721 The leak of the list, trapping the little devils
However, the Japanese Chief of Staff Beichuan had not yet formulated the operational plan for the final sneak attack on Dafengzhuang.
The Japanese intelligence department passed the latest information on the independent regiment's base to the First Army Headquarters.
Inside the headquarters, the head of the Intelligence Department is reporting to Yoshio Shinozuka.
"General, based on the intelligence fed back by our army's informants who have penetrated into the residential areas of the Eighth Route Army base area."
"After a large number of disaster victims quickly poured into the base area of the Independent Regiment, the Eighth Route Army members of the Independent Regiment took quick action, built a large number of simple civilian housing inside and outside the base area, and successfully resettled these victims."
"They have sufficient food, and all measures to resettle the victims are in place, and they even pay attention to health and safety."
Yoshio Shinozuka nodded. This was something he was deeply moved by when he and Chief of Staff Kitagawa talked about the independent regiment receiving a large number of victims.
It seems that, as Chief of Staff Beichuan said, the Independent Regiment has developed rapidly, and perhaps its background is beyond the imagination of outsiders.
The conversation changed.
The intelligence minister's face became a little grimmer, and he continued to report: "General, in addition, there is another piece of information that is very strange. Although according to the feedback from our special agents who broke into the Eighth Route Army base area, they said that they saw it with their own eyes, but so far,
I still don’t quite believe it.”
"What information?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked.
"According to the information passed back by intelligence personnel, it seems that the Eighth Route Army members of the Independent Regiment have held a large number of internal study classes in and outside the independent regiment's base area recently."
"They began to train a large number of professional talents such as artillery, automobile troops, and armored troops."
The intelligence minister replied.
After hearing this, a look of disdain appeared on Yoshio Shinozuka's face.
"With the backward conditions of Tubal Road, they still want to cultivate automobile soldiers and armored soldiers? It is really a wishful thinking."
"But... General, according to intelligence from the secret service, a large number of military vehicles, even armored vehicles and tanks, have suddenly appeared on and off the independent regiment's base recently."
"The intelligence letter passed back by our military intelligence personnel stated that he saw it with his own eyes. In the core area of the independent regiment base, he saw more than a dozen tanks in the distance. Because they were too far away, he could not see clearly.
It’s clear, but what’s certain is that it must be a tank.
Like some light tanks, and even some medium tanks mixed in."
"The roar of the engine spreads far away. On the training ground, the Tubal soldiers are training in full swing and are practicing tank driving."
"In addition, there are cars and armored vehicles roaring back and forth on the training ground. On the edge of the training ground, there are rows and rows of vehicles parked..."
"At the artillery training position, the secret agents even saw many large-caliber artillery from a distance, which was really shocking."
"Baga!"
Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't help but slapped the table and scolded in a deep voice:
"How is this possible? How come there are so many mechanical vehicles on the 8th Road?"
"General, this is what I think is most strange. Even though the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army has developed rapidly in the past two years, it has captured a lot of our army's weapons and equipment in many battles with our army, including some vehicles and
Armored vehicles and tanks, but the number will definitely not be this many."
The Japanese intelligence chief also expressed his doubts, but when he said these words, even he was a little unconfident.
Because...
"General, it's just that these situations were witnessed by our military's special agents, and there were more than one person."
"In addition, our army has been paying attention to the communication personnel of the Eighth Route Army's regional radio signals, and recently successfully intercepted some radio signals sent from the Independence Regiment base area."
"The communication methods of the Eighth Route have always been backward, and there is almost no radio communication equipment.
At present, this independent group is developing rapidly. It should have some radio equipment on hand, so it uses this to start communication.
It's just that they didn't do enough to keep radio signals confidential, and the intercepted radio signals were easily deciphered by our military intelligence personnel."
This was an unexpected surprise. Yoshio Shinozuka asked: "After deciphering, what is the content of the intercepted intelligence?"
The Japanese intelligence chief said with a headache:
"It's very complicated and messy. There are all kinds of intelligence, including some information transmitted to each regiment by the Eighth Route Army detachment headquarters, and some information transmitted between each regiment."
"It contains a lot of invalid information, and after sorting it out, we can get useful intelligence information..."
"The Independent Regiment seems to have held a military skills training class within the regiment, calling for the training of engineers, infantry, artillery, automobile troops, armored troops and other professional talents."
"As the victims move in, the size of the independent regiment's troops seems to be further expanding. It has now expanded to 17 regiments, including subordinate combat regiments, migrant combat regiments, etc."
"In addition, General, through the compilation of these scattered information, we have concluded that, as we speculated, the current development within the independent regiment base area has already reached a considerable scale."
"They have some factories and even their own independent arsenal."
"They have built quite powerful air defense fortifications inside the base area and equipped them with a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns and artillery to guard against our military's aircraft bombings at any time."
"...The Independent Regiment got a dozen tanks from nowhere and seems to be preparing to form their armored force recently."
"In addition to these, there are also communications between the Independent Regiment and some officers of the Imperial Army of our army, and even officers of our Empire of Japan, conducting private business transactions."
"Business dealings? What kind of business do they do?"
When Yoshio Shinozuka heard that there were indeed Japanese officers doing business with the Eighth Route Army, he suppressed the anger in his heart and asked.
The Japanese intelligence chief saw Yoshio Shinozuka looking angry and quickly replied:
"According to the deciphered information, there is food and many important daily necessities. In addition, there are even some Imperial Association Army and Imperial officers engaging in arms smuggling with the Independent Regiment, and privately selling some guns and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army." "Baga, these bastards, this is an act of siding with the enemy!" Yoshio Shinozuka was angry.
"General... We have successfully deciphered a list of the Imperial Association Army and Imperial officers who secretly do business with the Eighth Route Army."
"Say!"
"Hi!" the Japanese intelligence chief responded, not daring to raise his eyes to look at Yoshio Shinozuka. Instead, he read from the list shown in the intelligence document in his hand:
"Yangquan, Captain Takeda Saburo of the Military Police Squadron, Captain Fujino Kenji of the Imperial Squadron stationed in Yangquan, and Commander Huang Dacheng of the Imperial Association Corps..."
"...General, even in Taiyuan City, the base camp where our army is stationed, there are some imperial officers who secretly do business with the Eighth Route Army. The following is the list. There are five of them, namely..."
Listening to the Japanese intelligence chief gradually read out the names one by one, these officers were the mainstay of his empire in charge of public security in important counties, and Yoshio Shinozuka's face became even more ugly.
"Bastard, check it out for me. Check it out immediately. All the people on the list will be arrested and interrogated. I want to know all the details of these bastards' dealings with the Eighth Route Army within three days. I want to see what they are secretly selling."
How much supplies and equipment have been purchased.”
"Hi! General, don't worry, I'll arrange a special task force to take action immediately."
Looking at the furious Shinozuka Yoshio, the Japanese intelligence chief did not dare to say anything and quickly responded...