Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 170 The Rescue That Was Too Late
Nishimura Keno, the captain of the Japanese military police stationed in Hailin, received an emergency call at three o'clock in the morning. The forest police training center was attacked and needed emergency support.

Nishimura Jiannan immediately gathered more than 20 people under his command and dispatched a locomotive to pull a carriage along the forest railway to Chaihe.

From Chaihe, they have to walk more than 20 kilometers north to the forest police training center.

Although only more than 20 people were brought with him, Nishimura Keno was very confident.These more than 20 people are all well-trained military police.

And Keno Nishimura believed that there must be troops rushing to the training center from other places.

In order to plunder the resources of the Northeast, the Japanese vigorously built railways after occupying the Northeast.The forest railway built near the Chai River alone is two to three hundred kilometers long.And a new forest railway is still being built.

Nishimura Keno and the gendarmerie arrived at Chaihe Railway Station after half an hour by train.

Qian Xiaobao, who was wearing a Japanese military uniform, waited anxiously on the platform.

"Sir!" Seeing Jiannan Xicun get off the train, Qian Xiaobao hurried over.

He took out a folded note from his pocket and handed it to Nishimura Takeo with both hands.

"When I left, Chief Uemura was still leading the forest police in a desperate battle with the enemy! I will immediately lead the way to support Chief Uemura Morio!" Qian Xiaobao said excitedly.

Keno Nishimura looked up at Qian Xiaobao's bandaged arm after reading the help note written by Mori Uemura and said, "Are you injured? If that's the case, you don't need to go. I've been to the training center."

"No! A little skin trauma, I must go back and fight with Chief Shangcun!" Qian Xiaobao said excitedly.

Then he leaned into Nishimura Jiannan's ear and said: "There are fifty forest policemen here in Chaihe. No matter how I urged them to support them an hour ago, they just didn't want to go!"

As an excellent subordinate, the first skill is not to be able to work but to be able to make small reports.

Nishimura Takeo nodded.He had known for a long time that the Russians were not to be relied upon.

But now that Keno Nishimura came with the gendarmerie, the forest police had to set off.

"Okay, now you will lead the way and set off immediately!" Nishimura Keno said.

The raging flames can be seen far away from the forest police training center.It was people from the Flying Dragon Team who set a few wooden blocks and the military truck on fire.

"Speed ​​up!" Nishimura Keno yelled.

A team of more than 70 people ran towards the burning place with guns and live ammunition.

The three officers who came to the training center with Qian Xiaobao, Morio Uemura and a forest policeman who was blown up by a grenade fell on the snow outside.

Yaguchi Kenzo and a dozen other forest policemen were burned to charred corpses after they died in the wood-carved tunnel.

A search inside and out after the fire was extinguished failed to find a single rifle and pistol at the scene.The two machine guns originally equipped in the training center also disappeared.

Apparently those who attacked the training center took weapons and food.Even the cotton coats and leather boots on the three Kwantung Army intelligence officers and Morio Uemura were gone.

The purpose of the Japanese grouping tribes is to prevent these anti-Japanese teams from getting a piece of cloth and a grain of food.

Now those anti-Japanese teams are all fighting the Japanese while suffering from hunger and starvation.

Smelling the burnt smell from the corpse, Nishimura Keno remained silent.

It took him a long time before he said, "Go back and report to the higher authorities immediately."

Qian Xiaobao followed the gendarmerie back to Hailin and was sent to the field hospital where the Eighth Division in Mudanjiang was located to re-bandage his wounds.

After getting the news, Shaozuo Tsuchiya, the chief of the Suifenhe Branch of the Kwantung Army's Intelligence Department, hurried to Mudanjiang to inquire about the situation.

Due to the importance of the geographical location, the Kwantung Army had just established the third army in mid-January.The Second Division, Eighth Division, and No.12 Division under the jurisdiction of the Third Army are all deployed on the Mudanjiang line of Suifenhe.

There are so many Kwantung Army troops assembled here that there are still attacks.In particular, four officers from the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army were killed in the attack.

The Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army must thoroughly investigate.

Faced with Tsuchiya Sakae's repeated questions, Qian Xiaobao's answers were impeccable.

The reason why Tsuchiya Sakae had to ask repeatedly was to see whether Qian Xiaobao's answers to the same question would be inconsistent.

But Qian Xiaobao's answer did not show any flaws.He answered exactly what actually happened.He even said that the dead Uemura Morio did not issue them weapons in advance.

Qian Xiaobao narrated what happened seven or eight times in front of Tsuchiya Rong.Except for Zhou Chen who recognized Flying Dragons in the woods and threw a grenade before leaving, everything else was said as it was.

Qian Xiaobao choked up when talking about Yaguchi Kenzo's tragic situation before his death.

A lie is 99 sentences are true and only one is false.

This is also completely consistent with the charred corpse shot in the chest in the woodcut.

Tsuchiya Rong also questioned the doctor, and the wound on Qian Xiaobao's arm was obviously shot from behind with a rifle.There is no way to fake this.

The appeal letter written by Morio Uemura is also absolutely true.

Connecting all the things together, Tsuchiya Rong judged that Qian Xiaobao was not lying.But after Qian Xiaobao returns to Harbin, he must accept another interrogation from the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army.

Four intelligence officers who graduated from the Japanese Military Academy and entered the Nakano School for rigorous training all died overnight. This is definitely not a trivial matter.

"Sir, the injury on my arm is fine. Can I go to the Hengdaohezi Police Station to visit an elder and report back to Harbin immediately?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"Hengdaohezi Police Station? Who are you going to visit?" Tsuchiya Sakae asked.

"It's Section Chief Fan Wengui of the police station. He is the one who recommended me to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army." Qian Xiaobao replied.

"It turned out to be him." Tsuchiya Rong nodded and said.A smile appeared on his face.Obviously, Tsuchiya Rong also knew Fan Wengui.

"Okay, I'll give you two days. You must report back to the intelligence department within three days!" said Tsuchiya Sakae.

"Yes!" Qian Xiaobao replied standing at attention.

It is only a short period of time from Mudanjiang to Hengdaohezi by train.

When Qian Xiaobao stood at the gate of the Hengdaohezi Police Station and asked the sentry post to find Section Chief Fan Wengui, he saw Qian Xiaobao in Japanese military uniform and rushed in to report.

After a while, Fan Wengui, wearing a neat police uniform and shiny leather boots, appeared at the door.

He stared at Qian Xiaobao for a while and said in surprise, "Isn't this Brother Xiaobao? He's a Sergeant so soon?"

When he met Qian Xiaobao last time, Fan Wengui, who was acting like an elder, now called Qian Xiaobao his brother.

The white bandage on Qian Xiaobao's arm was very eye-catching.But Fan Wengui didn't see it, but he saw the little star on Qian Xiaobao's shoulder strap representing the military officer!
(End of this chapter)