Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 135 Surveillance Operation Bankruptcy
"Otto? What does Otto mean?" Qian Xiaobao asked puzzled.

"This is the code name I gave you. No one knows your real name except me. This is also for your safety." Schultz replied.

"If you want to name it, it's better to choose it. For example, Louis, or the Sun King. It's best to call it Napoleon!" Qian Xiaobao said.

Qian Xiaobao has learned a lot in the French Consulate for more than half a year.

No one can touch a bronze bust in the lobby of the French consulate.The first thing Mr. Genet gets up every morning is to clean the bust himself.

This incident aroused Qian Xiaobao's curiosity.Then he went to ask Zhang Lixing.Zhang Lixing told him that it was a statue of Napoleon and told him the story of Napoleon.

After hearing this, Qian Xiaobao had great admiration for the Napoleon who traversed the whole of Europe, and he kept it firmly in his heart.

Schultz wanted to tell Qian Xiaobao the story of the ancient Roman Otto, but felt that Qian Xiaobao might not understand it.

The Hubutu River is a narrow boundary river in Dongning, with fast and narrow water flow.On the other side of the river is the Soviet Union.

Second Lieutenant Shannannosuke of the Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army led two soldiers lying in the grass by the river.

He has been observing the opposite bank with a telescope for more than an hour, but he has not found anything on the other bank.

People from the intelligence department sneaked into the opposite bank to connect the copper wire to the border communication line of the Soviet army.Then lead the copper wires buried in the ground to the side of the Japanese army on the other side of the Hubutu River.

The listening effect was good in the first two or three months.A large amount of intelligence information was obtained through monitoring and recording by personnel of the intelligence department who are proficient in Russian.

The Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army has a large amount of important information such as the numbers and numbers of the opposing Soviet army and the patrol rules of the border guards.

But in the past two weeks, the monitoring effect has begun to deteriorate.The sound is loud and small intermittently, and it is almost impossible to record a complete message.In the end nothing was heard.

The chief of the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army judged that it was due to poor contact caused by rain and wind.So it is necessary to send people across the Hubutu River to repair the line again.

This task fell on Lieutenant Shannan.

It was already midnight, but Second Lieutenant Shannan still didn't give the order to cross the river.He would not give the order to cross the river until an hour or two before daybreak.This should be the most relaxed time for the Soviet army.

The inspection started from the place where the lines were overlapped, and the inspection went all the way to the Hubutu River, which was only more than 100 meters in total.

Moreover, at the Sanchakou not far behind them, there is a regiment of Japanese troops who can reinforce them at any time.

Lieutenant Shannan is full of confidence in completing this mission.

But what he didn't know was that a company of the Soviet army had been ambushing on the opposite side for four or five days, waiting for them to pass by.

After looking at the watch on his wrist again, Shannannosuke finally gave the order: "Cross the river!"

Then he walked slowly into the icy river and waded across the river.

For the convenience of movement, all three of them only carried short guns.All metal reflectors on the body were removed.

As long as there is a situation, it only takes more than ten seconds to run back to the river for a distance of more than 100 meters.

After wading across the Hubutu River, Second Lieutenant Shannan led two soldiers into the bushes and went straight to the No. 45 site they were going to check.

The cautious Shannannosuke would lie on the ground motionless every ten meters or so before moving forward after careful observation.

With a short distance of more than 100 meters, it took Shannanzhi more than an hour to reach the bottom of the Soviet communication pole they were going to check.

"Let's start!" Yamanannosuke ordered in a low voice.

The other two were soldiers who had undergone rigorous training on Jiangxin Island in Harbin.They immediately started line checking.

And Yamanannosuke held a pistol and looked around as a security mission.

The stealthy connection of the line was very clever, and it was absolutely impossible for the Soviet army to see it without careful inspection.

Two soldiers took a ladder and climbed to the top of the communication pole to check from the overlapping point.

Copper wires are stuffed into tiny gaps in the wooden poles.Two soldiers carefully inspected along the line from top to bottom.

"Found it!" A soldier said in surprise.

He found a break in the copper wire in the gap.Only a flashlight the size of a pen shines on the break of the copper wire in the gap.

Just when he was about to pick out the copper wire stuffed in the gap and reconnect it, the careful soldier also saw an imperceptible scratch in the gap at the breakpoint.

"Not good! This is man-made!" said the soldier.He couldn't control the volume of his voice because he was too nervous.

"Quick retreat!" Yamanannosuke ordered.Then he turned around and ran towards the Hubutu River more than 100 meters away.

Just cross the river and be safe!

But it was too late to run again at this time. More than 100 Soviet soldiers surrounded them from all sides.

The bright bayonets on the rifle can already be seen in the grass.

"lay down your weapon!"

Someone in the Soviet army shouted in blunt Japanese.There are still people in the Soviet army who can speak Japanese!Obviously they were well prepared.

The sound was so loud that even the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the Hubutu River who were preparing to respond could hear it.But there was no order for them not to dare to cross the border, so they could only look anxiously to the other side.

"Follow me!" A Japanese soldier shouted as he leaped up with two hand grenades.

The two grenades in his hand exploded one after another just as he ran forward more than ten meters away.

This special grenade only has a two-second delay.The Japanese soldier was blown away, and the Soviet soldiers lying in ambush near him fell into a pool of blood.

"Second lieutenant, follow me!" Another Japanese soldier rushed out again.

Two more grenade explosions.

Shannannosuke ran out from the gap that was blown out in a cloud of gunpowder smoke.

But the machine gun behind him immediately rang out.Like a lawn mower, the blades of grass are flying.

Yamanannosuke, who had just run more than 30 meters away, was shocked and fell to the ground.

The Japanese soldiers on the opposite side watched all that happened in front of them.

"There is an ambush!"

Yamanannosuke finally shouted.

Whenever there was a conflict on the border of Manchukuo, the Soviet army always responded in the strongest way.

Therefore, the Japanese army on the other side of the Hubutu River did not dare to make any response without orders from their superiors.

This is very different from the bold and restless style of the Kwantung Army before.

The news was quickly sent back to the intelligence headquarters of the Kwantung Army.

This incident proved that their worst fears had finally happened.The border surveillance operation that took more than a month of painstaking training and deployment for several months was completely exposed.

"Surveillance operations at all locations will be stopped immediately. The investigation of the exposure will be launched immediately." Qin Yansaburo, chief of the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, ordered.

(End of this chapter)