Bright Sword: Japs, times have changed

Zhang Yuntian was like an old ox plowing the fields, traveling back and forth between the base and the county town tirelessly.

He returned to Zhang Zizai's camp in the county town and informed him that Lin Qiang agreed to the plan.

"So, the battalion commander's intention is to let the Japanese know about the existence of the special forces team, so that they will be wary, and at the same time, make the Japanese believe that this special forces team is not in the base, so as to lure the Japanese special forces team to carry out the decapitation operation."

Zhang Zizai pondered for a moment, then continued, "These things are easy to do individually, but putting them together is not so easy."

"Yes."

However, Zhang Yuntian seemed more confident about this and said, "Everything depends on human effort. This plan was proposed by us, and the battalion commander used his own brain to cooperate with us, so we must do it no matter what."

The two conspired for the entire night, and it wasn't until the next morning that they came up with a detailed plan.

It was at this time that Okamoto, the head of the gendarmerie's intelligence department, came to Zhang Zizai's camp again. Fortunately, there were spies there, otherwise the Japanese might have really discovered their conspiracy.

This time he came to see Zhang Zizai mainly for intelligence matters. Since his superiors were urging Okamoto, he had no choice but to urge Zhang Zizai.

The first thing he said upon entering the room was to inquire about the progress of Zhang Zizai's intelligence: "Mr. Zhang, how is the intelligence gathering going?"

Zhang Zizai did not answer immediately. He asked Okamoto to sit down first, made him a cup of hot tea, and brought him some cakes.

After finishing all this, Zhang Zizai finally said, "Mr. Okamoto, I doubt you have the ability to predict the future!"

Okamoto was confused and asked, "Zhang-san, what do you mean?"

Zhang Zizai explained with a smile: "Okamoto-kun, if you didn't have this ability, why would you come to me the first time I got the information?"

Okamoto turned around in astonishment and looked at Zhang Zizai, who was smiling. He asked with a hint of disbelief in his tone, "Zhang-san, have you investigated this clearly?"

Okamoto was very clear about Zhang Zizai's abilities, and every time he was needed to investigate something, he would quickly give a satisfactory answer.

As he expected, this time was no exception!

He originally thought that Zhang Zizai would need several days to figure it out, but he didn't expect that he would figure it out in just one day!

This time I came here just to put some pressure on Zhang Zizai, hoping that he can investigate the matter quickly.

totally unexpected!

As planned, Zhang Zizai revealed the news about the special forces: "Okamoto-kun, the truth is, ever since you gave me the mission, I immediately launched an investigation, and I've actually gained something. A distant relative of mine wants to come and seek refuge with me. I figured he'd come from the Eighth Route Army defense zone and probably know something, so I asked him about it."

"Guess what? I actually got some clues. My relative said he used to live in a village called Tianma. There was an Eighth Route Army base in the hills behind the village. This Eighth Route Army wasn't very big, but he could tell it was completely different from the other Eighth Route Army units. Even the guns they used were different."

"Once, when he went up the mountain to chop firewood, he ran into this Eighth Route Army team training, but he was discovered and asked to leave the mountain after just a glance."

This information tempted Okamoto like a peerless beauty, and coupled with his trust in Zhang Zizai, he did not doubt the authenticity of this information at all.

"Yoshi!"

"Zhang-san, you have a very good conscience!"

After praising him, Okamoto couldn't wait to ask, "Where is this village?"

Zhang Zizai breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It's on a mountain about 70 kilometers south of the county seat. It's easy to find. There's only one village in that area."

"Yoshi!"

After hearing this, Okamoto stood up, patted Zhang Zizai on the shoulder, and said, "Zhang-san, your information is very timely. I will report it to Yamamoto-kun right away. Don't worry, you will definitely benefit from it afterwards!"

Zhang Zizai was a shrewd man, and he quickly said, "Mr. Okamoto, I'm not doing this for personal gain. Besides, you've already given me money, but regarding my relative..."

If you are going to perform a show, you have to do it completely so that if the Japanese become suspicious and come to investigate in the future, you will have a response plan.

"Just do it yourself. Don't forget to let me meet him when the time comes. He provided me with this information."

"No problem, thank you very much, Okamoto-kun!"

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Gendarmerie.

Yamamoto Ikki frowned after hearing this: "Can you confirm the authenticity of this information?"

"Absolutely no problem!"

Okamoto had complete trust in Zhang Zizai. Even if he suspected that something was wrong with one of his own people, he would never suspect Zhang Zizai.

That’s because none of the information Zhang Zizai had previously provided was wrong, and it was also very detailed.

"The last intelligence seemed to have been provided by this puppet soldier named Zhang Zizai."

Yamamoto Ikki narrowed his eyes, his tone filled with murderous intent: "You don't know what the outcome will be, so how can you still trust him now?"

"Yamamoto-kun."

Okamoto changed his tone and retorted, "There was nothing wrong with the previous intelligence. Even Commander Yoshio Shinozuka didn't expect the Eighth Route Army in Heiyun Village to have a heavy artillery regiment. This is something no one had imagined would happen. I don't think it has anything to do with Zhang Sang's intelligence."

That's what he said, and that's the logic, but Yamamoto Ikki always felt that something was wrong.

Or perhaps it could be said that this information seemed to come too quickly and too smoothly.

In his experience, if something goes too smoothly, it may not be a good thing.

For example, the attack on Yang Village.

This information is very important, at least to Okamoto. Ono has not recovered yet, and the doctor said that there is a high possibility that he will be deported back to the island.

Okamoto was drooling over the vacant position of regiment commander. If he could destroy the Eighth Route Army's special forces this time, he would definitely be the main contributor.

Then the position of wing commander would naturally be his in the future.

As for Zhang Zizai, Okamoto will definitely not treat him unfairly.

He seemed to have already envisioned the scene of his own conferment of the title, so he urged, "Yamamoto-kun, you'll know the authenticity of the information by going and seeing it yourself. There's no point in doubting it here."

Hearing this, Yamamoto Ikki nodded in agreement.

But he didn't plan to let the secret service team verify the authenticity because he had more important plans.

Once the intelligence is confirmed to be true, his first goal will be to decapitate the leaders of the Eighth Route Army in Heiyunzhai.

Afterwards, they quickly rushed to the location of the Eighth Route Army Special Forces and dealt a devastating blow to them.

In his opinion, this was a plan that killed two birds with one stone, and the prerequisite was that the information brought by Okamoto was true.

"I'll leave this matter to you."

"Hi Yi!"