Chapter 153 Telegram to the th Brigade "Sir, we have received a telegram from the Yamazaki Battalion. In addition, the Yamazaki Battalion has also sent an additional telegram specifically to our 4th Brigade." Near the mountain position, the main force of the 4th Brigade was waiting for the engineers to repair the damaged road. A Japanese messenger brought two telegrams and found Pinglu Yongfu, who was standing at the highest point of the mountain position observing the surrounding terrain. "Two telegrams?" Pinglu Yongfu asked in surprise when he heard the communicator say there were two telegrams. "Hey, sir, one telegram is mainly sent from the Yamazaki Battalion to the Taiyuan Headquarters, and the other telegram is specifically sent to our 4th Brigade." Kasahara Koizumi, who was standing by, listened to what the communicator said, looked at the two telegrams in the communicator's hand, raised his hand and took them and took a look. "Your Excellency, the telegram sent by the Yamazaki Battalion to the headquarters is asking for assistance, hoping that our 4th Brigade will speed up to support them. The Yamazaki Battalion said that the Eighth Route Army's arsenal was being moved, and they had been surrounded by the Eighth Route Army and trapped on Wangjiapo, unable to break out and destroy the Eighth Route Army's arsenal.
Commander Yoshio Shinozuka hopes that we can speed up and destroy the Eighth Route Army's arsenal." "Another telegram sent to us specifically by the Yamazaki Battalion... I don't quite understand what Yamazaki Jihei wants to express." Kasahara Koizumi looked at the telegram that the Yamazaki Battalion sent specifically to the 4th Brigade, and was somewhat confused about what the Yamazaki Battalion meant. Pinglu Yongfu listened to what Kasahara Koizumi said, turned his head to look at Kasahara Koizumi with some curiosity and said: "Oh? What did Yamazaki Jihei send a telegram specifically to the 4th Brigade? "The Yamazaki Battalion said that the Eighth Route Army Arsenal was transporting a large number of wooden boxes to the mountains on the other side of the river. I hope we can speed up our support for them, those wooden boxes may be the secret weapons of the Eighth Route Army!" Pinglu Yongfu listened to what Kasahara Koizumi said, took the telegram, looked at it, frowned and said: "Baka, Yamazaki Jihei, don't you have anything to say? Transporting a large number of wooden boxes to the mountains on the other side of the river? Isn’t this the Eighth Route Army using wooden boxes to transport equipment into the mountains? Isn’t this the Eighth Route Army’s arsenal retreating? What secret weapon? Isn't it just to make us speed up and support him? What is the difference between this telegram sent specifically to our 4th Brigade and the telegram sent to the headquarters? Baka, does Yamazaki Jihei think that our Fourth Brigade is afraid of fighting and not moving forward? " Pinglu Yongfu became furious when he saw the telegram in his hand. "Kasahara-kun, what do you mean by fellow countryman?" Kasahara Koizumi, who was standing by, didn't know why Yamazaki Jihei sent such a telegram specifically to the 4th Brigade, and he was also a little confused. Hiraru Isamu knew Yamazaki Jihei, because Yamazaki Jihei and Kasahara Koizumi were from the same hometown, and Yamazaki Jihei was indeed very capable. Therefore, Pinglu Yongfu has always wanted to transfer Yamazaki Jihei to his Fourth Brigade. However, the commander of the 22nd Brigade where Yamazaki Jihei was located disagreed, so Pinglu Yongfu had no choice. This time, Pinglu Yongfu came to rescue Yamazaki Jihei. In addition to gaining credit, he also wanted to take this opportunity to recruit Yamazaki Jihei into his 4th Brigade. Kasahara Koizumi thought for a moment and then spoke to Pinglu Yongfu.
"Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, I don't think Yamazaki-kun would send us such a telegram for no reason... There must be other reasons. Do you want to send a telegram to ask?" Just as Pinglu Yongfu was about to ask the messenger to send a message to ask what Yamazaki Jihei meant, the messenger next to him suddenly spoke up. "Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, Your Excellency the Regiment Commander, could Lieutenant Colonel Yamazaki be using a codeword to send the message?" "code word?" "Yoshi, Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, it must be that Yamazaki Jihei discovered some important information, but he was worried about the information being leaked, so he sent a telegram to our 4th Brigade in code." Kasahara Koizumi quickly reacted to what the communicator said and explained to Pinglu Yongfu, then quickly turned to the communicator and gave an order: "Go and bring the code book used by the Yamazaki Battalion!" "Hi!" Soon, the communicator brought over a code book. "Yoshi, translate it and see what information the Yamazaki Battalion has sent." The two communicators took the telegram handed to them by Ping Lu Yongfu, and then quickly began to translate the information contained in the telegram on the ammunition boxes brought over by several other Japanese devils. "Your Excellency Pinglu Yongfu, the commander of the brigade... Yamazaki Battalion discovered that the Eighth Route Army was moving a large number of wooden boxes to the mountains on the other side of the river. It is suspected that they are moving a large number of secret weapons. I hope that Your Excellency Pinglu Yongfu can lead the Fourth Brigade to support Yamazaki Battalion as soon as possible and destroy the Eighth Route Army arsenal." After a Japanese soldier read the entire message on the telegram, he sent out some key information to the circle. "Look up what a wooden box means." The Japanese communicator holding the code book on the other end asked to open the code book and began to look for the meaning of the word "wooden box" recorded in the code book. Pinglu Yongfu and Kasahara Koizumi also came over and sat on the ammunition boxes watching the two Japanese communicators translate the telegram. "found it!" After the Japanese communicator who was looking for words found the word "wooden box", he first showed it to the communicator in charge of recording, and then showed the code book to Pinglu Yongfu and Kasahara Koizumi. "The wooden box refers to the Eighth Route Army soldiers and prisoners..." Pinglu Yongfu was still somewhat confused when looking at the information in the code book. So what even if the wooden box represented the Eighth Route Army soldiers? It's impossible that the Yamazaki Battalion captured a large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers as prisoners? Kasahara Koizumi was thinking back to the contents of the telegram: "Mr. Commander, the large number of wooden boxes means that the Yamazaki Battalion has discovered a large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers are being transferred... But there is no need to send a special telegram to our Fourth Brigade for this kind of information." Hiraru Yufu listened to what Kasahara Koizumi said and pondered what Yamazaki Jihei meant. “A lot of wooden boxes? A large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers... big……" "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, Your Excellency, Regiment Commander, could it be that Lieutenant Colonel Yamazaki is trying to express something other than ordinary Eighth Route Army soldiers? Because the wooden box itself already has the meaning of a large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel Yamazaki Jihei has no need to add two more words. " “So the word ‘a lot’ in front of it might mean: very large.” "So what this sentence means is: a very large Eighth Route Army soldier?" After listening to the communicator's explanation, Hiraru Isamu and Kasahara Koizumi looked at each other and instantly understood what the communicator wanted to express.
"A very large Eighth Route Army soldier... a senior Eighth Route Army officer!" (End of this chapter)