Traveling through the Republic of China to become a special agent, the system is very easy for me

The 28th year of the Republic of China

March 15th at 6pm.

It was a very ordinary day. In the Chinese area of ​​Shanghai after its fall, along the Suzhou River, the lights were turned on and the scene was bustling.

A young man in his twenties was leaning against the wall more than ten meters away from the gate of Yihongyuan, with a small cigarette stand in front of him.

It is called a cigarette stand, but in fact it is just a thin rectangular wooden board of about one square meter. There is a foldable shelf under the board, which can be folded up at any time. Through the cloth strap above the board, the cigarette stand can be hung around the neck and moved around. It is very convenient. This is also a standard feature of cigarette vendors in Shanghai.

The Yihongyuan behind him is a famous brothel in Shanghai. A brothel is a den of money-spending. The label of Yihongyuan is a high-end entertainment venue. Here, spending money is enjoyment and a cup of tea can be sold at a sky-high price.

The prostitutes here are not just ordinary prostitutes. They are fashionable, charming and seductive, and have special skills in playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, or playing musical instruments.

Their charming talents always make wealthy people infatuated and spend a lot of money. After all, as a "high-end brothel", they must always come up with some tricks to keep people entertained.

At this time, there were singing and dancing inside the wall, string music was playing, and bursts of laughter came through the wall, hitting the young man's eardrums.

The young man's name is Yuan Ye. He is neither ugly nor handsome. He is probably the kind of person who would be inconspicuous in a crowd.

He looks like an ordinary person, but he is not an ordinary person. In fact, he is the captain of the 8th Squadron of the 1st Action Battalion of the Operations Department of the Military Control Commission Shanghai Station. He has been in the Military Control Commission Shanghai Station for less than half a year. Before that, he had been in the Loyalty and National Salvation Army in southern Jiangsu.

The Loyal and Patriotic Army was originally called the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Detachment. It was an armed force directly under the Military Control Commission during the Battle of Shanghai. It was composed of Military Control Commission personnel, young students, Green Gang members, Hong Gang members, and other people from all walks of life. It was responsible for harassing and restraining the Japanese army behind enemy lines.

Yuan Ye was a student at Shanghai Zhichi University, which is said to be the predecessor of Shanghai International Studies University. He was from Hangzhou, and his father was a small businessman who ran a grocery store in Hangzhou.

At that time, he and several of his classmates who were also passionate young people joined the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Rangers. The team had more than 10,000 people. But after the battle of Shanghai Nanshi, Yuan Ye realized the difference and cruelty between the battlefield he longed for on campus and the real battlefield. The rangers suffered heavy losses in this battle, with only more than 2,000 people left. The team withdrew to southern Jiangsu and was reorganized into the Loyal and Patriotic Army.

He was a man who had survived a hail of bullets and was very lucky, but several of his classmates were not so lucky and all died on the battlefield.

Because Yuan Ye was young and had some combat experience, he was transferred to the First Action Squad of the First Action Battalion of the Operations Department of the Military Control Commission Shanghai Station as an operative five months ago. Half a month ago, he was transferred to the Eighth Action Squad of the First Action Battalion as a squad leader.

The reason why he was promoted from an ordinary operative to the captain of an action team in such a short time was not because of his outstanding operational ability.

I remember that his first action when he first arrived was to assassinate Colonel Katsuo Tanaka of the Japanese Army General Staff. Five Military Intelligence Bureau operatives died in that operation, including the captain of his first team. He was one of the three survivors. He didn't know how he survived, but it was probably because he was nimble and could run fast.

It was really because the old operatives suffered too much loss, some died, some defected, and many new people were recruited. He became the team leader just because he was the tallest among the short ones.

In fact, today is his first mission after becoming the captain of the Eighth Team.

His team had just been formed, and the team members were transferred from the Loyal and Patriotic Army. They were all newcomers in their twenties.

Now one of the team members named Zheng Chao was sitting more than ten meters away on the other side of the gate of Yihongyuan, pretending to be a shoe shiner.

The other two team members named Zhang Yong and Li Hui were sitting at a wonton stall on the roadside opposite the gate of Yihongyuan, eating wontons, waiting for the target to appear.

Their target was Li Yuandao, the commander of the First Army of the Peaceful National Construction Army. According to intelligence from the station, although Li Yuandao was a soldier, he loved romance, visiting prostitutes and drinking. Tired of the vulgar women in the garrison, he came secretly to Shanghai from southern Jiangsu today with two followers, and went to Yihongyuan to seek pleasure at around six o'clock in the afternoon.

Stationmaster Wang Tianwang issued an order to kill the traitors according to Boss Dai's instructions, and the task fell to the Operations Department.

The Operations Department has five operations brigades, and the Chief of the Operations Department, Chu Yuntian, ordered the First Operations Brigade to implement it.

Then the captain of the First Action Brigade, Shen Zuliang, assigned the task to Yuan Ye's Eighth Squad.

Yuan Ye read the information provided by the Intelligence Department. This Li Yuandao was no ordinary person. He graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in his early years, and later studied at the Japanese Military Academy. After that, he participated in the Revolution of 1911 and was quite prestigious. He always held a large number of troops and was a very influential figure. Unexpectedly, he has now become a traitor.

What Yuan Ye couldn't understand was why he let his team of newcomers carry out the assassination of such a heavyweight figure?

After all, the First Action Brigade has eight action teams, and there are many teams with stronger operational capabilities than theirs.

Does Captain Shen think this mission is easy, or is he optimistic about this new team and wants to give them some training?

No matter what Captain Shen thought, Yuan Ye was unsure, not only about himself, but also about the new members in the team. These new members were just transferred from the army, they were very young, and had never participated in an assassination operation. He didn't know them at all, and didn't know if they would fail during the operation.

To be honest, I was a little nervous when I went on my first mission. After all, there is a big difference between the assassination operations in enemy-occupied areas and the harassment operations behind enemy lines by the Loyal and Patriotic Army.

Fortunately, most of my teammates were experienced agents at the time. As soon as the gunshots sounded, I was no longer so nervous and quickly got into the action. I luckily killed one of the target's followers and escaped unscathed.

So the superiors appointed him as a team leader, probably because they thought his military and psychological qualities were okay. However, Yuan Ye was very nervous when he was the team leader. He knew his own level. His military and psychological qualities were crappy. It was purely luck, like a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

Can a rookie team leader who is forced to do something unnecessarily, together with these young new team members, complete such an important task?

But Yuan Ye couldn't care less and could only do it reluctantly. It was the duty of a soldier to obey orders. Who dared to disobey orders, unless he didn't want to have his head?

Now that the mission has been issued, we have no choice but to carry it out.

Yuan Ye could only hope for the best. After all, he was once a college student and was not stupid. He knew that this was his first time leading a team to carry out a mission and he had to plan carefully and not allow for any carelessness as human lives were at stake.

He personally surveyed the scene and developed a detailed action plan and a retreat route after success.

Since he could not predict which direction Li Yuandao would come from, Yuan Ye arranged a person at each of the ten meters east and west ends of the Yihongyuan gate. He dressed himself as a cigarette dealer at the east end, Zheng Chao dressed himself as a shoe shiner at the west end, and two team members, Zhang Yong and Li Hui, were arranged directly opposite the gate.

However, having himself play the role of a cigarette dealer and Zheng Chao play the role of a shoe shiner was just a small modification he made to the plan when he set out. Yuan Ye was quite satisfied with this sudden idea.

He felt that this would help him hide his identity and make it easier for him to move around.

No matter which end the target appears from, when they see the cigarette vendor or shoe shiner giving the signal that the target has appeared, the rest of the people will slowly move forward to approach the target and start to take action.

After the operation was successful, they rushed through an alley on the opposite side and jumped into the Suzhou River under the cover of night. This section of the Suzhou River was relatively narrow, only forty or fifty meters wide. When they swam to the other side, they would reach the French Concession, which was out of reach for the Japanese.

The reason why Yuan Ye chose Zheng Chao, Zhang Yong and Li Hui was because in his team, only they could swim.

Although the number of people seemed a little small, Yuan Ye thought that since the intelligence said that Li Yuandao came to Shanghai secretly to seek pleasure and brought only two followers, then four people against three people, and the enemy was in the open and I was in the dark, as long as the action was sudden, there was still a chance of winning. Of course, this was excluding the possibility of accidents.

Moreover, it would be easier to retreat with fewer people, so he arranged for others to meet him on the other side of the river.

He was quite satisfied with his plan. For a novice like him, it was quite good. He could only hope that no unexpected situation would occur. At this time, he glanced at the people coming and going, but he felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart.

He couldn't explain where this emotion came from.

Are you nervous about leading a team for the first time?

Or does this seemingly normal environment hide unknown dangers?