My spy diary

Chapter 420 Seeking the Skin of a Tiger (asking for monthly ticket)

The night was as cool as water, with moonlight shining obliquely. Three figures silently crossed the high wall of the gendarmerie and crept in the shadows.

A soldier who looked like a clerk had just come out of the office building holding a folder when a dark shadow rushed out and grabbed the soldier's neck. Before the soldier could make any sound, the blade cut his artery and blood spurted out.

After dealing with this man, the three figures continued to move forward.

One person ran to the switch room, and two went straight upstairs.

The moment the power was cut off and the gendarmerie fell into darkness, gunfire rang out, ruthlessly reaping the lives of the Japanese.

Gunshots, blood, smoke, fighting, screams and shouts filled the entire office building.

Outside the armory, Ichiro Haruta held on to his trembling body, his eyes fixed on the flames and billowing smoke in the distance, his face ashen.

The situation was worse than he had expected.

"Major, everyone is dead." A Japanese soldier with blood all over his face and half of his arm broken ran over wailing.

"Where are the anti-Japanese elements?" Ichiro Haruta asked quickly, calming his brain which was about to explode.

As soon as he said this, he heard fierce gunfire in the distance.

".Major, it's the military police. The enemy attacked the military police."

"Damn it, another feint to the east and attack in the west!"

Haruta Ichiro's face suddenly changed. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and cursed in Japanese, "bastard", and said with murderous intent:
"Go back immediately."

"go back?"

At the same time, Zhang Yi and his two companions were fighting and retreating. When they heard Zhang Yi say that they were going back, Monkey and Qian Xiaosan were surprised, and then they became excited.

"Yes, kill him with a surprise attack!"

Zhang Yi knew that Ichiro Haruta would come back to help soon, so it would be best to kill him in one fell swoop. The Japanese invaders would be leaderless, which would facilitate his next plan.

With this in mind, Zhang Yi fired several shots at the pursuers on both sides, then shouted in Japanese: "The intruders are here, they've been shot."

The Japanese military police, who were eager to take credit, pulled the bolts of their guns and rushed towards the location where Zhang Yi shouted. Zhang Yi and two other men lay down and threw a grenade to the left and right. The Japanese military police in the front were blown away instantly, and the Japanese soldiers behind were knocked down by the corpses of their companions and screamed in pain.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the three of them jumped up, threw several grenades to both sides in time, and fired their guns.

"Boom"

Bang, bang, bang
After dealing with the pursuers, Zhang Yi and the other two quickly took off their military police uniforms and put them on, then sneaked into the military police again.

There was thick smoke and flames inside and outside the gendarmerie, and the place was in chaos. The remaining Japanese gendarmerie were beaten and their minds were broken. They were busy putting out the fire and restoring electricity like headless flies. Zhang Yi and his two companions took advantage of the situation and kept harvesting lives with their daggers.

When the power was restored, Zhang Yi's watch hands pointed to half past twelve in the morning.

He secretly signaled to Monkey and Qian Xiaosan, and the three of them quietly sneaked towards the office.

At this time, several three-wheeled motorcycles with plaster flags rumbled into the gendarmerie.

Ichiro Haruta jumped out of the car with a gloomy face and holding his officer's knife tightly. When he saw the corpses all over the yard, he was shocked, staggered and almost fell to the ground.

He knew that he was finished. With so many brave warriors dead, someone had to be held responsible. The only thing waiting for him was to commit suicide by seppuku.

"Mrs. Chuntian." The lackey translator Peng looked terrified. He quickly supported him and asked in a trembling voice, "Mrs. Chuntian, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Shaking off the support of translator Peng, Ichiro Haruta said expressionlessly to the soldiers who surrounded him, "Continue working," and walked towards the office.

Translator Peng hurriedly trotted after him.

As soon as the office door was opened, a silent pistol was suddenly put to his head. Zhang Yi was then able to walk out from the darkness and aimed at Ichiro Haruta, shooting him once, twice, cleanly and neatly.

Ichiro Haruta was caught off guard, his eyes wide open, and he fell to the ground, dying in a horrible manner.

"Bang." Translator Peng trembled all over and fell to his knees.

"Hero, spare your life!"

"Traitor, Japanese running dog!"

"Misunderstanding, you are from the mountain city, right? In fact, I am just pretending to be friendly with the Japanese. As long as you spare my life, I am willing to work for you."

"Being a double agent?" Zhang Yi's face was full of disgust. Translator Peng lowered his head and shivered uncontrollably.

"I really can do it." He was halfway through his words when he heard a gunshot and Translator Peng fell to the ground, blood splattering everywhere.

Zhang Yi put his gun in his arms and said to Monkey and Qian Xiaosan, "Retreat."

The three of them quickly evacuated the gendarmerie.

[Today’s information has been refreshed]

[1. You met Sister Lin today and obtained relevant information - Sister Lin, Japanese name Kiyoko Ohara, currently hiding in Yakushian]

Zhang Yi had heard of this Yaoshi Temple. It was said that the nunnery owner was originally a famous prostitute in Suzhou, and later became the concubine of a wealthy businessman in Guangzhou. After the businessman went bankrupt, she took all his money and became a nun in Yaoshi Temple. She actually transformed a good nunnery into a brothel, which attracted many wealthy young men.

[2. You met with Ichiro Haruta today and obtained relevant intelligence - Peng Jiaolu has decided to accept the Japanese reorganization; the Japanese spy Gray Wolf Gao Mu has infiltrated Peng Jiaolu's unit as a military advisor and was ordered to implement the "Black Tiger Plan"]

Black Tiger Project? Black Tiger takes out his heart and replaces him?
[3. You have been to Dongjiang Wharf today and obtained relevant information: Zheng Huhe has arrived at Dongjiang and is now hiding in Ruihua Teahouse]

It was late at night and everyone was asleep. Zhang Yi pushed open the door of the brothel's private room and walked lightly to the door of the room where Monkey and Qian Xiaosan were. He could hear faint snoring sounds.

He paused for a moment and left quietly.

After Zhang Yi left, the monkey slowly opened his eyes, glanced at the door, stared at the moon outside the window, and fell into deep thought.

Qian Xiaosan lay in bed with his clothes on, sleeping uneasily. The scene of himself stepping on a landmine kept replaying in his mind, and his hands and forehead were covered in sweat.

Tonight is a sleepless night for the three of them.

At this moment, Zhang Yi had disguised himself and found Zheng Huhe.

"How do you know I live here?" Zheng Huhe looked surprised.

"The hermit has his own clever plan." Zhang Yi smiled calmly and asked:
"Have you contacted the local underground organization?" Zheng Huhe said, "Hmm," and asked, "Do you need my cooperation?"

"Of course." Zhang Yi briefly recounted the story of Peng Jiaolu. "We must eradicate all evil. These bandits have committed many evils and now they have agreed to accept the Japanese invaders' reorganization. They are helping the tyrants to commit atrocities and must be eradicated."

Zheng Huhe frowned and said, "Do you want to reconsider it?"

"What are you considering? What is there to consider about bandits?" Zhang Yi just said this when he suddenly realized something and asked:

"Do local comrades have different opinions?"

Zheng Huhe nodded: "Although Peng Jiaolu's team is a bandit, there are more than 700 people, and their strength cannot be underestimated. The comrades in the local enemy work department think that if we can convince him, we can have another team."

"Pedant!" Zhang Yi interrupted him, "The strategy of uniting all those who can be united and developing and expanding the anti-Japanese united front is correct, but the premise is that these people are patriotic, hate Japan, and uphold national justice. Do they expect to talk about national justice with a group of crazy bandits? Who came up with this stupid idea? It's dogmatism."

"That's not true. According to the local comrades from the enemy work department, they have already contacted the military advisor Peng Jiaoluzi, who is a down-and-out intellectual and is very interested in the reorganization."

"My dear brother Zheng, my dear comrade." Zhang Yi was so angry that he laughed, "Do they know this military advisor? How can they have the right to speak without any investigation?"

"What happened?"

"We raided the military police tonight and killed the captain of the military police, Haruta Ichiro, and obtained accurate information. The military advisor you mentioned is called Gao Mu, codenamed Gray Wolf, and is a spy sent by the Japanese to Peng Jiaoluzi.

This person is currently carrying out a conspiracy called the Black Tiger Plan. I originally thought that he wanted to accept the Japanese army's reorganization and murder Peng Jiaolu to replace him. Now it seems that things are not that simple. Maybe he has other intentions. "

"031, is the information accurate?" After hearing what Zhang Yi said, Zheng Huhe's face changed and he asked cautiously.

Zhang Yi's eyes were sharp: "It is certain. Besides, they don't even think about what Peng Jiaolu is?
He was a long-time bandit, and his brother was a popular figure and traitor in front of the Japanese. Such people were always used to speculation, and whoever gave them milk was their mother. Now that the Japanese were powerful, what reason did they have to join the Red Party? They did not even accept the reorganization of the National Army.

I am very surprised. Who can come up with such an absurd idea and wishful fantasy?

"Old Zheng, I think you should report this to your superiors immediately and stop him from having this terrible idea. If he just contacts this military advisor, it's fine. But if he is paralyzed or infiltrated by others, he will be like a moth flying into a flame and bring about his own destruction."

"I will report this to my superiors, but..." Zheng Huhe hesitated for a moment, "You just said that without investigation, you have no right to speak. Let's be realistic. Are all the people in Peng Jiaolu's group bandits? Most of them are civilians who were forced by the government to take the risk and go up the mountain. These people are not bad by nature, and we can still win them over."

Zhang Yi agreed with this, but this was another matter.

According to his understanding, the Dongjiang region is rich in resources, the land is fertile, and the people are strong and hardworking, but their lives are extremely poor. The reasons for this are nothing more than two points.

First, the officials and local gentry plundered and exploited;
Second, bandits robbed and harassed people.

The problem of Dongjiang bandits has a long history. However, the reason for the large number of bandits is mostly due to the government's conscription and forced labor to pay taxes, and exploiting the people.

Before the Japanese invasion, the National Army had sent large forces into the mountains several times to suppress bandits, but the result was that the more they suppressed, the more bandits there were.

The bandits also mastered the essence of guerrilla warfare. When the government troops came from the east, the bandits ran to the west. When the government troops went from the south, they fled to the north.

If the government troops launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign, adopting the tactic of surrounding and encircling the bandits from all sides, the bandits will break up into small groups and disperse to various villages and strongholds.

When the government troops could not catch the bandits, they threatened the local people and burned down houses and villages.

The common people already had a hard time surviving, and when bandits came, they had to pay money and grain in order to live in peace.

Now that the government troops have arrived, and because they have paid grain to the bandits, they have falsely accused them of collaborating with bandits without any investigation. Not only will they confiscate their homes, but they will also arrest them, jail them, or execute them.

As a result, the common people had no choice but to abandon their homes and become bandits. They would die anyway, so they might as well eat big chunks of meat and divide up big chunks of gold.

Since the suppression was unsuccessful, the government troops reached a private agreement with the gentry, merchants and bandits, stating that as long as they did not cause trouble in their jurisdiction, they would simply turn a blind eye.

As a result, bandits became more rampant.

"We must suppress them. We should suppress them first and then appease them. We should publicly execute the bandit leaders and repeat offenders, and then screen them one by one. Those who have no blood debts on their hands can naturally be reorganized and incorporated into the team. Those who don't want to fight can be allowed to go back to farming."

Zheng Huhe nodded and asked, "What are your plans?"

"As for now, we must kill Peng Jiaoluzi and his so-called military advisor before he accepts the Japanese's reorganization." Zhang Yi planned, "Step 2"

After a pause, he thought for a while and asked Zheng Huhe:

"Can you contact the guerrillas in the Dalingshan Anti-Japanese Base?"

Zheng Huhe did not answer directly, but asked: "What do you want to do?"

"We must first capture the leader. I am confident that we can kill Peng Jiaoluzi and the Japanese spies around him, but we cannot suppress a bandit group of several hundred people with just a few of us. It is best to unite with the anti-Japanese guerrillas. In addition," Zhang Yi smiled sinisterly, "perhaps we can play a trick of substituting a dead person for a dead one."

Zheng Huhe was surprised: "A substitute for a dead person? You want the anti-Japanese guerrillas to pretend to be bandits and accept the Japanese aggression?"

"That's right, we are courting disaster!" Zhang Yi said sternly, "Although Chuntian of the Military Police is dead, no matter who succeeds him, the policy of recruiting bandits and changing the Imperial Army will not change. After we kill Peng Jiaolu and Gao Mu, we will elect a new leader, and then continue to negotiate with the Japanese invaders. After the reorganization, we will get the Japanese invaders' equipment and supplies, and then take the initiative to apply to wipe out the anti-Japanese elements in the Dalingshan Anti-Japanese Base. The Japanese invaders will naturally be overjoyed and will definitely send a team to accompany the warlord.

As long as we plan carefully and secretly lead the Japanese invaders into an ambush, when the time comes, the 'Huang Xie Army' will suddenly turn around and join forces with the guerrillas to finish off the attack, which will definitely leave a lasting impression on the Japanese invaders, haha."

It sounds a bit unbelievable, but first they killed Peng Jiaoluzi and the Japanese spies, and then they pretended to surrender and reorganize. It was done in one go and each step was linked to the next. Zheng Huhe's eyes lit up when he heard it.

"I will report your idea to my superiors immediately."

Zhang Yi nodded: "Success or failure depends on this one move. If you don't agree, I can only report to Boss Dai of the Military Control Bureau."

"It's us, not you." Zheng Huhe was very dissatisfied with the word "you" he said, and immediately corrected him seriously.

"Yes." Zhang Yi smiled awkwardly, "It was just a slip of the tongue. It made you act like you were the leader, but now I am your superior."

Zheng Huhe didn't respond, but just looked at him seriously.

Zhang Yi shrugged angrily. This was really not something to be joked about.

He coughed dryly and his face became serious. "Secrecy makes success, and disclosure makes failure. It is best not to let the local comrades know about this matter first. Remember that there are enemies within us and enemies within us, unless it is absolutely necessary. Once the plan is known to the Japanese spies, all previous efforts will be wasted."

Zheng Huhe nodded: "I see, how do we contact each other?"

"Peng Jiaolu's base in the city is a coffin shop. The Japanese military police have already taken control of it. They won't go there easily. I will leave a mark and a letter for you there."

"Okay, take care!" Zheng Huhe nodded, turned and left.

The next morning, Zhang Yi, Monkey Qian Xiaosan and the other two left the city early, hired two donkeys in the countryside, dragged cloth and bundles, and pretended to be merchants and headed towards the mountains.

Just as they reached the foot of the mountain, suddenly, dozens of burly men jumped out from the rocks on both sides of the mountain road, tied them up and escorted them up the mountain.

(End of this chapter)