Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

"Sir, I've finished copying it down. Could you please check if it's correct?"

The radio station director handed two pieces of paper to Commander Liu.

Commander Liu glanced at the small notebook the other person had used as a pad while copying.

There were traces of writing on it.

If you use a pencil to smudge around the mark, you can still recover the numerical code.

It's better to be safe than sorry.

This matter absolutely cannot be taken lightly.

"I'm taking this notebook with me too. You can find a new one."

Commander Liu said directly.

Then, he grabbed the notebook, turned around, and left.

After he left, the telegraph operators inside couldn't help but whisper among themselves, "The commander actually came to keep an eye on things personally, what could it be about?"

The radio station manager said in a deep voice, "Don't ask questions you shouldn't!"

The telegraph operators' expressions hardened, and they dared not say anything more.

Commander Liu first compared the two sets of figures and found no problems. Then he found a pair of scissors and cut off the copy at the end.

Then, Commander Liu began to distribute the numerical codes to the code-breaking personnel in the order of "12345, 23451, 34512..."

In short, no one can get a complete sentence; it needs to be translated word by word.

Commander Liu's expression turned serious as he slowly said, "Section Chief Yang, your task is to translate these numbers, write them down below, and submit them to me."

"Yes, sir!"

Section Chief Yang nodded and personally led his men to begin deciphering the code in batches.

For every code deciphered, one person would leave, including Section Chief Yang himself.

After everyone had finished translating, only Commander Liu remained in the room.

Commander Liu took out the complete numerical code, rearranged it, and obtained the final translation.

He started copying again.

While copying the notes, Commander Liu also learned of the Central Committee's intentions.

The Central Committee first affirmed Commander Liu's work and expressed understanding for his caution.

It was also repeatedly emphasized that this matter must be kept secret and that not a single word of it should be leaked.

Subsequently, the Central Committee announced the formation of a special operations group codenamed "2637".

This special operations regiment was directly under the Eighth Route Army headquarters, with General Zhu De as its political commissar and Commander Liu as its regimental commander.

Xia Weiwei was the deputy regimental commander, and Ma Hongwei was the chief of staff.

Special operations groups can recruit their own personnel to protect and guard those supplies.

The personnel transporting the goods also all belonged to this special operations group.

The third order required the Special Operations Group to make cracking Japanese military telegrams its primary task.

The Central Committee instructed that if the Special Operations Group were to use some kind of "favor" to crack the Japanese military's telegrams, it would be beneficial to the victory of the War of Resistance.

The fourth piece of news is that the Central Committee has learned of the Japanese army's future movements and plans to send a telegram to the whole country in advance to warn against the evil Japanese's tendency to massacre cities.

At the same time, he ordered some guerrilla units of the New Fourth Army in the eight southern provinces to disguise themselves and infiltrate Nanjing.

The guerrillas' mission was to find John Rabe of the German company Siemens and make arrangements in advance to save more civilians after the fall of Nanjing.

Finally, the Central Committee ordered its 129th Division to quickly develop anti-Japanese base areas in the southern part of the Central Plains.

Only when a base area was established in the southern part of the Central Plains could contact the New Fourth Army and provide them with a batch of supplies.

"Why!"

Upon reading the last part of the message, Commander Liu couldn't help but sigh.

Their strength in the south was too weak.

The Red Army, which comprised fourteen guerrilla zones in eight provinces south of the Yangtze River, numbered only about ten thousand.

These New Fourth Army guerrillas were equipped with old-fashioned Hanyang rifles, homemade guns, and spears; they didn't even have light or heavy machine guns.

They weren't wearing military uniforms, but rather homespun clothes like ordinary people.

Due to the long-term blockade by the Kuomintang army, there was a lack of salt, cotton clothing, and medicine.

It wasn't until October that the Nationalist government allowed the guerrilla forces in the eight southern provinces to be reorganized into the New Fourth Army.

However, it wasn't until December that the headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established in Wuhan, and guerrilla forces from various regions would then be reorganized in batches in southern and central Anhui.

The distance between northern Shaanxi and the other side is too far, so it is not possible to transport large quantities of supplies. We can only give them some medicine and money and let them prepare on their own locally.

Unless they can expand their base to southern Central Plains, or even Hubei Province in the Jingchu region, as the Central Committee has stated.

"Now that we've made contact with the central government, let's report that matter as well!"

Commander Liu thought of the internal traitor that Ma Hongwei had mentioned to him before.

In another month it will be 38 years, and that person will be defecting. We must inform the Soviet area in advance.

……

the next day..

Commander Liu took the initiative to find Xia Weiwei.

Xia Weiwei asked, "Commander, shall we go to the cave now to transport supplies?"

"Before that, there's something I need to tell you!"

Commander Liu said with a smile, "Political Commissar Zhang arrived in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Soviet Area yesterday and met with the leaders of the Soviet Area."

"Has Political Commissar Zhang returned to the Soviet area?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Weiwei exclaimed with delight, "That's wonderful!"

"This is a telegram from the Central Committee, take a look!"

Commander Liu took out a telegram from his pocket and handed it to Xia Weiwei.

Xia Weiwei took the telegram and read it carefully.

Upon seeing the Central Committee's proposal to decipher Japanese codes, Xia Weiwei nodded and said, "That's right, information is the most needed thing in war. I'll go back and ask Hongwei if he has any tools that can crack Japanese codes."

Then she saw another order appointing her as deputy regimental commander and Ma Hongwei as chief of staff.

"Commander... Commander!"

Seeing this, Xia Weiwei quickly said to Commander Liu, "You know me. I used to be a medic in the army. If you ask me to give injections and bandages, I know how to do it."

"But if you put me in a leadership position, I have absolutely no idea how to deploy troops!"

At this point, Xia Weiwei said directly, "Commander, do you think we should replace her with someone else, like Deputy Division Commander Xu?"

"Xia, the mission of this special operations team isn't about fighting a war!"

Commander Liu explained, "Your main task remains the same as before: to transport these supplies."

"Once the supplies arrive, we can arrange for special operations team personnel to protect them."

"As for other matters, you don't need to handle them."

"You and Comrade Hongwei are so precious, how could we bear to send you to the battlefield?"

In his view, Xia Weiwei and Ma Hongwei played a more significant role than he did.

Sending those two to the battlefield to fight the Japanese would be incredibly stupid.

As the saying goes, weapons have no eyes. If the two of them were killed by Japanese artillery shells or bullets, who would transport supplies for them in the future?