At the same time, in a remote mountain village in Pudong's Yangjing District, a man in his thirties dressed in coarse cloth was anxiously walking around the house.

The middle-aged man on the side looked at him uneasy, and couldn't help but say: "Tanigawa-kun, don't be too pessimistic, the Kobayashi detachment has carried out many attack missions, and Kobayashi Haruki is also an extremely cautious and excellent soldier, so there should be no problem." ”

The speaker was Akira Akita, the intelligence captain of the special high school headquarters, and this time, as the head of the intelligence department, he cooperated with the plainclothes team of the military department to carry out a sabotage battle on the battlefield in Pudong.

Although Japan began to make careful preparations for the invasion of China decades ago and trained a large number of agents proficient in Chinese, it was impossible to have the luxury of making the entire plainclothes team composed of these talents.

Their organizational structure is based on well-versed Chinese, well-trained agents as guides and scouts, and elite military personnel are selected as executive personnel.

In a plainclothes team, only a small number of agents who were proficient in Chinese cooperated, and these agents were provided by the headquarters of the Japanese Special High School, for which Akita Akisheng, a senior cadre of the Special High School, was selected to carry out this work.

The four plainclothes teams sent to Pudong were mainly based on this Tanigawa brigade, supplemented by the other three detachments, and Akita Akio also accompanied the team to cooperate with the command of his agents.

In the past two months, the various plainclothes units operating behind enemy lines have progressed relatively smoothly, attacking various military targets, reconnoitring the military intelligence of the Chinese defenders, and even directly cooperating with the landing operations of large forces, and have gradually become an important force threatening the Chinese defenders.

Tanigawa and Shin Osa, the captains of the Tanigawa brigade, were the commanders of this operation, and the other three detachments had to accept his leadership, so every once in a while, they had to contact by radio to report important information, receive combat orders, and so on.

However, this time, four hours have passed since the contact time of the Kobayashi detachment, and there is still no radio wave coming, and this situation has never happened.

"Akita-kun, you are also an experienced old agent, there is no contact for more than four hours, it is absolutely impossible if there is no major accident, the Xiaolin detachment can only make this mistake if it has lost the conditions for sending reports, after all, this is an occupied area by the Chinese, will it be attacked by the Chinese army?" Tanigawa and Mama frowned, but could not determine the true situation.

Akita Shoo stood up, walked up to Tanigawa Kazuma, and said analytically: "The previous telegram of the Kobayashi detachment reported that it was preparing to carry out another attack on the supply line of the Chinese army, it seems that this attack should have failed, it is very likely that the Chinese army has strengthened the protection of the transportation line, we still do not attack the supply line for the time being, and put all our energy on reconnoitering the position of the Chinese artillery position, which is also our most important task." ”

The biggest threat to the Japanese from the right wing of the Chinese army is that they have an artillery brigade, which has powerful firepower, and can strike at Japanese warships on the Huangpu River from a long distance, shell Japanese military targets on the opposite bank, and even threaten the Japanese command in Yangpu District.

Last month, the plainclothes team spent a lot of effort to detect the specific location of the artillery brigade and sent the coordinates back, but at a critical juncture, General Zhang Zhengkui suddenly ordered the artillery brigade to move its position, but as soon as it was transferred, the original position was blown to the ground by Japanese bombers, and narrowly escaped this fatal blow.

Since then, Zhang Zhengkui has understood the intentions of the Japanese, and the protection of the artillery brigade has been tighter, and he has shifted positions from time to time, leaving the bombers without a target.

For this reason, the Japanese military headquarters strictly ordered the main task of the plainclothes team to find the location of this heavy artillery brigade and then wait for an opportunity to destroy it.

When Tanigawa Kazuma heard Akita's words, he had no choice but to agree, now they have been delayed in this area for too much time, originally thought that the artillery unit would be placed in the location of the headquarters of the Chinese army, but now after such a long time of reconnaissance, still nothing, now the military department is urging very urgently, and their energy should be concentrated on solving this problem.

"The reconnaissance of the Chinese artillery position has also been no progress, I think it must not be in the pidgin area, will it be located in the area of the mud crossing? Your scouts or further east, scout! Tanigawa went on to say that the lack of progress in the reconnaissance of artillery positions had always been his biggest headache.

Akira Akita's eyebrows shook unconsciously, he always felt that as a commander, Tanigawa and Zhen always lacked patience in doing things, and the pidgin area, as the most important garrison area of the Chinese army, was the best place to arrange artillery positions in terms of geography and human resources, but the geographical scope was somewhat large, and the Chinese garrison was tightly guarded, so that many places had not been searched, in this case, how could you give up lightly.

"Tanigawa-kun, we can separate some more people and go to the neighborhood to investigate, but the investigation of the pidgin area should still be the focus!" Akita Shoo pondered for a long time, it was inconvenient for him to directly oppose Tanigawa Kazuma's opinion, but his attitude was very clear, and the work still had to be carried out in the pidgin area.

"You have too few investigators, how do you separate some of your personnel? Otherwise, your special high school will send some investigators across the river to intensify the investigation? What do you think? Tanigawa Kazuma's face flashed a hint of hope, he had been asking the special high class to send more investigators who were proficient in Chinese, but Akita Akio always prevaricated, "Now is the critical moment, I hope Akita-kun will show the greatest sincerity and apply again." ”

Tanigawa Kazuma's words made Akita Akira raise his eyebrows, and he was extremely annoyed in his heart, for this action, the special high class has gone all out to cooperate.

It is necessary to know that to investigate the military situation and inquire about the news, it is necessary to use agents who are proficient in Chinese, and those operatives in the army do not understand Chinese.

However, even though an intelligence department like the Special High School can speak Chinese without flaws, there is really a limit, and now all the agents who are proficient in Chinese in the Special High Course have been withdrawn.

After all, in Nanjing before, because of the failure of the investigation and espionage front, many such Chinese agents were lost, and now all units are reaching out to ask for agents who are proficient in Chinese, and the special high school cannot do it at all.

For this reason, he also urgently transferred some personnel from the Taiwan branch, which barely supported it, and Akita Akira was transferred to Shanghai from the Taiwan branch this time, and in order to supplement the urgently needed investigators, he even recruited several of his own students who taught in Taiwan, and the manpower was already very tight, and now it is impossible to apply again.

Looking at Akira Akita's face, Tanigawa Kazuma knew that his request could not be met, and couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment.

Akita Akira didn't want to dwell on this topic anymore, raised his hand to look at the time, and said in a deep voice: "That's all for today, I still have to go back to Guanyang Town, if I find out about the situation, I will inform you in time." ”

Tanigawa Kazuya had to nod, most of his team members did not know Chinese, and could not find out information and carry out reconnaissance tasks, which could only be done by the special high class agents under Akira Akita.

Ning Zhiheng finished arranging everything at this time, called Huo Yueze to his side, and said: "Yueze, we came to Pudong this time, and the main task given to us by the commander is to eliminate all the Japanese plainclothes teams operating in Pudong, and this is also our best opportunity to make meritorious contributions."

So we still go our separate ways, I take the reconnaissance squadron to investigate the plainclothes team, you take three squadrons to transport medicines and supplies, be very careful during the transportation, bring enough manpower to ensure safety, these medicines are related to the lives of the soldiers in the rear hospital, and there must be no problems. ”

Huo Yueze naturally knew about the medicine, and the stakes were very high, so he quickly nodded and agreed, patting his chest and guaranteeing.

Ning Zhiheng called Lao Hu who had been waiting on the side again, looked at him and asked in a harmonious voice: "Lao Hu, I heard that your people have encountered the Japanese plainclothes team, can you tell me about the specific situation?" ”

Lao Hu was slightly stunned, his face was a little gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said: "It was last month, the Huangpu River was blocked, and the boats were destroyed. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Hu's eyes shot a look of hatred, and most of the dead gang members were his subordinates.

Ning Zhiheng knew his mood, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, this time we are going to deal with these Japanese." ”

Then Ning Zhiheng pondered for a moment and then asked: "The Japanese plainclothes team has been trying to reconnoiter our troops, especially our artillery positions, and they almost succeeded last month, I think they will definitely hide near our station, but there are so many towns and villages around here, and there are also a lot of people, I want to know, how many foreign populations are along the Huangpu River now, can you tell me about it?" ”

Ning Zhiheng guessed that a plainclothes team of one or two hundred people could not be without any trace of Chinese civilians, and he might be able to find a breakthrough from the foreign population.