Chapter 275: Murakuchi Saburo’s huge intelligence network! "Oh? Are you worried that my information is inaccurate?" Seeing Qin Yangming asking him why a major like him knew so many things, Murakuchi Saburo asked in return. "Considering this, Murakuchi-kun, you are only a major. If you convert your military rank and position, you are at most equivalent to a battalion commander in our Chinese army. But you, the battalion commander of the North China Front Army, know so much about the Osaka Division and even other things. This is really incredible. I wonder if Mr. Murakuchi can satisfy my curiosity?" "Sodersler...Mr. Qin, no problem. I can answer this for you and satisfy your curiosity." Listening to Qin Yangming's words, Murakuchi Saburo nodded. It's not a big secret as to why I know so much.
It doesn't matter if you tell Qin Yangming some things. If anyone wants to check his relationships, they can find them easily. “Mr. Qin, in terms of my cultural level, I can be said to be an excellent student… Well, I have always had very good academic performance since I was young. Although my family is very poor, our country has compulsory education. You may not understand what I mean. In our country, children do not need to pay for schooling; all children can study for free. And I benefited from compulsory education. Although my family situation is poor, I can still study. When I was in school, I was very studious, so my grades were very good. Students with good grades will naturally receive preferential treatment. After compulsory education, because I had good grades, our local government covered all the expenses for my further studies. Because we Osaka people are very united, if there is a promising child but the child's family situation is not good, someone will come forward to organize donations and then send the child to a better place to study. And I was one of those children. I worked very hard and was admitted to a junior high school in Kyoto when I was in junior high school. Mr. Qin, our Kyoto is equivalent to your Fortress. Sijiu City was the city where the emperor lived. Those who could live in Sijiu City were either rich or noble. But because of education, all children, regardless of their wealth or status, basically study in the same school. My grades were very good, so I went to the best junior high school... and then to Kyoto University... so most of my classmates were sons of high-ranking officials or wealthy people. I had a very good relationship with those classmates... Kyoto University had just ended, and then the war began. Most of my classmates chose to join the army, and I also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to change my destiny...War is the easiest time to change your destiny.
So, under the persuasion of my classmates and as the Osaka Division in my hometown was also about to go to the battlefield, I returned to my hometown and joined the Osaka Division. Although in the Osaka Division, as long as you have the ability, you can be promoted smoothly. However, the combat effectiveness of the Osaka Division is relatively strong. In addition, due to the special nature of the Osaka Division, the organization of the Osaka Division has always been very complete, and it is difficult for vacancies to occur. Although you can get promoted if you have the ability, the prerequisite is that there must be a vacant position above you. Unfortunately, there are very few vacancies in the Osaka Division, and my abilities are not enough to allow me to take those vacancies. In the end, I spent several years in the Osaka Division and was only a lieutenant. It was not until later that the Kwantung Army Headquarters withdrew some people from the Osaka Division and then placed some personnel into the Osaka Division in order to completely control the Osaka Division. In order to prevent outsiders from entering the Osaka Division, the commanders of each regiment and the two brigade commanders immediately revised the roster of most of the grassroots officers in the division after receiving the news. At the same time, before asking for people, he submitted a list in advance, hoping to replace those important officers with less important officers. Officers like me who have no position but a military rank are naturally those less important officers in the division. In just three days, a large number of officers in the division were put in solitary confinement for various violations of the rules and various mistakes. Then we officers who had no real positions replaced those officers as quickly as possible. Second lieutenant is promoted to first lieutenant, first lieutenant is promoted to captain, and captain is promoted to major. As long as the rank within the division could decide on promotion, all of us were raised by one level. Finally, I was recruited and sent to other troops as a captain's deputy captain. Later, those officers who had made mistakes and were put in solitary confinement or suspended were released and reinstated because the gendarmerie had misinformed them. This destroyed the Kwantung Army Command's idea of completely taking control of the Osaka Division. As officers from the Osaka Division, we naturally have a special relationship and are connected to each other because we were all drawn from the Osaka Division. At the same time, my classmates came from all over the place, some of them joined the army, some went into politics, and some did business. Especially those students who choose to join the army, many of them have strong connections at home, so they are arranged into units where it is easy to get promoted. Therefore, in many units, there were either our companions who left the Osaka Division together, or my classmates. Then I have a very good relationship with them, and I try my best to maintain the relationship with them. Thanks to this relationship, I have a huge intelligence network! Many times, you can get a lot of information just by chatting with them, and a single piece of information may not be very good. What they got was just some very ordinary news to them. For example, sometimes they complain about going somewhere new and going somewhere else...what's beautiful and delicious in that place, how difficult the enemy is to deal with, what victories they have achieved, and so on. Although the quality of the information is not very good, but with so much information, as long as I filter it carefully, I can get what I want. Mr. Qin, let me put it this way, for example, this can of beef is just a small matter for us. But for others, they can analyze from this can of beef that our country is currently facing the dilemma of insufficient resources.
The news sent by my companions and even classmates was just a trivial matter to them. But for me, the situation is different. Especially among my classmates, many of them are already colonels or even major generals. They are in front-line troops, general staffs, intelligence departments, logistics departments... and even the navy! The information revealed by these people, no matter how ordinary it is, can be considered important intelligence as long as it can be analyzed! Qin Jun, this is the source of my intelligence!" Listening to what Murakuchi Saburo said about the source of the information. Qin Yangming was stunned. "Talent!" When Qin Yangming thought of Murakuchi Saburo's evaluation, two words popped up in his mind. Or perhaps the word "talented" is not enough to describe Murakuchi Saburo. To be able to do this by himself, to be able to derive a large amount of intelligence from a large amount of information, this kind of person... "Damn it, it would be great if this kind of talent was one of ours. The Japanese headquarters were also idiots. They sent such a smart guy to the front line. A natural born intelligence officer!" Seeing Qin Yangming's surprise, Murakuchi Saburo smiled. "How about it, Mr. Qin, does my answer satisfy your curiosity?" "Thank you, Murakuchi-kun. You have satisfied my curiosity. I didn't expect Murakuchi-kun's intelligence network to be so large." “However, Murakuchi-kun, since you have so many classmates and companions, many of whom are colonels or even major generals, why are you still only a major? I think, if you want, with your ability, you can become a lieutenant colonel, a battalion commander, a deputy commander, or a colonel in other departments, not to mention a colonel commander in charge of the troops, right?" Qin Yangming asked again. Since Murakuchi Saburo's network of connections is so large, how come he is only a major? "Mr. Qin, there is an old saying in China, that if you want something, you must pay for it." “Mr. Qin, I hate war… Mr. Qingquan and I discussed this before you came to the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold. If there had been no war, maybe I would have become a musician... I am the only child in my family... so I am very afraid of death, and because I am from Osaka... other troops are very strict about the promotion of people like us from Osaka. There is no promotion without military merit. I am afraid of death, I don't want to kill anyone, and I am unwilling to kill anyone, so naturally I don't have any military achievements. I was able to become a major because I got a great bargain. To be honest, my ability to become a major is related to Qin Jun. " "Oh? Is it related to me?" After hearing Murakuchi Saburo say that his ability to become a major had something to do with him, Qin Yangming became curious again. He remembered that before Chiyang Town, he and Murakuchi Saburo had no contact with each other. It’s not that we have no intersection, I have never even heard of the name of Murakuchi Saburo.
"Yes, they are related... I remember that Qin Jun was originally in the New 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, right? That means he is in the unit where Captain Ding is now, right?" "Yes, that's right, I was in the New 1st Regiment at first." Qin Yangming naturally didn't need to hide anything about his past in the New 1st Regiment, so he nodded in acknowledgement. "Mr. Qin, do you still remember those officers you defeated at Baihu Ridge, and the battle at Cangyun Ridge?" "Of course I remember this. I remember that at that time, Sakata Nobutsu had just become the major general brigade commander, and then I defeated him..." "Well, that's it. At that time, you defeated the Sakata Brigade. Oh, and then Sakata Nobutsu was promoted on the spot, so he became the brigade commander of the major general, and that brigade was called the Sakata Brigade. A large number of officers were killed, and I was in charge of logistics supplies at that time, so it was okay. I seized the opportunity to gather the defeated soldiers together again. Finally, because I gathered the defeated soldiers together, the superiors tried to stabilize the troops and prevent them from falling into chaos. I was directly promoted to major captain. Although he was transferred after only serving for a period of time, his military rank had already been promoted and there was no reason for him to be demoted back. Therefore, my ability to become a major has a lot to do with Qin Jun. If Qin Jun had not defeated the Sakata Brigade and blew up so many officers, I would not have been able to become a major. But it will be difficult for me to get promoted later. After all, I was transferred from the front-line troops to the logistics troops... and I was still unwilling to command the troops to fight. So this is the situation now. This time I applied to go to Ping'an County with Qingquanjun with the intention of helping Qingquanjun become a colonel, and then I would be promoted to a lieutenant colonel. " Murakuchi Saburo shrugged, his tone full of helplessness. There was no other way. There were only so many companions who left the Osaka Division together. Many of them found it difficult to solve the problem of promotion themselves, let alone help him solve the problem of promotion. And those classmates... the relationship between classmates is pure... Murakuchi Saburo still hopes that when something happens to him, his classmates will save him, or if any unexpected situation occurs, he can still go to those old classmates for help. Naturally, one would not want to waste the personal connections that one has worked so hard to build on such a trivial matter as promotion. After all, he is just a civilian. It would be a great honor for him to become a colonel in this life. A colonel can neither control the situation nor influence the orders from above. So for Saburo Murakuchi, there is no difference between colonel and major. It's not even as easy as being a major. Except for some special departments, colonels basically have to fight on the front lines. Or if they are important personnel in a department, it is very difficult to transfer them. If he was just a major and encountered any crisis, he could easily use the relationship with his classmates to transfer himself to other places and join his classmates. But it is easy to transfer a major, but if you want to transfer a colonel... haha, he is not even as good as the division commander. The reason why Murakuchi Saburo was willing to be promoted along with Kiyozumi Kiichi this time was entirely because of the operations of two guys, Shinozuka Yoshio and Iwamatsu Yoshio.
One lost an entire brigade, and the other lost more than 200 middle-level officers who were at least lieutenants and above. A large number of positions became vacant, resulting in many officers from the Osaka Division getting the opportunity to be promoted, and adjutants were converted to become the top leaders of the troops. The squad leader becomes the squadron leader. The squadron leader becomes the deputy captain, and the deputy captain becomes the captain. If there were no officer vacancies on Qingquan Muyi's side. With Qingquan Muyi's rank of lieutenant colonel, how could he possibly stay in a small place like Chiyang Town? He has already become the deputy captain. A lieutenant colonel, with a squadron, was completely targeting Kiyozumi Muichi, an officer from the Osaka Division. (End of this chapter)
