Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 2990 You must have reverence for the Anti-Japanese Brigade!

Back at the headquarters of the Special Higher Police in Spring City, Watanabe, Suzuki, Kurai, and Kato, despite their exhaustion, went straight to Chief Kitahara's office.

Section Chief Kitahara was sitting behind his desk, looking at the intelligence on the Da'an Coal Mine and the Anti-Japanese Brigade. His brows were furrowed. When he saw the four people come in, he raised his head slightly, a hint of expectation flashing in his eyes.

"You're back. How did it go?"

Section Chief Kitahara was the first to speak, asking the four people a question.

Watanabe stepped forward, bowed slightly, and said, "Section Chief, we have already reported the information about Hell Butterfly to you. Since it is very difficult for Hell Butterfly to come out now, she will not come out easily unless there are special circumstances."

"kindness!"

Section Chief Kitahara nodded, because if there were any new developments, the spies lurking in the anti-Japanese brigade would send him a telegram immediately.

So Section Chief Kitahara continued, "Since there's no new intelligence, let's discuss how to send you into the Da'an Coal Mine and then infiltrate the Anti-Japanese Brigade."

The four exchanged glances, but Suzuki was the first to come up with a solution:
"Section Chief, I think it's absolutely not feasible for us to enter Da'an Coal Mine like this. We should disguise ourselves as captured miners to gain their trust. Then, when the Anti-Japanese Brigade attacks, we can sneak in and infiltrate them without arousing their suspicion."

Section Chief Kitahara nodded slightly and said, "This idea is feasible, but you should discuss how to implement it. Try to be natural and don't let anyone see through your plan. You must treat the Anti-Japanese Brigade with awe!"

"Hi!"

Squad leader Watanabe was the first to respond, and then said, "First, the Imperial Army needs to capture a group of miners and send them to the Da'an Coal Mine. These miners need to be captured from different locations and then gathered together. The number should be more than two hundred, so that it is easier to hide our identities. Also, we need to be captured from different locations, preferably together with other Chinese people, to increase credibility."

Cangjing added, "Then, after entering the mine, we need to quickly learn about the miners' living habits, work and rest routines, and even their accents to ensure that our disguise is flawless."

Kato also said, "Kurai is right. We also need to understand the internal structure of the Da'an Coal Mine, the distribution of the miners, and the daily work processes, etc. If the Anti-Japanese Brigade is really that cunning, they will ask about all of these things!"

Section Chief Kitahara nodded again and said, "What you said is all correct, but there is still one crucial issue. After you enter the Da'an Coal Mine, you will still be separated and not in contact with each other. This is to prevent one of you from being exposed and implicating the others."

"Hi!"

The four of them bowed at the same time, and then proceeded according to the plan they had discussed.

Watanabe took the lead, changing into a tattered set of coarse Chinese clothes, deliberately messing up his hair, and smearing some dust on his face, disguising himself as a villager on his way home, and slowly walking towards the village outside the city.

At this moment, a patrol of Japanese soldiers was driving trucks along the highway. In fact, they were a special operations team arranged by Kitahara to capture lone Chinese.

The miners at Da'an Coal Mine didn't go to work for the Japanese in groups; they were all captured by the Japanese.

They received no wages, ate only brown rice, or even spoiled rice, yet they did heavy manual labor.

Therefore, many miners do not survive more than six months.

So the Japanese could only capture people from the mine in batches.

At that moment, Watanabe deliberately slowed down upon seeing the special operations team, feigning panic, and turned to run away.

The Japanese soldiers immediately noticed him and ordered him to stop.

Watanabe was surrounded by several Japanese soldiers who pointed guns at him. One of the soldiers even kicked him and cursed, "You idiot, you think you can run away? You'll die if you run again!"

Watanabe pretended not to understand, just shaking his head repeatedly with a look of fear on his face. Seeing his appearance, the Japanese soldiers assumed he was just an ordinary Chinese farmer, so they tied him up with ropes along with several other captured villagers and threw him onto a truck.

Meanwhile, Suzuki chose a market in a nearby town as the location where he was arrested.

He disguised himself as a small vendor, carrying a shoulder pole filled with needles, thread, small mirrors, cosmetics, and the like.

His eyes darted around, and when he spotted a few Japanese soldiers, he actually ran right into them.

The Japanese soldier who was hit was instantly enraged. He grabbed Suzuki by the collar and raised his fist to strike him.

Suzuki quickly pretended to be scared and kept bowing and apologizing.

However, this did not quell the Japanese soldiers' anger. Several other Japanese soldiers surrounded him and beat him up.

Finally, without saying a word, they overturned Suzuki's load, threw its contents everywhere, tied Suzuki up, and sent him to the Japanese military police headquarters. Together with a dozen or so other Chinese people whom the Japanese considered to be rebels, they were sent to the Da'an Mine.

Meanwhile, Kurai hurried toward a roadblock outside the Japanese city.

The puppet troops guarding Luka were initially willing to let them pass. However, after receiving a phone call, the Japanese soldiers in the blockhouse immediately arrested everyone who was crossing the road.

Cangjing was among these people, loaded onto a truck, and sent to Da'an Coal Mine.

The last Japanese spy, Kato, chose a small village near the river.

He disguised himself as a fisherman, wearing a tattered raincoat and a straw hat, and rowed a boat to fish on the river.

Just then, a Japanese patrol boat suddenly appeared, and several Japanese soldiers jumped onto the boat and arrested people without saying a word.

Of course, all of this was arranged by Kitahara; otherwise, the special operations team wouldn't have encountered them so easily.

Regardless, all four Japanese soldiers were successfully captured and sent to the Da'an Coal Mine.

Little did the Japanese know that among these captured miners were Liu Jinbiao and Chen Yushan, members of the reconnaissance company of the anti-Japanese brigade.

Chen Yushan was indeed ordered to infiltrate the Da'an Mine.

But Liu Jinbiao was a bit unlucky. He had originally gone to a cloth shop to look at cloth and, by the way, to open up purchasing channels for the Anti-Japanese Brigade.

In addition to the lack of weapons and ammunition, the anti-Japanese brigade was also in dire need of cloth and cotton.

The owner of the cloth shop was a short, chubby man with dark skin who wore round-framed sunglasses.

This man's surname was Guo, and his given name was Deliang. His brother-in-law was a notorious traitor in the surrounding area.

Liu Jinbiao was unaware of this and treated it as an ordinary shop, going in to inquire about the market price of cotton cloth and cotton, since winter was approaching and the weather would soon turn cold.

Liu Jinbiao walked into the cloth shop. The shop was dimly lit, and the shelves around the shop were filled with all kinds of cloth.

When Guo Deliang saw a customer enter, he quickly got up from behind the counter, his face beaming with smiles. His eyes, hidden behind his round-framed sunglasses, narrowed into slits as he warmly greeted the customer, "Sir, please come in. What would you like to buy?"