come to the direction of Guanmen Mountain to collect firewood, so it is not easy to be noticed by disguising themselves as them.

Sure enough, these two spies fooled the outpost of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division, which was five miles away from Hekou Village. Later, they approached Hekou Village and found that soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army were building in the village, and the two spies judged that these Eighth Route Army were being renovated and built in full swing according to military common sense, not private houses, but fortifications with a defensive nature.

In view of the large number of Eighth Route Army in the village, they did not dare to venture in; Instead, they turned to the nearby Guanmen Mountain Pass, where they parked their donkey cart and one of the agents ascended the gentle slope of the pass.

On the gentle slope of the mountain pass, the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion set up four or five relatively hidden fortifications here, and the strength of a platoon was scattered behind the fortifications. Wu Zijian's order to this platoon was that during non-combat periods, the normal passage of ordinary people and mountain people should not be blocked, but when encountering suspicious people, they could carry out interrogation and even body searches.

Due to the fact that there were enemy troops outside the Guanmen Mountain and there was a battle, and bandits also appeared in the mountain and exchanged fire with the 8th Company, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army at the mountain pass have strengthened their vigilance in the past few days, and all the people who enter and leave the mountain pass are young and strong (because of the female bandit leader, including young women) will come forward to investigate. The Manchurian spy under Kojima, who was very experienced, passed the investigation without too much difficulty, and he continued to search the gentle slope, and successively found traces of the Eighth Route Army stationed in this area, and he secretly wrote down everything.

The information of the commander of the Kojima organ was quickly placed on the desk of the brigade commander Akira Hagiwara.

According to reconnaissance and judgment, the Eighth Route Army, which is currently appearing in the mountain pass at the western foot of Guanmen Mountain and Hekou Village, has a strength of between 200 and 300 men and heavy weapons; Basically, the possibility that the department was diverted from the Chen Brigade of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division in southwest Shanxi was basically ruled out; Combined with the previous attack location of the cavalry of the Otsuka Coalition, it is very likely that the Eighth Route Army came from the northeast of Jin.

"It won't be a deliberate target against Songjiagou," Masao Kojima said to Hagiwara with great certainty, "It should belong to the current base development operation that the Communist Eighth Route Army is fully implementing." ”

"Base area," Major General Hagiwara smacked the words of the head of the secret service, "So, this rogue is really going to entrench in Guanmen Mountain for a long time?" What a time for them! ”

Kojima understood from the brigade commander's expression and tone that he was deeply concerned about this new situation. Yes, the suspicion of Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army has not yet been cleared, and the 391st Regiment of the Central Army has always been like a thorn in the back, and now there is a fierce Eighth Route Army! The Songjiagou secret camp can be called a strong enemy.

"I now feel more and more that it was a stupid mistake to choose the comfort women camp here!" Hagiwara Akira paced in front of the huge map on the wall again, and smiled bitterly: "We worked hard and carefully to leave Taiyuan and enter this ravine, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, but who would have expected that in this poor and remote place, there would be so many shadows of that army. Is this a self-defeating trap? ”

Masao Kojima was also a little embarrassed -- when the site of the comfort women's secret camp was demarcated, he had taken his opinion, and the head of the secret service was deeply satisfied with Songjiagou, a candidate site located in the deep mountains and adjacent to the railway.

"Well, the general doesn't have to blame himself too much, the situation is changing so quickly that it has indeed exceeded our expectations," Kojima said, pointing to the map: "The speed at which the Communist Eighth Route Army is moving around is amazing, and more and more intelligence sources have recently confirmed that from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, the Eighth Route Army is recklessly establishing a base in Shanxi like germs spreading in the air." ”

"I don't think about anything else!" The brigade commander, Major General, waved his hand irritably, as if to wave away the worries that lingered in his mind: "What about the eight roads in Guanmen Mountain and Hekou Village?" Are you still going to advise me to stay here? Or for the sake of the appearance of a few hundred communist troops, and to ask the division commander for help? ”

Masao Kojima hesitated for a moment - General Hagiwara has been a little short-tempered lately, and although he is still very restrained compared to Kosuke Otsuka's martial arts, it seems that he should not disagree with the brigade commander too much.

"General, it is obviously not necessary to ask for help from the division at present, I was originally worried that this Eighth Route Army was flowing from the direction of Tongpu Road in Linfen, southern Jinnan, you know the general, there is a main brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Now that this possibility has been ruled out, there is no need to pay too much attention to the strength of the Eighth Route. I believe that Otsuka-kun's troops are enough to sweep it away. ”

Hagiwara rolled his eyes and didn't speak.

"However, there is one thing that I still have to explain to you," the head of the secret service swallowed his saliva and cautiously continued: "My subordinates have not found any traces of a large number of horses in the area of Hekou Village this time—before, Du Dongqiang's Mongolian army cavalry battalion once found military horses belonging to the imperial army cavalry in the Shankou area; Moreover, the Mongolian army was defeated and took Hekou Village, and after the post-war inspection, dozens of military horses were also lost on the battlefield. ”

Hagiwara listened carefully.

"Also, except for the disappearance of a large number of military horses, my subordinates did not find the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army in the area of Hekou Village this time." After Masao Kojima finished speaking, he stopped talking. He had already kicked the ball to the brigade commander.

There was silence in the large room of the brigade headquarters. Hagiwara left the map and sat back down behind his desk, while Masao Kojima walked a step away from his desk and waited for instructions.

"I understand what you mean," Hagiwara didn't look at the other party's face, but nodded thoughtfully, "You suspect that in addition to Kawaguchi Village, this Eighth Route Army has other strongholds, which are nearby, right?" ”

Masao Kojima stood upright, but did not speak.

"I'm not a hot-headed reckless man," after another moment, the brigade commander sighed and said, "What's more, the safety of the Songjiagou secret camp is indeed the top priority, and the purpose of our elimination of the Zhina army in this area is also to prevent the secret camp from being threatened." ”

"The general is wise!" The head of the secret service stood up again.

Once his mind was broadened, Hagiwara's mind calmed down, he got up and walked to the window, looking down at the Wencheng from the third floor, the bank building occupied by the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters, adjacent to the road, and the prosperity of the Wencheng neighborhood was in full view.

"Maybe I'm in a hurry! Well, I'll give you a few more days, and your intelligence officers will continue to conduct extended reconnaissance along the Eighth Route Army target in Hekou Village, and thoroughly understand the deployment of the unit's troops. We will not fight a battle that we are not sure of, and as long as the imperial army is dispatched, we will strive to wipe out this stream of rogue in one fell swoop. ”

"Hey!"

He had already followed to the island next to Hagiwara Akira, and was pleased to straighten his jaw for the third time. At this moment, he and the brigade commander could clearly glance out the window, people and cars on the road, and one of the black Chevrolet sedans had just swept through the main entrance downstairs and drove into the distance.

The owner of the Chevrolet sedan was none other than Wang Suihua, a female major in the military command.

In the northern suburbs of Wencheng, he got rid of the entanglement of his male subordinate Li Yan, and the exhausted Wang Suihua carried his radio director all the way into the north city gate, passed the street in front of the small western-style building of the bank, and drove to the Nanyang Hotel. At this moment, Wang Suihua didn't know that the small western-style building that he had just driven by was the headquarters of the Hagiwara Brigade of the Sena Division.

After arriving at the Nanyang Hotel, Wang Suihua sent a telegram to Shanxi Station to report the news of her safe return. The stationmaster's reply was sent as soon as possible, with harsh wording, and it was obviously prepared in advance. Although it was a misunderstanding in the national army, Wang Suihua was forced to expose the identity of the military commander in order to get out of the 391 regiment, and in order to further verify, the military command headquarters had to send a telegram to the second theater commander's department; As a result, the espionage operation to track down the "Wind Project" was partially exposed. It can be said that the military commanders have greatly lost face and leaked their hiding this time.

On the order of the head of the Northwest District, the head of the Shanxi Station ordered Wang Suihua to reflect deeply, confiscate three months' salary, and order that the inside story of the "Wind Plan" be found out within one month.

Wang Suihua understood that although the stationmaster's telegram only listed the results of the handling of her, the leader of the second intelligence group, as a Shanxi station, she must have been reprimanded and punished by the upper peak from top to bottom. The female major of the military commander wanted to cry without tears, knowing that she had caused a big disaster this time.

What's even more frightening is that this time fortunately was captured by the national army, if unfortunately fell into the mouth of the Japanese spies, Rao is Wang Suihua is full of wisdom, and I can't imagine what her fate will be!

The female major of the military commander, who blamed herself behind closed doors, realized at this moment that she was indeed too complacent, and the smooth sailing of the espionage operation in Taiyuan City paralyzed her vigilance; And once you are in a desperate situation, the means you can come up with to save yourself are really limited.

At this time, Zhou Yi, a member of the second intelligence group who had been ordered to reconnoiter the ancient city of Junling earlier, finally touched the Nanyang Hotel. When she contacted the deaf student soldiers who stayed in Taiyuan by phone from Junling, she received an order from Shanxi Station and hurried to Wencheng.

Seeing the new help, Wang Suihua's anxiety and depression were slightly reduced, and she summoned a meeting between Zhou Yi and the elder of the radio station, Liu, who was weak and couldn't help it, went to the crisis with her this time, and behaved very tenaciously at the critical moment, which touched Wang Suihua to discuss the next move.

The deadline for cracking the "Wind Plan" within a month is like a sharp sword hanging over the head, and the female major of the military commander and the entire second intelligence group have no way out except to break the cauldron and sink the boat.