Chapter 114: Escorting comfort women to the front

Wang Suihua's two subordinates looked at each other and were speechless for a while. Baoyuan Restaurant is an out-and-out news distribution center in Wencheng, with three religions and nine streams, mixed fish and dragons, and it is obvious that those who can be the shopkeeper in that restaurant will not be ordinary. It seems that in the future, when entering and leaving Baoyuan Restaurant, you must be a little more vigilant.

After a while, Wang Suihua informed them that the Northwest Military Region had just been investigated and it had been confirmed that Masao Kojima, the former head of the Taiyuan secret service, had been officially transferred to Wencheng to serve as the head of the secret service.

"The comers are not good, maybe it just shows that the Japanese army will make a big move in Wencheng." Zhou Yi said.

"The headquarters of the Sena Division was once set up at the Wencheng Railway Station, and this move is not big enough?" Li Yan looked at Zhou Yi fixedly and said.

"It's more than that. We should also pay attention to one figure, that is, the brigade commander Akira Hagiwara. Wang Suihua glanced out the window, there was the sound of children playing in the yard, it should be the children of the owner of the family playing around the car parked at the gate of the courtyard.

Wang Suihua analyzed that the Sena Division had two brigades under its jurisdiction, of which the Kato Brigade was moving south along the Tongpu Road, while a wing of the Hagiwara Brigade was temporarily assigned to the Yamaoka Division to fight Yan Xishan, and Hagiwara Akira himself took another wing, that is, the Otsuka Wing, and deployed it in Wencheng and Fengdian.

"Lieutenant General Sena was busy commanding the Kato Brigade in the battle against Wei Lihuang; We might as well assume now that the specific leader of the Wind Project is this Akira Hagiwara, who has not taken on any combat mission. ”

Li Yan's eyes lit up: "Yes, if Hagiwara Akira, who is in charge of Wencheng, is the leader of the Wind Plan, it can explain why Kojima Masao was transferred to Wencheng - they must have been summoned by the special envoy of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters in Taiyuan and received the task of the Wind Plan." ”

"There is also the Otsuka Wing of the Hagiwara Brigade, after the Japanese lieutenant general's envoy left Taiyuan, he suddenly dispatched to capture Fengdian and Wencheng!" Zhou Yi's train of thought was also mobilized: "Then, Masao Kojima was transferred from Taiyuan to Wencheng, and Hagiwara Akira's brigade headquarters was also moved out of Taiyuan and landed in Wencheng; Then, the Otsuka Wing blocked the mountain pass of Little Elm Mountain, and the mysterious military column that the team leader had discovered also drove into Little Elm Mountain from the Tongpu Road branch line. ”

Wang Suihua was very excited, and the clues became clearer and clearer: "We were initially confused by the actions of the main force of the Sena Division, thinking that the wind plan must be following the wheels of the Sena Division's operation on Tongpu Road; However, in retrospect, the military movements of the main force of the Sena Division were an integral part of the overall offensive plan of the First Army of the North China Front, but they had nothing to do with the mysterious wind plan. ”

"The little devil played very skillfully, taking advantage of the momentum of the army moving south along the railway line, he quietly hid the actions of the wind plan in it, and unknowingly hid in the branch line." Li Yan smacked his mouth and said, as if he was holding the "wind plan" in his mouth and tasting it.

The female major of the military commander looked at the expressions of her male subordinates, and said somewhat unwillingly: "It's a pity that they are unfortunate that they met you, the railway, and the trajectory of the mysterious military train was discovered." ”

"Is it a gas bomb in the military column?" Zhou Yi asked the team leader with some concern.

"It's very likely!" Wang Suihua boldly asserted: "Except for chemical weapons such as poison gas bombs, I really can't think of anything else that the Japanese could do to hide in the army and hide in a railway branch line." ”

After they had a small meeting, Wang Suihua asked Zhou Yi to stay in this house for the time being and continue to monitor the railway line outside the courtyard, while she and Li Yan immediately drove back to Wencheng, and Li Yan inserted Zhou Yi'an into Wencheng Railway Station to work as soon as possible through his old acquaintance on the Tongpu Railway. The military command of the Northwest Region and Shanxi Station has set a time limit of one month to break through the "Wind Plan", leaving Wang Suihua and her second intelligence team with little time!

"Telegraph, top secret:

The commander of the Sena Division and the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade, with your department quickly sending a powerful one, escorted the Fengzi military train to set off within two days, and turned into Hebei along Zhengtai Road, and the front army planned to send a military train to meet and hand over at Niangziguan Station. Attention should be paid to the early warning along the railway lines in Shanxi to ensure the absolute safety of military trains passing through. Inform the front army immediately after departure, and keep you informed of the progress of the journey. Good luck. Long live His Majesty the Emperor.

North China Front Command Today"

This top-secret telegram was signed by Major General Suzuki, a senior staff officer of the North China Front Command, and at the same time sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Sena, who was fighting in the south with Puro, and Major General Hagiwara, who was sitting in Bunjo.

The message sent by Masaki Sena to Akira Hagiwara was simple and straightforward: full authority and cautious action.

The Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters in Bunjo immediately began to operate nervously.

After reading the top-secret message, Hagiwara's mood can only be described as anxious: I have been worried about the arrival of this day, and now, it has really come! The brigade commander immediately summoned the co-commander Kosuke Otsuka in Fengdian and the military police captain Hiraiji in Songjiagou to the Wencheng brigade headquarters, and at the same time asked Kojima Masao to stop all reconnaissance at hand and turn to the escort with all his might.

They urgently held a confidential meeting at the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters to make arrangements.

At present, the Shangang Division stationed in Taiyuan and Jinzhong is responsible for the garrison along the Shanxi territory of Zhengtai Road (that is, from Taiyuan to Niangziguan), and the commander of the Front Army Headquarters and Sena Division have successively called the commander of the Shangang Division, asking him to strengthen the patrol of Zhengtai Road and the security of stations along the road in the near future.

"This section of Tongpu Road north to Taiyuan is only up to us!" Hagiwara Akira said to these subordinates worriedly: "What must be told to you is that the Junling and Qixian stations that we are going to pass from Wencheng are no longer garrisoned by the imperial army, and there are only a small number of small troops of the Shangang Division at Taigu and Xiaodian stations; Therefore, this journey on the Tongpu Road is risky. After arriving in Taiyuan, it will be relatively safe, along the Zhengtai Road, there is a wing of the Guto Brigade of the Shangang Division on duty, and our pressure will be greatly reduced at that time. ”

"Do you consider asking the division commander and general to transfer some troops back to the defense and assist us in transporting on the Tongpu Road?" It was Masao Kojima who spoke.

Before Akira Hagiwara could answer, Kosuke Otsuka interjected arrogantly: "I don't think it's necessary! My wing, plus Iwata's cavalry squadron, is enough to escort the military column to Taiyuan safely! ”

Masao Kojima opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he chose to remain silent. It was not that he did not dare to refute this arrogant and arrogant wing commander, but the main thing was that he knew in his heart that General Hagiwara had never advocated involving the main force of the division on the issue of the comfort women's secret camp.

Sure enough, the brigade commander, Major General, nodded towards Kosuke Otsuka: "I support your idea. After all, this operation, we have the experience of the last transshipment, and I believe that we will do better. Then he turned to the commander of the gendarmerie, Teriichi Hirai, who had never spoken: "What is the mood of the comfort women?" In the past few days, have the raids and drills been effective? ”

In front of everyone, Hirai Teruichi's answer was a bit reserved, and he said that the comfort women were quite emotionally stable, and that at first a few went on hunger strike, but under the control of the team doctor and the gendarmes, they finally gave in.

An encouraging smile appeared on Hagiwara's face, "Don't forget, after escorting them safely to Niangzi Pass, your new mission will begin, Nakasa." ”

Nakasa?! Kosuke Otsuka on the side was obviously stunned, but he quickly understood the meaning of the words of the brigade commander general, and at the same time couldn't help but look at the military police captain in a short cloak with jealousy.

Bastard, we, the soldiers on the front line, fought hard, and in exchange for our lives, we only got the ranks of Dazuo and Zhongzuo, but this guy who eats by mixing in the pile of women climbed to Zhongzuo's position so quickly, it's really unfair.

Masao Kojima can understand the thoughts of Wing Captain Osa at this moment, but this is war, and there is nothing fair or unfair.

"Also," Hagiwara continued to say to the incoming Nakasa, "the head of the Kojima Agency has already had a preliminary idea for the next step in recruiting comfort women in the local area, and you two can have a good exchange on this trip." ”

"Is the Captain of the Island also accompanying the military train?" Hirai Terai asked, and from the bottom of his heart, he was very disgusted with the head of the secret service.

"I only accompanied me to Taiyuan Railway Station, and then I had to go to Taiyuan on business." Masao Kojima responded dryly.

Next, they carefully agreed on the specific plan of the escort.

At present, the military train docked at Songjiagou Station has a total of seven carriages, and the windows of the middle three carriages have been welded with iron plates by the sappers of the Sena Division, and these three carriages will still be used to carry comfort women (two died in accidents, the number of comfort women is currently 36) and the military police who take care of them; Of the remaining four carriages, one was the box for the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade and his entourage, and three were for the escorted gendarmes, of which Hirai Teriichi and Kojima Masao were in the last section. Of the 150 members of the gendarmerie, 30 were left on duty in the Songjiagou secret camp, and the remaining 120 were all on the military ranks.

Kosuke Otsuka personally led three squadrons of the Nara Infantry Brigade under his command to escort them in trucks along the highway behind the military columns.

The Iwata Cavalry Squadron, a cavalry company belonging to the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Army, was dispatched ahead of the military column, searching and patrolling along the railway line that the military column needed to pass, and serving as an outpost for opening the road.

This escort plan is almost the same as the original transfer of comfort women from Taiyuan to the Songjiagou secret camp, and its core is the gendarmerie of Pingjing Temple; With the exception of the gendarmerie and the entourage of Major General Hagiwara, the infantrymen escorted by car and the cavalry who opened the way did not have close contact with the comfort women, thus achieving the greatest degree of secrecy and secrecy.

Kosuke Otsuka's heart was full of regrets: after the wing soldiers took down Wencheng without blood, he wanted to set the army to a carnival - just like the time in Togadian - but the brigade commander accidentally braked the car. Later, Songjiagou was full of comfort women, but he and his subordinates could only defend the secret camp on the periphery; It was cheaper for the gendarmerie guys, and the surprise attack was called a "real combat exercise". Now that these comfort women are about to be transferred to Hebei to the front line in Shandong, I haven't even seen what these women look like. What a loss!

I heard that the next gendarmerie captain will lead people to continue to recruit comfort women and imprison them in the Songjiagou secret camp. Otsuka thought angrily, next time he must not let go of those women in vain, and he would rather be scolded by the brigade commander and major general again, but he must also taste it!