Chapter 24 Female Spy Matsubara Kioka (Middle)

  Dong Li Mao and Li Yuanyuan returned to the cave one after another, only to see several brothers surrounding Ji Xiang, laughing and teasing. Wang Jia Gui was grinning from ear to ear, gesturing with his hands and feet: "Since you can sleep with a Japanese devil, why not play with us brothers for a bit..."

  "Get out...get out quickly..." Ji Xiang shouted in terror, surprisingly speaking in standard Mandarin.

  At the sight of this, Dong Li Mao guessed a little bit and was furious in his heart. He raised his gun and fired two shots at the top of the cave, scaring the people around Ji Xiang to crouch down with their heads covered.

  Dong Li Mao furiously rushed forward, pointing his gun at Wang Jia Gui's head: "Second Brother, I didn't think you'd take advantage of someone in trouble! Believe it or not, I'll shoot you dead with one bullet right now!"

  Wang Jiagui stretched out his right hand to grab the barrel of the gun, not afraid at all. Instead, he stared at Dong Li Mao and roared: "Come on! Fire the gun! She's just a slut who sleeps with little devils! Brothers are also men, why can't they play..."

  Dong Li Mao's anger intensified, and with one kick, he sent Wang Jia Gui tumbling to the ground. With a loud clang, he cocked his rifle: "You're still worthy of calling yourself a man? Are you doing what men should be doing?" He was so enraged that he really wanted to kill Wang Jia Gui on the spot.

  Zhu Yongsheng rushed forward and grabbed the barrel of the gun, holding it high. With a few loud bangs, the bullets that were originally aimed at Wang Jiagui all shot towards the top of the cave.

  "Dragon! The two of them saved your life!" Zhu Yongsheng shouted loudly.

  Li Yuanyuan walked over to Ji Xiang's side and helped her cover up her exposed body, glaring furiously at Wang Jia Gui.

  Dong Li Mao listened to Zhu Yong Sheng's words and asked with some confusion: "He saved my life?"

  "Is that so? Have you forgotten? If it weren't for Er Tiao, you would have died under the enemy's bayonet a year ago." Zhu Yongsheng lowered the raised gun barrel.

  Dong Li Mao, of course, did not know what happened a year ago. That was the business of Tai Ye Ye and had nothing to do with him. However, from a certain perspective, if Tai Ye Ye had died under the Japanese bayonet a year ago, would there still be his current self? Thinking this way, Dong Li Mao felt that he also owed some gratitude to Wang Jia Gui.

  "Get out of the cave, all of you!" Dong Li Mao shouted at the others, then walked forward and stretched out his hand to Wang Jia Gui: "Second Brother, although I owe you a life, it doesn't mean I can let you do whatever you want. If you bear a grudge against me for this, you can take my life anytime."

  Wang Jia Gui's eyes widened, staring at Dong Li Mao for a while before grasping the hand extended by Dong Li Mao. With a hearty laugh, he said: "Lian Chang, even if you had shot me dead just now, I wouldn't have held any grudges against you in the afterlife. In this world, the only person who can make Wang Jia Gui submit willingly is you, Dong Jia Cheng." He stood up, glanced at Ji Xiang crouched on the ground, and followed others out of the cave with a swing of his arm.

  "Sister, let her put on some clothes and then ask her what she knows," said Dong Li Mao as he also walked towards the cave entrance.

  Ji Xiang's eyes welled up with gratitude as she stared blankly at Dong Li Mao's back, and her gaze was caught by Li Yuanyuan.

  "What's your name?" Li Yuanyuan asked in Chinese this time, because she had heard the woman speaking Chinese earlier and thought she was a Chinese person who had been captured by the Japanese.

  "Kikyou Matsubara."

  Li Yuyuan was taken aback and asked again: "So you're saying you're Japanese?"

  Ji Xiang nodded and picked up the clothes on the ground, starting to put them on her body.

  "Wasn't the man who died outside named Nakamura?" Li Yuanyuan thought of the woman's cry she heard in the woods, so she asked.

  Ji Xiang seemed startled, stopped dressing and stared at Li Yuanyuan with both eyes.

  "We heard your cries for help on our way here." Li Yuanyuan explained with a smile.

  Keiko seemed to understand, nodded and continued dressing.

  "What happened before we got here?"

  Ji Xiang put on her clothes, sat down with her hands around her knees, and only then did she begin to speak about what had just happened.

  "Your Chinese is very good, did you study it specially?" Li Yuanyuan asked again after Ji Xiang finished telling her story.

  "Yes." Keiko replied.

  "What do you do? I'm asking what aspect of work are you mainly in charge of?" Li Yuanyuan was worried that Ji Xiang wouldn't understand, so she especially emphasized and asked again.

  "Because I speak Chinese well and am a woman, they had me disguise myself as a local and gather military intelligence."

  "What is your main task here?"

  "Because the Imperial Army's repeated bombings of the transportation lines had not completely destroyed this highway, our mission was to find the bombing's weak points and report back to headquarters with precise geographical locations."

  Li Yuyuan couldn't help but admire Dong Limao's judgment. What Ji Xiang said was almost exactly the same as his own judgment.

  "So you've already found the weak point of this road?" Li Yuanyuan wanted to know if the enemy had figured out the location of the military supply station.

  "We just got here two days ago, if we knew the highway's weaknesses, we wouldn't have sent an action team to ambush the convoy in the mountain pass. It was just a probing attack to test the firepower of the escort troops, but unexpectedly all the action team members were killed."

  Li Yuanyuan let out a sigh of relief, apparently the Japanese army still didn't know that there was an arsenal in the village ahead.

  "Which department of the Japanese army do you belong to?" Li Yuanyuan asked again after a pause.

  Ji Xiang hesitated for a moment before speaking: "We are from the Eagle Plan organization."

  "What is the Eagle Plan organization? What kind of organization is this?" Li Yuanyuan had never heard that the Japanese army had such an organization before.

  "It was a special agency infiltrating into the Chinese Expeditionary Force and integrating with local ethnic minorities."

  Li Yuanyuan took a deep breath and immediately asked: "Who is your highest commander?"

  "To be specific, I'm not very clear, our squad, code-named Owl, is responsible for scouting the rear military situation of the Chinese army, with the goal of providing accurate targets for air strikes." Ji Xiang replied, seemingly remembering something, and continued: "However, I heard Yamamoto mention that he was only responsible to one person, Meng Shi Yi Hao." After finishing speaking, her gaze fell on the corpse of the man who had been beheaded.

  Li Yuyuan also followed her gaze and took a look at the corpse lying on the ground: "Was that man named Yamamoto? Was he your superior?"

  "Hmm, he was our Owl Team's squad leader." Kiyo shifted her gaze away from Yamamoto's corpse.

  "What Yamamoto said about Mangshi No. 1 is the top leader of your Eagle Plan organization?" Li Yuanyuan also heard about Mangshi No. 1 for the first time.

  "It should be." Kika nodded in response.

  "Think carefully again, have you ever heard of the true name of Mangshi No. 1?"

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