Chapter 21: The Spy in the Mountain City
The sound of hooves of mules and horses walking on bluestone slabs is crisp. When the sun had just climbed over the courtyard wall and shone into the courtyard, a team of dusty mules and horses stopped at the back door of Feng Ji's north and south grocery stores. A shrewd-looking young man tapped the door lightly, and stood quietly outside the door, waiting for the person inside to open the door. With the sound of a jerky door opening, an old man with a wrinkled face opened the door from the inside, "Old horse, is the shopkeeper up?" The young man smiled at the old man, took out a pack of tobacco leaves from his pocket and handed it over.
"You kid remembers that I love to smoke this dirt tobacco" The sleepy-eyed old man immediately smiled when he saw the earthen tobacco leaves handed over by the young man, and beckoned the guys brought by the young man to lead the mules and horses into the yard. "Shopkeeper, I'm Xiao Wu, the goods from the north are coming, do you want to take a look" The young man stood outside the main house with a restrained face and asked softly, until the voice of him coming in the room asked him to enter, and the young man breathed a sigh of relief.
There are no superfluous furnishings in the main room inside and outside, and there is only a round table and a few chairs in the outer living room, and there is a large multi-treasure shelf in the corner, on which some porcelain and antique ornaments are placed. When the young man entered the main house, there was no one in the living room, and as soon as the young man sat down, with a cough, a middle-aged man dressed as a merchant came out of the inner room of the main house. "Did this trip go smoothly?" The middle-aged merchant leaned against the table and sat down, and asked the young man sitting on the other side.
"It's going well, our goods are all ready this time" Saying this, the young man took out a sealed envelope from his close-fitting pocket and handed it over, "Shopkeeper, this is our list of goods this time, you can take a look" The shopkeeper Feng who took the envelope carefully checked the envelope, and saw that the seal on the envelope and a few marks on the envelope were still there, and he opened the envelope with a relaxed expression.
"Baga" just glanced at the contents of the envelope a few times, and the shopkeeper Feng, who was still calm just now, suddenly came out with a Japanese sentence, "Where did this Zhao Zhi come from?" How could he have killed so many Imperial warriors? The confused young man took the information handed over by Shopkeeper Feng and quickly read it, and he was also shocked. Although this information was brought back by him, the envelope was sealed, and an intelligence officer of his level had no right to look at the information inside.
It was clear that just a few months ago, a group of unknown people attacked the county seat of Zhangwu in Shanxi, and in the same month, they attacked the Changxin Coal Mine in Ping'an Town, a few hundred miles away. In these two attacks, all the Japanese puppet troops stationed in these two places were broken, the facilities of the two coal mines were all destroyed, and a large number of materials, weapons and ammunition were lost.
The Shanxi Special High School suspects that these people led by Zhao Zhi belong to the national army sequence, because only the national army units are equipped with a large number of submachine guns and German-style steel helmets, and according to reliable information, Zhao Zhi was injured in the battle of Ping'an Town and has been airlifted from Xi'an to Chongqing for treatment. In the danger level of the special high class, the first-class target can be killed, and it is killed as soon as it is discovered, and the special high class sets Zhao Zhi as a first-class dangerous person, which shows that the Japanese military hates Zhao Zhi to the core.
"Toriyama, you immediately contact us to plant the rats in the Ministry of Military Affairs, you must find out Zhao Zhi's situation, and if necessary, you can sacrifice one or two mice" The middle-aged man said with a gloomy face, and the young man sitting on the other side Toriyama shrank his neck for no reason. There are only a few rats in the Ministry of Military Affairs who were bought by them with money and beauty, although these people are not in high positions, they can also have access to some secrets, so they sacrificed hard-won rats for Zhao Zhi, is this a bit too expensive? Or is it a bit too much to make such a big move for the sake of a person who doesn't know the details yet?
"Your Excellency Shaozuo, do you think about it again, just for the sake of this person named Zhao Zhi, is it a bit too big to sacrifice the rats we worked so hard to find?" Toriyama stood at the table with a bow, not to reason with his superiors, but out of the responsibility of an intelligence officer. What's more, although Toriyama found his superiors ruthlessly, he was still very generous to his subordinates, and he would never be embarrassed for himself because of his own persuasion.
"Is it costly?" The middle-aged man known as Shao Zuo turned around and entered the inner room, brought a newspaper and threw it on the table for Toriyama to read by himself, "There is already news of Zhao Zhi in the newspaper, you can see for yourself, he is now a hero in the mouth of the Zhina, the national government is trying to shape Zhao Zhi into their big hero, you said that if this big hero of theirs suddenly dies, how will the national government react?" Will the common people still trust the national government? There was a hint of coldness in the eyes of the middle-aged man, and the two rows of yellow teeth were even more clucking, if Zhao Zhi was in front of him, Toriyama believed that his superiors would immediately pounce on him and bite him to death.
"You will send a report to Shanghai in a while, and ask them to transfer a team of ninjas over, our people in Chongqing are not his opponents" The middle-aged man pondered for a while, since this Zhao Zhi can use dozens of people and some prisoners of war to take two places, and order all the Japanese soldiers in these two places to be broken, he is also a person with great wisdom, he doesn't think that this person in Chongqing is Zhao Zhi's opponent. Now that he has decided to kill this person, he has to do things beautifully, and it is best to kill the so-called hero of the Shina people in public, so he needs the most elite assassin master to handle this matter.
Although he didn't know how his superiors planned this, Toriyama agreed, turned around and walked out of the main house. The sun is rising, Feng Ji grocery store is open for business, and the kind-looking Feng shopkeeper greets the guests who come and go from the south to the north in a Sichuan dialect. This Feng Ji grocery store is actually the stronghold of the Japanese special high school in Chongqing, Feng shopkeeper's real name is Watanabe Kazuo, he is a veteran spy who has lived in Sichuan for many years, and he has dozens of special high school agents living in Chongqing, and he has secretly bribed many senior government officials and military personnel, and has been transmitting information for the special high school headquarters in Shanghai, except for the old man who looks at the yard, the others are his people.