After Sasaki Toichi explained why General Ueda Kenkichi was in a hurry to transfer him back after Ishihara Wan'er, his face, which had been a little clear, became extremely gloomy again.

When Ishihara's words fell, he said extremely dissatisfied: "Ishihara-kun, did I hear it wrong, or has the Kwantung Army's intelligence-gathering ability declined?" The opponent has eaten so many of our troops, and they have disappeared under our noses twice in a row, and the Kwantung Army has not yet found out where their hiding place is? Ishihara-kun, don't you think that's ridiculous? When did the Kwantung Army become so wasteful? ”

Hearing Sasaki's sarcastic words, Ishihara couldn't help but blush slightly: "Your Excellency, this is my dereliction of duty. But at present, we have searched almost all the mountainous areas in Wuchang, Acheng, Zhuhe, and Weihe, and we have not been able to find any trace of them. It was only in the area of Weihe and Wei'an Mountain that the bodies of the fallen soldiers of the Japanese and Manchurian armies who were ambushed and killed by him were found. ”

"However, we have now begun to change our reconnaissance plans. Not only did they send a large number of spies dressed as woodcutters, ginseng pickers and even hunters into the mountains to search. A large number of reconnaissance planes were also dispatched to expand the search area. Aerial reconnaissance was carried out in the mountainous areas around Laoyeling and Zhangguangcailing in Ning'an, Yanshou, Shulan, and other places. Please rest assured, as long as we are given a certain amount of time, these damned Shina people will be found out. I'm sure these people haven't run out of these areas yet, and they must be hiding in some hidden corner. ”

"Now the weather is getting cooler, and the mountains where these people are hiding are even more bitterly cold. These people can still hold out during the day, and when it comes to night, they will have to light a bonfire to keep warm. In the dark mountains and forests of the northern night, if someone lights a bonfire, our night voyage reconnaissance will easily spot their tracks. ”

"Although Your Excellency has been transferred from the Kwantung Army for a period of time, the policy formulated by Your Excellency to return to the cantonment and merge the households and separate the people from the bandits, and the plan to forcibly move out the areas where the bandits operate, especially the residents in the mountains, have not stopped, and have been vigorously implemented."

"After last year's efforts this year. At present, the mountains and forests of North Manchuria, especially those areas where anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements are active, can be said to be uninhabited except for the logging fields run by the empire. ”

"If there are still people who light campfires in the mountains and forests at night to keep warm, then there is no doubt that these people are the people. Because the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements who were originally active in this area have already moved north or south under the continuous attacks of the Kwantung Army. ”

Hearing Ishihara's answer, Sasaki nodded reluctantly in agreement. But he asked reluctantly: "Didn't we get any valuable information about the interrogation of the prisoners of war?" You must know that although there are many hard bones among the people of China, there are also many people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. Under severe punishment, there are a few who can insist on not opening their mouths. ”

Sasaki asked about the prisoners of war, but Ishihara looked ashamed, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, in the battle against this bandit, we have not been able to capture a prisoner of war alive who can ask for a confession. At that time, when he was pursuing on the front line of the Ash River, he once captured a seriously wounded prisoner of war, but unfortunately that guy killed himself by tearing his intestines before he could ask. ”

Speaking of this, Ishihara bowed his head deeply and bowed to Sasaki and said, "Your Excellency, this branch of the Chinese army is erratic, and it is especially good at using ambush tactics. Although its combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the soldiers of the Imperial Army, and even the Manchukuo Army, it was repeatedly succeeded by it because of its cunning. Our army suffered heavy casualties in the battle with it, losing not only a large number of soldiers and equipment, but also a large number of well-trained officers. Even Major General Ye Deputy Changde was killed in the line of duty. ”

"The Kwantung Army set up ambushes several times to annihilate it in one fell swoop, but it did not expect to be escaped by it repeatedly. Our army failed to attack, but suffered heavy casualties. Not counting the other battles, as well as the casualties of the Manchukuo army and police forces, in the border area between Wuchang and Acheng alone, our loyal imperial soldiers suffered more than 1,000 casualties. ”

"Your Excellency has served as the highest military adviser in Manchukuo for many years, and within the Kwantung Army, he is known as the father of the Manchukuo Army. The experience of dealing with all kinds of anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements was unparalleled in the Kwantung Army. Therefore, this time, General Ueda Kenkichi transferred your Excellency back to the Kwantung Army, hoping to use your experience to exterminate all the bandits who held the highest core secrets of the empire. Please, Your Excellency. ”

"The Empire's top secret? What's going on here? Hearing Major General Ishihara Waner actually mention that the opponent he was about to face actually held the highest secret of the empire, Sasaki couldn't help but be stunned.

At this point, Ishihara Wan'er didn't have any need to hide it, so he simply poured the beans into the bamboo tube and said everything: "After these people escaped from the epidemic prevention and water supply department, when the Kwantung Army inspected the scene, they found that all the information obtained by the epidemic prevention and water supply department at the Wuchang Beiyinhe base was lost. There were no traces of incineration at the site. ”

"Moreover, some of the Empire's latest chemical warfare weapons materials that accompanied the experts of the Chemical Corps to the Pingfang area were also lost. Not only will the slightest spread of these be publicized, but it will also bring serious danger to the empire, but also the passwords and radio stations used by the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply to communicate with the Kwantung Army Headquarters and the Tokyo Military Department will also be lost. ”

"Baga, bastard." Hearing Ishihara's words, Sasaki Toichi couldn't describe it as angry. As a high-ranking general of the Japanese army, Sasaki Toichi, who had previously served as a military adviser and diplomatic envoy to the Nationalist Government for many years, naturally understood what the consequences would be if these materials were leaked.

If the whole world knew that the Japanese Empire actually used living people as human bodies and cultivated bacteriological weapons that could destroy the entire world, then the Japanese Empire would become the public enemy of the whole world. It's not something that rolling out one or two scapegoats can fix.

The Great Japanese Empire was the number one power in Asia, but that was also in Asia. For the whole world, the national power of the Great Japanese Empire was far from being on par with the old powers of the West. If this information is leaked, it will have unpredictable consequences for the Empire.

This is not something that can be solved by killing more than 100,000 people after the Imperial Army captured Nanjing, and only one scapegoat was introduced. You must know that the Imperial Army killed more than 100,000 people in Nanjing, after all, it was on the territory of China, and it was only the people of China.

As for those hypocritical Westerners who have always held a high-minded attitude that matters are not their own business, as long as their core interests are not involved, those hypocritical Westerners can only protest two sentences at most, even if the Japanese army kills millions of people in China, it is only a matter for China and Japan.

Last year, in order to deter the Chinese who still dared to resist, the Imperial Army showed its strength in Nanjing, executing more than 100,000 people, and the Westerners did not stop exporting strategic materials to the Empire. Not even a pint of gasoline, a kilogram of steel has been sold. Those dry verbal protests don't even count as scratching their boots.

But germs don't know borders, and once they spread, it's not just the people who are unlucky. Using the human body as a weapon is really yàn, even if it leaks out, it is not a big deal. But once the news of the Empire's development of bacteriological weapons of mass destruction spreads, Westerners, who feel threatened by themselves, will not simply protest in words.

For bacteriological warfare, a low-cost but powerful weapon, Sasaki believes that Japan will not be the only one developing it. I am afraid that the Western powers, which are still apprehensive by the mountains of corpses and blood of the First World War, have not been less developed. But there are ugly things in every family, and it is a good hand not to leak. People are also developing, but the cover up is good, and if it doesn't leak out, there is nothing. If you leak out, you will become the public enemy of the whole world.

It doesn't hurt if the information alone is obtained by these people. With the empire's control of Manchuria, these people would not be able to escape even if they took the information. But it's amazing that these hateful people now have a radio in their hands. With the radio, it is much easier to communicate with the outside world. Anything that is secret, once it is energized, the whole world will know.

Sasaki is worthy of being a cunning guy, and he sees the crux of the matter at a glance. The Kwantung Army was in a hurry to transfer itself back, not because these people killed a major general, but also because these people were so strong that others could not be subdued. Rather, it is because of the rush to completely eliminate it to prevent the leakage of these top-secret materials.

In fact, Sasaki went to Lieutenant General Ichi to know that his future opponent was at this time in the air radio station, but he was troubled by the fact that he could not get in touch with Kannai because he did not have a password. Among all the radio stations, the high-power radio stations that could be connected to Kannai were also deaf because of the small amount of gasoline consumption embers that were seized for power generation.

Fifty-watt and hundred-watt radios are not enough to support the little power generated by dry batteries and hand-cranked motors. For a 50-watt radio, the little power generated by the hand-cranked motor can only be heard, and as for the transmission, it cannot be supported at all.

And a 100-watt radio, don't even think about it. If you want to use a radio station of that power, in the absence of a fixed power supply, you can only use the electricity generated by a gasoline generator to support its use.

After all, I don't study communication, let alone a professional. Yang Zhen, who was very troubled by the uselessness of the only few high-power radios, did not expect that he had made an empirical mistake. In Yang Zhen's view, in the current situation of backward means of communication, no satellite phone, no mobile phone, can carry out long-distance contact can only use high-power radio stations of more than 50 watts. As for the fifteen-watt radio, it is impossible to communicate long distances because of the distance.

Yang Zhen did not expect that his electromagnetic environment in later life was far from being comparable to the present. Not to mention the almost ubiquitous mobile phone signal, it can effectively interfere with the radio signal. Although Yang Zhen used frequency hopping radio in later generations, the signals that can cause interference in later generations are also diverse and varied, only you can't think of it, and there is nothing you can't find.

In addition to a staggering number of mobile phones, radio signals from all kinds of public and underground stations are almost ubiquitous, causing great interference to radio signals. Yang Zhen once heard a true joke in later generations: After Taiwan was equipped with the American Hawkeye early warning plane, because of the signal interference of the almost ubiquitous underground radio station, the efficiency of the use of this extremely advanced equipment over Taiwan was greatly reduced in addition to flying over the high seas.

There was an incident in the Taiwan Air Force in which the staff of an early warning plane had no choice but to listen to advertisements for selling medicine in the sky for half an hour because their communication frequencies were jammed. Although this incident is somewhat absurd, it is enough to illustrate the complexity of the electromagnetic environment in later generations.

However, the electromagnetic environment at this time was much cleaner than that of later generations, and except for a small number of radio stations, there was hardly any signal interference. Even with a 15-watt radio, as long as there is a long enough antenna, it can get in touch with Yan'an and even Chongqing. Of course, the premise is to have a communication password.

Yang Zhen made a mistake of common sense, but Guo Bingxun, another member of the army who knew a lot about radio, made an error of experience. He learned all this knowledge abroad, especially in France, which was known for its military conformism.

At the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, not a single instructor told him that he used a fifteen-watt radio station, and that there was a certain way to communicate over long distances. Because France, as the most developed country in the world at that time, was not short of basic military supplies such as radio, and there were all kinds of power radios, especially high-power radios. There is no need to use a fifteen-watt radio that they consider a low-power radio for long-distance communication.

Neither of the two people who were barely known as the upper half proficient did not expect it, and as for the other people who did not know much about the station, especially those who lacked high-quality professionals, no one thought of it. Even the best of the newspaper operators trained by Guo Bingxun's crash course can only be regarded as half a bottle of water. Their own business training still needs to be strengthened, where can they still think of changing the antenna? Therefore, after the seized gasoline was consumed, Yang Zhen's biggest headache was that he lost the only possible means to contact Kannai.

Regarding Yang Zhen's distress, Sasaki Zhiichi and Ishihara Waner naturally didn't know, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters didn't know either. Compared with the embarrassment that Yang Zhen brought to them, they were more concerned about whether the information of the epidemic prevention and water supply department that Yang Zhen had on hand would be leaked.

Sasaki, who figured out the key to the matter, calmed down anyway. Looking at Major General Ishihara Waner, who was looking at him with expectant eyes, Sasaki smiled and said, "Don't worry, Ishihara-kun, go back and tell Commander Ueda, at least until now, those materials have not been leaked." ”

"Now the imperial army has captured Wuhan, the most important city in China except for Nanjing. As for the government of China, which has been relegated to a local government, its small modern industrial base has all fallen into the hands of the imperial army. ”

"The modern industry at the disposal of the government, which has now moved westward to Chongqing, is almost negligible, and it is far from being able to provide enough weaponry for its own large but poorly equipped army."

"Although China is rich, it is talking about resources. For an agrarian country, China's economic foundation is far from being able to sustain a modern war. Although the war lasted only a year and a half, the government of China, which had lost its richest place, could be said to be exhausted. If this information is obtained, the government of China, which is eager to seek international support, will not make it public, and will it remain as silent as it is now? ”

"The head of the rebel Shina was clear-headed, and he knew that this information was no better than a pile of waste paper before communicating with his government. In the absence of contact with the outside world, even if his information is released by electricity, how many people will believe it? Without the support of the government, what is the use of him even if he sends out electricity? ”

"Therefore, the Kwantung Army does not need to be too nervous about the loss of these materials. Even if those people make it public by telegram in clear code, we can shift the blame to the fact that we can completely shift the blame for the rumor-mongering statements made by these people in order to attract international attention. Anyway, the officials of the Imperial Foreign Ministry are thick enough to care about this time. ”

Speaking of this, Sasaki's face changed, and he said sternly: "But we can't underestimate the dangers that these people will bring in the future, and it is what we should do most to nip all the risk factors in the bud." ”

"Please Ishihara-kun go back and tell Commander Ueda that he order the entire Manchu-Soviet border to be blocked. As long as these people do not bring these materials to Soviet Russia, at present, there is not much threat to us. ”

With that, Sasaki walked up to the large map hanging in the secret room, picked up his baton and pointed at the map, and said, "As for the elimination of these people, I think we need to change our tactics before we find out where they are hiding." ”

According to Ishihara-kun's account, this man is a master of guerrilla warfare, and he deserves our attention. In the dense mountains and forests of Beiman, under the leadership of no one, especially without the cooperation of renegades, we will be very passive if we rush into the mountains to clear the mountains. ”

"Moreover, the scope of its activities is vast in East Manchuria and North Manchuria, if we pull the net to suppress it, how many troops will it need? If too many troops are mobilized, will the other anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese forces still be eliminated? Is the Manchu-Soviet border that is now increasingly tense allowed for us to draw too many troops? ”

"There is an ancient poem in China that says that wildfires are inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows. If we relax the purge of other anti-Manchu anti-Japanese forces because of this small force, then those who will also bring us danger will soon recover after we have dealt a severe blow. When the time comes, it will be half the effort. ”

"You know, the situation is different from the year before and even last year. At least for the time being, we can't afford to commit too much to such a small force. Therefore, we must find a way to change the passive to the active, that is to say, the initiative of the development of things must be firmly in our hands. ”

"As for how to change from passive to proactive, the question is simple. Didn't they hide in the mountains and not come out? Then we cast them out and forced them out. ”