Chapter 154: The Movements of Senior Officers of the Eighth Route Army When Hiraru Isamu and Kasahara Koizumi expressed their good guesses, they immediately became excited. "Yoshi, it must be that the Yamazaki Battalion accidentally discovered the movements of a senior officer of the Eighth Route Army, but was worried that the telegram would be intercepted by the Eighth Route Army, so they used a code word..." "Quick, continue translating and see where the senior officers of the Eighth Route Army are going!" "Kasahara-kun, if the information is accurate, then your fellow countryman has really helped our Fourth Brigade a lot. When the time comes, I will definitely ask Commander Shinozuka to assign Yamazaki Jihei to my 4th Brigade and let him serve as your deputy commander!" Pinglu Yongfu was now completely excited. He was originally worried that the contribution of his 4th Brigade might not be enough, but now Yamazaki Jihei actually gave him such a great credit. The senior officers of the Eighth Route Army were at least at the brigade level or above. And there just happened to be a brigade-level officer of the Eighth Route Army in Linyuan County and Shiquan County. Commander of the 386th Brigade! As long as he knew where the brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army had been, Yamazaki Jihei could immediately lead a large force to launch a large-scale attack and capture senior officers of the Eighth Route Army alive.
"Your Excellency, the remaining information does not contain any code words and cannot be translated." But the communicator soon poured cold water on Pinglu Yongfu. "What? No code words?" Kasahara Koizumi looked at the communicator with some disbelief. If it is only said that senior officers of the Eighth Route Army have been discovered, but there is no information about their movements, then this information is of no value. Pinglu Yongfu waved his hand: "It is impossible for Yamazaki Zhiping to send a worthless intelligence letter specifically to our Fourth Brigade... It must be because there is no code word for where the high-ranking officer of the Eighth Route Army is going, so he can't say it directly!" "Move the wooden box to the mountain on the other side of the river. There must be some secret code in this sentence. Decipher it quickly!" "If the senior officer of the Eighth Route Army has entered the mountains, then we will have no chance of catching him, and the intelligence will still be worthless..." Kasahara Koizumi listened to what Hiraru Yufu said and quickly said, "Your Excellency, Commander, since Yamazaki Jihei mentioned that the wooden box is heading to the mountain on the other side of the river. Then the whereabouts of the senior officers of the Eighth Route Army must be within these words. First of all, it is definitely impossible to enter the mountains, because if the senior officers of the Eighth Route Army entered the mountains, this information would still be useless. " "So the real direction must be in these three words: the other side of the river." "On the other side of the river... the river represents water, A place with water, Linyuan County? Or Shiquan County?" After listening to Kasahara Koizumi's explanation, Pinglu Yongfu quickly waved his hand and asked someone to take out the map. "It is unlikely that the senior officers of the Eighth Route Army will go to Linyuan County or Shiquan County, which will soon become the frontline positions, at this time. In all likelihood, they are in some township preparing to command the battle..." “A senior officer of the Eighth Route Army… I heard that Yamazaki Jihei knows the Eighth Route Army very well… The Eighth Route Army troops like to refer to important targets as big fish. Then the senior officers of the Eighth Route Army are also a big fish for us. We have fish and water...
Fishing Creek Town!" Based on his understanding of Yamazaki Jihei, Kasahara Koizumi quickly analyzed the meaning of the telegram and finally locked on a place name. "Yoshi, order the troops to prepare to depart!" “Has the Army Aviation plane reached Wangjiapo? Ask Lu Hang, if the Yamazaki Battalion is still fighting the Eighth Route Army on Wangjiapo, then the troops will immediately move to Yuxi Town to encircle the Eighth Route Army's senior officers' headquarters! " "If the Yamazaki Battalion has been destroyed, then continue the attack according to the original plan!" Pinglu Yongfu was not blinded by his achievements and still gave orders calmly. When Kasahara Koizumi heard the order given by Pinglu Yufu, he was stunned for a moment, then he reacted immediately. Pinglu Yongfu was worried that the Yamazaki Battalion might be completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and then the Eighth Route Army would seize the Yamazaki Battalion's code book and send messages specifically to mislead their Fourth Brigade. So we wanted to wait for the plane to do some reconnaissance first to see if the Yamazaki Battalion had been completely wiped out. If not, then the telegram was most likely sent by the Yamazaki Battalion. "Go, continue to send radio messages to the Yamazaki Battalion, asking them how long they can hold out. How much loss? Ask about the Yamazaki Battalion's troop information and position situation, and then compare it with the intelligence from the Army Aviation to see if they match. If it doesn’t match, then the information must be false!” Pinglu Yongfu squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then gave another order. …… At the Wangjiapo position. Zhangye looked at the telegram sent by the Japanese and spoke to Qin Yangming with a smile. "Commander, the Japanese Fourth Brigade sent a telegram asking about the casualties among the Japanese on our front. What is the current situation of the position? " Qin Yangming was eating the food brought by the kitchen team while directing the troops to pack up and prepare to head to Tongshi Town. Listening to what Zhangye said, Qin Yangming said directly: "The Japanese want to find out the situation of the position, and then compare it with the information obtained by the aircraft to verify whether the intelligence is true. Have the messenger send the intelligence on the Japanese positions to the Fourth Brigade truthfully, and remember to make it sound miserable. " "no problem." "Also, tell the soldiers to speed up. The Japanese planes are about to arrive. Quickly hand over the position to the security forces of the logistics department." "Yes." "Captain, why didn't you send a telegram directly to the Japanese Fourth Brigade to tell them that the brigade commander was heading to Yuxi Town?" After waiting for everyone else in the command post to leave, Goudan curiously asked Qin Yangming about himself. He initially thought that Qin Yangming asked the brigade commander to take some risks in order to tell the 4th Brigade where the brigade commander was so that the 4th Brigade could speed up.
But Zhangye did not expect that Qin Yangming did not tell the true location of the commander of the Fourth Brigade. Instead, he used code words to tell the Fourth Brigade that senior officers of the Eighth Route Army were heading to Yuxi Town. That was the ambush site prepared for the 4th Brigade. Qin Yangming explained to Goudan, "Goudan, let me tell you, people usually don't easily believe what others tell them. But they are very confident in what they guess. For example, I directly told the Japanese soldiers of the 4th Brigade that the commander of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army was in Yuxi Town. Do you think the Japanese Fourth Brigade will believe it so clearly? They will definitely not believe this information, and may even speculate that we set up an ambush circle in Yuxi Town to ambush the 4th Brigade. But if I didn’t name the commander of the 386th Brigade, and didn’t say that the commander was in Yuxi Town… but used code words to let the Japanese guess, then the result would be different…” (End of this chapter)