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Chapter 1321: Manchukuo Flying Squadron

Chapter 1321: Manchukuo Flying Squadron

End of July 1942.

The Sino-US Special Technical Cooperation began to operate amidst some setbacks. The US officials and the government remained silent on the case of the weather station, saying only that it was sabotaged by the Japanese and put the blame on the devils.

To be precise, this was not a scapegoat. Hase Ryosuke received a commendation telegram from the Tokyo headquarters for "successfully" destroying important Kuomintang agencies and Sino-US cooperation.

In the same month, the Japanese occupied Manila in the Philippines and Temasek (Singapore), and the famous five-star General MacArthur was beaten and fled in panic by Homma Masaharu.

It was also this month that the third Battle of Shacheng ended. The Guo army used the Tianlu tactics and relied on the successive defense of each position to successfully delay the Japanese attack and kill a large number of Japanese troops.

This was the first victory won by the Allies since the outbreak of the Pacific War, which greatly boosted the morale of the Allied forces. Well, at least that's what the mountain city newspapers said.

Compared with the constant "good news" in other places, the people of Manchukuo still lived in fear and despair. After repeated encirclement and suppression by the Japanese, the situation of the Northeast underground party and the Kuomintang agents became increasingly worse.

At the end of 1940, the only remaining Anti-Japanese Allied Forces were forced to enter Red Russia. Due to the Russo-Japanese Neutrality Treaty signed in 1941, they could no longer return to the Northeast to engage in guerrilla warfare. The underground party intelligence personnel who lost their organization could only fight on their own.

The performance of the Kuomintang intelligence agencies in the Northeast was also unsatisfactory. Faced with the frenzied pursuit of the Japanese and traitors, a large number of faith-less Kuomintang spies surrendered to the enemy. Only the situation of the Military Control Commission was slightly better.

For security reasons, the Military Intelligence Bureau did not set up a separate Northeast District. Instead, it established several secret liaison stations and urban intelligence stations within the puppet Manchukuo territory, which were directly led by the Shancheng Headquarters. Each station remained relatively independent to avoid the collapse of the entire system due to exposure in one place.

For example, in the four major cities of Fengtian, Harbin, Xinjing and Luda, the Military Control Commission set up intelligence stations, which were divided into intelligence groups, operations groups and logistics groups.

The intelligence group was responsible for collecting intelligence on the Japanese puppet government and the Kwantung Army, the action group carried out assassination, sabotage and subversion missions, and the logistics group provided funding, transportation, communication equipment, etc.

In addition, the Military Intelligence Bureau placed undercover personnel in the Japanese puppet government, railway departments, factories, and schools, and obtained intelligence on the Japanese puppet government through various covert means.

One day in February 42, Harbin.

Chen Ming, deputy head of the intelligence group of the Military Control Commission's Harbin Intelligence Station, walked into the safe house and met his old classmate and superior Yu Xiumei. After confirming that it was safe, the two quickly went to the dark room and talked in a low voice.

"Team leader, there is a new situation. The gang outside the city captured a hostage a few days ago. The man's name is Liu Guotai, and he claims to be a pilot of the third flight team of Wanggang Airport.

The other party claims that they can help the gang attack the airport and persuade other puppet Manchukuo pilots to surrender. Do you think we should report this to Shancheng?"

After Chen Ming finished speaking, he wiped the sweat from his head, picked up the cup of water on the table and drank it all. After receiving the message, he immediately rushed back without delaying for even a minute. He was exhausted on the way.

Yu Xiumei on the opposite side frowned slightly. It sounded unbelievable that Liu Guotai surrendered at this time. Could this be a trap set by the enemy?
Wanggang Airport is located in Wanggang Town in the southern suburbs of Harbin, just over a mile away from Wanggang Railway Station. The Third Flying Squadron stationed there is the third flying squadron established by the Puppet Manchukuo after the First and Second Flying Squadrons in Xinjing and Fengtian.

The instructors and managers of this flight team were all Japanese. Their main task was to cooperate with the Japanese and puppet forces in combat and reconnaissance. The management of the airport was very strict, and no officer or soldier was allowed to go out without a leave note.

So let alone the gang, even if the Military Control Commission wanted to capture people from within it, it would be difficult to do so. Previously, the Harbin Station also wanted to investigate the airport intelligence, but it had no idea where to start.

After a calm analysis, Yu Xiumei asked: "Wanggang Airport is heavily guarded, how did the gang catch Liu Guotai?"

Chen Ming took off his cloth shoes and knocked off the dirt inside. Without raising his head, he said, "The brothers lurking in the gang asked, and the one named Liu said that he went home to visit his family during the New Year, and his wife happened to give birth, so he missed the time to return to the team, and the devils sent people to capture him.

On the way back to Harbin, Liu Guotai heard that he was going to be shot, so he just went all out and knocked out the Japanese escort, intending to jump out of the car and seek refuge with his relatives. However, he ran into the gangsters as soon as he entered the woods.

Yu Xiumei got up from the sofa, folded her arms and walked around the room a few times, thinking quickly about the authenticity of the matter, and soon came to the conclusion that it should be true.

First of all, the experience of Liu Guotai's return to his hometown is easy to verify. In small places, anyone's fake news can spread widely, let alone such a big thing.

Furthermore, the gang's activities were random, and the Japanese had no way of predicting them in advance. If they could, the punitive team would have already wiped out the gang's lair.

However, the necessary investigation had to be done, otherwise he would definitely be criticized by the headquarters when reporting it. Yu Xiumei assigned two tasks to Chen Ming.

The first is to verify the truthfulness of what Liu Guotai said.

The second is to learn about the personnel and equipment situation of Wanggang Airport through Liu Guotai.

Chen Ming nodded, and complained a little frustratedly: "Xiumei, when can we return to the National Control Area? I've had enough of staying in this damn place."

Yu Xiumei glanced at Chen Ming and sighed deeply. The two of them were from the Qingpu class and had fought bloody battles with the Japanese in Shanghai for many days. Based on their merits and contributions, they should both stay in the headquarters.

But the reality is that they had no background and were kicked to the Northeast, where they stayed for several years, living in fear every day, with no guarantee of their future.

Looking at those old classmates, each of them has a smooth career, either holding great power in the mountain city, or becoming a local warlord.

In comparison, Yu Xiumei and Chen Ming were naturally dissatisfied. If it were not for the strict rules of the Military Control Commission and the national justice, the two would not have been able to persist until now.

While Chen was worrying about his own future, there was another person who was also thinking about Liu Guotai's affairs.

The man sat on a wolfskin-covered armchair, with a lit candlestick next to him. The bean-sized flame was blown by the wind, illuminating a middle-aged male face. Suddenly, a dark-faced man wearing a dog-skin hat and a black cotton jacket came over and bowed to him: "Sixth Master, the chief shopkeeper invites you to the Juyi Hall."

"Well then." The man stopped thinking and asked casually, "What does the shopkeeper want me to do?"

The dark-faced man took off his hat and grinned, "A new brother has joined the group. The head manager wants you to take charge."

The man put aside his doubts and vigilance and followed the person out. Outside the door, it was all white, and there was a white forest as far as the eye could see for hundreds of miles.

More than ten minutes later, in a cave.

Dozens of bandits in different attire were standing in two teams holding torches, looking ferocious. Several people were kneeling in the open space in the middle, looking extremely nervous.

The chief shopkeeper at the top looked at this scene, smiled with satisfaction, and then turned to look at the sixth in command.

"Rui Lin, I'm just a rough guy, I can't explain the big principles, you should talk to the new brothers and tell them why we have to fight the devils to the end."

"Okay, shopkeeper."

The man called Ruilin responded. He first helped up the people kneeling on the ground, and then began to speak. All the gangsters present pricked up their ears.

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Ever since this Sixth Master joined the gang, the gang members have learned a lot of things and understood many principles that they did not understand before.

For example, why did the Japanese invade the Northeast, the real reason why they became bandits, etc. These words hit the heart directly and make people feel hot inside.

Sure enough, as the Sixth Boss spoke, the new gang members changed. Their original numb and dull expressions disappeared, and a different look appeared in their eyes.

At the end, the newlyweds swore an oath with red eyes, drank the joining wine, and smashed the wine bowls to pieces with a clang.

The head shopkeeper said happily, "Great! From now on we are one family, and the bureau will prosper!"

"The game is winning!" The gangsters shouted together, completing the last step of hanging the pillar. The next step was to drink big bowls of wine and eat big chunks of meat.

When everyone was drinking, Ruilin walked to a newlywed with a wine bowl in his hand. The newlywed quickly stood up and greeted him with a very respectful attitude.

"Sixth Master."

"Well, sit down. You don't have to be polite when you are family."

Ruilin pushed the newcomer back to his seat and chatted with him with a smile: "Are you Liu Guotai? Our Gada is different from the puppet Manchukuo. If you have something to say, just talk about it."

After comforting Liu Guotai, he said that the mountains cannot be compared with Harbin, and if the other party has any difficulties to adapt to, they can tell him.

Liu Guotai, who was beaten and scolded by Japanese instructors all day long, had never been cared for so much before. He was so moved that tears welled up in his eyes and he wanted to kneel down and kowtow to the Sixth Master.

Ruilin laughed, poured him a glass of wine, and calmly said that they had arrived at Wanggang Airport. The black-faced man also came over.

Liu Guotai thought that the two men were trying to find out his background, so he did not dare to hide anything and told them everything about the airport and the Third Flight Squadron.

The Third Flying Squadron consisted of 56 people, including 18 Japanese instructors, instructors, and maintenance personnel, 11 puppet Manchukuo pilots, and 27 ground crew workers.

The aircraft equipped by the flight team were all models eliminated by the Japanese army. They were already in a state of being eliminated or close to being scrapped. Even basic flight safety could not be guaranteed. Moreover, they were not fully staffed, and several puppet Manchukuo pilots shared one aircraft.

In addition, a squadron of Japanese army and an air defense force were stationed at the airport, equipped with heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns, mortars, and anti-aircraft guns.

In addition to this information, Liu Guotai provided another piece of news that a few weeks ago a batch of six new Japanese Navy fighter jets were transferred from Kobe to Wanggang Airport.

The reason these six planes were sent to Manchukuo was to conduct high-altitude cold tests. The Japanese attached great importance to these fighter planes and specially designated an area at the airport, allowing only Japanese personnel to approach.

Ruilin's heart sank. The Japanese had new equipment. The anti-Japanese situation in Northeast China and even the entire Republic of China would become more difficult. He had to contact the organization as soon as possible to inform them of this matter.

The Sixth Leader, who was deeply trusted by the gangsters, was named Ma Ruilin. He also had another identity, Wei Shuji, an underground party member in HEB City.

After losing contact with his superiors, Ma Ruilin heard that a gang was engaging in anti-Japanese activities, so he took the initiative to join the group.

In order to dispel the doubts of the chief manager and unite and educate the gang, he formed an alliance of brothers with the chief manager and eight other people. He was the sixth oldest and his name was Ruilin.

After obtaining such important intelligence today, the primary challenge facing Ma Ruilin was how to spread the news. After the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces retreated into Red Russia, they became kites with their strings cut.

However, looking at the black-faced man stumbling away, he felt that perhaps he didn't need to show up himself, as the border area would also know about this matter because they still had a "reliable ally."


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