The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand

Chapter 83 The Truth Fujiwara Yuzhen Discovered

Seeing the five hundred soldiers he had selected each fire five bullets, Major Fujiwara Yuma saw a line of cars driving into Jiangwan Airport.

The logistics supply officer he had just met at the Shanghai Expeditionary Army Headquarters was sitting in the lead car.

When the officer saw Major Fujiwara Yuma, he immediately had the vehicles drive directly to the major, who was personally received by General Matsui Iwane and personally escorted to the door.

He reported loudly, "Major, 450 submachine guns and 50 squad light machine guns have all been delivered.

Please advise!"

Major Fujiwara Yuma nodded with satisfaction, "Distribute them according to the plan."

The five hundred men who had just finished target practice immediately began to change their equipment.

Major Fujiwara Yuma personally selected fifty tall and strong soldiers to serve as light machine gunners.

At the same time, he also assigned fifty assistant gunners, who were also strong and sturdy soldiers.

These soldiers would be the firepower backbone of the entire special forces unit.

After the soldiers received their guns, Major Fujiwara Yuma immediately had them familiarize themselves with the new weapons.

Each soldier had to fire a full magazine of bullets.

The second magazine was fired with the order for the soldiers to shoot while charging.

The soldiers, accustomed to Type 38 rifles, were not yet used to this.

They would pull the trigger once, fire a few bullets, run a few steps, and then stop to fire again.

Major Fujiwara Yuma needed them to be able to fire without stopping during the charge.

The training was very fast. After a few magazines were emptied, the soldiers mastered the new usage of this new weapon.

Lieutenant Kato Taro had to admit that the German-made submachine gun was easy to use.

When charging, they no longer had to stop to fire.

The firepower was sufficient, and the magazine held many rounds. The shortcomings were also obvious: the effective range and accuracy were much worse than the Type 38 rifle.

One cannot have it both ways!

Major Fujiwara Yuma was quite satisfied with the newly distributed weapons.

He had not forgotten the purpose of coming to Jiangwan Airport: the Fujiwara Special Forces would be stationed here;

To track down the "our unit" that attacked the airport here.

Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo, the commander originally stationed here, had already arrived,

He had been by Major Fujiwara Yuma's side.

Although Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo's rank was higher, he did not dare to put on airs in front of Major Fujiwara Yuma.

This was the heir of the Fujiwara family, a relative of the emperor!

Perhaps tomorrow his rank would be higher than his own.

Major Fujiwara Yuma, in front of his five hundred soldiers, asked Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo to explain in detail what had happened on the night of the attack.

Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo was inside the airport directing operations when the airport was attacked.

All he could say was the sequence of events during the airport attack.

Major Fujiwara Yuma still heard it from Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo's retelling.

The airport's planes, tankers, oil drums, and anti-aircraft positions were almost simultaneously bombarded.

The attacking enemy used mortars!

Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo was clear on this point. He had not been idle these past two days.

From the fragments after the explosion, through a lot of piecing together and searching,

They had been able to determine that the enemy who came to attack used 82mm mortars.

After learning about the evidence for Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo's judgment,

Major Fujiwara Yuma also found all the soldiers who went out to collect corpses that night.

He asked in detail where the corpses appeared that night.

What he did not expect was that the soldiers first mentioned the supernatural event that happened to Captain Kohinata Kazuki that night.

Major Fujiwara Yuma immediately stated that the hero's last wish must be fulfilled. Captain Kohinata Kazuki died tragically, and since he had such a last wish,

Then his wife, Miss Noriko, would also understand and happily do as her husband wished.

The soldiers of Katayama Rihito's battalion had suffered a defeat yesterday.

After they reported Captain Kohinata Kazuki's last wish, they did not receive attention or a reply.

Today, they finally received a major's promise.

The surviving soldiers of the Katayama Rihito Naval Landing Force did not know the energy of the major in front of them.

They only regarded him as an ordinary major.

When Major Fujiwara Yuma saw Noriko's photo, a desire to protect her immediately涌出涌出 in his heart.

For this wish, he did not mind using his abilities as the heir of the Fujiwara family.

The remaining soldiers were also very happy that Captain Kohinata Kazuki's last wish could be fulfilled.

Major Fujiwara Yuma, led by the surviving soldiers of the Katayama battalion,

Followed the bloody road that these soldiers had taken that night.

He inspected the scene in person.

The blood and flesh on the road outside the airport were completely mixed with the soil.

Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo had to send people to lift up a foot-thick layer of soil from this section of the road.

All the soil was filled elsewhere, and sand was brought in to refill it.

Therefore, the scene could only be recalled, but it was no longer the original scene.

However, the soldiers of the Shanghai Naval Landing Force, hearing that more than five hundred imperial naval landing troops had fallen on this five-hundred-meter road,

They immediately thought of the battle outside the Four Banks Warehouse.

Especially after hearing that these people had all died under a kind of small iron ball,

The soldiers of this newly formed special forces unit all recalled their experience outside the Four Banks Warehouse.

The despair and terror at that time still frightened them when they thought about it now.

Kato Taro immediately asked, "Is it slightly larger than the diameter of the bullets we use?"

The soldiers all replied yes.

Some soldiers were still searching on the side.

As the saying goes, diligence pays off. Soon, these soldiers found more than thirty of those iron pellets along the five-hundred-meter road.

"It's it! It's it!" Kato Taro confirmed.

Major Fujiwara Yuma immediately perked up, "Are these people related to the defenders of the Four Banks Warehouse?"

Kato Taro said in confusion, "The National Revolutionary Army soldiers in the Four Banks Warehouse are all in the refugee camp in the concession. It is impossible for them to run out.

The White Russian mercenaries guarding them have reportedly received a batch of gifts from the Empire."

Major Fujiwara Yuma did not dwell on this matter. He did not express his opinion.

He just signaled for the soldiers to continue the introduction.

This time, only one soldier introduced the situation. He was the only survivor who followed Captain Katayama Rihito to another area.

Because he was ordered to call for a car after discovering that a battalion of the army had been accidentally injured, he escaped with his life.

Although everyone in the navy knew that more than one hundred members of the Katayama Rihito battalion had died at the hands of the cavalry battalion led by Lieutenant Colonel Yanashita Rintaro,

But they had no way to convict Lieutenant Colonel Yanashita Rintaro.

Because he was not under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Navy!

The obvious saber marks on the necks of Captain Katayama Rihito and the others clearly recorded the origin of the murderer.

Although Major Fujiwara Yuma was a member of the royal family, he could not mediate the conflict between the Imperial Navy and the Army.

He could only turn a blind eye.

He came to the place where the Katayama Rihito battalion died.

The battlefield here was still relatively complete. Shell craters, blood mud, and unexploded aerial bombs were still there.

Major Fujiwara Yuma carefully walked from south to north and then from north to south again and again.

In his mind, he walked the road that the Maruno battalion had taken again and again.

Finally, he found the place where the Maruno battalion was first attacked.

Although this place had also been bombed beyond recognition by the Imperial Navy,

Major Fujiwara Yuma still found many of the same iron pellets that were found on both sides of the road outside the airport in the mud.

And here, he mobilized his five hundred special forces soldiers to search together.

This time, they found so many iron pellets that they could not count them all.

Now he understood that the Maruno battalion was first attacked by the "our unit" hiding in the dark.

Then it was bombed by the Imperial Navy.

It was really unfortunate: perhaps without the bombing by the Imperial Navy,

The Maruno battalion would have been able to track down the hidden "our unit."

Since the Maruno battalion still insisted on advancing towards the airport after encountering the attack, it might indicate that the retreat route of "our unit" was in this direction.

"They retreated to the south!" Major Fujiwara Yuma judged.

Retreating to the south, there were two checkpoints of the Shanghai Naval Landing Force nearby.

Further away was the Public Concession!

They had entered the concession!

Lieutenant Kato Taro shuddered: He thought of the transport team that had passed through his checkpoint that afternoon.

They had returned again when the airport was burning at night.

If it was them!

Lieutenant Kato Taro did not dare to think further. Da Feng Novel

But he could not help but stand up: because there were too many soldiers who knew about this that day.

As long as he investigated a little, he would be able to find out.

After listening to Kato Taro's story, Major Fujiwara Yuma had ten thousand mythical beasts running through his mind.

If the Shanghai Expeditionary Army Headquarters had issued the news that a squadron transporting poison gas bombs had been annihilated and the poison gas bombs had been seized to all units,

If both the Navy and the Army could have known, then the enemy disguised as a poison gas bomb transport team

Would have been exposed long ago!

Facing the honest Lieutenant Kato Taro, Major Fujiwara Yuma rewarded him with dozens of slaps.

Only then, considering Lieutenant Kato Taro's honesty, did he let him go lightly.

The matter was clear: "Our unit" only had more than one hundred people. They were a unit of the National Revolutionary Army disguised as the Imperial Naval Landing Force.

More than one hundred people disguised as a poison gas bomb transport team of the Imperial Naval Landing Force

Had caused the Jiangwan Airport to lose nearly two thousand men.

The combat effectiveness of these people surprised Major Fujiwara Yuma.

"Where did they get the poison gas bombs?" This was a question.

Faced with Major Fujiwara Yuma's question, Lieutenant Colonel Takahashi Kazuo was also at a loss: I don't know either!

He told Major Fujiwara Yuma very clearly: "On the afternoon and evening of the airport attack, and in the days before,

Jiangwan Airport had not received any poison gas bombs as reinforcements."

Even within the Japanese army, poison gas bombs were a strictly controlled type of weapon.

Not just anyone could use them, and they would not be distributed just because someone wanted them.

Now it was certain that it was the team of more than one hundred people who attacked Jiangwan Airport.

Lieutenant Kato Taro vowed that the team was less than a squadron.

Therefore, he had never suspected that team.

It was getting late, and Major Fujiwara Yuma decided to have lunch here and then take his new team to Hongqiao Airport to take a look.

He hoped to find some clues in that direction.

At the same time, Major Fujiwara Yuma personally reported his findings to Commander Matsui Iwane.

And he requested that the Shanghai Expeditionary Army set up an investigation team to investigate which supply unit had lost the poison gas bombs.

This time, Commander Matsui Iwane hesitated a little.

He said that he would send someone to deliver the case file about the missing poison gas bombs.

Major Fujiwara Yuma immediately understood that General Matsui knew that the poison gas bombs had been lost during transportation.

But he had not announced it to the outside world, or even to the Empire.

Major Fujiwara Yuma shook his head bitterly: The Empire's obsession with face!

How many warriors of the Empire would be harmed by this!

A clear notice issued to each squadron could have avoided this loss.

Major Fujiwara Yuma returned to Jiangwan Airport with his soldiers, his mind full of thoughts.

The soldiers of the Special Company smelled the familiar aroma of twice-cooked pork in their sleep.

They woke up from their dreams, and the air in their temporary residence was filled with a strong meaty smell.

The familiar taste was of course made by familiar people.

Lin Fan, a master who had once been punished to the cooking班 (ban - squad/team) for three months because of his mischievousness, was once again cooking for the soldiers of the entire company.

He was a good cook who had been delayed by the war!

Those who woke up early were already helping out in front of the stove.

Today, Lin Fan was making a special dish for the whole company: Twice-cooked pork with mushrooms.

This was November 4, 1937. In this era, the technology of artificially cultivating fungi on a large scale was not yet mature.

Mushrooms were still a true delicacy.

The artificial cultivation of mushrooms was first invented in the Song Dynasty by Wu San Gong, a farmer in Longyan Village, Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province, who invented the "砍花 (kan hua - chopping flowers) cultivation method."

This method was actually simple. Every year in the autumn, they would go to the deep mountains and old forests to cut down large swaths of trees.

Then, they would wait for the trees to slowly lose moisture, and the mushroom spores would naturally scatter, falling on the felled trees and growing up.

This method of extensive planting and low yield made the price of mushrooms incredibly high.

Today, Lin Fan was able to use it to stir-fry twice-cooked pork. Even in Shanghai, it was an extremely extravagant dish.

Not to mention that he was making it for more than one hundred people in the whole company.

The soldiers around the pot were all swallowing their saliva.

In fact, Lin Fan only thought that this mushroom meat slice dish was a common dish in later generations.

He had only thought of making this dish on a whim.

But he did not expect that mushrooms at this time were a hundred times more expensive than meat.

In the entire Special Company, there were only a handful of people who had eaten mushrooms.

Now, everyone only smelled the fragrance.

When Lin Fan divided the dishes into eight large basins, some diligent soldiers immediately carried them away.

Each guarded their own vegetable pot, not allowing people from other platoons to come and steal vegetables!

Seeing this scene, Lin Fan felt amused: Just a little food, is it necessary to be like this?

After the Special Company's lunch, Lin Fan did not arrange training. He also arranged a two-hour lunch break this afternoon.

After the lunch break, it was time for everyone to wipe their weapons.

Most of the Special Company soldiers stayed at home to guard, and the Seventh Squad, which had not been able to go to the Great World yesterday, could go out and play for an afternoon.

In addition, Lin Fan also arranged for Li Xian to take people out to buy chocolate.

Purchasing according to the amount of one kilogram per person.

Lin Fan was going to see the brothers of the 542nd Regiment.

He knew from Director Pan's mouth about the current situation of the 542nd Regiment: outsiders could easily enter and exit the place where the 542nd Regiment was now stationed.

It was just that those people could not go out.

Lin Fan led his direct team directly to find the 542nd Regiment.

What he did not expect was that their place was very easy to find.

Just stop someone and ask, and those people knew Commander Xie's name.

And they also knew where they were now.

When Lin Fan appeared in front of Xie Jinyuan with his direct team, Xie Jinyuan was really taken aback.

He had never thought that Lin Fan would appear in front of him like this.

Lin Fan looked at these familiar comrades-in-arms, and he did not ask if they were doing well.

It was obvious that those people could not be doing well.

Lin Fan only asked, "What are your plans next?"

Xie Jinyuan smiled bitterly, "We are stationed here under Tong Feng's orders.

Now here, the situation is the same as when we were stationed in the Four Banks Warehouse.

It is all the orders of the superiors!

It is the duty of us soldiers to obey orders!"

Lin Fan sighed and stopped asking about their next plans.

Instead, Xie Jinyuan took the initiative to mention, "This morning, two groups of people came to inquire about your news.

One was Du Yuesheng's disciple, Gu Jiatang, the head of the Four King Kongs. He came to inquire about what you did in the Four Banks Warehouse.

And also wanted to inquire about your origins.

We told them everything you did in the Four Banks Warehouse truthfully.

As for your origins, we don't know, so there was nothing we could say.

In addition, a couple came to inquire about a girl named Ji Wuming.

They said she was their life-saving benefactor."

Lin Fan looked at Ji Wuming strangely.

Ji Wuming told the situation at that time.

Lin Fan smiled, "Well done!"

"How did they find this place?" Lin Fan was asking Commander Xie.

"That couple lived in the building opposite the Four Banks Warehouse.

When we were guarding the Four Banks Warehouse, the couple watched us with binoculars every day.

They cheered us on, and the woman said that she would never forget someone she saw, even after ten years.

She saw your people with guns rushing into the theater.

She recognized those soldiers." Xie Jinyuan said with a smile.

Lin Fan sighed, "There are such people in the world. It is really impossible to guard against!"

Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu all laughed.

They all knew that "Lin Fan's Special Company has always only allowed interviews, and strictly prohibited taking pictures.

It seems that they were preventing people from recognizing them.

Unexpectedly, they were still remembered and recognized."

Lin Fan smiled, "Since there are such strange people, there is no way to avoid it.

Fortunately, they are not enemies."