Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

In the dark room of the mountain city.

Boss Dai did not sleep all night. The abnormal frequency of the Japanese telegrams yesterday attracted his attention. He keenly realized that something big might happen on the Japanese side.

So all the decryption experts in the black room were immediately gathered together to decipher the Japanese telegrams to see what was going on.

"Hasn't it been deciphered yet?"

Boss Dai held his forehead and asked tiredly.

The staff in the black room shook their heads and said, "The Japanese have changed to a new code book. It will take time to decipher it, but there are a few words that appear very frequently. As long as we can decipher these words, we should be able to decipher the Japanese code book by reverse engineering!"

After hearing this, Boss Dai sighed deeply and said, "Everyone, take a break, eat something, and then continue working!"

"Yes!"

When everyone finished their meal and started working again, a signalman walked up to Boss Dai and said, "Commander, maybe the Japanese are sending telegrams so frequently because of this incident."

As he spoke, he took out a newspaper.

Boss Dai was already a little tired. Seeing that the signalman had reported the matter to a higher level, and speaking on such an important matter, he was about to speak when he saw the content in the newspaper.

He snatched the newspaper away and began to read it carefully.

"The Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Independent Column captured the Japanese general Matsui Ishigeng!"

There were photos, but they were of Matsui Ishigeng when he was interviewed by the Japanese before. The photos of Matsui Ishigeng captured by the Eighth Route Army had not yet been sent to various local newspapers, and even to Li Yunlong.

This newspaper was founded by the Red faction, and in a corner of this newspaper, there was a piece of news: the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army broke through Datong.

In addition, there are some good news in other pages.

Commander He inspected the Second War Zone, personally visited Yu County to supervise the battle, and commanded the troops to annihilate the Japanese Sixth Division.

General Yang Botao personally visited the city of Yu County and commanded the Nationalist troops to annihilate the Sixth Division of the Japanese Devil Army.

General Wang Liye, leading by example, commanded his troops in Yun County to annihilate the Sixth Division of the Japanese Devil Army.

Great victory, great victory. General Peng Tuliang supervised the battle in Yu County, commanding tens of thousands of troops to annihilate the devil's Sixth Division.

……

However, all of this news was simply ignored by Boss Dai. Even though Commander He inspected the Second War Zone, personally went to Yun County to supervise the battle, and commanded the troops to eliminate the Japanese Sixth Division, such major news occupied most of the sub-pages, but no one paid attention.

Everyone's attention was focused on the front-page headline: the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Independent Column captured the Japanese general Matsui Ishigeng alive.

After reading the news, Boss Dai's first reaction was that it was fake. It was impossible. Hadn't Matsui Ishi returned to the Japanese mainland? How could he appear near Datong?

But reason told Boss Dai that this was not fake news, because the organization behind this news was different from the Kuomintang organization. The Kuomintang news newspaper could make a person die more than 60 times and repeatedly confirm death.

But this newspaper does not exaggerate and basically speaks the truth.

"Is this news only in Shancheng?"

Because Boss Dai has been in the black room and has no contact with the outside world, and the black room is highly confidential, people outside cannot contact Boss Dai.

"I'll check it out."

Soon the signalman returned with a bunch of telegrams and handed them to Boss Dai.

"Commander, these are telegrams from various places. There are also leaflets from the occupied areas."

Boss Dai immediately realized that the news must be true. He looked at the people in the dark room and said, "Take a look at this news."

A group of black room staff took the newspaper in confusion, but after reading the contents, they were stunned at first, and then immediately cheered.

"Is it true that Matsui Ishizara was arrested?"

"This old devil killed our compatriots in Nanjing, right?"

"This old devil must be cut into pieces!"

"..."

Looking at the excited crowd, Boss Dai slammed the table and said, "I asked you to read the newspaper to find useful information. The frequent telegrams sent by the Japanese last night might be because of this matter!"

Suddenly, a codebreaker walked up to his position and took out a telegram.

Then, according to the content of the news, I found Matsui Ishigen, Datong, and some other words.

After cracking these keywords, the entire telegram was also cracked.

"I've cracked it. This telegram was sent from the Japanese Kwantung Army to the Mengjiang Garrison Command. It stated that three divisions would be dispatched to the Datong area to rescue Matsui Ishigen!"

After deciphering the key words, it was easy to infer the entire content of the telegram. Soon, as one telegram was deciphered, the contents of the Japanese telegrams were also deciphered. Then, the content was deduced based on the remaining undeciphered content on these telegrams, and cross-verification was carried out through the remaining telegrams.

More than eighty percent of the devil's latest code book was deciphered.

"Well done, but we still need you to work hard. None of you are allowed to leave the black room until the Japanese replace the new code book!"

The people in the black room have become accustomed to this kind of work and understand how serious the leakage of domestic military intelligence is. If the news of deciphering the latest code book of the Japanese gets out, the Japanese will soon replace the new code book and they will have to decipher the code book again.

"Everyone, have a good rest!"

Boss Dai took some telegrams and left the black room directly.

The staff in the black room looked at each other and made bets: "How long do you think it will take for the Japanese to change the code book this time?"

"A month?"

"I think it's at least three months?"

"Maybe I'll change it in a week, but that's a week from now. Go to sleep first. I'm exhausted!"

A group of people were talking about the Japanese changing the code book, but what they were actually talking about was the country's internal confidentiality capabilities, which were as clear as transparent glass. Generally, they could infer the time of the leak based on the time when the Japanese changed the code book. This was also a little game among them.

On the other hand, the person in the mountain city was the last one to know the news. After knowing the news, he first got angry. After all, the whole world knew about it, but he was the last one to know it.

Then he ordered that Matsui Ishi must be obtained at all costs, so that he would have bargaining chips to negotiate with the Japanese.

This task naturally fell on the head of Commander He, who was currently exploring the ravines of the Taihang Mountains.

Commander He had been away from Li Yunlong for almost a day.

However, because they were with a group of soldiers and were not familiar with the road, they only walked less than 40 kilometers in a day.

At this time, Commander He had almost calmed down. He took a look at the group of soldiers in front of him who could not even march in formation and started complaining after walking forty kilometers a day. He couldn't help but wonder if Li Yunlong had switched people.

When they were in Yu County, weren't these people quite good at fighting?

Why did it become like this when it came to me?

"Report, Mountain City Telegram!"

Just as Commander He woke up in the morning and was washing his face, brushing his teeth and preparing to drink coffee, an adjutant came to him and handed him a telegram.

This radio was also purchased by Commander He from Li Yunlong for ten thousand dollars. After all, a radio is needed to maintain communication during the march.

Chapter 302 The whole family is here

"Let me go find Li Yunlong and replace the Matsui Stone? What the hell is going on? How could the Matsui Stone be in Li Yunlong's hands?"

Commander He looked at the telegram in his hand and was so angry that he almost threw it to the ground.

Ask him to go find Li Yunlong again? Even if Commander He was immediately dismissed from his post and thrown into jail, he absolutely did not want to see Li Yunlong's face again. Once he saw that face, Commander He's wallet would shrink rapidly.

Besides, the wound on his face had just healed. If he were to go back, his good student would probably pull him aside for a friendly chat again.

Twenty minutes later.

After an extremely difficult ideological struggle, Commander He had to change his mind.

"Yang Botao!"

"Sir!"

"Take your people back to the mountain city. I have something to do and will be there soon!"

After saying this, he took his guards and rushed towards Ping'an County.

Commander He struggled and sent a telegram to Shancheng, trying to refuse the mission, but after being scolded, he had no choice but to return to Ping'an County.

Compared to seeing Li Yunlong's ugly face, if Shancheng really wanted to investigate him, he might be in real trouble.

So Commander He chose to go back and face Li Yunlong's ugly face.

Ping'an County Independent Column.

The city wall of Ping'an County has begun to be repaired, and the names of the miners brought back to Ping'an County are carved on the wall.

Not only the name, but also the person's hometown and date of birth and death. These include but are not limited to the soldiers who died in the former New 1st Regiment, the later Independent Column, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Independent Column, as well as some comrades who died in other regiments, and some district squads and county brigades.

This is one of the ways Li Yunlong kept the list of these soldiers. In addition, each name was also engraved on the monument in Ping'an County. Li Yunlong planned to use his own way to keep the list of sacrificed soldiers as complete as possible until the end of the war.

In addition, there was a thick notebook in Zhao Gang's hand, and a bag full of nameplates at the head of Li Yunlong's bed.

Finally, a piece of information was preserved in a cave around Ping'an County. Only a few people including Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang knew about this place.

The fallen soldiers were buried by Li Yunlong in a secluded place around Heiyun Mountain. There was no way or conditions to erect a tombstone for each soldier, but they all had tombstones, and some injured veterans who could not continue fighting were left there to guard against accidents.

War is a very cruel thing. No one knows which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.

Notebooks may be lost during the transfer, nameplates may be missed due to various problems, city walls may be blown up by enemy attacks, and monuments may be blown up by the enemy. Li Yunlong uses various means to make future generations remember the names of these people.

Let people in later generations accidentally discover their names and know that there was such an ancestor who sacrificed his life for the happy life of future generations.

This is not a very complicated or tedious job, but it requires long-term persistence.

Fortunately, the entire independent column was influenced by Li Yunlong and attached great importance to protecting the relics and various items of the sacrificed soldiers. Therefore, in addition to Li Yunlong having a copy, each detachment has a copy.

In the ruins of Ping'an County, the monument stands out. There is no fancy building, just a few stones stacked together, engraved with "Ping'an County Heroes Monument".

At this time, Li Yunlong was standing in front of the monument, and there were thousands of people opposite him, and some onlookers around him.

Li Yunlong is planning to hold a celebration meeting in Ping'an County today.

The army commander, chief of general staff, general political commissar, division commander, chief of staff, brigade commander, and brigade chief of staff were all present and attended the celebration.

In addition, the troops under Li Yunlong's command, except for several detachment commanders who were on missions outside, were basically all present. Originally, the commanders of other regiments were also supposed to participate, but an emergency occurred last night, and these commanders all rushed back to the troops to prepare to block the 4th Division.

The only outsider might be Yang Xingru and some of his men.

Not only the soldiers of the Independent Column came, but some meritorious people from Heiyun Mountain also came to Ping'an County.

If the Japanese planes appeared over Ping'an County now, they could cause serious damage to the Independent Column and even the Eighth Route Army.

Li Yunlong took this into consideration when he dared to hold a celebration meeting during the day. He arranged observation posts at 30 kilometers, 20 kilometers, and 10 kilometers around Ping'an County. The headquarters even dispatched intelligence personnel to several nearby Japanese airports to keep an eye on the Japanese planes.