Secret War Silent

Japan has also learned from China for thousands of years. It was not until modern times that it learned from Western science and industrialization that it was possible to surpass it.

If China can also learn from the West, improve society, advocate science, and promote industrialization, Japan may not even dare to have the ambition to annex China.

"Your Excellency, Commander, this person poses a great threat to the Japanese Empire. Although we have changed the secret code now, as long as he exists, our secret code may be deciphered, so getting rid of him is the only way to get rid of him once and for all." Kondo Keichi solemnly said.

"Are you sure he deciphered our secret code by himself?"

"This……"

"It should not be a person, but a team led by him." Kondo Keichi said, "He is the soul of the team. If you get rid of him, the team will be disbanded."

"What do you need me to do?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, please open an opening on the front line and let me mix with the refugees and go to Xiangcheng. I have made corresponding arrangements there. One of my intelligence teams can cooperate with them to bring him and the team he brought this time. Behead them all!" Kondo Keiichi solemnly bowed and begged.

"Is your information reliable? Wouldn't it be to let your men go down to die?" Neiji Okamura was actually not optimistic about such an action.

Xiangcheng is now a place where people are heavily stationed, and if they infiltrate with a small team and launch attacks on important missions, they may never return.

Neiji Okamura doesn't like this style of play very much.

Now every imperial warrior is a valuable combat force. If one is lost, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate one, not to mention that people are not grass in the field, they can be harvested one by one.

"Your Excellency, Commander, I am sure, not to mention the sacrifice this time is definitely worth it." Kondo Keichi said.

"Well, since you insist, then the Commander is not going to forcefully stop you. If you need cooperation, I will ask Adjutant Ogasawara to assist you." Neiji Okamura thought for a while, and finally nodded in agreement.

Keiichi Kondo's plan is beneficial to him but not harmful. If he succeeds, it is good, but if he fails, he will not hurt his own people.

He really couldn't find any reason to oppose his plan.

"Thank you, Commander, my men have been brought here. They are the most elite and loyal warriors in the empire." Keiichi Kondo stood up and bowed deeply.

"How can you guarantee that they won't be found among the refugees?"

"They have all received strict training, and they can only be considered qualified if they can mix and live among the Chinese people for a period of time without being discovered by the people around them. Otherwise, I dare not guarantee that they can complete such a seemingly impossible task." Mission." Keiichi Kondo explained.

"So that's the case. It seems that Kondo-kun is also a caring person. No wonder the Tokyo side praises you." Okamura Ningji nodded and said.

"Your Excellency, Commander, is admirable. Everything I do is for the empire to become the real master of this land!" Keiichi Kondo said enthusiastically.

Neiji Okamura frowned slightly. As a soldier, what he needs most is a calm mind and objective analysis. There are more and more fanatics like Kondo in the army. This is a double-edged sword. It is definitely very useful to expand the territory, but on the other hand, their fanaticism will lose their reason, so they cannot recognize the facts, and eventually lead to failure.

What I am most afraid of is the appearance of such fanatical and radical generals on the front line, which is sometimes a disaster.

"Kondo-kun, if you need help, please speak up as soon as possible." Neiji Okamura once again lowered his evaluation of Kondo Keiichi's plan. At first he thought they had a slight chance of success, but now, he is very pessimistic.

Since you can't stop it, you can only let it go.

"Hay!"

"Ogasawara, hello Kondo-kun, don't let anyone know that he has been here." Okamura Ningji waved his hand, and called Ogasawara back to him to give instructions.

"Hay."

……

On the morning of the 28th.

"Qin Group, a call from home, saying that everything is going according to plan." Chen Zerong (Sun Qian) reported.

"Understood, go back to the deputy station master of the Electric Palace, put the long line, don't worry, wait for my order to close the net." Luo Yao ordered with his head down, drinking millet porridge.

"Yes."

"Brother, what kind of charades are you playing, why can't I understand?" Li Fu was confused.

"I'll know in the future, you'd better study Okamura Neiji's tactics, and we'll continue the deduction in a while." Luo Yao said with a smile.

"This time you play Neiji Okamura, I want to be Chief Xue." Li Fu said unconvinced, "You win every time, it's so boring."

"Haha, okay, this time you will play Chief Xue, and I will play Neiji Okamura." Luo Yao laughed.

"After receiving the retreat order, the 15th Army retreated last night between Miluo and Shangshan City to build a defensive position..."

"After the 15th Division of the Japanese Army broke through the Xinqiang River defense line, the troops divided into two groups and went south along the Guangdong-Han Railway and the highway to pursue the [-]th Army Group. The forward of the Japanese Nara Detachment has arrived at Changle Street..."

"Officer Xue ordered the 15th Army to stand firm at least until October 10 in Miluo and Xinshi..."

……

Xinshi is the intersection of the east-west and north-south roads. The Miluo River is about 600 meters wide from north to south here. A military pontoon bridge that can pass cars connects the north-south road. Not far from the shore is Xinshi Town.

The highway passes through the west of the town, and to the south is Xiangcheng.

It can be said that once they pass Xinshi, they can rush to the city of Xiangcheng without any hassle. The location of Xinshi is very important and must not fall into the hands of the enemy.

A battalion of the 37th Division of the 60th Army was stationed at the floating bridge position.

The battalion commander was looking in the direction of the pontoon bridge outside the fortifications.

Behind us, at noon, the soldiers on the battlefield were preparing to eat, and the food was sent directly to the trenches. The large retreating troops had already passed the pontoon bridge, and there were still some scattered small groups of scattered troops and retreating southward with the national army. refugees.

After receiving the order, there may be another battle in the afternoon, because the Japanese army is likely to follow the retreating troops and launch an attack.

Not to be taken lightly.

When the troops have withdrawn, the pontoon bridge must be removed as soon as possible, and cannot be left for the use of the Japanese army.

Their pontoon bridge unit was taken away by the 95th Division a few days ago, and it was difficult to cross the river quickly.

Spit and hit the ground.

Battalion Commander Yang cursed, and was about to turn over and go back to eat. He was also hungry, so how could he fight if he didn't eat?

Suddenly, I saw two asylum vehicles approaching from the other side of the pontoon bridge. They were loaded with wounded soldiers of the national army who had fallen behind. There were also refugees in civilian clothes, dragging their children with them. The team was pretty good. long.

They guarded this bridgehead position for the past two days and saw many scenes like this. The Japanese army burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of crimes in the northern Hunan area.

"Don't embarrass these folks, it's not easy for them." Battalion Commander Yang greeted his soldiers.

"Relax, Battalion Commander."

People's hearts are fleshy, not to mention that if the Japanese invaders did not invade China, many of these soldiers should also be farmers with hoes, and now they are forced to pick up guns and fight against the invaders.

Not too long ago, they were all the same people.

As for the wounded soldiers of the national army, although they didn't know each other, the robes on the battlefield naturally wouldn't make things difficult for them.

Because I learned from the wounded soldiers who left just now that the Japanese forward was less than twenty or thirty miles away from the pontoon bridge.

Chapter 0425

"Battalion Commander, today's lunch is good. Stewed pork with capers and carobs, big white fat meat..." The mouth watering could not help but flow down.

"You boy, you're just so talented, you don't seem to have eaten anything good." Battalion Commander Yang scolded with a smile, took a steamed bun from the orderly, and just took a bite.

His eyeballs were rounded.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of walking to the middle of the pontoon bridge, a thin man in a long gown, wearing small round glasses, who looked like a country schoolteacher, came out from there with a light machine gun, and pulled the trigger on the soldiers of the national army who were eating at the bridgehead!

little devil!

"Enemy attack!"

Battalion Commander Yang was so frightened that he had been a soldier for so long and had never encountered such a situation, so he quickly pushed his orderly down on the ground.

There was a loud gunshot, and then the entire team crossing the bridge became chaotic in an instant. Several people who looked like farmers also pulled out weapons from the trolleys as if conjuring, and attacked the bridgehead position.

The order from above was indeed correct, and this little devil actually pretended to be a refugee and mixed in with the real refugees to carry out a surprise attack.

It was when they were chosen to eat at noon that the vigilance was a little lax.

The Chinese defenders on the shore were caught off guard, and many soldiers were shot or died directly before they could react.

If it wasn't for Battalion Commander Yang who yelled "enemy attack" as a warning, the devils hidden among the refugees would have arrived in front of them in a single charge.

If this allows this devils death squad to occupy the bridgehead position, then the problem will be serious.

As long as the pontoon bridge has not been blown up, it is tantamount to helping the enemy build a convenient attack channel.

For such a mistake, not to mention punishment, it would not be too much to shoot.

This encounter came too suddenly. While organizing the troops to counterattack, Battalion Commander Yang quickly ordered the orderlies to report to their superiors.

……

"Brother, you have been studying this for a long time, have you gained anything?" Li Fu knocked on the door and walked into the study.

"No, where is it so easy to get something?" Luo Yao gritted his teeth. At least three people handled these investigation materials, and none of them was a fool.

Especially Li Haihuai, these materials have been in his hands for more than half a year, and he never thought about finding out the black hands behind the "Wenxi Fire"?

Of course, the case has been finalized and the person responsible has been shot. Even if someone picks it up again, no one will reverse the case.

Even if there are spies behind the scenes, the three guys who were shot were blamed, and death is not a pity.

The killing of so many people could have been avoided, so who is responsible if it is not theirs?

Can't get rid of it.

Having said that, there is no need for the truth, of course, otherwise how can we be worthy of the innocent souls who died in that fire?

"I have also read the investigation file and the testimony of eyewitnesses. There is nothing suspicious, but the lack of evidence, there is no way. What was the situation at the time, how much evidence can be left after a fire?" Li Fu said.

"Don't you think these three fire points are strange?" Luo Yao asked.

"The cloth shop, the oil workshop and the coffin shop, are there no connections between these three?" Li Fu said.

"Why is the cloth village on fire?"

"It was the guy who heard someone outside calling for water to escape. He wanted to come out with a kerosene lamp to check the situation, but accidentally tripped over it, spilled the kerosene lamp in his hand, lit the cloth on the shelf, and fell unconscious Now, the fire is getting bigger and bigger..."

"Where's the oil mill?"

"The owner of the oil workshop usually likes to smoke dry tobacco. He didn't extinguish the shredded tobacco from the dry tobacco rod that day, and put it together with his usual work clothes. He works in the oil workshop, and the clothes are covered with grease. The grease is flammable. It's not normal to be on fire, he himself fell asleep and was woken up by the fire."

"The coffin shop?"

"The laid coffin needs to be brushed with tung oil. This tung oil is flammable. The boss went out to buy wood that day. The man took care of the house and escaped the catastrophe. The man was buried in the fire. After the investigation, the coffin should be brushed at night. When we were using tung oil, we knocked over the lantern, and it caught fire in an instant."

"Okay, looking at these three fires separately, there is nothing wrong with them. Each has its own explanation, and the cause and effect make sense. However, if you look at them together, there will be problems."

"Brother is talking about the time when they happened?" Li Fu narrowed his eyes slightly, and immediately understood Luo Yao's meaning.

"That's right, the timing is too coincidental. Not long after the fire broke out in the South Gate Wounded Soldiers Hospital, these three fires started, isn't it too coincidental?" Luo Yao nodded, "And they are all outside the South Gate According to the distance between the three fire points at that time, the nearest 100 meters, the farthest is only 500 meters."

"Also, the cause of the fire in these three cases is not without problems. First of all, the first case, the buddy of the cloth shop, should be quite clear about the layout of the cloth shop and the arrangement of the cloth. This guy is not new. He came here, but he worked in Buzhuang for three years, so he was tripped because he was not familiar with the situation, so why did he get tripped?"

"Someone moved something, the buddy's lights were dark, and he didn't pay attention, so he tripped."

"The guy is short-sighted, and he forgot to wear his glasses at the time."

"This……"

"Acquaintance?" Li Fu was slightly startled.

Only an acquaintance knows this guy's situation so well, otherwise he would not have devised such a seamless method of arson.

"Let's talk about the second case. Although the owner of the oil shop usually doesn't seem to like cleanliness, in fact, he can't help it. He can't keep his clothes clean when he does this job. Moreover, after the clothes are stained with oil, as time goes by, there is no way to clean them. It can't be washed cleanly, but since he runs an oil workshop, he naturally understands the principle of banning smoking. He likes to smoke dry tobacco, but every time he finishes smoking, he has a habit of dousing the shredded tobacco with water, but he didn't do that that day , and put the pipe pole with your clothes, isn't it weird?"

"That night, a friend invited him to dinner and he got drunk, so someone sent him back." Li Fu said.

"Then how do you say, the friend who sent him back is suspected?"

"His friend seemed to be burned to death in the fire." Li Fu recalled it, and it seemed to be mentioned in the file.

"Does it look like killing people to silence them?"

"Uh……"

"There is also the last case. The coffin shop clerk accidentally knocked over the oil lamp in his hand while brushing tung oil on the coffin, and the fire fell, not only lighting the coffin shop, but also burning him to death. It stands to reason that everyone At night, the boss is not here, is the guy so diligent?"

"Someone wanted it the next day, so they had to rush to work overnight." Li Fu said.

"This is a reasonable explanation. However, even if he accidentally knocked over the lantern in his hand and set the coffin on fire, he still had a chance to call someone or save himself, but why did he die in the flames?"

"Perhaps he only wanted to put out the fire at that time, but the tung oil burned and smoked, and it was too late for him to run out. This can be judged from the shape of his body found in the later investigation site."

"What about the autopsy report?"

"The autopsy report confirmed that he was burned alive after asphyxiation and unconsciousness, and there was no trace of homicide," Li Fu said.

"That's right, these three cases can find reasonable explanations. Even if there are unreasonable things, they can barely make sense. The chain of evidence is also very complete, almost seamless. Except for the coincidence of the timing of the incident, it just happened It misled the second security regiment in the city to set fire to the city ahead of time, causing a human tragedy." Luo Yao sighed.

"Brother, I know you want to get to the bottom of this unsolved case, but you also have to eat, how can you have the strength to investigate the case if you don't eat?" Li Fu said.