The Spy

Chapter 404: Encirclement and Suppression of Xiaohuangshan

At this time, Xu Xiaoer was counting the spoils of the house raid.

Boss Yang makes money by selling fake ginseng, but he still has a lot of real silk made from authentic mulberry silk.

This time all of it was stolen by Xu Xiaoer. After all the hard work and effort for so long, all of it became Xu Xiaoer's wealth.

In other words, the wealth of Xu Xiaoer, Kamei and Takeda.

Xu Xiaoer didn't care about anything else. He first selected some high-quality silk and sent someone to deliver it to Master Rong.

What was promised to Bai Xu was the most important, and Xu Xiaoer would never go back on his word.

Even if Boss Yang's silk factory didn't have it, Xu Xiaoer would go somewhere else to buy it and give it to Bai Xu.

Loving someone is like raising flowers. Xu Xiaoer will definitely take good care of Bai Xu.

Japanese military headquarters in Wuhan city.

Oda angrily threw Xiao Huangshan's information on the table.

"Baga, these bandits are so despicable that they have so many weapons. What are you doing as an intelligence department? You only found out after the empire's warriors were attacked."

The Japanese officer who handed over the intelligence stood in front of Oda with his head down and trembling. They had never thought that the bandits would dare to attack the transport team escorted by the regular army.

Their investigators were busy dealing with the Guo Party and the Red Party spies and had no time to care about the bandits in the mountains.

"I'll give you three days to wipe out the group of people in Xiaohuang Mountain."

We must kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. If Xiaohuangshan is not eliminated, there will be more and more daring people in the future and the cost of transportation will be even greater.

Japan is a small country with a population far smaller than that of China. They do not have as abundant military resources. As they expand larger and larger, they need to leave enough troops to garrison in various places.

Accordingly, they dispersed their few remaining soldiers.

If more soldiers were sent to protect the transport, there would be even fewer soldiers on the front lines, which would seriously hinder the empire's progress.

Oda didn't allow that to happen.

"Hay."

The Japanese officer nodded his head and accepted the order. He only had three days to gather enough people and firepower to quickly surround and kill the bandits in Xiaohuangshan.

At this time, Niu Yuanxiang, who was unaware of the situation, was communicating with the organization via radio.

After he reported the matter, the organization agreed to leave him one radio station. Niu Yuanxiang also sent someone to hand over the other radio station to the organization, and the organization praised him.

It is not just a radio station, but also a guarantee of the safety of comrades. Many outstanding comrades died because they did not receive the notification in time.

Xiaohuangshan seized a lot of supplies this time. A portion of them were used to support the front line where food and medicine were in short supply, and only enough was left to sustain them until the New Year.

Xiao Huangshan has not joined the organization yet, so he can exchange the things needed by the organization, or give money directly.

For an organization, materials are far more important than money.

Organizing guerrilla warfare in various places is very difficult. More supplies can ensure the survival of more soldiers. People are the foundation and their basis. If we maintain our strength, we can have everything in the future.

Niu Yuanxiang understood this deeply.

Besides, for him, this is just the beginning. If they can grab these supplies, there will always be a second and third time.

He would not act rashly. He would conduct a thorough investigation before each action to ensure the safety of the people in Xiaohuangshan.

He is not a Guo soldier. Some officers use the lives of soldiers to get promoted and make money for themselves.

Xiao Huangshan will become our comrades in the future. Protecting them is equivalent to leaving more seeds.

Niu Yuanxiang attaches great importance to defense. The Japanese will not suffer in vain, and their revenge must be prevented.

He knew very well that it would not be difficult for the Japanese to track them down. There were not many large-scale armed forces outside Wuhan, and even fewer who dared or were able to do so. Moreover, their whereabouts could not be kept secret.

The Japanese will definitely be able to find them if they investigate.

There will be a battle between Xiaohuangshan and the Japanese, and Niu Yuanxiang has already made adequate preparations.

Xiaohuangshan has a complex terrain, with numerous cliffs and a huge drop in height. There is also a large area of ​​forest that blocks the view, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The bandits here have existed for so many years. The Guo army had sent troops to encircle and suppress them in the past, but to no avail. After being defeated several times, they no longer cared about them.

The same goes for the Japanese. It is not difficult to defend Xiaohuangshan. Niu Yuanxiang is not afraid of them coming, but is afraid that they will not come.

When they come, we can kill some more Japanese devils.

They have the advantage of time, location and everything else. If the Japanese come too few, they will be just sending food to them. If there are too many, the Japanese will not be able to catch up with them even if they want to run away.

After all, people are the most important. As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood.

French Concession, Yuanda Casino.

Wang Wugang followed Scarface to inspect the casino and kept his eyes on Li Baoquan at table number seven.

Li Baoquan was watching the dealer shaking the dice and shouting out big or small. He was a fellow villager of casino owner Zheng Yujie. He had followed Zheng Yujie around the country in the past few years and was once the closest person to the casino owner.

However, he has offended many people recently and done a lot of bad things, so he is not well liked by Zheng Yujie.

Li Baoquan always felt that he and Zheng Yujie were from the same hometown, and Zheng Yujie would definitely take care of him, and he would be fine in a few days.

It is important for people to know themselves, but unfortunately Li Baoquan did not have that.

Another thing is that he knows a lot of Zheng Yujie's secrets.

Zheng Yujie could not tolerate such a worthless person who always caused trouble for him and might expose hidden dangers.

Wang Wu was met by Zheng Yujie, who admired him very much.

He is brave and resourceful, and he did a great job on Gao Laosan's job. Scarface is his subordinate, and Scarface's subordinates are naturally his people as well.

It would be strange if Zheng Yujie had no objection since Gao Laosan killed so many of his people.

It was just not convenient for him to take action against Gao Laosan, and he could not directly target the boss behind Gao Laosan, as that would lead to a big war, and Zhang Wanlin would not allow it and would definitely stop them.

Zheng Yujie had long wanted to get rid of Li Baoquan, but the people around him were not suitable to do it.

After all, Li Baoquan has followed him since the beginning, and if this news gets out, Zheng Yujie will lose face.

It just so happened that Wang Wu had just entered the casino. He was a newcomer with good skills, making him very suitable to do this job.

Wang Wu took this matter very seriously. This was a task assigned by his boss, so he avoided Scarface.

If you do a good job, you will not only be able to meet the boss, but also have the chance to be appreciated by Zheng Yujie.

If he wants to replace Scarface, he must get Zheng Yujie's support. This is his opportunity.

Wang Wu had been watching Li Baoquan for several hours. He had been gambling, eating and drinking, and occasionally making advances towards the beautiful young dealers in the casino.

When Li Baoquan ran out of chips while gambling, he went to get them directly. Wang Wu saw the helpless expressions of the casino staff and knew that this was not the first time Li Baoquan had done such a thing.

No wonder Zheng Yujie wanted to get rid of him.

This is their own casino. Relying on his seniority and strong relationship with the boss, he comes to gamble and takes the chips directly. If he loses, the chips belong to the casino, and if he wins, the chips are his. Who would like such a person?
He is capable of causing more harm than good, and there is no benefit in keeping him around.

He is indeed a person without self-awareness.

Noticing that Li Baoquan was about to leave, Wang Wu quietly followed him.

Li Baoquan drank a lot of wine and walked unsteadily. He even vomited all over the floor while holding onto the wall by the roadside.

Wang Wu followed him home carefully. There were too many pedestrians on the road, so it would be best if he died at home without anyone knowing.

"You, who are you?"

When Li Baoquan walked into the house and saw Wang Wu following him in, he immediately yelled, "Get out of here right now."

Wang Wu ignored him and closed the door.

He rushed in front of Li Baoquan, grabbed Li Baoquan's neck with both hands and twisted it hard.

"Crack." Li Baoquan lost his life, his eyes rolled back and he fell to the ground.

This guy almost made Wang Wu laugh. He had no vigilance at all. Did he really think that no one would dare to touch him as long as he was with Zheng Yujie?

Or do you think you have no enemies and no one will come to you?

Wang Wu is an undercover agent of the Military Control Commission, so he cannot reveal too many assassination methods, so a simple slitting of the neck is just right.

Wang Wu took the house key from Li Baoquan and put his body into a black bag prepared in advance.

The body needs to be disposed of. It would be best if no one knew that Li Baoquan was killed and treated as if he was missing.

This is Zheng Yujie's request.

After dealing with the body, Wang Wu sneaked out of Li Baoquan's house.

Liu Ming has been protecting Wang Wu secretly, and he is doing the dirty work to prevent Zheng Yujie from doing anything bad.

If Zheng Yujie really dared to move, even if it would affect the mission, the two would kill each other first to protect themselves.

The team leader had said before that they were allowed to act at their own discretion during the mission, and their own safety was the top priority.

Safety first.

This has always been Xu Qingyun's habit.

Wearing a straw hat, Wang Wu filled the bag into a round shape and walked on the road, looking like a countryman going to the city for the first time carrying a large bag of things.

Wang Wu came to the river designated by Zheng Yujie.

"Boss, the person is inside. I also brought back his house key. I didn't touch anything in the house."

Wang Wu put the bag on the ground and handed the key to Zheng Yujie.

"No one saw it, right?"

Zheng Yujie asked proactively, and Wang Wu nodded immediately. He was very alert at this time. Fortunately, Zheng Yujie came alone and there was no one else.

If there was someone lying in ambush, Liu Ming would definitely warn him. Since there was no such person, it means Zheng Yujie came alone.

Zheng Yujie smiled and asked, "Well done, what's up with your straw hat?"

Wang Wu said with a smile: "I was afraid of being discovered carrying such a large bag on the road, so I thought of pretending to be a farmer. I learned this in the army."

"Well done, you have a bright future. Work hard in the future, and I won't let you down."

Zheng Yujie saw Li Baoquan's body and sighed.

Before he became rich, Li Baoquan followed him in battles and saved his life, so the relationship between the two was indeed very good.

Unfortunately, he took these achievements as benefits and constantly caused trouble for Zheng Yujie, saying everywhere that he was Zheng Yujie's best brother. Not only did he cause trouble, but he also got all his food and drink from Zheng Yujie while doing nothing himself.

He also told others that he deserved these and that without him, Zheng Yujie would have died long ago.

To repay a favor.

Zheng Yujie tolerated him for several years, but finally couldn't bear it anymore and attacked him.

"thank you boss."

Wang Wu bowed his head to thank him, and Zheng Yujie told him to go back and rest. What happened today must be kept strictly confidential and not told to anyone.

It would not do Zheng Yujie any good if the news of him attacking his own brother got out.

Zheng Yujie didn't want to kill to silence the witness, so Wang Wu was relieved.

He didn't know that Zheng Yujie really admired him, and Li Baoquan should have died long ago. If others really knew that it was him who did it, no one would really say anything, only his opponents would use this to attack him.

Everyone knows that Li Baoquan treats Zheng Yujie like a bank and is completely taking advantage of his seniority.

He deserved to die.

Outside the city of Wuhan, Captain Teng Chuan sat in a car and marched with a long team of soldiers.

He received the task of wiping out Xiaohuangshan.

There were about 800 people in Xiaohuangshan, and their firepower was very strong. His superiors wanted him to lead an entire battalion to go out, but Tengchuan refused.

To deal with a group of bandits, it was overestimating them to dispatch a battalion of the imperial regular army.

Tengchuan's battalion had a full strength of more than 1,100 people, including four infantry squadrons, an artillery squadron, as well as a baggage train, a communications team, and so on.

He only brought out more than half of the people this time.

Two infantry squadrons and one artillery squadron.

These people were enough for him to completely wipe out the bandits in Xiaohuangshan.

If it weren't for the request from his superiors, he would not have brought those more than 500 puppet soldiers.

There were many Guo soldiers who surrendered or were captured, and they were all organized into puppet troops by the Japanese. Although there were only more than 500 of them, they claimed to be a regiment to the outside world.

This kind of thing is very common in the puppet army.

It is clearly the size of a battalion, but they insist on saying it is a regiment.

He dared to say that there were more than a thousand people as a brigade or even a division.

The Japanese don't care about them, no matter what they call them, as long as they listen and obey.

Japan was short of soldiers and if it wanted to rule the vast China, it had to have Chinese help. It can be said that they learned this from the Qing Dynasty.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty also had a small population and also used a lot of surrendered Chinese. It eventually ruled China for more than two hundred years.

Xiaohuangshan is more than sixty miles away from Wuhan City.

They would definitely be able to get there in one day, and then after a night's rest, Tengchuan would be confident that he could resolve the battle tomorrow morning.

This time he brought more than a thousand people, more than 600 of whom were imperial warriors.

In terms of manpower, weapons, combat effectiveness, etc., they crushed those bandits.

Leading so many people to fight bandits was not an honor but a shame for Tengchuan.

He didn't think about failure.

With such a powerful force, there is no possibility of failure.

"Military advisor, the devils are coming."

In the evening, on Xiaohuang Mountain, Niu Yuanxiang was treating a patient when a sentry suddenly ran back.

"I'll tell you later."

Niu Yuanxiang was not in a hurry. He wrote a prescription for the man and asked him to find someone to help. Then he looked at the sentry.

"How many devils came? Where are they now?"

Niu Yuanxiang was not arrogant. It was already evening. No matter how stupid the Japanese were, they could not attack at night. Their stronghold was in Xiaohuang Mountain. It would take time to get from the bottom of the mountain to the top. By the time they got up, it would be dark.

Not to mention that Niu Yuanxiang had set up several lines of defense.

They didn't come up that fast.

What Niu Yuanxiang was most worried about was the Japanese air bombing, so he deliberately changed the layout of Xiaohuangshan to make their air bombs have little effect on Xiaohuangshan.

As long as the planes didn't come and only the army came, he wouldn't worry at all.

Not to mention that one man can hold off ten thousand at Xiaohuangshan, if he only relies on people to fight, he would not be afraid of thousands of people.

"At least a thousand people, including regular Japanese troops and puppet troops."

The uniforms of the puppet army were different from those of the regular Japanese army and were very easy to identify. The sentry admired the military advisor very much. No wonder people said that their military advisor was the reincarnation of Zhuge Kongming. Even when the Japanese came, he was not panicked at all and even treated people first.

(End of this chapter)